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THE HEATHER U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast Philadelphia and vicinity: Mostly fair Saturday and Sunday with a high Saturday near 60. High Sunday near 65. South-west winds 10 miles an hour Saturday.

COMPLETE WEATHER DATA ON PAGE 14 FINAM CITY EDITION Air Indepe htdit People SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1960 Ctwrliht, I'M, by Trinll Publications. Inc. Vol. Zli, No. October Circulation: Daily, Sunday, 1,024,233 132d Year WFIL 560 KC WF1L-TV CH.

6 FIVE CENTS lax Increase 100,000 See Army-Navy FBI Rescues Victim Of Coast Kidnaping, Perils Jobs, aysFinds Part of Ransom Game Today Pomp, Color, Thrills Council Assailed For Budget Action; 'fi Vlr H'i iH7 ix'J -rfw rfxirt fi 411, fcV Tate Issues Replv To Mark Clash of Teams at Stadium By HARRY TRLMBORN Two football teams, an ex The Chamber of Commerce its lrcf7K launched a blistering attack on City Council Friday, blast ing wnat it considers the delicate treatment given to Mayor pccted 100,000 spectators, three mules and a goat will fill Richardso-i Dilworth's 1961 budget and objecting strong 3 Arrested. In Abduction: SAN DIEGO, Nov, 23 FBI disclosed TtU day night it had rescued a ricii California sportsman from kidnapers who abducted him Tuesday and collected $200, 000 ransom. The victim, Anthony Alessio, ly to "mere crumbs of fiscal for business in Phila delphia. The chamber, in a letter, as Philadelphia Stadium to the brim Saturday for the 61st panic of the annual' Army-Navy gridiron classic. And municipal, transportation end other agencies have gone to a lot of trouble to make their brief stay there a thoroughly enjoyable one, no matter who wins or loses.

Just about everything from a rHi5- te MPr. serted that the budget action by Council would hurt employment in Philadelphia and contribute to the city's continuing loss of population. 1 fill 1 4 3.. ri I A 1 1 ft "1 CUT BY $4 MILLION Council slashed Dilworth's ,7. budgetary requests by $4,000,000 41, was found safe Wednesday night in a San Diego motel 90 minutes after the cash was left in a parked car in Hollywood.

and passed the budget ordinance on first reading Wednesday. Final passage is scheduled for next Wednesday because the locksmith to a helicopter will be in service for the event. 600 POLICE OFFICERS To handle the flow of traffic, some 600 police officers, under Inspector Joseph Halferty, will be on duty along "the routes to the stadium. As in past years, traffic on A man and two women were Home Rule Charter requires that jam A.IHI A. arrested.

Another man was still sought. Agents recovered $77 921.05 of the ransom. Part of the vast crowd that thronged to center city for "Big Friday," Christmas shopping day, is pictured at Juniper and Chestnut sts. r.r- RUNS RACE TRACK School Board Members Hit City Realty Tax Rise Story on Page 23 Broad st. will be restricted to Alessio's family operates the Caliente Race Track in Tijuana, Throng Pours Into Midcity the budget be signed 30 days before the end of the year.

southbound only from City Hall Army-Navy Records, Pictures, Details and Complete Sports News, rages 16 to 19 fliexico, and has many other business interests in Mexico and California. Alessio went about his daily business at Caliente Friday To Launch Yule Shopping Robert L. Leonard, vice chairman of the Economics and Taxation Council of the chamber, urged Council "to take immediate steps to modify" the decisions. The chamber had recom Pictures on Page 3 to the game site, beginning at 10 A. M.

The flow will be reversed after the contest until traffic clears. Police don't expect any ticups, vinnt narliano U'hpn it omnc mended a $3,700,000 cut in. the Shoppers and their families last year's record throngs. The poured into the center city area Philadelphia Transportation Co. 1 experts to use public transpor tation on Friday.

