An eight year Army veteran, SSG Smith was 27 years old and single when he died. Eddie is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. He is remembered on the Wall at Panel 1E, line 64.
In an ambush some 15 miles north of Saigon. ARVN troops suffer heavy casualties from the Việt Cộng. One American, SSgt. Eddie Smith, is killed. Heavily armed troops patrolled Saigon today, braced for any new demonstrations. Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Government troops suffered heavy losses in a Việt Cộng ambush 15 miles north of here, according to reports reaching the capital. United States military officials said the government losses in the ambush were 23 killed, 43 wounded and 14 missing. An American military adviser, quoted by The Associated Press, said: “I think we got an eye for an eye and gave as good as we got.” He added that the Việt Cộng had left behind 14 bodies and that as Vietnamese troops closed in on the guerrillas after dark seven more were killed.
One United States military adviser was killed, and a United States gunner aboard a helicopter was wounded in the ambush. It occurred as two infantry companies were returning to base from a mission. A Việt Cộng force, estimated to have outnumbered the government troops by 4 to 1, attacked on a country road five miles from Thủ Dầu Một, capital of Bình Dương Province.
Replying to a call for aid, government helicopters and fighter bombers attacked the Việt Cộng. Ground forces were also sent to relieve the government troops, but the Việt Cộng had withdrawn by the time they arrived. The ambush came a day after government forces scored a major victory over the Communists in the Mekong River delta. Military sources said that the Việt Cộng had lost at least 59 men in the battle and that 36 had been captured. Government losses were two killed and four wounded. The battle took place in An Xuyên Province, 150 miles southwest of Saigon. A government force was reported still in contact with the Communist force today.
In the capital, meanwhile, convoys of armed paratroopers moved through crowded streets after several days of rumors of new demonstrations, possibly by labor unionists. On Friday, Premier Nguyễn Khánh said at a news conference that, if necessary, force would be used in the future to protect order and the lives and property of the city’s inhabitants. In August, when the Government hesitated to quell riots by force, they led to the temporary ouster of General Khánh’s Government.
President Johnson issues the order to reactivate coastal raids by South Vietnamese boats as part of Oplan 34 A.
Senator Harrison A. Williams, the Democratic candidate for re‐election in New Jersey, said yesterday that the Administration’s policy of training allied troops in Vietnam was the only constructive policy the United States could follow in the circumstances. Appearing in the “Newsmakers” program of WCBSTV.” Senator Williams said that if American troops were deployed against the Việt Cộng, the Red Chinese would retaliate. “I don’t see how we can win that kind of war,” he said. Senator Williams said that General of the Army Douglas MacArthur once remarked that anyone who wanted to commit American troops in action on the Asian mainland “should have his head examined.” Despite the Administration’s critics, Senator Williams said, the United States had done well to emphasize the improvement of the economy of South Vietnam and the training of its forces to combat the Việt Cộng guerillas. Arguing against United States’ participation in the fighting. Senator Williams said that the french had suffered 230,000 casualties during their four‐year campaign in Indochina. Moreover, he asserted, he did not believe the British or French would join the United States in a Vietnamese operation.
Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, flew to Cairo today to seek support for his Government from the nonaligned countries. The President expressed belief before he left that the conference of heads of government of the nonaligned countries would “contribute greatly toward the solution of our problem on a democratic basis and according to the internationally accepted principle of self‐determination.” He added that the attitude of the countries at the conference on the Cyprus problem would “greatly influence the result of the discussion of the problem at the General Assembly of the United Nations.”
President Makarios appears to be associating Cyprus with the nonaligned bloc despite his recent declarations in favor of enosls, or union of Cyprus with Greece, which is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, as is Turkey. President Makarlos left behind the unresolved and potentially dangerous issue of the rotation of the Turkish Army contingent based on the island. Turkish troops are in Cyprus, as are British and Greek forces, under terms of tha treaties that gave Cyprus independence from Britain in 1960. Turkey is not represented at the Cairo meeting of nonaligned countries. Nine days ago U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations, announced an agreement with Turkey that would permit her to rotate troops in exchange for the opening of the Turkish Cypriot‐controlled road from Nicosia to Kyrenia. President Makarios has declared that he will not permit the rotation unless the Kyrenia road is opened under exclusive control of the United Nations, as agreed.
The Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities have been fighting since last December, when the government, dominated by the Greek Cypriot majority, sought to curtail the Turkish Cypriots’ legislative powers. Diplomatic and other sources said the Turkish Army contingent was running extremely low on fuel. The commander of the contingent, Colonel Hasan Saglam, was reported to have sent a message to Ankara saying that the contingent, which straddles the Kyrenia road, would be immobilized if fuel supplies were not restored soon.
The United States was reported today to believe that the tide may have turned in favor of the Tshombe Government in the war against leftist‐led rebels in the Congo. The view in Washington was that the regime of Premier Moise Tshombe, strongly backed by the United States, was gradually gaining military superiority over the rebels, although they still control most of the northern and northeastern Congo. The assessment in Washington is based on reports that the Congolese Army, aided by white mercenaries, supported by United States aircraft and assisted by well‐trained former Katanga gendarmes, is no longer suffering continuous defeats at the hands of the rebels. Instead, it is regaining some lost territory. In July and August the Congolese Army seemed to be crumbling in the face of advances by various rebel groups.
Waving aside objections from some African delegations, senior leaders of the nonaligment movement advised the Congo today to keep Premier Moise Tshombe away from they second conference of heads of government. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic notified President Joseph Kasavubu that the controversial Premier’s attendance would have an “undesirable effect” and urged that Mr. Kasabuvu come instead. Premier Tshombe left Leopoldville for Cairo, an informed source said, according to The Associated Press. President Nasser is acting as host to the conference of 47 heads of governments and states and 10 observers. The meeting opens tomorrow.
Mr. Tshombe had been expected to represent his country, which earned the right to participate by having attended the first conference of nonaligned countries three years ago in Belgrade. The Nasser Government instructed its legation in Leopoldville last week to issue a visa to Mr. Tshombe, but last night the anti‐Tshombe sentiment of President Ahmed Ben Bella of Algeria and President Tito of Yugoslavia crystallizedi at a long meeting with President Nasser. They persuaded Mr. Nasser to join in asking the Congolese Premier to stay home.
Communist China charged today that Indian troops were making “grave intrusions” into its territory through the tiny Himalayan state of Sikkim. Peking’s protest “seriously urged” India to withdraw her troops from Sikkim “to maintain tranquility.” According to the Chinese press agency Hsinhua, two “intrusions” were made in August through the Tungchula Pass. Before that, the agency said, India built 18 “aggressive military structures,” including dugouts and shelters, on the Chinese side of the pass or on the boundary line and “engaged in incessant harassment.” The protest said India “disregarded repeated protests” over the last two years against “dozens of aggressive military structures on the Chinese side of the Natu La Pass.”
A group of Japanese parliamentarians said today that Premier Khrushchev had promised that Japanese nationals living in Sakhalin would be permitted to emigrate to Japan if they desired. Mr. Khrushchev’s promise was reported today by the Deputies after a visit with the Premier. The leader of the delegation, Alchiro Fujiyama, was said to have appealed to Mr. Khrushchev on behalf of about 200 Japanese families who remained in Sakhalin after Soviet forces occupied the island in 1945. The Japanese areported that Mr. Khrushchev also had agreed to permit Japanese citizens to visit the graves of relatives in Sakhalin beginning next July.
Ahmad Shukeiri began the daily operation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), with offices at the Orient House in East Jerusalem, at that time a part of the Kingdom of Jordan. The creation of the PLO had been authorized by a June 2 resolution of the Palestinian National Congress.
Three cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81.
It is 28 years since the Supreme, Court last held an act of Congress unconstitutional as going beyond the Federal power over interstate commerce. Tomorrow the Court will hear the contention that Congress thus overreached its commerce power when it passed Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This is the title outlawing racial discrimination at hotels, restaurants and other places of public accommodation. The Court opens its 1964‐65 term tomorrow. Ordinarily, the first day of the term is a brief, formal affair with no public business of interest, but all that has been changed by the highly charged controversy over the Civil Rights Act.
