Neff to Resign Shrewsbury Council Post See Tapes Hurting Crime Fight
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Neff to Resign Shrewsbury Council Post SEE STORY fflUOW Goudy and Mild Cloudy and mild with chance MEDAKY FINAL of showers today and tonight. 1 Red Bulk, Freehold 7" Cloudy, mild tomorrow. I Long Branch J EDITION <8e» DsUUi, Pan 3] Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 6 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, JULY 7, 1969 22 PAGES . 10 CENTS t^llii[llltilMIMI!nilUlillimilllllltM]U!1M!Ul!lMlll!UEUIU!l!llllllllll!UIIIII!inilinilllhllinill!IIUlIIIinimtU!lUIUIL!lE!lliri:iIIIIH-illii-MIIllll IllllllilllllillllllllllUlllilllllllllll'illlllllJIiliillllllllli See Tapes Hurting Crime Fight By BOB DUBILL more of a hero than a 'chump' for the first time have con- run the temporary embarass- No Mafia lawyer will stand to be put in the position of be- NEWARK (AP) - The to his brethren in the Mafia." crete evidence that the gov- ment to Sam the Plumber." by in the future and permit ing bugged." fight against organized The reasoning of the lawyer ernment actually had set up The FBI transcripts Were conversations obtained from "A "case in point, observed "illegal wiretaps" to be aired crime could experience a who declined to be identified an extensive and expensive released at the request, of the lawyer, is DeCavalcante system of electronic eaves- in public, said the laywer. great setback because of the is that making the transcripts Chris Franzblau, a lawyer. publicity surrounding the De- dropping. ; The defense will proceed on himself. public put the entire structure for DeCavalcante, in an at- Cavalcante buggings, accord- of organized crime on guard "Until now, nobody could the stheory that the govern- "DeCavalcante watchers" ing to one 'school of legal tempt to overthrow an extor-' ment does have wiretap infor- in Kenilworth, where he has against future' disclosures. sure the government wasn't tibn charge against the re- opinion. * Anybody who has the remot- mation. a business office, have no- bluffing," said the lawyer. puted Mafia leader. The U.S. "Police agencies all over est idea of. being "bugged" "This makes for a com- ticed' that he spends a good "Franzblau called their bluff attorney's office contended the country are clamoring for will install electronic detec- pletely different type of court- deal more time holding- con- that Franzblau failed to move copies" of the FBI ;tran- tion systems or anti-jamming and it backfired. But the les- room strategy," he said. versations on. the sidewalk scripts," said one lawyer. devices, said "the lawyer. sons that Mafia lawyers to have the transcripts opened "And now that wiretapping these days, just on the chance "But when the legal smoke But the major benefit to the learned around the country only to the defense rather has been made legal, no that federal agents still have finally clears Sam will be underworld is that its lawyers will far outweigh in the long than being made public. .„ Mafia man will allow himself his office bugged. North-South Viet Duel Indecisive GLEASON DRIVES NIXON IN GOLF CART — Presi- dent Ric'hard M. Nixon rode a golf oaft with co- median Jackie Gleason at the wheel yesterday while playing 18 holes of golf at Miami. Other members of tlje foursome were the president's, son-in-law, Davia 1 4 IAP Wirephoto)\ DAK TO, Vietnam (AP) - valley early In May, swirled elements. \ i The North Vietnamese ini- charge of the valley. The gov- Ben Het; American helicop- The "test battle" between L south across the hills, and Great sheets of water shift-} tiated the battle by slipping ernment troops were told to •• ters carried food and ammu-' South and North Vietnamese then clamped hard around the ing in from Laos blacken the two infahtry regiments, go it alone: nition to Vietnamese troops troops around Dak To and Ben Het Special Forces camp afternoon skies and sluice backed by a regiment of The enemy move into Dak and carried put the wounded; Ben Het has drowned in mon- late in June. Division-sized through the triple-canopied mixed artillery, into the Dak To was a seasonal phenome- ^ U.S. artillerymen provided soon rains, U.S. observers forces were pitted against jungle. Hip deep mud bogs To valley early in May. They non. The decision to make it" enormous firepower^ and U.S. anxious to see how the South each other. The South Viet- tanks, trucks and slows even had been in Dak To before, a test was made in Saigon. Air Force B52 bombers Cong Launch Vietnamese army can per- namese had U.S. air and ar- the most nimble footed North but this time they discovered While no. U.S. infantrymen dropped, an estimated 15,000 form on its own say the re-tillery