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Vol. 24, No. 146 Monday, May 27, 1968

WASHINGTON (AP)—A Soviet medium jetbomber crashed in the Norwegian Sea Saturdayshortly after making a low pass close to a U,S*aircraft carrier, the Pentagon announced.

No survivors were found and parts of threebodies were recovered, a spokesman added*

The Defense Department said the antisub-marine warfare carrier Essex reported that U.S.navai vessels and aircraft "in no way interfered

with, hampered or threat-ened the Soviet aircraft atany time or in any wayprior to the crash."

The plane which went into thesea about 200 miles off the westcoast of Norway reportedly wasa TU16 Badger, an elderly me*dium bomber which normallycarries,a crew of seven.

The United States has com-plained on a number of occa-sions dating back at least fiveyears that Soviet reconnais-sance bombers, including Badg-ers, have flown over U.S. navalunits in international waters.

There was no immediate com-ment from the Soviet embassy,which was notified Saturdaymorning shortly after the inci-dent.

The announcement said theTU16 was one of a f l i gh t of twoBadgers.

"It was making a fourth lowpass near the carrier USS Es-(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

U.S. Navy Photo via AP RadioSOVIET TU16, OF TYPE THAT CRASHED IS TAILED BY PLANES FROM CARRIER KITTY HAWK IN PACIFIC IN 1963.

PorkLovers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen.John Sparkman, D-Ala., says liehas received complaints thatit's unfa i r to compare mes.sypeople to pigs so he is taking upthe fight for the porkers.

This latest national crisisstems from plans by KeepAmerica Beautiful, Inc., to iden-t i fy Ji t terbugs with pigs.

Some Alabaniians identifiedwi th pigs through pork produc-tion wrote to Sparkman protest-ing this as an offense to the

"These persons feel dial suchcomparison is unfa i r to pigssince pigs are just as clean astheir owners will let them be,"Sparkman wrote to the KeepAmerica Beau t i fu l people. "It istheir feel ing that pigs are notunclean animals and that thecampaign which you proposecould be dan);iiriu2 to the pig in-dustry."

P A R I S (UPI) ~ PremierGeorges Pompidou Saturday is-sued an order suspending theright of public assembly andaccused agitators of trying tostart a civil war in France.Hours later, heavy fightingbroke out in two provincialcapitals between police andyouths.

In Paris, the violence ebbed.Pompidou, c r a c k i n g down

after a wild night of vicious anti-Gaullist r i o t i n g throughoutFrance, ordered police to break

up any further demonstrations"without delay,"

The order followed a night ofviolence in 14 French cities thatleft two persons dead and morethan 1,000 injured.

In Lyon, scene of some of theworst violence Friday night, a

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police officer was shot twice andrushed to a hospital in seriouscondition. Police said the as-sailants escaped by cur, A

police inspector was killed inLyon Friday night .

Mobs of youths battled policein Bordeaux, hurling pavingstones and tiles from rooftopsat police who responded withvolleys of tear gas. Severaldemonstrators and police wereinjured in the f igh t ing aroundthe wine capital 's market place,

Paris, center of the currentsocial upheaval in France andscene of the most vicious rioting,(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

Compiled From AP ami UPIThousands w e r e homeless

Saturday as relentless rains fedswollen rivers and broughtfloods to six states — Pennsyl-vania, West Virginia, Kentucky,Ohio, Indiana and Oklahoma.

Oklahoma and another f ivestates—Missouri, Illinois, Arkan-sas, Tennessee and Texas—woreraked by tornadoes, thunder-storms and hail.

At least two persons drownedin Ohio and thousands morewere rushed to high ground asmore than four inches of rainfell in several sections of thestate in 24 hours.

Athens County Sheri f f HaroldE. Shields said it looked "likea cloudburst." He said the cityof Athens, population 20,000. withan additional l ( i , f>00 Ohio Univer-sity students, was isolated.

"We expect the Hocking Riverto crest here early in themorning," Shields said. ' 'There's(Continued on Hack Page. Col. 1)

SAIGON (AP) — New fight-ing broke out on the northernf r i n g e s of Saigon Saturdayamidst reports the Viet Congwere t rying to send troops intothe capital.

A task force of South Vietnam-ese Marines spearheaded bytanks and American rocket-fir-ing helicopters moved up a

main street only jJVo miles fromthe capi ta l to block enemy ap-proach routes.

