Charleston Gazette (Newspaper) - October 16, 1961, Charleston, West Virginia LOOK SAM'S STRIP r Weal Virginia Monday IT coming wanner Sections page 6 WASHINGTON A nosed high-level Western Big Four meeting to work out a com- mon Western negotiating stand on the German issue has been called off because of French objections informed sources said Sunday Instead the Western Allies will continue for the time being with the consultations on the Berlin crisis that have been held regularly in Washington The British Foreign Office an- that the planned ing of senior Western diplomats in London this week had been canceled call-off of the higher level talks which had been tentatively slated to start in London next Wednesday or Thursday stemmed from the continuing split between France and the other three ern powers over negotiating with the Soviets on Berlin informants here said THE FRENCH have been ing that by the lies to go to the conference table with the Reds would be regarded Canceled And so far the Kremlin has and Jean Lalois nothing on which the West can negotiate they say The proposed London meeting was to have been attended by Assistant Secretary of State Foy Kohler for the United States Sir Evelyn deputy under- secretary in the British foreign office Karl Carsten state as a sign of Western weakness lary in the West German foreign HIGH WALLS of spray shoot up as two hydroplanes skitter around a turn at high speed in the Sunday afternoon races of the 15th annual ginia Boat Racing Championships The day of drama blessed with sunny autumnal skies drew an estimated 15.000 viewers to the banks of Kanawha River here Staff Photo by Ferrell Friend Gen Taylor To Study S Vietnam The New York Co WASHINGTON Gen Maxwell D Taylor left for South Vietnam Sunday and indicated the United States would be reluctant to com- mit troops against backed guerrillas there absolutely necessary Earlier this week President Kennedy announced he was ing Gen Taylor and an man mission to make an military RUCKS on whether the U S would be re- quired to send troops to stop Communist advances in east Asia The President also ordered the mission to try to clarify ing intelligence reports on the ex- tent of the Communist threat and to recommend long-range policy goals involving economic and so- cial measures as well as possible military steps Taylor will visit Laos and land as well as Vietnam SEE COMPETITION Byers Beats Out Nephew in Race By K W Lee Staff Sports Writer Frank outgunned his George Byers lr tional champion in a spectacular hydroplane duel on the Kanawha River Sunday maxing the 15th annual Boat Racing ships Both racers alternated in first and second place in the two heats of the event but Uic uncle in Miss DeSoto won the see-saw contest by a thin gin Champion Byers ance with Chrysler Queen before an estimated viewers was a point of pointing contrast against his top record of 151 mph An oil leak which developed in the final heat was blamed for the lag ISLAND NOT SHELLED Cuban Escape Story Varies In Sunday's encounter young Byers averaged about 71 mpb along the mile course while the winning Miss DeSoto docked an average 73 mph This was the first tune in five years that no wreck occurred in the event Only three boats including Dan Walls ter entered the climactic race of the afternoon affair ABSENT Brent McCoy of Coal Grove Ohio whose cury cracked up during the 1960 race at 125 miles an hour Me Coy who was hospitalized then but later recovered was George Byers for the lead at the time of the mishap On the straight run both Queer Miss DeSoto speeds of 110 to 130 miles an hour Earl V Kelly of Richmond Va repeated his victory in the 35 hydro class piloting his Wild Cat to victories in both beats best speed was 82.56 miles per hour in the first heat Al Bauer racing official said that this year's event drew a record number of boats representing more than 20 states An average speed this year was higher than that of previous years because of im- Please Turn to Pane 6 Col 3 KEY WEST Fla ican and B r it i s h authorities agreed Sunday that the Bahamas island of Cay Sal was not shelled by a Castro boat seeking Cuban refugees who had landed there But they disagreed entirely on just what happened Saturday in the waters near the tiny held island between Cuba and Florida Sir Robert Stapledon governor of the British Bahamas said shots were exchanged between two Cuban fishing boats just off the island after 45 refugees from the Castro regime landed there P S Willmore U S gration official at Key West where the refugees were token by a Coast Gaard ratter said the Cubans told aim that there was shooting at all in the vicinity Cay Sal And an American businessman who has the island under ease Clarence B Moody of Mi- ami said the island was fired on by a disguised Cuban boa and that refugees engaged the gunboat in a gun tle WILLMORE gave newsmen at Key West this I spoke with the Cuban politi cal refugees and they said tha they were not shot at and thai there was no shooting in their vicinity while they were on Cay Sal or while they were in the boat Reports that Cay Sal had been shelled sent a Coast Guard cutter scooting to the island to rescue 21 men 6 women and 18 dren who had beached a I boat there after fleeing Cuba Travel Right Exhibited By Gen Clay Lucius D Clay President Kennedy's per sonal representative