AT A MINIMUM' while the FBI withheld disclosure of the kidnaping. The FBI said Alessio was seized by two armed men as he ar budget. REAL ESTATE TAX The chamber objected most to parking. Construction of the hundreds of thousand3said its lines to midcity were Food Distribution Center, cast of (Friday to get the Christmas buy- slowed down by "sheer numbers" the stadium, has eliminated one season off to a roaring start, and both the Pennsylvania and rived home Tuesday from th "Vehicular traffic seems to be strenuously to the fact that while AP Wlrephot Three-year-old Caroline Kennedy pushes a doll buggy as she strolls with her father, President-elect John F. Kennedy outside their Washington home.

Kennedy flew home from Florida after birth of son. race track. Handcuffed and blindfolded, he was taken in his Dilworth's request for a 1.75 per of the municipal parking lots at a minimum for this largest shopping day of the year," said cent wage tax was cut back to They arrived in almost spring- Reading railroads reported a 40 like weather, drawn by the' percent increase in commuter car to an abandoned San Diego DOLLAR PARKING FEE 1.625 percent, there was no cor nouse. Police Commissioner Albert N. Brown.

"It looks as if the citi Two of the parking areas, lots responding cutback in his re mazic magnet of values and travel Minutes after the kidnanins. a i a. i iU a i But auto traffic cave nolice'pn havp tak-pn mir warninasiQueiit for Alessio's wife, Virginia, re- A ana exicna norm irum lne sales many of which had been a 14-mill increase wj estate tax. Dilworth Proud Papa Kennedy hJ inncon nJtn Vioart anrl allhftiifrh llirrp are the real advertised in The Inquirer's rec aiiu til uiuiiaia a picaoaui. oui- iv h.wu0- HMnf n.imKor nf nonnlfl in ppn- asked for, and received from rnnnnil a real pictafp tax rate 'onse.

It anDcarea tnat ord-breaking 132-page Thanks ceived a telephone demand for' $650,000 ransom. She was told her husband would be killed without hesitation, the FBI said, if authorities were called in or ter city, many of these motorists had heeded the prc- ot s.iiU per oi assesscu Struts Like Any Dad: stadium lo ratuson De-tween 11th and Broad sts. The third is in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Park west of Broad st. The three areas can handle about 8000 cars at a fee of $1 per car.

Chief Inspector Albert J. Trimmer will keep an eye on the Thanksgiving plea "of Mayor giving Day edition. SANTA, HERE WE COME Many housewives carried Richardson Dilworlh and traffic the ransom demands not met. The Mayor had no comment on the chamber's letter. His public transportation." This does not mean that auto traffic was not extraordinarily heavy.

Inspector Halferty estimated that some 400,000 cars DEMAND IS CUT Dress' secretary. Clifford Bren babies in their arms. Others led Wife, Son Doing Fine ncr. said there would be none. poured into the area between traffic flow and parking areas lines of youngsters, off from from a helicopter.

A photogra-schooi for the iong Elaborate arrangements wera made by the kidnapers for payment of the ransom. Negotia Torch Drive 'T don't see how wc can com A. M. and 10 P. compared to From Our Wire Services pner win De wnn mm 10 snap ment on something Council did, esoeciallv when they cut our threading their way through the; tions between the Alessio family WAJnmuiun, nuv.

"lanrt (Hp kidnanpr. final! Inwpr. requests so drastically, Bren 240,000 for an ordinary Friday; I "But we expected a lot more, Halferty said. SOME SLOWDOWNS i '1 1 1 A II Add your EXTRA Gift to the TORCH DRIVE'S The Pennsylvania Railroad Etll expects to carry about 17.50Oan lo 4 a Harried traffic police, aug-. the first son ever Dorn to an American rresmeni-eieci, anu ed the ransom to $200,000.

