President Johnson poses in Washington with four new highest award for valor were (from left) Air Force Cajit. Williams, Marine Sgt. Richard A,winners of the Medal of Honor. Receiving the nation's Gerald 0. Young, Navy Boatswain's Mate James E. Spec. 5 Charles C. Hagemeister.

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Of HonorWASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres-

ident Johnson presented theMedal of Honor to four moreAmerican heroes of the Viet-nam war in a ceremonydedicating a new "Hall ofHeroes" at the Pentagon.

"As we meet here," the Presi-dent said, "other men in Parisare beginning the very hardnegotiations that we hope willone day silence the guns in afree Vietnam. . . . The worldpi-ays that the way to peace canbe found at that distant table."

Because of the close quartersin the 50-foot long hall itself,the President and top Pentagonleaders moved to the building'soutside inner court for thepresentation of medals.

The recipients and theirexploits:

Army Spec. 5 Charles. ChrisHagemeister, son of Mrs.Alvina E. Hagemeister, Lincoln,Neb.—Medical aid man, he is aUniversity of Nebraska gra-duate who on March 20, 1907,repeatedly risked his life to(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

Pearl HarborAdmiral Dies

GROTON, Connecticut (AP)—Rear Adm. Husband E. Kim-mel (ret.), 86, who once said hetook a "burn rap" for the Japa-nese bombardment of PearlHarbor, died Tuesday of an ap-parent heart attack at his homehere.

"My principal occupation —what's kept me alive — is toexpose the entire Pearl Harboraffair," he said in 10GG to aninterviewer.

He charged President Frank-lin D. Roosevelt and other per-sons in Washington with mak-ing him the scapegoat for the(Continued on Back Page, Col. 4)

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Not in Cards,

PARIS (UPI) — U.S. Ambas-sador W. Averell Harriman saidTuesday he expects no quickagreement to end the Vietnamwar.

He said when he went toMoscow in July 1903 to con-clude a nuclear test ban pactwith the Soviets he predictedagreement would be reached in10 days. It was reached on the10th day.

"I wouldn't make any suchprediction this time," Harri-man told newsmen in an im-promptu interview outside theU.S. Embassy.

"It will be a longer period oftime before we can come to anunderstanding. But the object issimple. It is to let the peopleof South Vietnam decide theirown future without coercion orinterference."

Harriman consulted with hisaides Tuesday and was report-ed in telephone contact withPresident Johnson on the pre-

liminary talks which b e g a nMonday. The talks were re-cessed till Wednesday so eachside could consult with its homegovernment.

The talks are expected to lastfor weeks, perhaps even f o rmonths.

Harriman said the questionof U.S. prisoners of war inNorth Vietnamese hands wasone President Johnson "h a smost in mind" and he wouldtake it up "whenever it is ap-propriate."

Meanwhile there was no in-dication of North Vietnamese

High-Paying JobNEW YORK (AP)—Two men

posing as uniformed Wells Fargoarmored car guards convinceda teller at a Brooklyn bank theywere legitimate and made offwi th $198,000 Tuesday, policesaid.

willingness to back down on itsf lat demand that, Washingtonmust unconditionally hall allbombing of the north beforebroader peace talks can begin.

N o r t h Vietnamese sourcessaid Hanoi also was unlikely toaccept the U.S. proposal for ajoint pullback from the Demili-tarized Zone, since this wouldbe tantamount to admittingthere, are North Vietnamesetroops in the South.

Nguyen Sao, one of severalNorth Vietnamese spokesmenhere, told newsmen the Hanoidelegation was studying Hani-man's opening statement care-fu l l y .

"But our impression," hesaid, "is that the position ofthe U n i t e d States lias notchanged. The U.S. att i tude is.stubborn,"

Sao insisted the only purposeof the talks now was to decidehow and when the United Stales(Continued ou Back Page, Col. 2)

OMAHA, Neb. (UPI)—Sen. Robert F. Ken-nedy won Nebraska'sDemocratic presiden-tial primary Tuesdayand showed signs ofheading for an im-pressive display of hisvote - drawing poweras a presidential can-didate.

