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Ba nd it Gets $4,500
In Bold Holdup
At National Bank
He Enters With Pistol and Bible,
Passes Note as 100 Stand Near
A daring bandit, with a pistol in one hand and a white
Bible in the other, staged a $4,500 holdup in the crowded
Pennsylvania avenue branch of the National Bank of Wash
ington today.
The gunman marched into the bank at 833 Twentieth
street N.W., just before noon amid 100 patrons, many
of whom were there because this is a Federal government
payday.
He approached the window of woman savings teller, ac
cording to Bruce Keiner, executive vice president, and handed
her a note demanding (5,000.
The teller. Miss Nettie Jean
Davis, 22, said the man brand
ished the pistol and kept tell
ing her to hurry as she counted
out the money.
Miss Davis counted out what
she thought was (4,500 and
Picture on Page A-8
handed it to the robber, who
turned and fled through the
jammed bank to the street.
Miss Davis quickly turned in
the alarm and shouted for
help.
Lt. William C. Trussell, act
ing commander of the third
police precinct, said the bandit
apparently stood in line in the
crowded bank until it was his
turn at Miss Davis’ window.
Miss Davis said the man put
the white book, which was
labeled “Holy Bible,” on the
counter and handed her the
note. She gave the note,
which was handwritten in ink
on cheap tablet paper, to
police when they arrived.
Drops Dark Glasses
Witnesses who ran to the
door said they sad the man
disappear into a parking lot
about a block away as he ran
toward the north on Twentieth
street. Police, who arrived on
the scene within minutes, said
they found a pair of dark
glasses apparently dropped by
the robber in the parking lot.
Most of the bank’s custom
ers were unaware that a hold
up had taken place until the
teller gave the alarm. The
bank’s stores were closed as
police and FBI agents con
verged on the scene.
Miss Davis told police the
bandit was a Negro, about 24
years old, wearing a dark suit,
white shirt and was carrying a
green trench coat under which
the gun was concealed. She
was uncertain about the cali
ber of the weapon.
3 SECOND DASH
TIES SENATE'S
BREVITY RECORD
Senator Metcalf, Demo
crat of Montana, today
equaled but failed to break
his own record for conven
ing and adjourning the
Senate. He did it in three
seconds.
He set the record on July
5 when, as today, he was
acting presiding officer.
These “instant” sessions
are necessary on long holi
day week ends because the
Senate cannot adjourn for
more than three days at a
time without Joint action
of the two houses of Con
gress.
A handful of tourists in
the gallery looked some
what confused as Senator
Metcalf walked into the
empty chamber, announced
that the Senate would ad
journ until Tuesday, and
then walked out.
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Landis Given
■ 30-Day Term
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1 Tax Charges Hold
i Ex-High Official
r NEW YORK. Aug. 30 (AP) .
. James M. Landis, former dean
• of the Harvard Law School, was
’ sentenced to 30 days in prison
j today on income tax charges
; Federal District Judge Sylves-
■ ter J. Ryan ordered that the
term be served immediately.
j “Hie sooner he serves the
‘ sentence, the better it will be
i for the defendant,” the judge
i said.
! Landis, who had held high
positions in the Federal Gov
ernment. pleaded guilty August
. 2 to a five-count information
charging that he failed to file
"timely” income tax returns
for the years 1956 through 1960.
Taxes Now Paid
The taxes since have been
paid.
; The defense contended that
Landis was so engrossed in
public affairs and the affairs
of his clients he had "neglected
his own personal matters, in
cluding the income tax re
turns.”
The 63-year-old Landis’ last
governments service was in 1961
as special assistant to President
Kennedy, preparing recom
mendations on reorganization
of Federal regulatory agencies.
See LANDIS. Page A-6
MEETING SABOTAGED
Young Democrats Baffled
By DAVID BRAATEN
■Ur BUH Writer
The District’s Young Demo
crats have a full-fledged mys
tery on their hands today.
It involves a forged letter,
a prominent Democratic Con
gressman. a mysterious tele
phone call, possible treachery
and the most heinous political
crime of alf—sabotage of a
party meeting.
