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INSPECTION JOURNEY Rescue worker John Adams is brought up from the
reamed-out hole that was drilled toward miners David Fellin and Henry Throne,
trapped more than 300 feet below the surface. Adams was lowered in a special har
ness 37 feet into the hole to inspect the d illinq which is widening the hole so the
miners can be hauled out. UPI Telephoto
In The-
Day's km
By FRANK JENKINS
As this is written, the civil
rights demonstration march on
Washington is shaping up. It is
set for day after tomorrow, and
is expected to include 10O.0O0 or
more persons, both white and col
ored. Its sponsors pledge that it will
be orderly and to help them car
ry out their pledge a force o
some 10,000 security officers is
standing by. It will include po
licemen. National Guardsmen,
civilian police reserves, parade
marshals and if needed some
4,000 soldiers and Marines.
The ruckus in Viet Nam is
getting worse.
The Russians cuss out the Red
Chinese again.
In the Middle East, fierce fight
ing erupts between Israel and
Jordan.
In New York, a teacher strike
threatens to close all the schools.
The long - discussed railroad
strike is due to come to a head
later in the week.
The argument over ratification
of tile nuclear test ban treaty
continues.
Question:
Isn't ANYBODY
more?
happy any
New angle on the test ban pact:
Speaking in Los Angeles the
other day, Evangelist Billy Gra
ham said the recently negotiated
test ban treaty between the U.S.,
Britain and Russia "offers noth
ing but false hope."
Speaking at a prayer breakfast,
he told his hearers that "Russia
is still out for. world revolution,
and the test ban treaty means
nothing."
The test ban treaty has been
negotiated and signed. But be
fore it can become effective, so
far as the United States is con
cerned, it must be ratified by
the Senate. Our Senators are
now making up their minds as to
how they are going to vote.
On the treaty, you may have
strong personal convictions. You
may feel that it SHOULD be
ratified. You may feel that it
SHOULD NOT be ratified.
But-
You may say to yourself
WHAT CAN I DO:
,' Well, here's a thought:
In a democracy, the INSTINCT
OF THE PEOPLE is immensely
important. The instinct of the peo
ple is sometimes better in im
mensely important situations such
as this than the reasoned deci
sions of those in authority,
So-
If and when you find that your
mind is made up that you're
for the treaty, or against it, and
that's that
WRITE YOUR SENATORS.
Tell them how you feel about
it. And why.
For your information. Oregon's
senators are Wayne Morse and
Maurine Xeuberger. California's
senators are Clair Engle and
Thomas H. Kuchcl. Their address
is Senate Olfice Building. Wash
ington. DC.
Make your letters short. About
all vou need to say is I'M FOR
IT or I'M AGAINST IT. along
with a brief statement of your
reasons.
Don't think your letters won't
be read. They will be.
Among other things, there is a
lot of politics in this business
and your senators are going to
want to know how their constitu
ents feel about it.
STAND-IN FOR JACKIE
WASHINGTON 'UPI' - Presi
dent Kennedv s sister, Eunice,
will stand-in (or Mrs. Jacqueline
Kennedy as the White House hos
tess during the visit of the kins
and queen of Afghanistan.
Eunice is the wile of Sargent
Schriver. "'c dnector of the
Peace Corps.
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Viet Nam Police
Continue Arrests
SAIGON i UPI i The govern
ment concentrated today on si
lencing angrv students who are
carrying on the campaign of op
position initiated by Buddhist
leaders, most of whom now are
in hospitals or jails.
Police shot and killed a girl
taking part in an anti-government
demonstration Sunday and carted
hundreds of other students off to
jail. Some estimates placed the
number under arrest at 2,000.
Several youths were wounded
by police gunfire and others
were roughed up by riot patrol
men.
The crackdown began only a
few hours before U.S. Ambassa
dor Henry Cabot Lodge called on
President Ngo Dinh Diem to pre
sent his credentials and give
Evans Faces
Arraignment
PORTLAND ( UPI i Robert
Evans, 26, Honolulu, was sched
uled to be arraigned on a charge
of first degree murder here to
day in connection with the stran
gulation death of a wealthy Idaho
heiress earlier this month.
