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Piermont 'Class War' Draws Query from Columbia Professor BY ALVLV SIMONDS Arbiter cited how the real estate section in city newspapers often advertises Piermont homes as being in Grand View to make them appear more attractive. Mayor Rocco Memmolo said that the white-collar commuters should take a more active interest in local affairs. He further asserted that no one took him by the hand to welcome his arrival in Piermont. In the old days, commuters entered village politics and other community affairs and today they just sit back and criticize, maintained Village Attorney Henry V. Stebbins.

Because the village will benefit from any commuter-class contributions, trustees will meet informally with Prof. Arbiter in the future to discuss possible means toward a better understanding. In other business, trustees threatened future demo- lishmcnt action for unsafe- buildings and letters will be sent notifying the building owners. Concluding the meeting, Mcmmlo announced that a special meeting will bo held tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. to discuss the increased speed limits imposed on the village by state authorities.

Trustees considered the higher limits to bo dangerous when applied to their narrow streets. A plea for more cooperation between Piermont' laboring class and the north end white-collar segment was made at last night's village board meeting. Columbia Prof. Nathaniel Arbiter, noting the "over-Bcnsitivity" in Piermont toward people who do not work with their hands, asked the trustees to consider the problem and help improve Piermont's image in the county. Vol.

74, No. 125 Member AP and UPI NYACK, N. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1963 Member A.B.C (Audit Bureau of Circulation) PRICE SEVEN CENTS dWar imism Bui ds Co on casm Home Sees 'New Chapter in East-West Cooperation The Question WESTERN CONGRESSMEN ASK FOR CLARIFICATION Lord TOMKINS COVE FIRE. Pictured is the last ot the three buildings to be gutted by the early morning fire that swept through three empty buildings at the former Vaughn Teach of Wheat: ing with Cuba or other Communist nations if the U. wheat deal went throuuh.

"Will such a sale to Russia impair the present policy of containment in Cuba?" they asked. They also asked what the future U. S. policy would be toward Red China, Communist North Viet Nam and Cuba should those nations offer gold or dollars for wheat or any other surplus farm products. "As representatives of wheat-producing areas, we shall apprec iate answers to the questions raised, without specific informs' tion it is difficult for us and the many farmers we represent to make a proper appraisal," they said.

The 10 signing the telegram were: Reps. Robert J. Dole, Garner E. Shriver, Joe Skubitz and Robert F. Ellsworth, all of Kansas; Albert H.

Quie and Odin No Picture of 'K'i Mao's China Marks BRITON CITES CHINA SPLIT OVER POLICY UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI) British Foreign Secretary Lord Home today welcomed Russia's renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy and warned Communist China that a nuclear conflict would annihilate it. Home, in a policy speech to the General Assembly, told the new countries of Asia and Africa to drop their cry of "neo-coloni-alism" unless they want to loose investment capital from the developed countries. "A few more cases like that of Indonesia and tiie supply of capital will dry up," Home said in a brief reference to the seizure of British investments in Indonesia following the London-backed formation of new federation of Malaysia.

Home said there were signs that herald "a new chapter of cooperation" between East and West. Ready To Split "Mr. Khrushchev has time and again in recent months declared on behalf of the Soviet government that to interpret Communist doctrine in terms of world war is wrong and if folly," he said. "So strongly has he to use the wrong metaphor stuck to his guns that he' and his Soviet colleagues have been ready to split the Communist world in half rather than compromise. "On paper, Communist theory may include the use of force but the national interest of the Soviet Union cannot endorse it.

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Soviet trade. The talks are under way In Moscow against a background of helghteucd American Interest in trade with the Soviet Union. The administration la consider-Lng the possibility of selling wheat to the Soviets, a transaction some feel could be the first step in freer American-Soviet trade relations. The proposed treaty would enable each of the two countries to open consulates In cities outside each other's capital. Senate Action Needed If an agreement ig reached, th Sonata would bvm to ratify the pact before could become effective, Just as In the base of the limited nuclear test baa treaty.

Generally the Job of a con sulatc is to look after the Inter ests ot its citizens traveling or doing business abroad. Although embassies have taken over some of these commercial functions, an embassy's chief mission is to represent Its country in dealing' with a foreign power. Warde M. Cameron, an assistant legal adviser of the Stata Department, is conducting the talks with the Soviet fore lea ministry. He left for Moscow alter the Soviet Union reconv mended Sept.

14 that legal experts of the two foreign offices discuss the Issue. FDK's rropoKal Although letters between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Lltvlnov, which led to U.S. recognition of the U.S.S.R. proposed a consular treaty, no pact was ever concluded.

Nevertheless, the two power" had consular relations for a while. In 1011, the United States act up a consular office In Vladivostok, the big Soviet Taciflc coast port, and got permission in 1917 to open one In Leningrad. The latter was never opened, however. In the mid 1930s, the Russians opened offices In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Consulate Opened The three Soviet consulates here and the American one in Vladivostok were closed In 3918, the year of the Berlin blockade and the Soviet bloc's campaign (Turn ta page Column 7) The Weather Sunny and pleasant today, high tamperatura paar 70 a bit abov.

