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Slstiiis 13 rU7.7 merer oof on Answers to i ra for the three-day Washington's Birthday weekend. Smalley said, "All we're hoping to get is one good lead. To that end the detectives in teams of two have been checking out every bit of information passed on in addition to possible leads turned up by routine, by-the-book police procedure. Since Tuesday afternoon when a special telephone was installed at borough police headquarters, more than 200 persons have called with information that could be important. Detectives Detailed That number is CHarter 7-1212 and police are still requesting a call from anyone who believes he might make a contribution to the investigation.

As the calls are received, the information is typed on 5-by-8 See COPS, Page 19 By REGINALD KAVANAUGH Eight days ago a killer closed the door of the Rubenstein apartment behind him and disappeared. In his wake he left the double tragedy of a slain mother and daughter and a climate of fear that is only now beginning to subside in Highland Park. The questions being asked by residents of the usually quiet borough are the same ones for which detectives hope to get answers. Where is the killer today? No one knows. He could be in a West Coast city, a small town in Ohio or he might be living unsuspected only a few blocks from the Rubensteins' first-floor apartment at 437 S.

3rd Avenue. What kind of a person could kill twice and with such brutality? Dr. William C. Wilentz, chief medical examiner who performed autopsies on the multiply-stabbed bodies of Mrs. Anne Rubenstein and her 11-year-old daughter, Mae, said flatly, "This was the work of a sadist." What was the killer's motive? That too has yet to be determined.

Early last week Prosecutor Edward J. Dolan and Police Chief Alfred T. Smalley said robbery was the only apparent motive, but they conceded that detectives were proceeding on other possible motives. In view of the fact that Mrs. Rubenstein's purse was untouched and there was no apparent attempt ransack the apartment, many borough residents including Mayor Samuel J.

cannot accept robbery as the motive. The autopsies, according to Wilentz, disclosed no attempt at sexual molestation but psychiatrists might question whether a sex motive could be ruled out completely. Both the prosecutor and police have been close-mouthed about developments in the progress in the case, but Smalley said yesterday: "We're up against a blank wall." The veteran law enforcement officer, echoing the lament of all real-life policemen, commented, "It's not like television where they wrap up their cases in a hour." Not Much Sleep In the eight days since the murders, many members of the borough's police force and the Prosecutor's Office have been getting along on four or five hours sleep a day. "And even then, they have a hard time getting to sleep," Smalley said. On Friday Dolan ordered the entire 16-member Prosecutor's Office staff to report for duty at Highland Park police headquarters The Sunday qme News Established 1786 Fifteen Cents WEATHER: Cloudy, but not so cold.

High in 30s. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1965. Nam Dust' Moon Vict 1171 7 Threat to Man First? wno son PASADENA. Calif.

(AP) Ranger 8's photographs of the moon mmsgvsm" v- -v- wwp vwit w- 1 nm yum mini, ,11 umn i.jhmw 1 imi As -vi rA, show a surface made of apparently frothy material that might be treacherous for manned landings, it was reported last night. Dr. Gerard Kuiper, chief of a team of scientists studying samples of about 7,000 pictures televised earthward before the spacecraft crashed yesterday morning into the Sea of Tranquillity, told a news conference: "It's impossible to say from pictures taken overhead just how strong the moon's surface may be, but if I may make a personal guess, I would say it has the strength of rock melted in a vacuum an experiment we have conducted at the University of Arizona in an attempt to simulate conditions on the moon. "Under heat and in a vacuum this material blows up into a frothy material of very low density, about one-tenth of the density of water. "This material may hide many treacherous things on the moon's surface." The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where Rangers are made and guided, was a scene of jubilation when word was announced that Ranger 8's six cameras had started clicking 23 minutes before impact and were transmitting perfectly.

Experts gave these reasons for the difference between pictures from Rangers 7 and 8: 1. Achievement of a low trajectory that allowed 23 minutes of photographing, 13 more than originally expected and 10 minutes more than accomplished by Ranger 7. 2. Two more sensitive cameras and a brighter, apparently "cleaner" landing field than Ranger 7 had. 3.

