The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 1

BEN ING JOURNAL A GANNETT NEWSPAPER WILMINGTON, DELAWARE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1979 VOLUME 47, NUMBER 29 20 CENTS Copyright 1979 by The Newi-Journal Co. WE WANTBM5 Wholesale Prices 1.3 for 4-Year High 1 MINT continued for a year, the rate would be more than 16 percent. The report was a not-unexpected disappointment to the Carter administration, which is soliciting help from consumers in its anti-inflation fight. Alfred Kahn, director of President Carter's four-month-old anti-inflation program, said yesterday, "We have to depend on alert consumers to monitor prices." He suggested that consumers demand explanations from retailers and veal increases in all of 1978. Wholesale price boosts last month were widespread and included sharp gains in gasoline, fuel oil, cosmetics, tobacco, autos, tires, machinery and a variety of other products.

Not since November 1974, when the increase was 1.8 percent, have wholesale prices risen so rapidly in one month. Those prices usually are harbingers of trends in retail prices in following months. Last November and December, wholesale prices were climbing rapidly, but at a slower rate of 0.8 percent. If the January increase By MICHAEL DOAN WASHINGTON (AP) Wholesale prices, spurred by soaring prices for beef and veal, rose by 1.3 percent in January the biggest monthly increase in four years, the Labor Department reported today. The report means consumers can expect hefty increases in grocery prices in the next few months.

Last month alone, wholesale beef and veal prices rose 13 percent, the department said. That was equal to about half the beef Sheeran Ordered Killing Of Official, Hit Man Says Kir i. 4 1 TAe Choice of Millions Supporter of Ayatollah Khomeini's choice urging the Iranian armed force to support him. for prime minister of Iran, Mehdi Bazargan, Story on page 4. mass in the streets of Tehran today.

Bazargan is Development Plan Gives City Land and County Water By CAROL SHOCHET The city of Wilmington will get land for Port of Wilmington expansion and New Castle County will get help in solving its water problems under a tentative city-county agreement announced yesterday. In addition, the constructing and rehabilitating buildings in the city tax-incentive program (will be revived. The three-point economic development program was announced Teamster Frank Sheeran, left, and the missing Jimmy Hoffa in 1973 photo. to conspiracy to manufacture am- drug laboratory, phetamines. The informant was scheduled to Allen, 46, of Turnersville, N.J., be sentenced yesterday, but Brot- is now in the federal witness man granted a 90-day postpone- protection program.

Under the ment at the request of Allen's law-agreement he is to be sentenced to no more than seven years for his part in the operation of an illegal McMahon Named State Prosecutor An admitted hit man says he killed a Philadelphia labor organizer in 1976 on orders of Wilmington Teamsters' boss Frank Sheeran, who has been linked to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. As U.S. Attorney Peter F. Vaira was disclosing yesterday that mob executioner Charles Allen had turned informant, FBI agents were raiding the Wilmington offices of Local 326 at 109 E. Front looking for documents that federal agents say may clear dozens of unsolved crimes.

Conversations taped secretly by Allen with business and labor leaders believed linked to the underworld could "break the back of organized crime along the Eastern Seaboard," one agent said. Sheeran, who has been implicated by two authors in the alleged murder of ex-Teamsters' boss James R. "Jimmy" Hoffa, was linked by Allen to the killing of Robert F. Marino, the labor organizer. Sheeran, 57, known as "Big Frank" among Teamsters, denied all the allegations, and reportedly has told friends he is hurt that he has been linked to the disappearance of Hoffa, who spoke at a 1974 testimonial dinner for Sheeran.

Allen, who has admitted committing three gangland style executions himself and has agreed to help investigators in the Hoffa probe, said he conspired in a plot to kill Frank Fitzsimmons at the request of Hoffa. Fitzsimmons was a Hoffa rival who now heads the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. The disclosures were contained in an agreement between Allen and the federal government that was released yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Brot-man in Camden, N.J. Allen began cooperating with the government following his arrest in New Jersey July 15 on drug charges.

He pleaded guilty Oct. 10 7' Lee Littleton of information about the names of CIA station chiefs, station locations and contacts and relationships in Latin America. Still pending, however, against ITT are charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the corporation paid millions of dollars in foreign bribes and then altered company books to hide them. (A News-Journal investigation of ITT's involvement in Chile disclosed close cooperation between the multinational and the Central Intelligence Agency to overthrow the government of Marxist president Salvador Al ii i-iiiinirViiiif in.iH a i ft 2 1 1 '5 IT! TdeplHI and to the county as well," Mrs. Jornlin said.

