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COUIMIY EDITION 0 TUT Tm irV) a it thy -TV i iflift liii COUNTY 1 RAIN Portly cloudy tomorrow -Other weother data on pofle 2 WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 VOL. 100 No. 157 64 Pages In Five Sections, Price 10 Viet forces near Quang Tri IU1 an did announce that MIG21 interceptors shot down a pair of Phantoms southwest of Hanoi on June "27. It said two crewmen were rescued, two are missing, and S. I 1 i A yv r.

SAIGON (AP) American warplanes. blasted the Hanoi region with heavy strikes yesterday, the U.S. Command announced today. More fighting also was reported on the northern front in South Vietnam, east of Quang Tri City and southwest of Hue. North Vietnam claimed that the U.S.

planes bombed and strafed residential areas of Hanoi, "killing or injuring many persons and destroying or damaging hundreds of dwelling houses." It said two U.S. F4 Phantoms were shot down. The U.S. Command said it would dis close details of the raids later today, but it denied that attacks were made on civilian targets and said it had no information "indicating other than military targets were hit." The command also said it had no plane losses Tuesday to announce yet. But it Heights Marine slain the announcement had been delayed until the search was abandoned." During the last two weeks, the U.S.

Command has reported eight planes lost North Vietnam and 14 fliers missing, pushing the toll since the resumption -of full-scale bombing on April 6 to 53 aircraft downed and 59 airmen missing. Radio Hanoi has said that many of the pilots have been captured and last week broadcast messages from 14 men it said were taken prisoner in the last three In South the. U.S. Command said, American planes accidentally attacked South Vietnamese marines five miles southeast of Quang Tri City. The command said 11 marines were killed and 30 were wounded.

Spokesmen said the attack is under investigation. Small clashes were reported east of Quang Tri City, and South Vietnamese forces were reported still on the outskirts of the provincial capital that is the first major objective of the coun-teroffensive launched last week. Twenty-three North Vietnamese troops were killed and 15 rifles and three 122mm drawing of two of the three youths in the assailant's car, prepared from descrip-''tfons given by Condos' cpmpanion. They -were said to be driving a white Chevrolet, either ra 49590, 61 model. The driver was said to be very heavy set, with fuzzy Afro style hair and, possibly a pinjply face.

The passenger, allegedly the I 1 1 1 II -y-iVfii- .4,, By J. M. GLICK Herald-News Staff Writer Police searching for three suspecis" in the stabbing death Monday night of an 18-year-old Hasbrouck Heights Marine lance corporal in an East Paterson gas station lot. John W. Condos" 165 Boulevard, was pronounced dead on arrival at Saddle Brook General Hospital minutes after he was stabbed in the abdomen by one of three occupants of another car.

According to East Paterson Police Chief Gregory W. Howarth, occupants of the two cars involved were apparently in disagreement over handling of each Sketches of 2 suspects appear on Page 2 others vehicles while driving west on Market Street in Saddle Brook. Both cars pulled into Andy's Gulf Station at Midland Avenue and Market Street. Condos apparently went over to the other car on the passenger side to discuss the differences, Howath said, and he received a stab wound in the abdomen and fell to the ground. The assailant's car, carrying three youths, fled.

Andrew Nunziato, the station's owner, called Saddle Brook police and the victim was taken to the hospital by his friend, llllilft plillliil AP Wirephoto WASHINGTON STYLE Fireworks explode over three of the-most famous Washington landmarks the brightly illuminated Lincoln Memorial at the left, the tal! Washington Monument in the center, and the Capitol at the right as the nation's capital celebrated our biggest national holiday. 15 in state die John W. Condos Jr. crashes who had been driving with him. Police refused to identify the friend other than to say he is a Saddle Brook teen-ager.

Police have distributed a composite roau in assailant, has a round face and short hair. Both are white, 18 to 20 years old. No identification was available on the third youth, seated in back of the car. The youth's body was taken to the Collins Funeral Home, Rutherford, where an autopsy was performed yesterday. Cause of death was not immediately verified, but was believed caused from loss of blood, the result of the stab wound.

Police" said they do not have the weapon. Haworth has set up a special telephone number to receive any information that might help in the investigation. He assured that any information will be kept in strictest confidence. The number is 796-0687. Haworth is being aided in the investigation by the Bergen County prosecu-tor's office and the local detective bureau.

Alfred Genton, first assistant prosecutor, and Richard Kikkert, chief of detectives in the prosecutor's office, were among the first on the scene, midnight Monday, with Patrolman Dante De-Stefano and Paterson Detective Sergeants Walter Mihalik and Angelo La-Race, Detectives Nathan Gould, Francis Higgins and Louis Mangano and Captain Yachnik worked through the night and until late, yesterday on the case. The youth's friends where shocked upon learning of his death. One said he was a really nice guy he got along with everybody he was straight, not on drugs or anything, God no, he didn't deserve to die." Borough officials who knew him agreed with his friends. Condos was active in high school athletics, showing particular prowess in weight lifting. He held three state championships when he was 17.

