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Monday Church dedicated Special yule Giants remain Specials in Ocean, page 5 series, page 8 alive: Sports The Daily Monmouth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO. 145 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1981 25 CENTS Call for strike fails as Polish arrests widen WARSAW, Poland (AP) -Factoriesin War- factories throughout the country. "If the work- saw were operating today despite a call by ers go to their work places on Monday, there Solidarity militants for a general strike in re- will be occupations or a general strike," said taliation for the Communist government's Stefan A. Trzclnski, deputy press spokesman for crackdown on the Independent labor movement. the big Warsaw local. Initial checks of large factories in some But Poland's Roman Catholic primate, districts of the capital found no strikes or pro- Archbishop Josef Glemp, appealed to the work- tests by members of the temporarily suspended ers In a broadcast sermon: "Do not start a fight union, many of whose leaders were seized Sun- between Poles. Do not give your lives away." day when the government imposed martial law. There was no information immediately available on the situation outside the Warsaw Western leaders doubt area. Solidarity sources said as many as 3,000 Russia will move, page 2 members of the union may have been rounded NEW YORK POLISH RALLY — People from the Polish American in front of the Polish consulate in Manhattan yesterday. They are up in the capital alone. Earlier estimates put the Congress and the Social Democrats, U.S.A., organizations march supporting the Solidarity movement in Poland. total number interned In the entire country at Martial law shocks about 1,000. In addition to Solidarity members, the gov- Jersey Poles, page 4 ernment also detained a number of officials of past governments blamed for Poland's current economic crisis, including former Communist Warsaw Radio broadcast a recording of the Reagan warns Soviets Party chief Edward Gierek. sermon four times during the night in an ap- Members of the labor federation distributed parent attempt to use It to head off strikes. leaflets in Warsaw calling for a nationwide Pope John Paul II also appealed for re- walkout in defiance of the Communist govern- straint, saying: "Polish blood cannot be shed, ment's proclamation of martial law and its because too much was spilled in the last war." suspension of the right to strike and of Solidar- Walesa was flown to Warsaw from Gdansk, on Polish intervention ity. the Baltic port where Solidarity's national lead- Government leaders conferred with Solidar- ers were meeting when Premier Wojciech WASHINGTON (AP) - With the tempo of ity chief Lech Walesa in an attempt to avert a Jamzelskj, imposed military rule. Government Poland's long labor crisis quickening, President general strike. But Warsaw Radio carried no spokesman Jerty Urban told foreign reporters Reagan is bringing home two key members of word from him today. Walesa was not among those arrested and was hit foreign policy team and warning the Soviet A Solidarity spokesman visiting Sweden said "being treated with all due respect. He is Union of the risks of intervention. the union was prepared for the government's considered the head of Solidarity, and Solidar- Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. action and had plans for protests at major See Strike, page 4 abruptly canceled a long-planned and Important trip to six nations in the Middle East and South Asia and was headed back to Washington today. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger, who was in London when the Polish government Insurance probe set announced its crackdown against the independ- ent trade union Solidarity, was back in Washing- ton by nightfall Sunday. He called the situation "potentially dangerous." With top policy-makers being assembled for for Shrewsbury fire quick decisions if necessary, U.S. officials awaited anxiously for word on what would hap- SHREWSBURY - Insurance investigators traces of hay and a can of gasoline at the scene. pen early today when Polish workers were due are scheduled to visit the site of the new The county arson squad has joined the investiga- to report to their jobs for the first time since the Shrewsbury Historical Society building behind tion. crackdown. Borough Hall today to assess damage to the Despite toe fire, some 140 persons packed the In Poland, officials of the military regime structure caused by a fire early Saturday morn- Rumson home of Dorothy and John Kay last <aid they were conferring with Solidarity leader ing that local police and fire officials have night for a fund-raising cocktail party sponsored Lech Walesa in hopes of heading off a na- termed "very suspicious." by the society. John Kay, president of the tionwide strike urged by union militants. The building, under construction since late Shrewsbury State