Việt Cộng ambush a convoy in Chương Thiện Province and kill 26 ARVN and wound about 100. About 135 South Vietnamese soldiers and a United States Army enlisted man were reported missing today and possibly captured by Communist forces in the wake of one of the Việt Cộng’s most successful ambush operations. Among the wounded was a United States Army officer who was evacuated to Saigon. A United States spokesman said the Việt Cộng’s notorious U Minh Battalion had apparently thrown its full strength into the ambush and ensuing fight. Several relief units were also ambushed. The clashes occurred near the district capital of Vịnh Chèo, where the same Communist unit inflicted more than 200 casualties on government defenders last week.
The guerrillas struck on what Premier Nguyễn Khánh’s Government calls “a day of shame” — the 10th anniversary of the Geneva agreements that divided Vietnam near the 17th Parallel and put the northern sector under Hồ Chí Minh’s Communist rule. The situation in the fighting area was extremely confused. Government forces were spread over a wide area adjoining the huge mangrove swamp called, the U Minh forest, one of the Việt Cộng’s most important base areas near the southern tip of Vietnam. Since April the U Minh Battalion has inflicted more than 1,000 casualties on government forces. Yesterday’s ambush began when government troops started to move toward the relief of an outpost. The United States Army captain wounded in the engagement was heard to mutter while he was being evacuated: “We were going to the rescue of an outpost. I knew we were going to be hit. I just knew it.”
The Communists trapped a truck convoy of battalion size, manned by perhaps 500 men. Firing from concealed positions, the Việt Cộng gunners raked the trucks as they moved south through paddy fields and mangrove swamps from Vị Thanh to a district capital, Gò Quao. Two companies of Vietnamese regular army forces racing to the rescue were then ambushed by the guerrillas. The American officer who was wounded was with the vanguard of the regulars. A full battalion set out from Vị Thanh to relieve the two companies; another battalion was airlifted in United States sources said it had reports that one of these battalions had been hit hard by the Communists, but that nothing definite was known. Government warplanes and helicopters massed over the area, and a spokesman said they had strafed and rocket‐bombed the Communist forces, “With probably good results.”
Meanwhile, in Saigon, the cruiser USS Oklahoma City, flagship of the powerful United States 7th Fleet, arrived on a show-the-flag mission. Her commander, Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, said the fleet was exploring ways of contributing to South Vietnam’s war against the guerrillas.
The British Government will give South Vietnam £50.000 ($140,000) to buy road‐building machinery to make secondary roads in the provinces, the Foreign Ministry said today.
Neutralist soldiers captured the strategic hill of Phou Kout today and pushed eastward toward the Plaines des Jarres against stiffening pro-Communist defense. Western military sources in the capital said, however, that information from the battleground indicated the neutralist forces stopped their advance and may have had to withdraw. Spurred by the victory at Phou Kout, the neutralists regrouped and began marching eastward at daybreak. The plain, dominated by the Pathet Lao troops during their offensive last May, is 20 miles east. Phou Kout fell to the neutralist forces when 100 Pathet Lao soldiers were routed from the hill’s eastern slopes, the last pocket of enemy resistance. The hill, which overlooks the neutralist stronghold of Muong Soui and the east‐west road across Laos, Route 7, has changed hands four times in the last two months.
General Amkha Soukhavong commanded three battalions of Neutralist soldiers who stormed the hill at dawn Sunday to forestall a threatened Pathet Lao attack on Muong Soui, the last neutralist outpost before the plain. The Laotian Air Force’s American‐supplied T-28 fighter-bombers flew cover as the neutralist engaged the one battalion of Communist‐led and North Vietnamese soldiers defending the hill. In Laos a battalion usually consists of 500 men. The neutralists reported earlier that 30 of their men were wounded in the assault on Phou Kout. The neutralist Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, said June 28 that intelligence reports indicated a pro‐Communist build‐up of 17 battalions, in preparation for an attack of Muong Soui.
