FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1906 TRY, MICUIV,. IN nATT.v FRIDAYAPRIL ,1906 1111'i .1 M RJMUM WF(U VU PCU NJ PAGE THREV Wilson Wins Landslide UNDER SENATE ATTACK: McNamara Says Four Divisions Unprepared In Parliamentary Election Heath Does Not Concede Labor Win Prime Minister Thanks England for 'Great Victory' LONDON ()-Labor Prime Min. ister Harpld Wilson rolled to a massive victory today over Edwarc Heath's Conservatives in Britan's national election. Wilson triumphantly told part supporters in his Huyton electora district.near Liverpool: "This has been a great victory." Three top-ranking Conservative conceded Labor's win, althoug Heath himself declined to ac- knowledge defeat for the time be- ing. 302 Laborite Seats Incomplete returns of yester- day's voting gave Wilson's Labor- ites 302 seats, Conservatives 149 Liberals 5, with one to a Repub- lican Labor candidate and one t non-voting House Speaker Horace King. Wilson has been prime ministei for the past 17 months. He fought the campaign that was climaxed with yesterday's bal- lot partly on his record, partly on a pledge to rule with firmness. 'The election was called by Wil- son to strengthen Labor's frail grip on parliamentary power. In the now-dissolved House of Commons, Wilson's margin was three votes-less than 1 per cent in a chamber with 314 Laborites, 303 Conservatives and 10 Liberals in it. Mandate Wilson now has a mandate to achieve these aims: -To steer Britain clear of the rocks of bankruptcy that menace the country. -To galvanize the nation's in- dustries, working methods, human and material resources so that it can begin riding again on the old prosperity trail it used to know before wars and lethargy brought hard times. -To find new outlets for British political skills evolved out of the experience of centuries in a world of superpowers led by men such as Presidents Johnson and Charles de Gaulle, Soviet Premier Alexei N.dKosygin and Mao Tze-tung, leader of Red China. No Punches Wilson and Heath, in pledging to work toward these goals, have pulled no punches. The prime minister has told the people this is their "make-or-break year." He has hammered on the need for firm government. Few pie-in-the-sky promises studded his program . Tough times lie ahead, he has said. The word "socialism" rarely fig- ured in Wilson's speeches but his party remains committed to so- cialize 12 steel firms which form 85 per cent of the privately own- ed steel industry. Other state take- overs have been hinted at in sec- tors where the government is the major participant. Heath has warned somberly that "national bankruptcy" stares Brit- ain in the face as a consequence of Labor "muddle." He has oppos- ed the sort of national planning favored by Labor as interference. His recipe, true to Conservative tradition, is to rely on "competi- tive market forces" to do much of the work of righting the economy even if this leads to competition for jobs. He has urged a shakeup of Britain's labor unions as one way of crushing restrictive prac- tices that deaden enterprise and efficiency. > r Restraining Order Issued To Strikers Railroad Union Head Gilbert Refuses To # Have Work Resumed WASHINGTON ()-H. E. Gil- bert, president of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- men and Enginemen, said last night he has not ordered his men back to work on eight strikebound railroads despite a federal court order to go back to work. "No, sir," Gilbert said when ask- ed whether he had issued a return- to-work order some five hours after U.S. Dist. Judge Alexander Holtzoff issued a restraining or- der against the striking firemen. Gilbert's comments were made to newsmen as he was about to enter a conference with Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. WASHINGTON W)P) - Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said yesterday the only four com- plete Army divisions in the United States are not combat-ready, but he insisted that the nation's over- all fighting fitness has not de- creased. The defense secretary spoke at a news conference a day after Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss), chairman of the Senate preparedness com- mittee, said in a statement that McNamara had assured a Senate appropriations subcommittee last August that "all divisions are ready to go to combat." Asked to comment on this, Mc- Namara refused to get into an # open argument with the senator. Appeal for Unity Appealing for unity in a time of war, McNamara said "I want to avoid personalities" and praised Stennis as "a man of great per- sonal integrity." But the defense secretary, un- der fire increasingly from Con- gress, obviously was concerned about Stennis's statement, which went at length into findings of subcommittee investigators that the four divisions were, in some cases, as low as 55 per cent of strength last summer. The defense secretary wrote Stennis that