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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 8

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INTERIM PRESIDENT Page 1945 5C2H New Domingo Big Draft Boosts Volunteers Threat Prods Enlistments WASHINGTON (AP) overnmeiit 7, Aj, -1 i v. public, to sustain and defend its independence, respect its laws and faithfully carry out the duties of my office," Garcia-Godoy said. SPEECH Contingents of both the rebel forces of Col. Francisco Caamano Deno and the junta attended the ceremonies but neither Caamano nor Imbert were present. Officials said they were not invited.

Caamano formally resigned a few hours before Garcia-Godoy assumed office. In a strong anti-American speech punctuated by cries of "Yankees get out" from his rebel followers, Caamano said U. S. intervention in the crisis signified "a sad humili-fation for all the Americas." Officials of the United Nations, the Organization of American States and some military leaders of the IAF I vy Associated Press Wirephoto. this test, the unit was taken to 8,000 feet by a and released.

Test pilot Donald McCusker was at for this flight. Here you see a collapsible Paraglider bringing a Gemini spacecraft safely to earth at Edwards AFB, San Bernardino County. The device which can be carried in a container in the spacecraft can be triggered to open when the ship hits atmo- Killed in Freeway Crash SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) Hector Garcia-Godoy, 44, a political moderate and former cabinet member in the government of ousted President Juan Bosch, was officially installed as interim president fthe Dominican Republic yesterday. Garcia-Godoy accepted the presidency just a few horns after the latest victim of the four months and 10 days of political unrest an American peacekeeping force (IAF) was killed by a hand grenade thrown into his post. "BEFORE GOD" He received the oath at the shell-marked presidential palace around which swirled some of the heaviest fighting of the revolt.

A token force of Antonio Imbert Barrera's junta troops stood guard along with Brazilian members of the IAF. "Before the people, I swear by God, fatherland and my honor to carry out and enforce the institutional act and the laws of the Re Italy Flood Toll Mounts (AP) Drenching rain poured on flood-stricken Italy yesterday for the third straight day. Officials feared the nation's death toll from flood and landslide might reach 60. The skies opened up on other parts of Europe also. Austria counted four deaths from flood, bursting dams and landslides.

Hard rains swept northern Spain, parts of France, most of Germany, Switzerland and western Yugoslavia: No relief was in sight in Italian flood disaster areas covering a 10th of Italy's total territory. Rome was almost entirely cut 'off from the north by road and rail and most of the tourist-crowded city is expected to be without drinking water until at least next Tuesday. From flash floods that washed out bridges in the Alpine foothills to cloudburst-inundated Trapani in western Sicily the known dead amounted to 48. Still incomplete reports indicated 27 were missing. Tens of thousands were homeless.

Damage ran into uncounted millions of dollars. Floodwaters covered part of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. $2 Million for Reno WASHINGTON (UPI) The Public Housing Administration yesterday announced approval of $2,002,544 loan for purchase and rehabilitation of 150 low-rent homes, plus related improvements, in Reno, Nev. Of the homes, 126 will be designed especially for the elderly. Voluntary enlistments in the armed services have jumped since President Johnson or dered a sharp boost in the draft.

Figures for August first full month since the President's actionindicate a gain for all forces. Marines reported a 20 per cent Increase, the Army a 19 percent rise. Both the Navy and Air Force expect to go well beyond their goals for the month when final reports are in. The draft always has served as a prod for young men to sign up with the service of their choice. Voluntary enlistments had lagged, particularly in the Army and Navy, until Johnson announced on July 28 that Selective Service goals would be doubled to about 35,000 a month as part of the military buildup for the war in Vietnam.

In data made available to the Associated Press, the Army reported that 10,821 youths enrolled voluntarily in August an increase of 1,743 over July. This brought the Army to 96.3 percent of its enlistment objective for Au gust. The Navy said that "recruiting appears to be on the upswing throughout the na tion." It said "a definite increase in Navy enlistments has been noted since the President's speech regarding draft calls. the larger commitment of armed forces to Vietnam, and the recently signed military pay bill." Funds OKd To Beautify Highways WASHINGTON-(UPI)-A Senate Public Works sub committee voted today to authorize a $400 million two year program to carry out Lady Bird Johnson plan to beautify the nation's highways. Under the bill, the federal government would share the cost of removing signboards and junkyards from roadsides and for landscaping highway rights-of-way.

