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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY; SEPTEMBER 2, 19G1 iDDiKal fa 1 1 "GJ III fP Tn J'lsuA I By PATRICK DOYLE and RICHARD HENRY Operating like well-drilled commandos, three bandits yesterday afternoon raided a plush apartment house at Fifth Aye. and 62d bound and gagged seven persons and got away with two attache cases filled with gems and cash. They looted five apartments and tried unsuccessfully to get into a sixth. The tl tigs were armed with one gun which looked like a Luyer and which they passed back and forth as required 'y their varying missions. The trio first held up the operator, then three delivery men who came to the service entrance at different times, next the building porter, then a woman tenant and finally a 63-year-old maid.

The maid was slapped around by the bandits, to speed her compliance with their orders. (XEWS foto by Fred Morgan) Former Gov. Harriman. Mrs. Harriman, Mrs.

Robert Kennedy, Mayor Wagner, the Attorney General, won David and State Controller Levitt (I. to stand at the podium after RFK's nomination. Bit's BMfk By DICK LEE Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who is bound to face bitter carpetbagger charges in the coming campaign, rode rough-shod over upstate Congressman Samuel rir nt RFK Goes Vote Fishing Wasting no time, Robert F. Kennedy opens his Senate campaign at 6 this morning at the Fulton Fish Market.

After a half-hour's handshaking he will move to the Staten Island Ferry terminal in his quest for votes. An aid said Kennedy will fly to Washington tonight and submit his resignation as Attorney General to President Johnson tomorrow. All told, the thieves were in control of the five-floor, 10-apartment converted town house at 1 E. C2d for about an hour. Value Not Estimated The total value of their loot was unknown, pending inventories.

But thev got at least to $25,000 in gems from two women. One of the women victims told cops: "I thought this was the safest building in the world." It adjoins 810 Fifth whose well-heeled tenants include Mrs. Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, the Governor's ex-wife; Richard M. Nixon and William Randolph Hearst Jr. In 812 Fifth, Rocky and his present wife live.

Across the street from 1 E. fi2d is the swank Knickerbocker Club. How It All Began Assistant Chief Inspector Jo-, seph Coyle, head of Manhattan Kennedy Strut ton yesterdav in the fight for New York's Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate. On the very first ballot in the state convent inn 8v the 7lst Regiment Armory, 34th St.

and Park the Attorney General went over the top when the roll call reached Nassau County with its "70 votes for Kennedy." That Kve him 56S votes three more than the necessary 505. The final vote of the convention made Kennedy the winner by 9t8 to 153. That compared favorably with the to 4 'J vote by which the state committee in an earlier meeting had legalized a Kennedy candidacy despite the fact that he i not a Democratic voter in New York State. The victorious Attorney General, who had signed up as a New York resident earlier in the day by moving his wife. Ethel, and their eight children into the Hotel Carlyle, lost no time in getting into the convention hall to defend himself against .1 carpetbaTger barrage he is sure to receive from the Republicans.

Turns on Keating He assured the delegates that lte hopes to gain from his New Yort- constituency the same con- (XKH'S foto hy Ed Clarity) Lauri Locks autograph from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy as he leaves Hotel Carlyle to accept Democratic nomination. Liberal Party Echo We're for EM Too Bobby Kennedy made it a sweep of a political twi-night doubleheader yesterday, winning the Liberal Party's nomination for U. S. Senator last night after getting the Democratic nomination earlier in the day.

The Liberals unanimously en- "''iJLLSEsa North detectives, said the three bandits were "real pros they knew what they were doing." Two holdupmen were described as (Continued on page 22, eol. i) Kids Invade much as I'm asked to" during his campaign. The Kennedy kids here were Kerry, Michael, Courtney, David, Bobby 10; Joseph, 12, and Kathleen, 13. The other youngsters were the cousins, Bobby Shriver and Christopher Lawford, and the friend, Ann Coffey, i-iirmimrmi fc. Its K-Day The sidewalks were bouncing with Kennedy kids around the Carlyle Hotel on E.

76th St. yesterday. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy's wife, Ethel, set up a command post there with 10 youngsters seven of hers, two cousins, and a friend, plus several adults. Ethel, who is expecting her ninth child in December, left her youngest son at Hyannis Port, when the party flew here.

The other seven and the three who came with them played in front of the hotel, made faces at the photographers, and went to nearby drugstore for ice cream. They Dig the Zoo Then the kids piled into a station wagon for a trip to the Central Park Zoo. They returned to the Carlyle to freshen up before all 10 were taken to the 71st Regiment Armory to hear the Attorney General's name placed in nomination for Senator from New York. Bobby Kennedy Jr. was cau tioned by his father, before the proceedings: "You know you are my namesake, and if someone at the convention yell3 out 'Robert Kennedy don't you go up and make a speech." Hears Bobby Nominated In mid-afternoon Ethel, in a brown dress, went to the armory bear her husband fidence that they had in his brother, the late John F.

Kennedy. Th'-n the new Senatorial candidate turned his attention to his Continued on page 4, col. 1) is capturing the Liberal Party in the same way." Some speakers advocated the candidacies of Republican Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, Kennedy's foe in November, and of upstate Democratic Rep.

Samuel S. Strat-ton. They and Mrs. Wollner spoke at the party's state conference, attended by C45 delegates in the Astor Hotel. Most Back Bobby After debate, the conference, by voice vote, recommended that the Liberal's State Committee nominate Bobby.

In closed session later, the 110-member committee made the nomination by "an overwhelming majority," according to a spokesman. He said thi committee's endorsement of Johnson and Humphrey was unanimous. (NEffS foto by Tom Gallagher) Mrs. Eunice Shriver is flanked by nephew, Christopher LawforJ (left), and son. Bobby, as they leave in auto from LaGuardia Airport.

dorsed the election candidacies of President Johnson to succeed himself and of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) for Vice President. But the support for Kennedy was not unanimous. Some gagged at Kennedy's candidacy possibly because his entry into New York politics has been advanced by old-line Democratic "bosses," among others.

Mrs. Wollner Objects Mrs. Harriet Wollner, a Bronx wornan seeking an Assembly seat under the Liberal Party banner, complained: "People have been terrified by the way (Sen. Barry Goldwater captured the Republican Party, and they. think that Robert Kennedy, Waiting there were the Attorney General's sister and brother-in-law, Jean and Stephen Smith.

There also was "another sister, Mrs. Eunice Shriver, who flew in with Ethel. Before going to the armory, Ethel told reporters, "we'll be living in Washington" if Bobby is elected. She said she. will "do as.