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Vol. 24, No. 148 Wednesday, May 29, 1968

PARIS (UPI)—Wage talks between the governmentand trade union leaders of France's giant state railroadsystem collapsed Monday, intensifying the country'slabor crisis.

Trade union leaders stormed out of Transport Min-ister Jean Chamant's office and told newsmen, "Thenegotiations have collapsed.".— . The breakup of the talks came

shortly after thousands of work-ers angrily rejected a tentativelabor-management accord nego-tiated over the weekend.

The llth day of the walkoutinvolving some 9 million work-ers , spun France deeper intochaos. While negotiators hag-gled, supplies of food, gasolineand money dwindled frustrat-ingly.

At mass rallies held in work-er-occupied factories flying redbanners, workers in key indus-tries clamored for larger wageconcessions. Many local uniongroups demanded that the 10-year-okl regime of President

Draft CardLaw Upheld

WASHINGTON (AP) — TheSupreme Court upheld Mondaya 1965 federal law that made ita crime to burn or otherwise de-stroy draft cards.

The 7-1 decision was given byChief Justice Earl Warren. Jus-tice William 0. Douglas dissent-ed. Justice Thurgood Marshalltook no part in the case.

"A law prohibiting destructionof Selective Service certificatesno more abridges free speech onits face than a motor vehiclelaw prohibiting the destructionof drivers' licenses, or a tax lawprohibiting the destruction ofbooks and records." Warrenwrote.

In other actions the court:1. In a school desegregation

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Charles do Gaulle must go be-fore they resume production.

Faced with the revolt, all keytrade unions that negotiated thesocial "new deal" with the pow-erful Employers Association,Monday night demanded newconcessions.

A 10 per cent across-the-(Contimied OH Hack Page, Col. 1)

AP Radiophoto

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT RELEASED THIS PHOTO OF THE SCORPION, REPORTED OVERDUE.

WASHINGTON (UPI)—-The nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion,carrying a crew of 99 and maintaining radio silence for the last six daysin the stormy Atlantic, was reported overdue by the Pentagon Mondaynight.

A vast search by submarines, surface ships and airplanes was un-der way despite "very, very bad weather." — — —

Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, chief of naval operations,said the submarine was last heard from May 21 when itreported its position south of the Azores, in the mid-Atlantic.

The radio silence was described as normal for asubmarine making a submerged passage. But it alsomeant the Navy had a search area almost as big as theAtlantic itself.

The vessel was scheduled to report at Norfolk, Va.,at 1 p.m. EDT Monday.

Moorer said an effort was made to contact thesubmarine at noon Monday when it should have beenapproaching Norfolk.

He said that because of the weather it was possiblethe captain, Cmdr. Francis A, Slattery, 36, decided to

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PARIS (AP) — U.S. Ambas-sador W. A v e r e 11 Harriman(•barged Monday that N o r t hVietnam has sent more than200,000 troops to fight in SouthVietnam in the last four yearsand most of these have "be-come casualties of the combator fallen prey to disease orother mishaps."

Harriman made the charge inpressing Ambassador X u a nThuy to admit that northerntroops have been fighting in thesouth, a contention which NorthVietnam has denied.

A U.S. spokesman said laterthat Thuy seemed to come closeto admitting Monday that north-em troops are in the south.

Thuy declared that once t h eU.S. had attacked V i e t n a m"any Vietnamese had the right;to fight and to do that on anypart of the territory of his dearcountry."

This is virtually the same aslanguage Thuy has used beforebut the U.S. was interested nowin his emphasis on "any Viet-

namese" having the right iof i g h t "on any part of the ter-ritory."

The U.S. has long contendedthat the northern bu i ldup in thesouth began in late 1964. Harri-man said "well over 200,000Nor th Vietnamese have beendispatched into the south since(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

Boaf Capsizes;8 Drown

WELLS BEACH, Maine (UPI)—Eight persons drowned Sundaywhen their 15-foot outboardmotorboat capsized in roughseas about two miles off WellsBeach. One man survived.

All those aboard the boatwere from the Springfield,Mass., area.

Wells Beach Fire ChiefDonald Moody said someone ina cottage at Moody Pointsighted the overturned blue andwhite boat in the water andnotified his department at 4 :15p.m.

