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Price 10 Cents Weather Subscribers Tribune To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune In Medford. phone 772-flMl; Ash land call at 41S Bridge at., or phone 4823002: Yreka, phone victory 2-2898 before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 am. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notify office, thus eliminating special messenger service. FORECAST: A llulr cloudiness l timrs, otherwise fiir throuch Monday ith slowly warmini temperatures. Hitjh today 3, Inw lonlshl 18, hith Monday ... . . Temp. Hlehest Yelerdav 71 Lowest This Mornint 44 FORD United Press International Full Leased Wira Untied tress International Full Leased Wire 52 Pages Six Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1963 No. .134 Kennedy Orders increase Norway Premier Quits, Ends Long Socialist Control In Underground Testin 58th Year MED gJ v "f1? Qv, ' CHECK FITTING - Rescue officials check proper fitting of a parachute harness that will be used in the 'rescue capsule to brine up the two trapped miners in the shaft opened by the giant 12-inch drill.'., The mi Setbacks Delay Attempt To Rescue Trapped Men Shcppton. Pa. - (IIPIl-Efforls to rescue two miners trapped for 12 days in a damp, chilly chamber 308 feet underground received a "serious setback" Saturday because of technical problems. Weary rescue crews work ed to correct the difficulties and set Monday as a target date for bringing the en tombed men to the surface. Drilling operations also con tinued for a third miner, trapped in a separate cubicle 18 feet away who has not been heard from since Tues day. State Mines Chief H. Bee cher Charmbury said jagged rock and soft clay had hamp ered rescue teams trying to case a 26-inch opening drilled to a depth of 38 feet earlier today. Workers hoped to line the hole with metal tubing, then drill a 17',2-inch hole to the trapped men. Despite their ordeal, miners Gloria Vanderbilt Gets Mexican Divorce New York - IWD - Heiress Gloria Vandcrbilt Saturday obtained a Mexican divorce from her third husband, the atrical director Sidney Lu met. Arnold R. Krakower, Miss Vanderbilt's New York at torney, said that she obtained the divorce at Juarez, Mexi co. Lumet was represented by a Mexican attorney. NBVS(Q)BRIEFS ITIMS FROM k JUV I0UND Wl 610,1 U.S. URGED TO CONDEMN DIEM New York - I PI' - A leader of the anti-Communist un derground movement in South Viet Nam said Saturday the U.S. government should publicly "clearly condemn" the re gime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. BEN BELLA DRAFTS NEW CONSTITUTION Algiers, Algeria - 'I PI' - Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella sent a new draft constitution to the national assembly Saturday, opening series of moves aimed al securing his strongman rule through a one-parly system. THREE EAST BERLINERS BREACH WALL Berlin - d'PP - Three East Berliners outsmarted the Communists and scrambled safely over the barbed wire wall into West Berlin under gunfire from duped East Ger man border guards, West Berlin police reported Saturday. THREE FIGHTERS BUZZ PLANE Saigon South Viet Nam - IPI - Two heavily armed fiahter planes of the Royal Thai Air Fore. Saturday busted and attempted lo force down a regularly scheduled Royal Air Laos commercial flight which was transiting Thailand cn route from Vieiiiane lo Saigon. . ners will be strapped into this harness, then lifted into the capsule, which will lift them to freedom. This picture was made avail able exclusively to UP1 by the Independent Miners association. (UPI) David Fellin and Henry Throne were in almost jaunty spirits. The fate of the third miner, Louis Bova, 42, re mained unknown. Bova was last heard from on Tuesday, when he lapped three times on his chamber wall, signaling that he was alive. A separate, three-inch hole was being drilled to where he is trapped. Charmbury said the "seri ous setback" concerned the upper part of the 38-foot hole. "We can't go ahead and ream at 17 Vi inches until we put casing in the upper part of the hole," he said. "It would be too dangerous. It might cave in and we would lose everything we have." Would Be Reamed The mines official said the hole would be reamed at 30 inches, after which a 26-inch casing would be made. The casing operation will not be completed until the pre-dawn hours today. An other 30 hours would he re quired to drill down to Fellin, 58. and fiirone, 28, Charm bury said, m aking it Monday at the earliest before they can be brought out. The final 270 feci to