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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, July 12, 1960
Soest -cieen: poston aig
sylvania Swings To Senator Kennedy
CAP Taps| Massachusetts Lawmakers Piane s.
Nears Nomination Goal
E Xx -J U d ge
By, DOUGLAS
For Office
Shot Down By Soviets
B. CORNELL
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Sen. John F. Kennedy’s count of Democratic national convention votes climbed to 675% yesterday Jorge Luis Cordova Diaz, as delegate s from Pennsylvania and New York, and a few elseformer Supreme Court justice and first president of where, heard what sounded like a bandwa gon going by. the
Citizens
for
State
51
eee
movement, has_ accepted membership on the finance committee of the new Christian Action Party (CAP). The move was revealed yesterday by CAP finance chairman Juan Angel
San
Juan
dicted.
Cordova
ed to
best ,known public the CAP to date.
Diaz
Cordova, now Juan corporation been
was
a
nomination easy
setts 81
generally
identified
votes
to
him
convention
figure
with
already
within
of the Massachuthrew
64
of
its
Kennedy.
That
pro-
to
less
than
within
100 of the 761 votes needed to clinch the nomination when the
will pre-
is consider-
supporter
presidential
Senator.
pelled
ballots
tomorrow
night.
and
Many Conceding The conventioA citadels Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of
the
xas,
a leading San lawyer, has long
statehood
reach
Pennsylvania
committee Giusti, a
prominent persons in soon,’’ Giusti
Democrats launched national convention
with the party’s
merchant.
“Lots of be coming the join
The their
Statehood Republican Party. The CAP takes no sides on the issue of political status. The official stand of the Statehood Re-
Sen.
Stuart
Symington
of Te-
publican Party, with regard to the
CAP is expected to be made known
(See
today.
KENNEDY,
Page
21)
Convention Group Decides To Split Puerto Rico Votes By WALTER PRIEST ~ STAR
LOS
Convention
“IT
creden-
voted to split Puerto Rico’s seven convention votes equally bet-
ween
the
Benicrats
crats—3-%
The
votes
decision,
an occasionally debate between
and
Muno-
each.
which
climaxed
fiery three-hour the factions, was
viewed
as a setback for Benicrat
leader
Jose
Informed tez
A.
of
ruling,
at
going
Beni-
or
the
committee
insufficient
or
to
fight
nothing.
war.” The compromise
against
a
spring,
the
name
of
Cordova
ed
U.
yesterday
convene
against
Cuba
dor, have
Roa said, ‘‘These brought about a
craft.” This was the first word of the fate of the plane which dis-
said,
in
view
of
to
rule
for
|appeared
faction.
aboard
which
|
1
with
on
six
a_
men
scouting
a
plane, based temporarily in England, had been on an electromagnetic mapping mission. Moscow Radio said the survivors would be prosecuted “with full severity of Soviet
group
pular
of
Democratic
formed
a to
Munoz’s
Po-
Partyites,
who
splinter oust
foz group
snapped:
Gov.
(See
Benitez.
is headed SPLIT,
The
Democratic by
Page
The
Mu-
Richard 21)
U.S.
Air
Force
said
the
law.” The Soviet broadcast said So viet notes also have been handed to Britain and Norway. The Soviet protest followed
+
by
one
day
a Moscow
announce-
ment that the pilot of the United _|
States U-2 spy plane, Francis (See SOVIETS, Page 21)
Congo Seeks UN Assistance In Army Crisis By
LYNN
HEINZERLING
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (@ —The government of this young nation
Nations
and _ inter-
iously affects internatioCUBA, Page 2)
(
July
while
flight over waters north of Norway and the Soviet Union.
to
acts... situation
a
came,
ruling
Security
vention in its domestic affairs. In a letter he handed to council President Jase A. Correa of Ecua-
the
protesting
are
hear his complaint that the United States is guilty of economic aggression
embassy
a new
handed
We
(#—Cuban Roa asked
immediately
said
note was
1
were pick-
“violation of its air space by the B-47 _ reconnaissance
HARRELSON
that the U. N.
Council
Radio
July
the
Asked To Hear’ Cuban Charge MAX
S.
plane
Sea
on
U.N. Council By
American
Barents
up. Moscow
Soviet
Diaz had been mentioned as a possible GOP candidate for resident commissioner. Felix Cordova, father of the CAP official, served as Puerto ( See CAP, Page 21)
UNITED NATIONS Foreign Minister Raul
the
The announced shot down
and that two men
Prior to suffering a heart attack last
missing
over
evidence
either
(AP)
Benitez’s power as leader of the local Democratic party was challenged last March by
party
Benitez.
the
am
floor...all
Bureau
ANGELES—The
tials committee of the Democratie Party convention yesterday
of
Missouri and unannownced but willing Adlai E., Stevenson of Illinois were in collapse. If these men weren’t conceding -it, many
MOSCOW
Soviet Union vesterday it had
STICKING HER.NECK OUT—Annette, a
lady giraffe,-eats the last bite of nine b
ball-sized onions fed to her yesterday aboard San Juan en route to a Ciudad Trujillo Zoo
and water to gobble the onions. Ship’s cook. Sigurd Pernak above, said Annette’s onion eating wasn’t too risky since she is travelling alone. )
-
the German liner Iserlohn. Stopping in Annette deviated from her diet of hay (STAR
Photo
by Gunter
Hett)
has
for
appealed
help
to the
in
the
United
bloody
struggle against its mutinous army, which is pressing a cam paign of terror against whites. In effect, government of the
newly independent Congo conceded it was powerless to check campaign of rape and pillage
in
five days has taken (See CONGO, Page
the that
at least 21)