Moody alerted the p a r t y boatFinest Kind from Perk ins Covewhich raced to the scene and(Continued on Back Pago. Col. J )

Break for Tax DodgersJERUSALEM (AP) - Israel

has called on tax dodgers tocough up and be forg iven . Re-ports from Jerusalem i n d i c a t ethe amnesty lias net ted .some!i>26 million in back taxes.

S&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON—The biggest antiaircraft guns yet intro-duced to the air war over North Vietnam were discoveredSunday by U.S. Air Force jets.

The new &ed weapon—100mm guns with radardirection and a range of about T^ miles—never fired ashot.

A U.S. military spokesman said the Air Force jets, —__ —. damaged or destroyed 16 em-

placements for the Russian-made guns between the lowerpanhandle port city of Dong Hoiand the Demilitarized Zone.

It Was the first time antiair-craft weapons of this size wereconfirmed in North or SouthVietnam, the spokesman said.There are still no reports of thenew Communist weapons hav-ing been used against U.S. air-

DA NANG,- Vietnam (AP) —Some clothing donated by Amer-icans to the Catholic. ReliefServices for use by Vietnamesecitizens is being sold in the DaNang black market, it was re-ported Monday.

Three shipping bags wereseen this weekend in the stalls.They were marked "from Cath-olic Relief Services, U.S.A.,donated by Catholics of Ameri-ca. Not to be sold or ex-changed."

Three black marketeers toldthe Associated Press the clotheswere obtainable — they wouldnot say where — for 5,000 pias-ters (about $42) per huridred-kilo bag marked "Catholic Re-lief Services."

At least 200 such bags havebeen bought for resale in theDa Nang Black Market, thesesources said, in the last 10 days.

The average profit on eachbag is roughly 1,000 piasters(about $8.40), they added., Father Nguyen Khac Tuan,

executive director for the serv-ice in Da Nang, said he did notknow of the black market ac-tivity and if it did exist he hadno idea how it came about.

The Catholic Relief Servicesin Vietnam deal on a largescale, assisting upward of 100,-000 refugees and needy in thefive northern provinces alonewith gifts of clothing and food.

For instance, one source said,the service has provided victimsof the Tet offensive last Feb-ruary in Hue with 2,000 100-kilobags of clothing.

craft.The raids on the gun env

placements were among 120missions flown by U.S. jets overthe panhandle. There weresome scattered clouds and.ground fire was described asmoderate.

Destroyed or damaged targetsi n c l u d e d 43 trucks, sevenbridges and 17 supply boats.There were also strikes on fueland, ammunition storage areas,where several secondary explo-sions were reported.

Refugees, Prisoner in Saigort BattleVietnamese Marines (above) lead a captured Viet Cong

platoon leader taken during a battle in the Gia Dlnh section ofSaigon, Below, a South Vietnamese family push a cart loaded withbelongings past still smouldering ruins in the northeastern sectionof Saigon. A pocket of enemy troops was reported still holed up inthe area Monday. (UP! Radiophoto above, AP Radiophoto below)

5,000 ThaisHunt Reds

BANGKOK (AP) — Five thou-sand Thai government troopsand police sweeping throught h r e e Communist infiltratedprovinces in northeast Thailandkilled nine terrorists and cap-tured four in the past week,Prime Minister Thanom Kittika-chorn said Monday.

Thanom, speaking at hisweekly press conference, saidthe government force had alsod e s t r o y e d two camps inSakol N a k o r n Province, re-portedly the most heavily in-filtrated province in the coun-try.

Thanom said Communist as-sassination squads had killedfour villagers in Sakol Nakorn.

Other government casualtieswere not revealed.

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WASHINGTON (S&S) - TheDefense Department has an*pounced the following casualtiesin connection with the Conflictin Vietnam.

