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Two Americans Die Cong ambush strung along more than 3 half: ambush site. Nam -Heavily armed mile of road. The bodies of the two an armored South Viet-: Villagers said the Communists were brought to Saigon. this threatened them with death if Ben Cat is a central town near capital, killing I Vietnamese. they betrayed the ambush to gov-! area where South Viet Nam ernment authorities.

"You shouldn't get the idea our on been concentrating a appeared so close to just walked into this flat hamlet program called Saigon so heavily armed. They footed." a U.S. officer said. lion Sunrise." people staged their ambush near the after terrorizing "It was a very well planned and Under the program town of Ben Cat into silence. executed ambush.

We knew the living in a Communist I road was dangerous but no one Six U.S. servicemen now have realized there Viet area are relocated in new was a Cong been killed in combat since last force of that strength in the under heavy guard against December when U.S. military aid area." munist marauders. was stepped up. A U.S.

army 'The Viel Cong began the attack Elsewhere a major government sergeant was killed in action by blowing up a civilian truck in operation begun two days in Central Viet Nam this week. front of the with land 40 miles north of Saigon was convoy a The two U.S. dead, both advis- mine, killing all its civilian occu- underway. About 1,200 ers to the Vietnamese army's 7th pants. The Communists then deto- ese troops using a new Regiment of the 5th Infantry Di-nated other mines and poured armored personnel carrier, vision, were riding in the withering fire into the convoy.

I taking part, althird vehicle The firing lasted only 15 'The operation, supported They were not immediately: The convoy consisted of two U.S. Marine Corps and Army identified pending notification of military trucks, a civilian truck, copters, was in region Inext of kin. three armored cars and the jeep. controlled by the Viet Cong One apparently was killed in-' The government forces in Bent the border of Cambodia, In Viet Nam A Ambush Brings Total body body stantly of was by the a found other mine in was the explosion. some jeep.

dis- The Cat had rescue set heard unit. up the a But road firing the block and Viet with sent To 6 Killed tance The away. Viet felled layed a tree, half and bour in rescuers reaching were SAIGON, South Viet Opmmunist guerrillas smashed namese column Saturday S. officers and 15 The bold ambush 30 miles north; of: Saigon was carried out with 50-caliber machine guns, 57-mm' recoilless rifles, land mines and small arms by a guerrilla band of, from 300 to 400 men. Not a member of the armored: column escaped unhurt, said U.S.

sources who estimated the number of wounded Vietnamese soldiers at 20. All seven vehicles in the column were heavily damaged and the guerrillas stripped them of weapons before fading into the jungle, Hopeless Chase Vietnamese soldiers, aided by big U.S. helicopter, set out in pursuit of the raiders, but the chase appeared hopeless. before had the Viet Congl At Wichita Democrats Rap GOP Farm Policy Tactics WICHITA, Kan. (AP) has brought out "just what show the public--that the gram," John M.

Bailey, said Saturday. Referring to letters attributed to Martin Sorkin, consultant to Commercial Solvents Corp. and chief economic advisor to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson in Eisenhower Administration, Bailey said they make clear the negative attitude of Republican leaders. It is a negativism dangerous to nation he said an agree. ment "not to offer any program their own, just to attack the Democratic program." What the nation needs, Bailey said, "is for them to submit their program and us to submit ours, then debate them and decide between them." The letters altributed to Sorkin and dated -last Sept.

11 and Sept. 15 were brought before the subcommittee probing the tangled affairs of Estes, Texas financier, Friday in Washington, They were addressed to Maynard C. Wheeler, president of Commercial Solvents! Corp. The first told of allending a meeting with Sen. Barry Gold-! water of Arizona, chairman of the GOP Senate Campaign Committee, Rep.

Bob Wilson of California, chairman of the GOP Congrossional Campaign and Rep. William Miller of New York, GOP National Chairman. Agree On Attack It said the GOP leaders agreed the party had no responsibility tol suggest alternates to the Kennedy Administration farm plan, would attack it whenever feasible. The second told of meeting with New York's Republican Gov. son Rockefeller; said agreed to use his influence with GOP congressmen against the strict crop control program.

Will Goldwater, Miller, Wilson and Rockefeller repudiate the Sor- The Salina Journal The HomeDaily Newspaper For Central and Northwest Kansas Published five days 3 week and Sunday at 333 South Fourth Salina, Kansas, by Salina Journal, Inc. Whitley Austin Editor and President Second-class postage paid Founded Fed. 14. 1871 Department Heads: Glena Wilitars. managing editor: Jora city editor: Fred Vasdegrift, vertisInE macager: Eugene Laudergayer, classified manager: 0.