An armored column wheeledinto position and appeared to bestalling an assault in mid-af-ternoon but instead expanded itsperimeter around a key roadj u n c t i o n leading i n t o Saigon..

There was evidence the Viet

sides ofac t ion ,

thethe

Cong were on bothfocal point of theBinh Loi Bridge.

Fighting was sporadic.Hundreds of c iv i l ians , a few of

them wounded, s treamed fromtheir homes lo sa fe r areas.

Police, meanwhi le , apprehend-ed two Viet Cong women dis-t r ibut ing propaganda leaf le ts at

a bus s t a t i o n in ceurra! ( 'the Chinese q u a r t e r of >.Two pis tols \\ere. sei/ed.

In other ad ion , Amforces repulsed N o i l h V uese ground a t t a c k s Sanight at three s epa ra t ewest of K u n i u n i C i t y , 2'<".i

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SAIGON (AP)—A North Vietnamese surface-to-airmissile (SAM) was fired on high-flying Air Force B52bombers Saturday along South Vietnam's northern fron-tier. None of the J352s were hit, the U.S. Command said,in the southernmost firing of a SAM.

"The high-flying B62s successfully avoided the SAMand returned to base,"- a spokesman said.

The eight-jet Stratofortresses, —-—-—~*America's b i g g e s t bombers,were attacking troop concen-trations, weapons positions andbunkers in the southern half ofthe Demilitarized Zone Satur-day when they were fired ononly three miles northwest ofthe allied combat base at GtoLinh.

On rare occasions in the past,North Vietnamese gunners havefired SAMs on the giant $15-million bombers, but never asclose to the frontier asday's firing. The U.S.niand says it has neverB52 to enemy action.

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Aussie TanksJoin BaffSe

•SAIGON (AP) — Centuriontanks have moved in to addmuscle to the 1st AustralianTask Force's big sweep againstguerrillas in Bien Hoa Provincewest of Saigon. <

An Australian Army spokes-man said one of the 50-ton tanks,the fifth in a convoy, was dam-aged when it hit a mine andlost its right track and suspen-sion unit.

None of the tank crew wasinjured, the spokesman said, butguerrilla gunners shot down alight observation plane flyingover the armored vehicles andthe pilot was killed. He wasidentified as Maj. G.A. Const-able, 32, of Behnore, New SouthWales.

The Australian troops have re-ported killing 134 guerrillas andNorth Vietnamese regulars sincebeginning the sweep 13 clays ago.

Burma Envoy ResignsWASHINGTON (UPI) — The

resignation of veteran diplo-mat Henry A. Byroade. as U.S.ambassador to Burma, a posi-tion he has held for nearly fiveyears, was announced at theWhite House.

SAIGON (AP) -~ PresidentNguyen Van Thieu formally in-stalled the Cabinet of Tran VanHuong, 64-year-old f o r m e i*schoolteacher, Saturday in aceremony at the PresidentialPalace.

Huong had spent a week put-ting together a Cabinet com-posed mainly of civilians, mostof them Buddhists of South Viet-namese origin. Only two minis-tries—Interior and Defense—areheld by generals.

In a brief speech, the newPremier promised to devote hislife to the preservation of free-dom and democracy in SouthVietnam.

The new Cabinet was as fol-lows:

Prime Minister; Tran VanHuong.

Minister without portfolio:Mai Tho Truyen.

Minister without portfolio:Vu Quoc Thuc.

Defense and Veterans Affairs:Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Vy.

Interior: Lt. Gen. Tran ThienKhiem.

Foreign Affairs: Tran ChanhThanh.

Economic Affairs: An NgocHo.

Finance: Luu Van Tinh.Minorities and Ethnic Devel-

opment: Paul Nur.Information: Ton That Thien.Justice: Le Van Thu.Education: Nguyen Van Tho.Communications and Public

Works: Luong The Sieu.Agriculture: Truong T h a i

Ton.Labor: Dam Smy Hien.Health and Social Welfare:

Tran Luy.Secretary of State in the Prime

Minister's Office: Iluynh VanDuo.

Lensmon

SAIGON (UPI) — Combatphotographer Nguyen Thanh Taiwas convicted by a special Viet-namese mil i tary court Friday ofproducing pictures detrimentalto the national interest.

He was sentenced to two yearsimprisonment. Tai is a Vietnam-ese s taff photographer f o rUnited Press Internat ional .

The court convicted him ofproducing pictures in 1965 whichfalsely depicted Vietnamese sol-diers th rea ten ing Viet Cong pris-oners.

