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JANESVILLE DAILY GAZETTE VOL. 120 NO. 230 120th YEAR JANESVILLE. WISCONSIN, THURSDAY. MAY 13, 1965 32 PAGES 2 SECTIONS TEN CENTS BALLOON RACE UP IN rise at the start of the International Balloon Race from Black Ditch Farm, Stanton Harcourt, near Oxford, England, Wednesday.

The race to the Stratford-Upon-Avon area of Warwickshire is the first to be held in England in 50 years. (AP Wirephoto) Johnson Defying Red China for Asia Control Dominican Settlement Nearer Vietnamese in Contact With Big Enemy Unit SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) Heavy contact with a Viet Cong battalion developed today near the Mekong River delta town of Bac Lieu. Latest reports said IB South Vietnamese gpldiers and one American had been wounded. Sixteen Viet Cong were reported killed and 10 Communist weapons captured. A U.S.

spokesman said government forces were pinned down for an hour by heavy fire, but air strikes neutralized the Viet Cong positions. Enemy Masquerades About 30 Viet Cong dressed in Vietnamese marine uniforms staged a daylight attack on a textile plant five miles from Saigon, killing five persons and wounding four. Tlie guerrillas walked up to a Vietnamese marine guarding the plant at Thu Due, 100 yards off the main Saigon-Bien Hoa highway. They entered the gate, opened fire, killing five regional-force soldiers. The plant was attacked two months ago.

A U.S. Marine on guard duty at Da Nang Air Base was wounded in the thigh by a 13- inch long arrow, presumably fired by a Viet Cong hill tribesman. Helicopters often return from missions in the central highlands area with arrows hanging from their fuselage. No air raids on North Viet Nam were reported today. The Saigon government charged today that Viet Cong forces from inside Cambodian killed and 13 wounded during the Communist attack on the town Tuesday.

Aircraft dropped flares over the area when the Communists began firing early today. But the Reds managed to avoid fur- territory attacked a Vietnamese I ther contact with the South Viet- village with mortars Wednesday. Four civilians were reported killed, 14 wounded and five houses set afire. Song Be Battle Sporadic military action continued today around Song Be, the provincial capital 74 miles north of Saigon. Sniper fire sliced into government positions inside the town early today.

A military spokesman reported another 20 Viet Cong and 15 government soldiers were killed in fighting around the town. The casualties occurred in a clash Wednesday about a mile east of Song Be. Thirteen South Vietnamese soldiers and two U.S. Army advisers were wounded. With these casualties, South Vietnamese forces had 57 killed and 91 wounded during two days of fighting at Song Be.

A total of 95 Viet Cong bodies have been counted, but a U.S. officer estimated more than 300 were killed and from 300 to 700 injured by U.S. air strikes. Five U.S. Army advisers were McCormack Supports Ban on Poll Taxes WASHINGTON (AP)- House Speaker John W.

McCormack declared today he favors an outright ban on poll taxes as a state voting requirement. The top House Democrat thus sided wth forces which have fought to make the ban part of President Johnson's voting rights bill. In the Senate, Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana opposed the ban, and it was rejected Wednesday by a narrow 49-45 margin. But the House Judiciary Committee approved it Wednesday and McCormack told newsmen be supports the action. Atty.

Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach-and President Johnson- have said there is a doubt about the constitutionality of a congressional ban. McCormack said he thinks it can be proved constitutionally sound. The House Judiciary Committee recommended a congressional declaration that poll taxes have been used to deny Negro voting rights. The committee acted Wednesday after rejecting, 19 to 13, an "I think a bUl of this character Is epoch making," Celler said.

"It's a tough bill." In the Senate, a new and unsuccessful effort to limit debate caused concern and drew a tongue-in-cheek prediction from Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen. Mindful that 67 amendments remain to be considered by the word-weary senators, Dirksen ventured that before the measure is finally acted upon: "We will commune with the Halloween witches, eat our Thanksgiving turkey and trim our Christmas trees here." namese troops. A Viet Cong force estimated at more than 2,000 attacked the provincial capital on Tuesday. They overran Song Be's defenses and held the town for seven hours until U.S.

planes and Vietnamese ground rein forcements drove them out. Patrol Ambushed A military spokesman said a search-and-clear patrol was launched Wednesday in an area across a river, east of Song Be. The spokesman said government troops first discovered the bodies of 20 Viet Cong In the dense undergrowth. Apparently they were victims of air strikes. As the bodies were found, the Viet Cong opened up with mortars.