KlLLge !N ACTIONAfwy

Sat. Jdhn D. Ldrry Jr,,. &Tfmin<jharn, Ala.S'jg-. Cornealus Pumphfey jr., Palm

Springs, Calif.3P4 Richard A. Weske,. Camarillo, Colif.SP4 Allen Barries, Salinas, Calif.Sgti Richard L. Akel, Miami, Fla.Pfc, Warded Borders, Branson, Fla.Pfc. Leroy Shannon Jr,, Dawsoii, Ga.SP4 Jde Evans, Chicago, III.Cpl. Joseph M. Williams, Nebo, III.Sgt, Frederick W. Weidner, Des AAolnes,

Idwa.Cpl. Newton AA. Gray Jr., Leon, Iowa.Sgf. Robert E. Jenkins, Wichita, Kan.Sgt. Juffari T. Fields, Pikeville, Ky.SP4 Danny U. Boons, Ludlow, Ky.Sgt. Charles P. Brown, Ann Arbor, Mich.SP4 Thomas A. Barrett, Pontiac Mich.Cpl. Willie J. McCldin Jr., Detroit, Mich.Pfc. Stanley A, Sctiroeder, Sooth Minnea-polis, Mirni.

Sgt. John D. Donovan, Trenton, N.J.Cpf. Raymond L. Cook, Gouverneur, N,Y.5P4 Larry L. Mitchell, Akron, Ohio,Pfc. Donald C. Wood, Philadelphia, Pa.SP4 George 0. Spongier, Baytown, Tex.SP4 DarreH G< Martin, McComas, W.Va,Ma|. Rafael Sanchez-Saliva, Aguadilla,

P.R.Navy

HN Leroy W. Poppema, Hospers, Iowa,HM3 Quenton E. Slocurn Jr., Warren, Pa.

Marine CorpsSgt. William D. McClain, Redondo Beach,

Calif,LCpl. Ronald M. Randall, Seymour, Conn.Pfc. George Bates, La Grange, III.Pvt. Viclor J. Schweig, Chicago, Ml.LCpl. William L. Wilson, Muncie, Ind.Pfc. Lyle, P. Bills, Council Bluffs, Icwa.Sgt. Theodore Janke Jr., Salinas, Kan.LCpl. David A. Cox, Fort Fairfield, Maine.Pfc. Carlton A. Frost, Winslow, Maine.Pfc. Albert J. Campestre, New York City.Pfc. Christopher Bryant, Mangum, Okla.Pvt. Bennie R. Jones, Jackson, Tenn.LCpl. David E. Padilla, Borger, Tex.LCpl. Jack L. White, Tacoma, Wash.Pfc. Gary P. Noble, Bremerton, Wash.LCpl. Davtd L, Schetll, Manitowoc, Wis.Pfr.. Eugene K. Lupe, Green Bay, Wis. ,

MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILEArmy

Pfc. Merrill A. Moser, Bay Minettc, Ala.Cpl. Overtis Hlnton Jr., Wynne, Ark.Sgt. Dennis E. Dyer, Taft, Calif.Sgt. Anund C. Roark, San Diego, Calif.SP4 Richard B. CaldwellJr., Atlanta, Ga..Pfc. Jerry M. Waldron, Waycross, Ga.SSg. Harold A. Stone, Champaign, III.Cpl. William C. Baldwin, Chicago, 111.SP4 Raymond A. Hensley, Des Moines,

Iowa.5P4 Albert W. Romine, Buriingame, Kan.SSg. Bobby C. Wood, West Monroe, La.SPS Danny K. Rich, New Orleans, La.SP4 Garland O. Jackson, Jackson, Mich.Sgt. Gary L. Lantz, Barnesvllle, Minn.SP4 Kenneth L. Olson, Paynesville, Minn.SP4 Bennie Dale, Shtprock, N.M.Pfc. Richard J. Myskyweiz, Forest Hills,

N.Y.Pfc, Charles E. Reiner, Mt. Vernon, N.Y.Pfc. James N. Carroll III, Cincinnati,

Ohio.SP4 Michael T. Dryden, Oklahoma City,

Okla.SP4 Andrew Brlnzo 111, Chester, Pa.SSg. Ray W. Owen, Honea Path, S.C.SP4 Robert L. Owens, Beaufort, S.C.Pfc. Stephen W. Quinn, Norfolk, Va.

