European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Log 14 Thi stars and stripes Friday april 33, ims . Marines in first Battle with Viet Coni from a note i titty by at Danang. Ready for air lift the fighting Marine this week began moving out of heir defense perimeter at the air base for the first time looking Tor the enemy and distributing propaganda leaflets Candy and chewing gum in the surrounding villages. Thursday morning a reconnaissance patrol of 41 marines was moving through Viet Cong infested country. At 8 20 . The a cling of drum in i he distance sounded a Viet Cone alarm. At 10 15.heavy enemy machine gun fire began coming in from All directions. The marines who had Bee hoping to get into a fight quickly replied to the fire and called for the Reserve company. They arrived in 30 As the choppers arrived a sniper Bullet wounded Amarine radioman. He was evac Nancy Sinatra Sands Nancy Sands Tommy will end marriage Hollywood a Singer Tommy Sandi and his wife Nancy announced plans to end their4w-year marriage. Mrs. Sandi the former Nancy Sinatra and the Singer were married sept. 11, us in la vegas Nev. The couple issued the follow ing joint statement wednesday night r we have agreed to an Amic Able divorce because we have certain irreconcilable differ la 28 and his wife 34. There Are no . Sands is currently work ing in a motion picture starring her father Frank Sinatra. The title is marriage on the Rusk denies Williams ouster Detroit up1 Secretary of state Dean Rusk has denied that o. Mennen Williams is on his Way out As assistant Secretary of state for african affairs. Rusk Laid the former Michigan Earnor would have the Post As As he wants it and added Williams had the support of president Johnson. Published reports lust week Laid that Williams would be dropped from Hli present Rostand perhaps be Given another assignment. Williams appointed by the lat president John f. Kennedy has made 11 trips to Africa and would like to retain the Job of assistant Secretary. Busk to visit Helsinki Helsinki up1 Secretary of state Dean Rusk will arrive Here May g for a two Day visit the foreign office announced. Rusk will be accompanied by his wife. Steel Union votes for May 1 strike Pittsburgh a the United steel workers Union voted thursday to strike the steel Industry May i-.16 Back up its demands for an la cent an hour contract package. The strike authorization was granted by the Union s 170-Mem bar wage policy committee which has final say in strike committee acted on a recommendation handed Dow earlier in the Day by the Union s executive Lilbert Board director said the feeling of Board was no contract no both management and Union representatives have conceded the bargaining is getting no where. Steelmakers already have sent out preliminary shut Down orders to Mill superin walkout would Idle some 425,000 workers. The Union Las struck in 1959 for us Days. A shutdown of the nation vital steel making facilities could cripple the booming econ omy either in fact or pay the past especially in strike years the Union used the wage policy committee s strike mandates As weapon sin continuing negotiations. For that reason a strike vote does t necessarily mean there will be a strike. Bulge Bailie to be filmed London is an $8.4 Mil lion film on the Battle of the bulge is to be made by an Amer ican company headed by writer producer Tony Lazzarino it was announced Here. The film tentatively entitled the 16lh of december the Date when the German launched their offensive in the ardennes in 1m4, will be shot partly in the ardennes but mainly it was said at Camp drum near the american Canadian Bor advisers according to Lazzarino. Will be col John Eisenhower representing his father maj Gen sir fronds Degu Ligand representing Field marshal Viscount Montgomery and Gen Baron Hasso von Man cuff cd former commander of the 5th Panzer div which Spear headed the German offensive. Ual cd for but apparently was in Good Condi , six government battalions pulled out of the Viet a Foothills ending an unsuccessful operation against Viet Cong guerrilla wha Are dug in about 30 Miles South of the Danang airbase. Government forces suffered140 casualties in the six Day operation in which two battalions of the Viet Cong routed two battalions Liml were supported Bearmor and had three other battalions in addition to the human casualties a Large Stock of weapons was lost by the govern Cone dead were listed by a . Spokesman Here As 97counted on the Battlefield. Three government armoured troop Carlers were destroyed in the operation and two More were damaged. 