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Surrounded by a choking cloud of dust kicked
up by a drill, rescue workers lower food pack
ages to trapped miners. The drill is inching
2 Trapped Miners Hear Rescue Drill;
It Sounds Like It's Right Above Me'
HAZLETON, Pa., Aug. 23
(AP) .—Drilling or a new es
cape hole for three trapped
miners reached a point today
where two of the men reported
they could hear the drill.
The rescue crews slowed the
pace of the giant drilling rig,
which stands 10 stories high,
and proceeded cautiously
around the 300-foot level.
They asked David Fellin, 58,
and Henry Throne, 28, to keep
a close watch on the ceiling
above the 14-foot-by-9-foot
chamber where they have been
trapped 331 feet underground
for 10 days.
"Let us know the first signs
of dust or anything," the man
handling communications from
the surface told them via a
microphone through the 6-lnch
lifeline hole. "Keep track of
it and tell us when to stop.’*
“We will,” replied Mr. Fellin.
Two previous escape hole
tries have failed, the latest one
yesterday.
Breakthrough Due
If all goes well, the 12-inch
drill was expected to break
through around midafternoon
today. Drilling slowed to avoid
any possibility of a new cave
in. After the 12-inch hole is
completed, the next step will
Castro Confident
Os Cuba Success
HAVANA, Aug. 23 (AP).
Prime Minister Fidel Castro
said in Havana the Cuban revo
lution is "going ahead and will
win despite piratic attacks of
counter-revolutionists.”
It was his first public refer
ence to recent hit-run raids on
refineries and factories by
counter-revolutionary groups.
Mr. Castro spoke at the open
ing of Cuba’s annual student
games.
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be to enlarge it to 17 inches.
This probably will take another
30 hours.
A mechanical breakdown
stalled the operation shortly
before noon, but the crew said
the problem was minor and
they would start again at any
moment. At that time they
were at the 290-foot level.
As Mr. Fellin and Mr.
Throne reported hearing the
drill, they were asked how it
sounded.
“Great. I can hear it and it
sounds like it’s right above me,”
said Mr. Fellin.
Trapped 10 Days
A second drilling rig, con
siderably smaller, was sending
a 4-inch probe toward the area
where Louis Bova. 42. is be
lieved trapped. It was much
slower, however, than the giant
rig.
About 25 feet of debris sep
arate Mr. Throne and Mr.
Fellin from Mr. Bova. They
have been trapped for 10 days
—since 9 am. August 13.
Experts on the drilling rigs
expect difficulties as a matter
of routine in going through
hard rock. They have a com
plete duplicate set of parts on
hand at all times. The first
breakdown today, around 3
am., came when a packing
bolt broke loose. Another,
at 5 am., was caused by a
hoist cable that lowers and
raises the drill mechanism
jumping oft a pulley.
Optimism prevailed for Mr.
Throne' and Mr. Fellin. Mr.
Bova’s fate was uncertain.
There have been no reports
about him since Tuesday night,
when the other two said they
heard brief shouts and tapping.
A Navy survival expert at the
scene said Mr. Bova's chances
appeared slim.
The 4-inch drill is being used
in hope of establishing a com
munications-food-supply line
to him similar to the 6-inch
one available to Mr. Throne
and Mr. Fellin since Sunday
night.
The two miners in communi
cation with the surface were
considerably less talkative to-
Steamy, Hot Day Seen
For Civil Rights March
The day of the civil rights
March on Washington next
Wednesday may be steamy and
hot, Weather Bureau fore
casters said today.
The air should be humid and
the temperature should reach
at least 85, with a high of 90
or so not unlikely.
The area’s atmosphere is
stagnated, a forecaster said to
day in explaining the official
five-day forecast. What air
we're getting today and are ex
pected to get next Wednesday
is southern, from the Gulf,
Wednesday highs may be two
or three degrees above the
normal high of 84 for this
period.
