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THOUGHT FOR TODAY They rest beneath the sod and dew--Their ardent kiss flipped the canoe. i he Oshawa Ses WEATHER REPORT Sunny today, Saturday mainly sunny, a little warmer, winds southwest, ; VOL. 89--NO. 157 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1960 Authorized es Second Class Mail Post Office Department, EIGHTEEN PAGES Ottawa WHITES FLEE FROM CONGO ~ EUROPEANS PANIC AFTER NEGRO ASSAULTS Bayonets Against Settlers LEOPOLDVILLE (Reuters) --|from Belgium only eight days Tough, heavily-armed Congolese ago. troops today halted panic-stricken| Mutinous Negro soldiers were white residents from leaving Leo- reported to be in effective con- poldville. capital of the new Con- trol of Leopoldville, capital of the Zo Republic. former Belgian Longe hich Ties With fixed bayonets, they[(directly across the Congo River blocked the road to the airport rom this city in former French y s after hun-| 5 i n 3 nd stopped ierryboats of yA in] The Belgian Embassy in Leo- the early hours across the river poldville reported, however, that to Br: ville {partial calm was restored after pL razea ¥ : | President Joseph Kasavabu ad- The troops also moved into the|gyegceq the mutinous soldiers. . A hate Denow 9 BH Ba Ra Mie ANGOLA NORTHERN RHODESIA { NEWSMAP OF CONGO international telephone exchange and cut off most communications with the outside world. The white residents were trying 'COMMIE BID FOR POWER' to flee from this country to avoid being arrested. Baron Jean van den Bosch, Belgian ambassador in the Congo, tried to warn ali Belgian women and children by radio to evacuate Leopoldville. By mid - morning, his warning had not been broad- cast. Some Ferryboats which had al- ready started across the river, were forced back by the Congo- lese troops. vd of Negroes gathered A hd i ead) at the| threatened tougher police action y nd children. unless the Communists halt a Rd ted To the roops: "Ar-|wave of violence that has rest them, arrest them." claimed seven lives and injured The panic among Europeans hundreds. began when reports circulated] Premier Fernando Tambroni that a revolution had broken out|accused the Reds of using anti- among the Congo Negroes. Some| fascism as a front for an attempt Belgians fled across the river and|to seize power and he warned the others sought refuge in the Bel-lgovers would 'do its "full gian Embassy. estos order, : (CP) -- Thou] The Communist-led Confedera- oo of panic-stricken whites=|ton of Labor (CGIL) called including women and children in nation-wide 10-hour general strike pyjamas--today streamed out of this afternoon in protest against| the neighboring Congo Republic *"polic~ brutality. Non-Commu-| which received its independence nist unions charged the CGIL Meany Fears Jobless Rise LOS ANGELES (AP) -- AFL- "The steel. industry," McDon- CIO President George Meany|ald said, "is in a depression. predicted to Democratic conven- Nearly half of its capacity lies tion platform drafters today that dormant, It is expected to fall government unemployment fig- even more. . . . It is rightfully ures will show a "frightening" said that as steel goes, so goes jump of nearly. 1,000,000 during the nation. It is indeed a baro- June. meter of our entire economy." ROME (AP) Italy Threatene By Civil Bloodshed --Italy's pro- with striking for 'political mo- sins" at each other. But extra Western government today| tives" and said they would ignore ushers on duty prevented a repe-| the call. tition of Wednesday night's free A Red-called walkout flopped|for - all, When o in Rome Thursday. But in the| required medical attention. Red belt around Reggio Emilia, Bologna and Modena - it brought| SHOCKS CHAMBER | commercial and industrial activ- ity to a standstill. {head of a shaky stopgap regime F'VE KILLED international 'and weeks 0 and re its in street fighting Thursday in the northern industrial city of Reggio Emilia. Five rioters were killed and one policeman was critically ded in an h of gun- Nr] fields, ai and. democracy." The Communists and leftists have insisted their demonstra- tions were aimed at the Fascists. Spataro as he accused the Com- munists of using the Fascists as a pretext for staging disorders. This increase, he said, would be the largest May-to-June jump in the jobless total since the end of the war. Urging government policies keyed to stimulating greater eco-| nomic growth, Meany said the United States is on the road to stagnation, not to growth. Other sources indicated they expect the jobless figure will} jump from 3,500,000 to 4,500,000 and the unemployment rate to soar to about 5% percent of the American work force. Meany's criticism of present economic conditions was made in testimony for a convention reso- lutions committee which has in- dicated it will endorse a plank promising to stimulate the econ- omy. REUTHER TESTIFIES { In similar testimony before the committee Thursday, Walter Reuther, president of the United) Auto Workers said economic policies of the