The family apartment is above Mona-han's Club, a tavern at Boulevard and Division Avenue. The youth's friends were at the home last night, attempting to console his mother. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Condos a sister, Lydia, -at home, and his grandparents, Mrs. Angelina Pagano of Paramus and Mr. and Mrs. William Condos of Asbury Park. rocket launchers captured, the Saigon command said.

One South Vietnamese-soldier was reported wounded. Heavier fighting broke out to the rear of the offensive. Spokesmen said North Vietnamese forces shelled and assaulted South Vietnamese positions about 10 miles southwest of Hue but were driven back with air and artillery strikes. The Saigon command claimed 67 of the attackers killed and said South Vietnamese casualties were two killed and 12 1 Hue was shelled Tuesday for the third night. Five 122mm rounds landed, wound-ing one soldier.

On the southern front, four fights raged along the Cambodian border 50 miles west of Saigon, and the Saigon command claimed 132 North Vietnamese troops were killed. It said South Vietnamese losses were six men killed and 27 wounded. Torrential rains hit southern Japan KOCIIl, Japan (AP) TorrentiaJ rains set off a landslide which smashed at least 10 homes and swept a locomotive and two railway coaches into a ravine in southern Japan today. Police said 61 persons were missing. A rescue team of 120 police and volunteers was digging into the mud and rock which cascaded down a mountain slope.

-7 lems with whatWas probably the state's biggest parade marking the holiday. The parade, sponsored by eight Central Jersey communities, featured more than 80 units marching through Plainfield and North Plainfield. Other parades and fireworks displays were held throughout the state, and in Vineland a premature fireworks display set off a blaze that burned out three; of the 12 buildings at the Vineland Fireworks Co. Police said the explosions started when a truck loaded with fireworks came too close to' a rubbish fire In a barrel. State police spokesmen said traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway was heavy on Friday, but that return trip traffic yesterday seemed to be lighter because of the workday for some on Monday and showers Monday nisht that sent some shore visitors home if The slide struck an isolated village in a early.

mountainous area 18 miles from Kochi. Japan National Railways said only a conductor and a maintenance man were aboard the train. It said service had been halted because the heavy rain According to omciais at ine tane u.a. Naval Ammunition Depot, at least one man used the holiday weekend to express the kind of criticism of government that the Boonton officials decried. Lee Kohns, 37, of Freehold was charged with trespassing after he By The Associated Press The long July 4th holiday was filled with sunshine and ceremonies throughout New Jersey, but deaths caused by traffic, homicides and fire marred the celebration for many.

At least 15 persons died in traffic accidents between the time the official count started at 6 p.m. Friday and ended at midnight Tuesday. There were also two homicides and a drowning, and one. fireman died of an apparent heart attack. Later today in Mount Holly, Bill M.

Jordan, 75, of Pemberton is scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges in connection wiuj. the shooting death of his son-in-law, Army Sgt. John E. Hooks, 40. According to police, Jordan was held on 'assault charges following the shooting, which took place during a family argument.

Hooks died some hours after the incident in a Philadelphia hospital. Yesterday, Mark D'Ambro. 18. of Yea-don, was charged with the fatal stabbing of Steven P. Warren, 18, of Philadelphia during a North Wildwood street brawl.

Police in that Cape May County community said the fighting occurred Monday night. In Pennsauken, Fireman Herman Blank, 49, collapsed at the scene of a fire that destroyed the roof of a restaurant. Camden County Coroner Blair M. Murphy said Blank apparently succumbed to a heart attack, his second within a year. This year, the holiday marked the 196th anniversary of American independence and in at least one community, Boonton, officials used the occasion to bemoan criticism of the government.

Alderman Frederick W. Lieberhauser told a meeting of the Board of Aldermen that everyone should counter this "negativism" by declaring, "I am proud to be a American," and fellow Alderman Emidio Cacciabeve, praising the American way of life, said, "Where else can citizens come to one of these meetings, call us names and yet away with it?" Elsewhere, there was little controversy and a lot of congestion as people gatlH. red to watch parades or become sun-worshippers. Police in Plainf ield reported no prob Spassky rebukes Fischer gllli liliiilili 111 In cnameu mmseu iu a laiuuciu uaui iu stop a cargo train at the depot, the officials said. Kohns is a member of an anti-war group that has held numerous demonstrations at the depot, charging that the depot is being used to ship am munition to what they consider airillegal, undeclared war in Vietnam.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship chess match be-tween Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky 'now is scheduled to start tomorrow afternoon following another postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champion. After holding out for more money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match yesterday. But Spassky valked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fisccher was not present. He had sent his second, a -Roman Catholic priest; u-l Officials announced a new 48-hour postponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday. They hoped both players would be ready to meet tomorrow.

Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early Tuesday. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky will divide. The 29-year-old American grandmaster was resting from the overnight flight in a guarded villa at the edge of town when Spassky counterattacked in the" holdout department. The 35-year-old Soviet champion read a prepared statement calling the American's conduct insulting and intolerable It ti6n, each player will get another $75,000 from the television and film rights. Please turn to Page 2, Col.

1 Nation's traffic toll 721 By The Associated Press Traffic accidents around the nation claimed J21 lives during the Independence Day weekend. The National Safety Council had estimated in advance that 800 to 900 persons might be killed on streets and highways between 6 p.m. local time Friday and midnight Tuesday. The record toll for any Independence Day weekend was 732, in 1967 when the holiday also ran four days. The count last year, a three-day weekend, was 638.

am. of 1 V-Hl McGovern HHH, aides trade jabs AP Wirephoto FISCHER ARRIVES American grandmaster Bobby Fischer debarks from a plane in Reykjavik, Iceland, for his world championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The match has been put off until tomorrow. Behind Fischer is Fridrik Olafsson, Icelandic grandmaster of chess. U.S.

District Court Judge George L. Hart refused Monday to overturn Democratic Credentials Committee decisions ousting 151 McGovern delegates from California and 59 uncommitted delegates from Illiriois headed by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. resting Humphrey at his Waverly, lakeside home, McGovern at his Eastern shore Maryland farm while their supporters spent the Fourth of July arguing the California and Illinois credentials cases before the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington.

Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's national political director, said on the CBS radio program "Capitol Cloakroom" there is still hope the competing Illinois delegations can reach a compromise "and that Please turn to Page 2, Col. 6 Inside Sclav's FALL FASHIONS A photo story amply demonstrates that hats will be part of the. coordinated classic look for utitithin Page 13 McGovern gains iVi N.J. delegate votes 1872-1072 SOLAR SHOW Preparations are under way for the shadow, which will sweep the earth next iveek Page 39 MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Aides to Sens.

Hubert H. Humphrey and George McGovern are sparring verbally in a warmup for next week's Democratic National Convention while a federal appeals court considers the crucial California and Illinois, credentials cases. Jack Chestnut, Humphrey's campaign manager, demanded that McGovern fire or repudiate Rick Stearns, one of his campaign aides, for saying that he favored a third party to "punish" Humphrey should the Minnesota senator win the Democratic presidential nomination. "Talk of punishment of tfee Democratic Tarty is irresponsible and can't be tolerated," Chestnut said, reacting to the Stearns comments which seem to be part of an effort by some McGovern aides to convince party leaders that denial of the nomination to the front-runnng South Dakota senator would split the party. oth Humphrey and McGovern were 16-page Sears' supplement Today's Herald-News includes a 16-page Sears' supplement in addition to the 56 pages in the main section.

ILLEGAL CHARTERS Despite a crackdown and lower plane. fares, some people think the risk is worth it Page 28 cus ana luea tne cnanenge to me maseup of the Hudson County delegation, said, her group was pleased with the decision but thought the compromise didn't go far. enough in giving women representation. "The very limited remedy raising the proportion of women's votes on the delegation from 11 to 27.7 per cent can1 hardly-be called full justice or a great victory for the women of Hudson County," she unseated and two women were added'to the delegation with one-half vote each. They were Gloria Oyola and Susan Blane.

In. addition, the vote of Hudson County delegate Christopher Jackman was reduced to one-half and Margaret Bell was added to the delegation with one-half The women added to the Essex County delegation were Joanne Daniels, Marian Kidd, Bernice Edwards, Constance Woodruff and Rita Greenstone. The men whose votes were cut in half were Joel R. Jacobson, O. Vincent McNany, Harry Stevenson, John J.

Bow-en and Richard N. Leonard." Ellen Durkin, who is cochairman of -the Hudson County Women's Political Cau WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George S. McGovern gained 24 more delegate votes yesterday in a compromise, settlement of a challenge to the New Jersey delegation. The Credentials Committee approved the compromise by an overwhelming voice vote.

The MoGovera gain came at the "expense" or uncommitted delegates. The compromise was worked out by a supporter of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey Patrick Foley of Minnesota. Five women were added to the Essex -County delegation with one-half vote each, and the votes of five men were reduced to one-half "vote.

In Hudson County, Joseph Soriero was Passaic-Morrit-Etsex 29-33 Jeane Dixon About Those in Service 23 Hobe Morrison 48 Amusements .48 Movie 5 Timetable 48 Births 27 Obituaries A Bridge 11 Sneak Up 11 Business News '34 Sports 41-47 Comics '55 Sfocks 34 Crossword 55 TV and Radio 22 Dear Abby 13 Wont Ads 49-54 Editorial '10 Women's News 13r19 said. She added, however, that she hoped the Hudson County political leaders that the -54 ner cent of the population who are- I For Herald-News home delivery "call 777-6000 1 I In Wayne area, call our Willowbrook office at 785-1555 women constitute an alert, concerned force in the community that can no longer be closed out of political decisions or political office..

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