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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 12 llh YEAu M). FINAL EDITION WKDNKSDAY MO RIMING, AUGUST 5, 196-1- TRICK 10 CENTS HOME DELIVERED 50c A WEEK II PiuilP mm ibt supply i len Sn lississsppi Three Hud lb iooies Goldwater Backs Up Retaliatory Blow Cw) iCX v): Disappearance Of Rights Trio May Be Solved PHILADELPHIA. Miss. (UPI)-FBI agents Tuesday found three bodies In graves at a dam site near here and authorities said there was reason to believe they were WASHINGTON (UPD Communist North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired again on American warships Tuesday and President Johnson promptly told the nation that U. S.

warplanes were responding with air strikes Tuesday night against the Red gunboats and their bases. NOgTH V. CHINA (maihak V. SOUTH CAMtODiA )NAM I Knott rt-a 1 A. Goodman, J.

Chancy, M. ScliHcrner burled bodies may be those of missing civil rights workers Johnson's Speech Text Of A I GTON, i.fi Following Is the text of president Johnson's radio and television speech tonight on the Vietnam situation: My fellow Americans: As president and commander-in-chief, it is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions aRalnst u. S. ships on the high seas in the Golf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action In reply. The initial attack on the destroyer Maddox, on August 2, was repeated today by a number of hostile vessels attacking two U.

S. destroyers with torpedoes. The destroyers, and supporting aircraft, acted at once on the orders I gave after the initial act of agression. We believe at least two of the attacking boats were sunk. There were no U.

S. losses. The performance of commanders and crews in this those of three civil rights June 21. The bodies were not Identified Immediately and It was not disclosed whether the dead persons were white or Negro Two of thf missing youths were white and the third a Negro. The bodies were found about six miles from here by FBI agents who had been conducting an extensive search throughout Mississippi for six weeks.

They were located in a grave hidden by thick underbrush several hundred yards from a highway. "We have a lot of work to do on the bodies." said Roy K. Moore, special agent in charge of the Jackson FBI office. The bodies were being rushed by helicopter to the University of Mississippi Medical Center In Jackson where identification attempts were tn be made. Jackson is 70 miles from this community.

The spot, where the bodies were found is 20 miles from where a burned-out station wagon in which the workers had been traveling was found. The youths were engaged in the "Mississippi Project," a summer campaign to register Negro voters in the state. THE WORKERS Andrew Goodman. 20. New York, a former student at Queens College: Michael Schwer-ner.

24. Brooklyn, and James Chaney. 21, Meridian. Miss. vanished the night of June 21.

They were last seen leaving Philadelphia in their station wagon. Mr. Goodman and Mr. Schwerner were white. Mr.

Chaney was a Negro. J. Edgar Hoover. FBI director, said In Washington that the bodies were being removed to Jackson so that nam will be redoubled by this outrage. Yet our response, for the present, will he limited and fitting We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict we still seek no wider war.

I have instructed the Secretary of State to make this position totally clear to friends, to adversaries, and indeed to all. I havve Instructed Ambassador lAd-laii Stevenson to raise this matter immediately and urgently before the Security Council of the United Nations. Finally, I have met today with the leaders of both parties in the Congress of the United States and I have Informed them that I shall immediately request the Congress to pass a resolution making it clear that our government Is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom, and in defense of peace. In southeast Asia. I have been The grim-faced Chief Executive, speaking as Commander-in-Chief of the nation's armed forces, also announced he had asked Ambassador Adlai Stevenson to take the U.

S. case given encouraging assistance by these leaders that such a resolution will be promptly Introduced, freely and expeditiously debated, and passed with overwhelming support. It Is a solemn responsibility to have to order even limited military action by forces whose over-all strength is as vast and as awesome as those of the United States of America. But it is my considered conviction, shared throug-out your govvernment, that firmness in the right Is indispensable today for peace. That firmness will always be measured.

Its mission Is peace. And Just a few minutes ago I was able to reach Senator Goldwater and I am glad to report he has expressed his support of the statement I am making to night. Securily Council Merlins Slated UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.

(UPD U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson Tuesday night sent a letter to the President of the Security Council requesting an urgent meeting of the Council on the crisis in North Vietnam. The letter delivered from Ambassador Stevenson to Security Council President Sievert A. Nielsen read: "On behalf of the United States.

I request that you convene an urgent meeting of the Security Council to consider the serious situation created by deliberate attacks of the Hanoi (North Vietnamese) regime on United States naval vessels In International waters." Mr. Nielsen scheduled the Council meeting for 9:30 a. m. (EST) Wednesday. to the United Nations Se curlty Council on an urgent basis.

In a dramatic, six-minute statement read on nationwide television and radio, the President said his was a "solemn responsibility" but that "it Is my considered conviction that firmness in the right is indispensable today for peace." Mr. Johnson also said he had Informed leaders of both parties In Congress that he would immediately request a resolution "making it clear that our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom, and in defense of peace, in Southeast Asia He said the leaders assured him that such a resolution "will be promptly introduced, freely and expeditiously debated, and passed with overwhelming support." President Johnson described as an "outrage" the Communist assaults In the Gulf of Tonkin off the North Vietnamese coast two in three days. But at the same time, he stressed that the U. S. retaliation would be "limited and fitting" for the present.

