South Vietnamese Government efforts to trap 2,000 or more Việt Cộng guerrillas through one of the war’s biggest airborne operations appeared today to have fizzled. A regiment of South Vietnamese troops, ferried by 96 helicopters yesterday into jungle positions 30 miles northwest of Saigon against ground fire that killed a United States pilot, found that the Communist enemy had fled. The troops located two Communist camps, both vacant and burned, tunnels, booby traps and old emplacements. They found several rifles and the bodies of four guerrillas. The rest had taken off.
North Vietnam asserted today that an “extremely serious situation” still prevailed in Indochina because of continued intrusions into North Vietnamese airspace and territorial waters by United States air and naval craft. In an “emergency message” to the International Control Commission for Vietnam the Hanoi Government demanded that the United States put an end to what it termed “blatant provocations.” The message to the commission, which is responsible for enforcing the 1954 Geneva agreement on Indochina, charged that two groups of United States warships “came near” the North Vietnamese islands of Hòn Mê and Hòn Ngư last Monday. The message said that these islands had been shelled by three United States warships July 30, three days before the first attack by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on the American destroyer USS Maddox.
This was the first time that Hanoi formally had declared that United States warships were directly involved in the July 30 raid. Previously it had stated only that the United States and South Vietnam had sent warships without specifying their flag. The Maddox was first attacked about 40 miles southeast of the islands. An informed source said that the North Vietnamese had concealed that the shelling of the islands, which was believed to have been carried out by South Vietnamese vessels, had been directed at a sensitive radar installation. The Hanoi message to the Commission, which was sent last night and published today by the North Vietnam Press Agency, also asserted that, on Monday a United States Milifary aircraft had flown over coastal provinces opposite the islands and adjacent areas. The message added that two groups of United States warships in the Gulf of Tonkin had ”carried on their activities” near the islands of Hòn Mê and Hon Mát Tuesday.
South Vietnam formally accepted today the United Nations Security Council’s invitation to provide data on the Gulf of Tonkin clash involving the United States and North Vietnam. North Vietnam has already rejected the invitation.
President Johnson’s effort to bring more flags to South Vietnam, to induce aid from many nations in the country’s counter‐insurgency effort, is well under way, United States sources said today. New contributions of men and matériel in nonmilitary aid were announced yesterday by Japan and the Philippines. Complicated negotiations between the South Vietnamese Government and 35 foreign governments are now in process, with the United States taking an assisting role in Saigon and foreign capitals. To date commitments have been made by 12 nations, some of which are starting new aid programs. Others are expanding long‐standing contributions to the Saigon Government.
The Secretary General, U Thant, appealed today for more troops from the countries that have supplied contingents to the United Nations peace‐keeping force in Cyprus. According to reliable sources Mr. Thant acted in accordance with a recommendation by General Kodendera S. Thimayya, the force’s commander. It was understood that the Secretary General would like to increase the patrol to 7,000 men, the strength originally agreed to by Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus. The present strength, according to figures made public today by a United Nations spokesman, is 6,269. There are also 175 police officers from five countries. In addition to 66 members of an Austrian field‐hospital unit, the international force comprises the following participants: Britain, 1,281 men; Canada, 1,101; Denmark, 991; Finland, 986; Ireland, 1,034, and Sweden, 810.
General Thimayya is understood to have recommended the increase after preparing plans for a general redeployment of contingents as a result of the Greek Cypriote attacks on Turkish Cypriotes last week in the Mansoura‐Kokkina area. The attacks resulted in Turkish Air Force strikes, which led the Security Council to recommend a cease‐fire and the cessation of Turkish reconnaissance flights. According to reliable sources, the delegates who met with Mr. Thant today put off answering his request, pending instructions from their Governments.
The Greek Government assured Turkey tonight that it was seeking a peaceful settlement of the Cyprus crisis. Premier George Papandreou gave this assurance in a note replying to a message from the Turkish Premier, İsmet İnönü. He added that Greece would assist the United Nations mediator, Sakari S. Tuomioja, in his task of “reaching an agreed solution between the interested parties.” Should this fail, the Greek leader continued, the only remaining peaceful alternative would be “recourse to the General Assembly of the United Nations.” This alternative is the one favored by the Cyprus President, Archbishop Makarios. Premier İnönü proposed, in a personal appeal to the Greek leader Tuesday, that the two men join forces to see the Cyprus situation to a settlement; more lasting than the present cease‐fire.