Bank, heads the fund-raising Reagan met yesterday with Vice President September, will house the historical society's campaign for the museum project, now within Bush, Weinberger, CIA Director William Casey new museum, education and research center 130,000 of its $100,000 goal. and several other top advisers shortly after when it is completed in late January. Two invited guests who would have been returning to the White House from the presiden- Michael Hertzberg, the project manager for most welcome if they had been able to come, tial retreat at Camp David, Md. the society, estimated damage Saturday at said J. Louise Jost, Red Bank, historical society Haig left Brussels, Belgium after declaring APMMM 16,000 Workmen had "closed in" the building president, are Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hunter, of that the United States is "seriously concerned" REAGAN DISCUSSES POLAND — President Reagan stops to talk with reporters at the shell just last week, he said, and now must Oakhurst. about the Polish decision to invoke martial law. White House yesterday as he and Mrs. Reagan returned from Camp David, Maryland. reopen it to replace the 31 ridge-rafters and The couple, driving home early Saturday See Reagan, page 4 Reagan said the U.S. is monitoring the situation In Poland. approximately 450 square feet of shingles dam- morning, spotted the flames in the southeast aged in the blaze. gable wall of the building and turned in the He anticipates a 10-day setback in the con- alarm at the borough fire house at 2:27 a.m. struction schedule due to the fire. Fire Chief James A Fitzgerald said their The fire started in the second level of the prompt action prevented much more serious Shore Regional walkout expected Colonial-styled building. Fire officials found damage to the building. WEST LONG BRANCH - Facing a threat- day, makes The Wall, a section on the east side grounds on Route 38. ened five day minimum suspension, approx- of the school where students gather to smoke, Students who support the walkout say they imately 100 students are expected to walk out of and most other sections of the campus off-limits feel the administration is attempting to crack Shore Regional High School this morning in to students. The only exceptions are a section down on smoking, which is forbidden by a school protest of a new school regulation that confines outside the cafeteria, where students may eat policy which the administration does not enforce them to a small portion of the school grounds. lunch, and the courtyards, which students may strictly. Non-smoking students reportedly are The new regulation, which lakes effect to- cross on their way to classes. joining in the walkout in hopes of preventing Senior Dorothy Schneider, a walkout or- students from smoking in school bathrooms. ganizer, said yesterday the hoped the action DeSantis, however, has characterized the would be peaceful, despite rumors that some new regulation as a direct response to the de- students planned to chain the school's doors shut struction of school property and the disruption The Inside Story and block school driveways with their cars. of classes, and emphasized that smoking is not According to Schneider, several students an issue. THE WEATHER said they would make and carry signs In the On the urgings of student leaders, DeSantis demonstration, and that some also planned to plans to make announcements explaining the Increasing clovdiaesi today wlh rain de- wear makeshift sandwich boards bearing the new regulation tomorrow morning before the veloping la afternoon. Complete report. slogans, "Save The Wall," and "Toe Wall Must walkout is scheduled to begin. Page*- Not Fall." Approximately 250 student have signed peti- Schneider said she hoped participating stu- tions which deplore the new regulation, as well Tennessee wins Garden Stale Howl f dents would "stay out as long as it takes; I as other conditions at the school, such as the Grimsley on All M know I am It depends on bow strongly they (the speed bumps and the alleged proliferation of Wedding* M students) feel about it, I guess." insects Both the petition and the walkout plans An Landers II When asked if she planned to stay out all day, began Wednesday when the new regulation was Advice II DAILY REGISTER faced with the threat of rain, Schneider said, "I announced. Arts 7 PHONE NUMBERS might as well, I've come this far. I might even Students say another factor In the walkout is Births I get kicked out of school for it, but I'm not going the feeling that student privileges have been Business W Maia Office to back out now. increasingly curtailed. Examples cited by Classified II Toll Free 171-NN "It's not that I have anything against the Schneider Include the withdrawl of student smoking privileges last year and the refusal of Comics II Toll Free MMlM principal (Alfred DeSantis) or vice principal Classified Dept MM7M (Leonard Snappoff)," Schneider explained.