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Tfmmyrrvtwn f.Tnrr.,r t- rv i i On Today's Editorial Page The Illegal War In Cambodia: i editorial New Facet, Old Problems: Editorial ETT9I FINAL Stock Market Up Closing Prices Pages 6C and 7C VOL. 93 NO. 95 1973, St. Loult Pont-Dliipali FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1973 1 Hnmn Drtlvery i.ftO- Month Floods Believed Gray Is Gu Nixon SILO iui iihwi Seeks FBI Nominee i CVO AXAi i By ROBERT J. KELLY and TOMMY ROBERTSON Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Barring unexpected rainfall ever the entire area in the next ftw days, the worst of the licoding may be over, authorities agreed today, the National Weather Service withheld key evidence found at the White House in the early stage of the FBI's investigation of the case.

Gray, who has been acting director of the FBI since last May 3, was criticized also for a number of speeches he had made last year that some Democratic Senators said were too political and obviously in support of Mr. Nixon in last year's presidential campaign. Opposition to Gray as Hoover's successor mounted as these disclosures were made. When Gray ended eight days of testimony before the Judiciary Committee on March 22, opponents of his nomination said they had the votes to defeat him. President Nixon had nominated Gray for the FBI post on Feb.

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g' T.v.m.xTOW".'-' rf.rarr. Jttm.ij By CURT MATTHEWS A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, April 6 President Richard M. Nixon is expected to move quickly to nominate a permanent director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation after the withdrawal yesterday of L. Patrick Gray III, Mr. Nixon's first choice to head the bureau.

Two high-ranking lawyers in the Department of Justice and a United States district judge in California are said to be among those under consideration by Mr. Nixon to replace Gray. However, the President, who is at the Western White House in San Clemente, has given no indication that any of the potential nominees on whom speculation has focused in recent days are actually being considered. When he was faced with rejection of two nominees to the Supreme Court during his first term, Mr. Nixon's alternative choices ran to men who were relatively obscure but who had backgrounds that presented no problem of confirmation in the Senate.

Judge William M. Byrne a registered Democrat who is currently presiding in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg for release of the Pentagon papers, is reported to be a serious contender for the FBI job. Press reports in recent days have also indicated that the White House is considering assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, head of the criminal division in the Justice Department, and John E. Inger-soll, i of the department's Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Senate sources said yesterday, however, that it was unlikely that Petersen would be nominated because he had been personally involved in some of the most controversial law-and-order policies of the Nixon Administration. He is also in charge of the Justice Department's investigation of the Watergate incident. It was Gray's handling of the FBI investigation of the wiretapping and break-in at Demo-c a i Party headquarters in the Watergate hotel complex last June that forced him to step down as Mr. i 's choice to succeed the late J. cautiously predicted the Missis-j i i River might still crest here sometime tomorrow at 40.3 feet, which would be the new I record, exceeding the 40.28 feet on July 22, 1951.

i In actuality, the river may have crested last night at just utider 40 feet, Weather Service I experts said. The higher crest-I jng predicted for tomorrow may occur because of water from levee breaks upstream i re-entering the main i 's flow. Prior to the 1951 record, the highest official flood had been on July 2, 1947, when the river leached 40.26 feet here. Recordings in 1785 of 42 feet and in 1844 of 41.4 feet were estimates based on high water marks and are not considered official, the Weather Service said. Some rain is forecast for Saturday night, but the heaviest will be to the south.

Light showers might occur in the two-state area, but no general heavy rain here or to the north is predicted by the Weather Service. "We are calling for a flat crest of the river. It will be several days before we have any rapid drop. The flood area has to drain back into the main channels and this will stop any fast drop," a spokesman said. It will between 7 and 10 days before the Mississippi drops below flood stage from Louisiana, downstream to Grafton, the Weather Service said.

The Missouri River, dropping rapidly in western Missouri, crested this morning at 34.7 feet at St. Charles. The Missouri already is below flood stage at Kansas City and Lexington, and will drop below flood stage tomorrow at Waverly, Maimi and Glasgow, and at Boonville and Jefferson City on Sunday and Monday respectively, the service predicted. Downstream on the Mississippi, the crest will hit 40 feet at and 43.5 feet at Cape Girardeau on Sunday. Petersen Ingersoll Byrne Jr.

Baking Industry Seeking 2-Cent Bread Price Hike SILVER LINING: With sunny skies the water level around this garage in West Alton will gradually go down as the Mississippi and Missouri River crests pass by. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Wayne Crosslin) 1 Confirms Dean's TV; Plan Before He Left Law Firm second request were denied, but an appeal for reconsideration made on Nov. 9 is pending. A spokesman for the association noted that individual increases had been approved by the council, but said it was difficult for one baker to increase the wholesale price because he would lose business if his competitors' prices remained the same. "It is now clear that many bakeries could not survive the financial crunch caused by the economic-stabilization regula cy personnel who were familiar with our case have left the Cost of Living Council and we have had to present the facts relating to our request to their successors and, to some extent, to their successors' successors," he said in a letter to council director John T.

