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Raises barredform wagefreezeAssociated Press* ■ . * • ' -WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary John B. Connally affirmed the Nixon administration’s determination n o t to weaken its economic program yesterday by ding out pay raises for servicemen and giving a cold reception to Canada’s plea for exemption from import surcharges.ACO 'He also claimed rank-and-file labor support for the 90;day wage-price-rent freeze, but; AFL-CIO .President George Meany accused President Nixon ofRelated, stories, Pages 8 and 45'trying-, to mislead the people on the econ :omy' and -! said: “We’re not going to cooperate.” ■ J ^Following a two-hour meeting with administration officials, Mean urged all■: unions to cancel contracts under which workers will lose money'as a result ofthe wage-price freeze. He said Congress should take control of the economy away. from what he called Nixon’s “mismanagement.”• ^ , y aMost of the hundreds of. tht sands of. workers on strike stayed off the job de- •. spite the Nixon; administration’s request' that they return to work during.the freeze. — ■■ ■* « * I » ? f 4iyulfuok abide by. any such-dictateapd we will advise our members to resist any such attempt,Meany said//;Labor Secretary James, D.. Hodgson,\ • • . . . ’• # % . , % • .**'** J* • * TWho led the administration group at the meeting with Meany, and- the AFLrCIO ! Executive Council, said the government planned no. action to force striking workers back to work., » ' * . ,.»i • *’ 'President Frank E. Fitzsimmons of the 2-million-member Teamsters Unionsaid his organization intended to cooperate with Nixon’s program. TheTeamsters are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.“We . hail President Nixon’s action,i ' , * *taken from a base of competent advice, as a bold measure to preserve the economy of this nation,” Fitzsimmons said. He has. had warm relations with Nixon , since replacing the imprisoned James R. Hoffa as Teamsters chief last month.However, Fitzsimmons ;said that his union hoped that “certain inequities” inthe economic plan are ironed out.■ --r liv,Hodgson was asked if the freeze would work without labor’s cooperation. He replied: “Not nearly as successfully as it will' with it.”Connally, who earlier had said Meany was out of touch with his followers for opposing the program, said critics who contend, the program is probusiness and . antiworker were guilty of “rank dema-goguery.”4 t 4The U.S. Chamber of Commerce stepped in with a statement by its executive vice president, Arch N. Booth. He said:, “It ill behooves, uhion leaders who have had the major part in causing the inflation to thfow a monkey wrench into the machjnery designed to stop it.”'J ’ . ‘ •Rooth added: “Apparently today’s Continued on Page 22Body of Jack Tidwell lies un der bianketwhere : was found shof *o death behindyj.I»Vj$% wr****.vmy -v'.v-'A'-’'.v/'.v/.tflilHIwm§Ijjps«•I!!!!m-lte.mm*SBmm.ipqpiinnmmmm-mmm•v..mmVX-.V * - * • Ai.iiV.VA V.* .V.1, V V ' - *ifii:ySs.'i:v y-y - s ’ * - v '■'* *pfpti Iis...Ml^RodriguezC?: :rr;‘ :Abelino RodriguezFernando Nunezone-way streetBy DON BOLLES Republic Staff WriterFT. GRANT—“1m on a one-way street to the big house. Ain’t no stopping this Chicano anymore.”Roy L. Rodriguez, 17, of 1012% E. Pierce, wrote those words to a girl friend last week.aofecmpan-3826 W.from FortYesterday, Rodriguez and ion, Fernando Nunez, 17,Sherman, both escapees Grant Industrial Schoo for Boys, were the object of an intensive ipolice manhunt in the desert south of Wenden.% • • • • • ■' ■ 'The boys ape sought as suspects in the serious wounding of a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy and the slaying of anArizona Highway Department employe.Rodriguez’ older brother, Abelino, 20, was captured by deputies as ’ the trio fled into the desert. The two youths reportedly are armed with one hand gun. '■ ^ 1The story exploded yesterday, but its' real beginning occurred many years1 ago in a way which did sot make the headlines.asState aide slain, deputyothers beatenWENDEN—An all-out desert Manhuntwas under way in a rainstorm southeast of here last night for two of three youths suspected of a 10-hour crime spree that began in Phoenix and left one man dead, a sheriff’s deputy seriously wounded and two other persons hospitalized frombeatings.Before midnight last night Maricopa Coiinty sheriff’s deputies were awaiting the prrival of two Arizona? State Prison inmates who reportedly are expert night trackers.Earlier last night searchers found traces of the two fugitives hear the top of the Harquahala Mountains.. .. * ,« ’• * j' ■ • • - - ■ .'