The North Vietnam government rejects the bid from the UN to participate in a debate before the Security Council on the crisis, contending that only the Geneva Pact signatories have jurisdiction in this matter. The statement in effect rejected a request of the Security Council for the submission of information by both North and South Vietnam relating to United States complaint of “deliberate aggression” by the Hanoi regime. The United States lodged the complaint with the Security Council last Wednesday after it had reported that North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked the destroyer Maddox Aug. 2 and on Tuesday attacked the Maddox and the destroyer С. Turner Joy. The vessels were said to have been patrolling in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin.
In Peking, a high Chinese Communist leader declared at a rally that the “Chinese people were determined by practical deeds to volunteer aid” to North Vietnam against what he termed United States “aggression.” Sivert A. Nielsen chief delegate of Norway, who is President of the Security Council, announced Friday that the Security Council members had reached an understanding to invite North and South Vietnam either to take part in the discussion of the complaint or to submit information. The United States and the Soviet Union, as permanent members of the Security Council were party to the understanding.
North Vietnam, in rejecting the overtures of the Council adopted the policy of Communist China in spuming any role for the United Nations in Southeast Asia. Peking has demanded that the 14‐nation Geneva conference be reconvened to deal with disputes in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. While it was party to both the 1954 Geneva accord and the 1962 agreement to unify Laos, Communist China is not seated in the United Nations. An editorial yesterday in Jenmin Jin Pao, the! organ of the Chinese Communist party, accused the United States of trying to form a United Nations force to turn Vietnam into a “second Korea.” Peking also has been critical of the Soviet role in the United Nations. Its press has complained that the Soviet delegate has not been sufficiently critical of the United States in the discussion of the Gulf of Tonkin incidents.
North Vietnam’s refusal to participate in the United Nations Security Council debate on the Southeast Asia crisis is most easily understood as a projection into the international political arena of the internal conflict within the Communist world. Though announced by Hanoi, there is reason to suppose that the decision was actually taken by Peking with an eye to the struggle against the Soviet Union.
The refusal to join the Security Council discussion is a slap at the Russians, whose U.N. representative last week advanced the demand for Hanoi’s participation in the debate after the Council heard Ambassador Stevenson explain the United States case justifying the bombing of North Vietnam naval bases. Moreover, the North Vietnamese now maintain that the Security Council has no right to examine this dispute, thus directly contradicting the Soviet Union, whose partipication in last week’s discussion was explicit recognition that the Council does have this right. The North Vietnamese are also implying that they have no confidence the Soviet and Czechoslovak delegates in the Council would ‘defend their interests adequately.
Diplomatic reports from Hanoi describe the capital of North Vietnam as “surprisingly calm” and lacking signs of tension. United States official sources here say they have reason for “strong suspicions” that airfields in North Vietnam are being prepared to receive reinforcements of jet aircraft from Communist China, but so far there has been no indication that planes have actually arrived.
The DeSoto Mission patrol by U.S. ships off North Vietnam is suspended.
For an hour today, the rain‐swept streets of Saigon were deserted as the city held its first airraid alert since 1945. The alert was called after Premier Nguyễn Khánh decreed a state of emergency for the nation and said it should be prepared for attack. The last time alerts were held here was during World War H when United Suites planes bombed the Japanese‐occupied city.
A United States economic aid representative, his Filipino assistant and a Vietnamese associate are believed to have been kidnapped by Communist guerrillas yesterday in Phú Yên Province, about 230 miles northeast of Saigon. The American, Joseph W. Granger of Sumter, South Carolina, is the first civilian Government employe reported captured by the Việt Cộng guerrillas. He is one of about 60 aid representatives stationed in the provinces. About 200 more occasionally visit projects in regions infested by guerrillas. Some of the 17 United States military personnel listed as missing are also believed to be in Việt Cộng hands. At least six of the missing are thought be dead. The United States mission was informed of the presumed kidnapping by American military advisers in Phú Yên Province. The name of the Filipino technical assistant was withheld pending notification of his family. The Vietnamese also believed kidnapped was the manager of a sugar cane experimental station.