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villagers -controlled hamlets Com- earlier still Vietnamtype of were by helivirtually bear farm program skyrocketed from an already high $2.5 billion a year to a slaggering $9 billion a year, of which $1 billion alone was for storage of surplus Crops." Through diversion of acreages into conservation uses, he said, Secretary Freeman already has saved American taxpayers $600 million in such storage costs. -Predicting 7 sole Democratic member of the House, Rep. J. Floyd Breeding, Bailey said "we want more Demperals like Floyd Breeding in the want to keep on the job we started when we elecJohn F. Kennedy president! two years ago." Criticizes Congressmen He criticized the five House Republicans from Kansas.

Two of them voted against the bill to end water pollution, he said, and the other three voted to weaken the bill before joining in final approv-! al. "All of the Kansas Republican delegation in the House voted against higher minimum wages for those 200,000 Kansas "And only one of the five GOP congressmen from Kansas voted for feed grains." Lodge Wins GOP Nomination By Cornelius F. Hurley WORCESTER. Mass. SAP)-.

Massachusetts Republicans chose another Lodge on Saturday to fight for a seat in the U.S. Senate for which another Kennedy is this fall. George Cabot Lodge, 34, won the GOP state convention endorsement for senator in a neck-andneck battle which was finally de cided only by the last three of 40 districts. Republicans expect that Lodge will face in the November election Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, youngest brother of President Kennedy.

who won the endorsement for senator at the Democratic convention a week ago. Kennedy, however, faces a primary fight with State Atty. Gen. Edward J. McCormack neph'ew of House Speaker John W.

MeCormack, D-Mass. Another prominent name candidale. Harvard Prof. H. Stuart Hughes.

grandson of the late chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, has announced as an independent. Fifth Tiros To Orbit By Howard Benedict CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP)' -The fifth Tiros weather satellite is scheduled for launching within a few days to hunt hurricanes and view storm systems and ice breakup in the northern latitudes. More Ford Talks Sunday DETROIT (API Bargaining sessions between the Ford Motor, Co. and the U'nited Auto Workers! Union will resume Sunday follow.

ing what Ford spokesman termed some progress at Saturday's session. 3 Which One Is Khrush? One of these men is Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the other Oscar Jordan, New Rochelle, N. Y. As a look-alike of the Russian, Jordan, a home decorator, has a life of and acclaim. Give up? That's Khrush on the bottom, Class Off To Washington GLEN LAKE, Mich.

-The 33 Glen Lake Community High School sentors who nad scraped and saved since 1956 for a graduation trip to Washin-ton then' cancelled it all to aid a cancerstricken classmate will leave Tuesday for the nation's capital. Kind-hearted folk, particularly in Washington, who read of their charity just wouldn't let the class miss its long-cherished trip. Dona. tions rolled in. President John F.

Kennedy them to the White House, promising a personally guided tour. And Duane Richardson. 17. a basketball star who learned al few months ago he had cancer, plans to go with the classmates, ment. So the class voled to place the balance.

where it most good and it is gone. They gave $620 to the school's annual! yearbrook fund. Another $300 went! needed athletic equipment. For $125 the seniors bought flowers for their parents and decorations for their June 1 graduation ceremonies. On themselves they spent only $200-the cost of a senior banquet jand bowling party.

Postal Workers Get Ballots voled to turn over $700 to- WASHINGTON (AP) Mailing his hospital and medical of ballots to nearly half a million! rather than see Washington. postal workers in 25,000 cities beschool's bus will leave at Tuesday to make a gan Saturday the first step in in Detroit. The Balti- conducting one of the train' biggest Ohio Railroad has representation elections in a special car for the group, history. Detroit at 6:15 p.m. The ballots are to be 21 boys and 12 girls washed to 15 regional offices by July 1.

sold popcorn and candy and Counting. begins July 9. at odd johs to pay for' Ten employe organizations seekscheduled trip. But to represent one or more of plans when Duane the seven postal crafts are listed he had cancer in the right on the ballots. "There is also "a to write in other employe, had raised approximately organization names or to vote for but when the $700 was gone no organization.

wasn't enough left for Wash- The crafts include clerks, car-! and no prospect of replace-Iriers and mail handlers. LIL Robbers Beware Mrs. R. B. Rhodes, 58, operator of a Savannah, grocery, chased and dit who demanded her over the loot, she brandished tols, chased the man for him.

