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Arrest Clergymen Then Spent the Evening Watching the Traditional Independence at Ocean Grove, Gov Weather Dlrfrfbuffon 7 in. ttmptntan H. Sunny today, Ugfa N. Clew tonight, low '. Today , la the upper SOi. Tomorrow, winny, hljb in the low 80s. Sun- / l7lu€p&7lCUs7lt JJCLtly I 21,525 day, fair, little change in tem- lkOHB*Y TMtOVGHHUPAt~CSr.il!> J perature. See Weather, Page 2. DIAL SH I-0010 VOL. 8fi TJO fi bsutl Sally, Uondtr ttirourh FrldtT. Btcond Clan Fonitt RED BANK, N. J., FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1963 PAGE ONE - j^*1* u *** Bv>i "^ •» AM1U0M1 iitiltot OHlcu. 7c PER COPY Thousands Watch Fireworks In ideal summer weather, county residents by the thou- Herman Obermayer, toastmaster, called it the city's greatest sand! basked in the warm sun on local beaches yesterday and parade. Arrest Clergymen then spent the evening watching the traditional Independence At Ocean Grove, Gov. Richard J. Hughes, following a Day fireworks displays light up the cool evening sky. parade from the boardwalk, addressed several thousand vis- Bed Bank Deputy Police Chief Leroy McKnight said that itors in the Ocean Grove Auditorium. a record-breaking crowd of 10,000 witnessed the annual fire- The holiday brought out record-breaking crowds to works display in Marine Park. It took police 45 minutes to beaches and boardwalks. clear homeward-bound traffic at the display's end—about twice The patrol at Sandy Hook State Park said parking tots ai long as it took to clear traflic last year, he said. were jammed by 11:15 a.m., the earliest since the park opened Police reported that an estimated 7,000 persons witnessed a year ago, and entry for additional bathers was barred. It In Racial Protest the fireworks display at the St. Mary's Catholic Church fair in was more than two hours later before enough early arrivals BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) - The New Monmouth. , had departed so that more swimmers could be admitted. Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, In Atlantic Highlands, police estimated that several thou- About 10,000 persons; sunned on the Asbury Park beach chief executive officer of the Unit- sand were at the municipal yacht harbor to view the fireworks yesterday, and amusement operators at the beachfront did a ed Presbyterian Church, and other Honored by President .there, banner trade. More than 100,000 watched the fireworks dis- Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Castle," "The Triple Thinkers," "The Wound Authorities in Raritan .Township could give no estimate of play over the Atlantic Ocean off Convention Hall after dark. clergymen were arrested when WASHINGTON-Presidcnt Kennedy yes- " and' the Bow," "Classics arid Corrirnefclals," thi cKWvd at the Beers Street playfield, but said the area was Brisk westerly winds played havoc with the bright, gliding they attempted to integrate an terday named Red Bank-born Edmund Wil- "The Shores of Light," "Memoirs of Hecate jamm&kfor the fireworks display. flares. Major hotels and motels reported filled houses. amusement park near Baltimore son, author and literary critic, now of Well- County," "To the Finland Station," "The At Freehold, police estimated more than 20,000 piled into At Monmouth Park Race Track, the attendance exceeded fleet, Mass., as one of 31 persons to receive in a massive Independence Day American Jitters," 'A Piece of My Mind," the Freehold Raceway grandstand, stood on the harness 30,000 but set no records. the Presidential Medal of Freedom, given demonstration. "The American Earthquake" and "Apolo- track's parking yards, and held nearby vantage points to see In keeping with a proclamation signed by Gov. Hughes in recognition of achievements contributing At least 36 clergymen were gies to the Iroquis." the annual fireworks display. shore churches set their bells ringing at 2 p.m. yesterday to among the 283 whites and Negroes significently to the quality of American life. Nine hundred marched in a parade down Broadway lo the mark the tolling of the Liberty Bell at 2 p.m. July 4, 1776. arrested. The police docket in Mr. Wilson, 68, is the son of the late Ed- The medal is the highest civilian honor oceanfront' at Long Branch. There were six bands in the line. (See FIREWORKS, Page 3) suburban Woodlawn, where; the mund Wilson^ former attorney general of that the President can confer for service In Gwynn Oak amusement park is New Jersey and for many years a prominent peacetime. v» located, read like a religious lawyer in Monmouth County, N. J. The father Among the other 31 to be named for the award are: who's who. became the junior partner of the late Henry Marian Anderson, singer. Ralph J. All were charged under Mary- M. Nevius, under the firm name of Nevius .BoyjqUed Bunche, under'secretary for Special Political Peace