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10 POST- I PATCH 0 Mill Creek Area Acts as Host To Festival of St. Louis Visitors ROUND-THE-CLOCK ATTACKS ON VIET NAM TARGETS CARRIED OUT BY S. JETS im-T nnnn hit V. A III i 11 7. J- i I a ') I III Bll 'a I 3f WWII WW! I III If'Sl "I BUI -I 3 an I LNUMIH III Ar, 1 a SAIGON, STRIKE AGAIN IN DELIA Weekend Air Raids, Fleet Bombardments Said to Have Killed 630 Reds in South SC.

71 4: MV An Escort in the FV SECEDES FROM I- City, in Effect, Forced Out of Federation Under Threat of Racial Strife Related Article on Page IB fin r-DIpatcll Win Rervlrr KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug. 9 The Malaysian Federation split in two today on the rocks of racial and political disunity after less than two years of nationhood. Singapore Premier Lee Kuan Yew announced that his city-state had seceded from the federation. A few hours later, the federal parliament passed a constitutional amendement making Singapore independent as of today. Singapore was, in effect, forced out of the federation.

Lee told a press conference that he agreed to secession because Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman convinced him in talks Saturday that there would be serious racial strife if Singapore remained in the federation. Moment of Anguish "It was a moment of anguish," the Singapore premier said. "All of my adult life, I have believed in merger and the unity of these two territories." An agreement dated Saturday, which provided for Singapore's independence under a working arrangement with Malaysia, was signed by all 10 members of the Singapore state cabinet and five Malaysian leaders, including Rahman. The agreement was kept secret until today. Co-operation Pledged Lee and Rahman, who were the principal architects of Malaysia, said in separate statements that no other course of action was possible.

Rahman said Malaysia and Singapore would continue to cooperate in matters affecting defense, foreign policy and trade. He said the secession would not affect the use, of bases in Singa-pore by British and Malaysian troops resisting Indonesian harassment. Singapore immediately announced that it would like to SINGAPOR MALAYSIA WITH I ON Soldiers of the United States Army'i First Infantry Division escorting a Viet Nameso woodcutter, his wife and oicart through the brush near Bien Hoa to be questioned by police. They wera allowed to return home after the interrogation. BOMB IS FOUND Program Will Shift to Tower Growe Area Tomorrow After being celebrated today in a renewed section of the city, the Mill Creek area, the Festival of St.

Louis moves tomorrow to an area that preserves an atmosphere of years past, the Tower Grove area with its Victorian grounds of Shaw's Garden, Yesterday, on the third day of the 10-day festival, the celebration was at Wohl Community Center, 1515 North Kingshigh-way. The festival is sponsored by the Bicentennial Women's Committee. The gracious, restful atmosphere of Henry Shaw's English walking park will contrast with strenuous tennis exhibition games, judo workouts, lively square dancing and the bouncy music of the Laclede Gas Co. German band in events tomorrow. Tours of Shaw's Garden and the Climatron will begin the day and bus tours of the area will begin at 5 p.m.

at the Garden entrance, 2010 Tower Grove avenue. Tower Grove will serve as the center of the activities, and an information booth will be open at the west side of the circle in the park where visitors can learn about tours and points of interest. There will be folk dancing by the Edelweiss Dancers in the park pavilion at 7 p.m., and a picnic supper area will be set 5-DAY OUTLOOK: BELOW NORMAL Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity for the next five days: Temperatures through Saturday will average 3 to 6 degrees below seasonal normals; normal highs are near 90; normal lows are around 70. Cooler weather beginning Tuesday or Wednesday will give way to warmer temperatures by the weekend.

Showers and thunderstorms are likely late in the week. REFUSAL TO VOTE BY AN ALDERMAN COUNTED AS 'YES' Special to ths Pot-DLMalftl JEFFERSON CITY, Aug. 9 -A member of a board of aldermen who abstains from voting on a bill should be considered as having voted for the proposal, Attorney General Norman H. Anderson said today. Anderson, asked by State Senator Maurice Schechter Creve Coeur, to help settle a dispute over a vote by the Overland Board of Aldermen, said aldermen, if present at the meeting, have the duty to vote for or against every bill presented.