MISSING IN ACTIONArmy

WO Francis B. Schmitt.WO Warren T. Whitmire Jr.Sgt. Gerald James.Sgt. Kenneth R. W«son.SP4 Jaime A. Rivera-Lopez.Pfc. Antonio Guzman-Rios.Pfc. Harold D. Peppers.Pfc, Richard E. Sands.

Air ForceCaot. Dean P. St. Pierre.ILt, John H. Crews III.

DIED NOT AS A RESULT OFHOSTILE ACTION

ArmySgt. Michael Giljard, Elton/ La.SSg. Robert Croutcr, Brick Town, N,J.

NavyHN Luis Delaado-Ctass, St. Frnnris, Wis,

MISSING NOT AS A RESULT OFHOSTILE ACTION

ArmyPfc. Mario F. Muse Jr.

ROK Troops Kill 9SAIGON (AP)—Soldiers of the

Korean White Horse Div, killednine guerrillas in a clash Sun-day along the central coastabout 180 miles northeast ofSaigon. The Koreans sufferedno casualties.

4 Vief Waifs Find Homes, Families in U.S.MIAMI BEACH (AP) — Four

Vietnamese war orphans wereflown to adopted homes in theUnited States last week whiletheir pretty escort introducedthe children to luxuries of Amer-ican life.

Carol Simons shepherded themfrom Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air-port to their new parents in 48hours of airplane travel, inter-rupted by childish toe-wiggiingin thick red hotel carpet and alittle girl's love affair with afull-length mirror.

Mrs. Simons, wife of Associat-ed Press correspondent LewisM. Simons, was returning to her

home in Miami Beach and vol-unteered to deliver Hoa, Hieu,Nga and Dong to their newhomes. AH of the children are3 or 4.

The adoptions were arrangedthrough a program sponsoredby the Welcome House of Phila-delphia, sponsored by the So-ciety of Friends (Quakers).

On arrival in a San Franciscohotel, Mrs. Simons said the tots— accustomed to dirt and con-crete floors — "rubbed theirbare feet again and again onthe thick red carpet. Hoa spentnearly an hour kissing herselfin the full-length mirror."

Mrs, Simons took the children

to new starts in life at ChapelHill, N.C.; Ann Arbor, Mich.;Belie Mead, N.J.: and Denver,Colo.

Hieu reached her new homefirst and her parents., Mr. andMrs. Gerald Bryant of Denver.

At Chicago, Mrs. TheodoreReed of Ann Arbor wrapped Hoain a pink blanket. "I've wantedthis little girl for so long," Mrs.Reed told Mrs. Simons. "Andshe's even prettier than I im-agined."

Nga fell heir to six brothersand sisters, all adopted. Hernew father, Robert Gwyn, is outhe University of North Caro-lina faculty.

When Dong, the only boy inthe group reached the end of hisjourney, Mrs. Simons reported,"His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed-ward PoJcer, and their six-year-old daughter were waiting on theairplane steps. Before he knewit the wide-eyed little boy wasswathed in a big warm" coat,arid snuggled in his father'sarms."

Carol said the children, sens-ing they once again were leav-ing familiar faces, hardly everspoke during the long journey.

"It was reassuring to knowI would be the last person togive them away," said the pret-ty 23-year-old brunette.

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By PFC, ttAfcRY GUYPLEIKU, Vietnam (!OMt was her 900th baptism

in Pleiku, her 29th year in Vietnam and the month inwhich she would return home to France.

Sister Eustelle* mother superior of the St. Paul deCharte Orphanage, stands a little over five feet tail andspeaks softly. Yet her memories take in some of themost brutal changes in Vietnam history^-changes whichhave affected her personally,

In the chapel of the orphanage, northwest of Pleiku,a priest baptized a small boy, dressed in bright white, asmall hood covering the top of his head. Seven smallcrosses squared the altar,

A slim, well-dressed Vietnamese couple acted asgodparents for the boy, baptized Paul, a victim of anNVA rocket blast which killed both his parents andolder brothers, leaving four small children for the or-phanage.

The sister knelt with a row of black-clad nuns, smil-ing as the frightened baby shrieked*

From the door of the chapel, 80 orphans from St,

Paul's gathered to watch the baptism, singing solemnhymns.