support. Vietnamese porter. their old American antagonist came to help, other American tons of explosives during the sultsjrere frustratingly inde- Both sides have been mak- By the end of June, the had gone. forces did. U.S. engineers battle while fighter-bombers cisive. ing victory claims and, South Vietnamese were just The U.S. 4th Infantry Divi- kept the roads around Dak To flew numerous dose support No American infantrymen under the rules in Vietnam, waiting in the ram for the sion had moved south to Kon^ open until they were blasted missions. New Assault fought in the two-month bat- both have some validity. But North Vietnamese to go turn an* left the South Viet- off then; U.S. transportation An estimated 60 Americans tle,that began in the Dak To the only sure winners are the home. They did. namese 42nd Regiment in units ran trucks through to SAIGON (AP) - Viet Cong June 20. But a spokesman died in this Vietnamese test, forces today launched their said "I don't read anj 'ing and nearly 300 were wound- first ground attack in a week, into it. It's an isolated a..ack ed. But the spotlight was on blasting their way into a U.S. in an area that has been usu-. the South Vietnamese perfor- military headquarters with ally quiet. The enemy decided mance. Americans inter- grenades and dynamite to go when they had a target viewed during and after the bombs. of opportunity." 14Die in Commuter Plane Crash action gave this assessment The spokesman said about The attack 120 miles north- of how they measured up: MONROE, Ga. (AP) - A about five miles west of. Mon- The plane was a twin en- Franklin Thornton said the ground. east of Saigon killed six 15 enemy sappers — volun- twin-engine Air South com- roe. The plane, flight 168, had gine turbojet Beechcraft plane crashed in good "It looked like to me it ex- The Vietnamese got se- Americans and wounded 18. teer troops specially trained known as. a Refich ftLaJrljn-__weather with clear skies and ploded from the inside," the riously mauled, but no worse U.S. headquarters said "dam- in demolition — attacked the " mute*iflrplanewith 14 pep left Atlanta 28 minutes ear- . district military, headquarters sons aboard crashed and ex- lier. er with a capacity of 17 perper- noo windwind . He saidsaid" it strucstruclkT sheriff said: He described the- than the VS. 173rd Airborne age to material withuLthe.. : camp at about 1:50 a.m. un- ploded in a swampy area Robert Dick, vice presi sons, Dick said. He added about 20 feet from an aban- wreckage as "bolts and Brigade at Dak To in 1967. camp was moderate," but the plane was less than a doned house but the house nuts." field reports said three or der cover of a mortar bar- Sunday night and there were dent of Air South, sadd the Knowledgeable Americans rage that pinned down the 150 no known survivors, the Fed- plane was on a regularly year old. Was not destroyed. There were billfolds and say the dozen Vietnamese and four armored personnel car- other papers at the crash site riers were blown up and de- American defenders. The eral Aviation Agency said to- scheduled flight from. Atlan- "We have no idea what "It just covered the top Montagnard battalions in- Americans are part of Task happened," Dick said. "I'd with debris," the sheriff said. but identities were withheld. stroyed and at least one was day. ta to Greenville, Sp'artan- volved in the fight took 50 per darnaged. Force South that operates in FAA Duty Officer George burg and Sumter, S.C. It car- hesitate to say one way or Thornton said wreckage The sheriff said at least one cent casualties, about 2,000 The only known enemy cas- the "southernmost foothills of Collier said the plane was on ried 12 passengers in addi- the other. This is our first was scattered over an acre, of the victims was an Army men. Ony source said at least the central plateau. tion to the pilot and copilot, accident." T . and a half and that there officer. ualties were two. soldiers an instrument flight when it 500 were iUd found inside the district head- crashed" about 9:20 p.m. he said. Walton 7 County ^herifi==^eTe^6nly-small-pieces=leff- F5 The sappers blasted their of the aircraft. • *•„ from Atlanta ordered the As the developing battle quarters, a spokesman said.' way 'into the headquarters , There were no witnesses to crash site blocked off. Inves- sucked in government rein- 'Isolaied Attack' hurling hand grenades and the accident but the sheriff tigators were enroute from forcements from Pleifcu and U.S. headquarters said it. satchel charges—sticks of dy- said residents heard the plane Miami and Washington, -the Ban Me Thuot, the gaps was the first enemy initiated namite wired together, the just before it struck the sheriff said.