davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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on mission.

on mission.
When we'll into the restrict
ed area the skipper of the 80
footer discovered to his con
sternation that firing was con-
tinuing from a Navy vessel
nearby and soon had the point
emphasized by a shell fired
ahead of his bow. After urg-
ent conversations between
Coast Guard and Culebra
Control the Navy called off
her gunners and the nervous,
80 footer proceeded unmolest-
ed.
In the meantime the Is
footer had sighted the smoke
pot on Tropic Star and zeroed
in on her to find the 40 Puer-
to Rico police launch already
on the scene and ready to
tow the 65' former Army "T'
boat to Fajardo where repair
facilities are avilable. TROP-
&c STAR ccepted the tow on
instructions from RoadtoWn,
Tortola and was apparently
towed there by the Police.
Thus all ended well for
TROPIC STAR after a five
hour workout for Coast Guard
and Navy personnel. Having
kibitzed on the whole pro-
ceedings | can but comment
that coast Guard handled the
search pattern very efficiently.
Congratulations also to the
Puerto Rico police for being
on the bail with their launch.
It is comforting to yachtsmen
to know that such search and
rescue facilities are available
locally. My only advice is to
see to it that you have a radio
IN working order at all times.
Without it you may drift for
days before you are reported
lost.
, 1963-09-21
From The Waterfront
with BILL MILLER

If you think the Coast Guard
comes under fire only during
time of war you should have
been around our neighboring
island Of Culebra Monday
morning to observe the rescue
efforts under way to aid the
disabled and drifting Tortola
Motor Vessel TROPIC STAR
in the area Of the Navy firing
range north of that island.
The rescue of any boat in dis
tress usually provides drama
enough but when the addi-
tional element of danger in
the form Of flying shells is
added you have an interesting
situation.
1t all started at 900 am.
when I heard o STARS
distress call while listening
from the bridge of the FLY
ING CARIB enroute from st.
Thomas to st. Croix. During
the subsequent four hours
the rescue unfolded as the
Coast Guard learned the per
tinent facts on the position
and condition Of TROPIC
STAR and then proceeded to
dispatch her 80 footer from
St. Thomas. Shortly there
after the Is footer from Guile
bra pointed the search. How
ever, to reach the general
area Of the drifting boat
some three miles northwest
of Culebra ~ the 80 footer
needed permission to pass
through the Navy firing range
north of Culebra. On clear
ance from Navy Culebra Con-
troll the &C vessel proceeded
, 1963-09-21
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The chronicle., 1963-11-14
Shopping Tour
Strange Event
In Red Square

MOSCOW CUPID - Just $50
yards from Lenin'S tomb is the
Macy's department store of Mos
COW. 1t sells North Vietnamese
ornamental tea strainerS, eiec-
trio face massagers and even a
Whit of perfume at 10 kopeckS
III cents a squirt.
But when this correspondent
went into Gosudarstvenny Uni
versalny Magazin Estate depart
ment Store) - known as Gum
he couldn't find a white shirt
in his size or an ordinary room
THERMOMETER.
The erratic supply system in
this country makes shopping in
Gum pronounced goom) a
treasure hunt and often drives
WesternerS and Russians alike
to desperation.
Railroad Station Appearance
Gum, housed in a huge, gray
building that fronts on Red
Square across from the Krem-
The chronicle., 1963-11-14

lin, looks more like a Victorian
railroad station than a depart.
ment store.
A Westerner lured into enter,
ing Gum for the first time is in
for a surprise. Instead of the
dazzling atmosphere of a Mays
or Nieman Marcus, he finds
rows of old fashioned, multi
Storied arcadeS.
Adding to the railway station
atmosphere is a glass roof. The
bazaar : like store has more
than a mile of counters. Accord
ing to Soviet statistics it crosses
more than 1000, 900 rubles ISL
112, 0OO) a day. A Soviet source
said customer traffic has been
known to reach 400, 900 a day.
Stocks Many Items
Gum stocks about so, 900 items,
including food. But like so many
other articles, it is catch : as
catch-can. Good steaks, for in
stance, are available only about
once a month.
Some things are reasonable
by Western standards - an iron
at 10 rubles ($11.12), a sofa seat
ing four at 70 rubles ($77.84)
a floor lamp at 10 rubles. But
by contrast a woman'S gray
The chronicle., 1963-11-14
Christmas Seal
Drive Launched

WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi-
dent Kennedy Wednesday helped
launch the 1863 Christmas Seal
campaign and was told by the
fund chairman he could expect
to do it five more years.
Ann Landers, volunteer chair
man of the drive for money to
fight tuberculosis, made I p e
forecast to the President that
he would still be in the White
House in 1868.
Kennedy was presented the
first sheets Of the seals by
Mrs. Landers, the syndicatad
columnists who answers read
er's questions on their varied
problems.
CT insurance is a $40 billion
life insurance business, accord
ing to the Veterans Admins
tration.
The chronicle., 1963-11-14
Russia Claims
US Can Order
Latin Revolts

WASHINGTON CUPID Dial
"R" for revolution?
According to a Russian hui
NOR magazine, that is the thing
to do these days among the
Washington cloak and dagger
set.
It seems, it said, that when
ever Washington wants a mill
tary coup or civilian dictatorship
in Latin America, it simply or
ders one by telephone.
These and other caustic COM
ments on u. S. influence in Cen.
trail and South American poll
tics were published recently ir
Krokodil (Crocodile), a Soviet
tri-monthly magazine.
In a two-page spread entitled,
lin the region of the banana
presidents" the publication &C.
cused Washington and NORTH
American companies of keep
ing Latin American govern
ments 'bustling with war : like
activities"
Bursting AT Seams
$50 much So" Krokodil con
tinued, THAT the entire area is
bursting at the seams ~. (and)
threatens to sweep revolution
airy Cuba from the face Of the
earth"
With shaking fists the peri
Iodical added, Latin American
dictators and presidents" de-
clare THAT there is no demo
cracy in Cuba"
What they really mean,'
Krokodil concluded, "that there
is no military junta in Cuba.
similar to those ordered regu'
larly from Washington by tele.'
The magazine took a journa.
listic jaunt through seven Cen.
The chronicle., 1963-11-14
Nuvy Has Model
Of FUtUristic Sub

WASHINGTON (UPD = The
Navy has an 18-foot model of a
futuristic submarine that some
day may be able to resist the
pressure of water at the mile
and-a-half depth at which the
nuclear-powered Thresher was
lost last April.
Built in The Netherlands at
a cost Of $10O, 900 the model has
rotating ~propellers powered by
electrical motors outside the
hull. The hull itself is Of solid
construction like the gondola Of
the deep-diving bathyscaphe Tri-
este.
The submarine model was ex-
hibited Tuesday at the David
Taylor Model Barn in nearby
Maryland. Hydrodynamic tests
are to start next week.
The chronicle., 1963-11-14
MENTAL PATIENTS DOWN

NEW YORK (UPD - The in
creasing use Of tranquilizing
drugs is largely responsible for
the reduction in the number Of
mental patients, figures of the
National Institute of Health In
dictate. At the end of 1862, there
were 51s,s4S mental hospital pa.
tents, down from CSC, 600 in 1855
and 20 per cent less than in
1861.
The chronicle., 1963-11-14

trail and South American coun-
tries to acquaint its readers with
"Washington's small but high
" dangerous provinces and to
"create a picture in our Satlrl-
cal journal of what's happen
ing there"
Tour Latin Countries
The Soviet propagandistS
toured Honduras, Colombia,
Ecuador, Veneguela, Haiti, Costa
RIGA and Nicaragua and SAID
they found pretty much the
same thing in each country.
The Latin American polltl-
cans. Krokodil added, are sell
ing out their native countries 70
North American companies 70
"better their bank accounts.
And with Washington's protec-
ton, it said, the republics
"change governments like one
changes gloves"
AS the Soviet propagandlsts
see it, Latin America is an
area where the republics are
really U. S, supported police
states; where politicians and
presidents are really U. S. sup
ported police states; where poll
ticians and presidents are really
Washington's hirelings; anc
where economic concessions
The chronicle., 1963-11-14

cloth coat mot particularly fash
ionable) is 80 rubles 1888. So.
Steak is 4 rubles ($.45 a pounds.
The average Russian earns 80
rubles 1881 a month.
Because it fronts on Red
Square, Gum has a tourist
attraction air. While loudspeak-
ers blare shopping tips to "com.
rade customers" ("see the fine
selection of shoes on the first
arcade)," one can see Russians
buying ice cream, doughnutS Oh
putting kopecks into the perfume
squirting machines.
The chronicle., 1963-11-14
Cities Record
Business Gains

