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MAIN OFFICE CIRCULATION 'r It A BRANCHES! SEE PAGE 26 ESTABLISHED FC RU ART 21. 1 874 OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA VOL. 179, NO. 193 $2.25 -a-; month 10 DAILY, 25 SUNDAY MONDAY, JULY 12, 1965 New Hope RUSS: irte'n U.

0 In Building Shutdown sio Viet Na More I Cement Masons End Some Picketingr Will Resume Talks Back Fence War Halts In Standoff 'Work Crews on Job But Interference Slows Up Progress -f-. 1 1 vHe first, skirmish in Oakland's back fence war ended in sort of a draw today. Tenants failed to rout work crews from the Peralta Villa Housing Project in es Oakland, but they managed to keep them from doing very muchwork. "We're going to sit down in whatever work you try to dot" tenant Richard York told foreman Walter Hill. 1 York is the leader of a group of Peralta.

Villa residents who are objecting because the Oakland Housing' Authority has ripped out their back fences. CREW OF BOYS Begin Major New Buildup SAIGON UPI) Nearly 4,000 Reds Form 'Volunteer Shock Unit' By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign Ntwt Analyst The United States is bolster- ON THE INSIDE i Negro Voting Strength Survey shows increase one-half million during past year. Page Elfin Juliet Alan Ward presents portrait o( budding young Eastbay actress. Page 17 Legislative Pork Barrel Editorial denounces state pension scheme as raid on Treasury. Page 20.

Day at tlie White House Dennis Powers reports on Dwight MacDonald's views of festival. Page 2L Spending Race Business analyst' advisest watching the increasing income and confidence in future. Page 42. By LEONARD BLAIKIE 1 i Tribune Labor Writer Many major construction projects in Northern and Central California were still; stalled today by the 'Cement Masons Union strike, but there were indications that the end is in sight. Negotiations between the union and the Associated General Contractors, which were broken of last week, will be resumed in San Francisco tomorrow.

masons' pickets were removed today from a $2.25 mil ing its strength in the Vietna infantrymen of the U.S. 1st Division began landing today in a troop buildup that by fall may bring U.S. troop strength in Viet Nam to 100,000 men. American mese war-increasing its military forces and getting tougher on the policy side. planes hit Communist targets on In a startling contrast, the both sides -of the Soviet Union took a new course toward the Southeast Asia con- A U.S.

military spokesman flict by soft-pedalling attacks on lion building remodeling job at said an estimated 260, Viet Cong guerrillas were killed in air American involvement when 1 two of its top leaders virtually 180 New Montgomery Francisco. A spokesman for Haas Hay- strikes in South Viet Nam. 4 mmimmmm 'if i rf 'vrz: it v.Y i Av -si, gnored the war and, instead. In the five aimed bitter denunciation at Red China. U.S.

planes struck two Commu nie, general contractor for this work, said the firm was assured For its part Communist China mst ammunition dumps, an Army barracks, barges and v'- The fences were taken down by crews of high school age boys provided by the Alameda 3 Saved, 16 Lost In Plane Ditching maintained its belligerent stand by announcing that "a shock; by the union that pickets would be pulled down tomorrow from two other major jobs; the new $22 million Wells Fargo. Bank bridges. MORE SCHEDULED County Central Labor Council. The boys are paid with Fed The soldiers from the 1st brigade" of North Vietnamese volunteers has been assigned to resist American U.S. authorities report, that eral anti-poverty funds.

The fences were removed. headquarters in San Francisco and a $5.5 million office build Division, the famed Big Red One. swarmed ashore at Cam Housing 'Authority officials say, Ranh Bay. It was the first land If ing at 111 Pine St. NOT SIGNED However, the spokesman em as the first step in a program of "beautificatioiL" North Viet Nam already has a regular division in South Viet Nam.

ing ot tne war by a unit of American infantrv. and it raised asked them to Signals Garbled In Reporting Survivor Pickup the number of U.S. fighting men GIs GO ASHORE show us their -beautification phasized that Haas Haynie "has not signed any in viet warn to nearly 71,000. Disnatches from Washington These are the developments: 1. As 3,900 men of the famous agreement with the union." -t -i -i.

said another 30,000 men will be Bruce Dillashaw. business rep 1st infantry division began land sent here bv late summer or resentative for Oakland Cement NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPI)- early fall to brine the total to Masons Local 594 and chairman ing in South Viet Nam, the fan mediate total of U.S. troops was expected to reach 71,000. And it was disclosed in Washington, i.

iL. mr 100,000. But the Defense Depart Little Yvette James, 32r of Newark, got -tall dressed up as a majorptte in the Ala-meda-County tFairv parade yesterday but v'shewasn'tsure she Wanted to go through witn She 'did' and it was (Fair The Coast Guard said late today nine airmen perished and seven ment apparently has no plans of the union's 46-county negotiating committee, said interim agreements providing or a wage boost from $4.26 to $5.25 an hour have been signed, with were missing after an Air Force plans York said, "and they have refused to show thertv to us. So we aren't going to let the work continue." Then York -led his group to an area in the project where a group of boys wele digging foot-tags fo garbage platforms iA the now' fenceless backyards. SHIN DIRT ''l The group -of tenants', stered by hiembers ef a group which calls itself the Students for a Democratic Society, plopped themselves down in the dirt beneath the workers' picks radar patrol plane crashed in to cau up reserves or increase draft calls now.

