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10 More FC)und AJlive l [JDb'le () SKOPJE, Yugoslavia IA'! - With a long probing listener like a 80 hours after the first shock of the catastrophic quake. Tbe Government ordered evacuation of the city oC 2'10,000 that She sobbed brokenly over and over 81 she cradled the girl In doctor's stethoscope, rescue specialists found 10 more persons alive Rescue squads foUowed, digging carefully through the destruc· had become a popular vacation spot for Westerners. her arms. I Monday in the rubble of this ancient Macedonian capital four days tion to bring the survivors - all Yugoslavs - to the surface in "new By Monday evening 150,000 - 55 per cent 01 the city's population Rescue of the others followed. after its destruction by an earthquake. miracles of Skopje." - were gone . Two of the bodies recovered were presumed to be those of While a team of French technicians sounded the ruins with their The first miracle occurred Sunday when a Belgian couple wall Tbey streamed out by the thousands, on Coot and by any vehicle U.s. Air Force Sergeant Harold R. Stacy of Gouverneur, N.Y., and electronic listener, dynamite squads began blowing up buildings rescued by Yugoslav coal miners lifter 55 hours in the rubble oC tbe they could use, some pushing carts with a few salvaged possessions his German 'wile. They had been listed 81 mlssIng after their ~'here all hope for finding life was abandoned. The blasted buildings Macedonian Hotel. piled on them. automobile W81 found crushed under rocks. had first been tested with the listening apparatus. The count of recovered bodies mounted toward 1,000, nnd Mac· A growing task force of bull dozers, tractors and heavy earth· They were said to be on their way to Greece for a vacation. The explosions were a prelude to the razing of Skopje, a city as edonian Premier Alexander Grlickov said os mony as 700 bodies may movers stood ready to plow full force into what remained o[ the Other Americans known to be in the capital were unhurt, Four old as Western civilization, which will be rebuilt on a safer site to be still lie within thq rubble. city the moment the Government gave the word. others had left the day before the quake. Belgrade radio broadcast appeals in a dozen languages for all determined later. What hope remained for further recovery oC survivors in the Nearly 90 per cent of the city's buildings were either demOlished Moving slowly through the ruins, the French technicians - flown nightmare of natural disaster in Skopje, rested with the capson, a or rendered unusable because of heavy damage. foreigners in the country to cable their relatives that they are safe. in Sunday Crom Paris - lowered the loog tube of thei~ "capson" Into device invented by the French specifically to find human under The radio said the Government bad received a flood of inquiries crevices within the rubble. rubble. Earlier in the day Grlickov said it did not appear likely that from around the world and it simply could not trace everyooe. anyone could have remained alive under the rubble this long. He The sensitive noise of a person breathing is transmitted through Although Skopje was doomed to disappear, CODStntct.ion crews said the bulldozers would go to work today and in a few days flatten TEHRAN, Iron l4'I- A itrong eorthquoke WOI rtperted Mon· wires in the tube to a small amplifier filled on a stethoscope. The labored to get enough power and plumbing and temporary bouaIng the area. d.y to hive dostroyed tho remote dolOrt vlll.,. of Gohgum, amplified noise is transmitted up the stethoscope eor tubes to the t facilities set up to make it bearable lor the workers who must re hom. of about 2,500 ,.oplo In Southorn Iran. Thoro wo. no operaotr's ears. Alter that, based on seismological studies, a safer site for a main. immedllte word on the plight of tho residonts. The device is light. In addition to inserting it into openings in new Skopje would be chosen lind the cllpital would be rebuilt there Power lines were put through to areas without light. Workmen Th. villogo I. neor Hajl·Abod, lbout 110 mil. snorth of tho rubble, a searcher can also test [or sounds under his feet by holding from the ground up, h vowed . dug out wells for a supply of saCe lirinklng water. Persi.n Gulf town of Blndn Abbo •• the amplifier at arm's length in front of his Cace and allowing the But even as he spoke about giving up further search (or the Water and simple cleanliness were terrible problems. A brief Tho Innlan Red Lion and Sun organization liso reported