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(Details and Map, Page C2) Vol. 278-No. 128 FINAL U6 PaSes ,5 Cents BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1976 Councilman Leone shot to deaths 4 wounded. when gunman demands to see Mayor, holds City Hall in terror; Schaefer escapes harm Fitzgerald, Mayor's aide, policeman hit U.S. swears jury to probe city contract awards Bjr THEODORE W.
HENDRICKS A special United States grand jury was sworn in yesterday to probe Baltimore city contract awards in a continuation of the investigation into Maryland political corruption that has resulted in the downfall of former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, the conviction of two county executives and the indictment of Governor Mandel and five associates. Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Hyman A. Pressman, the city comptroller and secretary to the Board of Estimates, to appear before the next meeting of the 23-member grand jury Monday. Agreement on election law sealed Mr.
Pressman was ordered to bring with him the minutes of Board of Estimates meetings for 1972 to 1976. The minutes will show the names of firms and amounts of yule rx i. -ial l'ir mtam Kill III ll contracts awarded to them dur ing the administration of Mayor Schaefer, who controls the five- man board. Although city contract awards top $100 million in a By STEPHEN E. NORDUNGER Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington Senate and House conferees approved yesterday a compromise bill to reconstitute the Federal Election Commission and to make numerous changes in the controversial election law.
After almost two weeks of debate, the conference agreed on the final half-dozen major issues. But the action came too late to allow a resumption of federal subsidies for the finan single year, most of them are clearly documented awards By DONALD K1MELM AN City Councilman Dominic M. Leone was shot to death and four other persons were wounded three seriously yesterday when a lone gunman invaded temporary City Hall with the stated intention of finding the Mayor. For a terrifying 10 minutes the gunman took control of the sixth and seventh floors of the city's rented offices on South Calvert street, leaving a bloody trail behind him as he searched vainly for Mayor Schaefer, who was locked in his off ice eating lunch and was not harmed. Councilman Carroll J.
Fitzgerald, a Third district councilman; Kathleen E. Nolan, an aide to the Mayor; Officer Thomas G. Gaither, a city policeman, and the suspected gunman himself, Charles A. Hopkins, all lay wounded when the rampage ended in a shoot-out just outside the City Council president's of fice. The drama was already over when thousands of curious onlookers and city workers began thronging outside the office buildings to watch the wounded being rushed into ambulances.
Mounted police blocked off the intersection of Calvert and Redwood streets for several hours, and the crowd lingered on throughout the afternoon. Mr. Hopkins, 34, of the 1700 block Chapel street, was identified as the owner of an East Baltimore carry-out restaurant He was arrested March 12 for hauling down the American flag from the Battle Monument and setting it afire. He was listed in critical condition at University Hospital last night Mr. Fitzgerald, 41, was listed in "stable but serious condition" at Mercy Hospital following surgery for a bullet wound in the abdomen.
Miss Nolan, 38, of the 6000 block Clearspring road, was also in "serious but stable condi-. tion" at Mercy after surgery for a chest wound. They were both described as "improving." Officer Gaither, 27, a member of the Police Department's Tactical Section, was in fair condition at University Hospital with a leg wound. Mr. Leone was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital with a bullet wound in the chest at 1.38 P.M., less than an hour after he was shot.
Yesterday evening, Councilman J. Joseph Curran, Sr. 3d), visiting the Fitzgerald family at Mercy Hospital, based on competitive bidding, Richard A. Lidinsky, the deputy city comptroller, said Sunpaperi photo Llovd Pearson Mr. Lidinsky and other city Officer Thomas G.
Gaither is wheeled away from the City Hall incident with a bullet wound in the lower left leg. personnel were interviewed on the sidewalk yesterday after cially hard-pressed presidential police cleared the temporary candidates and the national City Hall to search for a sus party conventions for several weeks. Vetoed pected accomplice in the shootings there. Suspect's family tells The conferees scheduled a meeting April 27 after the Eas pT Mr. Lidinsky said that so far no specific contracts awarded by the Board of Estimates have public jobs ter recess to clear the bill for floor action in the Senate and of his anger, failures been sought by federal prosecu House.
voted anew tors. He added that the minutes Under the most optimistic ByTRACIEROZHON are readily available in city was arrested when Ste The family of Charles A. 34, reference rooms. Washington (AP) Ignoring warnings of a probable new ve According to Mr. Pressman, timetable, this meant that the commission will not be restructured to be able to authorize the payments from a six-week backlog of campaign subsidies the minutes "are the place to to, the Senate yesterday approved a $5.3 billion public works jobs bill to replace the start if a major investigation is under way into suspected po until early May after the major litical corruption.
primaries in Pennsylvania and one that President Ford rejected earlier this year. Mr. Pressman spent more than an hour before the city Texas. A backlog of subsidies total The Senate approved the measure 54 to 28 and sent it to complained of chest pains and was admitted to the coro grand jury last month to en ing $1.5 million has accumulated since the commission last approved payments March 22 the House The action came after Sen large on his remarks made at a Board of Estimates meeting about the award of architectur before its authority was al and consulting contracts. ate Democrats succeeded, on a 48-to-32 vote, in boosting the price tag of the bill from the $2.5 billion scaled-down version DOMINIC M.
LEONE murdered councilman The matching funds could be delayed longer if President Consulting contract awards vary in amount from year to year, but have gone as high as $28 million in one year. Al sent to the floor. Ford decides to veto the bill, which goes far beyond his request for a simple measure to This came despite warnings by Republican leaders that the bill is almost certain to be ve though they are non-bid con reconstitute the commission to phen R. Tully, an assistant state's attorney for the city, saw him ripping the American flag from beside the Battle Monument. The lawyer rushed down and grabbed Mr.
