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Vol.LXXXI, No. 113 R«oordef EaUbllihed 1S$S—D*roocrtt Estsblished Consolidated 1 93
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Amsterdam, N.Y., Saturday, January 2, 1960 Full A»*ocut*d Pr««i Report by L«ued Wlr«. Officiil City and County Paper 7 CENTS I* wsauy ar Ctrftm
Reds Arms Plan Might Pressure Western Action Khrushchev Plan Receives
Cautious-Keception From Washington; Reds Would Use Rockets for Defense
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MOSCOW UP) — Nikita Khrushchev's hint that the Soviet Union might go it alone in cutting armed forces strength suggested today the opening move in a new maneuver to force the West's hand on disarmament.
The Soviet Premier told a New Year's reception "if the cold war exponents drag us into labyrinths of endless verbal discussions, should we adopt the way onto which they want to prod us?
"Shouldn't we do some thinking for ourselves, reduce our armed forces unilaterally and entrust the defense of our borders to rockets?"
Cautious U.S. Greeting Khrushchev's d e c l a r a t i o n .
Rounded before foreign diplomats among the' 1.500 guests at the Kremlin reception, was greeted cautiously in Washington. • But tbe initial reaction was that the Soviet leader's words may represent the opening move in an at tempt to marshal world opinion and pressure the Western powers into .accepting his pet disarmament proposal at the East-West talks opening in Geneva Ma^ch 15.
The proposal, submitted to the United Nations by Khrushchev during his U.S. visit last year, calls for total disarmament within four years.
Khrushchev said in *his New Year's Eve statement that "if our proposals are accented w*> are ready to dissolve our army any time and all our military will welcome this decision."
Agree In Principle Western leaders go along with
Khrushchev's proposal in principle but maintain it is too vague on the crucial issue of controls.
American Freighter Splits After HittingKeef: Save Part of Crew
Kennedy to Meet Newsmen; May Reveal His CarfftMacy
PLANE CRASHES NEAR ST. JOHNSVILLE — A light plane piloted by Elmer C. Brown, 42, of St. Johnsvlllc, is shown in a field west of that village where it crashed early yesterday afternoon~Wnlte~tne pilot was attempting a landing. Brown apparently lost altitude tod fast as he approached Nellis Field, south of St. Johnsville, and tried to make an emergency landlng~~lu" a pastuir amrth-of-Kouto ft Hr suU fered a possible "skull fracture, possible fracture of the right ankle, also cuts and bruises and was admitted to Little Falls Hospital. (Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Sheriff's Department)
Light Plane Crashes in Field, St. Johnsville Pilot Is Injured
Bandits Hijack Truck Manned With 3 Guards
MONTREAL L3B - Four maski
J WASHINGTON UP) — Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass) called a news conference today with all advance* signs pointing to a formal statement that he is seeking the Democratic presidential TTbm-inatiori.
That would make official
Freighter, Carrying 37 Crew Member*, Breaking U p On Keef Southeast of Singapore; Storm-Whipped Seq» Making Rescue Difficult; Several Crewmen Are Spotted on Small Island Near Ship Wreckage
Traffic Deaths May Set Mark; Six Each Hour
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Greet New Era With Prayers, Fun. and Frolic
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fun and frolic greeted the first
hours of 1960 Friday, followed by church services, parades and bowl football games.
The advent of a new decade gave added impetus to ' ce lebra -
-4ionsr-wtth hopes high" for an era of happiness and prosperity
Merrymakers throughout the world0 cut loose with cheery greetings and noisemakers. Auto horns blared in Paris and in other cities and towns. Fireworks added to the din in such far-removed areas -as Germany and Red. China.
Although most parties were held in private, homes in the Soviet Un-
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Traffic '. 194 Fires 30 miscellaneous SO
Total 254
The nation's traffic deaths, averaging moVe than six each hour Friday and seemingly heading for a new record for a three-day Hew-Yea? holiday, tapered off during the morning hours.
The heavy toll since the start of the long holiday weekend at 6 p.m. Thursday was termed shocking by the National Safety Council.
