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5- I Regional editort, Index, and the complete weather report appear on Page 2. SOUTHWEST EDITION Mostly Sunny, IllRh Mlil30; Cloudy Tunluhl; Snow, Italn Tomorrow Friend of the People It Serves Vol. 70 No. 168 76 PAGES Four Sections Dally Irnt VuiMUy Rlvr tMrkaiuat-ii, I MONDAY. DECEMBER 21, 10C4 6 TRICE FIVE CENTS MORE HOSTAGES fi ARMED BANDITS mmmu tip rZM'fi 1 1U I Paterson Holdup Is Carried Out In Broad Daylight Outside St.

Anthony's Church By MARTIN B. STILES (Staff Writer) Paterson Three armed bandits took more than a half-million dollars from an armored truck of the First National Bank of Passaic County in front of St. Anthony's It. C. Church and School on Beech Street about 9 A.

M. today. The robbers forced a priest to open the rectory safe before the guards arrived. The robbers handcuffed three priests and two armed guards and escaped with about $1,100 in collections from the church, and with a half-million dollars from the bank's green panel truck. John Anderson, bank vice-president said the truck was making the first in a series of regular Monday-morning pickups and deliveries when the holdup occurred.

The truck makes about five stops at bank branches and churches. The police alarm was broadcast at 9:13 A. M. mh -to i 1 I I 1, 4s J.tr;ia 111 5j bl PmP it 1 i fef 1 lull ui Yrx-i Pffi- COIN'S LEFT BY TIIUGS-Guard John Godlcy checks bags of coins passed up by gunmen who robbed bank truck. Shipping Strike Threat Widens PRTi7vi 1 1UJJU 1 Anderson said the truck was carrying $511,000 when it left the bank's Ellison Street office.

The amount is covered completely by insurance, he said. A bank spokesman said the amount was about twice as much as the truck normally carries. He said this was because of the short work week brought on by the Christmas holidaysi thus necessitating earlier deliveries to branch banks. Details of the robbery were sketchy. Residents in the area said they knew nothing of the holdup until they heard police cars converging in front of the church.

Police put up roadblocks throughout the City as Mayor. Frank X. Graves rushed to the scene. The three bandits, wearing plastic masks entered thb rec tory of the church in the heart of the City's industrial area shortly before 9 A. and before the bank truck arrived.

They forced three priests to open an office safe and stole $1,000 in checks and $100 cash. Two of the priests in the rectory at the time were the Rev. Attilio Giovannini and the Rev. Phillip Pascutti. F.

B. I. agents went to the scene and took charge of the investigation. The third priest, the Rev. James Kirk of St.

Anthony's Guild, a welfare agency, said that he and the other two priests were held captive for more than 40 minutes. After the guards walked in and were seized and handcuffed, all five men were tied together with strips torn from drapes on the walls. It took about 15 minutes for the smooth-functioning bandits to execute the holdup which took place miles from the bank. Police said one bandit kicked the ankles of one of the three priests, sending him rolling down a stairway. The priest had been walking downstairs from the second floor when he saw what was happening on the floor below.

He tried to (Continued Page 12, Column 2) i k' Longshoremen Tie Up 40 N. Y. C. Piers; Galveston Negotiations Continue Paterson. Gunmen fled with about half million dollars today.

(Staff photographs.) HOLDUP SCENE A nun at left talks with policemen outside St. Anthony's Church in Galveston New threats of a dock walkout' from Maine to Texas broke out today when longshoreman'; ft efl. of New YofR? fFaylor Weighs WIDE BOYCOTT Kins: Backs Proposal To Hit Scripto Atlanta (UPI) Striking Negroes, backed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King said that if a wage agreement is not reached today they will call for a worldwide boycott of pens, and pencils, and cigarette lighters made by Scripto, Inc. Ata mass meeting called for a closer Union between the movements of labor and civil rights. "Along with the struggle to desegregate we must engage in the struggle for better jobs," he told the strikers.