Evans is accused of the death
of Mrs. Irene Davis, 41, of Pay
ette. Her partially clothed body
was found in a bathtub in a room
at the Portland Hilton Hotel Aug.
6.
Portland police said Saturday
night that Evans had "acknowl
edged verbally. . .that he was
responsible for the death" of Mrs.
Davis.
Evans was returned to Portland
early Saturday from Fremont,
Neb., where he was arrested atter
police recognized his car as one
described in a police bulletin.
Donald Layman, a Portland at
torney, was appointed to handle
Evans' case when the latter ap
peared before Municipal Judge J.
Quiliin later in the day.
George Juba, chief criminal
deputy of the Multnomah County
district attorney's office, and By
ron Shields, chief of detectives of
Portland Police Bureau, is
sued the statement of Evans' ad
mission. The statement said:
"In the presence of Mr. Juba
and a member of the detective
division, Robert Evans acknowl
edged verbally this morning (Sat
urday! that he was lesponsible
for the death of Irene Davis in
the early morning of Aug. 6,
1963."
Civil Rights Marchers
Cautioned On Violence
WASHINGTON i L PI '-Leadersj
of Wednesday's civil rights
march on Washington warned
participants today against pro
voking violence and disorder
from "evil persons . . . deter
mined to smear this march and
discredit the cause of equality."
"We call for self-discipline so
that no one in our ranks, how
ever enthusiastic, shall be the
spark for disorder," they said.
"In a neighborhood dispute,
there may be stunts, rough words
and even hot insults; but when
a whole people speaks to its gov
ernment, the dialogue and the
action must be on a level reflect-
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jthe responsibility of that govern-
ment."
Federal and Incal authorities
worked on last-minute details of
an elaborate, military-like logisti
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Diem a message from President
Kennedy.
Talk Only Briefly
Lodge and Diem chatted amia
bly for about 15 minutes. News
men watching the ceremony could
hear only fragments of the con
versation, but it appeared that
neither man mentioned the explo
sive Buddhist crisis.
The ambassador was expected
to take that matter up al his first
private interview with Diem. 11
was not certain immediately how
soon that would be.
Lodge told newsmen Sunday lie
had been advised not to go to
church because of the tense situ
ation in Saigon, symbolized by
frequent government roadblocks
in the downtown streets.
"I've also been advised not to
take any long walks," Lodge
said.
Anti-L'.S. Feelings Grow
Increasing anti-Americanism
has been displayed by govern
ment forces in the tense Vietna
mese situation. One army captain
who ordered the arrest of three
American newsmen Saturday
shouted, "To hell with Ameri
cans!"
(In Washington, high U.S. offi
cials indicated there may be a
sharp reduction in U.S. aid to
South Viet Nam unless Diem fires
the secret police officials blamed
for the attacks on the Buddhists.)
Small Fires
Hit Oregon
By United Press International
The U.S. Forest Service report
ed today 31 fires broke out in
Oregon between midnight Thurs
day and midnight Sunday, but
they burned less than three
acres. (
All but six were lightning
caused, according to chief dis
patcher Clarence Edgington. Al
most all occurred in Eastern Ore
gon.
The Slate Forestry Department
reported only four small fires on
state-protected land over t h e
weekend. None burned more than
half an acre.
The only major fire burning in
the Northwest today was in the
Bear Mountain area of Washing
ton's Wenatchce National Forest,
where a lightning - caused blaze
burned 150 acres of grass and
scattered pine before being sur
rounded by 125 men this morn
ing. Edgington said the crews
were expected to bring it under
control within a few hours.
cal plan to provide needed food
water, shelter, medical care and
police protection for the more
than 100,000 marchers expected
here.
-More than 10.000 local police
and firemen, federal troops, Na
tional Guardsmen and deputies
will he on hand to keep the
peace, though local officials and
march leaders said they do not
expect any violence.
The demonstration's organizers
are providing 1.500 civilian pa
rade marshals, most of them re
cruited in New York City.
