The Courier-News from Bridgewater, New Jersey • Page 1

LOCAl WEATHER wtoiittteli Increasing cloudiness, not so cold tonight. Tomorrow probable ram or snow. Yesterday's high, 32; last night's low, 14. Sunset today, 5 p.m.; sunrise tomorow, 7:14 a.m.; sunset tomorrow, 5:02 p.m. EflDnTOCJ) 30 PAGES TWO SECTIONS FOUNDED 18 84-7 1st Year FIVE CENTS PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1955 Wl 1 Ill mi mi.

my i. in 4 Ofiicials Confer io Jail i With RelbelMons Convict Revolt Enters 800 GIs Believed Held by China Fourth Dav fii' ri'aanii i mi i iimn iimn i iin-jtmsmstemtmietmrsifc tf niHMMiTiinilT'ir-iiiiiiiiiri'm Coronet Photo by E. T. Wiggins Chicago (JP) Senator Know- Boston (JP) Four grim-looking land (R-Calif.) says he believes Red China holds "something officials early today spent two hours inside Massachusetts State Prison where four hardened con- over 800 other GIs in prison TRY THE ICE Mrs. Albert C.

Pearson, 1341 Murray her children and their neighborhood playmates, shown yesterday in Cedar Brook Park, lost no time in taking advantage of the first good skating in several years in this area. Nearly 400 skaters were on ihe Cedar Brook ice yesterday and similar crowds could be seen wherever ice was available. Shown with Mrs. Pearson are, left to right, Lisa Craig, Lulie Hanau, Ellen Pearson, Carol Tojl and Anne Pearson. besides the 15 American airmen they acknowledge holding.

jvicts are holding five guards as nostages for the lourui cay but In a speech to the Cicero Manufacturers' Association, last jthe nature of their visit was not disclosed. night, the Senate minority leader said: Senator Smith Sees Okeh "We have strong reason to believe they hold more than the 15 they acknowledge of holding." The men showed up neither For Evacuating Chinese in the little or big switch -riM i wttifiiijidiiiaMOM iMirftMiiiii'iiiiiiiiii' i ffn'fflf niinitiiiniii'iiijii li'iniiiiiinii' n' imhh' 'ilT 'fiiif m-r prisoner exchange following the Washington Senator lalists have some 20,000 men. Korean truce in 1953, Knowland said. Names of the imprisoned Americans, he said, were learned knowledge that any such request GREETED AT MEETING iohn W. Zerega, center, former Plainfield mayor who has been endorsed as a member of the Union County Board of Freeholders to succeed Donald D.

Mackey of Plainfield who retired before inception of his elective term, sat yesterday with freeholders deliberating on the budget for 1935. He is greeted here by Freeholder-director Albert J. Benninger of Mountainside, while Col. Francis V. Lowden of Hillside, chairman cf the Union County Republican Committee, who submitted his name to the board, looks on.

H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ.) pre- One factor in administration dieted today Congress would thinkinS was said to be a belief might be forthcoming. Senator Mansfield (R-Mont.) from Red propaganda broadcasts, The (quartet, escorted by an armed guard, emerged from the prison and entered the warden's office, ignoring reporters questions except to say "no comment." The four who made the surprise trip into the prison are Warden John J. O'Brien, State Commissioner of Correction E. Lawrence Spurr, State Police Head Otis M.

Whitney and State Police Capt. John Mitchell. The before-dawn burst of activity at the prison resulted in numerous reports, including the erroneous report that a National Guard tank was moved from its spot outside the ail to a position inside the walL Conference Continues The official entered the prison at 3.27 a.m. and came out et 5:15 a.m. The conference in the war- by some American military men other released POWs and Penta gon reports.

approve any request by President also a of the Foreign Relations Committee, similarly that if Nationalist forces were withdrawn from some of the scat Knowland said a compilation disclaimed knowledge of any such Eisenhower for authority to use U. S. air and sea power to assist t.red offshore outposts, they request, but he said it would get of the various reports led him to the strong belief the Red Chi might profitably be deployed 11 Towns Over-Assessed serious consideration it made. elsewhere for the defense of nese held "several hundred other Mansfield said: "I assume he Formosa. in possible evacuation of some Nationalist islands.

