Two outposts are overwhelmed by Việt Cộng in the Saigon area. Vietnamese military spokesmen disclosed that a Việt Cộng battalion, supported by mortars, had overwhelmed two government outposts near Saigon yesterday. Eighteen defenders were killed and nine wounded.
Four Americans are killed when their helicopter crashes during a mission in the Mekong Delta. The entire four‐man American crew was killed today when a United States combat helicopter crashed and burned while on a mission over a Communist‐infested region of the Mekong delta, reliable sources reported. It was not determined immediately whether the helicopter was shot down or if the crash was an accident. The deaths brought to 241 the total of United States servicemen to die in South Vietnam since January, 1961. The sources said the helicopter went down near Cao Lãnh, 75 miles southwest of Saigon. They said the bodies of the four victims were recovered and flown to Saigon. U.S. Army helicopter UH-1B (tail number 62-01919) “Smoke ship” from the 114th Assault Helicopter Company crashed and burned shortly after takeoff from a remote outpost in Kien Phong Province, RVN. The lead aircraft returned and found the crash site with no survivors. The lost crew reportedly made no radio transmissions before going down. They included aircraft commander 1LT Gerald W. Davidson, pilot WO1 Ralph A. Dunn, crew chief PFC Wayne A. Arakaki, and gunner PFC Everette L. Donaldson.
Twenty-four New Zealand Army engineers arrive in Saigon as a token of that country’s support for South Vietnam. New Zealand began its first military involvement in the Vietnam War by deploying a 25-man contingent of the New Zealand Army at the Tan Son Nhut airport near Saigon. The New Zealanders, whose first assignment is to help build bridges and roads in Bình Dương Province north of Saigon, received a festive welcome from several hundred university girl students who adorned them with garlands of flowers. The arrival of the contingent made New Zealand the third country, after the United States and Australia, to send military groups to assist South Vietnam. Officially the New Zealanders are not in a combat role, but like the American advisers in Vietnam will be armed to defend themselves. Bình Dương, the province where they will operate, is one of three critical provinces in which United States and Vietnamese teams are concentrating efforts.
Henry Cabot Lodge completed his service as Ambassador to South Vietnam today. He predicted a difficult but successful fight against Communism in Asia. Mr. Lodge, in a report to President Johnson, said that the anti-guerrilla war in Vietnam was now “on the right track.” He said that a “whole range” of things could still be done there to improve the situation without provoking a larger war. Mr. Lodge, in an interview, listed some of his recommendations for a more active counterterrorist campaign. He refused, however, to discuss the possible extension to operations beyond the borders of South Vietnam or his thoughts on how the guerrillas’ supply routes from North Vietnam might be cut. He said it made “no sense” to think of using atomic weapons to clear some of the jungle area. Besides seeing no great risk of a larger conflict, Mr. Lodge foresaw “no chance” of the kind of “disaster” that would make the situation a pressing political issue in this year’s Presidential campaign.
In response to some partisan discussion of United States policy in Vietnam, Mr. Lodge denied that efforts by him and the Administration to reform the Government of President Ngô Đình Diệm last year had ever extended to involvement in the plot to overthrow him. Mr. Lodge spoke warmly of President Kennedy in describing what he called a proper and necessary and almost successful effort to alter some of the Diệm regime’s repressive practices. The retiring Ambassador said he was intimately associated with that policy, approved of it and vowed that he would “always be loyal to President Kennedy’s memory on this.” On his arrival in Saigon last August, Mr. Lodge recalled, the Diệm Government was obviously nearing its end. Everything was “pretty much at a standstill” because of police brutality and oppression, he said, and further disintegration might have led to a Communist takeover.
The Ambassadors of the United States, Britain, Canada, India, South Vietnam and Thailand called today for an immediate cease‐fire in Laos. They also urged the withdrawal of all forces to the positions they held before the recent outbreak of fighting between neutralist and leftist forces. In a communiqué issued this afternoon, five of the representatives said there was indisputable evidence of Communist North Vietnamese involvement in the pro‐Communist Pathet Lao attacks on neutralist forces on the Plaine des Jarres.
