Daily News from New York, New York • 117

'4 crr rr rcr LP UZi vm-ryt By TED LEWIS Washington, April 27 All the postmortems on how Ed Muskie booted his presidential chances deserve to be tossed out the window as trivial bric-a-brac compared with the harsh fact that now, with Muskie out, only George Mc-Govern stands in the way of a national political calamity a rerun of the 1968 Nixon-Humphrey campaign. We use that calamity label on the basis that political currents are now running in this country that deserve to be heeded. There is a disquieting mood of considerable voter proportions that cries out to be recognized. It is apparent in the significant Democratic primary showings of both George Wallace and OnlV MCVOVem McGovern, And this "fed up" element can in me snowaown Daiioting ai me July Democratic convention only be reflected in the final analysis in the McGovern delegate tally, for only prejudiced fools think that Wallace Can Save Us From Hubert could end up being the choice of the party. So we now have a situation where, for better or for worse, an Artist's conception shows area including Plaza and Chapel of Good Shepherd in planned development for Welfare Island.

HHmiBug Wei Am kk By OWEN.MORITZ A plan calling for 1,100 middle-income and luxury apartments was authorized yesterday for Welfare Island amid fresh promises that the much publicized new community in the East River will be ready for occupancy in summer 1974. eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation is unavoidable. This may be denied on the today he was pulling out of all primaries, still left himself available for a party draft. Nevertheless, the fact is that Muskie is definitely dead politically as a force in this year's campaign. Imagine his party ever turning to him should a McGovern Humphrey balloting stalemate develop a man whose lack of voter appeal showed up in the primary circuit and who couldn't even quit the race gracefully but with the same hemming and hawing that characterized his ambivalent stand on the big issues before the country! Characteristically, in his strained and qualified swansong, Muskie refrained from giving an honest answer as to where his voter support will now go.

It will, of course, gravitate naturally to Humphrey, for both Hubert and Muskie have always appealed to the middle-of-the-road type Democrat with an ingrained abhorrence of any candidate trying to lead the party on untried paths toward solution of national problems. So it's a monumental break between Humphrey and McGovern basis that Muskie, in announcing Hubert H. Humphrey He reapm Muskie' harvest for Humnhrev an1 outsized nw Directors of the Welfare Island Development Corp. in effect approved the North Town plan for the 2-mile-long island. It calls for 1,000 apartments for moderate-income families, which are already started, and 700 middle income and 400 luxury apartments the 1,100 authorized yesterday to he started later this year.

"Welfare Island is alive and well," said Edward Logue, president of the parent Urban Development Corp. He assumed the additional post of chief executive officer of the Welfare Island Corp. after Adam Yarmolinsky resigned in February, reportedly over differences with Logue. Neither Yarmolinsky, a top defense official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, nor Logue would elaborate on the nature of the differences. Yarmolinsky, still a director of the Welfare Island did approve yesterday's plan, a spokesman said.

The $250 million development, one of the most glamorous of a number of new towns in the nation, will eventually provide 5,000 apartments all economic ranges for 20,000 persons. Much of the progress is tied into completion of a subway line between Queens and Manhattan's East Side. The line will have a station on Welfare Island. In the interim, the corporation has been debating use of ferry, bus or airborne tramway service into the Manhattan main line. Held in Japanese Exec's Killing By EDWARD KIRKMAN Detectives investigating the seven-week-old murder of a Japanese advertising executive a crime that triggered criticism of this city in Japan arrested a suspect in the and serious challenge to McGovern to have Muskie out of the remaining state primaries.

It definitely makes it a two-man race with Humphrey the favorite for the presidential nomination. The political kingmakers know this and the superficiality of McGovem's present "front runner" position when it comes to a convention decision on how best to unite the party. Whether the national mood is such that it could stomach with only a modicum of revulsion another Humphrey try at the presidency is a question without an immediate knowledgeable answer. It is in the same category as McGovern's own candidacy. The difference is that no one quite knows what sort of President McGovern would make or whether his party would survive intact his nomination.