ncr said. "The Mayor commented suf his mother rested safely and comfortably in Georgetown Uni Despite the threats, FBI agents were in on the ransom VhV ctoHinm rented to 228 from the normal siding adjacent to the on versity Hospital here Friday. "He's a very good-looking and payment, which led to the ar Vim on nf (h fl-oinB u.ill fflM rauJ ul uivivti iitc i.uia vj ii healthy youngster with a lusty ordered the massed; ijoled and rests and Alessio's rescue. frnm Now VnrV Titv Rpvpn frnm M01' There were slowdowns in somejficiently when he said that Coun-areas. notably on the narrow cil's action way 'fair solution stretch of 6th st.

between Race to the problem." and Market sts. carrying buses TATE REPLIES and other Reniamin Franklin Council President James H. J. cry," the obstetrician, Dr. John a Di.iU,,-ihumanity Baltimmore safely across inter-; The abductors treated their Washington and While the brown-tufted infant, and his 31-year-old mother, Jacqueline, recovered from their ordeals, the father, Sen.

John F. W. Walshsaid. I sections. prisoner well and did not harm and two from Paoli.

"SHOWER OF DOLLARS" Mail it to: 1 United Fund Box 30 Philadelphia 5, Ta. Story on Page 3 Dr. Walsh said the baby thp fri said. lll iney re snouiuer to nuulutI normally due to be born about The ransom, in bills of J100 and Bridge traffic into the heart ofTate, to whom Leonard's letter town. 'war addressed, said the com- I Tieups caused by long lines ofiments "do not reflect the opin- Kennedy, who will be inaug-jDec.

27, but that he had plannedjesSi was placed in a duffle bag, urated as 33th President of the a Caesarean operation a bout the kidnapers' instruc- leave Paoli at 10:23 A. M. and "1Ui if 11:23 A. M. and arrive at thet0.r in charS1 stadium at 11:40 A.

M. and 12:35 fct Trafflc Dlvlslon- Store managers reported Continued on Page 16, Column 2 'crowds equal to or exceeding f. cars awaiting entry 10 parhing ion of tne general misiness com Dec. 12. tions given in a note and several United States on Jan.

20, spent his day grabbing catnaps, visit- "Ul up 1 I telePllone conversations nline and Mr Konnflnv lots were cut to a minimum this year by a new system of assigning foot traffic police to each munity." Tate said the city's fiscal program was checked with Continued on Page 23, Column 1 ine his wife and new son, sarasre and narking lot in the had to be rushed by emergency ambulance to the hospital shortly after 10:30 Thursday evening. That was just a few hours after Army-Navy. Lineups acting as baby-sitter to his other child, Caroline, 3. EISENHOWER LETTER area. These officers moved cars along when no more room wasDrilAnnir nn Wau available.

In between, he was deluged her husband, following Thanks- DRIVES TO SAN DIEGO At about 10 P. M. Wedesday, the FBI said, John Alessio, 50, brother of the kidnaped man and executive director of the Caliente Race Track, drove Anthony's car about 120 miles from San, Diego to a Hollywood parking lot. In the back seat was the money-filled duffel bag. John Alessio left the car un NAVY ARMY congratulatory dinner with her and Can with To Scrap Heap PRAISES PLAN "Traffic movement was much all over the world on the line and one guest, at their from NEW YORK, Nov.

25 hirth nf his first son. A nersonal better due to the stationing of Georgetown home, had boarded his private plane for a flight back An aging but still lovely queenjletter came from president Eis- of the seas, me urmsn iinerpnWpI. and thfe iatter's wife. to Palm Beach, where he has been wrestling with pre-in-auguration plans and appoint locked for a short time. While he these police at the facilities," Halferty said.

The increase in his midcity units came from foot traffic police from other areas, highway patrolmen and seniors from the Police Academy. But while the auto traffic situ was gone, a man came and took the duffel bag. Mamie. Meanwhile, the word from the Catholic hospital, staffed by Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, was that Mrs. Kennedy was in excellent condition, and "happy as a lark" following ihe Caesar Britannic, sailed away Friday to the end of an era in transatlantic travel and to oblivion.

After 30 years of service in war and peace, she's headed for her home port of Liverpool and the scrap heap. Her body's as trim and graceful as ever, but her ments. The child was delivered while Sen. Kennedy was aloft. TURNS RIGHT BACK On his arrival at Palm Beach Anthony Aicsslo was located only 90 minutes later.

