With bands and bagpipes blaring till after midnight, the Veterans of Foreign Wars marched down Fifth Avenue last night to the complaints of sleepless residents who seemed almost ready to march on the V.F.W.  

V.F.W. Night Parade Stirs Outcries; Night Parade by V.F.W. Rouses Residents Along Line of March 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 Senate-House conferees agreed today on a compromise bill to pump $4.76-billion more of Government mortgage purchase funds into the sagging homebuilding industry.  

CONGRESS RUSHES TO HELP BUILDERS; Quick Agreement Reached on $4.76-Billion in Funds for Home Mortgages CONGRESS RUSHES TO HELP BUILDERS 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff declared today that, despite its glitter and claims to greatness, "right now the City of Los Angeles, doesn't stand for a damn thing."  

SENATORS BRAND LOS ANGELES LAX ON AID TO GHETTOS; Ribicoff and Kennedy Warn City and Mayor They Fail to Forestall New Riots Ribicoff and Kennedy Criticize Los Angeles on Aid to Ghettos 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 President Johnson directed John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, today to begin a "major study" of rising medical costs.  

U.S. Plans Inquiry Into Medical Costs, Up 3.4% This Year; U.S. PLANS STUDY OF MEDICAL COSTS 

City Council President Frank D. O'Connor said yesterday that he had gained enough pledged delegate strength to win the Democratic nomination for Governor on the first ballot.  

O'CONNOR CLAIMS VOTES FOR VICTORY ON FIRST BALLOT; He Picks Up 161 Delegates in Manhattan and Bronx and Puts Total at 706 573 ARE NEEDED TO WIN But Roosevelt and Samuels Say They Will Remain in Governorship Contest O'CONNOR CLAIMS VOTES FOR VICTORY 

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 23--Francis X. Bushman, the romantic hero of the silent screen, died today after an accident in the kitchen of his home in suburban Pacific Palisades. An ambulance crew, summoned by his wife, Iva, pronounced him dead. He was 83 years old.  

Francis X. Bushman Of Silent Films Dies; Francis X. Bushman, Actor, Dies at 83 

Following is the third of a series of four dispatches on Indonesia by The New York Times's chief correspondent in Southeast Asia, who recently traveled through the country.  

Slaughter of Reds Gives Indonesia a Grim Legacy; Slaughter of Reds Gives Indonesians a Legacy of Blood Lust 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 Republicans were moving quickly today toward a new Vietnam policy that emphasizes peace negotiations in an all-Asian conference instead of a hard line of stepped-up military activity.  

Asian Peace Parley Is Backed by Nixon; ASIAN PEACE TALK BACKED BY NIXON 

Stock prices swung erratical- ly and declined slightly at the close yesterday in the heaviest trading in three months.  

Stocks Dip in Busy Day

Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara disclosed yesterday that 40,000 draft rejects and substandard volunteers, most of them with "poverty-encrusted" backgrounds, would be "sal- vaged" for military duty in the next 10 months.  

M'NAMARA PLANS TO 'SALVAGE' 40,000 REJECTED IN DRAFT; Says 100,000 a Year Will Be Taken Later by Services for Special Training SCORES APTITUDE TESTS Secretary, in Talk to V.F.W. Here, Links Program to the Antipoverty Drive M'NAMARA PLANS TO DRAFT REJECTS 

BONN, Aug. 23 GEn. Heinz Trettner, highest-ranking officer in the West German armed forces, has resigned because of a dispute with Kai-Uwe von Hassel, the Minister of Defense, it was disclosed tonight.  

TOP BONN GENERAL QUITS IN A DISPUTE; Trettner and Von Hassel Are at Odds Erhard Blamed for Air Force Crisis Top General in West Germany Resigns in Dispute 

PEKING, Aug. 23 Thousands of teen-agers enforcing China's tough new drive for a stricter Communist way of life closed and defaced Christian churches today.  

PEKING CHURCHES SHUT AND DEFACED; Flowers and Philatelists Are Also 'Red Guard' Targets  New Politburo Hinted Teen-Age 'Red Guards' Close 2 Churches in Peking 

Hobo King Is Crowned

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 23 Vietcong terrorism has been at a relatively low level since the beginning of August. An American tabulation shows fewer incidents each week than in July.  

No Rise in Vietcong Terror Noted in Recent Weeks

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Aug. 23 Seismic shocks continued for the fourth day to rock the earthquake zone in eastern Turkey and spread terror among the population of the stricken area.  

TURKISH QUAKE ZONE HIT BY NEW SHOCKS

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 23 (Reuters) Arthur Calwell, leader of the Opposition Labor party, charged tonight that the dispatch of troops to Vietnam was "the worst mistake Aus- tralia has ever made in foreign affairs."  

Australian Opposition Chief Assails Vietnam Involvement

MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (AP)--Six Russian Baptists have been sentenced to prison terms for "antisocial activities," including the poisoning of children's minds, a Soviet newspaper said today.  

6 Leaders of Baptist Sect Get Jail Terms in Soviet

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 23 Premier Nguyen Cao Ky has indicated he favors an exchange of North Vietnamese prisoners for downed American fliers, a New York Rabbi said tonight.  

KY SAID TO FAVOR AP.O.W. EXCHANGE; He Would Act on U.S. Pilots, Bronx Rabbi Reports 

Landslide Stopped in Austria

800 Navy Mothers Convene

Three from N.Y. Area Killed

Work Resumes at Moon Port

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 23 South Vietnamese naval officials ordered the main shipping channel to Saigon closed today to all but emergency traffic as salvage crews worked to remove a sunken United States freighter.  

Saigon Channel Snarled After U.S. Vessel Is Sunk

GENEVA, Aug. 23 (Reuters) The United States denied today that it was blocking work on a treaty to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, as Communist nations have charged.  

U.S. DENIES IT BARS CURB ON A-WEAPONS

BUDAPEST, Aug. 23 (AP) Two American brothers, who allegedly daubed an anti-American poster to make United States bombers in Vietnam look like Soviet planes, will go on  trial next week, Hungarian sources said today.  

August 24, 1966

Headlines from August 24, 1966

V.F.W. Night Parade Stirs Outcries; Night Parade by V.F.W. Rouses Residents Along Line of March

CONGRESS RUSHES TO HELP BUILDERS; Quick Agreement Reached on $4.76-Billion in Funds for Home Mortgages CONGRESS RUSHES TO HELP BUILDERS

SENATORS BRAND LOS ANGELES LAX ON AID TO GHETTOS; Ribicoff and Kennedy Warn City and Mayor They Fail to Forestall New Riots Ribicoff and Kennedy Criticize Los Angeles on Aid to Ghettos

U.S. Plans Inquiry Into Medical Costs, Up 3.4% This Year; U.S. PLANS STUDY OF MEDICAL COSTS

O'CONNOR CLAIMS VOTES FOR VICTORY ON FIRST BALLOT; He Picks Up 161 Delegates in Manhattan and Bronx and Puts Total at 706 573 ARE NEEDED TO WIN But Roosevelt and Samuels Say They Will Remain in Governorship Contest O'CONNOR CLAIMS VOTES FOR VICTORY

Billboard 200

Yesterday And Today

What Now My Love

Strangers In Night

Doctor Zhivago

Somewhere My Love

Historical Context for August 24, 1966