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PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1911 3 20 Antiwar -Activists 'At ilk it Dn Camden Draft Mi Board Um Jj Rev. Billman Forsyth ills' 1 The "ringleader" of a group of antiwar activists surprised by the FBI agents during a raid on Camden's Selective Office has been held in $150,000 bail. The arrests came early yesterday when Federal agents, following an "informant's tip" staked out the Camden Selective Service Office in the Post Office Building, 401 Market and seized eight persons "in the act" of destroying draft records. Four more were arrested in a nearby churchyard, and eight more were seized in a Camden clergyman's apartment. The clergyman, a Lutheran, and two Roman Catholic priests were among those arrested.

ALL 20 were arraigned before U. S. Magistrate Charles L. Rudd yesterday afternoon. Rudd ordered John Peter Grady of the Bronx, whom the government described as the "ringleader" in the predawn raid, held in $150,000 bail despite the pleas of Philadelphia attorney Bernard Segal for a lower figure.

Two of those arrested yes- Grady Rev. Doyle terday morning Paul B. Counting, 23, of Dorchester, and John Swinglish, 27, of Washington D. C. are free on bond for refusing to testify in the Berrigan conspiracy case before a Federal grand jury in Harrisburg.

In that case, six persons, including two brothers, the Revs. Philip and Daniel Ber-rigna, both Roman Catholic priests, are accused of conspiring to kidnap Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger and to blow up heating systems of government buildings in Washington. ALSO ARRESTED yesterday was the Rev. Michael J. Doyle, 36, the assistant pastor of St.

Joseph's Pro-Cathedral, checked, and cars bearing New York or Pennsylvania license plates were stopped. City officials have maintained that much of the rioting that broke out last Thursday stemmed from "outside agitation." Police reported 67 arrests FBI AGENTS leave Community Center Burns in Qmden POLICE, still on round-the-clock emergency duty, stopped cars containing Puerto Ricans or blacks last night, searching the vehicles and occupants. They reported confiscating several Molotov cocktails and weapons. Buses were boarded and hours earlier in Buffalo, N. Y.

In that incident, FBI agents seized five persons ransacking Selective Service and Army Intelligence files. The FBI would say only that some of those arrested in both Camden and Buffalo apparently were involved in Catholic leftist groups. DURING THE 2-hour arraignment, Magistrate Rudd praised FBI agents for their work in seizing the 20. The magistrate answered Segal's appeals for reduced bail by saying he "will not be a party to seeing my government destroyed." Segal, angry at the high bail, told Rudd his clients were up for "bail, not ransom." The FBI said its informant was one whose information had been "reliable" on at least 12 occasions prior to the raid. Agents also said the eight seized in the office had binoculars, walkie-talkies, pry bars and flashlights with taped lenses to provide thin beams of light.

AMONG the other arrested were the Rev. Peter D. Fordi, a New York priest, held in $50,000 bail, and Keith W. Forsyth, 21, of Carpenter lane near McCallum Philadelphia, held on $5000 bail. The FBI said all have been charged with breaking and entering, destruction of government property, removal and mutilation of public records, unlawful interference with the administration of the Selective Service Act of 1967 and conspiracy.

Insurance Aide To Work for Gola By BILL MALONE Deputy State Insurance Commissioner David P. Trulli, whose aggressive attacks on insurance frauds once earned him a savage gangland-style beating, has resigned to work for City 1 ler Thomas J. Gola. Trulli, 42, will take over the post as deputy controller and be in charge Trulli Miss RidolQ Williamson Camden, who refused to sign a bond for $10,000 and was held in custody; Kathleen Mary Ridolfi, 22, of Philadelphia, held in $25,000 bail; Michael J. Giocondo, 42, of Cooper near 3rd st.

Camden: Robert Williamson, 21, of 42d st. near Regent, Philadelphia, and the Rev. Milo M. Billman, 39, a Lutheran clergyman, of 21 N. 4th Camden.

