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Monday Tax-saving Holiday home Jets wins, Giants Specials series, page 8 tour: Lifestyle defeated: Sports The Daily Register Monmonth County's Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO. 133 SHREWSBURY, N.J. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1981 25 CENTS Allen taking leave, *,« but vows to return WASHINGTON (AP) - National security adviser Richard Allen, taking a leave of absence pending investigation of a $1,000 gift from Japanese journalists, says he fully expects to come back. But a White House spokesman says "we would have to wait and see." After Allen's surprise announcement yester- day on NBC's "Meet the Press," even his strongest supporter in the White House - his boss, presidential counselor Edwin Meese III — said he thought the decision to step aside was "a good idea" and President Reagan con- sidered it "the proper course " Allen said he asked Reagan on Saturday to go Reagan not passing judgment, page 2 on leave because "the interest in this case had developed to an extent that great pressures have APSUvti •jIMsriMekv Cert Mai been brought to bear on the White House.'' ALLEN TAKING LEAVE — National security advisor Richard Allen arrives before his IN REMEMBRANCE — Mildred Bennett of Matawan, widow of war hero Mai. Allen denied any wrongdoing but conceded appearance on NBC's."Meet the Press" with his wife Patricia, right, and unidentified Robert Henderson Bennett, will travel to Franc* tomorrow to attend ceremonies that he did "exercise bad judgment" in sticking family members. Allen said he has asked President Reagan to place him on "adminis- honoring her late husband for services rendered 37 years aoo to the citizens of the the cash In a safe — and forgetting about it — trative leave" until the Justice Department completes Its investigation of gifts Allen border town of Saarguemines. Her husband, a one-time Brooklyn attorney, joined Instead of turning It over to the proper author- received from a Japanese journalist. tbe Army at 35 In 1943. He was killed April 17,194S. ities. He said he was now free "to speak out" where before he "had to react to innuendo" and Meese, who by numerous accounts supported Asked in the broadcast who was behind a much of what he did say was disregarded. Allen while other top presidential aides and reported campaign of orchestrated leaks Deputy White House press secretary Larry Nancy Reagan reportedly were urging his mounted to drive him from office, Allen said he Speakes, asked whether Allen would be welcome ouster, said he thought Allen had been "very had no idea. French remember back if the Justice Department investigation forthright" in his television appearance. He On the gift Itself, Allen said he "in- finds no basis for appointing a special prose- added, "We'll have to await the outcome now." tercepted" papers and the envelope containing cutor or continuing the probe, replied: "We Retired Rear Adm. James Nance, 60, Allen's the money as "someone tried to thrust (them) would have to wait and see, but I would not deputy, will take over the duties of tbe national into Mrs. Reagan's hand" at the end of the brief major's war deeds assume otherwise." security adviser. See Allen, page 3 By BOB BRAMLEV the town alive by arranging to supply food, water and medical necessities despite shell- MATAWAN - "The fact that they've ing and bombing as well as nearby Infantry Investigators are mystified remembered after ill these yeari It gracious combat incident to the Battle of the Bulge. of them," said Mildred Bennett of Wilson Several members of the civil affairs unit Avenue, widow of tbe late Army Ma]. Robert commanded by MaJ Bennett will also return Henderson Bennett to Saarguemines, only a few kilometers from Mrs Bennett and two of her toni, Peter the German border, for tbe ceremony Satur- by Natalie Wood's drowning day. Bennett of Clinton and Richard Bennett of SANTA CATALINA ISLAND, Calif. (AP) - "Splendor In The Grass" in 1961 and "Love New York City, will leave by air tomorrow Among them will be Godfrey Ettllnger of Natalie Wood's solo midnight boat trip into With the Proper Stranger" in 1963. Wagner's for Paris, the first stop In their journey to tbe Hastings on-Hudson, N. Y., who served under darkened seas is mystifying authorities in- yacht is named Splendour. Alsatian town of Saarguemines, where her Bennett as a sergeant and later as a lieuten- vestigating the actress' apparent drowning off Miss Wood "seemed to be in great spirits on bin band served In the Military Government ant at Saarguemines; Alan Fowler of Pit- this Pacific Ocean resort. Wednesday" the last day of filming last week on Section of tbe Seventh Army in tbe winter of tsburgh, a captain In Bennett's outfit, and Miss Wood, who recently said in a newspaper her latest