It was also reported tonight that Lieutenant General George Karayannis, a retired Greek soldier, had resigned his command of the Greek Cypriot National Guard and had been succeeded by General George Grivas, the former leader of the EOKA underground army in Cyprus. General Karayannis returned to Athens tonight and handed a copy of his resignation to the Greek Minister of Defense, Peter Garoufalias. Greek sources said Geral Karayannis had resigned because of a disagreement with General Grivas. The questions here are whether General Grivas is an Athens man or a Nicosia man and whether he is playing a double game. A man who knows the general well said he was hoping to succeeed Archibishop Makarios as the leader of a Greek Cyprus.
An overwhelming majority of West Berlin’s population marked the third anniversary of the Communist wall in silence today, but small groups of young people flouted officials’ pleas tonight and demonstrated in the streets. Near the Friedrichstrasse crossing point at the American sector a Soviet Army sedan was surrounded and kicked by demonstrators. No one was hurt, but the car, which had been moving toward East Berlin, lost its license plate. As the chimes of West Berlin’s Freedom Bell rang for an hour of silence starting at 8 PM, groups assembled at the City Hall, the Friedrichstrasse checkpoint and the fashionable Kurfürstendanim to express their protest against the wall and their displeasure with the attitude of the city government.
Earlier in the day two young Italian women, carrying a poster with the legend “There is no European unity without freedom for Berlin,” dashed across the demarcation line at the Friedrichstrasse and placed the poster on a string of barbed wire about 15 yards inside East German territory. Communist border guards quickly removed the poster. Several hundred solemn West Berliners watched silently during the morning as Mayor Brandt placed wreaths at four barbed‐wire‐enclosed memorials on the Bernauerstrasse. The memorials mark the spots where East Berliners fell to their death while attempting to flee to the West. Similar ceremonies were held at nine other memorials.
Congolese military and police units began moving into North Katanga Province today amid indications of a general rebel withdrawal. Reports reaching Elisabethville said that the towns of Kabalo and Kongolo had been abandoned by the insurgents and that the rebels intended to abandon Albertville. Pius Sapwe, the police chief, said there were no more rebels in East Katanga territory. Mr. Sapwe said he had a force of 1,500 men, including recruited tribal warriors, in the Baudouinville area, 90 miles south of Albertville, and also on the western shores of Lake Tanganyika, waiting for instructions to move on Albertville. East Katanga’s Minister of the Interior, Alexis Kishiba, said earlier today that he had received reports of signs that the rebels intended to leave Albertville. But Gaston Soumialot, the defiant rebel leader, gave no indication of a retreat. He was believed to be still in Albertville.
Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen became the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom. Evans was hanged at the Strangways prison in Manchester, and Allen went to the gallows at the Walton Gaol in Liverpool. A year later, the UK would abolish the death penalty. Evans and Allen, aged 24 and 21, respectively, had been dairy workers when they stabbed a laundry truck driver, John Allen West, in the heart during a robbery.
The Senate, overriding Administration objections, voted 62 to 28 today to ban any aid to Indonesia and to halt further training of Indonesian military personnel in this country. The action came on an amendment by Senator John G. Tower, Republican of Texas, to the Senate’s $3.3 billion foreign aid authorization bill. More than 200 Indonesians are currently receiving police or military training in this country. Last March, however, the United States sharply curtailed its Indonesian aid program by announcing it would allot no new funds to her until the Malaysia dispute was settled. Present law forbids assistance to Indonesia unless the President finds it in the national interest. Today’s amendment deprives the President of this option and thus would prevent his continuing any aid program If Indonesia eased her hostility to Malaysia.
Rioting continued in Paterson, New Jersey. Gangs of Blacks threw fire bombs and stones again last night and early today at anyone who dared to enter their neighborhood. The police, using flying squads of patrolmen and a truck with searchlights, contained most of the violence to street corners in isolated portions of the city. It was the third night of trouble in Paterson, where Mayor Frank X. Graves Jr. has promised to counter violence with violence. The Mayor last night banned public gatherings in the densely populated Black neighborhood in order to contain what he called “the worst hoodlums that man ever conceived.” Mayor Graves, who toured the area of violence last night, personally arrested a Black man who was in the act of throwing a bottle at an automobile.
In Elizabeth, 20 miles to the south, 200 policemen patrolled the waterfront area after two nights of rioting. A group of Blacks tossed gasoline bombs at passing automobiles, including police cars. There were a number of arrests. Two policemen in Paterson were injured, but not seriously. The police said 43 persons had been arrested here, including several white men. Most of them were booked as disorderly persons. At least 12 juveniles were detained. Only scattered and sporadic incidents were being reported here by 1:30 AM Friday morning. At 3 AM the streets were quiet. The groups involved generally ranged from 15 to 20 persons. Their chief aim seemed to be to harass the police. Although the incidents last night and early today occurred over a larger area, they lacked the punch of the previous two nights. Relatively few of Paterson’s 25,000 Black residents ventured on the streets before their shabby homes.