Eisenhower was reported last night to be considering a request for such authority in would be fully aware of the im plications in any uch proposal Secretary of State Dulles and Inis a as a reference to the GIs in prison enclosures." He later set the figure at "something over 800 other GIs." Lists Prisoners He said the Reds hold four "fighter airmen" plus the 11 Adm. Arthu W. Radford, chair-ma' of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly sounded out congres obvious possibility that any evac Somerset Board Finds uation operation of islands dose the event Red Chinese pressure should force evacuation of troops from the offshore islands. to the Red mainland the Tach-ens, for example would bring sional leaders at a State Department briefing yesterday on the possibility of a congressional U.S. airmen already sentenced to four to 10-year prison terms The Somerset vessels of the U.

S. 7th fleet with following municipalities increase assessed i den's office continued for some Bound Brook, present Somerville The Reds this week captured resolution to give the President in range of Communist artillery valuation, percentage! time County Board of Taxation has on trumped up spy charges. Another 32 civilians, inclndinc advance approval to use sea and batteries assessed rpnnmmpnrlAH that in Bedminster, present assessed of decrease, 1.8; true At one point, O'Brien left his air power should that be neces- The risk was said in fcnnt valuation, percentage valuation, $7,131,687. clergymen, businessmen and stu office for a few minutes and re tne island of Yikiangshan, which had been held by a small garrison, and they have stepped up attacks on the Tachen group, on which Chiang Kai-shek's Nation-1 muano axxvxca 0 increase, 710 of one per cent; Branchburg, assessed, sary any evacuation attempt, of Eisenhower's reported desire Smith, of the Senate Foreign to have dents, also are illegally im prisoned, the California Repub T31; -j ivciduiuna vumiiiinee, uisciaimeaisent advance lican said. sessed valuation, and ii omers true assessed value, $3,722,133.

375; percentage, 4100 of one per decrease it, to conform to a 17 Bernards, assessed, cent; true, $2,451,332. per cent average ratio throughout percentage, 3.2; true, $3,866,157. Far Hills, assessed, the county Bernardsville, assessed, percentage, 1.3; true, $925,769. Lewis J. Gray, secretary, r- 650 -percentage, true, Green -Brook, assessed, Knowland declared the United Nations should, within a "short cCarn ival of Values time," tell the world 'what It is ieased a preliminary equaliza- 436,113.

650; percentage, 110 of one per prepared to do if the men are not TuitionPupil Plea Denied released. won iauie yesieruay indicating tsnogewater, assessed, cent; true, $2,526,986. the percentage by which the 989; percentage, 710 of one perl Hillsborough, assessed, $4,245, turned. At that point he told reporters "there is no change ii. the situation." He said also there is no truth to a report that reached his ears that a.

hostage, guard-was -killed or hurt. Prior to this development, everything had been quiet for several hours in the stalemate which began last Tuesday morning. Plead with Convicts The spurt of activity came after a night during which the Rev. Edward F. Hartisan.

prison "I do not intend to remain si Called a Success municipalities should increase cent; true, $12,113,976. 594; percentage, 810 of one per lent while a single American rots in a prison cell," Knowland told the meeting. Scotch Plains The Board of Education last night turned or aecrease. ine i per cent rraniain, $6, cent; true, $4,208,262. average figure was determined percentage, 2.9; true, $6,923,281.

Millstone, assessed, $245 725-after a lengthy field investiga- Manville, assessed, percentage, 1.3; true, $242 386 tion by Mr. Gray. percentage, 2.1; true, $5,128,216. North Plainfield, assessed, The Board of Taxation will Montgomery, assessed. 496.600: percentage.

2.3: true Turning to the Far East in 1 w-f reezmg temperatures chairman of this year's "Carni down a request of the New aand strong winds failed to dis val," said he was pleased with general, Knowland called on the United States to set forth a line "beyond which we will not per suade shoppers from taking ad results. Providence Board of Education for entrance of tuition pupils into the local system. The board split over the question of "leav Shopper response, he said, vantage of bargains found in yesterday's city-wide "Carnival meet Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the 452; percantage, 1.7; true, Tax Board Office, Administration 100,494. Raritan, assessed, Building, to confer with munici- Peapack-GIadstone, asses sed, percentage, 510 of one per cent-pal assessors and representatives percentage; 410 of true, $2,874,863.

concerning "the percentages and one per cent; true, $1,830,977. Rocky Hill, assessed. $270 600- could be credited to clear weather, work by members of the Catholic chaplain, and Dr. Samuel Merlin, prison phvsician. of Values." mit further Communist aggression in Asia." Urges Strength William Kroll of Bamberger's, "Carnival" committee and adver ing the door open" to New Providence for consideration of sought in vain to persuade the desperate criminals to give up their seige.