Between this week end and
next Wednesday there will be
a slightly cooler period Mon
day and Tuesday, with per
haps an inch of rain. “We
*** B WASHINGTON, D. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1963 —6O PAGES
its way through the ground in a third attempt
to reach the men.—AP Wirephoto.
day than usual. Their voices
seemed as strong as ever, but
they seemed to be preoccupied
with their own thoughts.
At Near Maximum
Driving at nearly maximum’
power, the' giant rig—which is
capable of cutting a 48-inch
hole through solid rock—forced
up thick clouds of powdered
rock. Some workers wore masks
or bandanna handkerchiefs
over their mouths to protect
them frpm the dust.
There are three revolving
cones at the end of the drill
bit. They are rotated by com
pressed air, which also blows
the dust and debris up out of
the hole so the drill does not
clog.
On a third front, specialists
with radioactive material,
rushed in from all over the
Nation, stood ready to make
further probes to determine
how close a previous 12-inch
Catholics Urged to Aid
Civil Rights Efforts
America’s Roman Catholics
are being asked by their bis
hops to “remove obstacles that
impede the rights and oppor
tunities of our Negro brethren.”
This appeal is contained in
a pastoral letter to be read
from many Catholic pulpits
throughout the country Sun
day. The text of the letter was
approved at a meeting of the
church’s bishops, archbishops
and cardinals earlier this
month at Chicago.
The Most Rev. Patrick A.
O’Boyle, archbishop of Wash
ington. who will deliver the in
vocation in ceremonies at the
Lincoln Memorial during the
August 28 March on Washing
ton, has directed that the
pastoral letter be read at mass
in all churches of the Wash
ington Archdiocese. Ordering
the reading of a pastoral letter
is at the option of bishops of
the church.
The pastoral letter does not
don’t think (this) will run into
Wednesday,” the forecaster
said.
There could be some cloudi
ness on Wednesday, however,
he said, and this might keep
the sun from beating down di
rectly on the marchers.
Hurricane Beulah in the
Caribbean area should not hit
the Washington area or United
States mainland, according to
present Indications. *
The hurricane, with winds up
to 30 miles an hour at its
center, appears to be heading
toward the open sea. Its
present course will carry it
well away from any land areas.
Scientists are considering seed
ing the hurricane with silver
iodide crystals in an effort to
soften Beulah’s punch, the
Weather Bureau reported.
hole came to Mr. Fellin and
Mr. Throne. Initial efforts with
a Geiger counter failed yester
day to disclose the distance.
Lt. Richard Anderson, of the
Naval Medical Research In
stitute in Bethesda, Md., a
physician well-vtrsed in sur
vival techniques, gave advice
to Mr. Fellin and Mr. Throne
early today. Later he said: "As
long as there’s food, water and
hope, they’re going to get along
fairly well.”
Bova Chances Slim
Lt. Anderson said the fact
that Mr. Bova has been trapped
without food or water for 10
days doesn’t mean he’s not alive.
"But his chances are pretty
slim,” he added.
The third 12-inch hole was
begun about 6 pm., last night,
but it was halted less than two
hours later when the Geiger
counter was lowered into the
See MINERS, Page A-6
mention the march on Wash
ington. It calls upon Catholics
to become personally involved
in the quest for racial har
mony. pointing out that civic
action such as interracial com
mittees representing the major
religious faiths is one way of
achieving fruitful and lasting
results in the area of racial
justice.
March Not Mentioned
Archbishop O’Boyle will be
joined in the March on Wash
ington by Archbishop Lawrence
J. Shehan and Bishop Thomas
H. Murphy of Baltimore,
Bishops John J. Russell and
Ernest L. Unterkoefler of Rich
mond, Bishop Michael W. Hyle
of Wilmington and Bishop
Philip M. Hannan of Washing
ton.
Archbishop O' Boy 1 e an
nounced that hostels are being
established at Georgetown and
Catholic universities and eight
Washington parish halls to
feed and shelter demonstra
tors who, because of distance
from their homes or illness,
cannot leave the city that
night.
