Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 12-31-1970 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1970). Winona Daily News. 1052. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1052 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cloudy and mild Free through Friday; found ads high: 30-36 c lassified section Death senferices of In Kentucky mine explosion two Jews commuted MOSCOW (AP) - The Su- ests in . Western Europe, Israel ed in June as they prepared to 20 dead 19 missing and the United States, and a board a small Soviet airliner in preme Court of the Russian Re- HYDEN, Ky. (AP) - Rescue By early morning, 20 bodies /this year, the mine was cited for nal. There" was no indication public today commuted the number of foreign governments Leningrad for Finland. At . the workers groped through the and leaders appealed to the So- trial/ which began Dee. 15 and had been carried out and mine a variety of mine safety law vio- that the earlier violations were death sentences of the two Jews blackened interior of a moun- officials held but little hope for related, to Wednesday's blast, convicted of treason on Christ- viet government for clemency/ ended Christmas Eve, the Jews tain early today, seeking the the -19 missing men. Poisonous lations, the Louisville Courier- the newspaper said. mas Eve in the Leningrad hi- The appeal court reversed the admitted planning to hijack the last of 39 men presumed killed Journal reported. plane because the Soviet gov- gas delayed operations. Finley, jack case. death sentences less than 24 by a shattering explosion in a "Their chances are zero," The newspaper said records Clifford a relative--©! The court reduced the sen- hours alter Generalissimo Fran- ernment refused to let them em- coal mine cited by federal in- said Everett Bartlett, supervi- show that in June a federal in^ thd mine owner, was in tha fences of Edward Kuznetsov, cisco Franco, the Spanish chief igrate tov Israel. They were spectors for safety violations sor of the Hazard district of the spector found an "imminent mine shop about 50 feet from and Mark Dymshits, 43, to 15- of state, commuted the death charged with treason. eWlier this year. Kentucky Department of Mines danger" because of loosed coal the main entrance when the ex- yeartermsin a labor camp. sentences of six Basque nation- There was one known survi- and Minerals. and coal dust accumulations plosion occurred. alists, and Russians sympathet- "In considering their ap- BLAST SITE ... Symbol Finley immediately ran to two It also reduced the peals," the Soviet news agency vor from the day underground 'He said the disaster was and ordered mining stopped. It labor ic to the Leningrad defendants locates Hyden, Ky., where shift after the blast went off in- caused by one of two things: resumed operations three days mine openings to see* whether camp terms given in Leningrad said the Russian court undoubt- Tass reported, "the Supreme an explosion in a coal mine the fans were still operating. VI Court proceeded from the fact side the Finley Coal Co. mine "Either- they were shooting later after ¦ . deficiencies were to three other defendants but edly was influenced by Franco's trapped 39 men under- Wednesday, filling the honey- (dynamiting) the coal in there corrected. ¦' knew they had to have ventila- upheld the other six sentences. action. that the hijack attempt was ' ' tion if they were going to sur- averted in time and that under ground Wednesday after- combed shafts with rock dust. or it was a blown (electrical) More ; ,. irregularities were The trial and sentencing of The 11 defendants—nine Jews noon Photofax) Debris and dirt sprayed hun- cable." found in October and on Nov. 23, vive," he said. the Soviet law the death penalty . <AP Both fans were working, but the Jews set off a storm of pro- and two Gentiles—were arrest- is an exceptional measure of dreds of feet outside. In federal inspections earlier according to the Courier-Jour- ¦: ¦ as it turned out the men in the punishment." ' ' mine : apparently were beyond The court acted after a hear- the need of an air supply. ing that lasted a day and a half. Finley, who went in with an Barred from the courtroom, I No paper early rescue1 party, said the vic- Jewish leaders supporters of the defendants J tims he saw were badly burned stood outside the building in the Friday and appeared to have died in- rain and snow as the arguments | j stantly. satisfied with went on inside. K As7 has been its cus--.