Restaurateur Lester Maddox shut down the Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than to evade a judicial order requiring him to serve African-American customers. After reopening it as the Lester Maddox Cafeteria to capitalize on his nationwide fame and to evade the judicial order against the Pickrick, Maddox would close his restaurant permanently on February 5, 1965, following a judgment upholding the August order, and threatening him with a retroactive $200 a day fine (for the 180 days of defying the court). He would parlay his popularity into a political career, winning the election for Governor of Georgia in 1966.
President Johnson has made it clear that he is in sympathy with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s ambition to be a Senator from New York. A prominent New York political figure said yesterday that the President had communicated his attitude to several influential Democrats here including Mayor Wagner. This was confirmed by sources close to the White House. However, it was emphasized that Mr. Johnson had not attempted to promote Mr. Kennedy’s undeclared candidacy. But he has reportedly said that he felt the Attorney General would strengthen the entire Democratic ticket in the state this fall. In addition, the sources disclosed, the President has assured Mayor Wagner that he will continue to regard the Mayor as the state’s Democratic leader for patronage and other political matters, whether Mr. Kennedy is elected or not.
The House approved today a $965 million housing and slum relief program a key Administration item of the pre‐adjournment drive. The vote was 308 to 68. The program Includes $50 million for a new approach to rehabilitating slum properties rather than condemning and replacing them. Under this phase of the program, direct 15‐year Federal loans at a below‐market interest rate of 3 per cent would be made to tenants or landlords to put rundown housing in good condition. This would be accompanied by stricter enforcement of building codes.
The program also calls for $600 million more in grants under the urban renewal program, construction of 35,000 new units of low‐rent public urban housing, and $150 million more for direct loans under the rural housing program. It is a one‐year program to extend and supplement the present program, some aspects of which would expire this year. Similar legislation was passed by the Senate on July 31. Supporters of both measures hope that agreement on a final version can be reached before the 88th Congress adjourns. Early opposition to the legislation softened as debate progressed this afternoon. This was due largely to compromises that had been effected by key members of the Banking and Currency subcommittee on housing, led by Representatives Albert Rains, Democrat of Alabama, and William B. Widnall, Republican of New Jersey.
Both sides of Capitol Hill were embroiled today in a confused and angry struggle over measures to delay or nullify the recent Supreme Court ruling on the apportionment of state legislatures. In the House, the Rules Committee cleared for floor action, by a vote of 10 to 4, a bill that would in effect nullify the court’s decision that districts for both houses of state legislatures must be “substantially equal” in population. The bill, which was sponsored by Representative William M. Tuck, former Democratic Governor of Virginia, would deny the Supreme Court the right to review any action by a federal or a state court on redistricting. It would also withdraw jurisdiction of federal district courts over apportionment. Speaker John W. McCormack, Democrat of Massachusetts, declared himself against the bill, but the Democratic leader, Representative Carl Albert of Oklahoma, and the Republican leadership support it.
The House approved $13.4 billion today for a variety of independent governmental agencies and for the first time earmarked money to include fallout shelters in new Federal buildings. A total of $1,445,000 was added for the fallout facilities in 16 buildings situated in 15 cities. The House previously has blocked such funds, except for experimental shelter construction. A Civil Defense spokesman called the result a breakthrough in efforts to get such a program going. Agreeing to a Senate‐House compromise on the appropriation bill, the House beat back an attempt to slice $200 million from the $5,248,000,000 it approved for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s exploration program. The vote was 270 to 114. The compromise now goes back to the Senate.
Representative Louis C. Wyman, Republican of New Hampshire, backed the move to cut $200 million from NASA’s Apollo moon shot program. He said the money for developing space capsules was included before the Gemini program for testing space rendezvous techniques had proved them feasible. Representative James Fulton, Republican of Pennsylvania, said the cut would delay the program two or three years, costing $1 billion a year later to catch up again, and would throw 20,000 persons out of jobs in the space agency, the North American Aviation Corporation and Grumman Aircraft.
Adlai E. Stevenson last night coupled Senator Barry Goldwater’s position on world affairs with that of the Chinese Communists as the “extremes in international politics.” The United States representative to the United Nations said that each of these extremes demanded more aggressive tactics to win a world victory over the other. He called both “lethal” because “they play deadly games on the brink of disaster.” Mr. Stevenson made these points in a speech at the final dinner of the American Bar Association at the WaldorfAstoria. The association is scheduled to end its annual meeting tomorrow.
