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THE TROY RECORD t'u-j i 1 1 Seccr.d C.mi i i i A i aeues iyO'l-io. 107 rre ch TUOY, N. A Hard-Luck Wilder Family Loses Christopher, 8 28 PACKS I A I I I I I i A 1111,11 I.HH I I I I IS i I A I I I I MiAlt vn. PRICK SEVEN CENTS Troy Boy Drowns In Hudson Jly JOHN J. McNAMAJlA An 8-year-old a boy was drowned in Iho Hudson River near (he foot of Fullon Jlreet early last night when lie lost liis balance and lop- pled into Ihc water while playing with his brother.

Vidim of the tragedy, the first its kind in this area this season, was Christopher J. Wilder, one of i children o( and Mrs. Donald A. Wilder of 430 River St. The family are welfare recipients.

Christopher and his brother, Andrew, 12, had descended the steps on (he concrete river a almost to the water level and wore watching the current as it passed along the channel. "We were looking," Andrew explained later to Pjain- clolhosinen a Madsen and Charles F. King of the Detective Bureau. Suddenly, Christopher bst his balance ar.d into the water. A shouted to his brother to keep moving his arms.

Tlic current was carrying Christopher downstream, "lie went under and then came up once." Andrew said. Frantically, Andrew hurried up the a i a and ran toward the Hcndrick Hudson Garage lo seek help. fJoorgo Kronock, 20, of 89 4lh was nearby. He ran to the river, quickly removed his shoes and sweater and plunged into Ihc water near the point where Andrew said his brother disappeared but his efforts were in vain. police were notified and Sgt.

i i a L. i a was first io arrive at Hie scene. There was no sign of the boy in the water. At 6:33 p.m. Squad Co.

1 CHRISTOPHER YYILDKR rushed the emergency boat lo the river. Truck 3 and Battalion Chief Edward Til. Moore also responded lo Ihe emergency. A half hour aficr the firemen arrived the boy's body was located with grappling hooks in about 15 feel of water and 20 feel out from (he parking ramp below Fulton street by Capl. Emil Hug and Hoseman Walter Johnson.

Scores of persons gathered at the scene a Ihe emergency vehicles, including several police cars, arrived. Til. Rev, Msgr. Matthew M. Brennan, pastor of St.

Peter's Church, administered the last riles of the Homan Catholic Church. The body was then removed to Samaritan Hospital by A a Service Corp. Dr. James V. Harrctt pronounced the boy dead.

Coroner Anthony E. Malera gave a decision of acci- denial death due to drowning. Authorities said young Christopher was unable lo swim, Hard luck has plagued the Wilder family. Mrs. Wilder hss been in ill health and yesterday Christopher and Andrew had slaved home lo help her.

Mr. Wilder, unemployed for about a year, also has been ill. He ret home Sunday from St. Mary's Hospital. Mr.

Wilder was formerly employed at VanReussolacr Manor. -Shortly a Christopher's body was recovered from the river, his brother, Donald 18, arrived al the scene. He and his a were laken by I'lamclothesmcn Madsen and King to Ihe hospital where they made positive i i i cation of the body. Kire Chief Edward J. Zapf was also al Ihe scene of the drowning as were a heavy de- a i of pnlice headed by Chief James W.

Doherly, Assist. Chief John K. Gnmmiek, CAPTAIN CRJES J'OK CHRISTOPHER Unashamedly, Capt. Emil Hug of the Troy Dppl. sheds tears while holding 8-year-old Christopher Wilder, 430 River who drowned early last nighl in the Hudson River near the Fulton street docks.

The husky Fire Dept. captain and Hoseman Walter Johnson of Central Station recovered Ihe boy's body a half hour a i he was seen a i into Ihe river. With grappling hooks, the two firemen surfaced Ihe body about 150 feel south of Fulton street. Hug, the father of a boy and girl, cried while carrying the lifeless form of the small boy as Ihc rescue boat approached (he shore. Young Wilder, playing wilh bis 12-year-old brother, Andrew, apparently slipped from Ihe dock into Ihc rushing river current.

(Other pictures on Page 13). (Photo by Jack Short). One Chief of Detectives Augusl M. Rnkjer and Capls. Thomas G.

and DeGiorgio. Radio patrols rushed to the scene were manned bp Patrolmen William Maloney, George C'ostello and Robert J. Grabcr. -Motorcycle Officers Joseph U. West, Charlei Dix and John Dwycr also responded to the emergency call.