Fellin and Throne now is 12 inches wide. When it is expanded to 171-2 inches, attempts will be made to pull the miners to the surface in a torpedo shaped escape tube which barely will fit into the opening. "We are not going to rush the drilling," Charmbury said earlier. "Safety is ahead of speed. From all indications, the men are comfortable down there, and why take chances?" Hurricane Beulah Builds Winds to 120 Miles an Hour Miami - tUPtl - Hurricane Beulah built its winds to "se vere" 120 mile-an-hour inten sity Saturday, but stayed far at sea where scientists plan ned again to "seed" it with power-sapping silver iodide. The latest advisory on the season's second and most powerful tropical storm locat ed Beulah near latitude 24.8 north, longitude 59.8 west, or about 600 miles northeast of San Juan, P.R., and the same distance south-southeast of Bermuda. The storm dawdled in a "very weak steering current" and moved at about 7 miles an hour on a northerly course. Weathermen gave the Caribbean Islands and the U.S. mainland an all-clear, but warned small craft around the British resort island of Ber muda to stay close to home. Two Men Hold Up Portland Firm Portland, Ore. -iITH- Two men held up the St. Johns oflice of the Benjamin Frank lin Federal Savings and Loan association in North Portland Saturday. They escaped with $6, 836.40 after taping up three employees and putting them in a back room. The office was darkened by an electrical failure about 30 minutes be fore the robbery but the pow er failure apparently was ac cidental. The FBI said the bandits may be the same men who took $5,375 in a robbery at the Lake Oswego office of the same company July 30. Saturday's holdup came as FBI agents and Portland po lice were looking for a bold bandit who used a taxi-cab to rob the head office branch of the U. S. National bank in downtown Portland Friday afternoon. He took $838. Oslo, Norway -WPIl-Twenty-eight years of almost uninter rupted Socialist rule of Nor way ended Saturday when Premier Einar Gerhardsen presented his resignation to King Olav V in the wake of' the storting's (parliament) non-confidence vote. The Socialists came to pow er in 1935 and have ruled the country except for the days of Nazi occupation when a coalition government in exile was set up in London. Olav promptly called on Conservative party leader John Lyng to form a new gov- Anti-America Wave Mounts in South Viet Nam Washington - UfP - Ad ministration officiali ac knowledged Saturday that the United States has been unable to exercise any mod erating influence on South Viet-Nam military and poli tical leaders who were re ported ruthlessly suppres sing all opposition elements in Saigon, Saigon, South Vict Nam -(UPI) - Vietnamese police, in a mounting wave of anti-Americanism, have begun searching official U. S. cars. They ar rested three American news men and photographers Sat urday with a shout of "to Hell with Americans." Student unrest against the government mounted hourly and 1.000 of them, led by Buddhist ex-Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau, demonstrated against the government for the second consecutive day. Police did not interfere but the government closed the schools. The U. S. Embassy protest ed to the government against the search of cars which was concentrated on those of the U. S. Aid Mission next door to the ransacked Xa Loi Pa goda stormed early Wednes day by police and soldiers at start of the Buddhist repres sion. Priests Beaten Soldiers have been search ing American cars entering and leaving the mission com pound. It was believed they were looking for anything that may have been passed out from the Pagoda during Wednesday's melee in which hundreds of priests were beaten and arrested. Air Force Launches Secret Satellite Vandcnberg Air Force Base, Calif. -ll'PIl- A so-called "secret satellite" of the type involved in numerous capsule recover ies over the past three years was launched late Saturday by the Air Force. The Air Force, as is cus tomary, announced only the satellite employing a Thor Agena combination booster the same used on the Discov erer series had been launch ed Saturday afternoon. Time of launch was about 8:30 p.m. edt (5:30 p.m. pdt). The Air Force has not dis closed for more than a year whether the satellites launch ed from this west coasl base have attained polar orbit, or given specific information of their purpose. FBI Searches for Young Missing Banker Chicago - ll'PIl - Federal Bu reau of Investigation agents searched Saturday for a pop ular young banker missing