Tai photographed some of thebitterest battles of the war, con-centrating on Vietnamese gov-ernment troops. In April, 1967,

A Pacific Stars & StripesMonday, May 27,

he was seriously injured by amine while covering VietnameseR a n g e r operations i n t heMekong Delta and only recentlyreturned to work on a part-t ime

In New York, United PressInternational fo rmal ly protestedto the South Vietnamese gov-ernment against the conviction.

UPI asked the State Depart-ment to intervene in the case ofTai, who was sentenced for pic-tures that showed, among otherthings, water being forced downa suspect's nose and throat . Thepictures were taken In 19155.

H, Roger Talari an, UPI edi-tor, cabled President NguyenVan Thieu in Saigon to call his"urgent a t tent ion" to the case.

Flee Saigon FightingA woman and children flee fighting between

combat police and Viet Cong in northeasternSaigon. Squads of Viet Cong were reported infil-trating into the capital. (AP Radiophoto)

S&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON — Two Americanplanes were reported downed byenemy ground fire Saturday,bringing the total of combatplanes shot down in South Viet-nam to 206.

An Air Force At Sky raiderwas hit by Communist groundfire while on a strike 16 mileswest of Tarn Ky. The pilot waskilled.

Later a Marine A4 wasbrought down 22 miles southeastof TamJKy. The pilot parachutedand was rescued uninjured.

An Air Force C123 on a de-foliation mission along the ex-treme southern tip of SouthVietnam crashed a half-mile off-shore due to unknown causes.

Pilot Hit,Plane Lands

SAIGON (AP) — Viet Conggunners wounded the pilot of aRoyal Austral ian Air Forcecargo plane Friday and whiletwo American newsmen band-aged him, the copilot landed thecraft in a driving rain.

Wounded was Flying Off icerMax Goodsell of Randwick, Syd-ney, hit when the two engineCaribou was caught in a ma-chine gun crossfire three milesnorth of Ca Man a i r f ie ld in theMekong Delta.

The copilot, Flying Officer TanCooper, of Canberra, said. "Theweather was really wi ld . Visibi-l i ty was down to about 3Ui) yards\ \ i t h heavy rain . Max was f l y ingfair ly low t rying to f i n d the a i r -field when they opened fire."

And Make No Mistake^ LAHAMIK, WYO. ( A P ) —The Albany County assessor'sof f i ce at Lara iu ie is amusedby an entry on a propertyassessment lax form. A manlisted his w i fe ' s occupation as''speaker of the house/'

WASHINGTON (S&S) — TheDefense Department has an-nounced the following casualtiesin connection with the conflictin Vietnam.

KILLED IN ACTIONArmy

SPS Doris W. Clark/ Tuscumbia, Ala.SP4 Duncan Taylor Jr., Los Angeles/ Calif.Cpl. Randolph P. Estrada, Pasadena,

Calif.Pic. John R. Oglesby, Sim), Calif.SP4 Mark J. Carter, Thonotosassa, Fla.Sat. Daniel G. Johnson, Rockford, III.Pic. Frederick L. Rohan, Chicago, lit.Sgt Carl E. Shirley, Louisville, Ky.Sgt. Harry H. Desormoaux, Sault Stc,

Marie, Mich.Pfc. Gregory A. Rindy, Roseville, Mich,SP4 Dennis I. Pedefsen, Duluth, Minn.Pfc. William D. Hanssen, Minneapolis,

Minn.Sgt. Robert A. Wagner, Winside, Neb.Sgt, Carl F. Schmalz Jr., Old Bridge,

~N,J.SP4 Dennis W. Thompson, Paterson, N,J.SP4 Leroy F. Valdez, Mora, N.M.SP4 Christopher J. Scherer, Flushing, N.Y.SP4 Peter M. Guenette, Troy, N.Y.ILt. William K, Ross, Cincinnati, Ohio.Sgt. Edwin G. Newell, Alhens, Ohio.Egt. Thomas L. Scifert, Cleveland, Ohio.Pfc. Stephen E. Crawford, Portsmouth,

Ohio.Pfc. James R. Maurer,' Columbus, Ohio.Sgt. Malvin A. Allen, North Bend, Ore.SSg. David. W. Casey, Carlisle, Pa.S?5 James S. Rylee, Glenmoore, Pa.SP4 John E, Cashley, Philadelphia, Pa.Pfc. Homer B. Bell Jr., Tullahorna, Ten.Pfc. Alberto L. Perez, San Benito, Tex.Pfc. Gerald W. Cox Jr., Salt Lake City,

Utah.2Lt. Thomas N. Teague, Mountlake

Terrace, Wash.SP4 Carl R. Hottula, McCleary, Wash.