It all began innocently
enough a month or so ago,
when Robert Logan, program
vice president of the Young
Democratic Club, wrote to
Representative Powell, Demo
crat of New York, inviting him
to speak at the club’s meeting
at the Statler-Hilton Hotel last
night.
The Harlem Congressman
accepted.
Then, on August 16. Mr.
Powell got another letter from
the Young Democrats, signed
"Robert Logan,” cancelling the
speaking engagement. The
reason given was that the meet
ing was so close to the civil
rights march that the club was
afraid it couldn’t muster as big
a crowd as it would like to
hear Mr. Powell.
Mr. Powell accepted the let
ter as genuine, filed it away
We Atuniiiw Sfaf
V J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION LX
Police, Clergy
Pelted Aiding
Negro Family
Pennsylvanians
Seek to Prevent
Home Occupancy
FOLCROFT, Pa., Aug. 30
(AP). State policemen and
four white ministers were
pelted with eggs and stones,
and two persons were arrested
today as violence flared briefly
among a crowd of 200. many of
them children, who milled
aroupd a home in an all-white
neighborhood awaiting the
arrival of a Negro family who
bought it.
One man Jumped on the
hood of a police car. As troop
ers grabbed him, some demon
strators jeered and yelled "nig
ger lovers” and "police brutal
ity” while others hurled the
eggs.
A teen-age youth was ar
rested for throwing stones.
Horace and Sara Baker, who
tried three times yesterday to
get into their home, were ex
pected back today, but Maj.
Singleton Sheaffer, on the
state police, said business de
layed them.
Police Being Reinforced
About 50 State troopers, now
being reinforced, joined local
police in patrolling the 1.500-
home Delmare Village in Fol
croft Borough, approximately 5
miles south of Philadelphia
in Delaware County. Non
residents were stopped at cross
ings and sent by other -routes.
Neither of those arrested was
identified immediately, nor was
it known what charges would
be lodged against them.
A bit earlier, a brief uproar
was set off when a State police
man led away a boy, who it
was reported, had been throw
ing rocks. Many demonstrators
surged around the State police,
keeping up their chant of in
sults. One trooper was hit by
an egg. The boy was freed
without charge.
As the morning wore on, four
white clergymen, none immedi
ately identified, and John Van
Dyk, assistant professor in the
Graduate School of Fine Arts
at the University of Pennsyl
vania, took up positions in
front of the Baker house.
Stones andeggs were thrown at
them, too.
Moral Support
One of the pastors said, "We
are here to give moral support
to the Bakers.”
Shortly after the flareup,
State police said they were 40-
strong in the immediate trouble
area, with that many standing
by as reserves.
Among the reinforcements
was a Negro trooper, and his
arrival started another burst
of booing and more throwing
of rocks and bottles. One
trooper was hit in a leg, but
he said he was not hurt.
About 1,000 persons demon
strated last night until State
troopers dispersed them.
, Maj. Sheaffer said that, de-
I spite the jeers and name call
i See FOLCROFT, Page A-2
U, S. Prelate in Bolivia
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 30
(AP>.— Joseph Cardinal Ritter
of St. Louis has arrived in
La Pas, Bolivia, for a short
visit.
and made other plans for last
night.
But. the letter was a forgery.
This was not discovered until
late yesterday afternoon, by the
merest chance.
Mr. Powell's chief assistant,
Odell Clark, who had not been
told of the second, spurious
letter, reminded the Congress
man about the evening's speak
ing date. Mr. Powell told him
about the cancelation.
By a strange coincidence, at
about the same time—4:ls pjn..
as near as Mr. Clark could re
member —an unidentified wom
an telephoned to ask what time
Mr. Powell was going to speak
last night. Told that he was
not speaking, she hung up.
Minutes later, the Democratic
Central Committee got a phone
call, persumably from the same
woman, telling them Mr. Powell
had canceled the engagement.
Again she hung up.
Party officials were stunned.
