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Tells Of Checks In East Berlin By JOHN FIEHN | BERLIN (AP)--I drove into East Berlin at Friedrichstrasse |checkpoint barely one hour after| {the Communists clamped down new travel restrictions on the! divided city today. Friedrichstrasse is the only one open for Western allies, dip- {lomats and other foreigners as of 12:01 a.m. today. It was about 1 am. when I ~ lapproached the East German | [People's Police on guard. The Communists waved me to stop: ' lusing red flashlights. / They asked for identification. \I showed them my p rt an d order a drink, I had to produce Kennedy 'Won't Hold Cuban Ship NORFOLK, Va. (AP)--Presi- dent Kennedy has declined to hold a Cuban merchant ship as] ransom for the families of 10! roam the sieels. = . |defecting crew members be-| That's no good," he said.|cause it might provoke retalia.| and demanded where exactly Iition and pe "harmful to inno- intended to go. So I then told|cent travellers in the future." him I wanted a drink. The president, in a telegram He recommended the Melody to Capt. Jorge Nararro of the! Bar, a state-run establishment freighter Bahia de Nipe, added| further down Friedrichstrasse. I|that such a barter might not| decided to go there. To get a work and was, at any rate, il | ticket, to check my coat and to| legal in the United States. lin for another check. After another passport inspec- tion, the people's policeman wanted to know: "Where do you want to go?" I told him I just wanted to! Navarro announced Sunday) {they had a good look at me, MY {comparing the passport photo |with my face. "T would like to tell you that | this is the only control point i where you can enter the Ger- man Democratic Republic in {Berlin,"" the policeman said. "You must come out here when {you return." | ONLY CROSSING "Foreigners," he Instructed me, "cannot cross anywhere else. I'm telling you all this be- cause you are the first to go here." He was very polite and he : (smiled. INVESTIGATE GOLD HAND straps of men charged with assaulting two police officers earlier this week. One of the policemen is still unconscious Police in Toronto Township are investigating the signifi- cance of this 14-carat gold hand, attached to the watch in hospital from the attack. One spokesman said it is a good luck charm worn in Italy. --(CP Wirephoto) I asked whether West Ger- mans or West Berliners can {pass through Friedrichstrasse. "No," he replied, "they have to cross at other points." 1 drove on, only to be stopped some 30 yards inside East Ber- passport each time. Other-|inat he had urged the president wise, they said, I couldn't bet; hold the ship until the fam- waited on. ilies of the 10 men seeking po- After 10 minutes inside the litical asylum here could safely| bar, I got into my car, returned |get out of Cuba. Navarro's fam-| to the checkpoint and was|ily reached the U.S. before the passed through without trouble. | exploit took place. | The West Berlin police stopped The Bahia de -Nipe, a 3,800 me on the other sidé. They told ton motorship laden with a {me that since the new regulation $600,000 sugar cargo originally had been announced, nobody destined ofr behind the Iron from the West had entered East Curatin, anchored in nearby erlin. Lynn - haven Roads Thursday after Navaro and his 10 com- panions succeeded in imprison- |ing 23 other men below decks. LEACOCK TRIBUTE LONDON (CP) Braden, Vancouver - born come-| |dian long in England, has made| SOLID COINS a long-play record as a tribute LONDON (CP)--A decision on lio the CaNadion seonomist and whether Britain will adopt the umorist Stephen Leacock. The! .: ; recording session was at Oxford decimal coinage system may be| University, where Braden talked| made before the end of the year, to students and read excerpts but the treasury already has POT SHOT COMET Picture Planned Of Comet Head By ALTON BLAKESLEE BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)-- | Astronomers are eager to try some celestial sharpshooting and hit a comet. They want to shoot a space probe, complete with camera. to visit three years hence. It will be a neat trick, for | | the closest Encke's Comet | comes to earth will be 25,000, clean through a comet's huge | glowing head. That would an- swer many mysteries about comets, which are thought to 000 miles July 12, 1964. Comet and meteor special- ists from 33 countries includ- ing Canada in the Interna- tional A str onomical Union have endorsed the comet shot | as a valuable scientific goal. be dirty snowballs trailing | | tails millions of miles long. In fact, world astronomers | meeting here suggest a good A e target is Encke's Comet, due Encke's Comet has a gas- eous head about 60,000 miles wide. But the core is believed to frozen gases and dirt. TAKE PICTURES One plan, Dr. Gerhardt Herzberg of Ottawa explained today, would be to send the probe through the head, com- ing within perhaps 10,000 | miles of its snowball heart. A | 40-inch long telescopic camera could take pictures of the core and televise them back for the first look at the structure of | the heart. Other instruments could | take samples of the chemicals jin the head--presumed to be | various forms of carbon atoms | and combinations of carbon, | nitrogen, hydrogen and oxy | gen--and other comet parts. The smaller heart is thought | to be mainly frozen ammonia | and water and solid particles only a mile-wide chunk ofl of heavier matter or metals, Bernard THE from Leacock's works. {turned down an idea of plastic| coins of varying colors. 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