The hostels will be staffed by
committees of the Knights of
Columbus. Catholic Interracial
Council and priests and
See MARCH, Page A-5
Gl Home Bombed
By Venezuelans
MARCAY, Venezuela. Aug. 23
(AP).—Terrorists set fire to
the home of an American air
force sergeant with a gasoline
bomb yesterday, police reported.
The attack on the home of
Sergt. William Elliott of the
United States Air Force mis
sion was attributed to members
of a pro-Communist terrorist
organization calling itself the
Armed Forces of National Lib
eration. They have made pre
vious attacks on American
homes.
Foreign Aid Funds
Slashed by House
Bill to Prevent Rail Strike
Is Approved by Senate Unit
By LEE M. COHN
Star Staff Writer
Legislation to block a Na
tion-wide railroad strike sched
uled for next Thursday was
approved by the Senate Com
merce Committee today.
The bill, slated for Senate
action Monday, would estab
lish a seven-member arbitra
tion board to make binding de
cisions on two key issues—
railroad demands for authority
to remove firemen from freight
and yard diesel engines and
to reduce the size of train
crews.
Other issues would be left
for negotiations between the
unions and the railroads for a
limited period. If the parties
failed to achieve a voluntary
settlement of these subsidiary
issues, the arbitration board
would take over and make
binding rulings.
Hope to Beat Deadline
Members of the Commerce
Committee expressed hope that
Congress will complete action
on the legislation in time to
beat the deadline for a strike
at 12:01 a.m. next Thursday.
Chairman Magnuson, Demo
crat of Washington, and Sen
ator Pastore, Democrat of
Rhode Island, urged the rail
roads to delay the showdown
for a few days beyond the
deadline if Congress still is
debating the legislation by mid
night Wednesday.
The House Commerce Com
mittee hopes to have a bill
ready for clearance by the
House Rules Committee on
Tuesday. If the Senate passes
a bill Monday, House leaders
hope Congress can complete
action before the strike dead
line.
Schedule Tight
But the schedule is very tight,
and delays are possible.
Directly involved in the dis
pute are all the Nation’s ma
jor railroads except the South
ern, and five unions represent
ing 200,000 train-operating em
ployes
If the bill is on the way to
passage at the deadline, Sen
ator Pastore said, there is no
reason for a rail shutdown of
three or four days.
“There is nothing sacrosanct
about August 29,” he said, ask
ing: “Why should we count
minutes.”
March Is Mentioned
He noted that House action
may be delayed because of the
march on Washington by civil
rights demonstrators next
Wednesday.
There has been concern that
a strike one minute after mid
night on the day of the march
would interfere with the de
parture of demonstrators.
The bill, approved unani
mously by the committee,
abandoned President Kennedy's
proposal for rulings on the
issues by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Instead
the bill provides for establish
ment of an independent arbi
tration board.
Senator Magnuson explained
that the committee did not
want to involve a Government
agency in the dispute.
Unions Oppose Plan
Moreover, the committee ap
parently heeded objections by
the unions that the ICC is pro
management.
THf HULKING SHADOW
Khrushchev Haunts Probe
By MARY McGRORY
Star BUft Wrltar
The most important person
ality in the nuclear test-ban
treaty hearings is Nikita 8.
Khrushchev, who is not of
course, in the Caucus Room.
The bulky chairman haunts
the Senators and witnesses,
alike.
Many saw him plain during
his Incredible visit of 1959 The
country followed his progress
from coast to coast. Almost
everyone has a memory: Khru
shchev devouring a mayor in
Los Angeles and a sausage in
an lowa packing plant: Khru
shchev threatening to go home,
Khrushchev transfixed in a San
Francisco street by the sight
of a garbage-truck; Khru
shchev swapping rags-to
riches anecdotes with Holly
wood potentates. Khrushchev
rattling rockets.
None of the snapshots pre-
The committee hopes the
unions and the railroads will
get together on a voluntary set
tlement before Congress com
pletes action on the bill, Sen
ator Pastore said.
