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should be a cutofi date agreed on between the candidates beyond which neither would mention religion. Kennedy Agrees Kennedy swiftly agreed. Campaigning in California, the Democratic nominee said. "I wish we could cut off debate on this subject. I think we'd all be better off.

Nixon's TV appearance came on the eve of the official launching of his presidential campaign. Republican leaders, led by President Eisenhower, are planning a giant rally Monday morning at Baltimore's Friendiship airport to see Nixon off on a sweep through states. Kennedy wound up an intensive speaking tour of the west coast Sunday with a charge that the Republicans are endangering national security by not supplying jobs for skilled defense workers. He said when these men cannot find work they drift on into-other jobs. When this happens.

Kennedy said, "our national security is the loser." The Democratic presidential nominee spoke in the defense-minded city of San Diego, just before preparing to plunge deep into the heart of and (Continued on Page Two) OFFICIAL WEATHER NITTY along with and clearing late today, will little change in temperature, higl in the Ms. Outlook for Tuesday partly cloudy and milder. TEMPERATURE Highest yesterday 62 Lowest yesteraay Highest year ago yesterday Lowest year ago yesterday PRECIPITATION Vulnto For Month Barometer (8 p.m. reading) 29-92 Humidity (8 p.m. reading) 94 THE TIDE Today Tomorrow High 5:55 11:12 a.m.

Low 11:54 p.m. ALMANAC 12 The Bridgeport Telegram Weather Forecast GALES, RAIN TODAY TUESDAY CLOUDY. MILD Fairfield County's Morning Newspaper VOL LXIX, NO. 219 BRIDGEPORT 2, MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, i960 20 Pages A Kiss for the Senator Gale Winds Predicted Here Today, As Hurricane Races Up the Coast Sea. laha Kennedy leans Into the auto at Los Anteles 3 DRUG SUSPECTS NABBED BY COPS Heroin Found in Car During Search for Powers Slaying Weapon Three men were arrested as suspects in narcotics violations at 2 a.m.

Sunday by detectives assigned to a search for suspects in the Saturday killing of Thomas Powers, 33, of 804 Lafayette street. Held on breach of the peace charges pending further investi gation are Clarence Love, 24, of 17 Godwin street; Carl Calandro, 22, of Trumbull avenue; and Walter Day, 29, High street. All Capt. Joseph A. Walsh said a car owned by Calandro had been seen in the South End the morning of the mugging attack on Powers.

Detectives spotted the car' Sunday morning parked in front of 99 High street and searched it for possible weapons. Capt. Walsh said that he and detectives came across nine packages of suspected heroin neatly wrapped in cellophane and hidden in an inner ledge of the ir door. The plainclothesman remained hidden the area and nabbed Cal andro when he returned to the auto and started to drive off. was placed under arrest and lodged in a cell at the station.

During questioning Cala'hdro ad- itted that Love and Day had been with him earlier and they too were taken into custody. Capt. Walsh said they wen quizzed in regards to the slay ing of Powers but appear to have I had no part in the attack of the foundry worker. In addition to Capt. Walsh the others acting the arrests in cluded Sgt.

Willard Stevane and Detectives James Kerwin, John Connolly. Anthony Fabriizi, and Charles Kinsman. Features for Everybody In Telegram Every Day Page Angelo Patn Classified Ads 13-19 Comics Constantine Brown Crossword Puzzle Dr. Bundesen Editorials Fashions Jacoby on Bridge Obituaries Radio and TV Sports 'tw fiftv-sixth day of Svlvia Porter the year. Eighty-fourth day Theater New.

4 siimmBr Sun rises at. 6:29 a.m. and sets at 7:07 p.m. I News 9 aW-i farewell kiss from bis little niece, four-year-old Sydney Lawford, Sydney's S-year-oid brother, Christopher. Both are children of actor Patricia.

Mrs. Lawford Is a sister of Kennedy. Airport yesterday for a right In the background is Peter Lawford and his wife Nixon, Kennedy Ask End POWERS TRACED To Debate on Religion TQ RESTAURANT Br THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Both candidiates called Sunday night for an end to debate on the religious question. Vice President Richard M. Nixon said it first.