Eisenhower ad-| ministration have slowed indus-| trial growth to a point where the future of the U.S. is threatened by a more rapid Communist ex-| pansion in this area. Meany's unemployment fore-| cast and warnings of possible further downturns took platform attention for the time being from | a potentially explosive tussle over a civil rights plank, Nearly 40 witnesses appeared pefore the drafters Thursday to demand that the party pledge it- self to use of full powers of the federal government -- legislative| and executive as well as the courts -- to eliminate racial dis- crimination in schools, employ- ment, housing and other fields of le. i This demand brought a warn. ing from Senator Spessard L. Holland of Florida that a plank of this nature would drive many southerners from the party. President David J. McDonald of the United Steel Workers Un- jon joined Meany in expressing concern over unemployment, | CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 MISS US.A. Linda Bement, brunette, Salt Lake City, Jtah, was crowned ° Miss U.S.A. by George DeWitt, mas- | of y A 18-year-old | rer of Beach, U S.A. will compete in the Miss Universe beauty pageant 4 fire in that Red stronghold. About guns into the air after the demon- strators uscd firearms. Authori- hind barricades and on rooftops, months. hurling stones and h de! . {Thursday night when word Canadi {reached the capitol of the new an | Emilia. | Communist and Fascist depu- ~~ To Meeti rs -= 10 Meeting . DETROIT (AP)--A 19-year-old {ican politics in action was some- where between Detroit and Lous the Democratic national conven- tion. sack containing a bottle of vita- min pills, two bananas, $46 in written sign saying, 'Los Angcics | or bust." [day he planned to thumb his way fo the Democratic gathering in 20 others were injured. Police said-they fired hi ties said about 2,000 die-hard], demonstrators fought from be-| opening in Rome in less than two gasoline hombs. Fists flew again in Parliament violence and deaths in Regio| it h . tch-Hik |ties shouted "murderers, a3ssas-| 1 Cc 1 es {Canadian who wants to see Amer- Angeles today -- hitch-hiking to The youth, Leslie Charles Cohen of Timmins, set out with a knap Canadian bills and a change of junderwear. He also had a hand- Cohen told reporters before his departure from Detroit Wednes- time for the opening session Mon- day. When he gets there, he hopes thetic delegate. politics eventually," Cohen eaid, "But first I'd like to see how Americans pick their presidential candidates." Cohen said he covered the 800 miles from his home town to Detroit in the first 24 hours. After the Democratic conven- tion, he hopes to hitch-hike to Chicago for the Republican meet- ing and then continue to New York to see the United Nations Building and to Washington to visit the White House. He plans to enter, York University in Tor- {onto this fall. Negligence Caused Death | ELMVALE .(CP)--A coroner's jury ruled Wednesday that Gor- {don Chapman, 42, of Elmvale ; | was careless and negligent in the .|bandling of a' firéarm. in the ; | accidental fatal shooting of Cam- eron Morris Smith of Oshawa June 19, Chapman said the 'gun. dis- CROWNED four legislators Tambroni, who is ruling at the shocked the Chamber of Deputies | into silence when he charged suERERHREEER IS Backing Cuba at subverting order to get a ticket from some. sympa- "I hope to get into Canadian i the life of the prime minister| seized H : h e."' . guarding his residenc ~ : session. BLOODIED TRIBESMAN LED AWAY Troops Sent By Belgium Cast a report by its correspondent LEOPOLDVILLE (Reuters)-- from Brazzaville, across the former Premier Patrice Lumumba an- nounced today that settlement Congo River in the had been reached between rebel French Congo. It said there was forces and the government of the| "mad panic ending in an exodus" Congo Republic. [= Leopoktville, capital of the A statement by the premier's Congo Republic. . office said: "A group of Euro Earlier today, the radio' an peans has made an attempt on nounced Negro soldiers had full control of Leopold- Idiers ville. and has been arrested by sold " Belgian. radio. Gory said I Idville is BRUSSELS, Belgium (CP) --|the hands of mutineering soldiers Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens who were hunting out their for- said two companies of troops mer Belgian officers and arrest would be sent to the Congo today|ing them. \ to reinforce Belgian Army units| He said about 6,000 Belgians already there. | fled by ferty to Brazzaville be- Eyskens made the asisgues. | fore the Jet Lak waphegt. The i net| corres, A y ment after an hour-long cabine ed Yi. 2 a onet {his back during the broadcast. | © The Belgian ministry of African affairs said the Europeans pan- licked during the night on hearing reports of assaults and rapes of white women following an army mutiny and began a mass flight aeross the Congo River to Brazza- ville, in former French territory. | ALLOWED TO LEAVE : The Belgian radio reported that Aand The troops to be sent