"The same system that exploits the Negro exploits the poor white man." "The white power structure hollers 'Nigger, Nigger, Nigger'," King said, while exploiting both poor whites and Negroes. Union leaders' have said they will call on trade unions throughout the world to quit buying Scripto's products if an agreement; is not reached in a meeting at 3 P. M. with Scripto management. 1 King, who returned Friday fiom Europe where he received the Nobel Prize for his work in the civil rights movement, has pledged to the workers the support of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

The Negro workers, members of the International Chemical Workers Union, claim a wage proposal that offers more money to skilled employees at Scripto than to unskilled employees is discriminatory to Negro workers. There are about 700 unskilled Negro workers at the plant and about 200 skilled white workers. Scripto has said the (Continued Page 12, Column 4) shipping on the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. An 8 P. M.

deadline for a West Gulf strike passed before Massey emerged from a bargaining session to make his announcement. Anthony Scolto, an I. L. A. international vice-president in New York, quickly branded the walkout a wildcat strike in defiance of the international's instructions.

In Boston, New En gland I. L. A. Vice-President John F. Mcran likewise said the stoppage was unauthorized.

Vietnam Coup Ambassador, Huong Talks Seek Means Of Restoring Government. Power Saigon (UPI) U. S. Embassy officials today 'suspended urgent talks on stepping 'up the anti-Communist war effort while seeking ways to repair South Vietnam's government, splintered by a new military coup. REPORTED DEAD IN EAST CONGO Traces Of Massacre Found At Banalia By Task Force SURVIVORS SOUGHT Lropoldvillc tfi Thirty more white hostages, all missionaries and their families, are believed to have been killed by rebels in the northeastern Congo, refugees arriving here said yesterday.

The missing include an American, Mary Baker of Richmond, Va. She was last reported at Banalia, 82 miles north of Stan leyville, on November 20. Fifteen other missionaries were missing from Banalia and 14 more from Bafwasende, ISO miles northeast of Stanleyville. Fourteen refugees freed at Bafwasende by white mercenary troops'said they were not sure the other hostages in the town had been killed. "We heard one volley of rifle fire," said Mrs.

Dolena Burk of Calgary, "but later the Simbas (rebel soldiers) promised us they had not been killed." Her husband Is among the missing. Other refugees said the mercenaries told them they found traces of a recent massacre at Banalia. Children's clothes, the habits of a nun and a priest, and splashes of blood were discovered on the slope leading up to Banalia's ferryboat, the soldiers told them. Besides Mrs. Burk, the sur-(Continued Page 12, Column 1) U.

N. DELEGATES STAGfPROW S. Africa Minister Boycotted Is United Natiotis (UPI) African and Communist delegates staged a mass-walkout from the General Assembly today when South African Toreign Minister Hilard Mueller was called to speak. The walkout began when Mueller stepped up to the rostrum. Many Asian delegates joined the walkout but some Asians stayed in their places, as did Western European and Latin American delegates.

The demonstration was in protest against South Africa's racial policies. In his speech Mueller told the Assembly South Africa is prepared for any attempt by the U. N. to impose sanctions. Mueller delivered a wide-ranging defense of his Government's racial policies in his 30 minute speech, although 73 delegations were absent at the time.

Outside the assembly hall, Secretary-General Thant resumed his role in the attempts to settle the U. N. financial crisis caused by Russia's huge debt. ALL ABOARD President named Him balked at going Si fi.JrJ 1 a U. S.

Ambassador Maxwell about 40 piers in the City While the pickets marched on" the East coast port, longshoremen worked without contract on the Gulf of Mexico segment of the coastline while negotiations continued here. It could not be determined whether the wildcat' walkouts in New York were in sympathy with the lack of progress in the Galveston talks or in protest of the contract settlement on the East coast. Workers will meet tomorrow night in New York to hear details of that contract from union leaders. New York has about 350 piers. CONTRACT HUDDLE New York union leaders huddled to try to stop the walkouts.

Negotiators for shippers and the Gulf and South Atlantic District of the I. L. A. indicated they would keep on trying to work out a contract agreement here. Longshoremen will continue working on a day-to-day basis, District I.

