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305 Entered Mcond class matter TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1963 posi ornce. Tucson, Arizona Ga. Blast xpflSDim Aft Bee Bonn mi PDdlTQS INI dycDOim ir jRAire Loves Combos Tirp Their Size Of Forces To Stay Above Six Divisions From News Wirt Services WASHINGTON rw 51 luw i ivjiuni mcujr gave West Germans his personal assurance Thursday that he planned no reduction in the number of United States combat cranes lifted the piled wreckage of the explosion from additional victims trapped underneath. A temporary morgue was set up on the Coliseum grounds, at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The sections in the immediate area of the blast contained 368 people.

Of that number, 128 were in box seats above the explosion. Some 240 were in temporary seats which were beneath the tumbling concrete blocks and seats. The blast sent the box seat section into the air and down again onto the bleachers. The chorus but none of the stars of the Holiday on Ice Revue were skating gaily around the rink to Dixieland music. When the explosion roared through the arena, the girls screamed and fled.

A spokesman for the show said none of the troopers were known to be injured. As one giant crane lifted a chunk of blasted concrete weighing tons, flames broke out again briefly in the wreckage. Hoses were quickly turned on the area. Then rescuers seeking additional bodies ran into sparking live wires buried in the debris. Electricians quickly cut the wires at the source and the race to find someone alive went on.

Many of the dead were feared to be prominent citizens. At least a dozen of the dead women scattered over the bloody ice were expensively dressed, many in mink. Mrs7 Helen Fritz of Indianapolis, who was in a chair near the front of the rink but away from the main blast area, said: "We were hit by the people flying through the air, then seats, bricks and concrete slabs. Then the fire broke out almost immediately. We were trying to crawl to the other side to safety.

We were buried. Those people in the bleachers, they had no idea what happened." She escaped with a bruised face. The band continued playing as the screaming crowd sought refuge. Officials cerdited their coolness with averting perhaps worse casualties. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct.

31 UP) A gay Holiday on Ice Revue performance was shattered by a gas explosion Thursday night, leaving 62 known dead and hundreds injured. Cranes labored into the morning seeking more dead under mountains of debris. Fifty-eight bodies were recovered at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum. Four persons died en route to hospitals or under treatment. About 4,500 persons were on hand to watch the premiere performance of the ice revue when the gas explosion blew up a box seat section and sent bodies flying onto the ice.

Others were buried by mushrooming structural concrete and flaming bleachers. The fire was quickly put out. A gas explosion under the expensive box seat section was given early blame for the blast. The explosion took place during the finale of the premiere of the Holiday on Ice Revue, at around 1 1 p.m. After the blast, long rows of bodies were lined up under blankets on the ice.

Other rows were started outside the building in a drizzling rain. "They went up in the air like flies," one stunned woman said. Methodist Hospital, near the scene, was quickly jammed with at least 40 injured, none dead on arrival. Stretchers packed the hospital halls. The Marion County coroner called for a large truck to gather the scattered personal belongings mink stoles, billfolds, purses and clothing scattered over the bloody ice and debris.

Two hours after the blast, at least 150 Injured had been admitted to two nearby hospitals. One man was dead on arrival at General Hospital. Fifteen of those admitted to the hospital were listed in critical condition. At the Coliseum, about three miles east of the hospital area, three heavy i I1 Rescue Kills 6 In Drug Store At Least 20 Hurt In Halloween Fete MARIETTA, Oct. 31 A gay Halloween celebration turned into a tragedy Thursday night when an explosion in a drug store killed at least six persons and injured more than a score.

Hundreds had turned nut for a Halloween Darade and window-decorating contest on uie town square in tms city about 18 miles northwest of Atlanta. The explosion blew out the front of the drug store shortly before 7 p.m. Glass and debris showered pedestrians in the square. ah or the dead were in the drug store. Resrue wnrlr.

ers continued to dig through aeons in tne basement of the shattered building in fear that others may have died. A hospital spokesman said the dead are Mrs. RalDh Fowler, wife of a physician; 5s. A. white, an oil distributor; Mrs.

