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Slate police moving into New Jersey Slate Prison al Rahway4 States Are Searchedfor Missing SkyjackerRENO, Nov.. Nov. 25 iTO— Baffled authorities searched four jtatc* (odny for a man who hijacked a jetliner and camped from It by parachute with SMO,000 ransom in ooo of Uic most bizarre crimes in history.II was lh first time a hijacker hod parachuted from an airliner The ransom was the largest ever paid In an American skyjacking.A WASff./li*m\ )OHE. }lihnomb I* Suspected Tie hijacker, a middle-aged man Identified by the FBI o* •D. B. Coapcr, disappeared •omtwhero in tr.c vast Wcrlcru wilderness between Seattle,' Wusb.. and Reno. Nev.. late lust night The namo was believed to be an alias.The PHI said it had cstnb-RIXOLJM fIMklga \ joom/imjJ t-;r=xrj«lTlie hijacker was described at dark-complexioned with black hair, wearing dark glasses, very relaxed, and very courteous,Plashing a device with red cylinders and wires, he forced the airliner (o land at Seattle-Tacoma Airport, where Northwest delivered at his demand IMO.OOO collected from several FealOc banks ami four parachutes from nearby McChord Air Forco Base and an Is-toquah, Wash., parachute clubUnited la* definitely jumped from a Northwest Airline* 727 after hijacking it with what he said was a bomb an a flight out of Portland. Ore.. yesterday afternoonPassenger* Leave Plane The hijacker ihrn allowed M passengers and Stewardesses Alice Hancock and Florence Schallner to disembark, and ordered the plane to fly to Mexico with Capl, WiUJam Scott. Flight Officers W. IBohJRaloczak, and II. E. Anderson, and Stewardess Tina MucMow.When the plane arrived at llcno for s refueling stop 3Vfc hour* later, the hijacker, the money, two parachutes and the bomb were gone. The four crew members were unharmed Harold Campbell. FBI agent, said It was believed the hi-jackcr parachuted at least an hour before the 11 p m. arrival at Reno, probably m Oregon, where the pluno passed ; over the broad flnUonds of the Willamette ValleySadat Warns U. S. AgainstCarefully Plauucd llljackReports from FBI and police indicated Hie hijacking had been carefully and minutely planned by a man who was not only well-informed about oirliners but also probably on experienced parachutist.The officers said;• He knew enough about airliners to know, as a spokesman for I he Boeing Co. put it. thatSending Israel Missiles|/nn TUX** W»» ItnMilPresident Anw-ar Sadat of Egypt has sent a mcusaflo to President Nixon warning that any American .urfocc-to-sur-face missiles sent tu Israel would be a very serious escalation of ihe Middle East conflict, Cairo-* authoritative Al Ahram newspaper said today.It said the message followedreports from Washington Uial U»c Pentagon and White House arc considering supplying the Lance surfocc-to surface missile tu Israel. The missile reportedly is in the final stages | of developmentThe newspaper said Sodat's message wav delivered yestcr-duy to Donald Bcrgun, the U. S. diplomaUc representative inCairo, by Hafez Ismail. iho presidential odvlicr on national uccurily affairsCite U. S. Assurance*Al Aliram said Washington had given Cairo assurance* several months ago that it docs not think at all of supplying Israel with ground-to-ground missile*. Tiiis is the absolute opposite of fho reports wihkh arc being published at prcucnt, the newspaper added.Israeli Prime Minister Golda Muir warned licr countrymen yesterday to be prepared for another war.She llcboki-i U. S.In Tel Aviv where she addressed a meeting of leaders of l«er ruling Labor Party, Mrs Moir said, I cannot promise myself and others liiat Ihrre is not an Imminent danger of war.Mrs. Mclr again rebuked Ihe(ContlMcd on page *, col. 31it would be a very safe drop | la bail out of a 727. one of the few commercial aircraft where this Is possible because of Its rear exit and retractable stairs.• He ordered the pilot to fly low. with full flaps down—at only 200 m p h.—wilh Ihe exit door open and the steps lowered In the lowered posl-i lion Ihe stops were below Ihe i bottom of the plane and a I parachutist would have no dlffi-culty clearing the fuselage.• The hijacker ordered the plane flown at an altitude below 10.000 feet. That altitude permitted the plane to fly with the cabin open and depressurized.• He routed the plane over Iho Willamette Valley, wllh its broad, flnt farmlands where a parachutist could land even at night, rather than over Ore-fion'a rugged Cascade Mountains, where temperatures were below frewlng and snow warnings were posted.• He demanded two pura-chutes. Four were ordered by cautious authorities and delivered. causing some speculation tlial the ukyjackcr planned to force hostages to Jump with him.21ditotliitw. Mi| ptdaAlID,teiid.cacoell
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