Claar tonight, low In tha 40. Continued tunny tomorrow, and warmer. Extended outlook) Continued falf and warm. Weather statistics foe tha last 24 hourt reported at tha La mont Geological Observatory In PaliiKde. Temperature High: 62 8 at 2:15 p.m.

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Tomorrowi high at 10:10 a.m. and 10:29 low at 4:18 a.U. and 4:40 p.m. Second Class Poiajr Paid i At Nyack, N. T.

Langen, both of Minnesota; Don L. Short of North Dakota; Benjamin Reifcl of South Dakota; Donald G. Brotzman of Colorado, and Catherine May of Washing ton. A wheat sale to Russia could be carried out without specific congressional approval, but Ken nedy advisers have been consulting a length with the House and Senate committees involved. Administration officials also have been discussing the proposal with American wheat traders and farm organizations.

But a State Department spokesman stressed the United States still had not received a formal request to license a special wheat sale. During the Senate committee hearing, Freeman and Hodges endorsed the sale and Ball gave what was described as "qualified support' after outlining at length arguments for and against it success In building a Communist state. But Moscow also assailed the Chinese for cutting off Soviet economic aid and making their people suffer. Is not our fault that lead ers of the Chinese people ceased their economic cooperation with the Soviet Union, thereby depriving the Chinese people of the possibility of using the unselfish aid of the Soviet Union," the govern ment newspaper Izvestia said Monday.) According to broadcasts from Peking by the New China News Agency, Khrushchev's portrait was missing from the celebrations today and the Soviet ambassador was given no special honors. China Threat Seen Delaying Soviet Accords NEW YORK (UPI) Russia apparently is so preoccupied by her break with Red China that she is in no mood for hard-rock negotiations on major East-West issues, American officials said today.

Fear that the Chinese Communists soon may be able to explode their own nuclear bomb is believed Ui have become the number one problem worrying the Kremliii. In any event, Secretary of Stale Dean Rusk is understood to have found Soviet Foreign Minis ter Andrei Gromyko singularly reluctant in the talks they have had so far to plunge into specific discussion of disarma ment and other critical issues. Rusk and Gromyko met Mon day at a dinner given for them snd hrilish Foreign Secretary Lord Home by United Nations Secretary General Thant. This meeting was said to have been principally social. However, at a business session last weekend Rusk and Home were unable to get from Gromyko any specific Information on how Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposes to carry out his suggestions for easing ten sions in Europe.

This also was true during talks Rusk had with Khrushchev and Gromyko in Moscow in August. WASHINGTON (UPI) Ten Republican wheat state congressmen urged President Kennedy today to "clarify" his position on the proposal to sell U. S. surplus wheat to Russia. The legislators' wire to Kenne dy came after three cabinet-level officials endorsed the transaction at a meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations and Agriculture Committees.

Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges and Under Secretary of State George W. Ball told the senators at a closed- door session that the administra tion would decide within the next few days whether to allow private U. S. wheat traders to sell to the Russians.

The 10 congressmen asked Kennedy what diplomatic pressure the United States could apply to other free world countries trad Reds' Premier Touring Farms To Spur Harvest MOSCOW (UPI) Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, admitting that bad weather has put Soviet agricultural production in a "rather difficult position," today continued his trouble shooting tour of the state-run farms. No girues have been released on the size of this year's wheat harvest, but the Soviet purchase of 7 million tons of wheat from Canada indicates it will be at least that much short of the 147 million tons harvester last year. Urged Utmost Efforts Khrushchev, who has given a great deal of advice and countless directives to the farmers and officials on the collective and state farms, urged them again Monday to make the "utmost ef forts to make up for the poor harvesv. The main way to do this, he said, was for Russia to manufac ture and the farmers to use as much chemical fertilizer as the United States does.

Soviet produc tion must reach 75 million tons year by 1065, he said, about the same as U. S. production now, and 100 million tons by 1970. Khrushchev, whose remarks to peasants in the Ukrainian town of Novaya Kahkovka were published in Monday's Izvestia, said irrigation also had high priority. He called for more irrigation systems and the training of specialists in the field.

reported to be Vito Genovese, Thomas (Three Finger Brown) Luchese, Carol Gambino, Joseph Magliocco and Joseph (Joe Bananas) Bonanno. Valachie said Genoese's pow er was so strong he exerted con trol over his gang irom icacrai prison and ordered the slaying of a lieutenant who "couldn't take it." Genovese Is la Prison Genovese, 65, is now in the federal prison hospital at Leavenworth, where he is being treated for a heart ailment. He is serving a IS year sentence for narcotics violations. It was Genovese who administered a "kiss of death" to Valachi In their prison cell at Atlanta that the underworld turncoat regarded as a sign that he Philip J. Rotella, Independent and Republican candidate for supervisor in the town of Haverstraw, resigned today as Justice of the peace, an office he had held for 14 years as a Dem-crat.

Rotella bowed to an opinion of the Judicial Conference ot the state which holds In elfcrt that as a magistrate he could not seek another elective office unless he resigned from his bench. The Judicial Conference, created by legislative act In 1955, administrates state courts. In keeping with the opinion, two Clarkstown Justices of the peace, William E. Vines and John A. Stefan, had resigned from offices in their political organizations this summer.

