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umm Tonight: Showers Tomorrow: Cloudy, cooler, showers METRO Serving Central New Jersey Monday, July 3, 1972 Ham Dtlivr4 1 7Scprrak 1JW 32 Pages A Gannett Newspaper Phone 722-8800 Sun shines, cars crawl I I ci i "TT. one point a dozen or more cars stood idle with then-frustrated passengers nearby. Those motorists might have been heading for some of the picnic areas where crowds were unusually small for the warm weather. At Barnegat Light State Park there were thousands of parking spaces and there was room for a lot more cars at Island Beach State Park and Ringwood Manor State Park. may be short lived.

It was all good weather, though, as the second day of the July 4th holiday found many thousands seeking the sun that hid for most of June. In Atlantic City there were 133,000 and in Asbury Park 125,000, which equalled a record set there in 1962. Those who never got to the shore could probably be found at mountain resorts or on the highways. It was estimated By The Associated Press More than 500,000 sun-worshippers jammed New Jersey beaches Sunday to take advantage of the first warm weather weekend since the summer started. By midday the beach patrols in Asbury Park and Atlantic City reported crowds of approaching record proportions, but they kept coming, possibly after hearing that the good weather that 3.5 million cars would use the Garden State Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike over the four-day holiday and to some motorists it may have seemed all the cars were on the road at once.

Overheated cars were a common sight and often caused tieups. One area where they were particularly concentrated appeared to be the Raritan Toll Plaza of the Garden State Parkway. At .1.1 1 N- fear -j r. Knife-wielding hijacker shot to death on airliner Photo by Ed Schueti William Supple, 38, of Lebanon was pronounced dead at Hunterdon Medical Center Saturday night after his truck nit a bridge abutment on Route 22 near Route 78 in Annandale. It was the sixth fatal accident at that location in, three years according to Clinton Police Chief William Brown.

Lebanon driver killed in abutment collision The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed stewardess May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi. The hijacker, in the rear passenger compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scottsdale, over the intercom. "I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told him.

"Your bombers are maiming and killing our people In the first half of the four-day holiday weekend, police reported one highway fatality in Central Jersey. There were six other traffic fatalities in the state and 368 in the nation. Clinton police said a 38-year-old Lebanon resident was killed in Annandale when his truck struck a bridge abutment at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday. William J.

Supple of 3 Old Route 28, Lebanon, was pronounced dead on arrival at 9 arrested in arms plot as an electrician by the Diling Electric Co. of Lebanon. He was a member of the Electrical Union, Somerville, and the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, Whitehouse. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Violet Coyle Supple; two sons, William J.

Jr. and Sean two daughters, Miss Bridgette Supple and Miss Meghan Supple, all at home; a brother, Jeremiah M. Supple Jr. of Grand Rapids, Mich, and his parents, Mrr. and Mrs.

York. Arrangements are by the Robert B. Hauck Funeral Home, Whitehouse.f In Bound Brook, a car was gutted by fire after an accident according to police. The car, driven by Michael Darling, 24, of 141 Vosseller Bound Brook, had run out of gas on Talmadge Avenue near Romney Road. The owner of the car, Helen Page of 230 S.

Fifth Man-ville, was refueling the car when Darling got out of the car, opening the door into oncoming Continued on Page A-8 Chess play delayed of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam. You are going to fly me to Hanoi and this airplane will be destroyed when we get there." Vaughn kept up the conversation, telling the hijacker the jet would have to be refueled and contact made with North Vietnam in order to cross the demilitarized zone. Meanwhile the first officer landed the jet at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport where it was ringed by troops and ambulances. Vaughn went to the rear compartment where the hilacker told him to halt and added, "You have deceived me." Gallinghouse refused to say precisely that the overthrow plot involved Cuba, but he said the complaint and his statement Sunday were "self-explanatory." The nine were charged with conspiring to smuggle the explosives from the United States to Mexico for future shipment to a third country. Federal officials said that Kessler was held Sunday in the federal prison annex in New Orleans in lieu of $100,000 bond and that Seal was held under $50,000 bond.

They were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport Saturday. The federal complaint alleges Kessler agreed last Wednesday to sell to Diaz 13,500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 7,000 feet of primacord, 2,600 electrical blasting caps and 25 electrical detonators for $430,000. In addition, it alleges that another $35,000 was to be paid for flying the explosives to an Vaughn said he asked to come closer because the language problem made it difficult to understand the Vietnamese. "This seemed to disarm him mentally and I saw my chance," the pilot said. "I jumped him.

I grabbed the arm that was holding the bomb and it flew onto the floor. I spun him around and got an arm lock on him. He was flailing with a knife in his other hand but all it got was a bit of my laundry. I had incredible strength. I could feel his neck collapsing under my arm.

Two passengers made flying tackles and we all went down on the floor." airfield near Vera Cruz, Mexico. Federal officials said, however, that no money changed hands. They said the primacord, caps and detonators also were seized in the airplane. Today's Index A SECTION Editorial SECTION Family, features Television Entertainment SECTION Classified SECTION Sports Obits, weather Comics, bridge Stocks, money A 6-7 1-8 B6 B7 C4-7 1-4 DS D6 D7-8 NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -A plot U.S.

officials say was aimed at overthrowing a foreign country apparently Communist Cuba has been revealed in the arrest of nine persons in a $465,000 munitions smuggling scheme. Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas and Mexico, the plot came to light with the arrests Saturday. In addition, nearly seven tons of plastic explosives were seized in a DC4 transport plane at Shreveport, federal agents said. U.S. Atty.

Gerald Gallinghouse said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to believe that the munitions were destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two of the men, Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Adler B. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this material would be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship series until tomorrow after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend. The American champion was believed still in New York. Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun yesterday, and the president of the world federation, Dr. Max Euwe, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon tomorrow he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title.

Fischer's representatives in Iceland requested the postponement on the grounds that he was unable to play because of fatigue. But it was generally assumed that the request was part of Fischer's campaign to SAIGON (AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U. S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger yesterday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.

S. government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion. Several persons suffered minor scratches or bruises and one passenger, a U.

S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, broke his leg. To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil.

The Courier-News will not publish tomorrow Independence Day. dries after flood in Wilkes Hunterdon Medical Center after his truck hit the Route 78 overpass abutment while he was driving on Route 22. Clinton Police Chief William Brown said appearently Supple lost control of the truck before the collision. He added that Supple's death was the sixth traffic fatality at the overpass in three years. Supple was born in New York and had been a veteran of the Korean war.

He was employed get more money out of the Icelanders. Fischer and Spassky have agreed to split a $125,000 purse, with the winner taking five-eighths, and are also to each get 30 per cent of the sale of film and television rights. But Fischer is seeking an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts, and his representatives have been negotiating this point with sponsors of the match, the Icelandic Chess Federation. Nixon's steak LOS ANGELES (AP) -President Nixon got a firsthand demonstration about a topic on the minds of many Americans the past few days: the rising prices of beef. The President flew from the Western White House at San Clemente yesterday for Elderly woman rinses beefed up dinner at Chasen's, one of his favorite restaurants here.

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