Outside the hot. sun beat down where Viet Cong hadbeen spotted the night before on the knoll overlookingthe orphanage.

Inside were holes and cracks in the tail walls, re-minders of the Tet offensive. During the battle in Pleiku,Sister Eustelle had led the nuns and the children to aside room until Ivymen had secured the knoll.

They moved from the chapel—after the baptism—to the small dining area, a plain rooni with spotlesswhite and green walls. Div. Chaplain (Lt. Col.) JoeSheehan of New York, sitting next to the mothersuperior at the farewell meal, offered her the thanksof the Ivy Div. troops.

Anxious to return to her native land, yet sad shewould have to leave what she had nursed from itsbeginning, Sister Eustelle sat quietly.

"Thank you all so much," she said in French. "Youare all such close friends. I will miss you."

The 80 well-fed, well-clothed orphans — some bid

enough to sense and understand lief going^stood closeby. They were symbolic of what can be done with dedi*catiort, even In a war-torn country.

After being Mistress of Novices irt. North. Vietnamfor seven years, Sister Eustelle had taken the job ofmother superior of an orphanage in Haiphong. Some1,500 small orphaned children—many of whom Wereleft on the church steps—xvere raised and educated inthe home, supported entirely by parochial and non-sectarian contributions. That was in 1946,

In 19fiO the bloody purge of Catholics soon began,and the nuns Were quickly ousted from what they hadbuilt, and forced to flee for neutral ground. Without foodor protection, 17 nuns died along the way—innocentvictims of terrorist attacks, the tropical weather andthe rough terrain.

Eight remaining nuns ended their journey in Pleiku,and soon began to work with children again. Supportedby charity from South Vietnamese, overseas and 4thInf. Div. sources—the St. Paul de Charte Orphanage isnow well-staffed with nuns, teachers and supplies.

Things Have Changed at Khe SanhU.S. Marines at Khe Sanh now play football

on the base airstrip. Two months ago enemyrocket and artillery fire kept the Leathernecksin underground bunkers. (AP)

Seize Supplies

CU CHI, Vietnam (I0)-Sol-diers of a 25th Inf, Div. riflecompany received an earlymorning surprise at their nightambush site by finding them-selves in the middle of a vacatedenemy base camp,

C Co., 2nd Bn., 14th Inf. un-covered the company-sized basecamp during an ambush patrol30 kilometers northwest of Sai-gon.

"We had spotted some smalltunnels as we moved into theambush site, but it wasn't tillthe next morning that we foundout about it being a base camp,"said 2nd Lt. Francis J. Culkin ofPhiladelphia, Pa,

"As soon as the sun came outthe next morning, the menstarted nosing their way aroundand found enemy supplies le f tand right." added the platoonleader.

An underground fire directioncenter (FDC) with various in-s I r u m e n t s, color e d p e n c i 1 s,mathemalic charts and aimingdirections were found in thetunnels. A large undergroundhospital, a Viet Cong mess hal land storage area for explosiveswere the most interesting spotsin the camp according to Spec.

4 Thomas M. Winston of Pana-ma City, Fla.

"That 200 pounds of ChineseCommunist explosives was sureheavy as we packed it out ofthe, holes, but I'm glad wefound it," said Winston. "Char-lie could have made somemighty dangerous hand gre-nades if we hadn't."

Pfc. Wesley F. Hall of Bap-chule, Ariz., who had less thana month left in Vietnam, re-marked, "It's a good thing thatI didn't know about this being

a VC base camp while we werethere all night, I couldn't haveslept a wink while I was offguard."

In addition to the 200 poundsof Chinese Communist explo-sives, and the FDC equipment,an AK47 assault rifle, a 75mmChinese Communist recoillesscartridge, 3 RPG-2 rockets, 2boosters, 50 rounds of smallarms ammunition, an anti-tankmine, NVA web gear, food,clothing and numerous docu-ments were found.