The FBI did not say how it found him. ARRESTED ON STREET ation pleased the police, there International Airport, he was ean section that delivered her told what had happened here, heart her engines are Continued on Page 23, Column 3 worn second child at 12:22 Friday (87) Ellcrson L.E. Dattilo (88) 60" 187 5'11" 199 (18) Blanda Q.B. (76) Kuhns L.T. Driscoll (75)- Q.B.

Spooner (12) 60" 173 6'2" 223 6T' 215 6'0" 176 L.II.B. L.H.B. (15) Kirschenbaucr (62) Casp L.G. Hoy (66) Bellino (27) 6'1" 190 5'U" 205 6 0' 206 5'9" 187. R.II.B.

RH.B. (16) Adams (51) Joulwan C. Visted (52) Prichard (21) 60" 185 5'ir 190 6T 223 6'3" 180 F.B. F.B. (31) Rushalz (61) Vandcrbush R.G.

Hewitt (62) Matalavage (38) 5'10" 190 6 2" 215 60" 193 (77) McCarthy R.T. Erchul (76) 62" 210 6'3" 221 Average Weights: (85) Zmuida R.E. Luper (82) Average Weights: Line 202 6T-130 193 Line 207 out. Imormng. Thp Rritannic was the dowaccr boarded the only available plane he could charter, and flew back to the capital, arriving shortly after 4 A.

and then dashed to Arrested individually while walking' on Hollywood streets were Robert James Gorman, 29, of Monterey Park, and his wife, Ruby Elaine, 30. Selma queen of a once-grand passenger 1 LUSTY CRY line, the renowned White Star. Young John, in an incubator the hospital by automobile. Though the family's plans were Pope John Starts His 80th Year Special to The Inquirer HOME, Nov. John XXIII.

began his 80th year Friday with prayers offering the re Continued on Page 3, Column 2 which was merged with the Cun- about 25 fect from his mother's ard Line in 1934. As the last ofj third-floor hospital room, was the White Star liners to go, she described by the physician who took with her the last of the fa- delivered him. nearly three mous ship names ending in the weeks ahead of schedule, as "do-letters "ic." ing fine." still in a state of flux, it appeared that Mrs. Kennedy would remain at Georgetown University Hospital for the next 10 or 12 days. Kennedy will remain in Washington during that time, too.

Then the couple and their two 3u Eljr Smimrrr Departments and Features mainder of his life for "peace and unity. Death Notices IS 186 Backfield children were expected to go to Except for a mass which he recited Friday morning 0 Amusements 6, 7 Bridge 15 185 195 Backfield Team 199 Team Editorials ...,8 Continued on Page 23, Column 4 Congo, Katanga Feud Is Halted by Truce ELISABETHVILLE, The Congo, Nov. 25 (AP). The feuding Congo central government and the bosses of the break Business and Financial ARMY PLAYING SQUAD Obituaries 22, 23 Real Estate 22 Sports 16 to 19 90 91 "peace and tranquility between peoples and nations, the Pontiff had a usual workday. The one birthday gift the Pope requested was to have masses said in sev-j eral places associated with his career, one at his birthplace in Sotto II Monte in the Italian Alps.

Classified Ads Felon Surrenders To N. Y. Reporter Television Sfld 23 to 29 Radio 10, 11 Church News Women's News away province of Katanga called a truce Friday and decided 4, 5 Comics 14, 13 9 to work on Internal problems On the Air NEW YORK, Nov. 25 Delano Tate, one of the 10 most wanted criminals on the FBI's fugitive list, surrendered ter; Jacques Massa, social af fairs minister, and Albert Del vaux, minister resident in Bel gium. 33 Stanat 60 Butzer 75 Yost 38 Pappas 62 Casp 76 Kuhns 40 Stanley 63 Sykes 77 McCarthy 42 Rekstis 64 Vandcrbush 78 Vaughn 44 Blackgrove 65 II.

