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tnri Ins 77 FTFI 77 IL oniMi ami iiM iJemle BOM a3 luu uo INewspapers, i A ALL f- I I 1 lis i I rv. (ML 0 Give Duel Top Status Atty. Gen. Edward J. McCormack Jr.

and Edward M. Kennedy meet tonight in South Boston in the first of two televised "great debates" that could well decide their political fates. The Lineup TIME 8 o'clock. PLACE The auditorium at South Boston High School, 6th and sts. ISSUES No restrictions.

PANEL C. Edward Holland, Record-American; Leo Egan, WHDH-TV; David McNeil, WCKB; Abraham A. Michel-son, Berkshire Eagle. MODERATOR Erwin D. Can-ham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor.

TV Channels 4 and 5 at 8 p.m., delayed telecast Channel 7 at 11:15 p.m. RADIO WBZ and WNAC at 8 p.m., rebroadcast over WHDH at 11:15 p.m. aaio The candidates will discuss local, national and international issues during the debate, which is sponsored by the Young Democratic Club of Boston. DEBATE Page Three The two hopefuls for the Democratic senatorial nomination will come face to face at 8 p.m. on the stage of South Boston High School auditorium.

The hour-long debate will receive wide local coverage on television, radio and in the press. 'if I EDWARD M. KENNEDY Statewide Battle ATTY. GEN. McCORMACK Attracts National Interest 1962.

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THE BOSTON GLOBE MONDAY, AUG. 27, 1962 Vno. 28 PAGES EIGHT CENTS Post Office Lumps Entire Year's Kitty 7 Reward uureif AV 8-8000 IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Bridge Port 22 Classified.24-27 Problem 15 Comics Radio-TV ..13 Crane 12, Society 10 Cross-Word 24 Sports Deaths 23 Star 12 Editorial Theaters 6 Financial 22 wistagram .24 Kennedy 8 Telephone WARM Showers Tonight Humid Tuesday (Full Report On Page 16) High Tide Tonight 10:27 Mail Robbery Will Try Course Shift Venus Rocket Rolls Miss Its Goal -May CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) An off-course Mariner 2 spacecraft rocketed into space today on an intended 109-day trip to explore the plant Venus. Despite a severe trajectory error, scientists were hopeful they could correct most of it by remote control signals to an on-board motor. Improper rocket perform- Jack James, Mariner man- ence during the 2:53 a.m.

ager for NASA's jet propul- launching released the 447- sion laboratory, said the on- pound spacecraft on a course board motor has the capabil- that, if followed, would cause jty of making a it to miss Venus by not more correction depending on posi- than 600,000 miles when the tion of the spacecraft. two make their closest ap- proach Dec. 14, m- 7T w. S. ft, fi I 1 4 I This is far from the fly-by that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration planned.

Just how much the spacecraft can be commanded back to a Venus rendezvous course will not be known until more precise tracking information is available. This may be several days. AP WirePhoto) MAP OF CAPE COD AREA is examined by Postmaster General Edward Day and Rep. Jack Brooks of Texas, as House subcommittee opened inquiry in mail robbery. Trr iirifrrt Would Lxclude Underground lests Thought of Six Children Man Afloat 20 Honrs Saved in Nick of Time TEN STORIES TALL, away from launching pad Mariner 2 spacecraft on Venus.

the other an alternative treaty to ban tests in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space. Western conference sources It UiUUll said the soviet Union re- acted cooly but did not reject the Anglo-American proposed draft treaty for a limited ban. TEST BAN Page Four Day Urges New System Of Transport By FRANK MAHONEY (Globe Reporter) WASHINGTON The Post Office Department has lumped all its reward eggs in one basket and is offering $50,000 its entire kitty for this year to help solve $1.5 million Plymouth, mail robbery, Congress was told today. Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who made the disclosure of the reward increase, also recommended that the Federal Reserve System should have a transportation system of its own to handle its large cash shipments.

Day said that the way the Post Office handled the transportation of money before the Aug. 14 robbery was "unique." While it was a Post Office mail truck that was held up 13 days ago, the van was carrying Federal Reserve funds from Cape Cod banks to Boston Day told the House Gov- ernment Operations subcommittee that it would cost the Post Office Department $135 millions annually to provide this type of armed protection for Federal banks. In announcing the hike in the reward, Day got the jump on Congress. Massachusetts Rep. Edward P.

Boland, a critic of the department's handling of valuable shipments, last week announced intentions of filing a bill offering that sum as a reward. Since the robbery four immediate changes in security arrangements to prevent simi lar postal holdups have been instituted by Day, Congress was also told. ROBBERY Page Four wood Patrolmen Thomas Michienzi and James Kelly they took the car from the rarlcint lot nf a cosron aeiecuves ana ques- tioned in the strangling of Mrs. Nina Nichols, 60, in her apartment at 1940 Common- wealth Brighton, in June, The license plate was hers. Detectives, who have been working ar0Und the clock in an enort to solve tne multiple slayings, are also questioning a 60-year-old South End man in the death of Mrs.

Mary Davis, 60, of Blue Hill Roxbury, last month. She was Partial Test Ban Minus Look-See Offered Russia by U.S., Britain Befriended by Victim Wakefield Man Admits Slaying Wellesley Youth POMPANO BEACH, Fla. (AP) "For God's sake, George, please try to make land. I can't swim at all!" Those were the agonized words of Max Butcher, 25 and father of six, when a 21-foot boat sank under him and two companions in the Atlantic Ocean 10 miles offshore. AP WiriKSo Atlas-Agena rocket blasts at Cape Canaveral to start 110-day journey toward Xelligan set bail at $100,000 on King at the suspect's Federal Court arraignment this morning on charges of theft or hchirmer car.

