PAGE TWO Katanga Truce Talks Khiari Chosen to Begin NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia A Tunisian U.N. official took Dag Hammarskjold’s vacant chair and opened truce talks with Katanga Presid The role of head negotiator for the United Nations fel civil operations in the Congo. A probe of the plane crash that killed (he secretary-g jpanions paralleled the delayed / I • negotiations. rOntlCl/lVinmfi Expert opinion tended to dis- I V>llll3jlryBlBU count speculation that Hammar / ; skjold's four-engine DC6B might A 2 ■ 2 1“ j have been felled by sabotage or A lAPfp/f rfW ' Katanga gunfire. nlvHvU I Ul | veteran pilots who viewed the ■ a • jfire-blackened wreckage in a for- B—fi B B B* V 1 M A est reserve north of this neutral 1 I%JII ILUIIC icopper mining center said the crash appeared typical of the re- PHILADELPHIA (JP) —'suits of a power failure or faulty Residents of eastern Penns.. . TT „ . U. Col. Ben Mallick, U.S. air vama last night wore put on attache in Leopoldville, v/as one a hurricane watch by the U.S. wi }° inspected the wreck He J said he is convinced talk that a Weather Bureau as ferocious: Katanga jet shot down the plane Esther continued offshore up the groundless. Atlantic Seaboard. There was no elaboration of a The watch was issued for south eastern Pennsylvania, the Lehigh and Schuykill River valleys and the Pocono Mountain area. Resi dents along tidal waters and other lowland areas were urged to move back until the threat of, Hurricane Esther has passed. In Harrisburg, Richard Gerstell, Pennsylvania Civil Defense direc tor, said it is too early to tell whether the state as a whole could expect anything more than fringe effects from the hurricane. What Esther does between 6 am. and 6 p.tn. Wednesday probably will determine how greatly it affects Pennsylvania. The Weather Bureau expects it to turn from its present north north westerly course to a more northerly course during daylight today. If that happens, the hurricane could stay over the Atlantic Ocean and Pennsylvania would escape all hut high winds and heavy rains. Philadelphia was taking no chan cos. Its police department was placed on a hurricane alert. Managing Director Donald Wag- no]' ordered the start of a city- wide emergency program after noting the Weather bureau’s fore- cast of possible strong winds through Wednesday’s early hours. The motor harbor patrol was ordered to watch for flood condi- tions on the Delaware and Schuyl kill Rivers. 7 Geography Profs Attend Annual Meeting Seven members of the faculty of the Department of Geography attended the 57th annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers at East Lansing, Mich., Aug. 28 to Sept. 1. report by the lone survivor—Har old M. (Harry) Julien, 36, Ameri can U.N. security guard—that a, series of explosions shook the plane before it plunged into the 1 forest. Badly burned and only semi- conscious when he was pulled from the wreckage, Julien was reported to be as comfortable as could be expected in a hospital, but not in condition for question ing. Col, Bjorn Egge, U.N. Inielli genee chief, said b surgeon has eon flown in io establish exact ly how they died—whether in the air or on the ground. The recovery of the last two bodies momentarily puzzled au thorities here, for that showed 16 persons were aboard. The U.N. office in Leopoldville had listed only 14, but a clerk disclosed its list had omitted two security guards, both young Swedes. Rusk, Gromyko to Meet To Discuss UN, Berlin UNITED NATIONS (APl—Sec retary of State Dean Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will meet tomorrow afternoon to discuss the Berlin crisis and the crisis in the United Nations. U.S. sources disclosed last night that Gromyko accepted an In vitation to lunch with Rusk. Informants said that Berlin would be discussed a point on which Washington and Moscow agreed last week. The crisis in U.N. affairs arising from the [death of Secretary-General Dag [Hammarskjold is also expected to iget an airing at the luncheon. Rusk said he intended to talk over the U.N. situation with Gromyko. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA lent Moise Tshombe yesterday, i to Mahmoud Khiari, chief of ;eneral and 14 of his 15 com- Army Recalls 73,000 Men WASHINGTON (/P) The Army summoned another 73,000 jßeservists and National Guards- Imeti to active duty yesterday, or dering them to report Oct. 15. The call-up went to two Na tional Guard divisions—the 32nd Infantry of Wisconsin and the 49th Armored of Texas—-and to 249 Reserve and Guard support ing units. The 32nd will train at Ft. Lewis, Wash., and the 49th at Ft. Polk, La. ! Secretary of Defense Robert S. [McNamara, announcing the new[ call-up at a news conference, de-j scribed it as another readiness! measure in the light of world con-j ditions. Asked if it indicated a! worsening of the Berlin situation, he replied: “No, T think not.’’ Houston Chosen As Moon Lab Site WASHINGTON (JP)—A sprawl ing 1,000-acre site in Houston, Tex., was picked yesterday for a $6O-million laboratory command center—the mastermind of Amer ica’s efforts to get a man to the moon. Here the crews will be trained to fly the missions and the space craft themselves will be designed, developed and tested. This is the final step in assign ing the major centers from which project Apollo—the moon mission —will be coordinated. American scientists hope to get man on the moon by 1970. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its manned space flight re rearch laboratory in Houston would be the command center for project Apollo and subsequent space flight missions. Sunday Liquor Sales HARRISBURG <fP) Pennsyl vania yesterday removed its pro hibition against Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages aboard rail road cars. Gov. Lawrence signed into law legislation striking down the old law which had been in effect ever since the railroad started serving food and drinks aboard their passenger runs. Nam Rebels Phuoc Thanh Viet Raid SATCTON South Viet Nam dozen defending civil guardsmen mT ’, ? " V were killed. About 50 wounded </P) —The rebel attack on the were rus hed back to Siagon provincial capital of Phuoc The provincial building were 1 , , ~ .... ransacked and burned before the Thanh raised the possibility rebe i unils fled into the forests yesterday that Communistiaad rubber estates of the up r ' . . (country area Paratroops and forces are opening a major a ?-ji-anger units reached the scene sault against the government in j n (| lC> morning, and other units South Viet Nam’s civil war. i werc . being rushed in. A series of attacks around the Military sources put the country in the past few days was sJrenglh 0 f the attacking reb climaxed when hundreds of Com- vo to 1,500 men munist Viet Cong rebels seized; At It , a r il two ol f, er large attacks and burned Phuoc Thanh early were re p oi -t-d from the strategic Monday. area north of Faigon Some observers fear the action may open a long-expected as sault of major proportions. The rebels have been building up their strength with reinforce ments from Communist North Viet Nam in recent months. It was the first assault on a provincial capital and the most daring rebel raid of the war. The city is only 60 miles north of this capital. The province chief, an army major, and a number of his mil- itary and civil aides were be-, headed at Phuoc Thanh. Several' UN Pays Tribute I To Hammarskjoid UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. i/l’i — The Soviet Union joined Oil other U.N. delegations yesterday in a 1 standing tribute to Dag Hammnr skjold—then made clear it would’ keep up its fight for a three-man; [board to replace him. The assembly opened its 10th (session at 3:22 p.m. and observed ithe usual minute ol prayer or si jlent meditation. i Then Ambassador Frederick K. [Boland of Ireland, the assembly |president, proposed that the dclc igates observe a minute of silence in memory to Hammarskjoid. He said the assembly was meet-; ing “in the shadow of an immense! tragedy, in the midst of deep and heartfelt mourning which extends; far beyond the walls of this cham ber to millions of men and wom-j en throughout the world.” Four minutes after the opening the assembly adjourned until: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, when it; will elect Mongi Slitn of Tunisia 1 as president of the 10th session. ! Now: 1:30, 3:31, 5:32, 7:33, 9:34 - H 1 61 {Lolfobngida . 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