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Nov. 29, 1964 Guard Saigon on Inside Today i i "114 Western Embassies I Attacked S3 a w. NO HOLIDAY FOR TRAFFIC DEATHS Aga i rist ew Idiots Continued from Page 1 By The Associated Press SAIGON, South Viet Nam an impjv.ssive victory over the Communist Viet Cong after a two-day battle in the Mekong delta region. (UPI) Police and South Vietnamese oaratrooDers moved "in The average daily toll in the first nine months of 1964 was 126, according to the records of the National Safety Council. and Belgians were protesting the American-Belgian rescue operations' in The Congo a move they denounced 84 "aggression." to anti-riot positions today in 3v At least 46 Communist bodies On Thanksgiving about 150 per tne event oi street ngnung aur-ine a funeral for a bov claimed were found on the battleground.

The mobs smashed all the front windows in the U.S. and sons were killed in automobile Vietnamese Army sources said to have been killed in anti- accidents, compared to approxi the insurgents carried away an Belgian embassies, burned and government demonstrations last week. mately 110 Friday. other 90 dead or wounded. battered automobiles, scuffled The National Safety Council, A Defense Ministry spokesman with police and looted the Congolese embassy of diplomatic doc which makes statistical studies of traffic accident records for some holidays, does not do so reported 150 guerrillas had been slain in a series of clashes with the Viet Cong in the northernmost provinces of Central Viet Nam.

Government troops suffered five deaths and 18 men for the Thanksgiving weekend, The council said the period does not involve much extra longdistance travel, except for 71 Deaths on the nation's high-, ways continued to mount Saturday, as the long holiday weekend neared the end of its third Snow and rain over a widespread area added to the traffic hazards. Smce the start of the four-day Thanksgiving weekend count by The Associated Press at 6 p.m. local time Wednesday, 414 persons have perished in accidents on fthe nation's highways and streets. The 102-hour period ends at midnight Sunday. Although the frequency of fatal accidents ran unusually high Thanksgiving night, the death toll appeared to be running about a normal rate Friday and Saturday.

The Associated Press has kept records of Thanksgiving weekend traffic fatalities for the last six years. The lowest of these fournday holiday death counts was -442 in 1960. The high was 543 last year. The powerful National Buddhist Council said it could not support the government 'and urged the high council and Chief of State Phan Khac Suu to remove the Huong regime. However, both the high council and the Buddhist leaders denounced forcible efforts to overthrow the government, suctf as the four days of student rioting this week which brought a declaration; of martial law in -5" 'The High National Council, a 15-man legislative body charged with guiding the nation tcvdem-ocratic rule, urged Huong to change his cabinet lineup, pacify his critics and solidify the war effort against the Communist Viet While shunning violence, the Buddhists said they cannot support a government which does not have any clear cut national plan.

It would harm our anti-Communist effort, and harm our national reconstruction." On Saturday, government Marines and infantrymen scored uments, pink papers they scattered on the frosty ground as they surged through the streets. The students waved placards proclaiming "Yankee go to hell" and "Death to the imperialists!" A Soviet policeman grabbed a Russian youth, yelled "Hooligan!" at him and sent him off to. an unknown destination. At the U.S. Embassy, the po wounded.

Thanksgiving Day In Tokyo, the official Conv For comparative purposes The Buddhist leaders said 15-year-old Le Van Ngoc was killed in street fights between police and student demonstrators demanding the resignation of South Viet Nam's new civil government A large crowd gathered near the Buddhist center where the funeral procession was to begin. All thoroughfares leading from the enter were blocked at intersections by police and barbed wire. REFORM URGED Earlier, the High National Council demanded cabinet changes in the government of Premier Tran Van Huong to prevent student unrest and Buddhist agitation in the gov munis North Viet Nam news agency said four U.S. warships had invaded its territory and Associated Press made a survey of a nonhpliday weekend of 102 hours, from Nov. 11 to Nov.

15 There were 468 traffic fatalities. shelled a village about 100 miles lice adopted an almost fatherly north of the border between North 'and South VietrNam. The safety council's latest report on traffic deaths, covering gentleness when 500 to 1,000 students smashed the "windows, A North Vietnamese foreign the first nine months this year, ministry statement denounced shows 34,750 fatalities. Safety ex the "extremely arrogant" action perts said this year's total may surpass the 1963 toll of 43,600 of the U.S, in allegedly debating which was an all-time high. openly whether to carry the South Vietnamese war into North Viet- Nam.

ernment crisis. The ministry said there was VARIED PROGRAMS An adventurous double bill featuring puppets, dancers and a tragic opera is scheduled for Berkeley's concert theater. Page 3 of Entertainment a "serious danger" of the flames of war "spreading to the whole of Indochina." The Hanoi Radio noted that North Viet Nam had received assurances of Soviet support in case of Western aggression. A Skyraider fighter-bomber of a type usually flown by Americans was shot down today 75 miles south of Saigon, a U.S. military spokesman said.

vainly tried to break through the Marine-guarded gates and ripped the yAmerican eagle seal off the front wall. At the 9-story yellow stucco U.S. Embassy the students splashed the walls with red, green, black, blue and purple ink. They turned on small trees in front of the. embassy and began uprooting them until police danced their horses in and made the youths retreat.

