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FOUR WILMINGTON MORNING NEWS. WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1949 CLAN OBSERVES SIX CALM IN PIPE PRISON SCENE Record of Events Ij In Kathy's Tumble 4I Just Wish Kathy Was Here With Her Sister Jackson Street, died yesterday in St. Francis Hospital.

Born in Ireland. Mrs. Murphy came to this country as a young girl. She had been a resident of Wilmington for about 50 years and was a member of the Blessed Virgin Sodality of St. Paul's R.

C. Church. Surviving are a daughter, Sister All World, Except Red Orbit, Worries About Little Kathy By Associated Press The plight of little Kathy Fiscus drew heart-felt interest from around the world today and a snub from behind the Iron Curtain. Newspaper switchboards all over the United States were swamped with calls for news of the three-year-old who dropped down an old well Dire in San Marino, Friday afternoon. Rescue attempts were 25TH ANNIVERSARY HANDLE RESCUE All Ignore Danger to Selves! Czechs will not read the story.

T.he As ThPV Din Dppn in FarthiMrs- Murphy, Mrs. Joseph headlined in London papers. But even those who had the best spots could see little. But as though under a spell the throngs stayed on to the numbing climax. Doctor Enters Pit The doctor was lowered into the rescue tunnel at 8:22 o'clock to- night.

The superintendent of rescue operations, Raymond Hill, had announced some time before that Kathy had been located at 6:22 p. m. He declined, however, to say whether she was alive. Floodlights were trained at the mouth of the rescue tunnel as ponce was so much puauc interest in a had difficulty holding back thousands who had gathered for The Philadelphia Inquirier re-the final phase of the exhaustive ported, "Peculiarly enough, the calls ordeal. Shave come from nearly as many Sweating, dog-tired men cutimen as women." The Salt Lake City MacGregors' Fete Attracts 300 From Several States; 5 Charter Members Attend The tartan and plaid and the thistle reigned undisputed at the twenty-fifth anniversary banquet, dance and entertainment of Wilmington's Clan MacGregor, No.

226, Order of Scottish Clans, attended by 300 members and guest delegations from Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey at Calvary Parish House, Fourth and Rodney Streets, Saturday night. Visiting deelgations were members of Clan Cameron, Trenton, N. Clan Ross of Chester and Clan MacKenzie of Baltimore, and their vives. Of the 25 charter members of Clan MacGregor, organized April 12, 1924. six are still members, and five of them attended the silver anniversary banquet.

They are William J. Taylor and James R. Reid, both past royal deputies of the Order of Scottish Clans, William Graham, Donald Maclnnes and John MacLeod. Mr. Reid organized Clan MacGregor.

Mr. Taylor presided at the dinner. An elaborate program of Scot tish music and dances was presented by the Clan MacTavish entertainers, featuring the Argyle Highland dancers and the Three Merry Macs, all of Trenton, N. J. John Harvie, chief of Clan Cameron, Trenton, and Andrew Richardson of Clan Ross, Chester, were masters of ceremonies for the entertainment.

Abe Patterson was piper and A. F. Hill of Clan MacGregor gave a violin solo. Mrs. Agnes Lyon was pianist.

Guests of honor included the chiefs of the visiting clans: Mr. Harvie, Clan Cameron; Peter Richardson. Clan Ross; Frank Harryman, Clan MacKenzie, and Andrew T. Morrison. Wilmington, royal deputy of the Chester-Wilmington District of the Order of Scottish Clans.

They and their wives were welcomed, as were the other guests at the affair, by Matthew Lygate, chief of Clan MacGregor. Decorations Included American and Scottish flags and varied flowers. John Monroe and John Thompson were in charge of decorations. The banquet and anniversary committee comprised William Spencer, honorary chairman; Mr. Taylor, chairman; Mr.

Morrison. Mr. Monroe, Mr. Reid and William Knox. Deaths Elsewhere NEW YORK.

April 10 (JP. Dr. Irving Hotchkiss Pardee. 57. one of New York City's leading neurologists, died today.

At the time of his death he was attending neurologist DEATHS IRONS In this city, on April 11)43. Harold Gerard Relatives and friends are Invited to a memorial -ervire at the Unitarian Churrh. on Monday afternoon. April 11. at 4 Interment in Cassomet.

Mass. Family requests flowers be omitted. Mr ADAMS In this citv. on April 9. 1949.

Raymond husband of Marv Pennock Taylor Mi-Adams. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at the Yeatman Funeral Home. 81" Washington Street, on Wednesday afternoon. Anril 13. at 2:30 o'clock.

Interment at Wilmington and Brandywlne Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday evening after 7 o'clock. MILLER -In this city, on Anril 9. 1049. Elizabeth, wife of the laie John Miller and daushter of the late and Asnes Glynn.