The council, in a pre-holiday Stat"™*"*, estimated T^a-^^mrr
The crash of a light plane* early yesterday afternoon in a field near St. Johnsville resulted in injuries to the pilot, Elmer C. Brown; 42, of St. Johnsville.
Brown is a patient in Little Falls Hospital with multiple injuries believed to be not serious.
. Student Pilot The accident happened about
12:15 yesterday afternoon as the Sti Johnsville man, a student pilot, was coming in for a landing. He had taken off, about a half hour earlier from Nellis Field, located two miles south of St.^J
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hTFT cfowrTs thronged Moscow streets amid special decorations.
President Fisenhower spent the holiday with friends and family at Augusta, Ga.
Fapal Blessing* In Rome. Prpe John XXIII gave
his blessings to 20.000 Romans and tourists eathered in Vatican City's St. Peter's Square.
It was a chilly day at.Pasadena'7 Calif., but more than a million persons turned out to view the annual Tournament of Roses parade. Acting as grand marshal was Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who was accompanied by his wife pat . Their two daughters. Patricia' 14. and Julie. 11. were amone those In the grandstand along with Chief Justice Farl Warren and California Gov. Edmund G. Brown.
More than 330,000 football fans turned out for contests at Pasadena (Rose Botol), Dallas (Cotton Bowl).. New Orleans (Sucrar Bowl) and Miami (Orange Bowl).
Nightspot* everywhere reported record business, and New York's Times Souare—roped off for celebrants—drew more than 300.000 persons.
Bome^ungressmen Prepaxe New Laws for Broadcasting
Where »o Find
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may be killed, during the'78-hour holiday period, which ends at midnight Sunday.
It said if the pace set' Friday was maintained up to midnight Sunday, the toll would run above 400. The record traffic death toll for a three-day N e w ^ e a r period was 364 a t the star t of 1956.
Driving in wide areas in the -West_and Midwest, hit by heavy snowstorms, was hazardous. However, fatalities on the highways were not heavy in the storm-stricken region.
During one six-hour period Friday, fatalities on the highways averaged more than 10 an hour. The council said the rate during the-first-day-oMDflO was far ao_oye~ the daily normsi~Tnofor~ vehicle death rate of slightly more than 100 per day.
An associated Press survey during a non-holiday weekend covering the same three-day period, Dec. 10-13, showed 324 traffic deaths.
police he had cirP
cled the area several times to . accummulate f l y i n g time.
When he made his- approach for a landing, he- apparently
' los t altitude too fast and decided to set down In a pasture, just south of Route 5. W i t n m c s raid th r plane, a sin
gle-engine Taylorcraft, touched the highway and bounced back into the air. One wingtip hit a tree and the plane nosed into the ground.
Taken ' to Hospital Brown was removed to an auto
mobile owned by Lloyd Blencoe. St. Johnsville R.D., and from there was' removed to the office of Dr. Raymond E. Wytrwal in St. Johnsville. He was later taften to Little Falls Hospital in Lull ambulance.
The accident happened approximately three miles west of St. Johnsville. the plane coming to rest on,the south, side of Rou*e 5
Its right wing against a small tree. The nose and left wing were considerably damaged and theTVirrcF shie'id was broken.
Line W. Klock Jr., who flew the plane prior to Brown, said he encountered no difficulty with the craft.
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W A S H I N G T O N UP) — * Should Congress pass new; laws to stamp out payola, rigging and deception in the television and radio industry?
A.-nurnber of congressmen think so, and they're ready to go to work on (it as soon as Congress convenes next Wednesday. "The iron is hot now,** says Rep. William L. Springer (R-Ill).
