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111th Year. No. 236. Phone LI. 3-5000
Kennedy Push
For Rail Peace
Formula Seen
Compulsory
Arbitration Bill
Draws Support
By LEE M. COHN
Star Stiff Writer
The Kennedy administration
fears legislation to arbitrate i
the railroad labor dispute will
set a bad precedent, but prob
ably will support the bill as
the only way to prevent a Na
tion-wide rail strike next
Thursday.
Compulsory arbitration, op
posed on principle by Presi- 1
dent Kennedy and Labor Sec
retary Wirtz, is the key to an '
emergency anti-strike bill ap- 1
proved yesterday by the Sen- ]
ate Commerce Committee.
Democratic leaders hope the '
Senate will pass the bill Mon- '
day. The House Commerce
Committee is scheduled to clear
the bill Monday and the tight
timetable calls for House pas- i
sage Wednesday.
But the leadership cannot be ,
sure Congress will complete ac
tion on the legislation before
the deadline of 12:01 a.m. next :
Thursday.
That’s when the railroads
plan to put job-cutting work
rules Into effect. The five un- :
ions representing 200,000 train
operating employes intend to
strike as soon as the new rules
become effective.
No Postponement Planned
Chairman Magnuson. Demo
crat of Washington, and other
members of the Senate Com
merce Committee expressed
hope that the railroads will
postpone the showdown a few
days if the deadline finds Con
gress still working on anti
strike legislation.
Management spokesmen,
commenting on the suggestion,
said the railroads do not plan
any postponement. Neverthe
less, many observers expect the
railroads to delay action on
work rules if anti-strike legis
lation is near enactment
Wednesday night. ,
The railroads withheld im
mediate comment on the bill,
but are expected to endorse it
with reservations. • Union lead
ers denounced the bill as "com
pulsory arbitration, and in vio
lation of all tenets of free
collective bargaining.”
The strike deadline is one
minute after midnight of the
day when 100,000 or more civil
rights demonstrators will stage
a march on Washington.
Union spokesmen said their
side would be willing to operate
trains, under existing work
rales, to help transport demon
strators out of town after the
march.
Management spokesmen re
, jected the idea of stretching the
deadline to help handle the ex
odus of demonstrators.
Other Avenues Dim
Legislation is the only real
hope for preventing a strike,
high-ranking administrative of
ficials said. They said there is
almost no chance for a volun
tary negotiated settlement of
the four-year dispute before
Congress acts.
Secretary Wirtz has sched
uled no more negotiating ses
sions.
The bill approved unanimous
ly by the Senate Commerce
Committee yesterday would
preserve the status quo during
arbitration proceedings and
See RAILS, Page A-9
Honor for Truman
DETROIT, Aug. 24 (AP).—
The American Veterans of
World War II and Korea
(AMVETS) will install a mem
orial carillion in the Harry S.
Truman Library at Independ
ence, Mo., AMVETS National
Commander Don Spagnolo an
nounced yesterday. It will be
dedicated to former President
Truman.
What luxurious facilities
can we expect from a resi
dential community of tomor
row that few country clubs
have today?
Heal Estate Editor Daniel
Poole describes a futuristic
community now being devel
oped on Potomac River
shores.
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J vWITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION L-Z
Foreign Aid Becomes
Major Policy Issue
Kennedy Assails Slash in House
As Dangerous and Irresponsible
By ROBERT K. WALSH
Star Staff Writer
Foreign aid shaped up as an intense political dispute anti
sharper policy Issue today because of House slashes which
President Kennedy denounced as "short-sighted, irresponsible
and dangerously partisan.”
Reductions which the House voted, 222 to 188, yesterday
before sending the foreign aid authorization bill to the Senate
amounted to at least $585 mil
lion for the current fiscal year.
This reduced the bill’s total
from $4,087,075,000 to $3,502.-
075,000. The new authorization
is $1 billion below President
Kennedy’s revised request of
several months ago.
Originally Mr. Kennedy rec
ommended $4.9 billion. He
trimmed this to $4.5 billion aft
er an advisory report from a
committee headed by Gen. Lu
cius D. Clay. Then the House
Foreign Affairs Committee re
duced that request by another
$438 million.
