Both officers were assigned to the 1st Air Commando Squadron, 34th Tactical Group, 13th Air Force. Captain Blake, an Air Force veteran of over 10 years, was from Long Beach, Mississippi and was 29 years old and married when he died. Captain Blake is buried in the Southern Memorial Park in Biloxi, Mississippi. Edward is remembered on the Wall at Panel 1E, line 69.
Two United States Air Force officers were killed today when an A‐1 E Skyraider fighter bomber crashed in South Vietnam, the Defense Department reported. The officers were Captain John C. Knaggs of Newburgh, New York, and Captain Edward A. Blake of Houston. The officers were flying to a gunnery range for training five miles south of Biên Hòa Air Force Base when the accident occurred.
Communist North Vietnam charged today that planes and naval craft of the United States “and its agents” attacked parts of the southernmost province of Quảng Bình Wednesday. The Hanoi radio broadcast the charges, quoting a Foreign Ministry spokesman. Listing areas just north of the demilitarized zone that divides Vietnam at its narrow waist, the broadcast said: “At 1000 hours [10 AM] of October 28, 1964, three jet planes and five T‐28 aircraft of the United States, coming from the direction of Laos, bombed and rocketed the Cha Lo frontier post in Quảng Bình Province at a place two kilometers [1.2 miles] from the Vietnam‐Laos border. “At 2300 hours [11 PM] of the same day, three naval craft of the United States and its agents, sailing from South Vietnam, intruded into the territorial waters of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, shelled the coastal areas of Quảng Bình Province and subsequently fled.” The broadcast did not specify the areas involved or the types of naval craft.
The Hanoi radio said the Foreign Ministry “strongly denounces and protests against the above‐mentioned acts of provocation of the United States an its agents vis-à-vis the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and demands that they put an immediate end to such adventurous acts.” Recalling attack by United States planes August 5 on North Vietnamese torpedo boats and bases, it said the incidents Wednesday “prove the United States imperialists are still carrying on provocations in an attempt to carry out their scheme to expand the war to North Vietnam, in complete defiance of international law and world public opinion.”The August 5 raids were in retaliation for attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on United States destroyers cruising in the gulf. North Vietnam has been backing a propaganda campaign by Cambodia against United States and South Vietnamese armed forces trying to wipe out guerrilla bases along the Cambodia frontier. The North Vietnamese train and supply the guerrillas.
In Washington, officials denied that any United States planes or naval craft were involved in attacks on North Vietnamese territory.
The new South Vietnamese chief of state has formally designated Saigon’s Prefect (Mayor), Trần Văn Hương, as Premier. The announcement was made today in a communiqué from the office of Chief of State Phan Khắc Sửu. Mr. Hương will form a Government to replace that of Major General Nguyễn Khánh, who offered his resignation Monday as part of the move to hand over power to civilians. On Saturday, shortly after Mr. Sửu was elected by the High National Council, he indicated an intention to designate Mr. Hương as Premier.
The South Vietnamese Government announced today that South Vietnam’s highest ranking army officer, Lieutenant General Trần Thiện Khiêm, would serve as Ambassador to Washington. General Khiêm’s appointment was approved by Washington about two weeks ago, but the official documents were not signed until a few days ago. The general was ordered out of the country this month as Premier Nguyễn Khánh sought to stabilize the political situation. General Khiêm was regarded as a potential rallying point for military elements that might want to stage a coup d’état.
A document accusing Nikita S. Khrushchev on 29 basic counts of political errors and personal misconduct was reported today to have been transmitted to Soviet party organizations by the Kremlin leadership. The former Premier was accused among other things of having caused a Soviet defeat in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, having reduced the Chinese‐Soviet conflicts to personal polemics, having underestimated the scientific progress of the Chinese Communists and of having instituted erroneous reforms in the structure of the Soviet Communist party. The 40‐page document has been shown to foreign Communist delegations that have come to Moscow to request explanations of Mr. Khrushchev’s dismissal.
Sources who have seen the document said it contained the accusations leveled against Mr. Khrushchev by Mikhail A. Suslov and Dimitry S. Polyansky at the Central Committee session that decided his removal on October 14. The document also included the charges that Pravda, without naming Mr. Khrushchev directly, listed against him in an editorial immediately following his dismissal. The charges in Pravda included: Revival of the Stalinist personality cult in Mr. Khrushchev’s “favor,” nepotism and disorderly and authoritarian conducting of the business of the party and the state.