The House and Senate will be
in session Wednesday, but prob
ably will be debating emeigeniy
legislation to avert a nationwide
railroad strike, rather than civil
rights. At least 43 members of
Congress are expected to attend
the rally at the Lincoln
-Memorial.
SHEPPTOX, Pa. 'L PI i - Drill
ing operations slowed down sharp
ly today in the ellort to rescue
two rugged coal miners who have
been buried 308 feet underground
for two weeks. Estimates of when
they may reach the surface ranged
trom late alternoon to late at
night.
Rescue workers bored past the
'Shooting Match' Forecast
Over Senate Railroad Bill
WASHINGTON 'L'PH - The
House Commerce Committee to
day approved legislation to avert
a nationwide rail strike Thursday
while the Senate squared off for
what a Republican leader said
would be a real shooting match
over a similar bill.
Senate Republican Leader Ev
erett Dirksen, III., said opposing
Senate forces were "coming out
of all corners shooting" over a
bill to set up a seven-member
board to arbitrate the 4-year-old
dispute.
With one key exception, the
House bill was similar to the
Senate version. It would not sub
ject the so-called secondary issues
to arbitration. The Senate bill
would provide for arbitration of
these matters if no agreement
was reached by collective bai
gaining within 30 days.
Both would provide that the two
primary issues, the need for fire
men on freight and yard service
diesels and over-all make-up of
train crews, be resolved by ar
bitration binding on both tile
unions and the carriers.
The administration is gunning
Railroads
Posf Rules
CHICAGO 'UPIl Seven of
the nation's largest railroads have
notified train crewmen their
rules will be changed, they an
nounced today.
Spokesmen for the Santa Fe,
Baltimore and Ohio. Illinois Cen
tral, Burlington, Pennsylvania,
New York Central and Gulf. Mo
bile and Ohio Railroads confirmed
that work rules changes notices
went up over the weekend.
the changes are to take effect
at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Similar
notices posted twice in July
brought threats of a nationwide
rail strike by operating unions.
The Illinois Central and New
York Central also notified their
non-operating employes they will
be laid off in the event of a
strike.
'Jail Bird'
Won't Leave
BOURNEMOUTH, England
(UPI) Police said today
they have been having diffi
culty during the past week
with a homing pifiiym which
refuses to return lo its owner
following several days in the
Bournemouth jail while its
injured wing whs mended.
The pigeon keeps coming
hack to the jail, police said.
PRIDEFUL PORKERS Mike Macy, 13, ion of Mr. and Mrs. William Macy, Tulelake,
will exhibit in the twine division at the 1963 Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair, Sept. 7, 8,
and 9 at Tulelake. Mike ii grooming White Pudney and Black Pork to show in the
market hog class. He is a member of the Stronghold 4-H Swine Club led by his father
and Paul Christy. His father is a 1947 homesteader who once lived at Lakeside, Calif.
The fair this year promises to be the largest since the fair was begun many yean ago.
230-foot mark without a major
hitch in the final stage of ream
ing out an existing 12-inch hole
from the surtace to the spot
where the two were trapped when
a mine shaft collapsed.
But officials were becoming in
creasingly cautious as the drill
approached the subterranean
chamber where David Kellin, 58,
hopefully but not optimistically (or
enactment of 1 e g i s 1 a t i o n hy
Wednesday to avert a threatened
nationwide rail strike one minute
after midnight local time that
dav.
Like the Senate bill, the House
legislation dropped President Ken
nedy's proposal that the Inter
state Commerce Commission be
handed the prohlcm of settling the
dispute.
While the House measure would
not allow the arbitration board to
touch issues beyond the questions
of firemen and crews, it would
forbid a strike over secondary
disputes for 150 davs after the
bill is enacted.
Kennedy,
Dobrynin
Plan Talks
WASHINGTON HJPI Presi
dent Kennedy today plunged into
what could be the one of the most
important weeks of his White
House career, starling w ith a con
ference with Soviet- Ambassador
Anatoly Dobrynin.