NavyHM3 Robert M. Case/, Guftenburg, N..J.HM3 Michael A. Tcogue, Mesquiie, Tex.

Marine CorpsPfc, Orrnond M, Miller, Gadsden, Ala.C"i. John M, Pamp'in, Dormott, Ark.ILt. Lutmy D. Cummins, Oroville, Colif.Pfc, Philip D. Miller, Grand Junction,

Colo.Pic. Hubert C, Knight, Cantonment, Fla.LCol. Zack T. Addinglon, Clermont, G-a.Sat. William A. Kekahuna, Honolulu,

Hawaii,Col. James E. Lott, Honolulu, Hawaii.Pic. Robert C. Burke, MoHtic'llo, III,Pic. Sam Cole Jr., Natchilochos, La.Pvt. James L. Hill, Ponchatonla, La.P C . Richard K. Morrison, Silver Springs,

Mel.LCpl. Ronald J, Markel, Waldron, Mich.P^c, Michael J. Morris, Albuquerque, N.M,Pic. Miguel Pagan, Now York City.C it. Sherman R. Fields Jr., Dallas, N.C.LCpl. Marvin A. Bullock, Elm City, N.C.LCol. Jarrvs T. Pa-no, Columoia, N.C.Pic. Robert G. Frejmcm, Steiiman, N.C.P'c. George H, Wellington, Greensb ro,

N.C.O !. D-juglas E, Foster, Keitering, Ohio.LCpl. Donnie G. Lewis, Stigler, Okla.Pfc. Richard M. Seng, Alleniown, Pa.dl. Jerry G. HolHngsworth Jr., Columbia,

S.C.Pic. Jerry Whitaker, Carnden, S.C.l!.t. Allen W. Courtney Jr., Houston, Tex.Oil. Carlos Dominguez, El Paso, Tex.P'c. Roger K. Jrnes, Hampton, Va.Pvt. James W. Ycunci, Roonoke, Va.

DIED OF WOUNDSMarine Co;-ps

Cpl. Edward 1. Gorman. Ill, Manhattan,Kon.

LCpl. James L. Foster, Rosweil N.M.LCpl. G-r,e A. L'.ibou.ity, Fiulisburg, N.Y,

MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILEArmy

Cpt. Edmond J. Landers, Vacaville, Calif.Pfc. Isidro Jimenez, El Monte, Calif.WO Gary L. Allen, Lynn Haven, Fla.Pfc. Francis E. Jordan, Springs, Ken.Pic. John L. Wojcicky, Baltimore, Md.SP4 James R. Ringel, Waldron, Mich.Pvt. Jerome E. Jacobs, Bayonnc, N.J.SP4 Leonard J. Boll, Buffalo, N.Y.SP4 John A. Anderson, Willkimsvllle, N.Y.SSg. David W. Hendle, Massillon, Ohio.Sgt. William J. Eisenhower, Williamsport,,

Pa.2Lt, Rene G. Baumann, Dallas, Tex.Pfc, Jesus Me|ia, Brownsville, Tex.

Marine CorpsCpl. Kenneth W. Claire, Redwood City,

Calif.MISSING IN ACTION

ArmyILt. Thomas S. Hughes.CWO' Douglas A. Walker.WO Franklin V. Anderson.WO Robert J. Rosar.SPS Brent J. Bertsch.SP4 Francis M. Webster.SP4 Charles B.-'Mason.SP4 Louis L. Bradley Jr.SP4 Benny J. Lewis.SP4 Sherman J. Boulware.SP4 Raymond A. Hensley.SP4 Moses J. Cousin.Pfc. Dennis O. Cullum.P;C. Jerry W. Hammock.Pfc. Stephen W. Quinn.P?c, Howard R. Spltzer.Pfc. Thad B. Jessiman.Pfc, Charles E. Reiner,Pfc. Patrick V. McNearney,

Air ForceCoot. Joseph E. Davies.ILt. Glenn D. McCubbin.

MISSING TO CAPTUREDNavy

LI. Richord G. Tangernan.Lt. Giles R. Norringlon.

DIED NOT AS A RESULT OPHOSTILE ACTION

NavyBM3 Roy A. Cox, Fort Worth, Tex.