will be drafted from Belgian units sta- tioned in West Germany. Some 2,000 Belgian paratroop- ers remained in the Congo after it was granted independence a week ago. Eyskens said that according to messages received from the Bel- gian Embassy radio in Leopold- ville there were no reports of casualties. Congolese Army troops controlled NEGOTIATE WITH REBELS |Leopoldville, capital of the new The embassy reported that| \frican nation 'which Belgium President Joseph Kasavubu was freed last week, but that the negotiating with the mutineersitroops were allowing Belgians to and that there was a "lull" injleave unmolested after checking the situation. their identity papers. "All possible measures" have| In an earlier broadcast, the been taken for the protection and! Belgian radio said that the native repatriation of Europ , the|p pulation was driving all white bassy said. ; settlers out of the lower Congo The companies, each consisting | | Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP)--A con- gressional spokesman for the rul- ing political party says Mexico lis solidly backing the Cuban Leftist booing and shouts inter-|people against the United States. | yearnings of the Cuban people to rupted Interior Minister Giuseppe|Senators and deputies gave him|live in liberty and etonomic in- rousing cheers. President Adolfo Lopez Mateos was silent on the statement made mission of Congress. | Sources close to the president | said they felt the statement rep- resented the view of a spokes- {man for the legislative branch and not the executive, which 1s | responsible for Mexico's foreign policy under the constitution. But his speech was billed as an ex- planation of the basic policies of Lopez Mateos' government, and it seemed most unlikely he would have spoken without consulting government officials. Sanchez Piedras told a congres- sional caucus 'it appears that MAXWELL COHEN Dean Of Law Committee's Star Witness OTTAWA (CP)--A fast-talking | professor who 'describes himself | as a legal theoretician and has a| flair for political infighting has ~~ |become the star witness of the Commons banking committee in its study of government amend- ments to the Combines Investiga- tion Act. | Professor Maxwell Cohen, 49. year-old acting dean of law at McGill University, enlivened the committee Thursday after weeks| of dreary hearings featuring ar-| guments among its MP members| wi": little attention for the wit-| nesses. | He appeared at his own re-| quest. With a torrent of words which | left Hansard shorthand reporters Miami Miss ceremonies at ioked i ey charged when he picked it up to criminal negligence and drinking, | while oa the restricted list. | --AP Wirephoto throwing up their hands in frus-| show it to Smith, father of two. tration at the speed, he gave the|shortly before he was to fly home Chapman has been charged with/commitlee a 90-minute disserta-|{to Moscow at the end of his nine- day sfate visit to this neutral country. tion on the development of anti- trust- law since the 16th century. countries might sign a peace of 1 men: will join four other region around Leopoldville, but Brass [our northern meighbor (lhe |United States) is closing the doors of its friendship and un- {derstanding "in the face of the OSHAWA HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS Examination results of Osh- awa's three high schools will appear in Saturday's issue of The Oshawa Times. Parents and students may place orders for extra copies of The Times with bookstores and news vendors or with the circulation department of The Times. th 1gi ernment's report companies of Belgian troops sta-|; e Bd Elan, govt ots i] this was 5 tioned in the Congo. The memi™ = Co aw leave later today, government spokesmall, in Gelgium retained the tight to[contact with the repre. base in the Congo after he x herald independence June 0 i noe oa c Eyskens said the embassy re-(Was pa e Congo capital. ported about 1,300 Belgians had| There was no immediate report fled to Brazzaville in the face of/on the role being played by the army mutiny and reported reyol-/new Congo government, led by ution in the newly-independent/ Premier Patrice Lumumba and state. President Joseph Kasavubu. Both Other reports put the number had made repeated appeals to the of fleeing Europeans as high as|Belgian settlers, asking them to 6,000. " |stay and help the republic, which The Belgian State Radio broad-|is pitifully short of trained ad- |dependence." | "We, the representatives of the| people of Mexico, repeat to the| Spataro reminded parliament/by Emilio Sanchez Piedras, Cuban people our same attitude] the Olympic Games are| chairman of the permanent com-|of solidarity and we wish to tell| them that we are certain that their right to live in social justice, {and economic liberty will have to | prevail in this continent. in the {hope of peace and reciprocal | friendship." The congressional leader said (he was speaking for the party of revolutionary groups, which has an overwhelming majority in congress