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WEATHER Mild Choppy High Low Temperature 76-58 71-55 7:30 am 5:43 pm High 9:33 ani 10:36 pm Low 1:13 am 1:35 pm Amusement Comic Crossword Puzzle Editorial Oil Market Sport News INDEX 83rd Year No 294 CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS THURSDAY DECEMBER 30 1965 Wont Mi TU MM Otter Dtp'l TU 430 30 Pages PRICE FIVE CENTS President Taking Lead In Offensive for Peace Goldberg Harriman On Surprise Trips By TOM WICKER Copyright New York Times News Service WASHINGTON President Johnson has undertaken a major diplomatic offensive in the hope of turning the continuing pause in the American bombing of North Viet Nam into a movement toward peace negotiations Even as this became clear Wednesday President IIo Chi Minh of North CHINA SAYS SOVIETS US COLLABORATING TOKYO Red China accused Soviet leaders Wednesday of swinging the Vietnamese issue into the orbit of US-Soviet and helping imperialism to realize the plot of peaceful Radio Peking said the Kremlin is trying to use with the United States to undermine the "fighting friendship" between the Chinese and Vietnamese people The accusations were contained in an article in the official Daily Only 24 hours earlier Moscow had announced that Alexander Shelepin No 2 man in the Soviet leadership would leave for North Viet Nam His mission has been widely interpreted as one of undercutting Chinese influence in North Viet Nam More Viet Nam News Is on Page 4A FLARIXfl CJ AS Flaring gas at the Southwestern Oil and Refining Co plant off Nueces Boulevard at 8:30 pm yesterday attracted the attention of many Corpus Christians as the flames lit up the northern sky Apparently no damage was caused by the1 flames Ammunition Strike Mediation Stalled Bombing Lull Enters 7th Day Outpost Near Da Nang Overrun bv Viet Cong SAIGON South Viet Nam (AP) The longest lull in US air attacks against North Viet Nam since they began almost 11 months ago continued Thursday On the ground the Viet Cong attacked in battalion strength and overran at least one government strongpoint near Da Nang The Viet Cong attack forced a government militia company out of key defense po- Viet Nam in a message to Pope Paul VI reiterated ihe tough conditions for negotiations that the Johnson administration has so far refused to accept State Department officials commenting guardedly said they saw nothing new in the North Vietnamese leader's me sage to the Pope Its timing interested Washington however The message was sent Tuesday before the extent of the American diplomatic effort became so publicly apparent Whether it had any significance in the context of the was thus not clear Further Sigss Despite stringent administration refusals to discuss the American Initiative there were the following further signs of it: at Large Averell Harriman arrived unexpectedly in Warsaw and discussed with the Polish government in its capacity as a member of the International Commission for Supervision and Control of Viet Nam the view's of the administration on the Vietnamese problem Goldberg the chief US representative at the United Nations flew to Rome and visted Pope Paul in his Vatican apartment US Embassy officials said he had conveyed President Johnson's gratitude for the to further peace in Southeast Asia self imposed US halt in the bombing of North Viet Nam entered its seventh day President Hubert ms OSWALD TO CLEAR WAXTS FT RECORD OF SOX WASHINGTON The mother of Lee Harvey Oswald the man who killed President John Kennedy has petitioned the Navy to change Oswald's Marine discharge fhom undesirable to honorable the Navy said Wednesday Oswald killed by Jack Ruby two days after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas had sought such a change before he killed the President Mrs Marguerite Oswald of Fort Worth now seeks to have the record changed in accordance with her request which previously was turned down by the Navy Questioned about the case the Navy said the standard petition form submitted by Mrs Oswald was sent first to a discharge review board which ruled it contained no new evidence The board said therefore that it had no jurisdiction for reView of its previous disapproval of Oswald's own request Mrs Oswald's petition now has been turned over to the Naval Board of Correction of Naval Records which says it is assembling all information on the case and will handle the petition in Humphrey flew to Manila after a stop in Tokyo during which he urged the Japanese government to assist peace efforts and to increase its efforts in pro-riding medical assistance and supplies in Viet Nam Kohler Meeting And in what may