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1 12 mid. 16 1 a.m. IS 2 a.m. 14 Monday, Jan. 9, 1961 On Guard for 129 Years Vol.

130 No. 250 8 Cents i ager a mm TOOK Tin IVopIo Speak Police Quell. Rio Prison Citizens OK Peace Program Moslems Battle During Balloting PARIS (UPI) President Charles de Gaulle early Monday won a landslide victory for his Algerian peace plan in a referendum that surmounted bloodshed and a Moslem boycott in Algeria to give him a tremendous vote of confidence. The French President, who What Does Public Want Of Kennedy? Lubell Finds Mixture Of Hopes and Fears Leading public opinion reporter Samuel Lubell has just completed another of his famous election postmortems. Since Election Day he has analyzed the rote across the country county by county and, in some areas, precinct by precinct.

His findings are reported in five articles, of which this is the first. BY SAMUEL LUBELL On the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, the mood of the American public is a strange halfway mixture of hopes and misgivings. Asked what they think President-elect John F. Kennedy should do, many persons reply, "I'm satisfied as things are. Let's hope there isn't any abrupt change." Others echo the comment of a clerk in Shelton, who said, "The only thing I want from Jack Kennedy is peace." Still others, particularly in worker neighborhoods, want the new President to "open up more jobs" or "do something to get people back to work." vzt 'J -i7 ss i I X.

)'i r--k" 1 I- i '1 Fears of possible war and spreading unemployment are Free Presi Photo by DICK TRIPP Paul, Gerard and Vincent. Mr. and Mrs. (iuinnane are at the extreme right uith the Rev. father J.

Leo Healy. THE GUINNANE QUADS were baptized Sunday. Shown with their godparents are (from left) Peter, Court Will Probe Story Of Aide in Shakedoivn Plot Tear Gas Subdues 30 Felons Guard Is Stabbed In 3-Hour Revolt PHILADELPHIA (UPI) About 30 pris oners revolted and seized control of part of the Eastern State Penitentiary in downtown Philadelphia Sunday night. The convicts stabbed one guard, captured another and then surrendered to heavily armed state troopers. The convicts held out in the man guard headquarters of the huge prison a few blocks from city hall for nearly three hours before giving up to state troopers who entered with drawn guns.

TILE TROOPERS disarmed the convicts and they were taken to security cells in another section of the prison. The troopers apparently used tear gas to break the resistance of the prisoners, one of whom had said earlier that they were prepared to use 10 hostages as human shields to enforce their desperate bid for freedom. A fire also broke out inside the prison, but it was not immediately known if the convicts had set it. United Press International managed to get through with what appeared to be the only telephone call answered after the rebellion. A man, who identified himself as one of the convicts, said the rebels had "10 hostages from the captain on down." "We have pistols and we have the 10 hostages." he said.

"We intend to use them as human shields if necessary. We are ready to shoot it out." POLICE SAID the UPI call furnished them with the first information they had on what was going on inside the walls. All available police and firemen In the area were sent to the scene. A detail of 35 state troopers, armed with shot guns, riot guns and rifles, rushed to the prison. A number of the troopers along with the 11-man shotgun squad of the Philadelphia police highway patrol went inside the main gate which remained under control of the prison guards.

The shots were heard a short time later. A fire truck was admitted inside the gate to "put out a fire," according to Deputy Fire Commissioner George E. Hink. He said the high-pressure hoses on the pumper would not be used to douse the revolting convicts. The 131-year-old prison is the same one from which WiK lie (The Actor) Sutton and 12 other prisoners made a spectacular 'break in 1945.

They tunneled 99 feet under the 40-foot high walls to safety. All were later caught. College Burglar Routed by Nun ROSEMONT, Pa. (UPI) A Roman Catholic nun Sunday surprised a burglar in a dormi tory at Rosemont Girls College and sent him fleeing with a blow on the head from her flashlight. Mother Mary Eldridge, of the Sisters of the Holy Child of Jesus, encountered the masked Intruder while inspecting build ings in preparation for reopening of classes.

The thief leaped through a window, smashing the glass. Police said he apparently did not have time to take anything. How Can They? LONDON (UPI) A letter from the British Railways, informing a rural council that a branch line in its area was to be closed, was stamped: "Go by train." had threatened to quit and bring down the Fifth French Republic if his plan was defeated, received a mandate from 75.25 per cent of the voters to carry out his pro gram. His propoHaN rail for ending the six-year-old Algerian war and giving the tortured North African territory a measure of Independence through nelf-determlnatlon. Voting was peaceful in France but paced with violence in Algeria, where at least 36 persons died in the three days of balloting.

