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Forrestal death toll may hit 145

STATE FAIR ENTRANTS—4-H girls who have won the honor of taking their entries to the Indiana State Fair during the annual 4-H Dress Revue held at the Fairgrounds Sunday are (left to light) Linda Kennedy of Cloverdale, Stephanie

Vaughn, Belle Union, Vickie Wallace, Bainbridge, Carolyn Torr, Greencastle, Becky McFarland. Bainbridge, and Rhonda Sutherlin, Russellville.

Race violence flares in three more areas

By United Prei* International A policeman was shot to death in new rounds of racial violence that erupted today in Milwaukee, Wichita, Kan., and Riviera Beach, Fla. • The Wisconsin National Guard was called in at Milwaukee as the result of fighting so intense that authorities reported snipers had pinned down police.

The Milwaukee riot was the third to break out in a major northern city within as many weeks. It began near the downtown area and quickly spread into other areas, including the all white south side. Wisconsin Gov. Warren Knowles ordered a brigade of guardsmen-about 1,600 troops into action.

Gen. DeGaulle calls special cabinet meeting

PARIS UPI — French President Charles de Gaulle today called a special cabinet meeting reportedly to explain why the “Canadian Affair” was actually the fault of Canada. Informed sources said the 76-year-old

Vandalism at Fair A major part of the very attractive Culligan display in the industrial building of the 4-H Fair is a MYSTERY FAUCET. Water seems to flow out of a huge faucet which hangs by a thin wire from the ceiling but is not connected to anything at all. It’s a fascinating puzzler and always a popular display. Last night between 8 and 11 p.m. someone maliciously damaged this equipment by dumping an as yet undetermined liquid into it. An attempt is being made to get it cleaned up so that it can be used for the rest of the Fair week. This act was a dastardly one and the police have been called in to try and find the parties who are guilty.

French president would lay the blame for last week’s diplomatic sniping on Canada during a cabinet meeting scheduled for this afternoon. De Gaulle touched off the furor last week when he shouted “Long live Free Quebec,” to a crowd in Montreal while on a state visit to Canada. The slogan is the rally cry of French-Canadian separatists who want Quebec to break away from Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson sternly reprimanded De Gaulle and said “Canadians do not need liberating.” He reminded De Gaulle that Canadians had died in the liberation of France. De Gaulle abruptly cut his visit short without calling on Pearson as scheduled in Ottawa. Last Friday informed sources said T>e Gaulle said that Canada “knew something would happen” if the French president visited Quebec but Ottawa “persisted in inviting the chief of state." The sources said De Gaulle would take the same tack at the cabinet meeting in an attempt to absolve himself from any diplomatic error.

At Wichita, Kan., acting Mayor Price Woodward, a Negro, declared an emergency curfew in an attempt to deal with a wave of fire bombings, rock throwing and bottle hurling. Police used tear gas early today to break up gangs of Negro youths who pelted police with rocks and bottles in a six-hour rampage at Riviera Beach, Fla., in which a lumber yard burned to the ground. Officers arrested 39 in the melee triggered when authorities went into a bar to serve a warrant in a husband-wife fracas. Meanwhile, Michigan Gov. George Romney blamed nation-wide conditions for the Detroit riots—the nation’s worst racial uprisings in modern history.

Square dance Tuesday Free open square dancing for everyone with trophies for all couples participating will brighten the Putnam County Fair Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. Mel Cruse will act as maister-of-cere-monies and caller for the popular entertainment. Saturday evening, the square dancers will occupy the Community Building with a ’•eal hoe-down as Gene Haley and the Wabash Valley Boys combine to make the music for the prominading Modeme’ Swingers.

