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Newspaper Page Textcoap. U.OP 0RE.UX3r.A3t Diem's Brother Power In Viet Mam Coup SAIGON, South Viet Nam iL'Pl President Ngo Dinh Diem's brotlier was reported today to have taken over most of Uie pow er in South Viet Nam in a quiet palace roup. Well - informed sources said that Ngo Dinh Nhu, who has been Diem's chief political adviser for years and is head of the secret police, is the one who engineered tlie massive crackdown on Bud dhist and opposition elements in a series of raids early Wednes day as an opening move in the quiet palace takeover. The sources said Diem still is In The- Day's lews By FRANK JENKINS South Viet Nam gets back into the news today. There appears to have been a palace revolution in Saigon, the capital, and Henry Cabot Lodge, our new ambassa dor. Jias been hustled down there to find out what is going on and what we can do about it. This morning's dispatches indi cate that President Diem's broth er has taken over in the palace and appears to be running the shebang. 1 What kind o! person is this brother who has taken over? It's hard to say, but recent news reports seem to indicate that it is his w ife who wears the .pants in his family. There are religious aspects to the trouble. Buddhist monks have been protesting against the attitude of the royal family. Their protests have taken the form of burning themselves to death in flaming pyres. Of these protests, the lady said the other day: "I would clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue, for one can not be re sponsible for the madness of oth ers." A pleasant sort of character, isn't she? Queslion: Where do w e come into the pic ture? Well, on the theory that com munist control of South Viet Nam would greatlv facilitate commu nist PENETRATION of other parts of Southeast Asia, we have had 12.000 U.S. troops stationed in the country to help fight the Viet Cong, who are the commu nists. In addition we have been pungling up about a million dol lars a day to the ruling Diem government. Question No. 2: How did we ever get mixed up in that awful mess, anyway? Queslion No. 3: Isn't it getting to be about time for us to GET OUT? Shucks! .Let's get closer There are strain the U.S.A. home. e goings-on in In Madison, N.Y.. the rather tidy sum of $351,875 has been found in a wealthy widow's safe. from which an estimated $250,000 was stolen earlier in the week Police say they had broken open an inner compartment ir the five-foot-high safe and discov ered the new sum. The widow. a Mrs. Grove Hinman, savs she didn't know the money was there. Her husband, who died in 1961, is described by the neighbors as an "eccentric" automobile deal er and farmer who was in the habit of carrying large sums of money around with him because he was "afraid of banks." Question: With outdated ideas about mon ey like that, how did the old boy ever accumulate the $601,875 he had parked, away in the old safe" Hatfield SALEM L'PI i - A study of budget cuts that could be made by Gov Mark Hatfield without a special session of the legisla ture is under way. Finance and Administration Director Freeman Holmer said todav. The study was launched in the wake of referral of the I!3 leg islature s $60 million i.x increase! measure to a special election Oct. 13. If tlie tax measure is turned down by the voters, Hatfield will h?v lo choose between slashing the bud;et himself or callin apecial legislative session. in the presidential palace carry-1 ing out some lunctions, but that liis brother is now actually be lieved running the government. This, plus the resignation of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Vu Van Man in protest against the crackdown against the Buddhists, apparently were the reasons why newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge has been un able to confer with government officials on the boiling crisis. U.S. Embassy officials said Lodge has not conlerred w ith any Vietnamese officials since he ar rived Thursday nigiit. and that he w ill not present his credentials to Diem until Monday or possibly Tuesdav. Mau. a Buddhist, was to have met Lodge at the airport when he arrived, but had resigned instead. An eyewitness who saw Mau at the foreign ministry building said the foreign minister said he resigned "to protest against the ;overnment. He added that he had shaved his head in the man ner of Buddhist monks to express his sympathy with other Bud dhists in the country. Officials said Lodge was ex pected to spend the weekend con ferring with American officials hi an effort to get a clear picture of what has been going on here. He was ordered to Saigon ahead of schedule by President Kennedy when the sudden crisis erupted this week. No new violence was reported in Saigon or other centers of Buddhist opposition that were the scenes of wholesale arrests of Buddhist priests and nuns Wednesday and Thursday. The Senate Bill Would Bar Rail Strike WASHINGTON (UPD-The Sen ate Commerce Committee today approved a bill providing for ar bitration of the railroad