Relatives. friends and Blessed Virgin Sodality of St. Paul's Church are invited to attend the funeral from the residence of her niece. Mrs. Aenes Feldman.

1111 We.st Fourth Street, on Wednesday morninc. April 13. at 9 o'clock. Solemn requiem mass at St. Paul Church, at 9:30 o'clock.

Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. MURPHY In this city, on Anril 10. 1949. Catherine wife of the late James I. Murphy, and daughter of the late Owen and Catherine McCarthy.

Relatives, friends and members of the Blessed Vir-Rin Sodality are invited to attend the funeral from the Mealey Funeral Home. I "703 North Broom Street, on Wcdne-day morninsr. ADril 13. at 10 o'clock Solemn reouiem mass at St. Paul's Church, at I o'clock.

Interment at Cathedral Cemetery. Friends may call Tuesday eve- nins after 7 o'clock. EEALE In this city, on Anril 9 1949. Patricia Holliday. wife of Harley B.

Ffale. of Mon'rhama. Del. Funeral services and interment private. Please omit flowers.

WOOLEYHAN In Chest er; own. on April 9. 1949. Philip H. son of and Brita B.

Wooleyhan. ased 18 years. Relatives and friends are invited to at tend the services at the Funeral Parlors rt. i. jonfs.

iscwarK. on lupsnav fternoon. April 12. at o'clock. In'cr-ment at Friends' Buryins Ground.

New Oarden. Pa. Friends may rail Monday venine 7-9 o'clock. Michael A. Mealey Son Fuuoral Directors N.

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5-611 McCrery 2700 WASHINGTON ST. 3 tar ft trior with Wickt Pip Organ Our Funeral Costs Meet Meet Present Day Conditions I Many Remain at Spot Night And Day, Ignoring Weari ness, and Hoping Grimly By GENE HANDS AKER Associated Press Correspondent SAN MARINO, April 10 This is written from atop a pile of dirt near Kathy 's underground pipe prison. Everybody here is tired, including the thousands of faithful watchers beyond the ropes and fences. Neither wild horses nor pressing affairs could call us away overnight from the grim drama unfolding underground. Kathy Fiscus has been an estimated 95 feet down since about 5 p.

m. Friday. At play, she fell down a 14-inch abandoned well. The rescue is maddeningly slow. Tempers are frayed.

Few criticisms are heard. Weariness causes spectators beyond the eight-foot wire fence to clutch its mesh for support. Ill temper could be attributed to too little sleep or none at all, and to too much coffee, too many cigarettes. An officially estimated 25,000 spectators were on hand at midnight. Today the crowd is about 5,000, say Sheriff's Sgt.

Harry W. Bcnstead. That's about the same size crowd as yesterday. In a way. many must feel they are sharing the agony of Mr.

and Mrs. David Fiscus, Kathy's parents. Or even sharing, almost, ine oizarre ordean of little Kathy herself. Rescuers Keep Up Hope Rescuers keep up hope that Kathy is alive. Oil Rigger Dave Krumme estimates her chance at "about 70 per cent," "Is he discouraged?" "Not yet." For seven and one-half hours ne has been shining a brilliant light down a 24-inch steel shaft, rne shaft sticks out of the ground about 10 feet.

It goes down alongside Kathy's pipe prison. Rescuers are trying to tunnel across to her pipe to bring her out. Seeping water has slowed them. One workman will be heard say ing: The dirt snouia simpiy nave been dug away from the pipe whicn Kathy is in." Another says: mo; some down through a surrounding steel casing is the only safe way." "Yes." another agrees, "but the 57-foot hole dug yesterday should have been cased and continued." This hole is about 30 feet across at the top. When its deep walls began to quiver, it was abandoned for a 30-inch hole lined with pipe.

Others say the present procedure is best. Sun Hot The sun is hot. A bird cheeps on a distant power wire. An airliner thunders in the distance. The crowd of spectators, in this fashion able suburb, is comfortably well dressed.

Those who waited overnight now feel the dull weariness as the hot sun smarts into aching backs. Pale faces have acquired a healthy burn. Firemen in relays endlessly turn the crank that sends fresh air through a hose down to Kathy. There are the litter of discarded fruit cans, the piles of crowbars, picks and shovels the mumbling chatter of broadcasters rattling into their microphones news photographers perched on cranes, waiting for the inevitable, but snail-paced climax. The watchers wonder, how long has it been, since Kathy tumbled into the harsh shaft? Why, it was 35 hours ago when a pink and blue dawn broke over the watchers and workers at 5 o'clock this morning.