Turkish aircraft struck against Greek Cypriot positions today as war fears mounted. Archbishop Makarios, the President of Cyprus, warned Turkey that unless the raids ended, Greek Cypriots would launch full‐scale indiscriminate assaults against Turkish Cypriot villages. The warning was made through the United States Ambassador, Taylor G. Belcher, and was sent to Turkey through diplomatic channels. It was made in the form of an ultimatum, giving the Turks until 3:30 PM local time (9:30 AM, New York time) to cease their air attacks. Later the deadline was extended to 6 PM. The Cypriot Government said two Turkish destroyers were unloading troops and materiel in northwest Cyprus. The United Nations force said it knew of one destroyer in Mansoura Bay and was investigating the Cyprus Government report. The Associated Press reported from Ankara that a Turkish official had denied the report of landings. In Athens a Greek official at first made the charge public and later refused to confirm it.
Discussions were under way to work out an arrangement under which the Greek Cypriots would stop attacking a Turkish Cypriot stronghold in the northwest of Cyprus if Turkey ended her air attacks. Reports from Ankara said 64 Turkish jet aircraft had participated in the most recent raids. The Cypriot Government estimated the new casualties at 300. In the evening, two planes from the Royal Greek Air Force flew over the island, but made no strikes. Archbishop Makarios said he had appealed to several countries and international organizations for medical supplies for the treatment of air strike victims. Early this morning, after an all‐night Cabinet session, the Archbishop also appealed to the Soviet Union, Syria and the United Arab Republic for military assistance.
The renewed Turkish bombing and strafing began shortly before 11 AM local time and lasted well into the afternoon. The target was mainly the area south of Piyenia in northwest Cyprus. The Turkish Cypriots have an enclave north of Piyenia on high ground stretching to the coast. An intense battle has been raging in this region. The villages of Ayios Theodorosand Alevga and most of the village of Mansoura have fallen to the Greek Cypriots. Kokkina, the fourth village in the Turkish Cypriot pocket, was the center of heavy fighting today. It is estimated that the Greek Cypriots have 2,500 men in the area. The Turkish Cypriots have about 500 men who were landed from Turkey earlier in addition to the able‐bodied men in the villages. The total Cyprus population is half a million.
Archbishop Makarios III, President of Cyprus, asked Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou for aerial assistance against Turkey. The Greeks responded by sending four planes.
The Foreign Minister of Turkey said tonight that President Ma‐, karios would have to halt all military operations in Cyprus before Turkey would agree to stop her air attacks against the island. Foreign Minister Feridun C. Erkin announced his country’s position after a meeting of Turkish leaders called to consider a cease‐fire proposal from Archbishop Makarios. The Cypriot President had sent an offer to stop attacking Turkish Cypriot positions if the Turks ceased their air raids first. Mr. Erkin said if President Makarios did not want air raids he must halt military operations by tomorrow morning or Turkish planes would be back over the island. Turkish sources said in Paris that Turkey had withdrawn from NATO’s command all her air units and bases for use in the Cyprus dispute.
Mr. Erkin said that Turkey had tried to settle the Cyprus dispute peacefully but that Greek Cypriot operations had made this impossible. He was believed to be speaking on the basis of decisions made at an emergency meeting tonight in the home of President Cemal Gürsel. The meeting was called after the offer from Archbishop Makarios had been received, at 6 P.M. Ankara time, through diplomatic channels. Archbishop Makarios was said to have conveyed his offer first to the United States Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, where it was relayed to Turkish diplomats in Nicosia. Mr. Erkin was quoted tonight as having said that the cease‐fire offer by President Makarios was “propaganda.”
