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The Oshawa Times, 20 Apr 1960, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR Another problem many a person has is learning how only kind of people who will as- sociate with him. TODAY to like the ~The Oshawa Tunes WEATHER REPORT Thursday cloudy with sunny intervals and a few scattered showers, warmer, winds south east. VOL. 89--NO. 92 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Authorized @s Second Ci Post Office Department, OSHAWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1960 ass Mail Ottawa TWENTY-TWO PAGES Insurrection DE 'GAULLE WAVES AFTER TOUCHING DOWN Mother Boasts DeGaulle Arrives In Quebec City QUEBEC (CP) -- President|for Gen. de Gaulle and his wife Charles de Gaulle of France ar-|in 24 hours. Monday night, within rived from Ottawa by air at/hours after their arrival here b; 11:19 EST today for a 22-hour air, they were .guests of the courtesy visit in the capital of | Vaniers at a dinner-reception at| Canada's predominantly French-|Government House, where the de language province, once the seat Gaulles stayed during their visit. | of France's colonial empire in| Much of the president's time America. Tuesday was taken up in confer- office, Hollywood 'personalities CARACAS (AP)--Rebels seized control of a Venezuelan army regiment's headquarters at San Cristobal near the Colombia bor- der today in an attempt to set off a nation-wide revolt against President Romulo Betancourt's government. Betancourt GUILTY DRIVER DISEMBODIES CAR BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The only way to keep police from suspecting was to cut | up the body and get rid of it piece by piece, Roy Chatman figured. But police caught him. Judge Lawrence Uter sen- tenced him to 10 days in jail for leaving the scene of an accident. The body was that of a car Chatman was driving when he was involved in a hit-and- promptly ordered About Daughter LOS ANGELES (AP)--Officials say they have a tape recording in which Beverly Aadland's mother boasts her daughter had affairs with two- major film ac- rs, 2 oy ie Producer and two run collision. ia a savs the viol: attornav's olice learned there was But, says the district attorney's Sticker or the car in the wreck and traced the dis- embodied vehicle from the sticker. won't be questioned about it be- ere"s nothing to support troops to San Cristobal to quell the uprising, and pledges of sup-| port came to him immediately |from military, political and civil- {ian sources, | The moderate Venezuelan pres- ident announced he would use all| | constitutional powers to crush th {rebellion, but would not suspend |constitutional guarantees in thi {oil-rich nation. | The strong military garrison at Caracas announced for Betancourt's APPEAL FOR ORDER | Leaders of the nation's three] major political parties spoke over| |a national radio network, appeal | ling to their followers in San Cris-| |tobal to vigorously oppose the in-| |surrection. The rebels seized control of the {Simon Bolivar army regiment's {headquarters at San Cristobal. | The government announced last |Saturday that it had smashed a plot for an armed invasion of {Venezuela from Colombia by offi- {cers who were dismissed from {the army for their support of for- |mer dictator Gen. Marcos Perez |Jimenez. | [SERIES OF UPRISINGS | government, | STRONGER IKE PROTEST ON SOUTH KOREA URGED Proposed Visit May Be vo Scrapped g take n members of the Senate Ioreigniaction to protect democratic relations committee proposed to-irights, including freedom of day that President Eisenhower speech, assembly and the press reconsider his plan to visit South|and bring an end to "unfair dis- Korea as a further protesticrimination against political op- : against "repressive measures' of| its support | 4 | | 8 » | WOUNDED KOREAN STUDENT 'NEW SPIRIT"? called on the Rhee government v reams ;_lences with Prime Minister OTTAWA (CP)--French Presi-ipiconhaker and members of the dent Charles de Gaulle let it be Canadian cabinet. Besides spend- known Tuesday he does not. ex- pect any agreement on Germany to result from next month's sum- mit conference between the West- ern Big Three and Russia. He appeared hopeful, however, that progress can be made to- wards nuclear disarmament. As a first step he proposed the elim- ination of atomic carriers, "over control is still prac- prem, a luncheon given in his honor by| Amplifyinge at, the "press the Canadian government, and at ference immigdibtely aft@pward, a subsequent press conference. He arrived in Ottawa Monday| night and leaves today for Que- bec City. Tuesday night, topping off a crowded day, the 69 - year - old head of state and Mme. de Gaulle entertained at a dinner and re- ception at the French Embassy. Guests included Governor - Gen- eral and Mme. Vanier, and Prime Minister and Mrs. Diefen- baker. It was the second such affair this remarks being translated by| ling an hour with the cabinet as a| whole, he and Foreign Minister| Maurice Couve de Murville twice| conferred privately with Mr.| Diefenbaker and External Affairs i Minister Green. | In his luncheon address Gen.