•■.» ” ' •lore than 100 lawmen and:50,yehiclpSihorses, and aircraft; from three counties were scouriiig a 75-square-mile area south and east of Wenden, which is 55 iniles. west of Wickenburg on U.S. 60;i r v !■' it ^, Sbught since about 6 0 a .in .yesterday were two escapees from the Arizona State Industrial ■ School ai Fort Grant: Roy Rodriguez, 17, if 1012% E. Pierce, and Fernando Nunez, 1 6f 3826 * Sherman. 'Abelino Rodrigue 21, brother of Roy Rodriguez/ Was captured, in the desert about 7 a.m., some 400 yards from the Arizona Highwpy Department mainte-nance camp here, by Maricopa County sheriff’s Sgt. Art Felix.Sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Hill said Abelino Rodriguez was apprehended without afight while carrying a bloody knife. That occurred:' minutes after two workmen at the yard said they saw three? ybpths abandon a stolen car at the yard and flee Into the desert, Hill said.• *■ • r* ■ ■*, :■ v. • • ■■ v;. *•! ^ :' vShortly before the capture, deputiesand eye witnesses said these vents had transpired in chronological order between Wickenburg and Wenden:• * • • * • *—Sheriff’s deputy Ralph: Bell, 29, of Wickenburg, a 20 - month rookie on the force, Was; shot and seriously woundedin the lead about 4:55 a.m. whe he• *stopped a car containing three suspicious looking youths on the western outskirts of Wickenburg.—Mrs. Audrey Canion, 47, was beaten and dragged by three youths outside her home early yesterday morning when she found them outside the nearby home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinette. '—Jack Tidwell, 45, an engineering labtechnician at the Wenden high w a y maintenance; camp, was shot fatally twice in the side about 6:30 a.m. as he rushed from his^ nearby trailer home to aid Mrs. Canion, who was screaming forbelp. ■ - ■; .:fc ^. But Phoenix police added that is not the only violence of which the trio is suspected. They gave these details of crimes that, occurred in Phoenix starting at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday:— Johp Francisco Sanche 18, of 5402 S. 19th Ave., reported three Mexican-American hitchhikers he picked up at 16thStreet and Buckeye Road at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday beat him, made him strip off his clothes arid left him naked in the desert nea the All Western Riding Stables, 10220 S. Central, after they stole his station wagon. Officers said Sanchez, who called police from the stables, picked a mug shot, of Roy Rodriguez from several police photographs andI i\ ’*■’identified him as one of his assailants. They said Sanchez also identified tentatively Abelino Rodriguez and Nunez as the^'bther;:^two. Pdlice said .they^ found, this stolen Sanchez car at 9:30 a.m. yesterday at 15th Street arid Magnolia.— Fred George Bodmer, 66i of 2605 W. Van Buren, attendant at the Dana Brothers Service Station, 3159 W; Buckeye -iRqad/ reported three Mexicap-jptbUwhipped-' atiii'!.(^0hiffi: before robbing him of $200 stbpv(t;3 a.m.. yesterday at the' station. ■/ lt;••*'-T*' v-'AarBodmer said one of the three caprieda 32 - caliber revolver., .He said he' washitin the; mouth wi|h, a fist :and then slugged on the side of the head wi -the pistol even after he M4 the men theycould take the money. • » • * . • * • • . . ’ •Detectives said Bodmer yesterday identified mug shots of Roy and Abelino Rodriguez arid Fernando Nunez as being those of the trio that beat and robbed him'. •%• » « iDeputy Bell was Reported, last night in “serious but stable condition” in St. Jo-. i . • ■... • . _lt; •1 . .■ .•eph’s Hospital with, a gunshot wound ''above the left eye; Mrs. Canion was in fairly, good condition’ in Community Hospital of Wickenburg with multiple cuts and bruises of the head-and suffering from shock; - Bodmer was in . “fair condition”; in Memorial Hospital with; a concussion pnd cuts and. br jises the head.'-' .. ft'• im ' ' * j . * ' - * * : • . . ’ ' ..., Authorities said Nunez and ■ Rodrigiiez escaped from Fort Grant on June 11, but that Rodrigiiez was recaptured only to escape again last Saturday Nunez reportedly has been at large since June iv . :: .■ .* ■ V . lt;;; • . ■ ' *; • • • •i j ' ■ - • . . . . ' ■All three youths have long juvenile records, authorities said! The; said Abelino Rodriguez was'released from the school the day after his 18th birthday. He was evaluated as having made“good progress’’ during his stay there. '• k ^ •• . , **But, declared Steve Vukcevich, superintendent at Fort Grant, “Roy Rodriguez should have been in prison. There justisn’t enough security here.”Ft.‘Grant has been severly criticized in the past by surrounding communities for being lax on security.■ . i - ’Continued on Page 22
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