S~TARKVILLE, Miss. (UPD-
Thirty-nine of MissiSSippi's 81
major cities showed business &C
tivity gains during September,
the Mississippi State University
Bureau of Business and Eco
nomic Research announced to-
day.
The bureaus monthly publica-
ton said Union, Lexington and
Shelby recorded the largest
gains.
Based on the 100 Of the 1858
base period, Union rose Is index
points from 1876 to 161; Lexing-
ton recorded a 23-point increase
from 104 to 127, and Shelby
went up 142 to 1921 points.
PineappIes are believed to
have been first cultivated by
Guarani Indians of Paraguay
and southern Brazil.
to U. S. capitalists are manda'
The chronicle., 1963-11-14

to U. S. capitalists are manda-
tory if the regimes in office
are to survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
Six Wet Namese Discover Exile Brings New Stresses

Of Mr.. and Mrs. Chuong was
on the mantle. The only pres
ence of Mrs. Nhu was her pic
ture on the front page of the
afternoon paper lying on the
coffee table. The article said
she denied any persecution Of
the Buddhists.
This is a home that Mrs.
Nhu, influential sister-in-law
Of President Diem, will not
visit when she comes to Amer
lea next month. Mr.. Chuong
brushed aside any comment on
her with a shake OF his head.
Speaking as one does of a dis
tant stranger. he called her
Nine. Nhu" and said. I'VE do
not wish to know her."
While the others who left
the embassy had no such per-
sonal breaks as Mr.. Chuong,
they are now adrift - diplo-
mats yesterday and among the
unemployed today.
DR., Nguyen Duy Lien, former
minister counselor. was a law
yer and q Judge before he
Joined the diplomatic corps. He
had been with the embassy ia
years. II do not have vet a
Job. would like TO teach -
perhaps French or ancient
studies. My wife has left for
North Carolina. She will teach
Vietnamese at a Berlitz school.
Three Of our four children are
with me here. The other is in
college in North Carolina.
why did I leave2 I could
not serve a government that
takes no consideration Of its
people. The students arrested,
the march on the pagodas, the
intellectuals in jail. It is an
intolerable situation"
The positions and strengths
OF the men vary. Some, like
one who feels I'VE are now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
Talks Go On
To Prevent
Hotel Strike

Contract negotiations be-
tween hotel employees, restau-
rant employees and bartenders'
unions and 80 Washington
hotels continued in an all-night
session last night after the con-
tract expired at midnight.
At a mass meeting of union
members in the Sheraton Park
Hotel. a strike vote was ap-
proved early in the evening by
1874 to ID, according to Sam
uel Levine, counsel for the
Joint Executive Board of Hotel
and Restaurant Employees and
Bartenders International.
Negotiations are scheduled to
resume in the Sheraton Park
at 8 pm. today after adjourn
ing at Z am. today. Joseph B.
Danzansky, labor relations
counsel for the Hotel Associa-
ton of Washington, D. c., said
today that he was very hope
full and confident" a settlement
would be reached by the end OF
the day.
He said the union negotiators
were very cooperative and ne
gotiationS we're procee dine
smoothly. Mr.. Danzansky said
the management group had now
made a definite offer of wage
increases while retaining a pre-
vious offer of additions to the
pension plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
Byrd Reodies Budget
Hearings on Schools

Springarn class had about 81
pupils when school opened.
II certainly will explore the
need" Senator Byrd said. 1T
still have not been given jus
tifications for addition of
teaching staffs. I don't know
the needs Of the other depart
ments nor what revenue we
have"
Granting permission on an
emergency basis to employ
some 222 additional teachers
requested by the Commission
ers would mean. in practical
terms, permanent additions to
the staff, Senator Byrd said.
He said this was a respon-
sibility he could not take with
out careful consideration Of
Qualifications. yet to be laid
In his hands.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16

government could not remain
long Every time Nine. Nhu
opens her mouth, the grave she
is diggings for President Diem
becomes two inches deeper"
MIR. But Guy Ian, former
first secretary OF economic af-
fairs, and DR.. Du Kim Long,
former commercial attache, de-
clined TO speak of their resig-
nations. Mr.. Diem, the press
officer, said:
II was a part-time lecturer
at American University for a
year and a half. I will continue
there, but let me say I was
making less than 500 a month
on that job. Just yesterday I
was offered Job TO teach
nights in Baltimore. My wife
is American. OF Oriental de-
scent and she is teaching at
the Korean Embassy. But let
us say a substantial part Of
my income is removed.
I'VE have quit because we
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
BY ALEX A. PRESTON
Star Staff Writer