Last Friday Pathet Lao infantry moved toward Muong Soui under heavy artillery cover, but was stopped at the Nam Ngum river, a few miles from the city. Capture of Muong Soui would give the pro‐Communists control of Route 7 and open the way to Luang Prabang, the royal capital, 100 miles northwest of the Plaine des Jarres. Vientiane is 110 miles southeast of the plain.
A race riot began in Singapore between ethnic Chinese and Malays. To celebrate the traditional day marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, a crowd of 20,000 Moslem Malay residents marched in a parade. At about 5:00 p.m., some of the younger marchers began to leave the procession, and a Chinese Singaporean policemen told them (in the Malay language) to return. A crowd of Malay Singaporeans surrounded the officer, and when more police arrived to assist, they were attacked by 50 of the Malays. Over the next three days, 23 people were killed and 454 injured.
Premier Khrushchev and Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Polish Communist party chief, attacked Senator Barry Goldwater and United States foreign policy in speeches here tonight. Both Communist leaders said that the election of Mr. Goldwater would increase the danger of war. Mr. Khrushchev, referring to Americans, warned: “We should clean our weapons and be ready for all their intrigues to give them a rebuff.”
Mr. Gomulka, who referred to the Arizona Senator three times by name, said: “The situation developing in the United States is in a direction decisively unfavorable to peace. The newest and most blatant expression of this is the nomination of Senator Goldwater.” The Polish leader earlier asserted that Washington and the West German Government “have a common platform of militant anti‐Communism and of pushing the world to the brink of war.” At this point the United States Ambassador to Poland, John Moors Cabot, arose and walked out of the hall. It was the first time in the memory of Western diplomats here that a United States envoy had felt compelled to walk out of a Polish Government affair.
Hundreds of Cuban exiles fought with the police this afternoon in Washington as they sought to storm the Pan American Union Building, where the foreign ministers of the Americas opened a conference on Cuba. Four persons — a Cuban refugee and three troopers of the United States Park Police — were slightly injured in the melee. Mounted police officers charged into the surging crowd and the Cubans hurled rocks at the policemen who attempted to control them. Four Cubans, two of them women, were arrested but later released. The battle went on for almost an hour in the vicinity of the white‐marble building, which is the headquarters of the Organization of American States. The goal of the ministers’ meeting is an O.A.S. resolution condemning Cuba.
The battle grew out of a demonstration by Cuban refugees, estimated by the police at 8,000 men, women and children, who had traveled to Washington from throughout the United States to urge the conference to act against the regime of Premier Fidel Castro. The march had begun at the Washington Monument. It had been authorized by the police and there were no incidents, except for shouts, as the Cubans marched shortly after 2 PM to the Lincoln Memorial. However, as they marched back, several hundred broke through the police lines and ran toward the Pan American Union Building. Mounted policemen wheeled their horses into the crowd. Several women were felled and the crowd retreated to an open area about 500 yards away. Some of the Cubans began throwing rocks and bricks picked up from a demolition project. One policeman was hit in the face by a stone.
Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro said today that Cuba would consider dropping her demands for an end of the economic blockade and reconnaissance flights as conditions for talks with the United States. Speaking at his second news conference in five years, the younger brother of Premier Fidel Castro expressed several times Cuba’s willingness to meet with the United States anywhere — “even the moon” — to discuss differences. He said the only stipulation was that the United States not make any conditions, an apparent reference to withdrawal of Soviet troops. “If the United States wants to hold discussions without Fidel’s five points,” he said, “perhaps we might agree in dropping them.”
The five points, laid down by Dr. Castro on October 28, 1962, during the missile crisis, were: ending of the economic blockade; halting of “subversive activities” and arming of exiles; halting of “pirate attacks” from the United States and Puerto Rico; halting of “violations of Cuban air space” by reconnaissance planes, and United States withdrawal from its Guantanamo Bay base. Raul Castro’s remarks were made several hours after he flew here by helicopter from nearby Guantanamo where last night he attacked Barry Goldwater, the Republican. Presidential nominee, during a funeral oration for a sentry who was said to have been shot Sunday by marine guards at Guantanamo Bay. The United States has rejected the charge that the Marines shot the guard.