Richard M. Nixon sewedup the Republican side ofthe primary. He had polledabout 70 per cent of thevote with a non-campaign-er, California Gov. RonaldReagan, picking up about23 per cent,

Kennedy's victory became ap-parent as a tide of votes floodedin from Omaha, the .state'slargos t city and bastion ofDemocratic power. Even beforepolls had closed in all Nebraskacounties, Kennedy had morethan half the votes counted with10 per cent of the total in.

His chief on-the-ballot rival,Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, wastaking just under 30 per cent atthis point. Kennedy's presssecretary! Pierre S a 1 i n g e rclaimed a "tremendous victory"for Kennedy and said the returnsindicated McCarthy is "finished(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

BUCHAREST (AP) ~ FrenchPresident Charles de GaulleTuesday strongly encouragedEastern Europe's Communist-ruled peoples to shake off Sovietdomination and press for thewithdrawal of Soviet troops fromtheir territories.

Arriving to a triumphant wel-come on his first stale visit toRomania, de Gaulle also voiced

support for this country's in-dependent - minded Communistleaders in their confrontationwith Moscow and its hard-lineallies.

De Gaulle used a toast duringa luncheon given by Presidentand Communist Party chiefNieolae Ceausescu to reiteratehis standard demand for theaboJition of mili tary blocs in a

future Europe "from the At lan-tic to the Urals."

Without explicitly n a m i n gcountries in which Soviet troopsare s t a t i o n e d , he obviouslymeant East Germany, Hungaryand Poland when he said that"many European nations acesuffering from the permanentpresence of foreign troops ontheir territories,"

"Neither in France, nor hereiu Bucharest , are people wi l l i ngto accept tha t such mature andexperienced European countriesshould have to bow to poli t ical ,economic and mi l i ta ry direc-tives from outside," de Gaul ledeclared.

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Lynda BirdIs ExpectingWASHINGTON (AP) — The

White House announced Tuesdaythat the President's daughter ,Lynda, is expecting her f i r s tchild in late October.

Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter ,press secretary to Mrs. Johnson,said both Lynda and her hus-band, Marine Capt. CharlesRobb, who is now serving inVietnam, "are delighted aboutit."

it would be President • John-son's .second grandchi ld , Hisyounger daughter , Lnei , and herhusband, Patrick Nugent , J i u v ea son, Lyn.

No Setback in Pacification

Little(At*) — the Commu-

nist's latest offensive had al-most no effect on the govern-ment's pacification program,the U.S. Command said Mon-day,

A detailed report on the re-sults of the offensive unleashedon May 5 said only the areaaround Saigon and two MekongDelta provinces on the Cambo*dian border were seriously af-fected.

.Thirty-nine of South Viet-nam's 44 provinces were vir-tually untouched, the reportsaid, and the psychological im-pact on the population as awhole was infinitely smallerthan during the Tet offensivethat "began Jan. 31 and contin-ued well into February.

The still unpublished reportwas compiled by AmbassadorRobert W. Komer, head of theU.S. Command's Office of Revo-lutionary Development Support(CORDS) which directs thepacification program,

•Only 16 of more than 4,000government outposts were lostor abandoned since May 5, thereport said. Of these, 10 havesince been reoccupied.

Of more than 700 Revolution-ary Development Teams, onlysix were withdrawn from ham-lets for security reasons or toassist in the defense of provin-cial or district capitals. Four ofthese were in Gia Dinh Provincearound Saigon, where the heav-iest fighting took place.

At the height of the Tet offen-sive, 300 teams were pulledback into the cities. It provides"a dramatic comparison of thevastly differing effects of thetwo attacks," the report said.

Apart from the Saigon region,Chau Doc and Kien Phong prov-inces on the Cambodian borderwest of the capital were seri-ously hit.

The pacification program isstill far from the pre-Tet level.

But thfi report said the latest of-fensive has failed to Cause anyserious disturbance to the"painfully slow but apparentlysteady recovery of the pacifica-tion momentum" since March.

On the negative side of the of-ficial picture, Komer reportedthat 122,500 persons fled fromtheir homes in Saigon and GiaDinh Province during the latestoffensive and "pose a seriousurban recovery problem,"

The new refugees, many ofWhom lost their homes in thefightirtg in and around Saigon,joined more than 200,000 thatwere left homeless after the Tetoffensive.