A sharp firefight followed, but the Viet Cong broke off contact. The two wounded Americans refused to be evacuated. One was hit in the leg and the other in the arm. In the Da Nang Air Base area, U.S. Marines ambushed a Viet Cong unit probing U.S.

defenses and apparently wounded some of the Reds before they got away. The Marines said eight or 10 Red guerrillas walked Into the ambush before dawn near Le My village, eight miles west of Da Nang. The Marines moved into the area two days ago in a determined effort to clear it of the Viet Cong. The Marines opened fire with automatic weapons. When they searched the area after daylight they found a number of blood trails but no bodies.

Marines in the Le My area fcrces and political agents Wednesday in an attempt to root out Viet Cong members from among the villagers. One young girl pointed out several men she said were Communists. One of these got up and ran. The Marines opened fire, killing the man. Six others were seized as suspected Viet Cong.

SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Republic (AP) A spokesman for the Dominican rebels indicated Wednesday that a settlement with tfie rival military-civilian junta may be near. But he held out for dismissal of some leading military men backing the junta. "There's every reason to hope we are near a settlement," said the rebel foreign minister, Jot- tin Cury. He spoke after a conference between Col.

Francisco Caamano Deno, the rebel leader, and two members of the peace commission of the Organization of American Statps, Ricardo C. Colombo of Argentina and Carlos Garcia Bauer of Guatemala. Wessin Is Target Cury added that a peaceful solution depends on the dismissal of some key officers backing the junta. The rebels' chief target is Brig. Gen.

Ellas Wessin Wessin, who led the resistance to the revolt. Six of eight high-ranking offl cers removed by the junta in a eace move arrived in Puerto ico aboard a Dominican navy frigate. But Caamano said pre viously their dismissal was not enough to satisfy him. Latin-American riiplomatlc circles in Washington reported a broadly based interim govern ment embracing both govern ment and rebel leaders may be in sight. But Cury, speaking to newsmen, ruled out a coalition government.

He said, "Our objective is the restoration of the constitution," and that acceptance of a coalition "with elements from the other side would be a repudiation of constitutional objectives for which we have fought." Cury said the junta has no legality or popular support cept that extended by the U.S. mlitary," Caamano told a news conference he would ask OAS permission to establish a corridor through the U.S. lines surrounding the rebel stronghold in downtown Santo Domingo. U.S. Marines and paratroopers encircled the downtown area last week, and many armed rebels were cut off in northern sections of the city.

May Go to OAS Caamano said he would go to the OAS with charges that U.S. paratroopers were sniping from vantage points across the Ozama River. He said one sharpshooter killed 22 Dominicans from a perch atop a grain silo overlooking downtown streets. He also called on the OAS to make an urgent on the spot investigation to prove or disprove U.S. charges that Communists have control or major influence over his movement.

He added that he would accept the establishment of an inter-American police force the Dominican Republic a key element In movmg toward a solution. In New York, the U.N. Security Council a compromise as the council neared a decision on a Soviet complaint of U.S. armed interference in the Dominican Republic. But it ap- )eared that a majority could not )e mustered for any definite action by the council.

One person was reported killed and three others injured Wednesday night during a dcm- nn.strat.'on in Buenos Aires, 'ir- gentina, protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic. Family Car Ex-Convict and Family Nabbed Rolls Back, in 25-Mile Chase Boy A man, his wife and three small children were taken into custody early today in a stolen car after an off-duty deputy chased the car for miles. Lunik's 'Soft' Landing Fails spacecraft Lunik hit the moon Wednesday night but apparently il.S-"' failed to make the expected soft istration compromise poll-tax i MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet information from the moon's surface. The landing report seemed the closest thing to an official admission to failure in the So- Soviet Union at least lour months ahead of the United States in the lunar race.

Tass, the Soviet news agency, announced that the spaceship landed in the area of approach accepted Tuesday by the Senate. Rep. Emanuel Celler, 77, the committee chairman, led the fight against the administration amendment and carried most Northern Democrats with him. Celler said the committee's voice-vote approval of the bill was overwhelming. He called it a good bill and predicted acceptance by the House.