CHURCH OF KATHY'S PARENTS VOICES PRAYER SAN MARINO. April 10 Prayers for the safety of little Kathy Fiscus arose from many pulpits and pews today as rescuers worked steadily to reach the imprisoned tot. None was more fervent than at the San Marino Congregational Church, where Kathy was baptized last Christmas. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

David Fiscus, are members. "That little girl and her famil? are very much in our thoughts today," the Rev. Bertrand Crist, pastor of the church, told his hushed Palm Sunday congregation. MAN OFFERS TO ENTER PIPE PRISON HEAD FIRST SAN MARINO. April 10 6T).

V. M. Langan of Whittier, Calif-offered today to be lowered head first down kathy Fiscus' 14-inch pipe prison to pull the tot out with his hands. Langan brought a section of 11-inch pipe which he passed over his raised arms and body to prove he could do it. Like many other similar offers, his was declined.

Hundreds Continued From First Tare same situation was true at Station WILM where one man was held to a telephone to take the calls. "It's a great tragedy" was the comment from many of the" callers. Others expressed sympathy for the parents. Every caller wanted to hear that the radio stations would interrupt a program to bring news of the rescue. They were told that the networks had made arrangements to give full coverage from the scene.

The intense interest was compared to that of the nation-wide attention given attempts to rescue Floyd Collins in 1925 when he was pinned by a rock in a Kentucky cave. Collins died before he could be reached. As for Kathy, one woman caller gave a reason for much of the interest. "She might have been my little girl, she said. GYPSIES CHANT FOR KATHY SAN MARINO.

April 10 (INS). As the third night of Kathy Fiscus entombment fell, a group oL colorfully-costumed gypsies edged toward "Operations Rescue" chanting mournful music. The dirge sombered 10,000 hopeful hearts watching the operations. DRAWS HOUSANDS And Rescue Effort! SAN MARINO. April 10 Here is a log of events in the fall of Kathy Fiscus.

3. into an abandoned well and the all-out rescue efforts which followed Friday 4:45 p. m. Kathy falls into the well in a vacant lot. 5:00 p.

m. Mrs. Alice Fiscus, Kathy's mother, calls police. 5:30 p. m.

Firemen began pumping air into the welL 5:45 p. m. Efforts to raise Kathy with ropes fail. 6:00 p. m.

Power equipment begins digging parallel hole. 6 p. m. athy's cries cease. Midnight Digging reaches 41-foot level.

Saturday 7:00 a.m. Diggers reach 57-foot level, start lateral tunnel. 10:45 a.m. Hole cut in casing of old well. IT: 30 a.

m. Rescuers say they believed they see piece of dress and motionless arm in well pipe. Noon Wide mouthed excavation abandoned in favor of smaller hole on opposite of well pipe. 5 p. m.

New shaft nears 100-foot mark. 10:30 p. m. Complete work of placing steel casing in 104-foot shaft. 10:45 p.

m. Bill Yancey lowered to start hand work. Midnight Diggers clear bottom of shaft. Sunday 4 a. m.

Lateral tunnel starts; wet sand pocket hit. 6:45 a. m. Water flows into rescue shaft; pumping begins. 8:45 a.

m. Water flow slows rescue efforts. 10:10 a. m. Workers crack well pipe at 94-foot level.

11:45 a. m. Pumping speeded to lower water level in lateral tunnel. 1:30 p. m.

Minor caveins in tunnel hamper work. 3:15 p. m. Reach wrell pipe and cutting starts. 4:45 p.

m. Kathy in well 48 hours. 6:20 p. m. Kathy reported found.

8:15 P. M. Bill Yancey is lowered into the rescue shaft on a bucket on the end of a cable. Dr. Robert McCullock tries on parachute-type harness preparatory to following Yancey.

8:20 p. m. Dr. McCullock, clad in blue jacket, aviator's cap and dungaree trousers, begins descent into shaft. 8:58 p.

m. Dr. Paul Hanson announces Kathy dead. Kathy- Continued From First Pac ently been dead since she was last heard speaking on Friday. "Her family has been notified and we are now notifying you.

Dr. McCullock has pronounced Kathy dead and is assisting in removal of the body. For the sake of the familywho have held up so gallantly through this ordeal and all the people who have aided so magnificently, we ask you to please leave the scene of the accident as a courtesy to them. "If this had been your child, we are sure you would not want a crowd remaining at the scene of the tragedy. I now wish to Tead a message from the Fiscus family.

'There is nothing we can say to fully thank the many people who have helped us so unselfishly. Many of these people have gone home to much-needed rest. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to them for their sacrifices beyond belief. The doctor said the family Is at home, having been given sedatives after their agonizing vigil. Knew She Was Dead O.