The report said 18,250 houseswere destroyed or damaged inSaigon and Gia Dinh Provincesince May 5, More than 700houses were destroyed or dam-aged in other parts of the coun-try. In the Tet offensive 136,000

houses were destroyed or dam-aged.

Around Saigon and in the Del-ta area where the fighting washeaviest, the report noted "con-siderable fear and apprehen-sion" among the population. Butit added: "The psychologicalimpact of the attacks was muchless than during the Tet offen-sive because people were muchbetter prepared and the attackswere much lighter."

Fishing for RedsA river patrol of D Co., 4th Biu, 9th Inf., 25th Hoa. The boats operate as a team with troops

Inf. Div., prepares to search a sampan near Due nearby on the shore. (USA)

Reds Planned to Put Saigon^WF

Under Siege, Defector SaysSAIGON (UPI) — A young

North Vietnamese squad leadersaid Monday he and his menhad been given orders to "lib-erate" Saigon and hold portionsof the city in a siege.

The squad l e a d e r , Sgt,Nguyen Van Hung, 25, defectedin Saigon Sunday after spend-ing four days holed up in anabandoned civilian house on theoutskirts of Saigon.

Hung, who identified himselfas a draftee, said his politicalcadre had told the 300 men whomoved with him from Tay Ninhto Saigon for the offensive thatit was important to win vic-tories so that North Vietnamcould "go strongly to the nego*tiating table."

Speaking through an inter-preter, Hung said his men hadtaken 120 days to come downto South Vietnam through Laosand Cambodia. Morale was lowbecause of the American bomb-ing and strafing runs as theymade their way from Tay Ninhto Saigon.

Tay Ninh has long been aknown North Vietnamese andViet Cong staging point in SouthVietnam, It was there, Hungsaid, the men picked up theirweapons and were told of the

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sort of attack they were tomake on Saigon. Hung said onthe trip from North Vietnamthe men, most of them drafteesaged 20 and under, were notarmed.

"One armed squad traveledwith us," he said. "Then at TayNinh the senior officers, fromthe rank of platoon leader up,went back to North Vietnam.

"It took us 10 dass to crossfrom Tay Ninh to Saigon—about 50 miles—we had rice re-supply cached on the way andmoved mostly at night. Afterour column was cut up by airstrikes just outside Saigon wedispersed and I hid in the emp-

ty house. I did not know whereI was."

Hung said he hitched a rideon a civilian truck, leaving hisAK47 rifle in the house, andtold the driver he wanted toturn himself over to the gov-ernment. He was taken to aCatholic priest.

"We did not expect reinforce-ments as we expected to beable to hold on to certain areasand we were not given anymeans to identify undergroundViet Cong in Saigon—at least atmy level," Hung said. "Seniorofficers may have more knowl-edge, but I was lost."

S. Vief Refugeesrofa/ 1.3 MIL

SAIGON (AP) — South Viet-nam now has- more than 1.3million refugees, American of-ficials said Tuesday.

Nearly two-thirds of themfled from North Vietnam whenthe country, was divided follow-ing the 1954 Geneva agree-ments.

What Else?SAIGON (AP) — A diary

found on the body of a NorthVietnamese soldier says theHanoi regime has plans for anew name for Saigon, the Sai-gon Daily News reported Tues-day. If the South Vietnamesecapital is taken over by theCommunists, it would be re-named Ho Chi Minh, the papersaid.

AussiesKill 57Attackers

SAIGON (AP) — Aus*tralian troops killed 57 ene-my who were attacking anAustralian fire support base25 miles north-northeast ofSaigon, s p o k e s m e n saidTuesday.

It was learned that 10 Aus-tralians were killed and 25wounded in the five-hour battleMonday in Binh Duong Prov-ince. The attackers hit thecamp, occupied by elements ofthe 1st and 3rd AustralianRegt., just 24 hours after thedefenders moved in.