Betty Carlisle, 24, an emDlove of the drue store: Joe Ben Carter, Mrs. Marie Butler and a Mrs. Otelia Scott, all from the Marietta area. Cause of the explosion was not determined immeditelv. However, firemen at the scene said the explosion apparently was caused by leaking gas.

The second floor in the two-story building was in danger of crashing down upon rescue workers, and police forced crowds of curious beyond ropes half a block from the scene. Marietta police called demolition squads to the scene. About 25 persons were admitted to a hospital, while many more were treated for minor injuries. One in critical condition. It was not known immediately how many of the injured were children.

Many had taken part in the parade earlier. Three policemen were in the drug store at the time of the explosion. They were among the injured. Mrs. W.

M. Black, who was in a concession stand across the street from the drug store when the blast occurred, said: "There was a loud pop and then it was all over. Glass was thrown all over the street. There as no fire." Les Blair, a photographer for the Marietta Journal, said he was sitting in a booth in the drug store when a ball of fire came up out of the floor. "The whole building shook and there were screams of terror and anguish," Blair said.

He said several nersnns were in the store and there was mass confusion. He managed to get out of the store uninjured. Ice Skaters From Phoenix Escape Harm In Blast PHOENIX. Oct 31 (in Siv Phoenix ice skaters were among those performing Thursday night when an explosion ripped the Indianapolis Coliseum. Ed Carnev.

owner of Trp- land Rink in Phoenix, said skater Robert Bassett Dhonerl him soon after the tragedy to report the Fhoenix skaters were unhurt. The others were Harrv and Elinore Sheridan. Marie La- Rosk. Marilvn Parish and Roxanne Maxcy. All were taking nart in the Holidav on Ice revue's finale number when the explosion ripped the structure.

Rescue workers dig through the debris in a big hole blasted in a drug store at Marietta, Thursday night while hundreds were downtown for a gay Halloween parade. At least six persons were killed and many others were injured. (AP Wirephoto) 1 '-twiwmjssjh Man wi'w it miwiihiih imimijii wdNna Believed Caught By Viet Cong Offer Of Reward Spurs Search For Americans Workers Hunt Communist band south of Tan Phu, but soldiers who sped to that region found nothing. Casualty estimates of the 120-man Vietnamese company were revised to 16 known 32 wounded and 34 missing ovidentally killed or captured. The Communists had lined up the 16 dead along a river bank.

AP Photographer Horst Faas, who saw the bodies, said there were indications the group may have been wounded in the fight and shot to death later. Another military setback for President Ngo Dinh Diem's government was reported in a jungle region 60 miles east of Saigon. Viet Cong guerrilas attacked an armored train in Binh Tuy province and made an impressive haul of weapons, according to military sources. Both Vietnamese and American military sources have become increasingly concerned recently over the "weapons President Laughs iuan un vjeiinau sun. In fact, the President said many "ui uiny uie six aivi- sions pledged to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization but also three artillerv bat talions, two armored battal ions and one armored cavalrv regiment that were sent to Germany as temporary reinforcements during the 1961 Berlin crisis, to offset unfulfilled pledges by the Allies.

Kennedy's statement m-t of which he read from a nre- pared text, was made in ans wer to a question at his news conference. It dealt with military logistics but was clearly inienaea to settle policy tensions with the West German government and within tha administration. Over the last two wpelrc tha West German government has sunerea diplomatic shock and political jitters due to suggestions here that the U.S. could or should bring home some of the forces kept in EuroDe since the World War II. Many Germans nave reared such a move as the "beginning of the end" of Washington's commitment to aerena tnem and, more re cently.

as a sien that Presi dent De Gaulle's lack of con fidence in future American administrations may be justi- nea. Time and again, Washing- ion nas denied these inten tions. President Kennedy denied them on his visit to Germany last June. Secretary ui aiaie uean Kusk denied them again in Frankfurt last Sunday. But Kennedy's voice was needed Friday because doubts both here and in Europe kept recurring and damaging the administration's determined effort to woo the new German government of Chancellor Ludwig Erhard away from the influence of De Gaulle.

