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c5 Grounds for Discussion LIBJIMsks Millwims for WieS; ffieds IlfafffelPmfc SoMwmm DAILY NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 19; 1964 Vientiane, Laos, May 18 (Combined Services) Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma charged today that Communist North Viet Nam was directing the Pathet By MICHAEL O'NEILL Washington, May 18 (NEWS Bureau) President Johnson called on Congress today to vote an extra $125 million in for 1 i A LRJ and Mayor Willy Brandt Washington, May 18 (News Bureau) President Johnson conferred today with Mayor Willy Brandt of Berlin and entertained him with a formal luncheon at the White House. Johnson and Brandt first atrolled for ca mermen in the 7U Poverty War io Ease Bias, Says Screvane City Council President Paul R. Screvane said yesterday that a "war on poverty" will ease racial tensions and Lao offensive which overran the strategic Plain of Jars, throwing the neutralist army into retreat. He displayed documents, identification papers and medals to prove it. Even as he made his accusations, thousands of Communist troops followed up a 24-hour artillery pounding by advancing on a front several miles wide on the eastern fringe of the plain 100 miles north of Vientiane.

Town Seems Doomed They swarmed over the command post of neutralist Gen. Kong Le at Muong Phanh, and drove neutralist defenders off Phou Kheng hill about seven miles to the northeast. Also under attack was Ban Khong, few miles southwest of Muong Phanh. It was being evacuated and its fall appeared only hours away. With Kong Le reportedly having fled to the village of Ban Khong at the foot of the 4.000-foot-high Hogh Phou Tong Mountain, southwest of the Plain of Jars, it appeared that his neutral- (NEWS Alar by Slall Artist I Communist Pathet Lao offensive overran Muong Phanh (X).

ist army may have been divided. The army now outgunned and outnumbered four to one by the Reds had been strung out on a 22-mile semi-circle of high ground along the edge of the plain before the Communist attack Saturday. Shows The Evidence "We have been submerged by the number of Comunists, Souvanna said as he showed reporters an identity card, a diary, a military movement order and a North Viet Nam Dien Bien Phu medal given those who fought the r'rench in that battle in 1954. He said the documents were found after recent fighting at Tha Thorn. Souvanna charged that the attack and the fact that Communist North Viet Nam soldiers ate fighting alongside the Pathet Laa are deliberate violations of the cease-fire agreement of 1962 and the Geneva agreement guara Uee-ing Laotian neutrality.

The agreement of 1954 ended the French Indochina war and divided Indochina into North and South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Poland Shuns Action Diplomatic sources here said that Britain and Russia, co-chairmen of the Geneva convention, and the International Control Commission were trying to send Canadian and Indian representatives of the commission to Khang Khay on the Plain of Jars to ask Prince Souphanouvong, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao, to halt the fighting. Communist Poland's representative on the commission failed to take part in the effort. Control of the vital plain region would cement the Pathet Lao's hold on northern Laos. They already control two thirds of Laos' 90,000 square miles.

The plain, with its landing strips and supply roads would also serve as an ideal base for a drive against Vientiane. 3Tv nor VET NAM BURMA LAOS 15? THOM 15 PLAIN MUONG g( OFffHANH JARS' eign aid for a four-point program to step up the campaign against the Communists in South Viet Nam. "Sixteen thousand Americans are serving our country and the people of Viet Nam" he declared. "Daily they face danger in the cause of freedom. Duty requires and the American people demand, that we give them the fullest measure cf support." More Terrorism In a special message to Congress, he warned that Viet Cong guerrillas had "intensified terrorist actions" against South Viet Nam and that "this increased terrorism required increased response." Johnson made the request after four straight days of intensive consultations with his top military and foreign policy advisers.

He also acted on the basis of defense Secretary Robert McNama-ra's recent trips to Saigon. With a nod to his Republican critics, the President noted that he and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge shared" the conviction that the new government of Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh "can mount a successful campaign against the Communists." Points of New Plan The new plan calls for: Expanding the Viet Namese army, civil guard, self-defense corps and police forces. Greatly expanding and upgrading the Viet Namese civil administrators corps to increase government effectiveness at the village, district and province level. Providing better pay scales for the men and adequate' budgets for the organizations engaged in the struggle on many fronts. Expanding training programs for teachers, health workers, farm, financial and administrative staffs in rural areas.

What It Will Buy The President asked for $70 million in extra economic assistance for fertilizers, medical supplies, repair parts, school supplies and building materials. He also requested $55 million in military aid for ammunition, equipment, planes, airfield equipment and support materials of all kinds. Chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-Pa.) announced that his House Foreign Affairs Committee would open hearings on the aid request tomorrow. But there were signs of trouble.

Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Appropriations Committee promptly said: "No not a penny" would he approve. Cong Attacks Training Center Bv JOSEPH FRIED Starf of THE NEWS May 18 Viet Cong guerrillas attacked a military training center yesterday, piling up 18 government casualties, it was disclosed today. Weapons losses to the Reds in a three-day period rose to over 200.

Light machine guns were among the booty grabbed by the Communists in their assault on the center outside Vi Thanh, capital of Choung Thien Province. (United Press 'International quoted reports that the government had airlifted a fresh battalion of troops into the Reds' Do Xa mountain stronghold where a sizeable South Viet Namese force was feared trapped. (U.S. military sources said 3 virtually every helicopter used in the lift into the area, some 320 miles northeast of Saigon, had been hit by Communist UPITek-folo) stroll on White House lawn. sunshine on the South Lawn, then went into the President's office for a private talk.

Among the guests at the Brandt luncheon were Manhattan Borough President Edward R. Dudley and Sidney Poitier, Academy-A ward-winning movie actor. They March On Mandy Sunnyside, England, May 18 (AP) Mandy Rice-Davies, 19, the blonde who figured in the Profumd scandal, is indignant over a protest march against her night club act in this coal mining town. "I could sue those demonstrators," Mandy fumed. "They better remember I'm a member of Equity (the performer's union) before making remarks about me." Customers packed the Blue Parrot for IVJandy's opening and applauded her warmly.

But outside, about 70 pickets marched in protest. DOHOVOH AlTIVCS SOUtHamptOll Southampton, England, May 18 (Reuters) Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan, who negotiated the Soviet release of U-2 spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, arrived here today on his way to Yugoslavia "on a private Jegal matter." Donovan, president of the New York City Board of Education, landed from the liner Queen Mary with his wife. Prince SouTmnna Phouma Accutet North Viet Nam U. S. Claims Foul in Laos Washington, May 18 (NEWS Bureau) The U.S.

charged today that the new Communist of fensive in Laos is a "flagrant and open violation" of the Geneva agreement of i962. It began gathering evidence for presentation of formal charges, possibly in the UN. At the same time, officials said Secretary of State Rusk had suggested that countries with diplomatic missions in Peking bring pressure to bear on Red China to preT-t a major East-West blowup over the little Southeast Asian kingdom. Touch Off New Crisis The crumbling of neutralist forces in the strategic Plain of Jars touched off a new round of crisis talks here. Officials fear that a Laotian peace could collapse, posing serious new threats to South Viet Nam and the rest of Southeast Asia.

Informed sources said there was no immediate thought of sending American troops in to Thailand as President Kennedy did in the 1961 crisis. The main thrust of current strategy talks is that hard evidence of Communist violations of the Geneva accords should be developed to lay the legal and diplomatic groundwork for possible international intervention. The Geneva agreement demanded withdrawal of all foreign troops including the North Viet Namese, and banned the reintro-duction of trooos or arms, any interference in Laos' internal affairs and the use of Laos to slip arms or men into South Viet Nam. And There Was Steve Ponca City, May 18 (UPI). A boat overturned on East Lake yesterday, dumping the C.

E. Lubojscky family into the water. A son, Stephen 5, disappeared. The grief-stricken parents waited on shore while firemen prepared to drag the lake. But after about 25 minutes the firemen turned the boat upright and there was Stephen, safe and sound under the dash board where he had been Jthrown when the boat capsized.

i misunderstanding. Speaking before 240 persons at the 37th annual convention of the Union Label and Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO. in the Hotel Statler-Hilton, Screvane aaid: "I firmly believe that poverty is one of the main root causes for discrimination and prejudice. This attitude may begin with only economic discrimination, but it slowly disintegrates into racial and religious prejudice." Screvane, head of the city's "war on poverty" program, urged a broad public works program not only to provide jobs, but also to revitalize run-down neighborhoods. He also declared there should be job retraining projects for persons idled by automation.

He said that in purchasing goods and services, the city deals only with employers who practice good labor management relations and pay at least a $1.50 minimum "m'hVsakers included State! Controller Arthur Levitt and State AFL-CIO President Ray Corbett. Adlai in London London, May 8 (Reuters) Adlai Stevenson, American ambassador to the U.N., arrived today from Stockholm to wind up his series of meetings with heads of state. Memorial for Mrs. Wagner The newly-incorporated Committee for Gracie Mansion has dedicated its Gracie Mansion expansion program to the memory of Mrs. Robert Wagner, late wife of the Mayor, Peter Grimm, committee chairman, announced yesterday.

Mayor Wagner said: "I am deeply moved by the plans of this nonpartisan committee, which will raise private funds to preserve the beauties of this landmark and expand its usefulness to the city." The committee's objective, Grimm said, is to "design, build and furnish facilities consistent with the historic, structural and esthetic integrity of Gracie Mansion and its environs." I I ili), I'll.