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SI HOME EDITION fll FOUNDED 1884-75th Year 22 Pages Two Sections PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959. Telephone PL 6-8000 SEVEN CENTS LOCAL WEATHER Clear, seasonably cold and windy tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in the 20s, high tomorrow in the 40s. Yesterday's high 36, overnight low 33. Sunset today 5:41, sunrise tomorrow 6:37.

0 kJVy Sea Crash Kills Meany-Reutlier 4 -Power Conference S. Plain field Flyer dispute Ends in South Plainfield Lieut. Percy "William (Bill) Williams 26, Navy jet pilot attached to the aircraft carrier TJSS TTF) ntrepid, lost his life in the Mediterranean Saturday (Feb. Ob neasy. Accord eomianv jaarrea 1, 1959).

Lieutenant Williams' parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Williams of 1530 Windrew were inform ed of the accident by the Navy Department.

They learned that One-Man Direction of Policies Of AFL-CIO Sparks Difference Priest Heads Khrushchev their son's jet fighter plane was catapulted off the Intrepid, that the plane's motor failed and the craft fell into the sea. Lieutenant Williams' body was, not recov Revolt in San Juan, Puerto Rico UP) AFL-CIO leaders emerged with an uneasy truce today after a revolt led by "Walter Says Matter For 2 States ered. Reuther against AFL-CIO President George Meany one- Lieutenant Williams was a Paraguay man direction of federation policies. It wasn't exactly clear who had won. But Reuther and other leaders of the former CIO felt their voices would be reflected more in the policies graduate of the United States Naval Academy.

His father-in- i 1 'fV 'J law is Admiral John Raby of By JOSE MARIA ORLANDO Montevideo, Uruguay (IP) of the merged, 14-milhon-member organization. Pensacola, Fla. For one thing, it looks now as Squadron 33 South America's only remain The lieutenant was attached to if the Washington meeting the AFL-CIO is planning to underline if- ing dictator, Alfredo Stroess-ner of Paraguay, is fighting a war of nerves led by a youthful Roman Catholic priest. America's unemployment prob 74 Fighter Squadron 33. He had left the United States Feb.

13 aboard the Intrepid, which had orders to relieve the carrier Ranger in the Moscow (IP) Premier Nikita Khrushchev, emerging from two days of talks with British Prime Minister Macmillan, threw cold water today on the West's plan for a four-power meeting on Germany. Khrushchev told a political rally in the Kremlin that the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France could not discuss German reunification because "this is a question for the two German lem will be along more spectacu Lieut P. W. Williams Jr. Stroessner's land-locked coun lar lines as urged by Reuther.

It probably won't be the mass march Mediterranean. The accident occurred shortly before the two try of xk million people is a land degree and was commissioned an of fear and suspicion, gradually of unemployed Reuther first pro carriers were scheduled to rendez Jukebox Quiz Widens In Chicago Washington (P) Alleged record counterfeiting plots fid ax wielding, acid throwing raids by Chicago jukebox racketeers were subjects for Senate investigation today. becoming more isolated in a conti posed, but it will likely be more ensign in the Navy. Carrier Pilot vous in the Mediterranean. nent where dictatorships have of a show than the strictly legis Lieutenant Williams was born He attended aviation school in lative conference of union offi gone out of style.

in Pla infield and spent most of states themselves." Pensacola and qualified as a car cials Meany advocated. his life in the this borough. He rier pilot. After completing his Reason for Difference became South Plainfield's first training in Florida, he was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Eagle Scout and attended the Thousands of refugee Paraguayans are openly plotting Stroessner's overthrow on the fringe of his borders. One of the best known revolu The revolt had boiled up for a ft week behind the scenes of the World Wide Scout Jamboree in France in 1947.

He was active Station, and attached to A four-power meeting at the foreign ministers level, as suggested by the West, might increase instead of reduce international tension, Khrushchev declared. Khrushchev conceded that the Winter meeting of the AFLCIO Fighter Squadron 33. He and his in sports, served as an altar boy Executive Council here. It be tionaries is the Rev. Ramon Tala wife, the former Jane L.

