Jersey Property Tax^Comes Under Strain STORY PAGE IS Slowly Clearing THEDMLY FINAL Rain ending and cool today but light rain expected again Red Bank, Freehold tonight and tomorrow. Long Branch T EDITION (See Details. Page 2>( / Monmouth County9* Home Newspaper for 92 Years 93, NO. 114 > RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1969 26 PAGES 10 CENTS Fast Is Mxon Urged to Set Up Set In Protest My Lai Probe Agency LINCROFT —Four county men will lead a 24-Hour Fast WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon has been urged Stennis .said the special panel's probe could be under- for Peace next weekend in by two influential Democrats to appoint an independent taken while trials of the accused are under way. the Unitarian Church here. fact-finding panel to investigate the alleged massacre of But the senator spoke against a full-scale congressional The fast, protesting the civilians by U. S. soldiers at the South Vietnamese village investigation, saying "if we in the Congress go to holding war in Vietnam, will be spon- of My Lai. a hearing now and before that trial is over, it will go off sored by-a group called Edu- The proposal came separately yesterday from , Sen. in different directions, be highly confused and totally unfair cation for Peace. John C. Stennis, D.Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed to the defendants." One of the men, Jack Ca- Services Committee, and former Vice President Hubert H. Stennis spoke on the ABC interview program "Issues roli of Fair Haven, said that Humphrey. and Answers." fasting will begin Saturday Stennis said the panel should be composed of persons First Lt. William L. Calley Jr., a platoon leader in the midnight and continue "outside the government and outside the military" and should company which led the assault on My Lai, faces a court through until Sunday mid- survey the March, 1968 incident, determine the facts and martial on charges of killing 109 Vietnamese civilians. A, night. make a special report to the President. staff sergeant also is charged with assault to commit murder. The public will be invited SAYS PROBE NEEDED Stennis said the slayings, if true, are shocking and "not to participate from noon,Sun- Humphrey told newsmen the panel should be similar to the Warren Commission, which probed the assassination within the Army's training or our policy, of course." Hum- day on, he said, while those of President John F. Kennedy. The former vice president phrey said the special probe is needed to determine My Lai's who wish to fast for the 24- said in Los Angeles "enough has been said that there impact on "the whole moral structure of our society." hour period are asked to needs to be an examination." (See My Lai, Fg. 2, Col. 3) make arrangements with one of the leaders. Mr. Caroli said the fast will take place "to emphasize the personal suffering caused SNOWY TRIBUTE — The floral tribute of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association is by the war in Vietnam that in place before the Tomb of the Unknown's in Arlington National Cemetery yester- brought misery and death to Force Ban Talks Start day — the 28th anniversary of the attack — as members of the color guard move people in this country and from the Tomb. A light snow was falling during the ceremony. (AP Wirephoto) MOSCOW (AP) - The So- Tsarapkin handed a note to week which said they know about a renunciation of the' South Asia." viet Union is ready to discuss the West German foreign of- West German government of use of force but did not set a "The fast will allow resi- an agreement with West fice in Bonn yesterday, say- Chancellor Willy Brandt has date. Brandt said at the time dents of Monmouth County to Germany renouncing the use ing his government was ready shown a "tendency toward a that neither the Soviets nor show their concern for this of force, and officials in West to start the talks in Moscow realistic policy." the West Germans had modi- suffering in a personal way," Germany said the talks might today. The West Germans have fied their basic positions in he said. Testimony Continues start today. But a West German embas- been seeking talks to improve the exchange of notes. This In addition to Mr. Caroli, Diplomatic sources said sy spokesman said: "I can relations with the Soviet was taken to mean that the participants will be George there was a chance German confirm that the Soviet Union Union ever since Brandt be- Russians were still insisting Davis, Fair Haven; Robert Ambassador Helmut Allardt is ready for negotiations, but came foreign minister in 1966, that Bonn recognize the East Kasten, Rumson, and Robert would meet with Soviet offi- as of today no date has been when his Socialist party first German