See Reversal in Senate
House Democratic leaders
said they were sure the Senate
would reverse most of the House
cuts engineered by ReptAicans
with the help of many Southern
Democrats. The Senate prob
ably will not take up the bill
until early October. .
Senate Republican Leader
Dirksen predicted, however, the
Senate may sustain the House
cuts.
"The overriding thing behind 1
the House’s action is that we
have been giving assistance of
some kind tor 19 years at an
investment of more than SIOO
billion and the country is get
ting fed up on foreign aid,”
the Illinois Senator said.
Cite Growing Concern
Another House battle is in
prospect because the authoriza
tion bill merely set a ceiling
for money to be provided in
a latter appropriation bill.
From all accounts the House
Appropriations Committee in
tends to propose considerably
less than the $3.5 billion maxi-
Students Assume Lead
In Drive Against Diem
SAIGON, Viet Nam, Aug. 24
(AP).—Viet Namese students
acted today to spearhead a
growing protest move against
President Ngo Dinh Diem’s re
gime, now functioning on a
strongly military basis.
With most Buddhist leaders
under arrest, the students took
over leadership of the anti
government campaign. They
called for a general student
strike in the capital and backed
up the call with two demon
strations at Saigon University.
Students in Hue, where the
Buddhist crisis exploded May 8
with raids on a Buddhist tem
ple, went on strike last week.
A government official ex
pressed the regime's concern
over the mounting student
movement. He said “the stu
dents could develop into one of
our most sensitive issues.”
Leaflets Denounce Diem
Leaflets denouncing what was
called President Diem’s “brutal
and dishonest regime” and de
manding his resignation were
being circulated over the signa
ture of a so-called youth group
for the defense of Buddhism.
A student leader said several
students were arrested yester
day after armored car was
1 used to break up a street
I meeting.
Today’s demonstrations in
the capital violated martial
law in effect since Wednesday.
The students acclaimed ex-
Foreign Minister Vu Van Mau
as their hero in one jostling,
cheering display by more than
1,000 demonstrators at the law
faculty building, a demonstra
tion that police did not inter
fere with.
But nearly a score of trucks
carrying police poured into the
area as 500 students gathered
at the science faculty building
TREASURE IN A CROCK
Gold Coin Cache Is Dug Up
SALEM, Ohio. Aug. 24 AP).
—"lt got dark and we had to
quit. We plan to go back and
dig some more tomorrow."
That's what Mrs. Owen Glass
burn, a minister's wife, said
after a crock containing gold
coins with a face value of $655
was unearthed yesterday on her
husband’s property here.
The coins—ss, $lO and S2O
denominations were found
with the aid of a bulldozer be
longing to a neighbor of Mr.
and Mrs. Oail Hutchinson, who
rent the property.
The site of the cache was a
shed that Mr Glasaburn had
tom down. The coins were in
a rusty metal box inside the
crock, which was about a foot
underground.
"The book price of the coins
** WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1963—32 PAGES
House Roll Coll Vote on Foreign Aid
Cut. Poge A-2
Text of Kennedy Statement on House
Action. Page A-2
mum voted by the House yes
terday.
Post mortems as well as con
fusion lingered today as to the
actual extent and eventual ef
fect of the successful G. O. P
move in the House. The setback
to administration forces was
widely attributed not merely to
a combination of Republicans
and Southern Democratic con
servatives but also to increasing
Nationwide concern about for
eign aid programs.
Friday absenteeism and any
shortcomings in Democratic
leadership apparently played
only a comparatively small part
in the severe blow to the Ken
nedy administration. Os the
434 members currently in the
House, 410 voted on roll calls
yesterday to reduce money
items and to pass the bill.
Democratic managers had
fought off numerous attempts
earlier this week to cut money
authorizations and seriously
curb presidential authority in
handling foreign aid programs.
President Kennedy, at a spe
cial news session late yester
day, blamed Republicans es
pecially for “a shocking and
thoughtless partisan attack.”
Grim-faced and obviously
angry, the President went be
fore microphones and televi
sion cameras at the White
House shortly after the House
passed the bill.
"This cut,” he said, “will
critically affect our strength
at a time when the forces of
See AID, Page A-2
to urge their dean to resign.
The meeting was broken up
without incident when soldiers,
secret police, city police and
firemen moved onto the
campus.