ABOARD USS FORRESTAL UPI — The supercarrier USS Forrestal, knocked put of action for six months or more in the worst naval disaster of the Vietnam war steamed toward the Philippines today. It was feared the death toll in Sunday’s fire and explosions would climb to 145. The fires that raged through the 75,900-ton ship were extinguished early today and rescue workers, wearing oxygen masks because of chlorine gas, used cutting torches to clear away debris and hunt for bodies of missing shipmates. At first, it was feared as many as 185 officers and enlisted men had died in the tragedy, one of the darkest hours in the history of carrier combat operations. There were 76 known dead and 69 missing. The Navy said that 78 sailors were injured. Officials doubted any of the missing men would be found alive. Some of them were still in compartments below the bomb-punctured, fire-buckled flight decks, suffocated by smoke or killed by heat so intense it turned steel bulkheads into rivulets of molten metal. Witnesses saw others jump into the sea, their clothing a mass of flames. The Forrestal i? expected to dock at Subic Bay, 70 miles north of Manila, only a few days, just long enough for emergency repairs. She will then head for another shipyard, either at Pearl Harbor or in the United States, for permanent repairs. Officials estimated that the fire and explosions caused at least $135 million damage. Included were 57 planes damaged or destroyed. The chlorine gas hampering them was caused by water that flooded below-deck compartments and mixed with battery acid during the 18-hour fight against fire. The ship’s skipper, Capt. John K. Beling of Zephyr Hills, Fla., said the disaster was an accident of war. “It is my personal strong conviction that no human error whatsover was involved,” he said. A preliminary theory is that too much fuel was put into a jet engine and as it started, a tongue of flame from the jet’s tailpipe licked out and detonated a guided missile on another plane. The

Two young people hurt in accident Two young people were Injured and an automobile was badly damaged in a traffic accident on the Limedale-Put-namville Road at 12:50 Sunday morning, Deputy Sheriff Wayne Miller reported. Injured were: Gary A. Staley, 20, Quincy, head laceration. Pamela J. Summers, 18, Gosport, facial lacerations, bumps and bruises. Both were treated and then released at the Putnam County Hospital. Miller said the mishap occurred just south of the Lone Star Cement Plant when the 1966 Pontiac Staley was driving hit a bridge abutment. The deputy sheriff estimated the damage to the auto at $900.

missile streaked out and exploded in a 400-gallon fuel tank of a third plane, sending flaming fuel across the flight deck and causing bullets, bombs and rockets to explode. Rear Adm. Harvey P. Lanham of Norfolk, Va., commander of Carrier Division II, was saved from serious injury or perhaps worse by an enlisted man. The admiral went to the bridge at the first explosion and saw the deck in flames. “As I peered out through the thick plexiglass, the bosun grabbed my arm and said: ‘Get away from that window. It’s not safe.’ I dropped down. Another explosion shook the ship. A large piece

of shrapnel crashed through the plexiglass where my face was.” At one time, there was the possibility that the mighty Forrestal might sink. “It was absolutely in the realm of possibility that the ship would be lost,” Beling, the skipper, said. He had high praise for his men. He called them heroes, every one. “I cannot in words express the gratitude I feel for the performance of this crew,” he said. “I have neither seen nor heard of any examples of cowardice.” Cmdr. John R. Fewinter, 40, Virginia Beach, Va., saw a 130-pound sailor pick up a 250-pound bomb and heave it overboard although it could explode at any second.

Marines smash way out of enemy ambush

SAIGON UPI — More than 1,000 U.S. Marines smashed their way out of a North Vietnamese border ambush in fighting so close Leatherneck tanks could not fire and so bitter that one Communist attacked waving an ax, American spokesmen said today. “All we could see was black smoke from Chicom (Chinese Communist made)

Americans missing in Venezuela quake CARACAS UPI — Rescue workers with giant earthmoving equipment clawed through tons of debris today hunting for bodies and possible survivors who could still be buried alive in the rubble of earthquake shattered buildings. The death toll from the Venezuela quake stood at 94, including two Americans. Officials feared the toll would soar to as many as 300 or more once the debris is cleared. Four other Americans were among the 1,529 persons officially listed as missing. The quake, one of two that rocked Latin America in a 14-hour period, hit this Venezuelan capital Saturday night The U.S. Embassy and the State Department in Washington identified the dead Americans as Emilio Cabrera, a naturalized citizen from Cuba, and Eduardo Parra Neff, who lived in Caracas. The missing Americans were identified as Keith Allen Kaplin, 35, of Beloit, Wis.; Ronald Zediak, from Pennsylvania; Miss Bonnie Spiller, of Houston, and her mother who also was from Houston. The U.S. Embassy said an American military plane would fly from Panama to Caracas this afternoon with a planeload of food and medical supplies requested by the Red Cross. Venezuelan President Raul Leoni appeared on national television Sunday night and praised Venezuelans for their courage during the earthquake.

