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UKBEE-NE THE FINAL EDITION LOCAL WEATHER Clear and cool tonight and tomorrow. High yesterday 81, overnight low 55. (Details, Map on Page 28) SEVEN CENTS Telephone PL 7-4000 PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1964 Vol. 81, No. 55 46 Pages Two Sections TT TTn Tcnn 1 1 ry I nrn i -mm m- mtjm, mm mm mm mm 55 in LLJJ OU Depot Also Hit; 'C3 75u -in.

9 -VJ 4vT- I i---'- 'T- r-. 0 THE TICONDEROGA Whose planes also joined in the action off the coast of North (AP THE CONSTELLATION Whose planes helped bear off Communist Torpedo boars. Washington LP) U. S. Navy aircraft made a devastating strike at North Vietnamese PT boats and their shore bases today in retaliation for the two attacks on American craft in the Tonkin Gulf this week.

Then the Washington government apparently sat back to let the lesson soak in if it will soak in with this stern word from Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara: "Whether this will be all that is necessary is up to the North Vietnamese." THE ACCOUNT of the explosive U. S. reaction, and the warning, were given by McNamara at a morning news conference, within hours of a somber announcement by President Johnson of the decision to hit back hard in reply to the attacks. In a pre-midnight address to the nation, Johnson said: "That reply is being given as I speak to you.

"Air action is now in execution against gunboats and certain supporting facilities in North Vietnam which have been used in these hostile operations "The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment to the government and people of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage." IN SUMMARY, McNamara reported four North Vietnamese torpedo boat bases heavily damaged and an oil depot wrecked in 64 sorties by planes from the aircraft carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation, with 25 PT boats destroyed or damaged. He gave the U. S. cost as two aircraft downed by ground fire and two damaged. The action, McNamara said, took place between noon and 4 or 5 p.m.

local time Tuesday. With Vietnamese time 13 hours ahead of Washing- Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto). U.S. Rushes Jets to Saigon; SEATO Called into Session Wirephoto).

Buried Bodies Are Identified As Missing Rights Workers Jackson. Miss. Two of.County Deputy Sheriff Cecilj southwest of Philadelphia, the three bodies found buried! Price, who said he followed' The property is owned bv Olen Burrage of Philadel in a recenuv constructed them a snort distance atier earthen darr near Philadel- their release as they drove phia. were identified south toward Meridian. phia.

Burrage was report-ed at the site while the excavation was under way. The bodies were found just before dark. Moore said his agents at the scene messaged by radio that "It was a dirty, nasty job picking up the bodies." early today as missing civil The Meridian Star quoted rights workers Andy authoritative source early man and today as saying the bodies All three bodies were in the dam were those dercoing pathological tests oi two white males and a Ne-early today the University gro male. The source, accord-of Mississippi Medical Centering to the newspaper, said where thev were brought af-'the bodies were found 20 feet Later, Moore chosen last Other Stories on Page 6 ter being found near Phila- from the top of the loose month as chief of the expand-delphia late yesterday. earth, structure, which washed FBI forces in the state Saigon, Vietnam The United States rushed six supersonic Air Force F102 jet fighters to Saigon today, the Vietnamese airforce was put on alert, and tanks rumbled into the key northern base of Da Nang.

The swift air and ground military buildup was effected to meet any attacks from Communist North Vietnam or Red China that might come with the crisis in the Gulf of Tonkin. American military personnel in the First and Second Corps regions in Vietnam's north were restricted to their bases in an unofficial "grey alert" status. The first corps region, with headquarters at Da Nang, is regarded as a logical target for a Communist attack. American sources reported the situation was tense in the area and that air activity on the Da Nang strip was "fairly heavy." The five Vietnamese army divisions in the First and Second Corps regions were put on alert. North Vietnam, in its first comment on the developments off its coast, acknowledged the clash Sunday between North Vietnamese PT boats and the destroyer Mad-dox.

But it said the Pentagon's report that four PT boats had attacked two U. S. warships in international waters yesterday was a "sheer fabrication." Radio Hanoi charged that U. S. ships and planes had been violating and shelling its territory.

