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- 1 IB LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Robert F. Kennedy joined his brother in death t by assassination Thursday and mourners began the long journey Seek with the body toward its resting place beside the late President John F. Kennedy in Arlington Cemetery. 1 The senator's casket was flown LOS ANGELES (UPI) to New York aboard President John* -—Police said Thursday AN AUTHORIZED PUBLICATION OP THE son's Air Force One jet. There the they had issued ah all U.S. ARMED FORCES IN THE FAR EAST points bulletin for a body will lie in state Friday at St. Vol.. 24, No; 158 Saturday, June 8, 1968 possible woman sus- Patrick's Cathedral before the funer- pect in the assassina- al mass and the trip tion of Sen. Robert F. to Arlington for burial Kennedy* on Saturday. Insp, Peter Hagan said Kennedy, 42, died officers still believed only one person was involved in at 1:44 a.m. PDT (5:44 the shooting, but didn't p.m. JST, 4.44 p.m. want to overlook any pos- sibility. Vietnam time) Thurs- The case was not considered day, 25 hours after he closed yet, said Hagan, press liaison officer for Chief. Tom was hit by bullets fired Reddin. The bulletin was issued. in the Ambassador Wednesday after a Kennedy Hotel. The accused assassin campaign worker told police was seized at the scene. that a woman in a polka dot dress ran from the Ambassador The departure of the Hotel early Wednesday at about plane carrying his body was the time an assassin fired eight delayed until 1:28 p.m. (Continued on Back Page, Col. 2) while authorities and pa- thologists conducted a six- hour autopsy. The post Autopsy mortem was long and meti- culous because authorities were determined to avoid Data to Go the kind of controversy that still stirs over the slaying of his brother in Dallas. To Jury A cortege of a hearse and nine cars with motorcycle LOS ANGELES (UPI) escorts left Good Samari- —Dist. Atty. Evelle J. tan Hospital, where Ken- Younger will seek a grand nedy died in the intensive jury murder indictment Fri- care ward. day against a Jordanian im- The widow, Ethel Ken- migrant accused of shoot- nedy, who had maintained ing Sen. Robert F, Ken- her composure through the nedy. "I think the presentations will ordeal of the assassination, take all day, and it may well be rode in tho front limousine a long day," Younger told a for the 20-mile trip from jammed news conference the hospital to the airport. Thursday. With her was Mrs. Jacque- "Every bit of evidence on the line Kennedy who 4"Uj years autopsy will be presented to the ago rode in a similar sorrowing grand jury and later introduced procession that carried her slain into the trial—I say every bit." husband. Younger said he presumed Several hundred persons counsel for the suspected (Continued on Back Pa#e, Col. 3) gunman, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, 24, had notified him of Kennedy's death. "We have not," he added. Approve Westy Sirhan, seized moments after the senator was felled early As Army Chief Wednesday with two bullet WASHINGTON (UPI) — The wounds, had been charged with Senate eonfirmed by romine (Continued on Back Page, Col. 4) voice vote Thursday the nomi- nation of Gen. William C. West- Flags at Half-Staff moreland, U.S. commander in WASHINGTON CAP) — Presi- Vietnam, as new Army ehief-of- dent Johnson has ordered the staff. American flag to be flown at The Senate also approved the half-staff throughout the world retirement of Army Chief-of- —on the battlefields in Vietnam, Staff Harold K. Johnson with on all ships at sea and at U.S. the permanent rank of general. missions and embassies abroad Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (right) comforts slain senator's casket is with them on the lift. At Westmoreland's n o m i n a tion —until the interment of Sen. Mrs, Robert Kennedy as they and other members left is Robert Kennedy's daughter Kathleen, 10. was unanimously a p p r o v e d Robert F. Kennedy late Satur- of the Kennedy family board a lift at Los Angeles The senator's body will lie in state in New York. earlier by the Senate Armed day. Airport to be put aboard a presidential jet. The (AP Hadiophoto) Services Committee. mOrT CAP) - A :-aald: wasy tfe fast v- to: ftffoit Ifts eneW tefet til .t btfiMfng : lit .the see $:§ &$} n $ Choldtt and ffiarteuvefett II info rjft early FMay flrttfc site (Tht-, fighf began .