Frantically, the Young Demo
crats cast about for another
speaker. Sterling Tucker, execu
tive director of the Washington
Urban League, obliged.
But that is hardly the end
of the affair. As explained by
Jack Sexton, president of the
Young Democrats, the Case of
the Counterfeit Cancelation la
not only a whodunit, but a
whydunit.
WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1963 -68 PAGES
Viet Cong Gunfire Downs
Helicopter, Kills 2 Gls
EXILE RAIDS FEARED
Cuba Alerts Troops, Builds Defenses
HAVANA, Aug. 30 (AP).—
Prime Minister Fidel Castro’s
government put its armed
forces here on a state of alert
today and posted bigger con
centrations of soldiers and mi
litiamen at strategic points
throughout Havana.
Armed forces had been put
into a “state of preparation”
yesterday, but beefed-up mili
tary measures were reported
then only outside the capital
and not in Havana.
The new moves followed in
telligence reports of possible
incursions by anti-Castro ex
iles against installations on
the north coast. According to
military intelligence, these
raids would be somewhat larger
than the hit-and-run attacks
made by exiles recently.
(At this point, telephone
connection between New York
and Havana was cut, presum
ably by censorship.)
Sources said last night the
alert had been in effect since
Monday. The military wai
understood to be watching
particularly for any attack
from Nicaragua* or other Cen
tral American nations which
have offered refuge to anti-
Castro exiles.
(In San Jose, Costa Rica
reports circulated of unusual
activity among Cuban exilei
in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Manual Artime, refugee teadei
who participated in the abor
tive Bay of Pigs invasion ir
April. 1961, arrived in Mana
gua, Nicaragua, to confer witr
anti-Castro exiles, sources said
(Cuban refugees arriving ir
Florida have reported Soviel
troop activity in the Cubar
capital. They said bridges and
strategic points around Havani
have been taken over by Rus
sian soldiers, causing som<
apprehension among Fide
Castro’s forces.
(At a news conference August
20. President Kennedy said
there had been a further de
cline in the number of Soviel
troops in Cuba the last fev
months, but added it was diffi
cult to say how many re
mained.)
NO EARLY LANDING
SEEN BY U. S.
Washington sources said to
day there is no informatioi
here that an invasion of Cubi
by exile forces is in progress
or even likely at this time.
It is well known, to Fide
Castro, as well as by America!
Government officials, that thi
exiles are rearming and train
ing for another strike at theli
homeland. Exile troops, man;
of them veterans of the Bay o:
Pigs disaster, are training a
bases in Nicaragua, Venezueli
and other Latin America!
countries. Invasion is defi
nitely planned but not yet
Washington feels. One south
said: "It is Just too soon
Castro knows something is u]
. but he doesn’t know when an<
he’s just shadow-boxing.”
"The letter was written on
last year's club stationery," he
said. “And the writer obviously
knew about the meeting. This
suggests a member of the club,
but why would a member do it?
"Maybe it was an attempt to
get Logan. Before it was ex
plained as a forgery, there were
some people at the meeting
saying 'Let’s impeach Logan'.*'
Mr. Sexton is appointing a
committee to Investigate the
whole thing.
Mr. Clark, who is inclined to
take political infighting pretty
calmly, said he doubted it was
an attempt to embarrass Mr.
Powell, although, he said, “any
thing is possible." It is not out
side the realm of possibility, he
admitted, that the whole caper
was a plot by the Young Re
publicans.
The Young O. O. P. denied
this emphatically. "Ridiculous!”
said a spokesman.
One thing is clear, at least:
No crime has been committed.
Apprised of the details, Capt.
Orayston W. Chapman, head
of the metropolitan police
check and fraud squad, said
that legally the letter is nothing
more than a prank or political
sabotage.
And if political sabotage were
a punishable offense, half the
population of Washington
would be in jail.
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Fidel Castro joins in a game of table tennis at Varadaro, Cuba, during
the visit of the 50 American students who defied a United States State
Department ban on travel to Cuba. The students returned to New York
last night. This picture was made by John F. Salter, a student from
Greensboro, N. C. (Story on Page A-3). —AP Wirephoto.
