Royalty found in Nixon's ancestry LONDON (UPD—Former President Richard M. Nixon has royal blood. He is a direct descendant of King Edward 111 of England, is related to Queen Elizabeth, to Sir Winston Churchill and to George Washington. The experts of Burke's Peerage, the 150-year-old reference wqjrk on England’s nobility, made these claims yesterday in a new book which traces royal blood in the veins of 13 American Presidents Burkesays Washington was Simon: dollar is rising PARIS T'jyPT) —Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said yesterday the dollar is gaining on international money markets as American recession begins to bottom out and inflation drops He also predicted a drop in world oil prices. • “We see definite touches of blue in a gray sky." Simon told newsmen on a visit to the Prench capital to sign a charter setting up a $25 billion Western industrial world's Importer accused of bribing Hondurans WASHINGTON (UPD United Fruit Co., had sought United Brands arranged $2.5 i?to cover up the illegal million in bribes to high of- ' payment. finals in Honduras to gain hover export taxes on bananas, the government charged yesterday. The company -admitted half the money actually was paid by its chairman, who died later in a suicide leap out of a skyscraper window. in a suit filed in U.S. District Court here, the Securities Exchange Com mission alleged that United Brands, successor to the old Researchers will Samuel Kausner. director ol University .of Penn sylvania's Cgnter for Research on the Acts of Man, will speak on "Energy and the Poor" at a colloquium 4 pm. in Sl3l Human Development Buirding. A coffeehouse for jour nalism professors and students will be held 7:30 tonight in McElwain piano lounge. * The State College Area League of Women Voters is conducting a special voter registration until Saturday in the Glennland Building, corner of South Pugh St. and Beaver Ave. Registration will be held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and tomorrow. The Air Environment Stud ies Center is sponsoring Floyd Elder, who will speak on "Contamination of Water Bodies by Air Pollution” at a seminar 2:20 tomorrow in 140 F'enske. * WAfiJNG Cll'lii'/IA *< ?;t£s£iMTs * { l P nn ' U ' SAt &30 12-00 f* sl -00 SUN. 730 1000 * ★★★★★★★★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★ ★★★★* descended from four kings, and Lincoln from one—mere commoners compared with President James Monroe with nine kings in his family tree. Nixon is 20th in line of descent from Edward 111, who died in 1377, the book said. “<• . "Similar claims can be made by thousands of others,” said Hugh Mont gomery-Massingberd, editor of “Burke’s Presidential Families of the United States of America,” a 676-page reference book being published next week. One is the editor—22nd in line from Edward 111. Another is David Williamson, who worked for seven years to compile the new book's presidential genealogies. Williamson discovered he, himself, and Nixon are 13th cousins once removed. The $39 book is largely a serious study of the 37 American Presidents and their families. It lists every descendant of all presidents and each president's brothers war chest to be used in caseof another world oil crisis. The fund is designed to protect the 24 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, grouping the Western industrial powers and Japan, if they run short of cash because of high oil prices Simon said he 1 expected oil priced “to go down as the leading oil : consuming countries develop their huge The SEC also alleged that beginning in January, 1970, United Brands made cash payments of $750,000 to an official of a European government in order to secure favorable business opportunities. The SEC did not identify the European country The company said it, too. was investigating these payments. Trading on United Brand stock was suspended in- The Free University and Internal Revenue Service will have representatives to hlep students fill out income tax forms 7 to 9 tonight and Monday night at the Wesley Foundation. Those interested in working on Food Day will meet 7 tonighf in , 117 Human* Development Building. The Penn-State Outing Club Sailing Division will discuss plans for sailing instruction and racing at its meeting 7:30 tonight in2l4Boucke. The Catholic Chapel Choir will perform choral arrangements of American hymns and spirituals at the 5:03 Mass today in Eisenhower Chapel. Beta Alpha Psi. the national accounting fraternity. is offering free income tax information services fourth, fifth and sixth periods and sisters and their descendants. ( An appendix of simplified presidential family trees stretching far into the past shows the White House awash in royal forebearers. Thomas Jefferson, William Howard Taft and Ulysses S. Grant all; descended from David I of Scotland, who died in 1153. James Garfield had the earliest royal ancestor traced—King Henri I of France, who died in>lo6o. Presidents Lincoln, Washington, Monroe and John Quincy Adams all numbered; the same king among their fore bearers—Edward I of England, who died in 1307. “But Washington’s lineage is the most spectacular of all the presidents,” Mont gomery-Massingberd said. “It goes back to 1180 at least and probably eves further, to the kings of Scotland. It is a lineage the ; grandest peer would be proud of.” President, Ford, Mon tgomery-Massingberd added, no known royal blood. untapped energy resources and continue applying energy-saving measures." “The dollar is improving on money markets,” Simon said. "Inflation is coming down, helping the dollar to gain further strength. Most ex pectations are—both government and private forecasts—that we will bring the inflation rate down to about five per cent annually," he said. ! definitely by the New York Stock Exchange. The SEC said the $1.25 million was deposited last September in the Swiss bank accounts :of Honduran of ficials. An equal payment was to be made this spring, the SEC alleged. The Honduran officials were not identified. But a State Department source said in Washington it was believed that one of those receiving money was Honduran President Oswaldo Lopez. A United Brands spokesman speak Monday through Friday until Tuesday. A table is set up on the HUB ground floor. An Israeli dancing festival will be held 7:30 tonight at the Hillel foundation. The Penn State Cycling Club will meet 7:30 tonight in 369 Willard. ' The Free University course "Discussion of Ideas in Philosophy” is still open and will meet 7:30 tonight in, 311 Boucke. The Penn State Ultimate Frisbee Team will hold their first home game 9 p.m. tomorrow on the Astroturf field. The team will play Rutgers University. The astronomy department and the Penn State