European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes wednesday october 18, 1967 bullets Fly in new truck strike flare up Pittsburgh a truck Drivers were wounded by bullets and flying Glass monday after attempts to end a nine week Wildcat strike of Independent steel haulers bogged Down. The trouble broke out on the highways Only hours after a mediation panel announced som changes in a strike ending proposal modifications that on striker described As j. Wilbur flick 44, of Monro via ., Wheeling his empty flatbed truck trailer along the Indiana toll Road was wounded in the foot by a shot fire from an overpass. Two men were were also fired out of the night at truckers in Pennsyl Vania Ohio and Maryland. A parked truck in rising Sun,md., was bombed 13 trucks were stoned on the Pennsylva Nia Turnpike and a 12-truck Convoy led by police was the target of rocks As it moved out of a steel Plant in Campbell Ohio. One Man was Hurt in the Inci dents and five were arrested. Shipment halted the strike by 10,000 to 20,000 men in seven Eastern and mid Western states has virtually halted the shipment of steel by High Way. The strikers own their truck Sand most drive their own rigs. They get no hourly wage but lease their equipment to truck ing companies and Are paid a least 73 per cent of the Cost of hauling a Load. The key strike Issue has been Long hours of waiting without pay at Mills Tobe loaded and unloaded. A seven state mediation pane recommended last week that the Drivers wait two hours free then get $10 an hour. Most of the strikers voted approval but trucking companies walked and proposed four hours of free waiting time. Time extended mediators modified their re commendations sunday extend ing the waiting time to four hours. After that $13.70 an hour would be charged for waiting with Drivers getting at least$10 an hour and trucking companies receiving a Cut for Book keeping expenses. There was no immediate com ment from strike leaders but pne Driver remarked i thin kit s Lousy. Ever time we go Over there to a meeting we seem Tolose More. We Haven t gained a Damn groups of trucking firms said they would meet later this week to act on the proposal. New Mccormack schoo Boston a the first Public school in Boston to renamed for a living person was dedicated sunday in Honor of House speaker John w. Mccormack 75. He Boston District. Represents a ground operation launched jets ruin Haiphong targets Saigon up . Air Power devastated a Haiphong missile and helicopter Assembly Plant and Barracks pounded the de militarized zone and struck a Vietcong base Camp near Quang Ngai monday night and spokesman meanwhile Dis closed that thousands of . An South vietnamese troops sup ported by an amphibious Landing of 7th Fleet forces had mounted a huge search und destroy mis Sion near Quartz Tri to end a major threat to the coastal City.b52 bombers hit the demilitarized zone and then struck buildup a the Central Highlands prediction while confirming the death of Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia cuban Premier Fidel Castro tells to audience that the latin american revolutionary movement will continue. At right Castro shows bolivian Pic Tures of his former aide. A photo California Brush fire fought on two fronts los Angeles a a major Rush fire raged on two fronts tuesday one heading toward the rugged Timberland of los padres National Forest and theother toward a town of 20,000 population. Authorities Santa Paula said the town in Southwest san Fernando Valley was not in immediate danger. The fire was about a Quarter of a mile from outlying Homes which were buffered by Santa Paula Creek. Some 600 firefighters struggle Don both fronts of the fire through picture on Page 17 the night As the flames Burn Dover More land. Firefighters monday controlled two Day Brush fire that Black ened 25,000 acres in another Parton Ventura county and threat ened the town of thousand los Angeles county fire department meanwhile e s t i mated that flames destroyed 43 Homes in los Angeles county and17 in Ventura county. No control was in sight forthe Santa Paula fire William Waltrip of the . Forest serv ice said. The flames raced through an Oil tank Field Early tuesday morning but combus Tible material around the tanks had been cleared away so no tanks were damaged he said. On the other front firefighters trained to keep the flames from Timber stands. From 500 to 600acres of Brush in the National Forest were consumed Waltri said. If the fire gets into the Timber firefighters will not be Able to get to it because there Are no roads or firebreaks he added. Meanwhile three teen Ager were held for investigation of arson in a series of fires that burned 1,000 acres about 25 Miles Southwest of los Angeles. . To impose curfew during s. Viet voting Saigon a . Official announced tuesday a curfew in Saigon for american military personnel and government employed