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south in the November elec- McCarthy was not as well
General Robert F. Kennedy,
Convention, heading into its
ence Saturday he thought south and that he might be have not.
second formal session
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KENNEDY SAILS HAT
Kerr vs. Pastore
Fiery Debates
INTO SENATE RACE
Are Recalled
New York
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Monday night despite re-
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Panic Causes
Ten Injuries
Parole Staff
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many Democrats — particu-
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was right under Kerr’s nose,
et. He and Humphrey have
paraleling strong views in
favor of civil rights, but
Humphrey's have been well
publicized and McCarthy’s
making Kerr back away.
Kerr Liked Pastore
Kerr liked Pastore, too, al-
though they often clashed,
with Pastore on the liberal
side and Kerr taking a more
chooses the Minnesota sena-
tor as his running mate.
Gov Carl Sanders of Geor-
them to surrender their cre-
dentials.
There was no immediate
decision by the delegation on
whether to comply.
almost impossible to hold
the attention of a crowd,
was tuned in on Pastore.
For the first time all eve-
ning, delegates listened at-
tentively to what was going
on at the rostrum.
Those who have watched
Pastore in his peppery sen-
ate floor performances won-
dered if he might prance
back and forth, as is his
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After the delegation unani-
Transit authority spokesmen said another train was
stuck near the station. An ambulance was sent there
amid reports that it resulted from hysteria, presuma-
bly linked to the power shutoff.
group, taking delegate seats.
Both groups were barred be-
cause the credentials com-
mittee failed to resolve its
most difficult problem.
The committee did give
the group guest tickets and
(See RIDDLE—Page 2)
NEW YORK (P — A subway station explosion and
panic injured at least 10 persons during the morning
rush hour Tuesday.
The blast in a station cable room occurred at 8:35
a.m. and nearly an hour later all service on the Lenox
Ave. line was halted. It came as a train pulled into the
station
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their failure to halt loot-
ing, telephoned the U. S.
commanding officer, Gen.
William C. Westmoreland,
in Saigon for instructions.
But Americans stayed
out of the fight, which un-
folded only a few hundred
Police said injuries resulted when those aboard a
southbound express fled from the train. Six of the in-
jured were taken to Harlem hospital The other four said
they would seek private medical attention.
The explosion was in a room at the north end of
the station. Benjamin Henderson, conductor of the train,
said the loud blast frightened passengers, who rushed
through the train doors in panic. The fire turned out to
be minor.
more houses were burned
to the ground. A dozen had
gone up in flames Monday.
The senior U. S. Army
adviser to Da Nang, Cok.
John H. Wohner of Canton,
Miss., in a fury at Viet-
Debates Recalled
He was comparatively re-
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Amusements
Bridge
Business
Classified Section
Comics
National Affairs
Oil Report
Our World Today
Sports
Tell Me Why!
TV Time
Vital Statistics
Women's News
Surrender Sought
Waiting for them when
they got back to their hotels
were telegrams from David
Lawrence, credentials com-
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er Tuesday with poasible
Tuesday’s highs 82 north
to 96 satrsass south. Over
Smith Hester, left, chats with Martin Hauan prior
to the start of opening session of the 1964 Democratic
National Convention. (AP Wirephoto)
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emerge with his first presh-
dential nomination with a
relatively united party be-
hind him.
Sen. John O. Pastore, the
Rhode Islander of Italian ex-
traction who was chosen per-
sonally by Johnson for the
keynoter task, shouted Mon-
day night in the keynote ad-
dress that in the November
election the people will say:
"We need you. President
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — Anyone who ever saw
John O. Pastore take on the late Robert S. Kerr in senate
debate knew the little man from Rhode Island would
do a good job as keynoter of the Democratic National
Convention.
The concensus was that Pastore made the best open-
ing night speech of a Democratic convention since the
late Alben Barkley’s address and possibly the best since
Kerr lifted a sagging convention with his keynoter in
1944.
Convention Hall, an absolutely huge place where it’s
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"Victory!” some yelled.
Jubilant because they ap-
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should have the benefit of
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ATLANTIC CITY - Presi-
dent Johnson was reported
hesitating Tuesday over the
possible choice of Sen. Hu-
bert H. Humphrey as his
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— about 32 — sai Monday
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Cireulatien 306,190 AL.PJ.
vention officials made a new
try Tuesday to oust rebel Al-
abama delegates from their
seats even as they sought a
formula for seating Missis-
sippi representatives.
The credentials committee
had made a pledge of back-
ing for the convention’s nom-
inees the price of a place on
the floor, and most of the Al-
abamans refused to sign.
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who had not signed to “step
aside.”
By Katherine Hatch
(Convention Bureau)
ATLANTIC CITY — Rep.
Carl Albert will be recom-
mended to President John-
son as a possible vice presi-
dential candidate.
The forming of the recom-
mendation came Tuesday
morning in an Oklahoma
delegation caucus after the
opening session Monday of
DA NANG. Viet Nam ®
— Rioters and looters, pre-
dominantly Buddhists, vir-
tually demolished a Ro-
man Catholic community
of about 3,000 inhabitants
in this coastal city Tues-
day. Several hundred
South Vietnamese troops
with’ armored personnel
carriers looked on pas-
lively.