India abstained from the communiqué. The Indian Ambassador joined the diplomatic consultations at the last minute on the understanding that New Delhi regarded the talks as informal and not as consultations envisaged under the terms of the 1962 Geneva agreement on Laos. India consequently was unable to associate herself with the assessment of recent developments in the military situation. The ambassadorial talks began June 2 after Britain, as a co‐chairman of the Geneva Conference, issued an invitation to the signatory nations to discuss the latest Laotian crisis, which began with a Pathet Lao offensive in mid‐May.
Communist countries that signed the Geneva accord have boycotted the Vientiane talks. France, which favors reconvening the Geneva Conference, declined the invitation. The communiqué’s military assessment said the five ambassadors had condemned the Pathet Lao attacks. It added that the offensive clearly had been made with North Vietnamese assistance and that this was “a flagrant violation of the Geneva agreements.” The five Ambassadors proposed to call upon all North Vietnamese forces to withdraw from Laotian territory and to desist from any further use of Laotian territory for the purpose of interfering in the internal affairs of the republic of Vietnam.
In a final communiqué signed by all six representatives it was agreed that the “deteriorating military situation in Laos” presented a “grave threat to peace in Southeast Asia.” The representatives agreed that the Geneva agreement, if carried out, would provide the necessary framework to assure the sovereignty, independence, neutrality, unity and territorial integrity of Laos. They considered proposals for making the International Control Commission more effective, including provision of facilities for it to move unhampered about Laos. The pro‐Communists, up to now, have barred agents of the control group from territory they control.
Fazil Kutchuk, Vice-President of Cyprus and leader of the Turkish community, declared today that General George Grivas was trying to “bait” Turkish Cypriots with “an empty offer” of friendship. The Vice-President was responding to yesterday’s reaffirmation by the former terrorist leader of his earlier and rejected offer of friendship with Turkish Cypriots.
The United States has offered to provide a special representative to help work out a settlement of the worsening Cyprus problem. Reliable sources said tonight that the United States had offered to make an outstanding American available for consultations with Sakari S. Tuomioja, the United Nations mediator for Cyprus, and with Turkish and Greek representatives when Mr. Tuomioja starts talks with them in Geneva next week. These sources emphasized that the United States offer was subject to the approval of the mediator and the two other parties and that the United States representative would not have any formal connection with the mediator. The United States representative would simply be available for consultations if desired by any of the three participants in the Geneva talks, it was explained.
It is understood that Premier İsmet İnönü of Turkey was sympathetic to the United States offer when it was explained to him in talks in Washington last week. However, Premier George Papandreou of Greece was said to have been skeptical about the value of such outside help when Adlai E. Stevenson, the United States representative, discussed it with him before his departure last night for Paris.
Moise Tshombe, who has long stood on the right wing of Congolese politics, met today with a leader of the Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. The former President of Katanga Province announced later that the committee had promised “to support me in all my actions, without condition.” Mr. Tshombe also said Premier Cyrille Adoula had given him “formal assurances” that Antoine Gizenga, the imprisoned leftist leader, would be released “within hours.” The announcements, made in a brief communique to the press, reflected a bold move by Mr. Tshombe for reconciliation with the Congolese left wing, which bitterly opposed him when he was President of Katanga.
Mr. Tshombe is believed to be seeking the premiership in a government of national reconciliation. One aim of such a government would be to end the revolts in Kivu and Kwilu Provinces, which are being guided by the National Liberation Committee. Mr. Tshombe’s meeting with Andre Lubaya, a founding member of the committee, was kept secret until after it was over. Mr. Lubaya apparently crossed the Congo River last night front Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo, where the committee has its main headquarters.
Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda announced today that he would run for a third consecutive term as president of the ruling Liberal‐Democratic party, and declared: “I’m completely confident I’ll win on the first ballot. Presidency of the party carries with it the Premiership as long as the party retains its majority in Parliament.
