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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1964
Page
1
Racial battles erupt in Singapore with 18 believed dead and 65 injured as Chinese and Malays clash during a curfew break. Police report 2,088 curfew violations and 195 charged with rioting or unlawful assembly. Troops patrol the island while airlines cancel flights and schools announce an early summer vacation.
In a two hour clash about 25 miles northwest of Saigon government forces repelled a Communist assault on a mechanized relief unit. Seventeen troops died with 54 wounded and three missing. U.S. advisors were uninjured. Viet Cong losses and a mass grave discovery were reported as new operations began. Concurrently three Mississippi men were arrested in Washington for conspiring to violate civil rights by preventing a Black man from entering a movie venue.
The map identifies Trung Lop near a Viet Cong ambush zone. CAP Photofax shows troops moving from the Mekong Delta toward Hue about 49 miles south of the North Viet Nam frontier. The move aims to bolster Saigon defenses as Viet Cong activity rises in the northern South Viet Nam region.
Washington reports a final showdown at the Inter American Foreign Ministers Conference as six ministers back Venezuela's demand for a sanctions policy against Cuba. Brazil seeks a compromise while Mexico and Chile resist. Dean Rusk urges sanctions and a regional warning to Castro.
Joel David LaRue and a younger companion were taken into custody near Cranston in an investigation of thefts from Cedar River area cottages and farm homes. Deputy Whisler said LaRue faces breaking and entering charges at the Levi Conklin home. the other youth was held as a juvenile delinquent. The pair were arrested at a Pike Run residence west of the Cedar River near highway 22. Conklin home loot included six shotguns and rifles, a revolver, clothing, shoes, records, tools and skate gear. no guns recovered at the Pike Run site. Whisler said the guns were tossed away after the youths confessed. The arrests cap an extended Cedar River theft inquiry. Lakuovisto to be arraigned before Justice of the Peace I. W. Hurlbut. Deputy Sheriff Bob Whisler and Deputy Sheriff Bob Viller made the capture.
A Wilton utility fund shortage totaling 10 000 over six years was found in an annual audit. Funds handled by Mrs. Marvella J Holmes were short due to deposits not made for water and light bills. Town attorney Frank A Gillett ordered restitution by July 25. Holmes resigned last May amid prior shortage reports.
The forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies with warm humid air and widely scattered thundershowers through Friday. Overnight lows near 70s, highs Friday in the mid 90s, with a Wednesday high around 93 and nighttime readings around 76. River stage at 4.8 feet.
A Monticello Iowa manufacturer, Gerald Parker, 44, founder of Energy Manufacturing Co., died in a private plane crash near Winnipeg International Airport. The crash also killed a Winnipeg man and seriously injured two others, as Parker, vacationing with family at Lake Okoboji, was believed to be the pilot? Indications point to a trip bound for Regina. The second victim was Maxwell Ross, general manager of Universal Distributors, with Ronald Polinsky and David Pearlman among the injured.
WAPELLO The driver of a 1962 Ford Convertible fell asleep at the wheel today and struck a gravel road bridge one mile south and east of Newport, Louisa County. Alan Joseph Baird, 21, of Mediapolis, was not injured. The collision caused the bridge to collapse and the car to catch fire. The bridge was a total loss, investigated by Louisa County Sheriff Ralph McDowell. No charges were filed.
President Charles de Gaulle called for a four power parley among the United States, Red China, the Soviet Union, and France to settle the Vietnam conflict and determine the future status of the Indochina peninsula. He urged these powers to agree on peace terms and then launch a large reconstruction program for former French Indochina nations including Cambodia and Laos.
Police wrestled with rioters in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn for a fifth straight night. Officers reported 209 more stove windows smashed, bringing citywide total near 900. The disturbance followed a Harlem Saturday night clash after a police shooting.
Administration leaders pushed for Senate passage of President Johnson's $969.5 million antipoverty bill after a states’ rights amendment, aiming to win Southern Democratic support. Goldwater was absent as debate began. Tower led opposition, while party leaders expected late-day House referral. In Laos, Communist forces reoccupied Phou Kouil Hill, routing neutralists. In New York, civil unrest in Bedford-Stuyvesant drew calls for police reform as leaders pressed for action against police brutality and a possible nonpolice review board. Harlem’s 300,000 residents faced ongoing tensions with law enforcement as grand juries probe a shooting.
Four masked men robbed a Monte Carlo jewelry shop escaping with over 1 million francs worth gems. A policeman and another man were shot. bystanders witnessed the bold operation from Hotel de Paris windows. Owners estimate total losses across four robberies reach 12,280,000 francs.
Des Moines Republican candidate Evan Hultman told Iowa Livestock Feeders Association farmers he would seek repeal of the property tax on breeding stock and oppose other personal property taxes. He outlined long range and local options while urging broader tax relief, and met Hughes the same day to discuss replacing personal property taxes with alternative revenue sources.
Union headquarters says 18 Teamsters strike actions ended as locals accept a new contract with auto hauling firms. In Chicago defense attorneys accuse a government prosecutor of deliberate misrepresentations to convict the Teamsters. President James R Hoffa and six co defendants face fraud and conspiracy charges.
Khrushchev flew back to the Soviet Union after two day visit to Warsaw for Poland’s 20th anniversary of the Communist regime celebration.
Keokuk tavern operator John W Breakbill was fined 50 dollars in Superior Court after conviction for denying service to a Black patron last June. Breakbill plans to appeal the ruling. The case underscores enforcement of civil rights protections in Iowa.
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