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FINAL EDITION VOL. 77, No. 214 32 Pages Two Sections PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1961 Telephone PL 7-4000 SEVEN CENTS rfAc "2 ITAL KHZ TTTi Tl TVTVH trh tfTl PORTUGAL ks ii ei ii i ii isni ii i JL JL1L yLLlLillLJKJ 4 CD AiM Lisbon Sea Boris LOCAL WEATHER Tonight, cold, low near 20. Tomorrow, clear and colder, high near 30. High yesterday, 48.

Overnight low, 34. Sunset today, 4:48. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:20. 1 1 "if 1 NEWS Report of J. 1" cape ..3 Madrid 3 i i is viet9 I JL TUNIS I At RABAT MOROCCO ALGERIA Ex-Judge lakes Lead in Democratic Race 1 1 I i 2 Op Ex-Premier Is Believed Already Dead Elisabethville, Congo The Katanga government an ii iiiniiM'nii, it WHERE AIR ATTACK CHARGED The cross locates the area over the Mediterranean about 80 miles north of Algiers where the Soviet Union charged a French military plane fired on a Russian plane carrying Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev on a visit to Africa.

(AP Wirephoto said Hughes' nomination was "one of the eventualities that could occur." The Governor, who is constitutionally ineligible to succeed himself, meets in Princeton Monday morning with leaders of the state's 21 counties. Essex, which is boycotting meetings with the Governor, has endorsed Senator Donal C. Fox, but he is not an avowed candidate. Hughes and Fox were among the eight names left after a screening committee sifted all the possibilities for Governor. A third name, Senator Harrison A.

Williams Jr. of West-field, said in Washington yesterday that he would not run for Governor even if drafted. He had previously withdrawn from the race. The other five names still being considered were Labor Commissioner Raymond F. Male, Highway Commissioner Dwight R.

G. Palmer, Conservation Commissioner Salva-tore A. Bontempo, Public Utility Commissioner William F. Hyland and Senator John A. Waddington of Salem.

Hughes said he had heard the report that the five coun- of Mountainside no relation former vice chairman of the state Republican Finance Committee. Webster B. Todd of Old-wick, chairman of the state GOP executive committee, was named vice chairman of Mitchell's fund-raising drive. Among the 15 other members of the committee is former Republican National Chairman Guy George Gabriel-son of Bernardsville. Mitchell said in a speech last night that the best solution to the problam of racial discrimination is to change the minds of those people who practice it.

Mitchell told a B'nai B'rith Brotherhood Dinner in Asbury Park that everyone "should have equal access to opportunity to develop whatever potentials he has." One of Mitchell's supporters, Rep. William T. Cahill, discounted the endorsements made earlier this week by seven county chairmen of Senator Walter H. Jones of Bergen. He said the sentiment in South Jersey among rank and file Republican workers and voters was for the former labor secretary.

France Admits Jets Fired on Red Plane Algiers France's admission that her jet fighters fired warning shots at a Russian plane flying Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to Africa put a new strain today on Paris-Moscow relations, already tense because of Soviet support of the Algerian rebels. The Soviet government charg- ed the Russian civilian airliner 'had been buzzed and attacked was attacked over the Mediter-i' French aircraft. Conflicting Reports rancan 80 miles north of Algiers There were conflicting re-yesterday afternoon. The Soviet! ports on whether the Russians protest called it "'an act of in-Jhad notified the French of ternational banditry carried out i Brezhnev's flight, by the French armed forces." Soviet Foreign Minister An- The plane apparently was not drei Gromyko said in Moscow-hit, jthe plane was "following the The French said the big four- course communicated before engine, turboprop Ilyushin fail-hand to the French governed to respond to radio chal- ment." lenges and that three French Coup de Frejac, director of Fort R3ffr I 3Cf mini mi mm mmm i information in Algeria, said the French picked up the Ilyushin 18 on a radar screen and de clared: "This plane did not pos- sess any international flight It was coming from the East and seemed to be heading toward Morocco (which bor- ders Algeria)." Tells of Attack Bachir Bel Abbes, the Moroccan ambassador to Moscow, who this week after suffering a mild heart attack, the five settled on Hughes. Hughes was born in Burlington County and lived his entire life in the Burlington-Mercer area.

In his previous try for public office, he was defeated when he ran for the House of Representatives in 1938. He later served as assistant U. S. attorney, Mercer County judge, and on the Superior Court and the Appellate Division. He resigned in 1957 to return to private law practice to make enough money to support his wife and nine children.