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The brigade s main Job is a defense of Danang air bus and the Viet Cong would have to attack if they want to tangle with his men he had s leathernecks hav been patrolling deeper and deeper into the areas surrounding do Nang but the general said he dec not intend to Send massive Fokta into the Hills to fight the vib Cong on a one for one basis. % Karch said he did not exp Ciany further increase in the offs ,. Of his brigade. It now indudej1 four battalions of ground f " two squadrons of of Jet tighten a 1 dozen reconnaissance jets and artillery including a howitzers capable of hurling atomic Shell 14 Miles. Karch conceded that the cum nests around Danang still capable of making suf,.raids against his lines Ute i grenade attack launched by four Man squad that tested to marines outer perimeter lat saturday night wounding two americans and escaping with no casualties of their own. The Viet Cong could launch Surprise mortar attack and get Olf half a dozen rounds he said but added that vietnamese Secu Rity measures in villages sur rounding the City had reduced the chances of a Surprise Pene ration by perhaps 80 per cent.1 it Gen Beach goes to Korea advancing Mississippi overruns Dubuque area Trontl Nudd rom pane to age at 115 million and said the Waters have forced some 3,000 persons from their Hudson wis., above the St. Croix River s Junction with the Mississippi ice chunks severely damaged a in Rena. The floes swept 100 docks As much As five Miles downstream. Tugboat hauled away docks that jammed against the interstate 14 was estimated at 1200,000, a spokesman Johnson declared As disaster areas the tier of wis Consin counties that took the Mississippi s worst beating. Testate s toll comes to two dead one missing and damage totaling$18.7 million. Civil defense authorities Esti mated that some 3.000 Illinois residents had left their Home from the Northwest tips to the Middle of the state s Western Bor Der. The great danger area they said was Norm of the Quad cities Rock Island to line. East Molina 111., and Davenport. Iowa. A two mile earthen levee inthe Quad cities a developing ., red China envoys Confer in Warsaw Warsaw up the Ameri can and communist chinese ambassadors met for talks wednes Day Tor the second time since the United states began airstrikes against North Viet Nam. . Ambassador to Poland John Moon Cabot and his chinese counterpart Wang a Day in talks at Warsaw s Myall Gleckl Palace. Boils blisters from which floodwaters ooze at a rapid rate a civil defense spokesman said. If the Dike ruptures he said it could reach As far As the town of Eric 10 Miles continued their at tempts to Patch the Rock Creek levee near Quincy which nip lured saturday flooding 7,000acres of farm land. I,.tw.�jt1"taj5 helicopters air lifted 20 junk autos to the area and settled them into a breaching a secondary levee. The car bodies just dropped out of sight swallowed by the water a spokesman said. Minnesotans mopped up de Bris in the Wake of the worst flooding the stale has experienced in modern times. The floodwaters crushed an estimated fio or Tea million Worth of property. Eleven persons were killed and 23,000 left homeless. Washington a Johnson named it Gen Dwight g. Beach on to command the . It army in Korea. He wll rep Loren Hamilton ii. Howze who i retiring. Beach will serve both As com mangler of United states forces in Korea and commander Richic of the United nation command. Or. Johnson is Nom Anat Long him for the rank of full general. Howze has held the korean commands since August 1h3,he will retire july 1. Beach now is commanding general of the . Army com Bat developments command. Senate oks Rali Orn As new Cia chief Washington a to Senate gave unanimous confirm lion thursday to William f. Reborn retired Navy vice Admiral As new director of the Centra intelligence Agency. Action came by voice vote shortly Oiler Raborn and Rlyn. Jurd m. Helms nominated to a Deputy administrator had woo. Similar approval from the Senate armed services committee. Governor of . Resigns moves into Senate vacancy frit if or a _ Columbia. . A South Carolina got a new . Senator and a new governor thursday 1" to succession gov. Don Aid s. Russell resigned it. Cov. Robert e. Mcnair was in augur cd As governor and immediately appointed Russell to Scole c i a n no of a a change i South Carolina s political Chain of command which resulted from the death in Columbia s Providence Hospital sunday of in. Oun d. Johnson d-. The inauguration ceremony for the 41-year-old Mcnair at the statehouse was received the oath of. Office from chief Justice Claud a. Taylor. F after a Brief inaugural speech he went to the governor of Floc. To sign the appointment of rus a sell. I Russell 99, will Fly to Washington Friday to be worn in. Body Huml
