European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 the stars and stripes plants Homes flooded in 111. As levee Breaks. The flood swollen Mississippi River smashed through a levee South or Quincy. Iii. Wednesday inundating an Industrial and residential area As Well As Arm land. Flood officials said an Esti mated 60 families fled to higher by the associated press ground through a the water Pouri Gibo foot Loni breach. Flooded about 5,500 acres in the touch Quincy drainage District. Army engineers said is Indus trial plants a radio station ii summer cottages a Power sub station and about 10 residences were flooded. The Burlingto Railroad right of Way through the Ami also was  labor upstream the rampaging River crested in the embattled Quad cities area As thou Sands of volunteers worked on to hold Back the worst missis Sippi flood of this Century. The army corps of Engineer said emergency dikes thrown up around the Quad cities appeared to be holding against the Pound ing  said the River crested at  feet seven feet above flood stage and one tenth of a foot above the predicted Crest of 21.5feet. The higher Crest was Attri buted to overnight rain in Thetreau. The Peak of the flood arrived water rolled through the streets of Rock Island Molln and East Moline 111., and Davenport. Iowa the Quad  downstream communities on both sides of the River i Illinois and Iowa braced against the advancing  under water in Hannibal mo., the River stage was 14 feet 8 feet above flood stage and still rising. Police said 18 to so inches of water Cov ered some  and National guards men patrolled the downtown Are against looters. The City of to 000 has no  Mississippi crested at 14.7 feet nearly i feet above flood stage in the Clinton Iowa Ful Ion 111., area tuesday then urged on to Pound the Quad  red Cross has estimated that 1.000 Are homeless in Illi Nois and the same number in , a Community of 1,800 population across the River from Linton was isolated. In Davenport part of a Dike broke tuesday night flooding an area a Block wide and eight blocks Long. Workers began erecting a sandbag dam. India set to arrange cease fire new Delhi a prime minister Lai Bahadur Shairl said Nln is ready to Call a cease fire the Rann of Kutch fighting against Pakistan but also is prepared or the  shastra told parliament want to state clearly and pm Pnat locally that we reject and remd Lale in their entirety Pau stun s , an artillery due As fought by Indian and Paul stand troops wednesday in the Rann of Kutch and some India shells were lobbed into Pakistan an official Indian spokesman announced. He said that for the second straight Day there was no Cluff Between troop  shelling occurred in the Barb it area he  pakistani spokesman in Kar Achi claimed earlier that Pakistan army units had driven 9 Miles into what India claims visits territory and had occupied Barbet a position that a ought Over earlier thai week. Shastri declared Pakistan a obsessive hatred of India am seems to have linked hand recently with communist China the Rann of Kutch a bar rebut perhaps Oil Rich area 1s not an Inland sea u Pakilit claims he said adding there Ca be no question of dividing Thrawn along the 14th parallel Pakistan proposes. Close Call Marine sgt Robert i. Craw Ford suffered Only a minor head injury and a badly dented helmet when he was bit Doria faction in South Viet Nam. Up pm North roads Bridges hit  from Page 1 Span Bai due Thon Bridge but apparently failed. The pilots reported moderate damage tothe Bridge. The Bat due Thon Bridge is Ina Valley 160 Miles South of Hanoi and was the target of three previous raids. Air Force pilots reported tuesday they had Hue kled one of the spans. On the ground the Viet con smashed into a vietnamese ran Ger outpost 20 Miles West of Sai gon killing 35 government troops wounding 10 and seizing Large Quantity of arms including a Light machine gun an seven sub machine guns. Ten rangers were reported  attackers also poured 81mm mortar ire into the a Antral Post two Miles from the Ranger position killing one government Soldier and wounding six. Some of the rounds fell into civilian concentration Camp wounding 90 prisoners. . Light Jet bombers made Avain search of North Vietnam Ese highways tuesday night for military convoys. A  Kesman said the eight b57s Nally dropped 4-j tons of bombs and a Quantity of rockets n routes 7, 8 and 12 in an of Ort to Cut the roadways. Henry Cabot Lodge formers. Ambassador to South Viet Nam arrived in Saigon and Saddle people of Asia generally feel american bombings of North Vietnam Are very  in Sydney informed source sold Australia was expected to � _ _ announce thursday that it will j Paltridge to both houses of Par end combat troops to South Viet i Loument. Us.rb47attaclted by n. Korean migs track meet Tokyo commuters followed their regular routes Only on fool when Japa Nese Railroad workers walked off the Job la a14-boor strike wednesday. Up photo Nam to Aid in the fight against the Viet Cong. The sources said Australia May Send a combat battalion of the government s Asinof the situation As "critical.1 Australia already has 80 military instructors in Viet Nam pm Royal australian air Dom Caribou transports. It was understood a joint a ounce mint was to be made by prime minister sir Robert Jio Fries and defense minister continued rom Paye 11 Requen cles of radar detection systems. Their Normal Range is Only about 1.000 Miles but this can expanded by Aerial  night ceiling for the rb47 is Given officially As Over 40,000eel. The rb47s, like other recon Naissance aircraft Are operated by the strategic air command. An rb47 was shot Down july1, 19n. While flying a Mission Over the Barents sea. North of he soviet Union. Four men were aboard the plane. Two sur Vived and were captured by the Mission with three crewmen aboard strayed off course into East Germany. The plane was shot Down but All crewmen were returned safely. Tax. Russian turned. But eventually re almost 40 instances involving attacks on american planes have occurred in different parts of the world during the last 19 years. The first was in 1990 when a unarmed Navy plane was shot Down Over the Baltic sea Withall u men aboard lost. The most recent instance before tuesday was March 10, 19 4. When an unarmed rom plane Olathe air Force on a local training baseball am Mcm i Caw City on a Oil s a a Tori. 6m 101 Oaa-4 Sugul. . Tit Loboi it. Wyat i. Stack to Tat Mem Downin Gud Bua Clur. . In. Continued from Zafft it chunk of dough if they re going to give us rebates. I sure nope they  just got Here a week ago chimed in Huff s companion atthe 8th Aerial port. S sgt fran Cis g. Smith of Stockton. Caus i won t be gelling any refund but i la sure be glad to get the extra  under the present system Only those who Are assigned to certain which areas Orthey Are in Job exposed hostile fire draw combat pay which is different from the tax  some men stationed her would like to see everyone get both benefits. They said this to a combat zone now said a1cgerard m. Arroyo of Boston mass. That s the reason the Yare giving the tax exemption. B seems to me like they ought to give us combat  Arroyo who is assigned to to lord tactical group at Salon l Tan son Nhut air base added we re not out fighting right now. But you re just As skely Teget blown up around Here As not