FARMVILLE, Va, Sept. is.
- A four year educational
blackout for about 800 Negro
children of Prince Edward
County ended this morning.
For the first time since 1859,
children entered school build
lings in ceremonies which
opened with prayers of thanks
giving.
In a unique educational ex-
pertinent, a privately financed
association has leased four
public school buildings and
buses from the county, which
stopped operating them rather
than comply with a Federal
court order to integrate.
DR.. Neil v. Sullivan, super
intendent of the new free
school system. said the 800
enrolment figure on opening
day is more than we ex-
pected."
Enrolled Those 6 to 8
DR.. Sullivan, who is on a
years leave of absence as
superintendent of Hampstead
(N.Y) public schools, claimed
that only those children from
6 to 8 years Of age were to
be enrolled today, although a
few older ones showed up.
Children from 10 through Is
are to be enrolled Wednesday,
he said, and "all others" on
Friday.
DR.. Sullivan said he fully
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16

TO run away you had to have
money. Many felt they couldn't
make a go Of 1t In the South"
Mr.. Chuong. with an humble
quality so foreign to his Cath
Ollie daughter. spoke with pride
Of his staff members who quit.
II am a political appointee,
they are Just political officers.
They did not have to leave.
For many, who had TO leave
North Wet Nam, this is the
second time they have chosen
freedom instead Of material
things. One Of them. for in
stance, had to break up his
family. His wife had to go to
North Carolina for a Job. He
was earning $l,lOO a month.
Do you realize the difficulty
and the sacrifice2"
Apologizing for a home al
most without furniture yet"
Mr.. Chuong sat in an UNI
carpeted living room. A picture
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
Judge Reeves
Resigns From
City Bench

Judge Mildred E. Reeves re-
signed today from the Court
of General Sessions, effective
September 80.
The 63-year-old judge sent
her letter Of resignation to
President K edy. Judge
Reeves, whose Republican
roots are deep, was appointed
to her 10 year term or
the municipal bench during
the Eisenhower administration
Her term expired last July
but she has continued to sit
pending either a reappoint-
ment, or appointment of a
successor.
Neither has been forthcom-
ing from the White House.
The District Democratic Gen.
trail Committee had opposed
reappointment Of Judge Reeves,
as well as of Judge Edward
A. Beard. The latter also COM
pleted his 10-year tenure in
July and continues to serve
pending action on the vacancy.
Judge Reeves worked for IL
years in the office Of Nicholas
Longworth. including his reign
as Speaker of the House, but
left his service in 1882 to be
an attorney In the office of
the General Counsel of the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue.
She returned to the political
scene in 1939-40 to serve as
executive assistant to the late
Senator Robert A. Taft.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
Free Prince Edward Schools
Open With 800 ATTENDING

expects" to enroll virtually all
those up through 20 years of
age who have either been de-
prived Of education for the
last four years or who would
have entered for the first
time.
The new school system is
open to all races, but only
four white children en-
rolled with the Negroes. AL
other white children continued
in segregated classrooms set up
by a local foundation for them
after public schools were closed
Two of the white children
enrolled today are in the r. R
Motion High School. They are
Richard Moss, IT. son Of the
dean of Longwood College ia
white teacher training school
here), and Brenda Abernethy
Is.
2 Others Are White
The other two, George Aber-
nethy, Z, enrolled at the Mary
E. Brance School. and Letitis
Tew, Z, at the Worsham Ele-
mentary School, which was
formerly an all-white insti-
tuition.
Promptly at S:45 am, DR..
Sullivan led a group of about
so youngsters to the flag
pole in front of the Mary E.
Branche Elementary school
here. Alfred Brown, Z, accom-
panied by older children who
also have never been In a class
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16

FOR 10 CENTS you could
see a captured official car Of
the Russian Government" a
"zis" car. But the people Of
Pennsylvania were more in
terested in spending 10 cents
on soft, hot pretzels which
they cover with mustard be-
fore eating.
Tape recorders have re-
placed bankers. The pitch is
made over and over a loud
speaker. Then the voice says,
Change the tape. Change
the ia Pc" and it starts
again, after a welc m e d
pause.
"See crazy old Zoma," said
a voice. THAT crazy old
Coma. She's back again. this
year." Inside a tent, sitting
in a slimp wooden pit was
Coma who had a blank look
and muttered to herself. Be-
side her we're several snakes,
motionless and watchful.
Coma was not part of the
side show, which trotted out
a man with two noses, a
woman with snake skin, a
man who hammered a nail
in his nose and Sylvia
Porter, the girl with the
worlds largest feet"
With the lights on, the
worn lines In the faces of the
con men were deeper. They
were sullen but sharp. One
gave the Rambler CHI ange
with a coin of questionable
origin, which had looked like
a quarter at the time.
The shippers were cold,
standing outside the tent
during the endless come-on
spiel. The could have used
some burlap.
It's a great fair. II closed
last Saturday and probably
attracted some $4,000 people
from as many as rs States.
1t had everything-"dead-
ly piranha fish, taffy, a man
on a m motorcycle driving
around inside a barrel, rab-
bits and golden jars Of honey
and Coma.
She's hard to forget.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16

