Natl Guardsmen continue patroling area with police; illus; looters and rioters are almost impossible to trap; firemen come under heavy sniper fire from Black Muslim temple

LOS ANGELES RIOTING IS CHECKED; TROOPS HUNT SNIPERS; 31 ARE DEAD; POLICEMAN IS SLAIN IN LONG BEACH; CURFEW EXTENDED Fire Damage Is Near $200 Million-2,200 Under Arrest Los Angeles Rioting Is Checked; Guard Troops Hunt Snipers in Negro District FIRE LOSS IS PUT AT $200 MILLION Soldiers Continue Patrol of 35-Square-Mile Area -- Arrests Top 2,200

1 policeman killed, another wounded, Long Beach, after apparently being decoyed into area on false alarm and then ambushed; police and Natl Guard cordon off 24-sq-block area and impose curfew; 13 adults and 3 youths arrested; violence also breaks out in San Diego and San Bernardino; Marine Reserve battalion on stand-by alert

TROOPS ORDERED INTO LONG BEACH; Negroes in Ambush Wound Second Officer -- Cordon Is Placed Around Area Long Beach Policeman Is Killed; Troops Are Ordered Into Area

India charges regular Pakistani forces step up attack along cease-fire line; repts attack in bn strength, Chambra area, repulsed; says Indian forces now greatly outnumber infiltrators; repts 12 killed, Gulmarg area; Shastri bars talks with Pakistan

INDIA SAYS RAIDS IN KASHMIR WIDEN; Pakistani Drive in Battalion Strength Beaten Back, New Dehli Reports

US State Dept says 1,000-yr-old crown of St Stephen is being 'held in trust as property of the Hungarian nation and of a special status'; whereabouts not disclosed; Hungarian Govt has periodically asked its return since '46; illus

Hungary's Crown Is 'In Trust' But U.S. Won't Indicate Where; HUNGARY'S CROWN IS HELD 'IN TRUST'

Johnson reptdly gets Udall rept on shortage emergency in NE

President Expected To Give Plan Today For Drought Relief; President Expected to Disclose His Drought-Relief Plan Today

Pres Johnson, in hailing efforts to restore law and order, urges all Amers join with him not only in condemning violence but in seeking end to its cause, statement, Tex ranch; speculates on riot's meaning and urges Amers not to let 'anger' obscure their understanding

President Calls for Attach On the Causes of Violence; President, Decrying 'Unjust Conditions,' Calls for Attack on Causes of Violence

Adm to revise farm bill to placate opponents

DEMOCRATS DRAFT MAJOR REVISIONS IN FARM MEASURE; Wheat and Cotton Programs Altered in a Bid to Placate Opponents of House Bill

riots seen having important impact on '67 Gov election, possibly hampering pol fortunes of Brown, Lt Gov Anderson and Los Angeles Mayor Yorty; R Reagan and other potential Repub candidates expected to gain

CALIFORNIA ISSUE FOR '66 EMERGES; Brown, Yorty and Anderson Criticized Over Riot Stand -- Shell Scores Reagan 1966 California Issue Emerges; Candidates Scored Over Rioting

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 -- Exhausted National Guardsmen slumped on tables and benches outside looted stores here today, eating three-for-a-dollar watermelons and trying to keep the juice off their bayonet-tipped rifles.  

Tired Guardsmen Patrol and Relax; TIRED GUARDSMEN PATROL STREETS

Mil action in S Vietnam: Vietcong terrorists attack Natl Police Hq compound, Saigon; kill at least 2 persons, injure 20 including 3 or 4 Amers; all escape; US planes drop hundreds of tons of bombs on targets throughout S Vietnam; kill 36 guerrilles in raid on outpost, Anxuyen Prov; S Vietnamese troops fail to contact guerrilles, Quangtri Prov and Ducco area; map