He urged the nation to oper true valuations fixed for their Warren, assessed, percentage, 1.6; true, $266,164. its request in the future. own or any otner district, me percentage, true, $2,620,315. Somerville, assessed, ate "from a position of strength not a Knowland I Tho nri'srl .3 4 eq i piiwi axxu uuvttii, weary oasis lur uie appuruoiimeni. oi watcnung, assessed.

sz.UU4.B40: U25: percentage. 2 8- tnio termed appeasement a "dubious state and county taxes will be the percentage, 3.3; true, $2,072,128. i niui uic Dem Chief Quits Post tising and publicity. He said store reported crowds waiting for doors to open yesterday morning, usually an indication of a busy day. Tempo along Front St.

seemed to pick up early yesterday afternoon as the weather began to warm, and all stores policy" which should be avoided Board members Russell Patterson and Eugene B. Witte said that conditions might change and- that when the new high school is built, room might be found. long-term prisoners, are trying to convince the rebels to forego Earlier, at a news conference true valuations determined by The following municipalities South Bound Brook, assessed the table. have been recommended to de- percentage, 2.5; true The table recommends that the crease their assessed valuation: he said the nations failure to take a stand in the Pacific if the ine jew Providence reauest Reds take over all of Asia could SomervilJe Alphonse R. ior acceptance of dudiIs in the mean "moving our line of de Guatemala ineir demand lor freedom in exchange for the five guards arxl six other inmates the are holding as hostages in the prison's solitary confinement cell block.

The desperadoes have three guns and several rounds of ammunition and authorities are fear enjoyed brisk business through last night. ml a fense back to Oregon." Makowski of North Plainfield resigned last night in Somerville Inn as chairman of the Somerset The spread of communism in fall of 1957 when the school is to open. The Summit Board of Education turned down New Providen's request recently for ine annual Dargain day is Asia' is the challenge to the Bus Fare Increase Hearing Scheduled sponsored by the Chamber of County Democratic Committee and will be sworn in as magis Foils Reds United States," said Knowland, Commerce's Retail Trades Di vision. More than 100 stores ful that if the stalemate continues much longer the tension might who has differed with President Eisenhower relating to Asian trate of Manville today at 7 p.m. William Storck of Watchung, Guatemala (JP) The took part.

gov- lead to bloodshed. plans. the continued use of the Summit school system. The board, in denying the New Providence request, said that the rapidly growing enrollment in the local system would mean county Democratic Club president, announced his candidacy ernment pushed a roundup of Communists and supporters of Newark (JP A hearing hvthp: of th nnunf Word from the depths of the state Public Utility Commission cents for each additional zone. It! FiSn indicates that leadership Rain or Snow Whitehouse Driver Has 2 Narrow Escapes for chairman, but suggested that Arthur S.

Meredith of Somerville, vicechairman, act as chair man today after beating down an will be heid tne week of Feb Jalso asked that student ttelbom tnere would be no room when idics ue luacea at ou per cent oi A twuj the new school is ooen. Npw 1 1 uui ionic aniiuu at, uiiocoLiiiK aiiu-i i t- Red President Carlos Castillo Ar-jon, a bld Pubhc Service Co Branchburg Charles Scrosappi, the proposed cash rate fares. man until the election in April. David P. Shay of North Plain- Providence asked acceptance Of IAV JL VJ1JM 1UH 54, of Route 22, Whitehouse, had mas.

Green, 39, to robber-gunman Walter Balben, 38. Balben and Green both have guns. The third gun is in the field and Frank Politano of Man- its pupils for three years. two narrow escapes early yester Public Service requested a permanent boost in the basic fare, but also sought an inrrpj nn a ordinated Transport for a temporary two-cent increase on basic bus fares in initial zones. The low temperature so far viHe were endorsed as candi- However, the board noted that day, according to state police.

this season was equalled early temnnrarv hasii hcrmco possession of at best by 1959 or 1960 the maxi attacker Joseph He was thrown from his truck dates for motor vehicle agent in those two municipalities, it called the "urgent need for im-LFlaherty' 32. of Boston. The ths morning when the mercury dropped to a minimum of 14 mum capacity would be reached and that a new elementarv after the vehicle crashed into a cement bridge in Route 22 and mediate relief." degrees, Cooperative Weather skidded across North Eranch Rd. scnooi prooaDly would be needed The PUC set the date after a pre-hearing conference here yesterday. It also picked Apr.