At the suggestion of the Court itself, two cases testing the new law were scheduled for special argument on the term’s opening day. The timing suggests that the Justices may want to settle the issue before Election Day, November 3. In the two cases to be heard, lower courts went opposite ways. A three‐judge Federal District Court in Atlanta upheld the statute. At the Government’s suit, it enjoined the Heart of Atlanta Motel from excluding Blacks. In Birmingham, another three-judge Federal District Court held the public accommodations title unconstitutional. This suit was brought not by the Government but by the owners of Ollie’s Barbecue in Birmingham, Ollie McClung Sr. and Ollie McClung Jr.
Curiously, each of the two judicial panels was made up of judges appointed by former Presidents Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John P. Kennedy. The Atlanta panel was headed by the chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Elbert P. Tuttle, an Eisenhower appointee. The other members were District Judges Frank A. Hooper and Lewis R. Morgan, Truman and Kennedy nominees, respectively. Judge Walter P. Gewin, named by President Kennedy to the Fifth Circuit, headed the other court. Judges Seybourn H. Lynne and H. H. Grooms, appointees of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, respectively, were also on it. Title II of the Civil Rights Act relies mainly for its constitutional support on Congress’s power over interstate commerce. It covers nearly all hotels and motels serving “transient guests,” and all restaurants “a. substantial portion” of whose food “has moved in commerce.” The last statute vesting on the commerce clause of the Constitution that was struck down by the Supreme Court was the Bituminous Coal Act of 1935. The legislation was an effort to deal with Depression conditions in the coal mines by putting floors under prices and wages.
On May 18, 1936, a 5‐to‐4 majority of the Supreme Court held the act invalid. The majority opinion, by Justice George Sutherland, took the view that mining was not part of interstate commerce. That was the last successful judicial effort to hold within narrow limits the authority of the Federal Government to deal with the national economic crisis of the Depression. A year later, a 5‐to‐4 majority sustained, under the commerce power Congress’s broad plan to regulate national labor relations in the Wagner Act. The Justice who switched and made the new majority was Owen J. Roberts. The Court’s opinion in the Wagner Act case was written by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. He mentioned the coal decision of a year earlier only to dismiss it with the curt comment that it was “not controlling here.”
Ever since then the Supreme Court has construed the commerce power of Congress in the broadest terms. In 1942, the Court unanimously upheld a law penalizing a farmer for growing excess wheat to feed his own cattle on the theory that enough such plantings might affect the national grain market. In the Civil Rights Act cases, the Government’s theory is that discrimination in a restaurant or motel, although seemingly local, may be part of a pattern that disrupts travel and commerce in large areas of the country.
An early morning dynamite explosion heavily damaged today a Black church building that had been used as a voter registration headquarters. Two persons were injured. Thirteen persons were in the two‐story building of the Baptist Academy church at the time of the blast, one of about 40 bombings and church burnings in Mississippi in recent months. A Black woman, Mrs. Bessie Brown, suffered cuts and her two‐month‐old grandson was bruised. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Joined the local authorities in investigating the explosion.
In another incident, the police in Meridian, Mississippi, reported that a shotgun blast had been fired into a Black home where several white and Black civil rights workers were spending the night. There were no injuries. A spokesman for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee reported that three out‐of‐state civil rights workers were on the second floor of the Baptist church building here when the dynamite explosion went off. They were identified as Bryant Dunlap, 22 years old, of Leonia, New Jersey; Emily Gordon, 28, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Elaine Singer, 20, of Endicott, New York.
Eighteen Democratic Congressmen called on the Federal Government today to “take all necessary steps to prevent further violence and bloodshed” in the continuing battle between pro and anti‐integration forces in Mississippi. In an open letter to President Johnson the Congressmen urged the Government to implement immediately eight “minimum recommendations” to help keep the peace in a state where “law and order is clearly not being maintained.” The recommendations urged the Government to do the following:
- Increase the permanent number of agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Open F.B.I. branch offices throughout the state, particularly in the highly volatile southwest, which includes the city of McComb.
- Prepare an F.B.I. report on violence during the summer similar to the report prepared on civil disturbances in the North.
- Enforce three provisions of the United States Code that outlaw conspiracy against the rights of citizens and the deprivation of rights under the cover of law.