A. Kelly, the engineer who found the body, told reporters: knew she was dead the minute I saw her. She was three feet below i the level of the window in the well.i She was upright and covered with water." I Kelly said it was he who asked forj a doctor to come down and examine her and give a professional opinion. "Each man knows his own business," he said. Kelly had been in the little tunnel leading to the well pipe for four hours and 50 minutes, working with pneumatic tools to cut the window through the steel casing of the well.

He said it was very hot and that he lay prone as he worked in water. He said there was not even room to kneel in the tiny lateral tunnel. He was attended by his own physician and said he planned to go home and sleep a week. After Kathy's body was removed bulldozers began pushing dirt back into the big 57-foot hole. Workers said they also planned to pull the casing from the rescue shaft, then fill up this shaft and the old well.

Kathy's last sound was about 6:30 p. m. last Friday. She answered with cries the questions of her mother to say whether she was standing up or lying down in the well. The tot apparently gripped a rope that was dropped to her laie Friday but she lost her grip or was not strong enough to hold on and fell back against the sides of her dark tomb.

Kathy cried for a while then. Suddenly she stopped. Doctors estimate that this was the time of her death. From all of southern California men came with equipment to free Kathy from her cylindrical coffin. The plight of the little blond girl captured the sympathy of the world.

Epic Rescue Effort A superhuman effort to pull her free from the earth grew to epic proportions. Men and machines worked without rest, stubbornly de termined to lift Kathy into the sun shine again. Two days of heroism followed. Men risked their lives for the Kathy who lay dead 94 feet beneath them. Spectators covered every conceivable place of vantage.

They pressed 30 deep against the 10-foot steel mesh fence which borders the field on the south and east. They strained against the police-guarded ropes that marked off the rescue operation on the north and west. Few could get a decent look. And SAN MARINO, April 10 (UR. Nine-year-old Barbara Fiscus missed Sunday school this morning.

She said it wouldn't be any fun without her tiny sister, Kathy, who was imprisoned at the bottom of a 120-foot well. Standing in front of her parent's house, she munched a piece of chocolate cake and watched a rescue crew's desperate efforts to save three-year-old Kathy. 'T wish Kathy was here," she said. "We usually have so much fun on Sundays. We go to church in the morning or I guess you call it Sunday school.

We all usually went to church." Barbara's short blond hair was held back from her suntanned face by a little barrette. She was wearing a pink and white striped dress and dirty white kid shoes and white ankle SOX. She is at loss as to what to do with herself now that Kathy is absent, and a bit confused at all the bustle in the neighborhood. "In the afternoon Kathy and I used to play with our dog Jeepers and a ball," Barbara said. "I've been sleeping across the street at the neighbors the last two nights.

They wanted me out of the house so I wouldn't bother mother and father." Barbara-said she watched rescue proceedings on a neighbor's television set. "I can see better that way," she explained. "If I went over to the lot, I would start sneezing. It's dusty." "But gosh. I wish Kathy was already out." at St.

Luke's Hospital, director of the neurological clinic at St. Luke's and secretary of St. Luke's Medical Board. He wrote many articles on nervous ana mental diseases auiu endocrine glands. PHILADELPHIA.

April 10 (F i. Joseph H. (Little Joe) Smith, 59. who managed boxer Tommy Loughran to the light heavyweight boxing championship in 1927, died last night. BIRTHS The Memorial Hospital Campbell.

Mr. and Mrs. Yorklyn, April 9. son. Draper.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert, Brookland Terrace, April 9, son. Loflink. Mr.

and Mrs. James. 610; Washington Street. April 10, son. Odorisio, Mr.

and Mrs. Anthony, Kennett Square. April 9. daughter, Schacffer, Mr. and Mrs.

John' Clifton Heights. April 7. son. Shoemaker, Mr. an- Mrs.

Charles, i Kennett square. April 9. son. Wilmington General Hospital i Conley, Mr. and Mrs.

Theodore Shipside. April 7, son. Dehorty, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah, Landenberg.

April 9, son. Szatkiwicz, Mr. and Mrs. John, 916 Bennett street, April 8, daughter. Wortham, Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin, New Castle, April 9, son. St. Francis Hospital LaPenta, Mr, and Mrs. Luciano.

1718 West Seventh street, April 9, daughter. Mason, Mr. and Mrs. William, 2400 West seventh Street, April 10, daughter. Smith, Mr.

and Mrs. Russell. 2134 Market Street, April 10. son. Delaware Hospital i Angelone, Mr.

and Mrs. James, 601 Hawley April 10, son. Borg. Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred, New-; ark. April 9. son. i Deppish, Mr. and Mrs.

