European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Pago 1 the stars and stripes , Hershey warns of even More May s draft Call increased multiple emphasis american stage Star Gretchen Wyle stresses a Point during a press reception in London. A photo Washington up the defense department. Monday announced an increase in the draft Call for May from 44,000 to 45,900. It also announced that29,500 men would be drafted in june. The announcement came a secret testimony by selective service director Lewis b. Her Shey was released in which he said that up to 100,000 More men than originally scheduled will be drafted in the 12 months starting july 1 if the War does t get  in the May draft Call 44,000men will be assigned to the army and 1,900 to the Marine corps. Men inducted in june will Al go into the army. The draft Calls Are announced by the defense department each month in the form of request to the selective service system to provide a certain number of men. The monthly Calls so far this year Are january 34,000 february23,300 March 41,060 april 48,000 May 45,900, and june29,500. It was the second recent announcement of drafting men for the marines. Earlier this year the Pentagon said 4,000 men from the april draft would go to the marines marking the first time in two years that marines resorted to the draft to fill the  the Hershey testimony released monday he said a Many As 340,000 men May be called up during the next fiscal year even though the Pentagon budgeted for a draft of only240,000. He said the draft in the current fiscal year was scheduled for 285,000 men but a Wheeler argues for plane shelters in Europe Washington a  g. Wheeler says the ene my has destroyed or damaged�132.5 million in . Aircraft on the ground in Vietnam a toll he contends could have been drastically Cut by use of , chairman of the joint chiefs of staff told inquiring senators that special protective shelters now proposed for european based . Planes could have held these plane an helicopter losses in Vietnam to a figure As Low As $7  Pentagon has decided against providing anything More than Side walled Barri Cades with no roofs for aircraft in Vietnam because the enemy does t operate bombers Over the South. Wheeler said the total Cost of aircraft wiped out by hostile ground fire Between Jan. 1, 1964,and feb. 9, 1968, amounted to $94,033,000.this included 122 planes and helicopters destroyed by enemy mortars recoilless rifles Satchel charges or Small arms fire Wheeler said. In addition 590 other plan Sand helicopters were damaged in 1966 and 1967, requiring $38.5million in repairs he said. Wheeler also disclosed that during the major thrust of the Viet Cong s tet Holiday Offen Sive last Jan. 29-feb. 1 . Air units suffered  an estimate drawn up Dur Hughes tangles with dec Las vegas Nev. A two titans one of business the other of government Are at Odds Over a titanic blast scheduled for Friday. On monday the Howard Hughes organization urged the atomic Energy commission to postpone testing of a powerful nuclear bomb for at least 90  explosion scheduled for Friday morning under Mountain about 100 Miles Northwest of Las vegas will be the biggest nuclear blast Ever detonated in the United states and is expected to be felt250 Miles away. Hughes has spent millions for Las vegas land and casinos and recently bought mining land near the historic Comstock lode in Northern Nevada. Before he Cameto Nevada in 1966, Hughes had extensive surveys and research conducted on dec testing in the state a Hughes source said. Urges studies Robert Maheu right hand Man to the multimillionaire industrialist said ground studies should be made before the one Legato bomb is set off. But As of tuesday the a planned to go ahead with the test. Commenting on the Hughe demand for prior ground studies an dec official said if rethought a study was warranted we would t be conducting  commission spokesman Henr Vermillion said the blast would be slightly greater than a  the previous largest such test just under one megaton handmade in the same general area occurred in december 1966, he said. Damage from that blast amounted to nothing More than broken windows and cracked plaster he added. Maheu said the Hughes organization s concern ranges from Adverse effects on subterranean water supplies radioactive contamination and leads to the possibility of earthquakes particularly where known faults exist at  ing the first week of february he figured the enemy destroyed 38 aircraft including 15 plan Sand 23 helicopters dealt major damage to 154,others32 plan Sand 122 choppers and caused minor damage to 198 craft53planes and 145 helicopters. The Pentagon is seeking congressional approval this year to spend about $17.3 Mil lion on building 60 steel and con Crete aircraft shelters at Nat facilities in Europe. Congress has previously walked at this idea on grounds the United states would rebuilding fixed installations in Europe when there is som pressure for bringing gis Home. The Pentagon estimates the shelters proposed for Europe would Cost $130,000 to $160,000each. Ends june 30."if the War everything is gone said. But if uie War year Dpi Over to in feb rho said rejections for yanks lifted from Jungle As reds near Kuk refuses invitation Berlin a sen. Robert  has turned Down an invitation to speak at the tradition Al May Day Celebration in West Berlin a Trade Union spokesman said  Force fighters if my helicopter wait monday How they saved leg americans stranded for 19 hour Vit Cong Jungle stronghold. � hang Uvo hour mis saved the lives of the eight men who were aboard two us army helicopters shot Down saturday in the Happy Valley area about 20 Miles Southwest of two air Force sky raiders we Reuie first to reach the area Sun Day. At the controls were cart Tommy Stroud 26, of Waco tex., and capt. Lyn oberdier.30of Toledo Ohio. The two pilots let Fly with machine gun fire Ashe Viet Cong edged closer to the helpless americans on the ground. The Rescue helicopter arrived snort time later. Had co pull out it started drawing ground fir and had to pull out while we worked the area Over again Stroud said. The helicopter returned about 10 minutes later but. Again Vietcong fire prevented it from Hov ering and lowering its pickup cables. By that time the copter was out of fuel and it had to Fly Back to a  . Army helicopter gunships swarmed in they sterilized t h e area Stroud said in telling How the massive firepower from the Heli copters chewed through the Jun Gles. Sometimes the strafing Gotto within 10 Yards of the  for 45 minutes the helicopters and the sky raiders saturated the Jungles with machine gun fire and rockets. Two More Rescue copters lumbered into the area lowered 150 feet of hoist line and made the Rescue picking up women at a time on each line. Weather temperatures tickled Pink web former president Dwight d. Eisenhower tickling him and actor Chuck Connors holding him it s quite a Day for crippled youngster in Palm Springs Calif Eisenhower and other celebrities were on Kin for � Golf tournament staged by Connors for the Benefit of a crippled children s Hospital mrs. 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