| | de Gaulle said that "What must be avoided now is fruitless dis- Sussion of insoluble problems, suc ANE Ay erat President e on ajuver Problem ol an state visit, Sted bs pan at people. | "» Gen, de Gaulle said: "If we want a detente we must recognise that there are certain issues which cannot be decided at present." This was not to say he would refuse to discuss German reuni- fication, "but we recognize that there can be no agreement under present circumstances." Gen. de Gaulle spoke entirely in French. He also spoke in French at the press conference, an interpreter. $70,000 DEFICIT Labor Dues To Increase (CP)--The costs of labor are OTTAWA Canadian organized going up. Next week the Canadian Labor Congress, which claims 1,150,000] affiliates. Increases in the 1960) : members, will seek more rev- enues from its affiliates to keep its expanded operations in the black. It faces a $70,000 deficit for the 1960 calendar year otherwise Its surplus in 1959 was a skimpy $1,274. Seek Russ Drug For Dying Girl TORONTO (CP)--The parents of a seven-month-old girl who is suffering from an incurable dis- ease plan to appeal to the Rus- sian government for a drug they hope will cure her Evano Stocco, 28, and his wife, Nazzarena, 23, said they read about the drug, called galanta min, in a local Italian-language newspaper. They are Italian im- migrants. The girl, Sonia, is suffering from muscular dystrophy. Two Toronto hospitals told the parents no known treatment could save the child. The Soviet drug is not perfected but the parents will approve its use if there is a good chance the child would survive The Italian Immigrant Aid So- ciety has helped the family 2p- peal to the Soviet Embassy in Ot- tawa for the new drug Sonia is said to be awake only one hour a day. The Stoccos have another daughter, two years old. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 - gain with 000 purely vided lcapita dues. The CLC biennial convention starting Monday in Montreal will] 7 be asked to approve an increase in the per capita dues paid by | budget are spread through all de-| ' partments and are rising costs over which the CLC| has no control. ONE OF FOUR The dues question is four main subjects expected to| Apt attention at the CLC| convention. The others are sup-| port in principle for a new left- wing party and the status of the Seafarers' International Union and the Teamsters--the SIU fac ing expulsion for raiding and the| other found guilty on two raiding| charges. ! Granted an increase in dues, the CLC is guaranteed a sound] working margin for the next year| or two at least. | It proposes a $1,309,000 budget| this year, $89,000 more than a year ago. Anticipated revenues| at existing rates at $1,220,000. Organization is the main ex- pense at $450,500 while head of- fice operations take $225,000. Po-| litical education and public rela- tions will get more money. MONTHLY PAYMENTS Internationally - chartered unions provide most of the CLC finances and this amounted last year to $671,000 in monthly pay-| ments based on: per capita mem-| bership. The CLC proposes that| this fee be increased to 10 cents a head from seven cents. Locally-chartered unions, clining force as the CLC en- courages these unions to tie up bigger units. kicked in $281,- last year. That was on the basis of 75 cents per union mem- ber per month with five cents going to a '"'defence" fund, used |among pay. $1.05 monthly including 25 cents to the defence other The new things for strike scale would be fund. unions Canadian bigger ones setup--pro-| year in per| National in $112,000 last credited tof one of & two broken SAVES DOG'S LIFE Brian Muir, 10, comforts box- er dog, Duke, saved after the dog had been found laying in a ravine with legs and bleeding whose |Fiorence Aadland's rambling| | claims. badly from deep body Brian ripped his pants life he cuts, and Betancourt, a moderate with a |reputation as a social reformer, en [has faced a series of minor up- risings, threats and harassments |since he took office early in 1959. He was elected a year after the overthrow of Perez Jimenez, now in exile in Florida. A series of bombings a few months ago was blamed by the government on supporters of Perez Jimenez. Officials said that lofficers and policemen, - who served in the dictator's 10-year regime were trying to stir up trouble and force the army fo in- |tervene and unseat Betancourt, Stiff sentences of penal trans. portation to the jungles were an- nounced for rioters. Betancourt's troops also beat down an upris- ing in Caracas last Aug. 4. Police, troops and rioters fought in the downtown area of the capital for nine hours. ~ Mom Whyte Baffled ie 'By Decision SUMMERLAND, B.C. (CP) -- Mrs. Bertha (Mom) Whyte has blamed provincial health author- ities in Ontario for the refusal of | British Columbia government of- ficials to grant her a licence to operate a home for old people. Mrs. Whyte, whose home for children in Ontario was closed by | provincial authorities there, said |Tuesday she was baffled by the decision. "We were assured before we moved into this place that if we brought the home up to certain standards a licence would be granted. The deputy minister himself gave us this promise. We have been approved by the local authorities, the fire