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300 Sift Ruins for Belongings Victims SoiagM ome or rire r- Fe. VS. Pat. Off. 1964, Glob Newspaper Co.

THE BOSTON GLOBE-SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1964 VOL. 185 NO. 144 10 PAGES EIGHT CENTS Avenue 8-8000 FAIR Low Near 70 Tonight Sunday Hot (Full Report On Page 2) IN TONIGHT'S GLOBE Book 7 Port 9 Bridge 81 Sports ....4,5 Comics 8 Star Gazer ..8 Crossword 8 TV-Radio 9 Deaths 2'Theates ..10 Dr. Crane .9 Twistagram .9 Editorials ...6 Women 9 ft -v Ar NX. 4 L.S.I High Tide Tonight at 10:34 Obituaries ..21 Victim May Be M'Laughlin Children Find Riddled Body WELLESLEY A man's body, wrapped in a blanket, was found on- a stream embankment in woods off Indian Springs way at 9:30 a.m.

today. First reports indicated that the victim was shot gangland style, with a number of bullet holes in his head. Aerial View of Damage in Fire Disaster. Street Names Give Key to Location. (Joe Dennehy Photo) IIIIIIIIIIIKlllllllllllllllHlllllllllllllllllllllHllllllllllin Center Opehs Doors' City State Agencies Focus on Dorchester closest home, that of Robert J.

Hehre, 65 Croton 50 yards away. -It was believed that' the body was brought along Indian Springs Way, an un-paved road, during the night and rolled down the em-bankment to the stream's edge. Tight police security was thrown around the area in Wellesley Farms. The body was not removed from the scene until 1 p.m. when it was taken to Waterman's funeral chapel in Wellesley Center.

An autopsy was to be performed by Harvard pathologist George Curtiss and Norfolk Medical Examiner Joseph A. King. According to police, the victim was wearing trousers and Gen. McLaughlin Heads Fire Aid Gen Richard E. McLaughlin has been designated disaster liaison man for Gov.

Peabody. If burned out Dorchester families need assistance with food, shelter or. clothing they should contact Gen McLaughlin at any time, either at the Governor's office, CA 7-3600 or at his home, TR 6-4049. Money, Clothing, Shelter Allocated By RONALD A. WYSOCKI Clusters of people stood on street corners.

They spoke in hushed tones. Around them was ruin. In the black, charred wasteland before them, others sifted through the rubble for precious remnants of their belongings. Police believed that he might be George P. (Puncy) McLaughlin, 36, of Charles-town, one of FBI's 10 most wanted criminals.

Since Mar. 15, McLaughlin has been sought for questioning in connection with the murder of William J. Sheridan, 21, of Hamilton Dorchester. If the body proves to be that of a gangland victim, it will be the fourth such slaying since the Sheridan murder. Four children stumbled upon the body while short-cutting through the woods.

They were Dennis, 13; Philip, 11, and Francine, 9, Le-mieux, children of the U.S. Consul to Canada Maurice J. Lemieux, and Paula Carens, 9, daughter of George C. Carens all of Crestwood rd. The youngsters ran to the By ROBERT B.

CARR State and city agencies along with relatives and friends rallied today to the aid of 300 persons made homeless by Boston's worst fire in a century. Several blocks away, in the William E. Russell School on Columbia an emergency recovery center was'estab- Gov. Peabody, following an emergency meeting in his office today, made available all the facilities of the state Housing Board, ton st. from Everett Everett sq.

to Andrew sq. along with the Howell st. exit ramp of the Southeast Expressway closed to traffic during the week-end. He said that despite re peated requests to sightseers to stay away from the area, hundreds of motorists headed toward the scene this morning. DISASTER Page 3 State Relief Made Ready shirt.

The body was wrapped tightly in a blanket. Civil Defense, National Guard armories and the Vast fcttort Under Way Gov. Endicott Peabody, following an emergency meeting at the State House this rv-r i rr annriunrorl 9 Welfare Department. He ordered the armory $2 Million Ransom Ashed Paris Magnate's Wife Is Kidnaped lished. Preferred aid was made in the style of a refugee center The Boston Housing Authority worked from one classroom, available to families seeking permanent lodgings.

In another room, the Boston Redevelopment Authority operated. Here, persons seeking temporary shelter, could find help through the authority's relocation program. Piles of clothing filled two classrooms. The fire victims picked up assorted bits on a catch-as-catch-can basis. Red Cross volunteers dis- Agencies Move In, Help Fire Victims state assistance is being made Victory rd, Dorchester, available to all families in- opened to accommodate volved in yesterday's fire in families until permanent Dorchester.

homes are found. "Emergency liaison offices Mayor Collins called a top-have been set up by state level conference with the tributed money for food to the hapless victims. On Bellflower Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sullivan held a metal box.

Inside it were savings bonds, charred but still valuable. What had been their three-story, wooden home at 30 Bellflower was leveled. Mrs. Helen Mayhew stood in front of the burned heap at 29 Bellflower st. and wept.

Her husband, Harold, gripped a metal barbecue cook-out and a seared rocking chair. A man sat on the curb, staring at a clothes trunk. Its cover was burned off. The articles inside were ashes. He was Bernard Colombo.

He lived at 41 Dorset st. Many of those picking through the ashes walked with slow, stumbling step. Their faces had a vacant look. They were confused. The shock had not yet passed.

