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Tivins' Killebreiv Out For 10 Days With A rm Injury Pg. 3-B 5-Day Forecast rlanoo entmel Tis a Privilege to Live in Central Florida CYPRESS GARDENS. Temp eratures through five-day period ending Saturday will average 2 to 3 degrees below normal over northern sections and about normal over southern areas. Normal highs range from 88 to 92 and lows mostly in 70s. Scattered showers were forecast, with most places getting 1 to 2 inches of rain.

Vol.81 No. 82 28 Tages NEAR WlNTtt HAVEN Orlando, Florida, Tuesday, August 3, 1963 it it SENTINE1. TELEPHONE GArden MM 10 Cts. Training, Combat Power Hiked 'lit Case Call Necessary9 Reserve Forces Preparedness Speeded Railroad Says Spikes Pulled Ahead Of Train I i -3 J. A J' Several Units Start Slep-Up In September WASHINGTON Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus R.

Vance disclosed plans Monday to speed up training and increase combat power of certain Army reserve units in case "a call up of reserves should become necessary." "We propose to take special measures to raise the readiness of three reserve divisions, six independent brigades and selected combat and service support units," Vance told a House Armed Services subcommittee. THE PLANS are to begin work on these units in September when their authorized strength will be increased to 100 per cent as ill ii' ii ii Hold It Uncrated Disappears On Lost Boat Hunt Brevard Deputy Missing MIAMI (ID The Florida East Coast Railway, torn by violence in a 30-month strike, resumed passenger service Monday and almost immediately claimed an attempt was made to derail one of the trains. W. L. Thornton of St.

Augustine, president of the FEC, said spikes were pulled from 60 feet of rail near Stuart, 100 miles north of Miami, on the southbound track. The spikes were not at the scene, Thornton said. Without detection of the missing spikes, he said, the southbound Jacksonville-to-Miami passenger train would have been derailed. THE SABOTAGE attempt apparently occurred shortly after the southbound passenger train left Jacksonville at 9:40 a.m., he said. A foreman said he noticed the spikes missing.

"With over 300 acts of sabotage since the strike started, evidently a good many criminals are trying to wreck trains," said Ed Ball, FEC board chairman. "They don't seem to care whether they kill people or not." (Continued back pag this section) Deputies Fist Fight In Creek Parliament ATHENS, Greece Ml Fist fighting broke out between deputies Monday night as Parliament assembled to debate a confidence motion for Premier George Ath-anasiadis Novas' government. Police rushed in and broke up the punch-throwing after about five minutes. Ex-Premier George Papandre-ou's followers sent enough deputies to make a quorum for the debate on the government King Constantine appointed July 15 after dropping Papandreou. BUT PAPANDREOU'S Center Union party deputies shouted and banged their desk tops and fighting broke out when a rightist deputy assailed the former premier.

Stevenson Papers Go To Princeton New York Tlmei Service NEW YORK The private papers of Adlai E. Stevenson will be deposited at Princeton University and will not be accessible until a biographer chosen by Stevenson's family has finished with them. This was disclosed Monday by Adlai E. Stevenson 3rd, the late United Nations ambassador's elder son. He is an executor of his father's will.

Cracker Jim Sez: Them there breezes early today are gonna be a little bit cooler than what they have been. There's gonna be some of them dark clouds up there in the sky come afternoon, an I'm i sartin shore there'll be a drizzler or a drencher fore the day is Ready For Long War, says North Viet Nam TOKYO Communist North Viet Nam declared Monday it is prepared for a long war, even if it lasts 20 years or more, and rejected U. N. intervention in the Vietnamese war. A Hanoi broadcast heard here said the strong stand was in response to President Johnson's statement of July 28, in which he said he is adding 50,000 troops to U.S.

forces in Viet Nam, and at the same time was asking the United Nations to start a new search for peace in the Southeast Asian war. compared to the 70 per cent to 80 per cent now authorized. The units' weekly drills would be increased to six drills a month instead of four. Vance added, "Consideration is being given to advancing their field training instead of waiting until next summer." Vance did not identify the units, and a Pentagon spokesman said no final selection has been made. Vance told newsmen the idea is to pick them from the proposed realignment of the reserves to be brought about by a merger of Army reserve units into the National Guard.

