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NCINNATI THE A Combined Communiratwnt Newspaper FINAL EDITION SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1977 PRICE 50C Area Man In Breakout I Sunday Your Day KarlMiic les Manhunt; One Escapee Retaken 1 A I I ill. The pipe was in four vertical sections, joined by female fittings. Parts of the pipe still had green paint on It, others had the residue of putty obviously pipe that had been used. Officials said earlier they believed the six convicts had split into two or more groups and were "pretty much going around in circles" in the heavily forested Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee. "THIS TIME of year, someone who knows how to live In the woods could make out very well," said Tennessee Corrections Commissioner C.

Murray Henderson, adding there are berries to eat. "They could hide out for 10 days and not move." Henderson virtually ruled out the possibility that Ray, the convicted slayer of Dr. Martin Luther King had outside help in the spectacular Friday night escape from Brushy Mountain State Prison. In Washington, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced it had taken over the search and had placed Ray on Its list of 10 Most Wanted Fugitives. All six fugitives were charged with conspiring to -violate a 1946 federal law against flight to avoid confinement.

THE WHITE House said Attorney General Griffin Bell telephoned President Carter on Saturday morning to give him a progress report on the search. Charles Bass, assistant corrections commissioner, said the search area was expanded from five square miles to 10 square miles late in the morning after officials found a tennis shoe print. He said the print most likely was made by Hacker, whom he described as the probable leader of the escape. The only paved road leading from the prison was sealed off in several places by police roadblocks intended to keep the curious out of the area and the escapees in. PETROS, Tenn.

(AP)-Searchers using a helicopter tracked down one of James Earl Ray's fellow escapees Saturday and spotted two others as the hunt continued through a snake-infested mountainside for the convicted killer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The recaptured fugitive was identified as David Lee 27, also a convicted Still at large were Ray and four others who escaped with him, including Larry E. Hacker, 32, a for- OnPageA-12: Escape triggers reactions mer Hamilton, Ohio, resident serving two 28-year sentences for bur-glarly, safecracking and robbery. A state police helicopter spotted Powell and two others on a road near the prison.

When ground units reached Powell, he was standing In the road waiting to surrender, but the others fled into the woods. RAY, THE convicted assassin of King, scaled the rear wall of the maximum-security prison Friday night with the five other inmates and fled into the East Tennessee hills. In Nashville, Gov. Ray Blanton issued a statement saying he had directed "that extreme caution be used in the massive effort to recapture Ray and the four others still at large." The governor said the investigations of the King assassination by a congressional committtee and others "make It imperative that he be returned to custody safely and at the earliest possible moment." IN LATE afternoon, prison authorities cleared inmates from the huge dirt yard and Davis led more than 100 reporters and cameramen to the spot where Ray and the others climbed over the wall Friday night, using a 10-foot ladder made AP Laserpnoto 'Extreme Caution9 Urged In Hunt For Assassin Ray shown during recent prison interview Donald Ray Caylor, serving 51 years for armed robbery and assault with Intent to commit murder; Douglas Shelton, serving 68 years for felonious assault and first-degree murder. Ward, who was hit with one shotgun pellet and one rifle slug, was serving 20 to 40 years for bank robbery.

RAY AND the others scrambled over the wall as prisoners in several areas oftheyard created disturbances apparently intended to divert attention. One prisoner walked too close to the wall. Two others feigned a fight. Another pretended his ankle was broken. But Henderson said no one In the prison would talk.

A SEVENTH felon was wounded and recaptured almost Immediately after the escape. Henderson said the man, Jerry W. Ward, a convicted bank robber serving 20 to 40 years, refused to talk about the escape. The manhunters' ranks swelled to more than 150 with the arrival of five vanloads of specially trained state police SWAT teams. A huge communications van also was brought in because the telephone system at the prison went out, perhaps colncldentally, when the escape took place.

IN ADDITION to Ray and Hacker, the fugitives were: Earl Hill serving two life terms for flrst-dgree murder, rape and assault with Intent to murder; Cloudy today with a chance of morning showers. Highs In the mid 70s and lows In low 50s. Chance of rain, 30 today and 10 tonight. Winds will be northerly, 10-20 mph today. Weather map, details Page A-2.