While U.S. Marines backed trucks up to the embassy gates to keep the mobs out one group turned to a parked black sedan belonging to New York Times Correspondent Henry Tanner. Three demonstrators climbed atop and did a war dance. The crowd chanted "Fire! Fire!" and soon the empty car was engulfed in flames which sent a huge column of black smoke billowing across broad Tschaikovsky Avenue. Three Moscow firetrucks pulled upland went to work dousing the flames.

At the British Embassy the mob attacked a white Volkswagen belonging to Tanner's wife, Peggy, an employe of the Danish Embassy. The Tanners vainly tried to protect the car but the demonstrators sneered at Tanner and tried to shove- He said the propeller warplane apparently was hit by Communist ground fire. Stylish Steps There's nothing more functional than a stairway. But a little planning can help it add eloquence, beauty and charm to both indoor and outdoor decor. Page 3 of California 'China Report Canadian correspondent Harrington offers a sobering report on Red China and 700 million persons who are important to the future of all Americans and the world.

Page 8 of Parade Young and Old Nancy Sharp reports on how a Mills College professor welcomes new students with limericks. Louise Wright finds that the first year of operation has been fruitful for the Home for Jewish Parents. Page 3 and Page 8 of World of Women Talented "Housewife" Mary Tyler Moore, television's favorite wife, tries a change-of-pace and gains new fame in some new roles. ''i Page 1 of Television New View Travel writer Mort Cathro visits Texas and discovers it's much more than a land of oil prairies and braggarts. Page 6 of Entertainment Both crewmembers were res cued alive, but the spokesman was not immediately able to give their nationalities.

Such planes normally carry an American pilot and a South Vietnamese co-pilot. Big Win Brings No Minn" iiiimimiii iMwmQmmmmmmMam "-Z -A 4t Iff h- Xfr gj'k jfx'YK lir" 'jfkbi ff3 Air him into the vehicle. He darted back and made his way clear with his wife. Joy to Troy REQUIEM MASS Continued from Page 1 passed for three Trojan touchdowns including two in the DUa. Cxi game's last twp minutes and 10 seconds to grab it away from the vaunted Golden Domers, sat moping in front of his locker.

"We all thought if we beat Notre Dame we'd go to the Rose Bowl," he said. "I don't know how they made their decision. I just don't know." Sunday Tribune Index News Sections California Astrology 32 Eminent Domains Bridge Gardens Churches 20 Jjprnes Crossword 22-C MartKTee Classified Sec. Photography Editorials 44 Financial 55 7 Entertainment Martinez 45 O'Hara 27 Art Rafferty 33 Books Ricca 27 Movies Real Estate Sec. Night Sounds Sports 47-54 Music Stamps 22-C Stage Vitals 42 Travel World Focus 45 World of Women Television tl Nora Hampton Best Bets Ann Landers Cynthia Lowry Robin Orr Movies on TV Nancy Sharp Radio Amy Vanderbilt i TV Log Louise Wright Monday for Sam Cozzo ORINDA A Requiem Mass will be offered Monday for Sam Edmund Cozzo, 64, of 170 Moraga Way, who died Thursday after a long illness.

A native of Trabbia, Sicily, Mr. Cozzo came to this country as a child and livul in what is now San Pablo. He graduated from Richmond High School in Coach John McKay sounded philosophical, but he was obviously biting off his tongue. "I hope Oregon States does a real fine job and justifies the conference decision," he said. The Beavers, by virtue of the 1920 and received his engineer ing degree from the University vote which has all Los Angeles ready to build a Berlin Wall somewhere north of Santa Monica, will battle University of Michigan in Pasadena New Year's Day.

of California in 1924. Qualified as a mechanical, civ The Beavers and the Troians il and electrical engineer, Mr. Cozzo was employed by the Arthur McKee engineering firm. share the Pac-8 title with 3-1 records, but Oregon State had a better record, 8-2, than USC's He previously worked for the Bechtel Corp. in constructing the Trans-Arabia pipeline in Saudi Arabia.

