Weather DISTRIBUTION TODAY 1 MJB, temperature tJ. Ptrtly dwdy tod»y, tonight, tomorrow THEDMLY and Wadneiday. High fa the 7*. 24,150 Low tonight in the Hi. Wedaet- 1 Red Bank Area J day, wanner and more humid. See weather, page 2. NORTHERREGISTERN MONMOUTH'S HOME NEWSPAPER DIAL T41-0010 Isiued diiljr. Monday through Friday. Becons Clw Fostagt PAGE ONE VOL. 87, NO. 26 Ptlo U Kti Bank ud U Additloati MUltnj Office* MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1964 Tc PER COPY Seen 'Overflow' of New York Incidents Rioting Erupts in Jersey City District JERSEY CITY (AP) — Helmeted policemen patrolled A white woman, her son and daughter, were beaten and their Two of the city's prominent civil rights leaders came to. At 10.45 p.m. John Hudak, Jr., 22, his mother, Dorothy, the glass-littered streets of Jersey City's Negro district today car smashed while driving down Grand St. the scene when they heard of the outbreak. Raymond Brown, 47, and sister, also Dorothy, 13, were set upon in their car where a rioting mob of young Negroes attacked officers, broke Much of the rioting was random missile-throwing with president of the local branch of the National Association for by a group of Negro youths. windows and looted stores. as many as 500 bystanders watching, by police estimate. the Advencemem of Colored People, and John Bell, head of Hudak was admitted in satisfactory condition at Jersey Police said 13 Negroes were arrested and brought to But between 11 p.m. and 11.30 p.m. at least 200 Negroes the Jersey City Congress of Racial Equality, both tried to calm City Medical Center. His face was cut severely. The mother Fourth Precinct headquarters during last night's outbreak formed in a group and moved down Grand St. the crowds after the initial outbreaks. ». and daughter were sent home. — the first incident of this scale in this New Jersey city that A car with seven Negroes inside drove toward a force,of The first rock- and bottle-throwing episodes occurred at Hudak's father, John, Sr., who was at home during the in- faces Manhattan across the Hudson River. police on the street, almost running down several officers. about 9 p.m., apparently growing out of a disturbance an cident, said today that his wife-had black and blue chest in- Acting Police Chief Joseph Smith said he had to "jump Mayor Thomas J. Whelan, at the scene of the biggest tour earlier when police arrested a Negro woman who was juries and his daughter was hurt in the knee. He said the out of the way." fighting with another woman. rioters smashed all the windows and fenders of the car and fracas just south of the Lafayette housing project, charac- The car's occupants were removed at gunpoint. Their terized the outbreak as contagion spread from New York. and beat the family. His daughter lay on the floor in the identities were not given immediately. Bell said that at one point he and Brown had succeeded back until police rescued the family, he said. "It seems to me to be an overflow from the occurrences On orders from Smith to disperse the crowd, police formed in getting the crowds to disperse. But, said Bell, as the In New York City and Rochester," Whelan said. a wedge and advanced, firing shots in the air. people were leaving, a youth broke the window of a liquor The windows of 18 stores were broken during the disturb- ances, and several of the businesses looted, police said. Police said 23 persons, including 10 police officers, were The crowd broke into small pockets and faded into door- store and grabbed some of the merchandise. Police fired injured during the more than four hours of disturbances. ways and down side streets. shots and this brought the crowd back to the sidewalks. (See RIOTING, Page 3) Maddox Guns 6Spoke' for U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) -A According to the Navy, the the other two crippled and re- to "insist upon using interna- ment to the defeat of Red ag- tough response by U.S. Navy Maddoic was on patrol in inter- treating slowly.1 tional waters.1' gressors against South Viet guns to a North Vietnamese national waters about 30 miles Johnson Confers Johnson was laid to be con- Nam. This includes continuing PT. boat attack has spoken off the North Vietnamese coast First word of the naval ac- cerned about the attack but patrols such as that of the Mad- louder than words of American when three unmarked PT boats tion reached Washington about made no public comment on the dox in the international waters determination to curb, the Com- opened fire with torpedoes and 5 a.m. Washington time and incident. of Tonkin Gulf, which is bor- munists in Southeast Asia, of- 37-millimeter cannon. President Johnson conferred l.The PTboat action did nof