FRIDAY, 12 MARCH 1965 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE FILIDAY, 12 MARCH 1965 TIlE MICHIGAN I)AILV PAGE THRE1~ U.S. MAY STEP UP AID: ALABAMA VOTING CRISIS: Washington Promises Legal Aid in Selma; Reeb Dies Report Rising Concentration of Viet Cong By The Associated Press The experts praised the quality terday by Secretary of Defense WASHINGTON -Incof the arms, which seemed rather Robert S. McNamara in testimony coetratIN Of -nenre at heavy considering the small sta- before the House Foreign Affairs' units in South VieteNam was re- ture of most Vietnamese who Committee. ported yesterday with hints that would use them. McNamara repeated the decla- the United States may apply more Among them was a World War ration he made recently in his an- pressure on the Viet Cong and II vintage light Russian machine nual military posture statement,, thei rNorth Vietnamese partner. gun, but the others were of recent saying that if South Viet Nam manufacture, the experts said. falls to the Communists the U.S.: In fighting meanwhile, the U.S No Predictions would "have to face the same lost two aircraft yesterday in sup- What these developments might problem all over again in another port of the Saigon government's portend no official here would say. place or permit them to have all campaign against Viet Cong bat- But there is the disquieting re- of Southeast Asia by default." talions infesting the central high- collection of strategy used when A meeting called by President lands. the Vietnamese crushed French Lyndon B. Johnson with McNa- Evidence from W a s h i n g t o n military power 11 years ago. On mara and Secretary of State Dean sources indicated that not only that occasion, the Vietnamese con- Rusk yesterday night gave rise to have more red battalions been ob- centrated their forces at Dien Bien speculation that methods for served in the north and central Phu-causing the French to focus tightening the pressure on the Viet portions of South Viet Nam over their forces there-and then de- Cong and North Vietnamese reds the last two or three months, but feated them. and new and more far-ranging increasing numbers of soldiers A dispatch from South Viet Nam air strikes against North Viet Nam who are natives of North Viet yesterday by an Associated Press might be under discussion. Nam have been found among pris- writer said the Mekong Delta area In addition to this, the number oners captured from Viet Cong South of Saigon has been quiet of American military men is be- outfits. for weeks. The writer said some ing increased slowly but steadily Defense weapons experts have intelligence reports indicate that in South Viet Nam, over and above said the quality of arms used by red battalions have moved north the 3500-man augmentation in the the Communists has been improv- from other areas to join in a Com- form of two Marine battalions sent ing steadily in the past six or munist attempt to cut the country this week. eight months. in two-from the Cambodian Marine Units Weapon Samples frontier to the South China Sea. Except for the Marine outfits r . i , i ,' 1 i G' S I Y I 1 I t' 1 5 size American units, perhaps as big as an infantry division, are scheduled for South Viet Nam- But obviously plans for Viet Nam are being kept in fluid state. Gen. Harold K. Johnson, the Army Chief of Staff, is now on a fact-finding mission in Viet Nam. In his testimony yesterday, Mc- Namara said the forces of South Viet Nam shoulld outnumber the Viet Cong guerrillas by a ratio of 10-1, but that this has not been attained yet. Defense officials said that the two most recent air strikes were highly successful. They reported that reconnais- sance photographs showed that Xc Bang, 74 per cent of the target area, was destroyed or severely damaged. The destruction included major buildings and ammunition storage bunkers. Detonation of ammunition bunkers usually pro- duces two effects-a deep crater- ing on the spot and a lateral. side blast which fells all obstruc- tions for some distance around. At the naval base of Quang Kac about 70 per cent of the target was destroyed or damaged severely, the officials said. (Continued fron Page 1 and clergymen are expected in Washington today for a mass meeting in support of Negro vot- ing rights in Alabama. The meeting is being called by the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches, a Protestant agency. It will include representatives of all three major faiths. Ann Arbor Demonstrators An estimated 200 of the dem- onstrators are expected to come from Ann Arbor. In Montgomery, the Rev. Mar- tin Luther King told a federal court yesterday that unless Ne- groes are permitted to march tc the