-at f; Thursday 7 , •aftertfotft also fmffid g Iri tt-fiesidtiaiV-imd aiielhfcfr following another liigM of Sheik tfie bodies of M ertewy wfto (f aelieat airCMfV Artillery Wtf Ing dn% 100 yflirtis from the teg ,in whtefi six rotftidr hit were killed ift Mflier fighte) aitd .gtifiship, strikes were. Galled: httitee-.bf Gen. .William 0. West*, within the" city* At least one; (Gfouitd action Wednesday in as the Marines .eontimied moreland, cottimarifjei* bi tf.S, Vietnamese civilian was killed Was centered in Quang Natn the attack Until the enemy with*. have beeft killed itt two fofees itt Vietnam, who is in and 11 were wounded, U;S. and Quang Tin provinces to drew, military air crashes in Laos, Washington. spokesman did not Identify the the north. (U.S. casualties were One it was revealed Thursday. An Army guard at West* shells, but AttVN sources said (U>S« Marines from the 26th killed and 28 wounded. The separate crashes took thoreland's residence said no they were the big 122mm rock* and 27th Regimental Landing (In a four-hour battle nine place over the weekend, one was injured there, ets. Teams killed 23 enemy in a miles southwest of Tarn Ky, On Sunday a DCS with five The Vietnamese military com* (Other light action in Saigon five-hour chase and fight 12 troops from the 1st Cav.» Ameri* crewmen and , si* passengers raand said first casualty re- brought to 64 the total enemy miles northwest of Hoi An. Com- cal Dlv* killed 11 enemy while aboard disappeared in bad ports from the barrage that be* , killed in the capital from pam'es from both teams flanked suffering no casualties.) weather en route to, Ban fiouei gain at 3 a.m. listed two civil-. Sai on the Thai border about ians killed afld eight wounded, 250 miles northeast of Vientiane. It was not immediately known The aircraft had taken off from if there were any casualties at the Laotian royal capital of the Binh Dan hospital. Luahg Prabang. Another round fell near Tan The plane is believed to have * Son Nhut AB, setting a fire gone down about 25 miles .south there, a government spokesman of Luang Prabang in Pathet Lao said. No rounds hit inside the territory. No wreckage has been sprawling airfield, however, ac- sighted, but hope has been cording to the U.S. command.. given up for survivors. Within minutes after the first On Monday a Laotian Air rounds hit, U.S. and Vietnam- Force helicopter With seven ese Air Force planes scrambled aboard crashed into a mountain from Tan Son Nhut to ; join in in southern Laos en route from the search for the Viet Cong Savannakhet to Huong Huong rocket positions. about 60 miles to the southwest, Only one survivor was reported. (Earlier, Pacific Stars and Stripes' Vietnam Bureau report- ed government forces had U.S. Death Toll cleared the enemy from its last stronghold in the battle-scarred For Week: 438 Cholon section of Saigon, the SAIGON (AP) — The U.S. U.S. Mission said, Military Command reported (Thirty Viet Cong, including Thursday that 438 Americans a local force battalion com- were killed in action last week, mander, were killed in a bloody a small increase over the pre- four-hour battle as Vietnamese vious week. troops seized what spokesmen The command said 3,870 U.S. troops were wounded, well above the previous week's fig- ure Of 2.687. Jets Boost Allied forces killed 3,237 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese sol- diers last week, a drop from the previous week's total of 3,867, the command said. Cutter Has Big Day Missions SAIGON (S&S) — U.S. Navy S&S Vietnam Bureau and Coast Guard craft Wednes- SAIGON ~- Taking advantage day destroyed or damaged 44 of clearing skies Wednesday enemy fortifications and 31 sam- over the southern Panhandle, pans in the Mekong Delta. The U.S. pilots flew 130 missions Coast Guard cutter Androscog- over North Vietnam, their high- gin reported 39 fortifications and est total in two weeks. Kitty Hawk Makes a Gas Stop 24 sampans destroyed or dam- It was the most missions The destroyer USS Boric approaches the oiler Hawk