CAMP EVANS, Vie tnam (10)—The 1st Air Cav. Div.'s B Co.,Lst Bn.. 8th Cav., had completedtheir mission and establishedtheir perimeter for the evening.Hot chow was f lown in and themen were in the chow line whenSgr. Arthur J. Riehl, of FortLauderdale, Fla., yelled, 'Tinstanding on aLuckily it didn't

Riehl, .said, "Itand I decided to

booby trap"!blow.was a hot daytake mv bouts

of f , to air out my feet. When I

stalled towards the chow line,I t'clt a sharp pain in my foot,as if I had stepped on a thornbush. I looked down and saw it—a three prong pressure-re-lease detonator."

A demolitions team was rushedin and disassembled the ex-plosive. Il was a Bounding BettyBomb, a highly explosive bombthat, when detonated, l if ts fourto six feet in the air and thenexplodes.

By SSGT. PHIL HARTRANFTDONG EA, Vietnam (ISO)

A Marine radioman, cut, offfrom his unit during heavy fight-ing 'along the Cua Viet Rivernortheast of Dong Ha, is alivethanks to a match and an eagle-eyed aerial observer.

Pfc. Otis E. Boss, of VirginiaBeach, Va., is a radioman at-tached to the 81mm mortar pla-toon of F Co., 2nd Bn., FourthMarines.

His ordeal started in the lateafternoon when his battalionmade contact with a large NorthVietnamese Army (NVA) forcenear the village of Dai Do,northeast of Dong Ha.

"I was with the command postgroup," said Boss. "When westarted taking fire, our grouphalted and hit the deck. My for-ward observer arid I were inthe rear of the column. We werepinned down good. Somehow therest of the command groupmanaged to move on without usknowing about it."

The two young Marines decid-ed that they would t r y to followa direction in which they thoughtthe unit had gone. Suddenly anNVA squad a p p e a r e d andopened fire.

"I told the FO to .start runningand I would cover him," saidBoss. "I immediately swungaround and started firing myrifle at the charging NVA, Forsome reason they broke contactas soon as I fired, turned tailand ran into the trees. By thistime my buddy was out of sightand I knew I was on my own."

"I didn't know if the NVAwere still around or not. I knewthey must be searching for me,,so I kept, crawling from placeto place. I finally reached ahuge gravesite and rested in itscover. Then I saw an aerial ob-server overhead and succeededin contacting him on the radio."

Boss related how at f i rs t theaerial observer couldn't spothim. "Then I simply told himthat I was located behind thehuge grave to his front and Iwould take my helmet off andwave it. He spotted me rightaway, but so did the enemy."

The aerial observer called ingunships and minutes later thearmed helicopters were makingpass af ter pass on the a t tackingenemy. Whi le the NVA wereconcentrating on the gunship.s,Boss crawled away from thearea.

"At this point I was really ex-hausted. I mean I was tired . . .damn tired. I realized that, in

was really gamewho were st i l t

, so I decided tothe direct ion I

the darkness 1for the NVAhunting for me.keep going in.

USMCPFC. OTIS E. BOSS

gone 30 meters when an NVAspotted me and opened fire."

Boss said that just when hethought he was going to dropto the ground from exhaustionhe heard helicopters overhead.

"I made contact with the.aerial observer again. He askedme if 1 had some kind of lightI could use as a signal so hecould spot me. 1 told him I hadsome matches. He advised meto light one up to see if he couldmake it out."

Boss lit the match and theaerial observer spotted him,"He then directed me to crawlin a certain direction wherethere was a site where a heli-copter could land."

As Boss crawled along theground he could hear a helicop-ter hovering overhead and thespotter plane pilot giving thehelicopter instructions on thelanding zone.

"It seemed like hours, al-though it was only seconds be-fore the helicopter started com-ing down to pick me up," Bosssaid.

But the Marine's o r d e a 1wasn't finished yet. Automat icweapons opened up all aroundhim, f i r ing at the chopper.

The enemy ground i'ire droveoff the hovering hel icopter —but it also inv i ted more parsesfrom the gunships.

"Once the gunships had rakedthe area with rockets and ma-chine gun fire again the, CH-Wswooped down and before 1knew it I was on my way to"Delta" Med (D Co., 3rd Medi-cal Bn.), at Dong Ha."

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SAIGON (AP) — Troops of the tJ.S. Army's 25thInk Div. recovered from an early morning attack on theirposition six miles west-northwest of Saigon Monday andwiped out almost half of an .enemy battalion, headquar-ters said.