An alderman cannot kill a bill by refusing to vote, he said. The dispute arose when four of Overland's eight aldermen voted at a recent meeting for passage of a bill, three voted against it and the eighth abstained. Although state law says that a majority of all members in this case, five must approve a bill, this bill should be considered passed, he said. The opinion stated also that the mayor may not vote unless there is a tie vote of the aldermen. The Overland Mayor would not vote in the situation described by Schechter, Anderson said.

AI DRAFT BOARD ERS STRIKE; LACLEDE CALLS IT 'FRAUD' Workers Would Re. turn Pending Decision Company Reply Wednesday The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union offered today to submit the Laclede Gas Company strike to compulsory and binding arbitration. rhe union made the offer as negotiations were resumed after three-day recess in an effort to settle the 29-day-old strike. The session was held at the Sheraton-Jefferson Hotel. The union offered to send 1800 striking employes back to work immediately and leave settlement of unresolved issues to arbitration by impartial persons.

Denounced by Company After receiving the union offer in a 15-minute meeting, Francis R. Leonard, vice president of industrial relations for Laclede, called the proposal "utterly ridiculous and a pious fraud." "The offers seems to me to be rattier useless in view of the fact that the issues already have been reviewed by the State Mediation Board," Leonard saiid. He pointed out that the mediation board had submitted a 10-point proposal to settle the strike and the union rejected it. Leonard said, however, that the company would study the offer and give its formal answer at 10 a.m. Wednesday when union and management are scheduled to meet again.

Mediation Board Called Daniel C. Rogers, chairman of the mediation board, said he would call the other four members of the board to St. Louis tomorrow, and that they would be available to the union and management negotiating committees for consultation. There was no immediate indication that either side viewed the mediation board as the panel to which the dispute might be submitted for arbitration, if arbi- iranon was agreed 10, The union arbitration offer eaid that "the union's negotiating committee has determined that there is little to be gained through further negotiation inasmuch as both sides are hopelessly deadlocked." "While contrary tcthe union's position regarding compulsory arbitration in the settling of deadlocked strikes, the committee is deeply concerned about the inconvenience to the public and the inference currently being drawn by the press that the acts of vandalism occurring are designed and carrie dout by the union to bring about concessions from the company," it said. The arbitration offer was announced by John Coleman, international representative of the union.

The offer came as the attempt to get a fresh start on negotiations after a hole was blown in a gas main in Sunset Hills yesterday. Commenting on the gas main explosion before he announced the arbitration offer, Coleman said: "Any sort of action like this is detrimental to settlement of the dispute. The union consistently has condemned vandalism." Daniel C. Rogers, chairman of the State Mediation Board, said "the hole in the gas line only ahows the evidence of increasing public danger." St. Louis county police were attempting to determine what type of explosive was dropped down a standpipe, just east of the Meramec river, which blew the hole in a 12-inch gas main.

Robert Love, 13165 Maple drive, Sunset Hills, reported to police about 5 p.m. yesterda that he deteced a strong gas odor, and that he heard a muffled explosion about 2:30. The TURN TO PAGE 5, COLUMN 4 Fair and Cool Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and cool tonight with low around (0; sunny and mild tomorrow with high in low to Write away mid Ms. Temperatures REGISTRATION In SOUTH POST-DISPATCH WKATHERSIRD tMkrt wrathw InfitimHsii as ri A UNION OFF IOABITRAIE -2 a.m.

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Xrw Vrk Times Srrvlrt NEW YORK, Aug. 9 Work has just been completed on the micro-filming of 70,000 pages of contemporary civilization information to be buried at the World's Fair in the Westing-house time capsule. Hopefully, the dwwmentation will be unearthed in the year 6939 and will prove useful to man 5000 years in the future in his study of the history of life on earth. The documentation Included material from newspapers, encyclopedias, periodicals and official papers. To insure that the capsule can be found in 5000 years, 3000 copies of a book printed on special paper with special ink have been placed in libraries, monasteries and museums around the world.

The books give the location of the capsule and contain instructions for making and using instruments to locate it electrc-magnetically. A key to the English language is included in the books. BURGLAR AHEAD OF BANKER BUT MISSES $50,000 SEATTLE, Aug. 9 (AP)-After restaurant owner Ray Smyser died July 18, a bank trust officer searched his home for hidden funds. So did a burglar.