The meeting with Dobrynin,
Kennedy's first session with a top
Russian leader since the nuclear
test ban treaty was negotiated.
was arranged following talks last
week between the Soviet envoy
and State Department officials.
There was no indication Ken
nedy and Dobi7nin would con
centrate on any specific issue.
They were expected to discuss a
general range of topics dealing
with recently improved Russo-
American relations, including the
test ban.
The President returned to
Washington this morning from a
low pressure weekend with his
family at their summer retreat
at Hyannis Port, Mass. Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and
Navy Undersecretary Paul Fay
accompanied Kennedy.
Dobrynin is back at his Wash
ington post alter a visit home.
While there, he sat in on some
of the probing talks Secretary of
State Dean Rusk held with Pre
mier Nikita S. Khrushchev and
other Russian officials about pos
sible further measures for easing
East-West friction in the wake of
the test ban agreement.
President Kennedy faces a raft
of other problems this week,
ranging from Wednesday's mass
civil rights march on Washington
to the sticky question of Ameri
can operations in strife-lorn
I South Viet Nam.
and Henry Throne, 28, were wait
ing to be saved.
'I'lie miners said some dust w as
falling into the cramped chamber
despite a concrete plug at the
bottom of the 12-inch hole.
Mine experts said this was to
be expected. However, they de
cided to call a strategy con
ference when the drill, in scrap
If both chambers pass a differ
ent bill, it would require setting
up a House-Senate conference
committee to work out a com
promise. This could mean delay
ing action beyond the Thursday
strike threat date.
House Commerce Chairman
Oren Harris, D-Ark., said the
committee adopted the amend
ment to limit arbitration to the
key issues because industry and
government officials all had testi
fied these alone had prevented a
settlement.
The bill now goes to the traffic
cop House Rules Committee,
which is expected to clear it
Tuesday for a House vote on
I Wednesday.
The Senate was scheduled lo
begin debate on its bill later to
day. On the eve of Senate debate.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., an
nounced I hat lie w ould seek to
give the President power lo seize
the railroads in the event of a
strike.
The Belgrade talks apparently
healed the breach, although Yugo
slavia formally continues "neu
tralist."
Pair Hopes
To Settle
Differences
PULA. Yugoslavia (UPI 'Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev and Presi
dent Tito met today in the
seclusion of the latter's Brioni Is
land retreat to thresh out prob
lems affecting Yugoslavia's rela
tions with the rest of the Com
munist world.
Questions believed lo rank high
among the matters they discussed
were the expansion of Yugoslav
trade with the Moscow-bloc na
tions and the adoption of a com
mon stand against Red China s
brand of communism.
Khrushchev, alwut lialfway
through a 15-day "working va
cation" in Yugoslavia, arrived
Sunday at Brioni aboard Tito's
luxurious yacht Seagull.
He came to the hilly, green is
land from a triumphal tour of
southwestern Yugoslavia follow
ing Belgrade talks that apparent
ly restored Yugoslav - Soviet
friendship after a 15 - year es
trangement.
Tito had been feuding with
Moscow since the late Josef
Stalin expelled him from the
world Communist movement in
1948 for leading Yugoslavia down
a Communist road independent
of Moscow.
ing out the smaller hole lo a
diameter of 17' -j inches, reached
a depth of 2(15 feet.
At this meeting, they planned
to decide on whether the shaft,
after being enlarged lo 17'a
indies, should be widened even
more, to 20 inches.
There were fears Hie metal es-
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NEARING GOAL The final stages of drilling to reach
two miners trapped 308 feef underground is under way
at Sheppton, Pa. A 1 7 'i -inch drill moved past the 250
foot mark early today to widen the 12-inch opening
already dug to the chamber where Henry Throne, 28,
and David Fellin, 58, have been entombed since Aug. 13.
UPI Telephoto
Defense Research Chief
WASHINGTON (UP1 The
director of Defense Research un-
der both Presidents Eisenhower
and Kennedy said today that sci
ence and technology by them
selves offer "absolutely no solu
tion" to the problem of national
security,
He said the tesl ban treaty
with Russia offers hope in tin's
direction.