Already Have Power But 'At ty \Cen . William P. Rog-
ers thinks the two government agencies, that regulate broadcasting already have the power to do the^jpb. He says they just haven't been using that power, as they FCC already have the power to should. Another group of congress4*io the job men agree with Rogers
Rogers gave that view m a lengthy pre-New Year's repor t ' to President Elsenhower, who had asked him for a study of the situation after congressional investigation laid bare a-series of TV scandals. ; i. _—-—-
Rogers did nrge twrt'Tmmr-diate change* In the law: (1) make 41 a federal crime for » TV or radio employe to take p»>o!« — #rrrpt ft hrlhr to plug ft product on the air, or .(2) give the Federal Communlra-tiona CommlMlon more leeway hi punching stations tha t
1 live up to th« m e r i t
Now the only punishment is the drastic one of revoking the station's license. Rogers suggested lesser ]>cnalrics, such as temporary suspension of licenses or gra,nt ary -suspension of licenses or lesser penalties, such as tcmnor-granting of conditional licenses.
•Wants Much Tighter Code Springer wants to go much
further in tightening up the law. "I hope we get promptly into
such things as better programming and control of objectionable advertising," ho said. Springer is a member of the House sul>com-mittee on- Legislative "Oversight, which uncovered the TV quiz show mess last year.
Another nieml>cr. Rep. John E. Moss (Calif.), said he agreed with Rogers that the FTC and
Severe Wintry Weather Grips Western Areas
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Severe' wintry weather, with heavy snow, strong winds and cold, gripped wide areas in Midwest and West today.
Blizzard conditions prevailed in sections from northwest Kansas northward through Western^Ne-braska, eastern Wyoming and
cd bandits hijacked a Railway Express truck manned by three armed guards Friday night and got away w i t h an undetermined amount of money and jewelry. - Police said the theft of the truck and of two heavy strong boxes it was carrying must have been the result of long and careful planning.
The truck was making a quarter-mile trip between two railroad stations.
Driver Paul-Emile LaRocque of Montreal — who was not a r m e d -told police a green sedan pulled in front and stopped, blocking the truck's path.
The four bandits leaped from the car and covered the truck from all sides with drawn pistols A warning shot was fired through a window of the cab.
Guard Robert Waterson of Montreal, sitting beside LaRocque,
••was cut on the face by flying glass and the bullet struck the other' side of the cab just above LaRocque's .head.
"We didn'.t move or*, say anything," Waterson said.
Two New Yorkers The four then leaped into the
Montana and most of the Dakotas. Strong northerly winds whipped
the blowing snow. The Weather Bureau extended its warning for blizzard conditions and heavy snow through today in the Dakotas and eastern Nebraska.
The New Year Day snow belt extended from the upper Mississippi valley into eastern sections of the Rockies from Colorado into Montana. Wind gusts reached up to 60 m.p.h., cutting visibility to near zero in some areas.
Over Foot of Snow Snow
than a foot in Arizona as the storm swept across the southwes't Thursday! dumping heavy snow in parts of New Mexico with heavy falls in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Montana.
The* storm was blamed for at least eight deaths.
Heavy snow warnings were post-
truck and overpowered the two armed guards inside — Leo F.
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The plane stoppc(lfa£in^_ejLsi_ydth-ed for MinncsQla^^Vi&conain-ftnd upper Michigan. Warnings were issued to motorists of hazardous driving conditions in the snow belt a'nd in northwest -and northeast Iowa, where freezing rain was indicated.
Temperatures dropped below zero in "kestern Montana south-westward into the plateau areas of Nevada and Utah. Readings' were in the teens and 20s in the fresh storm h^lt.
F a i r a n d a little* colder weather prevailed along the Atlantic Coast from the Carolinas northward^
Light drizzle and foK continued
Flood Waters Drop Slightly
— Flood \ MONTREAL UP) — r looQ wa ters backing up behind An ice jam in the Rivieres des /Prairies dropped a foot in 24 hefurs, but riverbank communities expect no real relief for two or three days.
Bordeaux, a northern (Jistrict of falls ranged up to more^ Montreal, was declared an emer
gency area Friday night and placed under civil defense. The army was called in to help in Bordeaux and the suburban communities of Laval des Rapides, L'Abord a Plouffe, and Riviere des Prairies.
Quebec hydro crews, beginning their fourth day of setting off dy-namite charges in-efforts to loosen the ice jam. said at least two more da\s will be needed to re-
what lias been no secret for nearly two years — that he will battle in the primaries and at the Los "Angeles convention for the prize.