An impact area close to the moon's shadow line, where mountains, craters and rocks caught by a "setting" sun threw long, etched shadows before passing under the dark of the earth, thus yielding photos with strong contrast. Ranger 8's 65-hour, voyage from Cape Kennedy, to the moon ended at 1:57 a.m. PST. It crashed into the Sea of Tranquillity, just 15 miles from the original target, at 5,942 miles per hour. Its television cameras clicked off pictures starting at 1,553 miles up, scanning an area 400 miles long.

First pictures covered an area 200 miles wide. The last one taken from only 1,700 feet, showed only the area of a city lot. The two full-scan and four partial-scan cameras transmitted video data of "excellent quality" to the Goldstone tracking station, 150 miles east of Pasadena. As Ranger 8 streaked in from left to right across the moon's SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP) Military leaders who rescued Lt. Gen.

Nguyen Khanh from South Viet Nam's latest coup turned on him yesterday with a vote of no confidence and decided to strip him of power, informed sources reported. Moving into Khanh's spot as the national strong man appeared to be Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi, ,39, who rose quickly in the armed forces after Khanh took power 13 months ago. Gone From the Scene Khanh vanished from Saigon and the sources said he was on "a long voyage." Earlier Thi said vaguely of Khanh's whereabouts: "He is on an inspection tour in the 2nd Corps area." Khanh was last seen leaving Saigon at noon yesterday and was believed then to have been leaving for Cap St.

Jacques, the coastal resort southeast of here where military men hold their councils. The new developments did not appear to have any immediate effect on the nation's new civilian government, headed by Premier Phan Huy Quat, installed Tuesday. Thi's military group expressed confidence in him. The informants said 15 young generals met with Quat yesterday afternoon at Bien Hoa air base, 12 miles north of Saigon, and there turned thumbs down on Khanh. After the meeting, Thi met newsmen and said in response to questions about Khanh: "Up to this moment, Khanh is still commander-in-chief.

In the near future we will talk more about it." Thi, formerly commander of the 4th Corps in upper South Viet Nam, became commander of the armed forces in Saigon. He gave 15 leaders of Friday coup 24 hours to surrender or face military trials. They include Lam Van Phat and Col. Pham Ngoc Thao, formerly assigned to the South Vietnamese embassy in Washington. Thi said the coup leaders had gone into hiding and that a search for them had been started.

Phat was last seen at Saigon Airport after the coup collapsed. He dismissed his bodyguards with handshakes and had tears in his eyes. He then drove to another part of the airport and could not be traced. There appeared to be widespread suspicion among the young officers that the United States sparked the anti-Khanh coup. Khanh and U.

S. Ambassadors Maxwell D. Taylor have had a frosty relationship recently. The suspicion among the officers was that Thao was sent back from Washington under U. S.

orders to launch a coup. Seven minutes before impact. Ranger 8 snapped this view of the moon, taking in an area 93 miles by 71 Vi miles. The Delambre Crater, 32 miles in diameter, is near the center of the picture. North is at the top.

See WOWEE 7,000, Page 3 fefcrtft Pope Peflfcfe fTM Leaders to End War The World's Week 1 "more grave and more tragic developments might come about." He referred to the peace pleas he has uttered since his encyclical and told the bishops he had decided on his plan of direct personal contact "with the same solicitude." tion to various international difficulties that cannot be but gravely worrisome." Pope Paul's letter was sent just two days after the Pope, in a clear allusion to the fighting in Viet Nam, said "the hour is grave." He sounded that warning at a public audience at the Vatican and coupled it with an appeal for leaders on both sides to save mankind from the horrors of war with nuclear weapons. In his letter to Viet Nam bishops two days later, the pontiff said he was anguished by the fighting there and feared Nalcon Vorkers End Strike 4 ff-kw -JUT- jp SAYREVILLE Employes went back to work yesterday at National Lead Nalcon Division on Jernee Mill Road after a one-day strike of about 80 workers that was settled in negotiations Friday. Picketing continued at the company's Titanium Division plant on Chevalier Avenue, where about 1,100 union members went on strike Feb. 1. G.

E. Peters, manager at Nalcon, said the plant had had to cease operations because the midnight shift of union employes failed to report to work Thursday. Negotiations were held Friday between the company and District 50 of the United Mine Workers Union. The issues were not revealed. But employes have "all returned to work," a supervisor at the Jernee Mill Road plant said yesterday.