Guy War-j ren. Riverside. April 10, daughter. Dill. Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest Lincamerc. April 6. daughter. Doyle, Mr.

and Mrs. Paul 912 Spruce Street, April 9. son. Freeman. Mr.

and Mrs. John Woodside Hills, April 10. son. Frye, Mr. and Mrs.

A. Branson, Richardson Park. April 10, son. Hostetter, Mr. and Mrs.

Edward. North East. April 10. Laffiter. Mr.

Mrs. James, Wil- mington Manor. April 10. son. McConlogue.

Mr. and Mrs. Wil-i liam. Can'oy Park, April 10, daugh- ter. i Przyborowski, Mr.

and Mrs. Ed-; mund. 613 East Sixth Street. April daughter. Torsell, Mr.

and Mrs. Ernest, 1211 West Fourth Street, April 10, daughter. White, Mr. and Mrs. Leavitt, Lindamere.

April 9, son. Wolfe, Mr. and Mrs. Donald, 1607 Laurel Street, April 9, son. Osteopathic Hospital Garber, Mr.

and Mrs. George, 1512 Gilpin Avenue, April 10, son. FINE QUALITY of both service and merchandise is assured in funerals we direct. IE AT MAN COON FUNERAL DIRECTORS i I JS JAS. A JAS.

T. Ill fy M. Auxina, O.S.F.S.. York. a wSmSS: with sisters, of this city, and another in Ireland.

The funeral will be held from the Mealey Funeral Home, 703 North Broom Street, at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning with solemn requiem mass at St. Paul's Church at 10:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathe- jdral Cemetery- Friends may call tomorrow nignt at tne iunerai nome. Mrs. Reba Green Funeral services for Mrs.

Reba Green, 74, widow of William E. Green, will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the home. of her son, Paul D. Green, 2132 Lin den Street, with services at 2:30 o'clock in Silverbrook Methodist Church. The Rev.

Roy Tawes, pastor, will officiate. Interment will be in Silverbrook Cemetery. Friends may call tonight at 2132 Linden Street, Mrs. Green died Saturday at the Turk Private Hospital after an illness of four years. She was a lifelong resident of Wilmington and a member of Silverbrook Church.

Surviving are five children, the Rev. Robert E. Green of Crisfield, and Mrs. Clyde Hayman, Miss Laura E. Green, William R.

Green and Paul D. Green, all of Wilmington: a brother, James V. Donovan, of Wilmington, and eight grandchildren. Harold G. Irons Rites Memorial services for Harold G.

Irons, 73, sales manager for Group Hospital Service, will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the Unitarian Church. Interment will be in Cassomet, Mass. The family requests that flowers be omitted. Mr. Irons died Saturday in The Memorial Hospital where he had been a patient for three weeks.

He lived at 1307 North Broom Street. FARLEY ASKS U.S. RENEW RELATIONS WITH SPAIN GLENS FALLS. N. April 10 (U.R).

Former Postmaster General James A. Farley called upon the United States today to reestablish diplomatic relations with Franco Spain and urged that Spain be admitted into "any western European Union established." "I think it Is imperative for security reasons that we resume diplomatic relations with Spain, including the appointment of an ambassador to Madrid." Farley said. Speaking to 400 Knights of Columbus at a communion breakfast here, the former national Democratic chairman described Spain as the "chief issue" in a series of "coldblooded relationships based on security, not politics" which he be lieves the United States must develop. LEWIS WILL SUE MINES FOR WELFARE LEVIES WASHINGTON. April 10 (U.R).

John L. Lewis will file suits against a dozen soft coal companies in a few days to collect unpaid contributions of 20 cents a ton to the United Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund, it was reported today. All of the claims represent past due payments for 1947 and amount to several hundred thousands of dollars. They will be a iollow-up to suits filed or threatened in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Arkansas for delinquent 1946 payments of five cents a ton under the government's strike-emergency contract with the union. Four of these five suits have been settled out of court, it was reported, bringing more than $100,000 into the fund's treasury.

China- Continued From First Pate ernment defense forces at 500,000, but declared these were inferior in both numbers and ability to the Nationalist armies destroyed around Suchow last fall. (This is 150,000 more than government sources have admitted having available.) There was no hint of the size of the Communist armies. Amid this suddenly urgent clangor of renewed warfare after months of bickering lull. Nationalist leaders conferred anew on how to seek peace. The Communists have offered them "clemency" if they will give up, but military operations clid not bolster the impression.

Aid of General Lung: Asked In Hong Kong, meanwhile. Gen. Lung Yun, former governor of Yunnan Province, said today he had been asked to aid the Chinese government in administrative matters. He did not say whether he would accept, but stated he had "lost all interest in politics." Lung was deposed In Yunnan by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in 1945. He recently has been living in the British colony of Hong Kong.