Saturday's air pollution index was a poor 145. See the African art collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The collection features 180 works, representing the arts of Sub-Saharan Black Africa.

Admission charged. Smile Wouldn't it be marvelous if we could retain what we read as well as we keep what we eat. Metro Three of the five women on Death Row in the United States are in the reformatiory at Marysville, Ohio. They talk about their life on death row. Page B-l.

Let the schools close, a businessman says, tongue-in-cheek. Page B-3. Nation Americans are becoming Increasingly skeptical about expert pronouncements from government officials and scientists. Page A-5. President Carter appeals to the public to pressure Congress to defend his energy program the oil and auto lobbies, which he blames for setbacks to his energy proposals.

A-4. World Rosalynn Carter, nearlng the end of a two-week Latin American good-will tour, says she made the trip "because I really think it can be helpful to Jimmy." Page A-13. People Today People Today welcomes newcomers to the Greater Cincinnati area with an informative guide to the Queen City. Section I. At Home Homearama opens today.

All the houses described In brief. Page E-l Business General Motors' '78 intermediate cars will be smaller than the compacts. Page E-10 Entertainment Studio and works of major early 20th century photographer are rediscovered in Love-land, Ohio. Guide to summer outdoor dramas. Page F-l.

In Our Opinion You don't have to like base-ball to admire Pete Rose. Editorial, Page G-2. Index Thirlt-cn Sections Louisville KENTUCKY Roy scopes From Prison Nashville Knoxville TENN. ChaMonooga GA. ALA.

Atlanta Where Break Occurred of scraps of gas pipe and pipe fittings. "It's the most daring escape I have ever known," said Davis. Asked to explain that from a prison that has had many escapes Davis said, "Under a hail of gunfire, it's got to be." Davis, asked how many shots prison guards had fired, replied, "I don't know." One of the inmates was hit twice as he attempted to scale the wall and captured. He was treated at a nearby hospital for minor wounds. GUARDS DEMONSTRATED how the pipe-ladder was screwed together.

It took them 65 seconds. "They knew how to put It together a lot quicker than we did," Davis said. By PAUL H. HARASIM Enquirer Reporter and HOLLY WISSING Hamilton Bureau HAMILTON -Larry Hacker left this town "because we didn't have enough banks for him to rob." So says Police Chief George McNally, who describes Larry Hacker as "a pretty tough cookie." The 32-year-old Hacker, who escaped with James Earl Ray and four other convicts Friday from a Tennessee penitentiary, was born here September 24, 1944. He was a familiar, face to police officers and prosecutors in this small Ohio town.

"He was a notorious cat, a dangerous guy," Butler County Prosecutor John Holcomb recalled Saturday. "Just say he was one of our regular customers," said police sergeant Jim Schmitz. BUT HACKER, named by one Tennessee prison official as the possible leader of the daring Friday very clear-the government has fixed its point of view and you are not going one step forward." The South Moluccans hoped to get the government to fly them and 21 imprisoned comrades out of the country to seek Moluccan Independence from Indonesia. WITNESSES SAID firing, like firecrackers, began shortly before 5 a.m. Marine sharpshooters aimed their fire where, in the train, moni 50 Miles Law, 'Pretty Boy1' Usually At Odds Hacker escape from Brushy Mountain State Prison, is remembered differently by an elderly woman on Webster Avenue.

"He was a very good boy," said Mrs. Ed Hacker, mother of the man who was serving two 28-year sentences for armed robbery and burglary prior to his escape. "We're just worried to death," she said. Brought up in a small white frame bungalow on the north side of town, Hacker was first arrested at the age of 19 for carrying a concealed weapon. In the next six years, he was arrested seven times.

In 1968, after he and a companion were caught by police on the roof of Kaye's clothing store on Court street, he was sent to the Mansfield reformatory for breaking and entering, possessing burglary tools, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. WHILE HIS arrest record grew, the young man with the badly pockmarked face worked at the Cham toring devices Indicated the terrorists were. A few minutes later, the first of six F-104 Starfighters bore down over the train In a deafening roar. "The Jets were there only to make noise," Mrs. Faber said, "because people confronted suddenly with tremendous noise often freeze for as long as a minute." The marines set off a smoke grenade screen as they ran 300 yards Larry Hacker leader of Ray escape? Anguish, Fear Follow Freeing Of Dutch Hostages for Chicago and what the FBI called the "notorious Arnold McQuire-Billy Ray Dawson robbery gangs." Although the gangs were based in Chicago and gained a reputation for operating in the same fashion as the gangs of the 1930s, they often worked In the South.