and runs almost all phases of Mexican political life. Sanchez Piedras' statement {was certain to find no favor with Mexico's sugar industry, which hopes to supply the United States between 175,000 and 200,000 tops of the 700,000 tons of sugar Presi- dent Eisenhower cut from Cuba's quota for 1960. Mexico's sales to the United States now amount to about 62,000 tons a year, and are at the world price, without the United States pays Cuba. MONTREAL GANG 4 Hoodlums Wreck MONTREAL (CP)--Four hood- lums tried to wreck the Vieux Moulin cafe early today in the latest of 'a series of night-club troubles linked with an extortion ring. police believe to be The four raided the Sherbrooke Street night spot about 4 a.m. today and started breaking furni- ture, police said. They fled when police arrived n but one man, 25 years old, was subsidy of two cents a pound the|caught and held for questioning. No one was injured. LATE NEWS FLASHES Bandits Hunted In Woodlands | VICTORIAVILLE, Que. | (CP) -- More than a score of policemen and volunteers today continued to search dense woodlands for three bandits who held up a bank at Ham Sud and escaped with an estimated $1,800. The manhunt began i¢ miles from Ham Sud. shortly after the holdup Thursday when the three men aband- oned their stolen getaway car on a dead-end countr; y road 10 ' Fine Weather Forecast For Weekend TORONTO (CP) -- The weather bureau predicts fine sunny weather for Southern Ontario throughout the weekend Monday. with increasing temperatures and humidity. But it expects scat- tered showers and thunderstorms late Sunday night or early Havana Sugar Kings Transferred MONTREAL (CP) -- President Frank J. Shaughnessy of the International League today directed transfer of the Havana Sugar Kings to Jersey City if a suitable lease can be obtained for Rooseevelt Stadium there. |ministrators and educated per- sonnel. Cate Thursday night, police cracked down hard on nightclub racket- eers and stepped up a drive to hunt out bank robbery suspects, but their series of raids proved fruitless. City and provincial police raided four hangouts in the north and east ends but managed tol # | pick up only one robbery suspect,| § who was later released. On tough St. Laurent Boule- vard, police kept a sharp eye on the hodge-podge of night clubs. cabarets, taverns and cafes fo* more of the disturbances that have left mote than a dozen per- sons injured in recent weeks, William Fitzpatrick, assistant chief of detectives, urged club owners and employees to join in exposing members of a protection racket gang that has been caus- ing most of the trouble. WAITER KNIFED First sign of open trouble in this area came June 30 when five hoodlums 'barged into the Can- asta Cafe and began arguing with two waiters. One waiter was anifed and a second shot in the abdomen. A third man also was] shot. Three men have been charged in connection with the fracas and one is to appear in court today. Wednesday night, shortly after a group of club owners and wait- ers threatened to expose the extortionists, the east-end Cham- plain Club was raided by 15 hood. lums. The ensuing uproar left four persons injured and the club damaged. GRAEME THORNE Kidnapper Threatens September T reaty To Kill Boy SYDNEY, Australia (AP)--The kidnapper of eight-year-old Graeme Thorne threatened to feed the boy to sharks if he is not . {paid £25,000 Australian ($50,000) {ransom. * V red | The telephoned threat to the son of a man who won £100,000 in VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) --| Soviet Premier Khrushchev threatened today that Communist treaty with East Germany in September if the West German parliament meets in West Berlin at that time, as planned. Khrushchev made his announce- meni at a press conference here sider whether it would be possible) rat the same time as the Bunde- stagis meeting in West Berlin to The Kremlin chief said he had information from West Germany that "they are thinking of holding a meeting ofthe West German| Bundestag (lower house of parlia- ment)" in West Berlin in Sep- tember. legis] . He called this "a provocative| 8islators would have to apply idea" and added that he andl East Germany for visas to Communist East German Pre-|feturn home. mier Otto Grotewohl "would con-| place the access routes to West trol, liament) has been suggested for West Berlin in the all. |a lottery was disclosed today. arrange the signing of a peace] Two hours after the boy disap- treaty with the (East) German peared on his way to school Democratic Republic." | Thursday, the phone rang at the Khrushchev said this would/home of Basil Thorne at Bondi. Thorne's wife answered. She said a male. voice said "Is that you Mrs. Thorne . . , I have your boy--is your husband there?" Mrs, Thorne handed the phone {to detective Larry O'Shea. A meeting of West Germany's| The voice went on: "I have Bundestag (lower house of par-|your boy ... I want £25,000 by r o'clock or I will feed him to the Berlin under East German con-| adding the West German sharks." »