Commerce Secretary John T. Connor has said the cost of the program may soar into the billions when it takes full effect after 1972. Russ Strengthens Self for Vietnam MOSCOW-( AP) Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky said yesterday that the Soviet Union has strengthened its armed forces because of U.S. "interference" in Vietnam. Malinovsky gave no details.

Associated Press Wire Photo Six of eight persons in this late model car were killed in an accident yesterday about 10 miles south of Fresno. The others were injured critically. The California Highway Patrol said the collision occurred when a car failed to stop at a rural intersection. He said the killer beat and strangled her on her bed, carried her 136-pound body to the bathroom, turned on the bathtub tap and dumped her in, apparently to stimulate drowning. But he abandoned the drowning sham and didn't even bother to remove the tightly tied stocking from the victim's throat.

Dirty Mail Probe in East Bay U.S. postal inspectors were reported questioning Concord school authorities during the past few weeks on how the names of children as young as 6 years of age have fallen into the hands of solicitors of suggestive photographs. Concord Postmaster Joe Derosa, speaking yesterday to the Contra Costa Board of Realtors, said he turned pornographic mailings over to the chief postal inspector's office in San Francisco about a month ago. He said irate parents swarmed into his office with the mailings addressed to their children. In the envelopes were photos of nude women and directions how to get sets of pictures.

"We know the stuff came from the Los Angeles area," Derosa said, and advised his listeners to get in touch with postal officials immediately if such material lands in their mail boxes. sphere. For helicopter the controls Alibi Broken in Beauty's Murder civilian cioxnes auenaea installation ceremonies for Garcia-Godoy but there were no representatives of the diplomatic corps. Electric Heat for Aqiianauts LA JOLLA (UPI) America's 10 aquanauts, living in a watery environment at a depth of 205 feet for scientific experimental purposes, yesterday tested a garment electrically heated to protect them from low submarine temperatures. They made sorties out of their Sealab 2 and tested the newly developed suit designed for underwater exploration.

Within Sealab 2, they could sit and watch movements of sharks and other fish. Scott Carpenter, the world's first astronaut-aqua-naut, tested the so-called "wet" suit with Navy Lt. Robert E. Sonnenburg, a medical doctor. The suit is powered by batteries and has four circuits, giving warmth to the wearer's torso, legs, hands and feet.

Stevens May Run For Alty. General Assemblyman Robert S. Stevens, Santa Monica Republican, said yesterday he is considering becoming a candidate for State Attorney General in the June primary. Stevens, a member of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, said he has been urged to seek the office by "many concerned California citizens who are worried about the serious problems of crime and law enforcement in our state." United Press International Telephoto. Kurdish Fights Still Reported BEIRUT (Lebanon)-(AP) -Kurdish reports from north ern Iraq yesterday denied claims by the Iraqi govern ment that peace had been restored in the area.

They said the war between Kurdish fighters and the government army is sun in progress. Kurdish reports said gov ernment troons weri wrprlr. ing villages and burning crops and that government air raids were continuing daily with incendiary bombs Chess Ace Gains in Cuba Play NEW YORK-(UPI)-Tj. Fischer, 22, moved from a tied third place to a tied sec ond place yesterday in the Capablanc a Chess Tourna ment in Havana after playing to a draw with Britain's Robert Wade. The draw was agreed upon after Fischer's 69th move in his adjourned game with Wade.

The American is competing in the tourney by cable because the U. S. State De partment would not grant him permission to visit Communist Cuba. Borislav Ivkov of Yugo slavia remained in the lead with a score of 5-5 to 1.5. Fischer and Russia's Vassily Sayslov were in second place with scores of 5 to 2.

