WASHINGTON, Aug. 30--President Johnson said today that he must assume that the Chinese Communists mean every militant word they utter until there is proof that they cannot or will not encourage a whole series of wars.  

PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. CAN'T IGNORE CHINESE THREATS; Tells Legionnaires Vietnam Is Meant by Peking Only as an 'Opening Salvo' COMMITMENT IS DEFINED It Goes Beyond the Fighting to an Attack on Causes of War, He Declares PRESIDENT WARNS ON PEKING'S STAND 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 The Johnson Administration, jarred by what has been happening in the stock and bond markets and by the steep climb in interest rates, is taking another look at the possibility of some kind of tax increase at the current session of Congress to ease the pressure on the economy.  

TREASURY HINTS A TAX RISE MOVE AT THIS SESSION; Aim Would Be to Ease Rising Pressure on Interest Rate, Barr Tells House Panel VOTE ON SAVINGS IS SET Rules Panel Allows Choice Between 4 % Ceiling or Wider Reserve Power Treasury Hints Move for Tax Rise at This Session of Congress 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Members of the House Administration Committee are looking into a complaint by the estranged wife of Representative Adam Clayton Powell that she has not been receiving the payroll checks made out to her, although the checks have been cashed regularly.  

Powell's Wife Asks Where Checks Went; Mrs. Powell Asks Where Checks Went and Stirs House Interest 

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Aug. 30--President de Gaulle warned today that the war in Vietnam, pressing on Cambodia's frontier, could lead the world to its worst disaster.  

DE GAULLE FEARS A WORLD CONFLICT; On Arrival in Cambodia, He Says He and Sihanouk Will Seek Plan for Vietnam DE GAULLE FEARS A WORLD CONFLICT 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 The House passed tonight a stripped-down version of an Administration bill to create a Department of Transportation. The vote was 336 to 42.  

HOUSE APPROVES A TRANSPORT UNIT AT CABINET LEVEL; Measure Passes, 336-42  Johnson Loses on Shifting Maritime Administration HOUSE APPROVES A TRANSPORT UNIT 

The Cleveland Museum of Art will open on Sept. 10 an exhibition that represents the most important single collection of art works acquired by an American museum through purchase.  

Cleveland Museum to Show $5-Million Art Purchases; Cleveland Museum Buys $5-Million Art 

Mayor Lindsay announced plans yesterday for a new airport for small private planes and light cargo aircraft in a section of Staten Island now used for garbage disposal.  

CITY AIRPORT DUE ON STATEN ISLAND; City Planning a Small Airport At Staten Island Garbage Site 

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Secretary of State Dean Rusk and members of a Senate armed services subcommittee argued today over how wide a commitment the United States needed throughout the world to keep the peace.  

Rusk and Senators Split On Military Commitments; Rusk and Senate Panel Split Over U.S. Military Commitments 

The stock market was a seesaw affair yesterday. Prices rose, fell, then rose again. At the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange, prices were generally up.  

Stock Prices Rally In Seesaw Trading

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 Prices received by farmers rose in August to the highest level since the Korean war, the Agriculture Department reported today.  

FARM PRICES RISE TO 1952 WAR PEAK; Level Paid to Farmers Is Up 2% in Month and 9% Over August of Last Year Farm Prices Rise to 1952 Peak, Up 2% in Month and 9% in Year 

TOKYO, Aug. 30 Repudiated by the Japanese Communist leadership, Peking is striving to retain its hold on the leftist movement in Japan through the extremist wing that controls the Socialist party.  

Peking Is Striving to Maintain Its Hold on Japanese Leftists

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 30 The South Korean expeditionary force in South Vietnam is fighting the war somewhat differently from most United States troop units.  

South Koreans' Role in Vietnam Is Defensive One; Troops Successfully Fulfill Their Missions to Make War Regions Secure 

Africans are most critical of the American presence in Vietnam and the treatment of Negroes in the United States, 10 American and Canadian college students said yesterday on their return from a two-month work-aid program in Africa.  

AFRICANS ARE FOUND CRITICAL ON VIETNAM

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 30 The Brazilian Congress will be called into a special session to vote on the draft of a new Constitution to be drawn up by the Government.  

Brazil to Call Congress To Vote on a Constitution

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (AP) Both the number of babies born in this country and the birth rate continued to decline during June, the United States Public Health Service reported today.  

Births and Birth Rate Are Continuing Decline

Australian Assassin Gets Life

BONN, Aug. 30 Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel left today for an inspection of Wilhelmshaven, West Germany's biggest naval base, on the North Sea.  

VON HASSEL VISITING BASE ON NORTH SEA

SAIGON, Aug. 30 (Reuters) The United States planes that attacked North Vietnam yesterday shattered an enemy truck convoy driving on an open road in broad daylight, a military spokesman said here today.  

Truck Convoy Shattered

Snipers Disrupt American Operation Near Saigon

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (AP)--The Defense Department gave assurances today that it would not "cut muscle" under a plan disclosed over the weekend to reduce civilian construction personnel in South Vietnam.  

Pentagon Says Civilian Plan Won't Cut Vietnam 'Muscle'

SAIGON, South Vietnam Aug. 30 (AP) Aerial flares lighted the sky above a skirmish only three miles south of Saigon tonight.  

FIGHTING ERUPTS CLOSE TO SAIGON; Enemy Attacks Militia Post 3 Miles From Capital 

BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 30 The General Confederation of Labor has demanded that the Argentine military regime free all political prisoners. Union leaders said last night that this  would include jailed university students as well as 2,500 workers accused of industrial sabotage by the previous Government.  

ARGENTINE UNIONISTS PRESS FOR AMNESTY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 The tables have turned  for Arthur Sylvester. When he was chief of the Washington bureau of The Newark Evening News he was known as an aggressive reporter who took no guff from Government officials.  

Pentagon's News Chief; Arthur Sylvester 

Queen of Greece Is 20

LOURENCO MARQUES, Mozambique, Aug. 30 (AP) An engine-room explosion killed two crewmen on the British submarine Rorqual early today off Portuguese Mozambique, Portuguese authorities reported.  

Explosion Kills 2 Crewmen Aboard British Submarine

Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player.

August 31, 1966

Headlines from August 31, 1966

PRESIDENT SAYS U.S. CAN'T IGNORE CHINESE THREATS; Tells Legionnaires Vietnam Is Meant by Peking Only as an 'Opening Salvo' COMMITMENT IS DEFINED It Goes Beyond the Fighting to an Attack on Causes of War, He Declares PRESIDENT WARNS ON PEKING'S STAND

TREASURY HINTS A TAX RISE MOVE AT THIS SESSION; Aim Would Be to Ease Rising Pressure on Interest Rate, Barr Tells House Panel VOTE ON SAVINGS IS SET Rules Panel Allows Choice Between 4 % Ceiling or Wider Reserve Power Treasury Hints Move for Tax Rise at This Session of Congress

Powell's Wife Asks Where Checks Went; Mrs. Powell Asks Where Checks Went and Stirs House Interest

DE GAULLE FEARS A WORLD CONFLICT; On Arrival in Cambodia, He Says He and Sihanouk Will Seek Plan for Vietnam DE GAULLE FEARS A WORLD CONFLICT

HOUSE APPROVES A TRANSPORT UNIT AT CABINET LEVEL; Measure Passes, 336-42 Johnson Loses on Shifting Maritime Administration HOUSE APPROVES A TRANSPORT UNIT

Billboard 200

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Somewhere My Love

Strangers In Night

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