Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - September 9, 1965, Winona, Minnesota FAMED COLLINS AVENUE INUNDATED A mighty tide pushed by high winds of Hurricane Betsy left this watery scene along the renown Collins Avenue on Miami Beach Fla Many plush hotels had water in the lobby and streets were flooded by tides pushed by winds AP BETSY LEAVES HER MARK Residents inspect damage caused by Hurricane Betsy at Miami Beach Fla Behind uprooted tree is a cracked swimming pool which was inundated by high tides The storm ripped through southern Florida ripping off roofs and leaving streets littered with debris AP REFUGEE BECKONS TO HUSBAND A woman soaked with rain from Hurricane urges her husband to hurry with heir child as they head for a rescue van in background They were among several persons evacuated when high tides sent water into their Coral Gables Fla homes Cooler Showers Tonight Fair to Partly Cloudy Friday WINONA DAILY NEWS of Publication TOMORROW SUN RISES SETS FULL MOON SEPT 10 WINONA MINNESOTA THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9 1965 TEN CENTS PER COPY For Best Results Use Daily News Classified Ads TWENTY-TWO PAGES U.S Bombs Blames Bridge 17 Miles From China Line U.S for India Pakistan War TOKYO AP Communist China's Premier Chou o d a y condemned India's SAIGON South Viet Nam AP U.S warplanes made their closest penetration to Red China's border with North Viet Nam today bombing a railroad bridge 17 miles south of the frontier U.S military men reported The spokesmen said four damaged the railroad bridge and pounded two other bridges 25 and 30 miles south ot the border The area about 140 miles northwest of Hanoi is an tant transportation center ing to the North Vietnamese capital U.S pilots are trying to disrupt a railroad tn the area and last month bombed within 30 miles of Red China twice In the ground war U.S Marines and Vietnamese troops continued their giant sweep to clear the Viet Cong from the Batangan peninsula Reports from the old operation 20 miles south of Chu Lai said 148 Viet Cong had been killed 38 captured and 100 detained and troops were taking part American and Vietnamese eas were described as light No other major ground ity was reported but a U.S Army helicopter crashed in the Mekong Delta 100 miles south of Saigon all members of Its crew were reported killed The Balangan offensive was aimed at smashing a reported Communist buildup in the area 330 miles north of Saigon The Marines made the biggest strike Wednesday when they blew up a tunnel and killed 56 uniformed Viet Cong The Leathernecks discovered the underground maze after a Viet Cong sniper they were pursuing ducked into an opening The Marines planted a TNT charge but before they touched 1 off two Viet Cong emerged the tunnel and surrendered They were followed by Iwo women believed to be Viet Cong nurses Entering the tunnel after the blast the Americans found it littered with the bodies of Viet Cong wearing field packs loaded cartridge belts and other combat armed on and said it could not jave been done without the consent and support of the United Stales Chou again declared Communist China's lirm support for Pakistan and warned the Indian government that it must bear full responsibility for all the consequences arising from its extended aggression Chou however short of saying Red China would provide any form of concrete assistance to Pakistan His remarks were made at a reception in Peking at the North Korean Embassy and relayed by Peking NEW ORLEANS AP A great exodus from low lying coastal areas shaped up today as Hurricane Betsy fresh from an attack on Florida advanced on the Gulf Coast Over residents were expected to pack cars and trailers today and head out of south Louisiana and east Texas away from possible killer tides and The Weather Bureau urged i them to evacuate as soon as possible before escape routes were cut off by rising waters The bureau hoisted emergency hurricane warnings at 6 from the mouth of the Mississippi River west to Galveston Tex However Betsy's exact target remained uncertain The described as fast US F May G By JOHN M HIGHTOWER AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON AP U.S officials take seriously the possibility that Communist China may intervene in the war to the extent of stirring up border trouble on India's northeast Re fo to A its public declarations in recent days have developed an increasingly tougher tone toward India On Aug 27 the Chinese Reds issued a long series of charges j of border violations by Indian 1 troops on the Chinese frontier Two days ago China accused India of aggression against Pakistan and declared it was Chin id Pak The note said the Incidents occurred at a lime when the Indian government was carrying out armed suppression against the people of Kashmir and unleashing and expanding its armed aggression against Pakistan Such statements could be used by the Chinese Communist istan war to be in its own interests What they consider possible Is more limited Chinese military action consisting of a series of frontier incidents for the essentially diplomatic purpose of promoting a breakdown in Pakistan's ties with the West and a consequent increase in Betsy Picking Up Speed Across Gulf of Mexico New Cabinet Signed By President WASHINGTON AP dent Johnson gave nation's cities a place in his Cabinet day by signing into law a establishing the new ment of and Urban De- velopment Who