His statement came amid speculation he might again become one of the kingpins of South China in the face of the Communist threat to that region. The wife or Acting president LI Tsung-jen visited Lung in Hong Kong last week. Soong Reaches Formosa TAIPEH, Formosa. April 10 Former Premier T. V.

Soong and his wife arrived Saturday from Hong Kong. It was rumored Soong was working on plans to finance defense of this big island against a possible Communist invasion. Grenades Wound Speaker SINGAPORE, April 10 Tan Cheng Lock, a leading Chinese politician, was injured tonight when two hand grenades wrere thrown at him while he was speaking at Ipoh. Police said Chinese Communists were believed to have thrown the grenades, which also injured three other Chinese. Tan is a former member of the Malayan Legislative Council and was speaking to the Malayan Chinese Association He charged the Malayan Federation's constitution discriminates against Chinese uzecnosiovaKia goveimntrut news agency branded the story as being without educational value and purely sensational.

In the United States, the fate of the California tot seemed to be the 'nation's No. 1 concern. Prayers were loitered at Palm Sunday church pnone opera- tors said the public reaction was greater than any other news story in recent years. The Dallas News estimated th number of calls at "a million." A Denver Post operator said, "It's just terrific. Can't remember when there Tribune-Telegram said, "Even tiny children, almost too young to talk, are calling for news about Kathy." Many Couldn't Sleep The Albuquerque Journal reported the story received more calls than any since the first atom bomb was set off in New Mexico.

The Minneapolis Tribune said Saturday night that many callers "apparently can't get to sleep until they find out about the girl." A Pitsburgh man told the Post-Gazette: "I hope you don't mind if I keep calling you through the night. I'm the father of three little ones. you know, and this story about poor I Kathy really hit me From all over the country, too, came suggestions and offers of -services to get tne little gin out oi the well. Among those who volunteered to pull her out were an Albuquerque I blowpiper. a 102-pound Salt Lake resident and a Pueblo.

plumber who claimed he can "wriggle around with ease inside a 13-inch pipe." The San Mario well is 14 inches in diameter. Suggestions Pour In Suggestions for the rescue were widespread. From Chicago and Baltimore: Drop a sensitive microphone to pick up breathing or a heartbeat. Frum Tulsa: Use a portable oil rig to pull the casing out of the ground. From Chicago: Grease inside of the tube, then use a light vacuum to force the girl upward.

From Minneapolis: drop ice tongs to catch the girl's clothing, pour oil down the sides of the pipe and pull her up. From Detroit: Coat a man with grease and lower him hed first I with an oxygen mask From New York: Lower a cork floater, then fill the pipe gradually with water and she'll float to the top. From Buffalo: Freeze tne water in the rescue shaft with dry icp. making a solid work foundation and cool work space. Whatever the outcome, it was certain this was one of the most appealing human interest stories in many years.

Even newspapermen were touched by it. Said Bob Moore, telegraph editor of the Dallas News: "This story has hit me the hardest of any since I have been on the desk." PAPER SHOWS VIVIDLY SIZE OF KATHY'S PRISON INDIANAPOLIS, April 10 (JP). A 14-inch circle intersecting the eight columns on page one of the Indianapolis star this morning graphically indicated the size of the well pip in which little Kathy Fiscus was en-tomed far below the ground at San Marino, Calif. Words and parts of words in various stories in the eight columns appeared in darker print, forming the circle. The effect was obtained by placing a circle of celluloid-like material (acetate) over the type before the casting mat for the pag was pressed.

Weather Conditions Wilmington and vicinity: Mostly cloudy today, with scattered show ers tonight and tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Delaware: Mostly cloudy and mild today. Scattered showers tonight and SHOWERS tomorrow. Little change in temperature.

Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey: Increasing cloudiness with little change in temperature today. Scattered showers and not as cold tonight. Tomorrow scattered showers with moderate temperature. I LOCAL TEMPERATURES As reported by the U. S.

Weather Station at the New Castle County Airport 8:30 a. 46 5:30 p. 59 1:30 p. 56 11:30 p.m 43 Maximum 60 Minimum 35 HIGH TIDES TODAY A.M. P.M.

Lewes 6:55 7:18 Kitts Hummock 7:50 8:13 Bombay Hook 8:33 9:07 Port Penn 9:13 9:42 Mouth of Christina 10:57 Wilmington 10:33 11:02 LENGTH OF DAY Sun rises 5:29 a. sets 6:34 p. m. General weather conditions at 7:30 p. (Eastern standard time) last night reported by the United States Weather Bureau.