15 as the date to start hearings on the mammoth bus firm's application Obs rver S. K. Pearson says. to help condtions locally. In While he was lying intthe high Government troops held Guatemala City and other strategic centers in an armed grip.

Castillo Armas announced 10 persons were killed and an undetermined number wounded in a brief clash yesterday between loyal forces and rebels seeking to capture Aurora Air Force Base, outside the capital. He blamed the Communists and Arbenz' supporters for the revolt. increasing cloudiness tonight Use of New fourth desperado-inmate is cop-killer Fritz Swenson, 31. Under an agreement with their captors, the five officer-hostage are being brought hot meals. Thm prisoners have been getting their food from the cell block Find Pastor Dead In Confessional Box way, a tractor-trailer approach and not so cold with winds shitting to southerly will probablv and stopped within two feet of for a permanent increase of the this situation it was felt that it would be impossible to comply with the request.

Board members favoring the unqualified denial said that it him, police said. result in mixed precipitation to Tracks Near Elizabeth The death of a 78-year-old assistant pastor, same amount. morrow either in the form of show, sleet or rain with a further Time Needed Dunellen Regular raU traffic rotlIlfat- was unfair to keep New Provi Scrosappi suffered cuts on' his face, but refused treatment. He was charged by Troopers Narciso Chiappelli and Hugh Highet with careless driving. rise in temperature, he declared.

dence on a string. PUC Commissioner D. Lane won't flow over two newly ine anti-Ked government in A disturbance developing from the west and mnvinsr PastwarH iqloffice less than seven months Powers said the February date structed upper level Jersev Cen- "Ike nWOmmended found dead in a confessional box of St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Church yesterday, has been attributed to a heart attack. A sexton found the Rev.

Stephen Mohnacky slumped in a chair inside the confessional box. I Alteration Salo now in progress. the cause for the expected rise declared a state set in view of the fact that tral tracks or possibIy twoj Trenton A hearing ex- GOP Dinner Savings up to 75. Matthew's Furniture, 316 W. Front St.

Adv. temperature and possible in- seige, a Kind oi mooinea maruai ruunc ociviee aerieu n. wuuiu; evs a railroad iarainer IQr ine New Jersey Public and t- low Villi- QiitViftyitioe innnnnporl hp nnahT tn rnmnlpfA nuiriapr- clement Mr. 121 24 weather, Utility Commission today recommended a per cent intrastate today. said.

Tickets on Sale However, a single two-car train they were control of tne situ- ing ano irainc studies Deiore ation. I Apr. 15 for the permanent fare The outbreak was the most hearing. commutation fare increase for the Guide to Today's News carrying officials from New YorkiDeIawa.re- Lackawanna and West- Announcement was made today License Expiring Operators of Plainfield food oy Homer w. Wieder, general chairman of the Victory Dinner serious attempt thus far to unseat the anti-Communist president who gained power last June when he led a revolt that drove Legalized Games of Chance in of Education in Watchung Application for the fare increase was made Dec.

22 by Public Service, claiming a net loss of $1,413,911 for the first for a ceremony marking elimina-l n-wT tion of the grade crossing here will fiSh! innJSi ThiS Price of "onth commuSJSn train will be the first to pass over tii-otc k. irx u-i-. 7J u7? on establishments were reminded by Health Officer Frank M. Doughty Adopts $201,593 Budget. In to be given by the Plainfield Republican City Committee at the New Jersey Gross 10 Million Dollars Yearly.

Program Held today that present licenses expire out Arbenz' Red-supported gov eluded Is an Overall Increase of $13,956 Over This Year. 11 months of 1954. uiuuuii ui Successful by Executive Officer Park Hotel Monday night, that Feb. 1. New ones must be ernment i wi nciii ucxUW limes Public Service said that fording; the price of a one-way ticket.

He tickets are' still available. of State Commission Page 17 Teachers Salaries Item Up would be faced with an annual II" Z.thTr, uuuuiy no specific fares. For all types of tile Bee House of obtained at the health department office, City Hall. The affair will honor U. S.

