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1970 30 PAGES Three Sections lOc Copy Police Seek Voice Identification In Refinery Blast, Fire Warning THE TAPE Linden, N.J., Mayor John Gregorio starts a tape recording of anonymous phone call warning that Humble Bayway plant would be blown up. Gregorio, who played the tape for reporters at a Sunday news conference, said the call came into police headquarters about an hour before the refinery exploded. (AP Wirephoto) LINDEN, N.J. (AP) Police sought today to identify from a voice recording a caller who said refinery is gonna burai, baby, less than two hours before an explosion and fire raked a Humble Oil Co. complex.

The telephone call to the police was described by investigators as their only lead to the cause of the blast-4elt 40 miles petroleum-fed blaze which injured 29 and caused damage in the millions Saturday night. Police said the FBI would be asked to compare a voice print made from the recording with its own file of voice prints in the search for the caller. feel this was a deliberate act of declared Mayor John Gregorio. assuming it was sabotage because of the actions throughout the country in the past few said a police lieutenant, referring to widespread bombings by militant groups. The mayor said something dropped from an aircraft might have touched off the initial explosion.

Four residents reported seeing a light plane or helicopter over the refinery at about the time the blast sent a fireball 1,000 feet into the air and tered windows within a radius of three to four miles. But the mayor said the reports disagreed on whether the craft was spotted before or after the explosion. A call received by New York radio station WINS early Sunday said a group called the United Socialist Revolutionary Front was resixtnsible for the explosion. The caller said three incendiary devices had been set off. A spokesman for Humble said equipment malfunctions might have caused the blast, in a basic refining unit which feeds oil to other parts of the plant, but that workmen apparently had no prior indication of trouble.

Automatic monitoring will provide a record of events immediately before the explosion, he said. Police and the company secu- rity agents went to the refinery after the call to police and were searching the grounds when the explosion occurred. Most of the 200 people working there were in a concrete bunker. The mayor and a company spokesman said many trespassers have been arrested in the complex over the past few years last on Nov. 14 when four See POi.ICE SEEK Page 6 Swiss Ambassador Kidnaped By Terrorists In Rio de Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Terrorists with automatic weapons kidnaped the Swiss ambassador today after shooting a Brazilian government agent assigned to guard him.

Witnesses reported seeing a blonde among the abductors. The fled with Ambassador Giovanni Enrico Bucher, a 56-year-old bachelor and a popular figure in the diplomatic corps here, after scattering leaflets identifying themselves as members of the National Liberation Alliance, an organization believed to have folded with the death of its leader last month. In an operation carried out with military precision, the terrorists surrounded the car as he was being driven to the embassy. They ordered the driver out of the automobile. The security guard tried to resist and was reported to have been shot three times.

The entire operation lasted two minutes. It w'as fourth political kidnaping since a rash of such seizures began with the abduction of U.S. Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick on Sept. 4, 1969 in Rio de Elbrick was released after the military gov- Retakes Jordanian Army Police Station In Jerash BLAST hovers over smouldering sections of Humble Bayway Refinery in Linden, N.J..

Sunday after an explosion. Note slanted tower (right) and twisted steel (foreground). Police are trying to determine the cause. (AP Wirephoto) Noted French Organist Sets BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) The Jordanian Array claimed today it had retaken a police station in the town of Jerash from Palestinian guerrillas who stormed it Sunday. King troops and tanks also reopened key routes to the Syrian border and to the Jordan river cease-fire line with Israel, Amman Radio reported.

The army moved in behind an artillery barrage after the guerrillas failed to heed a 12-hour ultimatum to evacuate Jerash and release 40 policeman seized in the attack Sunday. The communique said guerrillas were still occupying Jerash in violation of the peace agreements which ended the September civil war. Marxist guerrilla leader George Habash of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is believed to command all guerrilla forces in ash. A guerrilla communique earlier said that Jordanian tanks and artillery attacked guerrilla strongholds in the town of Ajlun as well as Jerash before dawn today and that heavy fighting was still going on seven hours later. King armor moved in behind a two-hour barrage.

said the communique issued by the A1 Fatah guerrillas in Beirut. It was the third straight day of fighting between the guerrillas and the army in Jordan. Jerash is 25 miles north of Amman, the capital, and Ajlun is 12 miles to the northwest. The army is reportedly concerned at the consolidation of guerrilla control of the tree-covered hills between the two towns, which dominate the main highway between Amman and Syria. Tlie government radio had re- See JORDANIAN Page 6 ernment freed 15 prisoners held in connection with politically inspired offenses.

