^ * ■ TlM WMtiMr MMMt •« V. ft. Werthor ■■ ATflrage Dtdljr N«t PrcM Ran For the Week Ended AprtM . IMft Ormdoal cVeurUj toalftht, m * 4»: puHy Many. knMj 1 4 ,1 3 8 0^ W eapon In Viet Nam Yet—McNamara Events Says Cong In State fm A c tiv itie s Increasing Gunman Robs WASHINGTON (AP) — Orange Bank, Secretary of Defense Rob­ ert S. McNamara said to­ $3,900 Taken day Communist aggression against South Viet Nam ORANGE (AP)— A gun­ “ has grown progressively man wearing a brown rain­ more flagrant” but there is coat and a pearl gray cos- no military requirement sack hat held up a branch for the use of nuclear of the People’s Savings weapons. Flooded MiuisBippi Strain* Davenport, Iowa, Sand Bags Bank today and escaped in A regular North Vietnamese battalion of 400 to 600 men to a white convertible with i now in the South, he .said, ad­ ?3,900. ding that some 39,000 Commu- A bank spokesman said there ni.st.s in all have crosised the bor­ were no customers in the bank der to join in the fighting. Soggy Quad-Cities on Orange Center Road when The.se force.s, plus other Viet the man entered shortly after I Cong guerrillas already there, the 9 a.m. opening time. i have lost 89,000 men killed, the "Don’t fool around and nobody i secretary said. will get hurt,” the man said. McNamara, reporting on the He directed manager John O. Viet Nam fighting in a nows Monks to the tellers’ area at conference carried nationally by Await River Peak gunpoint and ordered the two radio and television, said the women tellers on duty to Ue on war is costing the United States the floor. about $1.5 billion a year, $800 r o iT r -A n n r A P W F l o o d - t ^ MoUne. adjoining East Mo-»take rtepa to prepare The man, described as a Ne­ ranging deep into Viet Cong territory to clear a wider perimeter around t e CHICAGO {A t') r io w flood workers labored on to nses. milUon of it for U.S. land, sea line, flood workers labored on to . Titi Igro with a mustache, stuffed the ’I and air forces directly Involved weary residents of the strengthen an emergency dike The Quad Cltiea area In IU4* base. (AP Photofax.) nods and Iowa with a combined cash Into his pockets and ran I in the fighting. quad-cities area of Illinois protecUng Oie city’s water out of the bank. The robbery He opened with a 16-minute plant. City officials feared the population of 260.000 was the and Iowa bolstered sagging prime danger spot. The Area Is i took a few minutes. statement and then answered dike might give way and cut oU A woman In eui insurance of­ questions. makeshift dikes today and water supplies to Moline’s 48,000 composed of MoUne, Bock Is­ land and East MoUne, HI., and fice next door to the bank gave U,S. Planes Return Safely Among other things he said: waited apprehensively for residents. Davenport, Iowa. poUce a doscriptilon of the car. —’There Is clear evidence that the Mississippi River to at­ Across the river In Betten­ In ^ k Island, workers la­ She said she had observed the the nearly three months o< tain its crest. dorf, Iowa, Just north of Daven- bored around the clock to rein­ man outside before the bank bombings of highways, bridges, A predicted peak of 22.6 feet, port^ the battle to hold back the force the earthen dam, the only opened. railroads and other infiltration more than seven feet abwe approaching river peak also was protection lor the housing com­ A car was stopped by poUce After Five New Viet Raids facilities in the North had flood stage. Is expected In the stepped up. plex. Most residents had been on the Derby Turnpike after the caused the Communists morale hesNily p op ^ ted area Tuesday In rock Island, where an In evacuated after a warning from holdup and the driver was problems and have made them or Wednesday. The peak was dustrial area already Is under Mayor Forrest Muhleman that brought to the bank. The man Air Force and Marine extend their limited resources. was released after questioning. SAIGON. South V ietfon e wheel gone and made a —There are indications of a 31.5.5 uxiay.today , waier,water, cuycity officials said leaks water wae seeping through the Corps Jets flew 44 missions The holdup was the llth of a landing. substantial buildup of Commu­ With sections of Rock Island i v^rere appearing In a three-mile dike. More than 1.000 volunteers Nam (AP) — U.S. and against suspected Viet Cong . _a Tit wnH r>fl.