European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 01, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 the stars and stripes sunday october 1, 1967 dragon ships hit red mortar Sites Saigon a rapid firing . Air Force loosed nearly dragon ships 50,000 shells against suspected communist positions Early saturday to counter a rash of mortar at tacks on Allied posts in the me Kong Delta. Red mortar men hit the .9th inf div Headquarters at Dong Tarn 42 Miles Southwest of Saigon with about 35 rounds under cover of night an wounded 16 americans. Four government Camps in the Delta were other targets of communist mortars. The dragon ships old twin engine c47s specially equipped with flares and Gatling-type20mm guns to suppress night at tacks raced to the Rescue. Wit each equipped to turn out 18,000 shells a minute they fired Short bursts by the Light of the parachuted flares. Whether from direct hits or other causes the mortars fell silent. Political infighting in Saigo overshadowed scattered ground operations up and Down the country. The nation s provisional As Sembly is to Rule by monday Midnight on the Validity of the Victory of chief of state Nguyen Van Thieu and his running mate Premier Nguyen Cao by in the presidential election sept. 3. Its election committee which is expected to be overruled recommended 16-2, that the Assem Bly throw out the results on the ground there were irregularities. Club swinging police broke up an antigovernment Demon stration by students outside the Assembly. Thich Tri Quang the Leader Ofa militant Buddhist splinter group which wants political in fluence maintained a protest Vigil he started thursday nigh across the Street from govern ment Headquarters. Million theft Laid to clerk new York a a former clerk in a Wall Street Bank has been accused of the theft of $1million in negotiable Stock certificates. None has been re covered. The theft reported to police sept. 8, was disclosed Friday with the arrest of Ronald Geruntino 22, of Brooklyn. Authorities said Geruntino left his Job with the Branch office of the Toronto dominican Bank Ocanada at the same time the certificates disappeared. Geruntino was traced to Utica,n.y., where he formerly lived and was arrested wednesday. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of grand larceny in criminal court and was held in lieu of $10,000 bail. The War in the Northern Sec Tor was marked by a communist attack on the District town of Hai Lang 25 Miles South of the demilitarized zone. Spokes men said infiltrated North Viet namese regulars fired about 100mortar shells at the town and then tried to storm through its wire barricades but were beaten Back. Seventeen of the enemy were reported killed. Losses in the South vietnamese Garrison we recalled Light. Would Stop bombing if vat other times . Authorities have spoken of a need for reciprocal action or a scaling Down of North Vietnam s Mili tary Campaign against the South As required for an end to the his nationally broadcast speech Friday night Johnson noted that Hanoi has not accepted any of this country s propos als and he said it is by North Vietnam s Choice alone that the War continues. In sum Johnson noted what he was saying to the Hanoi gov two North Italy policemen killed in Rushing bomb away from train Trento Italy a a Tim bomb in a suitcase taken off a passenger train blew up in the station of this North italian City saturday As two policeman rushed the bag away from the passenger coaches. The police men were killed and a third was act of heroism prevented a train was crowded with passengers and a police spokes Man said if the bomb had exploded on the train or among people inside the station there would have been a the train was in the station Only for a scheduled three min Ute Stop. A report from police in Bolzano North of Trento said a Man had boarded the train there with a suitcase and was seen leaving a coach without theban. The Bolzano police wired to Trento and two policemen made a Check As soon As the train arrived. They found the suitcase in one of the last coaches near the dining it could go off at any moment they dashed Down the tracks with the suitcase As the train pulled out of the bomb blew up As the policeman reached the Edge of the station away from the crowds. The blast shattered windows an caused panic. The train was coming from Munich via the Brenner pass heading South through the Borde Region which has been the scene of terrorism for years. Florida gov. Wants Mcnamara to quit continued from Page f and Hawks Kirk said. To those who counsel escalation i shows that he is doing some thing. To those who counsel withdrawal it shows that he is doing something added to my mind this illustrates the bankruptcy the deference to dilettantes that permeates the Pentagon top Hierarchy today. The War is not going to be ended by Public opinion is not going to be soothed by the Florida chief executive said Mcnamara should resign because he no longer has the Confidence of the civilians Orthe military. His frequent Rosy predictions have consistently come to the gop governor said Mcnamara has avoided saying How Many men in what combi nations and at what Cost Are needed to win the Vietnam Mcnamara a Well meaning Man Kirk said the Secretary could make his greatest contribution by spelling out his own hard answers to Africa infant toll rises Geneva up one Chi Din three in Africa Dies before reaching the age of five the world health organization who said saturday. These problems when he such a time with no a to grind he could speak frankly and with credibility said Kirk. And he could Lay the ground work for Public Confidence in the next Secretary of scores saturday s major league Lin scores american league Baltimore 001 000 0-Ioa 7 0 Cleveland 000 000 2002 7 4brabender, Watt 8. And Haney to Dowel Williams 8bailey 9 an Fosse. A Brabender 6-1. A Mcdowell 13-15. Home run Baltimore Haney a Kansas City 000 110 002 1 7 1 new York 110 000 03x5 8 1pierce, Krausse 8odom s and Duncan Downing Bouton 2womack 8 and Fernandez. A Womack 5-6. A Krausse 7-17. Home runs new York Shopay 2 Kansas City Gosger 5i. National league Chicago 800100000911 0cincinnati 101000110111 0 Holt Man hands 7 and Hundley Pappas not Telmet ii Mccool Lee Garrigo 8davidson 9 and Pavlet Icli. A Holt Zinan 9-0. A Pappas. 