The testimony was given by Dr.
Herbert F. York, 41-ycar-old
chancellor of the University of
California, as the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee moved into
the final stages of its hearings on
the treaty.
The limited pact also was en
dorsed by former Ambassador
Arthur II. Dean, who said it is
"in the best interests of the Unit
ed States." But lie added:
"Keep Musket Loaded"
I would keep the musket con
stantly loaded and iput an ever
vigilant guard at the door" to de
tect possible violations by the So
viet Union.
York rejected the arguments of
critics who contend the treaty
would hamper development of an
anti-missile system, nail down
Russia's lead in super bombs and
perhaps find U. S. laboratories
unprepared if Russia resumes at
mospheric shots.
He testified that although U. S.
military power has "steadily in
creased" since shortly after
World War II, its national sccu-
ily has been "rapidly and inex
orably diminishing" as weapons
become more deadly. The picture
for Russia, he added, is "much
worse."
'It is my view that, the prob.
lem posed to both sides hy this
dilemma of steadily increasing
military power and steadily de
Teasing national security has no
One Suspect Arrested
In Slaying 01 Officers
LODI. N.J. lUPD - Two po
licemen were lorced to disrobe
and then were shot to death early
today in a night club where they
had gone to check on a disturb
ance. An ex-convict with a long polite
record was arrested as a sus
pect a few hours after the dou
ble murder at the Angel lounge.
Two others were sought by po
lice.
The victims were detective Sgl
Peter Voto, 40, and probationary
patrolman Garry Tedesco, 21, who
joined the force only n week ago
Bergen County Prosecutor Guy
Calissi said Voto discovered one
of the men was carrying a pistol
when he went to the club to in
vostigate a reported disturbance
The discovery apparently touched
off the shootings, Calissi said
Four women and the bartender
were Ihe only persons In the club
cape capsule, which was expected
lo bring the men to the surface,
would get stuck in the narrow
rescue shaft.
Officials also wanted to decide
whether to send a volunteer down
to help the men into the capsalc.
The 10-foot long concrete plug
was poured to prevent dirt, rock
1 technical solution,"
the scientist
said.
If we continue to look for so
lutions in the areas of science and
technology the only result will be
a steady and inexorable worsen
ing ot this situation."
. ''Kinst Small ;Sleii"
On the other hand, York said'
he considered the test ban treaty
to be "a first small step towards
finding a solution" to the prob
lem of nalional security if it is
followed by other eleps to re
verse the arms race.
If the treaty is not followed by
other actions to slow the arms
race, he said, "national security
will still continue to diminish,
though perhaps less rapidly."
Four Leave
Space Cabin
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPD-
Four airmen who volunteered to
spend 43 days in a simulated
space cabin so scientists can de
termine the ideal temperature
mid atmospheric conditions un
manned spaceships completed
their mission today.
The longest previous stay in a
simulated space cabin was 30'
days.
The men were chosen from vol
unteers al nearby Lackland Air
Force Base. Tlicy were not iso
lated in the cabin at Brooks Aero
space Medical Center. They could
watch television and read.
The four volunteers were Air
man Third Class Billy V. Steph
ens, 24, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Don
ald R. .I.'icobson, 19, Florence,
Ore.: Gene F. Ciirliss, 19, of
Portland, Ore., and Karhlcinz
Smarsch, 21, Mamaroneck, N.Y.
with the Ihree men at the lime,
lie said. Three of them were later
picked up in nearby Hackcr.sack
after police slopped them for
driving without headlights.
Calissi said the men jumped
Voto alter he found the gun.
They ordered him to strip, and
;is he began taking oil his clothes
one man oiencd fire. Voto (ell
dead with bullets in the head and
back.
While the bartender Nicholas
Kayal, 32 and Ihe women took
cover, Tedesco ran in from the
police cai where he had been
waiting.
The men Riabbed the unarmed
oflicer, forced him to start dis
robing then shot him to death.
Police Chief Philip Wagcnti said
10 shots were fired in tho club,
but it was not determined if Voto
had used his weapon. Three pis
tols were found at the scene.