The Republican nominee said while he didn't feel it should be an issue "everything I say or do publicly in itself raises the issue "of Sen. John F. Kennedy's Roman Catholic faith. Nixon, making his first public appearance after an 11-day hospital stayed for an infected knee. Slaying Victim Seen There on Evening of Fatal Beating Detectives have traced the movements of Thomas Powers, 33, of 804 Lafayette street, to a State street restaurant, authorities said last night.

Powers, the father of two children died Saturday evening in Park City hospital of severe head injuries received when struck by a blunt instrument near his home. Capt. Joseph A. Walsh, commander of the Detective division, who personally is directing the hunt for the killer, said Powers was last seen on Saturday in a restaurant on State street, near Seeley street. Half a dozen detectives assign ee, to tne case nave Exactly how long Powers lay on the sidewalk bleeding and what was used to club him have police puzzled.

Adding to the mystery was the discovery near the body of a pair of sneakers the victim had been earing. They were still laced. Powers died in the hospital from what Capt. Walsh described as vicious blows on the head. His skull was fractured in several places.

The victim's pockets had been rned inside out and a folder containing a pawn ticket and a 1956 membership card to the Trumbull K. of C. was found nearby. HURT IN CRASH OF POLICE CAR Policeman, Woman in Oth er Auto Hurt at James, Chestnut Streets Two persons including a police sergeant enroute to an auto accident were injured when the pa- car in wmcn ne was riding collided with a car at Chestnut and James street, at 7 o'clock last night. Sgt.

John Lynch, of Headquar ters precinct was shaken up and complained of injuries to his back and right side of the body. He was taken to St. Vincent's hospital in a second patrol car. Also injured was Mrs. Margeurite Roberts, 23, of 452 Pequon nock street, a passenger in the car driven oy tier husband, nest Roberts 27.

She received scaln injuries and taken to the hospital in the City Investigating Patrolman James McNally said Sgt. Lynch was riding in a car driven by Policeman Anthony Pellegrino, 18, of 370 Huntington road, which was pro- (Coadaoed oa Page Two) UN GUNS BALK LUMUMBA'S TRY TO SEIZEJIAOIO Ousted Premier Retreats, His Soldiers Surrender Rifles TRUCE BID PUSHED UN Team Leaves to En force 'Cease-Fire' in Katanga, Kasai LEOPOLDVfLLE, The Congo. Sept. 11 (AP) A show of United Nations machine guns thwarted an attempt by Patrice Lum umba to seize the Leopoldville idio. Blue-helmeted Ghana troops nk positions in foxholes duu around the radio station building as Lumumba, the deposed Congolese Premier, led about 20 armed toward it.

led you here to help," shouted to Ghana Lt. George Short, an Englishman. Threatens to Fire will fire if you don't leave," Short replied calmly. I "Excellency, don't risk your life," screamed Serge Michel, Lu- press advisor who was sen! to the Congo by the Algerian National Liberation Front. As Lumumba turned around, a half dozen bewildered Congolese grinning Ghanians.

their rifles to meir arms were returned later and sullen-faced, they drove off truck, after staring at the Ghanians for about half an hour. Gen. Victor Lundula, the who is supposed to com-and "the Congolese national ar my," watched the incident, biting! his lips. Later he drove otf in an official car flying the blue Congo standard. (In Brussels, meanwhile, the Belgian radio reported that Abbe Fulbert Youlou, president of the Republic of the Congo, tonight barred a Lumumba delegation from going to Brazzaville airport way to a UN Security Council session in New York.

The radio said the delegation headed; by Thomas Kanza, Minister dele gate to the UN in Lumumba's government, was told to return to Leopoldville. An official delegation representing President Joseph Kasavubu earlier was permit- go tnrougn Brazzaville on its way to UN headquarters in New York, the radio said. Brazzaville is in the former French Con- across the Congo river from Leopoldville. The Security Council is to resume its session on the Congo situation Monday after- Angered by Seizure One of Lumumba's prime points I ftt the United Nations has been the UN seizure of Leopold-ville's radio station. He urgently ants it back so he can talk to; the Congolese people and exercise his persuasive brand of oratory.

