VDTIAN ~_:16/f, The air war over Coaunlst North Vlet Nam" lncreaalng ln teipo .. altli ovcq puf Pt• l■f, American flyers today reportlng another anl'II or Sovlet-bullt Nlg-Seventeena -- atteaptlng to ~ block a u .s "A atrlke at the COIIIIWllet heartland. After a aerlea or dogtlghta -- tor the Jourth oonaecllllwe -- ■11e\on eventually accOlll)llahed. lkat at a coat ot '1lo ■IN AMrlcan planes -- vlctl• ot lorth Vlet IUI'• gl'Olflill air detenaea. •• A third Jl•rlcan Jet -- an Atr Joroe reoonnalaaaoe pl1i1 Bien Phil -- that hlatorlc Prench battletleld. LllckllJ lboujll - two crelllllft qulckly retrieved ln a darlnl hellcopler l'Noue. SAmoN Back 1n Saigon -- a prediction today from U.S. Allbaaaador Henry Cabot Lodge -- that there •Y never be a negotiated peace ln Viet Nu. Rather that the nr -- 1n his own words -- "Jut might fade out." The rorecaa• -- aald Lodge -- baaed on tact one -- that 1:be Co•~lata are loaing the "purel1 ■ll1tarJ war;" two, that the governaent ot South Viet lall -- ls now r1na111 ac,v!N tOll&l'd • Conat1tutlonal d8110cracy; and three, that Red China hu u ,at ahotm :'\O 11.gn -- or w.ntlng to enter the war. Iba In vln ot the•• condltlona -- aald Lodge -- ~ a r 11111 lie over before we know it. The tlghtlng alllply endlnl -- u lt did ln llalayala and the Phlllpplnea. ..., aperlellH 1D Aala having shown -- aa1d Lodge -- that the C01111Unl1ta "don't••• ad■1t they were ln a war -- let alone that they got detNted at it." RAICH POI.LOW IAMON Here at hoae -- a special cereaon, today at the LBJ Ranch. Prealdent Johnson preaentlng the Congressional Medal ot Honor -- to llllrtne Sergeant Robert O'NPlley or New York CltJ. At !Wn,r- 'l'hree -- the tlrat Jlarine to win the nation's hlgheat aard tor braver, -- whlle tlghtlng ln Ylet laa. The Prnldant &110 taking the occulon -- to leolare an'I deaonatratora. Aaaertlng that U.S. servlce•n 1n Vlet lllil •• ue tlghtlng tor"• good oauae." "A cause" -- aald he -- "llhloh de1ene1 not oiilr the bn••l'J ot our 1oldlera -- but Ula tM ot our cltlsena." PortwatelJ -- aald the Prealdent --"• have both 1n pod 011tw•llh- u. supplJ." 'l'hla tact -- aald be -- tu~ •••- 1 1111 • • • aotlala ot those "1'ho exerc1H so well tha rlght or dlaaent; but let • othera tllht to protect thell -- troll those whose verJ phllOIOIIII, ls to do a•y with the right or dissent." ADDRAEH A later report: The President this afternoon dlacloaing that he wlll ask Congress -- ror an addltlonal line-to-ten BUl.._ next year. !he 110ney needed -- aald he -- to paJ tor ,k aDUDtllll coat, or the war ln Vlet laa. NIANI BEACH POLLOW RANCH / A related ltem -- from Mlaai Beach, Florida) .., jfhere Dr. Authur S. Fle•ing -- Secretary or Health, Bducatlon and Velt&N under President llaenhower -- today was elected preeident ot Ula National Council or Churches. Dr. ,1-1ng 1 a tlrat act 1n his new ottlce -- a call tor the United Stat•• to take "calculated rlakl" tor peace 1n Ylel ... 2 Such rlaka -- said he -- lnclud,ng a halt to M1rl1111 bollbing attacks~ lorth Vlet lul -- "tor a 1uttlolentl1 11111 period to create a tawoNll• cll•te tor negotlatl . . . " NABLUS Border tension ln the Middle East -- again at fever pitch today. Jordan's king Hussein ordering a house-to-house search -- in the walled city or Nablus; attempting to round up hidden uw -- reportedly smuggled ln by Palestinian gun rumera. The weapons --theorettcly - - tor defense agatnat the poaslbll1ty or another Israeli rald on lablua; auch •• that of last aonth -- which set orr the present cr1ala. However, thl have fallen into the hands -- or antl-governaent rorce1; aeh orr a wave or shootlnga -- whlch have killed at least Bl&ht anl wounded Twenty-Plve 1n the last rew days. .meow In Moscow -- a steong American note delivered today to the Krelllln. The U.S. protesting what it called the " l■permlaalble treatment ' ' -- of a naturalized American c1tlzen. Sald cltlzen belng '-ladimlr Kazan-Komarek -- that Allerlcan travel agent llho was recently hlJacked by Czech police troll a So•l•t atrllaer. The note rurther reJectlng Ruaala's clalll -- that lt l■ no longer reaponalble for what happens to lazan-lOIIU'ek. Dellanding that Ruaala take laediate steps -- to tree t~ ~ - - captive. KR!MLD Aleo in Moscow -- ceremonies today &t the Krelllln; commemorating the Twenty-Plrth aM1versary -- of the World Var fllo "Battle or Noscow. 11 The occasion •rred, however, by a top Soviet Cos E4ftlat ,..._ Leader -- who •de a speech accualng Red Chlna ot tl'Jlnl to · .' a nn world war. thereupon two Chlneae dlploata ln att:--■• _.,.diately •lked out: 'l'hla the third Ch1neae walkout troa an ottlclal SOwlG function -- 1n leas than a mnth. LONDON The London stock market -- hard-hit today; by Brltlan'• reluctant declslon -- to call for Unlted Nations aanctlona agalnal Rhodesia. Chlef arket loaaea -- 1n tobacco, copper and other Rhodealan con ctdltlea. A110 a br1et run -- on the pound 1terl~ ApparentlJ on the •••~tlcn that what's bad tor Rbod•la -- lllf be equally bad tor Brittan'• own crippled econo111. ST. LOUIS From St. Louis -- the story today or a gallant Catholic 1111ft; who will be buried t0110rrow -- 1n a rare ■111tary cerellODJ. Slater Nary Catherine Col8118.11 -- a •mber or the Daughtera o Charity; who served aa a battlefield nurae ln World Var One•· later at an evacuation ho1p1tal 1n Genoa, Dal1,, . ~ 41ed llaadlf / at the age ot llghtJ-Seven -- with her final request uaa, • N granted a full ■llltarJ funeral. 'l'hroup the cooperation or the Aaerlcan Red croaa, .; U. Allerlcan LMlon and Scott Alr Poree Ba•• -· s11,er 11117 C&Mla: wlll pt her wlah; y apeclal ■UltarJ Suard -- • J.ut Yoll•J . , rltle tlre -- and a bugler to aound tapa . ill the hlDora ~ IICll'.allJ N f f l " f ~ r Aaarlcan tlghtllll: Mil, TREASURE Twenty-Five years ago this evening -- Japanese marauders ~rtJ.t-n; ~ c»~f11(/ laid the groundwork fo ~ a day that will live 1n 1nfaay; Pearl Harbor Day -- Nineteen-Porty-One. A quarter-of-a-century later -- soldiers or fortune froll 1111111 nations are still following the footsteps or the Japanese conquerors.) fasu1ng a seemingly endltss search -- for burled treasure; according to legend -- the hltien plunder ot an eaptN. Year arter year -- they COIN to the Phlllpplnaa -- looltlllll .. the "Loat Nllliona of N1n~a" •a\ or the burled loot ot Luaan. To Borneo -- ln search or dlaaonds said to be burled by the trunkful. To Malaya -- ln search or the legendaey "!Naaure ot Ya•ahlta." Ya-.ahlta -- you aay recall -- the Japanese p...