Treaty
and coal being scraped out hi the
reaming operation from falling in
to tlse miners' tiny prison.
Shortly before 9 a.m.. EDT. one
rescue official spoke to Fellin
over the communications system
mat uiks the miners to the world
above.
He asked Fellin w hether he had
heard anything from a third min
er, Louis Bova, 42, and Fellin re
plied quietly, "No."
Fellin, whose voice could he
heard over a broadcasting speak
er near the head of the mine in
wliich tire three were entombed,
also said he had no idea where
Bova was located.
Drilling for Bova stopped a lit
tle before 6 a.m. at a denth of
about 140 feet when water was
encountered. The drill, driven by
compressed air, will not operate
in water.
The first 38 feet of the rescue
shaft was enlarged to 30 inches
Sunday. Then a 26-inch-wide steel
casing was inserted in that sec
tion of the hole to reinforce its
walls, and reaming with tho
smaller bit was started.
In another operation, a rescue
worker said it may take until
sometime Tuesday to finish drill
ing a 3-inch hole to the spot where
Bova was thought to be trapped.
tsova, who was with Fellin and
Throne when the mine shaft they
were in collapsed Aug. 13, was
last heard from on Tuesday.
Hopes tliat he would be found
alive were dim.
Some ofiieials estimated the
drill may reach the chamber in
which Fellin and Throne are
trapped by II a.m., EDT, while
others predicted it would not
break through until late in
the afternoon or evening.
Gordon Smith, deputy slate sec
retary of mines, and Clyde Mac-
liamer, president of the Indepen
dent Miners Association, said the
reaming operation may be fin
ished before noon. Peter Hino, a
stale mine inspector, said it might
take until dusk.
The reaming operation proceed
ed slowly, at the rate of a few
feet an- how. Periodic delays
were caused when new sections
had to be added to (he pipe that
carries pulverized rock to the
surface as the drill goes deeper.
Alter dnllmg js completed, the
capsule will bo lowered to t h e
chamber and raised several times
in dry runs before an actual at
tempt to lift the men to the sur
face is made.
Throne, listening to the hum of
the drills through the smaller
shaft, said, "We're gonna be like
(astronaut) John Glenn and come
shooting out of this hole."
I'll send Hank (Throne) up
first," Fellin shouted later. A res
cue worker replied: "I figtu-ed
you'd say that."
George Gallagher, a friend of
the two, Sunday night warned
Throne that there may be "stuff
coming down the hole" from tho
drilling.
"We got room down the sloiie,"
Throne said, indicating there was
space to shunt aside any loose
dirt that might fall. "Nothing is
falling now."
Elwood Tito, a television re
pairman from nearby Hazleton
who set up much of the commun
ications system to the men, also
talked to Throne and told him:
"Don't worry, we'll have you
fellows up here."
'1 don't care if you take me
up upside down," Throne said.
Dave said that if he can t get
in the capsule, he'll crawl up."
Throne then woke up the sleep
ing Fellin so that he could talk
to his wife, Anna, 47. She told
him:
Hope you're coming up tomor
row (today) because I haven t
seen you for a long time. Buddy,
Buddy."
Smith said that after the holo
had been widened, it would re
quire about two hours to with
draw the drill, 30 minutes to hoist
the capsule into position and one
and a half hours for the test
runs with the capsule.
The steel casing was lowered
by crane into the 38-foot section
of the hole with accuracy that
Smith called "perfect." Another
casing. 20 inches in diameter,
was inserted inside of it as an
additional safety factor.
When Throne and Fellin arc
brought up, they will be flown
by helicopter to a hospital eight
miles away.
Two Marine helicopters from
Quantico, Va., were standing by
for this operation. Bulldozers
leveled off part of a hill near
the mine to prepare a landing
pad for the craft.
Bova was in a chamber about
j feet away from Throne and
Fellin.
One of his four brothers, Pete
Bova, 3D, a veteran of 12 years
in the mines, said at tho scene:
"I know he's alive and I know
I could get him home."