Russia's Ratmir Jolmov is fourth with 4.5-1.5 and one adjourned game. Fischer's seventh-r match with Bruno Parma of Yugoslavia ended in a draw last night after the 34th move. Earlier in the day his adjourned fourth-round game with Albertic O'Kelly of Belgium ended the same way. Fischer will continue play Sunday with an eighth-round match with Hungary's Lazlo Szabo. comment on the draft board row.

"I'll let my mother do the talking," he said. She said her son would appear to take his physical as ordered next Tuesday, but would not willingly do so if it were integrated. Lt. John T. Barlow, commanding officer of the armed forces examining and entrance station here, said after the hearing, "The military services do not have any segregated units.

He added, "If a draftee refused to take a physical, I would notify the director of Selective Service in the State of Louisiana, Col. Leo Davis, and he would turn it over to his legal people and they would start legal action." Six FRESNO-(UPI)-Six persons were killed and three others were critically injured yesterday in an auto crash 10 miles south of here. Identity of the victims was not released, but the California Highway Patrol said the six dead were among eight persons in a car bearing Texas license plates. IThe other vehicle was driven by Charles Chandler, 23, of nearby Selma. He was alone in his car, the CHP said.

A highway patrolman said tKe accident occurred when one of the cars failed to stop a( the intersection of Temperance and South 10 miles south of here near Fowler. Red China Plans New Atom Test LONDON IUPI) Communist China is preparing to test two more nuclear devices, according to British reports last night. the Chinese Reds tested their first atomic bomb last October and a more advanced device in mid-May. fjritish reports said Chinese Communist leader Mao Tze-tung has told visitors to Peking that the third and fourth test explosions would take place shortly. Peking is said to be pushing its nuclear program.

In the wake of the stepped up war in Vietnam Peking is reported afraid the United Stptes is out to bomb its nuclear installations. There have been hints that China is shifting its nuclear experimental and scientific centers or, at any rate, dispensing them over a wide arta for security purposes. Latest intelligence reports suggest that Red China has considerably shortened the time needed to develop the hydrogen bomb. But it would still take between 10 and 15 years or more before Peking would be able, on present indications, to deliver the bomb by means of a long range rocket. I Going to Vietnam "PRESCOTT Sam Steiger, unsuccessful candidate for Congress last year, said today he will leave for Vietnam early next month as a free lance correspondent.

Draftee's Mother and Integration DETROIT (UPI) A "plain Joe" clerk was charged yesterday with strangling his beautiful blonde paramour, estranged wife of a millionaire Chinese nuclear scientist, after furtively watching her entertain another man in her apartment. The suspect, Victor Fas-sero, 36, was arrested at his parents' home on "new evidence" gathered by police. He had been released Thurs day after questioning failed to shake his protestation of innocence. Fassero was charged with first degree murder. ALIBI FAILS Detective Inspector Hiram Phipps said Fassero's alibi collapsed when a woman he said he was with at the time of the killing told police he was lying.

She previously backed up his story. Phipps said the woman gave police a note from Fassero which further undermined his story. He declined to reveal the note's contents or say whether Fassero still denied the killing. Friends of the victim said Fassero had tried to strangle her twice before. The victim, twice-married Mrs.

Edna Lee, 32, was badly beaten, then strangled with her nylon stocking and dumped in a partially-filled bathtub. MOTHER FINDS BODY Her body was found by her mother and sister Wednesday but Schlachter said police believe she was killed before dawn last Saturday. NEW ORLEANS (AP) A Bible-quoting segregationist vowed yesterday to petition the President in a fight over whether her son has a religious right to military service with whites only. Mrs. B.

J. Gaillot stalked out of the draft board office after telling the legal adviser, Lt. Col. Douglas Pritchard: "This is not Nazi Germany or a Communist country, but America, and my son Kenneth must obey me under God and law." Kenneth, 19, received his draft notice and decided he would rather volunteer for the Marines. A board spokesman said the armed forces have no segregated units.

Young Gaillot declined -J i. Mrs. B. J. Gaillot arid her son, Kenneth, are shown as they confronted the New Orleans draft board with the demands that Kenneth be assigned to a segregated unit if he enlists in the U.

S. Marine Corps..

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