along with an attractive blonde and a possible $200, 000. Sports Bulletin Pendleton - West defeat ed the East 6-0 here lest night in the annual Shrine East-West All-Star game. The West scored in the third quarter on a twelve yard pass play from George Crummer lo Tom Jem itedt. Tha East was on tha West's three yard lint when tha gam ended. ernment and Lyng accepted. He is expected to present his new cabinet to the king next Tuesday. The new government is ex pected to be based on a co alition of the four non-Socialist parties-the Conservatives, Center party, Christian Peo ple's and Liberals. It will be a minority government since the four parties control only 74 seals in the 150-member house, or two short of a ma jority. Gerhardsen himself com manded only 74 seats but re lied on the support of the two People's Socialist party depu ties to remain in power. His government fell Friday night when the People's So cialists sided with the non Socialist opposition parties, lipping the balance against Gerhardsen. The vote of non confidence was passed 76 to 74. Short Life Observers predicted a short life for the new government. They said the two People's Socialist deputies would swing back behind the Socialists at the first opportunity to over throw the Lyng cabinet. The change in government was expected to have no ef fect on Norway's pro-Western foreign policies. Gerhardsen's defeat came as a result of do mestic issues. The vole, which came Fri day night after four days of heated debate, was interpret ed as a censure of the -Gerhardsen administration for failure to take appropriate measures to prevent a coal mine disaster at Spitzbergen. Khrushchev Says Communism Will Bury Capitalism Split, Yugoslavia -HOT- So viet Premier Nikita S. Khru shchev dusted off an old threat Saturday and pledged that communism would bury capitalism - with assembly line production. Pointing a finger al West ern reporters covering his 15- day visit to Yugoslavia with President Josip Broz Tito, Khrushchev shouted, "I say we will beat you, and beat you with better organized pro duction. We will not bury you with a shovel, but the working class will bury you." "Why the devil should I bury the capitalists?" the So viet leader asked a group of more than 1.000 shipyard workers he addressed under a hot sun in this port on the Adriatic sea. "Their own working class will do it.'' Theme Variation Khrushchev's SDcech was a variation on a theme he play ed Wednesday in off-the-cuff remarks to assembly line workers at. a tractor factory near Belgrade. In those remarks, Khrush chev said Communist nations learned much from the mass production methods of Henry Ford, U. S. auto manufactur er. Castroites Kidnap Argentine Athlete Caracas - H!PD - Pro-Castro rebels toting submachine guns kidnaped Latin Ameri can sports idol Alfredo ("Blond Arrow") Di Stcfano Saturday, climaxing five clays of terrorist activities here. Apparently all the national armed liberation forces (FA- LN) wanted was more pub licity such as they obtained earlier by snatching one-half million dollars worth of paint ings from a Caracas museum and by hijacking a freighter in the Caribbean. Di Slefano, 37-year-old Ar gentine soccer star, is known to every schoolboy in Latin America, where soccer "fut bol'' is the leading sport, and is practically a Spanish na tional hero. WELCOME SLATED" Salem - (UPli - Gov. Mark Hatfield is slated to welcome the International Correctional Congress at the Portland Hil ton at 9:30 a.m. Monday, his office announced. AGREEMENT SIGNED - Agreements for working conditions and seniorty matters between Medford post office employers and employees, ending two months of negotia tions between the groups, were signed last Evans Admits He Killed Heiress In Portland Hotel Portland, Ore. - (UPI) - Rob ert J. Evans. 26, Honolulu has admitted the strangulation death of Mrs. Irene Davis. 41 Payette, Idaho, earlier this month, Portland police said Saturday night. George E. Juba, chief crim inal deputy of the Multnomah county district attorney s of fice, and Byron H. Shields, chief of detectives of the Portland police bureau, is sued a written statement. It said: "In the presence of Mr. Juba and a member of the detective division, Robert Ev ans acknowledged verbally this morning that he was re sponsible for the death of Irene Davis in the early morning of Aug. 6, 1963." Nylon Stocking The body of Mrs. Davis, a wealthy heiress, was found in a room at the Portland Hil ton hotel Aug. 6. A nylon stocking had been twisted around her neck. Juba and Shields issued their