have been part of this developing picture the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Foy Kohler met Wednesday for an hour with Nikolai Podgomy the Soviet president It was described as a "protocol One a 1 1 wen informed source predicted Wednesday that big would follow to maintain the pace of the diplomatic offensive It was considered passible here for Instance that Harriman would move on to Hungary Christopher A Squire a State Department Hungarian specialist was in the ambassador's party Harriman will not seek to confer with Chinese Communist representatives in Poland however Shelepin Mission Despite these US steps interest in Washington centered almost as much on the plan of Alexander Shelepin Ihe high-ranking official of the Soviet Communist Party to head a mission to Hanoi Administration sources would make no comment on the Shelepin mission Diplomatic sources here said however that they See PEACE Page 12 earlier this year the source said Chinese-built MIG19 jet fighters which are of Russian design now are being flown by Pakistani air force pilots and a large number of Pakistani pilots are training in MIGs in China he added The source who claimed his information has been cross checked and confirmed said a 6000-ton Chinese believed to be carrying left for Karachi a few weeks ago to open new sea links between the two countries Much of Chinese arms aid has gone to three new army divisions being formed In Pakistan one of which is equipped with Chinese artillery and now is combat ready he said information we have is very he said Ho Letter Repeats Demands TOKYO (AP) President Ho Chi Minh of Communist North Viet Nam dealt a resounding blow Wednesday to budding Western hopes for negotiations to end the Vietnamese war In a message to rope Paul VI who had thanked him for the Christmas truce in South Viet Nam Ho declared: leaders want war and not peace The talks about unconditional negotiations made by the US President are merely a maneuver to cover up his plan for war intensification and extension in Viet No Change Indicated Only a short time before the Soviet Union had announced that Alexander Shelepin a top Soviet troubleshooter will go to Hanoi But there was no indication the Russians are thinking of changing their posl tion of fully supporting Hanoi's demands These demands were restated by Ho in his message to Pope Paul which Hanoi radio said was sent Tuesday to the Vatican These are the so-called four points repeatedly stressed in broadcasts by reking and Ifanoi US Ho said completely and unconditionally end its bombings and all acts of war against North Viet Nam stop its aggression in South Viet Nam withdraw its troops and arma ments from South Viet Nam and let the Vietnamese people settle their Internal affairs themselves End to Aggression' the United States put an end to its aggression then peace will immediately be restored in Viet Ho asserted the United Slates had committed crimes against the Vietnamese with those of and said these aroused profound indignation among the whole of peace- and justice-loving save their issucless silua tion in South Viet the Vietnamese leader declared 'the United States has launched an air war of dcstrudion US aircraft are day and night bombarding zones or the civilian wpulation hospitals sanatorium leprosariums schools churches markets dams causing serious losses In human lives and material Ho said the air war against the North has met with failure See HO Page 12 Local Weal her Will Continue Mild and Cloudy Weather Map on Page 2A Weather for the Corpus Chris-ti area will continue mild and cloudy with little change in temperatures through tonight New Year's Eve and New Year's Day shnuld he mild Conditions will change little for the next few days and the very cold air over the Pacific and western Canada is not expected to reach the area for several days Meanwhile increasing moisture will cause some light rain or drizzle mainly at night The Weather Bureau forecasts a high for today of 72 to 76 degrees warming slightly tomorrow to 76 to 80 degrees The low tonight and tomorrow night should be 60 to 64 degrees Winds will be from the southeast at 6 to 8 miles an hour at night increasing to 10 to 18 mites an hour today and 12 to 22 miles an hour tomorrow Australia's Mrnzirs Expected To Retire MELBOURNE Australia Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzles I expected to announce his retirement about the third week of January the Melbourne Herald reported Thursday Its Canberra correspondent Harold Cox predicted that Treasurer Harold Holt will succeed the 71-year-old Mrnzics and Labor Minister William McMahon will take over