The theory is that the ap
proach of legislation will in
crease pressure for a voluntary
agreement, but no support for
this hope was expressed by the
parties.
Union spokesmen immedi
ately said the bill would impose
compulsory arbitration, and
Lodge Visits Buddhists
Before Meeting Diem
Viet Namese Armed Forces Appear
To Be Taking Over Saigon Control
By MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Associated Press Staff Writer
SAIGON, Viet Nam, Aug. 23.—Viet Namese armed forces
appeared today to be taking over control of ministries in
President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration without chal
lenge to his over-all leadership. The government announced all
ministries will take orders from the military for the duration
of the martial law period.
Amid political turmoil over the government’s blows at its
Buddhist opponents, United
States Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge visited two monks who
have lived in asylum in the
American aid mission since es
caping there from arrest.
United States sources said
Mr. Lodge paid a courtesy call
on the monks barely 12 hours
after he arrived in troubled
Saigon last night as the new
envoy of President Kennedy's
administration.
Army on Watch
The visit of the tall, 61-year-J
old American diplomat to the
yellow-robed refugees even be
fore meeting Mr. Diem seemed
significant. Mr. Lodge was re
ported to have asked some
American officials later to take
suitable food to the monks,
INTERPRETATION
2 Women Symbolize
Southeast Asia Strife
By DENIS WARNER
Special To The Star
SAIGON.—Two women—one
young and beautiful, the other
an old shaven-headed nun—
are the symbols that matter in
South Viet Nam today.
The first is the redoubtable,
enchanting Madame Ngo Dinh
Nhu; opposing her is Dieu Hue.
67, a Buddhist nun irrevocably
pledged to burn herself to
death.
Madame Nhu is ravishing,
captivating, terrifying. Cast in
another role, she could have
made all the Bardots and Mon
roes of the world look like timid
mice or have led a medieval
government.
Dieu Hue is old for Asian
women and, with her shaven
head and the shapeless robes
of a Buddhist nun makes no
attempt to improve her ap
pearance or to emerge as a con
versationalist. Her only role is
to die horribly.
Madame Nhu gesticulates:!
pared them for what is happen
ing today: Khrushchev want
ing the same thing as we want
—a test-ban treaty.
Last October, he faced us
over a thermonuclear abyss.
Now he agrees to stop explod
ing nuclear devices in the at
mosphere.
Dr. Edward Teller says Mr.
Khrushchev wants it because
at present he doesn’t need to
test in the atmosphere. Dr.
Teller says the Russians are
ahead in anti-missile de
fenses; other scientists say
we’re ahead, and still others say
we're equal.
Chairman Fulbright of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, a former Rhodes Schol
ar, says he finds the contradic
tory scientific testimony be
wildering.
His confusion was not dis
pelled by Dr. Willard Libby,
a former member of the Atomic
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said their side will oppose it
on that basis.
The bill specifically would
preserve the status quo during
the work of the arbitration
board and during the life of
the board's rulings.
Management would be pro
hibited from changing the
work rules unilaterally, and the
unions would be barred from
striking over these issues.
Even after the arbitration
See RAILS, Page A-10
Ambassador Who Quit to Stoy Out
of Viet Non. Pogo A-10
who are vegetarians. His prede
cessor, Frederick E. Nolting, jr.,
was reticent about having any
contacts with Buddhist monks.
The capital was alive with
rumors of general strikes, Bud
dhist suicides and street fights,
but conditions appeared quiet
with the United States-supplied
Viet Namese army on watch
under martial law.
In government circles, the
situation at the Foreign Min
istry was the most confused.
The Foreign Minister, Vu Van
Mau, resigned in protest against
the government late yesterday.
He shaved his head like a Bud-
See VIET NAM, Page A-10
flashes with fire, laughs with
humor. Dieu Hue is monosyl
labic.
Shaping Destiny
Her only emotion was to tell
me she felt ill when I suggest
ed that, far from regarding her
as a martyr, the world would
regard her death as barbaric.