He was a law partner of Thorn Lord and preceded him as Mercer County Democratic chairman. Besides Grogan the avowed Democratic candidates are Essex County Supervisor Wrel-don R. Sheets, Hackensack Councilman Eugene E. Dema-rest and Fort Lee attorney Michael Kearney. On the Republican side, former Secretary of Labor James P.

Mitchell announced the formation of a finance committee for his campaign. The committee will be headed by James E. Mitchell ment is said to be basic to U. S. world policy, especially since Kennedy wants the wealthy allied nations to share the burden of expanded aid programs for Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Those are expected to be the major areas of contest with the Soviets in the next few years. 2.To reinforce U. S. military might and restore U. S.

prestige as leader of the non-Communist! world, making it clear to Russia and Red China that a willingness to negotiate settlements of Kennedy Men See Major Talks Newark A high Dem-cratic Party source says the leaders of five counties have decided to former Superior Judge Richard J. support Court Hughes, 51, as their unity candidate for Governor in the Apr. 18 primary. The spokesman, who declined the use of his name, said yesterday Hughes was decided on in a conference Tuesday when it became apparent that Hudson County Leader John V. Kenny was willing to avoid a primary fight by going along with the Trenton attorney.

Hudson County was represented at the meeting along with Middlesex, Mercer, Union and Passaic. Hughes said he was willing to accept the nomination of a united party. But Hoboken Mayor John J. Grogan, candidate of the Hudson County organization, said he wouldn't withdraw unless his county Democratic Council meets and asks him to. Governor Meyner, who was not at the Tuesday meeting, Weaver Faces 2 Serious i 'Problems but he faces two serious problems as he takes over j-ev p0S(; The Senate cleared the nomi- nation last night by voice vote after five hours of argument, IPutting Weaver in the highest position ever held by a JN.egro in the federal executive branch.

The vote had not been expected to come for about 10 days, but the Senate stayed in session late to approve Weaver under pressure from President Kennedy. Down for Billion The New Yorker is expected take the oath promptly so that he can assume command of Housing and Home Finance cy nex week This is down for almost a billion dol- lars in new funds in the budget now before Congress. Weaver, 53, has been vice chairman of the New York City Housing and Redevelopment Board. One of the problems pressing I tt iinjxussiuns iinin monins Richard J. Hughes ty leaders had picked him, but said no one had approached him directly.

Hughes declined to say what he would do if serious opposition developed to his candidacy. The five leaders were reported to have first agreed on former Attorney General Gro-ver C. Richman Jr. But when Richman withdrew his name from consideration earlier area by area re-examinations of U. S.

foreign policies, parallel with their efforts to quiet the current crises in Laos and the Congo. A White House meeting tomorrow is scheduled to initiate a top level review of U. relations with Ambassador Llew- jellyn Thompson, U. S. envoy to Moscow, sitting in with Ken nedy.

Rusk and several experts! on Soviet affairs. As officials here see the overall policy prospect at present, the United States faces three basic requirements in preparation for entering along with its chief allies into negotiations with the Soviet Union: 1. To begin building greater political and economic unity in what they refer to as "the Atlantic community." At the heart of this problem is a need for greater NATO military strength and greater singleness of purpose among the Western allies. The Atlantic community develop- Vulture fighters intercepted it1 in the "zone of French responsibility." A French spokesman did not pinpoint the location. but the French have been keep- ing a close watch along the Al gerian coast to prevent shipment of arms to nationalist rebels.

AP Correspondent Stanley Johnson reported from Moscow that an unprecedented wave of shock and anger swept over the Soviet capital announcement of the French firing. Johnson said the "popular explosion far exceeded that aroused by Francis Gary Powers and his U2 spy plane." Tnc 54-year-okl Brezhnev, who is making a goodwill visit to West Africa, arrived on sched uic ai mr in Mup lii lid uu Morocco. and appeared unruf- fled by the shooting incident. -i j-i CAi-it tr-'ifi-vl i rr UllC O'J It Uli.lV.lcli lia with him told newsmen the; flight from Budapest was pleas-! ant and uneventful. But on learning of the Moscow an- nouncement he said the plane' was travelling wnn said he could see the Algerian Washington C.

