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111th Year. No. 233.
U. S. Scientist
Backs Treaty,
Rebuts Teller
Dr. Brown Denies
Russia Leads in
Missile Defense
By BERNARD GWERTZMAN
Star Stair Writer
The Pentagon’s top scientific
expert told the Senate today
that the United States is not
trailing the Soviet Union in
development of a missile de
fense.
Taking issue with Dr. Ed
ward Teller’s testimony yester-
Fortiol Transcript of President's Press
Conference. Page A-5
Gen. Power Alone in Stand. Page A-12
day. Dr. Harold Brown, direc
tor of defense research and
engineering, urged Senate rati
fication of the partial nuclear
test ban treaty.
He told the Foreign Rela
tions Committee that "the best
present judgment” is that
America’s anti-ballistic missile
efforts "are comparable in
magnitude and success to those
of the Soviets.”
Discounts Cheating
He also asserted that the
Russians could not gain any
substantial advantage under
the test ban treaty even if they
“cheat to the maxmum extent
possible.”
Dr. Brown declared that any
missile defense system the Rus
sians set up probably will be
no more effective than the
present United States Nike-
Zeus system which the Penta
gon has ruled too inadequate to
be deployed.
“Any system which the
Soviets are likely to have now
or in the near future does not
appear as effective, almost
certainly not more effective,
than Nike-Zeus,” he said.
In addition Dr. Brown said
the United States is confident
it can develop inter continental
missiles which will penetrate
any enemy defense system.
Called Tests Necessary
Dr. Teller, a noted nucular
physicist and a conultant to
the Air Force, urged the Senate
not to ratify the test ban treaty.
He said the Soviet Union was
ahead of the United States in
the knowledge necessary to
develop an effective missile
defense system. To redress this
imbalance, Dr. Teller said
further nuclear tests in the
atmosphere are necessary.
Such tests are prohibited by
the treaty.
Dr. Brown’s appearance be
fore the Senators followed
comments by President Ken
nedy refuting statements Dr.
Teller made yesterday.
Dr. Brown kept to the same
general line as that stated by
Defense Secretary McNamara.
Both men asserted that the
test ban would prolong Amer
ica’s technological superiority
over the Russians and assured
the Senators that Russia stood
to gain little by attempting
clandestine tests in the pro
hibited environment.
Could Enhance Superiority
Dr. Brown told the Senators:
“Having satisfied myself as
completely as is humanly pos
sible that the proposed treaty
cannot substantially impair our
strategic superiority if we take
the steps which we can to con-
See TREATY, Page A-6
Reds Submit Treaty
For Ratification
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 (AP).—
The Soviet government an
nounced today it has submitted
the limited nuclear test-ban
treaty to the Supreme Soviet
for ratification.
The announcement did not
say when the Supreme Soviet—
which is this country’s version
of a parliament—might meet
to vote on the treaty. Difficulty
is not anticipated, however.
"The world is much con
cerned, as it ought to be,
with standards of human
conduct."
Columnist Richard Wilson
contrasts the standard of
behavior set by the President
in his public and family life
with that of other high
American officials.
Page A-15
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Kennedy Vows to Trim
Spending After Tax Cut
House Unit's Two-Step Reduction Plan
Indorsed in Letter to Chairman Mills
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Statt Writer
President Kennedy today promised a “tighter rein” on
Federal spending in striving toward the long-range goal of
a balanced budget after Congress approves his tax-cutting
program. ,
The President warmly Indorsed the two-step tax reduc
tion and revision program voted by the House Ways and
Means Committee in a letter
to Chairman Mills, and he em
phasized that “it is most im
portant now that the bill be
enacted this year as rapidly
as possible.”
He wrote Mr. Mills after tell
ing his press conference late
yesterday that the Nation’s
economy is “good” now, run
ning slightly better than his
experts estimated in January,
but that the tax bill should be
passed this year "if we are go
ing to see 1964 another good
year.”
Lists Five Intentions
Seeking to reassure some
members of Congress who have
called for cutting Government
spending if taxes are reduced,
the President outlined five
“intentions” in his letter to Mr.
Mills:
1. “Our long-range goal re
mains a balanced budget in a
balanced full - employment
economy. It is clear that this
goal cannot be achieved with
out a substantial tax reduction
and the greater national in
come it will produce."
2. Tax reduction must also
Diem Seizing Pagodas;
U. S. Denounces Policy
TOKYO, Aug. 21 (AP).—
President Ngo Dinh Diem’s
armed forces seized pagodas
of rebellious Buddhists through
out Viet Nam today in a crack
down quickly denounced by the
United States Government.