in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Vietnam. aged in An Xuyen province, 135 since May 24, when 136 strikes Passumspic which is refueling the carrier Kitty (USN) miles southwest of Saigon. were aimed into the limited area across the Demilitarized Zone. Pilots flew through light ta moderate antiaircraft fire to hit Casualties in Vietnam enemy supply points and traffic routes. They caused 11 second- WASHINGTON (S&S) — The Sp4 Wayne A. Painter, Ft. Recovery, LCpl. Thomas W. Dulik, Cleveland, Ohio. Sp4 Francis M. Webster, Salt Lake City, Ohio. LCpl. Nicholas S. Vrankovich, Beaver Utah. ary explosions and 20 large Defense Department has an- Cpl. Llnwood Cough, Philadelphia, Pa. Falls, Pa, Pfc. Michael E. Ludwlg, Alexandria, Va. fires. nounced the following casualties Sfc. James L. Thomas, Columbia, S,C. Pfc. William O. Adams Jr., Greenwood, SSG Antonio Lopez Jr., Moses Lake, Cpl. Sam H. Boyd, Fort Mill, S.C. S.C, Wash, Air Force F4 Phantoms also in connection with the conflict SpS Carl T. McCoy Jr., Memphis, Tenn. Cpl. James D. Bowers, Johnson City, MISSING IN ACTION knocked out four antiaircraft in Vietnam. Sp4 Douglas Carter Jr., Dallas, Tex. Tenn. Army Sp4 Roy L. Brager, Dallas, Tex. Pfc. Dwight W. Carroll, Springfield, Tenn. Cpt. Anthony G. Prior positions 30 miles northwest of KILLED IN ACTION Pfc. Ted 0. Brarzeql, San Antonio, Tex. Cpl. James H. Jackson, San Antonio, Sgt. Thomas H, Goodman Jr. Dong Hoi. Army Cpl. George W. Burr, Koosharem, Utah. Tex. Sgt. Michael W. Braun Navy crews, flying from U.S. Sgt. Douglas R. Sutton, Chancellor, Ala. Sp4 Lewis D. Larrikin, Colllnsvitle, Va. LCpl. Rolando Hernandez, Corpus Christ), Sgt. Jaime Villalobos 2Lt. Harold J. Clifford, South San Fran- Pfc. Carl H. Sexton Jr., Damascus, Va, Tex. Sgt, Billy R. Brown 7th Fleet carriers, flew 75 mis- cisco, Cqlif, Sp4 Bruce H. Dyer, South Kent, Wash. Pfc. Jose Davlla, Chapmen Ranch, Tex. Sp4 Jesse J. Armwood sions, mostly near the city of Sp4 Francis J. Hefner, Vallejo, Calif. Sp4 Ransom C. Cyr, Mercer Island, Wash. Pfc. Lurry J. Sinegul, Houston, Tex. Sp4 John W. Graser Cpl. Richard Ferralez, Los Angeles, Calif. Cpl. Bobby L. Wheeler, Hamlin, W.Va. LCpl, Jetfery A. Goss, Orem, Utah. Sp4 David A. Jackson Vinh. Pfc. Kenneth R. Hellman, San Mateo, Pfc. Rot>ert E. Zeske, Milwaukee, Wis. Ptc. Don C- Williamson, Utah. Sp4 John L. Ramsey In South Vietnam, Air Force Calif. LCpl, Roger D. Williams, Roanoke, Va. So4 Merl R. Meadows Pfc. David E. Watklns, Los Alamitos, Marine Corps LCpl. Nikola Babich, Milwaukee, Wis Pfc. John H. Anderson Jr. «B52.s mounted five missions Calif. Sat. Charles W, Haskell, Columbia, Calif. LCpl. Dennis D. Wehrs, LaCrosse, Wis. Pfc. Bernard F. Yarbinitz against enemy troop concentra- Sp4 Frank March Jr., Cocoa, Fla, LCpl. Ronald J. Shewman, San Dimas, Pfc. James L. Harris Calif. DIED OF WOUNDS tions and supply areas between SSG William A. Griffis, Pearson, Ga. Marine Corps Pfc. Joseph J. Passavanti III Cpl. Ronald W. Herren, Marietta, Ga. Ptc. Charles Byrd, San Jose, Calif. Pfc. William M. Levendis 52 and 55 miles northwest of Pic. Gary W. Purcell, Torrunce, Calif. Cpl. Billy J McCorty, Semmes, Ala, Sp4 Michael E. Ford, Quincy, III. LCpl. Frederick J. Perkins, Somerville, Air Force Saigon. They also blasted ene- Cpl. John R. Lindel, Lisle, III. Pfc. Stephen L, Bean, Torringtoii, Conn, ILt. Lewis P, Smith II Cpl. Craig B. Holt, Sarqsofa, Fla. Mass. Pfc. Frank W. Garapolo, Chicago, II!. Pfc. Jerry A. Longtine, International DIED NOT AS A RESULT OP my positions twice eight miles Pfc. Thomas H. Nerini, Lafayette, ind. Pfc. Charles M, Chessher, Crestview, Fla. HOSTILE ACTION Pvt. John G. Komers, Miami, Fla. Falls, Minn. south of the Khe Sanh combat Pfc. Ronald L. Smith, Beech Grova, Ind. LCpi. Jimmy L. Moore, Greenville, S.C. Army base. Cpl. Carroll R. Meier, Logan, Iowa. 2Lt. Joseph T, Leslie Jr., Attapulgus, Sp4 Gary E. Becker, LaGrange Park, III. Pfc. Henry R. Gaussen, Palmer, Iowa, Fla. MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILE P,'c. Guzzelt 8. Brunson Jr., Chicago, III. Sfc. George N. Walker, Adolphus, Ky. Pfc. Davis F. Brown, Savannah, Ga. Army Pic. John C. Smith Jr., Chicago, III. Pic. Kelly Fields, Plkeville, Ky. Pfc. Willie J. Foster, Westpoini, Ga. Sgt. Kenneth R. Wilson, Denver, Colo. Pvt. Luke A. Smith Jr., Chicago, 111. 