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Rico, Wednesday,
July
By
S.
military
plpnes
bases
U'S. Flights Risking War, Nikita Says MOSCOW’ Khrushchev
the United States, rather than the Soviet Union, was the injured party
“over
naissance (See
protest
“We the
warn. the
United told
a
of
the
its
Kremlin
news
NIKITA,
Page
United
States
along
that
a
line.
The Evening Standard said Macmillan expected t@ fly to Washington to work out ‘a final revision of the bases agreement. A spokesman at No. 10 Downing Street, however, said the*prime minister
no plans
to go
to the United
spoke
in
the
House
Precon-
Nikita
ference in discussing the sixjet RB47 shot down into Arctic (See
Expected the
of Commons after: consulting leading rs of ‘his cabinet, } Tulbuse tye RB47 flew gfrom British territory, Soviet Premier
of
heavy
Soviet
incident
seas.”
to Moscow
States. Macmillan
2)
government
States
responsibility,” mier
recon-
Page
high
expected
had
Reaction,
plane
if a matter of hyurs to make
flights. Ike
RB4Y
Protest
GROVER
continuing
the
He
(AP)—Nikita_ S. declared yesterday
through
the
since this reconngissance aircraft was shot down By the Russians
the United States is flirting with war
in
tain
Khrushch
of
acting
“a
Bri-
direct
ac-
complice in the aggressive acts of the United States Government against
21)
accused
the
Soviet
Union.”’
MACMILLAN
The
Demo Plank.
LOS
Convention
Bureau
ANGELES—The
Demo-
cratic Party went on record here yesterday as in favor of grant-
ing the
Virgin
to
their
elect
to vote At
Islands own
the
the
right
governor
in national party’s
and
elections. national
con-
vention here this week, it also expressed the opinion that, the Caribbean
territory
should bp:
an elected delegate to Con SS.) Southern delegates attempted to
strip
the
platform
of
the
is-
lands’ national voting rights, but island delegates managed to (See PLANK, Page 21)
Stopovers In 13 Ports
Island Will Get Cruise Ship By
DOUGLAS
The first vice linking
D.
RICHARDS
passenger-cargo all the islands
lands
serfrom
coming
and_
St.
going.
Vincent,
A former Norwegian coastal steamer, the reconyerted and com-
Barbados, Monserrat,
pletely
Grenada,
Trinidad
St. Lucia, Dominica, Antigua, St. Martins
has
and
return
13th
day.
arrival im San Juan of the 204foot S.S. Holiday from Miami. Announcement of the inter-island
and a rremmoay
However, Cottie said thea ptimary purpose of the servige*will be providing inter-island traftspor-
service, the first such shipping schedule providing year-round transportation in the Lesser An tilles, came from Cap. Warren W.
in
San
to
Port-of-Spain
signed overs
Cottie, executive
will spent each
be
Rico south to Trinidad will
initiated
the
Holiday
next
week
with
vice president of
Lines.
in San Juan
will
and make
bi-monthly
round-trips
to Trinidad,
with
scheduled
at other
stops
air-conditijmed
ship
25,000 cubic
feet
Speaking
port,
Cottie said the S.S. Holiday
be ba8ed
the
at a press
Juan, to in
make
the
appropriate
eary
stops
on
in a different
back
each
ing and sailing ,at} night. Leaving San Juan, the will
Juan
all-day stopThe Holiday
said
and day
San
tation on a full-time basis. Embark And Land Anywhere Passengers may embark and land at any of the islands with
Cottie
provide: 13 ports,
arriving
conference
to
fm
is- St. Kitts, Guadaloupe,
St.
the
trip
is de-
morn-
Round-trips
vary Holiday Thomas,
Martinique,
with $440.
inter-island _ fares. from
according
San
Juan
will
to~ accomodation
fares ranging from $250 to Children up to three years
(See ISLAND,
invaded
Jornson’s
Massachusetts
met
Texas
and
face
downtown
hotel.
Minutes
later,
to
the
Page 21)
Texas
face
in
81-vote
a
Cali-
fornia delegation to the Democratic national convention conferred 3012 more votes on Kennedy Johnson mustered 612. Stevenson polled a majority. Kennedy shot up to 736 certain, openly pledged first ballot votes as tabulated by the Associated Press. He was hanging, then, only 25 short of the number needed
to
clinch Nobody
was
an
the
nomination.
much
avowed
exception—that
Kennedy would poll the rest from delegates getting panicky to ride
with
a
just roll
a
gets
winner.
Then
matter of call when
around
to
it
Demo Factions Accept Split Of P.R. Votes By
WALTER STAR
will
be
formalities of a the conventio
candidate
Page 21)
Bureau
1960 Democratic
Con-
vention joined in unholy political matrimony. Both sides indicated they would avold public fireworks and accept a ruling by the cre-
dentials
committee
of Puerto each side.
pickin
tonight. Here in a municipal sports arena, Democrats began their second session of the convention, a session devoted to another outpouring of oratory and to action on a new party platform. There wasn’t any great debate.
S. PRIEST
Convention
LOS ANGELES—The two war ring Puerto Rican factions yesterday plunged into the activi-
ties of the
doubted—Johnson
(See KENNEDY,
accommodations ‘fay 77 passengers
Puerto
(AP)—
Kennedy
B.
senators
Asks VI Vote For President STAR
CORNELL
stronghold yesterday, tossed of the best his leading competitor had to offer, and eased on toward a Democratic presidential nomination that is everything but official. -
in Britain.
KHRUSHCHEV
F.
Lyndon
He told the House of Commons this arrangement was essential to Western defense. * Macmillan furthér claimed that
B.
ANGELES
John
Soviet to be
use
DOUGLAS
LOS
wavering ‘ stampeded into fany over the basic agréement by which U.
Race
Votes Off
By TOM OGHILTREE LONDON in Brime Minister Macmillan, in th : face of threats, refused sterday
paid Eioé =
Victory ls | Scant 25
By Nikita
PRESTON
Second-class postase at San Juan. Puerto
13, 1960
ination Macmillan Unfazed
By
Below)
Rico’s
Earlier, of
the
Jose
A.
‘®enicrat’”’
threatened
to
giving
seven
turn
half
votes
to
Benitez,
head
group,
had
the
unfavo-
rable decision into a convention floor scrap. But cooler heads, including some representatives of the Presidential candidates, pre-
vailed. In view
Of past
“Benicrat”’
(See FACTIONS,
per-
Page 21)
GOP Adopts Religious Education In Platform By
HAROLD
of directors, which met yesterday
J. LIDIN
The Statehood Reupublican Party yesterday came out in favor of legislation providing for the moral-religous education” of children tion providing for the ‘“moral-re-
ligious
education”
of
children.,
one of the keystone demands of the new Christian Action Party.
The
statement
an
unanimous
in
tion
of
the
(GOP)
was
to fix its position with regards to the new Christian Action Party (CAP). The executive secretary of the Statehood Party, attorney Francisco Quiros Mendez, cautioned that his party’s declaration in favor of religious education should
contained
not be taken as an endorsement of
declara-
Bill 84 specifically. Bill 84, which (See GOP, Page 21)
policy
party
board