Wether Distribution J «.m. temperature M. Sony Today May tad tomorrow, with a high mPBANK of N. Oear tonight, low in (he 21,575 Ml. Thunday, fair and warm. ] Independent Daily [ { mKDArnmxxmnuur-ur.m J See weather, page 2. DIAL 741-0010 VflT fiK Mf> A1 lMu«d, dully. Uonii» uitinimi fnitni. Sirand CIMI Fonti* RED BANK, N. J,, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1963 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE Two Miners Rescued After 14 Days HAZLETON, Pa. (AP)-Joking Throne started up atj,:58 a.m. The wives of both men were first helped into tubs to wash off At 4:08 a.m., just five hours moved solemnly Into the room, had been considered only for an bury announced the harness and singing all the way, Henry and reached the surface at 2:07 waiting for them at the hospital. the accumulation of grime. Then short of two weeks after her hus- threw her arms around him and emergency but it worked smooth- would be used, he a i k e d Throne and David Fellin were a.m., a 17-minute trip he de- Mrs. Fellin, a Roman Catholic, they had a shave before being re- band had disappeared in the wept on his shoulder. ly. Charmbury and other officials his listeners to say > pray*r for lifted to the surface today un- scribed as "the best ride I ever made the sign of the cross, prayed united with their families. Shortly mine, Mrs. Fellin was reunited "Don't cry," said the miner as changed original plans to use a the men. harmed in a safety, harness from had." Fellin started at 2:33 a.m. and wept tears of joy when ahe before 4 a.m. Fellin wondered with him. She had been kept wait- bouyant as ever. "I'm all right, steel capsule because of a bend in What a Ride! more than 300 leet underground and reached the surface at 2:41. received the news that the rescue when he could see his wife. ing almost an hour in the hospital I'm all right.'1 the 18-inch escape hole which "I'm coming up" yelled Throne where a mine cave-in trapped His rescue took 8 minutes and 15had been accomplished. He had another request, too: for after his arrival. The safety harness, pulled by a caused fears that the cap- as the harness ropes snapped them 14 days ago. seconds. At the hospital the men were a sandwich, soup and coffee. Finally the word came, and she winch and cable arrangement, sule might catch. When Charm- taut about him. "I'm coming 1 The rescue climaxed a drama Good Condition up! ' that caught world-wide attention; Although grimy, both men ap- "Boy what a ride this is," said a drama mixed with faith, cour- peared in good shape when they Throne half-way up. age, frustrations and the heart- reached the surface. At one point, when he was wanning stream of good humor H. B. Charmbury,, Pennsylvania stopped because a tangle devel- that flowed constantly from secretary of mines, said work on Launch Intense Search for Trio oped in his communication line Throne and Fellin. an escape hole for Bova similar and a rope, he remarked that the But the joy was tempered with to the 18-inch shaft used to free ride feels "like a chutey-chute at concern for the third trapped Fellin and Throne will be started Coney Island." miner, Louis Bova, 42, who was shortly, along with a new three- Near the top he asked, "What last heard from a week ago to inch drilling. In Spring Lake Robbery-Murderkind of a moon is out?" day. He was separated from them The men were examined in a When told there was no moon, by 25 feet of debris, and four ef- first aid tent, then quickly re- he quipped: "No moon?" Holy SPRING LAKE (AP) - Three jewel thieves who bludg- forts to drill a small lifeline hole moved by two helicopters to the hidden from the road by thick hedge3 and clusters of (all mackerel there, Andy." eoned to death the 60-year-old wife of a Chilean consul gen- to him — like the one which Hazleton State Hospital nine miles trees. When Throne, wearing an eral were the targets of an intense police search today. reached Throne and Fellin—have away, where a special ward was Miss Cervantes was upstairs to prepare beds when she orange helmet and blue coveralls The slayers, two men and a woman, killed Mrs. Lucy been unsuccessful. prepared for them. was confronted by the masked trio. When she indicated she did laced with the lifting strap, hit Grez as she sat watching television, clubbed and bound the not speak English, the woman demanded in Spanish to know family maid and then escaped with the contents of a