dered by North Viet Nam and ficials said today. The Maddox promptly coun- with top advisers during the seem to be part of a new large Communist China. This was in the thinking of tered witlijts own guns and day as further news came in. scale assault from the north Fire Back Washington strategists as they called in four jets from the Air- Secretary of State Dean Rusk nor does Washington intend at Thus the official assessment weighed whether to write craft Carrier Ticonderoga. said: "The other side got a this time to carry the war to appeared to class the incident Hanoi a formal diplomatic note The Americans went un- sting out of this. If they do it the north. along with other instances In complaining of yesterday's as- scratched and planes left one again, they'll get another 2. The attempt against the which U.S. air or ground forces 1 sault on the U.S. destroyer PT boat reported badly dam- sting. ' Furthermore, he said, Maddox will not deter the in South Viet Nam and Laos Maddox. aged and disabled in the water, the United States will continue United States from its commit- (See MADDOX, Page 3) Freehold Twp. Building Booms By ROGER BOONE Board Chairman Charles E. Blat- Freehold Borough, bisected by chley and with various major sub- CAR WINDOWS SMASHED — Windows of this car were smashed and its three FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP-This Rt. 9, south of Schanck Rd., township is showing signs of be- division sketch plats, give an in- east of Iron Bridge Rd., north white occupants were injured during racial disturbance in Jersey City last night. coming the next major housing dication-of development activity. of the Elton-Adelphia Rd. and Police said Negro youths set upon the car'and beat its occupants, Dorothy Hudak, development center in the coun- Some developments, such as west of Halls Mills Rd. Longview and Wynnefield, are 47, her son, John, Jr., 22, and daughter, also Dorothy, 13. Young Negroes attacked ty- The above developers are ac- The name of the game is prog- complete and occupied. Some, like tive in this aforementioned area, police officers, broke windows and looted stores during the outbreak. ress, and it is being played with Stonehurst and Orchard Hills, which is likely to expand" in de- ^_^ (AP Wirephoto) the invasion of the rural country- have had construction started velopment projects markedly in side by developments. but all their parts have not yet the near future. To put it mildly, house build- met final approval, and others, A concrete aspect'of ths de- ing, particularly In development like Shady Brook, have just been velopment activity is, a definite groups, is ardent. classified: population increase shown by mu- Mayor Norman «Rv;"¥»e*er said The major developers In the nicipal and county calculations. Johnson Seen Ending subdivision plat* for more than township at present are. Recent population figures show 2,000 building lots have been ap- —The J.D. Holding Corp. of the township increased from 2,459 proved by the township in recent Cresskill; Stonehurst. in 1940 to 4,779 in 1960 and to months. An additional 3,000 to —U.S. Homes and Develop- 5,970 al the beginning of this 5,000 homes can be expected dur- ments Corp. of Lakewood; Wynne yc ir. The latest count was com- Kennedy Regime ing the next 10 years, he added. field, Juniper Farms, and Wynne- piled by the county Planning While township officials are wood, Sec. 5. Board. By WILLIAM HENDERSON still around after election day, For instance, he could run for working hard — and somewhat —Atlantic Seaboard Home and To Top 32,000 WASHINGTON - "President and who will beat him?" he said. the U.S. Senate in New York. successfully thus far — to keep Development Corp. of New Township officials anticipate a Brunswick; Greentree, Sections population count over 20,000 in Johnson is staking out his own Still Quite Young The N. Y. State Democratic developments at a. reasonable 1 and 2, McNeise tract and Shady 1975, while county projections pre- frontier and that means the sud- This reporter was reminded, Committee opens its convention pace, one needs more than a tally Brook. dict the population will increase den end of the Kennedy era," an however, that the attorney gen- Tuesday, Sept. 1, and a group of sheet to keep abreast of things. —Leonard Diener of Deal; by more than four times to over informant said here. eral is 38, smart, resourceful and leaders, led by Peter Crotty, Erie Some development areas have Woodgate and Woodgate South. 32,000 in 1985. The' speaker was a man who popular with the young people oJ County (Buffalo) chairman, want changed hands, in name or in was with Jobn_£_ Kennedy from this generation and young enough to nominate Kennedy to run layout.