For two days Lumumba nas; been threatening to seize control i of the station closed by the Uni ted Nations last Tuesday to pre-! vent inflammatory statements. Last night Michel told news-en "you will see what the Con golese army can do." He also, promised that "the airport will be! ours. He said unitea Aran public paratroopers guarding! sprawling Ndjih airport with us all the way." Earlier, a UN military team (Continued on Page Two) amusement park and said they had recovered half the loot including some $3,000 in soggy bills dredged from a tropical; fish i The prison record of a former Freedomland employe, and his anger when he discovered he had been cheated In the division the loot, led to the arrests of three men early today. The trio, who allegedly admit ted plotting and carrying out the holdup, are Richard Hegenauer, 25, Caesar Olivo, 36, and Anthony Esposito, 25, all of the Bronx. The cash control center of AF PLANE MISSING WITH EIGHT ABOARD Before nightfall, two search west of Denver.

There A helicopter from Lowry Air Force bast here attempted to reach the scene, but was forced to land at Empire, because of approaching darkness and the ragged terrain. State patrolmen picked up the four-man helicopter crew and were attempting to reach the crash scene oa foot. PACT SEEN NEAR IN PRRSTRIKE Union Official Says Settlement May Be Reached Today PHILADELPHIA, Sept. (AP) A union official said tonight that he thought there would be! a settlement of the Il-day-old Pennsylvania Railroad strike be-, fore the night was over. A company spokesman would only say that such top officials as James Symes.

Board Chairman, were standing'by in case' the two negotiating teams reach ed an agreement in their first ma jor talks since the strike began. "I think so," said Frank Shee-han, Director of Organizations for the Transport Workers union, when reporters asked him if he thought a settlement would be reached during the night. Shortly after Sheehan's statement, Michael J. Quill, President of the TWU. walked jauntily into the lobby of the hc-tel where the joint session was being held.

He parried the questions of newsmen concerning the imminence of a settlement. He appeared to be in a jovial mood. Not once did he as he has said so often in the last 11 that no progress has been made. Negotiations Vigorous "I have been told the negotiations are going full blast," Quill said, as he boarded an elevator to go to the bargaining room. He was surrounded by associates.

The bargaining began at II a.m. in a hotel room and kept going into the night. Reporters stood by, waiting for a possible break in a strike that has shut down the nation's largest railroad for the first time in its 114-year history. Neither the company, the me-iators nor the two unions involved in the strike would comment on the talks or indicate whether any progress was being made. The session was interrupted an hour for lunch and 90 minutes for a union caucus.

During the luncheon recess Francis A. O'Neill, chairman of the National (Railway) Mediation board met with Guy Knight, Chief Company Negotiator, and two of the unions' lawyers, Asher Schwartz and James Highsaw. O'Neill arranged this session. As it began he commented, "I hope it will be a long one," indicative of some progress. Meanwhile, in New York, George Alpert, president of the (Continued on Page Two) 3 Men Seized, Half of Loot Found in Freedomland Holdup NEW YORK, Sept.

11 (AP) -Police today cracked the $28, 836 holdup of the Freedomland Bronx amusement park shaped roughly like the United States plays, was held up Aug. 27 three men with masks made of Investigators learned George Mitchell, a former car penter at tne park, was really Hegenauer, who had served time for burglary and receiving stol A 24-hour watch was' put on Hegenauer, and it. soon paid off. He read in the newspapers, police said, that the haul was more than $28,000, and he had receiv ed only $5,000. Outraged, went to see his companions crime.

Freedomland, a sprawling New! (Coadaued Two) HURRICANE RIPS COASTLINES OF THE CAMLINAS 115-Mile Winds, Torrent ial Rains Cause Widespread Damage TROOPS PATROL KEYS Donna Leaves Florida a Major Disaster Area; Loss Figures Soar MOREHEAD CITY. N.C., Sept. 11 Hurricane Donna, than 120 persons during its week-long journey of destruction, crashed into the U.S. mainland for a second time to- waves, smashed ashore again along this vacation coastline with a fury that threatened the east coast all the way to New England. Picks Up Speed Donna, having moved into the Atlantic after carving a path of death and destruction nearly the whole length of Florida, picked up both speed and intensity as she moved northeastward.

Torrential rains accompanied the storm. Streets in low areas were flooded even at low tide. lie wind tore at roofs, trees id power and communication vis. The weather bureau hoisted hurricane warnings all the way religious issues. ilong the coast to N.H., including Del- Bay and lower Chesa peake Bay.