At least 15 died Sunday in three separate battles between Moslem rebel commandos' and French troops. Jacques Soustelle, spokesman for the anti Gaullist French settlers in Algeria, who opposed anything but a French-owned Algeria, admitted defeat. He said that strengthened by this blank check, the government will have every means at its disposal to give Algeria independence. THERE WERE 33 million eligible voters. The margin of victory was higher in continental France than in AlRf-rii, where the 650,000 Colons (Euro pean settlers) votca overwhelmingly against de Gaulle The Moslem voter, numbering more than a million, turned out In roughly half-htrength.

Many were frightened Into Maying home by rebel attacks and threat of throat-fclittingn In the rusbalis of the big cities. The final official vote in continental France was 18,108.711 "yes" votes for de Gaulle's pi jto 4,906,507 "no" votes. A Howling for invalidated ballot th ''yes" votes gave de Gaulle a 75.25 margin, comparing favorably with the 79.2 per cent victory he achieved for his Fifth Republic constitution in 105S. THE I Red belt" in Paris voted about 60 I per cent against him. But officials naid that, as in 1958, de Gaulle got a lot of communist 'votes anyhow.

In Algeria, the Army estimated a 70 per cent "yes" vote for de Gaulle in areas which it thoroughly controlled. Early official estimates said only about 54 per cent of the entire Algerian electorate cast ballots. The Moslem boycott appeared strongly effective in such cities as Oran. Approval of his program meant de Gaulle could carry out his plans to arrange administrative changes in Algeria and prepare for a self-determination vote by Algeria's 10 million Moslems and 1.2 million white settlers after a peace has been reached. Honestly CROWDON, England (UPI Accused of stealing a $112 washing machine from a store, Donald F.

Eavis told police: "I was going back later to pay a deposit on it." clearly the two problems uppermost in the public's thinking. But when typical voters are asked what should be done about either of these threats. Lubell their responses show no agreement or even near-agreement. On the economic side, there is much feeling that none of the actions proposed thus far cuts to the real causes of unemployment. "There just aren't enough jobs around," complained one auto worker in Detroit.

"They're moving factories out of the state. What can Kennedy do about that?" Other workers attribute slack time or loss of work to "all these imports" or to "these machines that run machines." IN THE campaign, Kennedy talked a good deal about stepping up the rate of eco--nomic growth in the country. Much of the electorate shrugged off his argument as statistical gibberish. Some voters thought it meant Government spending and heavier taxes. In Green Bay, one housewife recalled the quarrel that split her own household.

"My son was for Kennedy to make more work, this mother told me after the election. "But my daughter she's a private secretary flt Kennedy was promising Turn to Page 6, Column 3 7 -1 LI LJ BY KAY 5IOSELEr Frca Prts Staff Writw Jack J. Austin, suspended from his job as a Recorder's Court probation officer for accepting a case of whisky from a convicted criminal, will be called on to explain his actions in detail this week. The explanation he will offer is that he accepted the whisky from Nils Lucander to try to set a trap for Lucander but instead fell into Lucander's trap before he could spring his own. THE QUESTION of who was out to trap whom will be ex plored by the City 10 Re corder's Court judges.

Wayne County Prosecutor Samuel H. Olsen said Sunday he also would begin looking into the case Monday morning. Schoolboy Kowe Tiger Ace Schoolboy Rowe Dies 'How'm ah doin', caught the fans' fancy Page 33. EL DORADO, Ark. on Lynwood Thomas (Schoolboy) Rowe, ex-major league pitcher, died Sunday night at his home here after a heart attack.

Rowe would have been 49 Wednesday. Rowe had suffered a heart attack nearly four years ago. HIS MAJOR league playing days were divided between De troit and the Philadelphia Phillies. He was scout in the Detroit farm system at the time of his death. The veteran righthander Turn to Page 1, Column 6 monitored the telephone conversation between Lucander and Austin and witnessed the exchange of the whisky.

LF GANDER, 36, of 276 Alter, says that Austin intimated he could arrange for an extension of Lucander's probation if Lucander would give him the whisky. Lucander needs the extension to stay out of Jail. He has Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Jack J. Austin leaning NH Lucander O-'. -J Guimiane Quads Are Baptized BY JERRY JOHNSON Frc Prtss Staff Writer The Guinnane quadruplets Peter, Paul, Gerard, and Vincent went to church for the first time in their young lives Sunday to be baptized.

