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in murder trial
MEDIA, Pa. (A*) — Former
United Mine Workers President
W. A. “Tony” Boyle was con
victed Thursday night of three
counts of first-degree murder in
the 1969 slaying of union rival
Joseph “Jock” Yablonski and his
wife and daughter.
“This is the end of the road,”
said special prosecutor Richard
A. Sprague, who had doggedly
pursued the trail of the Yablon
ski slayers for more than four
years.
Boyle’s attorney said he would
file a motion for a new trial.
The jury of nine men and
three women took just 41/2 hours
to reach a verdict. The convic
tions carry a mandatory life
sentence. No date for sentenc
ing was announced.
“Guilty, first degree,” jury
foreman Clyde M. Parris re
sponded three times to the in
dictment read by Judge Francis
J. Catania of Delaware County
Common Pleas Court.
The 72-year-old Boyle exhibited
no emotion as the verdict was
read, but his face appeared drawn
as he waved to his wife while
being escorted from the courtroom
and voiced a “goodbye.”
Boyle’s wife, Ethel, fidgeted in
her seat and strained for a look
at her husband. Next to her,
B o y 1 e’s daughter, Antoinette,
rubbed her eyes and appeared to
be holding back tears.
Kenneth Yablonski, son of the
slain man, stood with tears on
his cheeks and remarked to
Sprague: “You don’t know how
happy I am. There’s no words
that I can express.”
“Jock” Yablonski, his wife and
a daughter were shot fatally by
three hired gunmen as they slept
in their beds in the family’s
sprawling red brick home in
Clarksville, Pa. Their bullet-
riddled bodies were discovered
Jan. 6, 1970.
Boyle’s was the fifth murder
conviction Sprague obtained in
the case. Three others have plead-
Research studies ‘fatness 9
“Why does today’s woman get
fat” is one of the questions that
two Texas A&M research facili
ties are attempting to answer by
monitoring the dietary habits of
150 nine-year-old girls in the
Bryan-College Station area in a
five year program.
Dr. Roscoe W. Lewis of the De
partment of Biochemistry and
Biophysics and Dr. Alice C.
Stubbs, head of the consumer re
search center, are taking part in
an eight-state project to study
the importance of nutrition for
girls in adolescent growth and
future pregnancy.
The group of girls, 50 black, 50
Mexican-American and 50 white
from different economic back
grounds, were tested for the first
time in the five-year program
during spring break at TAMU.
They were subjected to person
ality tests, physical measurements
and were asked to recall every
thing they consumed in the last
24-hours.
The information is turned into
statistical data which, Dr. Lewis
said “will determine what influ
ences economic levels and ethnic
backgrounds have on what the
girls eat, what their intake pat
terns are while it checks the nu
tritional condition of the subjects
in the study.” Eventually, he said,
guidelines for nutritional educa
tion and food programs for im
provement of health will be pro
posed.
Dr. Lewis does studies on blood
Renowned smile
sets sail for Japan
PARIS LP)—The world’s most
famous smile will be packed into
an air-conditioned steel alloy con
tainer next week and flown to
Japan under unprecedented se
curity precautions.
Officials of the Louvre museum
and the French Ministry of Cul
tural Affairs are guarding de
tails of the Mona Lisa’s departure
arrangements like a state secret.
Armed guards will accompany
Leonardo da Vinci’s unique por
trait every inch of the way to the
National Museum in Tokyo, where
it is to be exhibited from April
19 to June 10.
It will be only the third time
the picture has left France since
King Francois I bought it for his
Fontainebleau Palace early in the
16th century.
Leonardo painted the portrait
of Mona Lisa del Giocondo, the
wife of an Italian nobleman, in
his native Florence in about 1503.
Almost nothing is known of his
beautiful model.
The picture, painted on a sin
gle 21-by 30-inch slab of wood,
was in Leonardo’s luggage when
the artist came to France in 1516
to join the king’s court. Francois
liked Mona Lisa’s sensuous face
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immediately and bought the
painting for 4,000 pieces of gold.
For years it hung in the royal
bathroom.
Napoleon kept the Mona Lisa
in his bedroom briefly, but in
1804 it was part of the royal
treasure he gave to the museum
he founded in the former royal
palace at the Louvre.
In 1911, an Italian named Per
ugia stole the Mona Lisa and
took her to Italy where he kept
her hidden for two years. He was
quickly arrested when he tried
to sell the picture, and the Mona
Lisa returned to home at the
Louvre.