The enemy, attacking in esti-mated battalion strength hit thefire support base with AK47rifle fire, grenades and mor-tars, an Australian militaryspokesman said,

The Australians captured oneprisoner and were holding threesuspects. They also capturedseven crew-served weapons andan uncounted number of indi-vidual weapons.

Capture409 RedRockets

„ SAIGON (AP) — The U.S.Command announced Tuesdaythat Allied forces have captured409 enemy rockets weighing 100pounds each, the type used inharassing attacks against Sai-gon's Tan Son Nhut AB andother Allied installations in thecapital military district.

"The loss of these weaponshas reduced the firepower avail-able to enemy forces during thecurrent attacks on Saigon andmilitary installations in t h e(Third) Corps area," headquar-ters said in a memorandum forthe press.

The rockets, which have arange of over 11,000 yards, werecaptured within the last twomonths in provinces immediate-ly surrounding the capital mili-tary district,

"Of the 409 rockets capturedsince 11 March," headquarterssaid, "315 were found in HauNghia Province (west of Sai-gon) through which passes oneof the principal infiltrationroutes to Saigon. In at least twoinstances, prisoners of war cap-tured at the same time as somerockets were captured statedthat the rockets were to befired into the Saigon area."

War Veteran Gets Treated Like a JackassSAN F R A N C I S C O (AP) —

That's the way it is, man. Youdo your time in Vietnam, andwhen you get home you run intoa bale of red tape.

Cpl. Jack A. S. Le, a tobacco-chewing burro beloved by theU.S. Army's 595th Engineer-ing Co., formerly based at Ft,Riley, Kan., arrived here Mon-day night by air freight fromduty in Vietnam.

Cpl. Le, renowned for hisprowess at picking up—and eat-ing—cigarette butts, was unable

to follow his outfit back when itreturned last February.

But when he did touch downhere in a Trans World Airlinesfreighter, did Cpl. Le—Lestands for light equipment—geta hero's welcome?

There were a few newsmenaround as he was uncrated. Butdo you call getting your temper-ature taken, getting your feetwashed and giving up a bloodsample a hero's welcome?

And it the,blood sample has tobe flown to the Department ofAgriculture's laboratory at

Beltsville, Md., to see if youpicked up anything dreadful inVietnam, do you call that redcarpet treatment?

Cpl. Le apparently thoughtnot. He bucked and brayed abit, but what can you do?

Two Army captains and aveterinarian were fussing overhim. and he seemed gladenough when they put him inthe animal shelter at Interna-tional Airport until his bloodsample is analyzed. With himwent his service folder—serial

No. MB5595595—and computercard.

Cpl. Le grew up with his outfitat Ft. Piiley and moved with itto Vietnam more than a yearago. He was one of the few whowasn't seasick on the boat tripover, according to his old com-manding officer, Maj. Harry D.Orbison.

When Cpl. Le makes it back toFt. Riley, Orbison plans to at-tach him to his new outfit, the138th Engineer Group, andpromote him to buck sergeant.

SA1GOI4 (AP^Tht* attacks a half*mile away at Y Bridge shook the groundunder them but 'children went on playingand mothers sat breast-feeding theirbabies under sheets held up With string,

Few of the 10,000 refugees crowdedinto the wards and grounds of Phuc-KienHospital noticed the war going on. Thesounds of air attacks and artillery boom-ing were commonplace,

"We don't know what the fighting isall about," said Huyen Dinh, who fledwith his family of six from his housesouth of the Y Bridge minutes before itwent up in flames*

"We don't understand any of this. Wedon't care about politics. We just wantthe war to stop so we can go back towork and feed our children."

Dirth and his family ran to safety withwhat they could carry When Viet Congsnipers sneaked in between the tin-roofedshanties of the slums south of the KinhDoi Canal

"Soon after we left, the planes cameand everything went up in smoke. Thismorning I went back fo look and foundthat nothing is left of my house."

Nearby, Nguyen Thinh An, 25, wife ofa Vietnamese soldier serving with theSpecial Forces in the Central Highlands,sat on a straw mat with her three child-ren.

"At least we're all safe." she said."My sister brought her eight childrenout. But several of my friends stayedbehind to save their belongings and theynever came out."

She said she brought out her smalttransistor radio, her most prized posses*sion, but lost everything else.

