Turkish Jet Fighters Hit Cyprus Again
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Weather DISTRIBUTION TODAY 1 a.m. temperature 55. Fair to- day and tomorrow, high in the THEMRY upper 7M. Partly cloudy tonight, 24,150 low 60. Wednesday, wanner, more humid, chance ol showers. See weather, page 2. NORTHERN MONMOUTH'S HOME NEWSPAPER DIAL 741-0010 I»3ued daily, Monday throuBh Friday. Second Cltss PoMagt PAGE ONE VOT 87 NO Paid at Red But »nd at Additional Mailing Offices. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1964 7c PER COPY Turkish Jet Fighters Hit Cyprus Again NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkish jet fighters attacked air attacks, according to Associated Press correspondent Alex a government spokesman called "perhaps a limited invasion" ,' The Greek Cypriots announced the landing of Turkish Cyprus for the fourth consecutive day today, ending a brief Efty at Uie scene. The villagers ducked for cover. by the Turks. ^ men and materiel after the third day of attacks by Turkish lull in the fighting. Pairs of jets made two runs, spraying bullets on (he empty In Ankara, Turkey's Deputy Premier Kemal Stair insisted jet fighters on the northwest coast. Turkish warships still are The planes struck the village of Polis, on the northwest square, Efty said., , that the "Cyprus government claims are without foundation." patrolling off Cyprus. coast, where the Turkish Cypriot population has been forced There was no immediate word of casualties. The new Greek Cypriot complaint came in the midst of the Sixty-four Turkish jets pounded Greek Cypriot positions into a small pocket by Greek Cypriots. Neither the Greek Cypriot government nor the UN com- lull in the fighting on the Mediterranean island. President Ma- with bombs, rockets and machinegun fire, as heavy fighting The American-built F104 jets appeared while villagers were mand in Nicosia had any immediate word of the attack. karios offered to halt the Greek Cypriot advance on the Turk- (See CYPRUS, Page 3) sipping coffee in the main square, still discussing yesterday's Turkish planes strafed Polis last Saturday. The village is 20 ish Cypriot villages if Turkey stopped its air attacks. miles east of Kokkina, a beleaguered Turkish Cypriot fishing Turkey agreed to call off the raids if there are no further town. Greek Cypriot attacks. * CHARGE LANDING The Security Council, meanwhile, implored all sides to The government charged earlier that Turkish troops had observe an immediate cease-fire, Only the Soviet Union and [/. S.9 Soviet Urge slipped ashore during the night to aid Kokkina, last Turkish Czechoslovakia abstained in Uie 910 vote by which the council Cypriot stronghold on the coast. Turkey denied the accusa- adopted a U.S.-British resolution calling for cessation of hos- tion, and a UN spokesman also said there had been no inva- tilities. Cyprus Settlement sion attempt. A UN source disclosed that Makarios had reacted favorably But President Makarios' government demanded another to an earlier cease-fire appeal by the council's president, WASHINGTON (AP) - The MOSCOW (AP) - Premier urgent meeting of the UN Security Council to deal with what Sivert A. Nielson of Norway. United States pressed diplo- Khrushchev urged Turkey to- matic efforts today to keep the day to halt its air attacks on lid on the Cyprus cease-fire and Cyprus. He warned that such propel it toward an eventual action could "only make the No Clashes Reported permanent solution. situation more acute, increase After an opening round of the conflict and increase the top-level diplomacy in which danger of war." President Johnson cabled per- In a message to Turkish Pre- sonal appeals yesterday to the mier Ismet Inonu in which he Greek, Turkish and Cypriot again backed the Greek Cyp- government heads, Washington riots, Khrushchev said: was channeling its main ef- Jets Search for MIGs "I hope that your many years forts through the'United Na- SAIGON, Viet Nam (AP)-U.S. curity council invitation to take form" to help the North Vietna- rmy command charged that two tions. long experience as a statesman jjet fighters equipped with air-to- part in a debate on the crisis. mese regime. U.S. reconnaissance planes flew Renewed hostilities, U.S. offi- also tells you what a respon- air missiles have been heading Peking People's Daily, official sibility the Turkish side is tak- Informants said the Chinese over Red soil yesterday, it pro- cials feared, could bring on a toward the Communist north the organ of the Chinese Communist ing on itself while carrying out Migs, flying from Hainan Island ested to the international con war between Greece and Tur- past few days to meet the threat party, said in an editorial quoted a military attack on the Re- across the Gulf of Tonkin, halted rol commission which is respon- key