It said America's "provocative, sabotage and aggressive acts will be severely punished." A statement on the U. S. announcement of the naval clash yesterday said: "The U. S. Pentagon has alleged that last night four torpedo boats of the DRV (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) attacked two U.

S. warships in the international waters. Vietnam news agency is authorized to declare that this is a sheer fabrication by the U. S. imperialists aimed at covering up their illegal acts Examination of tne third being built late in June whenjsaid the discovery was tne body was continuing.

iSchwerner, Goodman andjresult of a "thorough, corn- Announcement of the iden- Chanev vanished. jplete, methodical, painstak-i tification of Goodman and' The charred hulk of the-ing operation." i Schwerner was made in Wash-station wagon used bv the' Gov. Paul B. Johnson, after; ington by FBI Director J. Ed-: trio had been located 15 miles getting word of the discovery, gar Hoover.

I north of Philadelphia two said the state's investigative However, the Greenwood, days after they disappeared, forces "will exert every office of the Student It was learned that fed- fort to apprehend those who Non Violent Coordinating eral and state authorities 'may have been responsible ii. i It 4Vi KHiap if the bodies oraerea a Duiiaozer ana a ior men uedim are identified as the three civil rights workers. (Map on Page 9) dragline to the site of the dam. located one mile off Route 488 about six miles committee said it had been i told by the Jackson FBI Of- fice that the third body had been identified as James Chaney. the Negro companion of Goodman and Schwerner.

A spokesman at the FBI office at Jackson said the third body was a Negro, but he added he couldn't say any 3 Children Killed In Funhouse Fire ton, that means the bombs and rockets were falling within an hour after Johnson's report of his fateful decision. JOHNSON REFERRED to the U.S. reaction as a "positive reply" to the aggression by North Vietnamese PT boats against American naval vessels in international waters. But at the same time he stressed the United States' long-range peaceful intentions, saying: "Yet our response, for the present, will be limited and fitting. "We Americans know although others appear to forget the risk of spreading conflict we still seek no wider war." In effect McNamara was echoing that when he said that what happens now is for the Reds to decide.

Even before the strike began. McNamara disclosed last night, "substantial military forces" were being moved into Southeast Asia as a precaution against a Red coun-terthrust from North Vietnam or Red China. He gave some -details on that build-up at today's meeting with newsmen. THE AREAS of the U.S. bombing attack were given by McNamara as four PT boat bases, the first at Hongay near the mouth of the Red River close to Haiphong and, leading south, Loc Chao, Phuc Loi, and Quang Khe.

In addition the oil storage depot at Vinh near Quang Khe was brought under attack by the planes from the carrier. "The oil storage depot containing 14 tanks and representing 10 per cent of the petroleum storage capacity of the country was 90 per cent destroyed," McNamara (Please Turn to Page 28) which brazenly violated the security of the DRV and are aggravating further the situation in Southeast Asia." In Bangkok, Thailand, headquarters of the Southeast Asia Treaty organization, the United States called an urgent meeting today of the permanent SEATO Council. SEATO's members the United States, Britain, Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand are pledged to defend the area jgainst Communist aggression. An unconfirmed report, from reliable military sources in Bangkok who refused to be quoted by name, said the U. S.

Pacific Fleet has been placed on the alert and a major show of force was expected off the coast of North Vietnam. All ships at the U. S. naval base at Subic Bay, in the Philippines, were reported putting out into the South China Sea, but only as a precaution against approaching Typhoon Ida. A spokesman at the base said so far the incidents in the Gulf of Tonkin had no effect on the movements of ships from the base.

U. S. forces in Thailand about 3,000 advisory, support and technical personnel were not on special alert. Top South Vietnamese and American military leaders were in conference today, and the organization of a unified command similar to the one created in South Korea during the Korean war appeared imminent. A general war alert in South Vietnam also appeared imminent.