. Marks Final Stage For Kennedy, formal 'enjry into
the race apparently marks the final intensive stage of campaign that has carried him into nearly every s ta te and has involved him in several controversies.
Some-of these revolve about the 42-year-old senator's Roman Catholic religion. Others stem from his activity in connection with Congress' passage last year of compromise labor control legislation.
He hel[>ed push through a bill which organized labor contended would seriously handicap it, and which anti-labor forces said didn't go far enough to clean up abuses.
By all the political signs, Kennedy is the front runner for a nomination for which Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) announced Wednesday and which Adlai E. Stevenson. Senate Democratic leader lA'ndon_R_Johnson -of-T-eJtas-atnr^eTTr^Tu^rT^yming-ton (D-Mo.) also may seek.
Hasn't Needed Vote* But even Kennedy's ardent sup
porters concede" he hasn't in sight how the 761 votes he would heed to win the nomination at the July 11 convention in Los Angeles.
Because of this the Massachusetts senator is expected to make wide ranging forays into presidential primaries. He has been unable
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Peiping
Stopped Service Nearly Restored
ROCHESTER. N.Y. UP) — Electrical and telephone service to thousands of Western New York residents, interrupted last Monday night by a sleet storm, neared restoration today.
A spokesman for the Rochester Gas & Electric Corp. said it was expected that the service* to blacked-out homes would be resumed by nightfall.
Customers in the Buffalo suburbs whose power was interrupted by snapping electric .lines in the wake Of the area's most staggering storm in many years, had electricity restored New Year's Eve. «
Upwards of 30.(XX) homes in Western New York were affected and another estimated 5.000 telephones were out of service _for a period.
The Rochester power corpora-was hazardous. tion said there were "some iso-
The jam developed when chunks Hated areas" in the suburbs where in parts ot the South from castlof floating ice piled up at the Ca- power might still be out. but the Texas and Arkansas eastward to nadian Pacific Railway bridge at heaviest load of interruptions Tennessee and*Georgia. 'suburban Pont Viau. (would be restored before Sunday
lease the pent-up water. About 100 families have been evacuated from the communities since the waters rose suddenly Tuesday.
A Civil Defense staff under MaJ. Maurice St. Pierre, Montreal District area commander, removed 11 families from Bordeaux today. Water still was 4 to 10 feet deep in low arras along the riverbanks
Flood areas froze over during the night, and evacuation by boat
SINGAPORE UP) — The American freighter .Valley Forge, carrying 37 crew members, broke up today afte? miming aground on treacherous reefs 50 miles southeast of Singapore, The. British navy said at least 26 of the men have been picked up.
Several others were spotted by a, rescue plane on a small island near the twisted wreckage of the freighter.
* Stormy Seas. ' Eight crewmen from the .7,202-
ton ship 'were rescued by ft *B1* vage tug which bat,Ued mourttain-oujs seas and gale-force wind* in a futile attempt to save her.
A British navy vessel took aboard 18 others from an unlnhab-itated island several miles from the spot where the Valley Forge grounded. The 18 ea rner had made an unsuccessful a t t empt t o reach the tug in a lifeboat.
The navy said a Royal. Air Force plane repor'ted t h a t o ther crewmen had reached Bintan I s land, the largest of the Indonesian' islands southeast of Singapore.
There was no immediate report on whether those on the island were ship Capt. Peter R. Pet rone and six of his men, who previously were believed to have* reached another island in the area.
The Valley Forge, a Liberty ship built in 1943, is owned by the Peninsular Navigation Co. of New York.
Ctnpplete Loss » The freighter was en route to
Singapore with 10,000 tons of wheat. Agents here said the ship, valued at about 5300,000 without cargo, is probably a complete loss,
The vessel ran aground oft Mapor Island 1n Indonesian waters on New Year's Eve. F i rs t messages repotted water was pouring into the engine room and holds.
The salvage tug Griper reached the area just as the vessel was beginning to break apart. A lifeboat carrying eight crewmen" wai tossed dangerously by.high waves but managed to reach the tug.