jewelry where the money and jewelry would be found. When the maid (See MINERS, Page 3) case. said she did not know, she was beaten and then tied with Air 61 Appeals Police hoped that the maid, Hilda Cervantes, 30, from strips of sheets. Ecuador, may be able to supply a more complete description (See MURDER, Page 3) Board Splits of the killer] today. She is in Fitkin Memorial Hospital, Nep- tune, for treatment of shock and head injuries. Police Chief Russell H. Hurden, ST., said he planned to In Appointing OKAeromarine question the maid with the aid of an interpreter. She was able to give police only meager information after being found yesterday morning. Ex-Member She told police that the woman wore black slacks and a FREEHOLD - Mrs. Catherine Tract Tax Cut black turtleneck sweater and was armed with a weapon that W. Williams was appointed to she described from a police drawing as a 32-caliber auto- the Board of Education last HEYPORT — Tax assessment Front St., $3,100 to $2,100, land, matic. The woman and men had shiny black cloth mask3 night. on the Aeromarine industrial and $5,400 to {8,000, building; across their faces and wore berets and gloves, the maid said. Mrs, Williams, who ran fourth complex, Locust St., was re- William B. Van Engelen, 8 West The men, she said, appeared to be either Puerto Ricans or in a field of six candidates in duced $55,000 by the county First St., $13,800 to $10,000, Negroes while the woman was lighter skinned and spoke fluent February in quest of her fourth Board of Taxation at the board's building; Sun Oil Co., Rt. 35 Spanish. term on the board, was ap- appeal hearing here yesterday. service station, $29,750 to $16,000, RELATE CRIME pointed by a 5-2 vote. A total of 61 appeal cases was land; Charles Johnson, 213 Maple Police have pieced together this picture of the crime: The appointment followed the heard. Of this number, only PI., $5,050, to $4,200, land; James Alfonso Grez, about 70, the Chilean consul general in New defeat of the nomination of Miss three were approved yesterday. Coughlin, 33 Pershing PI., $5,100 York City for 27 years, left his spacious seashore summer Mildred Enright 2d, of Court St. Decisions in most cases were re- to $2,750, land, and John L. home at 312 Pitney Ave., at 6 p. m. Sunday for the 0-mile Voting for Mrs. Williams were lerved. Tramm, 132 Broadway, $4,950 to drive to New York City. ernes F. Hlggins, C. Lawson The Aeromarine complex, $3,750, land, and $14,100 to $11, The slayers, who may have thought the house was vacant Horn, Merrltt R. Lamson, Jr., owned by Milton Berger and the 500, building. after Grez left, entered by cutting through a screen in the Robert R. Throckmorton and Raritan Bay Co., Rochester, AIso, the Anna Kinhafer es- rear of the house. The three-story frame house is almost Bo»rd President Andrew E. N.Y., consists of several fac- tate, 104 Fulton St., $3,500 to $1, Dale. tory buildings on 53 acres of 800, land; Peter Whitehead, 157 Mr. Dale said that absent ]anc|. Luppatatong Ave., $5,950 to $5,- board member Neal Munch The assessment was reduced 000, land, and $6,700 to $5,000, Police Grimly Seek wished his public support to be from $464,250 to $349,250, con- building; Dr. Mark Muscarella, noted for Mrs. Williams. forming with an Aug. 5 judgment 95 Maple PI., for office at 30 BEREAVED HUSBAND—Chil- Opposing the appointment and of the state Division of Tax Ap-Main St.L $2,000 toJl.OM, per- Slayers of Two Cops voting for Miss Enright were peals. sonal; Madeline Fowler, ean Consul General Alfonso Mrs. Edna C, Kelley and Nathan Decision on 21 appeals was Ohingarora Ave., $2,275 to $1,- LODI (AP) - Police, furious coat and Tedesco stripped to his Grez it shown leaving the Katz. The opponents expressed 750, land; Franklin Tuthill, Ther- at the humiliation-killing of two underwear while three women, Itipulated. On stipulations, THl TORN SCREEN — Lt. Raymond N»wm«n of Spring Spring Lake residence where an opinion that no defeated can- there is agreement between the (See TAX APPEALS, Page 2) fellow officers, hunted a pair of the bartender and three hood- Lake police department inspects torn icreen in kitchen didate should be appointed to the tax assessor and the appellant, gunmen, today with grim de- lums watched. hi* wife WAS found murdered board. on amount of the reduction, but termination. When Voto was ordered to of the revdence of Chilean Comul General Alfomo yesterday.