President Johnson signed today a $2.4 billion highway bill that he said would help to do justice to a neglected “stepchild” of society — the American motorist. The bill authorizes a twoyear construction program for primary and secondary roads starting in the fiscal year of 1966, which begins July 1, 1965. The distance covered will be 845,000 miles, with roads going into every county in the United States. It does not include construction of the 41,000 miles of super highways in the Interstate Highway System, covered by the Federal Highway Act of 1961.
CBS buys 80 percent of the New York Yankees, effective November 2. The New York Yankees baseball organization was purchased by the Columbia Broadcasting System, owner of the CBS television and radio networks. CBS paid $11,200,000 for an 80% interest in the team beginning in November, with an option to buy the other 20% within the next five years; by September, 1966, CBS would be the full owner. After eight seasons of mediocrity during the “CBS years” from 1965 through 1972, the television network would sell the team to George Steinbrenner in 1973.
The New York Yankees cleared the decks last night for their final confrontation with the league‐leading Baltimore Orioles when Elston Howard hit a three‐run home run with two out in the eighth inning to defeat the Chicago White Sox, 5–2. Howard stroked a tremendous drive into the left‐field bull pen off Chicago’s premier left‐hander, Gary Peters, to break a 2–2 tie and send the Yankees to’ Baltimore in third place, half a game behind the White Sox. Peters permitted the Yankees only five hits — half as many as the White Sox made off Al Downing. But Peters walked five men and four of them scored, two ahead of Howard’s game‐winning shot in the eighth.
The surging Baltimore Orioles increased their American League lead to three games tonight as they crushed the Boston Red Sox, 7–1, after scoring five runs in the first inning. The victory gave the Orioles a sweep of their three‐game series with the Red Sox, during which they added 1½ games to their lead over the second‐place Chicago White Sox. Singles by Earl Robinson and Luis Aparicio and an error by the center fielder, Carl Yastrzemski, accounted for one run. Norm Siebern singled home another. Aft Boog Powell had walked, Brooks Robinson socked his 17th homer into the left‐field bleachers to knock Bill Monbouquette from the box.
The Minnesota Twins routed Dave Wickersham with a five‐run first inning today and went on to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 6–3. Tony Oliva hit his 27th homer of the season for the Twins.
A day after the team and fans celebrate his birthday, ailing Fred Hutchinson again takes a leave of absence as manager of Reds. Dick Sisler again takes charge. Hutch will enter a hospital for further treatments.
Ernie Broglio limited the Philadelphia Phillies to three hits and struck out nine today in pitching the Chicago Cubs to a 3–1 victory that snapped the league leaders’ five‐game winning streak. Raising his won‐lost record to 7–9, Broglio set down the first 11 men he faced before Johnny Callison slammed a clean single to right‐center. Then Broglio got the next seven batters in order. Tony Gonzales doubled with one out in the ninth for the final Philadelphia hit. He scored on Joe Amalfitano’s error with two out. The Cubs, ending a four‐game losing string, backed Broglio with a run in the second and two in the third. Ernie Banks poled his 15th homer for the first run. Successive singles by Amalfitano, Leo Burke and Billy Williams, plus a throwing error by the shortstop, Ruben Amaro, accounted for the other two.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 838.52 (+4.44).
Born:
Debi Mazar, American actress (“Civil Wars”, “Little Man Tate”, “LA Law”), in Queens, New York, New York.
Hank Cheyne, American actor (“Sunset Beach”), in Santa Maria, California.
Ian Haugland, Norwegian heavy metal drummer (Europe – “The Final Countdown”), in Storslett, Nordreisa, Norway.
Jay Buhner, MLB outfielder (All-Star, 1996; New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Tom Prince, MLB catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies, Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), in Kankakee, Illinois.
Gary Cooper, MLB pinch hitter and third baseman (Houston Astros), in Lynwood, California.
Died:
William H. Davis, 84, American lawyer and government administrator who drafted the National Labor Relations Act, then managed the national economy during World War Two and the peacetime transition as Chairman of the War Labor Board and then the Director of Economic Stabilization.
Gwynne Owen Evans, 24, one of the last two people executed (for murder) in England and the United Kingdom at Strangways Prison, Manchester.
Peter Anthony Allen, 21, one of the last two people executed (for murder) in England and the United Kingdom at Walton Prison, Liverpool.
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