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FM Station WJLK, on YourKBlalat 94.3, on the Air today 3 to 11 Asbumy Pam Evening Press THE WEATHER Sonny, cold, today. Increasing clouds, cool, tomorrow. (See page 2) Attention Drivers: Stop for Every School Dus SIXTY-FIRST YEAR. NO 274 toured second class nutter Jun. 30.

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a. 1879 ASBURY PARK, N. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1947 PabUsbei daily, eseept Sandaj. at Pi Plaaa. Asbury Park.

N. PRICE FIVE CENTS County Spends Officials of Shore; State 48,601 Over Greet WJLK at Debut LJl 4-1 1947 Bind As Radio Voice off Press KHZ i get Rising Costs at Hospital and Jail, To Press FM Station. Begins Regular Oper (III gether With Legal Fees, Boost Extra Costs Berry Bill Not in Yet (Press Teletype) ation at 3 P.M. Today Interviews From Washington Among Features Radio Station WJLK. "The Radio Voice of the Asbury Park 1 0 ft I Jmr goes on the air commercially for the first time today, marking another milestone in the more than half a century of service to the people of Monmouth and Ocean counties by The Tress.

FREEHOLD. With rising costs rapidly exceeding county funds available, the board of freeholders passed three more emergency appropriations yesterday, making a total of $48,601 so far this year and Director Edgar O. Murphy commented, 'There will be more." Yesterday the board approved an additional $10,000 for the the opening strains of the "Star Spangled Banner" will flood the Wall Township Man Falls Down Well Twice Walter Nagel, 35, was in fair condition this morning at Fitkin hospital, where he was being treated for injuries received after he fell down a 60-foot dry well at his home, Glendola-Farmlngdale road, Wall township yesterday. According to hospital reports, Mr. Nagel went down into the.

well to do some work and the rope he had lowered himself on broke. His wife went to his rescue and threw him another rope and tried to pull him from the well. When she had pulled -him almost out, the rope broke again and he dropped to the bottom of the well a second time. The first aid squad was called and pulled the Injured man to safety. The squad treated him for ankle and other Injuries and transported him to the hospital.

Links Employe, J. SALUTES WJLK The U.S. Air Force band, under the direction of Major George S. Howard, will salute FM station WJLK, the Radio Voice of the Asbury Park Press, during the station's inaugural broadcast tonight. The band will be heard at 9 p.m.

as a part of the Continental network broadcast from Washington. Included will be selections by Sgt. Abrasha Robofsky, and a 30-voice male chorus. Community Service Here Sunday To Honor Fallen Heroes of War 3 Asbury Park was making preparations todav for a rommunitv service to be staged Sunday afternoon in Convention Hall in honor of the city's fallen heroes in World war 2. The service will mark the arrival here of the body of the first Asbury Park casualty to be returned to America.

It will be that of 37 on List of City's World War 2 Dead The list of known war dead from Asbury Park totals 37, according to a compilation made by Dr. Sidney R. Vineburg, service officer of the local veterans. He urged today that any persons having information to add to or correct his records be forwarded immediately to him in order that the list might be corrected prior to Sunday's community memorial service. The following Is the list of World war 2 casualties from Asbury Park compiled by Dr.

Vineburg: Julian L. Ament, C. Stanley Bennett, Erwin Boyar, George D. Cavanaugh, Robert S. Close, Robert B.

Cramer, William H. Dean, jrM Italo Dono-frio, Robert Eberle, Charles I. Griffin, Frank H. Hayward, Don V. Henderson, George S.

Hoffman, Frederick C. Jeck, William Jolley, Harold Jordan, Thomas Johnson, Albert Kahn, Bernard J. Lewis, Robert Masco. Anthony B. Morrow, Michael Maugeri, Roland S.

Mucillo, William G. Nahrwold, Theodore A. Pappaliou, Carney Petillo, Joseph J. Petillo, Arthur J. Reid, William M.

