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STOW, Mtu«. (AP) Edward. Faber of Mans- From Al* dnd UN field loved to play golf so SAIGON — Viet Cong gunners fired 40 much he wanted to be but- led by the 18th green of shells into Saigon early Tuesday morning, hit* the Stow Acres Country ting targets near Tan Son Nhut AB, the Saigon Club, faber died Feb, 14 at the age docks and the Y Bridge. Fighting erupted on the Of 62, A memorial service was southern edge of the South Vietnamese capital. held at dusk Saturday oft the 18th'green. Sunday golfers noted, Reports on damage and casualties were with some incredulity the grave covering of flowers with two Incomplete but the U.S. command said two golf balls nestled in the steins. rounds hit cargo ships docked at Saigon River piers. Faber requested in his will Another shell damaged the Cho Qttan power station that his cremated remains be cutting off electricity in south-central Saigon, according buried on the course he so often to police reports. The rounds hit along the western per- played. imeter of sprawling Tan Son Nhut AB. Robert Page', who owns the AM AUTHORIZED PUBLICATION Of THE ARMEb FORCES IN tHE PAR EAST course with a brother, said The shells were believed to be a mixture of mortars "Some people thought it was a joke. Later, when they believed, and the big 122mm rockets. they thought we were out of our j§ 22B (a w> A U.S. spokesman said one of the ships hit had a minds. But we are serious. We 21 H shell burst on the right side while a cargo boom on the think it is kind of nice." second vessel was hit. Both ships are under U.S. military Faber's widow said she was Vol* 24, No, 155 Wednesday, June 5, 1968 contract. (Continued on Back Page, Col. 4) Many of the shells apparently hit along the southern edge of the city, including about a dozen near the Y Bridge. The bridge, across the Kinh Doi Canal on Saigon's southern border, was the scene of heavy fighting three weeks ago. The predawn attacks Tues- day came after a tear gas raid Monday by U.S. helicopters over Viet Cong strongholds in Saigon, in a new and safer tac- tic against Communist com- mando teams. About 1,000 civil- ian refugees huddled in a near- by church. American commanders switched to the gas strategy (Continued on Back Page, Col. 3) Artist Warhol Shot by Girl NEW YORK (AP) — Andy Warhol, film producer and a leading figure in the world of pop art, and Mario Amaya, de- scribed by police as the owner of a London art gallery, were shot and critically wounded Monday in Warhol's office. Po- lice sought a woman for ques- tioning in the case. Police said Warhol, 41, and Amaya, 30, of London, were in Warhol's office when a woman asked Paul Morrissey, a .secre- tary, if she could see Warhol. Warhol told Morrissey to let her in after the secretary iden- A U.S. soldier fires a grenade launcher down an alley in the patrol stand by, Telephone wires, shot down in street fighting, tified the woman by name, Choion section of Saigon as other members of a U.S.-Vietnamese litter the sidewalk. (AP Radiophoto) Valeria Solanis. Within minutes, Morrissey told police, the woman calmly walked out, but she left the door Court Voids to Warhol's office slightly ajar. 7 5 Missing as Hurricane Abby The woman left the building and police said they were seek- 'Hanging Jury ing her for questioning. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Warhol was shot in the abdo- death sentence cannot be im- Roars Toward Florida Coast (Continued on Back Page, Col. 1) posed by a jury from which per- But the Weather Bureau said thing but some moderate winds sons with conscientious or reli- TAMPA, Fla. (UP!)—Hurri- cane Abby. with five persons it still expected Abby, the first and a little high water." gious scruples against capita! storm of the new season, to hit Residents were calmly boarding Home, Sweet Nothing punishment were automatically missing at sea in her wake, the Tampa-St. Petersburg area. up windows and cheeking into LEEDS, England (UP1)— excluded, the Supreme1 Court stalled off the Florida Gulf Torrential rains fell on the motels. Police are. looking for thieves ruled 5 to 4 Monday. Hurricane warnings were who stole an entire house, bar, ''No defendant can constitu- Coast Monday, building up Fort Myers area. A junior strength for an assault against college in St. Petersburg hoisted from Marco Island on the kitchen sink and the founda- tionally be put to death at the tion. Neighbors saw three men hands of a tribunal so selected." the populous Tampa Bay area. cancelled night classes and an the lower ihilf Coast 170 miles The sudden halt by the electronics firm cancelled its north to Tarpon Springs. dismantling the prefabricated Justice Potter Stewart said for building and carting it away, the divided court. hurricane, already carrying 75- night shifts, At S p.m. KDT on the third mile-an-hour winds, set it< But a civil defense spokesman but thought the men were from "Whatever else might be said day of the hurricane season. of capital punishment, it is at arrival at the mainland back at Fort Myers said "We're the City Corporal ion Removal (Continued on Back Page, Col. 1) until after daybreak Tuesday. really not worried about any- (Continued on Back Page, Col. :J) Department, ' SAIGON i» VJSk Dfloht .