state capital, they "will ex- plode." In a packed courtroom, King testified of tension among dem- onstrators when he led a Tuesday march of 2500 Negroes and white clergymen at Selma. He said the tension followed Sunday's march when state troopers clubbed and tear gassed the demonstrators. King said he led a massive street march in Selma in face of a court ban only after a federal spokesman handed him a march route and said, "I think every- thing will be all right." Right-to-March The Negro leader sought r right-to-march ruling for his twice-thwarted 50-mile pilgrimage from Selma to Montgomery. The hearing was on a petition by three civil rights leaders for an, injunction against state or local police interference with marches. The Justice Department joined th' litigation as a friend of the court and asked a broader order uphold- ing the right of Negroes to dem- onstrate peacefully. While the court hearing went on, about 80 Negroes marched in downtown Montgomery and held aj church rally. Ten of them, includ- ing James Foreman of Atlanta, were arrested when they tried to re-enter the church after leav- ing. Foreman is a field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordi- nating Committee. Only Alternative Expanding on his promise of federal action in the recent events, Atty. Gen. Katzenbach said in Washington the only alternative to the action the government is taking now would have been to send troops to Alabama. "I have not recommended this course to the President and I be- lieve I am right in not doing so,"1 he said. "I cannot predict what will happen in the future." But the situation has improved in Selma. he said. Improvement The Community Relations Serv- Soviets Spurn Peking Protest MOSCOW (A' - Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko yes-j terday rejected Red China's stiff protest alleging Russian police brutality against Chinese stu-! dents rioting at the U.S. Embassy . in Moscow March 4. The disclosure came as Chinese students in Moscow were saying1 they may be recalled unless the Soviet Union gives an apology de-1 manded in the protest note. I Speculation spread in non-Com- munist diplomatic circles that the | students deliberately might have sought a clash with Soviet police.1 ice and Department of Justice have worked to improve the cli- mate "despite Sheriff Clark" and had helped avert serious disorder until last Sunday. He said he did not know how the events of last Sunday could have been predicted or avoided. "We had no reason to believe the police would set upon private citizens in the way they did," he said. White House Sit-In Also in Washington, youthful civil rights demonstrators spent seven hours sitting in a White House hallway today, demanding to talk with President Johnson. Four males and eight females, nine of them Negroes and three of them white, staged the dem- onstration after walking into the White House amid a stream of late-morning tourists. Most of them spent the rest of the day camped in a ground-floor corridor, threatening to stay there and stage a hunger strike until they saw Johnson and pre- sented a demand for federal in- tervention in Selma, Ala. They were removed by police early in the evening. The Pentagon displayed samples' of some of the weapons captured from the Communist Viet Cong and recovered from an arms ship sunk off the South Vietnamese coast. The weapons, manufactured by the Chinese from Russian models, range from assault rifles to anti- tank bazooka type weapons. Another writer, in Kannak on Tuesday, quoted South Vietnam-' ese officers as saying captured' documents showed that a Viet' Cong assault force, which was beaten off with heavy losses there, was a new unit moved in from North Viet Nam. The official U.S. position on South Viet Nam was restated yes- for defense of the Dan Nang air base area, no single large unit has been sent into South Viet Namn. *The builldup from a low point of about 16,000 more than a year ago to nearly 27,000 has been through individuals or small units of 100 men or less. At this point, there seems to be no firm indication that any large : . , i i i ........... . PLAYBOY'S N0.1 JAZZ CLARINETIST Maryland Circuit Court Judge Okays Tax Aid for Four Church-Affiliated Colleges ANNAPOLIS -The first round of a major attack against tax aid to religious institutions in the United States ended yesterday with a ruling that it is Constitu- tional for Maryland to help con- struct buildings at church-affili- ated colleges. Circuit Court Judge O. Bowie Duckett said grants of $2.5 million made by the legislature to four small religious schools were Con- stitutional because their primary effect was not to advance or