As finally approved, the com- mittee voted to recommend pas-' nioon a great deal of informa sage of administration was obtained which is nec sions to suspend literacy tests and authorize federal voter registration in much of the South. landing that would have put the yiet space program since the first sputnik made its trail-blazing flight eight years ago. By saying information was sent back only in the approach, Tass indicated that the spacecraft had failed to lower itself the Sea "of Clouds at 10:10 p.m. gently onto the moon. This is (2:10 p.m.

Eastern Standard the next vital step before a man time), ending its three-day can landed on the lunar sur- flight five minutes ahead of face, schedule. "During the flight and the approach of the station to the Earlier moon shots by the Soviet Union and the United States Gerard Phillips, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, WilUam Phillips, 215 E. Holmes suffered multiple injuries Wednesday afternoon when the family ij car, parked in the driveway, The man's wie told deputies down an in- he had fmanced their years tour of the country, following his re- suffered bruises on lease from a Michigan prison by breaking into various places 'possible Internal and stealing cars. GENERAL MAKES JUMP, GETS A MEDAL- Gen.

William C. Westmoreland, commnnder of U.S. forces in South is shown at top after completing paractiute jump on the outskirts of Saigon. Below, Brig. Gen.

Du Quoc Dong, commander of South Viet Nam's airborne forces, pins wings on Westmoreland, former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. (AP Wirephoto) Won't Desert U. S. Purpose In Viet Nam WASHINGTON (AP)-PrGsidcnt Johnson said fodny the nim of Communi.st China "is to ciodo iind di.scrodlt America's ability to help to prevent Cliincse dominniion over nil of Asia," but "in this ihey shnll nrvor siircrori," Johnson threw down the Rauntlot to the Rod Cliinosfi in a television-radio address i on American efforts in Viet Nam. The President prepared his talk for a meeting with editorial cartoonists in (he East Room of the White House.

Repeating his offer to engage in unconditional discussions designed to end the Viet Nam war, Johnson said this would "clearly ho in the interest of North Viet Nam." But ho said "CommunLst na apparently desires the war to continuo, whatever the cost to their Bllles." Target All Asia "Their target Is not merely South Vict Nam, It Is Asia. Their objective in not tho fulfillment of Vietnamese nntoinnl- Ism. It Is to erode and di.scrcdil America's ability to prevent Chinese domination over all of Asia," Johnson snld. "In this they shall never succeed," Spy for Reds Gets 30 Years cla.ss to airman second class and fined him $fi7 for dereliction of duty. At the lime he was a mail clerk in military special investigations office.

Despite the court-martial, he continued to have access to information nboul military equip ment and installntions, mtssile sites, code books and intelligence and counterintelligence activities, the FBI said. One of the Russians, Fcdor Kuda.shkin, had returned home before Thompson's arrest. 1'hc other, Boris V. Karpovich, former U.N. interpreter then NEW YORK (AP) Robert Glenn Thompson, the former Air Force enlisted man who confes.sed to spying for Russia for six years, was today to ,10 years in prison.

The 30-year-old Long Island service station operator bowed his head and closed his eyes when he heard Dist. Judge Walter Bruchhausen in Brooklyn say: "The penalty prescribed Is death or imprisonment for any term of years, or for life, "The defendant was engaged during a period of six years here and abroad in underminingi serving as an information coun- our national The con-Jselor nt the Soviet Emba.s.sy in NATO A voids Split LONDON (AP) -Foreign mlnislcrs of tho North AtlnnUc Treaty hoadcd home a dny onrly after nvoriing nn split ovor Amerk'iin action in Vict Nnm and tho nominiciin Uppublir, In commviniqiici issued Wodne night nl thp end of their annual spring monting, thn 15 NATO allies Hgrcfd that "grave throats hnvo nti.scn In Inlernatinnal srcurhy and Johnson began by saying "the! peoco 'in Viot Nam. the nomin- war in Viet Nam has many lac- ican Republic, Malaysia and first being the faco of some African nations, armed connict. terror and gun- In the same paniRraph they fire In this connection, ho said: "reaffirmed tho riRlil of all pen "Tho Communists in Viet Nam are slowly hoglnning to pics to in pcai'o under gov- ernmcnls of their own frco what they once choice." to believe: That wo Tho icprnsrntcd a unlimited patience with unlimited resources in pursuit of an unwavering purpose." Tho President summed up his determination by saying, "We will not abandon our commitment to South Vict Nam." Tho face of thn war, ho said, is tho quest for a political solution. "We know, as our nrivcrsaries also know, there is no hchwii dcsiro for endorsement of it.s policies in Viet Nam and (lie I5ominicnn Republic and French di.snppro- vnl of Ihoso policies.