There was a relaxed, almost indifferent, atmosphere at the Oslo waterfront today as Premiere Khrushchev stepped ashore to begin a five‐day official visit. Three thousand people stared curiously and, for the most part, silently as the Soviet leader and his party arrived by launch from the passenger ship Bashyiriya, which had brought them from Stockholm. Far fewer policemen were in evidence in the capital of this member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization than there had been in neutral Sweden, where the atmosphere had been virtually that of an armed camp. And far fewer Soviet flags were on display.
The People’s Republic of China successfully tested the Dongfeng-2, its first medium range ballistic missile, a few months before it exploded its first atomic bomb. The Dongfeng-2 had a range of 1,500 kilometers (930 miles), making it capable of striking Japan from China.
Manx Radio became the first radio station on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom, as a 50-watt FM station with studios in the island’s capital at Douglas. As Radio Vannin, it also provided the first Manx language radio programs, which were on for a few hours a week in addition to its English programming.
The search for three civil rights workers missing for more than a week and feared dead was extended today over a much wider but unspecified area. In addition, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began distributing circulars bearing their photographs in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana. The massive hunt in Neshoba County, in which Philadelphia is situated, resumed on a full-scale basis. Some 100 sailors who had taken Sunday off, after having searched for three days, rejoined FBI agents, state troopers and game wardens on the scene. Officers halted motorists passing the site on State Highway 21, some 12 miles northeast of Philadelphia, where the burned station wagon of the three men was found last Tuesday. The motorists were asked if they had seen anything in that area between the night of Sunday, June 21, when the three disappeared after having paid a speeding fine here, and the day the vehicle was found.
Five skiffs, equipped with outboard motors and radios, began dragging lakes in the east-central Mississippi area, after having completed operations along the Pearl River. Asked if the investigation had made any progress, a federal official replied: “Well, they haven’t found anything.” He confirmed that the search area had been extended. FBI agents continued intensive questioning of some residents. The private remarks of some agents indicated they felt they had singled out the general group most likely to have been involved in violence against the missing men.
The three men are Michael Schwerner, 24 years old, of Brooklyn; Andrew Goodman, 20, of New York, and James E. Chaney, 21, of Meridian, Mississippi. They came to Mississippi from Oxford, Ohio, the day before their disappearance. In Oxford they had taken part in the first of two one‐week orientation courses for the projected two‐month civil rights drive in Mississippi. Mr. Schwerner and Mr. Chaney, the only Black among the three, had been assigned to Meridian by the Congress of Racial Equality. Mr. Goodman was a student volunteer.
With heavy protection from the state police, Black and white civil rights demonstrators made two successful sorties into the white preserves of the city of St. Augustine, Florida, today. This morning, led by three Baptist ministers, they conducted a wade‐in at the St. Augustine beach. Tonight, about 100 integrationists marched past the old slave market in the Plaza, where a crowd of white segregationists howled taunts and threats. The segregationist crowd had been listening to the nightly harangue of the Rev. Connie Lynch, a West Coast racist agitator. The crowd was in an ugly mood and responded to shouts of “here come the n—–s” by racing across the Plaza toward the oncoming marchers, emitting rebel yells. But this time police protection was ample. The mob made no attempt to break police lines, as it had last Thursday in a major riot in which several state policemen were beaten.
Part of the mob tried to follow the Blacks back to the Black quarter, but were halted by a line of police. Meanwhile, back at the slave market, the mob caught sight of a truck driven by a Black man. “Get that n—-r,” a woman shouted, and the mob took off down the street. The truck driver sped off. In the morning wade‐in, the three Baptist ministers led 40 Black and white demonstrators into the surf at St. Augustine Beach under a heavy state police guard.
A state attorney, Dan Warren, announced tonight that the special grand jury investigating the racial disorders here was about to crack down on the organized white mob that attacked Blacks and state police Thursday night. He said that 10 to 15 white hoodlums would be charged with assaulting police officers. The maximum penalty for such assault is two years. So far one man has been named. He is William Thompson, 27 years old, of St. Augustine, who allegedly kicked an officer knocked to the ground by the mob.