dispute by an independent seven-man board. The legislation would bar changes in work rules that threat en to set off a nationwide rail strike next Wednesday midnight Committee Chairman Warren G. Magnuson said he expected the Senate to pass the measure on Monday. The bill would create a board consisting of two representatives each from the railroads and un ions involved in the four-year-old controversy. These four would select three other board members. If they could not agree on the other me m b e rs. President Kennedy would choose the neutrals. The board first would consider the two main issues in the dis puteemployment of firemen and size of train crews and hand down its ruling within M days after the legislation is enacted. Meantime, the bill provides for continued negotiation on second ary issues. But it calls for sub mission of those matters lo the arbitration board if there is no agreement reached within 30 days after the ruling on the two key issues. The arbiters would have 60 days to make binding decisions on the secondary matters. The bill provides however, that no arbitration award will take ef- lect until all the issues are re solved either through arbitration or negotiation. The board could make rulings that would bind both sides for two years or a longer period if both parties agreed. The bill adopted by the 17-man committee was described as a substitute for President Kenne dy's proposal to refer the dispute to tlie Interstate Commerce Com mission (ICC. Magnuson said the "consensus was that we did not want to in volve a government agency in this matter." The rail unions have criticized the ICC as a management-oriented bodv. Eyes Possible Budget Cuts Hatfield has indicated he would not call a special session unless he had to. He said if the legis lature couldn't approve a g o o d revenue measure in a 141 - day regular session, llier? was no reason lo expect better results at a special session. Kev to whether the cutbacks can be made without the legis lature apparently is the $141 mil lion basic school fund allotment Governor's Move Rare Hatfield asked Atlv. Gen. Rob ert. Y. Thornton for an opinion a whether the executive branch had aulhonty to cut the allotments. Crabs country was in the firm grip of the armed forces Yallir Klamath Falli, Tulelakt and Laktvitw: Vanablt cloudlntis with ahowara or fhun- derthowera through Saturday. Iowa to night 41 to SO, high Saturday 70 to 75. Weitarly windt fiva to 11 milaa par hour. High ycslorday 71 tow thli morning SO High yaar ago 7f Low yaar ago so Prtcip. latt 74 houra .01 Sinca Jan. I s.ll Santa period tail yaar lit r--. agaaw.ia.uii.no) .ai m uimi jnnmui.jwi.il n I'll imwiu oj iiiawa)iiiui)i w n,u ilium 4 ; - , : sT -Tai- ISl:: ttV-.." T'J fe if 7 . ; p I MODEL OF CENTER Fire Chief Geno Gheller holds an architect's model of the new firemen's training center to be built on a site near Spring Street. In the center of tile model is the combination classroom, smoke room and four-story tower. The tower will bo used for training of rescue operations and ladder technique. A pool of water for hose training is shown at left with a model fire truck, and two fire pits are at right. Bill Offers Change In Language WASHINGTON (LTD - Ally. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was ex pected lo present Congress today with a new version of a propos al to allow the President to with hold federal funds from an area where discrimination exists. Kennedy planned to submit the changes to the Senate Judiciary Committee which has been study ing the Chief Executive's civil rights proposals. According to congressional sources, the main dilference from the original measure is new language which would permit stales or localities to appeal to the courts when funds are withheld. Other congressional news: Pesticides: A bill to increase protection against potentially dan gerous pesticides received an added push towards passage when two large industry groups announced their support. Parke C. Brinkely, president of the Na tional Agricultural Chemicals As sociation, told a House agricul ture subcommittee that his group favored the proposal to prohibit the sale of an insecticide that is being investigated by the govern ment. He also supported another part of the bill to require an Ag riculture Department registration number on the label of a pack age containing a pesticide. He was supported by John A. Rodda. representing the Chemical Manu facturers Association. It was the first Unij in four years the Republican governor had asked a formal opinion nt the Democratic attorney general. Holmer said the governor could not cut spending by the secre tary of slate, state treasurer, the courts, or the legislate. "We don't yet kno about ba sic school support," h laid. Of the state's $4UI million gen eral fund budget, 58 icr cent $234 million goes to education. Special Session Diitastrful There are two reasons Hatfield may want to avoid a fpecial ses sion of the legislature. Such i .AND DOCUMENTS hit? IIAZLETON, Ta. U'PI Res- cue workers, undaunted by two failures and mechanical break- downs, drilled an escape shaft within hearing distance of two buried miners tolay. "That drill isn't far from us. ; Price Ten Cents 14 Page nn.nj.'