Marine CorpsLCpl. John C, Smith, Moline, III.Pic. Harry L. Riley Jr., Chicago, III.LCpl. Larry J, Hardy, Castle Rock, Wash.

MISSING NOT AS A RESULT OFHOSTILE ACTION

ArmySP4 Edward E. Straud.

NavyBM2 Kenneth A. Carroll.SA Michael J. Kusligicm.

CORRECTIONSMaj. Richard W. Wackerfuss, USAF,

Change status from died not cii aresult of hostile action to killed in oclicn.

Copt. Edward C. Krawczyk, USAF,Florissant, Missouri and Copt. Donald L,Merry, USAF, Riviera Beach, Florida,Change staius from died not as a resultot hostile action to killed in action.

ROK Troops Kill 22SAIGON (AP) — South Ko-

rean infantrymen and Marineskilled 22 soldiers and capturedone prisoner Friday in sevenpatrol contacts along South Viet-nam's central coastal area, Ko-rean military headquarters re-ported Saturday. Korean casual-ties \\ere termed light.

L.Cpl, John Jennings, of Independence, Mo., (left), and L.Cpl.Donald Shafer, of Balhvin, Mo., launch the noon weather balloonat llth Marine Rcgt. headquarters at Da Nang. (UbMC)

DA NANG, Vietnam (ISO)—With the help of a six-footmeteorological balloon, artilleryunits of the llth Marine Regt.are able to deliver deadly fireon the enemy 24 hours a day.

T h e w e a t h e r b a l l o o n ,launched from the regimentalheadquarters three times dai-ly, carries a plastic monitor-ing device to heights of 18,000meters. The device measuresair p r e s s u r e, temperature,wind velocity and direction,and humidity. It sends data tothe regiment's Fire DirectionCenter (FDC).

The FDC adds more dataand then relays the informa-tion to all artillery units in a25-rnile radius of Da Nang.

"Using the weather data sup-plied by us, if the forward ob-server 'plots the mission cor-rectly, the first round shouldhit within 50 meters of the

6,000th LandingPHU BAI, Vietnam (ISO) —

First Lt. Robert M. Lancaster,28, of Chester, S.C., piloting aUH34D Sea Horse of MarineMedium Helicopter Sq. 383,made the 6,000th consecutivesuccessful landing aboard t h eU.S. hospital ship Repose dur-ing a recent medical evacua-tion mission.

target," said Sgt. Jerry Car-reno, of C1 e a r w a t e r, Fla.,NCOIC of the section.

Since wind direction, air den-sity and humidity affect theaccuracy of artillery rounds,especially at long ranges, theairborne balloon continues totransmit data so the FDC canmodify information from timeto time.

Although the process is com-plicated, it works. "Withoutthe balloon, the first roundcould be: off target by as muchas 200 meters," Carreno- said."The only thing we'd have onour side then would be luck."

CAMP ENARX -Vietnam (10)— From makeshift spiderholesin the highland jungles, twoNorth Vietnamese sergeantshad read leaflets of the returnof two officers to the South.

Their political officers, how-ever, had told them they weredead. Mercilessly t o r t u r e d,then killed, they were told overand over again. But they hadbeen told that many times be*fore — this time they didn'tbelieve it

After struggling through thejungles for many days withoutfood and sleep, the sergeantswalked into the forward fire-base of the 2nd Bn., 35th Inf.The 4th Div. welcomed them.

Weeks later, they met thetwo "dead" officers at theChieii Hoi center in Saigon.

DAK TO, Vietnam (10)—Themen of the 1st Bn., 22nd Ini'.'sfire support bases are neverwithout entertainment thanks totheir own personal disc jockey,Sgt. Bob Mason, of Salem, Ore.

Mason was a civilian discjockey for station KBZY inSalem before entering the Armyto serve as a radio telephoneoperator with the "Regulars."His specialties are tape-record-ings of radio shows of the 20sand 30s. Mason receives at leasttwo or three tapes a week fromfriends at his old radio station.

Working with the 4th PsyOpsGroup, an unrehearsed tapewas made of their openingconversation. Pictures of thefour were taken as they stoodtogether.

