European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and strikes thursday september 21, 1967 . Planes Battle migs Over Hanoi from a and up dispatches Saigon four . Air Force fighter bombers fought off eight migs tuesday in a close Quarter Battle that swirled in skies Over Hanoi . Headquarters re ported said neither Side scored any hits although the opposing aircraft of times streaked within 100 feet of each outnumbered american planes air Force f105 Thunder chiefs were attacked by eight Mig 17s As they bombed Mili tary Barracks 17 Miles North of Hanoi . Spokesmen said. Exchange Cannon firkin the five minute dogfights that followed spokesmen re ported the migs and Thunder chiefs exchanged Cannon fire but did t fire their missiles be cause of the close the raid on the Barracks the Thunder chiefs bombed a Sec Tion containing 10 to 15 buildings but pilots were unable to report on the damage because their at Tention was engaged seconds la Ter by the attacking migs. Other air Force fighter bomb ers from bases in Thailand ranged along the Northeast an Northwest rail lines connecting Hanoi with communist rail Bridge air Force pilots also ranged to within 25 Miles of the Border of chine., striking at the Lang co Railroad Bridge 130 Miles North West of Hanoi. Pilots claimed severe damage to the Span located along the main Northwest rail lint out of Hanoi. An air Force fido fighter bomber returning from a mis Sion apparently with Battle dam Aga crashed into a Barracks and dining Hall tuesday while at tempting to land at Bien Hoa air base. Military spokesmen said five persons were killed and 25 injured. The dead included the american Pilot and another . A i r Force Man on the ground. Three vietnamese Civi lians also were killed on the ground. Six of the injured were air Force men the other vietnamese civilian irregulars. A heavy North vietnamese artillery and mortar barrage across the demilitarized zone tuesday night wounded 100 . Marines Manning flood ravage outposts. Fifty nine of the wounded marines were hit in an attack on the american Border fortress Atcon Thien an outpost threatened by Vietnam s heaviest Monsoon floods in Yoars. In Saigon a prominent chinese businessman was assassinated in a follow up to a bomb attack on the nationalist chinese embassy and the shooting of the embassy s press attache. The bomb blast demolished the embassy while rooftop snip ers peppered the area with Rifle fire. At least two persons were killed and 26 wounded. Crosstown a woman terrorist invaded the biome of the press attach and pumped two bullets into him. Were having the time of their life boys playing with Shell die in blast Lincoln neb. Up the Lime of their life ended in death for four Young Lincoln boys tuesday when a souvenir air Force rocket they had Bee playing with exploded. The dead were identified a Jonathan Kellogg 11, and his brother Timothy 9, the sons ofor. And mrs. Calvin Kellogg Donald Brown 9, son of mrs. Earl 0. Brown and David Hansen 8, son of or. An mrs. Richard e. Hansen. Army munitions experts said the warhead of the souvenir rocket which had supposedly been made harmless exploded. It was described As a four foot air to air rocket. Lancaster county Deputy atty. Donald Lahners said the Accident happened about 4 45 . On the front porch of the Kellogg father of the Kellogg boys told investigators the children had been playing with the Shell for two Days. He said he did no know it was live nor did he know where the boys got were having the time of their life. They were playing Soldier Kellogg said. Lahners and police capt. Rob Ert Butcher said the Shell was secured from air Force m. j. Kennedy who lives in the neighbourhood. He got the Shelland another one from a military installation near Salina kan.,while working there As a construction hand several years said Kennedy had Given the shells to his own children to play with and they in turn passed them on to the Kellogg second Shell was found by police search teams four blocks from the scene of the Accident. A it. Riley kan., army Demoli Tion team was called in to examine it. Lahners said no criminal proceedings were planned against Kennedy. He said the sergeant told authorities he had the shells of some time did not think the were live and considered them As souvenirs. The 37mm Shell was described As having been six to 10 inches Long. It was of the Type used by the army for antiaircraft and antitank activity. Lahners said the boys apparently had removed the Cap from the Shell then dropped Iton the porch of the Wood Frame two Story. Home. Adoption approved mute couple wins struggle los Angele deaf mute couple a Awon formal permission tuesday to adopt a2-year-old boy subject of a Long court Battle. Weeping tears of Joy aircraft worker Wayne Christensen 47, and his wife Madeline 43, of Torrance calif., said through a sign language interpreter Weare very Happy to get our baby Back. We plan to Start Over again in savings to give him a Good they walked from the Superior court with the child Blue eyed red haired Scott James Richardson and their 7-year-old Foster daughter Janett Cornell and their attorneys. Only the children were dry Bayard Rhone granted the Christensen became Fos Ter parents