The Italian Communist party delegation now in Moscow was understood to be one of the foreign missions that have seen the document. The Italian group met yesterday for several hours with the top members of the Soviet leadership including Leonid I. Brezhnev, the First Secretary of the party, Mr. Suslov and others. Other delegations still in the Soviet capital are those of the Indian, Danish and Austrian Communist parties. The French Communist party delegation returned to Paris yesterday after three days of briefings. The document submitted to the foreign Communist delegations was the first set of reasons for the Khrushchev removal offered by the Soviet leadership outside the Central Committee of its own party.
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today the Soviet Union would present an “infinitely greater” threat to the United States under the new Communist leadership. Stumping through Illinois for the Republican ticket, Mr. Nixon warned that Communist subversion was on the upsurge in the world and said peace messages from new Soviet leaders to President Johnson were not “worth the paper they’re written on.” Mr. Nixon issued the warning in reaction to President Johnson’s announcement that he had received “heartening” assurances from Soviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin that the new Moscow regime would “search for peace with the West.”
Soviet Government leaders held talks with Cabinet ministers from Britain, India and Australia today, the most active day in Soviet foreign relations since the fall of Nikita S. Khrushchev September 15. A fourth visitor, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Feridun Cemal Erkin, is to arrive tomorrow amid indications that the Soviet Union is planning a friendship gesture in the form of an offer of economic assistance to Turkey. In all the talks they had today, it was reported, the Soviet officials stressed to their visitors that the Soviet attitude toward Western and neutral countries would continue unchanged. Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin received Douglas Jay, new President of the British Board of Trade, and Paul Hasluck, External Affairs Minister of Australia. President Anastas I. Mikoyan received Mrs. Indira Gandhi, India’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting.
Communist China issued its 338th “serious warning” to the United States today after an American warship intruded twice into Chinese territorial waters, according to the Hsinhua press agency.
A Malaysian spokesman announced tonight the capture of 25 guerrillas, part of a force of two Indonesia‐based groups totaling about 60 men that landed this morning on the Malaysian coast. The spokesman said that 20 of those captured were members of regular Indonesian forces. He said some were in uniform and fully armed while others were unarmed and in civilian clothes. An additional 25 armed guerrillas surrendered to Australian troops near Merlimau, a Reuters dispatch reported Friday. The groups came ashore near Muar, about 25 miles south of Malacca, he said. They were seen by Malaysian fishermen who, after being fired upon by the guerrillas, ran to inform members of the new vigilante corps.
Bolivia broke diplomatic relations with Communist Czechoslovakia tonight, accusing the Czechoslovak Embassy of having incited the anti‐government riots that have been raging in Bolivia. A communiqué said tin miners “perfectly armed with new weapons made in Czechoslovakia” took part in an attack on the mining center of Oruro. The government sent troops there to put down the uprising. Two civilians were reported killed and 17 wounded in disorders in La Paz when demonstrators favoring and opposing the government collided in street fighting. The communiqué said the anti‐government demonstrators in La Paz also were armed with Czechoslovak weapons. The Government said the, Czechoslovak Embassy was linked to Bolivian Communists who, officials charged, had instigated the riots.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith assured Parliament today that he would not interpret a “yes” vote in next week’s referendum as a mandate for proclaiming Rhodesia independent of Britain. By this assurance he appeared to be easing previously voiced threats to issue a unilateral declaration of independence for this self‐governing colony. Rhodesian whites will vote next Thursday on whether they want full independence while still retaining political control over the black majority, who number about 3.8 million. There are about 217,000 whites. “We will never be stampeded into doing anything that will destroy everything that has been built up,” the Prime Minister declared.
At least 20 persons were killed yesterday and many more were injured in Khartoum when Sudanese security forces fired on a crowd outside the President’s palace, according to reports reaching the British Government today from the Sudanese capital. The reports said the effectiveness of a general strike, called October 24, the day after a student was killed during rioting, was “virtually complete.” British officials said President Ibrahim Abboud seemed to be in complete control. They expressed a belief that the rioting and demonstrations in Khartoum and other cities were directed against the military government led by General Abboud, rather than against the general.
President Julius Nyerere of the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar announced in Dar es Salaam that the East African’s nation was now Tanzania. The new name was to be pronounced as “tan-zuh-NEE-uh”, with an accent on the third syllable, but remains frequently mispronounced as “tan-ZAY-nee-uh”. A contest had been announced in July, and the winner received 200 East African shillings, worth 28 U.S. dollars at the time. According to one researcher, External Affairs Minister Oscar Kambona chaired the committee that screened proposals from 1,354 people, of whom 16 independently came up with the name “Tanzania”, and that other popular suggestions included “Tangibar”, “Tanzan” and (based on the language of both countries before the merger) “Swahili”. The prize was divided among the 16 winners, who each got 12½ shillings.