Russia to Cut
Armed Forces
Khrushchev Tells
Americans of Plan
By EARL H. VOSS
Bt»r Staff Writer
Soviet Premier Khrushchev
has told American offcials he
plans to reduce Russia's armed
forces.
He did not indicate how
large a reduction he plans,
but he said United States ac
tion in regard to its own mili
tary forces would have no
effect on the Russian move.
The Soviet Union now has
an estimated 3.250.000 men in
its armed forces, about 2,250,-
000 in the ground forces.
The United States has about
2.7 million men under arms.
Premier Pre-Occupied
Mr. Khrushchev, in recent
conversations in Moscow with
visiting American officials, in
dicated he considers main
tenance of Russia's armed
force too expensive for the
Soviet Union because of its
domestic economic problems,
particularly in agriculture.
United States officials found
Mr. Khrushchev pre-occupied
with his domestic problems.
Mr. Khrushchev did not indi
cate whether he intended to
use the reduction in armed
forces to seek further cuts in
United States and other West
ern armies, but in the past the
Soviet Union has announced
cute, then pressed the West for
similar reductions.
Russia announced plans in
1960 to cut its armed forces
from a claimed 3.6 million to
2.4 million men.
When the Kennedy adminis
tration led the Western allies
in a buildup of military forces
during the 1961 Berlin crisis,
however, Premier Khrushchev
ordered a defense budget in
crease of more than three bil
lion rubles.
Soviet armed forces are
believed to have reached a
peak of about 15 million men
in 1945 but had been cut back
to about 4.5 million ir 1956.
Reserve forces are kept in
readiness for quick recall,
nevertheless, so American in
telligence sources rate the I
Soviet capacity to be high for
quick mobilization to double I
the present size.
INTERPRETATION
Aging Nehru Embarks
On Gamble for Future
By RICHARD CRITCHFIELD
Star Special Writer
NEW DELHl.—Prime Minis
ter Jawaharlal Nehru, aging
fast at 73 and recently faced
with diminishing political stat
ure both within India and
abroad, is embarked on one
last bold attempt to insure that
his revolutionary social and
economic policies outlive him.
In doing so. he is gambling
his personal prestige and his
policy of achieving equalitarian
socialism through a planned
economy. Should he fail, In
dian politics could rapidly
polarize into a conservative
right and a Communist left.
Impulsive Stroke
Last Saturday night, in a
single, impulsive stroke that
shook this entire country, Mr
Nehru rid himself of the ablest
but most conservative men in
Man to Enter Mine Hole
In TV 'Body' Mystery
HAZLETON, Pa. Aug 30,
(AP'.~A man was to be low-|
ered today down the escape hole
from which trapped miners
David Fellin and Henry Throne
were rescued Tuesday. He was
to see if Louis Bova is in the
same cavern 308 feet under
ground, H. B. Charmbury, State
secretary of mines, announced.
Mr. Charmbury said the de
cision was made after a tele
vision camera lowered into the
chamber where Mr. Fellln and
Mr. Throne were found showed
“what appears to be a man's
body."
Mr. Charmbury, at the scene
of the mine in nearby Shepp
ton, told a news conference:
"As a result of seeing the tele
vision this morning it was de
cided. though there was not
unanimous agreement, that we
think we have enough evidence
for someone to go down the
[hole.
“The plans are in motion and
I someone has been chosen." He
added that the identity of the
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his government, most notably
Finance Minister Moraji Desai.
Mr. Desai and other right-wing
, leaders, no longer balanced by
' Krishna Menon's near commu
-1 nism since his ouster from the
cabinet last winter, have in-
I creaslngly challenged Mr.
. Nehru's moderately leftist
policies.
Mr Nehru’s chance to Jetti
son his defiant conservative
’ colleague came when his ruling
.Congress Party recently
' adopted a resolution that sen
i ior ministers should voluntarily
. resign and clean up the party.
, riddled by corruption and inter
, nal feuds.