The other kidnapings in Brazil were of Japanese Consul Nobuo Okuchi in Sao Paulo last March and Ambassador Ehrenfried von Hollenben of West Germany last June. Okuchi was freed upon the release of five prisoners and the West German when 40 prisoners were released. kidnaping took place near his residence in Santa Teresa, a residential section on a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro The time was 8:40 a.m., as the ambassador was on his way to the office. The butler, Manoel Miro, said he woke up before 7:30 a.m., had breakfast and left for the office. When car arrived at a quiet nearby street, it was See Foiir IVrsoiis Injured: Concert Sunday At Church FiveTruf fic Accidents Are Probed By Police Marie-Claire Alain, a brilliant French organist, will give a recital at Emmanuel United Church of Christ, 124 Broadway, Sunday at 8 p.m.

Miss Alain, through numerous recitals and concert tours in Europe and the United States, has become one of the most prominent organists. She was born into a family of musicians. Her father was an organist and composer of religious music. Her older brother, Jehan Alain, a very gifted organist, became famous for his oompositions before his premature death in 1940. Marie-Claire Alain decided to devote herself to the organ in order to take her place and to make known to the world the brilliant young works.

She, herself, is not a composer of organ music. The work of Jehan Alain expresses so w'ell her own musical thoughts that she feels no need See ORGANIST Page Hiiih Winds, Freezing Weather In Area Winter is still a fortnight away but the weather in the Hanover area comparable to the autumn seson; it felt more like the middle oi winter. Wild winds constantly pruned dead limbs from shade trees throughout this area, temperatures plunged far below freezing and a trace of snow swirled into this section early yesterday morning. Cold, winds, gusting in parts of Eafaem Pennsylvania up to 50 miles an hour, con- tdrai'ally pounded this region over tlie weekend, adding considerable bittesmess to the frigid air attributed to a cold Canadian high pressure ridge presently ceniered the Ohio Valley. influx of the Artie air blew into this area late Saturday night, triggering a flurry of wet snowflakes that dampened streets and sidewalks about 12:30 a.m.

yesterday. The flurry quickly passed and the night became clear as temperatures sank down into the low 20s. An official low of 24 was registered at sunrise yesterday. An sitream of cold air, accompanied by like winds, held the temperature in the 20s most of yesterday. TTie official mercury, however, rose to the 30s during the afternoon but failed to go above the freezing mark.

The high was 31 degrees. The overnight low was again 24, recorded ai daybreak tiiis morning. The Weather Man said tonight wiil be mofvtly clear and cold and looks for temperatures to tumble to low marks, ranging from the mid to upper teens. Fair and milder weather is on tap for tomorrow, the start of, says the Weather Service, a warming trend through the remainder of the week. Four persons were injured, none seriously, in three of five traffic accidents investigated by area police over the weekend.

Patrick Foreman, 6, of 102 Pleasant Street, suffered bruises of the left leg when he darted in front of a car in the 100-block of Pleasant Street at noon yesterday, borough police said. The lad, according to Hanover police, ran from between two parked cars in the path of a car driven by Dayne Garrett, 57, of 419 Baer Avenue. Police said the child was taken to the Hanover General Hospital in the Hanover Fire (3o. ambulance and after exam- OFF TO Claus gets some flitting glances from downtown shoppers as the Old heads for work at his house on Center Square where he gathers toy lists from visiting children. (Evening Sun Photo) ination was released.

Automobiles driven by Rita A. Miller, 55, New Oxford R. D. 1, and Rodney L. Smith, 17, collided in the 300 block of Carlisle Street at 7:25 p.m.

yesterday. Wonda Hughes, 17, Glenville, in the Smith car, w'as taken to the Hanover General Hospital and after found to be uninjured, was released. Police said both cars were traveling north and when the Miller car, stopped for railway warning lights, was struck in the rear by the Smith auto. Damage to the Miller car was $1,000 and to the other auto $100, police said. Penn Township police said cars driven by Tony L.

Schuman, 28, of 535 Washington Avenue, and James E. Miller, 19. New Oxford R.D. 2, collided at Baltimore Street and Wirt Avenue at 1 p.m. Saturday.

The crash occurred as Miller halted to make a left turn off Baltimore Street into W'irt Avenue. Damage to the Schuman car was $850 and to the Miller auto $400. Two young ladies were injured when their automobile ran off the Blooming Grove road and struck a utility pole at the intersection of Albright Drive at 11:45 p.m. Saturday. Township police said the car driven by Linda S.

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Adv. Fresh Balsam Wreaths and Hoity at Florid Adv. Hampstead R.D. 2. was traveling south on the Blooming Grove Road when the driver lost control and crashed into the pole.

With her was Constance Kopp, 19, 865 Elm The two, police said, were taken in the township ambu lance to the Hanover General Hospital where Miss Kirk was See 5 TRAFFIC Page 6 CROWNING (Alette Walsh, new 1971 Miss Teen-Age American, shows off official medallion and three and a half feet of gold brown hair. is Australian aboriginese for good luck. The Anaheim, youth yvas Miss Teen-Age Los Angeles and was chosen Saturday night. (AP Wirephoto).