Raby, St. Andrew Episcopal Church, vera, who says, "Some church Counsel Robert F. Kennedy of the Senate Rackets Investigating committee, announced two of the resided in nearby Lynnhaven, Va gan when Meany head of the old AFL at a Council meeting Plainfield, and as a Courier-News leaders might disapprove of what Their first child, John Raby Wil four powers could discuss preven little merchant." chided Reuther head of the old I am doing, but in fighting injus SETS IT STRAIGHT Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (left) adjusts Soviet badge on lapel of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan during stag dinner in British Embassy in Moscow last night (AP Wirephoto) liams, was born in August, 19o8. witnesses were being brought CIO for holding a session of the He became interested in a tice and tyranny I'm within God Lieutenant Williams wife is here from the state prison at Economic Policy Committee while with her parents in Pensacola tion of militarism in West and East Germany. But he then restated the Soviet thesis that reunification should be settled only by the Germans themselves.

Joliet, 111., where they are serv Navy career while attending North Plainfield High School principles. Was Expelled the federation president was de Her husband had expected to be layed in Washington by a cold Graduating in 1950, he matric overseas six months. The 35-year-old priest came to ulated in Columbian Preparatory Lieutenant Williams was an The premier also repeated the Proxmire on Own Meany was reported angry at Reuther's unemployment march Uruguay last November after being expelled for preaching openly School in Washington and at the ing sentences. He named them as James Rini and Alex Ross, both of Chicago. He said Ross is serving time for destruction of seven jukeboxes.

only child. In addition to his parents, his widow and his son, Soviet proposal for a conference of heads of government of all those nations that wased war same time joined the Navy Reserve to qualify for appointment he is survived by his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Catherine to Annapolis. Kennedy did not further iden Against Johnson He entered the Naval Academy tify another witness whom he project. Reuther, the Economic Committee chairman, retorted that Meaney had never attended Economic Policy meetings.

Anyway, the red-headed Auto Workers Union chief said, as chairman he should have a relatively free hand at mapping Reinhold of Spnngdale. Memorial services for Lieutenant Williams were in Protes in July, 1951, and was an All against Stroessner's strongman rule. Proclaiming a "National Liberation Front," he has appealed to other refugee Paraguayans here and in Argentina to join his crusade against the 44-year-old dictator. Father Talavera, son of a wealthy rancher, says his revolt named only as Carl J. Burkhardt of Cincinnati.

America lacrosse player and re against Hitler in World War 2 to work out a treaty with Germany. Proposal Rejected The Western powers rejected this proposal in their recent notes calling for a four-power meeting on Germany at the foreign minister level. 4 Khrushchev warned that any Washington (P) A campaign by Senator "William to clip the authority of Democratic leader He said Charles English, head cipient of the Jack Turnbull Trophy. He was graduated in June, tant and Catholic chapels in the Oceana Naval Air Station yester of the Lormar Distributing Com 1955, with a bachelor of science day. Lyndon B.

Johnson of Texas remained a one-man effort todav. economic policy, at least in the was born while serving as a chaplain in a Paraguayan jail where No other senator publicly backed Proxmire's demand in the Senate yesterday for revival of party caucuses to direct committee stage. Reuther said if he couldn't run the Economic Committee, he might as well quit the post. Presses violation of the East German borders in the dispute over West Ber pany of Chicago, also would be quizzed about testimony last week that this firm was involved in a mobster scheme to flood the Midwest with jukebox records bearing counterfeit labels. Kennedy said testimony also would deal with game machines, such as bowling devices, as well and control the party leaders.

He said Johnson is exercising lin would be considered an act of aggression against the Warsaw Pact powers. Reuther was backed in the ar gument by James D. Carey, No the voters of Texas. Service Cut Plea 2 man in the federation's CIO Referring to his talks with Mac faction. The meeting got so hot that Meany ordered Carey to N.