I Almost all the Congress min
isters, including Mr. Nehru
himself, offered to resign. Mr.
Nehru’s offer was rejected but
he was asked to pick out the
j volunteer.
(Though weird to Western
See INDIA, Page A-6
i man—"a pretty husky boy"—
would be kept secret for the
! present.
Mr. Charmbury said he
hoped the descent down the
h 17* 2 -inch wide shaft would be
i' made this afternoon, at a time
still underminded.
Mr Charmbury had visited
Mr. Fellin. 58, in his room at
the Hazleton State Hospital
before dawn today and showed
him six pictures. These werr
I of the cubicle where the two
miners had waited for 14 days
II until they were pulled to the
surface Tuesday morning.
• Mr. FeUin couldn't be
I reached directly for comment
Ira Mills. SUte commis
sioner of hospitals, said. “Fel
lin told me later ‘I .don’t fee'
, so good' and he is d»flnlteh
■ very confused now "
i Mr. Charmbu ' i> M’
■ Mills said that Mi FeF'
wasn't told about the spotting
I of the body or image of a man
>in the TV picture. No st''
>1 See BOVA. Page A-b
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17 Additional
Craft Are Hit;
4 Men Hurt
SAIGON, Viet Nam, Aug. 30
(AP). Communist Guerilla
ground fire downed a United
States Army helicopter today,
killing two United States avia
tors and wounding four.
In the same area northwest
of Saigon 17 other American
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helicopters were hit by guerrilla
ground fire, American sources
reported. A United States mili
tary spokesman said five other
helicopters were forced down
by mechanical trouble.
"It was a bad day for the
K-215,” a senior American offi
cer commented.
The helicopters he was refer
ring to are banana-shaped
transports used in Viet Nam to
carry troops. Many of them
have been replaced by faster
more modem UH-lßs (Hueys).
Flying Near Ground
The helicopter shot down and
the five with mechanical failure
were H-21s.
The American spokesman
said both Americans died as
they were flying a few feet
above ground to pick up com
bat troops at Tay Ninh, 50 miles
northwest of Saigon. Their
deaths raised to 99 the number
of Americans to die from all
causes in the anti-Communlst
war.
The helicopter belonged to
the 33d Company, based at Bien
Hoa. It was one of 25 heli
copters participating in an
operation aimed at flushing
Communist guerrillas from a
hideout near the Cambodian
border.
U. S. Retains Monks
In Saigon, Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge reportedly has re
jected new demands by the
South Viet Namese government
that the United States sur
render two Buddhist monks
who were granted asylum in
the United States mission.
The move was interpreted as
a toughening of United States
policy toward the regime of
President Ngo Dinh Diem and
'could precipitate a diplomatic
clash. The South Viet Namese
demand was made by Acting
Foreign Minister Truong Cong
Cuu.
The two monks escaped from
government troops who raided
the Xa Lol pagoda, which is
near the American building,
August 20.
Last Wednesday, the Diem
regime sharply rejected United
States criticism of the crack
down on Buddhists, saying
Washington acted on erroneous
information.
As if to underscore the
United States rebuke of the
Diem regime for raiding pa
godas and making mass arrests
of monks and nuns, Mr. Lodge
conferred with the two monks
even before he presented his
credentials as the new United
States envoy to South Viet Nam
last week.
Lodge Sees Officiate
Diplomats believe the issue
of the two monks is a relatively
minor one, underscoring an ac
tual United States demand for
the ouster of Mr. Diem’s pow
erful brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu,
from the palace as a condition
for continued American sup
port of the Diem regime.
Mr. Nhu. head of the secret
police, and his fiery wife have
been frequent critics of the
United States.
Despite assurances from
Washington that the United
States will continue to provide
aid to fight the Communist Viet
Cong, officials believe there is
a good chance the funds, about
(1.5 million daily, may be re
duced.
“It appears this government
feels it nas hooked the United
States and will get away with 1
what it has done. But we are
not hooked,” an American of
ficial said.
Certain officials have blamed
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