Reid, Felix J. Rozza, Angelo R. Russo, Samuel S. Rogers, Charles E. Schanck, Charles II.

Schleicher, James P. Shorten, George Stewart, Alfred H. White. DEWEY "DISAPPOINTED" MANCHESTER, N. H.

(JP) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York today charged the Truman administration with "seemingly abandoning the Chinese to Communist conquest," and asserted immediate aid should be sent to the Far East as even a two-month delay "may be too late." Making his first comment on President Truman's special message to Congress, the Republican governor said he disappointed in it." Precisely at 3 this afternoon, WITNESS -T. E. Readnower, 30, of Dayton, Ohio, sits with microphone close to his face as he appears before the Senate War Investigating committee at Washington.

He testified that $15,000 a year of his salary as vice president and secretary of the Aviation Electric company went to Ma. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers during the war years and up until the firm was dissolved In 1 945. (AP Wirephoto) Tax Charges WASHINGTON.

Bleriot H. Lamarre told Senators today that Maj. Gen. Bennett E. Meyers promised to help him make some "real if he would lie to cover up the general's wartime relations with Aviation Electric company.

Lamarre made this statement as he remained unshaken under a barrage of. questions from counsel for Meyers on his story that the general took $150,000 out of the company's profits on war subcontracts. Lamarre was president of Aviation Electric company, but has tes tified it was secretly owned by Meyers, former deputy chief of army air force procurement. The Senate War Investigating subcommittee has spent a week inquiring into Meyers' part in affairs of the company. From Lamarre and others it has heard a story of company officials ostensibly get ting big salaries but required to "kick back" most of the money to Meyers.

Lamarre said he actually got $50 a week from the $31.00 annual pay listed for him on the company's books. As a senate committee ahead with its inquiry, a prospective Department of Justice crackdown on income tax charges hung over Meyers. Attorney General Tom Clark said last night that he will ask indictment of Meyers as soon as the Senate group winds up its hearings. Lamarre's brother-in-law, T. E.

Readnower, who described himself as the "dummy" vice president of the firm, said yesterday Meyers tried to sell him on a cover-up story but that he refused to go along. "I told him I did not think the story would stand up," said Mr. readnower, whose sister is Lamarre's wife and formerly was Meyers' secretary. "There were too many discrepancies in it." Readnower 'said he later had breakfast' with Meyers and the general asked him again if he would corroborate the story Lamarre was to tell the committee. Readnower said he still balked.

Ferguson wanted to know why. "The whole thing just sounded ridiculous," Readnower said. "I was to be charged with accounting (See MEYERS Page 14) Men About Town La Baw's up to the minute worsted suits, covert top coats. Se herring bone overcoats. Opening Friday Nov.

21st. Prospect Summerfield A. P. adv Attention Veterans Members of Harold Daley Post 1333 V. F.

W. and all organizations please meet Bodine Funeral Home, Sunday 2 p.m. adv Shop for Christmas at the Bonny Lee Shoppe, 411 Spier Allenhurst. Open Frl. eve.

'til 9. adv Playtex rubber panties, pink white, 69c, at the Bonny Lee Shoppe, 411 Spier Allenhurst. adv Attention Top Hatters Meeting to- night at 8:30 sharp adv1 I Meyers operation of Allenwood hospital, $6,000 more for board of county jail prisoners and $2,000 for pay ment of legal fees for paupers who stood trial for murder this year. In -August and October, the freeholders made $30,601 in additional funds available for the activities of the state board of child welfare and the present total of emergency appropriations with more to come already exceeds the 1946 total of $39,800, the bulk of which was required for the same operations. The emergency monies must be included in 1948 budget appropriations.

The biggest emergency appropriation of all may become necessary if Deputy Attorney General Franklin H. Berry submits his bills this year, for the Asbury Park city investigation. Mr. Berry's bills must receive the approval of Supreme Court Justice Albert E. Burling before they are submitted to the county but they are expected to reach a sizeable amount since a briefer investigation in the county several years ago by Special Attorney General Lee Washington cost the county about $20,000.

