European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 24, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 d the stars and stripes sunday september 24, 1967 Westmoreland says s. Viet troops improved continued from Page the South vietnamese army he vietnamese Headquarters does not give out specific military Battle casualties for each individual Battle As . Command does for Ameri can casualties. Instead the South vietnamese Headquarters characterizes them As Light moderate or heavy. When specific casualty numbers Are obtainable from Field reports or other sources they Are generally carried by the press. Each week South vietnamese head quarters issues a summary giving the total number of dead wounded and missing for the preceding seven Day weekly summaries Are carried along with the Ameri can weekly total casualty Fig is a big prob Lem Westmoreland went to what extent . Offi cers could be used to Bridge this Gap Westmoreland replied As much As the traffic will Bear. Twill now Bear More than it did a year used to be the general continued that american officer working in leadership capacities with South vietnamese unit were resented by the govern ment troops and officer we have developed procedures that beat this resist Ance Westmoreland said. Now that i be got enough troops Here to do the Job we re much closer with the Arvn army of the Republic of Viet Nam than Ever before. They regaining increasing self said that while not All South vietnamese units have achieved Success my opinion of them is based on Posi Tive and negative impressions. And Over All the outcome snipers hit 3 police cars in Aurora Iii. Aurora 111. Up sniper fire in Aurora s negro Section damaged three police cars Fri Day night during the second straight night of violence. Police cordoned off the area but did t return the fire. The shots came after a peace Ful open housing March to City Hall by about 25 negroes protest ing the City Council s refusal to pass an open housing ordinance that was introduced tuesday by mayor Albert Mccoy. Fifteen people were reported arrested mostly for violating the 10-p.m.-to-6-. Curfew imposed by the mayor. Police had escorted the March ers along the three mile route from the negro Section on the East Side to City Hall. On thursday night about 200negroes threw rocks and bottles at policemen and squad cars resulting in the curfew and Ninor damage to the City s 16 police cars. Squall. Continued Row Page 1 up to 200 Small Craft were beached there in the storm. Hours after the storm hit Small boats were streaming into the Small port cities along the coast. At Jacobson s Marine i Frankfort the owner after 45-minutes aboard a tug search ing the Lake said Waves were still so High they obscured the View from the tug two hours after the storm first hit. Those boats were to damned Small to be out in that weather he said. The water in Lake Michigan ranges from 10 to 180 feet deep along the stretch of coast where most of the fishermen were trying to capitalize on phenomenal fishing brought on by the sudden increase in Coho Salmon in the Lake. Valued by anglers the Coho introduced As Fin Gerlings in the Lake a few years ago Are valued by anglers a great sport fish that fight game by when hooked. They were Putin the Lake to provide food Foi predator fish that had eaten into the ranks of Lake Trout. Most fishermen were bound from Frankfort to Platte Bay but Point Betzie lies in betwee nand they had circled out into the Lake to get around the Poi when the storm smashed Ink them. It s storming too much Iff raining hard and that wind i mean a coast guard spokesman said us boats limped ii from us scene of the tragedy. Shape up or stay out vegas . Warns Sinatra Las vegas Nev. A . George Franklin says he will run Frank Sinatra out of la vegas the next time the Singer Hinks he s running the , commenting after Sinatra reportedly was in a scuffle at the Plush Sands hotel said i be got to treat everyone alike regardless of their entertainer from accounts Given by persons at the Sands a week ago stomped about the hotel made loud comments and threats and knocked a heavy Ash receptacle through a window. Sands vice president Carl co Hen reportedly punched Sinatra in the Mouth. A new York dentist said last week he had to Recap two of the Singer s Sinatra aide said accounts of what happened had been exaggerated. The District attorney noting that no Law enforcement officers were at the Sands that night said Sinatra had done a disservice to Las s not going to Tell us How to run our town even if i have Torun him out of town to prove it said said Sinatra would be watched the next time he vis its the City. Yanks Pound deadly Doz gun positions continued from Page i Tiit Ting the outpost with an aver age 400 shells per Day. . Guns hurled More than6,000 shells at the enemy positions during the Day and in be tween two Waves of High Alti tude Strat fortresses and wave upon wave of tactical fighter bombers added their bombs. But the communist guns continued to Hammer con Thien and . Headquarters said that inthe past 24 hours the marines dug in around the sandbagged fortress lost six dead and 72 gentle slopes of con Thien have become the most artillery scarred terrain since the bitter gun duels of the korean . William c. Westmoreland commander of . Forces i Vietnam says the concentration of firepower around the is the heaviest in Rains have almost Cut the marines off from help an they Are reported Short of food bandages and drinkable , Over North Viet Nam american warplanes fought their Way through four communist mig17 Jet fighters an heavy ground fire to Seal off the vital port of Haiphong to Road and rail traffic. . Navy raiders bombed an toppled part of the kick an Bridge a High Span just 1.7 mile from the heart of the City. It had been the Only undamaged Bridgeit the area. Only Waterways remained Ope for the Hanoi regime to move