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VOLUME SEVENTY-FIVE

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1967

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Rebel Congo mercenaries flee with white hostages

North Vietnamese use dummy planes to lure U.S. bomber attack

KINSHASA, Congo UPI—Rebel mercenaries have fled Kisangani taking a number of white hostages with them, Congo radio said today. According to the radio, the mercenaries—said to number about 250 French, Belgian and Spanish soldiers of fortune —stole 27 trucks from civilian companies and headed in the direction of Bunia, about 370 miles east of Kisangani near Lake Albert. Three implicated in Tshombe # s kidnaping ALGIERS UPI—The government-run press today Implicated two pilots and a Belgian in the kidnaping of former Congolese premier Moise Tshombe. Previously, a Frenchman named Francis Bodenan had been blamed for hijacking the plane that brought Tshombe to Algeria and arrest, but the Algerie Press Service (APS) said “persistent nunors” Indicated Bodenan “was only an accomplice.” “The principal role could have been carried out by other passengers or the pilots of the plane,” APS said. It said Marcel Humbersin, a Belgian accused by Tshombe of theft was a passenger on the plane and said pilots David Taylor and Trevor Coppleston offered no resistance when Bodenan forced the pilots at gunpoint to head the chartered jet for Algeria instead of Majorca. The in-flight hijacking occurred June 30.

CAPE KENNEDY UPI—Engineers working around the clock to fix a “ghost like” rocket problem today set their sights on a Friday launch for the fourth of America’s Survey—or moon landing robots. The shot originally was set for 7:02 a.m. EDT today but engineers gave up for a day 10 hours before launch time when they lost their race to correct the trouble and still start the countdown on schedule. Continued disorder at Newport News NEWPORT NEWS, Va. UPI—Helmeted police, swinging nightsticks and turning snarling police dogs on stragglers, cleared early today a 12-block long area leading into the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Cq., hit by a violent strike. A short time later, unmarked cars whisked out of the plant carrying nonstrikers who had been working on the nation’s nuclear submarines. Firecrackers exploded and bottles sailed through the air while a force of state troopers and city police cleared the streets of 1,000 jeering demonstrators. At least one pedestrian, a lean Negro man, was bitten when officers turned their dog on him. The action clearing off the street came to avoid a repetition of a riot at midnight shift change Wednesday at the giant shipyards that had left police cars overturned, nearby shops wrecked and looted, at least 20 persons injured including one gunshot victim and three blocks of Washington Street littered like a battlefield. Gov. Mills Godwin met with union and management officials at his executive offices in the state capital at Richmond until 1.30 a.m. EDT today and said after the meeting that another session was planned for today at Newport News. Godwin said that officials of the union, the unaffiliated 15,000-member Peninsula Shipbuilders Association (PSA) had agreed to remove pickets from the gates of the shipyard, where such ships as the liner S.S. America and the world’s largest non-nuclear aircraft / carrier, the John F. Kennedy, were built. There was substantial progress toward defining the issues and an atmosphere of good will was reached tonight,” Godwin said after the meeting. Now you know By United Press International The official language of Andorra, a tiny principality in the Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain, is Catalan.

Congo radio said all of Kisangani is now controlled by the national Congolese army. It was not immediately clear how many hostages the rebel mercenaries had taken with them. Some Americans were among the hostages held at Kisangani. It was not immediately known if any were taken away by rebels. The radio said the Congolese army had received orders to bar the road to Bunia for the rebel advance and to bomb it. The radio said the mercenaries had taken advantage of the ceasefire ordered Monday by President Joseph D. Mobutu to escape from the positions they still occupied in Kisangani. Mobutu had ordered the ceasefire to facilitate efforts to rescue the hostages held by the mercenaries. The hostages included white university professors, women, children, and a group of journalists who had landed in Kisangani July 5. In Kinshasa, the situation returned to normal as the dusk to dawn curfew for foreigners was lifted. The new development came before the Red Cross could carry out a rescue action for the hostages at Kisangani. Mobutu had ordered the Congo army to hold up an attack on Kisangani another day in hopes the hostages could be freed. The mercenaries held a group of 150 whites including 20 Americans, women and children. The Congo radio said the rebels had forced the hostages to take up arms against the Congo army and that some who refused had been killed.