Miller 80 Fuellhart 45 Kirschenbaucr 69 Alberque 82 Sam 47 Littlefield 70 Hodges 83 Metzger 50 Whitehead 71 Henderson 84 Hawkins 52 M. Miller 72 Clements 85 Zmuida 54 Joulwan 73 Ord 87 Ellerson 55 Scott 74 Young 89 Heim 58 Buckner "Farewell to Fear" Page 12 Best of Broadway Page 14 Best of Hollywood Page'15 10 Eckert 12 Lewis 16 Adams 18 Blanda 20 Connors 21 Zailskas 23 Culver 24 King 26 Sipos 27 Blumhardt 30 Eileson 31 Rushatz WFIL-Aty 560 On Your Dial together. The dramatic turn in relations came after a two-hour meeting between Katanga president 4:50 P. M. Football Notre Friday to the New York Mirror after days of negotiations.

The 27-year-old bank robber, described as a "highly danger- World of Religion Victor Riesel Paie 8 Dame at Southern Katanga was represented by President Tshombe, Foreign Minister Evariste Kimba and the 12:30 A. Night Show- vice president of the council guninan and jaiioreaner, Red Smith Page 17 Washington Background Page 8 Complete Weather Page 14 Moise Tshombe and three top ministers of the central government. A communique said: 'Tcrfcct identity of views was achieved ministers, Jean-Mane hibwe. gave himself up at a lower Man-The agreement was the first Rattan ctreot corner to a reporter official pact between the photographer for the news NAVY PLAYING SQUAD paper on the program of action to "Vi undertaken in the domain of in Proclaimed its secession July 11. Vince Lee WFIL-TV Channel 6 12:30 P.

M. a ionship Bridge 1:15 M. Football Army vs. Navy 7:30 P. M.

The Roaring 20's 10:00 P. M. Fight of the Week Mike DeJohn vs. Billy Tate, of Mount Airy. N.

had ternal affairs of the former'Bel- 11 Hccht 12 Spooner 15 Dictz 11 is a signal victory xor ine Katanga government, but one that seemed likely in view of the gian Congo. "The meeting was held in a been sought by the FEI since last June 23 when he and two other bandits held up the Yorke Savings and Loan Association office in Newark, N. and escaped with $2704. He also was wanted as a parole very cordial atmosphere." Continued on Page 2, Column 5 Added to this was the possi LOST AND TOUKD lOSI Oiomond hart with morau dicnTwH rirp in cnrr 1 6'h Pork- -iv il.M. SKMir-f IOST 7 m.

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LOST Malt ml Hound, 1 ve black brown. Vic IjC4 lngsnor Si l6ST Girl'l" writ! watch. Southern Other Lost Found Page 23 Hunter 76 Erchul 77 Huffman 78 MacDonald 80 Kellner 81 McQuade 82 Luper 84 Graham 85 Mather 88 Dattilo 89 Gill 16 18 21 At Stewart Klemick rrichard Meyer 61 Von Stvdow 62 Hewitt 61 Lucci 65 Fitzgerald 66 Hoy 67 Falconer 68 Optekar 69 East on 70 r.utsko 71 Testa 75 Driscoli 31 Bell 3fi McKcnwn 38 Matalavage 41 Zenyuh 17 Hughes 48 Hardison 49 Mclntyre 51 Stackhouse 52 Visted 51 Pierce 60 Storz bility of a round-table conference on the future political structure 11:15 P. M. Errol Flynn, Olivia deHavilland in "Sante Fe violator in New Jersey, where he of the Congo in December, prob Trail" on World's Best Complete AUCTION SALE listings for the week was sentenced in 1956 to an in ably in Elisabethville.

determinate term of up to 15 Movies Complete Radio and Television Listings on Pages 10 and 11 21 Henderson 27 30 Strobach The Congo central government delegates at the meeting were on Page 29. years for a Trenton clothing store holdup. Cyrille Adoula, interior muu-ltemammMMffiadi.

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