statement after the Port land Reporter newspaper broke a story whic h said that Evans signed a statement con fessing Mrs. Davis' death. The Reporter said Evans confessed he killed the weal thy heiress when she resisted his advances. Robbery was listed as the second motive, according to the story. Patients Evacuated In Hospital Blaze Las Vegas, Nov. -IUPD- Some 50 patients, some critically ill, had to be evacuated from the Southern Nevada Memorial hospital Saturday when fire broke out in the surgery room "Everybody is crying from the smoke, but nobody was hurt," one fireman said. The patients were moved back inside the hospital from the 90-degrcc heat outside aft er 15 fire units extinguished the flames within 45 minutes. Dr. George Klenfgcn said he was just completing a ma jor operation when he saw flames push through the ecu ing of the operating room The patient was rushed to safety and "is doing fine, a hospital spokesman said. Sfcffe Congressmen Split on Aid Bill Washington - WPli - Ore gon's four representatives were split along party lines Friday as the House, on a 222 to 188 roll coll, voted to cut the foreign aid bill by $585 million before passing t h e measure on another vole. Voting for the cut was Re publican Waller Norblad and casting their ballots against it. were Democrats Edith Green, Al UllmanrtKd Rob ert Duncan. City Post Office, Clerks, Carriers Ink tefeement An agreemertt.'be'tweeh'tnV ployer ' and ' employees was signed here Friday night by Acting Postmaster Al Brad ford of the Medford post of fice and clerks and. letter car riers, the first in' liie '"'ftu'lory of the post office. The local agreement negoti ated through a series of meetings held during the past two months was signed by John Gresham as vice presi dent of the United Federation of Postal Clerks, Local 342, and Randolph (Randy) Hug dahl, president of the National Association of Letter Car riers, Branch 1433. Gresham signed for Charles L. Moldovan, president of the clerks, who was out of town. The action was taken at a dinner meeting at Kim's res taurant attended by all mem bers of the post office staff and their wives. National Safety Council safe driving awards were presented at the same dinner to 10 employees. the two separate agree ment are not concerned with wages, which are still deter mined by the president and congress, but with working conditions and seniority mat ters. Being Negotiated The agreements are baed on the national agreement which was signed effective in March of this year, the first oeiwcen employer and em ployees in Ihe history of the United Stales postal service. Similar agreements are being negotiated across the nation Bradford said. During the past two months Postmaster Bradford, Chester Silliman, superintendent of mails, and Boyce Kellogg, as sistant superintendent of mails, have been meeting twice a week with the clerks and carriers negotiating the agreements, which were sign ed Friday. These meetings with supervisory personnel have been conducted with no cost to the department. Bradford, in referring to the first local agreement, ex Schweitzer Writes JFK on Ban Hyannis, Mass. - ItlPII -President Kennedy Satur day threw new ammunition into his fight for Senate ratification of the nuclear lest ban treaty by making public an emotional en dorsement from Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner. The President, spending a rainy week end here with his wife and children, also released a report from his science advisory commit tee which commended the treaty as "an important step toward a safe and se cure peace in the world." Schweitzer, writing from his mcdicag)mission at Lam barene, West Equatorial . t I z IS i'1 Friday night in Medford by, left to right, John Grcsham, vice-president of Postal Clerks' Local No. 342; Alva N. Bradford, Postmaster; and Randy Hugdahl, president of Carriers' Local No. 1433. pressed the belief that it will be beneficial to the operation of tha post office and to the employees.""' "I feel that it spells out the requests , aadicesponsibilities at- rHtilfnm RrarinrH tnlrl - tiw ' - " the gathering. Included in the agreement are the 92 employees of the Medford post office and the Central Point and White City branches. The eight super visors and the postmaster bring the personnel of the post office to 101. The national organizations have been working for such agreements for many years, Bradford said. ' The agreement wilh the carriers deals with lunch per iods, work environment, sen iority, training of new em ployees, use of vehicles, route bidding, light