Hopkins, but not before he had crumpled the flag into a ball and set a match to it. Several holes were burnt in the flag. Before he went to trial, Mr. Hopkins reportedly told court officers he had been frustrated because no one would listen to him at City HalKabout a problem he was having with his restaurant's lease. On April 1, he was fined $220 by Judge Robert R.
Ger-stung, who ordered him to fly an American flag in front of his restaurant, Flat's Carry-Out, in the 1800 block Rutland avenue. According to Mr. Hopkins's mother. Judge Gerstung's order about the flag bothered him more than the money. "They fined him and they said he had to buy a flag," she said.
"He said he definitely wasn't going to do it. It seemed like it was unfair, punishing him that way. See HOPKINS, AS, Col.2 Hopkins was huddled around the dining room table, trying to watch a television soap opera. There were brothers and sisters, nieces, nephews and cousins. Some were polite to a reporter, but others were not.
"You come here asking all these questions." said a sister, "but you don't give us any answers." "He was right," said another young woman. "It takes something like this to make white people move." She stormed out of the room and did not come back. Charles Hopkins's mother sat quietly in the corner of the room, on a small hard wooden chair. A rotund woman, she wore her hair in a few tiny braids. "Everywhere he went, they threw him away," she said slowly, sadly, almost in a daze.
"He rented the restaurant, he invested a lot of money and then the landlord didn't do what he said, he didn't fix it up. "Then he went downtown and took the flag down," she said. On March 12, Mr. Hopkins, tracts, Mayor Schaefer has maintained that be has strict procedures to insure the best toed again. President Ford vetoed the meet the Supreme Court ruling.
After the conference, Sena firm is chosen. tor Hugh Scott the earner, $6.1 billion measure February 13. calling it "little more than an election-year nary intensive care unit, where he was listed in serious but stable" condition, according to the night nursing supervisor. Mr. Curran, 71, was In the Council offices when Mr.
Leone was shot He escaped harm when a shot was fired in his direction. When Mr. Hopkins was tried April 1 for the flag-burning incident, court officials said that he told them he had been protesting the lack of a sympathetic ear at City Hall about problems with his restaurant lease. At the District Court trial, Judge Robert Gerstung fined him $220 for malicious destruction and desecrating the flag to be paid by July 4 and ordered him to fly the Stars and Stripes in front of his Rutland avenue carry-out for the next six months. Dennis S.
Hill, the Police Department spokesman, said suspects wounded in a crime generally are not charged until after they leave the hospitaL Hyman A. Pressman, the city comptroller, said yesterday that on Monday Mr. Hopkins "burst into" a budget meeting of the city Board of Estimates and City Council, shouting: "I've got a problem. I've got a problem. They're See SHOOTING, A6, Col.l Senate minority leader and Yesterday, Jervis S.
Finney, the United States attorney, refused to comment on the areas conferee, said that the bill "is still subject to a considerable of the investigation. risk of a veto." But Representative Charles E. Wiggins (R "We just cannot comment on pork barrel. The House voted 319 to 98 to override the veto, but the Senate failed to do so by 3 votes. The Senate Public Works Committee sent to the floor the trimmed-down measure which See ELECTION, See JURY, A7.
Col its chairman, Jennings Ran IRS fines milk co-op $7.8 million in fraud dolph W.Va.), said was designed to meet with Mr. Ford's approval. But Senator Edmund S. Mus- CARROLL J. FITZGERALD wounded by gunman kie Maine) led the fight to its protests that the IRS action aaa to the measure two expen is unwarranted.
sive programs which had been in the vetoed bill but were de The action represents the latest in a series of legal prob leted by the committee. lems for the milk producers group growing out of charges of These included a $14 billion revenue-sharing program to as antitrust violations and illegal sist state and local eovern Washington (AP)-The Internal Revenue Service has revoked the tax-exempt status of the nation's largest milk producer co-operative and billed it for $7.8 million in taxes and fraud penalties, apparently primarily because of political campaign contributions. The IRS action surfaced in documents filed in United States Tax Court last month by Associated Milk Producers, which came to light yesterday. The co-operative, based campaign contributions. The co-op's former top offi ments whose budgets have been badly eroded because of the re cials, Harold S.
Nelson and David Paar, have received cession and another $1.4 billion in new federal grants for waste fines and prison sentences on il treatment plants. legal-contribution charges. Mr. Muskie called it a "com Jack Chestnut, a former prehensive package" which campaign manager for Senator represents the best opportuni in San Antonio, Texas, has ob Hubert H. Humphrey ty we have to ease the pain of tained a Tax Court bearing of has also received a fine wis recession.
Ejt y' mil urn mim turn mmt puui Hjj i- filJ -j All- -i v. '-j rA v. 1-1 'r and prison sentence on charges Backers said the full $5.3 of accepting a $12,000 contribu tion for Mr. Humphrey in 1970. The co-op has also been ac billion would only be spent if unemployment reached 9 per cent At the current jobless level of about 7.5 per cent, they said, the amount actually to be cused by the Justice Depart ment of antitrust violations and has been Fined in Texas for vio spent would be about $3.9 bil lion.
This includes about $1 bil lion for new jobs on public lation of state antitrust lawi Although agricultural co-operatives are normally exempt from federal Income taxes, the IRS reserves the right to revoke that exemption if a co-op engages in improper activities. The tax agency did not spell SeeJOBS.AS.Col.1 Index Movies Obituaries. ComiciB7 -B6 A14 All C7 CrosswordB7 Shippings EditoriaIsAl( out why the action was taken in notifying the milk group in February of the determination. But See MILK, Sports. FinancialAlTV-RadiB4 Suraaoert oftoto Cd Htrr shooting spree at city government headquarters.
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