- Convene a Federal grand jury to investigate possible connections between law enforcement officers and recent violence, including several bombings.
- Establish a branch office of Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
- Establish a branch office of the Federal Community Relations Service.
- Conduct hearings by the Civil Rights Commission.
The Congressmen said that while “the nation’s attention was briefly focused on the ruthless murder of three young civil rights workers,” many less publicized beatings, bombings and arrests had been perpetrated against opponents of segregation. They noted that in McComb alone, 17 bombings, 32 arrests, nine beatings and four church burnings have been reported since June. “There is no protection afforded those engaged in civil rights activity,” the Congressmen charged. “The FBI has been unsuccessful in solving most of the organized bombings and acts of terror and violence.”
The hurricane named Hilda swept into Mississippi today, leaving Louisiana with 30 dead and millions of dollars in damage to crops and property. The hurricane dissipated to a heavy rainstorm over the piney woods of southern Mississippi and was expected to blow out tomorrow over Alabama. But it did not leave: hard‐hit southern Louisiana gracefully. A backlash storm spun off the hurricane this afternoon and whipped waves six feet high on New Orleans’s 26‐mile‐wide Lake Pontchartrain, sending sheets of water crashing over the city’s protective seawall and into exclusive residential districts. The gale winds, with gusts to 90 miles an hour, littered streets with debris. Homes suffered wind and water damage. Boathouses collapsed. Threatened levees were hastily sandbagged. The freakish storm was caused by the collision of the hurricane’s counter‐clockwise tail winds and a big cold air mass moving south. But the hurricane’s major damage came yesterday in the lowlands west of here when it hit the Louisiana coast with winds up to 120 miles an hour.
The 88th Congress broke new ground in several fields, and its departures from past concepts were particularly pronounced in the area of economic policy. By approving an $11.5 billion tax cut despite rising budget deficits, the Democratic ‐ controlled Congress took a long step toward accepting modern theory on the use of taxation to influence the country’s economy. Mainly for that reason, the 1964 tax law is likely to earn high ranking in history’s catalogue of achievements by this Congress in its two‐year tenure. When it adjourned yesterday after 21 months in near‐continuous session, the 88th Congress had also earned notice by history for a comprehensive Civil Rights Law, for the Senate’s consent to ratification of the 1963 test‐ban treaty and Perhaps for legislation that got President Johnson’s “war on poverty” under way.
President Johnson will direct Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze today to come here in the next few days for an “on‐the‐spot review” of the fading job situation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The President’s plan was announced yesterday by Mayor Wagner at a Madison Square Garden rally to “save” the shipyard. At the rally, Senator Kenneth B. Keating, Republican, and Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic-Liberal candidate for the Senate, confronted nearly 16,000 shipyard workers and their families, whose leaders had assailed both parties’ records.
Graham Hill of England won the U.S. Grand Prix motor race for the second consecutive year, at Watkins Glen, New York, giving him the lead over fellow Englishman John Surtees and Scotland’s Jim Clark with one race left in the 1964 Grand Prix series for the World Driving Championship. The tenth and last race would take place in Mexico City on October 25.
LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Stardust CC; Mary Mills shoots final round 69 to win first of her 2 LPGA C’ships, 2 strokes ahead of defending champion Mickey Wright.
The 1964 Armstrong 500 motor race was held at the Mount Panorama Circuit in New South Wales, Australia, and was won by Spencer Martin and Bill Brown.
Vic Davilillo’s bunt single in the 13th inning leads to a run as the Cleveland Indians edge the New York Yankees, 2-1. New York sets a Major League record that won’t be topped this century by playing in 1,537 innings.
The Chicago White Sox clinched second place in the American League with a 6–0 victory over the Kansas City. A’s today on the two‐hit pitching of Bruce Howard and a five‐run rally in the sixth inning. Tom McCraw opened the sixth by going all the way home on a walk. The fourth ball was a wild pitch that enabled McCraw to go to second. He went to third on a wild throw by the catcher, Dave Duncan, and scored when Nelson Mathews threw past third. Ron Hansen capped the rally with his 20th homer with two runners on base.