duty assign ments, vacations and welfare proceeds. Welfare Proceedi The agreement with the clerks covers assignment de scriptions and changes, bids, advising applicants, vacan cies, light duty assignments, promotions, scheme assign ments, violations, employee schedules, training, overtime, meetings and welfare pro ceeds. The group of National Safe ty Council Safe Driver award winners, who received their citations Friday night from Postmaster Bradford, was topped by Howard L. Schwab, who has a record of 27 years service without an accident. John C. Crocker received an award for 15 years of driving without an accident, and Ivan L. Lantz for nine years. Other winners were W. R. Beall, eight years; C. A. Wil liams, five years; R. W. Hug dahl, four years; F. K. Law son Jr., L. M. Miles, J. G. Watson and Scbastiano J. Fa gone, three years. Schwab, Crocker, Fagone and Watson are at the Central Point Branch office. Africa, penned his brief let ter in French. He congrat ulated the Chief Execu tive for "having had the foresight and the courage to inaugurate a world policy toward peace." The elder ly scientists, physician ami humanitarian commented on the treaty: "Finally a ray of light appears in the darkness in which humanity was seek ing its way and gives us hope that the darkness will make way for light." Schweitzer called t h e limited test ban treaty "one of the greatest events, per haps the greatest, in the history of (he world. "It gives us hope that Gilpatric Makes Disclosure In Letter to Senate Joint Chiefs of Staff in Accord Washington -WPP- President Kennedy has ordered a sharp expansion in U. S. under ground nuclear testing which is not banned by the iri-power treaty now awaiting Senata ratification, the Defense de partment revealed Saturday. Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric made the disclosure in a 10-paga letter giving the Senate Arm ed Services committee "ex tensive assurances" that every possible safeguard will be ob served against risks which tha treaty admittedly entails." . The pact . signed by tha United Stales, Britain and Russia and more than 75 other nations -' bans only tests in the atmosphere, under water and in outer space. Reduce Risks Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, wrote the com mittee separately. He said the chiefs "consider that the ac tions described in Gtlpatric'3 letter meet the requirements, as presently foreseen, for im I plementing , the safeguards proposed by the joint chiefs to reduce the risks and disad vantages o the treaty." Gilpatric also promised Im proved intelligence and test detection procedures, a readi ness to test in the atmosphera plan which would permit their resumption within two to six months, depending on the type of experiment, and a program which he said would keep good scientists ac tively at work in U. S. weap ons laboratories. Details of the underground lest buildup were supplied to Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga.), chairman of the commit tee, in a third document, a classified "index," which was not released publicly. The President noted at his press conference last Tuesdav that in the past two years tha U. S. has conducted 97 under ground explosions and 36 in the atmosphere. Four Injured in Dead Indian Crash Four area residents, two men and a boy and girl, wero admitted to the Ashland Com munity hospital late Saturday following a two-car, head-on collision about 6 p.m. neap Ice Box canyon on the Dead Indian rd., Oregon State Po lice reported. In fair condition are Wil liam Melton Houston Jr., 17. of 921 Maple Park dr., and a passenger, Barbara Halvey, 15, of 817 North Riverside avc. Occupants of the other auto were Thurman Barnes, 53, of 1576 Beal lane, and a passen ger, Robert A. Doyle, 41, Central Point, who both suf fered multiple lacerations, hos pital attendants said. The accident occurred when the Houston car failed to ne gotiate a corner and collided with the Barnes vehicle, po lice reported. war with atomic weapons between East and West can be avoided," he said. He also referred to his past stern opposition to use of atomic weapons in any form and recalled how his feeling was shared by the late physicist and malhema- , tician, Dr. Albert Einstein, "When hearing of the Moscow treaty I though of my friend Einstein, with whom I joined in the fight against atomic weapons," he said. "He died in Prince ton in despair. And I, thanks to your foresight and courage, am able to observe thaWthe world has taken the Tirst step on the road leading to peace." G (o) trS
