WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 4,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY - I O+~ Bombs Near Border; Denies Administration Atten To Put Ceiling on Farm Pric Admits Firing into C ambodia SAIGON VP) - B-52 bombers pounded enemy positions yesterday near the Cambodian border after the United "States conceded for the first time that their forces had sent heavy artillery barrages into South Viet Nam's neutral neigh- bor. The U.S. 1st Division appeared to be closing one southern exit of the Ho Chi Minh trail after seizing the largest Viet Cong sup- ply dumps ever captured in the war. A U.S. spokesman said the 1st Division had killed 83 Viet Cong and captured 13 in nine days of what is called Operation Birming- ham. American casualties were de- scribed as light. In a second operation 170 miles northeast of Saigon, the 101st Airborne Division has killed 192 Viet Cong, captured 44 and de- tained 280 suspects in an opera- tion that began March 25, the spokesman said. The B-52 raids on the southern exits of the Ho Chi Minh trail- the main supply route from Com- munist North Viet Nam-were de- signed to put storage terminals out of action and were in their third successive day. Earlier, B-52 raids on North Viet Nam hammered Mu Gia Pass in an effort to block the northern end of the trail, bring a North Vietnamese charge that the United States was trying to spread the war to Laos. The pass is between North Viet Nam and Laos, along whose eastern -border the trail winds down to South Viet Nam. Touchy Neutral The fact that U.S. artillery fire had been directed into Cambodia was reported from the front last Saturday, but the U.S. command had never acknowledged this, ap- parently because Cambodia is a touchy neutral. A U.S. military spokesman said a U.S. battalion ran into heavy Viet Cong mortar fire and auto- matic weapons fire from Cambodia' as it approached the village of Lo Go. The village lies on the Cai Bac River separating South Viet Nam' and Cambodia. The battalion commander call- ed for artillery support and U.S artillery unloaded a heavy vol- ume of 105mm shells into the jun- gles of Cambodia, silencing the enemy fire. The spokesman said the Cambodian area contained no villages. Cambodia has denied the Viet Cong use of its wild frontier as a refugesand has frequently accus- ed the United States and South Viet Nam of violating its border. U.S. air operations againstj Communist infiltration routes leading through Laos to South Viet Nam have been intensified in re- cent months. However, defense officials have refused to talk about such oper- ations to avoid embarrassing the Laotian government which has given approval for these inter- diction attacks. The spokesman announced the 1st Division's haul of Viet Cong supplies now had reached 1,367 tons of rice, 6800 Viet Cong uni- forms, 1,925 gallons of fuel, 1000 pounds of medical supplies, 35 sampans and 19 boats with motors. A U.S. military spokesman said he believed the Viet Cong were critically short of supplies. He ad- vanced this as one reason for the lack of all but minor ground con- tact with the enemy for the last three weeks. Captured Supplies, "I believe the Viet Cong just don't have the supplies to support the troops they have here," he said. "We have captured a lot of their supplies." WASHINGTON (P)-Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman said yesterday farm prices are not inflationary and denied that the Johnson administration is at- tempting to "put a lid" on them. The secretary said anti-infla- tion measures taken by the ad- ministration on farm products are designed to stabilize prices by attempting to eliminate what he called the cyclical price changes flowing from the ups and downs of production.. Freeman offered this defense of administration farm policies which have come under sharp criticism from some farm groups and members of Congress. In an interview on the NBC "Today" television program, the secretary said American farmers are making real economic progress. Freeman made the comments at a time when he is reported be- ing urged to battle efforts by some White House officials to roll back farm prices as a means of heading off inflation dangers. 'Demagoguery' He described as "a lot of dema- goguery" attacks made on those policies. This is an election year, he said, and the main thing that farmers should remember is that "farm income is up." There were reports that strategy of a possible Freeman attack on White House advisers was dis- cussed at a secret meeting of the secretary and top associates last Saturday with Vice President Hu- bert. H. Humphrey and several Minnesotans in Congress and gov- ernment. Both Humphrey and Freeman are from Minnesota. But a spokesman for Humphrey described the meeting as "routine" and one of a dozen held over the past couple of months with Free- man and his advisers. There was "nothing untoward about it," he said. Humphrey's spokesman said the vice president has been designated by President Johnson to meet with the group from time to time to discuss farm policy. The spokes- man added that "needless to say -the vice president is not a to be opposing the Presid policies." The administration has c under bitter attack of many : groups and leaders, inclu some Democratic members of 4 gress for anti-inflation po) affecting farmers. These policies have resulte limitations on exports of hides skins; an increase in import qi on cheese to check price advar a Defense Department cutbac prime pork purchases because administration considered p to be too high; heavy sale of ernment grains to prevent sible price increases, and adz istration proposals for reduct in farm appropriations. Freeman acted yesterday to reversal of one of those poli He recommended to Secretar Defense Robert S. McNamara he "give immediate considera to increased purchases of pori use in the United States, or w the earlier reductions applied February. The agriculture secretary hog prices are about 20 per lower than in January and prices are also low, although pi may rise seasonally during next two or three months. He "we expect that prices later year will be below current lev Mrs. Wallace Primary Victor (Continued from Page 1) In Birmingham, three Negro candidates for sheriff were lead- ing white opponents and two Ne- groes running for the all-white legislature were within striking distance of victory in the Demo- cratic primary returns. Ky Indicates Postponement of Elections in South Viet Nam They were among 52 Negroes running for county offices