in Berlin toured East Berlin Sunday nigh in an apparent demonstration o Western to move freely ii all parts of this divided city Clay entered the Eastern tor after several American lians ran into difficulties with East German border guards Clay traveling in a military vehicle and accompanied by MaJ Gen Albert Watson II U S here pass- ed through the checkpoint without drance He returned to West Berlin a half hour later The trip through East Berlin's dark and lifeless was Clay's first ance in the Eastern sector since he took up his post here Sept 18 During the afternoon nist East German guards at stopped four American military vehicles be- cause their civilian occupants re- fused to show identity cards tor of European affairs in the French foreign office State Department Press Officer Lincoln White who Saturday said the London meeting had been agreed on said hne ben a of ideas as to bow and whether to Intensify the In- consultations They continue here in ton with the ambassadorial steering group on Berlin and no decision has been made to continue the consultations on a higher level U S informants said the U S government has offered to have the higher-level group meet here but there has been no on that either In the U S view the recent ex ploratory talks held by President Kennedy and Secretary of State Dean Rusk with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko gone about as far as possible a this time in sounding out the So- viet position on Berlin Now U S diplomats believe th Allies should shape up in more de- tail than they have so far wha common stand they are willing t akc in the cf negotiation with the Soviets ITEMS LIKE the position of Vest Berlin in case of a Soviet peace treaty with Communist Dast Germany supply of nuclear arms to West German forces evel contacts between the East and West German governments and a wide range of other issues lave come up in the U exploratory talks Washington would like to know more ically the views of the other ern capitals on these matters now that Bonn is getting a new government arse Feared If U.S Gives In to Reds Effort Continues To Block Troika UNITED NATIONS N Y W The United States expects a worse crisis over the U N secretary general next year if it gives in to the Soviet Union now informed sources said Sunday The sources said this is why Quiet Nehru Kennedy Talk Said Planned HYANNIS PORT Kennedy plans a quiet meeting next month with Prime Minister Nehru of In at Cape was learned Sunday night Exact arrangements for the prospective conference have not been made as far as could be ascertained hot the aim Is for a exchange of views on East-West differences and the position of snch n claimed neutralist country as India If the meeting takes place one possibility of a site is Kennedy's vacation home at this community on the south store of Cape Cod possibly the first weekend in No- THE ALLIES maintain that only the Russians have the right to check cars with Allied tary registrations There are no guards at Russian strasse A conference has been under consideration by both governments for months At Hyannis Port the two ers could meet privately the ceremony entailed in a forma the U S delegation is fighting current Soviet efforts to get an advance pledge from any tern secretary-general that he will seek mutual under- standing with selected pal advisors They said the Americans fear hat if the Russians were allowed o put those strings on a rorary successor to the late Dag named now they ould more easily put many more trings on a permanent successor chosen a year from now Present negotiations are aimed at getting an interim general to serve till April 1963 he end of five year term But in the General Assembly session beginning next September the Security Council and the as sembly must choose a permanent secretary-general for the five-year term beyond April 1963 THE INFORMANTS said that anything the Russians gained not and anything more they next year by way of restricting executive would help them toward their long range goa of a three-man board or troika to run the U N Secretariat The sources said the Soviet goal now is to get a foot it the door They added that whatever the U S delegation agreed to now is going to be the status quo position next time and they'll have to compromise from that U S Ambassador Adlai E Stevenson confirmed meanwhile that the two big powers were agreed that U Thant of Burma should take place The United States chief U N delegate said in an There will be n general And by the way I should say we have agreed on him Ambassador U Thant of Burma Is acceptable to the So- viet Unton and highly able to the United States Diplomatic sources reported Oct 4 that Burma's chief U N delegate had the favor of both big powers for interim eral STEVENSON SAID the Big Two now were encaged in a should constitute U Thant's cabinet of advisors and from which regions of the world they should come Stevenson said the United States had made an enormous sion in conceding the idea of a abinet at all let alone one that s prescribed in effect in the act f appointment of the interim STUDENTS RALLY AP Margery Center of Dispute Peace Corps Ouster Urged visit game over how many under sec kn I Guards Enter Active Duty By The Associated Press Hundreds of West Virginia's donned their Army green dress uniforms throughout