1LT Dyer was a 1960 graduate of East Carolina College and was a six time All-American diver. He had previously been trained as an F-100 Super Sabre pilot. He was a 26 year old married father of a three-year-old son when he died. Glenn is buried at Salisbury National Cemetery in Salisbury, North Carolina. He is remembered on the Wall at Panel 1E, line 69. (vvmf.org Wall of Faces web site)
The new Soviet administration promised today to work for unity among Communist nations and Communist parties on the bases of equality and sovereignty. The pledge was in the form of an editorial in the Government newspaper Izvestia. The headline said, “A Commonwealth of Equals.” The editorial, unlike most Soviet writings on this subject in recent months, did not mention the Chinese Communists. Nor did it contain any reference to ideological dissension or “splitters” and “threats” to Communist unity. Western observers saw the editorial as part of an effort by the new Soviet leaders to indicate to the world that basic Soviet policy will continue while the Khrushchev style and tactics are changed.
The editorial was also seen as evidence that the new leaders have set these principal goals of great urgency: to consolidate the bloc of Communist countries, to halt the disintegration of the international Communist movement and to get off the collision course with Communist China. It is the contention of the new leaders that the “boisterous” personal style of Nikita S. Khrushchev nearly led to catastrophe in these goals even though the Kremlin’s basic policy was sound.
The new Soviet leaders apparently believe that they have a freedom of action in the Chinese‐Soviet conflict that Mr. Khrushchev did not because his personal prestige was directly committed. Western diplomats here take it for granted that consultations between Moscow and Peking will take place sooner or later. The emphasis in the editorial on the “equality” of all Communist parties in the international movement did not go beyond similar statements made by Mr. Khrushchev. It was seen as an effort by the new leaders to reassure foreign Communists that there would be no change on this point as a result of Mr. Khrushchev’s departure.
A six‐member delegation of the Chinese‐Soviet Friendship Association of Hopei Province left Peking by air for Moscow today on what was described as a friendly visit to Byelorussia. Analysts here said that although the members of the delegation were not important, the trip represented a significant departure from the situation prevailing until recently as a result of ideological dispute between Peking and Moscow, there have been no visits of this kind to the Soviet Union by provincial Chinest Communist organizations in a long time. The Hopei group’s visit is being made at the invitation of the Byelorussian branch of the Soviet‐Chinese Friendship Association.
The dispatch of the delegation was believed to be in line with the peace overture implicit in Peking’s message of congratulations to the new Soviet leaders, Leonid I. Brezhnev and Alexei N. Kosygin. This message expressed the hope that the Soviet and Chinese parties would “unite on basis of Marxism, Leninism and proletarian internationalism.” Mr. Brezhnev became the Soviet Communist party’s First Secretary and Mr. Kosygin became Premier of the Soviet Government following the ouster of Nikita S. Khrushchev, who had held both posts. The analysts expressed the belief that the Chinese Communists were continuing to test the atmosphere in Moscow in the hope that the ouster of Mr. Khrushchev had been partly motivated by the desire to heal the rift between the two countries.
The new Soviet leaders appeared today to have gained some of the ground they had lost through the contradictions and initial hesitancy, that upset Communist opinion abroad following the ouster of Mr. Khrushchev. This was the assessment here following the quick visit last week of Mr. Brezhnev and Mr. Kosygin with Wladyslaw Gomulka, the First Secretary of the Polish party. At this meeting, apparently the first in a series of consultations with Eastern European Communist leaders, the Soviet leaders obtained Mr. Gomulka’s vote of confidence following an exchange that was said to have confirmed a full unanimity of views. What seems to have been particularly repugnant to the Poles was not the fact that Mr. Khrushchev was replaced but the way in which it was done.
Ten days into his new administration, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson addressed the nation and announced a 15 percent surcharge on all imported manufactured goods in order to combat the nation’s trade deficit, as well as tax rebates to encourage British exports. The new Labor Government announced today the introduction of a temporary 15 per cent surcharge on imports and tax incentives’ for exports as part of a broad program to protect the pound and strengthen the British economy. The Government said the nation this year faced the biggest balance‐of‐payments deficit in its history — between £700 million and £800 million ($1.96 billion and $2.24 billion).