By Andrew Serve lee ALGIERS (AP)-A strong lion of the European Secret Army Organization was reported willing Saturday to settle its terrorist war if it can win amnesty for members from the future Moslem: government of an independent Algeria. But fire engines still sped through garbage and debris-littered streets during the day to put out sporadic fires triggered by bombs set by arson squads. At the same time a possible Dew complication for the new. Algieran state, yet to be born in referendum July 1, developed The Forecast KANSAS Generally fair to partly cloudy Sunday. with widely scattered thunderstorms in central and east Sunday and east Sun-' day night; cooler in and east Sunday and in ex-: treme east Sunday night; High 75-80 northwest to; near 90 southeast.

Zone 3 Scattered showers and thunderstorms Sunday afterpoon and east portion Sunday evening: turning cooler Sunday night; high Sunday near 90, low Sunday night in mid-60s. SALINA WEATHER City Airport: Temper at 11 pm 74. Min. Saturday 70. Max.

Sat- urday 91. FAA reported at meter 97.22 rising. 15 mph gusts to 22 humidity 65 percent. Lowest this date highest 104 in 1897 Sunday--Sunrise set 7:59 pm. Monday-Sunrise set 7:59 pm.

Airport Temperatures Saturday 12 Midelght 1 31n 3 am 3 am 301 71 5 am 6 am 73i am 76, 8 am 9 am 831 10 am 11 311 MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) 11 pm: Baro-'for the past three years. Wind He was born Jan. 24, 1882 at: 1 Considerably more than "Seventy-six Trombones" will sound off mph, Relative Newcastle on Thames, England. Tuesday in this north Iowa 49 in 197; jage of four and spend 1 most of his He came to this country at the community--the original "River City" selling of Meredith 1946. life as a coal miner in the Pittsson's hit musical, Music 5:04 am; sun- burg area, He was custodian at Man." the Lamer Hotel for 10 years after.

The occasion is the world press 5:05 am; sun- moving to Salina in 1945. premiere of the movie version of Surviving are two daughters, "'The Music Man" by Warner (By FAA): Mrs. Norbert Wilvers, 524 plus the annual North 12 coon 8 College, and Mrs. Clint Center, Iowa Band Festival. pin 90 Arma; three sisters, Mrs.

Lillie A national high school march59; pin 3-pm Leavenworth: Mrs. Marting band contest. with entries pm 59. pm 57: rie Keck, Arma, and Mrs. Wil- from 30 states, features the alpm 83 S5 liam Beveridge, Carthage, fair.

The winner will tour the pin um 81 and two grandchilden. United States and win more than pin 79 from French military reports that, army units have invaded the Algerian Sahara and Moroccan advanced 15 miles over the border. Beta Claimed For some time both Tunisia and Morocco have laid claims to part of the Algerian Sahara, but agreed last year not to press their claims until Algeria is independ. ent. The reported willingness of some secret army leaders to set-! tle for a sweeping amnesty came' from last-ditch efforts in the guarded Rocher Noir administrative center outside Algiers to find a solution acceptable to both Mos- lems and Europeans.

Respected representatives of the European community were meeting with Moslem members of Algeria's temporary executive, who relayed reports to the Moslem Front of National Liberation (FLN), which waged the war for independence. Earlier contacts were dropped when the secret army abandoned efforts to win further guarantees for Europeans who remain in Algeria it is independent. AlL 'all out scorched earth campaign was ordered to begin Friday with the announced purpose of leaving nothing but 3 ruined economic shell for Algeria's future rulers. Deaths And Funerals ALBERT HANKINSON The funeral for Albert Hankin. son, 95, who died Friday in the Beloit Community Hospital, will be held at 3:30 pm Monday at the Guy R.

Ryan Sons Mortuary, the Rev George Wattenbarger of. ficiating. Burial will be in the Bennington Cemetery. Friends may call al the mortuary until the hour of the service. Dodge City In "Music Man" Festival Andrew Seccombe Andrew Seccombe Andrew Seccombe, 80, 524 S.

College, died Friday in Asbury. Hospital. He had been in ill health -The Billie Sol Estes probe, we have been trying Republicans have no proDemocratic National Chairman, letters, Bailey asked, or will "Republican leaders confirm this policy by getting out a solid vote against the Farm Bill in the House next week? "I trope the responsible, rank and file members of Their party will repudiate it, "If they don't, I'm confident the people will." In remarks prepared for a dinner rally of Kansas Bailey cited as achievements of the Kennedy administration a higher minimum wage, the feed grain program, legislalion to end 1 water pollution, the food for peace program overseas, and tion to bolster farm prices yet cut crop surpluses. He said Secretary of ture Orville Freeman, writing congressmen about the tration farm bill pending in the House, stated the real issue on surpluses: Whether or not farm-: Hers will be provided with an op-: portunity to choose freely and: democratically whether they want limit their production, so that we control can and bring fair surpluses under get prices, or whether they want to produce without limit and lake their chances in the market place." Says "Had Enough" "I think the farmer has had enough of the latter--and all the lean hard years." Bailer told his audience in the heart of the wheat: belt. Legislative accomplishments in the first Kennedy year, he said, higher minimum wages for more than 200,000 Kansas workers: the $56 million feed grain program and a Food For Peace program "working ac-; tively for freedom across the globe," taking in the year an estimated $6 million bushels of Kansas wheat nearly a third of the state's crop.