HUB ARREST Page Fourteen Prime Minister Harold Mac- day one calling for an all-millan had instructed their inclusive ban on all tests and This would mean Mariner 2 could be jockeyed onto a path to pass within 100,000 miles of Venus too great a range for its sensitive instruments to do much probing beneath Venus' heavy blanket of clouds. VENUS SHOT Page Two ing life jackets and seat cushions around my shoulders and waist "After about 10 minutes, Pete said he would try to make shore and alert air-sea rescue teams. ORDEAL Page Fifteen today his resignation as chairman of the Boston Finance Commission. Brooke said he was giving up his $5000-a-year job as head of the city's official investigative agency to "free the Finance Commission from any inference that it is engaged in partisan politics." In a letter to Gov. Volpe today, Brooke asked that his resignation become effective Friday.

BROOKE Page Fourteen Rockingham Results AILT DOt BLE rdi-Hillvle p.id FIRST $2300. claiming, maideni. 3 fnd 4-year-olds. 6 furlongs. Nardi 49.80 14 60 40 Bob Sylvester 3 60 2 fiO Parrott's 2 80 Fair Novice.

Liquid Amber, Surname. Bob's Siscter, Comic Opera. Rathmines. Mid Arc, Effervesce. New.

Boss also ran. ROCKINGHAM Page Twenty Butcher's companions, George Hardy, 38, and Peter HYQQbP UUltS Thorn, 21, finally managed to MJI make shore on their own ThSn afterH hours. AS UCLlYTTlCiJl The Coast Guard plucked ft Butcher from the sea around iff IT I fTY noon yesterday, about 20 inS? r1.entnmS By JOSEPH A. KEBLINSKY tlL 1 Edward W. Brooke, lican-endorsed candidateP or Car Had Victim's License Plate Pair Seized in Strangling Case Two South Boston youths were arrested in Norwood this morning near a stolen A 23-year-old Wakefield unemployed laborer admitted slaying a Wellesley youth, who befriended him in North Carolina, and then driving his car to Texas, a Federal official said today.

U.S. Atty. Paul Hunt said Arthur R. King of Bryant Wakefield signed a 15-page confession for the FBI in which he admitted the slaying on Aug. 8 of Carl L.

Schirmer 22, son of a Boston music publisher in a lonely road at Lumberton, N. C. U.S. Commissioner Peter MURDER VICTIM, Carl L. Schirmer Jr, 22, of Wellesley.

"i I GENEVA (UPI) The United States and Eritain today proposed an immediate ban on all nuclear tests except those underground with out on-site inspection. The proposal was submitted the 17-nation disarmament conference by chief Ameri- can negotiator Arthur H. Dean as a "first step" nuclear ests ban. President Kennedy and found strangled in a South End hotel room. Detectives said that the suspect admits being in a Tremont South End cafe the night of the slaying: Investigators said Mrs.

Davis was in the same cafe shortly before she was murdered. Police said the South End man fits the general descrip- tion of the man who registered with Mrs. Davis at the hotel the night of the slaying. STRANGING Page Five Out of Respect to the Memory of our beloved Wife and Mother Fannie Nierman INDEPENDENT PIPE SUPPLY CORP. 200 New England Dorchester Will be Closed AUG.

27. 28, 29 THE CHARM PLUS SCHOOL1 501 Wishlntton St. Tel. 433-40M An evening school of charm in elocution announces its grand opening. delegates to the conference to submit two draft treaties to- US.

SeQS H'BlaSt Rv hinn ffl mOTllh -h, WASHINGTON, (UPI) Communist China probably will be in a position to detonate its first nuclear explosion "within a matter of months," a senior official of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said today. The official, who declined use of his name, stressed that this would still be a very long way from China's developing nuclear weapons. This would take a matter of years, he said. RED CHINA Page Fourteen In pprenn TS 111 WltfWII One Night Only DANNY THOMAS WITH Rosalind Elias Fabian AND OTHERS Music by Harry Marshard ST.

JUDE HOSPITAL BENEFIT SHOW Boston Garden Thurs. 8:00 P. AUG. 30 M. Ticlceta Xotn mt Boston Garden Box Office Sheriton Plaza Lobby Macy Drug ana out or town Ticket A Agency Harvard Square.

jl car which police said bore gasoline station last Wednes-a license plate taken from day. the auto of one of the four They were turned over to i- i i it titkh throa't "raw from water and constant calls for help, Butcher told this story of fear, hope, despair and rescue: "I was numb. All I could think about were the sharks and I knew I'd never see my wife or kids again. "Both George and Pete were wonderful. They kept reassuring me they would stay with me and began lash- REAL ESTATE Globe Classified is Boston's largest Real Estate marketplace.

Again this year. The Globe has carried more Real Estate advertising than both other Boston newspapers combined. This large selection combined with The Globe's tremendous readership brings the greatest activity to the Real Estate advertiser and best sales results. Call AVenue 2-1500 GLOBE TOURS Wukdiyt 9 A.M. -4 P.M.

Siturdtyt A.M.-1 P.M. uu Lauiiu' Boston strangling virtim The youths, 17-year-old cousins, allegedly told Nor- wr i. i i StnCRS 11 ShohilV uiuifta iv uiiguuy Stock prices edged higher in an unenthusiastic session of the New York Stock Exchange today. Changes were mostly fractional and there were nearly as many minus signs as pluses. At 2 o'clock trfe Dow Jones Industrial Average was up a fraction of a point I PAGE see a I 1 mntammmmmmrk 1 imriiWBPIT! rrr- fSt9 La: sl $3.

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