Temperature La st 24 Hours W. Albany Atlanta CL, L. 32 55 39 33 31 32 25 28 28 56 45 51 65 6ft 40 47 38 30 35 45 39 H. 61 75 61 59 47 56 41 54 64 61 48 88 80 81 60 88 61 59 58 52 Atlantic City Boston Buffalo Chicago CL Denver CL, Detroit CL. Duluth pc Fort Worth CL Kansas City Los Angeles Miami PC New Orleans CL New York City Phoenix Philadelphia .41 .13 .10 Pittsburgh CL Portland, Me PC Louis CL Washington CL .07 63 L-Lowest Temperature: H-Highesi: W.

Weather; P-Precipitation ln Inches; C-Clear; CL-Cloudy: R-Rain: PC-Partlv In Attempt to Save Kathy SAN MARINO, April 10 Six calm, resolute njen handled the dangerous work of digging through the last few feet of earth to Kathy Fiscus. Stripped to the waist, they disappeared into the earth and rose a few minutes or a couple of hours later, grimy and weary, but smiling. They stood on a bucket "elevator" and were lowered by a crane into the hole paralleling the old well pipe that encased the little girl. All were experts, veteran sand-hogs and cesspool diggers. All were conscious of the danger of working more than 100 feet down in damp ground.

But they went ahead with their task without rest in hope that Kathy Fiscus might still be breathing. There was Bill Yancey. He learned his job as an underwater demolitions man in the Navy. This rugged veteran stayed down in the hole for the incredible time of two hours and 23 minutes. When he finally appeared at the top of the tube, he had dug five feet toward the goal.

"Hot down there," he grinned. "Really hot." Did he have much elbow room? have much at first. But I dug seme in a hurry." Rocks 'Big: Trouble' He said he didn't have much trouble breathing. "The big trouble was rocks big as your head, and hard to handle in that space." Yancey munched on a sandwich and admitted he was tired. "I could have stayed down longer, but I fig ured a fresh man could do the work faster." mere was Bertram Herpei, a sewer contractor.

He stayed down more than an hour. His wife's face lighted when he came back to the surface. "Worry? No, not really," she said. "But it's good to have him back up here. They are parents of a 10-months-old boy.

Clyde Harp is 25 and the father of five children. He was down only a few minutes after he discovered the first layer of wet sand. "I haven't done this kind of work in six or seven years." he said. He descended into. the hole three more times.

B. A. Gorham. a 48-year-old contractor, stayed down more than an hour. Another veteran.

Mark Nottingham, was lowered into the shaft when the water problem became serious. He took over direction of the rescue effort. H. E. (Whitey) Blickensderfer, 43-year-old miner and sandhog, is one of the "human moles" who did much of the heavy drilling and digging in th? final stages.

He has been in and out of mining for the last 20 years, but this was his first rescue mission. Other Untiring Workers There w-ere other untiring workers Ned Larsen, 270-pound giant, who worked for six hours, dumping the great buckets of earth as though they were sand pails. The young Pasadena firemen who have pumped air down the old well pipe since less than an hour after Kathy took her tragic tumble. Mrs. Burdette Cogswell, who set up a Red Cross canteen and stood at her counter almost continuously for 38 hours to feed the workers.

The 5,000 onlookers watched and applauded these volunteers as the relentless digging continued. OBITUARIES Pfc Mario J. Capano The funeral of Pfc Mario J. Capano, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Capano, 521 North DuPont Street, will be held from the Joanna Corleto Funeral Home, 1810 West Fourth Street, tomorrow morning with solemn requiem mass in St. Anthony's Church at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral Ceme tery. Friends may call at the funeral home tonight. Members of Delaware Pot No.

1, American Legion, will conduct military rites at the grave. Private Capano died in England on June 25, 1944, of wounds received in action in France. He entered the service in February, 1943. In addition to his parents, he Is survived by three brothers. Vincent, Louis and Frank Capano, and a sister, Angeline Capano.

Mrs. Patricia H. Seale Mrs. Patricia Holliday Seale. wife of Harley B.

Seale, of Mont-chanin. died Saturday in The Memorial Hospital. Born in this city. Mrs. Seale was a member of the Wilmington Junior League.

She attended Sunny Hills School, Tower Hill School and Mt. Vernon Seminary in Washington, DC. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two children, Harley B. Seals III. and Jeannette Van Vechten Seale.

and a brother, Robert Holliday, Jr. Funeral services and interment will be private and the family has asked that flowers be omitted. Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, widow of John Miller, will be held at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning from the home of her niece, Mrs.

Agnes Feldman. 1111 West Fourth Street, with solemn requiem mass in St. Paul's Church at 9:30 o'clock. Interment will be in Cathedral Cemetery, Mrs. Miller, who died Saturday, was the daughter of the late Michael and Agnes Glynn.

