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Service Held SEE STORY PAGE 13! The Weather IEEDAILY Rain, ending tonight, low in FINAL upper 30s. Partly cloudy and KM! Bank, Fmholil mild tomorrow. Branch EDITION Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 141 RED BANK, N.J. MONDAY, JANUARY 22,1973 TEN CENTS ininiiiMuiimniiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi iiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiuniniiiuiiiiituiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiuiiii Siege Ends;- 4 Gunmen Face Murder Charges NEW YORK (AP) - Four tives, the gunmen walked out. their Muslim names as Salih before a grand jury today was said to have been driving gunmen who had vowed to die Two carried a stretcher with Ali Abdullah, Dawd Abdullah with charges against the four a getaway car when the rob- for Muslim paradise in a hail a third who was wounded and Ar-Rahm and Shulab Abdui that probably would include bery began about 5:45 p.m. of police bullets have surren- the fourth walked ahead. Baheem, whose lawyer said the murder of Patrolman Friday. They said the motive dered peacefully after their he was also known as Carey .Stephen R. Gilroy, the at- for the,robbery was to obtain nine remaining hostages Police said preliminary re- ports indicated their marks- Earl Robinson. The wounded tempted murder of Patrolmen guns, not money. , made a dramatic escape to man, Yusef Abdul, 20, was in Jose Adorno and Frank Car- In a hand-written letter car- signal the end of a two-day men had not fired a shot since the original gunbattle, al- fair condition after surgery at pentier, kidnapping and weap- ried out by a doctor who at- siege in a Brooklyn sporting King's County Hospital. ons possession. goods store. though the gunmen had fired tended the wounded gunman, volleys from time to time, Brooklyn District Attorney - Police said they were the four described themselves The end came late yes- Police identified the four by See Brooklyn, Page 2 terday afternoon, more than - Eugene Gold said he would go searching for a fifth man who 47 hours after a silent robbery alarm alerted police who sur- »p wirtpnng prised the young gunmen in SMILING SUSPECT — One of four men who surrendered after withstand- the store. One patrolman was ing a 47-hour police siege of a Brooklyn sporting goods store, smiles as he killed and two others wounded is led Into a Brooklyn police station. Police took the suspect, right, to the in a fury of gunfire. Midweek Cease-Fire station for questioning. Officers at left are unidentified. After the initial Shootout subsided to a standoff, police ringed John & Al's Sports, Inc., in Brooklyn's William- sburg section, with sharp- Prisoner Release shooters. But fear for the hos- Accord Signs Seen tages prevented any forced showdown and police concen- WASHINGTON (AP) - As hour White House meeting. namese government. The ma- sources indicated that Nixon trated on keeping commu- captured enemy documents Officially, the White House jor developments: has set a goal of wrapping up nications with the gunmen. signaled a midweek initialing continued to portray the pur- — Senior South Vietnamese the Vietnam agreement this Offer Seen a Ruse The break came shortly be- of a cease-fire accord, Henry pose of Kissinger's return to officials said captured docu- week and that, barring unex- fore 1 p.m. yesterday when A. Kissinger heads back to the French capital as "com- ments from the Communist pected snags, the President is SAIGON (AP) - A local planes attacked a convoy of ficials said the Viet Cong had the hostages, led by a co-own- Paris today to join allied and pleting the text of an agree- high command stated that an confident of hitting that tar- cease-fire proposed by the supply trucks 20 miles to the sent a radio message earlier er of the store, broke through Communist officials in the ment" to end the fight. agreement will be initialed at get. Viet Cong for the announced north near the Cambodian to government troops oper- plasterboard to a sealed off last steps toward ending the But a flurry of devel- 8 a.m. EST Wednesday, that it purpose of returning wounded border, South Vietnamese ating in the Michelin region stairway and escaped to the Vietnam war. opments yesterday bolstered will be formally signed on Sat- — South Vietnamese For- South Vietnamese prisoners of sources said. They said'vir- saying the Viet Cong were roof while the gunmen were Before the presidential as- the belief that an agreement urday and that a cease-fire eign Minister Tran Van Lam war was blocked by heavy tually the entire convoy, esti- holding prisoners and the diverted. sistant left Andrews Air Force soon will be signed, calling for will go into effect on Sunday, told an interviewer as he de- fighting before it would get mated at up to 