Hartman Turnbow’s house is, as the crow flies, one mile north of Mileston, Mississippi. Ordinarily, it would be rather hard to find. But today it could be spotted for miles across the flat cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. The small white house was overrun with college students who will conduct schools and voter registration drives in Holmes County.
Mr. Turnbow did not mind. He was pointing with some show of pride to four large bullet holes in his house. Night riders had put them there on May 7, 1963, after Mr. Turnbow and 14 other Blacks went to the courthouse in nearby Lexington and asked to register. The terrorists also threw Molotov cocktails through the windows. Mr. Turnbow, with the help of his wife, managed to put out the fire. He was promptly charged with arson and convicted in a Justice of Peace Court. A Federal judge threw out the conviction, saying he could not believe Mr. Turnbow set his own house afire.
Mr. Turnbow described the scene when the Blacks went to register. “Sheriff (Andrew P.) Smith met us at the courthouse door,” Mr. Turnbow said. “He put one hand on his blackjack and the other on his pistol and said, we ain’t goin’ to have any of that forward stuff here.’ “Then I told him, ‘Mr. Smith, we only want to register,’ ” Mr. Turnbow continued. “He put one hand back on his blackjack and the other on his pistol and lined us up at the door.” Mr. Turnbow and the others were permitted to fill out the registration forms, but all failed to pass the test.
Governor George Romney of Michigan said today that the Republican party should state clearly that it believes. the 1964 civil rights bill is constitutional. A platform including such a civil rights plank would be an indirect rebuke to Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who voted against the bill because he said he believes it was unconstitutional. Mr. Romney’s proposal was immediately criticized by Representative Melvin R. Laird, Republican of Wisconsin, chairman of the Republican Platform Committee. “I don’t think the Platform Committee should be passing on the constitutionality of laws,” he said. “Only the Supreme Court can do that.”
Governor William W. Scranton, the man from the hard‐coal country of Pennsylvania, mined in the hard‐rock Goldwater country of North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee today. He dug out a few nuggets — very few — and found some soft spots that may be exploited if he can get past the first ballot for the Presidential nomination in the Republican National Convention. The convention opens in San Francisco two weeks from today. The Governor laid impulsiveness and lack of public support to Senator Barry Goldwater, as he has before, but not until tonight did he suggest that his rival was ignorant.
Mr. Scranton made this remark in the context of his recollection that Mr. Goldwater had suggested that the Tennessee Valley Authority might better be sold to private enterprise. Speaking to 500 persons at the Jefferson Davis Hotel in Knoxville in the metropolis of T.V.A. country, Mr. Scranton said: “As I am sure you know, my principal opponent for the Republican nomination for President has said that he favors selling the Tennessee Valley Authority — even if it had to be sold for only $1. “Nothing could be more unwise. Nothing could be more shortsighted. This is similar to my opponent’s suggestion that we make our entire Social Security voluntary, thereby wrecking our entire Social Security System through the worse kind of fiscal irresponsibility.” The Governor also mentioned Mr. Goldwater’s criticism of farm price supports, his opposition to federal aid to higher education and to the graduated income tax.
Senator Barry Goldwater rejected tonight a request by Governor William W. Scranton to debate in Chicago tomorrow in front of the Illinois Republican delegation. He said the request was “ridiculous.” The Arizona Republican issued the statement as he arrived here to the cheers of supporters and the jeers of civil rights pickets. He came to the New Jersey capital to try to increase his support among the 40 New Jersey delegates to the Republican National Convention in July. Mr. Goldwater also issued a statement through an aide in which he termed the Pennsylvania Governor who is opposing him “a reluctant Republican who voted against his own party on 31 key issues as a freshman Congressman.”