the treasury Washington Pressure Is Ignored WASHINGTON (API Nego tiatlons remained stalled early Thursday despite government demands for settling a strike that threatens to cut ammunition supplies for Viet Nam looks like we still have a lot of work to said chief federal mediator William Simkin as talks continued past midnight Wednesday Indications were the bargaining would continue through the night Some progress was reported Wednesday but the Army ordered reactivation of an alternate ammunition powder producer The Defense Department announced that immediate reactivation will be undertaken at the Badger Army ammunition plant at Baraboo Wis Word Tuesday was that any such reactivation would take at least six months The Badger plant was described as the only facility equipped to produce ball powder side from the Olin Malhieson Co plant in East Alton IG which has been idled for 29 days by a strike There was mounting government pressure to settle that strike and Simkin said making some Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz told newsmen the public Interest demands a settlement now There were strong indications Wirtz spoke for President Johnson when he said "the public is entitled to expect that the strike be settled very There was no official estimate of how long current ammunition supplies would last if the strike is not settled although Wirtz See STRIKE Page 12 India Says China Arming Pakistan sition at Dai Loc a district town near the US outer perimeter at Da Nang Air Base 380 mites northeast of Saigon A US military spokesman said reports that the district headquarter was attacked were false Vietnamese officials did not ask the Marines for help ho said A major Communist thrust Wednesday overran another district town in Quang Ngai Province about 60 mites south of Da Nang With the bombing pause now in its seventh day a US military spokesman reported: is no change at aU in the situation on the lull in the bombings of North Viet The Communist Viet Nam News Agency in broadcasts monitored in Tokyo made no mention of the bombing lull but reported Western press ac counts of bombing and shelling attacks in South Viet Nam The agency said the attacks contrast with US allegation of and The suspenstan of air raids on the Communist North was the first since the United States ordered a similar but shorter moratorium last May in a futile peace gesture toward Hanoi That pause was variously calculated as lasting five or six days The attacks began Feb 7 The current lull also described as a peace gesture has brought no known response from Hanoi despite it and new US ef See LULL Page 12 Philippine Rule Taken By Marcos MANILA (AP) A former guerrilla Ferdinand Marcos 48 took the oath of office as sixth president of the Republic of the Philippines Thursday He took over power from President Diosdado Macapagal in impressive pomp and spectacle The US Vice President Hubert Humphrey headed the list of visitors from Asia Africa Europe and North and South America While Marcos struck a note of austerity by canceling the inaugural ball there was no skimping on the actual inauguration ceremonies at high noon in flag-decked Luneta Park beside Manila Ray In brilliant sunshine the nation paraded its military forces and jets swept overhead In the bay flag-dressed warships cut white-capped paths and the echoes of saluting cannon reverberated from the Spanish-built 15th century walls of the old city By his own account Marcos faces an awesome array of economic political and foreign policy problems His campaign riedgos promised progress in all fields to this nation great Taking the oath with Marcos See MARCOS Page 12 NEW DELHI Communist China is rushing large amounts of weapons to Pakistan and already has armed one complete Pakistani division with medium srtiUery a high-level Indian government source claimed Wednesday Chinese planes based in Sin-kiang province are flying an almost daily shuttle service of arms into West FakLstan which Is a member of two US-backed military alliances said the informant who declined to be identified Peking recently has given Pakistan a $675 million credit to buy arms to replace those lost in the 22-day conflict over Kashmir In September he said This Is in addition to a $60 million credit Pakistan received US Studies To Confirm WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is considering use of a nuclear blast to study a technique that might be used by anyone trying a sneak underground test of nuclear weapons The technique called would bear watching the Atomic Energy Commission said Wednesday in the event the present limited test-ban treaty outlawing all