The Makarios proposal reached Ankara shortly after the United States Ambassador, Raymond A. Hare, carried to the Turkish Foreign Office President Johnson’s message to Turkey, Greece and Cyprus calling for an end to all military operations on the island. The Makarios proposal arrived at about the time that a Government spokesman had specified earlier as the time that the sorties carried out by 64 American‐made jet fighters would be completed. It was thus not immediately clear whether Turkey might be considered to have acceded to the terms. Today’s raid on Cyprus was nearly twice as large as the initial sortie carried out yesterday afternoon. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that Turkish armed forces had a “program of air raids to carry out,” but he did not disclose whether this might include a third attack.
President Johnson sent urgent appeals to the leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Turkey today calling on all sides to use peaceful means to settle the Cyprus crisis. The President urged that the United Nations Security Council be given a chance to continue its efforts to ease the situation, United States officials said. They declined to disclose details of the President’s messages. Mr. Johnson returned earlier than had been expected tonight from a weekend trip to his Texas ranch. However, his press secretary, George E. Reedy, would not link his early arrival with the Cyprus problem.
Under Secretary of State George W. Ball, speaking in television interviews taped at 5:30 PM, said that progress had been made toward averting a disastrous conflict over Cyprus. “We should avoid a conflict which would be disastrous for all concerned, and I believe we have made progress toward this tonight,” he said. “I am hopeful that we will bring this problem toward a permanent solution rather quickly.”
A de facto cease‐fire has already been reached on Cyprus, Mr. Ball said. He expressed the belief that all sides would accept the United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an effective cease‐fire. The cease‐fire should give the United Nations commander in Cyprus, Gen. Kodendera S. Thimayya of India, a chance to work out some arrangements to resolve the Cyprus conflict, Mr. Ball said.
Premier Khrushchev, in a message to Premier İsmet İnönü yesterday, called upon Turkey to “stop military operations against the Republic of Cyprus.” The Soviet leader also sent a message to the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, assuring him “of the sympathies of the Soviet people and Government.” In a third message, addressed to U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, the Premier asked that the world organization “take all possible steps for a peaceful settlement” of the Cyprus problem. The three messages were made public early today by Tass, the Soviet press agency.
The pro‐Communist Pathet Lao troops in southeastern Laos often kidnap the young recruits they need, but it is kidnapping by “appointment,” Laotian officials say. The subterfuge illustrates the plight of villagers in Attopeu, a remote and soggy province that holds great strategic importance for the pro‐Communists. Attopeu is ostensibly controlled by Laotian Government forces. Yet Pathet Lao soldiers, estimated to total 700, move throughout the isolated villages spreading Communist doctrine.
Congo’s Premier Moïse Tshombe said today that his Government would not appeal for foreign troops to help put down the spreading rebellion in the Congo. “We have no need for troops from the outside,” said Tshombe said at a news conference. “We have plenty of our own soldiers who can handle the situation. All we need is equipment.” The Premier’s declaration followed days of intense political and diplomatic activity in which pressure has been building up for some sort of foreign military intervention. The United States, which has been asked to supply additional arms, is known to believe that the Congolese Army is incapable of putting down the revolts alone. It believes additional equipment would be wasted unless some foreign troops are brought in.
The United States is believed to have brought pressure on Belgium to supply some of the needed personnel during talks in Brussels last week. Belgium is reported to have refused, but has suggested that Mr. Tshombe appeal for help from other African states. The possibility of such an appeal was considered at a special meeting of the Congolese Cabinet yesterday. However, at his news conference, Mr. Tshombe clearly rejected the idea. “We have no intention of asking for African troops or any other troops,” he said. “Some African states themselves are behind the troubles we have here,” the Premier said. “They are seeking to perpetuate the chaos and crisis this country has known for the last four years.” The hostility to Mr. Tshombe arises from his leadership of Katanga Province’s secession, which was seen as support for European interests.
Northern Rhodesian Government troops today found 46 bodies in a sacked settlement of the Lumpa sect in the Eastern Province. A government spokesman said villagers were reported to have attacked the lumpa adherents at Paishuko two days ago in reprisal for violence that has taken over 300 lives in the last two weeks. Members of the sect, which has been outlawed by the Government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda, declared a “holy war” after a Lumpa youth had been slapped. Adherents, carrying “passports to heaven” from their leader, the self‐styled prophet Alice Lenshina, have carried out massacres in several villages. Many have died in suicidal attacks on pursuing troops.
