September 9, 1961

Wagner seen given mandate for reorgn; bars haste; seen facing serious opposition in ousting Buckley and Sharkey; Buckley scoffs at suggestions he retire; says none of Bronx Exec Com members hold jobs controlled by Mayor; Com is only group that can replace leader; McKinney to be replaced soon

DeSapio seen losing post as County Chmn by Oct; successor seen not chosen till after Nov election; Wagner, Lehman in accord on delay; Wagner to deal with party through S H Rifkind, his Manhattan campaign mgr; many reform Dems seek Chmn post; Lanigan, Cohen, Harrington, Costikyan mentioned; split developed during campaign between Levitt and aides and party leaders over how to deal with Wagner attacks on DeSapio

Levitt aides rept bitter dissension raged at regular Dem hq over strategy; say Levitt threatened to withdraw when leaders told him he had to obey their orders; main split was over how to deal with Wagner attacks on DeSapio and bossism

E Berliner rams truck through barbed wire barrier, successfully escapes to W Berlin; illus; other similar escapes cited; Khrushchev says issue can be solved if talks begin soon and result in Ger peace treaty, s at Kremlin meeting hon Nehru; says treaty will be signed whether or not West agrees; welcomes Kennedy Aug 30 statement on readiness for talks; deplores Western 'war hysteria,'

Western Big 3 once again warn USSR that any interference by it with air traffic will be regarded as an aggressive action; stress that Western and USSR rights derive from Allied conquest of Ger, not 'temporary' arrangements; charge USSR deliberately distorts words to serve propaganda ends

Sen, 73-14, approves creating permanent disarmament agency; accepts F Case amendment to name it Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for World Peace and Security; puts it under State Dept; rejects Dirksen move to shelve bill until '62 and Goldwater move to bar agency from research and development programs; Sen Russell among chief opponents; prime proponents are Sparkman and Humphrey

Justice Dept sues to bar merger as antitrust law violation within mins after banks file final papers with NYS Banking Dept

special com studies conduct of 20 more on Bd; Singer of Mars says he was forced to participate in coin-toss because Weiss insisted contract would be awarded to rival; Caristo says his co made less than $1,000 on contract, gave NYC credit of $8,000 for unused materials

testimony on gamblers role in sports, Sen subcom

Pres Bourguiba proposes France retain Bizerte base for duration of Berlin crisis

Govt moves to take control of religious instruction; Ch reptdly will resist

BERLIN, Sept. 8 -- A 22-year-old East Berlin truck driver crashed through the heavily guarded Brandenburg Gate today in the most spectacular Berlin escape since the Communists sealed the border nearly a month ago. Hans Boehm, accelerating his state-owned delivery truck to sixty miles an hour, smashed through the wooden barrier and swept past Communist guards clustered at the gate.