TIDES + Wafer Conditiop High . 744 a m. 11:22 p m ~flVU-Charie 'In Low (t~t i iit Sage Ashore 3:44 a m. First daily paper ever to win the CHINFO Merit Award 1:22 p.m. 13M 4 U. S. NAVAL BASE, GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA Million Gallons Phone 9-5247 THURSDAY Date July 25, 1968 Radio (1340) TV (Ch. 8) New Gun-Control Law Approved by House WASHIITGTON (AP/AFNB) The House has approved a gun-con- 11 Dead in Aftermath of Cleveland Rioting trol bill falling far short of CLEVELAND (AP/AFNB) Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes asked Negro President Johnson's recommend- community leaders to go into racially troubled neighborhoods ations. The House sent the Wednesday night and persuade residents to avoid trouble. bill on to the Senate, but Stokes met for several hours with Negro leaders in the wake final action there is not ex- of a sniper attack that left 11 persons, including three po- pected until September. licemen dead, and 19 others injured. At the same time the Senate Stokes agreed to keep police and National Guardsmen out of Judiciary Committee approved the troubled areas, and he ordered a cordon around the Gen- a similar measure, 9 to 3. ville section where the sniper The House bill was approved attacks occurred. 304 to 118 after several am- Stokes called the sniper endments opposed by backers of shootings the work of an org- stronger gun controls were anized Black Nationalist mil- tacked on. itary group. Ahmed Fred Evans, The House bill prohibits the rrested as one of the band interstate sale of rifles and What started the shooting, is shotguns through the mail ex- described by Stokes as a vocal cept by licensed dealers. It Black Nationalist leader. prohibits all over-the-counter Evans was quoted by police sales to non-residents except as saying he surrendered only to those from contiguous because his rifle jammed as states. It prohibits the mail he was about to shoot a po- order sale of ammunition for liceman. Evans reportedly pistols, revolvers and dest- said he would have killed more ructive weapons. It also pro- if his rifle had not jammed. hibits the sale of long guns Asked about the Negro vic- to anyone under 18-years-old, tims of the night of terror, and handguns to anyone under Evans is quoted as saying that the age of 21. "they died for a just cause." Scattered fires and sporad- And the House voted to ex- Police searching the neigh- ic looting were reported in empt the National Board for borhood, after the shootings the strife-torn ghetto area Promotion of Rifle Practice said they uncovered cases of of Cleveland last night. from the bill's provisions. ammunition, rifles, carbines, shotguns and bayonets. On the body of one dead sniper was a American Bombers Hit Along Cambodian Border bandolier of shotgun shells, SAIGON (AP/AFNB) American B-52 bombers have rained 150 a gas mask at his side. tons of explosives along the Cambodian border where two North The rifles used by the snip- Vietnamese regiments are believed readying for the expected ers were sophisticated weapons third major enemy offensive of the year. designed to fire tracer bul- The strikes were aimed at easing pressure on the government lets. A police sergeant said district headquarters town of Loc Ninh. Last November, 1,500 the snipers had better weapons Viet Cong were killed in an unsuccessful attempt to overrun and equipment than did police. the town. Battle-ready National Guard A joint Vietnamese and American investigation board has con- to "shoot firmed a U.S. preliminary finding that a malfunctioning rocket with orders troopsto kill" snipers sealed off a on a U.S. helicopter gunship was to blame for the death of six six-square-mile area of the high-ranking South Vietnamese officers during fighting June mainly Negro ghetto of Cleve- 2 in Saigon, Among the officers kill-I in 4-hat :actinn was the land where (Cont'd on Page 2) brother-in-law of South Vietnamea> Vir2 Priident- K Page 2 Gitmo Gazette Thursday, July 25 Governors End Cincinnati Conference ) Sit11o (aRZttt is CINCINNATI (AP/AFNB) The nation's govern- ors have wrapped up their 60th annual confer- ComNavBase RADM J.B. Hildreth ence. And the Cincinnati conference got a Public Affairs Officer LT Paul E. Lamey harsh farewell from Democratic Gov. Philip Editor J03 Tom Meyers Hoff of Vermont. Layout J03 Lonnie Sexton Gov. Hoff charged the sessions had "little Sports YN2 Dave Nadolski relevance to the crucial issues confronting our society" such as city problems, social and The GIMO GAZETTE is published according to the rules economic justice and poverty. and regulations for ship and station newspapers as out- Hoff accused the governors of "ducking re- lined in NAVEXOS P-35 and under the direction