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MORRIS EDITION ,1 The Herald EWS MORRIS RAIN Portly cloudy tomorrow Other weather data on pogt 2 Price Hty WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 VOL. 100 No. 157 64 Pages la Five 'Section 1 Fiet forces near Quang Tri 1 its smash Ha ED i 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 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 nouses." 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 civil-ian 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 southwest of Hue.

slain Heights Marine I mmm By J. M. CLICK Herald-News Staff Writer Police are searching for three suspects 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 ver 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 sideto discuss the differences, Howarth said, and he received a stab wound in the abdomen and fell 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 the announcement had been delayed until the search was abandoned.

During the last two weeks, the U.S. Command has reported eight planes lost over 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 months. In South Vietnam, 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 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 artd said South Vietnamese casualties were two killed and 12 wound-ed. Hue was shelled Tuesday for the third night. Five 122mm rounds landed, wounding one soldier.

On the southern front, four fights raged long 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. Nation's traffic toll 721 i By The Associated Press Traffic accidents around the nation claimed 721 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. illlf AP Wlrephoto BRIDGE" WRECKAGE U.S. Air Force photo shows damaged 96-foot-long Vu Chua railroad bridge 38 miles from" Hanoi in North Vietnam. It was hit by guided bombs June 22.

The bridge crosses the Suoi Ngang River. I 15 in state die John W. Condos Jr. let, either a 1959,. '60, or '61 model.

The verified, but was probably caused by loss of blood 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.

Howarth 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 East Paterson Detective Sergeants Walter Mihalik. and Angelo LaPlaca, Detectives Nathan Gould, Francis Higgins and Louis Mangano and Captain Michael Yachnik who 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 The youth's friends were at the home last night, attempting to console his mother. Condos was attached to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, Cherry Point, N.C. He enlisted following graduation from Hasbrouck Heights High School last year.

Born in Harkensack, ha lived most of his life in the South Bergen area. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Condos Sr.

a sister, Lydia, at home, and his grandparents, Mrs. Angelina Pagano of Paramus and Mr. and Mrs. William Condos of Asbury Park. The funeral will be at 9 a.mr.

Friday from the Hennessey Funeral Home, Hasbrouck Heights. A 10 a.m. Mass will follow at Corpus Christi R. C. Church, Hasbrouck Heights, where he was a parishioner.

driver was said to be very heavy set, to the ground. The assailant 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, 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 drawing of two of the three youths in the assailant's car, prepared from descriptions given by Condos' companion. They were said to be driving a white Chevro- crashes road in with fuzzy Afro style hair and possibly a pimply face.

The allegedly the 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 Spassky rebukes Fischer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky now is scheduled to start tomorrow afternoon following another postponement, this one demanded by the Soviet champi 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 on.

will divide. Wl mnra tnnnov rvft SpaSSkV The American grandmaster getting it, the American challenger came was resting from the overnight flight in a Emidio Cacciabeve, praising the American way of life, said, "Where else can citizens come to one of these meetings, call us names and get away with it?" Elsewhere, there was little controversy and a lot of congestion as people gathered to watch parades or become sun-wbrshippers. Police in Plainfield reported no problems with what was 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. Qther paraderand 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 Fire- works Co.

Police said the explosions started when a truck loaded with fireworks came too close to a rubbish fire in a barrel. Torrential rains hit southern Japan KOCHI, Japan (AP) Torrential rains set off a landslide which smashed at least 10 homes and swept a locomotive and two railway coaches into a ravine in southern 1 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. The slide struck an isolated village in a 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 yesterday. 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 celebra-' tion 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 with 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 curred 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 to Iceland for the postponed opening match yesterday. But Spassky. walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fisccher was not He had sent his second, a Roman Catholic Officials announced a hew 48-hour post-ponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday. They hoped both 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 tion, each player will get another from the television and film rights. Please turn to Page 2, Col. 1 Food prices up again "The food prices are just terrible now" said a woman in a Seattle, supermarket. "I know how much the prices have gone up because I just started shopping regularly a year and a half ago when I was married." "Prices are out of sight," said a man in a Kansas City store. "The very first thing the government should have done in its economic program was to put controls on food prices." Supermarket executives warned consumers on June 16 to expect a rise in prices, particularly of meat.

