European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 24 the stars and stripes May 0 r Fla. Runoff forced by unknowns Miami a an unexpected shewing by two obscure demo cratic candidates for the wednesday forced a run off election Between Leroy col Lins and Earl Faircloth for the party nomination. The Only slim Chance that amay 28 second primary could be cancelled Lay in the thousands of uncounted Absentee ballots. But Collins needed nearly All of these to avoid a second trip to the , a former governor had 49.1 per cent of the vote with All 2,649 precincts tallied. Atty. Gen. Faircloth trailed409,532 to 384,837. The combined 49,401 won by unknowns Samfor and Richard Lafferty kept Collins from pushing his narrow plurality into the majority needed for a first primary win. Subject to canvass the figures were unofficial and subject to state canvass. Collins opened the apparently inevitable second primary Campaign wednesday Chargin Faircloth had prevented Collins Victory by stirring up a racial backlash. Faircloth countered with Challenge of debate anywhere in Winner of the Faircloth Collins Battle whenever it i settled must face . Rep. Edward Gurney in the general election. Gurney Defeated for Mer St Petersburg mayor her Man Goldner on tuesday to win the gop nomination. Saigon fires rage in red offensive Fronti Nudd from Pao / City setting fire to whole blocks of houses As they fighting broke out in at least five areas while Allied planes artillery and helicopters strafed the enemy and started More fires. The spokesmen said 2,000american infantrymen from the 9th div armoured personnel carriers helicopter gunships and dive bombers had smashed at least for the time being a Vietcong Effort to push into the Capi Tal from the South and spokesmen said helicopter gunships had wrecked two launching pads loaded with Rock ets less than a mile from the City. The rockets were ready to be fired at the capital the spokesmen added. Ninth div infantrymen re ported killing 131 communists in a Day Long Battle that was still going of at spokesmen called the Offen Sive a murderous communist publicity stunt tied to the Paris talks. 3,000 reds killed they said More than 3,000 communists had been killed in the five Day old red offensive.2,540 of them in Saigon. Captured prisoners said they had orders tonight to the death. . Losses were put at 53 10 feared dead water level rises in mine no. Students reportedly grab school Camden . A approximately 1,750 students at the predominantly negro Camden High school seized control of the school thursday and held teach ers and administrative personnel hostage mayor Alfred Pierce said. Pierce hurriedly called a new conference following fresh out Breaks of racial disorder plaguing the City since sunday night. Police said they had sent patrols to the school to Check on a demonstration but were unaware of any students taking Over the school. Bourguiba in Canada. Montreal a president Abib Bourguiba of Tunisia arrived Here wednesday for a four Day visit to Canada. Hominy Falls . A the level of water in the flooded mine where 25 men were trapped monday began rising thursday afternoon workers Manning the pumps said. Officials had hoped to have enough water out of the mine to Rescue 15 of the miners thurs Day. The other 10 Are feared dead As they have not been heard fro since water poured into the Shaft monday. The 15 miners known to be alive have been confined in a Small space above the water reason for the rising water was hot known. It started to Rainy however thursday afternoon. Meanwhile tunnelling from theother Side of the Mountain was progressing faster than expected and one source said the trapped men May very Well be brought out through the rear possibly As Friday morning. The pumping efforts bad brought Rescue workers within 600 feet of where one group often was enter Abed and they could near the rescuers through the Tunnel. Thousands of Gallons of water had cascaded into the Gauley Coal Scroke co. No. 8 mine about noon monday when a Crew cutting Coal broke through to nearby abandoned mine which was flooded. Baseball thursday s major league Len scores by the associated press National league los Angeles 100 200 030fl 7 1 Chicago 0000000000 3 0singer and Haller Holtzman Stoneman 6sunabe 8 and Hundley. A Singer. 2-4. A Holtzman 1-2. Hrs Lou Angeles Versalles 1bailey 1colavito 3. Hanoi envoy vows real peace Effort i continued from Page v surely be combination of peace and War talks which has characterized the approaches of both sides to the conference is apparently intended to indicate that neither will give Way on any important position. Diplomats take it that a period of extremely Tough bar gaining plus More hard fighting on the ground in South Vietnam lies ahead. Harriman left Washington for Paris in what he called a spirit of Hope sincerity and if that spirit is matched bythe other Side he said Prog Ress can be made toward our goal of a peaceful the Tough Side of the american approach had been emphasized by president Johnson in a Talkin Washington wednesday night when he warned americans an vietnamese alike that heavy in filtration of men and supplies from North to South Vietnam in recent weeks will not go his words carried an implication that if he Felt i necessary he would consider re sumption of bombing North of the20th parallel. Johnson also said of his aim sin the Paris talks we will never Abo Dpn our commitments or Compromise the future of Asia at the negotiating has a number of Viet namese residents from the Day when France ruled As the Imperial Power of French indo China and several Hundred of the vietnamese and some frenchmen gave Thuy a chanting Welcome. Many carried Little North Viet namese paper flags. Over