Rotella's decision meant he will risk all of his political future In opposing the strong Democratic Incumbent, Victor J. Shankey. As a magistrate candidate, he had never faeed serious opposition at the polls and his popular vote was among the (Turn to page Column 4) ers Rest Home at Tomkins Cove. Apjaratus from 9 other er companies, including Stony Point, was called in to fight the blaze which had a good head start. Staff Photo, Baker.

immediately, with tank trucks coming from as far away as West Nyack, Tallman and Congers. Curls Herrlngton, who lives next door, was awakened about one o'clock by the barking of his dog and by the horn sounding on an unidentified car on Rte. 9 W. He reported that by the time he got outside the fire alarm hud been turned in and the fire trucks from Stony Point were on the way. Department Present Departments responding were those of West Haverstraw, Haverstraw, tank trucks from Thlells, Lotchworth, Congers, Tallman, West Nyack and a pumper from Nyack.

Also at the scene was the Iona Island Fire Department. More than a quarter of mile of hose was laid from the scene to the Hudson River. It was almost four o'clock when the blaze had been brought under control and after seven o'clock when equipment was returning to the various quarters. Parts of the three houses that had been connected together were standing but well charred. Also at the scene of the fire were County Fire Coordinators William Herman, Thomas Sullivan and Alfred Magnetta.

Fire police on Rte, 9 maintained a steady flow of traffic in both directions with no tie-ups. The only vehicles stopped were a number of large trucks carrying explosives, which were halted some distance from the (Turn to pnge Column 5) Six Questioned In Nyack Probe The Nyack urban renewal Investigation by his office Is continuing. District Attorney Morton Silberman said this morning. Fix persons so far have been questioned, he stated. HONG KONG (UPI)-Commu-nist China today celebrated its 14th anniversary and claimed "a growing number of friends." Since the last celebration a year ago, Peking has invaded India and broken with its Communist ally, the Soviet Union.

But today the mood was friendly. Fremier Chou En-lai set the tone at a reception Monday night for a record 1,800 foreign visitors in Peking for the celebrations. Referring to differences with Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, who has been called an "imperialist lackey" in the past year in Peking propaganda attacks, Chou said "we firmly be licve that the day will come when the present differences will be resolved on the basis of Marxism-Leninism." (The Sovictlcadcrship sent formal greetings to the Chinese party and people, wishing them Nyack Boy, 7, Dies of Injuries Lane Slate, 7, of Highmount Upper Nyack, died at 3:30 a.m. today in Nyack Hospital.

He was injured when the bicycle he was riding was collided with a car at Highmount Ave. and Broadway, Upper Nyack, at 6:45 p.m. Friday. lie Buffered a brain Injury. was doomed to die as a suspected Informer.

Valachi has described Genovese as "undcr the table boss of all the bosses" In New York and perhaps in the national organization. Because he has broken the underworld's code of silence, Valachi's death is reported to be worth 100,000 to his former criminal associates. Chief U. S. Marshal James J.

P. McShane said a bodyguard would be provided by marshals and federal agents again today to protect him. Today's Chuckle Sign In a discount house: "The wnolc price down and nothing a week for the rest of your life." Att. Gen. Kennedy Says: The former Vaughn Teacher's Rest, off Rle.

9-W, Tomkins Cove, consisting of three houses, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The huge place, which has been unoccupied for several years, with the buildllngs and property belonging to Frank Campo of West Haverstraw, broke out in flames shortly before one o'clock. Fire apparatus from ten departments was called to the scene, in an attempt to stop the roaring blaze. However, efforts were to no avail, as the fire, which apparently started in the middle section of the three buildings, spread rapidly. Stony Point firemen, who were on the scene within minutes after the alarm had been Bounded, said the fire, of undetermined origin, had a good start.

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Try one and you'll toll, too! Phone ELmwood 8-6300 ELmwood 6-7800 HAverstraw 9 4904 Be Government Trial Witness Valachi To WASHINGTON (UPI) Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy said to day Cosa Nostra informer Joseph Valachi will be used as a government witness in federal criminal trials. Kennedy's disclosure came as Valachi was recalled by Senate Investigators to testify for the second day on wotkings of the sinister crime syndicate he belonged to for 32 years.

Vklachi was scheduled to testify at 10 a m. EDT. The attorney general, who opened the hearings last week by warning thil Cosa Nostra is a powerful "Invisible government" The Weather? Stars tra bright, October with a multi-billion dollar In- come, declined to specify in what cases Valachi would be used. But Kennedy hinted in an interview that Valachi's court testimony would be used to help prosecute some of (he organized crime chiefs he has been idrntl fylng at the Senate hearings. Focus On New York Valachi, confessed killer and convicted narcotics peddler, was ed to focus today on clashes for underworld control of New York during the IMO'i and the existing syndicate hierarchy there.

Loss Nostra the Italian name for the organization that translates as "our thing" in English. Valachi said Cosa Nostra was ruled by an executive board consisting of "femily" bosses. The five top men In New York wcrt i.