Drifts Out of Sight The lifeboat with four crewmen
returned to the Valley Forge and started back toward the tug with 18 more passengers but was unable to reach the "Griper. I t drifted out of sight In the towering waves.
Two British«.minesweepers and several British plines were routed to the area.
Another plane dropped food and clothing to the ' s e v e n .men stranded on the island.
The eight crewmen rescued by the (OR were identified as Gerald W. Tucker. Portland, Ore.; Frrs t Asst. Engineer Vaujin Jankovtcf Third h'neineer Clarence J. Baker, Seattle. Wash.: John C Hunt,
Makes New Peace Bid To Indian Gov't
T O K Y O UP>— Peiping told India today Red China needs "a long-term peaceful international environment" to build up its economy and made a new offer to settle their border dispute.
But the plan broadcast by Peiping called for forces of each side to withdraw 12l,s miles from pres-ent positions, a proposal rejected twice previously by India.
Prime Minister, Nehru turned down the Red Chinese previously because such a withdrfiwal would leave Red Chinese t r o o p s still deep in territory India regards as its own.
Suggest Nehru Talks Premier Chou En-lai again sug
gested a meeting with Nehru to agree on some principles on the boundary dispute. Nehru, in re-jecting sdeh a meeting recently, said he wants These—principles worked out in advance.
"In order to attain their great goals in peaceful construction." the Peiping note said, "the Chi-
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Ike Completing Budget for '61
AUGUSTA. Ga; <.*P>—President Eisenhower will try today to button up his budget for the 1961 fiscal year.
Work on the budget, expected to hit a peacetime record of 81 billion dollars, was the first official business of the new year for Eisenhower.
The President took a holiday on Neyv Year's Day-x-even from golf. It was a cold, rainy day. So he stayed indoors at the vacation White House at Augusta National Golf Club and watched the football bowl games on television.
Budget Director MUTIrTce H. Stans flew down from Washington Friday night for the budget conference, together with his deputy, Elmer Staats. Eisenhower's j Seattle; Alejandro Valenzuela, San deputy assistant. Gerald Morgan, FranciscV>: Deios Snead, Baltimore, and Robert Merriam, the Presi- Md.; William Datzko, Brooklyn, dent's special assistant for inter- N.Y.; and Fred K. Lund, Portland,, departmental affairs. Ore.
Poliee-Ask tor Assistance^ In Tracking Priest's Killer
But h* added, "Unless they ' *ho\v willfngQc«« and thflr own conviction to proceed under eklfttlng authority, then I feel CongreM mutt direct by
vlf-cM.UIon that they do the thing* -m«ee««ary^
- R e j v W a l t e r ? . Rogers (D-Tex.) said "FCC and FTC *imply laid dowr on tb» job.8. He said they thould be, empowered ta ' .asses i money fines against o f fended Tn the industry.
Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich.), another committee member wants criminal laws across the board for every kind of deceptive "iV and radio practice.
S p e c i a l C o m m i t t e e R e p o r t s i
Suggest Changes for State Board of Parole ALBANY, N.Y. OT> — The*
State Board of Parole should be enlarged and the state's parole system modernized, a special committee says.
The ei£ht-moml>ec committee which has studied the system since 1957. said ih a report Friday that the system was basically'sound but needed some overhauling.
Agree In T'rinrlpff
The committee suggested thaljaries for parole officers, Increased the Parole Board's membership staffs, especially in New York be incieased from five to seven to City, and changes in internal or-handle Hie growing ca<=e load The, gam /.a tion add procedure. board uiged the addition of fourj The Parole Board rejected a members | committer p r o p ^ a j / ^ t h a t one
Both rcjxtrts were submitted to board meml>er preside at a parole Gov. Rockefeller. hearing and that each rase be pre-
Fa'vor Present S\*tem sente'd to a four-inemlwr panel of
BUFFALO, N.Y. l/P)—Po-*' lice, short on clues and at a loss for a motive, mave issued an appeal for public aid in tracking the gunman who murdered a 38-year-old Roman Catholic priest here.
