Weekend Enjoyment Sectio Mccord to Tell Probers His Inside Story
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Today: Weekend Enjoyment Sectio PACES 912 The Weather THEDAILY Cloudy, cool today with FINAL chance of showers. Increasing Red Bank, Freehold cloudiness tomorrow. I Long Branch 7 EDITION Monnioutli County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 40 PACES VOL.95 NO. 225 RED BANK, N.J. FRIDAY, MAY 18,1973 TEN CENTS McCord to Tell Probers His Inside Story WASHINGTON (AP) - James W. McCord Jr., the burglar wall of silence that protected the high levels of government checked out as the protective walls crumbled around Presi- "And I said to some people who were in that meeting who who blew, the lid off the Watergate case, goes before Senate in- from being drawn into the scandal. dent Nixon's closest and most-trusted aides. were not from the committee. I said, 'That could never hap- vestigators and national television cameras today to tell his in- He had held his tongue with the others after being caught McCord's name cropped up frequently during the first pen here because I got a guy working for me named Jim side story of political intrigue. in the act of burgling and bugging Democratic headquarters in day of hearings yesterday as the Senate committee sought to McCord. Members of the Senate's select Watergate committee, the Watergate office building last June 17. But, as McCord lay the groundwork for more sensational days to come. " 'He's got this place really tight. And all 1 can say is I'm which opens its second day of public hearings designed to stood before the bench in March to be sentenced for his Robert C. Odle, former director of administration at the glad McCord works for me.' " record old stories and expose new facets of the White House crimes, Chief U.S. District Court Judge John J. Sirica read a Committee for the Re-election of the President, said he hired Odle said it was later that day that he learned McCord scandal, predicted McCord would have some surprises — even letter from the convicted man with three tersp paragraphs of McCord to handle office security. John J. Caulfield, who had was one of the five well-dressed men wearing surgical gloves for those who have followed the case carefully. allegations. been security director in Nixon's 1968 campaign, recommend- who were caught by police inside the Watergate. The security McCord said political pressure was applied to the defend- ed McCord for the post in 1972, Odle said. chief stayed on the payroll "about one minute" after that dis- "Anyone who can (ell what Jim McCord will say from one ants to plead guilty and remain silent; perjury was committed The cleamcut young administrator touched off an outburst covery, Odle said. day to the next is a better man than I," said Sen. Lowell V. by witnesses, and others involved in the spy mission had not of laughter in the huge Caucus Room packed wall to wall with The bulk of Odle's televised testimony before the seven- Weicker Jr., R-Conn., junior member of the panel. been identified when they could have been during the trial. reporters and spectators as he described how he first heard of member panel dealt with the formal organizational structure Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., K-Tenn., the committee's rank- In testimony offered later to various investigators, the Watergate break-in. of the re-election committee and who did what in the hier- ing minority member, said that based on the committee's se- McCord linked former Attorney Gen. John N. Mitchell, fired It was Saturday afternoon after he had finished a meeting. archy. cret talks with McCord he anticipates "some significant testi- presidential counsel John W. Dean III and ex-White House aid "Somebody came by the door and said, 'Have you heard there Mitchell, he said, was making major campaign decisions mony" hot yet published. Jeb Stuart Magruder to the scandal. Some of his evidence was has been a burglary at the Democratic National Committee?' while still attorney general before r:^.6nnig his Cabinet post McCord, a retired 19-year veteran of the CIA, broke the circumstantial or simply hearsay, but many of his tips " Odle recounted. to take over officially as campaign director. McCrane Firmly Denies All Charges Against Him TRENTON (AP) - Former ing $5,000 bail following his obtaining a greater share of hearing in the Mercer County State Treasurer Joseph M. surrender to state police on deposits of state funds. Court House. McCrane Jr. says he is in- the state grand jury in- "I deny, categorically, em- McCrane was freed by Su- nocent of charges he con- dictment. phatically, and without equi- perior Court Judge Frank J. spired to have state banks and McCrane was indicted vocation, any wrongdoings di- Kingfield on a $5,(101) personal state pension funds buy stocks Tuesday on state charges of rectly or indirectly, during recognizance bond. He has not through his