will speak for the cities as secretary of the agency In the Cabinet may not be an immediately The speculation Is Johnson eventually will get around to naming Robert C Weaver di rector of the Housing and Home Finance Agency which is the core of the new department If Weaver is appointed ant confirmed by the Senate hi would be the first Negro ever to serve in a president's Cabinet The President hasn't even hinted at his choice however others have been mentioned in rumors among them Robert C Wagner who is not seeking re-election as mayor of New York and Albert Rains an bama Democrat who specialized in housing legislation while a member of the House The new department plants the Housing and Home Finance Agency and puts under one roof grams now scattered among several government ments The Federal Housing Admin 1st ration and the Federal tional Mortgage Association are among the subagencies that will he absorbed Unlike others The Chinese purpose it is be- here would be to strate support for Pakistan and bus encourage that country to United States and other Western and move Into the Red Chinese orbit Pakistan is a member of the Central Treaty alliance in the Mid- dle East and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Pakistan's chief allies the United States and Britain are like the Soviet Union pursuing road policies in the tan conflict and concentrating their efforts on trying to get a cease-fire China already has come out squarely on Pakistan's side and its to provide a political border defenses base for military action against Wednesday the Chinese re- India at any time U.S officials leased a note to the Indian however do not now foresee its alliances with the charging four Indian any large-scale Red Chinese boundary violations in July and attack on India They do not five in August and linking them think China would consider such to the aggression against action with all the risks in- Pakistan of igniting a major Asian Army Trims Down Two Air Divisions WASHINGTON API Use ot Tear Gas Probed WASHINGTON AP The Defense Department is standing aloof from latest incident involving use of gas in Viet Nam until an Investigation ordered by the American high command there is completed It is probable that whatever Gen William C land's command decides will he accepted by the Pentagon A U S military spokesman In Viet Nam announced that on Sunday a Marine unit had used gas to drive people of The tunnels and caverns suspected Army has streamlined its two as hiding places for Viet Cong paratrooper divisions and A battalion commander said ie spokesman had decided the tear gas was the most harmless whether the Marine battalion commander perhaps newly ar- rived in Viet Nam had been of the policy and if so whether the command ake any action The command spokesman In laigon said that tear gas is sued to troops as part of their equipment but that il be used only upon spec authority from Westmore land fight underdeveloped areas these two will retain names and identities their Southeast Asia rather than against a sophisticated my in Europe The action came after Army experts reviewed the role of the Airborne and borne divisions in the light of contemporary world tions The slimmed flown divisions require only about half as many Air Force transports to carry them to trouble spots 620 in- stead of and this gives paratroopers what the Army calls greater strategic ty Kach division was cut by men paring to slightly under men apiece method of clearing the hiding places without causing injury to women and children in those shelters He sad the unit com- mander may not have been aware of a directive regulating use of tear gas In answer lo questions a de- fense spokesman here said day that the policy concerning the use of tear and other non lethal gases was set by West moreland not the Pentagon Westmoreland's order the spokesman said directed only he could authorize the use of nontoxic gas and lhat this authority was not to be to others in Amer Scan command and personnel The question now appears lo Pay People call it pay says Quote because there's no other place you can afford to go with it Definition of watch what men do on a windy corner Never trust a girl who says she loves you more than body in the world It proves she's been experimenting A woman we're told is lhat strange creature who can get excited about an empty pair of stockings To gel plenty of tion it's hard to beat a good big mistake For more bughs see Bail Wilson on Paga tan's links with China Even limited action by the Chinese however could raise policy issues for the States and What could they take to er Red China's apparent y toward What if ny assistance or assurances ould they offer India so far as Is defenses against China are The two Western powers backed India during its Border war with China in 1962 The United States then first be- jan supplying India which is not a U.S ally with military equipment The United States lad supplied arms to Pakistan or many years since Pakistan was an ally in the nist alliances This week in the face of charges by both countries that American military equipment was being used in the conflict over Kashmir United States suspended military aid ments to both U.S officials say lhat in event of a strong Chinese Communist intervention against India the United States would be faced with major new problems and decisions in its current aid policy De Gaulle Out To End Atlantic Alliance by