But tied to the sale of the land is an agreement for the city to take over current negotiations with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority, according to John F. Kirk, chief administrative officer for New Castle County. The authority was created by state law last year, and must eventually take over eventually See PLAN-Page 2, Col. 3. said, recalling that he was asked, and finally decided to run for the Senate in 1976 after days of prayer.

"I wouldn't be here if the Lord hadn't put me here. I don't say anything (in the Senate). We have so many laws, rules, and regulations now it's a burden to the people." To Littleton, the Bible is a tool for developing his thoughts. During an interview, he frequently slipped out a pocket version of the New Testament, answering questions with biblical verse. The book is often not necessary.

He can recite his favorite passages by memory. See LITTLETON-Page 6, Col. 1 of protective order that would have required the defense to disclose in advance what secret information it planned to introduce as evidence and for the judge to rule on whether the evidence was relevant and admissible. These steps would be taken in closed session with the press and public excluded. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia refused a week and a half ago to order Robinson to issue the order, leading the Justice Department to drop the case yesterday.

The government indicated that it wished to prevent the disclosure 1 Senator Votes for the Lord By BILL BOYLE Dover Bureau Even those who know Sen. W. Lee Littleton well were startled last week when the Laurel Republican offered his land for burial of the unclaimed Guyana massacre victims. But none of his stunned colleagues questioned Littleton's sincerity, or the religious fervor behind his unusual solution to Delaware's Guyana dilemma, since rejected by the U.S. State Department.

Littleton is a demonstrative, fundamental Christian, whose beliefs pervade every yesterday by New Castle County Executive Mary D. Jornlin and Wilmington Mayor William T. McLaughlin at a joint press conference. The plan is subject to approval by city and county councils. The program centers on the sale of 188 acres of county-owned land, adjacent to the Port of Wilmington and the Delaware River, to the city at "fair market value." Acquisition of the land will allow the city to expand the port, bringing "economic growth to the city PROFILE aspect of his political, business and personal life.

He said he was "born again" at a Sussex County revival meeting three decades ago, long before Jimmy Carter made religious recommitment fashionable. Of the many reasons Delaware legislators have for serving the General Assembly, Littleton's is perhaps unique in its simplicity. "To be a testimony, a witness to the Lord," he said. "I didn't seek the job," he tional security we cannot proceed" in the case. Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr.

of the United States District Court here granted the motion. Berrellez had been charged with six counts of lying to a Senate committee in 1973 about unsuccessful efforts by ITT to prevent the election of Salvador Allende in 1970 as president of Chile. Allende was later overthrown and killed in a coup d'etat. Berrellez had been an officer of the multinational corporation in Latin America. Robinson had refused a government request for an unusual form former Attorney General Richard R.

Wier Jr. Oberly was demoted when Gebelein took office last month. Oberly is now handling two murder cases and will direct the criminal division's new appeals section when those murder cases are concluded. McMahon, 30, has spent most of his four years at the Department of Justice running the criminal division's intake unit, which decides who will be indicted and what the charges will be. McMahon's efforts there have won repeated praise from Superior Court judges, who believe the INDEX Arts 31-35 Health Bridge 36 Home Business 14, 15 People Comics 36 Record Datebook 24 Sports 49 27 26 10,50 16-21 Deaths 37 Television Editorials 22 Weather WEATHER 30 38 TONIGHT: Windy and cold, low around five.

very TOMORROW: Mostly sunny and Continued very cold high in the 16w 20s. Details on Page 38. By LARRY NAGENGAST Delaware's attorney general this morning named a fellow Sale-sianum School alumnus to head the Department of Justice's criminal division. Richard J. McMahon, will become the new state prosecutor Monday at a salary of $32,500 a year, Richard S.

Gebelein announced. McMahon said his new job will bring him a pay raise of about $6,000 a year. The $32,500 salary is $2,500 more than the attorney general earns. McMahon succeeds Charles M. Oberly III, state prosecutor under lende.

It also disclosed the corporation may have lied to obtain government insurance for the property seized by Allende.) This was the first case in many years in which the government dropped a case on national security grounds after having obtained an indictment. However, there have been other somewhat similar instances in which defendants appear to threaten to disclose national secrets if their prosecution is U.S. Drops ITT Case to Protect CIA By CHARLES MOHR New York Times Service WASHINGTON The Justice department dropped perjury charges yesterday against a former executive of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. to prevent disclosure of information about American intelligence activity in Latin America. A spokesman said the department was likely to seek new legislation to protect such secrets in future trials.

The government prosecutor, John Kotelly, moved to dismiss the charge against Robert Ber-rellez, saying that "because of na -f, -'Jti, iJ.