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HOME FINAL Sunny And Cool Friend of the People It Serves i Regional Reporter! end Town Index on Pagt DetaUtd weather report and wrath er map will found on Pag Vol. 64 No. 104 38 PAGES Two Sections Daily Except Sunday 150 River Backensai'lc N. J. MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953 Entered ai 2nd Claaa Matter Ui O.

Hackenaaclc. Act o( March 3 la' it it it it it it PRICE FIVE CENTS BROTHERS INJURED IN TETERBORO PLANE CRASH 1C1DT ni eOirmTTh TKTrriT tt a ttin a tt TrTr77Tor TTh Trvrni DEATH IS' BELIEVED NEAR 1 i QUEMOY QUIET AS FORMOSAN CONVOY LANDS Pontiff Receives Extreme Unction; Bedside Physician Declares: 'All Is In God's Hands' By FRANK BRUTTO Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Oct. 6 (JP) Pope Pius XII suffered a paralyzing stroke today. He received extreme unction, the Roman Catholic Church's last rite for the dying. As the 82-year-old Pontiff lay near death in a coma, a physician at his bedside declared: "All is in the hands of i i Court Approves Hi' i a J' urn i iiaiini i .11 lumiuu 1111 1 mil I v4 fK a 1 I 1 one engine out, Irwin, owner and pilot of the plane, tried to bring it in for landing but the other engine conked out less than 100 feet above ground and the plane crashed.

Emergency crews sprayed it with foam as precaution against fire. Irwin V. Slratmore of Passaic, and his brother Murray of Clifton, were in fair condition at Hackensack Hospital today with injuries received when their twin-engine plane crashed Saturday afternoon while making an emergency landing at Teterboro Airport. With Flier WhoUsed Street As Port To Face Court The head of the Roman Catholic Church was believed near death today at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, where he had been stricken, first with an attack of gastritis, and then by a circulatory cerebral attack. With the 82-year-old Pontiff in a coma, a physician at his bedside said: "AH is In the hands of God." Boys Are Held In Gun Attack Two Hackensack Youths Admit Firing Two Blasts At Rivals In Car PLANE CRASH Downed At Teterboro; Pilot, Brother Hurt Teterboro The pilot and passenger in a Piper Apache twin-engine plane, which crashed at Teterboro Airport Saturday at 2:35 P.

remain in fair condition today at Hackensack Hospital. Irwin W. Stratmore, 45. of 445 Passaic Avenue, owner and pilot of the plane, and his brother, Murray Stratmore, 48, of 40 Notch Road, Clifton, were making an emergency landing after one engine went out over Newark. The landing had been cleared with the Teterboro Airport tower.

John F. Inganamort, president of Inganamort Homes of Dumont, an eyewitness to the crash, said the left engine was out as the plane came in at about 150 feet on Runway 6. It was still 100 feet up at the marker and it appeared it would overshoot the field. At about 50 to 75 feet, Inganamort said, the plane made a left turn and the other engine stalled. The plane plummeted straight down, hit the field, and bounced about 30 feet high.

As it hit again, reports continue, the tricycle landing gear collapsed and the plane crashed. The plane came to rest at the eastern end of the taxi strip 200 feet in front of the airport tower. Airport Operations Supervisor Leonard Pavelec, and his assistant, Joseph Felice, cut the injured men loose from the wreckage. They were taken to (Continued on page 2, column 3) DIES IN BLAST Man Hiding Behind Tree Is Hit By Rock Thrown By Explosion Huntingdon, Oct. 6 UP) Harry Shankle was advised to take cover yesterday by some workmen who were preparing an explosive charge on a pipeline construction project.

The 47-year-old Conemaugh, resident stood behind a tree some 300-feet from the scene of the impending blast at the Rays-town branch of the Juniata River. A few minutes later a rock hurled by the explosion crashed through the branches of Shan-kle's refuge and hit him on the chest, killing him instantly. Hackensack Two local youths, 19 and 17, have admitted unloosing a shotgun blast at a car containing three other youths Saturday night because the trio supposedly stole their beer and broke up a party, police said today. Peiping's Cease-Fire Order Effective Last Midnight CHIANG'S OPPOSED Tainei. Oct.