Kansas Rockefeller s plane just misses collision Lawrence Kan. A gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller narrowly escaped a collision As the plane in. Which he was Riding was approaching Lawrence thursday the Pilot . Hinton was in his final approach in a twin engine Beechraft when another Small plane suddenly appeared on the left Side. Hinton gunned the engines to full Power and banked in a Sharp right turn. The other plane passed beneath the Rocke Feller plane and went on to Landing. Later Hinton said he Cut us out on our final Rockefeller . Sen. James talking with Pearson r-Kan., and did not see the other Airlane but when the Pilot made his Sharp evasive Man Euver an told the governor Why Rocke Feller said i m mighty grate orphan Annie creator Dies san Diego up Harold Gray creator of the comic strip Little orphan Annie which still appears in hundreds of news papers 44 years after its inception died thursday at Scripps memorial Hospital. Gray 74, had been admitted to the Hospital a week ago. Gray started the comic striping 1924 and it soon became one of the top funnies in the unite states with its wide eyed heroine and her dog Sandy daddy War Bucks and a cast of villains. North Korea moves Pueblo Washington a North Korea has moved the captured . Intelligence ship Pueblo from the port of won san to another location state department officials said thursday. The officials declined to give further details except to say that the vessel was moved without its american North koreans seized the ship Jan. 23 in what the unite states contends was International Waters about 25 Miles off the North korean coast. The boarding party took the vessel into Wonsal Harbor. The 82 surviving . Crewmen Are still held prisoner possibly in several locations. . Representatives have repeatedly called on North Korea to return the ship and its men. Ful to you. That s All i can addition to Rockefeller and Pearson there were six other passengers aboard. Rockefeller was travelling from Manhattan Kan., where he spoke at Kansas state University to Lawrence and an appearance at the University of Kansas when the near collision occurred. Killed and 487 wounded Anri vietnamese losses Toh killed and 719 wounded 2. The War in the cite least 75 civilians Wiand raised the total of there to More than 120 if Vietnam ast week and wounded one of the High stocks drop Trade Active new York a the Stock Market closed lower thursday in Active trading. The Market had been moving irregularly earlier at the opening but with gains leading losses Bya moderate margin. It moved downward when brokers said investors started Selling off sharply on news of rumours of soviet troop move ments near the polish czech Bor Der. The Dow Jones indicator continued off and losses out distanced gains. Many stocks among steels motors rubber aircraft metals and chemicals closed was 12.89 million shares compared with 13.2 Mil lion wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial aver age off 9.30 Points at 3 p.m., re covered somewhat and closed ut911.35, off 7.51. The new York Stock Exchange ticker tape was four minutes Lute at the closing the 15 most Active issues 10 declined and 5 pictures was the most Active off �/4 at 34% on217,400 shares. Battle for Saigon. The vietnamese lost 242 men the communists 2,264. 50,000 civilians flee according to military Snow men More than 50,000 More milians fled to Allied Strongo under Saigon s smoke Blaff 5 k1"9 correspondents watching fighting said us Many As refugees were caught up wounded or killed in the in fire of one heaviest carnage was a Bridge which leads into Sato from the South. Jet fighter bombers drop their bombs just across the gon River from the heart of to. Guerrilla mortars and Rockeyfell into the Center of the and mayor Van Van Cua Wanthe two million residents and l refugees to dig bomb Shell Sand Foxholes. American officials expire Confidence that the comma threat could be met and said was a harassment attack penetrate the City in an Inex Pasive attempt at publicity. They Are committing number of close to cent Erthe new attacks Brough Tviet Cong closer to Saigon s Ter than they have been Smithey launched their Spring raged through Chok the chinese sector of slums ithe Western Side of Saigon at least 15 blocks were but but still the people of the appeared much More conf than during the bigger tet " Sive in scouts with red Cro pinned to their arms and Al from their bicycles pedalled i the combat zones to Rescue wounded. Students braved do the same. Some Corr spent brought out jeep loads buildings in downtown gon rolled Down their heavy shutters and warships in the. Gon River uncovered their military spokesmen also ref Viet Cong attacks against least seven provincial Capia the Danang air base and a a outpost 30 Miles North of Saiga but Overall damage was ugh11 weather partly Cloudy to Cloudy. Continued warm saturday. Frankfurt Heidelberg High 66. Low 45. Temperature recorded thurs Day get i 4 4 am pm 67 4 43 46 4 48 80 Adana p 78 Athens Valano p 64 Berlin p �4 Frankfurt p 67 London p cd Clear a partly 4 4 am pm 46 61 Madrid p 41 66 Munich p 43 69 Paris r 30 46 i Estwick cd 46 76 Rome p 63 68 theolus cd Cloudy a rain. Weather Wing e troops continued / Vuk when he wanted to travel. A Frenchman living m m was turned Back also sour qualified source in lond said there was t Vulon Corm restrictions had been in r e the area bordering 1/eihomokia for the past few Das. from Raie by Grade is 50h men to tev sergeant 997 to ech 2j sergeant and 2,-m for bases will also Pronto other 3,187 i run u to Serge Grade Usak said the next a selection Board meeting in december a Whit chairmen will be p ukr motion during theim my 1969 i Cylc e5, e6 and e7,