J. Lottery Bill Eyed Newark (IP) The Lackawanna Railroad goes before the Proxmire, who himself once praised Johnson as the second most powerful man in government, said he will discuss "in a later speech the implications of Johnson's leadership "and the power it has generated." millan Khrushchev said: 'iWe would be sincerely happy if Macmillan would help to remove differences between the Soviet Union and Britain and thus leave, his and take one at the foot of the Executive Council table, something the scrappy Public Utility Commission today to ask for permission to as violence in the jukebox rackets. i The -ewnmittee resumes hear-, ings with Senator Karl E. Mundt its new vice chairman, demanding an early showdown among the Committee's members drop 40 suburban passenger trains. The reason for the re Carey refused to do.

reduce international tension. quest is one now familiar to railroad officials and riders alike the line claims it loses too much money carrvinsr pas- Showdown Session Held Privately Voiced Complaints political prisoners were kept. The Stroessner government has accused the priest of Communist leanings but he insists: "I'm not a Communist. I'm a Christian as are most of the Paraguayan people. In our Christian hearts, there is no place for an atheist doctrine like communism." Stroessner, son of a German settler and a Paraguayan mother, rose to power five years ago at the head of a military coup.

Some regarded him at first a front man for the army but he has consolidated his position. Lives Ruled The lives of his subjects overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Mestizos of mixed Spanish and Guar-ani Indian stock are sealed off from the outside world by a veiled censorship. Newsmen who send out dispatches the government "The Soviet Union is prepared Meany, Reuther and other high Trenton (IP) People are going to gamble, says Assemblyman William V. Musto, so the state might just as well run a lottery Behind the scenes there were sengers. on what new laws were needed to -deal with racketeering in the labor relations field.

federation officials failed to re Most of the trains involved do solve the conflict at two secret to conclude not only an agreement on trade and cultural relations with Great Britain, but also a pact of friendship and nonag- Campy's Son and take some off the He said a bill by two members, other Democrats who obviously agreed with Proxmire that they have surrendered to Johnson sweeping authority never before so concentrated in a party chief breakfast meetings during the week. Some union leaders feared not run during hours commuters usually travel. They include 16 The Assembly Public Safety gression. In Youth Row Senators John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Sam J.

Ervin Jr. wasn't tough enough, and Committee headed by Frank E. Meloni (D-Camden) today held a the Lackawanna wants to discon a blowup of the four-year-old merged labor organization. 'A Long-term Pact Offered tain. But these Democrats con This nonagression pact, he said.

that the Committee should pro showdown session was held last New York (IP) The 15-year-old tinue on the Morristown line, 14 on the Gladstone branch, six on fined themselves to privately voiced complaints and avoided pose some amendments to it night. son of former Dodger catcher Roy could be for a term of 20 years, but if that was not long enough, then for 50 years. The Senate Labor subcommittee Meany declined to comment the Boonton line and four on the afterward. Reuther, with what Montclair branch. has approved the Kennedy-Ervin measure, and it awaits action by Campanella and 17 other youths were arrested yesterday after a gang fight.

While Khrushchev was speak appeared to be diplomatic approach told newsmen: "Nobody 4 Million Loss the full Labor committee. public airing of their views. Proxmire himself said in an interview he had been told by some other senators they were in sympathy with his views. But he said he wouldn't name them publicly "because of the putting your head ing in the Kremlin, the visiting British Prime Minister was sight public hearing to see what others think about Musto's idea. The Hudson Democrat proposes asking the voters Nov.

3 to change the state constitution and allow New Jersey to run a lottery. The proceeds could go only-for a veterans bonus, state highways, school aid or state institutions. Musto has been trying to get such a lottery for years but has doesn't like know they will be ever talked about busting up any The Lackawanna claims it had David Campanella was charged Congress passed no major labor bill last year. seeing. thing there are understandings a net loss of $3,934,319 last year.