marshal, and the chief inspector of homes in Vancouver, when we visited him, said everything would be fine. "As a result of their promises {we went ahead and spent $1,000 on renovations and took out a three - year lease on Mountain View Home. now. We just have to stay here for three years. We have to lease and we'll just have to stay lon." and-run vietim_ Duke is "doing | nicely" in a Hamilton animal [BLAMES ONTARIO | other boys were with Brian stemmed the bleeding. Three when they found the dog,.a hit- hospital, | Mrs, Whyte said there was no CP Wirephoto |doubt in her mind that the B.C. 5 |decision came a result of reports |sent from Ontario. LATE NEWS FLASHES "It can't be anything else. I could understand such reports if we had been charged with any- thing in Ontario, but we never Police Opened Fire Without Orders VEREENIGING, South Africa (Reuters) fire without being ordered to do so outside Sharpeville police station March 21 when 67 Africans were killed, a police officer told a judicial inquiry today MONTREAL a spokesman said t been reached. Boxing a de. CPR May Discontinue 'Dominion' The CPR has under eration reductions in its trans-continental rail service by par- tial or total elimination of one of its transcontinental trains, ¢ He said the possibility of reducing or eliminating the schedule of "the Dominion" has been under constant study for about two years but that (CP) day Gene Fullmer Favored Tonight BOZEMAN, Mont. Utah, weighed 160 pounds for tonight's defence of his National Association Giardello of Philadelphia, Giardello weighed 158%. The champ- ion was a 3-to-1 favorite to retain his title. ° world (AP) were charged. All we had there) |was a hearing. 1 was never sub- poenaed. | "There can be no other reason |than that Ontario has interfered." E. R. Rickinson, deputy minis- Iter of social welfare, said rea- [sons for the refusal of such a licence are never made public. | ""An inspector visits the home {and checks on the way it is pro- posed to run it," he said. "After his report comes in a decision on the application is made. In this case I can say that the refusal |of the application had nothing to {do with the home itself but with the people proposing to run it." Mrs. Whyte's former project-- a home for children at Bowman- ville, Ont.--was closed by Ontario authorities. for health reasons |after a number of the children came down with eommunicable Police opened active consid- no decision has -- Gene Fullmer of West Jordan, middleweight title against Joey "I don't know where we stand | Arrest 345 N oe - wo JOHANNESBURG (CP)--South in jail wit African police "backed by ar-|and trial delayed indefinitely. mored cars today raided Negro townships outside Port Elizabeth|government and East London, rounding 500 persons. |restrictions. Two-hundred police and ar-| The acting head of the govern- mored cars moved in at dawn on ment, Lands Minister Paul Sauer, the Duncan village settlement|did say Tuesday that South Africa outside the Indian Ocean coastal would "reconsider in earnest an port of East London, arresting honesty her whole approach to the 345. native question." He added that this did not mean apartheid--the overnment's long - range pro- Jobless Set Record For March OTTAWA (CP)--Unemployment gave no More police and troops helped| by armored cars again raided g two townships at Port Elizabeth and detained 140 Negroes. A po- lice official said they were after "undesirables." It was the second big raid on Duncan Village in three days and brought the number of ar- rests there since Monday to 752 In an 11-hour trial Tuesday, an East London court sentenced 271 of those arrested Monday to prison terms of various lengths Police said the raids are to LO I clean out Negroes who have in Canada increased to 566,000 in burned their passbooks 'in de-/mid-March, a rise of 11,000 from fiance of government regulations, 2 mont} earlier, the government agitators trying to incite violation estimated today. This put unem- of race regulations, "loafers" ployment within 21,000 of the post- and illegal residents who are not| War peak of 587,000 in March, employed in East London. 1958. The raids also were considered a government move to prevent the week - long work stoppage which the outlawkd African Na tional Congress tried to launch this week. Most non-whites went Ported. : to work under the watchful eyes, The number of persons with of police Tuesday, and the boy- jobs showed little change between cott fizzled. " |the survey dates of Feb. 20 and Failure of the work stoppage|March 19, rising by 5,000 to 5,668,- heightened calls from _liberal{000. But this was 116,000 higher white elements for an end to the|than the 5,552,000 in mid-March, emergency regulations, und er|1959. which the government raids the] The estimates were made by Negro settlements without search [the bureau of statistics, based on warrants and is holding hundredsia survey of 30,000 households. The rolls of jobless in mid- March, normally the peak month for unemployment, were 41,000 above a year earlier, the govern- ment's monthly job survey Poison Plot Claim On Nasser's Life CAIRO (Reuters)--The United] Heikal said the plot was dis- Arab Republic announced .today