Obviously speaking to the Communists, he said: "We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." The es I announcement came at 1:35 p. m. (EST), about 13 hours after North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U. S.

destroyers Maddox and C. Turner Joy In international waters of the stormed-tossed gulf. The destroyers repulsed the attack after a three-hour battle In which two of the six marauding gunboats were believed to have been sunk and two others damaged. There wpre no American casualties or damage. Only last Sunday, the Maddox was attacked in the same waters by three Soviet-built North Vietnamese PT boats.

One of the Red vessels was believed sunk and the other two were crippled under fire from the Maddox and Jet fighters from the carrier Tlconderoga. President engagement is In the highest tradition of the United States Navy But repeated acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must he met not only with alert defense, hut with positive reply. That reply Is being given as I speak to you. Air action Is now In execution against gunboats and certain supporting facilities of North Vietnam which have been used in these hostile operations. In the larger sense, this new act of aggression, aimed dirertly at our own forces, again brings home to all of us In the United States the Importance of the struggle for peace and security in Southeast Asia.

Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been Joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States of America The determination of all Americans to carry out our whole commitment to the people and government of South Viet Amusements Bridge Business Classified Columnists Comics Court News Crossword Deaths Editorials Five Star FOR ALL: Wirtz calls for movement to alone. Page 7. WORST IN decline is trading is only REDS Braves in 4-2, regain place In National workers who disappeared every effort could be made to identify them and determine cause of death. The FBI's search for the missing civil rights workers began June 22. The following day, their car.

a 19B3 station wagon, was found abandoned and burned on a dirt road off Route 21, 13 miles northeast of Philadelphia. In Its intensive six-week search for the missing men, the FBI has been aided by officers of the Mississippi State Highway Patrol and U. S. Navy personnel. BOTH helicopters and scuba divers have been used in a systematic operation which has covered hundreds of square miles of swamps, fields, woods, farms and towns in 10 predominantly rural counties of Mississippi.

Mr. Hoover sa id FBI agents who found the bodies were members of a search party which had been covering the southwest portion of Neshoba County by helicopter and on foot. The three civil rights workers left Meridian late in the morning of June 21 for the purpose of investigating the June IB burning of a Negro church in the Philadelphia area. Mr. Chaney was arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of speeding at about 4 p.

m. June 21. The arresting officer, a county deputy sheriff, also held Mr. Schwerner and Mr. Goodman for investigation.

The three men were released six hours later after Mr. Chaney had posted $20 bond. Their whereabouts had been unknown since that time. town and at Biehl and Bridgetown Rds. Cincinnati police reported no storm damage, but noted an increase of automobile accidents because of rain-slicked highways.

The Weather Bureau said the Cincinnati area can expect more scattered thunderstorms today with little weather change. High will be a few degrees higher than the average for this date 88 degrees. No prospect for change was promised within the next three or four days by the weatherman. Low tonight will be near 70. The heat must be getting to the weatherman.

He called that prospect "fair and mild." Early Bird Col A Kike! When Mm. Marvin Armbruster of 91 I 7 Mon-toro Drive advertised a girl's bicycle in The Enquirer's Gold Chest, she sold it at 9:00 AM the first day the ad ran. You, too, can get fast results when you place an economical Gold Chest ad. Just phone 421-6300 and see for yourself I mmm Storms Hit City; Mercury At 92 Labor Secretary Willard widening the civil rights benefit all, not Negroes Business TWO MONTHS: Stock market sharpest since June 4 but moderately active. Page 43.

SPORTS SWEEP: Reds beat Milwaukee twi-night doubleheader, 5-2 and undisputed possession of third League. Page 37. Greater Cincinnati WATER NEED: City Water Works wants' to borrow $1 million to add seven new filters to California plant to avoid curtailment of water use. Page 10. DUNHAM HOSPITAL: Tuberculosis hospital levy not to appear on November ballot for fear of adversely affecting badly needed increase to be asked In 1965.

Page 10. FILES CLOSED: Federal judge denies NAACP motion asking Cincinnati Board of Education for access to confidential records on pupils and teachers. Page 11. MURDER-SUICIDE: Stratford Manor man shoots wife fatally near home, then flees to Clarksville, Clinton County, and fires death bullet into own head. Page 20.

Where PT Boats Fired Shortly before Tuesday's attack, the State Department announced It had sent a stern diplomatic protest to the Hanoi government warning of grave consequences if any new assaults were mounted. The President's statement, coming after a series of crisis talks with high military, diplomatic and legislative leaders, won the approval of Republican presidential candidate Barry M. Goldwater. Mr. Johnson hart telephoned the Arizona senator at his vacation retreat in Southern California and read him the statement before he addressed the nation.

