DIAL 741-0010 *•*•*» 3Sfc • Diifrfbu+lon — today, M. I Hujfc tamwTow la the Ik. F* Today *y, iaer**tlag dwdtatw aoid' 21,300 warm. sec wot (1. r • VOL. 86, NO. 39 I *U». Umtu thro Bd CUM ftMUSt RED BANK, N. J., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, PUd w S«4 task u4 •ft AMitJflWl* MlUtal 0BUM. 1963 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Sea Creature Sighted Again; South Viet Nam Is Under Squid Seen Also By FRANK W. HARBOUR SANDY HOOK — The sea creature story becomes more Martial Law in Crackdown interesting by the day. , As of yesterday, there/We been a total of four light- TOKYO (AP) - Red-menaced About 70 per cent of South Viet in-law has urged a crackdown on from Communist terrorism. Any- ings — two of a serpent-like creature and two of giant South Viet Nam was under mar- Nam's population are members the Buddhists and depreciated thing that hinders that fight we squid — the latter termed so rare it might happen only tial law today as strife between of various Buddhist sects. Budd- any suggestion that Diem com- will oppose. Anything that fur- It Was (Swat) The once in a lifetime. hist leaders have threatened the the government of President Ngo promise with them. thers that fight we will support." Scientists are wondering what is going on in to* ocean future of the Diem government Before communications were Dinh Diem and militant Budd- Washington authorities recent- depths to cause these huge creatures to come to the surface. this summer with a militant cam- ly have shown dismay at what cut it was learned that an estim- Night (Swat) oi Gnats hists reached an ominous new ' Officials at the Sandy Hook Marine Laboratory re- paign for more political and ec- they consider the Diem govern- ated 10,000 Buddhists jammed in- RED BANK — Tuesday will be remembered as the vealed yesterday • that the serpent-like creature was first climax. onomic privileges. They charge ment's authoritarian ways and to the Dleu de Pagoda at Hue, night of the gnats. sighted July 18 — and tha.t the story was kept "under It was believed that President Diem's family, strongly Roman harsh treatment of the Budd- the former capital of Annam, to In they camt from their Navesink River hideouts by the wraps" in hopes that it would be sighted again and cap- Diem was cracking down on the Catholic and dominant in the hists. cheer a Buddhist monk attack- thousands. tured. government, has been persecut Police in Red Bank, Fair Haven and Rumson all laid Buddhists after a wave of re- First Task ing Mrs. Nhu in a speech. "There would have been no disbelievers then," re- ligious suicides by fire, mass ing Buddhists because of their they had received complaints. Hue was the site of martial marked marine biologist Robert Wicklund, 25, of 36 Shrews- demonstrations and rioting in religion. Diem has denied any Although Lodge told newsmen In Middletown and Sea Bright, the story was different rule for several hours Sunday, bury Ave., Highlands — the man who swam alongside the Saigon, Hue and other cities. idea of persecution. the joint fight against commun- — no gnats. sea animal July 18. ism's spread was his chief task, after violence that followed the The gnats camt in two forms. One was Identified as Although normal communica- South Viet Nam's first lady, In accounts written Monday night, it was reported that - there was every indication that death of a Buddhist monk by fire. a winged flying ant. The other was black. Both bit people tions were cut, the U. S. and Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of the the jelly-like nearly-transparent creature was about 40 feet some internal settlement would There was to have been a pa- on arrival. * other ' embassies in Saigon got security police chief who is Di- long. be his first order of business. rade In Hue Thursday with up Police said they thought the cause was "a muggy some word out to their govern- em's brother, has retorted that Mr. Wicklund said yesterday that on the morning of Lodge reiterated in Tokyo his to 70,000 persons paying tribute night, with little wind." \ ments. • the Buddhists are using their July 18 he swam 40 to 45 feet alongside the creature and anti-Communist mission. to the monk. Five monks and They expressed hope that with a change in breeze, monks' robes to cloak a treason. at that point, as he returned to the research vessel "Chal- Th« South Korean Foreign "Our policy Is to help, the Re- nuns have committed suicide by there'd be no more gnats. lenger", he "could not see the end of it." Ministry in Seoul said there had The bachelor president's