OTIS agazine CORLISS BACHMAN • aily Collegian Staff Writer ' State College apartment dwellers lould be cautious about admitting agazine salesmen into their partments, Jeremy Abbrams, resident of the Organization of Town dependent Students, advised. OTIS has received several corn laints in the past week from tenants ho have noticed code markings on eir door frames after magazine alesmen had visited their apart ents. Many residents are worried I e marks could indicate to a back-up ‘rew which apartments are to be obbed. State College Police Chief Elwood illiams said the police department ad recevied no reports of robberies I rom tenants whose door frames had een marked. 'liStereo equipment was stolen- from 7everal apartments last weekend, illiams said. A suspect has been pprehended. The suspect is not known to be issociated in any way with the 21 ndividuals . from the magazine selling organization which had been toliciting in the area, Williams said. A representative of the magazine salesmen told police any marks made in doorways were purely routine, to ssure that an apartment would not • e approached twice: Last week the magazine sellers' Troup had its solicitation permit SA to meet, consider charters e Graduate Student Association s Committee will meet to consider charters of the Nigerian Student , elation and the Organization of • Students at 7 tonight in 305 Kern. ig. Gen. Richard Eatoh will discuss ategic Intelligence and 'neering" at 8:30 tonight in 101 ner. , e Life Sciences Interest House will l ent a lecture by Hayes Gamble on Water Dilemma" at BAm - tight in the iock Union Building, North Halls. German. film, "Der Zerbrochene " ("The Broken Jug"), will be n at 7:30 tonight in 271 Willard. A $1 tion is requested. e follwoing events will be held :ht at Hillel, 224 Locust Lane. warns about salesmen revoked by Mayor Jo Hays, on Williams' recommendation, because of . what Williams called "questionable sales practices." One salesman attempted to pose as a Penn State student, according to Williams, and another asked that a check for a magazine subscription be made out not to the magazine com pany, but to an individual other than the seller. After the permit was revoked the salesmen left town, Willimas said. To the best of his knowledge they have not returned. A notice has been prepared to be distributed to tenants of apartment buildings owned by Schlow Enter prises urging them to be cautious about letting slaesmen into their apartments. Harold Zipser, of the Apartment Oviners and Managers committee of the Chamber of Commerce, said tenants should be careful not to give anyone the opportunity to case their apartments for televisions, stereos and other valuables. "Although Williams has assured me there is very little likelihood that these magazine people are involved in a robbery ring, just to be on the safe side, people who have been contacted by salesmen should check for marks on their door frames," Abrams said. "If they find marks• they should remove them." "Learn to Read and Write Hebrew" "'Conversational Hebrew" with Mannie Rabinovitch at 8 in the lounge. Bea Walden• will conduct a class, "Introduction to Yiddish," at 8 in the library. The Agronomy Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in 15 Tyson. The College of Science Student Council will meet at 7 tonight in 106 Boucke. Narcotics Anonymous will meet at 7:30 tonight in the library of St. Andrews Episcopal Church at the corner of Fraser Street and Foster Avenue. The Dance Interest Group will mcet at 6:30 tonight in 108 White Building. Dunham Eskipets® Flattering! Fashionable! Boots are THE fashion scene this winter. Flatter your legs with any of our 38 designer style boots. . You'll be even more beautiful, this winter. Choose your favorite style today. Leather to Boot 116 W. College Ave. 'Open daily till 5:30, Mon & Fri till 9:00 Court upholds Hearst decision SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A federal appeals court yesterday upheld Patricia Hearst's 1976 conviction for robbing a San Francisco bank while underground with the Symbionese Liberation Army. The government said she will be permitted to remain free on bail pending further appeal. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it found "no reversible error" in the celebrated two-month trial of Miss Hearst, Who was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison for participating in the bank robbery 10 weeks after she was kidnapped by the terrorist SLA. She has been free on $1.2 million bail since November of last year, and would be eligible for parole after serving another 14 months. U.S. Attorney James Browning Jr:, who prosecuted the case, said the government would not seek to have her bail revoked and have her returned to custody until her attorneys decide whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. - Albert Johnson, one of Miss Hearst's attorneys, said the case will be appealed, and said he expected Miss Hearst to remain free until the appeals process is completed. He told KCBS radio in a telephone interview from Boston that U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick, whb is hand ling her case, "ordered her release on bail pending appeal and I would expect The Nittany Color Guard will meet at 7:30 tonight in 133 White Building. The programming and planning committee for the Graduate Student Association will meet at 7:30 tonight in 305 Kern. The Canoe Division of the Penn State Outing Club will meet at 7:30 tonight in 214 Boucke. The Science Fiction Society will meet at 7 : 30 tonight in 273 Willard. The Student FilM Organization will sponsor -a special program along with their regular meeting tonight at 7:30. Bob Smith from the DuArt Film Lab in New York City will ' speak on lab processes and preparation in 62 Willard. that order to remain in effect during the pendancy of appeals to the Supreme Court." ' Miss Hearst, 23, was found guilty by a U.S. District Court jury of participating in the April 15, 1974, bank 'robbery. She remained in hiding for a year and a half after the holdup, and was arrested in San Francisco in September, 1975. Miss Hearst had contended that she was forced to take part in the robbery after undergoing weeks of duress and torture while locked in a closet by members of the ' SLA following her kidnapping. Her attorneys argued that if she had not been kidnapped in the first place, she never would have been in volved in the robbery. In a 35-page opinion, the appeals court said: "We conclude on the basis of well established principles that no reversible error occurred and that the judgement 'must be affirmed." Miss Hearst had raised several points in her appeal. First, she said trial Judge Oliver J. Carter had improperly allowed testimony about her subsequent ac tivities with the SLA following the robbery, particularly a shooting incident she participated in at a Los Angeles sporting goods store a month later. The appeals court said because her defense was that she participated under duress, the court had to prove that was not true. "The evidence of appeallant's in volvement in the Los Angeles activity was relevant because it tended to show appellant willingly engaged in other criminal activity with persons of the same group at a time not unduly remote," the opinion said. She also contended that the trial judge erred in allowing hte government to cross-examine her on the stand about a "missing year" of her time un derground. She took .the Fifth Amend ment against self-incrimination 42 times when questioned about it. The appeals court said "a defendant who testifies in his own behalf waives his privilege against self-incrimination with respect to the relevant matters covered by his direct testimony and subjects himself to cross-examination by the government." The court also rejected defense con tentions that the judge • erred in ad mitting a jailhouse tape recording of a conversation between Miss Hearst and a friend, and that testimony by a defense expert witness on psycholinguistics should have been allowed. On the other hand, the appeals court said the judge acted correctly in ad mitting the testimony. The Daily Collegian Thursday, November 3, 1977-
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