Mau Resigned in Protest
Mr. Mau, who shaved his
head like a Buddhist monk’s
and resigned in protest against
government policies toward
Buddhists, told his hearers
that a faculty delegation called
on President Diem yesterday to
demand the release of more
than 1,000 Buddhist monks
nuns and students arrested
since martial law was pro
claimed.
For more than an hour, the
milling students clustered
around Mr. Mau, shouting and
applauding, often drowning out
his words.
Armed troops and police
See VIET NAM, Page A-2
3 Disarm Guards,
Flee East Berlin
BERLIN, Aug. 24 (AP).—
Three East Berliners over
powered two Communist border
guards, stripped them of their
submachine guns and escaped
to West Berlin, reliable sources
said today.
One of the Red guards re
covered his weapon and fired
after the refugees, but missed.
The escape was made last
night.
Several hours later, a young
East German crawled through
the barbed wire in the south
ern outskirts of the city border
ing on East Germany where
there is no wall. He reached
1 West Berlin safely but suffered
barbed wire cuts on one leg.
is a minimum of $2,175,” said
Mrs. Glassburn, a coin collec
tor. “The oldest coin is a S2O
gold piece—with an 1850 date
on it. The latest is a $5 gold
piece dated 1905.”
“It was a thrilling experi
ence," said Mr. Glassburn, who
is minister of the Pirst Priend’s
Church in Alliance. “But it
didn't compare with the thrill
I'got 30 years ago when I dis
covered Jesus Christ as My
Lord and Saviour.”
The coins were turned over
to the custody of the police,
temporarily.
It was the second unearth
ing of treasure in Ohio in a
week. More than a half mil
lion dollars in United States
currency was dug up at the
Altman mills feed plant near
Large Escape Shaft Drilled
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Hands of rescue workers are raised to tell the
operator of a rescue drill to stop his machine
because the bit has broken through to two
Red China Hit
By Khrushchev
Fight With Soviets
If Called 'Stupid'
SULIT, Yugoslavia, Aug. 24
(AP).—Soviet Premier Khrush
chev today denounced Red
China’s fight with the Soviet;
bloc as "stupid.” He indicated
that Yugoslavia is ready for
closer economic ties with the
Soviet camp.
Speaking to workers at the
Split shipyard after leaving
President Tito’s yacht for a
sight-seeing visit to this tourist
jammed Dalmatian city, the
Soviet leader said Mr. Tito
had expressed to him “readi
ness to participate in the divi
sion of labor now in progress
among socialist countries.”
One of Mr. Khrushchev’s
main aims on his current trip
to Yugoslavia is seen as forging
stronger economic and party
ties with President Tito, who
broke away from Moscow in
1948 to pursue his own inde
pendent kind of communism.
In a speech earlier this week
Mr. Tito indicated he was not
thinking of letting Yugoslavia
become a full-fledged' Soviet
satellite again.
Both leaders have gotten in
frequent blows this week
against Peking in the deepen
ing ideological struggle between
Red China and other Com
munist countries.
Speaking to the shipyard
workers, Mr. Khrushchev de
nounced Peking’s opposition to
Moscow’s softer approach.
He said the fight made the
West think communism was
weakening.
“The more we dispute among
socialist countries the more the
capitalist countries will get the
impression we are weaker," he
said. "Thir is stupid, stupid.”
He defended Soviet moves
to shorten working hours and
increase salaries, saying ma
terial well being was necessary
to “nourish the freedom of
spirit of man.”
In an aside to Western news
men, Mr. Khrushchev said:
"We will overtake you by better
organization of production.
This does not mean thar I will
personally take a shovel and
bury you.”
Troy. It belonged to Russell
Stacy Altman, the late owner
of the plant.
News stories of the Altman
find prompted the Glassburns
to look for the hidden coins,
Mrs. Glassburn said.
“When we bought the house.”
Mrs. Glassburn said, “the
owner said kind of quiet-like
that a man who used to live
there had buried gold in the
bam and gone to California.
When he came back, the seller
said, he lost his bearings and
couldn’t find the gold. The
man told a relative about it on
his death bed, according to
the seller.”
Mrs. Glassburn said the coins
may have been buried in the
early 19305, when the United
States switched from the gold
standard to silver.
