EAST ORANGE. N. J., July 24—Magistrate Peter A. Williams issued warrants today for the arrest of 26 persons who have failed to return books to the public library here.EAST ORANGE. N. J., July 24—Magistrate Peter A. Williams issued warrants today for the arrest of 26 persons who have failed to return books to the public library here. City detectives were instructed to talk to the borrowers by phone and ask that they surrender at police headquarters. Failure to do so will mean arrest. The handling of today's warrants will be move temperate than methods employed three years agb, when the police routed 14 delinquent borrowers from their beds late at night and jailed several in lieu of $100 bail. This time, Mayor James W. Kelly Jr. has Ordered that arrests be made between 8 A.M. and 8 P.M. The warrants issued today charge the borrowers, who have ignored three warning letters from the libraty and a court summons, with contempt of court. Officials say that the 26 borrowers owe a total of $600in fines on almost 80 books. According to Harold L. Roth, director of the library, the arrests in 1961 solved the problem of overdue books only temporarily. At that time, those for whom bench warrants were issued were ultimately fined $25 for contempt of court, ordered to return the delinquent books and pay the accumulated fines.

City detectives were instructed to talk to the borrowers by phone and ask that they surrender at police headquarters. Failure to do so will mean arrest.

The handling of today's warrants will be move temperate than methods employed three years agb, when the police routed 14 delinquent borrowers from their beds late at night and jailed several in lieu of $100 bail. This time, Mayor James W. Kelly Jr. has Ordered that arrests be made between 8 A.M. and 8 P.M.

The warrants issued today charge the borrowers, who have ignored three warning letters from the libraty and a court summons, with contempt of court. Officials say that the 26 borrowers owe a total of VO0 in fines on almost 80 books.