PARIS AP President Charles de Gaulle said today that the Atlantic Alliance's in- command structure be dismantled by 1969 at the latest At this semiannual news con- ference the President said the present system of the North At- Treaty Organization con- a subordination of France's own defense forces to bo Allied structure He said this must end ing big and dangerous has itself unpredictable The Weather Bureau said the likely landfall for the center was western Louisiana and the extreme er Texas coasts The multibillion dollar shore oil industry oil wells and drilling platforms some of them 100 miles from evacuating and tening down All possible ment had headed for inland wa- ters About oil workers had been moved to safety At the Navy located the center of Betsy about 235 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River She was moving west-northwest at 18 miles an hour The trickle of evacuees ed at Cameron the little town in western Louisiana near the Texas border where Hurricane Audrey killed 500 people in June 1957 Most of them died in ing tides which swept the al area Betsy left most of the Fort Lauderdale Florida Keys area without power and with rained crops and flooded homes No quick damage estimate was possible but it was ed to run at least million Three lives also were lost This was considered a ly light toll in view of the foot tides second only to the record tides of 1926 that ended Florida's great land boom While Betsy was more of a destroyer than a killer it did not appear the damage would match that of last year's cane Cleo which also hit ern Florida But the Bahamas where com- had been knocked out since Sunday reported heavy property losses re- ports came in from the Out lands to Nassau capital of the archipelago FAST STEPPING BETSY Map locates current approximate position of Hurricane Betsy in the Gulf of Mexico today Shaded is area from Galveston Texas to mouth of the Mississippi River where emergency hurricane warnings were posted by the Weather Bureau AP Map India Pakistan Battles Raging NEW DELHI India AP the Indian drive on Exclusive clubs of the very rich on and Nassau's New Providence were struck hard But one was reported killed in the Bahamas although the hurricane's center had lam just off the shore of New dence for over 12 hours Nassau's shops which live off the spending of American ists were without electricity bul were opened for business Dam age there was estimated at 000 Betsy took all Wednesday to pass over the tip of the Florida peninsula The high onshore pushed six-foot tides over low-lying areas swamping Mi ami's posh Key Biscayne with Us expensive villas under three feel of water WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST WINONA AND VICINITY Considerable cloudiness showers or thunderstorms night Far to partly cloudy Fri day Cooler and Friday Low tonight high Frida LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for th 24 hours ending at 12 m today Maximum 81 minimum 6 noon 81 precipitation 49 Report Hoax Thinks CALEDONIA Minn AP that the executive com- believes Gov Karl cannot be re-elected Pakistani tanks had adia and Pakistan battled ay for the upper hand in the of upper West and India's adjoining ab State Pakistan claimed it had into India after Lahore Pakistan's second est city The Pakistanis said forces had crossed the der near the Indian city of A Pakistani army said Pakistani forces had pushed a lot of miles into In- dia A Pakistani government spokesman claimed that Indian army navy and air operations had been brought to a still and Pakistani forces had made tactical gains on all fronts including Lahore He said Pakistan's armed forces had stabilized their positions on all fronts The Indian Defense Ministry reported fierce fighting was in progress in the Lahore tor An announcement said 17 hould step aside was described iy a Republican leader today is a political gimmick My initial response to aid Speaker Lloyd Duxbury of he State House of ives was that it was a in the past 24 hours and that the Pakistanis have been trying to regain positions they had lost to the Indian army These attempts of theirs II d j i al gimmick really another repulsed with heavy loax designed to divert If Tmy an iv en cm I'll i -j ion from the record of Rolvaag said and the DFL What has transpired since ears this out having getting up to praise aag and keep the thing going It appears lo be part of a Man to make Rolvaag an under- Jog and divert attention from lis record The meeting of the executive was supposed to have been secret but the disclosure about it was timed to follow the announcement by Clark Gregor that he did not plan to be a candidate for statewide office Of course Rolvaag knew about it long before the results became public The whole thing looks like an elixir concocted in the pleasant surroundings Sugar Hills Lodge of The wording of the ment made it appear that the Indians had indeed gone on the defensive after driving toward Lahore India claimed its forces advancing along two other fronts opened Wednesday north and south of field It appeared however that these attacks in the Sind area east of Karachi and in the sector of Kashmir were designed to spread out Pakistan's army while India concentrated on the Lahore sector As the fighting raged IT N Secretary-General U Thant ar- rived in Rawalpindi the tani capital lo meet President Mohammed Ayub Khan and begin his peace mission to the two warring countries