or leg- islative seats in 19 of Alabama'sr 67 counties and represented the first widespread challenge of white do is to political control since Reconstruc- ostotion., QUANG NGAI, South Viet Nam M)-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky in- dicated today that South Viet Nam's elections-a key Buddhist demand-may be postponed. "We will try to hold the elec- tions by October. If we are strong and determined, we can do it," Ky said. The premier made his comment when asked if he felt his military government can keep its mid-April promise of elections in "three to five months," pointing to Septem- ber at the latest. Buddhists The government made its elec- tion pledge after Buddhists staged a wave of demonstrations and violence a month ago demanding immediate elections and a return to civilian rule. The disorders threatened to topple Ky. Buddhists called off their pro- tests after the South Vietnamese chief of state, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, signed a decree pro- viding for general elections for a civilian government in three to five months. Ky made an unscheduled flight to this fortified airbase in the north to have a look at war- battered villages wrested recently from Viet Cong control. Pacification Dressed in his vice air marshal's uniform and heavily guarded, he told newsmen: "Pacification is progressing. In this area alone, 2,000 Viet Cong were killed in the past two months. This is great progress." He said pacification must "be carried effectively throughout the country" to permit elections. "I am satisfied with the work being done in this region," Ky said. "The population works with the army. We are isolating the Viet Cong. The Americans are behind us. All we havet continue. to d Ky made the tour in a U.S. Marine helicopter. He was met by Gen. Ton That Dinh, commander of the northernmost Ist Corps area. Dinh was named last April to bring the troublesome area within the central government fold. In the 21 District contests for two Alabama House" seats, Negro candidates were running well ahead and, unless the trend re- versed, would win the nomination without a runoff. An official in Montgomery said the long lines resulted partly from the length of the ballot, slowing down the rate of voting. Federal poll watchers were on duty in Dallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry and Wilcox coun- ties-the heart of the Black Belt, an area of dark soil and heavy Negro population. Republican James D. Martin, elected to Congress in a 1962 Alabama GOP surge, has announc- ed he will seek his party's nom- ination for governor. Martin, who came within 7,000 votes of unseat- ing Sen. Lister Hill in 1962, was a sharp critic of activities by civil rights demonstrators at Selma and on the Selma-Montgomery high- way march last year. Wallace won office in the 1962 election on a pledge to stand in the schoolhouse door and block integration.hHe made the doorway stand at the universiy of Ala- bama, Tuscaloosa, in 1962 but wielded to federalized National Guard troopers. His efforts to prevent school desegregation that first year of his term resulted in a federal court injunction against inter- ference by the governor Wallace entered severalrnon-Southern presidential primaries in 1964 and got sizeable votes but withdrew after Barry Goldwater became the Republican nominee. a massive bloc vote by Negroes and disagreed strongly with a call by civil rights militants for Ne- groes to boycott the primary and put up independent party can- didates under the Black Panther emblem. Negroes in Lowndes County or- ganized under the Black Panther but ran into internal dissension with opposing slates offered at their nominating convention. WELCOME BACK,.STUDENTS discount records, inc. 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Tues., Hours: & Fri.: 9:30-9:00 Wed., Thurs., Sat.: 9:30-6:00 STOP I N AND BROWSE THROUGH ANN ARBOR'S LARGEST SELECTION WASHINGTON (JP)-An investi- gating senator accused the Penta- gon yesterday of giving away mili- tary equipment needed by Amer- ican fighting men in South Viet Nam. Sen. Ernest Gruening (D-Alas- ka) said the Army's system of dis- posing of surplus property is one of deception, falsification and fraud. "This is a very shocking story," Greuning said after his Govern-, ment Operations Subcommittee heard a two-hour account of the program. "Unnecessary and wasteful dis- posals have resulted in the Unit- ed States military forces at this critical time being short of vital- ly needed equipment in Viet Nam," said Joseph Lippman, the subcom- mittee's staff director. Gruening said Secretary of De- fense Robert S. McNamara has de- nied there are shortages in the war effort there. "How do you account for the re- peated denials of the secretary of defense-that there are no short- ages on the fighting front, that we have everything we need there?" Gruening asked. "I certainly can't account for it," Lippman replied. Lippman's account dealt not with weapons, but with construc- tion and transportation equipment he said is in short supply in Viet Nam. He said the Army is donating or selling such equipment in Europe and Asia on grounds that it can- not be economically repaired. He challenged the system under which the Army makes that judgment. So did Gruening. "It's a fraud on the American people, it's a fraud on the taxpay- er, it's a fraud on our boys in Viet Nam who need this equipment,'' said Gruening-who opposes the American involvement in South- east Asia. Lippman's account included re- ports that: -From 25 to 75 per cent of the equipment in the hands of Ameri- can forces in Viet Nam is not working because of spare parts shortages. -Figuring the repair cost of a crane in Korea, the Army bases its estimate on a labor charge of $5 an hour when the Agency for In- ternational Development gets the same kind of work done for 24 cents an hour. -One tank truck declared sur- plus and turned over to the agency in Europe was full of high octane fuel when it arrived at Antwerp. "Apparently no one took the trou- ble to look inside," Lippman said. Lippman, flanked by a team of investigators, told Gruening and Ben. Milward L. Timpson (R- Wyo) that some of the things the Army has discarded had never been used. Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss) said last night that Army equipment and manpower problems might have put the United States "in grave difficulty" had the war in Viet Nam exploded into sustain- ed, large-scale ground combat. 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