coast off to one side when a Weaver has won Senate con-twm-engme I rench jet appeared out of clear sky. firmation as the government "The French iet came verv.top housing administrator, outstanding problems does not; -n t-a- 1 mean weakness on the part of rH.H npfth A a nnr UN officials and this ntrv it carried neither a man nor any newsmen have been putting experimental animals. nressure on Katanga officials for 3. To begin bringing non-Com-L AdtdnBd umudis iur munist nations, allied and Information proof that the ex-premier is still tral, into an integrated economic' The interview with Sedov system, this objective involves the Soviet Communist Party) One diplomat, hearing of the domestic as well as foreign poli- newspaper was the first detailedjescape report, commented that cy problems. Unemployment in report on the satellite launched 'this would be excellent prepara-the United States raises ores- 'as week- Since they announced, tion for an announcement later Goldberg Begins 3-Day Trip To Unemployment Areas nounced today that deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba and two political associates escaped last night from a farmhouse where they had been kept prisoner west of Elisabethville.

A communique said the trio overcame and bound two sentries guarding them and fled in a black car with several rifles and enough gas to cover 60 miles. Godefroid Munongo, the Katanga interior minister, indicated his government believed Lumumba was headed for Portuguese Angola, west of Katanga Province, although his ultimate objective presumably is Stanleyville, capital of the Congo's Oriental province, which is controlled by troops and politicians loyal to him. The Katanga government said it had blocked all roads leading from the province and offered a reward for his capture. Lumumba previously had been reported in a prison at Jadot-ville, 65 miles northwest of Elisabethville, to which he had been moved under heavy guard from Thysville military camp outside Leopoldville on Jan. 18.

But the Katanga communique today said he and his associates escaped from a farmhouse between Mutshatsha and Kasaji, 165 and 225 miles farther west. Kasaji is about 80 miles from the Angola border, on a highway leading across the frontier. Munongo said Katanga troops were searching the area. He also demanded that the UN military command send up reconnaissance flights. Doubted by Experts Outside Katanga government circles, the announcement of Lumumba's escape was taken with some skepticism.

Rumors have circulated in Katanga, Leopoldville, Brussels and at the UN headquarters in 1 4 iin.nn.kn Vi r- uiai ana mose wim him had died, or been killed, while trying to flee the country. Moscow Radio said the report that Lumumba had fled may be a smokescreen to cover up his assassination and added he may already be dead. Lumumba has enjoyed Soviet support ever since the Congo won independence from Belgium last July. The two prisoners who escaped with Lumumba were identified as Col. Joseph Okito, youth minister in his cabinet, and Maurice Mpolo, vice president of the Congo senate.

The Katanga cabinet offered 3 reward of 300,000 francs 000) "to anybody who would as sist" in the capture of Lumum ba. Rewards amounting to were put up for the capture of the other two. Keeping Lumumba under confinement has been one of the major headaches of the central Congo government in Leopoldville since his ouster as premier by Maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu last Fall.

4 in Area Eye A -b -m Washington Four young men from the Plainfield, N. area were nominated today, along with 31 other New Jersey-ans, to compete for admission to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Merchant Marine Academies this year. The nominees were selected by Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. They are: Military Academy (two vacancies) James Charles McNama-ra of 300 N.

Euclid WTest-field, and seven others. Naval Academy (one vacancy) John T. MacDermott of 308 W. Eighth Plainfield, and five others. Air Force Academy (one vacancy) William B.

Brown of 1120 Myrtle Plainfield, and 10 others. Merchant Marine Academy-Thomas J. Whalen of 1507 Clinton South Plainfield, and nine others. (The Maritime Administration will select a total of nine persons from New Jersey for the 1961 Merchant Marine Academy class. By JOHN M.

IIIGHTOWER Washington (J?) Kennedy administration leaders now estimate they can be ready to undertake major negotiations with Russia within six months. Soviet officials have been warned quietly against trigger ing new crises at Berlin or else where during this formative period in the hope of exploiting any lack of experience and decisiveness in Washington. Though President Kennedy hopes for better East-West relations, Moscow has been informed, any fresh Soviet challenge will bring a swift, tough U. S. response.