The one-day posponement meant Surveyor 4 would lose one of 14 days of sunlight on the lunar surface for its ambitious picture-taking and dirt-digging expedition. The problem, which took 24 hours to pinpoint, involved an electrical connector in the upper stage of the Atlas-Cen-taur launcher. The unit was short circuiting intermittently and officials fearad it might loosen during launch. The trouble was so mysterious Wednesday that centaur project manager Edmund Jonash called it “ghost-like.” To fix it, technicians had to lift the 2,290-pound surveyor spacecraft off the centaur stage. The operation began Wednesday night and the space agency said it should be completed in time to meet a launch at 7:53 am. EDT Friday. Surveyor 4’s mission is to land softly on a pock-marked plain almost dead center of the side of the moon facing earth to see if the area is safe enough for astronauts. The three-legged robot carries a television camera to scan the lunar landscape, a digger to poke and stratch its surface and a magnet to see if the lunar crust is littered with bits of iron. The shot will open an 18-day assault by three American spacecraft on the moon and the space around it. The space agency plans to fire a small physics laboratory toward an orbit around the moon July 19 and launch its last lunar orbiter photographic scout Aug. 1. Fire razes dwelling An unoccupied house, consisting of four rooms and bath, was destroyed by fire between 1:30 and 3:30 this morning. The house was owned by Paul Farmer, Cloverdale, Route 1, and was located two and one-half miles south of Putnamville on State Road 243. Putnam County authorities were probing the possibility of vandalism or arson.

NEWARK, N.J. UPI — Negroes enraged by the alleged beating of a cab driver by police besieged a station house, touching off a wave of window-smashing and looting early today. Police and firemen were stoned in the disorder which spread hit-and-nm fashion for several hours through a Central Ward tenement district in this city of 400,000 of whom 60 per cent are Negro. A caravan of at least 50 cars carried angry Negroes early today to City Hall and police headquarters where they staged a noisy protest. They were barred by shotgun-armed police from head-

Mrs. Minnie Varvel has been selected by General Telephone as its “operator of the month” in the Greencastle exchange, according to an announcement by J. R. Gaboon, district manager. Selection is based on the number of calls handled by an operator, an attitude of co-operation, courtesy, and dedication to customer service, and attendance on the job. Mrs. Varvel handled an average of 25 calls per hour during the month of June. She has not been absent from work in the past 2^ years. An employe of General Telephone for six years, Mrs. Varvel and her husband, Norman, have two children, Michele, who will be a high school senior this fall, and Norman, Jr., who will be in the eighth grade. They reside at 700 Crescent Drive. More troops to be sent to South Viet WASHINGTON UPI —President Johnson was conferring with Gen. William C. Westmoreland today on an administration plan to give him more troops in Vietnam—but probably not as many as he wants. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara announced Wednesday that 20,000 to 30,000 additional troops would be sent to Vietnam within the next 90 days, bringing U.S. forces there to the present authorized strength of 480,000 men. McNamara also said more U.S. troops would be needed beyond the present ceiling, but refused to indicate whether he agreed or disagreed with reported requests by Westmoreland for an additional 100,000 men. He said no decision had been made yet on how large a fighting force was required. McNamara did say, however, he foresaw “no need to call the reserves to meet the currently anticipated future requirements.” In briefing newsmen at the White House, McNamara emphasized the Johnson administration is determined to “use more effectively” the U.S. troops already in Vietnam. Fewer than half of the 466,000 American troops now in Vietnam are engaged directly in combat operations. McNamara, who returned from Saigon Tuesday night, made it clear he thought this ratio of combat to support troops could be changed. Westmoreland, who attended his mother's funeral in South Carolina Wednesday, arrived in Washington at night for today’s conference with Johnson. The President also planned to meet with the National Security Council. Some military experts feel the United States could boost its troop strength in Vietnam by another 100,000 over the next year without a callup of reserves. The 20,000 to 30.000 troops destined for Vietnam in the next 90 days is close to the rate at which U.S. forces have been sent there in recent months. Drowns in Fish Lake LAPORTE UPI—Roger D. Pierce, 15, LaPorte, drowned in Fish Lake near here Wednesday night while swimming with two companions. Authorities said Pierce and Cullen Lindsey, 16, Stillwell, and Henry Colston, 15, Fish Lake, apparently dived off a raft. They said Pierce called for help but went under while struggling with his friends. His body was recovered in 11 feet of water.

quarters where they sought to post bond for the taxi driver. Four policemen were injured in the melee at the Fourth Precinct stationhouse which involved about 250 Negroes throwing bricks, bottles and other objects at the building and parked police cars. About 50 helmeted squads of officers with nightsticks at the ready dispersed the mob without a major fight. Then the incidents of window-smashing and looting started. The arrest of cabbie John W. Smith, 38, ignited the violence. He was treated at a hospital after his arrest and Ne-