Yet the contest of wills be
tween these two women, both
coming from similar social
backgrounds, and the clash of
the forces they represent, will
play a large part in shaping
the destiny of South Viet Nam
and, for that matter, Southeast
Asia.
Mme. Nhu, a Buddhist con
vert to Roman Catholicism,
makes no effort to understand
the Buddhist mentality now.
Eight years ago, a tiny, de
fiant and tremendous figure,
she helped rally the people to
the side of her husband, Ngo
Dinh Nhu, and her brother-in
law, President Ngo Dinh Diem,
See NUN. Page A-16
Energy Commission, who indi
cated he might be for the
treaty if he could test a 100-
megaton bomb first.
On the question of trusting
Mr. Khrushchev, the committee
got conflicting testimony from
two former Eisenhower ap
pointees.
Admiral Lewis Strauss, former
chairman of the Atomic Energy
Commission, who was rejected
in the second Eisenhower term
for appointment as Secretary
of Commerce, advised the
Senate to beware of Mr. Khru
shchev and to reject the treaty.
He counseled the Senators
to study a photograph of Mr.
Khrushchev in the arms of his
former enemy. Marshal Tito of
Yugoslavia.
"Mr. Khrushchev and Mr.
Mao Tse-tung could become
bosom friends again before we
know it," said Mr. Strauss.
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$1 Billion •
Cut Passes,
. 224 to 186
By ROBERT K. WALSH
Star Steif Writer ,
The House passed a foreign
aid authorization bill today by
a margin of only 38 votes after
slashing an estimated $1 bil
lion from the original $4.1 bil
lion total.
The vote sending the meas
ure to the Senate was 224 to
186. The earlier vote adopting
a Republican move to cut the
bill’s money authorization total
was 222 to 188.
House members differed
among themselves as to
whether the cut voted today
would be as much as $1 billion
in view of some previous
authorizations and provisions
which might hold it to about
S6OO million for the current
fiscal year.
In any event, the success of
the Republican move with the
aid of many Southern Demo
cratic conservatives, appeared
to be a shock and surprise to
the bill’s supporters. Amend
ments adopted during the last
three days had not reduced any
of the money authorizations but
tightened restrictions on aid
to countries trading with Cuba.
Alliance Affected
Affected by the cut were
authorizaton for the Develop
ment Loan Fund, the Alliance
for Progress, military assistance
to friendly overseas nations
and the President’s foreign aid
contingency fund.
Amendments adopted yester
day did not reduce any of
’ the money authorizations but
• tightened restrictions on aid
i to countries trading with Cuba.
The first vote today was on
. a Republican motion to send
' the entire bill back to the
Foreign Affairs Committee:
with instructions to cut money
authorizations by a total of
$1,025,000,000.
That reduction trimmed S6OO
million dollars from the
Development Loan Fund for
economic help mainly to under
developed countries: $l5O mil
lion from the Alliance for
Progress program in South
America, $225 million from
military assistance and SSO
million from the contingency
fund.
The size of the reduction
came as a surprise. Repub
lican critics of the bill indicated
earlier today that on their in
tended recommittal motion
See AID. Page A-10
$5.3 Billion
Approved as
Space Outlay
By the Associated Press
A compromise authorizing
more than $5.3 billion for the
civilian space program this
fiscal year was approved today
by a Senate-House Conference
Committee.
Included in the big package
was $3.9 million to start build
ing an electronics research
center, originally planned for
the greater Boston area, which
drew protests from Congress
members in other areas.
Senator Anderson. Democrat
of New Mexico, said the com
promise includes restrictions
originally approved by the
House.
“This will require NASA to
come back to the congressional
space committees and justify
need for the project as well as
its location," Senator Anderson
said.
The compromise now carries
$5,350,820,400 because the Sen
ate dropped some $l6O million
of items it had approved while
the House accepted $147 mil
lion of Senate increases, he
added.
President Kennedy initially
asked $5,712,000,000, and the
House cut this about SSOO mil
lion with the Senate restoring
some $307 million of these'
slashes.
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