The design for the new official Flag of Canada was selected by a multi-party committee of Members of Parliament, who chose the emblem of a single red maple leaf on a field of white between two red bars by a vote of 10 to 4. The Canadian Flag Committee acknowledged that almost 2,000 suggestions for the design were submitted and that these had been grouped into three categories; those in “Class C” (designs that contained either or both the British Union Jack and the Quebec fleur-de-lis) were rejected by a 5 to 9 vote; the remaining choices were in “Class A”, a three maple leaf design proposed by Prime Minister Pearson and narrowly retained 8 to 6; and “Class B”, a single maple leaf design, which members liked 13 to 1. The three leaf design was unanimously rejected, 14-0, and the final vote on the single red maple leaf between two red bars came down to “whether or not the final selection was acceptable as a national flag for Canada”.
Three of the most influential Roman Catholic prelates called today for an urgent and searching re-examination of the church’s teachings on marriage and birth control.
The town of Karmi’el is founded in Galilee, Israel.
President Johnson defended clergymen tonight against attacks by Senator Barry Goldwater, who has charged that some of them are improperly partisan. Mr. Johnson, speaking at a $100‐a‐plate Democratic fundraising dinner here, interpolated in a speech a statement that “men in the pulpit have a place in political leadership of our people and they have a place in our public affairs.” He added that “we should be grateful for their concern for the well‐being of this land.”
Mr. Goldwater complained yesterday that church leaders “don’t have much time to worry about morals if they’re worrying about partisan politics” and said that some churchmen were “loud advocates” of President Johnson. Tonight Mr. Johnson told 14,000 persons at Convention Hall, 5,000 of whom had paid for the fund‐raising dinner, that “I do not condemn church or clergymen for being concerned that America meet her moral responsibility to peace” and for “doing what a rich nation can and should do to wipe poverty from our land.” He said, “I not only do not condemn them, I thank God for their courage.”
Senator Barry Goldwater charged tonight that Secretary of State Dean Rusk “has coddled the liars, the wiretappers, the brutal abusers of government power who tried to railroad [Otto F.] Otepka.” Mr. Otepka, the State Department’s chief security evaluator, fell into disfavor with his superiors last year for giving information to the Senate Internal Security subcommittee without authorization. Department officials attempted to intercept his telephone conversations in an effort to find out if he was privately in touch with the subcommittee. Mr. Otepka has kept his title but has been assigned to less important duties. Mr. Goldwater, in a speech in Pittsburgh tonight, charged that the Otepka case was “a shocking example of lax security in our State Department.”
Tens of thousands of persons poured into Seventh Avenue in New York yesterday for one of the quadrennial rituals of American politics — the Liberal party rally in the garment district. They were there to lionize Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic‐Liberal nominee for Vice President, and Robert F. Kennedy, the Democratic‐Liberal nominee for the Senate, and to hear the candidates heap praise upon each other. Waving a copy of a brochure damning Mr. Kennedy’s record on civil rights, Mr. Humphrey shouted: “This morning when I arrived in New York, I found a new low in politics. Someone handed me one of these pamphlets.”
The pamphlet, published by a “Committee of Democrats for Keating-Johnson-Humphrey,” was reportedly financed by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Copies of it have been widely distributed in Harlem and other neighborhoods. “Let me make it crystal clear,” Mr. Humphrey declared, “that President Johnson and his Vice‐Presidential running mate repudiate this document. “I know we would never have had a civil rights bill if it had not been for Mr. Kennedy and his staff. You know what you should do with this kind of material? Tear it up! Throw it away! It’s no good!” With that, the Minnesota Senator shredded the leaflet he was holding and threw the confetti‐sized pieces into the crowd of political and labor leaders sitting behind him.
[Ed: Teamster’s President Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Kennedy are intractable, deadly enemies. Hoffa is trying to support Keating to block Kennedy from winning the Senate race in New York.]
Representative William E. Miller, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, asserted today that his Democratic opponent, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, was “soft” toward Communist China. Declaring that Senator Humphrey’s foreign policies were “synonymous with disaster for America,” the New York Congressman said that the Minnesota Senator “consistently has favored a soft position toward Communist China.” “He has been in opposition to the official positions of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations,” Mr. Miller said. “Yet this is the man Lyndon Johnson would put just a heartbeat away from the Presidency — because Lyndon is now more interested in securing the liberal‐A.D.A. vote than he is in maintaining a consistent policy of firmness which clearly serves the best interests of the United States and the free world.”