covered at the last moment. that six Israeli spy rings had| He said Israel had made con- been uncovered and 10 spies ar-|tact with an employee of a Cairo rested--five Europeans and five|catering firm which was in Egyptians. charge of organizing banquets, The U.A.R. information depart- and made him one of their "'net- ment confirmed a newspaper work of agents." story that an Israeli agent had, The agent was to pour some plotted to poison President'drops of poison into Nasser's Gamal Abdel Nasser. glass "'whose effect would ap- The department told a press pear with delay, but with cer- conference that the story, ported by the newspaper Al Ah-'be finished." ram, was true. Ak The information ministry said CONFESSION ALLEGED the spy rings had been operating When the plot was discovered for the last three years in the the agent confessed and handed U.A.R. and in Rome, 0 ) 4 Munich, Zurich and Amsterdam. ink which he used to write to Arrested included two Italians, Israel and a radio set. Author- two Greeks and one Dutchman. ities sent radio messages in the Radio sets had been®seized by|agent's name to Israel and re- the U.A.R. general intelligence|ceived replies, Heikal said. agency, which arrested the men. The story did not specify the |date of the poison attempt but NEWSPAPER ACCOUNT observers believe the alleged plot The newspaper story was writ- must have been discovered ten by Mohammed Heikal, editor shortly before Nasser"s visit to of Al Ahram and a friend of|India. They recalled that special S. African Police h their givhignment gram to segregate jored residents in completely Despite the liberal clamor, the separate areas--would be aban-| indication up when it would lift the emergency re- tainty, and thus everything would Geneva, over the poison bottle, invisible| § Syngman Rhee's government. A third, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Dem. Minn.) dis-| agreed, saying: | "I think it is a good time for the president to speak up, on the| spot, -for the political rights of] the Korean people, and I hope he will do so." There has been no indication of a change in Eisenhower's plans to visit South Korea June 22 near the end of his scheduled trip to Russia and Japan. Senator George B. Aiken (Rep. Vt.) and Mike Mansfield (Dem. Mont.) joined Humphrey in ap- plauding Tuesday's action by State Secretary Herter in charg- ing the South Korean government | with adopting "repressive meas-| ures unsuited to a free democracy." Summoning' Ambassador You Chan Yang to his office, Herter egroes oned. While Sauer's speech in Hu- mansdorp was regarded as major {policy statement, it remained to be seen whether Prime Minister Verwoerd--one of the chief archi- liects of apartheid--would heed Sauer's call for a "new spirit" in rac- relations when he re- sumes control of the government. | Verwoerd is in a Pretoria hos- |pital recovering from two bullet wounds in the head suffered in an assassination attempt last | week. Scattered gu ponents." SEOUL, Korea (AP) -- Presi- dent Syngman Rhee today pledged South Korea's people re- dress for their '"'major griev- ances" as soon as order is re- stored to their riot-torn country, Once martial law is ended, said the 85-year-old president in a statement, "the government will devote maximum energy to the investigation of these distur bances. Those who are guilty can be assured of punishment, Those with major grievance. can be certain of redress." It was Rhee's first statement on the nine days of anti-govern- ment demonstrations culminating in riots in Seoul Tuesday in which at least 92 persons were killed, That was the official death toll announced by the government today, and at least 50 of the hundreds of injured were in crit- ical condition, CAPITAL QUIET With martial law proclaimed Tuesday in. Seoul and four other cities, much of the capital was quiet. People went sullenly and quietly to work. Schools were closed, bus service was still dis- rupted, and thousands lined the sidewalks in outlying districts of the capital, sunning themselves tand discussing the riots. While troops stood guard at major government buildings, po- lice kept up g on: y d Te cont through the night, and shortly after dawn police shot and killed three members of an armed group defying the curfew. Anti - government demonstra- tions were reported in Taegu, Kwangju, Congju, Suwon, Iri and Inchon, but no casualties were reported. Both Taegu and Kwangju are under martial law. The demonstrators are demand- ing nullification of the March 15 presidential election, in which Rhee won a fourth term and his running mate, Li Kiang-poo, de- feated Vice - President John M. Chang, both by overwhelming votes. re-| it | | Actress Greta Thyssen, sta- tuesque Miss Denmark of the 1951 Miss Universe contest, sits at a Hollywood police station today after a policeman report- diseases. 'Nasser's. food was taken aboard his plane. ed she told him off and pushed | him away when he stopped her | WHO WOULDN'T? for driving past a red light. She was booked on suspicion of disturbing the peace. She said she pushed the policeman, because she thought he was trying to kiss her. -~AP Wirephoto

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