Despite the troops and
the presence of the com-
mander of the Vistaemeee
1st division, Gen. Nguyen
h
mass of demonstrators out- Coucil on Crime and Deiin-
They embraced each quencywil draft • proposed
law in Oklahoma City
The proposal will be de-
outside.
Order Held Up
The first night of the con-
vention ended without a
SAIGON, Viet Nam (fl —
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh
gave up the title of president
and his dictatorial powers
Tuesday under the angry de-
mands of students and Budd-
hists for an end to military
rule. He was expected to
stay on, however, as the ac-
tual chief of the U. S.-backed
government.
The 37-year-old strongman
may resume the premiership
he dropped after the revolu-
tionary military council
elected him to the presiden-
cy 10 days ago. Or he might
have himself re-elected pres-
ident of a revamped regime
He retains command of
South Viet Nam's armed
forces.
A communique distributed
by the official Viet Nam
press announced:
“Meeting this morning at
the armed forces high com-
i an indication of the depth of
Monday feeling for Kennedy among
hall if ordered to do so, but larly those who occupy the
would not give up their
seats. Nobody ordered them
sacked village finally be-
gan pushing back the
largely Buddhist crowd. A
soldier fired . one short
burst from his submachine
gun, apparently in the air,
and troops finally moved
into the stricken communi-
ty.
Most of the little town’s
residents are Catholic ref-
ugees from Hanoi who
came to South Viet Nam
after the communists took
over the north. About half
the men are in the Viet-
namese army. Moat of the
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ovations on at least two oc-
casions during the speech.
This reporter remembers
many a debate between Pas-
tore, about 5-5. and Kerr,
who was about 6-3.
The little mustachioed,
Italian-descended Rhode Is-
lander would advance on
Kerr, shaking his finger and
enlisted men’s compound
that was a target of rioters
Monday.
One side of the little
community faces the city
of Da Nang and the other
faces the South China Sea.
By nightfall, most of the
residents had fled the
hamlet and were in sam-
pans riding offshore for
safety.
Demonstrators looted
house after house, setting
each to the torch.
A pall of emoke from the
tion by Dean Rineheart, El
Reno, naming Albert as a fa-
vorite son, the congressman
said, “I hope sometime we'll
agree on something we can
put through for sure.”
Although Albert said he
had no preference among
vice presidential candidates,
he said it was an “absolute
certainty” that President
Johnson’s running mate
would not be him.
‘Not the Place’
Albert, chairman of the
Convention's platform com-
mittee, said putting reappor-
tionment in the platform
would have done nothing but
divide the delegates.
"This was not the place
for it,” he said<
Albert has favored the
Full-Time
credentials in advance. They prancing with each explosive
phrase.
say stubborly in their
nism, neutralism, colonial-
ism and all forms of dicta-
torship in order to rebuild
the nation in freedom and
democracy.
“FIVE. Pending these
changes, the present govern-
ment will direct affairs of
the nation."
U. S. Ambassador Max-
ings. Most of the political, Maj. Gen. Duong Van Minh
religious and student fac-
Convention.
But Albert, while accept-
ing the delegation's resolu-
tion that he be recommend-
ed, said it was purely an
academic matter.
‘Not a Candidate’
“There are many others
more available than I from
areas more critical to the
president,” Albert said. “I
am definitely not a candi-
ATLANTIC CITY t — style,
Democratic National ’ Con-
Monday night Pastore
cleverly drew on the magic
name of the late John F.
Kennedy to get his longest
applause of the night. It was
•even lives. One woman
was killed by a grenade
Monday. Another woman
was thrown from the win-
dow of her apartment by
rioters late Monday night.
A man, whom rioters
said was caught with a
grenade Tuesday after-
noon, was beaten and
hanged with barbed wire
three blocks from the
American compound.
with PiminttomPhrte pAmdent sen. Eugene - x MeCarthy
Connally said he had been leaning heavily in his jections to Sen. Humphrey,
running mate because of heard a rumor that Attorney efforts to salvage part of the But X said that I believed
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others are fishermen. president of Viet Nam.
One of the looters ran > Rioting Monday and
shouting from the hamlet Tuesday claimed about
National expected to arrive at the tion, said he had told John- known and his views were
convention Tuesday, might son at a White House confer- not as well known in the
carrying two portraits of
the late President Ngo
Dinh Diem. Diem. n Ro-
man Catholic, was over-
thrown and slain last No-
vember.
Da Nang appeared in for
another tense night. with
marauding crowds still
milling through the street.
Few people apparently
had heard of Nguyen
Khanh's resignation ae
“little federal” system of
having membership in one
state legislative house based
on population and the other
on area.
Delegates did not discuss
the contest between the reg-
ulr Mississippi delegation
and the integrated delega-
tion of the Freedom Demo-
cratic Party.
peated directions for those looking up into the Sooner’s
face and once in a while mously approved the resolu-
well D. Taylor was not im- MbJ den“Nguye
mediately available for com-
ment. I .miSTWJ
Police Guard Embassy
Large detachments of
“All that President Kene-
dy stood for and all that
President Johnson is trying
to accomplish, all the pro
gress that has been made, is
threatened by a new and
dangerous Republican as-
sault,” the attorney general
said.