blackballed completely" is out
spoken. He said. after I re-
signed, Just in spite they even
tried to fire me-" But others
refuse to talk at all, citing a
fear Of reprisal for families
back home or that 1t might
hurt their chances of getting a
job.
One gave the impression he
might be waiting to see wheth-
er the present government will
land with its feet on the
ground, before speaking out.
DR.. Ngo Ton Dat, former
first secretary, said 1T is a
much greater personal concern
for many others. 1t is rather
easy for me. / have had many
offers to teach political SCI
ence. but I have not accepted
any yet. I must do so SOON"
DR.. Dat, who, after resigning.
led the student pickets Of pro-
testation In front Of the White
House. has been writing letters
to Congressman asking them
, TO stop aid to Diem. He added:
II am a Confucianist but
Buddhist at practice. My moth
er goes TO a temple and prays
to Buddha almost every day.
My wife, who is an American,
plans TO work now. She was a
Presbyterian when we met at
Cornell, but OF course she goes
along with me in her think
ing"
Mrs. Dat said, Our con-
Germ Is for his family. We have
maximum security here. They
have minimum security there"
There is always a fear Of
reprisal," Mr.. Dat said, but
let's put II this way - / could
not stay and work for that
government"
Like Mr.. Chuong, he had q
feeling Of optimism that the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16

have reached the point that
our consciences would not per-
NIT us to stay. I myself am a
Catholic and the injustice done
was far beyond any endurance.
I am ashamed there are such
Catholics who use their relig-
ion for their own means. These
same injustices have been 60
ing on for a long time at lower
levels.
people ask why the in
tellectuals did not speak out
more. You have heard Of the
secret police and the things
they do, Of course"
One man who still has his
Job is Tran Dan Dinh who
moved up from a lessor role to
head the near-vacant embas-
sy. AS present charge d'affairs,
Mr.. Dinh said, II know exactly
what I am doing. The Wet
Namese are usually very stub
born and / am one Of them. !
am a career diplomat and my
Job is to execute government
policy"
Leaving embassy posts is
nothing new, but a State De-
partment official said OF these
six men all leaving:
Here in Washington I think
II is very much Of a first that
there has been such open OPP
position TO an existing regime
Embassy people usually leave
when a government falls and
they feel they cannot support
the successors"
The State Department
spokesman said, there will be
a routine checking Of their
status and / am sure they will
all become permanent residents
in November. Their problem
is getting jobs"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-09-16
FEAR FOR FAMILIES
By MYRA MACPHERSON
Star Staff Writer

Five Wet Namese diplomats
and one civil servant, who
quit their government last
month, are discovering the
emotional and financial strains
of living in exile.
Their protests against the
Buddhist repressions by South
Wet Nam President Diem be-
gan when former Ambassador
Tran Van Chuong walked out
August %. One by one. others
followed-two first secretaries,
the minister counselor, the
commercial attache, and the
press information officer. Only
two men remain to run the
embassy.
The former ambassador -
the father Of explosive Mrs.
Ngo Dinh Nhu - has moved
from the embassy to a mouse,
modest and small by diplomatic
standards, at 5000 Thirty-sec-
ond street NV. Unlike the
rest Of his staff who chose
self-imposed exile, Mr.. Chuong
is financially secure. He says
neither he nor his wife, who
also resigned her post as Wet
Mans permanent observer at
the United Nations, Intend TO
look for a job"
But for all the exiles. the
common sorrow is not being
able TO go home again.
Il have an 86-year-old
mother cannot visit" said
Mr.. Chuong. And his former
press officer. 29-year-old Ngu-
yen Xuan den, said:
mot TO see my aging par
ents makes me sad. There is a
fear for our families In all us.
Mine are in North Wet Nam.
They were cut off there when
the split came in "a. In order