The doubts would not die because Of tension within the administration over the whole range of policies that have kept 1,000,000 Americans stationed Dermanentlv nversene including about 250,000 in uermany. Many in the Defense strnnclv supported by budgetary auth orities, nave wished to look ahead to the dav. nossihlv as early as 1965 and 1966, when tne number of combat troops stationed abroad could be reduced as their capacity to move swiftly to trouble areas is increased. Kennedy said some reduc- Besides, he said, Goldwater "has had a busy week selling TVA and giving permission to or suggesting that military commanders overseas be per mitted to use nuclear weapons, and attacking: the nresi- dent of Bolivia while he was here in the United States "I think it wnulrl nnt he fair for me this week to reply to mm, the President said. Goldwater this week reiter ated his belief that the Ten-n Valley Authority should be sold to private in terests.

He said also that military commanders on the scene in Europe should be allowed to use nuclear weapons in an emergency without awaiting Washington orders. tie caaeo visitinz Bolivian President Paz Estenssoro an enemy of true democracy. he intended tn tun in n. President Says Johnson Is Not Being Purged 1 1963 New York Times News Servlc WASHINGTON, Oct! 31 Vice President John- I son's place on the Demo- cratic ticket next year I was assured by Presi- dent Kennedy Thursday. The basic assumption, of course, was that Ken- If nedy himself will run i i next year.

1 i. Wi 4 "Yes, he will, no ques- i tion, he will," the Presi- dent renlieH tn a UCWJ conference question 1 wnetner Johnson would 1 be retained. There had I Pi been reports, the ques- 1 tioner said, that Johnson would be "dumped" or 1 A "purged." 1 The speculation on I Johnson's future derives I I from a question of his I usefulness in the South. I I His strong public posi- I tion on civil rights since I the 1960 election has 1 dimmed his popularity in the states that he helped hold for the Democratic ticket in I I960. 1 5 mmmmmmmmmmm tion is planned in non-combat personnel, such as supply forces.

"But we rfn nnt intonH President said, "to bring' back any units or personnel whose return would imDair the mili tary effectiveness of our forces in Germany as they are today. That is. more than civ- combat divisions." The first auestinn at Ken nedy's news conference sought and broueht a tion of policy on this point From there on, the question-and-answer session ransed the world and out to the moon. As for rocketing men tn tha. moon, the President put him- seir decidedly apart from most analysts who thought, Soviet Premier Khmchrhew had taken Russia out of the moon race in a recent pronouncement.

The President said, "I didn't get that impres sion at an. Kennedy said the American! space program is essential to' American security. "I wouldn't make any bets (Continued on 8A, CoL 8) Barry Goldwater's and news conference was his last scheduled appearance for a while. The senator, front-runner in Dolls on nnscihU Republican presidential nominees, is planning a 10-day vacation. 4 The Arizona Rennhliran said Thursday he would like to see Nationalist Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek invade the Red Chinese main land in a drive tn mict tha Communists.

But he said mili tary realities bar any such move now. And he said the crwii election victory of Republican Kep. wiarK Andrews in North Dakota blasted -this of John Birch Society power in puiuics. Goldwater said with Ken-continued on 8A, CoL 8) Blast Wreckage Cleared Search teams begin clearing the wreckage at Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum where an explosion killed at least 62 persons Thursday. The blast was blamed on a power plant explosion.

Many of the victims were trapped under huge slabs of concrete. (AP Wirephoto) Victims loss ratio." In recent months, according to unofficial estimates, the Viet Cong has been acquiring two weapons for every one it loses. In Binh Tuy, the Viet Cong detonated a mine under a train that was returning to Bien Hoa after a rice haul. The locomotive and five cars were derailed and heavy casualties were inflicted on the government troops on the train. Eight civil guardsmen were killed.

Unofficial military sources believe that weapons captured by the Viet Cong include one mortar, four Browning automatic rifles, six light machine guns, two submachine guns and 17 rifles. Vietnamese commanders consider the loss of the automatic rifles and light machine guns particularly serious. They are seen as extremely effective both as anti-helicopter weapons and for use against attacking Vietnamese regulars. Off Accusation would enjoy that very much," Goldwater told the Women's National Press Club. "We spent nine years arguing with each other and I've sort of missed it." Goldwater and Kennedy sat on opposite sides of the Senate aisle before Kennedy became President Goldwater accused the President of weighing every thing the government does on the scales of public relations.