.mim,. " "miiwu'wmimiMMi ' City Calls Bids On New Fire Training Facility Plans have been completed for 59,000 training center for local firemen to be built off Spring Street on a city-owned site. The center, designed by Klam ath Falls architect Robert Ford, features a four-story tower which will be used for training firemen rescues, ladder control and other techniques. Also, there will be a classroom area and two fire pits which will provide realistic conditions for the trainees. Another pool of water will be used to teach hose and pumping techniques and a "smoke room" is planned lor the main building. The City Council Monday night passed a resolution calling for bids for the new center, which will be built on a site behind the street department yard. Fire Chief Geno Gheller and City Manager Robert Kyle said Wrong Fuel Cools Act LOWESTOFT. England UPI As Geoffrey Winship, 29, a circus fire-cater, went to perform his act Thursday, a helper handed him gasoline instead of the usual kerosene. Winship was hospitalized with a sore mouth and throat. sinn would be costly and the governor would nave no way lo restrict the session to the fiscal crisis. Lawmakers could be ex)ected ti attempt to seek political ad vantage from such a session, and might attempt to mike Hatfield the scapegoat. Thornton now is on vacation. His deputy. E. G. Foxley, said research on the governor's school fund request would begin im mediately, hut he doubted if an answer would be imlhcoming for at least two weeks. XV. rill Nears Two Trapped MiBieirs I can hear it real good," reported David Fellin, 58, by telephone through a six-inch foodand-w ater shaft drilled earlier, Louis Marino, 32, Pittston, the drilling foreman, said rescuers expected to complete the shaft by KLAMATHFAI.LS, OKKGOX. the center will he the first step toward the creation of a corps of volunteer firemen in the city. The training center and volun teer corps, along with the new fire sub-station on Shasta Way and the proposed sub-station near the new Oregon Technical Institute campus, are expected lo contri bute lo a lowered lire insurance rating when inspected by the Board of Fire Underwriters. Construction of the new train ing center is expected to get un der way this fall, with completion expected early in 19B4. UN Moves To Ease Border Rift UNITED NATION'S, N Y. UPI The L'niled Nations Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting on the new Israeli-Syri an border flareup today in hopes of preventing further deterior ation of the crisis. Before tlie It-nation Ixxly were twin complaints by Israel and Sy ria, each accusing the other of aggression along their mutual frontier. The council had been expected lo wait until Mondav to consider the crisis, but decided to con venc this afternoon at the insis tence of Israel that the situation is too critical to delay action Israeli Ambassador Michael S Comay. who rushed to the L'nited Nations from Israel Wednesday because of tlie border clashes, said lliursday the situation was deteriorating and might produce more incidents. He called on Sec retary General Thant to inlorm him of the latest developments. The Israeli view was that I council meeting might help pre vent further clashes. Tlie I I Arab delegations were unanimous in blaming Israel for the new tension, and reaffirmed their governments' attitude that any attack on any Arab slate "amounts to an attack against all Arab countries." 2 o'clock this afternoon (PDT Gordon Smith, deputy secretary of mines, said Fellin's report was extremely encouraging. "That sounds pretty good, the drilling is nearly perfect," Smith said "This hole mav be in the FRIDAY. AUGUST 23. 13 Senate Leader Predicts Approval Of Test Treaty WASHINGTON lUPP A Sen ate loader conceded today that the split among scientists over the nuclear test ban treaty "could cost a few votes" for its ratification, but he said the pact was not in jeopardy. Chairman J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., of tlie Senate Foreign Relations Committee said in an interview that the cleavage in the scientific community left "no clear preponderance for or against the treaty." Fulbright's remarks reflected the surprise of many senators over the divided testimony of nu clear experts on the treaty bar ring all but underground tests. Dr. Edward Teller, "father of the H-bomb" and a chief oppo nent of the pact, may be ques tioned further in closed ses sion by the three-committee group headed by Fulbright. Teller's attack on the trea ty was backed by Dr. John S. Foster .Ir., director of the Law rence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore. Calif. But the pact was defended by Dr. Harold Foreign Aid Reduced S1 Billion WASHINGTON IUP11 - The House today approved a last-gasp Republican move to chop more than $1 billion from President Kennedy's foreign aid bill. The 222-188 roll call vote was a stunning setback