This Food For Peace export! was outside regular export chan-1 nels. he stressed, "so as not toi upset the prices in world mar. kets." Costs "Skyrocketed" In the Benson, Re-! publican years, Bailey charged, "The cost of the government's Justice Convicted Of Taking By Charles L. West NEW YORK (AP) State Supreme Court Justice J. Vincent Keogh.

a former William aide who once aspired to his boss' job as mayor, was convicted Saturday night of trying to fix a ted-i eral court case. A federal jury of nine men and three women debated three days to reach a verdict of guilty in $35,000 bribery to lighten a bankruptcy fraud case sentence. Convicted with the 56-ycar-o'd veteran of 12 years on the trial. court bench were a former assistant U.S. attorney of Brooklyn, liott Kahaner, 36, and labor racketeer Antonio (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 47.

They face sentences of five years in jail and a $10,000 U.S. Dist. Judge Edward Weinfeld set July 17 for sentencing. Dr. Robert M.

Erdman, 43. an orthopedic surgeon of Manhattan NEW PENAL. DIRECTORRobert J. Kaiser. associate warden at the U.S.

Peniten- tiary al Leavenworth. has been selected as Kansas state director of penal institutions. He will replace Col. Guy C. Rexroad, whose mandatory retirement comes up at the end of this month.

Clouds, But No Storm Threatening storm clouds swept over Northwest Kansas Saturday afternoon, pausing only long enough to deposit a few drops of rain in Cheyenne County. I A severe storm warning had been broadcast for the area. According to the Goodland weather bureau, the storm orig-! inated near Trenton Dam, where heavy rain and hail was reported. The last-moving storm, sweeping north and east into central Nebra dumped quantities of rain and some bail north of the Kansas border. A tornado reportedly touched down six miles north of along US34, causing minor' damage.

McCook-is-porth-of-0b erlin, Kan. Search Denver For Kansas City Shooting Suspect, DENVER (AP)-Police combed, the Capitol Hill Area of Denver Saturday for Roy Lee Engberg, 27, sought in connection with the slaying of a watchman in Kansas City. FBI agents had staked out the apartment of Engberg's father, Fred, 66, and brother, John, 28, two blocks east of the state! capitol. Engberg emerged Friday night, the FBI said, and fled after wounding an apartment house manager who was watering grass. The FBI said Engberg slipped into a passageway and ducked down an alley before agents were able to fire at him.

Engberg, an ex-convict of Denver, had been the object of a widespread manhunt after the June 9 killing of George S. Wilber, 31, a co-owner in a Kansas City burglar alarm firm. Earl Clemens, 60, the wounded apartment manager. was in good: condition Saturday. Mexico Will Welcome JFK NEW YORK (AP) Former Mexican President Miguel Aleman says the Mexican people are looking forward to the visit later this month of President Kennedy.

Aleman, special ambassador and president of the Mexican Tourist Board. said Friday his people "will speak with one voice in making the President wel. come." Too will be happily surprised. Classified Ads sell old things. The funeral will be at 2 pm Monday at the Sipie Funeral Home, Arma.

the Rev. Marvin Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Arma. Friends may call at the Guy R.

Ryan Sons Mortuary until Sunday noon. MRS. MAYNARD W. LOUNS EL CAJON, -Mrs. Jessie V.

Kouns, BI, former Salina resident, died early Saturday morn-! ing at the Lobar Lodge home in El Cajon, where she had lived the past three years. She was born July 2. 1881. at: Salina She and her husband, Maynard lived here until 1940 when they moved to She was the former Jessie V. marth.

Survivors include the widower, Maynard a sister, Maude Wilmarth, 2040 Highland, and seven children. Funeral arrangements will be announced. MRS. LEE MONTGOMERY LINCOLN Mrs. Beulah Mont-! gomery, 70, a lifelong resident of Lincoln, died Friday night at Lincoln County Hospital after a short illness.