DRAMA INSIDE MINE
. We Could Feel the Air'
HAZLETON, Pa., Aug. 24
(AP).—Here is a partial tran- J
script of conversation yester- ’
day and last night between
David Fellin and Henry
Throne, the two trapped
miners, and rescue workers. (
As a 12-inch bit bored an
escape hole through the final
8 feet into the area where the
men are located, rescuers re- 1
mained in contact with the
; miners.
DRILLER: “Do you see it J
(the drill). ... Do you see it?” I
FELLIN: “We haven’t a'
glimpse yet. Can you go very, j
very slowly?”
DRILLER: “You bet your
life, Dave. How's it look?”
FELLIN: "It’s coming right
over our heads. Wait a while
and we’ll figure it out.”
(The drill rumbled as it
neared the pocket.)
FELLIN: “Stop! Stop!”
Norway Premier Quits,
Lyng to Pick Cabinet
OSLO, Norway, Aug. 24
(AP), Socialist Premier
Einar Oerhardsen formally
tendered his resignation to
King Olav V today and the
monarch called on John Lyng,
Conservative party leader, to
form a new cabinet.
Mr. Oerhardsen was ousted
last night by a 76-74 no
confidence vote in Parlia
ment.
A coalition government
friendly to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO)
is expected to be completed by
Monday.
Mr. Lyng, a 58-year-old dis
trict court judge, is the floor
leader of the Cohservative
Party in the Storting (Parlia
ment).
As a student he was a Rad
ical Socialist, but he says he
should not be held to account
for opinions he had before he
was 20.
Mr. Lyng said he has had
little difficulty in lining up
ministers for the non-Socialist I
cabinet coalition of Conserva
tives, Agrarians, liberals and
members of the Christian
People’s Party.
He said the new cabinet will
honor parliament's decisions
and Norway's foreign policy
commitments. Norway is a
member of NATO
Mr. Oerhardsen! ouster
came after four days of bitter
debate about the way the
government handled the dis
aster in which 21 men died last
November 5 in a state-owned
coal mine in Spitsbergen.
Mr. Oerhardsen's party com
manded 74 votes in the 150-
member parliament.
Nobody Votes No
LANAGAN. Mo., Aug. 24 (AP).
—There wasn’t a single no vote
as a 129.000 general obligation
bond issue to finance a city
water works was approved.
128-0, in a special election yes
terday.
miners trapped 300 feet underground near
Hazleton, Pa. for more than a week.—AP
Wirephoto.
GORDON SMITH (Deputy
State Secretary of Mines):
"How about it, Dave? A little
more?”
FELLIN: "Yes, a little more.”
SMITH: “Here it goes."
FELLIN: “There’s a slight
crack.”
SMITH: “Any dust?”
FELLIN: “No, but we could
feel the air.”
j FELLIN: “I can see the drill!!
Hold it! That’s enough! It’s
through.”
SMITH: Did you miners hear
that? The hole is through!”
(Last night, a television
camera descended and the
two men were warned to turn
their backs to protect their
eyes from the glare of the
lights attached to the cam
era. Rescuers and newsmen
saw pictures of the trapped
miners on the screen.)
ELWOOD TITO, communi
cation operator: "As soon as
Ranged against him were the
74 votes of the ndh-Socialist
parties—plus the two votes of
the Radical Socialist People's
Party, which is anti-NATO.
Those two votes spelled the de
feat of the Socialist cabinet
and marked an end to 28 years
of Socialist party rule in Nor
way. including the World War II
period when it operated in
London as a government-in
exile.
The radical Socialists an
nounced. however, that they
voted with the other Ger
hardsen foes only to topple the
premier and that there will be
no further co-operation.
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The diagram shows how rescuers finally suc
ceeded in drilling a hole to two of the three
trapped miners. (A) and (B) mark previous
unsuccessful attempts.—AP Wirephoto Chart.
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you see it coming through, give .
me a yell.”
felt,tn- "The light is about
25 feet up the hole.”
(The lowering of the camera
was slowed.)
FELLIN (about five minutes
- later): “I think I see it. Take
|it easy, it's coming through.”
(A tense moment occurred
I when the camera apparently
jammed in the 12-inch hole.)
FELLIN: “Take up the slack
■ a little bit. Hold it, too much.
’ Down slow, come down.”
FELLIN (a moment later):
' “I'm bringing it down here. It’s
stuck in the hole.”