Five fire engines were placed strategically about the devastated three-block area in Dorchester, at the South Boston line. er Boston residents aftei learning of the plight of the more than 300 victims of the blaze who narrowly escaped By DOUGLAS S. CROCKET The little girl, her blonde tresses barely visible over the pile of clothing she carried in from blazing homes with only both hands, slowly felt her the clothing they were wear Police said there was no way to determine whether either call came from kidnapers or from cranks. Police hunted for the two men and a getaway driver who sped away with Madeleine Dassault, about 65, after pistol-whipping her husband, 72, and their chauffeur, Louis Dubois, 48. Interior Minister Roger Frey had road blocks set up hpfnr dawn alone the south way up the cement steps at mg-the William E.

Russell School on Columbia rd, in Dorchester today. officials in housing, civil defense, welfare and the National Guard to bring relief to the 300 persons left homeless," the governor said. His announcement followed a meeting with Robert P. Cur-ran, deputy commissioner of welfare; Charles J. Harris, deputy director of Massachusetts Civil Defense; Raymond Rigney, deputy commissioner of State Administration; and Robert B.

DeGregorio, chairman of the state Housing Board. PEABODY Page 3 city department heads to speed relief operations for the victims. Boston Department of Public Works Comr. James Haley and Edmund Morgan, chief building inspector, ordered a bulldozer and two cranes into the still smouldering area shortly after 10 a.m. to knock down charred walls of the destroyed dwellings.

"We have to do this as a safety measure," they said. Meanwhile, Boston Traffic Comr. Thomas Carty ordered Dorchester av. from Andrew sq. to Columbia and Bos- PARIS (AP) Two hooded gunmen kidnaped the wife of Marcel Dassault, French nuclear warp'ne builder, early today.

As police threw a dragnet around Paris, anonymous callers phoned newspapers with ransom demands one with political implications. One newspaper said it received a call saying that Mrs. Dassault would be freed in 70 hours if ex-Gen Raoul Salan were liberated. Salan is serving a life term for leading the terroist secret army organization in Algeria. Earlier a caller phoned the newspaper Le Monde and said the ransom for Mrs.

Dassault was 10 million francs ($2 U.S.GetsTough, So Does Soviet In Asian Crisis REFUGEES Page 3 HuFAirman Dies in Florida Behind her was her mother whose arms were also filled with clothing for the victims of the disastrous fire which destroyed or damaged 35 homes yesterday. The clothes were deposited with others donated by Great- SCENE Page 3 WASHINGTON (AP) Evidence was building today that the United States was pre auto route, where the kidnap car headed. Special squads watched airports and frontier guards were on. full' alert. KIDNAP Page 3 llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllt paring for broader military iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiliiiiiiiiiilillilllllllllllllllllM action in southeast Asia un EUROPE SEES JFK IN TED Hearts Leap to Well Remembered VoiceWitSmile Plane Crash Air Force Capt Joseph J.

Onate, son of a Boston University professor, was killed in a plane crash in Florida, his father was informed today. The 31 -year-old pilot was flying over a gunnery range 70 miles east of MacDill Air Force Base Friday when the plane went into a dive and crashed. less the crisis situation there cools off soon. Secretary of State Dean Rusk unfurled the warning signals in a speech last night. He accused Red North Viet Nam of aggression against Laos and South Viet Nam, and he declared the South Viet Nam war may be expanded "if the Communists persist in their course of O.N ATE I Page 2 What hit? 0'DONNELLS' FARM 1 PAIR lie Buy ponv'i rldf drive: 1 block oonv rirte ft drive: 1 colt, in mot.

old.iPonvi lad-dlfi. bridles, humcst 1 The Medway man who placed this Want' Ad in The Globe (May 17) operates a pnny farm. He estimates that he rainex and sells 100 ponies annually. He said he Itot started in the business four year bro, when he bought ponies for his three children. The man he liked the little animals bo much he decided to make a career out of raising them.

To Dace a Clarified Advt. i in The Globe Computer Spots Student Cheating HANOVER, N.II. (LTD A Dartmouth sophomore has been caught cheating by an electric computer. The Daily Dartmouth, the school said the student was suspended for cheating on a machine-corrected multiple choice exam. The papers aid the "unprecedented case came from the college testing center" which found 'a strong core-lation between two exams which were being corrected.

The machine built "a solid statistical case" against the student, school officials said. By WILFRID RODGERS Washington Correspondent ROME A jabbing finger, a shock of hair, an impish smile, and Europeans immediately think of JFK; That is what they have been thinking as Ted Kennedy traces his brother's footsteps around Europe. "I closed my eyes and heard that voice," one American in Paris said, "and it was just as if JFK were alive." i The blunt words from the usually mild Rusk were taken as a possibility of action directly against North Viet Nam a move that has drawn increasing discussion here since the Laotian crisis began developing a week ago. The gravity of the situation was further underlined in a Moscow dispatch by United Press International. U.S.ASIA rage 4 $'Q 3 SHOWS TODAY If I IV SJJ t0i3Q 2t20 Ti3Q SUNDAY 2:00 I liOQ A year ago it wouldn't have been possible for Ted to have received the public exposure he hai had in the last three months.

I ,1 J' 1 -v. As the younger brother of the President, he was kept under tight rein. TED KENNEDY Tage 2 Call AV 24500 TED JOHN I.

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