6 IT) Red China's guns remained silent today while a bis American-pscnrtprt rnnvrra unloaded supplies at Quemoy. Peipmg announced a 7-day cease-fire, effective last mid-nicht. on the condition that the United States stop escorting Na tionalist Chinese convoys to the embattled island. The cease-fire order was coupled with a call to Nationalist resident Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate directly on a settlement over Formosa and the offshore islands. Chiane.

in an interview with Cecil Brown of N. B. rejected any such direct negotiations with the Communists. He said the Peiping announcement was a tncK ana deception, and he hoped the United States would continue to escort Nationalist sunnlv con voys with its Seventh Fleet war ships. Sampson Shen, Chiang's Information director declared Hip nnr.

pose of Peiping's order was to create a sput oetween Taipei and Washington and a split ap-Deared to have hppn the rpsulr in the first reaction of officials in the two capitals. WOULD IGNORE IT Shen declared the Nationalists distrusted the Communist ceasefire and would ignore it. He said there would be no withdrawal of the Nationalist request for American escorts. Washington officials, however, privately expressed their delight even at the limited and conditional cease-fire. Washingto- reports said a rejection of Peiping's announcement was out of the question.

These reports pointed out that with a cease-fire the reason for American escorts ceased to exist. Both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles have emphasized the central policy of getting a cease-fire in Formosa Strait and not bowing to force. In Washington a link was seen between Peiping's order and a sharp statement by Soviet Premier Khruschev Sunday declar-( Continued no page 2, column 5) AWAIT RESULTS OF GUN TESTS May Have Been Used In Bergen Murder Hackensack Authorities today were awaiting results of tests by a Newark chemical laboratory to learn whether a shotgun found in River Vale was the weapon used in the gangland slaying of John J. (Baseball Bat Johnny) Scanlon. The Prosecutor's Office has acknowledged that a 20-gauge shotgun was found yesterday in the same area where two cars, said by Prosecutor Guy W.

Calissi to have been used in the killing, were found late Thursday. Investigators said that until tests are completed it would be impossible to say whether the gun was the one used in the murder of the 38-year-old longshoreman. The gun being tested was found by a River Vale resident who telephoned River Vale Police Chief Nelson Roberge at 7 A. M. that the gun was lying just off the roadway on Prospect Street.

A 1957 Lincoln car was found on Poplar Road, River Vale, Thursday and an abandoned 1957 Oldsmobile was found half a mile away on Washington Avenue, Old Tappan. Prospect Street runs eastward from Broadway, Woodcliff Lake, into the area where the gun and cars were discovered and is believed to have been the route used by the killers in making their getaway. Scanlon was killed Wednesday morning as he drove south on Broadway, Woodcliff Lake, from his home in Pearl River, N. Y. Witnesses have told police the Lincoln car drew alongside of Scanlon's 1953 blue Ford and a man in the rear seat fired one blast from a shotgun at close range into Scanlon's neck.

Scanlon, a clerk in the office of a longshoreman's union in New York, had a police record dating back 17 years, and in April last year was released from a New York prison after serving a 5-year term for felonious assault on two longshoremen with a baseball bat. He has been questioned in connection with several New York murders since his release from prison. God." SHOWED IMPROVEMENT The Pope weakened suddenly during the night after showing Improvement from an attack of gastritis, complicated by hiccups. The hiccups that had bothered him for several days vanished. Then at 8:30 A.

M. he suffered a circulatory cerebral attack, a bulletin from his physicians re ported. Unofficial sources said the Pope was paralyzed and could not be moved from his summer palace to Vatican City, where facilities for treatment are better. Dr. Antonio Basbarrini, a specialist from Bologna, was called to the Pope's bedside.

This un derscored the gravity of the con dition of the spiritual ruler of nearly half a billion Catholics. At about noon, according to unofficial reports, the Pope roused briefly from his coma, opened his eyes and murmured a few words. The Pontiff's immediate family, including his nephews and nieces, were ushered to an antechamber of the Pontiff's bedroom. Vatican source gave this sequence of events in the second serious illness in 4 years for the aged Pontiff: PRAYERS ASKED Only yesterday the Pope ad dressed a special audience at his summer residence against the advice of his private physicians Last night the Pontiff weakened while being treated for gastritis and hiccups. He was being given a stomach wash in an effort to clear the troublesome gastritis.

This was caused some time ago after he had swallowed some dental medication while having a tooth treated. Unexpectedly, while the stomach washing was under way, the Pope suffered a spell of extreme weakness. The cerebral attack followed. Dr. Gasbarrini, the Bologna specialist, was in consultation with the Pope's private physi cian.

Professor Riccardo Galeaz-zi-Lisi. After this consultation Gasbarrini told reporters the case was in the hands of God. A world-wide plea for prayers (Continued on page 2, column 6) Lindsay Reads Bishop Sonnets At Burial Rites Teaneck A. Thornton Bishop, who died Thursday in Manhattan, had the kind of funeral service yesterday he had wanted. A friend read Bishop's own sonnets to Bishop's friends.