but underground tests should ever be extended to include them Conventional explosives have been used to study the tech' nique but a nuclear test has not yet been conducted for the purpose Decoupling Is a technique which theoretically could make a given blast appear to be as much as 300 times less powerful than it actually Is It involves placing an explosive in the center of a big cavity underground events for the security and peace of the Fanfanl's resignation as for' eign minister does not affect his UN post Until Moro's acceptance there had still been a chance that Fanfani resilient of Italian politics might decide to stay on after going before parliamentary critics Jan 5 to explain his involvement with hLs friend Giorgio La Pira in La Pira'a controversial Hanoi peace-feeler affair Now Moro must find a new foreign minister and Fanfani can devote his attention to a powerful opposition faction in' side the Christian Democrat Party There was mounting speculation that this was precisely what Fanfani 57 wanted He pioneered the Socialist-Christian Democrat coalition N-Blasl Cheating In effect the power of the blast is cushioned by the empty space and the ground shock detectable elsewhere is sharply reduced The news came out with an announcement by the AEC that it plans to reopen a hole deep in the Tatum salt dome near Hattiesburg Miss where an underground nuclear test called was conducted on Oct 22 1964 That joint AEC-Defcnse De partment test involved explod ing a device packing the equiva tent wallop of 5000 tons of TNT at a depth of about 2700 feet It was part of the Defense Department's program to develop means of delecting locating and identifying underground nuclear blasts but was not studied that time because the emplacement hole See N-BLAST Page 12 that Moro now heads in the ccn-ler-teft government Fanfani heads a left-wing fac tion that regards Moro as too cautious Fanfani thanked Moro for his message of support but added confirm to you my It was increasing crilicLsm of his involvement with La the garrulous religious-ascetic former mayor of that led to Fanfuni's resignation As UN General Assembly president Fanfani had passed on to Washington the now famous La Pira report that North Viet Nam sought peace Hanoi denied it Already roasted for playing the middleman for La Tira Fanfani came in for more critl-Sce FANFANI Page 12 Band Arrested In Drug Case Premier Accepts Resignation two men Frank tozano Marin 23 and Douglas Sohm 24 both of San Antonio were taken to city jail Baumann said further information received from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics indicated the other band members would be arriving here sometime in the afternoon Latpr two cars were stopped by narcotics police at Ocean Drive near the intersection of Buford Baumann with detectives Richard Smith Riley and Bullard escorted the group to police headquarters Taken to police headquarters were three othe' members of the quinlet and Charles Van Prichard 20 of San Antonio who was traveling with the group Marin Sohm and Prichard were being held in city jail last night They are to be arraigned See BAM) Page 12 By JAY SCIIEMPF Members of the Sir Douglas Quintet a rock roll band based in San Antonio were arrested here yesterday by the police narcotics division on suspicion of possession of marijuana Another man traveling with them also was held Later three of the six were released The band was in Corpus Chris-tl to perform at a private party last night Lt Baumann head of the narcotics bureau said they acted on a tip from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in San Antonio His men arrested two of the band members yesterday morning at International Airport They had flown here from San Anlonin and were entering a limousine when arrested Baumann said each man carried a pipe tobacco tin full of raw marijuana in his luggage The ROME (AP) Premier Aldo Moro Wednesday night accepted the resignation of Amintore Fanfani as foreign minister in storm of criticism involving his wife his close friend and his political future Fanfani had told the premier Tuesday night he was stepping down and Moro at once asked him to reconsider Rut Fanfani rejected Moro's request to withdraw the resignation and Wednesday Moro sent Fanfani a message accept Ing great regret I acknowl edge your dccLsion to hold firm in your resignation as foreign the message stated The premier thanked Fanfani who is also president of the United Nations General Assembly for his work for the Italian government this difficult period so full of important CHARLES VAN PRICHARD AT POLICE STATION Lt Casbeer (left) checks possessions.