« dike. Ti*H the dike Fwimljibursts, thflVthey bank or sarings and loan asso­ In the heaviest of the raids cm nists in the highland area west and East Moline, Bl.. and Da worked with Army engineers to North Viet Nam, 48 U.S. Air positions in the south. venport, Iowa, already flowed, said, the flood would pour onto reinforce the levee. ciation in Connecticut this year. South Vietnamese planes Twelve U.S. Air Force F106a of the Da Nang airbase, a key volunteers continued sandbag- a -home housing project of struck at roads and water­ Force Jets hit road traffic and U.S. position in South Viet Nam, 300 Another dike burst in Rock bridges along Routes 7, 8 and and FlOOs attacked a three- vinjf operaUons In hopes of 1,200 residents. Charge Dismissed ways in North Viet Nam in span, 160-fcx>t bridge in a nar­ over the past 12 months. Island Sunday, covering the 12. -He did not know whether keeping the rising Mississippi The floodwaters. which have equivalent of a 64-block in HARTFORD'(AP) — A bank row valley at Bai Due ’Than, from pushing into new areas. five raids today. The Jets "severely damaged" the Communists would attempt driven more than 60,000 persons dustrial area with six feet of robbery charge against a form­ AU the planes reportedly re­ about 180 miles south of Hanoi. er professional fighter, Lidlo the Bai Due Thon highway Officials in Saigon said the an assault against the base but from their homes In three water. The 400 residents had turned safely despite heavy that it is not poasible for. the states, were fed by heavy rains (Joe) Fusco of Waterbury, was bridge, 160 miles south of Hanoi bridge approaches were de­ been evacuated. ground fire in some areas. Communists to inflict a Diea ^6 M over tile weekend. The latest reading of the ^smissed today in U.S. District on Route 12, a U.S. spokesman stroyed. , Air activi/fy in South Viet Nam Smoke Kills •nie U.8. Weather Bureau said waters In Rock Island, a city of Court. ^ , sEbid. (See Page Twelve) 61 000 in the northwestern Fusco 81, had been indicted also was. unusually heavy as The Air F5rce planes also hit (See Page Seven) the worst Is stlU to come. U.S.,Air Force Jets flew 68 sor­ two railroad boxcars and a The flood creet of the Mlssls- comer of IlUnois near the Iowa April 6 by a fedemrgvMMT jury - border, was 21 feet. Flood stage In the boldtq) of the Plasa ties, moot of them in mountai­ truck depot and supply area. Area Womaii sippl moving downstreaiVi from nous central Viet Nam. In two Navy raids, six Jets Dumique, Iowa, will combine is 16 feet. A crest at 22*4 feet is branch of ths Watsrbury Na- expected Tuesday or Wednes Darge concentrations of Viet from the ' carrier Hancock at­ with the flow from tributaries to (8ee Pags Twelve) tacked a camouflaged patrol Junta Leader Captive produce more floods by neid day- Oong troops miseveral central In Her Home weekend, the Weather Bureau One-third of East MoUne’s 2. Vietnamese pijwinces have boat about 60 feet long and re­ prompted heavy raids in the portedly sank it. A 3 7 -year-old South Windsor said. ____ 000 residents have been evacu Two propeller-driven Navy housewife apparenUy wiffocat- The floods will occur from ated. 2-Cent Hike recent paist. Dominican Planes Hit Keokuk, Iowa, through Hanni More than 20 blocks of the The one U.S. fatality of the planes from the carrier Midway ad to death last night when a bal. Mo., the bureau said. "This city’s Watertown area are \mder day occurred when a U.S. light spotted a new highway bridge Uvlng room chair caught fire will be a critical flood situation water. spotting plane collided with a 100 miles south of Hanoi and for the entire area and local T o Steelmen made craters in the approach to and filled 0»* house with (See Page Twelve) Vietnamese air force plane. The smoke. otticlala and the public should American plane crashed into the bridge. They did not dam­ Rebel Army Positions The woman was Mrs. Doro­ the trees and burst into flames, age the bridge itself. thy BrasseU o< • Ronda Dr. She Seen G>ming killing the pilot. In ojjerations Sunday, two was alone In her ranch home Both planes had been provid­ U.S. Marines were killed in a -SANTO DOMINGO, Domfnican Republic (A P)— PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) — ing cover for a jungle operation Viet Cong attack; four air at­ Dominican air force planes strafed rebel army positions at the time. tacks on North Viet Nam hit The woman was found on me The steel Industry la reported 20 miles northeast of Saigcai.