In Humphrey's case the future is clear we all know how he would run against Nixon, for he ran once before. Take Humphrey or lump it! He has offered himself again as the one Democrat capable of uniting the country and "bringing "us together again." Party Is 'One Big Tenf And what he thinks of the Democratic Party itself is expressed with the same wound-healing rhetoric. The party is "one big tent" with room under it for all divergent elements. Who can ever forget how fervently in 1967 he embraced segregationist Lester Maddox, when Maddox was Georgia governor, to show how all-inclusive the party was And Humphrey has the propensity to outpromise any Republican presidential rival concerning what he would do if elected. He displays fervor in proposing a cabinet-level department of youth and another department for the aged.

He is always the happy exuberant campaign warrior, the epitome of the "old politics" spellbinder. Where he stands on the big issues is where he thinks the votes are. Can the nation stand again the kind of campaign he would wage. Logue has said that bus service was most likely. The middle-income units will be co-ops going for a down payment of $1,200 per room and monthly carrying charges of $100 per room.

Thhe latter figure could be reduced significantly because of an anticipated tax break, a spokesman said. The luxury or conventional apartments are also co-ops, planned to go for $155 to $165-per room, with a down payment of $2,150 per room. Tax breaks on these are also anticipated, the spokesman said. A school system, housed in the buildings, will be operating by fall 1974, along with commercial and other public services, Logue said. place is heavily populated by junkies and other unsavory types.

Police were unable to come up with a witness to the crime. Giorgio and Maisch began canvassing the neighborhood and spoke to more than 100 people before one man said he overheard a conversation between a man and a woman about the murder. The cops traced the man to the Marseilles, but failed to find him. The detectives backtracked to see if anyone had called the special police emergency number 911 to report the crime. They iouna out that a man with a His panic accent naa called and reported "a robbery." A new check of the neighborhood was made and in a straw-in-a-haystack- chance, tjorgio and Maisch found the who had made the call.

Th man, whose name was withheld, said that the three suspects ran into the Marseilles after the attack. Next, the authorities said, an informer told the cops that a man nicknamed Heavy had told him: "I duffed (assaulted) some Chinese gent and I heard he died." Police said that Heavy, using the name Lonnie Epps, had stayed at the hotel for one week after the killing yesterday. Japanese Deputy Consul General Kazuo Murakany commended the police. "The crime had a tremendous impact on our people both here and at home," he said. The victim, Atashi Kurahara.

34, married and the father of two young children, was stabbed to death hy a mugger who attacked him at Broadway and 103d St. on March shortlv after 10 p.m. 2 Others Sought Homicide detectives yesterday arrested Lonnie Epps, 22, a 270-pound man described by police as a junkie. Epps was charged with homicide. Two other suspects, now known to police, are being sought.

Kurahara, in the county only six months at the time of his death, was an employe of the Dentsu Advertising Japan's largest, and was working at the firm's Fifth Ave. offices. He also was taking a marketing course at New York University. He had left his home in the Hotel 310 Riverside Drive, for a short walk, when he set upon in front of the Hotel Marseilles, on W. 103d St.

Kurahara, a black belt karate expert, managed to hold his own against the men, until a third assailant appeared and stabbed the victim in the heart. The three fled, with Kurahara's wallet containing between $40 and $50. I ana still Dotner to vote next November I It's the kind of a presidential campaign worth thinking about, for it is definitely now a probability because of Muskie's decision to quit the primaries. A Most Choncy Choice What the Democratic Party is going to have to do in its July convention at Miami Beach is certainly much clearer today it ever was. It must make a most chancy choice between a totally new style presidential nominee, McGovern, an issue maker, or Humphrey, a throwback.

In that sort of rival contest, the odds-on favorite is bound to be Humphrey, for whether or not he is more likely to lose in November, he is the ideal "caretaker" far more capable than McGovern of holding the party together in event of defeat in November. Should it happen that way, the question remains as to "whether the national political interest is properly served. Certainly another campaign between Humphrey and Nixon doesn't whet the political appetite nor carry mnei conviction thtt the Democrats can solve the nation's critical problems any better than Nixon and the. Repub Atashi Kura Stabbed fo death by mugger attention throughout Japan for 10 days and Japanese diplomats here were in constant touch with the police, demanding results. Sgt.

Edmund Klan. and Detective Terrance Mularvey of the Fifth District homicide-assault unit were assigned to the case along with Detectives Jerry Giorgio and Andrew Maisch. The area where the crime harm licans have to.