The Boston Red Sox pounded seven Washington Senator pitchers today for 17 hits and a 14–8 victory. Dick Radatz, who gave one run over the last three innings, gained his 16th victory in his 79th appearance of the season. He took over after the Senators had wiped out a seven‐run deficit with a rally that was capped by Roy Sievers’s threerun homer.
Minnesota finished in à tie for sixth place with the Cleveland Indians as the Los Angeles Angels shut out the Twins, 3–0, today behind the four‐hit pitching of Dan Osinski in a game shortened to six innings by rain.
The St. Louis Cardinals clinched the National League pennant on the last day of the season with a combination of their 11–5 win over the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds’ 10–0 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Going into the final day, St. Louis and Cincinnati both had records of 92 wins and 69 losses and both were playing at home; the Reds’ loss came in the afternoon, and would have played a one-game playoff if the Cardinals had lost their evening game against the last place Mets. The Phils bomb the Reds as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis. The two teams then sit in the visitor’s clubhouse and hope that New York’s Galen Cisco (6–18) can stop the Cardinals. The Mets take a 3–2 lead into the 5th inning, but St. Louis scores 3 runs to regain the lead. The Mets score once more but the Cardinals complete their scoring with 3 in the 8th to win, 11–5. Bob Gibson wins in relief for Curt Simmons. Gibson entered the game in relief in the fifth with St. Louis trailing 3–2, and pitched four strong innings for the win. For St. Louis, it is their first pennant since 1946.
Richie Allen belts two homers, giving him 29 on the season, to lead a 12-hit Phillies’ attack as they crush the Reds. But it isn’t enough. The Phillies were sunk by their ten-game losing streak, just as it appeared they were surely going to win the pennant. Jim Bunning wins his 19th.
With one game left, Alvin Dark (90-72) is fired as manager of the San Francisco Giants and replaced by Herman Franks. The Giants will finish in 4th places 3 games off the pace. Dark survived a media storm in the summer when interviewer Stan Isaacs quoted him as saying the trouble with the Giants was “because we have so many Negro and Spanish-speaking players on the team. They are just not able to perform up to the white player when comes to mental alertness. You can’t make most Negro and Spanish players have the pride in their team that you get from the white players.” Dark will contend that he was misquoted, and, indeed, several black ballplayers will come to his defense. Jackie Robinson later said, “I have known him for many years and I have found him to be a gentleman and, above all, unbiased.” What does in the bible-quoting Dark, married with 4 children, is his affair with airline hostess Jackie Rockwood (whom he would later marry).
Larry Jackson’s 9–2 victory over the Giants is his 24th win for the Chicago Cubs, the most ever for an 8th-place team. He also sets a Major League record for pitchers by fielding 109 chances during the season without an error. Walter Johnson fielded 103 chances without an error in 1913. Jackson, going the distance for the 19th time, yielded nine hits, including the 47th home run of the aeason by Willie Mays, who easily won that league title but finished with a .296 batting average.
Billy Pierce, the San Francisco Giants southpaw pitcher, is retiring after 17 consecutive major league seasons. Pierce, 37 years old, said he had decided to enter an automobile dealer partnership in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Billy Southworth’s first major league home run highlighted a five‐run third inning that carried the Milwaukee Braves to a 6–0 victory today over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The winning pitcher was Bob Sadowski, who posted his ninth triumph against 10 defeats.
The Los Angeles Dodgers ended their disappointing season today by defeating the Houston Colts, 11–1. The 1963 world champions finished in a tie for sixth place with Pittsburgh. It’s the last game for the Colts: 1965 will see the advent of the Astros.
NFL Football:
Chicago Bears 21, San Francisco 49ers 31
Dallas Cowboys 6, Cleveland Browns 27
Los Angeles Rams 20, Baltimore Colts 35
Minnesota Vikings 24, Green Bay Packers 23
New York Giants 3, Detroit Lions 26
Pittsburgh Steelers 7, Philadelphia Eagles 21
St. Louis Cardinals 23, Washington Redskins 17
The San Francisco 49ers, maintaining their mastery over the one National Football League team they could whip regularly, defeated the defending champion Chicago Bears, 31–21. The Forty‐Niners, who won only two games last year, were the only team to defeat Chicago in 1963. San Francisco has a 2–2 won‐lost record. The Bears are 1–3. Tommy Davis started the scoring with a 53-yard field goal in the first quarter. John Brodie threw three touchdown passes in the first half, connecting with halfback Don Lisbon for 39 yards, split end Dave Parks for 43, and tight end Monte Stickles for 25. Bill Wade threw three touchdown passes for the Bears, but Mike Lind’s one-yard dive in the last quarter ended the scoring.