HACKER WAS convicted of armed robbery and burglary In Tennessee in early 1976. In November, he and a companion escaped from the state prison at Nashville. On April 13, he was captured In Virginia Beach, Va. Two days later a Hacker associate allegedly gunned down an Arlington, policeman during a bank robbery. Sent to the Brushy Mountain State Prison to continue serving his time, Hacker became a good friend of James Earl Ray, an FBI spokesman said Saturday.

Could that friendship bring Hacker and Ray the 260 miles to Hamilton? "You never know," said an FBI" spokesman in Kentucky. "We've got men in Hamilton right now." Gronlngen who had her 20th birthday on the train, were In the first-class compartment the terrorists used for sleeping. A doctor said It would take an autopsy to determine whose bullets killed them. Six South Moluccans, including their 24-year-old leader said to be Max Papllilla, were killed. Seven passengers were wounded, two of them seriously.

One Injured hijacker was taken with the 49 surviving captives to a clinic in Oroningen. Two terrorists on the train were taken to Jail In Assen. MEANWHILE, 30 marines smashed into the school In Bovensmilde with an armored personnel carrier, freeing the four teachers held there. They had originally seized 106 school children and five teachers on May 23, at the same time the train was hijacked. But the young men in the school let the children and one of their teachers go five days later.

162d Club Fire Victim Dies In Hospital Here Dan Barker, 29, 102 Blossom Lane, Southgate, died late Saturday night at General Hospital, bringing the Beverly Hills fire death toll to 162. Barker had been in cfitical condition since the fire May 28 Barker's wife, Karen, remains In fair condition in St. Luke pion Paper Company, located Just a few blocks from his home. If police had to find Hacker they knew where to look at the Walnut Inn, a bar at Seventh and Walnut. "He was a flashy dresser," said McNally.

Friends of Hacker recognized his way with clothes and began calling him "Pretty Boy." So did Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) "wanted" posters. Larry Edward Hacker became Larry Edward "Pretty Boy" Hacker. Once when Hacker tired of Hamilton, he and two other men and two women allegedly went on a crime spree in Cincinnati on May 4, .1971, at the McMlcken Gardens, 2804 W. McMicken. In the spree, a cafe patron was shot in the back, an off--duty city fireman robbed and pistol-whipped and a woman was punched In the face.

He was never arrested on armed robbery warrants filed here. When Hacker, on parole from the Mansfield reformatory, left Ohio in the early 1970s, he headed from their fox holes to the west side of the train. Then they blew off four of its doors. WHAT HAPPENED inside during the next 10 minutes was veiled by the mist, the noise and government secrecy. Explosions wracked the engineers' cabs at both ends of the train, where the kidnapers had posted lookouts.

The two passengers killed, a 40-year-old man from Elst and an Indonesian girl from f.vHfrM..yJIH WWW Mfl Prisoners -APUwrphoto N.Y. Times Service ASSEN, The Netherlands-An atmosphere of national anguish and fear prevailed here Saturday after Royal Dutch Marines rescued 53 hostages from South Moluccan extremists at a cost of the lives of two hostages and six of the kidnapers. A platoon of 30 marines, firing small arms and explosive charges, quickly overpowered the South Moluccans at a four-car train they had seized. Another assault group freed four teachers held In the village elemen- On Page A-1 6: Dutch react with anger tary school at Bovensmilde, 20 miles to the south. Authorities said they believed the hostages were close to breaking point.

Premier Joop den Uyl agreed to the assault Friday night, government spokesman Toos Faber said. "WECOULDdo nothing else," authorities said. A group of the surviving hos-tages-34 men and 15 women later expressed gratitude. A South Moluccan elder statesman, Alvares Manusama, tears In his eyes, said on television, "I understand that the government had no alternative." Both he and the premier urged the public to be calm. Dr.

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