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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-53) Dini . (Mount Clipping in Space Below) imis anc Pa, Judge to Conf er * e's ' On Autopsy Petition Objections Objections filed by Mary- do Kopechne’s parents have forced Dist. Atty. Edmund Dinis to fly to Wilkes-Barre, Pa., today for a pre-hearing conference with the judge who will hear his petition for exhumation of May. Jo’s bedy. next Monday. "Mary Jo, 28, campaign ‘aide do the late Sen. Robert- Kennedy, drowned on Chap- paquiddick Island, Martha’s Vineyard, when a.car driven by Sen. Edward M«Kennedy plunged off Dike Bridge into Pochas Pond there July 1i. ee RN RE Dinis is seeking an autop- _ sy cn Mary Jo’s ‘body prior to an inqirest scheduled to epen in Edgartown Sept. 3. | Associate, Dukes County Medical Examiner Dr. Don- ald &. Mills ruled that Miss Kopechne died of accidental drowning. His finding, reached without condiicting an autopsy, was criticized by Dinis as “a ~ calculated guess.” s: “We're. only doing what should -have been -done before, Dinis said yesterday of his current action. Formal hearing of his petition for exhumation and . -an autopsy is. scheduled for next Monday in the Luzerne County Common Pleas Court, but objections raised by lawyers for Mp and Mrs. Joseph Kegechne Judge Barnard Borminski to order a pretrial conference “in his Wilkes-Barre court- house chambers today. Dr. Mills and Dinis have ‘been at odds over responsi- bility for failure to conduct - an autopsy after thé’ accident-————> immediately , moved | « <«lQn._Mills’ superiar_Daikes County Medical Examiner, Dr. Robert W. Nevin, was a signer of Dinis’ petition for exhumation but ; night he didn’t plan to at- tend the hearing next Mon- day “unless summoned.” ’ “I think time has gone on, and the effectiveness ‘of an autopsy .is becoming more remote,” Dr. Nevin. said in Edgartown yesterday. Dinis said he planned to — chave both island medical ex- . aminers and Edgartown Po- lice Chief Domenick J. Arena as witnesses in the Wilkes-Barre hearing next week, ee State Police Lt George Killen, Dinis’ chief investi- 2 BF) AY ‘DIST, ATTY. DINIS gator, also was expected to attend, Dinis thas yet to release the list of witnesses he ex- pects to call. at the inquest, but it was reported from ‘Washington that five girls who attended the Chappa- tee ten - 4 z said last" quiddick Island party for -Kennedy campaign “boiler room” workers will be vol- untary witnesses. * ; In New York, Theodore C. ‘Sorensen denied ‘reports “he, received two telephone calis- *from. Sen. Kennedy the night of the accident. Soren- sen said he wasn’t in his New York apartment -at the . time and was visiting: iriends on Long Island. "Tf he had called me;” So- rensen said, “I- would have advised chim immediately to do what he later realized. he- - should have done — namely ‘go to the polics promptly.” ~ ‘Last week, the Manchester‘ * (N.H.) = Union-Leader __re- ported that two ‘of 17 calls charged to Sen. Kennedy's telephone - credit-card that ~ night had been to Sorensen’s apartment. . 4 Sorensen is credited with. writing much of the speech * Sen. Kennedy mace on a na- tional TV hookup a wees after the tragedy. ° ae % a a (Indicate page, name of’ newspaper, city and state.) z « L6BOSTON GLOBE” Boston, Masse. | BOSTON HERALD ~PRAVELER Boston, Mass» RECORD AMERICAN 1” Boston, Masse a pate: 8/21/69 “Edition: Evening Author: ‘ . . Edito:Lhomas Winship TineRENNEDY INCIDENT Character: or ‘Classification: 62+ Submitting Office: Boston ] Being Investigated