§ One worker, A. T. Collins, was Kuznetsov, who had a pistol torn for many years, about 10 feet inside the mind | | J when the detonation came about when he was arrested, was or- the Winona Daily News H dered confined under "especial- I 12:20 p.m. He was hurled 30 feet action by US. ly strict regime," meaning he | will not be published | but escaped with minor injuries. Friday, ¦when busi- 1 Gov. Louie B. Nunn, who will be allowed only one visitor I a year, a subsistence diet of came* here from Frankfort, set WASHINGTON (AP) .- said much of the admini- | ness places will be I up temporary headquarters in a help the about one third the number of « closed for the New J Three U.S. Jewish leaders stration's action to calories required to sustain metal hut a few yards from tha say the Nixon aiirninistra- defendants "was confiden- Year's holiday. Regular main entrance to the mine. tion did "everything pos- tial and we would just as good health, and no food parcels I | sible through diplomatic soon leave it that way." from outside. | publication will be re- | He telephoned ihe WHte ' channels" to help the 11 But he said Nixon "mani- Dymshits, who was to have | sumed Sunday. | House, which offered federal Leningrad hijack defend- fested a large range of flown the plane, was sentenced Remember to drive | aid, but Nunn said he replied | to strict regime confinement, | that "nothing more could be ants. "knowledge of the situa- " " g carefully. In Moscow today, two Rus- tion" and the leaders left meaning reduced visiting and | done at the moment." sian Jews sentenced to their meeting 7 "heartened mail privileges and fewer food As word of the tragedy death in the alleged plane by the President's know- parcels than ordinary inmates. reached Hyden, the seat of the hijacking conspiracy had ledge, concern and under- Friends of the defendants said second poorest county in the na- their .„, sentences commuted standing." . Kuznetsov's confinement /would tionJ-relfttiVei'hBgan""flocking to to 15 years in prison. The others who met with be "like a slow death" because the-'site, Tabout one mile up a The Jewish leaders met Nixon and Rogers were Wil- of the poor diet and prolonged dirt road. with'. President Nixon and liam Wexler of Savannah, isolation. But "it's better than a Family members, sensing Secretary of State William da., president of the B'Nai fast death," one said. that the men would not come P. Rogers Wednesday dur- B'rith and chairman of the out alive, frequently composed ing an emergency one-day conference of Presidents of The appeal court reduced the spontaneous eulogies for them. conference called to gain Major American Jewish Or- sentence given to Iosif Mende- forces begin The coal digging operation U.S. aid for the defendants, ganizations, and Max Fisher lyevich, 23, from 15 to 12 years consisted of two mines designat- nine of them Jews. Prison of Detroit, president of the that v of Ari Khnokh, 25, from 13 ed as No. 15 and No. 16. They sentences from 4 to 15 years Federation of Welfare to 10 years, and that of Anatoly were connected beneath the were imposed on those not Funds. Altman from 12 to 10 years. 24-hour truce ground ana a spokesman for the sentenced to death. Wexler said Rogers out- The judges upheld these sen- SAIGON (AP) - U.S. and U.S. Bureau of Mines said both Rogers sent a personal lined in a two-hour meet- tences: Sylvia Zalmanson, 27, 10 South Vietnamese forces began probably were involved in the appeal to Soviet Foreign ing the problems of not years; Israel Zalmanson, 21, observing a 24-hour New Year's blast. Minister Andrei Gromyko making the sentences a eight years; Alexei Murzhenko, cease-fire tonight as the allied Nunn said both the federal asking that the sentences "Cold War issue. But he 20, 14 years; Yuri Fyodorov, 27, commands announced sharp in- " SEARCH FOR DEAD and state governments weVa be reduced, the Washington said the secretary told 15 years; Boris Penson, 23, 10 creases in their casualties last ... A rescue work- killed 39 miners. In the foreground are making a full investigation. The Post reported. them: "I am convinced that years, and Mendel Bodny, 32, week despite the* Christmas er talks by telephone to other workers in- beltline conveyor parts that were blasted out governor sent mining experts to Rabbi Herschel Schacter groups such as yours by four years. truce. side Finney Coal Co. No. 15 mine near Hy- and then moved by. rescue workers. Mine the site shortly after the disas- of New York, cnairman of their protests can perhaps Murzhenko and Fyodorov The U.S.