"1 wonder where to go now,4> shesaid. "I don't even know how to reachmy husband, and when he comes backhe won't be able to find me.'s

The only thing that stirred any inter-est among the refugees was the riceration. Two men came out with it andthe families moved toward them.

The men carried a huge aluminumbucket filled with steaming boiled rice.They filled bowls held out by the refit"gees.

The rice is a gift from the ChineseNationalist government. Two-and-a-halftons a day are dished out in this onecamp alone. Young volunteers do the

cooking in a« outdoor "kitchen.'*Water spurting from a fountain in the

hospital garden is the only Washing fa-cility.

Nearly all the refugees questioned saidtheir houses were destroyed in the fight-ing. •

One man said his house was wreckedduring the Tel offensive in February andhe had just finished rebuilding it whenit was destroyed again,

Scores of refugees were questioned butnot one would place any blame for theirmisfortunes—cither ort the Americans oron the Viet Cong,

"It is war," said Nguyen San Con,homeless along with his wife and sevenchildren. "We hope there will soon bepeace. That is all 1 can tell you."

DAK TO, Vietnam (10) — Ifyou wanted to make a bad punyou could say the men of the6th Bn.» 29th Arty., are really"digging" their work thesedays.

In fact, the 4th Inf. Div.troops are digging so much nowthat soon most of the forwardcommand element of the artil-lery battalion at Dak To willbe underground.

"About the only things thatwill be housed above groundwill be our messhall area andthe battalion motor pool work-shop," said Lt. Col. AlbertAkers of Gallatin, Tenn., com-

manding officer. "With every-thing underground in deep, se-cure bunkers, rocket and mor-tar attacks won't affect us likethey have in the past."

Previously, enemy attacks onthe 1st Brigade command camphave sent the troops scurryingfor their protective bunkers."Now, if there's an attack dur-ing the night, everyone will bes l e e p i n g underground andsafe," Akers added.

Currently, 95 per cent of thebattalion is dug in, accordingto Akers. Enlisted men, seniorNCOs and officer billets are allunderground as is the com-

Bad Bay for the RedsA Navy PER patrols the inland bay near Qui Nhon as an Air

Force jet blasts enemy positions on the beach. South Korean troopswere conducting a search operation in the area. The combinedforces killed 194 Reds arid captured 76, (USN)

TAM KY, Vietnam (10) —Things are happening in TarnKy. After four years of crippl-ing enemy interdiction, theroad that connects Tarn Ky toTien Phuoc is open — an actwhich seems to have triggered

Chapel OpenedAt Phu Bai Base

PHU BAI, Vietnam (ISO) —A new 156-seat chapel has been,dedicated here to the memoryof 11 Force Logistic SupportGroup-Alpha Marines killed inaction.

The chapel was dedicated byBrig. Gen. Harry C. Olson,commanding g e n e r a l , ForceLogistic Command, and NavyCmdr B.E. Slultz, commandingofficer of Mobile ConstructionBn.-121, builders of the chapel.

PA NANG, Vietnam (ISO)—Marines of the 3rd Military Po-lice Bn., Force Logistic Com-mand, have helped bring wa-ter to the rice paddies of ThachNham hamlet after one of thedriest growing seasons on rec-ord.

The Marines helped installtwo pumps to draw water fromthe Tuy Loan river to irrigatethe fields and prevent anyfuture crop failure.

In the past, the villagers de-pended on rainfall alone for ir-rigation. With tiie rainfall light,the crops suffered.

According to the VietnameseAgriculture Department, Viet-

nam's first crop of the yearwas 40 per cent below expecta-tions.

Now, with each pump furnish-ing 2,500-3,000 gallons of waterper minute to the hamlet 's twosquare miles of rice paddies,their irrigation problems areover.

The people own their ownland, but the pumps were ahamlet project with each fami-ly contributing to the cost andupkeep.

"Without the pumps the peo-ple wouldn ' t have a secondcrop," explained 1st Lt, CharlesMelton, of I rv ing , Tex., ijrtiMP civil a f fa i r s officer . "Be-cause of the Jack of rain during

the winter, they had no naturalsource of water, except theriver, and no efficient means ofgetting water from the river totheir paddies."