Dunlop. The Bakers Association, i ch represents individual wholesale bakeries, originally asked the Price Commission last Aug. 23 for permission to n.ake across-the-board price increases to compensate for rising flour costs. The cost of flour had gone up sharply, the association said, because of the sale of U.S. wheat to Russia.

The increase has more than doubled to over $2 a hundredweight since the original request, it said. The original request and a WASHINGTON, April 6 (AP) The American Bakers Association says the wholesale baking industry is in a "devastating depression" and wants the Cost of Living Council to take immediate action on a five-month-old appeal for price increases. A bread-price increase of two cents a pound could be the salvation of the i said Richard W. Daspit, association president. A council spokesman said late yesterday that an appeal made iast Nov: 9 "is pending and we're looking at it." Joseph M.

Creed, general counsel for the bakers, accused the council of regulation by inaction. The delay has been so protracted that many of the agen Policeman Killed, Man With Rifle Held quently accused Dean of unethical conduct by becoming involved with Fellows in a potential rival station. Fellows, in an interview with the Post-Dispatch, defended Dean against the conflict-of-interest charge but indicated he was disappointed with Dean's efforts in trie group's unsuccessful attempt to raise funds to finance the new station. He said he and several other members of the group associated with Dean had envisioned that Dean would be a major fund-raiser in their efforts to attract at least $750,000 to establish a St. Louis television station.

These hopes were dashed, however, when Dean assumed other employment after losing his job in February 1966 with the Washington law firm, Fellows said. After Dean left the law firm, Fellows said, Dean accepted other employment that appar By LOUIS J. ROSE Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A St. Louisan who invested with Presidential attorney John W. Dean III in a proposed St.

Louis television station in 1966 confirmed today that he and Dean had pursued the project while both were employed by a Washington law firm that had plans of its own for another television station here. Boyd W. Fellows, in an interview with the Post-Dispatch, said the idea for the station was his and that Dean first expressed an interest in becoming financially involved in the project in November 1965. This was at least two months before Dean, who is now President Richard M. Nixon's chief legal counsel, was dismissed by or quit the Washington law firm on Feb.

4, 1966. Fellows conceded that le3ers of the firm apparently had not been aware of Dean's involvement in the proposed new station House Judiciary Committee. the time, Dean and Fellows were officers and stockholders in a corporation that had been granted a license to operate a station on ultra high frequency channel 30 in St. Louis. There were eight other stockholders in the corporation, the Greater St.

Louis Television Corp. "We had hoped Dean would be able to talk to people he knew and see if they were interested in assisting us in financing the station," Fellows recounted. "We had projected that we would probably need between $750,000 and $1,000,000 as a line of credit." "But after Dean left (Welch's law firm) he got another job and he was working long hours and just did not have enough time to be as involved as I and some other members of our group had hoped he would be in raising funds for the corporation." Because of their inability to raise the needed funds, Fellows said, stockholders in his TURN TO PAGE 8, COL. 1 Edgar Hoover as head of the FBI. Gray, a former submarine captain with a deep sense of loyalty to Mr.

Nixon, told the Senate Judiciary Committee during confirmation hearings last month that the White House had been given sensitive FBI files on the a a case. The fifes were delivered personally by Gray to John W. Dean III, who has been linked to at least one of the men found guilty in the Watergate affair. Gray said he had transferred the FBI files to Dean without telling other top officials in the bureau or informing Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst.

Later, under questioning by members of the Senate judiciary Committee on March 22, Cray said that Dean probably had lied to FBI agents in the course of the bureau's investigation of the Watergate case and that Dean for several days The river gauge at the Eads Bridge had dropped to 39.78 feet this morning, the Service said. Nevertheless, authorities wor-'ried that flood waters might recede too rapidly, creating a new danger to levees. Sandbag levees were said to be high enough in almost all areas to cope with the crests. But a rapid drop in the water level could topple some of the levees with an outward suction-like effect, taking some of the sandbags down with the water, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. "Most of the levees are so wet that a sudden drop in the flood stage could cause them to collapse because of the sharp decline of water pressure against them," Gary Ketts, an engineer with the Corps here, said.

However, the National Weather Service does not expect the Mississippi or the Missouri rivers to fall rapidly enough to cieate such problems. "It will take probably eight to 10 days for the waters to get down below flood stage after the crest periods," a Weather Service spokesman said. He said the rivers would remain at their crest for about two days and then start to fall slowly. Ketts said that there were no reports of problems with levees in the area and that new sandbagging crews were not being directed to any flood sites. At the threatened Missouri- A policeman from the Page Boulevard District was fatally wounded last night after he vcrsd a call from a woman who said her estranged, hus-b nd had been shooting a rifle at her.

Patrolman John Summers, 33 years old, was pronounced dead at St. Luke's Hospital. He had been shot in the right shoulder and the bullet entered the chest cavity. Held in connection with the shooting was Chester L. Holli-man, 40, a Chicago hospital ently left him with little time tions, Creed's letter said.

