Baby Parade Renewal Draws 50,000 uSEESTORYPAGE t.14 ^MMAtkU 3 The Weather Hazy, hot and humid today FINAL and tomorrow, highs in low to mid-90s. Fair and warm EDITION tonight,' F^REGISTER llonmouth County's Outstanding Homo Newspaper 24 PACES VOL.96 NO.lt TEN CKNTS RED UANk-MIUDI.KTOWN, N.J. SUNDAY, AUGUST 27,1973 iiimiinimi niiiitiiMiiiiniHiiiii IIIIUIIIIIIIIinilllllllllllMUHIHIIIIIIIIIMIinillHU IIIMUIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIII Watergate Seen Damaging to Both Parties By JIM ADAMS assessment that Watergate State Sen. Robert E. Bauman. going to vote against me to all politicians are crooks. .It Republican leader, GOP Con- they're making a big mis- a Republican without being scandal will have negative ef- Hauman, a conservative, get back at President Nixon seems to me this is just part ference Chairman John B. An- take." with that crowd." Parris stressed to every WASHINGTON (AP)— fects on both parties. narrowly defeated a con- or the bad things that have of the whole rotten system. derson of Illinois, says Water- Bauman, Peyser and Parris Three Republican politicians But they are inclined to be- servative Democratic oppo- been done," Bauman said be- But it's nothing new. They gate will severely damage Re- group he talked to that he arc pinning their hopes of not plans to introduce a bill in out among the voters last lieve that it will hurt Republi- nent last week to fill an unex- fore last week's election. talk about Watergate: what publicans. being scarred by either Wa- week have come up with the Bauman's district has sent Congress to repeal wage-price cans more. pired term in the U. S. House about the Soviet wheat deal? Anderson said last week he tergate or food prices in the same reading on Watergate: Republicans to Congress since controls. Parris said he hopes "The Republicans are the of Representatives from That's even worse than Wa- thinks Watergate has hurt congressional elections next It won't damage their election 1962, however, so it is ques- Nixon will voluntarily aban- ones involved in it," one Maryland's 1st District. tergate." him so badly that he may year on their aggressive ef- chances next year but it's tionable whether his victory don the controls. Democrat said. "I don't think Before the election, Bau- And in Northern Virginia, abandon his hope of running forts to separate themselves turning a lot of Americans off can be. taken as a solid in- "The Cost of Living Council it's going to do either one of man had predicted that nei- •Parris spent a day meeting against Sen. Adlai E. Steven- as far as possible from Presi- politicians in general. dication that Watergate will has been a disaster," Parris us any good but it's bound to ther Watergate nor food with constituents without any son 3rd next year. dent Nixon on those issues. All three said they view hurt them more." prices would defeat him. He not hurt Republicans at the of them even mentioning Wa- told one group. "I think we soaring food prices as a more The Republicans out talking proved correct. He believes polls next year. tergate. "I feel a lot of people are When a young shoe factory should have Phase zero." important issue than Water- to voters last week were the same thing will prove true In New York City, Peyser Their overriding concern going to be using this as an worker in Maryland said she Peyser has been criticizing gate. Reps. Peter A. Peyser of New next year. got his cynical assessment was the ever-rising cost of excuse for other problems," thought Bauman might be "In Nixon on both Watergate and Democratic political strate- York and Stanford E. Parris "The people here are not from a grocer in the Bronx: food. Peyser said. "Some are using with Nixon." Bauman told inflation in New York City gists seem to agree with the of Virginia and Maryland such sophisticates that they're "There's an old saying that However, at least one House it right now. And I think her: "It's hard enough being television interviews. Besieged Swedish Bank Bandit Foils Gas Assault STOCKHOLM Sweden (AP) The police had been trying — The besieged gunman hold- to starve the gunman out ing four hostages In a locked since the 4x •. -e locked in bank vault told police early the vault on Saturday. Pooce today that he had tied them to had refused the* food, water the walls. He said that if or a portable toilet. anesthetizing gas were The gunman told peace yes- pumped in they would terday he had bane* abort strangle when they lost con- half of the MH.M raaona pad sciousness. him last week. Apparent!