Corpsman Returns land's trespass law which permits & Wilson, and later the senior partner of the Affairs, United Nations; Pablo Casals. cellisL the owner> of a business to refuse late Warren H. Smock of Red Bank Under MATAWAN — John "kuhns, and conductor; James B. Conant, scientist, By Auto In entrance to any person he wishes. the firm name of Wilson and Smock. ' Middlesex Rd., is home after two educator, .diplomat; Felix Frankfurter, for- Sixty-nine demonstrators who had busy years in the Peace Corps in The writer, noted as a literary critic, mer associate justice of the United States to be carried from the park also Middletown LaPlata, Colombia. also has written intellectual history, social Supreme Court; Herbert H. Lehman, former were charged with disorderly con- criticism, novels, plays and verse. A book governor of New York and senator; John J. NEW MONMOUTH - A two- That he is full of enthusiasm duct. "( P * for the project there was ap- of his published this year was "Patriotic McClpy, lawyer, diplomat and banker, and y»ar-old boy was struck and Added Excitement Gore." Other of his works include "Axel's George Meany, president, AFL-CIO. killed yesterday by an auto on parent as he described one of To the hundreds,of .patrons who Wilson Ave. his own undertakings—a 135-foot- had flocked to the 68-acre park The child, Jude Dennis, son of long bridge in one of the small for a July 4th picnic complete Mr, and Mrs. J. J. Dennis, 2 veredas, or villages, of LaPlata, with roller-coaster rides, ferris Thome PI,, was pronounced dead a subdivision o{ Colombia rough- wheel and carnival barkers, the ly comparable to an American Killing Spree Ends on arrival at Riverview Hospital. demonstration was just added ex- There were two traffic deaths state. citement. Most Ignored the in AMERICUS, Ga. (AP)-A stale • In the stat..e. M.oveWr ...th~e weeken... d and This articular vereda had tegratcd protestors, .but»a few of the head by Weaver. Mayoichase and he'jired j/t them, patrolman's 200-yard rifle shot v third"person- a two-year-old|been trying for about four years stopped to jeer as police walked died. I throughi the carY rear window. rom behind a hedgerow ended a The other three prisoners re- boy—drowned in the family swim- to get a bridge built across its and carried them to com- 'He almost turned over twice," killing spree by a convict whose tused to accompany Weaver when ming pool. river. Since no help had been mandeered school buses and pa- said Lt. W, T. Beauchamp. "When Independence Day bid for free- he left the hospital. ToU Hitg 148 forthcoming, from the govern- trol wagons. he got to Smlthville, he took a dom left three persons dead, one The 200-pound prisoner, a bar- Nationwide, the traffic death ment the people turned to th« "Take 'em all. Lock 'em up and city street and made a turn onto wounded and four*hostages thank- rel-chested man, crossed the the school ground on a dead-end toll was 148. , Peace Corps. throw away the key. It looks like ul they survived. itreet to a house and at gunpoint itreet. "Police identified the driver of As Mr. Kuhns, an engineer, a revival meeting," were among One of the hostages, plucky 14- forced Mr. and Mrs, Dickie San- the car as Mrs. Ruth S. Butler, described them, the" difficulties the catcalls. A few cherry bombs "1 started to get out with my ^ear-old Richard Hale, emptied a garee and their young daughter to, 37, of 64 Creek Rd., Keansburg. seemed almost insurmountable. were tossed, but for the most part shotgun. He jumped out of the. pistol at the dying killer after the accompany him in their car. According to the police report, In order to reach the bridge everything was orderly. car and took three boys hostages. latrolman's bullet tore through Fifty miles to the north, In the "He told us if we didn't throw Mrs. Butler said the child ran out site, from his home base, he had Integratlonists responded by he prisoner's chest as he at vicinity of Donalsonville and Col- down our guns he would kill ths into the street and into the path to take a l'/j-hour bus ride, and iging freedom songs and waving :empted to dig a foxhole in quitt, Ga., the fleeing killer re- boys. He was holding two guns, of her car. She told police she then a 3'/J-hour walk. is stenciled with such mess- did not see the boy until the im- "Commuting" was obviously pecan field. leased his unharmed hostages. He one of them cocked at one boy's is "Freedom Now". Melvin Allen Weaver, 23, a con kept their car. head." pact came. out of the question and he lived, Hearings are scheduled tonight icted robber from Franklin,' Continuing his mad dash, he Had No Choice According to police, the boy's under very primitive conditions, before the Woodlawn trial magis Ohio, died holding a gun and a eluded state patrolmen but'two Beauchamp said he and Sgt.
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