100 trucks, was South Vietnamese should Four hours later, following Base, he was to get last-min- a cease-fire, the return of Jan. 28. parted for Paris that Vice started, field commanders re- knocked out, and nearly 50 ex- Vcome and get them." more negotiations with police ute instructions from Presi- prisoners of war, and machin- — While shying away from President Spiro T. Agnew wil) ported today. plosions and fires were ob- At dawn yesterday, six and pleas from some rela- dent Nixon at a breakfast- ery to reshape the South Viet- specific dates, Washington be in Saigon on Jan. 28, pre- U.S. and South Vietnamese served, indicating the trucks hours before the proposed sumably to demonstrate that Sir forces halted their attacks were carrying fuel and am- cease-fire was to begin, South Washington and Saigon were In the area 40 miles northwest munition., . „• Vietnamese forces moved into entering the post-war era of Saigon. But ground troops In a broadcast heard in Sai- the area to recover the prison- shoulder-to-shouldcr. locked in fighting yesterday in gon yesterday afternoon, the ers and were ambushed, field Federal Red Tape Not Only — Agnew himself said he which 70 Communist troops Viet Cong offered to release commanders said. couldn't answer when asked and 10 South Vietnamese were 130 wounded South Vietnam- The officials said the South whether he will be heading for killed, the field commanders ese prisoners as a ''humanita- Vietnamese were able to re- Saigon, saying the President rian"-gesture during a cease- said. Twenty-six government cover 20 prisoners who had For Public, Kennedy Learns would have to make "that an- fire from 1 p.m. yesterday troops were reported been wounded in the battle nouncement." wounded. Saigon time until 6 p.m. By BETTE SPERO knowledge on the issue," Mr. — Congressional sources re- today. The broadcast gave a Friday. "It was absolutely amazing furnished the Shore legislator The commanders said 20 Kennedy asserted. to find out what little the with hearing reports for 1972. ported that Nixon plans a prisoners were freed by the map location and instructions The South Vietnamese offi- * WASHINGTON - The frus- He said there are two Sena- meeting with Capitol Hill for the South Vietnamese to cials said they believed the (committee) staff members He also received a copy of the government forces, and oper- trations of contending with torial committees, public know about the proposed committee's Deepwater Port leaders within the next few ations were planned today to fly unarmed helicopters, Viet Cong proposal was a ruse government bureaucracy's works and interior and insular days, providing him a forum marked with red crosses, into to enable them to try to move port," Mr. Kennedy said. "In Policy, a 687 page volume he recover the rest of the 130 red tape are apparently not affairs, as well as a Com- fact, they did not even want to said he hasn't had a chance to to brief them on details of a South Vietnamese the Viet the area one at a time to pick an important command head- limited to John Q. Public, ac- merce Department committee peace accord. up the prisoners. The Viet quarters and substantial war talk about it. They felt it "digest" yet. Cong claimed it was holding. cording to New Jersey State all connected with port pro- wasn't in their jurisdiction." — The Viet Cong foreign Cong said they had been cap- stockpiles out of the region. Assemblyman Brian T. Ken- Overlapping Authority Convoy Blasted posal studies. The Public Works com- Assemblyman Kennedy said minister, Mrs. Nguyen Thl But while air strikes were tured Friday in a "major bat- Some South Vietnamese nedy. tlefield victory" in the rubber' sources reported the* enemy His first visit was to the mittee sent him, he said, to he questioned an aide to Sen. Binh, arrived in Paris and halted in the proposed cease- Mr. Kennedy, a Republican public works committee the Interior committee which Robert Stafford. R-Vl.. with said the Communists are fire area of the Michelin Rub- plantation: had more than 200 tons of sup- state assemblyman from Mon- plies stockpiled there. which, he said, is supposed to he found "much more help- whom he met, over why "the ready to "do everything pos- ber Plantation, U.S. war- Senior South Vietnamese of- mouth County, declared last have the authority with the ful." The committee, which public works committee knew sible to achieve a quick settle- night that federal handling of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has held hearings on energy so little." The aide, according ment." But, she said, "every- a deepwater port, proposed over the local port proposal. prices and deepwater ports. See Federal, Page 2 thing depends on the United off Long Branch, is in- States." Mrs.

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