Astronomy , Club are presenting an ipen house 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. tomorrow on the roof of Davey Lab. Cloud date is Saturday night. Scott: ;SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Jhck Scott, radical sports figure sought for questioning in the Patricia Hearst case, surfaced yesterday and said he had done “nothing wrong. ” Bpt he refused to say whether he knew anything about the Hearst case. With Scott was his friend Bill Walton, $2 million star rookie of the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, who urged “rejection of the United States government’' and termed the FBI “the enemy. ” Scott, sought for question ing as the man who rented a Pennsylvania farmhouse where Miss Hearst hid out last year, did not comment specifically on whether he, knew anything about the case and declined to answer questions. He said he had nothing to apologize for if his actions during the past year had averted “bloodshed and killing,” but did not elaborate. “First of all, we have done nothing wrong,” said the bearded and bespectacled Scott, dressed in a blue suit and tie and flanked by his wife Micki and .Walton, in a statement read to about 100 newsmen. Scott, former athletic director'at Oberlin College in Ohio and prominent critic of porfessional sports, said he and his wife would refuse to cooperate in the investigation of Miss Hearst’s whereabouts. He charged that his family and friends had been harassed by the FBI. would not confirm that Lopez received the money. United. Brands, and the nation’s largest importer of bananas, said then-chairman Eli M. Black, who committed suicide Feb. 3, “effected a payment fo an official of that' country of $1.25 million”’ and agreed to second payment of $1.25 million, but the board of directors refused to pay it. The bribe allegedly was made to get s Honduras to lower a proposed banana tax of 50 cents per 40-pound box. In April, 1974, United Brands said Honduras agreed to a tax of 25 cents with step increases to come in subsequent years. United Brands „ said it notified the SEC about the bribe April 1 but asked that the information ’ be kept confidential. : But the State Department also learned of the bribe, and a spokesman said ‘ United Brands and the SEC were told the State Department “condemns such actions in the strongest possible terms'.' * * THEME FROM THE THIEF WHO CAME TO DINNER BY HENRY MANQNI ON RCA RECORDS Celebrating SOth’Anmversary Q A Warner Commurncationa Company April 11-13 108 Forum Still $.75 no comment on Hearst “We have no intention or remain with her captors, talking to the FBI now or in She and the Harrises were the future,” Scott said. “If a last heard from last June 8, grand jury subpoena is when they left a tape issued, we will appear but we recorded statement outside a will not answer any questions. Hollywood radio station. “We feel that we cannot Walton said he regretted he allow our testimony to hurt had ever cooperated with the our friends-. We do not want to ; FBI in the search for Miss become accessories to more Hearst. murders by police.” Walton said he ac- At least six FBI agents companied the Scotts to the showed up at the news con- \ news conference because he ference but’ made no move to wanted to offer a “public detain Scott, who is not apology to Micki and Jack.” charged with anything in the Hearst case. The Scotts and Walton left immediately after reading their statements for an un disclosed destination. Scott’s name came out of a grand jury investigation in Harrisburg, Pa., into the farmhouse near South Canaan, Pa., where Miss Hearst's fingerprints were found. It has been reported that the Scotts rented the farm house from June to September last year. Also found in the farmhouse was evidence indicating that William and Emily Harris, Symbionese Liberation Army members who disappeared with Miss Hearst last sum mer, had been there. The trio disappeared on May 17, the day smother SLA members died in a shootout with police in Los Angeles. Miss Hearst, daughter of Randolph A. Hearst, presidentjand editor of the San Francisco Examiner, was kidnapped by the SLA on Feb. 4, 1974, and later an nounced she Had chosen to and advised that the department would not “participate in any proceeding to seek to keep the 5 information from being disclosed.” The SEC has been in vestigating the affairs of United Brands since Black, who was 53, committed suicide by’plunging through his office window on the 44th floor of the Pan Am building in Manhattan. As a publicly "owned company, United Brands is required by law to make full disclosure of such financial transactions to stockholders as well as the government. No reference was made to the payments in its annual reports. United Brands, a $2 billion conglomerate, holds 28,000 acres of banana properties in Honduras. Company officials reportedly were worried that the bribe disclosure would result in expropriatfon of the property by thq Central American republic. im\ Sound Tiach Album on Warner Bros Records Fri - Sun 7;30 & 10 PM Angel Flight & AAS “I am terribly sorry that I cooperated in any way, shape or form with such a coun terproductive organization as the FBI,” Walton said. “And you can rest assured that I will never talk to the enemy again.” Walton was questioned by the FBI about his knowledge of the Scotts, who lived for several months in his Port- land, Ore., home. “I would like to reiterate my solnraTity with Micki and Jack Scott and also to urge the the world to stand with us in our rejection of the United States govern ment.” Charles W. Bates, the FBI agent in charge of the Hearst investigation, said he was checking a charge by the Scotts that their attorneys had talked to the FBI three times in the past month and s 3°° Carload I In car - - FREE - -24 Hr Heaters Ans. 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Scott said he and his wife became frightened and went underground “when we found ourselves being followed by at least eight armed FBI agents a month ago." "Judging by the false and provocative statements issued by the FBI, we felt w'e were in danger of being set up and being possibly killed,” he said. "We have now chosen to surface so that the harrassment of our loved Last Day: “Lenny” International Film Critics’ Poll and For the first time in 50 years 8:00 PAYDAY 75 University Auditorium ones will end. And we have decided to appear here at this press conference so the media can hear from us directly, free from the distortions of the FBI. “Our actions of the past year are completely defen sible,” Scott said. "If we somehow, acted to avert bloodshed and killing we certainly find that nothing to apopogize for." 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