PAGE TWO West Germans Refused Access To West Berlin BERLIN (JP)—Communists commanding entry to isolat , many West German visitors seeking to reach the city by roar contend they are trying to keep potential agitators away fr former residents of Red-ruled East Germany. Besides those stopped, thousands of West Germans are I Cubans to Stage Strike Against San Jose Pact HAVANA (IP) The left-wing directors of Cuban labor called yesterday for a massive work stoppage tomorrow to swell the public demonstration against the San Jose declaration. Prime Minister Fidel* Castro Tuesday called a defiant rally to answer the San Jose conference of the Organization of American States which condemned Cuba's acceptance of Soviet rocket sup port against any U.S. interven tion. Jesus Soto of the 1%-million member Cuban Confederation of Labor sent out orders for the work stoppage In Havana, normal work will stop at noon tomorrow to give the unionists time to change into their workers' militia uniforms and assemble at Civic Plaza to hear Castro. Castro is expected to flail again at what he calls the "dollar loyal ty" of other Latin-American na tions who went along with the United States at San Jose. Castro charges that the United States bought their support with lumps of Cuba's sugar quota and prom ises of a giant Latin-American aid program. Castro may use the rally as a forum for some new declaration or action of his own, such as with drawal from the OAS. Cuban for eign minister Roa walked out of the San Jose conference. Coast Guard Drops Pump To Flooded Mercy Yacht HONOLULU On A 136-foot motor yacht with a 4-year-old heart patient and 17 other persons appeared yesterday to be winning a battle to stay afloat in the South Pacific. The flooded Wild Goose II mes saged the Coast Guard it was "in no immediate danger," and was moving slowly toward Hawaii from a point 290 miles south of Honolulu. A Coast Guard cutter expected to reach the yacht about 1:4:5 a.m. EST today. A coast Guard plane kept circling overhead. More than five hours after the first distress call went out, an air-dropped pump checked flood ing of the yacht, Wild Goose 11. Eut water remained 10 feet deep in some compartments and pres sure threatened to weaken the bulkheads. The yacht, owned by Max Wy man ,Seattle I umborir n, was homeward bound from Tahiti af ter halting a -world tour for a mis sion of mercy. Wyman took on a 4-year-old girl at Penrh; , .'n, in the northern Cook Islands, who was Butlers Jewelry DIAMONDS a WATCHES Watch and Jewelry Repairing 1I I E. Beaver Ave. from Berlin beacuse of Com munist threats. A bus load of Bavarians en route to the West Berlin meeting was stopped at the border be tween East and West Germany. Fifteen car loads of delegates to a Baptist church convention were halted and sent home when they tried to cross Communist territory. The 110-mile highway from West Germany to Berlin passes through Communist East Ger many. East German police put at least 27 persons off trains en route to Berlin. Mayor Willy Brandt's West Berlin city government de nounced the blockade as an out standing violation of law. An official statement asserted the convention of East German ref ugees would be held on sched• ule. City offiicals met after Brandt conferred with chiefs of the U.S., British and French garrisons. In Berlin itself, dozens of West Germans were turned back when they tried to cross into the Com munist sector at the many street corners where this is normally permitted. West Berliners and foreigners were allowed through to East Ber lin. West Germans living outside West Berlin could go by subway or elevated train but they risked arrest by Communist police if found on Communist territory. Spot checks were numerous. The Allied commandants in Berlin fired off a protest to the city's ranking Soviet officer, Maj. Gen. Nikolai F. Kakharov. They called the East German actions a flagrant violation of the right of free circulation in Berlin. Berlin is still under the nominal rule of the United States, Beitain, France and the Soviet Union. But a Soviet spokesman held that the responsible party is the East Ger man Communist government whose existance the West does not recognize. in need of emergency heart sur gery. He headed back for Hono lulu and Seattle. Before the purn'p was dropped by a Coast Guard plane, the yacht had reported it was "impossible to patch the hole from the in side," The Wild Goose first radioed early yesterday morning that she was taking on water and sinking. At 3:52 a.m. the ship radioed the lights went out. SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ;ed West Berlin turned back ,d and rail yesterday. The Reds •om East Berlin meetings of I)elieved to have stayed away Debates On TV, Radio Scheduled For Nominees NEW YORK (P) History's' first face-to-face television and radio debates between major par ty nominees for president of the United States will start Sept. 26 under the arrangements made yesterday. Vice President Richard M. Nix on, the Republican candidate, and Sen. John F. Kennedy, his Demo cratic opponent, will make a se ries of three, and - possibly four, joint appearances on the air. The other certain dates are Oct. 13 and Oct. 21. Tentative consid eration is being given to another joint appearance Oct. 8, Each program in the series will