European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 30, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes tuesday 30 . Base at tug Hoa raided  guerrillas destroy 2 planes from a and up dispatches Saigon Viet Cong guerrillas raced Down the flight linear the american fighter base at Tuy Hoa monday Hurlin satchels of explosives that destroyed two four engine c130cargo planes and damaged Jet . Military police chased the Viet Cong and killed nine of them. One american trooper was wounded in the Battle on the flight line. The Viet Cong darted onto the base 240 Miles Northeast of Sai gon during a barrage by their mortar and rocket Crews. The Flash of exploding aviation gasoline and dynamite lit up the predawn coastal sky. In the Light of the blasts the military police spotted the running bomb throwers and opened fire. The military police spread outland swept Down the runways firing As they went. Besides the two big c130 her Cules transports at least one f100 super Sabre was reported damaged. Other unidentified Craft also were hit military spokesmen said. American commanders expanded the Field at Tuy Hoa last year to base the floor used i support of Allied ground forces combating guerrillas in the Cen trial Highlands. The Viet Cong hit the base with shells in the february tet offensive but no planes were destroyed att the were halted at the defense perimeter. Monday the Viet Cong darted through the barbed wire and gun posts in the opening minutes of the barrage. They retreated min utes after the attack. The attack was similar in style to that made against the Udo base Friday the first guerrilla strike against an american Casein Thailand. Gary rioting blamed on gang dissension Gary ind. A police chief James Hilton monday blamed dissension among negro youth gangs for two nights of disorders in Gary s Central District. The situation is still highly volatile and May erupt at any time Hilton said adding that the destructive mood of the gangs has spread to the City militant groups. The disorders began Earl sunday with firebombing sni per fire and looting and flare again sunday night before police with rifles and Shotgun brought quiet to the four Block area with a caravan of 10 patrol cars. 6 injured six persons were injured Sun Day morning including a fire Man wounded by sniper fir while battling a Blaze. No injuries were reported sunday night. A total of 110 negroes we rearrested and police said All would be charged with resisting arrest. Ninety members of the Coo county sheriff s department riot squad who were requested by Hilton and helped establish Calm were replaced at mid night sunday by 90 riot trained Indiana state  Hon said 550 Indiana National guardsmen were stand ing by at armoires in Gary and nearby  told a news conference he knew ther. Would be trouble because of the arrest of two members of the negro sin Cit disciples gang saturday night during an investigation of rape charge involving a Gary White woman. He said the disorders started with stoning of a mail truck Folk wed by the smashing of Busi Ness windows sniper firing an looting. He said Lack of personnel prevented him from heading off the troublemakers. Hilton said he would like to expand the size of his police Force from the present 272 to 400 to handle the City s 185,000 population 55 percent of which is negro. Nix on Nixon Money Indianapolis i n Dap Indiana gov. Roger d. Branigin a Democrat got an Appeal for funds from the Nixon for presi Dent committee. Said Branigin w h o i noted for Economy in state government it la be pretty hard for them to get any Money out of  one was Able to say just who goofed in Send ing out the letter. Union predicts steel Accord Pittsburgh a. A atop official of the United steel workers Union was quoted assaying monday that a new labor agreement should be ready for approval tuesday or wednesday in time to Avert a nationwide steel strike set for thursday. Joseph p. Molony International vice president of the Union told its top policy making group it looks encouraging. Consider Able Progress has been  or the Day after we will have an agreement without government  reports Tal Molony s talk to the Basic steel Industry conference was reported by Bernie Novas president of a big Pittsburgh Are local. The development came on the heels of a dramatic last minute meeting Between top negotiator just As the Union s executive Board was about to meet. Grand rapids state of emergency lifted grand rapids Mich. A gov. George Romney lifted a state of emergency proclamation for the grand rapids area Mon Day after police declared the situation absolutely under control despite some scattered fire bombings overnight. At the same time some 150national guard troops called up Early sunday under the Procla mation were ordered sent Home. The violence began Friday when