of the sponsibility" by adopting a gun-control res- Naval Base Public Affairs Officer. It is printed four at government expense on government equip- olution which left legislation up to individ- days a week opinions or statements in news itmes that ual states. He tried to at ment. The without success appear herein are not to be construed as official or as least have the conference send to Congress and reflecting the views of ComNavBase or the Navy Dept. the state houses copies of a model gun-control Ads and notices will be accepted between the hours of law which includes firearms registration. Gun 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. MON thru FRI only and willbe publish- control foes said that would imply an endorse- ed in either Monday's, Tuesday's or Thursday's GAZETTE. ment. No ads or notices--except command notices--will be pub- The governors did adopt a resolution com- lished more than once a week nor will they be run in ,Ziday's paper. mending Ohio Gov. James Rhodes and law en- The Gazette welcomes forcement officers "for their prompt and ef- contributions of a newsworthy nature. All contributions should be forwarded to Box ficient action" in suppressing disorders in 22, in care of the Gitmo Gazette. The Gazette reserves Cleveland. The trouble erupted while the con- the right to modify the content of any story to make it ference was in session. conform to typographical and format standards for pub- lication. SNIPERS SLAY TEN (Cont'd from Page 1) the bat- tle took place. SAIGON (AP/AFNB) The number of Americans As the National Guardsmen in armored cars killed in Vietnam last week declined to the* patrolled the fringes of the boot-shaped east lowest figure in more than nine months, but side area where thousands of Negroes live in the number of wounded increased over the pre- festering slums, 100 of Cleveland's Negro vious week. Casualties of South Vietnamese leaders walked through the dingy, garbage- government troops as well as the combined en- strewn streets appealing to the population to emy also decreased. "cool it." The number of U.S. military men killed in All white policemen were withdrawn from the combat in the week ending July 20 was 157. area and replaced by Negro patrolmen and sher- It was the fourth consecutive week that the iff's deputies in an attempt to keep the ghet- number of.U.S. combat dead was below 200, re- to area quiet. flecting the prolonged lull in ground-fighting Carl Stokes, elected last November as the in Vietnam. The U.S. Command believes the first Negro Mayor of a major American city, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese are evading al- blamed a small, organized group, part of a lied forces while they prepare for another big known conspiracy, for the savage night of offensive. shooting that erupted from a crumbling apart- The 157 Americans killed last week compared ment block in the heart of the ghetto area. with 188 in the previous week, while the total Stokes said the FBI, military intelligence of U.S. wounded rose from 1,337 on the week sources and local intelligence units had warn- ending July 13 to 2,014 last week. ed him of the impending violence as part of a The killed figure was the lowest since the conspiracy. first veek of last October, when 102 Americans were reported killed. South Vietnamese Head- WASHINGTON (AP/AFNB) A 14-minute strip- quarters said 156 government troops were kil- tease film entitled "0-7" has become an issue led last week, 580 were wounded and ten are in the fight over Senate confirmation of Pres- missing, compared with 157 killed, 600 wounded ident Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be and 16-missing the previous week. Chief Justice of the United States. The U.S. Command reported 1,248 Viet Cong A Los Angeles lawyer told the Senate Judici- and North Vietnamese were killed, slightly ary Committee that a five - four Supreme Court less than a revised total of 1,259 for the decision, with Fortas casting the deciding vote previous week. overturned a California pornography ruling. ,Thursday, July 25 Gitmo Gazette Page 3 Jamaican Indenendence Celebrated Monday Jamaica will celebrate the sixth anniversary of its attainment of independence on Monday, Aug. 5. In relation thereto, the Naval Base is sponsoring a holiday program to assist the local Jamaican community celebrate this na- tional holiday. A planning committee, appoint- ed by the Commanding Officer, Naval Station, is hard at work preparing for the celebration which will be held at Phillips Park on Monday, Aug. 5. All Jamaican workers who can be spared from their regularly assigned duties will be given the afternoon off with pay (four hours) in order to enable them to attend the celebration.