Most of the work was com-pleted by the villagers them-selves with the Marines furnish-ing advice and assistance whenneeded. The biggest problemencountered was star t ing onepump engine. Many years ay;oit had powered a French mili-tary vehicle and was in badneed of repair.

The MPs took the engine toDa for a complete over-haul by a Vietnamese repair-man,

a new vitality in the peoplehere.

The roadway was opened fol-lowing a concerted program ofclearing and construction byU.S. and Vietnamese units.

The celebration marking thisevent included a ribbon-cuttingin Tarn Ky and a highly enthu-siastic reception in Tien Phuoc.

Province Chief Hoarig DinhTho would not relax followingI his significant achievement inliis province. He immediatelyinitiated a "Clean-Up Tarn Ky"campaign, beginning the follow-ing morning. This would be acombined effort by all thetownspeople to in a k e theirhome cleaner and a place to beproud of.

They started by sweeping thestreets and disposing of the ac-cumulalion of junk and gar-bage. Then drainage ditcheswere cleared of debris,

Each home was instructed tosupply and maintain a trashbarrel in front of the dwellingand to dig sani tary trenches forthe family's use.

Public areas were cleared byB o y Scouts, Combat Youthgroups and schoolchildren.

Police conducted a compre-hensive check on all citizens toinsure tha t they were registeredresidents of Tarn Ky, and toprevent Viet Cong in f i l t r a to r scoming in w i t h the people whohad 'raveled from Tien Phuocon t i ie newly opened route ,

l loa i iM Dinh Tho is not f in -ished. lie is looking for otherprojects his villagers can un-der take for se l f - improvement ." . . . with the people, as e n t h u -s ias t ic as they are. we will con-t i n u e to in i t i a t e projects which

mand center and, eventually,the battalion will have deepbunkers for various clubs, theammunition section and com-munication and wircmen.

The'battalion's survey sectionhas already completed its liv-ing quarters, a well-designedbunker which houses 12 men."It took us about 15 days tobuild this one," explained Spec.5 Sid Hegener of Maredosia,111. "Although it's dug into aslope, we haven't had any prob-lems with rain or mud gettingin. It's kept real dry."

The deep, but narrow, bunkerwas constructed with the usualcomplement of logs, a m m ocrates, steel planking and sand-bags. "We have a kind of base-ment," said Spec. 4 Gary Her-der of Indianapolis, "and if anywater does leak in, it will u'raininto the basement sump."

The .surveymen have also out-fi t ted their living quarters withas many c o m f o r t s as theirimaginations can p r o v i d e .Shelves, desks, drawers and astereo tape system are all builtinto the bunker.

"We've even given the placean address," continued Spec, 5Hegener. "It's 669 S. PerimeterDrive, Dak To, Vietnam. Wehave a nicp place here. It looksout over the river."

The 299th Engineer Bn. (Com-bat) and the division's 4th En-gineers have worked closelywith the artillerymen, bulldoz-ing out deep holes and displac-ing tons of earth for drainageditches and sumps.

"We weren't too sure if allthe bunker's would stay dryduring the monsoons but so farwe haven' t had too many prob-lems," said Spec. 4 Thomas D.Snare of Foil Worth, Tex., whoworks ia the battalion's motorpool section.

"It was def ini te ly a lot ofwork," added Spec. 4 RandallH. Smith of Las Vegas, "but Iguess if and when we hoar thealert siren, we won't have tocrawl out of the sack and runthrough the mud to a bunker.We'll already be here."

Gorton Pushes fo VisitC A N B E R R A , A u s t r a l i a (UPI )

— Prime M i n i s t e r John Gor tonis de termined to t{o ahead wishhis p lanned v i s i t to Vie tnamnext, m o n t h j even ihou.uh thecount ry ' s u n s t a b l e m i l i t a r ys i t u a t i o n may po.-e a th rea t tohis s a f e t y , a spokesman for

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SAIGON (UPI)--Allied forcesabandoned the .U.S. SpecialForces camp at Kham Due tothe North V i e t n a m e s e ala heavy cost in lives and equip*ment, military spokesmen dis-closed Tuesday.