Police said Chri.slopher and Andrew Wilder were found near ihe river bank Saturday by Motorcycle Officer Howard Duby and he look them to their home. Chrislophrr, pnlice told, was an exceptionally good walker and had gained the nickname "Ilikey." Hi5 grief-stricken mother was unable lo lalk to reporters at her home last nighl. She waj Ihe former Ida Moffetle. Christopher was a pupil in a special class at School Other children in Ihc family include Bernard, 17; George, 16; Patricia, 14: Arthur, who is a twin brother of Andrew, and William, three years old. The firemen who recovered the boy's body were visibly affected by the tragedy.

Plans for Chn'slopher's funeral were incomplete last night. TM aptur 'Fraud' Tops Pulitzer Most anted Washington I Thc FBI a the arresl last night in Hayward, CaliL, of John liobcrt Bailey, one of its "10 mosl a i i The FBI said that Bailey, 44, who was put on thc mosl wanted list only 13 days ago, had been living in Hayward under Ihe name of Charles Robert Carpenter snd posing for two years as a plumber. Bailey, a self-styled "lady's man," was 5 on of participating in the armed robbery of a Hot Springs, Ark.J with three accomplices! i Feb. 22, 1962. i walked into a mine field protecting the (1.

S. a a base al Cuba, The Hoi Springs holdup 1 1 TM 1 yesterday. I Probers On Decapitation On Guantanamo Liberty Mines Kill 5 Tars Washington A Five Navy teamon were killed Saturday night when they jcurred less than four mo a Bailey's release from onlhs om the Arkansas Stale Penilcntiary, where he had been sentenced lo serve a life lerm for rape. Bailey, according to the FBI, cot Jxindon (AP) Britain lashed out at Yemen ar.d the United Arab Republic ye-sterday, accusing Ihem of fomenting violent subversion in thc South Arabian Federation. The United I VI cl onjs for ra robbery, car.

Slates was asked to investigate a abllse a larccn J'- i report thc heads of two slain British soldiers were displayed in Taiz, Yemen's diplomatic a i a but Yemen denied anyone had been decapitated. Prime Minister Sir Alec Taxi Blamed On American A federal warranl charging with criminal interstate! flight lo avoid prosecution for! robbery was issued Feb. 28 1952, at Hoi Springs. The Navy said the seamen, who were on liberty from their ships, may have become lost in Ihe darkness. The mine field is inside Ihc base, close I the wire fence thai scparaics Guanlanamo from Cuban territory.

The announcement said thc men, killed in a series of explosions, were: Seaman Richard Gsrrelt, Occansidc-, N. Seaman Ste- Bayonet-Armed Troops Enter Dominican Riots Sanlo Domingo, Dominican Republic (AP)--Troops movci with fixed bayonets inlo Sanlo Domingo's streets yesterday ii an allempt to crush th Newspaper Attacks Gain Three Prizes New York (Al 1 )--Three of (he 19G4 Pulitzer In journalism were awarded yesterday for newspaper attacks on fraud and corruption. The St. Petersburg, Times received the Pulilzor Gold Public Service for Medal for a year-long campaign lo uncover reckless spending of public fund, in the Florida Slate Turnpike Aulhor- photography prize for his picture of Jack Ruhy shooting Lee Norman C. Miller of the Wall Slreet Journal won Ihc 'genera! prize for local rcport- i for his story of a i i i million dollar fraud in vegetable oils.

The award for special local Saigon (Tuesday) Douglas-Home levelled the subversion charge in the House! nVitaTn7a askelMh cr! dt 0 1 rirc( Saigon' 'loday and (he city's laxi drivers) on" demon-! -Slates to investigate reports' a a a the heads of Ihe two ea i ed tdrl 1 tattooed on (he upper portion! of his lefl arm, a boat and words "Bailey Boy 1 on his right forearm, and a pig on his' righl calf. He will be arraigned this' istralion wilh their vehiclesi m(rn San Francisco, 'around thc S. Embassy be-i soldiers had been displayed' publicly in Taiz. But Information!" 1 1 Vitnamcso believe an 1 Russians i Minister Ahmed Almarwani Alllc involved. i UJ1 denied the reports lh.it two 1 A Pieman and a British soldiers killed in a a i i thc saw incident and clash wilh Yemeni, rebels had a a Knjlish-spcaking man been decapitated.

