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36 a THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, SUNDAY MORNING. MAY 15, 1966 Folk Jittery in Girl Hunt Leader of N. J. Klan, 5 Others Arrested For Burning Cross Special to The Inquirer BRIDGETON, N. May 14.

The head of the Ku Klux Klan of New Jersey and five Cumberland county residents were arrested Saturday morning for burning a cross in a residential area of i gunpoint on Wednesday, could only say, "There's no progress to report." But he quickly added, "We'r still going full guns." COPTER IS USED He said a helicopter again wa being used in the search and that a German shepherd dog i a reputation for tracing cold trails has been brought to the scene. "If nothing turns up this weekend," Mitarnowski said, "we will have to'assume Peggy Ann is not in this area." He said the police have a "box full of allegations, rumors and leads, all of which we are checking out." RAIN AND FATIGUE A dreary rain was falling Saturday morning and Mitarnowski showed the effects of only 4Vi hours of sleep. Search headquarters is at a wooded picnic grove just a half-mile east of Shade Gap and about six miles from where the girl was kidnaped. As FBI agents, National Guard officers and State Police officials moved back and forth coordinating efforts, hundreds of heavily armed, plaid-shirted volunteer searchers downed coffee and sandwiches furnished by the Salvation Army unit from Isome of her creations at a school fashion show. She is a member of the Future Home-makers of America.

Postmaster Donald J. Locke, 45, a lifelong resident who runs one of Shade Gap's three small grocery stores, said: "The case has been on everyone's mind since the first shooting a little over two years ago Many innocent people have been suspected, but no one has been openly accused." Dozens of persons have come under suspicion during the past two years, but each one subsequently has been cleared after lie detector tests and intensive questioning. Because the sniper seems to know the country so well, some say he must be a native. But Postmaster Locke is not so sure. This is deer-hunting country, he explains, and many men come in here from all parts of the State year after year.

"They know these ridges as well as the natives," he said. MOVING DENIED Locke denied reports published in some area newspapers that people have been moving out of Shade Gap since the reisn of terror shootings began. "A few have left to take jobs elsewhere," he said, "but I don't know of any who have left because of this situation. "People are tense but going about their business as usual." "Yes, but people don't feel able to move at night as freely as they used to," his wife, Larue, interjected. Mayor Walters said his reaction is one of disbelief.

"I just can't get over it. I wonder sometimes if I'm dreaming or if all this is a fact." Walters, who has been Mayor 40 years, said the State Police received a "black eye" when they failed to solve the five shooting incidents. But he added, "I think they are doing the best they know how, and now that the FBI is in here, maybe they'll break this." ONLY FAULT FOUND Walters said he thought the State Police should try "harder to establish if a car was used by the kidnaper. That's the only place I find fault with them." Others expressed concern, also, that the mountain man may have got into a car and now is hundreds of miles from the scene. This theory, however, has not slowed down the search.

State Police Lt. Edward P. Mitarnowski, who has been directing the hunt since shortly after the girl was abducted at Mountain Continued from First Page you kids. I'm taking the girl with me." Grabbing her by an arm, he disappeared with her in the dense woods. The children ran home to their father, Eugene, and police were called.

The oldest boy, James, 16, said the man wore sunglasses over the mask. Bradnick said his daughter knows the woods and, if released, will be able to find her way out. "If only she can get free I want my daughter back and I don't care what happens to the man." FATHER LAID OFF Bradnick recently was laid off from his job with a food packaging plant. Since the kidnaping, the girl's mother has been suffering from severe shock and is under a physician's care. Peggy Ann's classmates at Southern Huntingdon County High School, including boys who helped in the search, de-j scribed her as "good looking, intelligent, quiet and friendly." "She was well liked, but she didn't date much," a boy said.

"She was one of those who went right home after school." Peggy Ann has a hobby of sewing and recently exhibited NATIONALLY ITnnPr TWrfipIrl tnwncriin Lodged in the Cumberland county jail in default of $50 bail was Frank Rotella, 31, who list- KKK Postpones Lancaster Rally special to lne Inquirer LANCASTER, May 14. A Ku Klux Klan rally scheduled for, Saturday night in Lancaster county was postponed Michael Desmond, king kleagle, said he canceled the rally when he heard one of the owners of its proposed site "didn't want us." It would have been the first rally in the county in 25 years. A rally held last month in neighboring Chester ty drew 500 persons. POWERFUL SOLID STATE HEARING AID AS PRESCRIBED IN BRITISH MEDICARE PROGRAM WRITE TO: ADMIRAL HEARING SERVICE P.O. BOX 15303 PHILA.

11, PA. EMF? Ronald Godwin, 9, of 274 S. Frazier a third-grader at Hamilton School, stands beside his model of wind tunnel, cited as among best entries at Elementary Science Fair at Franklin Institute. 5U residence as uysier Bay, IL. I.

He identified himself as head of the Jersey Klan. The five others were released iouowing an arraignment their own recognizance. All six will face a further hearing before Deerfield Magistrate Clar ence Clark on May 31 State police at the Bridgeton Barracks said Rotella has been in the area for the last several days, arranging a Klan rally scheduled for next Friday night on the farm of Andrew Watson near Fairton, five miles south east of here. An extensive promotion campaign has been bill ing the event "for whites only." The cross-burning occurred around 1 A. M.

on a property at the end of Liberty rd. The plot, containing only an unoccupied shack, is owned by Thomas Hoover, of Victory but he could not be reached for comment on whether he gave his permission for the burning. Accompanying Rotella, police said, were Watson, Melvin Os-born, Eugene M. Osborn, Phillip Rafferty and Joseph Cossaboon. When, police arrived at the scene, they knocked over the cross, doused the flames and arrested the six men on charge of setting a fire with out the permission of a forest ward a violation of State forest fire statutes.

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