for administra tion forces, who had steered tlie 17th annual aid authorization lo the point of passage almost un scathed. The vote cleared the way for final passage of the big au thorization bill, which then will go to the Senate. The climactic upset was attri buted partly to weekend ab senteeism and partly to the grow ing dissatisfaction of House mem bers with tlie continued outpour- ng of taxpayer dollars. Post- World War II military and eco nomic assistance already has topped $100 billion. Despite these factors House leaders previously had managed to turn aside all earlier efforts to cut the program. They also had blocked or tempered most of a whole barrage of proposed new restrictions. They went into today's crucial vole happy with these successes hut frankly worried about the outcome on this final assault on the bill. It previously had been trimmed by the foreign affairs committee more than $400 million below the President's request. ter BEAUTIFUL BOVINE This fins Hereford steer will go into competition for grand champion of the 1963 Tulelalts-Butt Valley Fair in September at Tulelalce. He an swers to the Spanish name of "Uno," meaning one, and it a bit "dippy" about a broth er bovine who shares a pen with him, Dan Wynn, 1 3, whose father it manager of tha Tulslake Growers Allocation, picked Uno for hit 4-H Club project from the Stanley Johnton Hereford herd at Maiin. Thii it Dan't tocond year at an exhibitor. Ha it a member of the Stronghold 4-H Club led by Ernie Lindtay. Uno aats 18 poundt of grain per day and free feeding! of oat hay. pillar," the layer of coal imme diately above the tiny chamber in which Fellin and Henry Throne, 28, have b e en trapped for U days. By 7:30 a.m. POT. the power ful 12-inch drill had gone through Telfphone TU 4-8111 No. 7.VR Brown, Pentagon research chief, and by Dr. N. E. Bradbury, di rector of the Los Alamos Scien tific Laboratory. The three committees called a closed session today to hear Doyle Northrop, director of the Air Force Applications Center. This was to be followed by a pub lic hearing lo take testimony from James P. Warburg, New York financier, and Edwin 'P. Neilan, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. A split similar to that among the nuclear scientists developed in testimony Thursday. Former Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Ex-President Skeptical About Reds NEW YORK (UPIl Former President Harry S. Truman said today the chances of the Russians not violating (he recently signed test ban treaty were "very slim "I don't trust them across the street," he commented in an im promptu interview during liis morning stroll. "They broke 32 agreements with me (at Pots dam i, -and 48 altogether, includ ing the ones signed by President Roosevelt at Yalta. "You can't blame me for being a little skeptical. They re good," he added, again referring to the Russians. Nevertheless, Truman said tlie treaty, still subject to Senate rati fication, had his full backing. I'm for it. and I wrote Presi dent Kennedy and told him so. 'The idea is to get a start on those tilings and you can always amend them. After all, they tlie Russians' may change and keep the agreement. That's the chance you've got to lake." Truman, still jaunty for his 79 years, would not hazard a guess on how long it would be before tlie treaty is broken. 'I'm no prophet, and I don't in tend to be, but it's a step in the right direction," he, commented. When asked about the opposi tion of Dr. Edward Teller, "fa ther of the H-bomb," to the rcaty, Truman said, "he's a good scientist, but he doesn't know anything about politics." Teller this week appeared be fore the Senate foreign relations defense and atomic energy com mittees to oppose the agreement which bans nuclear testing in the atmosphere, on the ground and in the sea. - i-X 275 feet of earth and rock. Fellin and Throne are at 330 feet. A cable on the 60-ton rig slipped off the hoist early this morning and interrupted drilling for an hour. Another breakdown halted drilling for three hours to Wailior AGRICULTURAL FORECAST Thi threat el cool, wt wttthir through Sailurdty will hamper mott fitld active ties. Procipttalion should b light, but could b htavy In thunders tor mi. Soil Itmptratur w dtgrm at I Inchts. H ty ing and gtntral fitld wortr outlook Im proving lo good by Monday. Commission attacked the treaty as a "clay pigeon" agreement ripe for Soviet breaching. Two Miners Show Courage, Humor lly II. D, Ql'IGG l'nited Press International From this valley they say you are going. . ." Eleven days under, and tlie en tombed men are singing. Two of them. I miss your bright eyes and sweet smile . . ." Joking, laughing at death. "Ask Gene, did I gei any traf fic tickets?" The third man down there in the caved-in coal mine . . . well, he's trapped in another compart ment and nothing has been heard from him since Tuesday. Tlie res cuers and the relatives and the well-wishers and the morbidly curious on the surface, 330 lect above, seem to have quietly agreed to stop talking about him. But David Fellin, 58, and Henry Throne, 211, are fighting the good fight as are their kinfolk on the surface, the way veteran mine families always do in uie tragedies of man's light to tap the earth. Throne sirigs "Red River Val ley." Fellin is a "Pennsylvania Polka" man. His wife, Anna, 47, sad cved but composed, has watched at tlie surface every day. 