Mr. Berry's investigation "washed out" two weeks ago when the only indictments which it brought were quashed at his own request. A letter from Sheriff Ira E. Wolcott pointed out that while food costs continue to rise, the population of the county Jail up to November is well above the figure for all of 1946. There have been 46,145 "jail days" based on the number of occupants receiving three meals -a day as compared 44,704 for all of last year and 29,996 in 1945.

Streptomycin Expensive At Allenwood hospital, introduction of streptomycin for tuberculosis treatment resulted in an unexpected expense of several thousand dollars which, coupled with increased food costs, accounted for the need for more funds. The $2,000 appropriation for court expenses for the fees of court-appointed counsel in murder trials of persons unable to engage their own attorneys represents only part of that additional ex pense. Some of the fees have been paid from funds in other accounts. it was learned. So far this year, attorneys have (See FREEHOLDERS Page 10) $3,300 in Stock Stolen at Shop (Pre Teletype) TOMS RIVER.

Police and the prosecutor's office are investigating the theft of an estimated $3,300 worth of merchandise, mostly jewelry, from the Mirvel Sale corporation, 203 Main street, Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. Police reported today the thief or thieves forced their way into the store thru a small, 18-inch win dow on the rear northeast corner of the building. A screen was broken and a window pane smashed, police said. Morton Applebaum, president of the corporation, reported today that an inventory to determine the loss had not been completed but estimated it at $3,300. The biggest loss is in watches, police said, but the robbers also took wedding bands, rings, cigaret lighters, fountain pens and radios.

Stock had just been received for Christmas display and sales. Police Chief Donald B. Grover reported he has an idea who committed the robbery. Working with Dover township police is Detective George Westervelt of the prosecu tor's office. Detective Westervelt said he had picked up no suspects, PALESTINE PLAN READY LAKE SUCCESS.

(JP) Britain is ready to lay before the United Nations her plans for withdrawal from Palestine in connection with general debate on partition of the Holy Land, a spokesman said today. It was understood that Sir Alexander Cadogan would announce a "general pattern of withdrawal" but leave the exact timetable flexible. The British already have said they would complete the evacuation by next Aug. 1. Public Auction Household goods and furnishings, 75 Broadway.

West Long Branch, N. J- Nov. 22 at 1 p-m. Est. of Mary H.

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I dv News in Brief a a a a to in airwaves from the antenna of WJLK in Neptune and from that moment the official life of the sta tion will begin. For the past few weeks, WJLK. has been testing each day and night and listeners from all sections of the circulation area of The Press have reported excellent reception. WJLK is a Frequency Modulation station and may be found at 94.3 megacycles, or Channel 232, on the FM dial. Ceremonies dedicating the new station will "be aired tonight be sin ning at 7:30 when the officers of Asbury Park Press, owners of the newspaper and the station.

will relate to the public the steps leading to the decision that put The Press on the air. These speakers will be Wayne D. McMurray. president: Mrs. Lyle Klnmonth.

vice president, and Ernest W. Lass. treasurer. Governor to Be Heard As the evening progresses. WJLK will be greeted by a lone list of public officials, headed by Gov.

Alfred E. Driscoll; representatives of the educational world, headed by Dr. Robert Clothier, the president of Rutgers, which is the state university; by Mayor George A. Smock, speaking for the city government; Mayor Paul Klernan, speaking for Long Branch; Freeholder Director Edgar O. Murphy of Monmouth, and Freeholder A.

Paul King of Ocean. Spokesmen for the press of the county and state will also extend their greetings to the new radio station. From the radio world there will be greetings from the Frequency Modulation association, of which WJLK is a charter member, and the National Association of Broadcasters, the representative organization of the industry. The Continental network, pioneer FM network of the nation, with which WJLK is affiliated, will greet the station during the course of the Army Air Forces band concert from Washington. From Washington.

US. Sen. H. Alexander Smith. Princeton, and Rep.