'NO CALLUP PLANNED United States plans to expand the Atlantic Ocean with 19 men sTory its Viet Nam forces to 100,030 by late summer or early fall' Asked about published renorts aboard. Only three survived, the Coast Guard said. However, the amount of ex of a possible callun of reserv The revised higher death toll pansion will remain ists, the Defense Department apparently stemmed from con aepenaing on me zonunes ot fusion in communications be warT Presitet jounson sl rl said: "There are no plans at this time to call reserves. Any early increase in draft calls Chutist Killed in tween search ships and planes at sea and land units. had been fuletf out previously many contractors.

Meanwhile, 8,000 painters and 1,000 pile drivers in 46 counties and plumbers in Alameda County remained on strike. and QotraCosta County steam-filters have settled with their employers on a new one-year agreement providing for a 45-cent hourly wage Increase plus five cents in fringe benefits. James 4 H. business The Coast Guard and the Air andshovels; i i The boys stopped working, Friday this country would use whatever manpower is needed to halt Communist aggression. 2.

The two Soviet leaders who inspired speculation about Moscow's new tack toward the by Defense Secretary Robert S. Force had said previously that McNamara. Next York and his group went GEORGE McLAIN Dive 11 men survived and eight were The buildun in Viet Nam is to the other end of the project, lost. where another (group of boys was building cinder block gar Ships of two nations joined scores of planes and helicopters in picking up the dead and living open-ended, however, and some military experts believe there will be a manpower strain within a fewj months despite the 2.7 war are communist rarty first Secretary Brezhnev and Pra- mier Kosygin. Brezhnev's only mention of the United States was the con airmen, bobbing 'In life jackets million Americans now In urn- in three to five foot swells.

Geo. McLain, Pension Plan Leader, Dies CI manager of the UOO-member Steamfitters1 Union Local 342, said the new agreement also The three survivors were put form. MARINES SEE COMBAT ventional slap at imperialists and their armed provocations. boosts 'subsistence allowances for jobs more than 40 miles Hift hittprnp AtpcpA at If President Johnson should Peking; decide to call up reservists, he bage platforms. They sat down on thfytialf-.

finished platforms. 'Once again, work Stopped. York had ti ranging tje project and, whenever a group of boys gathered in an area, a group often- Continued Page 4, Col. Sen. Dirksen Back at Work away from the employe's home from $9 a day or $63 a week to "The Communists, they, could either declare an emer LOS ANGELES Pension gency or ask Congress to ap really are Communists, do not have the right to waste time and IT'S KEW ITS "CAMP1' IT'S EELIGHTrUL promoter McLain col $12 a day or $84 a week, PLUMBERS BACK v- prove a joint resolution to au energy on mutual attacks." lapsed and died today in his tnorize ms action, wnen re PEKING RAPPED San Mateo County plumbers returned to work today under a serves were called during the aboard a German destroyer.

Six of the dead also were on the same German warship and three other bodies were aboard the U.S. destroyer The West German warship was one of three on maneuvers with the U.S. aircraft carrier Wasp; All were diverted to participate in the rescue. The life-and-death drama unfolded at daybreak when rescue craft saw flares dye markers an oil slick and plane debris. Planes circling overhead spotted the survivors floating fairly downtown office.

Hf was 64. Tall, bustling and bespecta 1961 Berlin crisis, the late Pres new three-year contract which Referring to Chinese demands ident John- F. sub will give them a $1.30 hourly in mitted a congressional resolu cled, McLain was chairman of the California League of Senior Citizens, headquartered in Los for more Soviet participation in the Vietnamese War, he said: crease in wages and fringe ben efits as well as a 36-hour work Siarls Today Pagi 6 "Our country is ready for toy week in 1967. Angeles, and president of the National League of Senior Citi contingencies, but an adventur' The agreement, ending nearly Special to The Tribune OROVILLEr -A. skydiving photographer recorded the troubled descent of a fellow diver as they fell from 15,000 feet, watched as his friend's chute opened at the last moment, then plunged to death himself.

The Butte County Sheriff's office said the George Robert Green, -27, of Oroville, may have been so concerned about his photography that he did not notice that his chute failed to 1 He landed in a drop zone, a World War II practice bombing strip about seven miles from here which is used for jumps by the Chico Sport Parachute Club, of which Green was a member. Witness said Green had a camera mounted on his helmet and was filming, the descent of Nelson Powell, 25 also of Oroville, yesterday The two, along with Vince Wheelock, had just jumped from a single engine Cessna, when Powell's chute opened only slightly. I Powell struggled with his chute, the cords wrapped around his feet, until it opened only 100 feet from the ground. Green's chute never opened, istic, ill-considered policy is an en to us." two' weeks on strike, was ap zens, with offices in Washington. close together in inflated vests.