SAIGON UPI—American pilots today said the North Vietnamese are using dummy planes to lure U.S. bombers into attacking heavily-guarded airfields. The pilots streaked in, smashed anti-aircraft sites and flew home with no reported losses. U.S. spokesmen said the dummy planes appeared on the Hoa Lac MIG base 20 miles west of Hanoi which the bombers Wednesday hit for the 11th time. Pilots bypassed the decoys parked in plane reventments and blasted a nearby surface-to-air missile (SAM) site. There was no immediate report of any American planes lost in the Wednesday raiding. The pilots also hit for the fourth day in a row North Vietnam oil depots, concentrating on the Communist reserves near Haiphong. In South Vietnam’s la Drang Valley, scene of some of the war’s bitterest battles, U.S. infantrymen battled all day Wednesday against North Vietnamese Invaders. Military spokesmen said 35 Americans were killed and 31 wounded, most of the casualties coming from one company. Darkness fell before American troops could sweep over the battlefield near the Cambodian border and count Communist corpses. Fast recovery made by Lurleen Wallace HOUSTON UPI—Gov. Lurleen Wallace of Alabama got out of bed Wednesday for the first time since her operation for removal of a malignant tumor and walked around her hospital room. “The governor continues to recuperate satisfactorily,” said Dr. R. Lee Clark, director of the M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. Mrs. Wallace, 40, underwent nearly six hours of surgery Monday at the famed cancer hospital. Mrs. Wallace, the nation’s only w r oman governor, is still receiving only her husband, former Gov. George C. Wallace and other immediate members of her family as visitors. Wallace said he would leave his wdfe’s bedside next Tuesday to speak at a “Wallace for President” rally in Greenville, S. C. British troops

HONG KONG UPI — British troops today went into action against Hong Kong rioters for the first time and raided the headquarters of Communists trying for three months to humble this Crown Colony. The communist leaders who previously battled police meekly surrendered to the bayonet-armed troops of the Welsh regiment who rolled barbed wire around the headquarters, cut through steel doors with acetylene torches and charged in. Later a bomb in a handbag was hurled over the wall of a police station. The blast hit no one. The British troops were called after the latest outbreak of rioting in this colony on the coast of China resulted in at least two deaths, 18 injuries and 73 arrests. British army units had been used only once before, when a border fight with Red Chinese guards broke out Saturday. Never had they moved against rioters in the colony itself.

groes contended he had been severely beaten. Police said Smith's cab was tailgating a patrol car for several blocks. When the police stopped Smith, they contend he became abusive and started swinging. He was wrestled to the street and put forcibly into a patrol car. At the station house. Smith was dragged from the cruiser kicking, punching and cursing, police said. A Negro youth who said he witnessed Smith’s arrest, said, “Them foreigners (police) dragged that man out of his cab and beat and kicked him for no good reason at all.” Smith himself said, “They dragged

The Communists inflicted most of the casualties on one Army 4th Infantry Division company. The 200-man unit was caught by rifle and machine gun fire from three sides, battlefield reports said. The fighting took place in the Central Highlands where Viet Cong gunners shot down three American helicopters. One of the machines suffered heavy damage but the other pair received minor damage and apparently could easily be salvaged, spokesmen said. Two more 4th Division helicopters

MOSCOW UPI — The Communist world raised the stakes today in its bid to replace the West as the major foreign influence in the war-battered Arab Mideast. This emerged from an East European summit conference in Budapest, where top leaders from seven Communist nations promised “still fuller” military, political and economic aid to the Arab states. The meeting was the second Communist summit in five weeks on the Mideast. But it indicated that the situation still is so fluid that top-level talks are necessary to guide the Communist world through the Mideast’s diplomatic minefield. The Communist leaders met in secret Tuesday and Wednesday, with their conclave announced by Tass, the Soviet news agency, only after it finished. The leaders last met in Moscow June 9, just after the Arab defeat, and agreed to break diplomatic relations with Israel. The five weeks since then have seen a revival of Soviet armed aid to Egypt, the solidification of Israeli control over captured areas, the U.N. General Assembly debate and Premier Alexei N. Kosygin’s talks at Glassboro, N.J., with President Johnson. Kosygin attended the Budapest summit, presumably to describe the Glassboro meeting to other Communist leaders. Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid take over

