August 17, 1964

Kennedy backed by 12 prominent Dems and NY County loader Costikyan; list; Stratton formally announces candidacy, TV int; scores Kennedy campaign as 'newspaper blitzkrieg' to force delegates into line; holds Kennedy's non-residence will give Repubs major issue; Carlino and Keating say it will be major issue; Wagner says he wants to hear 'directly' from Kennedy that he wants to enter race; disturbed that his earliest backers are pol bosses like Buckley; says he wants to make sure that his candidacy does not open way for their return to power

state-by-state survey conducted with White House encouragement shows Humphrey is backed for Vice-Pres nomination by most ranking party officials in every region except Deep South; Southerners back Sens McCarthy or Mansfield; survey began when Johnson eliminated Kennedy and other Cabinet members

Pres Johnson directs exec depts and agencies to help assure US is served in internatl orgns by 'very highest caliber of Amers'; provides for protection of Govt careers of officials who may serve; move is departure from Govt gen aloofness from such apptmts; stems from '63 S M Linowitz com rept to Asst Sec Cleveland; Sec Rusk named to coordinate program

City Council Pres Screvane says 1 of most serious charges against Mobilization for Youth, under investigation for alleged Communist infiltration, is that inflammatory material was mimeographed on orgn's machines during recent riots; cites posters attacking Gilligan; orgn chmn W Carlton denial; spokesman says orgn does not have machines capable of printing posters; says they were printed by Progressive Labor Movement branch Integrated Workers

Negroes riot in S Chicago suburb Dixmoor; 50 hurt; police march into area to quell outbreak; rioting reptdly began over fracas between liquor store owner and Negro woman