The deficit, amounting to nearly as much as the 1900 million ($2.52 billion) of British gold and convertible currency reserves, has arisen mainly because this key trading nation has been unable to sell as much as she buys overseas. Last month, the trade gap, at £133 million ($372.4 million), was the widest this year. The huge deficit represents a potential drain on reserves, which, if unchecked, could lead to devaluation of the pound. In what was billed as a “fireside” chat to the nation, Prime Minister Harold Wilson emphasized tonight the temporary nature of the new measures and said that what was basically needed was a change in the nation’s approach to economic matters. Speaking for 10 minutes over Britain’s two television networks, he called the situation “extremely serious” but said it “can and will be handled.”
Nine American marines were killed and 13 were injured this morning when two helicopters collided over the drop zone a few hours after the start of a joint United States-Spanish amphibious assault training maneuver near Huelva, Spain. The two helicopters, Sikorsky H‐34’s, were consumed by the flames caused by the collision, a Navy spokesman said. Officials could not recall a bigger death toll in any similar training exercise. The names of the victims were withheld pending official notification of their families.
The accident marred what was otherwise an impressive start in a war game with an armada of American warships ranged on an eight‐mile front off Spain’s southern coast, not far from where Columbus sailed for America in 1492. Helicopters and fighter planes filled the air over the beaches. United States and Spanish marine units waded spiritedly ashore with rifles aloft. Heavy equipment, including tanks, bulldozers and cranes, were rolled out of specially designed landing craft. A long jetty‐like pier was built in a few hours. United States and Spanish officials termed the first day’s operations a technical success. With 80 ships and nearly 60,000 men in the two‐nation task force, the exercise, known as Steel Pike 1, is said to be the largest amphibious maneuver since the Korean War.
A United States Air Force pilot and his Vietnamese co‐pilot were killed in the crash of their A‐1E Skyraider today on a mission against the Vietcong 30 miles northeast of Saigon. The cause was not immediately determined. United States sources said six Americans were wounded in scattered actions yester‐day and today.
The fifth chief of state in South Vietnam’s 10 years as an independent nation was officially installed today. The swearing in of a civilian, Phan Khắc Sửu, ended almost a year of military rule. In a brief ceremony in Gia Long Palace, Mr. Sửu accepted the resignations of Major General Nguyễn Khánh as Premier of all ministers in the caretaker government that has ruled the country. Major General Dương Văn Minh also resigned as head of the military triumvirate that had accumulated the functions of chief of state. Pending formation of a new Government Mr. Sửu asked General Khánh and his ministers to remain at their desks to handle routine affairs. After the ceremonies, Mr. Sửu said he had not yet decided his choice for Premier, the man who will actually lead the Government.
Antiaircraft fire from Cambodia was directed at United States Army helicopters two days ago, although the aircraft were flying at least one mile inside South Vietnam, the Military Assistance Cornmany announced today. The pilots reported bursts from shells near their helicopters as they were flying armed support for a. ground rescue operation. In the attack Saturday no damage was reported to the aircraft, a spokesman said, and it had not been determined whether the firing originated with Cambodian border patrols or with Vietcong units operating from Cambodia.
Either way the antiaircraft attack has important political and military significance. It came at a time of mounting tension along South Vietnam’s 575‐mile‐frontier with Cambodia. Saigon has long charged that the Vietnamese Communists are using Cambodia as a sanctuary in their struggle to overthrow the anti‐Communist Government of South Vietnam. Cambodia, as recently as yesterday, has insistently denied this charge. A C‐123 transport of the United States Air Force was shot down Saturday in the mountains about 110 miles northeast of Saigon directly on the Cambodian border. The plane was on a supply mission to a Special Forces border surveillance camp when it was hit by .30‐caliber and .50‐caliber bullets fired from the ground.