2 Copters Hit; 4 Die Pfc. Ernest C. Williams Jr., Thibodaux, LCpl. Leroy Palmer", Chicago, III. Pic. Lawrence F. turner, Sluart, Fla. Pic, Nathaniel Hallburton Jr., Waco, La. Pfc. Melvin Divens, Chicago, lit. Sp4 Benjamin T, Folck, Frankfort,, Ind, Tex. SAIGON (S&S) — Four heli- Sqt. Fidele J. Bastarche, Gardner, Mass. LCpl. Larry J. Pierson, Indianapolis, Ind. 5,34 Robert E, Quick, Elkhart, Ind, Sgi. Billy M. Brister, Groveion, Tex. copter crewiiKn were killed and SSG Sterling H. Hill, Seliddge AFB, Mich. Pfc. Leonard A. Roy, Alexandria, Ind. Sgl. Richard C. Coleman, Henderson, Ky, ILL Arthur M. Parker ill, Si Marvs, Pfc. Ollie L. Sauls Jr., Detroit, Mich. Capt. Robert E. Harris, Russell, Ky. Sgt. Joseph Adams, New Orleans, Lu. W.Va. four others injured Wednesday Pfc. Nicholas VV. Charles, Muskegon, Pfc. Jerry L. Hilbert, Louisville, Ky. Sp4 John P. Edwards, Baltimore, Md. Marine Corps when two Army UH1 Hueys Mich, Pfc. John C. Seebode, Morgan City, La, 1L!. Michael A. Smoger, Two Harbors, LCpl. Melvin D. Decow, Dennis, Kan. Sc]t. Lloyd L. Willard, Bemidji, Minn. LCpl. Arthur A. Crowell, Unity, Maine. Minn. Air Force were shot down in South Viet- Pic. Gerri! L. Blanksma, Peqgot Lake, Cpl, Paul R. "fhedauit, Cambridge Moss. Sgt. Ronald R Wallace, Ivanhoe, Minn. ILt. Joseph P. Logan Jr., Winthrop, Mass. nam. One went down seven miles Minn. Pfc. Richard J. Alien, Grand Rapids, Pic. Gai y M, Meier, Lake Crystal, Minn, SSgt. Daniel J. Weixel, Piiisburqh, Pa. Sr>4 Sernell Taylor, Magnolia, Miss. Mich. Pic. Joseph A. Sammerhauser, Si. Paul, MISSING TO DEAD—NON HOSTILE southwest of My Tho in Dirih Pfc. Larry J. Burkhurdt, Billing*, Mont. Pfc. Robert J. Meaqher, Kaiamazoo, Minn. Army Tuong Province, killing the Sat. Eugene G. Q'Connell, Edgewater, Mich. Sp4 David W. Smith, Kansas City, Mo. SFC Somuel J. Padaett, Tulsa, Okla crew. The other was hit 13 miles "N.J. LCpl. Joseph D. Mock, Macon, Miss. Prc. John C. Robertson, Fremont, Neb. MISSING NOT AS A RESULT OP Cpl. Anthony Da Ponle, Freehold, N.j, Pfc. Anthony Knoll, St. Louis Mo. Pic. George D. Mattnews, Coinjock, N.C. HOSTILE ACTION northwest of Tarn Ky. The Cpl. Michael J. Fallon, Jersey City, Pic. Charles E. McMullin, Willard, Mo. Sp4 harry W. Johnson, Dayton, Ohio. Navy crewmen were injured. N.J. LCpl. Paul Lewis, Saugerties, N.Y. Sp4 Sherman J. Boulware, Columbus, FN _Dennis M. Sollenberger Cpl. Rollin R. Austin, Estantie, N.M. Pfc. Clarence J. Baldwin, Cherry Volley, Ohio, AMfcAN Michael J, Moon S(jt. Thomas R. Maloney, Bronx, N,Y, N.Y. 2Li. John P. Brown, Bend, Ore, CORRECTION Pfc, Daniel J. Flynn, Kings Pork, N.Y. Pic. Frank T. Nevidomsky, Auburn, N.Y. Sgt. Alton Boyce, Pittsburgh, Pa. Pfc. Anthony D. Hatcher, USA, Change Pacific Stars & Stripes Sgt, Gens E. Houcharolf, Max, N.O. Ptc. Lurry Stern, Bronx, N.Y. Sp4 William F. Julius ill, Erie, Pa, stuius from killed in action to died not Saturday, June 8, 1903 SSG Robert L. Smith, Chiiiicothe, Ohio. SSgi. James Ihurmona, Cleveland, Onio. ILt. Sylvaiu L. White, Beiton, rex. a> a result of nostile action. SGTV ROGER A, NltfMANN SiS Staff CdffeSfS&miefif PMAN HANG, Vietnam —On a quiet day at Bttck* ley Air National Gitatd Base in Denver, scattered groups of relatives stood near the base operations building, As F100 pilots listened ftf pre- flight briefings* maintenance crews made final checks of the aircraft, A few photographers snapped pictures, and relatives waved to the pilots as the Supersabre jots taxied to the runway. Then the supersonic fighters were gone, Without fanfare, the 120th Tactical Fighter Sq. went to war. The squadron's destina- tion was classified until the planes touched down at Phan Rang AB, and only then did Colorado learn that it was rep- resented by the first Air Na- tional Guard unit in Vietnam. Giant C141 carriers hauled more than 300 airmen, nonoom* missioned, officers and officers to Phan Rang, and the 120th began operating as the fourth Watch Over a Convoy FlflO squadron in the 35th Tacti- Pfc. William E. Shipton keeps a sharp lookout as a convoy cal Fighter Wing. moves to his unit's forward base camp. Shipton of Phoenix, Ariz,, The 614th Tactical Fighter is a