Sccrelary of Doan Rii.sk Hew to rlon Wednr.sflay to put the U.S. liefoco tlio Allied minislcr.t at a rin.sinl Itu.sk in.si.slpri on liio pa.s.sai;o defining' the Viet Nam wnr ns a menaco to world peace. F'rench Foreign Minisler Maiiriro purely military solution in Murville demanded for either he We the pas.safia are ready for unconditional discussions." John.snn said "the third face to reflect President Charles do Gaulle's view that all peoples, including the Vietnamese, of war in Viet Nam, is, at once, he allowed to their the mo.st tragic and the mn.st hopeful," He said it represents Junior E. Pringle, 38, no fixed address, was spotted on U.S, 14 east of JancsvlUe shortly after midnight Thursday by Radio Technician Richard Buggs, injuries. He was taken first to Mercy Hospital and then to University Hospitals, Madison, for specialized treatment.

Police reported that the hoy's mother found her son under the Center Janesville a mem- summoned a neighbor ber 0 the Walworth County telephoned for police, Offi- Sheriff 8 Department, who radi-1 cers found the car in neutral with the brakes released. oed all listening units that he was stopping the car after recognizing it in passing. Only a few minutes before a radio message from his office had alerted officers to watch for a 1965 Chevelle, wliich had just been stolen from the Christiansen Garage, Walworth, Just after Buggs reported sloping the car he radioed that it had sped off and he was chasing it. Then for some time the I radio waves crackled with families were evacuated from sages as he kept Rock County sequences thereof are not rcatl- lly determinable. It Is clear that bis criminal activities warrant severe punishment." Arrested last Jan.

7 at his service station at Babylon, N.Y., the 6-foot-2, 250 pound Thompson pleaded guilty March 8 to conspiring with two former members of Russia's U.N. personnel to steal U.S. military crels. His espionage began In West Berlin in 1957, shortly after an Air Force court-martial had busted him from airman first'coming to me and that's it," was expelled by the U.S. State Department.

Thompson, a native of Detroit, served in Germany, Lahra- dor and at several posts in tho United Stales. At first, both In court and in Interviews at his Bayshore homo where he lived with his German-horn wifo and their three children, Thompson protested his innnrcnce. Then he changed his plea, saying; "I was stupid. I am guilty and I want to take what's Poisonous Fumes Released own fiiliire. told the ministers that develop the Vietnamese econo-, Taiu.

nf rniiirn Ihe Cominiinisl nations, Iml John.son devoted the bulk of his address to members (ommiini.st fhina had of the A.s.sociation of American mflinalion for Cartoonists to present i projects and future propo.saLs' for helping South Viet Nam do-! Tl velop its economy and earn for Nam. But its people repeated hrame.s cnntendon The President again iinconflitiona! peace nego- ctl that the United States will extend its aid programs into' the American forces mu.st even- North Viet Vid Nam. Ho onco peace Is achieved. i "'so implied that Amenran air When pence has come, he again.st North Vict Nam said, "then, perhaps, we can; should rea.se. that gracious la.sk with all' the people of Vict Nam North and South alike." announced that the' United Slates "Is now prepared) to participate In, and support, I IlClClliUlia MICIAI an Asian development bank, to help finance economic progress." Ammonia Scares City than a doz- capacity and last night contained only 7,000 gal- ager.

Pressure increases as tern- track Wednesday night when a ep: officers Daryl Wimer and How to "cu't anhydrous perature goes up and the pur- 1 rDeedinlLr ammonia tank burst, releasing i pose of the safety valve is to' A Wild Chase i highly toxic fumes over the area, prevent a tank explosion, he Pringle sped awav from Bucgs 9:20 said. Why it released during last! wore gas masks. at the HiBhwav 11-14 department; night's cool temperature is nl Anhydrous ammonia i.s u.sed at the Highway 1114 i to each outlet of the tank. The liquid ammonia drained slowly into a stock tank full of water. As it unites readily with water, the danger was dispelled.