with juvenile delinquency. now on things where there were Macmillan called off a hunting Police said he was a leader of misunderstandings before." on the chopping block aspect." And figures it released yesterday on January operations did not indicate this would be a brighter In another important develop He said he hadn discussed his a gang called "The Chaplains," who challenged another gang to a fight over "rights" to hang called in and possibly expelled. Stroessner dislikes being called a dictator. Outwardly he acts the role of president, dresses mostly in white linen suits and only occasionally dons his general's uniform. Moving quietly about, he has an escort of only half a dozen policemen.

ment, the Executive Council au trip scheduled for tomorrow, and instead planned a full day of informal talk with the Soviet premier at the British Embassy's villa outside Moscow. year. thorized Meany to challenge speech in advance with Democratic colleagues because "I felt it wouldn't be fair to involve them around a bowling alley in Flush had no luck so far. Teamster chief James Hoffa by ing, Queens. in something that might make dif chartering a truck-drivers loca.

The sightseeing today was with They show gross revenues of $6,031,822 for January, 1959, compared to $6,500,304 for January, 1958 a drop of $468,482. Police said the gangs arranged in Puerto Rico. ficulties for them with the leadership." Radio Pickup Spurs Search Littleton, N. H. (IP) A faint radio message today gave searchers hope that two doctors missing in their apparently wrecked plane still are alive somewhere in the rugged, snow-covered White Mountains area.

As a result of the radio pickup, ground and air search teams to a purpose, a motor trip 90 miles northeast of Moscow to look over the world's largest atom smasher to meet yesterday, with three from each side to fight to settle One thing which hurts, the the issue. No weapons were in the synchotron at Lackawanna claims, is a Post Of Many Sight New Polaris Snout Tested fice decision to use trucks instead the atomic research institute in Dubna. Police spotted a crowd of about In a statement with his bill, Musto points out that the state gains 22 millions by allowing bets on horse races at tracks, and civic and charitable organizations net another 23 million on legalized bingo and raffles. He said a lottery in Puerto Rico brings in $90,000 a week. The Rev.

Samuel A. Jeanes, general secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance of New Jersey and chairman of the Legislative Committee of the New Jersey Council Among the chief researchers at of trains in suburban areas. It says this will mean an annual loss of $370,000 in revenue. Those Opposed Flaming Ball East Lansing, Mich. (IP) A the" institute is Italian-born scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, who 30 boys in a vacant lot and investigated.

The six who were fighting, including Campanella, were taken in along with 12 Washington (IP) A successf test of a new movable nozzle for day concentrated their hunt for slipped out of England in Octo the Polaris missile was reported Among those slated to omose others. Dr. Ralph E. Miller, 60, an4 Dr. Robert S.

Quinn, 32, in the eight- today. ber, 19o0, to work in the Soviet Union. He and Macmillan were not expected to meet. flaming bluish green object streaked over Michigan about 6:30 a. m.

today. the move to drop 40 trains is the newly formed Morris Countv Rail mile area between Mt. Agassiz The Washington Post quoted and Franconia Notch. road Transportation Association. Navy officials as calling it "a ma of Churches, opposed a state lot State troopers in both Lower or technological breakthrough Dr.

Karl Steady, 55, a Laconia osteopathic physician and mem tery. Teen Rumble Woman Hurt As Car Tips It was organized Jan. 16 and named Thomas Taber, mayor of Madison, as chairman. and Upper Michigan sighted it traveling from east to west. Radio that will improve the performance and reliability not only of the ber of the Civil Air Patrol, re ported he received fragments of Polaris, but also of the Minute The Association has called on stations had calls from excited citizens who also saw the object.

Two operators in the control In this connection, one Democratic critic of Proxmire who did not want his name used, quipped that the Wisconsin senator had picked Washington's birthday to "make his farewell address." Expected to Bend Backwards Senators most familiar with Johnson's operations said, however, they expected the majority leader to bend over backwards in public efforts to demonstrate he is being fair to Proxmire and others who may view his leadership as something less than fully satisfactory to them. Johnson himself was in Texas, confined to his home with influenza. Aides said it was not likely he would have, any public comment. But Johnson wss defended by Senator Richard L. Neuberger like Proxmire a member of the liberal bloc, and Senator Mike Mansfield the assistant leader.