Gale warnings and a hurricane watch were posted all the way to Eastport, Maine. Donna raced forward at 35 miles an hour and the weather bureau said she might pick up forward speed to 45 miles an hour during the night. The weather bureau warned of tides 5 to 7 feet above normal and urged persons living in low areas to seek shelter on high ground. Tornadoes spawned by Donna struck in Charleston and at other points along coastal Carolinas. First ueatn Donna had killed at least five people since she burst through the Florida keys last week.

The first Carolinas death was that ol John C. Flood, 41-year-old coast guards- was electrocuted at Wil mington when the radio antenna he was working on was blown a-gainst power lines by high winds. Some 75 miles southwest from Morehead City, the towns of Caro lina Beach, Kure Beach and Wrightsville Beach, evacuated to the force of the hurricane. Wrightsville Beach police report ed that winds were gusting up to 90 M.P.H. and at low tide, water already was spilling into a beach side street.

Power failures were common all and down the coast. Torrents of rain fell. The high winds car ned chunks of debris, but damage estimates were impossible to ar ve at until the storm passed. Violent tornadoes slugged Char leston and Garden City Beach in aouui Laroiina and commum ties in Bladen and Sampson Coun ty, N. some 60 miles inland Page Two) JOHNSON APPLAUDS WELCOME IN STATE STONEWALL.

Sent. 11 Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson told his neighbors in this cen tral Texas ranch country last nignt the nation must gua gainst division over sectional or "Nobody is going to divide us between regions or races or re ligions." he said in a sp climaxing the celebration Stonewall's centennial. The Democratic party's vice presidential candidate new from the campaign trail in New York and New England and ap peared jubilant over the recep tion he had received there.

"I want you to know those Boston Irish and those Connecticut Yankees gave this son of a federate a welcome like I have I never had before anywhere, "They're all looking forward to cut in Donna Skirting Coast Solid arrow shows path of Hurricane was located about IS miles east-southeast of Charleston, S.C., at i p.m. (EST). Open arrow Indicates path storm wiD follow la Its Here's Area-by-Area Survey Of Storm Damage londa MIAMI. Sept. 11 (AP) Gradual restoration of cations in hurricane-swept Florida! took place today.

Although contact was impossible with some communities, the following area- by-area roundup of storm damage; Press. mpnea oy tne Associateo Key Repairs to the city's; fresh water supply line trom im-ami were rushed. A 10-day supply was on hand. Power lines were down and telephone service to thel mainland was virtually out. Radio; was being used for emer gency messages.

Moaerate aam-age was done by winds. This fishing camp and tourist resort area virtually, wiped out as Donna's 150-mile an1 hour winds swept through. Eighty per cent of all buildings destroy ed or severely damaged. All house trailers not well sneiterea were destroyed. Navy crews from Key West, flew in today with fresh.

water, the island's only present source. Power lines down. Boats strewn about, some scattered ov-; er U. S. Highway 1.

A town oftic- ial estimated full rebuilding would take 10 years. Damage estimates varied, but were in the millions of dollars. Navy setting up small power generators. Tavernier Red Cross rushed in medical supplies and first aid Area was 80 Der cent evacuated Overseas highway blocked north DONNA TO PASS AREA BY NOON, FORECaSTSAYS Heavy Rain, High Tides Seen for N. E.

Coast; CD, Police Alerted PICKS UP SPEED City to Be in Fringe of Hurricane, According to Weatherman for Connecticut was issued by the V- S. Weather bureau at Windsor Locks last night, with gale forca winds predicted here by mid-morning. The entire New England coast was warned of strong winds, high tides and heavy rain, as Hurricane Donna sped north-ward at a greatly accelerated speed of 40 miles an hour. Police and Civil Defense personnel were on the alert, set for an all night watch to spot a flood threat that would necessitate evacuation of shorefront residents. Long northeasterly movement according to tne iwamt earner wnm minus seen Bureau which says Donna should be off Cape Hatteras early to- Whole gale winds, from 55 i day.

Hurricane warnings are in effect from Beaufort, S.C., 63 miles an hour, can be expec (underlined) northward along the North Carolina coast, and ed earlier, however, pi as far north as Portsmouth. N.H. tween 8 and 10 a.m. of here. Some looting reponeo.