However, in a statement
issued in advance for use
with Kennedy’s announce-
ment. the campaign manag-
er for Rep, Samuel S. Strat-
ton, an upstate Democrat
seeking the senate nomina-
tion. vowed to fight Kenne-
dy's candidacy.
"The nomination of a non-
reeldent will be fought be-
fore the state committee, at
might be a better choice
from the south's standpoint.
"Understand me,” San-
tions are regarded by Amer-
ican intelligence men as in-
filtrated by Communists
Session to Be Called
The deputy premier for
economy, Nguyen Xuan
Oanh. said the military revo-
lutionary council will be
called into an urgent session
Tuesday night to elect a new
chief.
Khanh probably will be re-
named premier, Oanh said.
The junta then will dissolve
itself, and a new junta. com-
prising civilians as well as
military men, will be organ-
ized.
Victory Hailed
As the news came from
the presidential office build-
troops and police were
ranged outside the embassy,
the U. S Information Serv-
ice and other American In-
stallations in Saigon.
Top Vietnamese army of fl- J
cers had conferred until long I
after midnight with Taylor I
and Deputy Ambassador U.
Alexis Johnson.
Privately, American offi-
cials here were deeply de- l
pressed.
"This means turning the
rule of Viet Nam over to the d
street,” one said “I can see
nothing ahead but trouble."
The demonstrators showed
growing anti-American lean-
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NEW YORK IB - Attor-
My General Robert F. Ken-
nedy declared his candidacy
Tuesday for the Democratic
nomination to the U. S. Sen-
ate from New York, a nom-
ination considered already In
his pocket.
Kennedy formally began
his first campaign for elec-
live office at the side of
Mayor Robert F. Wagner,
the state’s No. 1 Democrat.
The attorney general to-
sued his long-expected an-
nouncement from Graefe
Mansion. Wagner's bfficial
residence, and the mayor re-
turned to the city from the
Democratic National Con-
vention at Atlantic City for
the occasion.
He Meets Innue
Kennedy met head-on the
issue of his residence:
"I shall devote all my ef-
fort and whatever talent a I
possess to the state of New
York. This I pledge.”
If New York Democrats
nominate him next Tuesday.
Kennedy said. "I shall re-
sign from the cabinet to
campaign for election,"
Kennedy seeks the seat oc-
cupied by Sen. Kenneth B.
Keating, a Republican who
has announced for re-elec-
tion. Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce
has said she is seeking the
Conservative Party nomina-
tion for the same job.
The attorney general’s
wife, Ethel. was with him as
strained, but he got standing the Democratic National
signed to meet criticism that
the present part-time board
lacks sufficient facts on par-
ole applicants and is merely
guessing that they will be
good risks back in society.
John A. Cocoroe. consult-
ant to the state committee,
said the measure will be fi-
nalized at an afternoon ses-
sion to the Skirvin Tower
Hotel. The group will hold a
morning business meeting
and eat lunch before the bill-
drafting session, he said.
"The bill will call for •
full-time, salaried pardon
and parole board.” Cocoros
said Tuesday.
"It also will provide ter
pre-sentence investigation of
all persons convicted of a
Is Sought
By Hugh Hall
A group of Oklahomans
will meet in a climate de-
manding change Thursday
to propose a full-time pardon
and parole board for the
state, it was learned Tues-
day
The Oklahoma Citizens
Committee of the National
mittee chairman, asking conservative stand.
revolutionary council decid-
ed:
"ONE. To repeal the Au-
gust 16 charter (constitu-
tion).
"TWO To call an urgent
general assembly of the mil-
itary revolutionary council
to elect a new leader for the
nation.
“THREE After election of
a national leader, the mili-
tary revolutionary council
will dissolve itself and its
members return to their
purely military functions to
lead the struggle against
communism, neutralism,
colonialism and all forms of
dictatorship.
“FOUR. Entrust the na-
tional leader with summon-
ing of a natinal convention
to set up national institutions
in keeping with the aspira-
tions of the whole people in
sipi delegation unsolved,
still had no word from his
White House headquarters
about the president's pref-
erence for a vice presiden-
tial nominee.
Minnesota's Humphrey,
who was everywhere doing
everything he could to pre-
vent any incident that would
mar the unity that Johnson
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wanted achieved, was the
consensus choice by leading
Democrats for the place. But
individually and collectively
they conceded they don’t
have an inkling of Johnson's
thinking.
Some dissent to the choice
of Humphrey had been com-
municated to Johnson, lend-
ing credence to reports that
he still had not made up his
mind despite the relatively
late hour.
Gov. John Connally of Tex-
as, one of those selected by
President Johnson to put his
name in nomination, said
Tuesday he thinks there may
be some southern opposition
to Humphrey but doesn’t be-
as one of the top contenders cate dissident forces and Johnson.”
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