1 5-12. Home runs Chicago Hundley 14.williams 28. Saturday s College football result East Columbia 17, Colgate h Syracuse 21, West Virginia Midwest Southern California 21, Michigan stute17 pin Dun 28, Notro Dame 21 South Tulane 36, North Carolina 11 names Harvard Dean Johnson City Tex. A president Johnson announced saturday he will nominate Erwin n. Griswold Dean of the Harvard University Law schools solicitor government s top since 1946, trial , 63, and a registered Republican would succeed Thurgood Marshall who has been named an associate Justice i the supreme court. Johnson convened an Impromptu news conference at his ranch Home near Here to make the other items covered at the conference Johnson said he is More convinced now than Ever about the need for a10 per cent income tax sur charge saying the alternative would be a More burdensome tax an inflation around on whether Liis Vietnam policy speech Fri Day night represented a soften ing of his position i la let that speech stand for itself he said adding that he Felt much the same message on a possible bombing halt and peace talk Shad been stated before time and again. When asked if he would see reelection in 1968 when i be made a decision i la make i known. Ill Cross that Bridge when come to Nixon loses Mother 82, after illness Whittier Calif. A mrs. Hannah Milhous Nixon Mother of former vice presi Dent Richard m. Nixon died saturday in a convalescent Home. She was 82. Nixon s aides said or. And mrs. Nixon and their two Daugh ters would Fly to los Angeles sunday afternoon from their Home in new Vork. I s. Nixon died in the Whit mar convalescent Hospital where she had stayed the Pas two years. She had been ill Sev eral years. Mrs. Nixon moved West to Whittier with her father Frank Lin Milhous in 1897. In 1908 she married Francis Anthony Nix on who had moved from Mcarthur Vinton county Ohio to Yorba Linda in 1906. He died in1956 at the age of 77. The couple had five sons. Har old the oldest died of tuberculosis at 33. Arthur died at 7 of tubercular meningitis. Richard the second eldest was born in Yorba Linda Jan. 9, 1911. The others Are f. Don Ald sales executive with Carna Tion ., and the youngest Edward c., a Navy officer. The elder Nixon a methodist embraced his wife s Quaker re Ligion after they married. The had met at a Quaker Church party. Nixon was a Streetcar motor Man when he moved to los an Geles in 1906. He gave that Upland became a Citrus rancher a year or so later. After marrying he went into business opening a Market and a Gaso line station in Whittier across the Street from Quaker Church the store building formerly had been the Church meeting Hall. Eminent had previously Bee said time and time again to no. Avail. In a major summary and de sense of his position in Vietnam Johnson claimed military pro Gress for the Allied cause cited leaders of asian nations a backing the . Stand in the conflict and appealed anew for peace talks. But his conclusion bore downward on what he termed Hanoi s mistakes about the nature of Domestic debate Over the wan the president s speech was prepared for the National legislative conference in san an Tonio. He said first we must no mislead our enemy. Let him not think that debate and dissent will produce wavering and withdrawal. For they won him not think that pro tests will produce they won t. Let him not think that Hewill wait us out. For he won Johnson s determination was summed up in four words we shall press the stakes involved the chief executive said All that we have Learned in this tragic Century strongly suggests that a communist Victory in Vietnam would Lead to communist domination of Southeast Asia and bring third world War much closer to terrible wholly prepared he said we and our South vietnamese allies Are wholly prepared to negotiate am ready to talk tomorrow with to Chi Minh and other chiefs of state concerned. I am ready to have Secre tary Rusk Secretary of state Dean Rusk meet with their for eign ministers tomorrow. "1 am ready to Send a trusted representative to any spot on this Earth to talk in secret with a spokesman for then discussing what he termed the heart of the mat Ter Johnson said the unite states is willing immediately to Stop Aerial and naval bombard ment of North Vietnam when this will Lead promptly to productive discussion. We would As sume that while discussion proceed. North Vietnam would not take advantage of the bomb ing cessation or Johnson said All of this has been told to Hanoi time and time Hanoi has not accepted any of these proposals he said. It is by Hanoi s Choice no Tours not the worlds that War True peace keepers in the world tonight said John son Are not those who urge us to retire from the Field in Viet Nam who Tell us to find the quickest cheapest exit fro that tormented land no matter what the consequences maybe.1 the True keepers of the peace he said Are those men who stand on the Doz at this hour taking the worst that the enemy can give and the soldiers who Are breaking the terrorists grip around the villages of Viet Nam. Weather partly Cloudy with isolated afternoon showers. Increasing cloudiness and Gusty winds monday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 63, Low 48. Temperatures recorded Satur Day get 4 4 . . 59 81 Adana p 72 77 Athens p 59 77 Aviano p 54 73 Berlin p 63 64 Frankfurt p 54 63 London p 4 4 . . 50 82 Madrid p 55 75 Munich p 63 64 Paris p 50 55 Prestwick r 61 73 Rome p 66 81 wheelus. P a partly Cloudy a rain. 2nd weather Wing
