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SUttDAY NEWgJUEY 1965 i5 mm" Jf 2 "tots -jo ran ft pinich Some of the 400 passengers of ill-fated Holland- 1 1 America liner Seven Kennedy Airport, after trip from Newfoundland. They were aboard ship when fire erupted in engine room a week ago, leaving vessel drifting helplessly. They were subsequently towed into St. John's, N. then flown here.

At left, Polly Townsend is greeted by her cocker spaniel, Opy. 900 mesSimed Powell Holds Congressional bearing on a Harlem Street yS JPtetJ.u 5 (NEWS fotos by Charles Payne) Seas debark from plane at 12:25 A.M., while a second neigh bor reported having heard a very loud argument between a man and a woman. Both witnesses said they thought the sounds had coma from the Crimmins' apartment, but detectives said they could have been mistaken. Memorial services were held at 10 A.M. yesterday for the children at St.

Raymond's Church, 1759 Castle Hill Ave. Among the approximately 50 mourners were detectives who kept a watchful eye on the crowd. MAN-MADE RAIN: BOOH OR DANE? Its reservoirs shrinking to puddles, New York City is desperately seeking ways to supply its mammoth thirst. But rainmaking, although a scientific possibility, isn't likely to he one of tliem. Read "Rainmaking Or Trouhlemaking?" on page 74 PALISADES PARK STILL BOX OFFICE Palisades Park aeross the Hudson had 100,000 more customers over the Memorial Day weekend than the World's Fair.

Its formula for success: low prices, high standards and concern for changing tastes. Read 'A High Time Over the River" on page 10 In Section Two (lssss SdS Lessis By GERALD KESSLER and HENRY LEE Despite questioning of more than 900 persons during the last 11 days, detectives have no leads to the double murder of the little Crimmins children in Queens on July 14, police admitted yesterday. If i -our 3 1 jfii-iVi'wiirrtii7ittiiiiiiiiiTiiiiiWMwiiiiiiiMii ii i mi iimiiiidi hi fii (NEWS foto by John Peodincuk) Kep. Adam Clayton Powell (third from left) speaks at Harlem hearing; from platform erected at 111th St, between Seventh and Eighth Aves. To the left of Powell is Kep.

James Roosevelt. By LEEDS MOBERLEY On a temporary platform set up in a sweltering Harlem street, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell held a two-hour hearing of his House Education and Labor Committee yesterday on what he called "black problems" the "still critical" economic and educa "We hava nothing new, nothing to tell you," Deputy Inspector Thomas McGuire, in charge of the 16th Deputy Detective Division, said. "Ther are no new developments." "We're no closer to solving this crime than we were the first day it occurred," added another police official. Two Are Questioned Yesterday, at the Fresh Meadows station, two women and a man were questioned for about an hour.

They refused to disclose their identities. According to redhaired, attractive Mrs. Alice Crimmins, she put the children, 5-year-old Edmund and 4-year-old Alice, to bed at 9 P.M., Tuesday, July 13, in their bedroom in her apartment at 150-22 72d Drive, Kew Gardens Hills. After double-checking them at midnight, she told police, she went to bed, but was awakened at 3 A.M. by a phone call from her husband, Edmund, from whom she was then estranged.

They discussed payment of back wages for former maid, and she then went back to sleep, she said. Girl's Body Found At 9 A.M. Wednesday, hearing no noise from the youngsters' room, she unlatched their door and found they had vanished. Alice's body was found the same afternoon, half a mile away. She had apparently been strangled.

Edmund's body was found Monday a mile away from the apartment in the opposite direction on a site overlooking a World's Fair parking lot. Cause of death, could not be established. Detectives have been trying to check out two reports from neighbors of noises they reported hearing the night of tha children's disappearance. According to one witness, she hjgard a child's scream about tional status of hundreds oi thousands of Negroes. On the platform with him were four committee members.

About 300 Harlemites stood behind police barriers to hear half a dozen witnesses voice their recommendations and complaints. These included Controller Abraham D. Beame; Mrs. Hor-tense Gabel, the city's Rent and Keha bilitation Administrator, Rawlings Bisesar, a Negro general contractor, and a Negro mother who complained about conditions in her children's school. Block Being Renovated The locale chosen for what Powell boasted was "the first Congressional hearing ever held outdoors" was 114th St.

between Seventh and Eighth Aves. a block which is undergoing a multimillion dollar renovation by viding modern apartments for 450 families at rentals ranging from to $100 a month. Cites Bias Against Negroes Bisesar, who is chairman of the Association of United Contractors of America, said he hadn't been able to get a contract on the 114th St. project, although he had submitted three bids. Beame, t.

candidate for the Democratic nomination for mayor, proposed that the federal govei-n-men offer tax credits to business and industry as an incentive to retain jobless workers. The crowd, which applauded every proposal for giving the Negro a better break, was loud in its approval when Rep. James Roosevelt a committee member, suggested that companies that conduct such retraining programs also be required to hire the people they train. First-Ave. For Villai? Mayor Wagner announced yesterday he would ask the City Council to rename First Ave.

in honor of Adlai Stevenson. "Adlai Stevenson will be long remembered in America and in the world as long as homage is paid to a sense of honor in politics and to style, grace and eloquence in the service of world peace and progress," Wagner said. the city under a federal grant. Mrs. Gabel, declaring the project should be duplicated across the nation, told the committee that 37 old-law tenements will be completely renovated, pro.