"A timely leaflet, was in or-der,*' said Capt. Maurice Pee*renboom of Green Bay, Wis.,from the Ivy FsyOps section,"We had to counteract thefalse stories being spread," ,

The Chieu Hoi center pro-gram attempts to , step up thereturn of NVA or VC soldiersto South Vietnam. The six-weokprogram focuses on vocational,educational and mental aid tothe "returnee/' A company ofNVA tried to overrun the cen-ter during the Tet offensivebut was thrown back by ARVNMarines.

Working with the Propagan-

da Development Center in Sai-gon, more than a million copiesof the leaflet were made andare being distributed in theDak To-Kontum area.

One leaflet reads:"Dear Friends, Captain Y

and I are still alive and safeand are living amidst the loveof the people of South Viet-nam."Today we met two of our

comrades, Can and Bo, whorecently returned. I ani excit-ed because we understandevery circumstance and wehope you will reject any Un-reasonable doubts. Believe inus as your faithful friends. Re-turn here — you will havecomplete security and a con-tent life. I sincerely await yourreturn.**

VUNG DAT AM, Vietnam (10)—A teen-age couple in Than Anare proving that age is no factorin giving competent medicaltreatment to the sick.

She is about 16, and he is 17.And together they operate a freemedical aid station in their vil-lage 24 hours a day.

Both were trained by theInternational Red Cross and arefully .qualified to administermedical aid.

Thu Dan Buyp said she andDang Dau have handled casesranging from delivering a babyto treating an old man for foodpoisoning.

While much of their time isdevoted to treating the sick andinjured, they still find a fewspare moments to instruct thevillagers in personal hygieneand preventive medical pro-cedures.

Receiving their s u p p 1 i e sthrough a much larger stationin Pleiku, the duo is an exampleof the many people throughoutVietnam who are being trainedto give both medical aid and achance for a bettor life to theirfellow Vietnamese.

Port Workers VoteSAIGON (10) — Vietnamese

employes at the Port of Sai-gon recently elected represen-tatives to the 125th Transpor-tation Command's Employe-M a n a g e m e n t Council. Thecouncil serves in an advisorycapacity to the Saigon termi-nal commander with mutualinterest and benefits to theVietnamese work force andthe U.S. Army,

KONTUM, Vietnam (10) —Flat tires are usually an annoy-ance, but not to Pfc. JamesDuggan of Huntington, Tex.,with" Headquarters Co., 3rdBrigade. "After my last flat Iwas even thankful," he said.

Duggan was travel;ng by con-voy from Pleiku to Kontumdown Highway 14. His truck was

about in the center of the convoyloaded with supplies for the com-munications section of the 3rdBrigade.

Seven miles outside of Kontumhe heard the thumping sound ofa tire going flat. "It just wentflat all of a sudden. Boy, was Imad," he related.

GO DA HA, Vietnam (PAO)—• When the Viet. Cong de-stroyed a bridge, linking therich farm land and the centralmarket place here, Navy Sea-bee Team 0511 was given achance to exhibit its talents.

With the bridge gone, farm-ers were forced to rely onferries to transport their goodsto market, but the small dock-ing place was inadequate.

Under the leadership of Lt.(j.g.) George Karisu, twomembers of the team built a12-foot pier that would allowthe ferries to unload passen-gers and their produce rapid-ly.

In four hours, ConstructionElectrician Kenneth A. Ilaslerand Steelworker Ronald L.

Teague enclosed seven 50-gaKIon drums in a steel frame.The drums were covered withplanks for a walkway.

The m a k e s h i f t pier alsohad to be able to adjust to theriver's four-foot tide.

This problem was handledby welding a length of. pipe,2% inches in diameter, to eachcorner of the river end of thepier. The pipes extended downinto two 3-inch pipes sunk intothe river bed. Thus, the .pierwas able to rise and fall withthe tide.

From the time the . project• was brought to the Seabces,

only seven hours elapsed be-fore boats began using thenew facility.

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"I borrowed a tire from atruck behind me. By the t ime Igot it changed the convoy hadpassed and I had to hurry locatch up."

He had just tagged on to theend when an estimated NorthVietnamese Army battalion at-tacked the convoy.

AFs Top Security Police NCOSenior M.Sgt. Chester W. Slater, 42, of Grafton, W.Va., a mem-

ber of the 3()(ith Tactical Fighter Wing Security Police Sq. stationedat Da Nang, has been chosen Outstanding Security Police NCO inthe Air Force for 1967. He will serve a one-yeur term oa a specialadvisory board to €oi. Donald C. Shultis, USAF director of SecurityPolice. (USAF)

(Continued iFfoitt Page 1)was relatively calm Saturdaynight

Students, who had been in thefront line of battle against policeduring' past rioting, Jormedpolice groups' and kept otheryouths from building new barri*Cades hi the Latin Quarter*

Pompidou met late into thenight with representatives ofFrance's six major trade unions

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sex, which was conducting anti-submarine warfare training op-erations," the announcementsaid.