Many monks and nuns were
arrested.
President Kennedy’s admin
istration, which has supplied
14,000 American military men
and SSOO million a year to
back Mr. Diem’s Communist
threatened regime, charged the
Saigon government violated
pledges for a peaceful recon
ciliation with the Buddhists.
Mr. Diem, a Roman Catholic,
declared a state of siege
throughout his nation of 15
million and ordered the army
to move against the yellow
robed leaders of the Buddhist
challenge to his government.
State Department Critical
The Saigon radio announced
raids were made on three
pagodas in the capital. Though
the monks are pledged to non
violence, it said, a submachine
gun, 14 plastic explosive charges
Saigon Situation
Worries Taipei
TAIPEI, Formosa, Aug. 21
(AP).*— Chinese Nationalist
quarters said today they were
gravely concerned over the
situation in South Viet Nam.
Unofficial quarters were con
vinced a revolution was in the
making there or had already
broken out.
Reports on the situation were
being anxiously studied.
Nationalist China has always
regarded South Viet Nam as
one of its closest international
friends because of a common
antl-Communist attitude.
‘EQUAL TIME' AN ISSUE
Governors Uninvite Teller
By GRACE BABSETT
Star Staff Writer
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. Vs., Aug. 21.—Embarrassed
representatives of the Southern
Governors Conference today
had to tell Dr. Edward Teller,
foe of the test-ban treaty, to
forget an invitation they had
extended yesterday.
Arkansas Gov., Orval Faubus,
conference chairman, disinvited
Southern Governors OK Pion to Boost
Industry. Pogo A-6.
the father of the H-Bomb after
Dr. Teller was believed to be
on his way to this mountain
resort from Washington.
Actually Dr. Teller never was
located by the conference
envoys, but the word must have
reached him. He didn't show up
here, but he appeared as
scheduled for a National Press
Club luncheon in Washington
at 12:30 p.m.
Democratic governors pro
tested against hearing an enemy
of the treaty unless they heard
a friend, too.
It was after midnight when
Gov. Faubus ordered the two
officials who had contacted Dr.
Teller to head him off.
He was scheduled to board a
Chesapeake & Ohio train at
12:20 a.m., address the confer
■ ence and their fly back to
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“be accompanied by the exfer
cise of an even tighter rein on
Federal expenditures, limit
ing outlays to only those ex
penditures which meet strict
criteria of national need.”
Smaller Deficit Seen
3. As the tax cut becomes
fully effective “and the econ
omy climbs toward full em
ployment, a substantial part of
the increased tax revenues will
be applied toward a reduction
in the transitional deficits
which accompany the initial
cut in tax rates.”
4. Assuming a loss of revenue
of |5 billion more in fiscal
year 1965 than in fiscal 1964
under the tax-cutting program,
the President said he expected
his fiscal 1965 budget to call
for a deficit of less than the
$9.2 billion forecast for fiscal
1964.
5. Any increase in the Fed
; eral debt resulting from transi
tional deficits "will be kept
proportionately lower than the
increase in our gross national
product, and thus the real bur-
See ECONOMY, Page A-6
and 10 daggers were seized at
1 the Ravada pagoda.
’ The State Department an
, nounced in Washington Amer
i lean disapproval of Mr. Diem’s
• maneuvers..
’ “On the basis of informa
tion from Saigon,” it said, “it
appears the government of the
I Republic of Viet Nam has in
i stituted repressive measures
> against Viet Namese Buddhist
leaders.
s “The action represents a
I direct violation by the Viet
Namese government of assur
ances that it was pursuing a
, policy of reconciliation with
■ the Buddhists.
’ "The United States deplores
repressive actions of this na
ture.”
The statement by the State
Department was discussed in
advance with President Ken
nedy at a meeting in the White
I House this morning. The Pres
i ident was briefed on the latest
i developments in Viet Nam, of
ficials said, by members of the
! staffs of the White House and
i the State and Defense Depart
ments.
American Dilemma
In April, 1960, while stu
dent riots were going on in
South Korea, Christian A.
Herter, then Secretary of
State, charged the government
■ of President Rhee with adopt
, ing “repressive measures un
; suited to a free democracy.”
This contributed to pressure
' that eventually forced Mr. Rhee
to resign.
J The Diem crackdown brought
into sharp focus a dilemma
l which has been growing on
United States strategists.