Police do not know what the burglar found, but the banker found $140,000 $50,000 of it the day after the burglary. WANTS SNAKE REPELLANT, DISAPPEARING BEER CAN BILLINGS, Aug. 9 (AP) Billings Mayor Willard Fraser, after a two-day float trip on the Little Big Horn River, has written the DuPont Laboratories in i 1 mington, with two requests. The first is for a beer can that will disintegrate within 24 hours. "If you fellows knew the problem an empty beer can placed on city budgets all over America, you would make this No.

1 must in your laboratories," he wrote. Fraser's second request is for a snake repellant to spray around camp bedrolls. He wrote "You may not have many snakes in Delaware, but we certainly have our share." Crippled Youth settle any differences with Indo- Timothy lane. The bomb ap-nesia if the agreement would patently was set to go off 20 Araa of tomorrow's St. Louis Festival.

aside in the park for those who want to spend the evening in the area of the festivities. In activities today in the. Mill Creek area, the schedule included bus tours, jazz music, a sidewalk cafe complete with strolling musicians, and open houses at the new St. Louis University campus and several industries. The new urban apartment projects of the area, Grand TURN TO PAGE COLUMN 1 I Guard Pilot Ejects When Engine Fails, Escapes Injury Mrs.

Robert H. Crowder "thought the world had come to an end" when an exploding military jet plane crashed into her Bridgeton home yesterday. Mrs. Crowder was ironing in the dining area when the pilot-less jet tore a hole 30 feet wide in the rear wall of the split-level brick house at 4610 Garrett road. The pilot had ejected at low altitude after the engine of the' Missouri Air National Guard fighter failed shortly after takeoff from Lambert-St.

Louis Field. Mrs. Crowder, 58 years old, was thrown against a wall and knocked unconscious. She does not recall fleeing from the fire caused by jet engine fuel, she said today. Neighbors found her lying on the front lawn.

Suffering from concussion and shock, she was pronounced in satisfactory condition at Missouri Pacific Hospital today. She was transferred there after being treated at St. Louis County Hospital. Air Force teams from the Twelfth Air Force, Waco, arrived at the National Guard Base late yesterday to investigate the crash. The Missouri Air National Guard has a mobilization assignment to the Twelfth Air Force.

Lt. Frederick A. Moore, 28, the pilot, reported that shortly after takeoff at 1 a.m. in a flight of three jets, the engine flamed TURN TO PAGE COLUMN 2 Associstsd Press Wirephoto Tuffy the porpoiso training in his tank at Point Mugu, Calif. porpoise, wiB join them early in September.

F. G. Wood, head of the marine sciences division here, where Tuffy was trained, calls it the first practical test of whether a mammals can work with men under water. EI IS HOUSE BRIDGE! WOMAN HUR rO 1: From Pkl-timlri Wlrr Irnlrn SAIGON, South Viet Nam, Aug. 9 United States jet bombers carried out round-the-clock bombardment of Communist North Viet Nam today, striking army barracks, storage areas, gun emplacements and transportation facilities throughout the country.

In the south, Viet Cong guerrillas struck within six miles of Saigon, pouring automatic gunfire on the Tu Due outpost east of the city. The clash resulted in no reported casualties on either side. The Viet Cong continued harassing aitacks against government outposts in the Mekong delta area for the fourth successive night. The rebels directed mortar fire on the town of Due Long last night, a U.S. military spokesman said.

Red Leader Killed A Viet Namese counterinsurg-ency team swooped down on a Viet Cong strategy meeting today and was reported to have killed a Viet Cong district chief, U.S. sources disclosed. The team trapped the Communist chief of the Chau Thanh district, In the Mekong delta, in a cemetery tomb where he was reported meeting with other leaders. A U.S. helicopter moved in the team, made up of Viet Namese national poPce and military intelligence agents.

The Viet Cong leader was reported to have been killed by grenades and carbine fire. His body was carried into the town square as a warning to other Viet Cong. The sources said one of hi bodyguards was captured. Three other men escaped. Weekend of Raids The air attacks on North Viet Nam came after a weekend of raids on Communist positions in the south and north.

The raids on the north yesterday were directed against ammunition dumps and army barracks. There was no estimate of casualties and damage in the Sunday raids, but U.S. spokesmen said 630 Reds in South Viet Nam were killed Friday and Saturday in air attacks or by the guns of the Seventh Fleet. Yesterday's air activity included the dropping of more than 1,000,000 leaflets over North Viet Nam. Leaflets showered down on Thanh Hoa, 85 miles south of Hanoi, and Ha Tinh and Dong Hoi, farther south.