Senator Everett Dirksen the GOP leader, joining the debate to praise Johnson as an able and dedicated American, took occasion to note that Republican In a statement prepared for presentation to the Committee, the clergyman asked what happens to $280,000,000 that goes into pari-mutuel machines each year, a wireless signal yesterday which man intercontinental range mis Ends in Deatfi New York (IP) A feud between 1 the state Legislature to prohibit Bernards Township One wom read: "Agass Notch sile now under development. Both the PUC from approving any re- tower of the Grand Rapids Air an was injured in the first of two Mt. Aggasiz, some 2,000 feet are powered with solid fuel. adding: high, is a short way east of Lit accidents early this morning on auction in commuter rail travel until the Legislature solves the metropolitan transit problem. port in Western Michigan said they believed it was a meteorite.

The operators, John Moore and tleton's abandoned Lewis Airport "For most people this involves two teen-age gangs erupted in violence in the crowded Brooklyn theater district last night, leaving one boy shot to death and another wounded. The new nozzle is made of molybdenum, which is known for its heat resisting qualities. This characteristic is important in the Lyons about a mile northeast of Liberty Corner. money spend in 'nothing for some It also wants Congress to "bar Robert Boylan, said the object near where a 19-year-old girl re portedly heard a low-flying air plane Saturday. the Interstate Commerce Commis Mrs.

Elizabeth Zimmerman of It could have been exchanged for food, clothing, homes, automobiles, medical and dental missile nozzle, where the intense sion from granting anv reductions Four boys were captured after Rockaway was treated by a physi Drs. Miller and Quinn disap also was sighted at airport control towers in Chicago and Madison, Wis. "It was a dandy," Moore and heat of combustion blasts forth denied by the PUC and the Post cian for cuts on her face and for peared Saturday while on a 70- Office Department to restore mail By altering the direction of the a five-block chase. They were charged with homicide early today. Dead was Tony Labanchino, internal chest injuries, police said mile mercy flight between Berlin care, or even education which is one of the excuses of this proposal before us today.

These tracks contracts. Boylan agreed. "The best meteor She was thrown out of the car and Lebanon. They were return escaping hot gases, the movable nozzle can control the steering ing from Berlin where they had ite we ever saw. It must have been a good sized one because it looked she was driving when it left the road about 7:20 a.m.

and rolled and stability of the missile. gone to treat a heart patient. The Post said the development over, police said. were established after a referendum and constitutional amendment which would place them in a quasi-public category. The people have a right to know where Windy Weather Expected to Stay like it was just northwest of Grand Rapids going from east to west.

It was shooting off sparks also opens the way to use of more In the other accident cars driv powerful solid propellent missiles senators meet each week for brief Brazil Approves Mrs. Luce as Envoy- before it appeared to disinte in future developments. Clear, seasonably cold and the money goes. en by Mrs. Albert Smith of 67 Woodstone Basking Ridge, and Mrs.

E. E. Darley of Spruce ings on legislative plans. Johnson, who heads the Demo windy weather will hold through i. jonn Lombardi, also 17, was shot in the hand.

The four youths arrested were Carl Cintron, 16; Carlos Reyes, 17; Melvin Torres, 16; and Israel Marvoz, 17. Police said that Labanchino, Lombardi and an unidentified boy with them were members of the "Sands St. Angels." Surrounded by five youths, members of a rival gang, "The Mau Maus," they engaged in a brawl, police said. Suddenly one Rio de Janeiro (IP) Brazil is grate." The sky was clear just before cratic Steering and Policy Com-i not only getting a woman ambas 5 Break-Ins Laid Lane. Farm, Liberty Corner, col lided about 8:20 a.m.

dawn and observers got a good Two Satisfactory sador, she is sending out one of her own. in look at the object. Radio Station WHGR in Hough No summons was issued either accident. Alter. Collision To N.