The Cuban freighter Maria Teresa was damaged by an explosion while docked at a harbor in Montreal, after arriving in the Canadian city from Cuba. An anti-Castro group, the Cuban Nationalist Association, claimed responsibility for the attack, and said that the bomb had been placed beneath the ship by a frogman working for the C.N.A.
The Coptic Christian church, founded in Egypt by Saint Mark during the same century that the Roman Catholic Church was established by Saint Peter, began a mission under Pope Cyril VI to reach the growing number of adherents in North America, with the ordination of Wagdi Elias as the first Coptic Orthodox priest, and began service in Toronto.
The All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat was established by leaders of multiple Islamic organizations in India, under the leadership of Dr. Syed Mahmud, as a political organization to lobby for the interests of the nation’s 50 million Muslims.
Thousands gathered at separate services in New York today to mourn two of the civil rights workers killed in Mississippi and to dedicate themselves to the cause in which the young men died. During the funeral of 20‐year-old Andrew Goodman at the Ethical Culture Society’s meeting house, 64th Street and Central Park West, an anonymous telephone caller warned Police Headquarters that a bomb had been placed in the building. Policemen moved quietly into the filled 1,200‐seat auditorium, scrutinized the crowd and removed two large vases of flowers from the podium. But the service continued without interruption and few realized the reason for the police intrusion. The bomb scare proved a hoax.
In addition to those in the auditorium, 150 persons in the basement listened to the service over a loudspeaker. More than 500 were turned away and waited patiently on the sidewalk outside. Many of the same people were among the 2,000 who assembled last night at a memorial service for Michael H. Schwerner of Brooklyn at the Community Church, 40 East 35th Street. Again some of the overflow listened at a basement loudspeaker and others waited on the sidewalks. At the Schwerner service, James Farmer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality, declared, “Evil societies always try to kill their consciences.”
At the Goodman service the main eulogist was Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, a friend of the slain youth’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goodman of 161 West 86th Street. Rabbi Lelyveld, who is 51 years old, was himself beaten by a mob in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on July 10. “There are two levels to our grief today,” the rabbi began, “and paradoxically the two are one. “First and foremost we grieve for a precious individual. A rare blend of tenderness and manliness marked his unfolding years. “But the tragedy of Andy Goodman cannot be separated from the tragedy of mankind. Along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner he has become the eternal evocation of all the host of beautiful young men and women who are carrying forward the struggle for which they gave their lives.”
The mahogany coffin rested on a pedestal beneath the lectern, a single yellow rose lying on its closed lid. Facing it, seated in the second pew, were Mr. and Mrs. Goodman with Andrew’s younger brothers, Jonathan and David. Mrs, Goodman sobbed quietly several times during the service. Her husband, tears welling in his own eyes, clasped her hand. To their right, in the front row, sat the families of the young men who died with Andrew — Mr. Schwerner and James E. Chaney, a Black from Meridian, Mississippi. Mrs. Fannie Lee Chaney, James’s mother, sat with Michael’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Schwerner, and his widow, Rita.
As her son’s coffin was borne up the aisle, Mrs. Goodman reached out for the hand of Mrs. Chaney, Mrs. Schwerner joined them and the three mothers walked out of the building with arms linked. The hundreds who had waited on the sidewalk began quietly singing “We Shall Overcome.” They were joined by those who emerged from the meeting house, and soon the civil rights song filled the block of 64th Street west of Central Park. Andrew was buried in Mount Judah Cemetery at Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Traditional Jewish graveside services were held.