sup- press religion. He said the grants could not have been allowed if they were "for the construction of a church or chapel at any of the institu- tions," but that they were in- tended for classroom and dormi- Senate Begins, Bank Failure Investigations1 tory buildings, "all of a seculars nature."c Lawyers for the 13 Marylandc taxpayers who brought the suit said during the trial they wouldt appeal any adverse decision to thez Maryland Court of Appeals and then to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. They had contended that the grants violated restrictions in both the state and Federal constitu- tions on church-state relations, "It must be admitted," Duckett wrote, 'that regardless of the es- tablished law of separation of re- ligion and government, this has never been completely accomp-t lished and would be practicallyc impossible."1 He cited a wide range of gov-j ernment involvements with reli-1 gion, including providing lunchesI and medical services for parochiala schools, chaplains for the militaryc services and tax exemption for re- ligious institutions. The test which must be applied,1 he said, is "that if either the legis-t lative purpose or. the primary ef- fect of the enactment advances stitutions 'are practically identical with the courses at non-religious colleges." On the important question of standing to bring the suit, Ducket ruled in favor of the taxpayers. He said they pay property taxes. World. News Roundup SANTIAGO, CHILE-The in- terior ministry ordered city offi- cials yesterday to investigate the attack by a band of youths on the U.S. consulate in Santiago a week ago and punish those re-' sponsible. The youths shouted anti-Ameri- can slogans and stoned the build- ing, which was empty at the time. They broke several windows and lights and they called for the U.S. to withdraw from Viet Nam. Police dispersed them. "MR. NEW ORLEANS" or suppresses religion, the legis- JAKARTA, INDONESIA - A WASHINGTON, (IP)-The Fed- lation is invalid; otherwise, it is spokesman for the U.S. embassy eral government is preparing a valid." said yesterday all U.S. Information broad iinvestigation into the sus- Applying this test to the con- Service personnel except four will pected flow of "hot money" from tested grants, Duckett said it leave Indonesia by the end of next the underworld into legitimate fi- "seems crystal-clear that the week. nancial circles. The study is tied Maryland legislature was in no The U.S. government decided to to efforts to analyze a recent up- way concerned with religion in close down USIS operations in surge in bank failures. making the appropriation ..."..Indonesia after anti-American,, Colleges Cited communist-dominated demonstra- News of the investigation came The four Maryland colleges in- tions caused the Indonesian gov- yesterday from Joseph W. Barr, volved were Hood College, con- ernment to take over five USIS chairman of the Federal Deposit nected with the United Church of libraries. Insurance Corp., who told Senate Christ; Western Maryland, a * * * investigators racketeers may be Methodist school, and St. Joseph NEW DELHI, INDIA-Nine Paki- using their profits from vice and and Notre Dame, Catholic insti- stani soldiers were killed over the crime operations to buy their way tutions. past 10 days in clashes with Indian into banks and other financial in- Duckett said that in the case troops along the cease-fire line in stitutions. of Hood and Western Maryland, the Himalayan state of Kashmir, There was testimony Wednes- 'it was clear the primary effect of the defense ministry said yester- day that Chicago gangland figures the grants woulld not be to aid day. Indian casualties, if any were may have, been part of a conspir- religion. not given. acy that allegedly drained the "Neither college trains for the assets from the Brighton, Colo., ministry or other religious work, National Bank and forced its clos- and the faculty and students of ing. without regard to any religious a { Uai/ A11rf For some 20 years, Barr t fied, there had been only two three failures a year of Fede insured banks. Then in 1964, he said, seven sured banks failed, and fourn already have failed in 1965. Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R- suggested that the financial"w is "one of the areas where money could be handled . . . probably is." YOUT ISNT WAST' ON TI YouN esti- both institutions are selected with- 'o or out regard to any religious affilia- rally tion," he said. More Difficult He said the decision was more a in- difficult in the case of the Catho- more lic schools because of their closer ties with the Catholic Church. 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