At his news conference, Kennedy lauehed off the Goldwater charge. "Well." he said, "as I have said before, I think it would be unwise at this time to answer or reply to Sen. Gold-water. I am confident he will be making many charges even more serious than this one in the coming months Reds Score Again, Capture Weapons From News Wire Services SAIGON, Viet Nam, Oct. 31 A Vietnamese officer spurred the hunt Thursday for three missing U.S.

Army men, believed to be prisoners of the Communists, by offering his units $3,000 for their rescue. Brig. Gen. Huynh Van Cao, commander of the South Viet Nam's 4th Army Corps, posted the reward. A massive air and ground search alreadv was under wav in the deep south area where a government company was overwhelmed and the American advisers vanished Tues day.

The Americans were Cant. Humbert R. Versace of Baltimore, 1st Lt. James N. Rowe of McAllen, and Set.

Daniel L. Pitzer of Spring Lake, N.C. Vietnamese survivors said both the officers were wounded during the skirmish. There was an unconfirmed report that Pitzer. a medic.

also was hit. Fragmentary reoorts from villagers said all three were seen walking along with their hands tied behind their backs after the Tuesdav en ease ment, fought near Tan Phu, 14U mnes soutnwest or bai- gon. I Subsequently intelligence 'advices placed two with a- Radio-TV 17C 15C Snorts 1-5D 7D Weather 12B JFK Playing Politics, Says One-Year Extension House Passes Bracer os Plan WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 UP) The House passed a one-year extension of the Mexican farm labor pprogram, amid indications that this is the last time the 12-year-old program will be extended. A 173-153 roll call vote sent the measure to the Senate.

Rep. James Roosevelt, offered an amendment that would have provided that in 1964 only those farms which have used braceros in the past would be eligible. It was defeated 109-89 on a standing vote. Speaker after speaker told the House he is supporting the one-year extension to give large users of bracero labor a chance to adjust to the end of the program, but that this is the last time they will vote to extend it Critics of the program say it depresses wages and working conditions for domestic farm labor and that it is "slave labor" for the Mexicans. Proponents say Americans won't do the "stoop labor" the braceros are brought in for and that an end to the program would mean higher food prices.

About 195,000 braceros or "strong-armed ones" were imported last year, mainly to California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Arkansas and Michigan. They are used for picking tomatoes, beets, lettuce, strawberries, cucumbers, fruit, and cotton. Their numbers have declined in recent years as mechanical harvesting became more and more prevalent. Cease-Fire Cheered By Both Sides ALGIERS, Oct. 31 Of) Algerian and Moroccan chiefs of state returned home Thursday from the Bamako conference with expressions of satisfaction about the cease-fire agreement in their desert war.

Cheering crowds welcomed President Ahmed Ben Bella in Algiers and Moroccan King Hassan II in Rabat. With shooting formally ordered to end at midnight Friday, Ben Bella said, "We got what we wanted, first of all peace and confirmation of the rightness of our position." King Hassan took another view of the outcome of the little summit meeting in Mali's capital. "It is not Morocco or Algeria who came out of the Bamako conference in a more prominent position," he said, "but all of Africa." There were no fresh reports of fighting from either Algerian or Moroccan sources. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 UP) Sen.

Barry Goldwater accused President Kennedy Thursday of playing the basest kind of politics with information about the government because he wants to stay in power. Kennedy said he sees no Doint in replvine now. He added he expects to hear many more charges, some of tnem more serious, trom the Arizona Republican in the months ahead. The President said he stands ready to debate Gold-water or any other Republican who becomes the party's nominee to challenge him for the White House next year. "I've indicated that I was going to debate if I was re- nominated," Kennedy told Today's News Index Old grads, students ready for Homecoming, IB.

AF receives $158,109 refund from Hughes, 6A. Judges argue merits of split trials, IB. Milky Way to be in its glory in November, 5C. Teachers to convene in Tucson, IB. Cemetery party staves off mischief, 10A.

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