I be carried by television and radio networks, without sponsorship. The candidates will speak from ,network studios, without studio I audiences. The unprecedented series is ex pected to attract some of the largest audiences in broadcasting annals. Arrangements were worked out by representatives of Nixon and Kennedy and of the major net works NBC, CBS, ABC and Mutual. The candidates will discuss do mestic policy in their Sept. 26 de bate, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. EST. The program will originate in Chicago. They will debate foreign policy on Oct. 21, from 9 to 10 p.m. EST, in a program originating in New York. The format of the Oct, 13 pro gram would be a panel with the candidates replying to questions asked by newsmen. The time, or place of origin, has not been de termined. The Oct. 8 program, if held, would be in the same panel for mat. The way for the joint appear ances was cleared through legis lation exempting broadcasters from giving equal time to minor party candidates in the present campaign. African States Tell Congo To Cooperate LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (IP) African neighbors bluntly told Premier Patrice Lumumba's government yesterday to stop har assing the United Nations and cooperate in U.N. efforts to end the chaos within this two-month-old nation. A Lumumba setback in the conference of independent African states coincided with a report from Elisabethville of reverses for his troops in their campaign against rebels in Kasai Province. Albert K al onji, the Baluba chieftain who proclaims himself president of a Mineral state in southern Kasai, claimed his troops have recaptured Bakwanga, his capital, and three other towns that Lumumba's men occupied last week. Independent confirma tion was lacking. Lumumba was on hand for the windup of the 11-nation conference of independent Afri can states which he opened at j tha Palace of Culture last Thurs daY while his police outside used warning shots and wielded gun butts to break up a demon stration against him. 'The Premier : who has attacked the United Nations off and on and spread the suspicion that its motives are imperialistic, sat quietly as the resolution calling for Congolese cooperation was read. But he bounded back a little later with a complaint the Congo had not been consulted about U.N. moves. He suggested "incidents would have been avoided if from the beginning a spirit of coopera tion had existed between repre sentatives of the United Nations and those of the government of PRR Begins Slow Shutdown As Strike Deadline Nears PHILADELPHIA (P) The Pennsylvania Railroad, which ac counts for the movement of more passengers and freight than any other in the country, began a gradual shutdown of operations yesterday as negotiators worked against a midnight strike dead line. Poised for a walkout were 20,- 000 nonoperating employes-main tenance men, car washers, re pairmen. Directly affectel were. 52,000 other employes who were notified they would be laid off in' the event of a strikes tne rail road's estimated 136,000 daily pas-1 sengers, and shippers who send, some 118,000,000 tons of freight daily. Less directly affected—at least right away—would be industries who depend on the Pennsylvania to bring in raw materials for their plants. The railroad operates in 13 states and the District of Colum bia; from New York on the east, Norfolk in the south, St. Louis to the west. President Michael Quill of the Transport Workers Union FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1960 the republic." The conference pointed out that the United Nations entered the Congo "at the express re quest of the government of the Republic of the Congo" and in tended to "safeguard her inde pendence, her unity and her ter ritorial integrity," The resolution noted that the U.N. mission was designed to prevent the Congo from becoming involved in the cold war. The United Nations was praised for "the work of peace it brings to the Congo" and for promotion of the withdrawal of Belgian troopt. Lumumba, who has repeatedly called for the withdrawal of U.N. white troops, and who has har assed Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold, reasserted confi dence in the United Nations and its members. The Premier asked that Congo lese and U.N. troops join forces to pacify the country. His troops, he said, are burning with impa tience and "obsessed with the idea of immediately entering Katanga to liberate their brothers." Lumumba charged that colo nialists, meaning Belgians, had created a general staff of "sabo teurs of our national indepen dence" in Katanga. emerged from a negotiating ses sion to tell newsmen. 'There is no basis for a settlement by mid night tonight." "In effect, we have a strike now," said Guy W. Knight, labor relations director for the Pennsyl vania. The Pennsylvania Railroad last was struck in 1922. Both Quill and James M. Symes, chairman of the Pennsyl vania board, agreed to continue negotiations to the last minute. But this was a dispute extend ing over more than three years. It dealt mainly with job classifi cations defining exactly the duties of each job. Provisions of the National Labor Act, designed to head off railroad strikes, were exhausted months ago.
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