The Americans reported killing 218 enemy whilelosing six men killed and 28 wounded in the battle which

began at daylight and lasted un-til five p.m.

The first fighting came lateSunday night when an estimatedCommunist battalion attacked anight defensive position of anAmerican mechanized infantryunit, The attackers hit the U,S<position with mortars, '• rocket-propel1 nd grenades and smallarms fire.

U.S. helicopter p \\ n s h i r> s,fighter-bombers and artilleryhelped to support the defenders.Shortly after midnv^ht, the ene-my broke off and dispersed.

At daybreak, headquarterss'fiid, the Americans moved outof their night nositions to sweeptho surrounding area. Theyquickly made contact with anestimated Communist battalion—perhaps 500 men — and thefiybting raged throughout thedav.

Two units of U.S. cavalry-men were brought in to rein-force the infantry while air andartillery support continued. Inaddition to the 218 killed, thetroops reported capturing twoprisoners.

Far to the north, in the cen-tral highlands, U.S. infantrymenreported finding 150 North Viet-namese bodies on the barbwireof their fire base perimeter as48-hour-long rocket and mortarbarrage continued.

The Americans were unable tosweep beyond the wire becauseof deadly Communist firepoweron the base located 19 miles westof Kontum City.

Meanwhile, the enemy in-creased its pressure on Saigon,sending elements of three bat-talions totaling 500 to 1,000 mentoward the capital. U.S. andSouth Vietnamese blocked themfor the most part, but some sap-per squads were reported tohave infiltrated into the south-western section of the city.

Sporadic but sharp fightingwas reported Monday afternoonon the northern, southern, south-western and western edges ofSaigon. Two American civilianadvisors to the South Vietnamesecombat police were wounded.

(Coiitinued From Page 1)remain submerged off the con-tinental shelf until the weatherchanged.

But it would have been normalto notify shore commanders ofsuch a decision, he said. Moorcrnoted that the foul weather maderadio communications difficult.

Shortly after noon six de-stroyers and four submarine res-cue ships were put to sea tosearch for the submarine. Othersubmarines and airplanes wereinvolved.

Moorer said the surface searchbegan in the waters off Norfolkon the assumption that if theS c o r p i o n had encounteredtrouble it would have occurredin that area. But airplanes wereto conduct a complete searchalong the vessel's entire coursesince its last report.

The vessel was returning homefrom routine training exercisesin the Mediterranean with the6th Fleet.

The admiral told reportershastily called together thatwaves of 15 to 20 feet were re-ported in the Atlantic and thesubmarine Shark, which surfacedto check the weather, reportedrolling 20 degrees.

He said the Navy had noway of rescuing men from a sub-marine at the bottom of thecleep ocean. Parts of theScorpion's route carried it in towaters 3,000 fathoms deep. Afathom is six feet.

When the USS T h r e s h e rvanished in the Atlantic April10, 1963, it was making a divein water 8,400 feet cleep, Itcarried 129 men to their deathsin the worst submarine disasterin American history.

Moorer said the Scorpion re-ported no problems on its voy-age. It u n d e r w e n t a majorroutine overhaul between Jan-uary and October 1907.

Drown-(Continued From Page 1)

rescued the lone survivor,identified as Arthur SavageauJr., 20, of Springfield, Mass.,who was clinging to the over-turned boat.

The other eight were identi-fied as, from Springfield:

Arthur Savageau, 13; LeonardSavageau Sr., 3(5: and EugeneBesner, 20;

From East Longmeadow:Arthur Savageau Sr., 38; DennisSavageau, 15; Arthur Hamilton,8; Ernest Savageau, 12; andLeonard Savageau, 14.

Boy Gums UpHis Big ChanceGOLDSBORO,' N.C. (AP) —

Starched and curled girls andslicked up boys performed forproud parents at a Goldsboropiano recital over the weekend.

But one lad brought down thehouse without striking a note.

There was a long pause whenhis name was called to play.Then he said, "I can't get the

urn off my fingers."chewing

(Continued From Page I)board pay increase for France's19 million workers and a 40-hourwork week (down from 48)were among the union gains in

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the tentative accord. Bargainerspressed for more money andbenefits.

