U.S. CALLS 14,787 AIR RESERVISTS; ASKS URGENT U.N. COUNCIL TALK ON 'GRAVE SITUATION' IN KOREA; 28 UNITS INVOLVED Step Held Precaution -- North Korea Calls for 'Punishment' U.S. Orders 14,787 Air Reservists to Active Duty in North Korean Seizure of Ship STEP IS APPRAISED AS PRECAUTIONARY 28 Air Force and Navy Units With 372 Planes Involved -Johnson Sees Top Aides

Index up 0.4%, Dec, to record 120.8% of avg '57-59 prices; graph; table

CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.1% IN YEAR; SLOWUP DOUBTED; Month's Increase Is 0.3% -- Index Now at 118.2 -Level in This Area Up CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.1% IN YEAR

NYC sells $114-million bond issue at 4.79% interest; Procaccino comments

City Bonds Are Sold At 4.79% Interest; Rate Is Below 1967's; CITY BONDS SOLD AT 4.79% INTEREST

Enemy shells Khesanh outpost under fog cover; 10 Amers killed, 68 wounded in recent attacks; air power prevented from aiding US troops because of weather; enemy ambushes USMC convoy near Khesanh, launches 3 major attacks at Amer bases in other areas; map

KHESANH SHELLED UNDER FOG COVER; Aircraft Unable to Support Embattled Marine Base Near the Buffer Zone Khesanh Shelled Under Cover of Fog and Clouds

Bishop Wetmore repts merger with Prot Council of City of NY planned to form NYC Council of Chs

3 Faiths Here Plan Council of Churches; FAITHS HERE PLAN A CHURCH COUNCIL

Johnson did not notify Cong leaders before ordering call-up; none openly protest it; most Congressmen back it; Vice pres Humphrey, Amb Harriman hail move

Leaders in Capitol Not Told by Johnson; CAPITOL LEADERS NOT TOLD OF MOVE

Lindsay adm to announce project, called Ghediplan, Ghetto Econ Development and Industrialization Plan, to help establish slum businesses; city would shift much of current deposits to banks in ghetto areas to finance easy-term loans to entrepreneurs through local community corps; plans reserve fund, with matching Fed grant, to insure money: would set formula to purchase products mfrd by such cos, to encourage sales to non-slum mkts; sets up business advisory service under Commerce and Indus Development Dept to aid enterprises

CITY TO HELP SPUR SLUM INDUSTRIES; To Make Its Funds Available on Easy Credit Terms CITY TO HELP SPUR SLUM INDUSTRIES

US calls for urgent meeting of UN Security Council; decision to do so follows Johnson's confs with Goldberg; Amb Thompson, in Moscow, reptdly will hold 2d meeting with USSR officials to urge them to persuade N Korea to release Pueblo; officials disclose Hot Line between White House and Kremlin has not been used; stress fact that US makes every effort to reach a diplomatic solution; State Dept releases transcript of Mil Armistice Comm Panmunjom conf in which N Korean delegate Maj Gen Pak Chung Kook rebuffed Smith's call for return of the Pueblo, insisted US 'spy boats' violated N Korean 12-nautical-mile territorial limit; holds information from N Korea's own radio transmissions and broadcasts shows that Pueblo obeyed US orders to stay at least 13 miles from N Korean territory; Pentagon officials puzzled by Bucher failure to use his 3.50-caliber machine guns when threatened

GOLDBERG BRIEFED AT WHITE HOUSE; New Plea to Soviet Is Hinted -- Rusk, Here, Demands Prompt Release of Ship Washington Asks an Urgent U.N. Council Session on 'Grave Situation' in Korea NEW BID TO SOVIET IS REPORTED DUE U.S. Will Urge Intervention to Arrange Ship's Release -- Hot Line Is Unused

Univ of Utah physicists measure bombardment of earth by high-energy particles called muons, by-product of cosmic rays, with detectors built into Wasatch Mts, Utah (W Sullivan rept); speculate on process by which particles were generated; some hold they are by-product of hypothetical 'intermediate boson', new form of matter; muons described; drawings of Utah cavern detectors; spark counter and computer-generated plot of source of muons

Cavern Detectors Explore High-Energy Particles; HUGE DETECTORS TRACE PARTICLES

Ptl F W Brede applies for retirement after being called to testify before grand jury probing illegal payoffs to police by Reichold Chem Co execs

POLICEMAN QUITS IN PAYOFF INQUIRY; One of 6 Cited in Reichhold Case Seeks to Retire After Being Called by Jury POLICEMAN QUITS IN PAYOFF INQUIRY

Clifford says at Defense Sec he would oppose any cessation of bombing of N Vietnam under present pol and mil circumstances, testimony before Sen Armed Services Com; defends effectiveness of bombing and believes it should continue until Hanoi retreats from its current 'intranisgent attitude'; says all Adm asks is that N Vietnam not take advantage of bombing cessation if there is 1; testimony seen as indicating Clifford policies whould considerably change direction of those established by Sec McNamara