They said that wholesale costs have geen going up and the retail outlets no longer could absorb the increase. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Consumers warned by supermarket of-ficials to expect higher meat prices are finding the warning all too true. An Associated Press survey of about two dozen cities shows that grocery bills- particularly for the better cuts of beef and for pork have increased anywhere from a dime a pound on up in the two weeks since the latest warning was issued. Cabinet officials scheduled a meeting in Washington today with officials of food chains and called in farmers for a session tomorrow to help in preparing a food prices report that President Nixon has requested by July 10. Shoppers, meanwhile, were issuing their own reports.

McGowern aides HHH, trade; jabs mm i.Mfin dentials cases before the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington. 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 Illinois headed by Chicago Mayor Richard F. Daley.

Frank Mankiewicz, McGovern's nation al 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 AP Wlrephoto 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. McGovern gains 2Vz NJ.

delegate votes tt i i tt iiibiau louav rierain- pws. -r I SI wi -i i-i it ft 1 ALL ASnlUs A photo story amply jt -y? demonstrates tat hats will be part of the i Page 13 SOLAR SHOW Preparations are under way for the shadow, which ivill sweep the earth next week 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 fa vored a third party to "punish" Humphrey should the Minnesota senator win the Democratic presidential nomination. "Talk of punishment of the Democratic party 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. Both Humphrey and McGovern were 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 ere- 16-page Sears' supplement Today's Herald-News includes a 16-page Sears' supplement in addition to the 56 pages in the main section. 1 1T.T.KCIAJ, C.H A RTF.RS a. c.mrltdmim.

mid. Imrpr nlnun fi! it fares, some people think the risk is worth it Page 28 1 1 Marion Kidd, who is black and is president of the state Welfare Rights organization, and Bernice Edwards, who is black and is a county committeewoman from East Orange. The two others are Constance Woodruff, a black who is an official of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and ran on the Humphrey state-widev ticket, and Rita Greenstone of South Orange, a white whose husband, Herbert, was elected as an. alternate on the uncommitted slate. Ellen Durkin, who is cpchairmarr of the Hudson County Women's Political Caucus and filed the challenge to the makeup of the Hudson County 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 can hardly be called full justice or a great victory for the women of Hudson County," she said. WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. George S. McGovern gained' 2V2 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 McGovern gain came at the expense of 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 unseated and two women were to the delegation with one-half vote each. They were Gloria Oyola and Blane. In addition, the vote.pf Hudson County delegate Christopher Jackman, an assemblyman, was reduced to one-half and Margaret Bell was added to the delegation with one-half vote. The women added to the Essex County delegation were Joanne Daniels, Marion Kidd, Bernice Edwards, Constance Woodruff and Rita Greenstone. The men whose votes were cut in half were Joel R.

Jacpbson, O. Vincent McNany, Henry Stevenson, John J. Brown and Richard N. Leonard. The five Essex men were all elected on the Regular Democratic Organization uncommitted slate, but most of them were in favor of Humphrey at primary time.

There was no Humphrey slate in Essex County. The five women apparently split 3-2 for McGovern The three favoring McGovern, all of them candidates on the Essex McGovern slate, are Joanne Daniels, who is white, under 30 and active in women's rights groups A Pasoic-Mqrrii-Essex 29-33 Jeane Dixon 11 About Those in Service 23 Hobe Morrison 48 Amusements 48 Movie Timetable ,48 Births 27 Obituaries 4 Bridge II Speak Up 11 Business News '34 Sports 41-47 Comics 55 Stocks 34 Crossword 55 TV and Radio 22 Dear Abby 13 Want Ads 49-54 Editorial Women's News For Heral-News home delivery call la Wayne area, call our Willowbrook office at 785-1555 1-.