L. A. President Ralph A. Massey said, while the negotiations are in progress. Massey said the union could order dock workers to leave their jobs at any time and there remained a strong possibility of strike, which would paralyze FOR HOLIDAYS Winter Starts Today; Freeze Is Expected The- winter weather system, anticipating the start of winter today at 2:50 dropped the heaviest snow of the season on- Bergen County yesterday, and may bring freezing rains tomorrow followed by a fresh mantle of snow Thursday, just in time for Christmas.

The Newark Weather Bureau recorded 3.2 inches of snow between 2:10 A. M. and 10:45 A. M. yesterday.

Although main highways were back to normal speeds and conditions this morning, police in communities reported secondary and back-roads hazardous with patches of ice and packed snow. Road crews were busy sanding these roads during the night. The Weather Bureau says the mercury will climb into the upper 30s today, fall to about 30 tonight, and then climb back into the upper 30's tomorrow. The temperature rise tomorrow (Continued Page 12, Column 1) L.B.J., Aides Scan Budget Economies Huddle At Texas Ranch Aims To Keep Spending Under $100 Billion ranch with Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz.

Interior Secretary Stuart L. Udall, Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges and John T. Connor, whom Johnson has named to succeed Hodges after the latter's retirement next month. All of them flew to Texas yesterday with Johnson.

Also with them were Budget Bureau Director Kermit Gordon and Dr. Donald S. Hornig, the President's science advisor. Press Secretary George E. Reedy told newsmen the Cabinet officers would fly back to Washington late this afternoon.

First they will report on their meetings to newsmen at the White (Continued Page 12, Column 5) D. Taylor and his deputy, U. Alexis Johnson, spent the day meeting with Prime Minister Tran Van Huong who is still in office and Lieutenant-Gen-eral Nguyen Khanh, the military strongman, to try to arrange speedy restoration of the civilian government. No U. S.

Embassy official however, went to see the young generals who took over effective power in a bloodless partial coup yesterday, dissolving the high National Council a sort of interim civilian lepislature and arresting most of its members. Sources said that the U. S. officials made it known the Embassy would accept a compromise formula involving transfer of the politicians from military to civilian custody and a reorganization of the Council, a change of membership. The nine "young Turks" who stages the latest coup had refused to release their prisoners despite warnings that the United States might review its aid program if they failed to do so.

Taylor and Johnson began the day of conferences by calling (Continued Page 12, Column 4) Saturday morning while en route from Amman, Jordan, to Benghazi, Libya. A Mecom spokesman idenli-(Continued Page 12, Column 3) Record Examines Bergen's Poor The Record in a feature article in tomorrow's editions looks over Bergen County's pockets of poverty where and now 13,500 families live on annual incomes of $3,000 or less. Johnson City, Tex. (UPI) President Johnson conducted an intensive budget-cutting review with three Cabinet members today in a final uphill drive to keep federal spending under $100 billion next year. The President met at his first leg of a jet flight to Texas.

carries Him. (Photo by A. Plane-Crash Victims Are Found In Egypt Wreckage Of Craft Downed By Gunfire Is Reached By U. S. Consular Aide TxK ii' Jill? iizM lf WIH III! .1 tTlim 1 i.imHIi ifl 1 ll li'i I tif' ill li'-'il 1' iiiiii''' tmlniMniil aw Wi inmrllfet I ilfi it itM Vy-if ft? Cairo (UPI) A U.

S. consular official today reached the wreck, age of a Texas oil company plane shot down by Russian-built Egyptian jet fighters. The bodies of a Texan and a Scandinavian were found in the wreckage. The incident appeared certain to worsen Egyptian-American relations, already strained by the burning in Cairo last month of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library.

The craft, a twin-engine C82 cargo plane owned by the Me-com Oil Co. of Houston, was brought down near Alexandria Second from left is Police Chief John O'Brian; behind guard is Deputy Chief William Lud-wig. Police believe six men may have been involved. (Staff photos by Robert Brush.) IT HAPPENED THERE Frank Fernandi, driver-guard of the panel truck, shows Mayor Frank Graves of Paterson, left, and police officials where he was accosted by gunmen. copter for the Here an aide Johnson's dog aboard the heli 41.

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