$16,500 Page 6. Tile, Page 30. Adv. Senator Clifford P. Case, who Cieat2M2trn1trJerSeA Submittef to Forneys for the city, at 12.12 p.m.

will raiimaH labor cost increase of $866,000 by Feb. 1 of this year. Sought By Company Sought by the firm, the largest Mrs. Pontery Free in Bail. Convicted of Manslaughter in the Slaying of Her Fourth Husband, She Posts $25,000 in will be the guest speaker, and the outgoing and incoming Republi leternal Revenue Auditors in City to Aid Taxpayers.

Arrive at Postoffice as Rush of Queries roll over the project here at for p.m. ii ceremony schedulinff1 Dr-n u.l U. S. Budget Costs can mayors and Council members. "lant.

xuc Will LOtll The affair starts at 6:45. Morris County Court Page 11. on Filling Out Returns on In doesn't hit a snag. Officials mak- dus operator in ine state, is a make the final decision. come Tax Is Anticipated Page basic zone fare of 12 cents instead ing the trip have not been an Tickets- may be reserved by phoning Thomas A.

Sperry 17. Births Bundesen Classified Ads ticket chairman, PL 6-5119; John Plain fielders $470 nounced. The delay in routing passenger and freight traffic over the con New Somerset County- Unron County Parks Commis JAPAN GETS JETS Tachikaka, Japan (JP) The U.S. Air Force today turned over 59 planes, including eight jets. 12 21 27-28-29 24 10 19 sioners and Two Park Commis K.

Bangs, First Ward, PL 7-0199; Seymour Perkins Second Ward, PL 5-9180; Mr. Wieder, Budget Published sion Engineers View Guided It is the council's opinion that, Gannett News Service struction is caused by a lag in getting permanent switches in place rather than in the construc The proposed budget for 1955- Missile Launching Base Under based on budgetary experience, a. a. Third Ward, PL 6-5894; George duPuy, Fourth Ward, PL 5-8938. Washington Each Plain- to the fledgling Japanese air force at this UN air base west of Tokyo.

Construction Near Holmdel. omerei uoumy is Pu" federal spending for the spending for the tion itself, Mr. James asserted fielder man, woman or child will owe Uncle Sam another $470 few years will not be materially l1Mlcun AIie1 wews He said rain some two weeks ago below levels in the new budget if, did slow up dirt and gravel fill-in is adopted. JE. 2" but.

the pace has been un- No Comment Offered on Their Impressions. Park and Army Officials Negotiating on Possible Nike Base Site in Watchung 18 21 14 21 25 21 BULLETIN if the new Eisenhower budget goes through. Special entertainment will be provided by Buddy Page and Gene Laurent. Mr. Page, a local resident, has been an orchestra director and master of ceremonies for a number of years.

Most recently he has been screen-i The council notes that "ihampered. Comics Coming Events Commodity Markets Editorials, Letters Menu Obituaries Patri Patterns Radio and Television Readers' Exchange Real Estate Transfers Social Sports Stars Say Theaters, Amusements Woman's Page iflects a tax rise of from four toj Reservation Page 5. The Council of State Chambers rapid reduction in federal spend When the two tracks are opera- ine which marked the past two?" J' the west and center Um- OkeltsVisils to Flyers salary increases. The amount of Commerce figures it out that years has come almost to a halt. porary tracks will be removed, way, pointing out that with lew Loyalty Program Check Bill Offered by Congressman Fre- 27, 1213 ing applicants for the Ted Mack Jersey carrying 3.62 per cent of It point, out that for the first to be raised by taxation is an increase of leaving only the east-bound rails at street leveL 22-23 television amateur hour.

Mr. 21 (Laurent is an entertainer, a vo- over last year. United Nations, N. Y4JP) The United Nations announced today Premier Chou En-lai has agreed to permit relatives to visit 17 Americans held in Chinese jails. the federal tax burden the state's share of the 63.5-billion-dollar budget stands to be Imghuysen.

Sets Up Pi-Partisan Commission to Investigate AH Loyalty and Security Programs Page 30. time since 1952 requests to Congress for authority to make new spending commitments show an increase over the prior year. 23.calist, pianist and accordion Alteration Sale now la progress. Savings up to 75. Matthew's Furniture, 316 W.

Front St. Adv. 121 24 Warehouse clearance sale. Fred A. Hummel 506 Arlingtoa PL.

6-1400. Adv. 21player..