War supplies from the Haiphong docks. Ground fire downed a .rf8 reconnaissance Jet Over the City. The Pilot was reported a missing. Saud visiting Greece Athens a sex Kingsrud of saudi Arabia arrived saturday from Egypt reportedly for a Long stay in Greece. The 65-year-old sex Monarch was accompanied by his Large entourage of princes princesses an aides. Tucson fire kills 4 at nursing Home Tucson Ariz. Up four teen teen agers raced into a flaming smoke choked nursing Home Early saturday to help Rescue 53 patients from the fire which claimed the lives of four elderly death toll from the fire caused by either a discarded cigarette or a Short circuit was kept Down by the efforts of the teen agers and police and firemen. They fought thick choking smoke to carry Lead and drag the patients Many of whom could not walk out of the 53 rescued patients were taken to hospitals throughout the City for treatment of smoke and firemen praised the teen agers and credited them with saving Many lives. The dead were identified a Louise Lucas 80, Elizabeth Schaeffer 71, Maria Braca Monte 61, and John Powers 75. No addresses were fire struck the Craycroft nursing Home on the City East Side about 2 . The nurses on duty attempted to Rescue the patients in the fire ravaged room first but three of them could not be pulled to safety and died in their police and firemen arrived full scale Rescue operations were started and two carloads of teen agers who had followed the fire equipment from an All night restaurant joined other rescuers As they entered the smoke filled build ing. A witness said he saw two minimum age raised for 4au pairs in . London a Britain has raised from 15 to 17 the mini mum age for a pair girl coming into the country. A Home office spokesman said the new Rule would affect Only a few Hundred of the 17,000girls who come to Britain each year from the continent to take jobs As maids with families while learning English. The term a pair is French for As an equal referring to the Type of treatment the girls Are supposed to receive. Teen age girls dragging patient who weighed about 190 pounds out of the youngsters carried wheeled and led elderly patients to safety. Joint action on Cuba asked continued from Page i military action against the Havana foreign minister of neigh Boring Chile Gabriel Valdes opposed armed intervention in the hemisphere. The Argentine minister spoke after Secretary of state Dean Rusk put Forth a four Point .nonmilitary program for tight ening the containment against prime minister Fidel Castro s exports of subversion from Cuba throughout the Hemi sphere. Rusk called for an Oas condemnation of Cuba s actions and appealed to free world countries to curb their Trade with Cuba. He urged also an expression of concern to the so Viets Over their Aid to Castro and heightened vigilance against cuban infiltrations across latin american frontiers. Similar list Venezuela has a similar list of proposals All of which fall Short of mounting an armed attack on Cuba. The Argentine foreign minis Ter said we Are going to sup port every measure that has been asked for Here but said he doubted that such step would prove sufficient. He suggested that an Oas committee handle the problem of coordination of policies of Security and defense of the Hemi sphere countries. As the foreign affairs chief completed their speech making and went behind closed doors to work on the various proposals a crowd of cuban exiles was Gath ering outside the Oas Headquarters building to demonstrate for tougher action. Much recent criticism of South vietnamese forces is outdated he added. Perhaps year ago it might have been True but not so a briefing at Ham Tarn the Remote capital of rur Al Binh Tuy province the prov Ince chief reported to West Moreland several incidents of South vietnamese victories an initiatives taken recently throughout the province. Nod Ding his head Westmoreland commented this would have been unheard of even six months almost without exception All the officers briefing the general on How the War is faring both vietnamese and american were positive and asked about this West Moreland replied that he under stood a Field officer s wanting to sell his product and i take this into consideration when evaluating their to the Progress of the conflict this is a complicated War. It s part of a complicated the thinking that is leading to increasing Antiwar sentiment in the United states and other countries is anachronistic he said. Because you can make Case for not getting involved Here in 1954, the thinking follow that we should pull out now. But i cannot conceive in my wildest imagination of abandoning these the general attributed much Antiwar thinking to he complained that most of their background is so North vietnamese Are encouraged by Lack of . Sup port from Home Westmoreland believe the . Won t support the War just As the French did the added. If by some phenomenon this anti War feeling could be reversed the policy makers in Hanoi would quickly consider going to the negotiating to whether . Involve ment in Vietnam was justified from the Start the general re plied ill let the historians Fig ure that out. I m Here to win the War. I m not living in a fictitious world. This is a real world. The communists have announced wars of National liberation As a worldwide we then going to walk off and leave Southeast Asia baseball major league Lin scores by the associated press american league new York. 103 000 oho i 7 1 Minnesota. 000 020 000 2 0 Peterson Womack g and Glohs Boh Well Perry Oroland i. A Worthington is and Zimmerman Izquierdo Nixon 8. A Peterson 8-1-4. A , 1-1-13. Home runs new York Shopay 1pupil okie cd . Minnesota Hardy i. Chicago. 2\2 0 0 000--s 10 0 Cleveland. 000 000 000-0 i 1 Horlen and Diehert Bailey i la Tiel Renauer i7i, o Donohue to and a Rue Fosse. 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