Peters could not be reached for comment. Earlier he said he had not been forewarned of the strike. Frank L. Miller, industrial relations manager for the Titanium Division, said he understood a meeting was being arranged for Tuesday night by a federal mediator to re-open negotiations with the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International local. Production has halted at the main plant, which manufactures titanium dioxide pigments.

Union grievances involve a general wage increase and fringe benefits, Miller said. VATICAN CITY (AP)-Pope Paul VI disclosed yesterday he has tried personally to contact government leaders to plead for a peaceful solution in Viet Nam and other world trouble spots. It was the first known dirJo-matic effort taken by the Pope since he offered in his encyclical, "Ecclesiam Sua" (his church), last August to mediate personally for peace. Methods Undisclosed It was not made known whether the pontiff tried to make personal contact with government leaders through foreign ambassadors stationed at the Vatican, through Vatican envoys to countries involved in currrent crises or by other means. The United States has no diplomatic representative at the Vatican but the Holy See has an apostolic delegate in Washington.

There are no such ties, however, between the Vatican and the Communist nations involved in Viet Nam. White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy said in Washington he knew of no communications from the pontiff to President Johnson. Disclosure of Pope Paul's diplomatic initiative came in a letter he sent Feb. 13 to Viet Nam's Roman Catholic bishops and made public here yesterday.

It said: "We have undertaken to approach or to have approached, i By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Continuing Confusion "So what else is new?" cracked an American soldier in Saigon Friday when they told him of another coup in South Viet Nam. Tanks rumbled in the streets, fighter-bombers roared overhead and troops rushed around in trucks and on foot. But not a shot was fired and Col. Pham Ngoc Thao, 42, one of the coup leaders, quickly announced success. Lt.

Gen. Nguyen Khanh, strong man for 13 months, was out, he said. But in less than 24 hours the rebels were on the run. Young generals from the field came to Khanh's rescue and the coup, sparked mainly by Roman Catholic officers, collapsed under threats of bombardment by Brig. Gen.

Nguyen Cao Ky's South Vietnamese Air Force. Once again, Khanh appeared to have weathered a challenge to his power. But on the morning after, 15 young generals met with the new civilian premier Phan Huy Quat. They turned in a vote of no confidence in Khanh and decided to strip him of power, informed sources said. Khanh suddenly vanished from Saigon.

He was last seen at noon yesterday and at that time was believed to have been headed for the Cap St. Jacques sea resort. To the fore stepped Brig. Gen. Nguyen Chanh Thi, 39, a pale, intense man who languished for three years in exile in Cambodia after failing to overthrow Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1960.

Khanh brought Thi back after Diem's downfall in November 1961 and he rose rapidly in the army command. Thi was issuing the orders around Saigon yesterday and he appeared to be in the driver's seat. Where was Khanh? "On a long voyage," said informants close to Thi's junta. uvk jMniliumi -J fchtiii im Its not all work and study at the Kilmer Job Corps Center. Here two corpsmen relax at the record player.

For other activities in the life of a job corps trainee see Page 70. The Father of His Country. On a wintry day 208 years ago, George Washington rode through Middlesex County, Death Joins a Wedding Party his first journey north of Maryland. To turn back the Page 48 pages of history, see Dr. Douglas G.

Gemeroy Plunging into a new venture, Rutgers professor-emeritus is today's Personality in the News. Miss Wittenborn's marriage to Robert P. Miller, went on as scheduled, with the Rev. Dr. Clarence Lambelet of the Episcopal Chapel at Rutgers officiating.

Mrs. Wittenborn's daughter, Juanita Hudson, Teneck, was with her at her death. Patrolmen Vincent DiPane and Joseph Szark were investigating. Lieutenant William Conway said an autopsy would be performed to determine cause of death. Rutgers' staff Dr.

J. Richard Wittenborn of 115 Lincoln Highland Park, professor of psychology and education and head of the Interdisciplinary Research Center, and his wife, Sarah, research associate in psychology. Suddenly, Mrs. Wittenborn, Dr. Wittenborn's mother, sank into unconsciousness.