The Cambodian Government conceded today that Cambodian forces had fired at a South Vietnamese border post and said that they would return “blow for blow” any further “aggressions” from South Vietnam or the United States. The official government news agency said that Cambodian aircraft pursuing South Vietnamese planes had fired rockets at a post that had machine-gunned them.
The Kyrenla road, under Turkish Cypriot control since fighting in Cyprus began last December, was “opened to civilian traffic” today by the United Nations. Greek Cypriot vehicles traveled along it under United Nations escort, but only 31 persons in nine cars, one truck and one bus turned up for the first convoy. The peace‐keeping force plans to run two convoys daily. It also intends to “dissuade” Greek Cypriots from traveling along the road alone. Three Greek Army officers with pistols tried to join today’s second convoy, but were turned hack by Canadian soldiers. The troops searched every vehicle for arms and frisked every person.
Under an agreement reached with both sides last week, the United Nations is responsible for controlling traffic along the road and seeing that no arms get through. The United Nations force has powers of search and temporary detention, but cannot confiscate arms or arrest anyone. Meanwhile, 334 Turkish soldiers were allowed by the Cyprus Government to land at Famagusta to replace men of th Turkish contingent now serving on the island.
The East German Communist Government denounced as illegal today planned direct flights between London and West Berlin. It said it would take all necessary steps to prevent threats to air safety over its territory. The statement by the Foreign Ministry was published by the official news agency. Air service between London and West Berlin is to start November 1. It will be operated by the Government‐owned British European Airways. Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker of Britain and Secretary of State Dean Rusk examined today the problems of the Atlantic alliance, ranging from nuclear defense to the policies of the new Moscow leadership. The East German statement was similar to those made when Pan American Airways linked West Berlin with New York last summer. Pan American jets flew into Berlin with no interference. The East Germans contend that the three allies may fly to Berlin only to supply their military garrisons.
A British Government statement issued early today said serious consequences would follow if Rhodesia resorted to a unilateral declaration of independence. The statement said the only way Rhodesia could become independent was by act of the British Parliament. A declaration of independence would be an open act of defiance and rebellion, the statement went on. It added: “It would be treasonable to take steps to give effect to it.” The statement said the British Government would not be prepared to advise the Queen to accede to any request that she became the separate sovereign of a territory that had rebelled. An illegal declaration of independence would end Rhodesian relationships with Britain and cut Rhodesia off from the British Commonwealth and most foreign governments and international organizations, the statement continued.
Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed. Cooke, nicknamed the Night Caller and later the Nedlands Monster, was an Australian serial killer who terrorised the city of Perth, Western Australia, from September 1958 to August 1963. Cooke committed at least 20 violent crimes, eight of which resulted in deaths. Following a four-year killing spree, Cooke was eventually arrested and made extensive admissions to his crimes, including to ones others had been wrongfully convicted of. He was convicted of wilful murder in the Supreme Court of Western Australia after a jury rejected an insanity defence. He was sentenced to death and hanged at Fremantle Prison.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit today stayed a contempt order brought against Justice Department officials by District Judge W. Harold Cox of Jackson, Mississippi. The three‐judge panel, headed by Chief Judge Elbert P. Tuttle, granted the stay until the case, which has no precedent, can be heard on its merits. The action came after a brief preliminary hearing in which Assistant Attorney General John W. Douglas argued that Judge Cox’s unusual action would do “irreparable damage” to the Government if allowed to stand.
Last Thursday, Judge Cox held Robert E. Hauberg, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, in civil contempt of court and ordered Acting Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach to show cause why he should not be held in contempt. Mr. Hauberg, carrying out orders of Mr. Katzenbach, had refused to draw up perjury indictments against Government witnesses in civil rights cases at the request of a grand jury and the court. In one case, the Justice Department twice concluded that the charge of perjury against Blacks could not be sustained. The other cases had not been investigated by federal agents.