In 1962, she went by ship to
the United States for her first
foreign exhibition. The 352-pound
container specially built for her
journey will be used again to
take her to Japan, but there will
be an additional outer steel crate
to avoid any variations of pres
sure during the flight.
Throughout the journey and
during her exhibition in Japan,
the Mona Lisa will be kept at
the same temperature, pressure
and humidity as she is accustomed
to in the Louvre, to avoid the
slightest risk of subtle changes
which could harm the fragile
wood.
An international consortium is
insuring the picture during its
absence from the Louvre, but
officials refused to indicate the
value placed on it. “There is no
such thing as a value for the
Mona Lisa,” one official said.
“She has no price.”
The double container is stuffed
with ultralightweight insulating
material to make it unsinkable
and it would float to the surface
even if the plane carrying if
plunged into the sea. A weight
of half a ton would be needed to
drag the container under the wa
ter.
Despite all the precautions, the
Mona Lisa’s guardians are a little
nervous. “Sending her to Japan is
a really exceptional gesture of
friendship,” one official said. “We
will all breathe easier when she
is safely back home.”
determinations and urine analy
sis of the girls while Dr. Stubbs
gathers the information on food
patterns, nutritional knowledge,
diet histories and body measure
ments.
Dr. Lewis went on to say that
a lack of information about
youngsters choices of food in the
southern states has prevented an
estimation of their effect on nu
trition. As a result, the informa
tion shortage prevents identifica
tion of what food habits need to
be changed and makes it impos
sible to design food programs to
secure the best nutritional re
sults.
“We want to know why women
today are prone to obesity and
why they have other nutritional
problems,” Lewis continued. “The
age 9-12-years-old just prior to
the child-bearing age is an excel
lent time to study the girls and
note the beginning of physical
trends. When all the clinical in
formation is in, we hope to predict
what the kids will become when
they grow up.”
The program, entitled “Patterns
of Food Intake and Nutritional
Health of Girls,” was established
in the eight southern states “be
cause of the diversity of popula
tion groups and the effect of
numerous environmental and cul
tural backgrounds which may in
fluence food habits.” The study
also noted that the nutritional
health of children in the test
states of Alabama, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, Tex
as, Oklahoma, and Virginia
ranges from poor to excellent.
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SATURDAY
SCUBA CLUB has a planned drive for
the weekend. Meet at the dive locker
at 8 :30 a.m.
HONG KONG CLUB will present “The
Red Detachment of Women,” a movie
from the People’s Republic of China,
at 1:30 p.m. in Room 102, Zachry En
gineering Center, admission free.
MONDAY
SCUBA CLUB will meet at 9 p.m. in
Room 146, Physics Building.
SENIOR CLASS will elect class agent
at the Association of Former Students
induction banquets.
TUESDAY
ASSOCIATION OF BIOENGINEERS will
meet in Room 333-B of the Zachry
Engineering Center at 7 p.m.
ed guilty and a fourth, William
Turnblazer, pleaded guilty to a
federal charge of conspiring to
kill Yablonski. Turnblazer was
the principal witness in the Boyle
trial.
The trail of the conspirators
led from Pennsylvania, to Wash
ington, D.C., to Cleveland, Ohio
and to the coal fields of Kentucky
and Tennessee.
With the conviction of Boyle,
Sprague said the case was fin
ished. “Boyle was the originator.
We got back to the beginning
and that’s where we’ll stop,” he
said.
“Unfortunately, too often only
the people at the bottom are
caught and convicted. We get
only the puppets and not the
puppeteers,” Sprague said.
He said the Boyle verdict shows
that “effective law enforcement
can get to the people at the top.”
Sprague had based his case
heavily on the testimony of Turn
blazer, 52, the only witness to
link Boyle directly to the killing.
Turnblazer, a lawyer and for
mer president of UMW District
19 in Tennessee and Kentucky,
had testified that Boyle told him
and Albert Pass, another former
District 19 officer, that Yablonski
had to be killed.
Turnblazer said the order was
given June 23, 1969, at UMW
headquarters in Washington, D.C.
as the three men stood outside
an elevator for a minute or two.
Boyle, who testified in his own
defense, denied the charge and
said such a meeting never took
place.
Turnblazer has pleaded guilty
to federal charges of conspiring
to kill Yablonski.
Boyle, who had ruled the 200,-
000-member union with an iron
fist for 10 years and was a pro
tege of John L. Lewis, was ac
cused of masterminding the Dec.
31, 1969 slaying.
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