U. S. Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor met for half an hour with South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh to discuss the U. S.

announcements of attacks by North Vietnamese PT boats on U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin and U. S. retaliatory attacks announced by President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara. Despite the deepening crisis, a U. S. spokesman said there was no immediate expectation of evacuating any of the 700 or so dependents of U. S.

civilians in South Vietnam. thing more than the an- Wildwood Two young brothers and their 8-year-nouncement made in Wash- 0ja cou-sin. all of Levittown. were trapped in a funhouse inston by Hoover tunnel and burned to death last night but a third brother The three vanished June 21 was rescued from the closed tunnel. after being treed irom jail identi- uprp The children UN Council to Hear U.

S. on Viet Crisis United Nations, N. Y. LT The UN Security Council was called into urgent session today to hear a U. S.

report of North Vietnamese torpedo attacks on American warships that brought retaliatory American air strikes. I The Soviet delegation, ap at Philadelphia iner fied todav bv police as 10. his is charge brother Michael. 8. and their They had been held in jail rousin Melodv Dve.

8. Police identified James rescuer as ride attendant Leslie Nidorf of North Wildwood. The three Thompson boys and their cousin apparently were the only customers on the ride. at Philadelphia nearly six 1 -1, 1 The brother rescued from arrested on a i giffre- several 'I tunnel and parently lacking instructions from Moscow on what stand charge. Thev were here with the amusement concessions in a should be taken in the Coun- The last person known to James vacationing parents of the have seen them was Neshoba' Ik- ht tito roH bovs.

Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson. 13. cil meeting, asked for a delay until late this afternoon.

The call for a meeting of 'Aggression Unchallenged Is the 11-nation Council was A a uression Unleashed9 T.Tt 1 BULLETINS Schultz Sentenced Newark Mortimer L. Schultz of 1328 Evergreen Plainfield. convicted in a S1.5 million real estate he and the children boarded the Mars tunnel ride and were carried inside the darkened tunnel. The outside door shut behind them. James said, but before it did.

he saw smoke. The bov said he thought a Thompson of Levittown, police said. Melody Dye's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dye.

The small, fire-charred bodies were found in the ruins of the Mars Ride tunnel after fire swept through a large section of an amusement arcade at this Atlantic Ocean resort's boardwalk. Cause of the fire was unknown. Syracuse, N. Y. iff) President Johnson declared today that "aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed," and said the United States has met deliberate aggression with deliberate action against the North Vietnamese.

In an address aimed to the fraud, was sentenced todav jthe smoke was part of the It-Mo WVion thp ear went peoples of all nations, as well' Peace ls lne only purpose of the course we pursue." to 10 to 20 years in state prison. Schultz. 45. was convicted June lfi of 67 counts of fraud. misrepresentation and misuse of funds in his In the one hour it took for through a second door, James said he saw flames directly in front of them.

The car stopped. James lumped from the firemen to bring the general alarm under control, the as of the United States, Johnson recounted the attacks on U. S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin and the counter action he ordered against the hostile ships, and shore bases, and, said: And he declared that no friendly country need fear, and no foe hope, "that this is a nation divided in this election year." The President spoke at ceremonies dedicating a jour Mars Ride, a shooting gallery, Senate Moves To Back LB Washington iff) The Republican and Democratic leaders agreed today to seek swift bipartisan Senate approval of a declaration of support of President Johnson's actions in the Southeast Asian crises. Senators Mike Mansfield, and Everett M.

Dirk-sen, the majority and minority leaders, reached the agreement in a conference in the Senate chamber in advance of today's Senate session. Declaring "speed is of essence," Dirksen said he believed a resolution expressing bipartisan support of the President should receive immediate action, without waiting for the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees to clear it first. Mansfield said he agreed. Thus, a vote might ccme before nightfall on a historic resolution throwing the Senate's support behind the President's declaration that the United States is determined "to take all necessary measures" to defend peace and freedom in Southeast an indoor miniature golf course and an upstairs dance activities with real estate car and began screaming and syndicates. pounding at the door.