the four regular Ar- my divisions are being used to train rookies in order to build up the regular forces and save the will increase by another 97,000 to Aides of Stennis said that he a planned total of 1,036,000 by had received McNamara's letter the end of June. but would have no immediate com- "By this summer," McNamara ment. said, "the Army will have the cap- In addition to the four ground ability to deploy trained replace- divisions, the Army has two air- ments to Viet Nam at a rate borne divisions. But the 82nd Air- equivalent to more than one divi- borne of Ft. Bragg, N.C., has about sion each month in addition to 6000 men in the Dominican Re- the capability, under emergency public and the 101st Airborne of conditions, to deploy a nine-divi- Ft. Campbell, Ky., has a brigade sion force in 90 days. in Viet Nam. The 101st also is The four Army divisions at is- training about 3000 recruits. sue are the 1st and 2nd Armored The Army has just formed the at Ft. Hood, Tex., the 4th Infan- 9th Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, try at Ft. Lewis, Wash.. and the Kan., but it will not be in any 5th Mechanized Infantry at Ft. kind of combat shape until late Carson, Colo. this year. Johnson Asks Industries To Put off Plant Expansion KLAN LEADER SURRENDERS SAM BOWERS, JR. (right), imperial wizard of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was escorted to FBI headquarters at Hattiesburg, Miss., yesterday morning after turning himself in in connection with the fire-bomb slaying of a Negro civil rights leader. His attorney, Charles Blackwell, is at his left. Viet Cong Demolish U.S. Billet; AntiKy Agitation Continues. SAIGON (M)-Viet Cong terror- ists wrecked a 10-story U.S. offi- cers' billet in Saigon before dawn today with automatic weapons, grenades and an explosive-laden vehicle that set off a huge blast. Five persons were killed-three Americans and two Vietnamese. Sixty-six were reported wounded. The big blast--delitered with tactical precision behind a ma- chine-gun attack as in some past attacks-shattered the first three floors of the Victoria Hotel billet. It splintered furniture and broke open a roof-top water tank, flood- ing the interior. The three Americans reported killed were said to have been mili- tary policemen. One of the Viet- namese dead was a military po- liceman and the other an em- ploye of the billet. Capt. Archie Kuntze, head of the U.S. Navy Support Command, which runs Saigon billets, said the list of wounded was expected to rise to perhaps 100. He 'said 10 American wounded were believed in serious condition and added that that probably was a conservative estimate. "Nobody on the first floor could have lived through that," an eye- witness said as ambulances filled with wounded raced to the two major U.S. hospitals in the city. . Eyewitnesses said the Viet Cong opened the attack at about 5:15 a.m. by exploding a Claymore mine at the well-guarded ground floor entrance to the Victoria officers' billet. Meanwhile, Buddhist-led crowds ranging from 3000 to 6000 demon- strated in Saigon, Hue and Da Nang against Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's military government and against the United States. Battlefront On the battlefront, a Commu- nist flight yesterday for sanctu- ary from counterattacking U.S. cavalrymen swung the Chu Pong hills battle to the frontier of Cam- bodia, raising a possibility the ac- tion would spill over into that avowedly neutral nation. Cleveland IReserves for possible future emer- Gilbert came here from the un- gencies. ion's headquarters at Cleveland McNamara acknowledged that and before leaving the Ohio city, the four divisions now are man- he said he had been invited to ned about 50 per cent by men Washington by President Johnson. with less than four months train- But at the White House, deputy ing. Under law, a man may not be press secretary Robert H. Flem- sent overseas until he has had at ing said, "There are no plans for least four months of training. Mr. Gilbert to see the President. I "They are trained divisions." don't know how the confusion the secretary told reporters. arose." Prior to meeting with Gilbert. In his letter to Stennis, he said Wirtz scheduled a meeting with that as a result of the vast ex- railroad representatives. pansion of the Army's training es- Gilbert would not say whether tablishment, the number of train- he had been served with the court ed Army troops has risen by 68,- order to end all strike and picket- 000 in the past five months and ing activity against the eight rail- - - roads in 38 states. To Appeal? -- Asked whether he planned to appeal Holtzoff's order to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Gilbert said, "I'll1Th u be talking to our attorneys." He; would not elaborate. (O~i!I INTERNATIONJ (OU i * *a . t F WASHINGTON (P) - President Johnson said yesterday that he won't let spiraling costs wreck