1C J' as probably an The British Foreign Office Ar nerican shot thc a i driver. said later that U.S. i i a in as tllc second recent (axi Yemen have been unable to 'killing blamed on Americans, i any truth in the a i a Friday a laxi i was Fr "HI Reds Oppose Laotian Unification i i a Laos (AP)- i aeai an a ierick A. Mover of the Philadel- Pjlc, 19, Crofton, Ky. i i a fcj ilipy were on liberty from a numbers racket and police lc llie amphibious as- collusion in South Philadelphia, to a mixed force of 2,000 Army, sault vessel Boxer, which is at! Additionally, Mrs.

Hazel Bran- Navy, Air Force and I a a what Ihe a i on Smith of the weekly Lex- country's triumvirate regime. The government gave orders troops "to proceed i extreme energy" afler fighling between police and rioters had erupted in Ihc city. The rioters hurled rock: called "routine fleel cau.se of ihe tragedy, since there atlack ks, are no known witnesses the I Special Citation A special Pulitzer cilallnn ivns made Ihis year In the Gannett Newspapers, for "The Road to Intergration," a program of stories of people and communities that are solving racial problems. The series was developed through the reporlorial, photographic and editorial resources of the 15 (iannclt newspapers in 1963, as well as news bureaus in Washington, Albany and Trenton, N. .1.

It was Ihe first Pulitzer i a i lo a newspaper group. The 19(i4 award for newspaper cartooning went to Paul for cartoons pub- He recently moved to Ills- Los Ans Times. His $1,000 prize Washington (AP)--The have pulled out of Cuba a i a "lighly sophisticated new radar aren effort to persuade Sou as to on eorrurdion." Joint Prize Iralist Premier Prince Souvan- with police responding with bar- announcement said. I i Prj na Phouma reel with of tea. gas shells.

But 1 plosio ls oc TM. e(l a international reporting was i i "ivaTsingled o'ut for lye- American cor-icial allenlion. For Ihe first time since 1917, Ihc first year of (he awards, Souphanouvong, head of tlicjsooncr was one crowd scaltcrcd!" a 'n to i by iwo a a a another i In -i a i oMh! lieacjl arcas i respondents in Viet Nam--Mai- Lao, at man another foimed to a i a i js i yesterday in an ap- another demonstration. a the men, had swimming Lciatod Press and Davis Hal- tion reports. shot following an argument wilh system lhal probably added lo thc effectiveness of Fidel Ca.s- forecs i a Signaling another bitlcr passenger, described by pas- in i i A a relalions, Sir scrsby as speaking like a for-l Alec told of a new anil unde-ieigncr.

The story of (hat kill-! 1 0 clll clarcd war amid Ihe iron-like," 1 played up in a S0 iirm said had crags and a i crisscross-incwspapcrs. Their accounts vir-; en seen anywhere else phanouvong lo put his leftist ro's anti-aircrafl missiles, iti Laos as learned lasl night. a statement This radar system which alhel Lao i i a not anywhere else but nalional army from a Dockworkcrs walked off and a i towels, iberstam of the job lo join imii-ersily 1 a b( comc os the Times. They will diar, in support of a three-day strike 1im th TM i rkel area." The Times has won New YorV (he by laxi and bus drivers. 29 prizes The Navy said Ihe mine i over years and the Associ.il- Ihe initial (here were no bestowed in the fields of fiction and drama.

Kacfi award has been omitted in past years, but not bnlh In indicated I A police cordon was put can be entered only by climbing led Press 19. Souvanna would meet the dock area and (he' a barbed tvirc fence, and is jiir-' Merriman Smith, White Ho battle for the and announced Ihcy wouldjfasler target tracking, snd pa '-ao opposi- ist week. The stage their "drive on" at a was for use against low- i lo rejoining the coalition i planes. cmhassv. ing Ihe Dhala GO miles i said an American did llicifjuba was "withdrawn "abouti a military but political imifica north of Aden and overlooking two or Ihrce months It wasl tio)1 a Ycmcn.