Federal agents seemed reconciled today to continuing for at least a week their search for additional evidence against the slayers of three civil rights workers. An authoritative source said that, barring an unexpected break, the Federal Bureau of Investigation would make no immediate arrests. A flurry of excitement aroused by President Johnson’s statement in a news conference yesterday that substantive developments were expected in the near future appeared to be over. Reliable reports here and in Philadelphia, Mississippi, left no doubt that the FBI, knew the identities o£ those involved in the slaying. However, bureau officials were said to believe that arrests would be premature until investigators had every bit of evidence they could reasonably expect to obtain.
The Congress of Racial Equality said yesterday that it would continue its campaigns of “nonviolent direct action” despite a moratorium on demonstrations by other civil rights groups. The first demonstration envisioned involves an attempt to seat Black delegates from the Mississippi Feedom Democratic party in place of regular state delegates at the Democratic National Convention, which begins two weeks from today. “We will throw the full weight of our organization into demonstrations if the delegation is not seated and take action at each stage of the seating process,” James Farmer, CORE’S national director, said. Mr. Farmer said that CORE would be joined by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the effort.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, preaching at Riverside Church, told an overflow gathering of 4,100 that the white churches had been lax in the civil rights struggle. “Millions of American Blacks have knocked again and again on the door of so‐called white churches,” the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said, “but they have usually been greeted by a cold indifference or a blatant hypocrisy.” The preacher deplored the recent outbreaks of racial violence in the East. But, he said, “As long as the Black feels himself a lonely island in a vast sea of prosperity, there will be the ever‐present threat of violence and riots.”
The Roman Catholic elementary school system in Mississippi will admit Catholic pupils to the first grade next month “without regard to race.” The step was announced today by the Most Rev. Richard O. Gerow, Bishop of the Natchez‐Jackson Diocese, in a pastoral letter read at services throughout the state. He urged Catholics to accept the new policy and to cooperate in its implementation. The church action will coincide with the start toward compliance with Federal Court desegregation orders in the state’s public schools. Systems in Jackson, Biloxi and rural Leake County will desegregate their first grades.
Not all the 51 Catholic elementary schools and none of the church high schools will be affected by the desegregation policy. “Implementation of this decision will be handled by each pastor in consultation with me,” Bishop Gerow said in his letter. Racial tension in some areas may cause some pastors to request and receive permission to postpone the step, according to a spokesman. “There has been no previous registration of Black children,” the spokesman said. “We have no idea who will apply or how many.” The church, established in Mississippi in 1837, has 6,000 Negro communicants. The spokesman said it operated 12 to 15 Black elementary schools, many of which have non‐Catholic pupils. In his letter, Bishop Gerow said he had given “much thought and prayer” to his decision.
Representative Carl Vinson of Georgia, dean of the House and a leader of Southern moderates, urged the South today not to “cut off its nose to spite its face” by voting for the Republican Presidential candidate, Senator Barry Goldwater. “Will the South, blinded by its anger and frustration of the moment regarding its civil rights problems, reward a political enemy and punish an old friend?”, the 80‐year‐old Mr. Vinson asked in a statement. “This will be the case if the South supports Barry Goldwater and opposes Lyndon Johnson.” Mr. Vinson, seeking to head off a swelling protest movement among traditionally Democratic Southerners, said that the next President, whoever he is, will be compelled to follow a civil rights course distasteful to the South. The President, under the Constitution, must enforce all Federal laws, including the new Civil Rights Law, Mr. Vinson said.
In a major bid for party unity, Senator Barry Goldwater sought yesterday to end the controversy created by his approval last month of “extremism in the defense of liberty.” Critics of the Republican Presidential nominee have charged that the words were, in effect, a blanket approval of extremism. Mr. Goldwater sought to clarify his position in a letter replying to an inquiry from former Vice President Richard M. Nixon. In the letter, released yesterday by the former Vice President’s New York office, the Republican Presidential candidate said “misunderstandings” should not be permitted to impair Republican unity.
Seeking to clarify his controversial speech in which he said that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice” and “moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue,” Mr. Goldwater said: “If I were to paraphrase the two sentences in question in the context in which I uttered them I would do it by saying that whole‐hearted devotion to liberty is unassailable and that half‐hearted devotion to justice is indefensible.” Mr. Nixon wrote to Mr. Goldwater on Tuesday suggesting “it would be most helpful to clear the air once and for all” on the matter of “extremism.”