The surrender of the strategiccamp to the Communists result-ed in the loss of five helicoptersand four airplanes, one of whichwas known to be loaded withVietnamese soldiers and theirdependents,

Perhaps as many as 120 men,women and c h i l d r e n wereaboard the U.S. Air Force C130Hercules which was shot downabout one mile from the Khampuc airstrip. U.S. spokesmensaid there apparently "were nosurvivors. , , ; — -

Brig. Gen. Jacob Glick, U.S.Marine Corps operations chiefin Vietnam, termed the evacua-tion of the camp a "smashingvictory for the allies." The camphad been surrounded by Com-munist troops, he said.

Glick reasoned that surrender

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as a credible candidate."Vice President H u b e r t H.

Humphrey was picking off about10 per cent of the Democraticvotes on write-ins and New YorkGov. Nelson A. Rockefeller waslogging 5 per cent, also onwrite-ins.

The vote with 17 per cent ofthe 2,133 precincts reporting forthe Democratic and 18 per centfor the Republican primarieswas:

DEMOCRATS367 Precincts-17 Pet.

Johnson 1,707— 5 pet,McCarthy 9,141—29 pet,Kennedy 16,415—53 pet.Humphrey 3,222—10 pet.Wallace 655— 2 pet.

REPUBLICANS385 Precincts-18 Pet.

Nixon 22,205—69 pet.Reagan 7,629—24 pet.Stassen 358— 1 pet.Liberator 197— 1 pet.Rockefeller 1,H02— 5 pet.Wallace 251— 1 pet.

Preffy Mai/boxCould Win Prize

PLAIN CITY, Ohio (AP) —Down with plain, ordinary mail-boxes, says Plain City Postmas-ter Howard S. Foust who hasstarted a local campaign tobeautify rural mailboxes.

Foust is sponsoring a contestand will award a .$25 savingsbond for the best rural mailbox.

"If a person is proud of hisrural home he should be proudof his mailbox," Foust says.

of the outpost would permit U.S.forces to bomb the area withtactical air strikes and B52s.

"The camp had served itspurpose by sighting a majorenemy movement," Glick toldnewsmen, "It no longer had anym i l i t a r y orpolitical signifkcance." , . . • ' • , - . . -• . •

U.S. spokesmen said 25 Ameri-cans were killed and 96 wound-ed,

Two C.130 transports, an AlESkyraider fighter-bomber, anobservation plane, and five -heli-copters were shot 'down byground fire.

There were no casualties inthe other aircraft shot, down byCommunist ground fire, spokes-

~hrtsrt~S'fiid; * " — V-Glick said at least 300 North

Vietnamese were k i 11 e d inground attacks on the camp,about 47 miles west of Tarn Kyand 350 miles, north of Saigon irtQuang Tin Province.

B52s flew at least 20 strikesagainst the outpost during thepast 72 hours, U.S. .militarysources said. One mission set offmore than 100 secondary explo-sions, indicating strikes on Com-munist ammunition and fuel sup-plies.

In other developments:—A heavy explosive, perhaps

a claymore mine, went off nextto a U.S. enlisted men's quar-ters in Saigon Tuesday night.The blast, which originated in atailor shop next to the Metro-pole BEQ (Bachelors EnlistedQuarters), caused minor dam-age, according to U.S. spokes-men. No casualties were report-ed.

—Heavy fighting was reportedalong South Vietnam's northernfrontier Monday as two battal-ions of South Vietnamese troopsbattled about 600 North Vietnam-ese, U.S. spokesmen said 119Communists were killed in a 10-hour battle supported by Ameri-can aircraft and artillery. Gov-ernment casualties were re-ported light.

President Charles de Gaulle shakes hands at visit to Romania.Bucharest airport after his arrival for a five-day

Adm. Kimmel Dies(AP Radiophoto)

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would stop bombing the North.He reiterated Hanoi's refusalto reciprocate by sealing downthe fighting on its side,

Bui Diem, a Saigon represen-tative, spent nearly one hourTuesday afternoon with .Ham-man and his deputy, CyrusVance,

Diem said as he left the em-bassy that he expects "fullestcooperation" from the U.S.delegation during the talks.