the state Sunday and officially went on active duty with the U S Army The mobilization ceremonies were conducted at armories used by units of the West Khun National Armored Cavalry Regiment The 150th one of many units In the nation to be called on active duty in the military is to report to Fort Meade Md on Oct 28 In some areas communities Bahamian police flew from Nassau to Cay Sal to investigate the report On their return Stapledon conferred with them I specia in appre and issued his j elation of the sacrifices individual members of the units are making At Huntington the citizenry ored the Postal Unit of the Army Reserve as well as the rownd of o bowling of a ton Two in ond His office said he could not be reached for further comment Moody who flew to Cay Sal to Investigate said none of the refugees was wounded but one man on the boat may have been nit by rifle Ore Lt J William Coste com- Please Turn to Page CcJ 1 LAUGH IT OFF curb aww Aviation Co Mayor John J Durkin of Huntington claimed Sunday a day to honor the members of the two units and their families THERE WAS a reception for the reservists and guardsmen at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1004 following a program of speechmaking and music at City Hall The 150th also has units at South Charleston St Albans Charleston Montgomery Beckley Richwood Ronceverte ville Spencer ME Be and Nigeria Wi A rally of university students angered by an American girl's ism plaint about primitive living con ditions adopted a resolution Sun day demanding deportation of American Peace Corps members now in Nigeria The young men and women re- under a program of Pros dent Kennedy's Administration to emerging nations were de Congo Chief Blasts Pact LEOPOLDVILLE The Congo JB Premier Adoula of the Congolese central government angrily protested Sunday night against the United Nations of a new cease-fire agreement with Katanga He claimed the pact reinforces President Moise Tshombe of secessionist Katanga In a radio address he declared his government has the right to use suitable means to end Katanga's secession He had called in Dr Sture head of the U N ations In the Congo for a ed two-hour conference earlier at his riverside residence You can imagine that Adoula was not very happy about the now said a senior U N official Tshombe the leader already has halted the new fire as a victory U N forces jive up seized in ast month's fighting under the permanent pact which calls for a quick exchange of prisoners in the loudly cheered resolution as agents of The year-old government o this Negro nation of 35 million a former British colony and the University College of were urged to oust them Thirty-seven of the volunteers are in raining at the University of Ibadan a city of 000 for teaching assignments Miss Margery 23 of Foxboro Mass dropped from the three-month orientation course Saturday after a furor arose over a postcard she addressed to an American friend Robert V Storer of Cambridge Mass THE POSTCARD somehow went astray It was found near the uni- versity campus The Uni- versity College Students Union called Margery's remarks aging to our country card as copied and The circulated among the Negro students Dear Don't be furious at getting n postcard I promise n letter next time I wanted you to see Incredible and fascinating city we were In With all the we had had we were really not prepared for the squalor and absolutely primitive living LINKER looking tired and harassed brushed aside newsmen who tried to speak to him as he left the premier's residence Asked why the new agreement did not include a clause ing the right of the United Nations to expel Katanga's foreign a U N spokesman The agreement supplements the cease-fire concluded at Ndola Sept 20 It does not supplant it Consequently it was not thought necessary to repeat the U determination to expel the mer ditions rampant both in the cities and the bush We had had no idea about what meow It really Is n revelation and once we got over the horrified shock It is a very re- warding experience Everyone except us lives in the streets cooks in the streets and even goes to bathrooms In the streets The university is great fan and It is something to be n for- eign student anyway aid to be the only white student in an uni- versity just hope they do not re- peat iast year's Lumumba riots Please write soon We an very cut off here from the rest of the world Apprised of the strong reaction Margery wrote a letter of apology to the university authorities in which she said she had offered Please Turn to Page 6 Col INSIDE TODAY ACTIVE DUTY was befun Sunday by National Guardsmen all over West Virginia as the 150th Armored Cavalry was mobilized in the U S defense stepup In this scene the Headquarters Troop leaves the boose Sunday morning after sworn in by Adj Gen Gem Hal liams The Guardsmen art tA report 1 for duty Oct 28 Ft Meade all of them that is except liam H Canada of who leans on crutches as his comrades march by He a knee injury in a ear accident and received a deferment Staff Photo LOVE SHOULDN'T Cool With Growing Age Seventh of a series by Howard Whitman certain sexual surrounding middle age 7 if PICKING SPEAKER Will Be Ticklish The succession of Rep John to Howe Speaker Sam it viewed with dismay by many Democrats 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