Sanford Police Chief Roy Williams, resident here 40 years said "This was the worst blow ve seen." But solid building con struction credited with preventing or sreat loss. A nurnoer of roofs damagea, winaows orun on Page Two) UNION TO PRESS G-E FOR CUT IN WORK WEEK ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Sept. 11 (AP) The head of the Uni ted Electrical, Radio Machine Workers of America said tonight the union will press for a shorter work week in negotiations witti General Electric and Westing- Albert J. Fitzgerald, general) president of the maepenaent un ion, issued a statement on the eve of UE's 25th annual convention here. The union claims members, 60.000 of them working for General Electric and Westinghouse.

Fitzgerald said the best an swer to the challenge of auto- the CAR HITS TREES, DRIVER KILLED Branford Man's Death In creases Weekend Toll to 10 BRANFORD, Sept. ll-(AP)i A 48-year-year-old man was killed instantly today wl out of control on rain-; slick Route 1 and struck three1 trees The death of Charles R. Rees of 176 Shore drive in the Short Beach section of Branford brought the number of traffic deaths in Connecticut since midnight Friday to 10. The heavy toll yesterday in cluded two accidents which took three lives each and three others iat caused one death apiece. State Police Commissioner Leo J.

Mulcahy, calling it one of the. worst weekends in his recollec tion, said his department would, continue nightly spot checks of motorists. He said this was the best way to curb traffic accidents Mulcahy also urged New York state raise its minimum drink ing age, now 18, to Connecticut An elderly Windsor Locks man was killed instantly last night when struck by a car in Windsor Locks as he crossed N. Main street. The victim was identified as James Wright, 77.

Others injured fatally yester day were: Willie Graham, 30. of New Britain, and Clarence Davis, 29, and Woodrow Andetson, 42, both of Middletown, in a one-car crack-up on Route 72 in East Berlin. Amanda LaPointe, 2, of Hart ford, thrown from a car driven by her mother when it collided with another at West Hartford intersection Truman A. Evatt, 46, of Greenville, S. whose car crashed into a tree by Route 138 in Gris- wokt.

John Yuhas of West Avon. Louis Delbone of Avon and James Durkln Jr of Canton, all 19 victims of a Senator Kennedy's visit to Texssl "It would be the best move for early yesterday morning on Route I and how we treat him." the national economy," ha 44 in Salisbury. Bridgeport, the Weather bur-tu pointed out. will be in the fringe area of the hurricane and not subject to the full 115 mile an hour winds with which it has struck other sections. A steady rain began to fall shortly after o'clock last night rise by 6 a.m.

Today's hieh tides will be at 4:58 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. This should reduce the danger of too early and the other too late to coincide with the storm's peak in mid-morning. Tides three to five feet above irmal were forecast, somewhat higher in bays and inlets most susceptible to tides accompanying northeast to east gales. Fairfield police said last night they would order a siren sounded if the flood danger appeared ser- nougn to require evacuation.

Stratford police also said they nave men at the Deacn through the night, ready to warn residents if the tide threatened. In Milford, Mayor Charles Iovino called a meeting at 1 a.m. today of key personnel in the Police and Fire departments and Civil Defense leaders to map a course of action in the event of a hard-hitting storm. the New Haven area the Civil Defense director put out a call for ham radio operators affiliated with CD to stand by. In nearby Old Saybrook, police went door-to-door awakening residents shoreline cottages to warn them of the approaching strong winds and high tides.

State Police cancelled day leave for all troopers, and began rounding up State Police auxiliaries. me hurricane warning ior new England extended as far as Portsmouth. N.H., with a gale warning from there northward to Eastport, Me. WAY FOUND TO END JET VAPOR TRAILS WASHINGTON. Sept.

ll-(AP) The Air Force said today it has discovered how to eliminate contrails-the telltale smoke-like trail of jet airplanes flying at high al ludes. Frequently jet aircraft, too high to be picked up visually, can be detected by the long trails of vapor they leave across the sky. The Air Research and Development command said its engineers have eliminated contrails by developing a means of reducing the size of the water vapor particles. Hi by (Win Miller I.