Frank Ryan passed for three touchdowns today as the Cleveland Browns routed the Dallas Cowboys, 27–6, and remained tied for first place in the Eastern Conference of the National Football League with St. Louis. The Browns’ rugged defensive unit kept the pressure on the Dallas quarterback, John Roach, throughout the game and blocked two field goal attempts by Dick Van Raaphorst. Ryan fired a 40‐yard scoring pass to Paul Warfield with only seconds left in the third period to give Cleveland a. 20–6 lead. A few minutes later, Ryan hit Gary Collins with a 38‐yard touchdown pass. Ryan tossed an 7‐yard scoring aerial to Ernie Green in the first quarter and then set up two field goals by Lou Groza in tha first half. Green’s first touchdown pass capped a 60‐yard drive after the Browns had blocked a 25‐yard field goal attempt by Van Raaphorst. The key play of the drive was a 41‐yard screen pass from Ryan to Warfield. The Cowboys never caught up.
Johnny Unitas found a, soft spot in the Los Angeles defense on the second play of the game between the Baltimore Colts and the Rams today. He attacked the area quickly and put Baltimore ahead, 7–0. But It wasn’t until the second half and Baltimore was trailing that the accurate passing star pounded away at the weakness and took the Colts to a 35–20 victory over the previously unbeaten Rams before a capacity crowd of 68,537 fans at Memorial Stadium. The left side of Los Angeles’s secondary was the vulnerable area that Unitas spotted. He threw passes to Jimmy Orr in that area, covered primarily by Jerry Richardson and Lindon Crow. Orr beat Richardson time and again and caught three touchdown passes as the Colts moved into the lead of the Western Conference of the National Football League. At the outset, the Rams’ strong defensive line of Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Dave Jones and Lamar Lundy put plenty of pressure on Unltas. But on the second play, the calm quarterback of the Colts managed to escape the big rush for a split second. He found Orr behind Richardson far downfield and let fly. Orr caught the ball on the 12 and ran over for the game’s opening score. The Rams’ surprising rookie quarterback, Bill Munson, managed to bring Los Angeles back quickly. He tossed a couple of completions and called for important runs to get the ball where Ben Wilson ran over from the 1 to tie the game. Field goals of 35 and 32 yards by Bruce Gossett gave the West Coast team a 13‐7 lead at halftime. Then Unitas really went to work on the Los Angeles secondary. He hit Orr for a 43yard touchdown aerial halfway through the third period. On this play Orr was 5 yards behind Richardson, a rookie defensive left halfback. A few moments later Boh Boyd of Baltimore intercepted one of Munson’s passes on the Colts’ 45. Boyd, who is as bald as Y. A. Tittle, scampered to the Los Angeles 12 from where Lenny Moore scooted over on the next play. Then Unitas hit Orr for the third touchdown pass. This one, over Richardson and Crow, was a 35‐yard maneuver.
Fred Cox kicked a 27-yard field goal with 18 seconds left today to lead Fran Tarkenton and the Minnesota Vikings to a 24–23 victory over the Green Bay Packers. It was the first victory for the Vikings over Green Bay since the Minnesota team entered the National Football League four years ago. It was the Packers’ second 1-point defeat of the season.
The New York Giants broke Aille Sherman’s heart today. The team’s head coach had expected a big game from his players, but instead they gave him a very small one, bowing meekly to the Detroit Lions, 26–3, before a crowd of 54,836 at Tiger Stadium. The Lions, by contrast, played good football and should have made many more points than they did. In this game, the statistics were a better indicator of what went on than the score. The Lions, in command all the way, piled up 413 yards to 167 yards for New York. Sherman had hoped that his attack could run straight ahead against the strong Lion defense and thus help to establish Y. A. Tittle’s passing skills. That was the game plan, but it held up only in the first quarter and was of no use once the Lions had scored 19 points in the second quarter. This season, Tittle has thrown only one touchdown pass. Last year he had 36 for a league record. Tittle was intercepted three times today to make a total of seven for the season. Last year he had two streaks of 72 and 79 passes without an interception, and was robbed only 14 times in 14 games.