Afler thc second killing, Ihe said to have been less suscep-l A statement broadcast by It was (here thai two British "xi drivers banded together tible to a i capable i i Vongvichit of the soldiers died in a battle Aden-Dhala road lasl road serves as a lifeline lo key sector of Ihe front, where hostile tribesmen confront the; British and units of (he strong Arabian Federal Army. I N'ew troops were- rushed to'j the aid of the Snulh A a i a Federation, a British-sponsored i grouping of 14 Arab sheikh- 1 doms. A full battalion of Ihc King's I correspondent for United Pros.s i was given. use Also omitlted wi lie same year since year. c.vplana- Magazine Tells Plan To Assassinate RFK of righl-wing, neulralisl and pro-Communist faclions under Souvanna established 23 months Now York I A top Scottish Borderers flew 'Teamster i official planned out to fill the gap in Aden.

A i assassinate Ally. (7cn. Robert tthor battalion was ptil nn a 24-'F. Kennedy by tossing a plaslic hour standby for possible dc- 1)0nlh I i a ployment to the trouble spot, mobile, a a i a magazine re- about a i liltle S.O.B., Bobby Kennedy," a top Teamster official was quoted as saying, "He'll be an easy larget, always ilhnut expla- a i not only on his attempts said sailors would! rounded hy warning signs. hue used if necessary to keep 1 As an a i i a a i i a i a was awarded ihe for Ihe port functioning.

said, sailors for national reporting for in more a a decade there waj During the day the civilianj' 1 1 5 ''TMfed on restricted arca coverage last Nov. 22 of thc i i a met with the armcd' 'Caving i ships or i assassination of President John forces' chiefs of a to i 1 sni1 a TM on'P. Kennedy in Dallas, action against ihe growing a i oa ls anrt t(l loo i Robert H. Jackson of Ihc of anti-government i ances. Violence a a Times i a won Ihe broke out in ago with (he blessing of i workers' quarter and East and West in the hope of achieving peace in Laos.

The statement asserted Sou- vanna was acting under pressure of a right-wing milliary to riealh a work-' er who allackcd him i a I i It was (he i a a i reported. At least 20 persons were wounded and 150 persons. i i rtmi iuu in a which staged a coup in arrested in i i Sunday. Vientiane April 1, and any a Th(! Kc ej lion Urli crsi by Souvanna would be consid- voxl by (he cc arins i I polled yesterday. ercd null and a Lao.

driving around Washington in! A by Souvamia is- a i convertible with the biglsuod in Vientiane said ho had black dog. All we need is Britain and Ihe Soviet Students issued i joining Articulate Farmer 'Teacher Ot Year' a i A only child old enough lo ivana, Trout of Sand i during World War II, so: i the preUtcst, mosl working class ivliich has taken (poked, and mo.sl articulate load in constitutionality." or driver She also is "Kvery summer I drove i a traclor and a combine. And when (he demands 01 nation was (ho. Prize was no award in field. Field nf Letters Awards in the field of lelterj ever saw.

OH i Ilislnry Summer Chilton Powell for his i a Village; The f-'onnalinri of a New Eng. land Town." His IO.year project involved an extensive of all extant original source material in Sudhury and Marlboro, and in the Knglish villages from which the founders of the N'rw a (owns emigrated. Biography--Waller Jackson Bale for hi.s biography of "John is a i a of the ard Uni- Pcriscoping Past 1 LOCAL i i a plastic explosives tossed in with lhal the i a i Thc i Dcpl. i a i and a will finish i i i i had been dissolved and! led of ihe plot in i merged with the a i 1111- Iher, Look Magazine said I Partin said he was told I his leadership. i a i and in a copywrighteil article a official also was Soviet Unira were en-chair- i Clark Mollenhoff of the magazine's Washington Bureau.

sidering plaslic of Ihe lf)(2 (ieneva Con- Hi'idse Lesson lo blow up Ihe Kennedy home a which approved Ihe Business News According lo Ihe article, F.d-'McClcnn, Va. a i i Classified budgets, school board posls tirady a i a I a Thc Louisiana union i i a Comics for vole and lomnr- Rmiuo, Teamster offici.il,.was in trouble with thc federal. iW.is visiting I a i a in Ifin2 for loose; I I'H'l! I Ordc.rri] I in Washington use of Teamster Moscow A I Soviet ho was called inln aj Parlin said Ihe idea of as- Council of ha ordered. 'Teamster office. a i a i Ihe a general i of rolail prices on I Oluluary I'arlin swore- he was a a "loo much for him" and i and by 10 Social i help obtain a i o.splnsivos fell a bomb at Ihe Kcmirdy crnl hv 24 peri Spurts 1 Hrowii dn bo nf i a a i a i himic would endanger Ihc Koiv'oonl.

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