This administration intends to leave no doubt in the minds of the American people or other peoples, it is said, of its determination to react vigorously to any threat and not to be bluffed or blackmailed. Administration leaders reportedly feel that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev understands their bluntly stated position and is acting with restraint. One reason, as seen here, may be his desire for an early informal meeting with Kennedy as well as a later summit session; another may be serious interest on bring the arms race under con trol. At a minimum, Kennedy and his advisers believe the Soviet premier wants to avoid a major military clash and to concentrate his main effort on opening up negotiations on such matters as the future of Berlin and dis- ems. In preparation for these ne gotiations, Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk are starting country by country andi close, flying parallel to course," he said in Rabat.

our "It lwas beating its wings, flapping! i lit in up uiiu viuwu. as i uit pi- lot was trying to tell us some- thing." TVi A y-r y- cr- cnirl fVlO lilt jiuiULV.au luvu aiu mv- jet "came in closer and began firing tracer bullets (then) suddenly veered away and was gone. The whole incident took about 10 minutes." of Labor Arthur J. Gold- vr trouble spots in five states.) Goldberg, D2-year-om iprmer labor union attorney, had Chi- cago, Gary. South Bend, sing and Detroit on his dav schedule.

Lan-first The labor secretary said that with half the nation's major industrial centers now classified as depressed, meaning a jobless rate of 6 per cent or more, he wants to talk over the problem with state officials. businessmen and labor leaders, and idled workers and their families. Before taking off to inspect kev communities in an area con- ning about a third of the na. Treasury Secretary Sees Possible Billion Deficit Washington (P) Secretary of the Treasury Douglas surpc fnr nrntprt vp tariff 1 ures, loreign aid cutbacks and other steps contrary to the administration's world aim. he left office.

pected deficit this fiscal year on the basis of the programs his old boss submitted would acount to about S750 million. Dillon was asked how he was opftinft alnno in a nomnwatif. Washington -Secretary nedy to survey unemployment Colder Air Moving In The weather will turn a little colder tonight and tomorrow, due to a high pressure system moving into this area from Canada. Temperatures will be in the low 20s tonight and probably won't go above 30 tomorrow. This will please municipal officials at least, who fear flooding conditions brought on by a too-quick melting of snow piles Yesterday was the secondL WcUIIlUSL UdV Ul LUUL, mir Ltlll- HA lLm Dillon says a billion dollar deficit appears likelv this hardest on Weaver arises Part in doing something to instead of the barely balanced budget former President Reds Claim Sputnik Acts As Planned Moscow CP! A leading Soviet scientist reported today that the Soviet Union's giant new Sputnik had successfully accomplished its missions and would soon fall into the earth's atmosphere and burn out.

L. Sedov, a member of the Soviet Academv of Sciences, in an interview with Pravda also took note of Western specula i 11,1 1 KM 1 1 rt oaiuruay inai 11 naa gone lnio i i i ii. ii oruii around me earin. tne itus- sians had given virtually no information on the sputnik's performance. Sedov said there were two main goals in launching the satellite to get an object that big into orbit and, once there, to keep it in its planned orbit with exacting precision.

"The super-precise orbiting of this sputnik, a task not less im- portant (than sending it up) and very difficult, was sucessfully accomplished," Sedov said. The scientist said to study the parameters, or elements of orbit, the sputnik was "fitted out with a radio telemetric system to control the parameters of its ele- ments tne needed measure- carried out by means of the instruments of trajectoral measurement installed in the sputnik." Calculated Orbit Sedov said a Soviet ground measuring and computing center has confirmed that the satellite muwng aiong an orou very ciose 10 me calculated parameters." "The rumors spread abroad to! the effect that the sputnik car- fied are he con" tinued. "The sputnik had no spe cial equipment for scientific ex ploration of outer space and carried no experimental animals, inasmuch as this was the first launching of such a vehicle which pursued exclusively experimental purposes." Sedov said no special system had been provided for retrieving the sputnik. Gas Pressure Drops In Somerville Homes SomervITIe Natural gas pressure in at least five houses in the east end of Somerville dropped off early this morning when water affected a mechanism of the Public Service Electric and Gas Company lines. Some of the householders dis covered the low pressure when they started to prepare breakfast this morning.

In some of the homes, low gas pressure had caused gas furnaces to shut off The pressure began to rise again 'about 8:30 a.m. Eisenhower submitted before The recession is partly to blame, Dillon told a news conference yesterday. Tax receipts have not kept up with estimates in the Eisenhower budget. He said a temporary tax cut should be very seriously considered to stimulate the economy if it is still in a steep decline by April. Dillon, who was under secretary of state in Eisenhower's administration, said the ex- tn.

nnn urged speedy Senate con-l ar)ministratmn via hie and observations were perature shooting up to 43 foications the situation is growing the first time since Jan. 13. It a also marKca me iiisl iiint- uiai luiupci citui freezing. I rip pp. feiPPI grees.