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today that his brother had been assassinated by Lee H. Oswald, “a misfit” who took out his resentment against society by killing the President of the United States. Answering questions at a meeting of the City Council of Cracow, the Attorney General said that Oswald was “a professed Communist” but had not been motivated by Communist ideology when he shot the President last November 22. It was in response to a hesitant question put by a Communist youth leader of Cracow, who attended the council’s meeting, that the Attorney General spoke about Oswald and the assassination. It was Mr. Kennedy’s first public discussion of the accused assassin, aides said.
Two United States Air Force planes collided in the air today while engaged in spaceflight exercises near Bermuda, killing 17 of the 24 crewmen aboard. Seven crewmen were rescued. Rescue parties were unable to use divers in the search because of sharks and a whale in the area. The aircraft, an HC‐54 from Lajes Field in the Azores, and an HC‐97 from Kindley Air Force Base, each carried 12 men. They were engaged in a promotional project in the Gemini space program. The planes collided only minutes after dropping a paramedic team into the ocean in a practice astronaut recovery. The crash site was two miles south of Castle Island off the Castle Harbor entrance.
The U.S. Air Force successfully test-fired today two Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in the final shots of the research and development of Minuteman I rockets.
NBC approves Gene Roddenberry’s script for pilot episode of “Star Trek” titled “The Cage.”
The Baltimore Orioles took advantage of shoddy Minnesota fielding to score four early runs and defeat the Twins, 6–3, tonight despite two home runs by Tony Oliva and one by Harmon Killebrew. The Orioles, in winning their seventh straight game, increased their American League lead to 4½ games over idle New York. Except for the homers, Robin Roberts didn’t allow a runner past second in posting his sixth victory.
Dick Radatz posted his third save in two days as the Boston Red Sox stayed in the first division with a 4–3 victory over the Kansas City Athletics tonight.
Run‐scoring doubles by Tom McCraw and J. C. Martin in the 10th inning gave the Chicago White Sox a 5–1 victory over the Cleveland Indians tonight.
Bob Aspromonte hits a first-inning grand slam, his second slam of the month, and Houston tops the visiting Phillies, 6–1. Bob Bruce held the Phillies to seven hits in recording his eighth victory against four defeats. He retired 16 batters in a row at one stretch.
Frank Howard drove in three runs on a homer and two sacrifice flies tonight with the final run giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 7–6 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Ed Mathews, who walked in his first four times at bat, started a four‐run rally with a lead‐off homer in the ninth inning as the Milwaukee Braves scored a 7–4 triumph over the St. Louis Cards tonight. Mathews connected off Bob Gibson, who had entered the game in the sixth inning and halted a Braves’ threat. After the homer which tied the game, Denis Menke walked before Gibson retired two men. Menke, however, moved to third on Joe Torre’s single and scored what turned out to be the deciding run on Gene Oliver’s single.
Jesse Gonder’s two‐run homer with one out in the ninth inning gave the New York Mets an unexpected 4‐3 victory over the league ‐ leading San Francisco Giants tonight. The first‐pitch blow by Gonder off Bob Bolin suddenly reversed matters just when it seemed the Giants would post their sixth straight victory, which would have been a National League high this year. But, after getting Ed Kranepool on a grounder to start the ninth, Bolin lost Larry Elliot on a 3‐2 pitch that was just enough outside to become Bolin’s third walk of the night. On the next delivery, Gonder drove the ball far over the right‐field fence.
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Born:
Kathleen Wilhoite, American actress (“Murphy’s Law”, “Fire in the Sky”, “The Edge”), in Santa Barbara, California.
Wendy Kilbourne, American actress (Devon-“Midnight Caller”), in Los Angeles, California.
Stedman Pearson, English pop vocalist (Five Star – “Rain OR Shine”; “The Slightest Touch”), in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom.
John Adickes, NFL center (Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings), in Queens, New York, New York.
David Hendley, NFL defensive back (New England Patriots), in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Thomas Caterbone, NFL defensive back (Philadelphia Eagles), in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (d. 1996, suicide).
Died:
Eric Dolphy, 36, African-American jazz saxophonist, died in West Berlin during a European tour, from complications of diabetes.
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