R.ev. Vincent L. Belle, popular assistant pastor at Holy Cross Church, was ambushed as he was about to start his car in a parish parage New Year's Hay.
Flre.l Pnlnt-lllrtrik Poiice said the assailant slipped
[up to the open driver's door aijd pninl - blank
sfol from a .'V2-raliher pi< The committee called for con the Ixvml for. decision. Hearingsj f , r C ( | , h r r p h „ | | o l s
linuatlon. of the present s>«tem nmv are conducted by three mem-"of ah autonomous parole us temjbers . , outside the Correction Depart- The board sajd that pVison in-m P n t •• mates would resent "one-man'
It said there was no "irupula- decisions and that it would, take The Parole Board, in a s epa ra t e i , j 0 n 0f venality or corruption" on™*?- m a " "three times as tong to
report, agreed in principle. How-|the part of parole officials. al-|Process the case than under the the board differed with though its study had disclosed I present rneth.*!.,._
"certain inherent defects and; I T | P noarn agrecn generally "occasional lapses in appnnod," ' ' "" a committee recommenda-practiccs" tion that selected poisons on par
Tta-rnmrnltUN.' Mid MHUI uf I h e M » tor three yeart-witbaut-viola systems fault stemmed from the|tion be discharged from parole, growth of Ihe state 's popular ion jThe* board said it had asked the
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ever, many of. the commit tee's detailed Vccommcndations. v
Th> committer was appointed in 1957 by former Democratic Gov. Averell Harriman.
Harriman acted during a political uproar that followed dismissal of parole violation charges against labor racketeer Joseph (Sock*) Lanza. The case led to the resignation of Parole Board Commissioner James rt, Stone Lanza tfent back to prison.
and the consequent. increase in the number of prisoners.
"The Parole Division -has not grown commensurate with its re-sponxibilit^os.,' tht? report sa id . '
47 PropotuU The committee made 47 *pecific
proposals including increased »al-
J^jjislature for this, power Another Suggestion.
Another suggestion endorsed lv the board called for expansion of the Parole Placement Bureau, which, now. has nine offices In the state.
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bullets entered the priest's side The third -{shattered his left arm
( lues were few. Anppnrent-ly no one heard the *hotv No gun or Jhrlln were found. Nothing In the _garage wan cli-.tnr Ix-d — nothing to indicate the priest MirprUed a burglar. l.atcr__puliL'«Htt:rdF-H"lViihlic ap-
7>eXrTorjcmes. They said the cun-man nffght have once consulted the priest for- guidance. Lists of jeeent escapees from mental in-
/ s t i tu t ions were l>cing compiled. It looks like Ihe work of a fa
natic." said Dist; Atty. Carman Ball.
One man was held briefly, then released. »
Parishioners" at .the west side
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church described the priest as "outstanding" .and as a man who had no enemies.
Mayor Frank Sedita, a close friend, said the priest "was one of the finest men I ever met In my life."
Father Belle was about to leave on house mils to give communion to ill parishioners.
It un* first be l ieved \ iha t hr Miflcred a heart a t tack . The bullet wounds were discovered by an under taker . "He looked nn though h e waa
asleep." said the Rev. F r a n k J . Zucch. another assistant pastor.
Kxaminer'i Assumption Dr. Rcxvo N. De Dominkis ,
county medical examiner, said he first presume* death was from natural causes. Death cam* ad quickly there was no external bleed irrg. .
' Who would ever th ink tomeona would want to shoot a p r i e s t ?" ha said. He later issued a cer t i f ica te / of homicide.
hereV-atsoTutely no r e t * bery motive here ," said Har ry (i. Klenk, chief of ihe police homicide bureau. He s m h r t h t pr|Mt carried no eaah. Father Belle, a native of feuf<
falo, was ordained 13 yaara ago and hnd^ been assistant pas tor a t Holy Cross for' the pas t 12 years
Police doubted t h e slaying was a case of mistaken Identity ' Fa* ther Belle stood; sbc f « t t / fiva inches, and weighed 230 pounda.
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