The friend was Howard Lindsay, producer, playwright, actor, and president of the Players, a club to which Bishop belonged. Lindsay is perhaps best known for the plays he has written or produced in collaboration with Russel Crouse. "Life With Father" is among the most famous of these. Lindsay came to the services at Volk Colonial Home yesterday because Bishop had written in a codicil to his will: "As far as I am concerned, any services held for the convenience of my friends who may so honor my passing may be brief. The essence of my days on earth has not been motivated by a dream of the hereafter but rather as a pattern of activity directed to the benefits I might be able to bequeath, not only to (Continued no page 2.

column 5) al times by water main breaks and by the shifting sand, which necessitated shoring the entire length of the trench. It was because of these delays that the men were working overtime to catch up to tho schedule and were still on the job at 5:40 P. M. Friday when the sides of the 22-foot trench gave way. Gerritsen launched an investigation of the accident over the weekend, as did John Denno, safety engineer for the State Department of Labor and Industry.

Denno took soil tests and said there would probably be a $100,000 Fees In Alpine Case Hackensack Additional coun sel fees totaling $100,000 in the final accounting of the estate of the late Mrs. Cora Timken Bur nett of Alpine have been approved by District Court Judge Benja min P. Galanti in probate court. Mrs. Burnett died Jan.

19, 1956. The additional fees bring the total of counsel fees in the case to $282,500, with fees of $182,500 previously having been approved. Today the court awarded to Gerald E. Monaghan of the law firm of Leyden and Monaghan of Hackensack. Monaghan, who represented six minor heirs in the final settlement proceedings, previously was awarded $12,500.

The court also awarded $37,500 fees plus $460 disperse-ment to T. Girard Wharton of Wharton, Stewart, and Davis of Sommerville. Wharton represented Dr. John Burnett, tha widower, formerly of Alpine. John W.

Griggs of the Hack, ensack law firm of Morrison, Lloyd, and Griggs, was awarded $25,000 fees and $125 disperse-ment. Griggs represented nine adult heirs. Previously awarded was $170,000 in fees to Donald L. McLean of Elizabeth who represented the estate and the estate executors. GAS EXPLOSION Window Blown Out In Hackensack Hackensack Gas seeping from a cracked main into a sewer in.

front of four stores at 38-44 Hackensack Avenue exploded Saturday night. The front windows of three stores were blown out causing extensive damage. The fourth store, a glass shop, was apparently undamaged. No cause was listed for the big bang which shook residents within a mile and a half radius. However a witness said he saw a man walking his dog light a cigarette.

The man fled in one direction, the dog in another following the blast. No one was injured. A tongue of flame shot from a sewer culvert in front of Crown Woodcraft at 42, a witness said. The powerful blast lifted a 5 foot square piece of paving inchest thick a short distance into the air and blew two manhole covers, one in front of th stores and one diagonally across the street out of place. Police and firemen responded quickly to the scene.

However no fire was found. Police roped off the area and prevented a curious crowd from lighting cigarettes and smoking. Damaged from the explosion which occurred shortly after 10:30 P. M. in addition to Crown Woodcraft were the Gene Hacker Camera Shop and the Floor Tile Mart.

Owners of the stores said they had smelled gas in the area for the past week. No dollar estimate of the loss was available, but Eugene Hack-( Continued on page 2, column 6) board of inquiry to determine whether there had been any violation of labor laws on the job. He said there had been State inspections of the job but that his department is not sufficiently staffed to conduct as many inspections as he would like on all the major construction projects under way in the State. Neither man was ready to report on his findings yesterday. Denno said he would have a report today or tomorrow.

Gerritsen said simply: "No one knows what happened down there." Gerritsen added that the Contl Construction Company of Maple-wood, contractors on that portion of the Village's vast sewer project, was doing a satisfactory job. The men had been working 6 days a week on the job. There (Continued on page 2, column 1) CADILLACS N'tw Cr. To iiti at H. Fttcra, 278 Kttar Street, Hackeaiaek.

-Adv. Bulletin Newark, Oct. 6 (UPI) The engineer who drove a Jersey Central commuter train off the end of a Newark Bay drawbridge September 15 with a loss of 43 lives did not have a heart attack, but drowned in the disaster, final autopsy report disclosed today. BURDETTE OUT TO BURYYANKS Tries For Fifth Win Against Turley New York, Oct. 6 HI Lew Burdette, the angular right-hander who beats the Yankees by habit, attempts to close out Milwaukee's second straight World Series championship today as he opposes Bob Turley of New York in the fifth game at Yankee Stadium.