Clash Near Da Nang The first report of fighting today came from the northeastern part of the country, where a South Viet Namese patrol killpd two Communists in a clash 12 miles south of the U.S. airhase at Da Nang. The fight betwepn the Viet Namese patrol and a small Red force was reported continuing. Government forces on the way to relieve the besieged Due- Co Special Forces camp were attacked by snipers today, a U.S. military spokesman reported.

"Cavalry elements attached to road clearing troops on Route 19 took some sniper fire with light casualties," the spokesman said. The spokesman said one of two F-100 fighters summoned fr.r air strikes against the Viet Cong force, estimated at one battalion, was hit by ground fire and the pilot parachuted about six miles east of Due Co. U.S. Army heli- copters attempted to rescue him, the spokesman said, but found, only his parachute before intense I iet Cong fire forced them to leave the area. Communist forces have laid siege to the camp 220 miles northeast of Saigon near the Cambodian border for 66 days Twelve Americans and more TURN TO PAGE 4, COLUMN 1 INDKK iooli) fsgs fsqt Society 4D TV-ltsdio Finsncisl 1-4C Fission 31 Food Frssdmsn 11 Obitusrlsi JC ftsiton Sport WsM Adi Wssthsr Ms -JA Editorial 21 Evsryday Maa.lir.

Stction -Ann Lindi'i Iridgs -Crouword Dr. Moltffr -Martki Csrr Mavis Timtl icrsrs. Pigs 110 20 20 70 3D JO 50 10 AMoclated Press Rsdlophota BE U.S. Cuts Off Aid to Both Factions in Island Dispute From Piwt-niil Wlrr Srrvli'ri SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Aug. 9 Formation of a provisional regime to govern this country for the next nine months will be announced probably by the end of this week, Hector Garcia Godoy, lawyer-diplomat, said today, Garcia Godoy wiU preside over the government, which, he said, will have nine ministries.

It is not certain, he told reporters, whether the cabinet will include a military men. In Washington, it was disclosed that the United States had cut off all financial aid to both factions the Dominican Republic until they agree on formation of a provisional government. State Department officials acknowledged that the move was designed to bring pres-sure on the junta headed by Brig. Gen. Antonio Imbert Barrera and the rebel group headed by Col.

Francisco Camaano Deno to agree to plans for en interim government formulated by the Organization of American States. Action by OAS The OAS in a related development, provided the means for a Dominican accord, It disclosed an institutional act that the inter-American organization hoped would be a constitution for a provisional government. The act was to be submitted later today to leaders of the opposing sides in the island republic. The OAS plan calls for an interim government to the country for a period of six to nine months while arrangements are made for holding elections under OAS supervision to restore the country to constitutional democracy. State Department press officer Robert J.

McCloskey, who announced the aid suspension, said the United States, channeling funds through the OAS, had provided about $43,000,000 for payment of government employes. including members of the rebel TURN TO PAGE 10, COLUMN I Wades Into Lake a childhood attack of poliomye-' litis, watched from a window on the third floor of a home for disabled persons. He hobbled down the stairs and rode a quarter mile on his motor bike to a place where he could enter the water. He called out to the young woman: "Look at me. I am a cripple.

I walk with two sticks. 1 don't kill myself." For a long minute she stared at him, then slowly waded back. TVy came ashore together. Elflf Willi REG ME ED 111 "not endanger us." Jakarta Jubilant In Jakarta, Indonesian leaders hailed the breakup of the federation as a viotory for Indonesia's campaign against Malaysia. Foreign Minister Subran-drio said Indonesia probably would recognize Singapore and continue to seek the complete destruction of Malaysia reserved the right to' take action if Singapore engaged in activities which threatened Malaysia.

Rahman was asked at a press conference what would happen if Singapore established diplomatic relations with Indonesia and Red China. "If they do that, the obvious intention is to harm our interests," Rahman replied. "We can't allow that to happen. We would take Rah man did not elaborate, but he noted that the separation agreement signed by his government and Singapore included a pledge "not to undertake to enter into any treaty or agreement with a foreign country which may be detrimental to the independence and defense of the territory of the other party." otner Asian nations reacted with shocked surprise to news of the secession, predicting that it will further the anti-Malaysian aims of Indonesian President Sukarno. In London, a spokesman for the British government said TURN TO PAGE 8, COLUMN 1 FISCHER TO PLAY IN CUBAN CHESS EVENT BY PHONE I.

