September 4, 1974

2 Adm officials say Pres Ford will appt White House chief of staff Alexander M Haig Jr sup commander of NATO and of US forces in Eur; say Haig, to take post, will be recalled to active duty as 4-star gen, a status from which he retired in Aug '73, 3 mos after he replaced H R Haldeman as Pres Nixon's chief of staff; White House official says he believes move is primarily Haig's desire to return to mil duty; while Ford has disclosed no plans for reorganizing White House, Haig's departure would fit in with recommendations by advisers for decentralization of White House operations; Haig por (L)

Article on efforts by Pres Ford to make mgt of US econ a bipartisan policy says this has been done by scheduling series of 'summit' confs on inflation involving wide spectrum of experts, by calling for support of Cong candidates of both parties who support his plan for fiscal restraint, and by promising cooperation with Dem-controlled Cong on budget cuts; notes Dem leaders have pledged their cooperation in finding effective policy but are suspicious that Ford is seeking to spread blame if policies of Repub Adm fail to stabilize econ; notes Dem Natl Com chmn Robert S Struass, in telephone int, noted that idea of summit conf was first suggested by Sen Mike Mansfield and other Dems, and that his com was cooperating fully in planning for confs; says he stated that his party would strongly oppose any effort to take issue out of politics; notes Strauss made it clear that he thought format for summit was wrong and feared that it was more of public relations move than serious effort to reach bipartisan consensus; notes Ford's decision to call on public nationally to vote for candidates, Dems or Repubs, who support his proposed budget cuts is seen by Repub leaders as another means of making econ policy bipartisan; notes Repub chmn George Bush pointed out that such approach would not undercut Repub party; says move for bipartisanship is assisted by fact that new Cong Budget Reform Act allows Cong to stop impoundment or deferral of appropriated funds and can stop Adm from canceling programs enacted by Cong (L)

Newark (NJ) Mayor Kenneth A Gibson, Sept 3, orders curfew for residents younger than 18 and bans st demonstrations, even those involving as few as 3 persons; Police Dir Hubert Williams says curfew was invoked after assessing current level of tension; holds curfew is intended to protect 'safety in troubled area'; during early afternoon several stores are looted and policemen arriving at scene are pelted with debris; Gibson circulates leaflets to Puerto Rican and Hispanic citizens entitled 'An Appeal to Reason'; contents detailed; body of man found early this morning has not been identified but had been hit by 'double o' buckshot from 12-gauge shotgun, variety of ammunition used by police; Williams says there is no information to connect police to event, but notes possibility; Gibson holds news conf; says he has ordered legal dept to research short and long range grievances of hispanic community; Fire Chief Joseph Redden repts that his men have fought 46 fires and answered 16 false alarms since beginning of disturbances; notes that additional fire cos had to be summoned; Gibson holds meeting with newly formed People's Com Against Repression and Police Brutality, headed by Ramon Rivera; Imamu Amiri Baraka attends; Gibson says demonstrators who hurled rocks and bottles at City Hall on yesterday, which sparked disorders, showed very poor judgment; asserts that most of group's demands are illegal; says investigation into real cause of disorders, which began on Labor Day at Branch Brook Pk, will continue; new versions of why incidents started noted; illus of Gibson with Deputy Mayor Ramon Aneses and Fernando Zambrana, head of new Hispanic Emergency Council (L)

Repr Hugh L Carey defends contributions made to his campaign for NYS Dem gubernatorial nomination by his brother Edward, pres of New England Petroleum Corp, chief oil supplier to Con Ed, but reverses stand of Sept 2, saying he will support Samuels if he wins primary, Sept 3 debate with Samuels at NY Times; Samuels says that as Gov he would end all arrangement in state in which 1 oil co is monopoly supplier of fuel for utility, as in NEPCO-Con Ed situation (S)

Lieut. Gov. Lester G. Maddox was defeated in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia in a runoff primary. George Busbee, the moderate majority leader of the Georgia House, won. Page 21.