The soldiers left their posts and joined police in swarming into the Suzie Wong nightclub district where usually visiting U.S. sailors show off the only military uniforms. They rushed into the command headquarters of the militantly leftwing motor transport workers union. The troops and police found piles of makeshift weapons. On the roof they found baskets and boxes of bottles. Bottles are a favorite weapon of Communists who hurl them from rooftops at police during riots. The raiders arrested 32 persons including several women hiding behind sliding panels and under trapdoors. Rioting Wednesday night in the Kowloon mainland section of the colony ended only after police opened fire with shotgun-like antiriot guns that killed two persons and wounded 10. Six police were injured. Authorities said they will not hesitate to call out the British troops once more if the rioting erupts again.

me up and down the block like some kind of rag doll.” Although refusing to release Smith on bond, authorities allowed two of the Negro protestors at police headquarters to visit him in jail. Ralph Branch, 37, a cab driver, and David Oxfeld, a fleet owner, emerged later and said Smith was “in bad shape.” They quoted him as saying he had been dragged from his cab, taken to the station house where eight policemen beat and kicked him and struck him on the head with a gun. He then was taken to a hospital and later returned to j&iL

were hit but made safe landings, spokesmen said. In other action, a 13,000-man combined American-Australian-South Vietnamese force reported killing at least 40 Communists Wednesday in their encircling operation around guerrillainfested swamps 50 miles east of Saigon. Allied casualties were reported as one Australian killed and “light” losses to the Vietnamese. The Operation Paddington is aimed at routing guerrillas from their longtime sanctuaries near the key coastal resort base of Vung Tau.

I. Brezhnev also attended. So did Hungary’s Janos Kadar, East Germany’* Walter Ulbricht, Yugoslavia’s Tito, Bulgaria’s Todor Zhivkov, Poland’s Wladyslaw Gomulka and Czechoslovakia’s Antonin Novotny. Romania, which attended the Moscow summit but refused to go along with its conclusions, cut itself off from the Communist Mideast stand altogether by boycotting the Budapest meeting. A communique said the meeting “favored a still fuller use of appropriate means to meet the interests of the struggle against Israeli aggression.” To implement this, it said, the leaders “unanimously” agreed to step up political, economic and military support for the Arab nations. The leaders also signaled Communist plans to tie the Arabs ever closer to Moscow by suggesting “long term economic cooperation with the Arab states.” Four arrested in Evansville robbery EVANSVILLE UPI—Four persons, including two women, were arrested and a fifth was hunted today as suspects in the $12,000 holdup of a branch of ths Old National Bank of Evansville. The branch, located along U.S. 41 north of Evansville, was robbed Wednesday afternoon by two bandits dressed in overalls who fled in a car with Kentucky license plates which later was found abandoned near Evansville. Police identified the four arrested overnight as John Crocker III, 19, and Jack Burbridge, 27, both of South Bend; Gloria Phillips, 21, and Helen Kalber, 25, both of Waldorf, Md. Sought as a fifth suspect was Andy Putnam, 40, South Bend, police said. Four employes were on duty in the bank and a customer was present when the two robbers entered, carrying cloth bags. They brandished no weapons but implied they had guns under their coveralls. The men forced tellers to put the money in the sacks, according to Miss Barbara Ingle, 19, one of the employes on duty. Weather is milder following rainfall By United Press International Showers and thunderstorms hit the South today. Cool air spread across the central and northern plains across the Midwest into New England. Rain fell from Arizona and New Mexico to Alabama and the southern Appalachians. Northern Alabama got 4.15 inches of rain in 12 hours and was altered to possible flooding. More than an inch of rain fell at Clovis, N. M., near the Texas border, during a six-hour period that ended early today. Scattered showers or thundershowers also fell in the northern Great Lakes and along the Atlantic Coast. A tornado was seen near Lincoln, Ark., about 25 miles southwest of Fayetteville, Wednesday night, but there were no reports of injuries or damages. The mercury rose to 95 at Blythe and Thermal, Calif., before the sun rose today, and at the same time registered 42 at Bismarck, N. D. Killed in Vietnam WASHINGTON UPI — Marine Capt. Warren O. Keneipp, Jr., Mishawaka, Ind., was listed Wednesday by the Defense Department as killed in action in Vietnam. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. W. O. Keneipp, Jr., Mishawaka.

Launch of moon robot is delayed until Friday

Racial violence breaks

Communist headquarters

out in Newark, N.J.

Mideast stakes raised by Communist world