. On the one hand they dis
i like Mr. Diem’s authoritarian
l ism. On the other, they have
j seen no likely successor who
See VIET NAM, Page A-6
Washington for a National
Press Club luncheon appear
ance today. Wires were fired
[ to stationmasters to find Dr.
i Teller, but no word came back
to the conference that he had
been located.
About 3 am., Frank Norton,
chairman of the conference's
nuclear board, made a trip to
, Clifton Forge, a little town 30
i miles west of here. He wanted
to warn Dr. Teller. But he
couldn’t find him when the
train from Washington steamed
into the station 30 minutes
. late at 6:15 am.
i So Mr. Norton, an old friend
i of Dr. Teller, beat the train
to White Sulphur Springs. Dr.
i Teller did not get off.
The physicist only yester
i day warned the Senate Foreign
Relation Committee that the
i test-ban pact would be "a
i tragic and dreadful" mistake,
i He described the treaty as "not
a step for peace but rather a
• step away from safety, possibly
' a step toward war.”
I After Gov. Faubus had ap
proved Dr. Teller’s appearance,
1 the Governor heard reports
> that "two promoters” from
. Texas were pushing Dr. Teller
on the conference.
i Gov. Faubus did not know
t then that the so-called "pro
■ moters" were Mr. Norton and
> Dr. J. R. Maxfield, jr., of Dal-
Flash Floods Strike Area;
Alexandria Asks U.S. Help
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An Alexandria policeman, up to his hips, in
water flooding the Arlandria section during
last night’s downpour, wades from one aban
doned car to another along Mount Vernon
Court Enjoins
UAL Walkout
Machinists Quit
Jobs in Protest
Members of the International
Association of Machinists
stopped work at scattered
points over the United Air
Lines’ system today, but offi
cials anticipated no disruption
of service in this area.
United has more than 100
flight operations a day at
National, Dulles and Friendship
airports.
The airline immediately
sought an injunction against
what it termed a wildcat strike
in Federal court in Chicago,
which was granted this morn
ing. Supervisory personnel kept
schedules going without disrup
tion, an official said.
Involved were mechanics and
some other ground personnel.
Early this month, United and
the union signed an agreement
covering items in the dispute,
subject to ratification by union
members. Hie airline has not
yet been notified whether such
approval has been given.
United has about 2,300 em
ployes in the Washington area
—l,lOO of them members of
the union. Os the area total,
about 850 work at National
airport.
The line operates about 1,-
400 flights daily over the sys
tem, carrying more than 42;000
passengers in 260 aircraft. Na
tional employment is about
33,000, with some 13,000 mem
bers of the union.
I las, Tex., who are on the con
ference nuclear board.
The closer Gov. Faubus looked
. at the idea in the early morn
: ing hours, the more involved
I it became.
Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia
, objected even to listening to
i Dr. Teller here.
> When Gov. Terry Sanford of
l North Carolina heard about
I Dr. Teller's Washington testi
i mony he threatened to demand
! "equal time” to speak for the
treaty.
Gov. John Connally of Texas
said it was "presumptions in
the extreme” to let anybody
but Gov. Faubus invite Dr.
Teller.
West Virginia Gov. W. W.
Barron huddled with Gov. Fau
bus and reportedly cast the
deciding blackball against Dr.
Teller's speech. Presumably be
vetoed Dr. Teller because Gov.
Barron, a Kennedy Democrat,
wanted no anti-treaty talk
without some pro arguments
The last word from Gov.
Faubus as the search for Dr.
Teller continued through the
night, came around 2:45 am.
He said: "As far as I'm con
cerned, it’s all right for Dr.
Teller to appear.
"But I think the conference
should make the decision. And
Dr. Teller should be advised
that the conference has not
yet made that decision.”
Negroes in Prince Edward
Enroll in New Free School
By PAUL HOPE
Star SUH Writer
FARMVILLE, Aug. 21.
, Bashful Negro boys and pig
-1 tailed girls in freshly starched
; dresses today began brushing
the dust of four years from
Mary E. Branch Elementary
School here.
It was the first time the
sound of children and scratch
i ing pencils had been heard in
the school since the spring of
, 1959. It was then that Prince
Edward County officials de
cided they would rather have
no public schools than inte
grated ones.
Today, students were sign
ing up for classes to be started
next month by the Prince Ed
ward Free School Association.
There still aren’t any pub
lic school classes. But the
: County .School Board has
' agreed to let the Free School
’ Association, whose organiza
. tion was announced last week
' by Gov. Harrison, use some
buildings for classes for Ne
gro children who have been
largely without schooling for
four years.