sister- public of Viet Nam free, itself fire In the past two months. On Monday, Mr. Wicklund reported, lab officials be- been some shooting and arrests lieve they sighted it again — this time from a Coast Guard in the Vietnamese capital and de- airplane — and estimate the length at 60 to 70 feet scribed the martial law procla- According to Dr. Lionel A. Walford, director of the mation as a precautionary meas- labs, and one of the federal marine scientists who saw the ure. creature July 18 from the "Challenger," the eel-like animal Seeks Valachi Quiz The Japanese Foreign Office was about five inches thick and seven or eight inches deep. said its embassy reported' "the Valachi had been serving a life It was near the "mudhole, 13 miles from the Hook, "un- WASHINGTON (AP)-New Jer- Callssl of Bergen, Joseph A. Tu- situation is tense." term for murder when he began dulating" at the surface of the water (moving along in slow sey law officers were to meet multy of Hudson and Brendan spilling facts about his onetime wave-like movements). Closed to Traffic today with Justice Department Byrne of Essex. The counties have been the scenes of previous cohort! In the underworld. Dr. Walford said the thing looked like "fluid glass" and Saigon's International Airport officials to get what lowdotvn un was reported closed to commer- derworld informer Joseph Valachi gangland activities. He has told Investigators Vito that he saw no bones, no mouth, no eyes. Genovese is king of "Cosa Nos- He asked newsmen "not to call it a sea monster." cial traffic at 7 a.m. for at least may have spilled about gangland Sills was tight-lipped about what activities in New Jersey. accommodations might be worked tra." "The fact that I didn't see a mouth,, eyes, etc., does 24 hours "because of internal out for the prosecutors. Genovese used to live In Allan- not mean It did not have these features, it just means I difficulties." State Atty. Gen. Arthur J. Sills tic Highlands, N.J., a-short dis- was not able to see them," he said. The U. S. Embassy in. Saigon had an appointment with William The attorney general believes tance from Ft.Monmouth, where On the Coast Guard plane Monday, a shark sighting messaged the U. S. Embassy in G. Hundley of the Justice Depart- Valachi may also be able to shed Valachi is being held pending an mission, were John Casey, marine biologst, and John Clark, Tokyo and the State Department ment and other federal officials some light on a reported "Little appearance before a Senate Inves- assistant ffift'etor of the labs. in Washington of the Diem gov- who have quizzed Valachi. Hund Apalachin" crime convention in Atlantic City In 1960, tigating committee. The plane was about 500 feet above the water about 49 ernment's action. ley is head of the Justice Depart- miles southeast of Montauk Point, some 50 or 60 miles from ment's section on organized crime A U. S. Embassy spokesman in and .racketeering. the July 18 sighting point. Tokyo said one message in-, Mr. Casey said he sighted What appeared to be the same formed Henry Cabot Lodge, new Private Audience eel-like transparent creature and that he saw it full length, U. S. Ambassador to South Viet Sills was also seeking to ar- Senator Accepts an estimated 60 to 70 feet. Nam, that embassy employes range a private audience with A few miles from this sighting, two giant squid ap- were being taken care of but Valachi who is under tight $eca peared at the surface. According to Mr. Clark and Mr. made no reference to U. S. citi- rity guard at Ft.Motimouth, N.J. Casey, one was about 65 feet long, and the other, 35 to 40, zens In Saigon on private busi- Debate Challenge Sills said he hoped today's meet- Including the tentacles. ness. ing would enable him to find out ALLENHURST — Sen, Stout would accept the debat* Dr. Walford said the eel-like creature might be a giant "when, where and how" he could WEST Lodge reached Tokyo today en challenge, and will now issue a venus girdle, or a giant leptocethalus. The girdle is. an in- meet with the 60-year-old mobster. Richard R. Stout this morning vertebrate (no backbone), the leptocethalus is a vertebrate route to Saigon,to succeed Fred- said he would be "happy" to de- formal invitation to the senator. The attorney general has been (In the «el family). erick E. Nolting Jr., who re- bate campaign issues with "We will be able to go ahead ; anxious to grill Valachi Neither Of these creatures has ever been captured or signed. Democratic opponent for with the arrangements," Moody the disclosure that t seen at lengths of more than six feet, Dr.