J. Patrolman tonight and tomorrow afternoon, according to Mrs. Vivian Scherer, co-operative' weather observer. Tonight's low will be in the 20s and tomorrow afternoon's high in the 40s, she said. Yesterday's high was 36, the mittees as well as serving as majority leader, has called only two Democratic caucuses in two years.

At each, Proxmire said, the leader delivered a state-of-the-union message and no business was President Juscelino Kubitschek has approved the nomination of Two area men who were taken ton Lake in North Central Lower Michigan received a call from a Odete de Carvalho Souza, a to Elizabeth General Hospital man at nearby Roscommon who career diplomat as envoy to Negro in Orchestra, Georgia U. Cancels said, "it scared hell out of me. overnight low 33. of the Mau Maus police said it was Cintron pulled a 22 caliber pistol and fired four times. Sunday after receiving injuries in a auto collision in Union were reported in satisfactory condition last night.

Athens, Ga. (IP) A March 4 On the Inside jazz concert featuring Dave Bru 2-Year-Olcl Needs His 5 Cigarets a Bay beck's orchestra has been can 2.3 Students Unhurt Thomas Story, 23, of 122 Stella required 75 stitches to close celed because the bass player is a Negro, president Stuart Foods As Bus Flips Over facial cuts. He was a passenger of the sponsoring University of Ramsey (JP) Twenty-three in a car driven by William Law-ler, 26, of Warren Township, Georgia Jazz Society said last Don Bosco High School students which was involved in the acci-; escaped injury last night when night. Woods, a senior from Man Millburn (IP) Patrolman John Marzak, 23, a former high school sports standout, was suspended from the force last night and charged with five breaks and entries that had occurred on his beat. Marzak, arraigned before Magistrate Milton Freiman, denied the charges.

He was released in $4,500 bail for a hearing Saturday. Authorities alleged that Marzak entered a barber shop, service station, restaurant, beauty parlor and market. Police Chief Frank Stoeckel said he became suspicious when Marzak didn't report anything unusual from his beat, where most of the enterings took place. I dent in Route 22. I the bus they were in flipped over Chester, said the society toon Route 17 here.

Both men were admitted Births 6 Dr. Bundesen 8 Classified Ads 19-20-21 Comics 18-20 Coming Events 6 Editorials, Letters 14 Ann Landers 8 Obituaries 22 AngeloPatri 8 Social News 6 Sports 16-17 Stock Market 22 Television, Radio 9 Theaters 17 Women's Features 8 thing. But it was no go. "Once I tried giving him raw tobacco, thinking the taste might break him of the habit." And what happened? "It had no effect," Mrs. Smith said.

Lawrence doesn't light the cigarets he smokes. That's a job for either his mother or the baby sitter. Lawrence is careful with the ashes. He even carries an ash tray in his tricycle. Peoria, III.

(IP) A 2-year-old Peoria boy about a month ago picked up a lighted cigaret and smoked it. He obviously liked something about it and the next day he wanted another. He got it. Now the little tot, Lawrence Smith, smokes five cigarets a day. His mother, Mrs.

Lawrence Smith, says she is worried because she can't seem to break him of the habit. "I've tried," Mrs. Smith said. learned only yesterday that one of the performers for the concert "But Lawrence cries and cries until he gets his cigaret. He wants his 'moke'." Mrs.

Smith, a divorcee who works as a waitress, said she was going to take her son to a doctor to try and find out why he liked to smoke cigarets. Mrs. Smith, who said she didn't smoke, added she believed Lawrence picked up the habit from the baby sitter she employs for the little fellow. The mother tried to substitute candy cigarets for the real 4 was a Negro. When notified of this, university officials decreed that the group, one of the top The students had attended a basketball game against West-wood High in Fair Lawn and were returning home when the vehicle hit an ice patch, slammed against the curb and turned over.

The driver was Charles Verville of Ramsey, who alsowas uninjured. the hospital with chest and knee injuries. Thomas Courell, 22, of Lodi, driver of the other car, was examined in the hospital. The accident occurred in the eastbound lane of the highway near the Flagship at 4:25 a.m. 1 jazz bands in the country, could not perform on the university! campus.

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