Progress-Bulletin (Newspaper) - January 24, 1970, Pomona, California Mafia Bribing of IRS Agents Bared Weather Cloudy with occasional light rain Gradual fair Friday's 63. low Saturday 51. High Saturday tow 47 through Sunday's 60. Rainfall Friday 3 Sections 38 Pages PRICE 10 CENTS SATURDAY JANUARY 24, 1970 Late News Sports Vol. 85 Number 360 Laker McCarter Breaks Ankle Story on Bl Pancho Surprises Lover Father of 22 Mormon Leader New High School Due in La Verne Storm Moving To Southland Walkout Threatened By Air Controllers SAN The Federal tion Administration's of air traffic controllers may lead to a walkout that could cripple commercial airports throughout the A vote on the walkout could come Sunday at the closing session of the Professional Air v fie Controllers claims to represent of the estimated air con- trollers in the United is a good possibility that a strike vote 1 will be asked at this Wayne ington representative of said will decided Sunday The controversy revolves around the 100 per 1 cent transfer of the Baton The FAA asserted thai the four men were moved to advance their case is said it might indicate similar arbitrary transfers in other of the toe group will meet witli representatives other air organizations and hear from counsel and executive F. Lee IN TODAY'S P-B Sec. page Bridge IS Child's Puzzle 3 Churches Classified Ads Comics Crossword IS Editorial Scan 3 Entertainment B S Obituary z Radio 2 Sports Television 20 Women 5-S World of Animals 10 Young People IMS Mafia Bribing Of IRS Agents Disclosed NEW YORK Eight re- Mafia mobsters and two men who have served as federal intelligence agents have been charged with bribing or trying to bribe Internal Revenue ice The goverment said Friday that some cf it charged had attempted to recruit IRS employes to get secret tion abot pax A source close to the case said the charges and arrests Friday came before the investigation vas completed because it was feared some undercover tax agents might be John A. 50. a re- was ed Tuesday of conspiracy to bribe postal and still faces a federal charge of con- spinng to help his son dodge the was among those rounded up by the Nicholas 63. edly an underworld leader in an IRS gency agent and a former agent were also two ing the Westchester Carting Co. and the Fleetwood were included as defendants in the alleged Allegedly a member of the Vito Genovese Mafia Ratteni has been accused of maintaining a monopoly over garbage collection in ter by dealing with Egyptian Attack nsula By United Press International Egyptian bombers with er escorts attacked three points in the Sinai Peninsula today following a raid on the region's largest town a few houES earlier in one of Egypt's deepest penetrations since the Cairo Radio said the jets struck Israeli artillery and ammunition depots at East. Kibrit and in the southern sector of the Suez The Egyptians said fires broke out after the explosions and could be seen on the Bogus Money Tossed From Passing Car LOS ANGELES idents of Los Angeles got a surprise Friday when two men drove through the area tossing out There was a It was Secret Service agents said the bogus cash was printed an S 1-2 by 11-inch each ing three About 40 sheets were found near a freeway ramp and another 25 at a nearby Other sheets were found at other Local merchants were warned not to accept the which bore the imprint of the Federal Reserve Bank in San Egyptian west bank of the Israeli troops killed 10 Arab guerrillas in a clash early today near the Biblical sin city of Sodom south of the Dead a Aviv spokesman It was near the same area where an Israeli tank column swept across the border last Tuesday in a 20-hour anti- Israel acknowledged both the raids on the sector of the canal and an earlier attack on El a city of 30.000 persons on the Mediterranean coast 120 miles east of the El Arish contains the The latest Egyptian attacks were on an outpost near Duer Suwar and an installation near Suspensions Asked of 4 Charter Airlines WASHINGTON The Civil Board has teen urged to suspend licenses of four Southern California based charter lines for carrying passengers from the general cut rates reserved for members of charter The C A B's enforcement bureau Friday asked suspension of the licenses of Overseas Atlantis German and a British A fifth World was named in the charge but no license suspension was The alleged violations in- volved 50 charter trips and an estimated 75.000 passengers in 1963 and 1S69. Under the airlines could be penalized as much as for each illegal flight by a CAB regulations specify that passengers mut be members of recognized charter tions for specified lengths of time to qualify for a cut-rate charter y i the 145 of the canal's southern a Tel Aviv spokesman Israel said the raid on El Ansh damaged only houses and wounded a man and a Israel said the Egyptian bombs shattered three haires and smashed windows of many other Israeli spokesmen said the strike was probably carried out by one or two Egyptian Egypt's air carried out around midnight followed two previous air raids ora against Israeli troops occupying parts of Island and another against two Israeli one of them opposite Ismailia on the Suez Canal east bank and the deep in Sacramento River Crest Expected To Equal Level By United Press International Rivers in Northern California reached flood stage early today as residents reeled under the onslaught of still another of the Pacific storms that have battered the area for more than iwo Officials reported that the Eel and American Rivers had reached flood proportions or were only inches from it. Crests on the Sacramento were expected to reach the level of the disastrous flood of The weatherman held out one small The rains should taper off today with only a chance of showers Richard J. the enforcement bureau said were carrying the general public on what were supposed to be restricted charter have uncovered rous violations involving wards of 500 charter trips and approximately 75.COO In numerous instances the travelers did not even know the organization with which they were flying and many for the sole purpose of the The bureau asked the CAB to suspend the operating authority such time as they are able to to the satisfaction of the a disposition to with charter The board said all the illegal charter flights were centered in Southern mainly the Los Angeles but that the investigation had spread to the East. The complaint included eight travel agents and 15 HOMES THREATENED These iwo homes in Rio resort area on Hie Russian River north of San have been evacuated bo- cause they are in danger sliding onto the highway Heavy rains have caused severe mud slides in area and other sections near the Russian River are under Redding and other areas of Shasta County were declared disaster areas Friday night because ot slides and road Thirty inches of rain have fallen on the the past 16 Pouring Over Authorities said feet per second was pouring over the Shasta Dam at the headwaters of the Normal lage is less than cubic feet per Adding to the flood danger were warm air and showers over the Sierra Nevada which closed ski resorts and filled runoff Both the Russian and rivers were forecast to crest at eight feet above flood stage Families were evacuated from homes near the rivers as residents braced for more It has rained nearly continuously in parts of em California since Jan. 7. Strong winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour made driving and boating hazardous around the San Francisco Bay A 14- foot yawl with three persons aboard capsized in 1-9-foot outside the Golden The trio was rescued shortly after the Gale Warnings Gale warnings were posted late Friday a Ions the entire California coast north of Point Conception for winds up to 43 miles an More Chan an inch of rain pelted Eureka and Ukiah during a six-hour Despite widespread Hooding in western Marin the town of Point Reyes Station reported a water The rains flooded pumps used to Mi a gallon water ijin dry days Two emergency pumps were put into Even without more there were fears that continue to mage homes iTi Oakland and Marin In Oakland's a massive slide which started two weeks ago has damaged 20 homes and tens 10 Seven families have abandoned their expensive homes which became A home slid down a hillside in Mill and another home was crushed when three wood trees were uprooted by rushing water and fell through the A mudbank five feet high slid against a threatening to cave it in. Another caused damage to a home in At Tilden Park in the East a slide sent tons of mud down a hillside and buried two Five schools were in western Marin and Sonoma Counties because authorities said Highway 1 was too hazardous tor school
