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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.