The sweeping wage boostsgranted thus far were expectedto amount to five per cent ofthe French gross national prod-uct.

LBJ We/comes Australia's GortonPresident Johnson stands with Australian

Prime Minister John Gorton during welcomingceremonies at the White House Monday. At leftis Secretary of State Dean Rusk and at right are

Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Gorton. Johnson and Gor-ton quickly went into talks on allied objectivesin Vietnam and later the President nominatedWilliam H. Crook as the new U.S. ambassador toAustralia. (AP Radiophoto)

(Continued From Page 1)ruling, upset the "freedom ofchoice" attendance plans ofthree southern school systems.These plans, under which thechildren or their parents maydecide which school they wish toattend, had been set up in NewKent County, Va., Jackson,Tenn., and Gould, Ark.

2. Rejected a Civil Aeronau-tics Board ruling giving supple-mental air carriers the right tooffer "all expense" overseastour charters.

3. Agreed to hear an appealby Zenith Radio Corp. seekingto restore close to $35 million indamages against HazeltineCorp. and its subsidiary, Hazel-tine Research Inc. The damageclaims were originally awardedZenith in an antitrust-patentsaction but were reversed laterby a U.S. Circuit Court.

The draft card decision struckat one of the forms of protestingagainst the Vietnam war—burn-ing registration cards.

Mother of QuadsIn Iran Asks Help

TEHERAN, Iran (AP)—Tar-gol Ahmadi, .'53, wife of an Azer-baijan farmer at Ghouktappah,near the Russian border, hasgiven birth to quadruplets—twoboys and two girls—accordingto the Tehran evening news-paper "Eltelaat."

Targol, who already has sev-en children, has asked officialsfor help. Her main d i f f i cu l ty islack of milk to feed the new-comers, Ettelaat said.

(Continued From Page 1)autumn, 1964."

The U.S. government esti-mates, he continued, that as oflast month there were "wellover 70,000" of the northernersin their own army units in thesouth and "well over 15,000"others in Viet Cong units.

"Even more are on the way,"Harriman said, "In r e c e n tmonths the total North Viet-namese presence has increasedto approximately 70 per cent ofNorth Vietnamese and V i e tCong combat forces, and showssigns of continuing to increaserather than decrease."

North Vietnam charged Mon-day that' the Paris peace talkshave failed so far to achieveany results because the UnitedStates has refused to take up"the main aim of these con-versations," the end of thebombing of North Vietnam.

The United States accusedNorth Vietnam of giving outdistorted figures on Americanand allied losses in the war. Itsaid the U.S. believes the Hanoigovernment is doing this to"deceive your citizens."

"We hope that you are notdeceiving yourselves," Harri-man told Thuy.

Monday's session, the f i f th intwo weeks of meetings, lastedfour hours and 10 minutes. Thenext meeting was set for Fri-day.

U.S. deputy chief negotiatorCyrus Vance arranged to leavefor Washington following Mon-day's session to report to Presi-dent Johnson.

Thuy made a 5,400-word state-ment which he concluded with

this question:"When does the United Stales

cease unconditionally t h e i rbombardments and all otheracts of war on the entire ter-ritory on the Democratic Re-public of Vietnam in order topermit discussions to go on toother problems of interest, tothe two sides?"

Harriman replied that t h eUnited States rejects "the sug-gestion now being urged by youthat the only reason for ourmeetings is to give the hour anddate of the cessation of bomb-ing."

If that was the only purposeof the Paris conversations, Har-riman said, they would not benecessary. The fact is, heargued, that Hanoi made clearin its messages arranging themeeting that it was "preparedto enter into discussions whichcould lead up to a cessation ofthe bombing."

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They were likely to trigger asharp inflationary spiral thatmight eventually force De Gaul-le to devalue the French franc.

Premier Georges Pompidouhad scarcely announced the con-fessions when the latest student-worker outcry against govern-

ment policies and De Gaulle be-gan.

The students and rebel work-ers staged new protest marchesthroughout Paris and French in-dustrial centers Monday in de-fiance of Pompidou's Saturdayorder.

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