Senator Goldwater, in reply, issued a statement saying "it is the only thing he can do under the circumstances." And former vice President Richard M. Nixon, arriving in Washington, called for "decisive action" in which the President, should have the support of both parties in an election year. In his brief statement, the President signaled a heavy diplomatic campaign to impress the world with the seriousness with which he considered "repeated acts of violence" against 1'. S. armed forces.

Besides his instructions to. Ambassador Stevenson at the United Nations, he also directed Secretary of State Dean Rusk to make the American position "totally clear to friends, to adversaries and indeed to all." The President said it was for him "a solemn responsibility to have to order even limited military action by forces whose over-all strength Is as vast and as awesome as of the United States of America." Yet. he said, "repeal pd acts of violence against the armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert, defense but with positive reply." That positive reply, he said, came even as he spoke with IT. S. air strikes against the Red PT boats and their 'supporting facilities" In North Viet Nam.

It was understood that by i the President meant the ports from which the gunboats have been operating were under air attack. "Aggression by terror against the peaceful villagers of South Vietnam has now been Joined by open aggression on the high seas against the United States." the President said. "The determination of all Americans to carry out our full commitment, to the people and the government of South Vietnam will be redoubled by this outrage," he added. Tuesday's naval engagement plunged official Washington into a crisis atmosphere and touched off a round of White House conferences. U.

S. Reinforces SE Asian Forces Washington ATTACK: The Defense Department discloses another North Vietnamese torpedo boat attack on U. S. destroyers; believes two of the attackers were in the night battle. Page 1.

A RAISE: Congress completes action on a $556 million Federal pay increase bill-including $7500 a year more for congressman. Page 24. DELAY: The Senate approves a hill to delay court-ordered legislative reapportionment. Page 3. Page .40 41 22 42-44 25-35 7 22-23 11 17 25 6 Page Horse Sense 17 People In News .5 Society News 15 Sports 36-39 Star Gazer 18 TV-Radio 8-9 Tell It To Bick .22 Torch Coupon .22 Winchell 7 Women's 12-14 Word Game 17 News, Features Page 18 Late afternoon thunderstorms put a closing damper Tuesday on another hot day in Cincinnati.

But the temperature will bubble back into the 90s again today, the Cincinnati Weather Bureau reported. The mercury reached 92 degrees Tuesday, eight degrees lower than the Monday high, before the rains cooled the air. Although the Tuesday temperatures did not reach Monday's near-record high, the heat might have been more unbearable because of higher humidity, the weatherman explained. Humidity Tuesday ranged near 50, while the Monday humidity figures were near 40, he said. The Weather Bureau reported only .35 inch of rain fell at the Abbe Observatory.

More rain probably fell in isolated spots in Greater Cincinnati, the weather expert admitted. The rain was accompanied by high winds and electrical storms in western Cincinnati and Hamilton County. The winds felled trees and power wires on Rybolt Road, south of Wesselman Road; at Monfort Heights Elementary School. 3681 West Fork 5848 Bridge- World-Wide WASHINGTON (UPD Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara announced early Wednesday that U.

S. naval aircraft were attacking motor torpedo boat bases and supporting installations in North Vietnam. "The attack is currently under way," Mr. McNamara told newsmen at 12:15 a. m.

"I am sure it will be successful," the secretary told about 40 newsmen assembled at the Pentagon for the news conference following President Johnson's televised speech to the nation. Mr. McNamara Indicated that results of the strike, launched by aircraft from two carriers In the Gulf of Tonkin, probably would not be known before daybreak here. At the same time the secretary announced these actions The United States, as a precautionary measure, has moved "substantial military reinforcements to Southeast Asia." He did not say where, but did say it was not to South Vietnam." The United States also has alerted units for deployment to the Western Pacific from the continental United States. Mr.

McNamara would not Identify units being moved or their strength. But he said they were from all the services and were "appropriate to the provocation." Mr. McNamara declined to pinpoint the targets of the air strike in the Interest of protecting the U. S. servicemen involved.

He did make it clear, that the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi was not being attacked. PUSHED BACK: East Congo rebels push Into Stanleyville, but are pushed back; white women and children are flown out to safety. Page 4. SAVED: Nine French miners are rescued after being Imprisoned below ground for eight days. Page 4.

Stale And Nation FOUND: The FBI announces finding of the bodies of three missing civil rights workers. Page 1. NO TAX BOOST: Ohio's Gov. James A. Rhodes says his new budget will call for no new or increased taxes.

Page 24. Partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Tonight will be fair with a low near 70. The low this morning also will he around 70 and the high for the day will be in the low 90s. MAP ON PAGE Five-Day Forecast Temperatures will average near or a little above the normal range of 87 and 66.

There will be only minor day-to-day changes. Rainfall will total a quarter of an inch with scattered thundershowers coming most likely over the. weekend. Talcphoni 721-2700 Classlliid 421-1300 CIRCULATION SERVICE 721-2700 Ui. 'f.

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