* Police immediately sus- this was In response to t'.i pended operations to capture suggestion of a reporter hi a the gunman and a convicted telephone interview with Uw murderer with him and free man that be bun tat i the three young women and a as a symbolic protest i man taken hostage last prison conditions. Thursday. Premised Passage "We would not like to sec The man was also promised these young people hanged, safe passage out of Sweden if that's why we agreed to a he released the hostages, but truce." said Police Chief Curt he insisted on taking two of Undrofth. them with him. "We are dealing with an in- The drama began Thursday human being who does not when police interrupted the hesitate at anything. We could gunman while he was robbing hear the girls plead for their the bank in downtown Stock- lives. Their despair was gen- holm. One policeman was uine. wounded in the hand by the 'They are still alive, but I robber, who was armed with a don't know what their condi- submachine gun and carried tion is now." more than a pound of ex- INSIDE BESIEGED BANK — Police build a wall of sandbags next to the Lindrofth would not say plosives. door behind which a gunman has barricaded himself and his hostages. what kind of gas might have He holed up in the bank The gunman today foiled a planned attack by gas when he told police he been used. But he said if it with the three women and one had fied his hostages to the wall so that they would strangle when they were employed, it would put man as hostages. collapsed if gas was pumped in. the six out in about three min- MISSY WITH THE MOSTEST - Joey Mahon, 3Vi, of Rahway and Avon, utes. is flanked by her parents, AAr. and Mrs. Joseph Mahon, after the little Drill Celling genie took grand prize in yesterday's 46th annual Baby Parade in Asbury Police began drilling Park. (Story, photos page 3.) through the ceiling of the 19- bv-40-foot vault last night in Memphis Desegregation apparent preparation for the gas attack. The gunman fired Insurgents Blocking one shot into the vault's ven- tilator drum during the drill- ing, but nobody was hit. Busing To Start Today The police put one hole into the vault, then decided they MEMPHIS. Tenn. (AP) — "Busing is no longer an is- itial problems, but trouble- per cent black enrolment this Phnom Penh Access needed two more to blanket Court-ordered desegregation sue," said Hunter Lane Jr., flared several days later at a term, an indication that some PHNOM PENH. Cambodia to Phnom Penh. It means also battalion was ambushed yes- the vault with gas speedily. busing begins today for ap- school board president "It's a few schools. white parents have put their (AP) — Hundreds of Cam- they are protecting their own terday on the highway. But when they began drilling proximately 40,000 pupils in fact of life now, and we are Expect 3I.IM children in private and church bodian government troops supply lines." The spokesman said both the other holes, the gunman the Memphis public schools, trying to make it as painless Some experts feel that only schools. There are now about today battled insurgent forces The cutting of the two high- highways were cut at points sent out his message that the one of the South's largest as possible for the commu- about 30,000 of the 40,000 pu- 213 such schools, about twice blocking Phnom Penh's two ways left Mekong river con- where they are crossed by the necks of the hostages were school systems. Authorities ex- nity." pils covered in the May order the number at this time last major supply highways in the voys from Saigon as Phnom insurgents' supply corridors. tied to the wall. pect it to go smoothly. The board has sponsored a will ride. The city had antici- year. heaviest fighting since the end Penh's only sources of supply. He said the Khmer Rouge and A May 13 order by U.S. Dis- busing-information program pated an enrolment of 130,0011 McRac's order is under ap- of U.S. bombing 12 days ago. Bridge Blown their North Vietnamese allies Miners Died trict Court Judge Robert M. for parents since before an this fall but has only 101,000 peal by the NAACP as in- During the weekend the The spokesman said that on were trying to keep their own McRae Jr. calls for 155 buses earlier McRae order under registered, although late sign- adequate by about 17,000 pu- Khmer Rouge insurgents cut Highway 4 government troops routes open so they could sup- to cover 508 routes. Starting which 9,000 pupils in lower ups were expected.