brother in return soliciting three banks and the my three years as state trea- yet formally entered a plea to for favors. state pension funds to buy surer," McCrane said in a the indictment. McCrane protested his in- securities through his brother prepared statement handed to In his statement, McCrane nocence yesterday after post- Kevin in return for the banks' newsmen following his bail said that during his tenure, he "instituted policies and pro- grams that continue to pro- duce many millions of dollars annually in revenue and sav- Report on Land Use ings. "Ironically, a large portion of these new revenues to the state result from my program of taking the placement of New Campaign Issue state deposits out of politics »P WIrtpholo TRENTON (AP) - A re- tween Gov. William T. Cahill report raises serious doubts and my insistence, that the HONORED AT RUTGERS — Paul Robeson Jr., port that calls for greater and Rep. Charles W. Sandman on Cahill's program. state earn top dollar returns left, accepted last night an honorary degree from state and county roles in con- Jr. "The people deserve an ex- on idle state funds," he said. Rutgers in behalf of his ailing father, one of the trolling development of land Sandman charged yesterday amination of this blatant at- It was the change in method university's most famous sons. The presentation in New Jersey has become an that the governor had sup- tempt to achieve legislation of depositing state funds that was made by Rutgers President Edward J. Blous- by suppression of informa- are at the heart of the issue in the Republican guber- pressed the report because it f tein, center, as Dizzy Gillespie looked on. natorial primary contest be- could affect a legislative ac- tion," he said, in demanding charges against McCrane and his two co-defendants, Mount FORMER STATE TREASURER SURREN- tion next week on two con- the release of the report. DERS — Former New Jersey State Treasurer Jo- troversial administration Holly attorney William B. Col- Meanwhile, Cahill called on sey III and former Burlington seph M. AAcCrane Jr. leaves the Princeton State measures dealing with coastal Sandman to disclose the con- Police Barracks after surrendering to authorities protection. County Freeholder Director yesterday. McCrane has been indicted on charges gressman's campaign fi- Bruce A. Mahon. Paul Robeson Given Within hours after Sandman nances. Also, the governor that he conspired to have three banks and the issued the charge, the stale McCrane said that tor sev- State pension funds buy stocks through his broth- was attacked by two of the See McCrane, Page 2 Department of Environmental five Democrats seeking their er's New York brokerage firm. Protection released the report party's nomination in the which was prepared by the June 5 gubernatorial primary. An Overdue Tribute Delaware River and Bay Ma- rine Council and delivered to Former Superior Court NEW BRUNSWICK (AP) - He was the second black tury, living in London and Judge Brendan T. Byrne at- man graduated by the school. visiting with then .Soviet Pre- Cahill on April 4. Police Want Training Rutgers University, after ig- tacked Cahill's record on noring one of its most famous Robeson was an All-Amer- mier Nikita Khrushchev in the The report proposed greater state, county and municipal transportation and Sen. Ralph graduates for several dec- ican football player and mem- Soviet Union. C. DeRose of Essex County ades, has given Paul Robeson, ber of Phi Beta Kappa during Rutgers President, Dr. Kd- co-operation in regulating land use development. It also called for a greater state ef- the renowned actor and sing- his years at Rutgers. He later ward J. Bloustein presided at fort to aid private and paro- In Handling Disturbed er, an honorary degree. became a lawyer and an ex- the ceremony. urged "extreme caution" in locating a proposed offshore chial schools. Robeson, who gained politi- pert in African languages. The citation accompanying By DORIS KULMAN kowich, who said that police As a result of police com- cal notoriety when he refused He has remained out of the the degree read: "Grandson oil delivery port in the Dela- Cahill's campaign manager, now spend "up to 85 per rent ments yesterday, a meeting to sign a statement saying he public eye for several decades of slaves, Benjamin and Saba, ware Bay near Sandman's Sen. Raymond) H. Bateman, RED BANK — Monmouth of our time on medical and so- will be sought with county wasn't a communist, was rep- and hasn't made any public and son of escaped slave, Wil- home county of Cape May. R-Someerset, Tuesday dis- County municipal police offi- cial problems." Unsaid that municipal court Judges and resented at the ceremony by appearances since the mid liam, you have been called An administration • bill that closed a list of BOD contrib- cers and state troopers want about half of Monmouth's 4(i Marlboro Hospital officials to his son, Paul Jr., 45, of Brook- 1960s.