Creed said that 40 wholesale bakeries ceased operations in 1972. A spokesman for the association said this probably was three or four times the annual average for wholesale bakeries. Bakers remain under mandatory price controls in Phase 3. The letter to the council asked for "the right to increase prices in an amount reflecting all flour-cost increases from July 8, 1972, without regard to profit margin or other limitations." The House has set a vote for next week on a rollback of prices, interest rates and rents and President i a M. Nixon's administration is standing firm against any such move.

George P. Shultz, Secretary of the Treasury, drew the Administration line yesterday before a Senate subcommittee. He defended Mr. Nixon's ceiling on meat prices, but said "we are not considering imposition of a freeze, ceiling or wha-t you call it in other areas." The House Banking Committee Wednesday wrote the provision for a rollback to the levels of Jan. 10, the end of Phase 2, into legislation to extend the President's economic-control powers.

These expire April 30 unless Congress acts. The timetable is tight and Mr. Nixon could be TURN TO PAGE COL. 4 Inflation Fight Aided By Hens OMAHA, April 6 (AP) Robert McMorris believes he may have found an effective way to combat inflation. Each shell of a dozen eggs he had bought at a grocery recently turned out to contain a double yolk.

until the day before he left the or energy to devote to helping firm. arrange financing for the pro- A senior partner in the law posed station. Dean's new job firm, Vincent B. Welch, subse- was as minority counsel for the Coconuts And Palms For The Levee? r- adian. Holliman also was accused of carrying a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to kill.

Police reported that Holliman, who was out on bond on a burglary charge here, quarreled with his estranged wife, Allienietria, at her home, 5777 "'T-tminster Place, about 7 p.m. yesterday. Mrs. Holliman told police her husband fired several shots at her and police put out an arrest order for him. Shortly after 11 p.m., Mrs.

Holliman, 32, again called police and told Summers that several rifle shots had been fired at her home from the direction of Kingsbury Place. Summers and several other patrolmen were scouring the area when further shooting was heard near the Holliman home, police said. Summers and Patrolman Hegman Harris then ran to the home. Harris and Mrs. Holliman later told police tluy heard several shots.

Mrs. Holliman said one of the shots sounded like rifle fire and she said she heard someone shout, "Halt! Drop the gun." Police found Holliman in the rear of 5773 Westminster with a rifle in his hands. Summers's body was discovered later in a search of the area. a a i ns the restaurant, but could not veto it. John Flynn, the local representative of Specialty Restaurant, said he planned to seek a building i in miii-April.

Brown said he would tell Flynn to get the restaurant approved by the Board of Public Service first. The commission indicated that it objected to the restaurant's design because it would not reflect the riverboat tradition and other lore of the Mississippi. They said it would be inappropriate to put a quasi- TURN TO PAGE 4, COL. 4 Gateway Arch. It hopes, however, to obtain the lease for the space formerly occupied by the Santa Maria.

Several problems remain, however, before it can serve customers on the riverfront. The first is the Board of Public Service, which must override the commission's c- iions before a bulding permit can be issued. The firm expects to spend about to build the 9000-square-foot restaurant on the barges. City Counselor Robert G. McNicholas informed Kenneth O.

Brown, the building commissioner, that the landmarks group could only recommend TURN TO PAGE COL. 2 Chance Of Rain Official weather forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Increas By PHILIP SUTIN Of the Post-Dispatch Staff A floating restaurant that will look like a lush tropical island is heading for the St. Louis riverfront. The attraction is expected to open along the Wharf Street levee by late this year despite opposition of the Landmarks Commission, which finds its rustic facade "inappropriate in that it is totally unrelated to the history and tradition of the Mississippi River.

It is not compatible with the Jefferson Expansion Memorial." The restaurant, to be called Castaway, is expected to sit on the barges that once cradled the Santa Maria. Landscaping will include trees, a large waterfall and pools of water. The restaurant would have a front of stone and dark wood. The rear would be a glass wall so patrons could see what is happening on the river. Polynesian food would be the specialty.

Specialty Restaurant of Long Beach, the owner of the proposed restaurant, has a city lease or space 1150 feet south of the south leg of the NOT A GRAY DAY i V1 1 ing cloudiness tonight, low in the mid to upper 40's; chance of rain and mild tomorrow, high in the SOs. Outlook through Tuesday: A chance of rain Sunday, low In the 30s, high from 45 to 55.. Homicide detectives said there was some uncertainty about how long Summers had been shot before he was found, but they said it could have been as long as half an hour. A neighbor of the Hollimans, Mrs. a 1 1 Stokes, 5768 Westminster, described Holliman as "one of the most pleasant persons I've ever known." Even when he began drinking and ceased attending church last summer, Mrs.

Stokes con-t i she remembered his pleasant attitude. However, Mrs. Holliman told news index 52 Pages Editorials 2B Everyday 1-1 2D Financial He Obituaries 48 People 4A Religion 16A Spectator SD Sports TiC TV-Radio 10D Want Ads 4-14B 4 Tt "if COS I PTC II nthrr Hrathrr Information uo t'HKe i ARTIST'S CONCEPTION of the proposed quasi-South Pacific restaurant Castaway. TURN TO PAGE 4, COL. i i ft i a iitrfri rr iffrnri A a A I.