He'll set a series record if he wins. Only three pitchers have beaten the same team four consecutive times in World Series competition and Burdette, starting the string w'ith three last year including the clincher, is one of them. He fired a steady 7-hitter Thursday in Milwaukee as the National League champions whipped the Yanks 13-5 in the second game. The Braves, leading 3-1 in the best of seven set after Warren Spahn's two-hit, 3-0 masterpiece yesterday, made Burdette's first 1958 start an easy one with a record 7-run splurge in the first inning. The starter and battered loser in that one was Turlcy.

He lasted only one-third of an inning and was charged with four runs. Lant year, when the Braves defeated the American League champions in seven games, Turlcy starled twice and won his only decision. His over-all series record is 1-1. Turley had a 21-7 record this season while Burdette was 20-10. The Yankees Lefty Gomez, against the Giants in 1936-37, and the Athletics' Chief Bender, against the Giants in 1911-13, 'Continued on page 2.

column 4) fabric, and art supply shops in the group, many of them housed in converted barns and sheds, remained dark without explana tion. Other service stations re mained closed. Memoli turned away many customers who came to buy Sunday papers. He also refused sales of cigarettes, magazines, toys, and candy, which he said might not qualify as food. The restraining order was Is sued Thursday by Judge J.

Wallace Leyden, who set Friday for arguments on whether to extend the stay until the court decision on the major suit. IMPROPERLY ENACTED The suit, filed on behalf of Me moli and Dvne bv Iln-Ho-Kns nt torncy Ludwig T. Smith, attacks me ordinance on two grounds. It holds that it was improperly enacted and that it is enntrarv tn provisions of the enabling statute wnicn specuicaiiy permit Sunday sales of prepared foods, meals, beverages, and drugs. The ordinance bans all worldly employment except works of ne cessity and charity.

The suit also holds that the sale of gasoline and oil and making of emergency automotive repairs are works of necessity in an area dependent on the automobile for transportation. of the blasted auto, fled to the rear of De Vincentis's house when they saw the two boys driv ing up Fair Street again for a second run. Another blast was fired from the passing car, police said After waiting some time, the trio returned to their car to find a 2-inch hole in the left front door and a series of holes in the right headlight. Iurato called police and a County-wide alarm was sent out. The pair were apprehended in their car on Essex Street near Rein's Gaseteria at 11 A.

M. yesterday, some 12 hours after the incident, by Bergen County Police Patrolman Alex Saccente. Brought to Hackensack Police Headquarters, they admitted their part in the shooting after an hour's questioning by Detective Thomas Aletta, police said. The youths, accompanied by two girls, were holding a party at Palisades Interstate Park earlier Saturday nicht when the three young men, assisted by a fourth from Garfield, stole their beer supply, police said. The two girls were returned home before the shooting took place, police said.

The shotgun, according to police, belongs to the father of the 17-year-old and was borrowed without permission. N. Y. WEEK-END TOLL 19 Albany, Oct. 6 UP) Nineteen persons died in New York State accidents over the week-end.

The total included 14 in traffic (Special to the Bergen Evening Record) New York, Oct. 6 Thomas Fitzpatrick, a Carlstadt, N. J. steamfitter with a flare for landing planes on Manhattan streets, will appear in court tomorrow for a hearing on a grand larceny charge. Fitzpatrick, 28, of 442 Jefferson Avenue, Carlstadt, was held in $10,000 bail yesterday by Magistrate Reuben Levy after he landed a small, single-engine plane on Amsterdam Avenue at 187th Street early Saturday morning.

He is accused of taking the plane from Teterboro, N. J. Airport. The tall, balding, sometime-flier landed a small plane safely at 191st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue here Sept.

30, 1956. He was fined $100 then after being found guilty of landing without a permit, reckless operation of a plane, and flying without a medical certificate. He paid the fine rather than go to jail for 10 days. Saturday's landing feat was regarded as somewhat remarkable from a flying point of view. But Magistrate Levy regarded it differently.