Rushed to Middlesex General Hospital in a fire department ambulance after emergency first aid, she was pronounced dead. Wedding bells turned to a dirge at Kirkpatrick Chapel on Rutgers University campus yesterday afternoon when the grandmother of the bride collapsed and died moments before the ceremony was to start. Mrs. Mable (Mulholland) Wittenborn, 70, of 221 S. Missouri Road, Belleville, 111.

was among guests in the chapel as a car pulled up with the radiant bride, Sarah Elizabeth Wittenborn, daughter of two members of Page 66 Impact on America West Point and the War. The jungles of Viet Nam seem far away from the Plain at West Point, but 19 Military Academy graduates have been killed thus far. Here's how West Pointers view the war. Page 38 in a confidential manner, representative personalities or various governments to ask them with insistence to contribute to an honorable and peaceful solu -1 Andy Jacobs Jr. Freshman congressman finds life on Capitol Hill both fascinating and frustrating.

Yards Hall of ame ijaios 7 Page 77 Spring Comes Early This Year. At least it does in a Rutgers greenhouse, where experts are forcing flowers into bloom for the International Flower Show Page 65 DEPARTMENTS What could the upheaval mean in terms of American commitment in South Viet Nam? Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said Thursday that the United States has no alternative but to continue the struggle. He said the Chinese had made South Viet Nam a "decisive test" in their ideologic argument with the Soviet Union against peaceful coexistence. As for political negotiations, Republican leaders in Congress were dismayed at the prospect, likening it to running "up the white flag." But the latest coup attempt introduced other question marks as to a negotiated settlement.

Even if the U. S. wanted to enter such talks," would the North Viet Nam Communist regime in Hanoi want to? Could Hanoi, supported by Red China, blandly ask with whom they should negotiate? Who could speak today for South Viet Nam? Who would be in power tomorrow? U.N. Observer Patrols On the same day, the Hanoi government asked that truce observers be withdrawn, saying it could no longer guarantee the safety of the teams because of air attacks launched by the United States and South Viet Nam. There are five teams patrolling major routes near the 17th parallel, dividing south and north.

In the background sat the Red Chinese, aware they no longer need rattle ancient swords but could talk in the thunder of nuclear explosion. Month ago they See THE WORLD'S WEEK, Page 4. Vince Draddy, vice-president; and Harvey Barman, executive director. La Roche explained that $437,000 already has been pledged and that 52 of 53 college presidents reached have expressed approval of the fund raising program. Similar expression of approval he expected from the large majority of those who have not yet replied to the National Football Foundation letter of inquiry.

Quotas have been scaled for three categories of colleges ranging from $100,000 downward to $12,500. The appeal eventually will be to the alumni of all colleges and the public, but the Special Gift phase is currently limited to the 76 colleges with men already voted into the Hall of Fame. Adoption of the NFF plan and acceptances of quotas are expected from a big percentage of the colleges involved. To help the 76 sponsor college alumni groups to reach their quotas without any undue stress See FOOTBALL, Page 43 By JIMMIE FLEMING The most important step, thus far toward the creation of the Football Hall of Fame on ttie Rutgers University campus was taken during the past week when highly placed industrial and business leaders put their stamp of approval on a two-year fund-raising drive to realize $3.5 million dollars for the project. The program was officially launched at the River Club in New York City when executive committee members of the National Football Foundation entertained the 1965 Hall of Famers who will be enshrined at the annual dinner in December.

$437,000 Already Pledged Among those participating were Chester La Roche, advertising executive and president of the National Football Foundation; Roger Blough, president of U.S. Steel, and the 1963 Gold Medal winner; Merle A. Gulick, vice president of Equitable Life Assurance Company, and a 1965 Hall of Famer; Joseph D. Tooker, treasurer of the NFF; Sports 43-46 Out on the Limb 44 Outdoor Sportsmen 45 Theater 74-75 Twenty-Five Years Ago 39 World Spotlight 69 Youth Page 47 COLUMNS Bayshore South 36 Business Industry 61 Confident Living 6 Of People and Things 68 Off-Beat 67 On The Detroit Front -71 Sue Bourbon 49 The Golden Years 50 PAGE Arts and Hobbies 72 Books 73 Business and Real Estate 61-65 Architect's Sketchbook Garden 65 House of the Week 63 Classified Section 78-33 Crossword Puzzle 32 Editorial Page 68 Inquiring Photographer 68 Obituaries 76 Social Women's Page 32 Redeem free counterpain tablet Insured Savings at lt S. L.

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