Norm Snead threw three touchdown passes, one for 87 yards, and led the Philadelphia Eagles to a 21–7 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers today. Timmy Brown, slowed recently by tendonitis, gained 116 yards rushing and caught two scoring passes. He scored the first touchdown on a 23‐yard pass from Snead. He also caught the 87-yarder. Pete Retzlaff caught the third score, of 31 yards.
The St. Louis Cardinals remained unbeaten in the National Football League today with a 23–17 victory over the Washington Redskins fashioned mainly on a fearsome defensive rush and Charlie Johnson’s clutch passing. A sellout crowd booed lustily as the Redskins, going down to their fourth straight defeat, failed to protect Sonny Jurgensen from the red‐dogging Cards. St. Louis tossed Jurgensen for losses eight times and finished the job on his reserve, George Izo, by nailing him for a safety in the final period. St. Louis scored on the second play of the game when Pat Fischer picked off one of Jurgensen’s passes and went 33yards down the sideline for a lead the Cards never relinquished throughout the rainy afternoon. A. 66‐yard drive with two Johnson passes spicing steady yardage by Joe Childress and John David Crow brought the visitors their second score. In the third quarter, Johnson sent the Cards 65 yards in two plays on a 43‐yard pass to Sonny Randle and a 22‐yard touchdown toss to Childress. Three interceptions wrecked other Cardinal drives and Crow threw away another touchdown when he fumbled going into the end zone late in the final period.
AFL Football:
Boston Patriots 39, Denver Broncos 10
Houston Oilers 7, Kansas City Chiefs 28
Gino Cappelletti kicked six field goals to help the Boston Patriots to a 39‐10 victory today over the Broncos and push the Denver coach, Jack Faulkner, to the brink of unemployment. Cappelletti, who set an American Football League record with six in one game, booted four field goals — including a 48‐yarder for the longest of his career — in the first 15 minutes to build a 12–0 Boston lead. The 48‐yard kick also produced Cappellettl’s 500th point in the AFL — the first player to achieve that total. The game was termed in advance by Faulkner as “the most important of my coaching career” because of a wave of criticism after Denver’s 38–17 loss to Houston last Sunday.
Kansas City blended the passing of Len Dawson with a tough defense today to forge a 28–7 victory over the Houston Oilers that kept the Chiefs on top in the American Football League’s western division. Dawson threw three scoring passes. Bobby Hunt, the Kansas City safety man, tied an A.F.L. record with four interceptions. He ran 59 yards on the fourth to set up the final touchdown for the Chiefs. Tommy Brooker of Kansas City, who kicked four extra points, set an A.F.L. record for consecutive conversions as his streak reached 62. George Blanda of Houston had held the record at 60. The Kansas City defensive unit had not permitted a touchdown for 10 straight quarters until Blanda directed an 80yard scoring drive in the last period. Sid Blanks, Houston rookie halfback was held to 38 yards on nine carries.
Born:
Mark McLemore, American MLB second baseman, outfielder, and third baseman (California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Oakland A’s), and broadcaster (Texas Rangers), in San Diego, California.
John Kiely, MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jim Hofford, Canadian NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres, Los Angeles Kings), in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Jamie Mueller, NFL fullback and running back (Buffalo Bills), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Matthew Cetlinski, American swimmer (Olympic gold medal, 4x200m freestyle relay, 1988), in Fort Worth, Florida.
Francis Magalona, Filipino Pinoy hip-hop rapper, songwriter, and television personality (“Eat Bulaga!”, 1995-2009), in Manila, Philippines (d. 2009).
Died:
Earnest Elmo Calkins, 96, American ad executive who pioneered the use of artwork, the “soft sell”, and fictional characters in advertising. E. E. Calkins, known as “The Dean of Advertising Men” and co-founder of the Calkins and Holden agency, became one of the industry’s most successful people despite being profoundly deaf since childhood.
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