member of B Co., 1st Bn. (Airborne), 508tb Inf., 3rd Brigade, Sq. was host to the new unit. 82nd Airborne Div. (USA) Lt. Col. Tom Knoles, command- er of the 614th, headed a wel- coming committee on h a n d Lt. Col. Tom Knoles (left), commander of the 614th Tactical when Lt. Col. Robert C. Cherry, Fighter Sq., briefs Lt. Col. Robert C. Cherry, commander of the commander of the 120th, led the Air National Guard 120th Tactical Fighter Sq. (S&S) A Sense of Humor FlOOs into their new base. "We wanted them to know timing of his unit's arrival. flight commander, was a Unit- that we're glad to have them "With the offensive on, we got ed Airlines pilot for 12 years. as a part of the regular Air in some good missions — none Helps the Chaplain Force," Knoles said. "They of that tree smashing where "I think it's fine that we made it easy; they're real you can't see what you're hit- came here," he .said. "As long CAMP EAGLE, Vietnam the burly, 31-year-old chaplain, pros." ting. We got a chance to look as they called us up, I'm glad (AP) — Looking at the bright whose reputation for never car- Cherry flew in his first com- at our work, and I think it's they used us. Wo had fine side of things, Chaplain Libby rying a gun was well known in bat sortie as the rear-scat ob- real fine for the morale of peo- training at. Buckley from pilots fingered the shrapnel holes in the brigade. The idea of the server in Knoles' F100F and ple like us who are just get- who had flown in Vietnam, and watched 614th pilots blast ene- ting into the game." we found just what we expect- his fatigues and punned feebly: chaplain and his assistant, clad ed." "I guess you could say we aro only in shorts, diving into a my positions. Morale hasn't been a problem holey today." bunker and being scared to "Those guys are fantastic," for the squadron, although its Perhaps the most noticeable Chaplain (Maj.) B.W. Libby death for an hour somehow he said. "They hit all targets people left civilian jobs to don change was felt by Sgt, Gene of Dumas, Tex,, and his youth- touched the GIs' funnybone. right, on the money. It'll be a jungle fatigues or flight suits. Hoffman, who came to Vietnam tough act to follow, but we'll with the 120th but now .works at ful assistant of only one week, So Libby and 19-year-old "The only morale problem Jerry Knoepfel of Jacksonville, do our best." the legal office of the 35lh Com- Knoepfel went along with the The 120th pilots didn't have we have is with the men we bat Support Group. Fla., had undergone a trying jokes and made some halfheart- to wait long to show what they left in Denver," said Cherry. night. ed sallies of their own. "They want to come over here, When called to active duty, could do. During the latest Com- Hoffman was a deputy district Now, they were sort of clean- Had the chaplain lost his munist offensive, the former and I just wish we could get them." attorney in Denver, a post he ing up the wreckage of their temper during the attack and Guardsmen were assigned mis- had held for two years. Know- shell-shattered tent and display- perhaps used tin-Christian lan- sions in the Saigon-Bien 11 o a Twenty-two of the 2fi pilots ing his active tour could last ing Christian fortitude toward guage, a jovial visitor asked? area. were flying for civilian airlines for two years, he was relieved the GI humor directed at them Any doubts about their abili- when the unit was activated in that, he would go to Vietnam, by a stream of sympathizers. "I'm afraid I Mould have," ties were quickly erased, January after the seizure of the chaplain Libby admitted, "but "For the first week .or two, USS Pueblo by North Korea. "I think most of the men felt Certainly, there hadn't been with them prowling all over the they could do no wrong," said All have had previous tours of the same way," he said. "It much humor the night before, bunker and all around us, we a wing staff officer. "They hit active duly. Six are combat vet- was a relief to know where we A beefed up company of Viet just kept silent," everything they went after. erans. Two have served in Viet- were going and that we would Cong sappers had attacked the He admitted to s p caking They were just terrific." nam. be d o i n g something worth- base camp of the 1st Brigade, rather sharply to Knoepfel, Cherry was pleased with the Maj. William II. Neuens, a while." 