James C. Auchlncloss will extend their greetings during the (See WJLK ON AIR Page 14) I Asbury Park's Golden Tei 50 Years Ago A B.rU la Tk. Tnmm mt ISM Pi re was discovered In the barn owned by George E. Applegate in the rear of his property on Spring-wood avenue. West Park.

The building together with a large quantity of hay was destroyed. Damage was estimated at between $600 and $800. The football team known as the Little Giants, of Ocean Grove, played a game with the Juvenile eleven of Bradley Beach, resulting in a score of 12 to 4 in favor of the Little Giants. W. J.

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Now $10.98. Walters Dept. Store, adv Awaiting Trial, Takes own life A 52-year-old houseman was found dead from gas poisoning in shuttered summer building at the Hollywood Golf club, Roseld avenue. Ocean township, yesterday, the day he was to stand trial in Union county common pleas court, Elizabeth, on an indictment for attempted larceny. The man, Carl L.

Kuell, who for merly lived at 327 Roseland place, Elizabeth, had not been seen by anyone at the golf club, where he lived, since Monday, according to Ocean Police Chief Frank W. Eiseie, who, with Patrolman John Harvey, conducted the investiga tion. Chief Eiseie said that Kuell was found in the kitchen of the sum mer clubhouse by Joseph Valero, handyman who entered the building shortly after 10 a.m. yes-terday to get some card tables The chief said Kuell was hunched over an open gas jet on the kit chen range and there was an army blanket over his head. Kuell, a veteran of World war 1, bad been employed at the golf club since June, At the office of the Union coun ty prosecutor in Elizabeth, it was stated that Kuell, one of whose two brothers is a member of the Elizabeth police department, had been indicated recently on the atempted larceny charge and was to have gone on trial yesterday.

He allegedly tried to steal a pocket- book containing $10,000, the prose cutor's office said. Shortly after Kuell's body was found, his attorney, attempting to determine why Kuell had not made an appearance in Elizabeth, learned from Ocean authorities that he was dead. Willis A. Woolley, Long Branch undertaker to whose funeral parlor the body was ordered removed, estimated that Kuell had been dead at least 12 hours. Employes on the premises said they had not seen Kuell since Monday and Gus Fisher, steward, said the last time he saw Kuell was last Thursday when he came to his office.

There were no notes left, Chief Eiseie said, and Kuell's bed, in quarters in the winter clubhouse, (See SUICIDE Page 14) Trio Convicted Of Burglaries (Press Teletype) FREEHOLD. A quarter session jury deliberated two hours here last night and then convicted Ben jamin Brooks, Farrell T. Williams and Robert Strickland, all from Cleveland, Ohio, of all charges in six indictments accusing them of series of Shore area burglaries the weekend of June 14. The jury's verdict concluded three, days of trial before Judge John C. Giordano, during which Williams and Strickland denied being at the Shore and Brooks denied accompanying his cousin, Ellis, who as principal state wit-nes had identified all three as his accomplices when places in Eaton-town, Ocean township and Neptune were broken into.

Yesterday, Assistant Prosecutor Charles Frankel produced as state rebuttal witnesses several residents of Asbury Park's west side who testified as to seeing both Williams and Strickland in that city the weekend of the crimes. And tho Benjamin Brooks had offered an alibi as to his where abouts during the period, state wit nesses contradicted at yesterday. The men were charged with breaking into the Twin Boro Federal Savings and Loan association and the Van Keuren company; lum ber concern in Eatontown, where total of only $1.40 was ob tained, and then entering, with an equal lack of success, the Pepsi- Cola bottling company in Ocean township. The climax of the weekend crime spree, the state charged, came as the trio entered the Hampton inn, Neptune, obtaining $400 $600, and then broke into another Neptune establishment, the Alderney dairy, where a safe con- (See CONVICTED Page 10) Fresh cut fillet. 39c lb; fresh skinned eels, 49c also fresh smelts.