She was a lifelong resident of this city and had made her home for many years with Mrs. Feldman. She was a member of the Blessed Virgin Sodality of St. Paul's Church. Other nieces and nephews surviving are: Charles and Leo Merrill, Mrs.

Charles Garth, Mrs. Agnes Kelly and Jorta, George and William Glynn, all of this city; Sister Mary Dorothy, O.S.F.S., Roxtury, and Horace Merrill, Rochester. N. Y. Mrs.

Catherine B. Murphy Mrs. Catherine B. Murphy, 65, widow of James I. Murphy, 304 North through the abandoned wen.

breaking bit after bit and blade after blade as they drilled and sawed near the 95-foot level of the hard steel pipe. Cave-In Perils Rescuers Two members of the rescue crew narrowly escaped serious injury in mid -afternoon as a cave-in partly buried them in the lateral tunnel from the rescue shaft to the well. Weary, physically exhausted rescuers were within a few maddening inches of the three-year-old girl this morning when water rushed into the rescue operations shaft. For nearly three hours the workers stasrserins from loss of sleep and almost superhuman efforts, had to wait while desperate pumping op- erations Drosressed. To lower the water table which rose from the 100-foot level in the rescue tunnel, a pump was operated at full speed 120 feet, north of the n.hanrlftnpd wpll into which Kathy fell.

Fire plugs and water mains in San Marino were opened to free the pumped water. The pumping filled a nearby reservoir to overflowing and the water was diverted to another. Growing tension, weariness and heat combined with the water break to raise tempers to a high pitch. There was one advantage. The water at the bottom had cooled it down to about 70 degrees for the two.

Heat Intense At the top of the hole it was estimated the heat was in the high 80s or 90s and one woman fainted. It was a cloudless day with very feT trees or other shelter for the throngs Tommy Francis, who has been working steadily since Friday night, both above eround and in the hole. wjls treated for a case of exhaustion which physicians said was not se rious. Cold packs were applied. Two of the rescue workers said they were partially buried when sand dropped on them the! cramped cavern.

One said he was buried to the waist by the loose earth. "I thought it would bury us both completely," he said. Both men were exhausted when hauled out of the shaft. The flow from the water table at times roee to three gallons a minute. Silent Since Friday No signs of life had come from the tube since shortly after Kathy plunged into the 14-inch pipe Fri day afternoon while playing with her sister and a cousin in a vacant through the hole cut in the old well casing at the 57 -foot level, Kelly with the help of mirrors and a flashlight, yesterday sighted what he believed to be the motionless arm and dress of Kathy.

Later he said he was unable to see her and he expressed belief she had slipped farther down the pipe. Afterward a rubber ball was lowered into the well for 100 feet before striking an obstruction. Kathy fell into the pipe at 4:45 p. m. (Pacific time) Friday.

Mother Hears Cries Summoned by Kathy's sister, Barbara, nine, and her cousin, Gus Lyon, five, Mrs. David Fiscus shouted to her daughter and re ceived faint responses for a time. It was her cousin who was guided by Kathy's weak cries to the weed-covered hole. A fire department squad began pumping warm air into the well shortly after Kathy fell in. Half a hundred floodlights were hurried to the scene and volunteer workers quickly took up the attempt to reach the imprisoned child.

The well was drilled in 1903 for irrigating purposes and was abandoned in 1932 when the pipe parted 230 feet down. Neighbors said it once was covered by a wooden platform, which apparently was knocked aside when the lot was plowed. Kathy's father, manager of the San Gabriel system of the California Water and Telephone Company, returned from Sacramento a few hours before the child fell into the well. He had appeared before a legislative committee in behalf of a bill which would require that abandoned wells be cemented shut. TOUp OF TAVERNS FAILS TO YIELD SLAYING CLUES ST.

CLAIRSVILLE, April ,10 (IP). Prosecutor William Irwin said tonight a tour of drink spots in Belmont and Jefferson Counties failed to uncover any new clues in the mysterious "case of the slain fisherman." Irwin carried two photographs with him last night and asked ta vern patrons: "Did you ever see either of these men?" One photo was of Robert B. Wren, 43, former mayor of South Vienna, O. Wren's body a four inch gash in the throat was found in front of a funeral home Thursday. The other picture was of Otis B.

Sheets, 36, a wealthy contractor from the same village and Wren's companion on a mid-week fishing trip. The two close friends and Roger Neff, 32, also of South Vienna left their homes 150 miles west of here, Wednesday night. Neff quit the! party early Thursday. Sheets said he and Wren were parked in front of the funeral home drinking when he heard a "gurgling sound" and looked up to see a "big Negro" standing next to Wren. After the Negro fled, Sheets said he discovered Wren had been stabbed.

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