About 30 firemen worked at the scene from 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. Those nearest the tank German-Israeli Highway change just east of Janesville, Into the city and then through Palmer Park, out Wright Road with ammonia tank installations, Garvens said. it and reduce pressure until the valve could be capped. Elk- ana me unueo oiaies i to County MM, then down Mil- worklnn In the area moon or passed by and headed again.

Sudden-, pjre chief Harold (Pete) Kel- leased and recognized the sound. the toxic fumes, he on farms as a nitrogen fertilizer. Garvens said the storage tanks have heen installed throughout Wisconsin by Farmco and other suppliers for more than 10 years. de fire department's call tion of a system for soft landing' ing by retrorockets to halt the! ing onto Milton Road on the moon's surface," Tass! descent of a spacecraft before; again as far as Maple Lane, concluded. 'impact.

Sir Bernard Lovell of Tass earlier had said that Lu- Br tain's Jodrell Bank Radio nik would test for the first, Observatory commented: "We time elements of a soft-landing, suspect, and it is nothing more Office secretary, on tele- system. This was taken to indi- than suspicion at the moment, phone: "He's otnA inafA fUaf tvia CA.n<.t» i gone out to lunch now, but he won't be gone took him." cate that the Soviets planned to, that the retrorockets in the Rusland the spacecraft intact and i sian moon rocket may have that it would then radio back 1 failed to fire." where hi swung east to Emerald Grove and skidded the car into the ditch, cornered. Taken into custody and moved to Rock Ccunty iail pending arrival of Walworth County officers were Pringle, his wife, (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) THE WEATHER ml, partly rliHUly mrmer liHilghl. I BV rlouilv wiirmrr with tratirrrd nhiiw- EnA htcply.

lo- 1 a.m. hut many stayed with ment and then called Madi.snn Farmco here last year was en- 1 friends or relatives for the for advice from Duane Behm, tircly different, he said. It was riT.nd Explosion was lessiwho has been in charge of a hot day which Increased of a danger than the toxicity ofi Farmco ammonia lank installa-1 pressure in an LP propane gas low. 45 im: high, the gas and the discomfort from; tlons for a numher of tank and cau.sp/| the its odor. Behm advised that the fire de-' safety valve to relea.se.

The gas The ammonia tank located op-ipartment should cool the was ignited by the flame in the )osite the south end of Wash-! with hoses as an initial step, ngton Street belongs to the! Behm drove to Elkhom and Farmco Co. tank has I'took charga of attaching hoses vaporiser. There was no flame when the ammonia gas was released last night. BONN, Germany lAP) West (iermany officially announced today the establishment of dipiomade relations with Israel. Chief Rovornment Karl (luenlher von Haso told a news eonference diplomatic relations helween the two countries hccame effective Wednesday.

Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq have broken off diplomatic rela- i lions with West CJermany in taliation. Lebanon ha.s an- of 69 made it i nnunced it will take similar ac- tion after a Cabinet meeting Friday and Kuwait ha.s an- nniKiced it is dropping earlier plans to rerngni Ihe Feder.il fliplomatirally. Other Arab cntinlrip.s are e.spected to I take like steps, IlKuigh some may hold nut. Mo.sl Ar coiiii- trle.s cofi.sidei- (liem.spivc at war with I they failed to rni.sh it in fichting in 194a. A joint communique issued id Bonn said: "The government of the Fwl- eral Republic of Germany, by virtue of an authorization given by the federal president, and the government of Israel, have agreed to establish diplomatic relations between their two countries." Friday Will Be Warm; Also Wet Hot-for-May weather is headed hack to Wisconsin, due to arrive Friday along with scattered showers and thundershowcrs, but today was ideal.

Sunshine and a noontime temperature that way, MadLson was the coldest spot in Wisconsin early today, with a low of ,3,1 Janesville, meanwhile, had a minimum of 45 at 5 o'clock this morning. Siinrup, nuniiRt, 1.1 low. 43 it i S.I at m. I to noon 45 at a m. In 49 at noon.

Baroniftrlc preanure; I J9.S2; 6 am 29 noon. Low a year a(o today, high. tl. timperatuta (or houri ending at m. lO-yatt loi May lit tS.4..