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Offices Asbury Park Point Pleasant, adv Murder Count Filed as Woman Dies of Wounds (Press Teletype) MATAWAN. Mrs. Mary Cooper 40, of 38 Park avenue, who was shot by a neighbor Tuesday evening while going out to her front steps to pick up a newspaper, succumbed in Riverview hospital, Red Bank, yesterday at 4:26 p.m., about 23 hours after the shooting. Theodore W. Ennis, 35, of 40 Park avenue, who admitted firing the shotgun, was re-arraigned be fore Justice of the Peace Fred Quinn in Freehold this morning on a charge of murder.

Handcuffed to Chief of Police Edwin C. Sloat, of Matawan, Ennis waived preliminary hearing and was held with out bail for action of the grand jury. He said he would retain Heuser and Heuser, Matawan as counsel. Ennis had been held In the county jail since Tuesday evening when he was arraigned on a charge of assault with intent to kill. A former patient of Marlboro state hospital, Ennis will be given a psychiatric examination before any action is taken, Mr.

Pillsbury said. Mrs. Cooper was taken to River-view hospital about an hour after the shooting, and was being treated for wounds in her right side caused by about 50 pellets from the shotgun, which Chief Sloat saw Ennis handle in his cellar a few minutes after the accident. A former engineering student at New York university, Ennis earlier admitted firing the gun, but said he had no Intention of hitting Mrs. Cooper.

He said he was aiming at a bush. Police said that Mrs. Cooper was walking out to pick up her evening newspaper when shot. She suffered from the loss of much blood, and was given a number of trans fusions, hospital ofilclals said. Chief Sloat stated that this was the first serious crime in the boro in over 20 years.

It also was the second fatal shooting by a former patient of Marlboro in recent months. On Sept 15, Joseph Cad-uto. Fair Haven, shot and killed his sister, Mrs. Philomena Jan-narone, with whom he had been living. Mr.

Pillsbury said Ennis will be (See MURDER Page 14) ish each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health until death. Their responsive "I wins to tne archbishop ques tions were barely audible In the crowded abbey. Duke Omits "Obey" The marriage lines of the prin cess, which she repeated in a voice almost inaudible at times, con tained the promise "to love, cher ish, and to obey" her new husband. The duke's marriage lines, repeat ed in a deep, clear used only the words: "to love and to cherish," omitting the word obey. As the two left the Abbey, churchbells rang out, only to be drowned in the welcoming roar of the waiting thousands outside.

Prime Minister Attlee and his predecessor, Winston Churchill, smiled at the young couple as they passed up the aisle after signing the marriage register in the Chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, founder of the Abbey. When the princess and her groom entered the royal coach for the return trip to Buckingham Palace, the relief of the two young pages Prince William of Gloucester and Prime Michael of Kent became evident. They had been having difficulty with the princess' train. Waiting for her in the lantern.

at the foot of the steps to the sacrarium, was the handsome. 26 year-old bridegroom, attired in the uniform of a lieutenant of the Roy (See WEDDING Page 3) Special sale Nov. 22nd. Jewelry gifts, 40 off. McDaniels Jeweler, 719 la MattLson A.

P. adv Sgt. William H. Dean, an army veteran who reenlisted here Sept. 1, 1943.

He was killed in action Dec. 7, 1944, just before the Battle of the Budge, Mayor George A. Smock, 2d, announcing arrangements for the memorial service, said that all of Asbury Park's war dead would be honored. Arrangements will be made at the hall to set aside section for the families of those killed in service, he said. The body of Sergeant Dean is to arrive tomorrow at the Bodine funeral home, this city: It will lie in state there from noon Saturday until 1:45 p.m.

Sunday. There will be a guard of honor furnished by local veterans' posts. Sunday at 1:45, veterans will meet at the funeral home. There are to be a firing squad and a corps of buglers and the bier will be escorted to Convention Hall for the service, which is scheduled for 2:30. Day of Mourning The Rev.