(The camera was freed.
Throne was asked if the
camera was facing him. At
first he said no, that it was
facing the speaker).
Throne added: “It’s turning
around now. It's looking at
Day. Now it's looking at me.”
“Watch the Birdie”
s At one point during the ad
justments of the picture. Tito
told the men: “We are going
to try something different to
night. So just wait until we get
instructions.”
FELLIN: "AU right—we'll
wait here.”
(Tito asked Fellin to wave
his hands in front of the
e camera.)
FELLIN: “I am waving.”
f (Tito then asked Fellin to
s shine the light on his face and
I warned him to be careful. “It
2; may hurt your eyes ”)
t FELLIN: “It doesn’t hurt our
s eyes. We are used to light.”
. TITO: “Get your face about
I 12 inches from the mirror (the
n eye of the camera) and smile.
. Watch the birdie.”
(The two television sets, one
-for officials and rescue workers
y and the other for newsmen
-and spectators, had no sound
e —but the images of the trap
e ped men flashed across the
screen.)
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Real Estate B-l-T
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Sports A-18-U
TV-Radio B-ll
Weather A-2
10-Story Rig,
26-lnch Bit
Being Used
HAZLETON, Pa. Aug. 24
(AP).—The escape hole to two
of the three trapped coal miners
was enlarged to 26 inches for
a depth of 38 feet today,
crews then held up the boring
while experts inspected the
shaft before deciding on the
next step.
Gordon Smith, assistant
State secretary of mines, said
they might continue for a little
way at the 26-inch width, but
one driller said he thought this
was as deep as they would go
with this bit.
The drillers pulled the 26-
inch bit out of the ground for I
the inspection. This was just
before noon.
Interuption Planned
The plans, as laid down in
advance of the start of the en
larging work, called for the 26-
inch drilling to stop around the
35 or 45 foot level.
At that time, the experts
were to decide whether to go on
from this point with a drill
slightly smaller—24 inches in
diameter—or a 17-inch drill.
The hole is 12 inches in dia
meter the rest of the way.
The best estimate of those in
charge was that it would be
early tomorrow night—assum
ing no delays—before Henry
Throne, 28, and David Fellin,
58, can be brought the 331 feet
to the surface.
Trapped 11 Days
They and Louis Bova, 42,
have been trapped for 11 days
| —since a cave-in at 9 a m. Au
> gust 13. Mr. Bova, last re
ported heard from on Tuesday,
is separated from the others by
above 25 feet of debris.
A 4-inch hole is being drilled
in his direction by another rig
simultaneously with enlarge
ment of the escape hole.
The giant drill enlarging the
escape hole is as tall as a 10-
story building. It is capable of
cutting a 48-inch hole through
solid rock or, as it did yester
day just before breaking into
the Throne-Fellin cubicle,
operating so delicately that it
advances a half-inch at a time.
Talk With Two Men
As its roar pierced the silent
dawn this morning, rescue
workers got in touch with Mr.
Fellin and Mr. Throne over the
6-inch lifeline hole—completed
last Sunday—through which
food and supplies have been
lowered.
"How are you today?” asked
Art Joyce, a State mine in
spector.
"I’m all right.” Mr. Fellin
answered.
■ "How’s the plug, all right?”
“Yeh, fine.”
Helped Install Plug
That is the plug that Mr.
Fellin and Mr. Throne helped
the rescue crews install at the
bottom of the 12-inch shaft
during the night. It’r purpose
’ is to prevent suffocating dust
and injury-causing rubble from
falling into the shaft during
drilling.
“How long’s it going to be?”
“ Mr. Fellin asked.
"It won’t be long now." said
See MINERS, Page A-9
I
II
1 Russians Protest
Treaty Curb
MOSCOW, Aug. 24 (AP).—
The Soviet government dis
closed tonight it has protested
against the refusal of the
United States and Britain to
recognize East Germany's sig
nature on the limited nuclear
test ban treaty.
The government newspaper
Izvestia said protest notes were
handed to the United States
and British governments yes
terday.
The Soviet declaration was
in reply to notes sent by Brit
ain and the United States on
August 16. in which it was
stated that although East Ger
many had signed the treaty,
this could in no way be con
strued as recognition of the
East German regime by the
Western powers.
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