101st Airborne Div. Perhaps 30 Since chaplains do not carry Viet Cong had broken through weapons, it is one of the duties the outer wire and set up a of a chaplain's assistant to pro- rocket grenade position barely tect them, Knoepfel, however, 50 yards from the chaplain's had dived for the bunker when tent. Some of the enemy troop- the shells started to explode ers had actually been on top and left his rifle behind. of the chaplain's small bunker. "He's just been here for a And for almost an hour, until week and it was his sad awak- they were driven back, the Viet ening," ihe chaplain said. Cong wore all around, and un- By BOB CUTTS tion forces" in a May 27 battle of Saigon, took seven American likely to note in the darkness "It was the first time in my S&S Correspondent in the Delta's Kien lloa Prov- lives and wounded 1!) GIs (there that the chaplain was technical- life thai I had been shot at," SAIGON — North Vietnam, ince. were no Filipino losses). The ly a noncombatant. added Knoepfel. "I can say that balancing up the ledger of its By U.S. accounting, Hanoi "victors," h o w e v e r. left 32 I don't like it. I kept telling recent winter-spring campaign v. as S97 off the count — one bodies behind, still outside the But in the bright sunlight of myself 'you are no! afraid, .you in the South, found itself forced soldier and tun sailors died in perimeter wire. the morning the GIs couldn't are not afraid,' and I krpt an- a day-long battle on a river east rt-sisi joking at the expense of to use some .strange "new Still another Radio 11 a n o i swering myself I'm .seared, math" to come up with the of My Tho. The "liberators" claim said )0r> U.S. troops fell I'm .scared.' Let's face it. 1 was right answers, it seems. lo.st 'h killed and three cap- scared." victim to the wrath of Ho Chi Fear 30 Lost on Ferry Hanoi news media, say U.S. tured. Minh May 14. near Trang Jiang And during that time, the military spokesmen, have been A more- conservative claim City. The facts were that a 25lh CALCUTTA, India (AP)-Ai Methodist chaplain prayed and releasing accounts of "tremen- was that 400 American and Fili- Inf. Div. unit v,as attacked by least 30 people were feared was .somehow thankful that his dous victories" in the South pino troops were "wiped out" the enemy on May 15, and lost drowned when an overloaded s a n d y-naired young assistant that, on closer .scrutiny, turn May 22 in a "victorious" attack five troopers killed and 20 ferry was caught in a monsoon was also a Methodist. out not to be quite .so tremen- on the 25th Inf, Div.'s base wounded. Ei.i:,hi\-nvo Reds died arid capsized on the Ganges "That makes it cozy when dous, or even victories. camp. exacting that "victory."' River near Diamond Harbor you are in a bunker praying to- One of three incidents cited A htly closer look reveals Village, about 45 miles south- gether," the chaplain smiled. by the spokesmen was a May 28 that an early mornin mortar west of Calcutta, police re- ''You know that your prayers claim that 1.000 U.S. military and- ground attack on the Lath's Pacific Stars & Stripes 7 ported. are on the same channel." men had been kilk-d by "libera- ].il Brigade, 3K miles northwest Saturday. .June S, HHiB : .j7j.-~!»r-~;~7;~"«^77-;v •" i %^ /i^T'i /.,,.. ^T,,™ • -""- «, • '-"?^^ Wffife*ig (4^i^ ; j -it tfeef?!' vfT^, trifftrri i^iftf:$$&' h%ft' i %ss $M" e r.tJf-Mif-fftd^io^;. - , • ; m wm ftes•*'&*»!$ kMSMnsr*t 1 ,;FMdeft) tttibfirt, 4M* lioli ip .fhis Ktrttfeit Mm% i tribtrtes ftesdal tfli tfie te^- MM tte fgittlfy lias '"" th""f Seffate^.7-- -. ^ -..,,,«.„..„„, ^.» „- • sfcfateti Seti, RoBtrt P, .petirtedr .of iiii.: liiirr/^WMt;- i&i'/rfs^tflS.dWg4''^ a to e! nation* 1 .-iit - ,s , The IWitat called on v the- faith and ihi Won stunned by the third as dont t» dispel tlfe forces of saddened, fiiid angry,"- safd- Sen; sination df a major national fig* tiohal hate §mo«g us and to re Waitfett G, Magfttiseiri, fr-Wash, tu'e in five years td "join hands place them with love of man n, , , But you can't condemn 200 and walk together through this and Odd," Humphrey added. million peftple for the actions df dark Wight of common anguish Sen, Eugefte J, McCarthy ol a handful of the mentally dei> into a new dawn of healing uni- Wisconsin, loser to Kennedy In anged," ty.'