civilians during the South vietnamese elections for a House of representatives next sunday. It is similar to the curfew imposed last sept. 3 during the South vietnamese presidential and Senate elections. New York vault rifled $100,000 in Silver bars stolen Sherrill A thief or thieves forced the locks on a vault at the Oneida Silver Smith co. Over the weekend placed $100,000 Worth of Silver bars on a company owned truck and drove away police an Plant officials reported monday. A company spokesman said Thad not been determined exactly How the intruders managed to Force their Way into the Strong room and remove the 400 pounds of . E. Cumings general coun Sel for the famous manufacturer of silverware said the burglars also had left behind a substantial amount of Silver. The break in was discovered when the first shift reported for work monday Cumings said. He theorized that the Silver was hauled away sometime betwee noon saturday and 7 . Mon Day. Workers and Security guard found a number of doors unlocked when they should have been locked Cumings report bars known in the Trade As anodes generally we reformed in strips about two feet said the theft was the first substantial burglary atthe Plant in More than two dec Ades. Court seizes books calling Luebke a nazi Frankfurt up a judge touched off a storm of Contro Versy at the International boo fair Here tuesday by ordering police to seize All copies of communist Book that called West German president Heinric Luebke a nazi War criminal. Even the Frankfurt prosecutor s office protested the action of the judge Norbert Pawlik. Senior prosecutor Dieter Rah denounced the action As beyond the magistrate s competence and filed a formal complaint. All 38 East German publisher exhibiting at the seven Day fair walked out after police carried out the order to confiscate the Book from the stand of the East German state publishing housed Luebke said monday he take Legal action against the Book since its claim that he is nazi War criminal number one has been refuted officially As be ing based on forged communist documents. The Book alleges that Luebke was a concentration Camp builder and had designed Lampsas an employee of a building firm. The Book has been on display since the fair the world s largest opened last tuesday. The order to seize the Bookcase four hours before the fair was due to justified the seizure on the ground the Book was Evi Dence in an investigation of Defa mation charges against the East German state publishing House. Sex War correspondent Dies los Angeles up Jack m. De Beaufort famed world War i correspondent with the old International Newa service died sunday night at his Home lie was 85. Where an enemy thrust it expected at any time from across the cambodian again the b52s were try ing to silence North vietnamese artillery in the Doz that has bombarded the Marine outpost Atcon Thien for weeks. A spokes Man said the communists fired58 rounds of artillery monday wounding 10 bad weather Over North Vietnam monday plane from the 7th Fleet earner Oris Kany struck Haiphong targets forthe third time since president Johnson removed the sprawling military Complex from the list of untouchable targets on oct. 9.Navy phantoms and sky Hawks sweeping in from the Tonkin Gulf left columns of smoke billowing a mile into the air from the mis Sile and helicopter Assembly Plant three Miles South of Hai Phong. The area had been left untouched until now because hundreds of soviet and chinese communist technicians were reported working there. Bridge bombed other Navy planes bombed the big Kien an Highway Bridge 1.7 Miles from Haiphong s Cente while other planes pounded anti aircraft defences. Navy planes had Cut All four Haiphong Bridges and then returned after they had been repaired. The Navy jets roared in Low tobit three surface to air missile Sites near Haiphong and three antiaircraft Sites on the City s outskirts. There were no reports of migs rising in Challenge but antiaircraft fire was the big ground operation be Gan two companies of Marine setting up a base Camp nine Miles South of Quang Tri were ambushed. Attack at dusk the communists attacked a dusk throwing hand grenade and plastic the brisk 45 minute Battle 16 marines were killed and 120wounded. The enemy suffered 35 dead before the marines repelled the attack. But it was four hours after the fight started that Heli copters could carry out the wounded lifting them by Cable because the Jungle was too dense to land. Assailant stabs Boss of Israel s communists Tel Autv up Meir Vil Ner 49, the head of Israel s new communist party was stabbed in the Back sunday night by a Man who told police he did like the nip s anti Israel views on the june Man whose identity was not revealed later gave him self up to police. He described himself As a former zionist prisoner in Russia police said. Weather . 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