proved overwhelmingly yesterday by members of Plumbers Kosygin added that the Soviet WASHINGTON (UPI)-Senate Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen returned to work today this advice from physicians at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "Stay, away from 'tension-villeV The Illinois senator, under treatment for painful abdominal spasms, said he would spend the nights at the hospital for at A dozed ships converged on tion Marines from another newly-arrived unit, the 2nd battalion of the 9th Marines, got their first taste of combat yesterday when they routed an estimated 200 Viet Cong guerrillas from a heavily fortified hamlet only two miles from the Da Nang Air Base. GUERRILLA SLAIN The. Marines, killed one guerrilla and captured seven sus andSteamntters Local 467.

the area Including the Wasp and He collapsed at his desk about 10 a.m. His wife, Elenor, was with him. "He never regained conscious Union is "administering a resolute rebuff to the provocateurs and imperialistic aggressive cir Sara Abruscato, business man three destroyers Of the West ager of the union, said the new German Navy. The German de contract provides for a boost of stroyer Blotter, a former U.S. ness," a friend said.

An ambulance crew pronounced him cles and avoiding at the same time the example of those who take up a belligerent tone," destroyer, was the first to pick 40 cents an hour wages nna fringe benefits, retroactive to Car Smashup Kills Bride; Husband Hurt A bride of one week died this dead when they arrived, Cause of death was not deter The Premier also hinted that July an additional cents next July 1 and 45 cents more mined. the Soviet Union may increase pects. The Marines hit back at i McLain directed what was its military spending because of- the Viet Cong after snipers lired July 1, 1967. up survivors. "The massive -'air-sea' search was launched shortly after the EC121H plane equipped with 5 tons of sensitive radar gear plunged into the ocean last Continued Page 4, CoL 3 on a Marine patrol.

The Ameri In the third year the plumb known as the "old folks lobby" in California. He ran a state organization composed, he said, international tensions but his remarks about Red China attracted the most attention. cans discovered many tunnels, ers wiir receive a total wage least the early part of tnis weeK. THE WEATHER STORY SAY AltEA Fair tonight and tomorrow except patches of high fog near the coast tomorrow morning. Little change in temperatures.

Low tonight 48 to 55. Westerly winds 10 to 20 m.p.h. trenches, and gun positions built and fringe package of $7.48 an hour. of 50,000 elderly members. Secretary of 'State Rusk by the Communists, i morning and her husband is in San Leandro Memorial Hospital following an automobile accident in San Leandro early Sunday morning.

took a tough line on a television program by declaring that Red China or any nation that "elects to get into this war" must un a derstand that "the idea of sanc itilliiKii tuary is dead." 1 The continuous bombings of mm vmamm WHERE TO FIND IT Police said that David Arthur Chavez, 19, of 4447 Sloat Road, Fremont, was traveling east on Monterey Boulevard near Serra Drive when his car, went out of control and struck a parked car. North Viet Nam have established. Astrology .19 "mm the no-sanctuary principle he said, they "have bad an important practical effect upon the i Is HEADON CRASH Aunt Elsie Bridge .1.19 Classified Ads 26 Comics .........12 comuraea rage tou a y. Mariner 4 i 8 t' Chavez, and his new bride, Linda, also 19, were taken to Fairmont Hospital in critical condition, and later transferred to Memorial Hospital Mrs. Chavez died early this morning with head Injuries, and her husband is in fair condition.

Mrs. Margaret G. Hurley, 53, i Crossword Puzzle .7.26 I Editorial 20 .1.42 I Focus ................21 I jfcnn Landers. 21 Miriam Mil of 621 Valencia San Fran ...21 tOOGHUDTOHOLOPOWN Riestl 20 v1 $port 37 TEMPERATURES Closes on Red Planet i 'i PASADENA Mariner 4 Is on the inside and closing Jet Propulsion laboratory todav issued this nroffresi re cisco, was killed near. Leggett in Mendocino County when the pick-up truck in which she was mm riding was struck headon by an TVnd Radio Oakland 65 54 Vital.

Arporf 64 5S .35 S.F, Downtown .60 '54 i World of Womn Airport .........63 51 automobile. 2 SERIOUSLY HURT The California Highway Pa- ml ciair! that An auto driven bV 9 Bobby Stampp, 33, of Areata, failed to negotiate a curve on Highway 101, crossed the cen port on the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4, expected to take up to 21 pictures Wednesday when it passes Mars at a distance of 6,000 miles: At noon. Mariner 4 was 132,441,020 miles from earth, -only 536,113 mDes, from tht lied planet and approaching at a speed of 9,878 miles an hour. i See Universe Past ter line ana struct toe Huriey truck.

Millinery may have an added embellishment this year in the form of masks for the eyes. These examples of the feline look were displayed at the American Designer Series in New York. They are (from left); Tiger hood trimmed with black white ermine hat with ermine tails and mask of white velvet on a stick, 7-and a white 1 white mask.AP) Nora, Hampton reports on fall fashions PageE 23. 7 TI The driver of Mrs. Hurler's truck, her husband, DeWayne, 44, and Stampp are both in serious condition at Garberville Medical Center.

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