“What is involved here,” Mr. Douglas said, “is an attempt by a district judge to force the Department of Justice to place its seal of approval on indictments the department believes are not warranted or not supported by sufficient evidence.” In its petition for a writ of prohibition, the government disclosed the background of one of the cases involved. In 1962, it said, Judge Cox heard a suit brought by the Government to enforce voting rights of Blacks. Two government witnesses, the Rev. W. G. Goff and a Mr. Kendrick, both Blacks, testified that when they attempted to register in Stonewall, Mississippi, a white man, Floyd Jones, was allowed to sign the registration book but they were not.
According to the transcript, Judge Cox remarked about their testimony: “I want to hear from the Government about why this court shouldn’t require this Negro Rev. W. G. Goff and his companion Kendrick to show cause why they shouldn’t be bound over to await the action of the grand jury for perjury.” The judge also declared, according to the transcript: “I just want these Negroes to know they can’t come into this court and swear to something as important as this was and is and get by with it… These two witnesses are completely discredited as far as I am concerned… I think they are fit subjects for the penitentiary.”
[Ed: Cox was known as a segregationist and referred to blacks as “baboons” from the bench.When the United States Justice Department sued to block Mississippi’s prosecution of John Hardy, a black resident who was beaten after he attempted to register to vote, Judge Cox denied the Department’s motion for a temporary restraining order.The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Judge Cox’s decision,and the Supreme Court denied review of the appellate decision. Constance Baker Motley, a longtime civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, called Cox “the most openly racist judge ever to sit on a federal court bench” in the United States.]
Twenty‐seven persons, including seven ministers from out of state, were arrested during repeated attempts by civil rights forces to stage a voter drive today at the closed office of the Circuit Court clerk in Magnolia, Mississippi. The Pike County sheriff’s office said all had been arrested for trespassing. They had refused to leave the courthouse vicinity when ordered to do so by officers. Bond was set at $100 each except for Althea Spinks, a McComb Black, whose bond was set at $200. She was also charged with refusing to obey police orders. The Council of Federated Organizations said nine of those arrested had gained freedom under bond money raised in the Black community.
State and Federal authorities announced the arrest today of two white men at Natchez in connection with the alleged shooting of a Black farm laborer last April 5. The arrests were made by the Mississippi Highway Patrol, following an investigation by the patrol and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The two men, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill, are Edward Williard Fuller, 37 years old, of Natchez, and William B. Davidson, 27, of Clinton, Mississippi. Another man was arrested shortly after the shooting. The announcement said the two were charged in the alleged assault of Richard Joe Butler, 26, of Natchez. Officers said that during a search of Fuller’s home they had found “three leather blackjacks, several firearms including a revolver, one 1913 Enfield military‐type rifle, one 1 Remington automatic Shotgun: and one .351 Winchester auto matic rifle.”
The Government issued revised budget estimates today for the current fiscal year, showing expenditures at $97.2 billion, down $700 million from the estimate in the January budget. Receipts were put at $91.5 billion. This was down $1.5 billion from January, mainly because the tax cut was passed later than the original budget had assumed. This delay will result in increased refunds next spring. The deficit is now estimated at $5.7 billion instead of the $4.9 billion estimated in January. This is a reduction from the $8.3 billion deficit in the fiscal year 1964 that ended last June.
Senator Barry Goldwater received a deafening 28‐minute ovation at Madison Square Garden last night and then went on to predict he would win the Presidency next week in “the major political upset of the century.” More than 18,000 persons jammed the arena, and 5,000 others who were unable to get in listened as loudspeakers brought the program out to 49th Street west of Eighth Avenue. The Republican Presidential nominee was interrupted with applause and cheers at almost every phrase of a speech that took him 35 minutes. Some of his points appeared to be directed at his New York City audience as he made his only appearance here in the campaign.
He set the crowd to roaring when he declared: “If you ever hear me quoted as promising to make you free by forcibly busing your children from your chosen neighborhood school to some other one just to meet an arbitrary racial quota — look again because somebody is kidding you! I believe in our system of neighborhood schools, and I want to see them preserved and improved. I don’t want to see them destroyed or be sacrificed by a futile exercise in sociology which will accomplish nothing — but lose much.” He added, “My friends, these are not matters of civil rights — they are matters of common sense, common concern and common decency.”