eight White motorists were dragged from their cars an beaten by gangs of negro youths according to police. Several fire were reported the first night including one Blaze at a lumber Yard which caused damage Esti mated at $100,000.increased police squads strictly enforced a dusk to Dawn curfew sunday night but arson erupted again in Michigan s second larg est City during the third straight night of  least 12 persons were arrested mostly for curfew violations. One of those arrested was charged with carrying firebomb. Police said Small groups of negro youths gathered but were dispersed quickly As police cruised streets in the i predominantly negro Southeast Section using loudspeakers to order the youths off the streets. Light planes collide in air killing eight Farmingdale . A eight persons including two Small girls and three women were killed sunday night when two private planes collided overcast Farmingdale and crashed in cemetery property. One Craft a twin engine pipe Aztec went Down in flames. The other a single engine pipe Cherokee was demolished but did not Burn. Wreckage was strewn Over a Large area near the Beth Moses cemetery Parton a burial ground Complex in this Long Island area. Four persons were aboard each plane seven of them from new York state and the eight with both a Connecticut and new York address. The Federal aviation administration said the collision occurred about 8 30 . At an Altitude of 800 to 1,000 feet As both Craft were making their final approaches to Republic flying Field. An Faa spokesman said the Aztec s left Wing apparently struck the Cherokee. Playboy Magazine photo army brat the morale of . Astronauts May be info a significant boost. Cali fornia s Gale Olson daughter of a career army officer has applied to Nasa for a Job Asan astronaut Rix. Mansfield criticizes lbs Thieu Washington up sen ate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield expressed disappoint ment sunday Over results of president Johnson s talks with South vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu. He said they reduced . Options in seeking peace. I Haven t seen the president since he s returned Mansfield said but on the basis of newspaper reports and state ments made by president Thieu since he s returned to Saigon it appears to me that we re locked in and that we Haven t got the give the flexibility which should be  asked if peace could come with the present Saigon govern ment in Power he replied i think it s possible but i would think that if this is going to be done that the government should be broadened and i have Hopes that it will be that the Cao Dai the Hoa Hao  the other buddhists and the catholics whore not in the combination should be brought in. ". Then i think while we Are carrying on talks not negotiations As yet but just talks wit the North vietnamese in Paris that Saigon and the Elf the National liberation front the political Arm of the Viet Cong ought to get together because huh restoring peace is first task los Angeles a Vic president Hubert h. Humphrey said monday his first task if elected president will be to re store peace in  he told a town Hall luncheon in a prepared speech that Amer Ica must seek to strengthen the alternative to conflict and in Vietnam that alternative  South Vietnam s affairs he said should be run by the peo ple who live there not by Washington or  Humphrey said this course Means free elections in which All can vote and All can run for office with guarantees against Force and , he added it Means being willing to accept the re sults of these  while he met privately Sun Day afternoon with the state s 174-vote democratic delegation pledged to the late sen. Robert f. Kennedy an Antiwar Rall was staged outside the hotel. Many of the protestors Esti mated by police at 3,000, carried signs boosting the candidacy often. Eugene j. Mccarthy d  were 17 arrests. Most were youths who refused to move when ordered by police authorities said while others were taken into custody after they climbed on to the Fountain in front of the  s Campaign Sun Day night moved to the Story Book Castle of Camelot at the Warner  arts studio lot at the foot of the Hollywood Hills in nearby  vice president s Brief talk was interrupted once after a Stop the killing Hubert ban Ner was unfurled across the courtyard and several youths were hustled away by  movie land Castle was heavily guarded by secret serv ice agents who took High perches in the Castle towers. Then it would be possible for those people in the South All southerners to maybe bring about the creation of a situation which would further the Caus of peace there rather than leaving the Burden in that respect on Hanoi and washing  said the Paris talks were not hopeless but were moving too slowly. Weather . 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