Clifford Opposes Any Halt In Vietnam Bombing Now; CLIFFORD OPPOSES BOMB PAUSE NOW

Police Dept charges a sgt and 9 ptl with accepting gifts from East Side businesses named in list found in Detective Meenan's notebook; Deputy Comr Nevard says men will be transferred from 17th Pct, stand departmental trials

Gift-Taking Is Laid To Ten Policemen In East Side Inquiry; GIFT-TAKING LAID TO TEN POLICEMEN

Gardner resigns; White House says move has nothing to do with war; Gardner agrees

GARDNER RESIGNS POST IN CABINET; WILL STUDY CITIES; Declines to Give Full Reason for Move, but Denies War in Vietnam Is Factor NO SUCCESSOR NAMED Secretary Returns to Head Carnegie Corporation for Urban Problem Review GARDNER RESIGNS POST IN CABINET

26 return to occupied Jordan under plan initiated by Jerusalem authorities to reunite families separated by war; 2 IRC reprs wounded by Arab terrorist fire while arranging return

2 Israelis Are Killed in Clash With Jordanians; 2 Red Cross Officials Hurt as Tanks and Artillery Duel at Allenby Bridge

Cong party defeats opposition coalition Govt, Bihar, on no-confidence vote

Congress Wins in Bihar

Prime Min Wilson returns to GB from Moscow and repts on talks with Kosygin; says they discussed Vietnam at length but does not disclose details

WILSON, HOME, TELLS COMMONS OF VISIT

Dayan repts Israel approves arrangement for UAR to remove 2 sunken ships to let stranded ships leave canal by southern end after UN chief observer Lt Gen O Bull clarifies UAR work plans; Israeli sources rept pact was delayed by apparent UAR attempt to use it to free sunken vessels N of stranded ships, move necessary to reopen canal; location of sunken and stranded ships detailed; map; Min Beigin outlines Israeli objections to unilateral opening of canal

Israel Agrees to Plan to Raise 2 Sunken Vessels in Suez Canal

over 1/3 of Yale U faculty signs statement backing Coffin

Third of Yale Faculty Sign Petition Supporting Coffin

Complaint in U.N.

Several hundred Jews reptdly have been issued travel documents by Spain, France and Italy and allowed to leave country in last few mos; Spanish Amb Sagaz reptdly has helped those arrested during and after Mideast war and their families to leave

CAIRO PERMITTING MANY JEWS TO GO; Travel Documents Reported Issued to Several Hundred

Trowbridge Enters Hospital

No Jews reptdly were allowed to leave after Mideast war

Refugee Total Put at 24,200

Nguyen Van Thieu says bombing of N Vietnam could be stopped only if N Vietnam ceases aggressive activities; says S Vietnam and US are not always in accord but says Johnson San Antonio formula is realistic; says he has explored avenues for talks; says war should be logically discussed by leaders of N and S Vietnam; illus

Thieu Links Bombing to 'Aggressive Acts' by North

12 NJ men, reclassified 1-A after turning in draft cards, sue, Camden, to challenge const of Hershey's Oct directive on punitive induction

Suit by 12 in Jersey Challenges Draft Revision on War Critics

2 captured US marines escape from Vietcong and make their way back to USMC position

Two Captured Marines Escape From Vietcong

Flávio Basso, better known by his stage name Júpiter Maçã and by its English-language variation Jupiter Apple, was a Brazilian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker. Before beginning a solo career in 1994, he was already known for being a founding member of bands TNT and Os Cascavelletes, both pioneers of the Rio Grande do Sul rock scene in the mid-to-late 1980s/early 1990s.

Jupiter Apple, Brazilian singer-songwriter, film director, and actor (died 2015)

Jupiter_Apple

Merrill Church Meigs was the publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner in the 1920s. Inspired to become a pilot by Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, he became a booster of Chicago as a world center of aviation.
He gave flying lessons to President Harry S. Truman.

January 26, 1968

Headlines from January 26, 1968

CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.1% IN YEAR; SLOWUP DOUBTED; Month's Increase Is 0.3% -- Index Now at 118.2 -Level in This Area Up CONSUMER PRICES RISE 3.1% IN YEAR

City Bonds Are Sold At 4.79% Interest; Rate Is Below 1967's; CITY BONDS SOLD AT 4.79% INTEREST

KHESANH SHELLED UNDER FOG COVER; Aircraft Unable to Support Embattled Marine Base Near the Buffer Zone Khesanh Shelled Under Cover of Fog and Clouds

3 Faiths Here Plan Council of Churches; FAITHS HERE PLAN A CHURCH COUNCIL

Billboard 200

Magical Mystery Tour (Soundtrack)

Their Satanic Majesties Request

Pisces; Aquarius; Capricorn; And Jones Ltd.

Diana Ross And The Supremes Greatest Hits

Herb Alpert's Ninth

Notable Births

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 26, 1968