President Johnson, making a determined attempt to reverse Republican trends in the South, said today that Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona had advanced “the most radical proposals that have ever been made to the American people.” “Under the wild charges and the impulsive statements of the Opposition,” Mr. Johnson said, “is hidden a deadly intention that would initiate policies which I think would radically change the American way of life.” The President also told a crowd at Jacksonville, Florida, that he could recall Presidential campaigns from those of Woodrow Wilson to those of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. “But none of these men tried to split our country wide open, none of these men preached hate,” he said.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey said tonight that the election of Senator Barry Goldwater would make the United States “a garrison state in a nightmare world, isolated from everything except a nuclear reign of terror.” The Democratic Vice‐Presidential candidate delivered one of his sharpest attacks of the, campaign on the foreign policies of the Republican Presidential nominee. In remarks delivered here at the end of a day of campaigning in Chicago and Wisconsin, Mr. Humphrey said of Senator Goldwater:
“If we were to do as he bids us, we would find ourselves eventually at war all over the globe — war fought with nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe, escalated war in Southeast Asia, war against Cuba, war in Berlin. “We would have repudiated the test‐ban treaty with the stroke of one man’s pen. Or we would have lost all contact, influence and respect in the less developed continents by stopping our programs of assistance. “We would have removed all possibility of negotiation to avert disaster, by pulling out of the United Nations and by cutting our diplomatic channels to our adversaries.”
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower urged all Americans today to join him in voting for Senator Barry Goldwater. He said the Republican Presidential nominee believed in the need for “a firm foreign policy, a powerful military defense and a free economy.” Mr. Eisenhower’s statement was released by the Republican National Committee.
An internal security agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today linked an American electronics engineer and a Russian national with two Soviet diplomats in an alleged spy operation. The agent, Edmund J. Birch, identified John W. Butenko, the American, and Igor A. Ivanov, defendants in the espionage trial in. Federal court, as persons he had seen on April 21, 1963 during surveillance of alleged espionage. The two diplomats were named as co‐conspirators, but not defendants, and were ordered expelled by the State Department. They are Gleb A. Pavlov and Vladimir I. Olenev, members of the Soviet mission to the United Nations.
Dean Chance and Jim Fregosi were named to the United Press International’s 1964 major league all‐star team yesterday, making the Los Angeles Angels the only team to place more than one player on the squad. Also selected were Joe Torre, Milwaukee Braves catcher; Bill White, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman; Ron Hunt, New York Mets second baseman; Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Orioles third baseman; Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants outfielder; Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees outfielder; Billy Williams, Chicago Cubs outfielder, and Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher. Chance is a pitcher and Fregosi a shortstop. Although sidelined by a sore arm during the latter part of the National League season, Koufax finished with a record of 19 victories and only five losses plus a 1.74 earned‐run average., In addition to pitching the third no‐hitter of his career, Koufax struck out 223 batters in 223 innings. Chance, the Angels’ brilliant 24‐year‐old right‐hander, was even more sensational with a 20‐9 record and a 1.65 earned run average.
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Born:
Vencie Glenn, NFL safety (New England Patriots, San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints, Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants), in Grambling, Louisiana.
Curtis Jeffries, NFL tight end (Cincinnati Bengals), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Steve Adkins, MLB pitcher (New York Yankees), in Chicago, Illinois.
Lawson Duncan, American tennis star, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer, who shot and killed 14 women in 1989 before killing himself; in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Died:
Eric Edgar Cooke, 33, Australian serial killer, became the last man executed in Western Australia. He had murdered eight people and committed a total of 22 violent crimes in Perth, between 1959 and 1963. Only two more convicts would be put to death in Australia after Cooke, with Glen Sabre Valance hanged on November 24, 1964 in South Australia, and Ronald Ryan on February 3, 1967, at Victoria.
Max McGraw, 81, American industrialist CEO of the McGraw-Edison company, and founder of its predecessor, McGraw Electric and founder of Centel
Paul Rhymer, 61, American humorist and creator of the popular radio show Vic and Sade
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