Dr. Randall W. Conklin, rector of Trinity Episcopal church and dean of the Asbury Park Ministerium, will preside at the Convention Hall memorial. Col. F.

A. Schultz, chief of chaplains at Fort Monmouth, will be the principal speaker. Mayor Smock today proclaimed Sunday as a day of mourning. He urged all citizens of the city and all organizations to join in paying tribute to the war dead. Sergeant Dean, a former local resident, was the husband of Mrs.

Laura Keller Dean, who now makes her home at 205 Dayton avenue, Toms River, with their daughter, Donna Lee. He served in the -regular army from 1932 to 1937, at Fort Monmouth, where he became a corporal and was hailed as an outstanding all-around athlete. He was employed by the Fischer Baking company here and later as a guard at the state penitentiary in ELIZABETH they are man and wife" at 11:45 a.m. (6:45 a.m., e.s.t,) as the bride and groom knelt before the altar in Westminster Abbey. Top Hatters' Dance Tomorrow night at Wanamassa Gardens, at 9 p.m.

adv March. He reenlisted in this city four years ago and went overseas shortly before the Normandy in vasion. He was 33 when he was killed. Sergeant Dean's parents are Mr, and Mrs. William H.

Dean, New ark, Del. There are also three sisters, Mrs. Raymond Benson, Mrs. Dennis Bradford and Miss Margaret Dean, all of Newark, Del. Mayor Smock's proclamation: "Whereas: The mortal remains of our heroic dead who fell on the field of honor during World war 2, are now being brought to home soil for everlasting rest, and "Whereas: They gave up their lives so that we as a nation could live as free and unenslaved people, and "Whereas: These fallen heroes have earned immortality in our hearts and "Whereas: The first of our heroic dead will come home to this Vrommunity for final rest Nov.

20, 1947, when the mortal remains of the late Sgt. William II. Dean, Headquarters company, 330th infantry, come to his native countryside for final homage, "Now Therefore, George A. Smock, 2d, mayor of the City of Asbury Park, N. do hereby proclaim that Sunday, Nov.

23, 1947, be observed as aperiod of mourning to the memory of" all our heroic dead of World war 2 as symbolized by services to be held in Convention Hall, Asbury Park, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 23, 1947, at 2:30 p.m. "I do urge all of our people to pay respect and solemn tribute be fitting all our heroic dead by attending the aforesaid services in Convention Hall. I do further urge that all of our civic and fraternal organizations join with the veterans groups in Asbury Park in this solemn tribute to all of our heroic warriors who fell on the field of honor." Oi4 s3 AND PHILIP In the traditional words of the Church of England marriage serv ice, Princess Elizabeth and the duke promised to love and to cher Fungi Foe is the best remedy for ringworm and athletes foot. All druggists, $1.00.

adv Princess Elizabeth Becomes the Bride of Philip In Colorful Ceremony as Million Britons Cheer LONDON. (JP) Princess Elizabeth and the newly named Duke of Edinburgh, were married today in the solemnity of Westminster Ab bey and rode back to Buckingham Palace to the cheers of a million Britons beneath a clearing sky. The wedding day, greatest occa sion for Britons since George VI became king, brought splash of color to the fabric of a nation rent by bombs and economic crisis. Elizabeth, her face radiant above an ivory satin gown embroidered with thousands of pearls, wore a diamond tiara and a lipstick suited to television cameras. Before the Archbishop of Can terbury and backed by a crowd of nearly 3,000 kings, peers and commoners, the 21-year-old bride, promised to love, cherish and obey her 26-year-old betrothed.

The bridegroom, Lt. Philip Mountbatten of the Royal navy and a former Prince of Greece, is now "his royal highness" and a duke, earl and baron. King George VI knighted him yesterday. Windsors Absent Queen Mother Mary saw her granddaughter married. Absent from the ceremony were the Duke of Windsor, whose abdication brought Elizabeth's father to the throne and made her heiress pre sumptive, and the American-born, twice-divorced duchess.

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