Addie Davis became the first female Southern Baptist church member to be ordained as a pastor within the conservative American Christian denomination. Mrs. Davis was ordained in Durham, North Carolina at the Watts Street Baptist Church and would be called by the First Baptist Church in Readsboro, Vermont, serving there for eight years.
The New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles fought 18 dramatic innings to a standstill yesterday before 58,102 persons, the largest major league crowd of 1964. When the double struggle was over, the Yankees had won the first game, 2–1, in a tense four‐hitter by Al Downing. But the Orioles had won the second, 4–2, and had won the series, three games to one. They also were clinging to the two‐game lead they had seized from the Yankees over the weekend as they headed back to Baltimore, where the teams collide again next weekend in their final three meetings of the season.
The Washington Senators, checked by Dean Chance on five hits through eight innings today, routed him in a five‐run ninth‐inning and defeated the Los Angeles Angels, 6–5. A pinch‐runner, Claude Osteen, tagged up from third on Chuck Hinton’s fly ball and scored the winning run when the catcher, Bob Rodgers, dropped Lou Clinton’s throw to the plate.
Frank Kostro’s bat and Jim Kaat’s four‐hit pitching earned the Minnesota Twins a 3–1 victory in the second game today after the Indians had taken the opener, 7–0. Minnesota snapped Cleveland’s victory Streak at five as Kaat allowed only four hits to stop the Indians, who had scored 41 runs in the last four games. Kostro drove in all the Twins’ runs, the first with a fourthinning single, and the last two with a sixth‐inning homer.
In the first game, the Indians’ seven runs off Camilo Pascual were unearned. Sonny Siebert, Don McMahon and Ted Abernathy combined for the shutout.
Philadelphia Phillies’ pitcher Jim Bunning, who pitched a no-hitter in his last start against the New York Mets, throws another 5 innings of hitless ball against New York before Joe Christopher beats out a 2-out bunt. Bunning wins the game 6–0.
At Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals’ pitcher Ray Sadecki (13–9) stops the Houston Colts, 8–2, while his batterymate Tim McCarver is 3-for–3 with a steal of home. It is the third steal of home in two years for the catcher. The Cardinals tally 14 hits.
The Milwaukee Braves scored four runs off Don Drysdale in the fourth inning today and went on to post a 6–2 victory over.the Los Angeles Dodgers behind the four‐hit pitching of Denny Lemaster. Lemaster, a left‐hander, notched his 12th victory. He was in command all the way except for brief lapses in the third and eighth innings. He also stopped Tommy Davis’s consecutive‐game hitting streak at 20. Davis failed to get the ball out of the infield in four times at bat.
Willie Mays slammed his 32nd homer, a double and two singles, drove in three runs, scored two runs and stole two bases today in leading the San Francisco Giants to a 7–5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. The victory kept the second-place Giants 2½ games behind the National League‐leading Philadelphia Phillies, who defeated New York, 6–0. Mays hit his homer in the first inning after Duke Snider had walked. Willie McCovey then followed with his 16th homer. Both blows Were off John Tsitouris, who retired only one man. McCovey doubled home Mays with another run in the fourth inning, and the Giants got two more in the sixth, one on a single by Mays. The other came in on a wild throw to the plate by Leo Cardenas.
Born:
Brett Hull, Canadian NHL right wing, (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup, 1999-Dallas, 2002-Detroit; Hart Trophy, 1990-91 (MVP); All-Star, 1989 1990, 1992-1994, 1996, 1997, 2001; Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Phoenix Coyotes), son of NHL legend Bobby Hull, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
Yuri Khmylev, Russian Unified National Team and NHL left wing (Olympics, gold medal, 1992; Buffalo Sabres, St. Louis Blues), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Hoda Kotb, American television news anchor (“Dateline NBC”), in Norman, Oklahoma.
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