Flag Hoist Sticks
In four years equipment—
like the mind of a child with
out schooling—can get a little
rusty.
When registrars tried to
raise the American flag on
Mary E. Branch’s flagpole to
day. they found the chain
which hoists the flag stuck
with rust. So they put the flag
on a small wooden pole and
tied it to the base of the metal
flagpole.
A Federal survey by a team
from Michigan State Univer
sity has shown about 1,700 Ne
groes of school age in Prince
Edward. Registrars for the
. Free School Association said
today they don’t know how
1 many will sign up for classes.
. Many of the cider youths
1 who have missed four years of
schooling already are expected
ato remain out permanently,
o
! UDALL TO CLIMB
J KILIMANJARO ON
e TRIP TO AFRICA
3 Br the Associated Press
1 Secretary of the Interior
f Udall hopes to visit Africa
next month on intemation
, al conservation matters and
■ to climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
The Secretary’s itinerary
' is still incomplete but was
described as likely to in
, elude visits to Uganda and
c Tanganyika before he goes
to Nairobi, Kenya.
Mount Kilimanjaro, a
e peak in Tanganyika more
than 19,000 feet high, to
the highest mountain on
the African continent.
s Two years ago Mr. Udall
i cllmed famed Mount Fuji
t in Japan.
avenue, checking to make sure no motorists
have been trapped inside. (For other pictures
of storm effects, see Page B-l). —Photo by Don
Hubbard.
although every effort is being
made to get as many as pos
■ sible to return.
Arthur Dudley, who former
ly was with the Michigan
State research team, was in
charge of registration. He esti
mated before noon that about
500 children had been regis
tered, including about 200 who
had signed up earlier at a sum
mer school center operated for
Negroes in Farmville,
The first child to register to
day was Charita Dos well, 9-
year-old daughter of Rudolf
Doswell, farm agent for Prince
Edward’s Negro population. The
county has separate agents for
whites and Negroes. Charita
has been attending schools for
three years in nearby Cumber
land County, where her moth
er is an elementary school
teacher.
“I’m very happy that schools
are being made available here,”
said Mr. Doswell, who arrived
with his daughter a half hour
before registration began. “I’m
urging the children to study
hard to try to catch up.”
Charita murmured. “I like
it.”
First Schooling
For 8-year-old James Wade,
brought to registration by his
grandmother, it will be his first
. formal schooling. James bash
fully managed a statement for
a reporter that he thought he
' was going to “love it.”
“He can read pretty good and
I prints his letters real good,”
James’ grandmother said. His
‘ only schooling has been at the
’ summer program.
> Susie Saunders, 7-year-old
» who would have gone to school
1 last year if classes had been
8
■ Mine Rescuers Start
New Drilling Operation
HAZLETON, Pa„ Aug. 21
(AP).—Drilling of a new escape
hole for the three trapped
miners began today.
Two of the men, trapped 331
feet underground and able to
talk to the surface through a
6-inch hole, reported they had
re-established contact, after
nearly 40 hours, with a com
panion who is separated from
them by a wall of debris in the
tunnel where they fled after
the main mine shaft walls col
lapsed eight days ago.
But a State mine inspector,
Arthur Joyce, cast doubt today
that there had been any con
tact with Louis Bova, 42.
The other trapped men, David
Fellin, 58, and Henry Throne.
28, set oft a scene of wild re
joicing on the surface late last
night when they told of talking
briefly with Mr. Bova and then
getting answering knocks on
the mine wall after they no
longer could maintain voice
. contact with him.
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available, said she was "all ex
cited about it.” Her mother
said “I think it’s wonderful
they’re getting a chance to go
this year.”
Most of the parents said they
hoped public schools would be
open by next year. Registra
tion was hardly a half-hour
old when Prince Edward Free
Schools became integrated.
Richard Moss, white 17-year
old son of the Dean of Long
wood College in Farmville,
signed for classes.
Goes Back to Job
After registering, young
Moss, who attended Virginia
Episcopal School in Lynch
burg last year, went back to a
summer job painting buildings
at Longwood.
i Dean Moss, who has op
posed Prince Edward County’s
closed-school policy, said his
son made up his own mind to
attend the classes, which are
expected to be almost exclusive
ly Negro. Mr. Moss was helping
with the registration today.
Among the early registrants
were Phyllis Lee, 18, and her
sister, Ruth, 15. After missing
two years of school, the girls
were sent to Massachusetts for
schooling under a program
sponsored by the American
Friends Service Committee.
