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Kills Wife and Himself at Son's Grave Tangled Plot Leads Police Back to Forgery, Blackmail and Prohibition Slaying of a Trooper vanished last week after forging a check of his boss for $2,100. After wandering from Point Pleasant to Atlantic City and then to Baltimore, he got in touch with his boss, Elmer W. Perry, who runs a prefabricated homes firm in Green Brook, N. J. head and then turned his .38 revolver on himself.

POLICE SENT the revolver's serial number to Albany with this explanation: "May have been used in the shooting of a New York State trooper during Prohibition Era." The Plummers lived in Middlesex Borough. He boss to pick him up at the airport. He said his own car was parked there but said he was afraid to drive it because he knew an alarm was out for him. Perry picked him up and said he didn't intend to press charges. But Plummer insisted that he would surrender as soon as he had visited the grave 6f his son, Timothy, 20, killed last year in a fall.

As Perry drove him to the cemetery, Plummer told why he had forged the check plus another for $7,900 which he had not yet cashed. At one time, he said, he had served a prison term and had met two former bootleg associates with whom he had run liquor across the Great Lakes during Prohibition. Since then, they liad blackmailed him and he particularly needed the $2,000 to "buy back" the gun which had been used in the shooting of a New York trooper while it was registered in Plummer's name. At the cemetery, Plummer asked Perry to drive to Middlesex Borough and bring back Plummer's wife. Perry did so, stopping for his own wife because Vol.

128 No. 1 40 PLUMMER asked his Free Press Wire Services SCOTCH PLAINS, N.J. Police Sunday night were trying to untangle a fantastic, blackmail plot dating back to Prohibition's bootlegging days for a motive in the murder-suicide of a quiet couple at their son's grave. Charles Plummer, 61, the father of six, shot his wife, Ann, 52, through the FRESH Fair, a little warmer. Low 38-42, high 56-60.

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46 7 P.m. 45 11 p.m. 44 43 43 40 oston MONDAY, MAY 5, 1958 Rock 9n Hollers Run Wild 3) 127 Years Clergy: From left, Msgr. Tycoon Blasts FBI 'Gestapo' Eaton Scoffs at Red Threat, Says Our Science Is Stifled NEW YORK (UP) Multimillionaire Cleveland industrialist Cyrus S. Eaton charged Sunday that Americans are snooping on each other with a spy network more extensive than Adolph Hit II III I-til a it I 4 nflt fe iji Tm- ifannUr' rrrfntiTniiT.rnini 1 1 Um i inftiifm unlv-lookinz man" had been talking with Plummer in his office.

When Perry came np, the conversation broke off abruptly. The Plummers had lived in Middlesex Borough for. four years. Neighbors described them as a quiet, home-loving couple. One said he found it hard to believe Plummer could have had a past involving bootlegging and blackmail.

METRO FINAL Gangs Rob And Knife Victims Six Women Are Injured BOSTON (AP) I Fifteen persons, inclad-lj ing six women, were at-, tacked or robbed by', gangs of teen-age boys and girls early Sunday after rioting broke out among 6,000 young people at a rock 'n' roll jam session in Boston Arena. Albert Reggianni, 19, of Stoughton, a Navy sailor, was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. His condition is critical. REGGL4.XNI was attacked as he left the arena with two girl companions, who also were assaulted. Other victims included a mother of three and two 13-year-old baby sitters.

The three also had attended the rock 'n roll show. The outbreak, which rared for hours, started as the show broke up and the youngsters spilled out of the arena. Alan Freed. New York disc jockey and master of cere monies at tne show, had been denied police permission to dim the lights during the show. Police said Freed told the audi-', ence: "I guess the police here in Boston don't want you kids to have a good time." AFTER POLICE broka ur.

fights outside the arena, the gangs raced through streets in the Roxbury and Back Bay sections knifing, beatins: and robbing. An all-male gang of about 25 wearing motorcycle jackets or pink coats and bandannas attacked three men and robbed them of $50. Two teen-age girls set upon a woman in a subway terminal, beat her, slashed her arms with a knife and snatched her pocketbook. In Roxbury a gang of youths beat one man and knifed another in an attempted robbery. Gen.

Glubb's Son Says He'll Wed Arab Girl OXFORD, England The. 18-year-old son of Lt. Gen. Sir John Glubb, former commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, said Sunday he intends to become a Moslem and marry an girl. Godfrey Glubb explained that his ambition is to return to the Middle East and carry on his father'! old work for the Arabs.

Sir John, a Christian who was known throughout ths Middle East as Glubb Pasha, was fired as Legion commander by King Hussein two years ago. Mrs. Plummer was distraught. The Plummers embraced near their son's grave, Perry related. Then Plummer suddenly pulled the .38 and shot his wife through the head.