- - - at North Vietnam1!* sift rage , authorities. areas -and lines tf'cfcrnmtintea*. band; affibushed a In Baftgfettkr Prim* ;M|rtfeter tftjft Stirtdsy itt'ldft miSsftrtftf fitrer- n Bitong District Thantttit Kittitehotij said own* t jfctjL a *^ f ' Jt mtmfet Ictivlty last week was tJrotiftd fire was f e |> o r I tr d daft-Kitting Ihieef-polfcemeft and light Me said government light.-to moderate, wounding thret others, officials forces suffered tt0 casualties Air force tactical fighter s«id Monday* but-, killed two guerrillas" and Bombers' destroyed or damaged It was the biggest Cpmmu* capwred 13 others, four tracks, two radio towers and nist action irt Thailand since a ««.—* - als-»—o . release—< d figure an antiaircraft gun position* band of tribal guerrillas killed showing the government has S&S Vietnam Bureau Carrier-based ,Navy jiets de* 15 of 1? men in a polite camp killed 378 guerrillas since Be* SA1&ON — The U.S, Mission said Monday there stroyed or damaged a bridge* along the Burmese border 600 cember, 1966, most of them in k a "strong probability* the missile that killed Saigon's seven supply boats and five miles north of Bangkok four the northeast. But he declined trucks. weeks ago. to give figures for government police t*hief and five other city officials was an errant Air Force B52s rained bombs In northeast Thailand, the losses said to have been about rocket fired by an American helicopter. on enemy troop concentrations leader of a terrorist band that the same level in the period At least four others, including Saigon mayor CoL as etose as 22 miles we^t of operated in Ubon and Nakorn covered. Van Cua, were injured in the Sunday afternoon explo- Saigon Sunday and early Mon- Thanom Provinces^ about &H (Thanom, giving figures com- sion that ripped the south Saigon sehoolhbuse they were day, miles northeast of Bangkok, piled by the Communist opera- using as a command post in an ^ -.,-—~ ...» -,',*,.^—- lions suppression command, engagement with Communist in* said §,381 more Communists filtrators. were captured or surrendered, In a printed statement^ the AP reported. U.S. Mission said it w*-s likely (The bulk of the terrorists that one of three rockets fired were killed and captured in the by the helicopter at an enemy northeast provinces of Thailand target had malfunctioned, fallen bordering Laos. short and landed near the of- (An estimated 2,000 full time guerrillas are thought to be en* ficials, trenched in the six northeast According to the statement, provinces despite a strong gov- the helicopter had been called ernment military and social in by the local military com- campaign.) mander. The target was "some distance away" from the school at a spot from where friendly forces bad been receiving small Westy Sees arms fire. "Investigation by U.S. mili- tary authorities reveals that the Graduation helicopter fired three rockets," HAVERHILL, Mass. (UPI)— the statement said, "two of Any father wants to see his which were seen to impact on daughter receive her college the selected target. The third diploma. malfunctioned. Gen. William Westmoreland, "Since there was fire fight- departing commander of U.S. ing involving enemy rockets in forces in Vietnam, is no the general area of the explo- exception. sion, it cannot be absolutely Westmoreland attended the determined what happened," it junior college graduation cere- continued. "But the U.S. Mis- mony Sunday for his daughter sion concludes that there is a Katherine, 20, amidst much strong probability that the third secrecy, at Bradford Junior rocket, which fell short of its Troop Gets Extra Punch College. Westmoreland had been target, landed in the vicinity of Soldiers of F Troop, 17th Armored Cav., of the carrier with a mounted 106-mm recoilless rifle. meeting with President Johnson the officials," America! Div.'s 196th Inf. Brigade demonstrate First Lt. Angus MacAuley, executive officer of in Texas the past few days. U.S. Ambassador Samuel D. F Troop, came up with the idea and was given School officials said they kept Berger extended regrets and their newest war machine—an armored personnel permission Ao test the weapon.