Meeting in the capital of Egypt, representatives of the member nations of the Organisation of African Unity signed the Cairo Declaration, effectively recognizing the 19th Century colonial division of Africa by pledging to respect “the borders existing on the achievement of national independence.”
Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan.
Senator Jacob K. Javits, a liberal Republican, turned his back yesterday on his party’s candidate for President of the United States, Senator Barry Goldwater, a conservative. Shortly thereafter, Senator Kenneth B. Keating, also a liberal Republican, reaffirmed his intention of divorcing himself from the party’s national ticket. Mr. Keating is expected to seek re‐election this fall; Mr. Javits’s term runs through 1968. Both of the New York Senators said they could not support or campaign for Mr. Goldwater because of differences on several basic issues, including civil rights and “extremism.”
At the same time, the New Yorkers insisted they would hold on to and seek to strengthen their positions of leadership in the Republican party, and would not support President Johnson. Both were careful, however, to leave room for possible reconciliation with their party’s standard‐bearer. They will reconsider their nonsupport in the coming national campaign, they said, if Mr. Goldwater clarifies or alters certain of his long‐held positions, which the New Yorkers conceded was unlikely. High on Senator Javits’s bill of particulars against Mr. Goldwater was a charge that the Republican candidate would campaign for the segregationist vote in Southern states and “exploit the ‘white backlash’ in the North.”
“Senator Goldwater has made no effort to clarify the apprehensions regarding his own philosophy and his campaign strategy,” Senator Javits declared. “On the contrary, in his acceptance speech and since, he has buttressed his past positions. Though he speaks often about party unity, he has made no effort to date to unify the party, or to conciliate moderate Republicans. Accordingly,” Mr. Javits concluded, “I am and will remain a Republican, and will not bolt the party, and will not support President Johnson; but I must in conscience withhold my support from the national ticket.”
Senator Barry Goldwater assailed President Johnson’s antipoverty legislation today as a misleading and poorly constructed program that seemed designed primarily to obtain votes in a Presidential election year. The Republican Presidential nominee was joined by Senator John G. Tower, Republican of Texas, in filing a minority report on the $962.5 million bill approved by the Senate Labor Committee by a 13-to-2 vote on July 7. The measure is to be brought up in the Senate tomorrow and will provide the first test of Senator Goldwater’s influence with his colleagues since his nomination by the Republican National Convention last week.
The majority report by the Labor Committee, submitted by Senator Pat McNamara, Democrat of Michigan, who is chairman of a Senate Labor subcommittee on poverty, said the bill marked “a commitment by the Congress and the nation to dedicate themselves to the elimination of deprivation and dependency in this land.” “The war on poverty is not an effort simply to support people, to make them dependent upon the generosity of others,” the report said. “It is designed to give them a chance to help themselves.” But Senators Goldwater and Tower called the measure a “hodgepodge of programs treating only the results, not the causes, of poverty.”
Violence broke out again last night in Harlem and the Bedford‐Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. The new outbreaks in the Black areas followed a period of relative calm during the daylight hours. It was the fourth straight night of disturbances in Harlem and the second in Brooklyn. Helmeted policemen fired warning shots over the heads of marauding Black gangs around Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. About 1.000 rioters were involved in the incidents. The police called for reinforcements at 9 PM, bringing the total fighting the outbreaks to 100.
Shortly before midnight, an emergency call went out for more ammunition. One policeman said he had fired 150 rounds. The Transit Authority, at the request of the Police Department, closed the Franklin Avenue and the Nostrand Avenue stations of the IND at 10:46 PM. Plate-glass windows were broken at about 20 stores along Fulton, between Nostrand and Bedford Avenues. The police said that at least 40 stores had been broken into along Fulton Street, Marey Avenue, St. John’s Place, Nostrand Avenue and nearby streets.