The hfghest temperature unemployment in large cities as 50 far recorded this year, inci- compared with that in better-Hontallv nn Jan 7 known chronic trouble spots the current economic slump. New housing starts are down sharply, yet the Kennedy administration is looking to a construction industry pickup as an essential element in its recovery program. This was one reason the Presi urmaiion. Weaver told the Senate Banking Committee earlier this week that the average annual new start rate of about 1,200,000 in sii in in tif 'i r- ic niduequaie. ne saia snouia De "a whole lot more." At the moment it is well under that av- era go.

Second Headache Weaver's second headache ap pears likely to arise in the legislative field. Several Southerners said in the debate that they feared Weaver as head of HHFA might alienate Southern votes badly needed for controversial housing programs of the new administration. Legislators Get Committee Posts Washington Rep. Florence of Elizabeth, N. and iRpP peter Frelinghuysen Jr.

of Morristown, N. yesterday were assigned to House committees by the Republican Committee on Committees. Congresswoman Dwyer was named to the Banking and Currency and Government Operations committees. Frelinehuvsen was assigned to the Education and Labor and Foreign Affairs committees. Final House action on the assignments will be taken next week with approval virtually assured c-wi ill nlrlKorrr coJrl frnm ill Inrti A mainr nurnnp nf thp in.

jspection tour, one of a planned series, is to show the degree oil: 10 ir.i i7't iern Pennsylvania Support for this view came in new data released by Gold berg's Labor Department yester- day. It showed an employment aeciine 01 neany yuu.uuu irom a jear ago in the nation's fac- tories, most of them located in or near metropolitan areas. Such cities as Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Kansas City and Newark are among 25 major industrial areas just added to the Labor Department's depressed list. Detroit, the auto center where Goldbers stons toniVht shnwprl an idle rating of nearly 12 per cent in the new Labor Dpnart ment ratings.

Besides Detroit, the Goldberg inspection party will go to Columbus, Ohio, tomorrow, and to Pittsburgh Sunday. The latest Labor Department figures show the economic situation is a paradox. There are 04,452,000 workers with tne greatest number for that month in history. But there are 5,385,000 unemployed, largest total for January since the start of World 2. associates were interested in running the government "the best they know how." Asked if he still calls himself a Repub lican, he reDlied "I certainly, do." Dillon covered these other The administration's first is-l sue of 3V4 per cent Treasury notes oversubscribed by billions of dollars.

The Treasury and Kennedy, he said, express satisfaction." The genuine Treasury will issue $7.3 billion of the notes; offers had come in for $19 billion. In line with a Kennedy directive, the Treasury will start mailing ahead of time $258 mil lion in GI life insurance divi dends by March 1, to shore up buying power in the economy. West Germany offer to help ease the U.S. balance of payments problem falls short of what the United States wants. The West Germans, he said, regard the problem as very temporary while American officials feel there is a basic deficit which must be eliminated.

The drop in the price of gold in the London market to just above $35 an ounce shows that speculators "finally have been convinced that the United States means what it says and has the resources to maintain" the price of gold. There will be no slackening of U.S. foreign aid payments because of the gold-payments problem. ALGERIANS ROUTED Algiers i.P A few hundred; Algerian nationalists scattered before security forces yesterday after noisily protesting the roundup of several hundred npnnlP in a suhiirh. srpne of rp- cent bomb attacks.

On the inside Births Hal Boyle Classified Ads Comics Coming Events Editorials Dr. Fern Ann Landers Obituaries Angelo Patri Produce Markets Real Estate Sheinwold Social Sports Stock Television, Radio Theaters Women's Features 13 25 29-30-31 26 13 18 14 14 28 14 24 21 25 12 13 29-23 28 25 27 14 Hunterdon News Middlesex News Somerset News Union News 19-24 8-17-20-32 17 11 DILLON ON ECONOMY Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon told reporters at a news conference in Washington yesterday that the federal budget seems headed for a billion-dollar deficit this year. He said the recession was partly to blame. Dillon also said a temporary tax cut might be in order if the economy still points sharply downward by April. (AP Wirephoto).