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OIT DAIL PRESS CLOUDY inGH 82 LOW 61 Dow Jones Wire Renters Wire 1, NO. 19 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1964 TEN CENTS DETR ll LrOiyj'S) Is HU iiU HU vJ wuulm UzziLUVJ Lyj UVJ UiJ lilSUxJULLilJiJ Viet Reds Crash Kills i State Dems Back LBJ's Huge A ir Strike Brings U.N. Bid For Cease Fire By Reuters Tension mounted on the Mediterranean island of Ch Veep JL By OWEN DEATRICH EAST LANSING Michigan Democrats made it emphatic Sunday. Delegates to the National Conven Cyprus early Monday following reports that Turkish ships were landing troops and supplies on the island. tion in Atlantic City want exactly the man whom more, extend the conflict and intensify the threat of war, to which the Soviet government has already drawn the attention of the Turkish government.

"The population of Cyprus, both Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, should be given the possibility of themselves settling all the questions con i Five; Boy Orphaned MONROE A 2-year-old Madison Heights boy, orphaned by a five-car freeway pileup that killed four, including his young parents and a brother only 10 weeks old, is on his way to a new home with grandparents today. The grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roland E. Bechtel and an uncle, Roland 27, made an emergency trip from DuBois, to claim little Brady Bechtel.

Brady, only member of his immediate family to survive the tragic crash, was placed in Monroe Mercy Hospital for observation and care after the accident Saturday night. Brady was en route to DuBois with his parents, Charles 23, and Linda Cathrine, 22, of 29546 Tawas, Madison Heights, when a northbound car running out of control rammed their automobile head-on after side-swiping two others. A fifth car stuck the wreckage. But it was to have been a happy vacation trip his fath er's first since enrolling on a scholarship in the General Motors Institute at Flint five years ago. The father re ceived his diploma only a week ago and ww fftli a week away from his first job as a run-neagea eiectricai engineer, which was to have been at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren.

Instead Brady and his Pennsylvania relatives will be escorting the bodies of the young Bechtels and little Grady to their last resting place. Services and burial will be in Dubois Wednesday afternoon. The other victim of the crash was Jake Parks, 43, of Toledo. Sheriff's officers said his car swerved across the median while he W8S driving on 1-75, four miles south of Monroe, touching off the accident chain. Imi -i" tr 1 LUCI BAINES JOHNSON steps down a ramp at Los Angeles International Airport.

The President's youngest daughter came to attend an "LBJ style' barbecue in her honor to kick off the Southern California Young Citizens for Johnson drive. Actress Natalie Wood and actor Steve McQueen were co-hosts. Earlier the United Nations I Security Council ordered an immediate ceasefire by all sides as Turkish jet aircraft launched massive attacks on Cyprus Sunday for the second straight day. A Cyprus government spokesman said four Turkish destroyers were in Mansoura Bay in northwest Cyprus Sunday night pouring in men and supplies for the Turkish Cypriot village of Kokkina, scene of heavy fighting be tween Greek and Turkish Cypriots during the past four days. However, Greek Foreign Minister Stavros Costopoulos said in Athens later that reports of Turkish troops landing at Kokkina were not accurate.

But he said Turkish naval units had entered the territorial waters of Cyprus, thus constituting a threat for the Republic of Cyprus. Russian Premier i i a Khrushchev sent a message to the Turkish government call ing for it to stop military ac tions against Cyprus. He also sent a message to Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios saying the sympathies of the Russian government were "on the side of the Republic of Cyprus." "The Soviet government calls on the government of the Turkish Republic to stop military operations against the Republic of Cyprus," Khrushchev said. "The use of arms is not a suitable means for settling complex questions of relations between nationalities," he said. "Attempts to impose by force of arms a decision terests of the people can only I SAYS NOT 'CRICK cerning their country, without foreign interference," Khrushchev said.

U.S. NAVY ON MOVE In Rome a U.S. Navy spokesman said six ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet left Naples unexpectedly for an undisclosed destination, but refused to say whether the sailings had anything to do with events in Cyprus. A recall for all personnel of the ships was issued Sunday afternoon and the six vessels left at dusk.

The ships were the aircraft carrier Jtoosevelt, the guided missile cruiser Boston, and four destroyers, the Lawrence, Sellers, Wilson and McDon-ough. They had been in Naples harbor since Aug. 4 and were due to leave Monday for nor mal exercises in the Mediterranean. Adm. William Ellis, recently appointed Sixth Fleet commander, was aboard the cruiser Springfield, which was expected to leave on schedule Monday.

NATO THREATENED In Washington, U.S. Undersecretary of State George Ball said if the Cyprus situation is not resolved soon, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense line could be "un-singed" by the friction between two of its members. Qie9C nd Turkey. President Johnson wants to be vice-president. Led by wily old campaigner Gus Scholle, who has batted his head twice against the atonewall of presidential opposition, the delegation overwhelmingly agreed to trust the judgment of the President and support it.