Eight of those arrested were seized in Mr. Billman's apartment. The FBI said they saw no relation between the rioting that has kept Camden in a state of siege the last few days and the draft board raid. Nor would the FBI link the arrests to those made a few last night and early today bringing the total since the start of the trouble to about 250. Most of those last night were for curfew violations.

Several suspects were taken into custody at two of the fires where firemen were showered with stones and bottles by crowds of onlookers. On at least two occasions, police reported seeing persons pouring gasoline on stores along Broadway, but each time the would-be arsonists fled with the arrival of police. NARDI AND the Puerto Rican leaders emerged from yesterday's meetings with a joint request that the city abide by the emergency curfew. The leaders said they would go into the streets today to urge an end to the disorders. The mayor earlier had reversed a prior stand and suspended two policemen accused of severly beating a 40-year-old Puerto Rican motorist July 30.

The beating of Horacio Jimenez, still in critical condition at Cooper Hospital, was a major factor in the uprising. The suspensions drew immediate criticism from the Camden Fraternal Order of Police and the Police Benevolent Association, both of which accused the mayor of snccub-ing to "mob violence." The weekend meetings were mediated by New York sociologist Dr. Irvin Goldabar, who has earned a reputation for finding solutions to end similar disturbances in Asbury Park and Passaic, N. J. IV Camden draft office.

homes and parked cars throughout North Camden and other Puerto Rican sections. Streets were all but deserted overnight under a police-ordered curfew. But some signs of trouble lingered. The oder of tear gas still hung in the air. Boards hid scores of smashed windows in plundered stores.

And debris smoldered in dozens of burned out buildings. More than 40 persons have been injured in the violence. Officials said more than 30 fires had been set since the first outburst. Damage has yet to be tabulated. BUT THE city was slowly getting back to normal after a weekend of meetings between Mayor Joseph M.

Nar-di Jr. and Puerto Rican community leaders. There were no major disorders last night, but firemen were busy past midnight fighting nine fires, all in the North Camden area. A five-alarm blaze, which Fire Chief Edward Michalak said was "definitely set," destroyed much of the U. S.

Cocoa Corp. plant at Beach and York sts. Michalak said residents reported seeing two carloads of youths at the plant just before the blaze was discovered shortly before 5 P. M. Fire companies from neighboring communities were called in to extinguish other blazes that flared up while most of Camden's equipment was at the cocoa company fire.

That blaze was brought under control at 10 P. M. Michalak said all of tho fires were believed to be the work of arsonistSptj I By CHARLES MONTGOMERY and GLORIA CAMPISl A multi-alarm fire early in a Puerto Rican community center on Camden's south side broke a night of relative calm in the riot-torn city. The blaze was reported shortly after 6 A. M.

in the former church of Sts. Peter and Paul on Broadway near Spruce st. The church and adjoining convent had been used in recent months as the El Ccntro Community Center. Two Camden fire companies were aided by equipment from Gloucester City because most of Camden's fire trucks were still on the scene of last night's multi-alarmer at the 1'. S.

Cocoa Corp. plant at Beach and York sts. Today's fire was brought under control at 7.15 A. M. Fire officials said the blaze appeared "suspicious" in nature.

OTHER THAN the fire, there was little sign that the city had been ripped by three successive nights of rioting. Red "unity" flags hung from Incendiary Bombs Damage 9 Manhattan Supermarkets NEW YORK (UPD Incendiary time bombs concealed in dummy food packages started fires yesterday in nine Manhattan supermarkets. Five in Ifarlen and four in the East Village. Four of the fires caused extensive damage, requiring action by four or five fire companies to put the niout. There was no reports of injuries.

Authorities said the incendiary attacks did not see mto be aimed at any particular supermarket chain. ft n. sac lit- of the pre-audit section. Trulli's hiring fills a slot left open with the departure of First Deputy Gilbert Stein. Trulli will be.

paid Continued on page 34 CAMDEN policeman on riot duty watches as firemen extinguish blaze today at Puerto Rican Community Center, Broadway and Spruce st-Qq Lw Zachri.