He fired a second slug into his head and died shortly afterward in a hospital. He had 81 cents on him. Perry said that abont two months ago a "tall. Pages Seven Cents Standard Cuts Price Of Gasoline Regular, Premium Grades Reduced The Standard Oil Co. dropped its gasoline prices 1.6 cents a gallon for regular and 0.6 cent for premium one minute after midnight Monday morning.

The reduction is in the wholesale price to Standard's service station dealers. Customarily, this reduction is passed on to the consumer. A. V. FRASOR, regional manager for Standard, said the reduction was a "result of the company's flay-by-day study of iocal competitive conditions." The company has reduced prices on its regular gas 4.9 cents a gallon and on its premium, 3.9 cents since Jan.

1. The company's surprise move, made with iio previous an nouncement, follows a hike in gas prices of 1.1 cents a gallon. In the. past, the major suppliers have followed Standard's lead once a price cut or hike is announced. WHEX THE first round of price cuts was started in January, it turned into a minor price war, with first the majors, then the independents announcing cuts.

The price hike in early April was taken as a sign that the war had ended. Independent producers were expected to reduce prices Monday, possibly under Standard's. A Waiit-Ad HOLYOKE, Mass. "A retired painter desires to exchange labor for dental work," read a classified ad in the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. o) U.S.

Nixes" Atom-Free Zone Plan Presses Poland For Open Skies WASHINGTON (AP) The United States, after rejecting Poland's plan for an atom-free zone in Central Europe, Sunday renewed its own proposal for an open-skies inspection zone stretching from the British Isles into the heart of Russia. A firm but extremely polite note delivered to the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw Saturday was released by the State Department at noon Sunday. It made an obvious bid for Communist Poland's understanding and friendship in spite of the rejection, Poland having won some shaky independence from Moscow. THE NOTE nevertheless sought to bury the Polish plan permanently under half a dozen military arguments. The United States document was aimed at Western European opinion, especially British, which fears expanding nuclear armament and favors almost any step to retard or prevent it.

In Copenhagen, Denmark, meanwhile. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Turn to Page 2, Column 6 A. On Guard for The Governor and the He Shoots Ex-wife And Friend Td Do It Worker Tells Police BY ROBERT DeWOLFE and ROBERT SHOGAN Free Pre Staff Writer An angry factory worker shot his estranged wife and 'critically wounded her next- door neighbor Sunday night in 1 the woman's Madison Heights home. 1 Admitted to William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak were Mrs. Eleanor Caruso, 39, of 27335 Townley, and neighbor, Allen Klee, 34, of 27733 MRS.

CARUSO was treated for a flesh wound above her eye, Klee for a more serious wound in the stomach. Held for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon was Anthony Caruso, 51, of 8734 Hupp, Warren. Sgt. Frank Rutecki said Caruso told him: "If I could get out, I'd do it again. I'm tired of paying her money and her buying beer with it." The shooting occured about 9:15 p.m.

while Mrs. Caruso's four children slept upstairs. NEIGHBORS SAID Caruso visited the children every Sunday. Klee, described as a good friend of Mrs. Caruso, was visiting her.

Police said Caruso fired three shots with a .32 caliber pistol. Mrs. Caruso, bleeding and hysterical, ran to a neighbor's house to call police. "Tony just shot me and Allen," she told Mrs. Edward J.

Hurley, of 27352 Townley. Caruso was arrested by Warren Police in his car at Ten Mile and Mound. He was still armed but offered no resistance. rH "i 'iwr i i im-Min WriTWMur i hi MacEachin, Rabbi Frankel and Mr. Howell.

Governor Hails itate's Grandeur Ceremonies on Capitol Steps Usher In Michigan Week LANSING W) "Real heritage and God-given gifts such as our great mineral and water resources and our pleasant peninsulas have been entrusted to our care," Gov. Williams said Sunday at the Spiritual Foundation ceremonies open ler's Nazi Gestapo. "There are no Communists In America to speak of except in the mind of those on the payroll of the FBI," Eaton said. THE 74-YEAR-OLD financier and -intellectual leader, who heads a two-billion-dollar coal, iron ore and railroad empire, lambasted the FBI and other government investigating agencies in a filmed and transcribed interview on the Mike Wallace television show. The program was part of a new survival and freedom series produced in co-operation with the Fund for the Republic, which operates on a grant from the Ford Foundation.

The fund made the Eaton transcript available for publication. Eaton said scientific progress has been "enormously retarded" because "the scientist is conscious that the FBI is breathing down the back of his neck all the time, scar ing him." In addition to the FBI, Eaton said, there are perhaps nearly 100 other agencies with investigatory and police powers. He cited the Central Intelligence Agency, which, he said, has as one of its tasks the job of checking up on the FBI to see whether it is doing its duty. "Every department of government now has its own investigators, its own police force and is creeping up on the citizens," Eaton said. AS A FARMER, he said, he is' visited by Agriculture Department representatives who check up on him to see if he is planting more crops than he should.