One of the about 20 volun
teers who were registering stu
dents was Hrs. Mary Redd, who
was a teacher in a Negro
school In Prince Edward when
the schools were closed. She
now teaches in Charlotte
County.
“Glad for Students”
"I’m very glad for the chil
dren and the community," said
Mrs. Redd as she signed up
See PRINCE EDWARD, Pg. A-6
This morning, however. Mr.
Joyce, who has been assigned
here from the start of rescue
operations, said that at the
time the other men reported
, hearing from Mr. Bova he <Mr.
, Joyce) could hear nothing.
They requested, and received,
small tools to try and dig to
ward where Mr. Bova was
trapped.
Two six-inch holes have
been drilled into the mine—
the lifeline hole through
which Mr. Fellin and Mr.
Throne talk and receive sup
plies, and the second one which
broke through last night into
the area where Mr. Bova is
I believed trapped.
Mr. Joyce listened at the one
for Mr. Bova while the other
miners talked through the com*
’. panion hole some distance
i away.
! Asked why Mr. Fellin and
( Mr. Throne were not ques
. tioned about his feeling that
See MINERS. Page A-3
10 Cents
Motorist
Drowned in
Arlington
Alexandria officials formally
asked today that the flood
stricken Arlandria section be
declared a disaster area in the
wake of the second torrential
rainfall to strike this area in
the past two days.
Nearly 4 Inches of rain del
uged Washington and nearby
areas last night, swamping
hundreds of homes and busi
nesses, paralyzing traffic,
knocking out communications
and drowning one Virginia
resident in a flash-flood.
City Manager Albert M. Hair,
jr., of Alexandria, asked Rep
resentative Broyhill, Republican
of Virginia, to request President
Kennedy to declare Arlandria
a disaster area today. The
declaration is necessary to make
Arlandria merchants, who suf
fered losses estimated at more
than $1 million, eligible for
Small Business Administration
loans. The loans up to $250,000
are granted at 3 per cent for
as long as 20 years to help
merchants rehabilitate their
property and acquire new
merchandise.
Streams Overflow Banks
The downpour struck at 7:40
p.m. and quickly inundated
low-lying areas, sent small
waterways out of their banks
and backed up sewers.
The surging waters struck a
blow of disaster proportions at
the low-lying community of
. Arlandria near the Alexandria-
Arlington line. A Small Busi
ness Administration representa
tive from Richmond, Va., was
en route to Arlandria today to
estimate the damage and de
termine if loans can be made
to some of the merchants
whose stores and stocks of
goods were ruined by flooding.
$1 Million Loss Estimated
r Damage to business proper
[ ties in the four-block stretch
> of Mount Vernon avenue be
tween Four Mile Run and
, Glebe road was estimated at
, more than $1 million by James
’ N. Hayman, president of the
’ Alexandria Retail Merchants
. Association. He said the losses
to apartment residents in (he
area are “staggering.”
The merchants’ association
today sent members to visit all
businessmen in the stricken
area to get damage estimates
and offer services. The city
also set up an information cen
ter in a trailer at Arlandria to
co-ordinate needs of flood vic
tims and the work of clean-up
, supervisors.
Red Cross and welfare depart
ment’ representatives manned
the information center to in
terview families about food and
’ shelter problems. With an
1 estimated 100 Arlandria apart
' ments said to be uninhabitable,
' the Red Cross may use the
\ Cameron Street Recreation
: Center for emergency housing
tonight if needed.
i
Mammoth Jams
. Weather Bureau forecasters,
. whose teletype communica
ations were blacked out for a
, time at the height of the stonn,
registered an official 3.9 inches
of rain until the storm clouds
passed beyond the area about
' mdnight. The total rainfall
in the 26-hour period was 6.28
inches, a little more than an
' inch short of the all-time rec
, ord of 7.31 inches that fell
August 11-12, 1928.
The storm was marked by
mammoth traffic jams, strand
ed motorists, hundreds of
I flooded basements, downed
i trees, dead telephones and
;' power lines.
The drowning victim was
identified by Arlington police
as Charles Shepard, 41, of the
Oak Knoll Apartments in Fair
fax, Va. Mr. Shepard was in
his 1963 Volkswagen in the 1700
block of Army-Navy drive, near
Shirley highway, when Long
Branch Run swept out of its
i banks over his car.
Neighborhood residents made
I vain attempts to reach the car
> as the water rose around it.
> One unidentified man tied a
I garden hose around his waist
but was repeatedly swept off
See STORM. Page B-l, Col. 6.
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