THE MERGER has had a difficult time in Congress. But the deputy secretary urged that the committee quickly approve the Related Stories On Page 3 A disputed proposal and said the Pentagon doesn't agree with suggestions the merger be put off because of the Viet Nam situation. He said: "The secretary and the chief of staff of the Army have reviewed again the desirability of going ahead with the proposed reorganization in the light of the recent decisions with respect to Viet Nam. They strongly recommended that the realignment plan designed, as it is, to increase usable forces and improve their readiness not only be implemented but be implemented as soon as possible." Vance indicated strongly to newsmen that he hopes Congress will approve the merger soon enough so there will be no delay in carrying out the plan to increase combat power. Grandpa, The New Boat Isn't Even and a shallow-water crab boat were used to search a number of islands lying in the Banana River just west of the Cocoa Beach mainland.

Draglines were reported in use in deeper parts of the river near Patrick Air Force Base where the river was dredged for use by seaplanes when Patrick was the Banana River Naval Air Station. SHERIFF LEIGH Wilson stood by on shore and directed the search. Anxious deputies walked the shoreline, some staring through field glasses at the wide expanse of the river, hoping for some sign their comrade had been found. Suspect Escapes Polk Hospital BARTOW A 25-year-old man being held for trial on a rape indictment escaped from Polk County Hospital Monday. Sheriff Monroe Brannen said Bobby Bateman of Sebring complained of being ill and was taken to the county hospital by a jailer shortly after noon.

The jailer left Bateman alone in a room for a few minutes, the sheriff said, and he went through a window. Brannen said the escape might have been set up Sunday when Bateman had visitors at the jail. Deputies using bloodhounds trailed him to the Peace River swamps. A young Auburndale woman named Bateman as the man who raped her at knife point last March 14. Bateman was arrested in Meridian, May 15, after the Polk grand jury returned a sealed indictment accusing him of rape.

U.S. GIs In Germany Get Viet Nam Offer 9 New York Timet Service BONN, West Germany A spokesman for the United States Army in Europe acknowledged Monday the Army has started to transfer troops from West Germany to Viet Nam on a "volunteer!" basis. The spokesman said no information was available on the number of troops already sent to Viet Nam or on how many would be transferred in the future. Stands Fast Luke Stevens has been picketing Florida East Coast Railroad in Melbourne from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

daily for 30 months. Said he Monday as passenger service resumed, "It's been quite a while (Sentinel Photo by George Tomlinson) Negroes Seek 'Real Change' Nrui flork W'unia Dispatch to The Sentinel MIAMI BEACH Negro leaders from Southern communities already visited by the militant civil rights movement places like Birmingham and Selma, and Albany, Ga. are now asking the National Urban League for help in obtaining lasting change, the league's director said Monday. Whitney M. Young the executive director of the agency that favors behind-the-scenes work rather than street demonstrations, said there was a "new awareness" that picket lines are not all-important.

Young, interviewed at the league's annual convention here, said: "DURING THE last two or three weeks we've had delegations come to us from Selma, Mont-g Birmingham, Albany; Negroes' asking us to start an Urban League. "What they're saying is: 'We now know that while the demonstrations and everything else was necessary to mobilize public opinion, to raise morale, to bring about a coalition, to give us courage we know that a speech is not a program and that a rally doesn't put milk in the baby bottles, and that we need all this to be followed up by something that's not here today and gone SOME OF THE more militant civil rights activists, especially those who worked in the communities Young mentioned, have long classified the Urban League as the most moderate of the rights groups. Some of them have been highly critical of what they call the league's middle-class outlook. U.S. Chess Champ Fails In Bid To Compete In Cuha Jfrm fork JTimrn Dispatch to The Sentinel NEW YORK The State Department has refused to allow Bobby Fischer, the 22-year-old United States chess champion, to play in an international tournament in Cuba later this month.