* California's Democratic presi« "Oh, my God, this is awful i(A noble and compassionate dential primary on the eve of It's , awful," exclaimed Gov» leadery a good and faithful servx the murder, said words cduict do Ronald Reagan of California ant of the people, in the full vi- little to help the bereaved Ken* he w&r awakened, to the gor of-his promise, lie* dead nedy family* But he Went om frdftl an .assassin's bullet," the "Let us seek to comfort them President Richard M. proclamation said, by our quiet mourning, our re* NixoB ordered his New York "The tragedy and the sense- jection of violence and reprisal, presidential campaign office to less violence of Robert F» Ken* and by offering renewed dedica- remain closed through "this pe- riedy's death casts a deep shad- tion to the cause of peace and riod of sorrow" and. said; "His ow of grief across America and reconciliation which Kennedy death is a terrible tragedy both the World." served." for a family and a nation which The Kingdom of Jordan—na- But outrage and frustration have known too many such trag- tive country of the man accused welled Up in the, statements of edies in recent times" of the slaying—issued a state- many who .awoke Thursday to Gov, Nelson A. Rockefeller, ment through its embassy in the shocking news. who—lik e all the other presK dential aspif ants—has suspended campaigning, deplored "an Un- speakable tragedy and a terrible loss to the nation," He pro- claimed Sunday a day of mourn* Makes ing in New York for '"all. the citizens of this state, whom he so diligently served." The tragedy was seen by Sec- Plans for Funeral retary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman as illuminating a na- WASHINGTON (AP)~Former state at St. Patrick's Cathedral tional challenge. "His death- Defense Secretary Robert S. between about 8 a.m. and JO following as it does the martyr- McNamara will take charge of p.m., EDT, Friday, Salinger an- dom of the late president and funeral arrangements for Sen. nounced. the Rev. Martin Luther King— • Robert F. Kennedy. A Roman Catholic funeral now must pose for, all of us an McNamara, now president of mass will be conducted for Sen. unrelenting challenge to resolve the World Bank, flew to Ger- Kennedy at St. Patrick's Sat- the conflicts that so divide us," many Wednesday on the first urday morning. Freeman said. leg of a trip that was to have The body then will be taken "By rising to that challenge President Johnson addresses the nation on television from taken him to Indonesia, but he by train to Washington and will we can , serve the nation as we the White House on the assassination of Sen.- turned back at Frankfurt and be buried at Arlington National honor their memories." Robert F. Kennedy. was due in New York Thursday Cemetery in the same plot where (AP Radiophoto) night. an eternal flame burns over the The former Pentagon chief, a grave of his assassinated broth- close friend of the Kennedy fam- er, President Kennedy. ily for more than seven years, Salinger said the funeral pro- RFK's Body Flown to N.Y. played a major role in selecting cession Saturday likely will move the gravesite for President John from Washington's Union Sta- (Continued From Page 1) man, trying to comfort her. Others invited aboard the pres- F. Kennedy at Arlington Na- tion, at the foot of Capitol Hill, gathered outsidte the hospital for During the wait for comple- idential plane represented the tional Cemetery. past the Senate Office Building a farewell to the senator who tion of the autopsy and embalm- fields of government, politics, Robert Kennedy also will be where Kennedy worked, and the was struck down in his moment ing, Sen. Edward Kennedy—now the arts, show business and buried at Arlington. Justice Department, where he of political victory in the Cali- the only brother left to carry sports. The tentative arrangements served under his late brother as fornia presidential primary. the political banner—picked out were announced to newsmen at U.S. attorney general. Some threw flowers, but the a