Dressed in their finest, the youngsters didn't whimper once during the ceremony at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, 9844 Woodward. The Rev. Father J. Leo Healy, chaplain of Providence Hospital, formally inducted the quads into the Roman Catholic Church. GERALD and Mary Guinnane, the proud parents, and their two older sons, Anthony 7, and Stephen, 5, looked on happily during the ceremony.

Also watching were nine members of Boy Scout Troop 502. Guinnane is their scoutmaster. The Guinnanes had to round up four sets of godparents for the quads born Oct. 23. The whole group made the trip from the family home at 200 Avalon, Highland Park, to the Cathedral.

THE GODPARENTS are: For Peter, Marie Bielkow-icz. of 2230 Witherell, and Robert Orow, of 109 Lawrence. For Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Patrick T.

Nolan, of 15512 Belden. For Gerard, Sandra Lee, of 16574 Oakfield, and Joseph Watts, of 17146 Muirland. For Vincent, Lois Walter, of 45 Glendale, Highland Park, and Roland Savage, of 668 Webb. Airline Strike Slated Today ST. PAUL (UPI) The International Association of Machinist Sunday ordered its strike of jet flight engineers against Northwest Airlines extended to cover all flight en gineers of the company.

The strike extension, which becomes effective at 9:15 a.m. Monday, will involve some 260 engineers on piston craft. Company officials said "if true, our operations would obviously have to suspended." OCTOBER ATTACK SOLVED He said he had not heard of the matter before being contacted by a reporter, but added there was a "definite possibility" of criminal charges being filed after the facts are established. Judge W. McKay Skillman, chairman of the Court's proba-! tion committee, said Sunday he will recommend a hearing for.

Austin "as expeditiously as possible." Austin, 53, of 5720 Lake-view, a probation officer for nine years, was suspended Saturday night by Skillman from his job. The action followed two days of undercover activity in which the deal for the whisky was made by telephone and then consummated Saturday on an i East Side street. Free Press reporters and photographers and Chief Probation Officer Ray Girardin, contacted by Lucander in advance, was sought, Inspector James Dunleavy, through the crash program of investigation, arrests which followed the recent series of fatal street slayings. "Men held for investigation arrests talked about this case and began coming up with nick names of the parties involved," Dunleavy said. THE ARREST of the four suspects climaxed 36 hours of investigation by two teams of detectives.

The fcuspect are: Alvin Lewis. 18, of 4131 Allendale; Theodore Burns. 18, of 2600 St. Antolne; and two brothers, Ray Daw kins, 18, and Warren, 17, of 4079 Blaine. All four confessed, Dunleavy Turn to Page 12, Column 4 4 Teens Admit Slaying Oldster BY ROBERT DeWOLFE FrM Prts Staff Writer Four teen-aged youths confessed Sunday night to the October street slaying of 78-year-old William P.

Ward. A Negro Coed Heads South Entrance May Close Georgia U. P. 3 lledfla Hopper Says: Maverick Finally Gets Wish. P.

11 Ask the Doctor What to Do for Cold? P. 21 Never Forget9 Jack Adams Tells of Wings. P. 31 -J Adams fifth youth, his identity known, Ward, owner of the William P. Ward Coal at 5890 Lincoln, was beaten as he walked on Philadelphia at Radford, on Oct.

17. He was returning to his home at 3303 Virginia Park from St. Theresa Church, where he had presided over a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. WARD WAS found lying on i the sidewalk in a pool of blood jby a passerby at 8:45 p.m.

He died at Receiving Hospital at 4:15 a m. Oct. 19. Although conscious. Ward told police he wan unable to remember anything of the attack.

The identities of Ward's suspected slayers was learned, ac cording to Homicide Bureau New Crossword Puzzle Is Easy on Your Eyes If you're a crossword fan, you'll shout "hurray" when you see the big new puzzle to appear each day in the Free Press. Look for it today on Page 30. Industrial 18 Movie Guide 34 Names and Faces 20 Obituaries 27 Snorts 31-34 TV-Radio 33 Want Ads 27-29 Women's Pages 21-25 World Today 10 HAVE THE FREE PRESS DELIVERED AT HOME PHONE WO 2-8900 Amusements 26 Ann Landers S3 Astrology 36 Billy Graham 38 Bridge 36 Comics 36-37 Crossword Puzzle 36 Death Notice 27 Drew Pearson 11 Carl Wilson 11 Editorials 8 Feature Page 11.

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