The next thing he knew, he Accord Talks Backed said, an attendant grabbed Washington P-The Unit- ihim and brouht him outslde- hall were destroyed. nalism building as 4he first unit of a $15 million com Police said, however, that positive identification would have to await a dental examination of the bodies. "We welcome and we invite the scrutiny of all men who seek peace, for munications center at Syra cuse University. Stocks Regain Some Losses signed by U. S.

Chief Delegate Adlai E. Stevenson, who broke off a vacation in Maine and flew back to New York to present the U. S. case. "I have instructed Ambassador Stevenson to raise this matter immediately and urgently before the Security Council of the United Nations," President Johnson said in a television address to the American people last night.

The request was delivered to the Council president for August, Sivert A. Nielsen of Norway, at about the time Johnson was announcing the U. S. air attacks on gunboats and "supporting facilities" of Communist North Vietnam. Consulting quickly with other members of the Council, Nielsen scheduled the meeting for this morning.

A spokesman for the U. S. delegation, Francis W. Carpenter, said last night the United States had not decided whether to ask the Council to take any action on the Vietnam crisis. He said the United States was getting the Council members together "so we can tell them what is going on." Under the UN Charter any member of the world forum has the right to defend itself against armed attack but must report any such steps at once to the Securitv Council.

ed States. Britain and Russia jointly declared today their intent to do everything possible to solve remaining international problems through negotiations. The unusual three-power statement was issued as an anniversary declaration on the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The three nations were the original signers a year ago. New York The stock I market slumped, and then Icame back somewhat today fS yk MICF Asia.

Johnson requested the res as boutneasi itusiuu heightened. Trading was heavy and at one point the New York Stock Exchange ticker tape fell 15 minutes behind floor transactions. At 11:30 a.m. the Dow-Jones average of 30 industrial stocks was off 7.03 to 825.74. A half hour earlier it had been down 8.9.

The average yesterday lost 7.5. the steepest in two months. Opening of trading in many issues was delayed on the New York Stock Exchange be Statement At-a-Glance Washington iff) Here in brief are the key points made by President Johnson in his statement last night on the crisis in Vietnam: "Air action is now in execution against gunboats and certain supporting facilities of North Vietnam which have been used in hostile operations." He has asked Congress to adopt a resolution "making it clear that our government is united" in its determination to defend peace and support freedom in Southeast Asia. He has directed Adlai Stevenson, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to raise the matter of attacks by Communist torpedo boats on U.S.

destroyers before the UN Security Council. Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater expressed his support" of the President's statement. Report Activity Tokyo More than 20 U. S. warships that were in the U.

S. Navy base at Yokosuka. 50 miles south of here, left for unknown destinations tonight, the Kyodo News Service said. The V. S.

Navy refused to confirm the Kvodo report. olution in a talk to the nation last night in which he disclosed the United States had launched an air strike against North Vietnamese gun boats and shore facilities in retaliation for two attacks by PT boats on U. S. Uie inside cause of a crush of orders to 20! Obituaries 28 sen On Births Rovle Bridge Iriii'iiiiiil II Iflllttllllli" I Social r-' -i Killed by Hit-Runner Smithburg UP) A hit-and-run driver struck and killed 10 I c. liiilifiifM" Arr nun i Classifd 12-45 Thieves Get $1,200 Springfield ffl Safe crackers took about $1,200 during the night by ripping off the door of a small safe at Aunt Jemima's Pancake House, 570 21) Many blue chip stocks fell 38-10 SI a share or more.

Du Pont vas off S2. Down about SI were General Motors. Union Carbide. Goodrich. Santa Fe.

-JT Southern Railwav. U.S. Smelt- I I i John P. Bradham 21, of is Stocks TV Thcaic Millstone Township, as Brad- Coleman "omics Editorials lenders Nason 19 2H IS ham walked along a road in day. The children were riding one of the amusement rides, "Ride to Mars." and were trapped in the rides tunnel in Wildwood.

(AP Wirephoto) BLAZING INFERNO Three Levittown. children perished in a fire that swept through the Casino Arcade Amusement park yester Morris according to this Monmouth County com munity early today. Wh Ami? and Texaco. omen 18-1?) (Quotations on Page 21) I.