"On its last pass, the aircraftcame within approximately 20yards horizontally of the Essexport quarter at an altitude ofabout 120 feet," it continued.

The Pentagon said that, ac-cording to eye witnesses, theplane was about five miles fromthe Essex and less than 50 feetabove the water when it "ap-peared to suddenly lose power,drop the right wing and plungeinto the water in a burst offlame."

Fifteen minutes before the in-cident, the statement said, theEssex had launched five anti-s u b m a r i n c warfare patrolplanes on a training flight.

These were described by aspokesman as S2F Trackers,which he said can carry depthcharges but are not armed forair-to-air combat.

The Soviet bomber "had notpassed dangerously close to anyU.S. aircraft in the air prior tothe crash," the Pentagon said.

U.S. Navy rescue helicopters,already hovering in the air inconnection with the launch ofthe U.S. patrol planes, were atthe crash scene within eightminutes after the bomber wentin at 6:52 a.m. EDT.

The Pentagon said the otherSoviet Badger "departed thearea." It had no further infor-mation about the second plane.

The U.S. destroyer Warring-ton was in the vicinity of a So-viet destroyer about 100 milesaway and messaged the Sovietship about the crash by flashinglight signal.

"The Soviet destroyer pro-ceeded to the crash scene, andthe recovered remains weretaken on board," the Pentagonsaid.

and the National ManagementAssociation to try to find a wayto end strikes that have keptabout 10 million workers offtheir jobs.

feut even as they met, televi»sion newsmen went on strikeclaiming that "objectivity andimpartiality of televised newsWas not being respected."

The anger and violence thatfollowed President Charles tieGaulle's call for a referendumin a speech to the nation Fridaynight appeared to be mostly.spent. But it took a heavy toll.

The police inspector who waskilled in rioting at Lyon wascrushed by a tlriverless trucksent careening toward police byrioters. A 26-year-old man wasstabbed in the midst of, a mob inthe Paris Latin Quarter.

"In the presence of evidentattempts to start a civil war,"Pompidou said, police have beengiven orders to act ruthlesslyto prevent new demonstrations.

Pompidou, who made a 1,500-word statement from his officein the Hotel Matignon after thenew night of violence, actedunder constitutional provisionsputting police administration athis disposal. He can issue ordersto "protect fundamental liber-ties" without parliamentary ap-proval.

Police reported Saturday thatin the Paris battles alone, 795persons were arrested, including80 women, and hospitals and theRed Cross treated 447 injuredcivilians, including 176 who werehospitalized.

In Strasbourg, more than 50persons were injured in demon-strations. The toll of woundedwas more than 100 in Lyon andinjuries ranged from three orfour to a score in other cities.

Most gasoline stations inParis and other cities ran outof gas Saturday. Emergencydeliveries were made only forfood delivery trucks, ambulancesand Red Cross vehicles. Policehad their own supplies.

At the same time, the Frencharmy began carrying civilianson their aircraft from militaryairports near Paris, Brest,Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseilleand Strasbourg. A daily Paris-Geneva flight was scheduled.Passengers were being ferriedto the military airports by armytrucks.

However, t h e r e was noindication that strikes at allcivilian airports which havegrounded major commercial air-lines would soon be lifted.

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23 feet of water now and floodstage is 17. The river is stillrising."

The drownings were reportedin the Southern Ohio county ofVinton and in Greene County inthe western part of the state.The victims were identified asRandolph Gearing, 15, London-derry, who drowned in SaltCreek near Londonderry, inVinton County, and John S.Dickman, 21, Kettoring, who felloff a raft that capsized in theLittle Miami River near YellowSprings in Greene County.

Ohio National Guard uni tswere ordered out by state Ad-jutant General S.T. Del Corso toaid in evacuation when thousandsof persons in the .southern halfof the state were forced fromhomes because of the high water.The Red Cross set up disasterheadquarters in a half-dozencommunities.

24 Pacific Stars & StripesMonday, May 27,

More than 100 roads in thestate were closed by high water.

The community of Circlevillewas hard hit. The Hargus Creekflowed through the center ofCircleville, population 11,000,forcing 400 persons to higherground.