He was a member of the Court Plan Dumps Rural Senators American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Professional Engineers Association; and Santa Maria Catholic Church of He is survived by his widow, Josephine; son, Joseph, of ber of people they represent. Berkeley; daughter, Mrs. Nina The Senator from the smallest Davies, Orinda; four sisters, 7-4. Postponement of the decision until after Saturday's USC-Notre Dame game, had led to the belief a win would bring the Trojans the bid. The vote for Oregon State was said to have been by a narrow margin, possibly even a 4-4 tie, which would have given OSU the bowl bid because USC was there last.

Oregon State hasn't played in the Rose Bowl since 1957. USC was there in the 1963 bowl. The sour reaction in Los Angeles spread to after-game celebrations in fraternities and sororities. But if things were bad in the southland, the Northwest was happy enough. OSU grid coach Tommy Prothro said his faith in getting the bowl bid had wavered in district would get one vote, and others would be scaled upward.

Mrs. Teresa Holcomb of Sacramento, Mrs. Selma Reno of San Rafael, Mary Schaefer of In crucial caucus and committee meetings, however, the senators woula carry equal weight. Richmond, and Mrs. Stella Sor- rell, San Francisco, and two Continued from Page 1 of Trinity County, who will soon become a judge, led a fight for retention of the so-called federal system through a fed-: eral constitutional amendment.

The Senate is now convinced Congress will not give the necessary initial approval to such a proposal. The Senators turned to gimmickry as a possible way to save as many incumbents as possible -'or at least retain grandchildren. If applied to California, this plan would produce a Senate The mass will be offered at 10 a.m. at Santa Maria church. with 1,100 votes.

And Sen. Thom The Rosary will be recited today as M. Rees of Los Angeles would cast 422 of them. If for no other reason, the New Jersey scheme would not work here because of one man Rees would have life-or-death control over the state budget and any other bill requiring a Iwo-thirds vote. The assemlby is virtually cer tain to oppose any gimmick scheme prepared by the Senate.

And no less an authority than Sen. Randolph Collier of Siskiyou County, powerful chairman of the transportation committee, is predicting that the Sen- at 8:30 p.m. at the Civic Center Chapel of Wilson and Kratzer Mortuaries, 24th Street and Barrett Avenue, Richmond. Interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery, San Pablo.

425 Ad Hoc Pickets at The Tribune A crowd of about 425 pickets organized by the Ad Hoc Committee marched Saturday for more than two hours outside the Tribune Tower at 13th and Franklin Streets. The committee has accused The Tribune of discriminatory hiring practices. Tribune management had denied the committee claim. The pickets dispersed without incident. There were no arrests, as there were a week ago when eight persons were accused of trespassing in a similar ate reapportionment measure will meet with the approval of some semblance of geographical balance.

Sen. Stephen P. Teale of Calaveras County, chairman of a special upper house committee, worked out a unique plan to split the state into two at-large districts. Four Southern counties with half the; state's population Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Imperial would get half the seats. The other 54 counties would get the other half of the house.

This scheme has been rejected for at least these three reasons: 1 It would eventually lead to control of the Senate by the Bay Area and Los County. 2 It could result unanimous control of the Senate by one political party through slate campaigning. Jr-The Assembly would be sure to fight it vigorously. Then along came the New Jersey plan calling for all Senators to keep their seats but to the 20-17 upset, but "I'm pleased the faculty men didn't get emotional over the USC victory." "I feel that either the Trojans or ourselves would be a fine representative," he added. And Athletic Director Slats Gill called it "A very deserving thing for a wonderful bunch of people LA said "Drop dead." Philippine Ship Sinks; Many Lost- MANILA, The Philippines (UPI) An inter-island -ship, "Don Jose," carrying 55 passengers sank Saturday off the city of Zamboanga on Mindanao Island which was whipped by Typhoon Louise last week.

The Philippine News Service said six persons were drowned and 32 missing and presumed drowned In stormy waters of Recodo Bay. Seventeen prsons were rescued. the Assembly. "'V He feels that a special is likely next November to elect members from new dis-tricts. 7 i 1 Furthermore, Collier said the new districts may not be drawn until after a special statewide census because California has shown tremendous growth since Fur products labeled to show country of origin oi imported iurs Open venings till Christmas the 1960 head count.

OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO I HAYWARD I PtlASANT HILL Post nd Kearny 72401 Foothill Blvd. I Contra Costa Center He said the Senate can not escape the Supreme Court or Broadway AT isth PARK FREE AT ANY DOWNTOWN LOT- der, "We will do the best job we can under the law." vote in proportion to the num.

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