movie "Brainstorm," said Metro- 1944-46. Werner Hausmann, a member of the French interview that she was terrified of water, Goldwyn-Mayer spokesman Don Levy. "Noth- There on Saturday in a formal ceremony underground "adopted" by the civil affairs slipped away from her husband's yacht in a ing seemed to be out of the ordinary," he said. the citizens of Saarguemines will name a unit to aid in liaison with tbe French civil- small rubber boat early yesterday without tell- It was not unusual for Miss Wood, 43, to take square after MaJ. Bennett In recognition of ians. ing anyone, authorities said. Her body was re- the dinghy out alone, her lawyer, Paul Ziffren, nil work In saving French lives and keeping See French, page 3 covered later in the morning off the northern tip said Sunday. But Miss Wood said in a recent of the island, which is 26 miles offshore from interview with the New York Daily News that Los Angeles. she was "frightened to death of the water ... I An autopsy was scheduled for today, and* "if can swim a little bit, but I'm afraid of water the coroner says she died strictly by drowning, that is dark." with no indication of foul play, the case is Crum said "she went out in the boat by closed," said Lt. Gary Crum of the Los Angeles herself and slipped or fell off or jumped off." Highlands youth County Lifeguard Service. The fully clothed body was found about 8 a.m., Robert Wagner, the actor and Miss Wood's some 200 yards from the little boat and about a husband, left the yacht and searched for his wife half-mile from the yacht, deputies said. himself before calling the Coast Guard. After Southern California has been lashed by dies of leukemia helping their search and later identifying the storms in recent days, but harbor director Doug body, Wagner secluded himself in the couple's Bombard said the weather late Saturday was HIGHLANDS - A 17-year-old borough teen- Beverly Hills home with two friends, actress moderate with minor rainstorms. The water ager, who battled leukemia for more than a Elizabeth Taylor and actor Roddy McDowell. was a cool 55 degrees. year, succumbed to the disease yesterday at a Miss Wood appeared in some 60 films, begin- Miss Wood, Wagner, the ship's captain and New York hospital ning at age 4, and perhaps was best known as actor Christopher Walken, who was making Brian George Ostermiller, of 18 Snug Harbor Maria in the movie version of "West Side "Brainstorm" with Miss Wood, had returned to Ave , died at New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospi- Story." She was nominated for Oscars for her the yacht about midnight after dinner on the tal, according to his older brother, Wayne. roles in "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955, See Investigators, page 3 NATALIE WOOD Ostermiller had been admitted to Mt. Sinai in August, after suffering a recurrence of the disease. After the condition was diagnosed In April 1N0, community members said, Brian 1 he Inside Story went Into remission for approximately a year. Teacher union ignores Tbe teen-ager would have been a junior at Henry Hudson Regional School here, where he THE WEATHER bad distinguished himself as an athlete during Us seventh through tenth grade year*. demand to end boycott Sunny today with highs In the upper 40s. His battle against leukemia - a kind of Rain tomorrow. Complete report, page 3. cancer in which certain types of white Mood RED BANK - Despite a demand from The MCEA hopes the Red Bank merchants cells grow In an uncontrolled manner — became Mayor Michael J. Arnone that it be called off will put pressure on the Board of Education. The Isle lose, Ranger* tie 9 a "rallying" cause for members of Brian's within 41 hours, the Monmouth County Educa- boycott is to make the merchants realize that Villanova swamps Monmouth cagers I school community and the town In which he tion Association's boycott of Red Bank their welfare is concerned with the resolution of Weddings 14 lived, according to those who knew him. merchants is on as of last Friday. Ann Landers i IS 1 this dispute," Panos explained. "He was well-known and well-liked, said "No, I've had no response to my demand "This form of harrassment cannot be con- Mayor Cornelius J. Gulney Jr., last night. that they cancel tbe boycott within 46 hours," doned, and we're certainly not going to condone "There's been more effort on this than anything the mayor confirmed last night. it in this community," Arnone promised. Advice IS DAILY REGISTER I can remember Everybody that I know of has "Your paper wouldn't print our advertise- Confirming Panos' statement on the idea for Arts 7 PHONE NUMBERS contributed In some way." ment, but we voted to impose tbe boycott as of the MCEA boycott, Arnone recalled that he met Births 13 Fund-raising events to help defray Brian's tbe Friday after Thanksgiving.