Meeting in the Union Building on the campus of Michigan State University, delegates who will answer the roll call when the Convention opens on August 24, picked their outstanding talent to serve on the important Convention committees. Congressman Charles C. Diggs, of Detroit, was chosen along with Mabel Stolz, of Cuban Ship 'Attacked' By Exiles MONTREAL Police reported a "small explosion" Sunday aboard a Cuban freighter docked in Montreal and a Cuban exile group in New York claimed it had attacked the ship. Police said the blast caused no casualties and no damage. The Cuban Nationalist Association in New York claimed its agents had boarded the ship to "carry off important and confidential records." The attack, the association said, was part of the exile group's "mission to strike wherever necessary for the liberation of Cuba." Unions, Rails Get 30 Days lo JOHNSON CITY, Tex.

Six craft unions and America's major railroads were given 30 days Sunday to negotiate "job protection" agreements covering 150,000 railroad shop workers. An emergency fact-finding board, named by President Johnson to study ways to avert further rail disputes, recommended the negotiations, the vacation White House announced. Vote 'Falsie' Not Illegal Reject UN Invitation HONG KONG (Reuters) North Viet Nam Sunday night rejected a bid by the United Nations to appear be fore the Security Council and give its version of recent at tacks and counter-attacks by Communist and United States warships and aircraft. The New China News Agency quoted an official statement of the Hanoi government's foreign ministry as claiming the UN was not competent to examine the events. Russia, a member of the Security Council, had demanded that North Viet Nam be invited to answer U.

S. charges that Communist torpedo boats attacked American destroyers last week in the Gulf of Tonkin and that American jet fighter-bombers raided North Viet Nam naval bases in retaliation. Hanoi said the U.S. report to the Security Council was "based on slanders." Only the two co-chairmen (Britain and Russia) and participating countries of the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina were competent to examine the "extremely dan-gerous-war acts committed by the U.S. government against the Democratic Re public of Viet Nam," the statement said.

Viet Nam Gets Set For Raids SAIGON, South Viet Nam (Reuters) South Viet Nam's capital city was brought to a standstill by wailing sirens and pealing church bells Sunday during the first air raid alert staged here since the war against Communist guerillas began four years ago. Stores closed and police chased people off the streets of the capital while armored vehicles and mobile anti-aircraft guns rumbled into position for the hour-long alert. The. alert was staged as part of the nation-wide state of emergency declared Friday by Premier Maj. Gen.

Nguyen Khanh, to counter possible massive attacks by Communist forces. SHELTERS UNDER WAT Following the "successful" practice air raid alert the Mayor of the Capital, Brig. Gen. Duong Ngoc Lam, said plans were under way for building 500 mass air raid shelters to protect 400,000 people. He said future practice alerts would be "more realistic.

Next time we will have aircraft. They will drop bags on the city, possibly containing flour, and these will be considered as bombs," the Mayor said. Lam said in future alerts some of his subordinates would "play an enemy role" and would test the authorities by designating any area they like as having been bombed from the air, sabotaged, or otherwise affected by enemy action. Continued on Page Topless Debate KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya, (Reuters) The Women's Di vision of the governing United Malay Party will debate a mo tion next month urging the Government to ban import of topless dresses. A spokesman said she was "sure" the wom en would approve the motion.

oice Owosso, for the vital Cred entials Committee. Diggs will lead the Michigan drive to seat the Negro Freedom Democratic Party delegation from Mississippi, in opposition to the "lily-white" reg ular Party delegation. A. Robert Kleiner, of Grand Rapids, and Carolyn Kubert, 20223 Carrie Detroit, were named to the Rules and Organization Committee. Gordon Traye, an assistant Secretary of State from the Detroit 16th, and Elizabeth Ramsey, of Allegan, were chosen for the permanent Organization Committee.

McXAMARA THE BOSS U.S. Senator Philip Hart, and State Vice-Chairman, Adelaide Hart (no relation) were put on the Platform and Resolutions Committee. Michigan's senior Senator Patrick V. McNamara is chairman of the delegation and presided as final arrangements were made for the Convention. Michigan delegates will hold their pre-Convention caucus in the President Hotel on the boardwalk on Sunday, the day before the Convention starts.

They will select a National Committeeman and a National Committeewoman. Former Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams was named to the Steering Committee which will have authority to fill delegation vacancies and act for the delegates on emergency matters before the Convention. BACK JOHNSON Other members of the Steering Committee, along with the ex-officio members of the State Party officials were Gus Scholle, Alex Ful ler, Helen Krohn of Port Huron, Lillian Kiel of Grand Rapids, Lieut. Governor T.

J. Lesinski, Andrew Wisti of Chassel in the Upper Penin sula and Attorney General Frank J. Kelley in his added role as chairman of the alternate delegates. It was at the end of the meeting that Scholle made the motion to put Michigan solidly behind President John son in the choice of a vice president. "I learned a lot of years ago that the influence of a President has a great bearing on the selection or a vice president," Scholle, head of the Michigan AFL-CIO, said.