I microphone to dangle near the ground or rubble. lie takes a st~p, living, the Government radio carried the news that the French rainfaU Sunday night brought a whisper of rellef to the heat·be qUlko rocked Binilnd, a tr" contor of lbout Sf,GOO populltlon then listens, then takes another step. expert team had dug out 13·year-old Lence Naumova from a recess deviUed people of Skopje. But it was brief. ~50 mil ...." of Tehrln, on SundlY. Reports Monday night from The dynamite blasts and the attempts to snatch from death oth· in the ruins of her home. She had been shielded by bathroom fiJC· By midday Monday the sun was blazing again and people Birjlnd .Iid thor, hid boon no loll of 11ft In tho SundlY quoke. ers still alive in the ruins were conducted amid the stench of de· tures. pushed dazedly through the dizzying heat waves shimmering up composing bodies and human waste [rom cracked sewers. Her mother, who had given up all hope, broke from the gather· from the ground. Special shower trucks moved throueh the city r' Firat the liny microphone at the end of the tube picked up the There was the threat of a typhus epidemic. ing crowd as a soldier held up the barely conscious youngster. trying to provide at least some sort of bathing facUity. sound of a young girl beneath the rubble of her home. Then other There was the threat of damaged buildings falling on those "That's my child, that's my child," the mother shrieked. "Oh The odor of death and decay rising from the miles of rubble sounds of human life in other buildings were detected more than moving in the rulns. God, I thank you, J thank you , I thank you ." grew even worse. Palmer Wins The Weather Portly cloudy th"""h toni .... luttwrod Ihow .... Western Open I11III thund.rltorml over Itate .....y ........""t. Hl,hl In tho .... Outlook for W..... ,: ,.rtl, oil owan cloudy, little cMngo In tomporMuros, .1Id ICI" See Story, Page 4 [ Serving the State University of Iowa and the People of Iowa City tored lhoworl or thunderstorml In ,"t portion. EltabJlshed ill 1868 10 Cents Per Copy AMOClated Preu Leaaed Wires aud WInpboCo Iowa City, Iowa-Tuesday. July 30, 1963 Buddies Dead, GIJs 1962 Mother of Year SUI Observatory DeGaulle Spurns Await Red Patrol Closed 10 Public At SUI Dies in Crash , Contrary to the hopes of local CHUNYANG·DONG, South Korea istice line since the ambush Mon· star gazers, the physics building Mr. R. L. Gilliam, 1962 SUI l4\ - Angry young U.S. soldiers day. observatory is not open to the Mother 01 the Year, was killed in The dead are: public this summer. B two·car crash Sunday , The acci· Big 3 Agreement took up patrol positions along the Pfc. Charles T. Dessart lIT, 19, Professor of Astronomy Satoshl dent happened on Highway 49 Korean armistice line M 0 n day son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Des. Matsushima said that the observa· about a mile east of IIighway IS long, rambling statement to about less as far as France Is concerned night hoping to find the North Kor· sert Jr., 4622 State Road, Drexel tory is being used by astronomy since France would never strike students every night, and will not near Higginsville, Mo. at 1 p.m. 800 newsmen, officials, and hang· eans who ambushed three of their Hill. Pa.; and Pvt. David A. Seiler, French Plan ers-on at a packed news conference the first blow against anyone. be open to others until the fall se· Mrs. Gilliam, 57, was returning buddies, killing two and wounding 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Erich M. in the Elysee Palace. As usual, he Th is was a reply to the proposal the third. Seiler, Route 1, Theresa, Wis. mester. At that time a schedule to her home in Des Moines from will be devised, he said. Own Pact took a series of questions, grouped advanced by Premier Khrushchev Listed as seriously wounded is a California vacation. She Wll them, then replied all In one burst. Their commander, Brig. Gen. Pfc. William L. Foster, 26, of Ball. in the Moscow talks with Britain Charles Pershing Brown of the 1st imore. traveling with Mrs. Myrtle E. "The Moscow agreement," said and the United States, In iniUaJing Cavalry Division, denounced the at· Foster was hit four times in the Denger, 86, of Des Moines, Mrs. In Future De Gaulle, "has not lifted the the limited test ban accord. the atomic menace which weighs on two Western states agreed to take tack, made in the fog early Mon- chest, arms and legs. He was re Clara Mae Gilliam. in her sixties, PARIS t.4'I - President Charles the world. None of the signers had the malter up with their allies.