mahogany casket. It was cov- Among them were James Good Samaritan Hospital by The burial was expected to be crowd was grimly quiet, in stark ered with maroon draping. Whittaker, first American to Pierre Salinger, a campaign at about 5:30 p.m. Salinger said. contrast to the cheering, ap- Present at the time the sen- climb Mt. Everest; Rafer John- aide to the slain presidential Salinger noted that plans still plauding Kennedy supporters ator died, in addition to Edward, son, former Olympic decathlon candidate and former press sec- are being formulated and times who greeted him here only a Ethel and Jacqueline Kennedy, star, and Roosevelt Grier, the retary to the late President are not precise. few weeks ago by tearing at his were the oldest son, Joseph, 15; 300-pound Los Angeles Rams Kennedy. clothes, mussing his hair and sisters, Mrs. Stephen Smith and tackle. Johnson and Grier were Salinger said members of the pulling off his shoes. Patricia Lawford; Stephan Smith at Kennedy's side when he was Kennedy family and friends, in- About 15 motorcycle officers and Msgr. William McCormack mortally wounded. cluding Mrs. Martin Luther Woman accompanied the motorcade of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Also Burke Marshall, former King Jr., would fly with the over the Los Angeles freeway New York. deputy U.S. attorney general in body to New York City later (Continued From Page 1) system to the airport where an- Salinger said the widow "bore charge of civil rights enforce- Thursday. The body will lie in shots at Kennedy. other crowd of about 1,000 was up well." ment under Kennedy; Charles "We shot him," Miss Sandy I-TIT- i« I-T--I- ii i_mi | r---, -—n waiting. A party of 71 friends and Evers, Mississippi NAACP offi- Serrano said the woman told Members of the Kennedy fam- aides was invited to board the cer and brother of assassinated her. ily accompanied the casket plane for New York. Among civil rights worker Medgar Ev- World Weather Police described the woman June f aboard the rear of the plane on them Was the widow of Dr. Mar- ers; singer Andy Williams and M L H L in their bulletin as a white a lift vehicle. Other members of tin Luther King, who had a long his wife, actress Claucline Lon- Chltose 68 43 So If) on 93 79 female, 23 to 27 years old, 5- the group went up a portable conversation with Jacqueline Guam 83 get; author George Plimpton 76 Seoul 81 55 Itazuke 78 59 foot-6, wearing a white voile stairway at the front. Kennedy during the wait at the and Jesse Unruh, chairman of Manila 90 77 Taipe! 86 72 dress with three -quarter For Pierre Salinger, a Ken- hospital. Naha 75 70 Tokyo 79 64 Kennedy's California campaign. H L H L. sleeves, and small black polka nedy aide and former press sec- Albany 85 49 Louisville 85 58 dots. retary to the late President Ken- Albu'que 90 58 Melbourne 56 45 Miss Serrano, a 20-year-old Amarlllo 82 61 Memphis 90 69 nedy, the flight aboard this Atlanta 84 64 Miami 88 75 Youth for Kennedy worker from presidential plane was especial- B'mlnoham 89 70 Milwaukee 86 Full Data on Autopsy 61 nearby Pasadena, explained in Bismarck 66 53 Moscow 75 59 ly poignant—it was the craft Boise 75 51 N. Orleans 89 74 a television interview after the carrying him to Japan when he (Continued From Page 1) specialists from the nation's Boston 82 56 NYC 83 59 shooting that she had gone out received word of the President's six counts of assault with intent capital had been suggested by Chicago 83 68 N. Plcitte 88 62 on a hotel terrace as Kennedy Cincinnati 85 57 Okla. City 81 65 assassination in November, 1963. to commit murder. Kennedy's Coroner Thomas T, Noguchi. Cleveland 81 53 Omaha 90 71 began his speech claiming The formal autopsy bulletin death made a new legal move In Washington, a Justice Denver 88 47 Paris 70 52 victory in Tuesday's California Des Moines 90 68 Phila. 83 56 by Coroner Dr. Thomas Noguchi necessary by Younger. Department spokesman said no Detroit 84 54 Phoenix 101 70 Democratic presidential prima- said: Besides seeking the murder decision had been made on Duluth 77 58 Pit'bumh 81 50 ry. "The cause of death is indictment, Younger said he Fairbanks 64 47 Port., O. 75 51 "A girl came running down taking over the prosecution. He Fur