the national prosperity but he empha- sized he has made no decision to seek an anti-inflationary tax in- crease. Instead Johnson called on indus- try leaders to. postpone some $6 billion of plant expansion, mayors to cut back public works and build- ings, and housewives to shun the. higher-priced groceries. Prices have been climbing "much too fast for comfort-and if I haven't done enough about it, I will," Johnson told the National League of Cities. But the economy is not "shoot- ing off into outer space" in a wage-price spiral, he told the city leaders, and the, effect of major anti-inflationhmeasures already remains to be measured. Caution So the proper course now is cau- tion, he said, adding: "We are touching the brakes, not clamping them on, not risking a skid into recession or depression." Johnson thus sought to calm some business nerves that had been jangled into a stock market sag by his disclosure on Tuesday that a $5-billion to $7-billion tax increase was being considered, if there is need to douse inflation- ary fires. Assurance In an hour-long closed-door ad- dress to the Business Council at a White House dinner Wednesday night, Johnson asked and obtained assurances that a number of front- rank industrialists will cut back their postponable outlays for new plant and equipment. The company with the greatest of all capital spending programs, American Telephone & Telegraph Co., issued through a spokesman a statement saying it would try to hold 1966 construction to a level "comparable to our 1965 pro- gram"-about $3.9 'billion =- de- spite the upsurge in long-distance service and demand for new tele- phones. "We will do everything we rea- sonably can to curb inflation," the spokesman added. AT&T's board chairman, F. R. Kappel, is a former chairman of the Business Council. I rAL PRESENTATIONS 1966-1967 oral Union Series NOT~ See- Ch world News.Roundup Children of the Damned! Saturday, April 2 8 P.M.-ADM. 50c Ticket Sales 7:15 P.M. CHICAGO SYMPHONY JEAN MARTINON, ORCHESTRA.....................Saturday, October 8 Conductor 1j# By The Associated Press MOSCOW - The Soviet Union launched a rocket yesterday in an attempt to put scientific instru- ments into orbit around the moon several months before the United States tries the same thing. An official announcement said Luna 10 was rocketed toward the moon carrying an automatic space station "to test a system insuring the setting up of an artificial moon satellite." It is expected to reach the vicinity of the moon Sunday night or early Monday. The new Soviet stepcame al- most two months after Luna 9 made a controlled landing on the moon and transmitted photos of the landscape before its batteries went dead. The United States Surveyor pro- gram for a soft lunar landing is running behind schedule witl the first of 10 launchings now sched- uled for this year. WASHINGTON -- An estimated million American senior citizens who have not acted on the gov- ernment's $3-a-month medical in- surance offer were virtually assur- ed last night of another chance. President Johnson asked Con-I gress to extend the deadline for two months-from midnight yes-! terday to May 31. Congress was considered certain to comply, possibly setting an even later date than May 31. The Re- publican leadership has proposed Aug. 31. NEWMAN CENTER, 331 Thompson - - - - - - - - - - - - _ __ - I' i The number of persons who have signed up for the insurance edged toward 17 million, or 90 per cent' of the estimated 19.1 million eli- gibles. The program goes into effect July 1. It covers 80 per cent of Pr( doctors' bills, after a $50 deduc- tion. "Mother's"-Student Nite Club presents MITCH RIDER and The Detroit Wheels "Little Latin, Lupe Lu" MONDAY-April 4. . 8:30-12.. . 223 E. Ann II es( ale Tickets: Discount Records, 300 S. State-$2.00 i ............-.. __ GUILD HOUSE 802 Monroe Friday, April 1 NOON LUNCHEON 25c Prof. Anatol Rapoport "Concerning China and the World" Friday Evening, 6 P.M. Cost dinner-American Cuisine Phone: 662-5189 for reservations a Parting gesture for this semnester , . Jhe, 6anter tr J4ot~e presents the film classic 4MONDO LUNCHMEAT" the soul satisfying story of a poverty stricken Kazoo player who gets his big chance to try out for the Pinckney Recreation Area Syinhony Orchestra, but he gives it up for a female delicatessen. betweeuzreels ! GUIOMAR NOVAES, Pianist ...................... Wednesday, October 12 TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.......... ..... Thursday, November 3 SEIJI OZAWA, Conductor AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE........................Thursday, November 17 "THE CONSUL" (Menotti)-New York City Opera Co. .. (8:00) Sunday, November 20 DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.............. (..(2:30) Sunday, January S SIXTEN EHRLING, Conductor WINNIPEG BALLET COMPANY ..... . . .... 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