Then, he said, there is the Treasury Department, with 50,000 to 60,000 tax agents, and the State Department with supervision over visas and passports. Eaton said the recent annual Pugwash (Nova Scotia) international conference of intellectuals demon strated that Americans have less confidence in one another than perhaps the citizens of any other nation. The Pugwash meeting is sponsored by Eaton and is held every year at his home there. "I think everyone was as- tounded at the freedom with which the Communist (delegate to the Pugwash conference) discussed any scientific program," Eaton said. "He astounded everyone with his profound knowledge of scientilic progress." Bet on Horses DUBLIN (in The No.

1 export of Ireland in 1956 was not whisky or linen or woolens but thoroughbred horses 13,028,289 -orth. Cyrus Eaton Bomb Rips Barber Shop Shatters Windows In Hazel Park BY JAMES SULLIVAN" AND M. 31. HOLLLNGSWORTH Free Pre Staff Writer The Adam's Barber Shop, 23100 John Hazel Park, was the target of a homemade dynamite bomb Sunday night. The bomb blew out all rear windows of the eight-chair establishment and rear windows of an adjoining firm making vitamin pills.

The blast was next door to the Hazel Park Police Station where Sgt. Charles W. Young said "I was nearly knocked off my chair." HAZEL PARK police said since Adam Bochinski, of 17901 Conant, Detroit, opened the shop he reporterly has much trouble, including threats from the barbers' uron. Three weeks ago a brick 'was thrown through the front window of the shop. Sgt.

Young said the blast was set off about six feet from the rear door of the shop. It blew glass into the building. No estimate of damage inside Turn to Page 22, Column 4 Moscow Proud Of Russian Who's 150 LONDON, Mahmud Bagir Eivezov, who lives on a collective farm in the Azerbaijan mountains, cele-brataed his 150th birthday Sunday, Moscow Radio reported. The Soviet government is so proud of him that the Ministry of Communications has issue a special postage stamp bearing his picture, the broadcast said. 1 spiritual foundations are deeply rooted in gratitude to God." Rabbi Frankel said, "Spiritual Foundation today pays tribute not alone to the might of machine but to the majesty of man and that we can live, and develop a greater Michigan only through a spirit of togetherness and recognition of spiritual values." Teacher Fails TAMPA, Fla.

Hughie Lee Austin, 30, drowned Sunday while teaching a nephew how to swim. The student survived. Writer Dies NEW YORK UP) Mrs. Elaine S. Carrington, radio writer who created.

"Pepper Young's Family" and other daytime dramas, died Sunday at 66. at Chemise chance to try new silhouet her figure. See Page 23. ing Michigan Week Speaking yCapitf 1 steps, Williams said, "but as we progress it is important that we remember, as did the framers of our Constitution, that we should for all things be grateful to God." WITH THE Governor at the ceremonies were Edward Cardinal Mooney's representative, the Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Jerome Mac Eachin, of Lansing; John How ell, executive director of the Lansing Council of Churches; Rabbi Phillip Frankel, of Lan sing, and Edward J. Hekman, of Grand Rapids, general chair man of Michigan Week. Monsignor MacEachin re-' railed that it was the first Sunday of May, 1668, at Sault Ste. Marie, when Father Marquette, preached his first sermon to the Indians.

"From that day to this," he said, "we are grateful that our You'll Find: New Look Spring suits give milady nithout losing her face or Indonesia Rebels Ousted JAKARTA Indonesia saiJ early Monday that Government forces have captured Bu-kittinggi, the rebel capital of Sumatra. Jakarta Radio said infantry columns occupied the rebel city and mopping up operations are continuing. Government forces have appealed to all civil servants and police to co-operate. Security forces are arresting rebel sympathizers. The capture of the rebel capital appeared to mark the end of the Sumatran phase of the rebellion.

Bukittinggi had become the symbol of revolution. But the rebeli 'already have transferred their main military emphasis to East Indonesia, where their planes have been bombing Jakarta and foreign shipping. THE REBEL cabinet, including Prime Minister Sjafruddin, reportedly is making its headquarters in Batusangkar, south of Bukittinggi. The fall of Bukittinggi came 17 days after Government forces headed by Jani invaded the Sumatran coast at Padang. 1 Amusements 28 Movie Guide 28 Astrology 20 Obituaries 29 Bridge 6 Radio and Television 16 Comics 88-39 Sports 33-37 Drew Pearson 17 Want Ads 29-Sl Editorials 8 Women's Pages 23-26 Industrial 18 if IJ.