POLICE COMPOUND AT SAIGON BOMBED IN TERRORIST RAID; 2 Guards Killed as Vietcong Race Explosive-Laden Car Into Heavily Guarded Post 20 INJURIES REPORTED Reds Escape Amid Gunfire -- Special Forces Base at Ducco Briefly Attacked POLICE COMPOUND AT SAIGON BOMBED

TB&TA chmn Moses, in rept on TB&TA accomplishments on SI, details integrated program planned to beautify and conserve island; sees zoning changes basic; notes TB&TA responsibility

Moses Urges New Zoning To Preserve Staten Island; Asks Bridge Agency to Help Save Open Spaces and Promote Orderly Growth -- He Assails City on Land Acquisitions

MARR, WITH A 280, TAKES P.G.A. TITLE; Marr Cards 71 for Total of 280 and Captures P.G.A. Title by Two Strokes NICKLAUS, CASPER IN TIE FOR SECOND Marr, 65th in 1964. Tourney, Gets $25,000 First Prize -- Wininger 4th at 283

new style of diplomacy seen in increasing use of state visits to Moscow; diplomats see motivation of classic nation-state rather than ideological crusade

A SOCIAL SUMMER AT THE KREMLIN; World Chiefs Find Welcome Mat Instead of Iron Curtain

1st group of Amers in Citizens Exch Corps program files to Moscow

140 Fly to Soviet to Start Citizen Exchange; They Will Visit Three Weeks With People in Their Trades -- Return Group Expected

Houston mission control center and worldwide tracking and communications network go through 'dress rehearsal' for Gemini V flight

DRESS REHEARSAL HELD FOR GEMINI 5; Crews Tackle Simulated Emergencies at Houston

flight dir Kraft says tracking network is ready

Network Is Ready

Brief Attack at Ducco

WAR CENSORSHIP DISCUSSED BY U.S.; Wheeler Cites News Report on Troops for Ducco Post

Communist China warns US against expanding 'aggression' and imposing war on China

Peking Says War on China Would Be Disaster for U.S.

Vietcong hons woman guerrilla for killing 10 S Vietnamese soldiers

Vietcong Honor Woman For Killing 10 Soldiers

Premier Nguyen Cao Ky (S Vietnam) urges alliance of anti-Communist nations to fight N Vietnam and Communist China, statement, Taiwan; urges anti-Communist unity

Saigon's Premier Visits Taiwan; Urges Asian Pact to Fight Reds

Sudan orders Congo rebel leader Olenga to end all pol contacts in Sudan, puts him under house arrest; he reptdly lobbied for pressure on new Sudan Govt to favor Congo rebels, tried to get rebel funds in Sudanese bank

KEY CONGO REBEL CURBED IN SUDAN; Olenga Is Ordered to End Contacts With Politicians

Srinagar tense after fire in Batmalu sector; Govt blames infiltrators

Rumors Abound in Srinagar

Chancellor Erhard says W Ger will renew diplomatic ties with any Arab govt that seeks them

Erhard Says He Is Willing To Renew Ties With Arabs

1st Cavalry Div leaves Ft Benning, Ga, for Vietnam

August 16, 1965

Headlines from August 16, 1965

TROOPS ORDERED INTO LONG BEACH; Negroes in Ambush Wound Second Officer -- Cordon Is Placed Around Area Long Beach Policeman Is Killed; Troops Are Ordered Into Area

INDIA SAYS RAIDS IN KASHMIR WIDEN; Pakistani Drive in Battalion Strength Beaten Back, New Dehli Reports

Hungary's Crown Is 'In Trust' But U.S. Won't Indicate Where; HUNGARY'S CROWN IS HELD 'IN TRUST'

President Expected To Give Plan Today For Drought Relief; President Expected to Disclose His Drought-Relief Plan Today

Billboard 200

Beatles VI

Herman's Hermits On Tour

Out Of Our Heads

Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

The Sound Of Music

Historical Context for August 16, 1965