Continued on Page 2 to accept the new policy in a "Christian spirit." The church operates about 50 elementary and high schools in the state, enrolling slightly over 22,000 students. Fewer than 2,000 youngsters would be immediately affected by the new policy. FOLLOWS COURT Catholics make up only a small percentage of Mississippi's population of 920,000. Federal court orders call for the racial integration of first grades in only two of the state's schools, starting this fall. Bishop Gerow's plan follows that adopted for other parochial and public schools in the south, with integration on a "grade-a-year" basis.

It would thus be 1976 before Mississippi Catholic schools exacerbate the aituaton even (Continued on Page 2) Cyprus Crisis: Turkish Planes Blast Greeks ji! a I i I --s i I s4? Charles L. Bechtel it mgSmtmm K-s Mfhts Linda C. Bechtel i 1 Traffic Judge Andrew C. Wood, who now holds Murphy's seat by appointment, declined to be drawn into the squabble beyond saying: "There is no law covering this form of political publicity." State's Dean In Congress Dead At 59 WASHINGTON The dean of Michigan's Congressional delegation, Rep. John B.

Bennett, died Sunday in his suburban Chevy Chase, Md.t home. He was 59. Bennett, a Republican from Michigan's 12th Congressional District covering the western half of the Upper Peninsula, had served in the House for 20 years. He had been ill, with cancer for the last month. He is survived by his wife, Corrine three children.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete. Nixon Backs Goldwater 'All-Out' NEW YORK Former Vice President Lichard Nixon said Sunday he might disagree with some parts of the 1964 Republican platform, but that it is "strong in many areas." Nixon said he will give his "all-out support" to GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater. "Any disagreement I have with (the platform) or the candidate will be under a moratorium from now until Nov. 3," Nixon said in a radio-television interview. Detroit police whose jobs it is to patrol parking are fuming over a gimmick used in behalf of a candidate in the primary election campaign for the seat of retiring Traffic Judge George T.

Murphy. They complained to their boes. Traffic Director William Polkinghorn, that it is costing them both needless effort and wasted time to check and doublecheck ticketed cars to determine whether they bear true violations notices or almost identical "falsies." The facsimiles urge the election of Neil F. Murphy. Printed in green ink from curlicue type, all bear the same aerial number.

They explain to "John Q. and Mary Citizen," whose address is given as 2 Woodward, that their "violation" consists of possible failure to register for Sept. 1 municipal primary, urge them to do so without delay and then get out and vote when the time comes. Polkinghorn appealed to Assistant Corporation Counsel William P. Doran to do something about his men's grievance.

Doran said he will check the laws and the ordinances. His preliminary report Wednesday was: "I can find nothing of a criminal nature in this. But it certainly isn't cricket." Brenda Blows Out to Sea MIAMI Tropical storm Brenda, with winds up to 50 miles an hour at its center, was moving far out into the Atlantic and the Miami weather bureau said Sunday night that all danger to Bermuda and the United States mainland had passed. Catholics to End Miss, School Bias By REUTERS Swift developments in the Cyprus crisis in the past three days were as follows: FRIDAY: Two Greek Cypriot patrol boats open fire with anti-aircraft guns on Turkish Cypriot villages of Kokkina and Mansoura where heavy fighting was reported. Turkish jets make "warning flights" and Italian ship reported damaged in Polis Harbor.

SATURDAY: Turkish planes attack Greek positions around Kokkina and rocket Cyprus gunboat. Greek Cypriots take three Turkish Cypriot villages. Turkey announces air attacks to stop Greek Cypriots bringing up reinforcements. Cyprus government says 24 killed, 200 wounded in Turkish raids (later increased to 33 killed, 230 wounded). United Nations Security Council meets at request of Turkey and Cyprus, adjourns without agreement.

SUNDAY: Turkey announces 64 jets attack military positions. Cyprus government says fire3 started by Nanalm, and Turkish warship shelled northwest coast. Cypriot message to U.S. reportedly said if air attacks did not stop by 3:30 local time they would attack every Turkish Cypriot village. President Johnson sends urgent messages to Greece, Turkey and Cyprus president Makarios.

Security Council president appeals for ceasefire after second emergency meeting NATCHEZ, Miss The first grades of Roman Catholic parochial schools in Mississippi will be racially integrated starting this fall, Bishop Richard O. Gerow announced Sunday. Bishop Gerow, In letters read at masses in all 83 Mississippi parishes, called on the 68,000 Catholics in the state DD3EDE1II AmiicAmanfc Pa CP 1 Ci Classified Ads 14-15 Editorials 6 Live Forever 8 Sports 11-13 TV Guide 4 Women's 9 Brady BechteL 2 were fully integrated..

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