At least 25 persons were arrested, most on burglary and felonious assault, charges. “There doesn’t seem to be any particular gripe at the police,” one policeman said, “and they are not confronting the police — they’re just on a looting spree.” One youth was arrested for looting a lamp store at 1333 Fulton Street. Another was arrested for throwing a bottle of flaming gasoline at a group of policemen at Franklin Avenue and Fulton Street.
President Johnson ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation today to make a complete investigation of the Harlem riots to determine whether Federal laws had been violated. The President said he had instructed J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI, to notify Police Commissioner Michael J. Murphy and Governor Rockefeller of the investigation, and “offer them our complete cooperation.” Mr. Johnson called Acting Mayor Paul R. Screvane this morning.
“I have told him,” the President said in a statement issued later by the White House, “of my willingness to cooperate in every way possible to help him in this time of agony. It must be made clear, once and for all, that violence and lawlessness cannot, must not and will not be tolerated.” Law enforcement, the President continued, is basically the responsibility of the Governor and state and local officials. Mr. Johnson said Mr. Screvane informed him that he was aware of his responsibilities and was “determined to discharge them, including the full application of impartial justice.”
“In this determination,” the President, said, “New York officials shall have all of the help that we can give them, and this includes help in correcting the evil social conditions that breed despair and disorder.” George Reedy, the White House press secretary, who read Mr. Johnson’s statement to reporters, declined to specify what measures, beyond the investigation by the FBI, might be encompassed in the offer of “complete cooperation.”
White merchants in Harlem say they are frightened. By and large, they say, they would like to sell out and move to a white neighborhood. But they cannot, they add, because there are no young whites eager to buy the businesses, and most Blacks lack the cash. Most of the white merchants have owned stores in Harlem for 30 or 40 years. They have seen the neighborhood change slowly, first from one that contained whites as well as Blacks to a largely black community and now to a neighborhood seething with racial feeling and Black Nationalism.
Notasulga, Alabama Mayor James Rea asked President Johnson today to send Federal troops to Harlem “to protect the lives and property of the white minority in the area and to restore law and order.”
“We feel that since you alerted several thousand soldiers for possible use in our community last February that you should be willing to send some to Harlem, where a large number of persons have been killed and injured,” Mr. Rea said in a telegram. He added that the people of Notasulga, in Macon County, were “greatly alarmed at the apparent breakdown of law and order” in Harlem.
In a display of harmony, the House shouted its approval today of a high‐priority Administration bill designed to ease the growing shortage of nurses. Not a voice was raised against the $287.6 million program of construction grants to nursing schools and loans to student nurses. The bill now goes to the Senate. Also passed on voice vote and sent to the Senate was a bill to continue and expand a program of traineeships and project grants for public health personnel. The cost of the program was set at $67 million. The ease with which both bills sailed through the House was indicative of the growing concern in Congress over the shortage of doctors, nurses, dentists and other health personnel.
Last year, Congress approved a $205.7 million program of Federal aid for medical, dental and related professional schools. The program provided $175 mil‐lion for construction grants and $30.7 million for student loans. The nursing hill was patterned along the lines of the earlier medical measure. It provides $90 million in grants for construction and re‐habilitation of nursing schools; $85 million for student loans; $50 million for traineeships for advanced training of professional nurses; $41 million in grants to nursing schools to help defray the cost of expected increased enrollments; $17million in grants to help nursing schools improve their programs, and $4.6 million to administer the program.