He described Hanoi's openingstatement Monday as contain-ing "absolutely nothing new."He said it was "all polemics."

Diem said he had no com-

plaints about South Vietnam nottaking part in the talks al thisstage but he later released astatement in which he said theSouth Vietnamese would haveto participate in the talks even-tually in "a principle role."

Diem's statement said that"all arrangements affecting di-rectly or indirectly the futureof the South Vietnamese peo-ple will have to be approvedby the South Vietnamese gov-ernment . . . "

Diem rejected as "out of thequestion" suggestions that theUnited States end its bombingof North Vietnam without aparallel gesture of some s o r Ifrom Hanoi,

(Continued From Page 1)disaster — but he said hecouldn't prove it.

Kimmel, who had been com-mander-in-chief of the PacificFleet and the combined U.S.Fleet only 10 months when theJapanese attack plunged theUnited States into World WarII, never accepted the officialverdict that he bore a majorshare of the blame for the dis-aster of Pearl Harbor.

In a book published 13 yearsafter the Japanese attack whichended his Naval career in dis-grace, Kimmel asserted that hewas a victim of a secrecy im-posed by high officials of theRoosevelt administration.

Kimmel accused these offi-cials of suppressing informationwhich could have tipped off theattack, enabling him to face itwith a ba t t le - ready Pacificfleet. Instead, the enemy bomb-ers knocked out eight battle-ships ana 10 other U.S. navalcraft caught unaware in theharbor and killed 3,435 Ameri-cans.

He and Gen. Walter C. Short,in command of the Army inHawaii, were quickly relievedof duty. An inquiry board head-ed by Supreme Court JusticeOwen J. Roberts in 1942 heldthat both had been guilty of"dereliction of duty."

As a result of this finding,trial of the two officers bycourt-martial was ordered onFeb. 28, 1942. The order speci-fied, however, that the trialwould be deferred "until suchtime as the public interest andsafety would permit."

Neither was ever tried. Bothretired from the Armed Forcesin 1942. Short died in Dallas in1949.

(Continued From Page 1)against the presence of NATOtroops on French soil, de Gaullesaid France was aware of the"obligation to help end the di-vision of Europe because it1 isartificial, sterile and may be-come lethal."

He said such division as theresult of the World War II al-lied conference of Yalta "con-tradicts the very nature of theEuropean continent which forcenturies has sought to uniteand which sees now more clear-ly than ever before the oppor-tunity and obligation to do so."

Balancing his thinly veiled at-tack on Soviet rule in EasternEurope, de Gaulle said the So-viet Union's power "has becomea pillar of our continent withoutwhich Europe would have founditself enslaved 25 years ago."

He said the concept of aunited Europe was "very muchalive" in European countries,listing West Germany, Italy"and others." He deliberatelyignored the United States as apower interested in Europeansecurity.

In airport speeches the twoleaders solemnly pledged to pro-mote the cause of national free-dom and independence.

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rescue wounded men in Viet-nam.

Marine Sgt. Richard AllanPittman, son of Mrs. Elmer R.Cone, Stockton, Calif.—Encoun-tering a Communist force of 30

24 Pacific Stars & StripesThursday, May 16, 1S68

to 40 men, on July 24, 1966, Pitt-man set up a machine gun in aroadway and almost .single-handedly stopped their advance.When the machine gun jammed,he picked up an enemysubmachine gun and the pistolof a fallen comrade to continuethe fight.

Navy Boatswain's Mate l.C.James E. Williams, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Franklin Wil-liams, Darlington, S. C,—While serving aboard a riverpatrol boat on Oct. 31, 1966, heexposed himself to heavy lireduring a three-hour battle inwhich 65 enemy small craftwere destroyed.

Air Force Capt. Gerald 0.Young, son of Mr. and Mrs,

Orren Vernon Young, Anacortes,Wash.—A helicopter rescue crewcommander, he refused for 17hours to be evacuated after hischopper was shot down and hewas badly burned on Nov. 9,1907. He remained to help rescuewounded and to fight off enemyforces until additional rescuecraft could be brought to thearea.

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