"This has lost all the ingredients of a prank. Fitzpatrick came down like a marauder from the skies, endanger-( Continued on page 2, column 4) COLD OUTSIDE Mercury Drops To Near Freezing Frost Covers Windows Jack Frost left a white covering on car tops and window panes this morning as the mercury hovered near freezing. Unofficial readings in Bergen County ranged from 30 in Oakland and Westwood to 35 in Clos-ter. Other unofficial readings were 31 in Alpine and 32 in Hackensack. Rockland County, N.

temperatures were reported ranging from 32 to 36. Newark Airport had a low of 36, tying the record for the date set in 1943. It was the lowest reading since a 30-degree mark April 9. Other temperatures in the State were 22 in East Hanover, 23 in Newton and Mend-ham, 33 at Lakehurst, and 37 at Atlantic City. According to the Newark weatherman the crisp weather is expected to continue for several days.

The high today will be in the low 60s with a low in the mid 30r tonight. customers. Cars streamed in and out of the parking lots and their occupants peered in windows and tried shop doors, expecting them to be open because of the court action, but they were not. Even the Past and Present antique shop, whose proprietors have been on the premises each previous Sunday since the ban, though they said they made no sales, was all quiet yesterday. Pinned to the door was a demure lettered sign: "Closed Frank V.

Sharpies, one of the shop's proprietors, was on the receiving end of the only summons issued to date under the ordinance as he sat sanding picture frames in fron; of the shop last Sunday. The Coach House gift shop carried a painted sign informing customers that it would be open Sundays during November and December only, if the local ordinance permitted. The other furniture, clothes, Few Saddle River Merchants Open For Sunday Shoppers CHARGED WITH ASSAULT Arrested yesterday were Eugene Pendry, 19, of 83 Myer Street and the 17-year-old, also of Hackensack. Pendry is charged with assault with a deadly weapon and is being held in lieu of $1,000 bail. The 17-year-old has been charged with juvenile delinquency and committed to the Bergen County Children's Shelter at Bergen Pines, police said.

No one was injured in the incident. The two youths, police said, were driving north on Fair Street and when they were abreast of the car containing the other three boys at 93 Fair Street, fired the blast. They then continued north on Fair Street and made a left turn onto Kansas Street. A few minutes later, Robert Iurato, 21, of 24 Kansas Street; Salvatore Susino, 18, of 112 Troast Street; and Albert De Vincentis, 19, of 93 Fair Street, occupants Market Moving To Record High On Early Tape New York, Oct. 6 tfl Air lines and coppers were in demand as the stock market to record highs early today.

The ticker tape was late for 13 minutes. Steels, motors and selected Issues showed strength in a general advance. Pivotal issues rose fractions to more than a point. The market was higher from the start and widened the gains as a succession of big opening blocks was traded. The inauguration of commercial jet aviation across the Atlantic accompanied the rise in air lines.

The advance in coppers was helped by published speculation concerning another rise in copper prices. Improvement in incoming business' of major in. dustrial firms and favorable forecasts for the economy were other factors. Pan American World Airways rose Vt at 22' on a big opening block of 10,000 shares. Magna Copper was up more than 2, Kennecott and U.

S. Gypsum over a point. Chrysler and American Motors were active and fractionally higher. U. S.

Steel and Crucible Steel made similar gains in brisk dealings. Leading rails, oils and chemicals gained fractionally on a broad front. Royal Dutch was particularly active. American Telephone also added a sizable fraction. Gamble Skogmo raised the divi-dent to 20 cents from 15 cents and gained a fraction after starting unchanged.

Businessmen Who Initiated Suit Take Advantage Of Court Order Saddle River Sunday drivers who stopped off at this borough's quaint shopping center yesterday found surprisingly few merchants open to receive them, despite the Superior Court order halting enforcement of the rigid local Ridgewood Death Site Called Trouble Spot For Excavators Sandy Soil, High Water Table Made Job Tough, Caused Delays Ridgewood The Linwood Avenue sewer trunk extension where two workmen lost their lives duruig a cave-in Friday night has been the site of almost continuous headaches since excavation began in August. Sunday closing ordinance. ONLY PREPARED FOODS The two merchants who filed suit to obtain the restraining order, Jack Memoli and service-station proprietor Douglas Dyne, were open all day, although Memoli would sell only prepared foods and beverages at his combination delicatessen and stationery store. Across the river in Barnstable Court, only the Strawberry Barn steak house opened its doors to DAILY CIRCULATION LAST MONTH 84,741 HOME 0 DELIVERED HIS WORST JOB Henry Gerritsen of 260 Oak Street, who is employed as the Village's inspector on the job, said the combination of sandy soil, high water table, and the need to lay the 24-inch pipe as deep as 26 feet below the surface combined to cause more than the usual problems encountered on a job of that kind. He said the job was the worst he had handled in 50 years' experience on similar projects.

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