European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes will thursday september 7, 1967 ruling on thick s election Saigon up Truong Dinh Dzu the peace candidate who was the unexpected runner up to resident elect Nguyen Van Thieu said wednesday he and seven other Defeated candidates would demand a new South vietnamese election on grounds of fraud. Dzu said eight of the 10 Defeated civilian candidates would formally ask the nation s provisional Assembly to declare Thieu s election invalid. The Assembly has constitutional Power to Call for a new election. The 117-member body was expected to vote oct. 2 on the Validity of sunday s election. 34 per cent of votes Dzu polled More than 800,000 votes in nationwide balloting. Thieu won with More than 1.6 million votes about 34 per Centof the total cast. Two losing civilian tickets re fused to join the Appeal against the Victory of Thieu and Premier want new poll Viet runner up say a .1. It a _ i it � s Nguyen Cao by the other Mili tary ruler who was elected Vic president. Dzu said Phan Khac Suu and Trail Van Huong who placed third and fourth would help Lead the fight for a new election. If the Assembly declared the election valid he would form a Legal opposition front with the other civilians slates Dzu said in an interview. Dzu said he also sought sup port for his protest from the militant Buddhist Leader Thich Tri Quang whom he said he had met twice in the last few Days. I think Tri Quang supports me and i think he is going to do something to protest the elec Tion Dzu said. The 50 year old s chief Campaign critic said he was urging Tri Quang to use Legal protests and to avoid the violent techniques the Budd Hist priest had employed against negro is named mayor of . Washington a presi Dent Johnson wednesday named negro housing expert Walter e. Washington to be the mayor of Washington and charged him with the task of making the City a showcase a Model for the Washington a native of Daw son ga., has headed the new Idaho Blaze controlled by the associated press thousands of sweaty tire men completed fire lines around one North Idaho Forest fire tuesday and battled to com plete them around another. Officials said the 65 Miles of line around the stubborn 16,500-acre trapper Peak fire near the Canadian Border would control it barring unforeseen developments. But they said the huge Sun dance Mountain fire which has burned 52,160 acres of prime Timber 20 Miles to the South probably won t be controlled for another week. To the North in British co Lumbia the Shu Swap Lake fire still burned out of control and expanded to 45,000 acres. Officials said 63 new fires broke out in British Columbia Over the labor Day weekend bringing the total in the province to 244 with 2,300 men on the lines. Completion of lines around the trapper Peak fire brought cautious optimism from . Forest service officials for the firs time in clays. York City housing authority since 1966. Prior to that he a. Been chief of the National capital housing authority Here since 1961. The president also named an expert in City management Thomas Fletcher to be Washington s chief assistant. Fletcher a former City manager of san Diego calif., now holds a Post in the department of hous ing and Urban is White. Both appointments Are subject to Senate confirmation. Washington whose official title will be commissioner of the District of Columbia will take Over the executive duties from a three member commission which has administered the government of the capital for its predominantly negro population of 800,000. Johnson acted under the new government organization plan for the capital under which he also is to appoint a nine member bipartisan City Council. Asked to cite his instruction from Johnson Washington said the president gave him Only the broadest guidelines but generally to make this a showcase Amodel for the Oil Tanker aground off Wake Island Wake Island up a 547-foot Standard Oil company Tanker ran aground on a reef out Side the Wake Island Harbo tuesday and fuel began leaking from the ship. The coast guard reported ther. C. Stoner was filling with water. The Saigon regime in the said he feared the Assem Bly would reject the Appeal be cause it has a Large number of pro government Dzu who ran on a platform calling for cessation of bombing of North Vietnam an immediate cease fire and talks with both Hanoi and the Viet Cong repeated his charges that the govern ment sent truckloads of soldiers to use up All the ballots in some polling places so civilians could not claimed he also had Evi Dence of ballot Box stuffing be fore the voting even started. Dzu offered no evidence to substantiate his charges but said he would discuss them at a join news conference thursday with the seven other slates joining his protest. Travel Aid . Consul James r. John Stone presses a Button at Frankfurt International Airport to demonstrate the instant trans Mission of tourist documents via photo copies. Watching Are from left Hugh Gownley Deputy assistant director of the . Department of transportation Sandra Diddlebock an airlines employee Rudolf Lange director of the Airport and William Hanley the director for Germany of trans world airlines. Is Hunter no waiting new everything Clicks customs procedure by Sid Whipple staff writer Frankfurt is a United states bound traveler goes through a line of passengers being processed Here for the Jet flight to America. Click his photograph is on the Way to Dulles Airport a Washington ., via the Early Bird satellite. Click a facsimile of his pass port follows. Click a copy of his customs declaration is on the airwaves. Click a reproduction of his health certificate tags along. Within minutes All the important records concerning his re Turi. To or Entrance into the United states Are in the hands of the agencies concerned pass port division customs health services. Sam Sites Washington a the North vietnamese have at u ast quadrupled the number of sur face to air missiles Sam firing Sites in the past year Pentagon figures showed tuesday. The proliferation of missile launching pads reflects the communists efforts to exact a increasingly High Price from the United states for bombing North Vietnam. Hanoi also installed an additional 1,000 antiaircraft gun earlier this year to bolster its air defense the figures soviet Union and China Are supplying the weapons. A newly revised military tabulation credits North Vietnam with More than 200 Sam Sites As of mid summer. This is 50more than Early 1967 Intelli gence estimates and compare with a total of 50 Sites in both mid-1966 and mid-1965. On the surface the missile appear very ineffective Knock ing Down Only slightly More than 10 per cent of All .planes lost Over the North. But the High flying missiles visible to pilots As they approach Force american bombers into evasion tactics which often carry them Down into the deadly conventional fir of the 8,000-gun North Viet namese air defense. When the traveler arrives at the american terminal and moves through the exit line every document has been scanned by the authorities and instead of waiting through the tedious process he picks up his Luggage and is on his Way. You can imagine what this system will mean when we Are running 450-passenger jets across the Atlantic said a trans world airlines executive the presence of . Con sular officials Airport directors and travel executives Twa gave a demonstration of How the new system will operate at Frank Furt International Airport. Opening the circuit linking America to the european Airport through the satellite relay Frankfurt s . Consul Jamesr. Johnstone pressed a Button that flashed a red Light and started the first photographic transmission of the require documents to Dulles. The demonstration was under the technical direction of Lester t. Leike representing the manufacturers of the transmission equipment. The time saved by Advance screening of these travel ments in America hours before the passengers arrive is almost incalculable said William Han Ley Twa director for Germany and As we go into the massive development of Jet travel the expedition of ground handling of arriving passengers will become of prime the same photo transmission will be used for cargo shipments when the system becomes established. Freight manifests will be photographed and transmitted to customs authorities. Car show opening in Frankfurt Frankfurt is West Germany s 43rd International automobile show will open thursday at 2 . In the Frank Furt Fairgrounds for a 10-Dayexhibition of motorcars and accessories from 17 countries. The biennial show is schedule to be officially opened by West German Chancellor Kurt geor Kiesinger. The show includes More than 1,000 displays of Auto mobiles trucks trailers and automotive equipment. Nations displaying new Mode cars include great Britain Czechoslovakia the unite states Japan France the soviet Union and West than thursday the exhibits will be open to the Public from 9 . To 7 . Daily through sept. 24. Admission tickets May be purchased at the Gates