-u who allegedly absconded with the llaia7an crown Jewla. Most or the treaaure-hunters·al'lled with •P• -- often purchased at great expense. Many of them equipped with special electronic searching devices -- 9011e with heavy excavating ■ equipment. And for every onA who digs ln the earth -- there's . another tn search o f millions of pesos in Fili~no silver -- TREASURE-2 supposedly burled at the bottom of Manila Bay; or someon• who \.._ a e. uJ seeks the legendary " submarine or gold" -- said to hav~unk bJ -1 the Japanese as it tried to escape the Philippines. To set the record straight -- the Malayan crown Jewels are still in Malaya; the silver pesos supposedly at the bottoa ot Manila Bay -- have all long since been recovered; the aublllrlnl filled with gold -- though real -- was not sunk -- but r a ~ it sately to Australia. And of all the treasure aap1 c . . . . . i, 1n clrculation -- as rar as is knoWn, not o~• worth t ~ it's printed on. LIOPOU> DD BIIIRICB BAR111R b-11111 Leopold or Belgia flew off today t'l-011 the new Park Aven\le Pan Aaerlcan heliport; on hla ay boae troll ano~r .-pidltlon. lhts ti• be and Belbrlck Barrer, tUlld --•twr, •• been t.n South Mllrlca, •• · ln Surlmll, ror,.rii, Dlltch Galana. !he tall, blond, IOR•apolmil U•klng, and Henry Harrer or "Se•• ,-ra In ft.bet" ra., aokled a apeotaoular wlala r... hanllNd • 1 • aouth or Pel'lllllllbaoo •· a •untalll re,orliN to' M •..,..•ttil• to olta Ncauae the race la sheer and u , - ~ - • gl••. wttti allliln no hand holda or nlcma ln idlloh • pa fNI' ro.. lut the a•killl and HarNr are "veteran aountaln11ra. ailll by uat.ng pt.tau they liUle U. ascent. 11111 Leopold shares hla taaoua father' e enthulull tor aountain cllllblnl. ling Albert of courae. waa well kniMl u a clillber -· •lnlY 1n the Dol011ltea. The peak Klng Leopold and Harrer scaled 1n Surlnaa la called Kaas1 1a1sllla. It's ln a region inhabited by the Trlo lndlana LEOPOLI AID HEDRICH HARRIR--2 and alao by others that so far have avoided contact •1th clv111zat1on. They aiaple melt lnto the Jungle. Harrer, known the world aro~and for his beat aeller, "Seven Yeara in 'flbet", escaped rro. a priaon cup 1n India durlal lor~d Var II, tled acroaa the 11Nalaya1 to Lhaaa, where tlnallJ he becaae a tutor to the Joung Dalal. Lua. Slnce lNYlng flbet, at the ti• or the Chlneae Reel 1nna1-. he hu been on aaa, other expedl i lona and haa aoaled aoae ,m, w,cllllbed aountalna 1n Alaaka, ttie Andea, and unexplored.,.... or the great laland ot •• Gulnea.. 811 aoat recent Hok IIU entltlecl: "I c- lPl'OII the Stone · Age". BetoN Leopold Joi.Md hill, Harrer had apent aeveNl IIOIIU. 1n Aaazonla, tar up the Xingu Rl~ r, tll■lng the prlllltlve peoplN who are atlll unapolled by conta t·wlth Vhlte ■an -- the countr, where Colonel Pawcett and his son 1 vanished years ago. Aa a young ■an Harrer r1rat 1 g&lned rue t'Dr a cllllb 1n The Alps, when he was the first to co , nquer that sheer wall called T!• LBOPOLD AID IIIIIIRICR IIARRIR --3 lorth Vall or the liger that haa taken aoae thirty llvea. ling Leopold incidentally, "'1 had an adventure wlth Juat a • the largest ot all reptiles, a huge Anaconda -- a snake aoae ~~ twenty teet long and a root and a halt 1n dlalter X ..& lcUlet rto?• e ln~zsb .. ,ad', .,-'rla~ e~«. whl✓ 1n I w Y✓• ~ ~- LAS VEGAS A study in contrasts this week -- at Las Vegas, Nevada; home of wide-open gambling -- topless showgirls -- and round-the-clock drinking. Las Vegas host this week -- to the Forty-Eighth annual convention or the Aaerlcan Fara Federation. Hundreds of fal'ller-delegates who are stlll plain, country folk; who preter to g811ble on the aun, the rain and the •rket -- rather than on slot •chines, ro\llette and crapa. A• one rara couple put 1t: ''ve ca• to Lu Vepa " with the Ten C011a11Ddl~ents 1n one hand -- and Pl1'J Dollara ..., ln the other -- and we haven't broken either yet."