Postmaster Discovers Homemade Device in Milk Carton A homemade bomb in a milk carton was found last night on the steps of the St. Ann Selective Service Board, 3915 St. minutes before it was discovered. St. Ann police turned the device, fashioned out of a three-inch piece of pipe, over to the St.

Louis police bomb and arson squad. The device was being examined to determine what type of explosive it contained. Larry Poleski, St. Ann postmaster, discovered the bomb at 9:20 p.m. The selective service board is in the basement of the post office building.

Poleski noticed the quart milk carton containing the bomb at the side door entrance to the draft board office. Picks Up Carton Poleski told St. Ann police that he picked up the carton and, when he realized what was inside, was afraid to set it down. Poleski said he pulled loose two wires that were attached to the piece of pipe. Police said that one wire was attached to a flashlight battery, and the other wire was attached to a pocket watch.

The numeral 9 on the watch had been bored out and the wire was attached to this hole. This apparently meant that the bomb was set to go off at 9 o'clock. Police Chief Maurice H. Mc-Cue of St. Ann pointed out that the bomb was wet from rain and that this could have caused the device to fail to explode.

St. Louis police took the bomb to the Army Corps of Engineers ordnance detachment in Granite City for examination of the explosive charge inside the pipe. The pipe was two inches in diameter. Grenades Exploded In two other incidents, practice hand grenades were exploded on the lawns of two south St. Louis county homes last night.

About 9:30 p.m. an explosion blew a small hole in the front lawn of a house at 104.12 Wisteria lane, Concord Village. The homeowner, harry Lross, was away on vacation. A neighbor Edward Schillinger, 10508 Wi teria, heard the explosion and called police. About 10 p.m.

Harry Landis, 5415 Mild drive, Oak-ville, heard an explosion on his front lawn. An explosive device had been thrown near an automobile parked in front of Landis's home, blowing a small hole in the lawn and denting the right front fender of the auto. St. Louis county police said debris from the explosions indicated that the blasts were caused by practice hand grenades, such as are used by the Army, DOOR IN Porpoise to Be Shark Fighter For Men in Hut on Sea Floor POINT MUGU, Aug. (AP) A porpoise named Tuffy will get a chance soon to play bodyguard, shark fighter and rescuer for divers in the Navy's underwater hut, Sealab II.

The 7-foot, 270-pound sea mammal, bearing soars from numerous encounters wkh sharks, has been in training at the Point Mugu Naval Missile Center for more than a year to take guide lines to lost divers and carry packages between divers on the bottom and between divers and men on the surface. If a shark appears on the scene after Sealab II is lowered 210 feet to the ocean floor off La Jolla, later this month, officials say, Tuffy will be released to see if he can protect the divers from attack. Porpoises have been known to beat off and even kill sharks by ramming them with their noses. The first of two 10-man teams of scientists and Navy divers will begin a 15-day residence Aug. 15 in Sealab II, a 12-by-57-font vessel shaped like a tank car.

They will sleep, eat and work in the steel chamber, spending at least two hours a day outside in the 50-degree water. Tuffy, an Atlantic bottlenoxa To Persuade Woman to Live NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (AP) -United States chess champion Bobby Fischer, who cannot get Government permission to go to Cuba for an international tournament, will participate anyway by telephone. The Department of State rejected his application for a visa on the ground that he did not meet any of the classifications for Americans allowed to visit Cuba. His attorney, Andrew P.Davis, talked with officials of the Capa-blanoa Memorial Tournament jn Havana and they agreed to the telephone arrangement.

The tournament runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 25 and Fischer will make his moves at the Marshall Chess Club in New York. A referee will watch his play. "If some sort of a teletype arrangement seems better than the tejephone.

may use that," Davis taid. i COPENHAGEN Denmark, Aug. 9 (AP) A teen-age paralytic stood in water to his waist last night, facing a young woman intent on drowning herself in a lake. "I can't go on living," she cried. "Leave me alone I want to die." The young woman had jumped into Sortedams lake fully dressed and waded toward deep water.

Scores watched from the shore. Bent Staerkaer. 18 -year -old watchmaker's apprentice who has been partly paralyzed unit.