"He does not fall within the department's established criteria," was the explanation for turning down Fischer's request that his passport be endorsed for travel to Cuba. By TOM WINFIELD Sentinel Staff COCOA BEACH Air and water rescue teams combed the Banana River Monday looking for a missing deputy sheriff until heavy weather and darkness prevented continuing the search. Sgt. Amos Cox, 39, launched an airboat from the 520 Causeway in the Banana River Monday about 2:30 a.m., according to Cocoa Beach Police Chief Bruce Parsons, and hadn't returned late Monday night. COX WENT looking for a boat reported long overdue on a trip from Eau Gallie to Cocoa Beach Sunday afternoon.

William Ogden, Cocoa Beach, and his party floated ashore south of the city near Patrick Air Force Base Monday morning after daybreak. According to police records, the Ogden craft used all of the boat's gasoline supply and the party drifted in the river all Sunday night. A SEARCH BY Cocoa Beach Water Patrol for the Ogden boat was called off after midnight Sunday, but Deputy Cox began a search by himself about 2:30 a m. Helicopters, light planes, air-boats, high-powered speedboats Red Chinese City Prepares For War HONG KONG (N. Y.

News)-Travelers arriving here during the last two weeks report mounting tension and war preparations in the Red Chinese city of Canton, 350 miles from the North Vietnamese border. They report that the Reds are setting up antiaircraft gun emplacements on the roofs of tall buildings and that trenches are being dug around the city. Directives have been issued ordering all nonessential personnel in the area to be evacuated by early this month. NOW IN OUR NEW BUILDING McNamara Ponfiac INC. COLONIAL DRIVE ORANGE BLOSSOM TRAIL GO GO! SKYLINE BUFFET Webster Chief Faces Charges By JOE SANCHEZ Sentinel Staff WEBSTER-Police Chief Hart-well B.

Knowles Monday was arrested and charged with "embezzlement on three counts," according to State Atty. Gordon G. Oldham Jr. Police Chief Knowles, Webster's only law enforcement officer, is accused of "wrongfully converting bond money taken in arrests to his own use." THE THREE counts, according to Oldham, cite traffic violations in which bonds of $15 each were accepted from two persons, and a bond of $10 from a third person. Chief Knowles, according to the information filed in circuit court at Bushnell, allegedly did not turn the money over to the city, but kept it himself.

He was placed under $2,500 bond, which he had not posted by 5 p.m. Monday, according to the Sumter County sheriff's office. CHARGES AGAINST Knowles, who became police chief of Webster about eight months ago, grew out of an investigation by Sumter County Chief Deputy Scott Bowman, Sumter County Prosecuting Atty. Joe Minotti and the state attorney's office. Webster Mayor D.

F. Gant had no comment Monday when asked if the city would take any action at this time to dismiss the police chief or hire another police officer. Candace To Call 50 In Bail Hearing MIAMI (if) The defense has called more than 50 witnesses to a hearing opening Thursday in which Mrs. Candace Mossier and her nephew, Melvin Lane Powers, will seek release on bail pending their trial for first-degree murder. Blonde Mrs.

Mossier, 46, and Powers, 23, are scheduled for trial Nov. 15 in the slaying of Texas financier Jacques Mossier, 69, the woman's husband. Mossier was killed June 30, 1964, in what the state contends was a plot by the defendants to prolong an illicit love affair. Apportion Test Vote Set WASHINGTON W) The Senate agreed Monday to some test voting Wednesday on a hotly disputed constitutional amendment on legislative reapportionment, but opponents kept the door ajar for a possible filibuster before a final showdown. done with.

Hit jest mite be a fitten afternoon to play checkers with Jed Prod. Today's Weather Partly cloudy with mainly afternoon showers affecting 50 to 75 per cent of area. High near 90. Southwesterly winds 10 to 20 m.p.h., gusty in showers. Weather map, data on Pg.

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