grenades,” said Marine Cpl. Charles Study, 20. of St. Louis after his battalion emerged Sunday from the 24-hour battle in the border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The fight on the dusty road in the DMZ left 23 Americans dead and 119 wounded. Marines counted 40 Communist dead. Lt. Col. William Kent, who led his 1,200 tq 1,500-man battalion in the battle, said they killed at least 175 to 200 North Vietnamese troops. U.S. strafing pilots killed 10 more after the Marines crossed back into South Vietnam after a 48-hour DMZ sweep. In other action, Viet Cong terrorists invaded two villages just below the DMZ and slaughtered 21 civilians and wounded two children. Further south, U.S. troops killed 14 Communists in a Central Highlands fight in which no American was scratched. In the air, U.S. Air Force B52 Stratofortresses today smashed Communist troop positions in the northern and central provinces. U.S. jets raided North Vietnam Sunday, hitting truck convoys, supply dumps and roads. Alfried Krupp dies ESSEN, Germany UPI — West Orman industrialist Alfried Krupp, 59, one-time head of a munitions empire that armed Hitler’s troops, died today. The vast multi-billion-dollar empire that he rebuilt after the war went with him. Just four months ago, Krupp said that he would be the last of his family to direct the industrial empire that has been in his family’s hands for more than 150 years. Now you know By United Press International Divorce from the bonds of marriage, thereby enabling a remarriage, was not generally obtainable from the time Christianity became the established religion in Western Europe until the 18th Century.

Race conference held in South Bend

SOUTH BEND, UPI — City officials were scheduled to meet today with a delegation of Negroes in an effort to prevent future racial violence in this northern Indiana city. Today’s meeting of Mayor Lloyd Allen

Putnom jury hears condemnation suit A land condemnation suit, involving the State of Indiana versus Gilbert E. Ogles, Mabel L. Ogles, Frank Ogles, Ruth Ogles, Meyer B. Cohen and Sadye Cohen, started in the Putnam Circuit Court this morning with the selection of a jury and with Judge Francis N. Hamilton presiding. TYie litigation is in connection with the improving of Ind. 43, south from U.S. 40 to Cloverdale. It involves a temporary right-of-way of .39 of an acre and a permanent right-of-way of 1.244 acres at the O. C. Drive-In Theatre, on the southwest corner at the junction of U.S. 40 and Ind. 43, U.S. 231.

and other city officials was to be with a delegation that included young Negroes. South Bend was “unusually quiet” over the weekend following four straight nights of racial unrest last week. Police said there was one minor incident Saturday night in the predominately Negro west side area which was the scene of most ef last week's disorders. But otherwise, South Bend “was unusually quiet for a Saturday night,” a police spokesman said. The calmness settled as an estimated 500 National Guardsmen pulled out of the city after three days of stand-by duty in the event of a major outbreak of trouble. Earlier Saturday 150 state troopers were dismissed from standby duty. Neither guardsmen nor troopers were used as city police were able to handle the situation during the four nights of unrest, but observers said the mere presence of the stand-by personnel may have discouraged more intensive violence.

THE READING CLUB PARTY, sponsored by the Greencastle-Putnam County Public Library for the children who completed the project, was held at the Public Library on Saturday morning. Award ribbons were given to fifteen children who presented the most varied reading list of books. First award blue ribbons were given to John Stevens, Laura Jane Holley, Debbie Clover, Stephen Kendall, and Fred Miller. Second award red ribbons went to Connie Joe Hunter, Kenda Adams. Deidre Shepherd, Jan Brown, and Margaret Nicholson. Third award white ribbons were given to Cathy Delp, Rita Beams. Philip Quick, Marc Kirkham and Brent Nichols. The following boys and girls attended the party: Garry Williams, Cathy Gooch, Mark Saunders, Stephen Kendall, Anne Haggerty, Karla

Adams, Ruth Bruner, Matthew Anderson, Becky Nichols, Jennifer Stevens, Cathy Delp, Ronda Evans, Katherina Priest, Joanna Priest, Sharon Stamper, Jeannine Porter, Belinda Suddarth, Peter Hamilton, John Baker, Brent Nichole Jan Brown, Kevin Huestis, Vonda Clark, Phillip Huestis, Amy Taylor, Johnny Sears, Rita Taylor, Eliene Mishler, Cynthia Gooch, Sarah Bruner, Kenda Adams, Laura Holly, Vinia Cade, Debbie Clover, Sherman McKee, Jeff Strain, Deidre Shepherd, Jay Dennis, John Stevens, Connie Joe Hunter, Keith Evans, Michael Delp, Becky Hunter, Leri Pitts, Suzan Stamper, Cathy Cantone, Dan Cantone, Grace Suddarth, Fred Miller, Donald Ruark, Rita Beams, Kay Ruark, and Janetta Beams.