of Scott whose hear ing is Normal when he was Only one month old. But they were denied a petition for adoption when he had been in their Home eight months. Judge a. A. Scott at that Tim turned them grounds that Down on the the Christensen could not provide a Normal Home for the boy. Last May 22 the state court of appeals reversed judge Scott and the California supreme court upheld the appellate court. Victory or. And mrs. Wayne Christensen both deaf mutes Are Happy at the ending in los Angeles of a Long Legal Battle. The Torrance calif., couple appeared in Superior court with their Foster daughter Janet 7, and 2-year-old Scott. They received approval to adopt the boy. Associated press photo Hussein to visit soviet arms offer reported Moscow a King Hussein of Jordan will visit the soviet Union oct. 2 to 5.the King making his first visit to Moscow reportedly has Bee offered arms by the soviets. Acceptance would mean a major change in jordanian policy. The United states and Britain have been exclusive for Jordan. Arms suppliers second stage of Saturn 5 test fired Bay St. Louis miss. Up the second stage of the mighty Saturn 5 Moon rocket was successfully ground test fired for 65 seconds at this Mississippi test facility tuesday night. The 82-foot Long second stage was the third flight Model of the second stage to be tested. Dur ing 65-second flight the five liquid Hydrogen liquid oxygen fuelled engines developed one Mil lion pounds of thrust. About 1,000 measures of the performance of the stage were recorded As the first in a series of captive firings and checkouts to qualify the stage for flight in America s lunar Landing pro Gram. Before it is fully qualified the second stage must undergo a six minute Static test the duration the stage Burns in actual flight. Smith denies . Rights Salisbury Rhodesia up rebel Premier Ian Smith charged Britain wednesday with giving into terrorist infiltration of rho Desia and reiterated London no longer had any responsibility for Rhodesia. N. Koreans May be flying in Vietnam . Aide says Washington a North korean pilots May be flying combat missions in North Viet Nam a state department spokes Man said tuesday. The presence in Vietnam of pilots from communist North Korea had previously been re ported. When the spokesman was asked the number presently there he referred to a defense department figure of 25 Given out last the statement that the North koreans could been aged in Aerial combat was new. The first comment of Robertj. Mccloskey state department spokesman on this Point was be reason to believe they have been flying combat air Craft from operational bases Mccloskey said."1 can t confirm that they have been involved in combat missions against american air Short time later he told reporters it is possible that they May be flying in combat question of foreign communist pilots in North Vietnam was raised Here be cause . Secretary general u Thant said in new York sat urday he had heard that North Vietnam had agreed with other communist nations that Volun Teers would be provided for its air Force. He did not identify any particular country. There was speculation he was talking about communist China. On this Point Mccloskey told a news conference the United states has no information at All to confirm any such new agreement. Our Best information he said is that there Are about 40,000 foreigners chinese communists in North Vietnam mainly technical personnel and probably with their own self contained Security Desalvo gets 7-10 years for escaping Plymouth mass. A Al Bert Desalvo who claims he strangled 13 women was sentenced tuesday to 7 to 10 years in prison for escaping feb. 24from Bridgewater state Hospital. Assi. Atty. Gen. Donald Conn describing the self styled Boston Strangler As a dangerous an desperate Man asked judge Amedeo v. Sgarzi for the Maxi mum sentence. Desalvo 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment in january for assaulting four greater Bosto women in cases not related to he strangling. Pleaded guilt Desalvo pleaded guilty to the escape charge at the outset of Lis scheduled trial. Under Cross examination by his counsel Bailey Desalvo testified that "1 had hoped i would be shot on "1 also knew that my escape would bring conditions at Bridge water to Light he said. He said he determined to escape because he had not received the proper medical treatment which he said he had been promised at Bridgewater. Germans try nazi for Camp killings Brunswick Germany a the last commandant of the nazi Gross Rosen concentration amp in Silesia went on trial wednesday on charges of murdering nine cases and aiding murder in three cases. Former is maj. Johannes Hassebroek 57, was head of the Gross Rosen Camp from novem Ber 1943 to february 1945. He is accused of having ordered executions of inmates without trial from motives of meanness an racial hatred. His victims were allegedly jewish and russian prisoners. Sara Gat leaves . For . Washington up presi Dent Giuseppe Sara Gat of Italy left nearby Andrews air Force base wednesday for los an Geles calif., at the conclusion of a 42-hour visit which included two meetings with president Johnson. Weather . 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