Scott AFB near Belleville, 111.,recorded almost 1\/>z inches ofrain in six hours. Charleston,111., measured a little more thanone inch in one hour.

Several tornadoes s k i p p edthrough the metropolitan Mem-phis, Tenn., area Saturday after-noon, unroofing houses and forc-ing players and spectators atthe Memphis Open Golf Tourna-ment into the clubhouse base-ment.

Police said a -tornado hitCharjoan School in East Mem-phis, l i f t ing part of the roof offthe building.

At the Colonial Country Club,site of the Memphis Open, of-ficials suspended play and or-dered all players and spectatorsinto the clubhouse. Play resumedlater,

AP RadiophotoFRENCH SOLDIERS USE BULLDOZERS TO CLEAN RIOT-TORN STREET IN PARIS' LATIN QUARTER.

(Continued From Page 1)north of Saigon, in the CentralHighlands.

The North Vietnamese at-tacked after firing more than100 rounds of 82 mm mortarfire at two U.S. Army fire sup-port bases known as Bunker Hilland Brillo Pad, about 18 mileswest of Kontum. No reports ofcasualties were available.

At the Plei Kleng U.S. Spe-cial Forces camp, 10 miles westof Kontum astride the mainroute into the city, the GreenBerets reported killing nineNorth Vietnamese attackers.Their own losses were reportedlight.

The new fighting at the BinhLoi Bridge coincided with re-ports from police sources thatelements of two Viet Cong regi-ments already had infiltratedinto Saigon's northern suburbs,posing a new threat of anotheroffensive against the capital.

An e x p l o s i o n apparentlycaused by a floating mine dam-aged a barge, tug and cargoship near Saigon Saturday. Al-though stevedores were unload-ing ammunition from the ship,the Cuba Victory, to the barge,none of the shells exploded, theofficials said.

The owner of the tug was theLuzon Stevedore Co. of thePhilippines. Three F i l i p i n o swere injured.

The barge was owned by theU.S. Army. One Vietnamesecivilian working on the bargewas killed and four were wound-ed.

Only 50$ an AcreOr $690,000

WASHINGTON (IJPI) —Lock-ing for a cheap cattle ranch?There's one going for less than50 cents an" acre—$000,000 inall—in northwest Australia.

According to an advertise-ment in the Wall Street Journal,it has 1,205,000 acres. That's18,828 square miles in the Kim-berly's of western Australia, onthe 18th parallel.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.(AP) — Charles K. Felclman,talent agent who became an in-dependent producer and turnedout such films as "The GlassMenagerie," "The Seven-YearItch" and "The Group," diedearly Saturday. He was 63.

The ruggedly handsome Fekl-man succumbed at his home tocancer of the pancreas after asix-month illness.

After working briefly as alawyer for talent agencies,Fcldman founded his own agen-cy, Famous Artists Corp., in1932 and became one of Holly-wood's most successful agents.Among his clients were GretaGarbo, Marlene Dietrich, IngridBergman, Gary Cooper, TyronePower, William Holclen, JohnWayne, Marilyn Monroe andRichard Burton.

A confidante of film moguls,Feldman eyed the millions theymade and started buying andproducing literary propertieshimself.

Always a man in the shadows,disdaining publicity almost asmuch as his friend, HowardHughes, Feldman was an enig-

Kosygsn EndsCzech Visit

PRAGUE (AP)—Soviet Pre-mier Alexei N. Rosy gin leftCzechoslovakia Saturday. TheCzechoslovak news agency CTKreported he was returning to theSoviet Union.

The departure was earlierthan expected. He arrived with-out previous announcement onMay 37. A subsequent report hadsaid he would spend about 10days at the spa of Karlovy Varyfor "treatment." He left Kar-lovy Vary on Friday.

ma to Hollywood. No one knowwhat he was up to—from prod-ucing a film directly to packag-ing one for someone else orsigning upcoming personalities.

He paid $10,000 in 1954 for amystery book, "Casino Royale,"by an obscure Britisher namedIan Fleming, and tucked thebook away while Fleming's oth-er James Bond novels weremade into successful movies.Then he used multiple JamesBonds, five directors and ninewriters in the "Casino Royale"movie.

Among Feldman's other pic-tures were "What's New Pussy-cat?," "Streetcar Named De-sire," "North to Alaska," "RedRiver," "Walk on the WildSide," "The 7th Dawn" and"Anyone for Venice."

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