'They'll eel Davey out I know liiey will," she says. Faces Long Odtls Bui Fellin's brother, Joseph, 61 and just retired, says he figures there is about a 100-to-l chance and he adds: "Wo bolli should have given up mining years ago only reason you don t is mat it's tlie only place to go." An expert on the surlacc, Ll. Richard Anderson of Hie Naval Research Institute, says he thinks they can hold oul a long time. It's a tribute to tlieir guts mat they haven't given up by now. That's always the worry. But these are pretty tough charac-l ters." You drive out along a dirt road lo the outskirts of the village of Shcppton, Pa., through the anthracite country, wooded, hilly, with a scattering of dirty shacks. You stop about 300 yards from the mine shaft, where Uie cave-in trapped the men 11 days ago. As vou walk lo the ropcci on area where the high-speed drills have been probing to find the trapped men with rescue shafts. you notice fine gray dust afloat and spread around. This is Uie pulverized stone from below, dug te tj& . " ; : v i f & j2 1 1 b Louis Bova, 42, entombed in an other chamber nearby. But work on that shaft resumed at am. and the drilling bad progressed 40 feet. Despite their long entombment. Fellin and Throne appeared to be in good spirits. "Boy, when this is over, I'm,' going to take a month off," Fellin said. "The first thing I'm going to do is smoke a stogie," Throne said. As rescuers worked to extract them alive, experts debated whe ther to again lower a container of radioactive cobalt down a shaft which had missed the sur vival chamber Thursday. Fellin and Throne took Geiger counter readings in an attempt to pin point the probe, direct drillers on . the surface and possibly dig their way to it. But first findings were reported inconclusive by Atomic Energy Commission experts and H. Beecher Charmbury, state secre tary of mines, was to decide whe ther to try again with more pow; erful cobalt up and shot out as the drill works. Tlie rescue workers are masked to protect their Iiuig3. Dust Filed High Some workers shovel it away from the machinery: it's three to four feet deep in come places. The drills make a pounding, clanking, hey, rending noise. Near dusk Thursday, in order to lower radioactive cobalt to see if the two could use a geiger coun ter to detect how close a misscd mark shaft was, Uie big drill suddenly stopped. Dead silence. The observers looked stunned for moment. You could hear birds twittering lar off. It might have been some kind of irony. Because a radio station man had sent a query down the long line to Fellin, 331 feet away. Hey, Davey, what kind of mu- sic do you like?" he spoke into the mike. "I want to hear the birdies sing," came Fellin's voice grat ing out of the two loudspeakers at the shaft top. Than he broke again into "Penn sylvania Polka." "How's that announcer they had to take to the hospital?" Fellin asked announcer Elwood Tito, at tlie top. Tito: "He's fine. Ho went to the hospital because he wanted to see Uie nurses." Throne: "I tell you, we made a lot of trouble for a lot of peo ple, didn't we?" Tito: "That s okay, Dave. Throne: "No, this is Hank." Tito: "Did your voice change?" Hank: "No, I'm just getting a little older." Hank: "Any candy bars com ing down?" Tito: "Yes, were sending some. Hank: "Good for a little snack." Tito: "Do you want the plain or with nuts?" Hank: "That's Uie trouble. No nutty ones. I had to lane my tceUi out, that's why you didn't recognize my voice." The crowd of 300 aoove laugnea at this. There is a lot of joking up Uierc. The Salvation Army was busy handing out smacks. Death Takes Movie Head WASHINGTON UP1 - Eric A. Johnston, president ot the Mo tion Picture Association and an aide to three U. S. presidents, died Thursday from the effects of cerebral thrombosis. He was 66. Johnston, who administered the movie industry's moral code of self-censorship for 18 years, had entered George Washington Uni versity Hospital on June 17 after he suffered a stroke. A hospital spokesman said the famed movie czar died at e:iu p.m. EDT Uicre. Memorial services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. EDT at St. John's Episcopal Church, Wash ington, with burial in Spokane, Wash. Although born In the nation 3 capital, Johnston grew up and was tlie successful head of sev eral businesses in Spokane, where he moved with his family as a youngster. Ho served former Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in various domesuc assignments and once went to Uie Middle East as a special ambas sador for former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. He was a former president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and served an unprecedented four terms as its leader.