Mr. Miller said he was not questioning Mr. Humphrey’s loyalty. But he added that because his opponent was “a dedicated political liberal” and a founder of the Americans for Democratic Action, “we do question his judgment on this vital issue” of Communist China. As proof of Senator Humphrey’s “softness,” Mr. Miller noted that when A.D.A., shortly before the outbreak of the Korean War, called for diplomatic recognition of Communist China, some members walked out of the organization, “but not Hubert Humphrey.” Similarly, he said, Senator Humphrey has “refused several times this year to take a clearcut public position in opposition to Communist China.”
An “emergency committee” of prominent Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish churchmen issued a strong protest yesterday against the use of the Jenkins case in the Presidential election campaign. They said that the case and a few other “episodes involving personal morality” had been allowed to “obscure fateful moral issues related to public Iife,” such as civil rights, poverty and the danger of nuclear war. The committee, representing a broad spectrum of the major faiths, said that if there was a security aspect to the case it should be “dealt with on its own terms by those competent to do so and let it not serve chiefly as an excuse for dwelling on this episode to cater to the prurient curiosity or to the selfrighteousness of part of the public.”
The only name mentioned in the statement was that of Walter W. Jenkins, who resigned two weeks ago as a special assistant to President Johnson after his arrest by the Washington police on a morals charge. Several of the clergymen who signed it, however, acknowledged yesterday that the campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican Presidential candidate, had been the major impetus for the protest. The statement, signed by about 40 clergymen, was released yesterday by the Rev. Dr. John C. Bennett, president of Union Theological Seminary, at a sometimes stormy news conference at the Overseas Press Club at 54 West 40th Street.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black integration leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, received the John F. Kennedy Award today for his efforts in furthering race relations. The award was made by the Catholic Interracial Council and presented by Raymond M. Hilliard, director of the Cook County Department of Public Aid. Mr. Hilliard described Dr. King’s work as “inspired, profoundly Christian and one of the glories of American religious history.” Dr. King, a Baptist minister, is director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The Freedom Democratic party made a last‐ditch attempt today to place four Blacks on the ballot to oppose Mississippi’s incumbent Democratic Congressmen. A petition filed in the Secretary of State’s office urged that the State Election Commission reconsider an earlier decision and allow the Blacks to run as independent candidates. The predominantly Black group took issue with the commission’s ruling that the qualifying petitions filed earlier, did not bear enough qualified voters’ signatures.
The Star of India, a 565-carat (113-gram) blue star sapphire, was stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, along with the 100-carat DeLong Star Ruby, another sapphire (the “Midnight Star”), and 19 other priceless gemstones. The jewelry would be recovered two days later. The famous golf-ball-sized stone was stolen, along with several other gems of note, including the Midnight Star, the DeLong Star Ruby, and the Eagle Diamond. The thieves unlocked a bathroom window during museum open hours, climbed in that night, and found that the sapphire was the only gem in the collection protected by an alarm — and the battery for that was dead. The stones stolen were valued at more than $400,000. Within two days the culprits were arrested: Jack Roland Murphy (also known as “Murph the Surf”), Allan Kuhn and Roger Clark; however, the gems had already been handed off. In January 1965, in a bid for leniency, Kuhn led authorities to a bus locker in Miami where the uninsured Star of India and some of the other stolen stones were recovered.
James E. Webb, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, confirmed tonight that some research work at the rocket center here would be transferred to New Orleans and other cities if Alabama continued to fail to attract top management executives. But Mr. Webb emphatically denied that politics was involved in the possible transfer of personnel from the Marshall Space Flight Center here. The administrator called the center here “the largest and one of the most important of the NASA centers. We have given it the job, and we want it to continue in Huntsville, of research and development on the giant boosters required for the Apollo manned space flight missions”” he said.
“As this very large program progresses, it will be good business and in the interests of efficiency and lowered costs to build up, near our Michoud assembly facility at New Orleans, part of the Government work force required for the contract management function, and to transfer to that, and perhaps other locations. some of the personnel now doing that work at Huntsville,” he said. Last week, when he toured the state, Mr. Webb said that some research work would have to be switched from Huntsville to New Orleans because the space agency found it difficult to attract seasoned executives to Alabama.
A suitcase-sized electronic computer with a double memory system, “majority rule” voting circuits and a claimed over‐all reliability of 99.7 percent over a 10‐day period will have the responsibility for getting the American spacecraft Apollo on its course to the moon. A detailed description of the complex guidance computer and data adapter was given publicly today for the first time. The report was made to a joint computer conference in the Civic Auditorium by Glenn C. Randa of the International Business Machines Corporation. He is a design engineer at the corporation’s Federal, Systems Division Space Guidance Center at Oswego, New York.
Charles H. Townes of the United States and Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov of the Soviet Union were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their development of the laser, while Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of the United Kingdom won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the atomic structure of biochemical substances through x-ray crystallography.
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