that would shatter NATO's of approaching Red Chinese Mig in a radio broadcast: public of Cyprus, a sovereign short of the heavily-reinforced ible for upervnng the. Geneva eastern flank and conceivably planes, U.S. military sources say. frontier and U.S. naval units in "U.S. Aggressors, don't you re- agreement. (See U.S., Page 3) (See SOVIET, Page 3) Though no clashes have taken the South China Sea. The Ameri- joice too soon. Don't think you place, the opposing flights were can planes were F102 fighters can get away with your surprise reported close enough to make from the Da Nang Air Base and attack on the democratic repub- Judgeships Issue positive radar identification, the Navy F4 and F8 jets from the lic of Viet Nam. To tell you sources added. U.S. 7th Fleet. frankly, the debt in blood you Saigon, capital of South Viet owe the Vietnamese people must Nam, held an air raid alert yes- Some 30 U.S. jets moved into be repaid." CHARRED SHELL OF CRAFT — Burned out remains of position Saturda yto meet a pos- terday, its first since World War The U.S. air strike on North a Greek Cypriot gunboat rests in shallow water after II when U.S. planes bombed the sible Communist thrust, sources said. Viet Nam's shore bases last it was beached at Xeros, Cyprus, following an attack by Japanese-occupied city. Wednesday was in retaliation for Hughes and Senate Communist propaganda organs Turkish air force planes yesterday. Six of the crew of In the harshest weekend denun- North Vietnamese PT boat at- renewed charges against the ciation of the United States, Com- tacks on U.S. seventh fleet de- 25 were killed and 15 wounded in the aerial raid. Cam- United States for its reprisal ac- munist China warned yesterday stroyers in the Guly of Tonkin. eraman stands on nearby pier as smoke continues to tion against North Viet Nam last that the U.S. raid on North Viet North Viet Nam assailed the week. And North Viet Nam indi- billow from the vessel, [AP Wirephoto) Nam gives Peking "the right to UN's ro'e in the dispute. cated it was rejecting a UN se- take action" in "every possible Meanwhile, North Viet Nam's Set for New Row By WILLIAM HENDERSON Today is the deadline. 9 TRENTON—The temporary summer armi- Those who are expected to be named to stice between Gov. Richard J. Hughes and the Superior Court by Hughes are: the Republican-controlled Senate comes to an Republicans — Monmouth County Court Marlboro 'City Now a Dead Issue end today. Judge Elvin R. Simmill, Wall Township, The renewed verbal warfare will start whose term expires next year; Somerset By ROtiERBOONE tended by 100 people who had Thoreau will get the decjsion definite prospect would not be Thoreau Corp. also stated its again when the governor announces his list County Judge Leon Gerofsky, a former pros- many doubts and questions, the : and CHARLES A. JOHNSTON formally by letter. Mr. Larson satisfactory. intentions fo build the project, of nominations for new Judgeships. ' secutor there; either Essex County Court board decided to make no ex- told a reporter Thoreau already MARLBORO TOWNSHIP -The Herbert H. Smith Associates which would cover approximate- The trouble is that the senators already Judge Charles S. Barrett, Jr., or Essex pression on high rise projects knows all that Is necessary. Oth. Idea of a 12,000-resident develop- of Trenton, consultants, are ex- ly 16 acres, on the 90-acre Fin- know the names Hughes wants them to con- County Judge Jacob S, Gllckenhaus and Her- until after the municipality's er potential locations closer to ment in a single skyscraper pected to have the master plan layson property, on Spring Valley firm at the special session next Monday, Aug. bert Horn, an Atlanlic City attorney. master plan, now being drafted, New York City will be explored building has whisked through completed In September. Rd. Spokesmen said Saturday 17 and they openly disagree with several is completed. more closely now. Mr. Bauman said the master of his bench selections. It was Sen. Richard R. StOut, West Al- this community with jet speed. that the group intends to buy lenhurst, who gave the name- of Simmill lo Vice Chairman Gerald A. Bau- Too Indefinite plan was providing for such proj Including eight Superior Court vacancies, Today, it's a thing of the past. 120 acres of adjacent land. Hughes nearly a month ago.'The Senator, it man, Mayor Walter C. Grubb, Mr. Bauman said that the board ects as Thoreau Village. Hughes has at least 29 judgeships to fill, "Thoreau Village," as a three- The developers offered some was learned, summoned the judge to his Jr., Thomas A. Antisell, Norbert would receive plans for high rise the others are on the county, district and tower,. 61-story structure proposed Last Thursday, the developers information—and asked for the office and told him he was getting the nom- H.