regime, and that Savage, Hazlet. In Kavanaugh Killing cials today to discuss an op- fixed." entered the government West Germany was refusing Mr. Caroli said that about ening date, but that the start The Soviet go-ahead fol- as the junior partner to the to do this. 25 members of Education for ' PATERSON (AP) - The trial of four Kavanaugh was choked to death by Matz- of substantive negotiations lowed a declaration by the Christian Democrats. The Moscow summit meet- Peace have pledged to attend persons accused of murdering pretty Clif- ner to prevent her from talking about a might be several weeks away. Soviet bloc nations at a sum- The Soviet Union finally ing last week also repeated the public portion of the pro- ton housewife Judith Kavanaugh continued counterfeiting operation involving the de- Soviet Ambassador Semyon mit meeting in Moscow last agreed in September to talk (See Force, Pg. 2, Col. 1) test event. Discussions will be in Superior Court here today as the prose* fendants. Then, to make sure she was dead;-- held throughout Sunday after- cutor called witnesses to present Its case. the state says, "she was shot by Kearny.' noon, he said. The four defendants are her husband, The state maintains that Her body was In conjunction with the fast, Paul Kavanaugh, 26; Vincent Kearny Jr., then taken to Clifton and dumped and that petitions will be circulated on 29; and newspaper publisher Harold Mat'z- she was partially stripped to make her Israeli esmen Saturday, he said. Gladys ner, 32; and his wife Dorothe, 38. death' appear to have been a sex crime. Radlauer of Matawan is in Among the witnesses called last week Her body was later found in a gully charge. was the slain woman's mother, Mrs. Emily along the Garden State Parkway in Clifton. Marchione. She testified she feared for her The defense will attempt to prove that own We after her daughter'was killed. Mrs. Kavanaugh was killed by a wandering Any Egyptian Occupation Crash Is The prosecution contends that Mrs. dishwasher in a sex attack. By ASSOCIATED PRESS area," the communique estine guerrillas using -vil- lobbied to Brie up votes to Israel has denied Cairo's claimed. "Both sides ex- lages in South Lebanon as and against a resolution thai claim that 250 Egyptian changed artillery and. tank bases for attacks on Israel. Arabs displaced by the 1957 Fatal To troops crossed the Suez Ca- fire." Karami was premier at the Middle East war be allowed Labor Provision Top nal and occupied Israeli po- Cairo said the commander time, resigned, and had been •to return to their homes. sitions for about 24 hours. of the Egyptian force "man- trying ever since to form a The resolution, recom- "Nothing of the kind, is aged to stay until 7 p.m. new government. mended by the General As- Woman known to us," said an Israeli Sunday when he was ordered He succeeded Nov. 25 af- sembly's special political spokesman in Tel Aviv. "No to withdraw." The Egyptian ter the army and the gueril- committee, calls on the Se- LONG BRANCH - A city Egyptian force entered any force "destroyed all Israeli las concluded an agree- curity Council to take action woman died last night and a HurdletoTaxBiUOK Israeli stronghold, neither fortified positions before ment restricting the guer- on the refugee problem. Monmouth Beach woman was By JOE HALL senators who have been bene- can pour into national and did it remain there or blow withdrawing," the communi- rillas to a certain area. hospitalized as the result of The General Assembly ivitf WASHINGTON (AP) — ficiaries from union contribu- local election campaigns." it up." que said. A later statement Invitation Given a Long Branch Ave. collision. 'vote Wednesday ton the res- An amendment that would tions. said the operation "estab- olution. The . committee ap- Pronounced dead on arrival The AFL-CIO contends Today, Israeli jets attacked (Meanwhile, the Soviet gov- remove much of the political Concerned With Unions lished the combat compe- proved it 50-22 with 38 na- at Monmouth Medical Center these activities are legitimate Egyptian military targets in ernment in effect extended clout from labor unions by Fannin insists his amend- because the funds are re- tence of the Egyptian soldier tions abstaining and 6 absent. was Mrs. Emily Larson, 81, the central Suez Canal area recognition to the Palestine eliminating their tax-exempt ment would hit tax-exempt ceived in voluntary contribu- and the enemy's hesitation to "Only a simple majority was of 69 Columbia Ave. She was for 20 minutes, the Israeli guerrillas by inviting a dele- status is presenting a major business groups equally with tions from union members confront him face to face." .needed in the committee, but thrown from a car operated command announced.