Born in Lincoln County in 1891, Mrs. Montromery lived on a farm near Lincoln until 1936, when she and her husband, Lee, moved to! Lincoln. She was a member of the Lincoln Congregational Christian Church and the American Legion Auxiliary. Survivors include the widower, three sons, Dee of Pleasanton, and Don and Lee both of, Junction City; three sisters, Mrs. Maebelle Keeler, Barnard; Mrs.

Eva Duvall, Concordia, and Mrs. Maudee Cox. Cortez, of Reverly: Lew of Tescott. and Arthur, Milo and Newton Rathrun, all of Lincoln, and eight grandchildren. The funeral will be at 2 pin Tuesday at the Hall Memorial! Chapel, Lincoln, the Rev.

Roy Hendrickson and the Rev. Joc Fast officiating. Burial will be in Lincoln cemetery. Friends may call at the Hall Mortuary, Lincoln. JOHN F.

GRIFFIN DELPHOS- John Francis Gritfin, 72, lifelong Delphos area, farmer, died at 6 pm at St. John's Hospital after a one: week illness. Mr. Griffin was born and lived his lifetime on a farm northwest of Delphos. He was a member of St.

Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Survivors include a son, B. of Delphos; a daughter, Mrs. Richard Clark. Salina; two broth-: ers. Mike of Glasco.

and James of Deirhos: four sisters. Jose-: phine. Margaret, Ellen and Kath-: erine Griffin. all of Delphos, and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Fouts-Haley Funeral Horne, Minneapolis.

$10,000 worth of band instruments. Meredith Wilson, a native ct Mason City, and his wife Rini, will he on hand for the premiere, along with several of the stars, and producer director Morton Dacota. Those participating in the national band competition include: Durango, Lockport Township, Dodge City, Jef. City, College High, Bartlesville, Okla, who ward bills, The 9 a.m. connection more aside departing The cars, a worked the Ike's Remark Draws Fire and admitted go-between in the; fix attempt, testified that he paid Keogh $22.500 and Kahaner 500 to use their influence in hehall of Sanford Moore.

Corallo, Erdman said, helped raise the bribe money. Dean Litchman's Condition "Satisfactory" The Very Rev. F. W. Litchman, 150 S.

8th, dean of Christ Cathedral, was reported in satis-; factory condition by his doctor Saturday night. Dean Litchman is in Asbury: Hospital after suffering a core-. bral hemorrhage Tuesday morn-. ing al his home. The doctor squelched rumors that Litchman was in critical condition.

"He's a popular man." the doctor said. "He had so many vis'itors. I finally had to put a 'no visitors' sign on his door." The Row. William E. Craig.

the dean's assistant, said Mr. Litchman seemed much improved Salurday afternoon, "Miss Kansas" Is Chosen TOPEKA (AP)-Linda Light, a blonde from Topeka was chosen "Miss Kansas" in beauty contest Saturday night and will represent the state in the annual Miss Universe contest. Coffee Crisis NAIROBI, Kenya -Kenya is facing its gravest ever industriai crisis. with 70.000 coffice in-. dustry workers ordered to strike' Tuesday and plans being prepared or 3 general strike Wednesday.

BOSTON (AP)-The Pilot, Boston Catholic archdiocesan weekly newspaper, criticizes former President Dwight D. Eisenhower for what it termed "the nearly blasphemous implications" of recent statement, The Pilot said the former president was quoted while defending erstwhile Secretary of the Treas. Ury George Humphrey as saying: "They can kill me on a cross and drive nails into my hands and the spear into my side if. The Pilot said in an editorial: "While these words were surely spontaneous, a second thought could have recalled them and made apology for the nearly blasphemous implications contained in them. "It does not seem to have occurred to the president how essentially offensive this languate would be to all Christian believers who world properly resent these sacred associations So vainly scattered about." The former president could not be reached for comment on the editorial.

Aerospace Union Votes To Strike TULSA, Okla. -Members of the Aerospace Workers Union voted Saturday to strike the Tulsa plant of Dougias Aircraft Co. it contract negotiations break down. Otis M. Womack, president and business agent for local 1053 of the union said voting was 97 par cent for a strike if it is deemed necessary.

The contract expired at midnight Friday. Negotiations have been under way with the union at Douglas' aircraft division at Long Beach, Calif. Talks are to begin next week at Charlotte, N.C. A strike would affect about 600 Douglas workers here. Face Charges captured a would-be banmoney.

Instead of handing one of her three pistwo blocks and captured DAMASCUS. Syria teen Syrian army officers faca court martial on charges of armed mutiny in April at Aleppo, Northern Syria to reunite Syria with the United Arab Rerublic..