The investigation of links between the New York police and gamblers in Manhattan and Brooklyn has spread to Queens. Five policemen, including a lieutenant, received subpoenas yesterday to appear August 11 before a Queens grand jury looking into reports of a scandal involving bookmakers and plainclothes patrolmen. District Attorney Frank D. O’Connor of Queens said that the men made brief appearances before the jury and were given financial questionnaires to fill out. He said they would be asked to sign waivers of immunity when they returned to testify. If they balk at signing the waivers, Mr. O’Connor said, they face automatic dismissal from the force. Four of the prospective witnesses, he explained, had been plainclothesmen assigned to investigate vice and gambling operations.
Vic Power, back in the Los Angeles line‐up for the first time after a 10-day suspension, drove in two runs in the seventh inning with a single to give the Angels a 3–2 victory and a sweep of a double‐header over the Chicago White Sox tonight. The Angels’ second game victory, after Bo Belinsky and Bob Lee combined for a 2–0 triumph in the opener, sent the White Sox into third place in the American League race. Power got his game‐winning hit with two out in the seventh. Two walks and Bob Rodgers’s pinch single filled the bases before Power singled off Gary Peters. Felix Torres provided all the necessary Angel offense in the opener when he slammed his seventh home run in the fourth inning and then drove in an insurance run with a single in the sixth. Belinsky, struggling through the first six innings before giving way to Lee, gained his eighth victory.
Norm Cash and George Thomas each belt two homers off Bill Monbouquette, but the Red Sox prevail over the Tigers, 7–5. Dick Stuart’s 3-run homer in the 8th is the big blow. Stuart’s line shot into the left‐field screen was his 100th hit and 24th home run. It raised his leading runs‐batted-in total to 84. Bill Monbouquette posted his sixth victory and third straight, with Jack Lamabe’s ninth‐inning help.
Jack Baldschun pitched out of a bases‐filled jam in the eighth inning tonight as the Philadelphia Phillies scored a 6–3 victory over the Milwaukee Braves. Baldschun replaced Art Mahaffey with one out and the Phillies ahead, 4–2. A run scored as he got Hank Aaron to hit into a force play. He then retired Joe Torre on a tap in front of the plate. The Phillies scored two unearned runs in the ninth. Home runs by Bobby Wine in the second and Tony Taylor in the sixth and Richie Allen’s single and Tony Gonzalez’s double in the sixth staked Mahaffey to a 3–0 lead.
Jerry Lynch’s 5th-inning grand slam, off Ray Sadecki, is the difference as the Pirates double the Cardinals, 8–4. Lynch’s homer was his ninth of the season.
Billy Williams hit a two‐run homer as the Chicago Cubs scored a 2–1 victory tonight over the San Francisco Giants. Bobby Shantz and Don Etston turned in top relief pitching for the Cubs. The loss was the seventh in the last nine contests for the Giants who dropped to a game behind the league‐leading Philadelphia Phillies in the National League.
Al Spangler’s lead‐off homer in the eighth inning broke up a scoreless pitchers’ battle tonight and gave the Houston Colts and Bob Bruce a 1–0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers and Don Drysdale. Bruce, meanwhile, kept nine hits well-spaced and brought his won‐lost record to 11–4 with his fourth straight victory. Drysdale is 12–9.
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Born:
Susan Swift, American actress (“Chisholms”), in Houston, Texas.
Ross Kemp, English journalist and former daytime television actor; in Barking, Essex, England, United Kingdom.
Dave Henderson, NBA shooting guard (Philadelphia 76ers), in Henderson, North Carolina.
Died:
Paddy McLogan, 65, Northern Irish politician and activist, Leader of Sinn Féin political party between 1950 and 1962, was found dead in the garden of his home in Blanchardstown, the victim of a gunshot wound to the head. His Walther 9mm pistol was found by his side, along with a spent cartridge; a coroner’s inquest concluded that the cause of death was an accident resulting from falling while carrying a loaded weapon, rather than a suicide or a homicide.
John White, 27, Scottish soccer football player for Tottenham Hotspur and for the Scottish national team, was killed when he was struck by lightning while playing a round of golf at the Crews Hill golf course in outside London.
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