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Vol. 67.   No. 53 THE DA'LY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1960
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MUKi
Charles Hutton a Son
Eisenho """.^fis.
Uruguay Welcome Marred By
Students  Demonstration
• —
PRESIDENT GETS
TEAR GAS IN EYES
MO.NTKVIDKO. I'rtiRuay-Kcutcrs - Tear gas struck
Pnsiclt'iil Kiscnhower in tlic eyes and face in two student-
inspired incidents Wednesday that marred his otherwise
rvulu'iinil carnival welcome to Montevideo.
The Presidents eves obviously were smarting but he
kepi on grinning as his motor-procession through tbe city
ended al llie I'nited Slates limbnssy.
The-  first trouble occurred outside    the    university's
school of architecture here as Kiscnhower drove into the
cil-- lor a one-day visit, the last stop of bis South American
lour.    Students unrolled a vast poster   saying   "Get   Out.    L0S ANGeles (AP)
I ;senium it' as he drove past. jvict • author Caryl Chessman's
USE FIRE HOSES . could sec the firemen playing
Fiulu' broke out. and fire- hoses on the students as they
men ho?cd the battlers to shouted and gesticulated
calm ...cm. wildly.
Then, as the president pass- When Eisenhower halted
e,\ tlic law school his car ran briefly to receive honors from
into tear {-as and he was hit the city, the crowd swarmed
in the eyes and face. Some into the street trying to get
I S Secret Servicemen wcre closer but troops with ma-
Affected. chine-guns moved across   the
Hundreds of thousands   of  road,
lona thc route had
NEW DEATH
DATE FOR
CHESSMAN
ninth execution date was set
Wednesday—over the emotional
objections of his lawyers.
Superior Judge  Clement
Nye set May 2 as the new death
date for the man who has eluded death for IV. years.
Shessman's lawyers argued
that the court could not set a
new date as a 60-day reprieve,
granted last Feb. 19 by Gover-
Van Rie Cleared
Of Murder Charge
By ARTHUR EVERETT     i
BOSTON (AP)—Willem Van
ie, philandering Du ch radio
operator, was cleared of murder Wednesday in the strange)
death of his shipboard sweetheart. Lynn Kauffman, an
American traveller.
The asquittal verdict by an
all-male jury not on y spared
Van Rie's life but set him free
on the spot. Once he clears up
his status with immigration
authorities, tie may be on his
way home lo his native Holland.
Van Rie, 31, threw his hands
to his head and broke into a
misty-eyed grin as the verdict
climaxed an all-night marathon
in which the jury deliberated
for almost 15 uninterrupted
hours.
"I was getting a 1 tile worried." the blue-eyed Van Rie
admitted afterwards. He and his
wife—both Roman Ca holies —
spent hours saying their 1
rosaries as night gave way to
dawn over the courthouse on
Boston's Beacon Hill
Van Rie's fears were well
founded at one stage of the deliberations. Jury foreman Charles A. Carroll said the panel
split 6-0 on the firsl of 20
lots.
cheered Eisenhower wildly. ' Rerty said Eisenhower told
\ government spokesman , him that the two sma 1 actions
naid the police were prepared should not impair-the magni-
for the architectural college } ficcnt welcome from the peo-
students' demonstration and ; pie of Montevideo,
had put twn fire trucks out-! The president arrived here
«ide the building. Eisenhower ' b.v air from Chile.	
Press Secretary James Ha-1 nor Edmund G. Brown, has not
BRITAIN:
Urge Adoption Of
Decimal Coinage
By RONALD WILLIAMS       PAINFUL TRANSITION
LONDON (Reuters) — A dis-j    Thc report*is understood to
tinguished band of citizens will estimate the change to decimal
try again next month lo pull a
reluctant Britain into the world
of the decimal system.
Reliable sources said Wednesday a special report from lead-
ins scientists and industrialists
will recommend junking
pounds, shillings and pence.
After 21 months of investigation, the group estimates the
switch to decimal • system coin-
ase will cost £200,000,000
($534,000,000).
But the investigators, sponsored by the British Association
for the Advancement of
Science, decided the cost would
he outweighed by the advantage in decreased bafflement
here and abroad.
The present system of sterling coinage is a medieval hangover of 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings or 240 pennies
lo the pound.
There are also guineas worth
21s (which don't exist any
more), half crowns worth 2s 6d
(there are no crowns any
more); and a tidbit of copper
called a farthing and worth a
quarter of a cent.
coinage could be started after
two years—followed by a painful transition period with two
kinds of coinage infuse and two
sets of prices in .stores.
One of the methods of decimal coinage recommended is
believed to be based on making
the 10-shilling bote (two of
them now equal £1—$2.67)
worth 100 unils. But it is
thought unlikely the terms
"cents" and "dollars' will be
used.
The proposal is not new. Parliament was urged to adopt decimal coinage as early as 1824.
A dispatch from Rawalpindi
Wednesday said Pakistan's cabinet has decided to introduce
decimal coinage next year and
to gradually replace British
weights and measures with the
metric system.
Trawler Crew
Drowns
ST. NAZAIRE, France (Reuters)—The 11 crew members of
the Spanish trawler Roselina
were drowned Wednesday when
the vessel struck rocks and
sank off Belle He en Mer, an
island off the southern coast of
Britanny. The Roselina was)
heading for port to discharge
an injured seaman when
struck the rocks.
THE COUNTRY PARSON
"An H-bomb ean level a city.
Science tayi that's right—reU-
Hon sari it's wrong."
Army Training
.   Helped
VATICAN CITY (Reuters)-
Pope John told Italian soldiers
Wednesday that the time he
spent the the army did him "a
lot of good." Receiving the soldiers at his Wednesday general
audience, he recalled that he
had been a sergean in the
medical corps during the First
World War, before he became
military chaplain. "Twelve
months spent in barracks did
a lot of good," he said.
"They taught me to understand,
" ive compassion, and to encourage."
expired.
Judge Nye held thai sentencing was legal, as long as the
new execution dale is after the
end of the 60-day period.
Elvis Goes
Home -. ■
FRANKFURT, Germany
(AP)—Elvis Presley left for
home. Wednesday to be discharged from the U.S. army and to
return to show business.
The rock'n' roll singer, a sergeant in a U.S. armored division, received what looked like
a hero's farewell. Hc waved to
the crowd roped off from hia
plane.
Behind the ropes stood 16-
year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, who
has been dating Presley.
Tears ran down her face
when air force police took her
from the plane where she wanted to kiss Presley goodbye.
They were not allowed to meet.
Blushing, Presley was whisked
off into the plane.
Presley will fly via Prestwick, j
Scotland, and Ernest Harmon
air base in Newfoundland to!
McGuire airbase, New Jersey,
where he is due to arrive at
12:30 a.m. AST today
Morocco:
Mass Burials
Begin In Agadir
By HARVEY HUDSON
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) -
Mass burials began Wednesday while relief squads still
searched for the living -in
quake-stricken Agadir. A Red
Cross official estimated that
more than 3,000 persons had
been killed in this once gay
Atlantic coast town.
The estimate of more than
3,000 dead—thrce times the
original Moroccan government figure was made by Dr.
Albert A. Rainhard, who flew
in from International Red
Cross headquarters at Geneva.
That would be the greatest
toll of an earthquake since
23,000 were killed at Erzingan,
Turkey, Dec. 27, 1939.
Rainhard said more than
5,000 were injured by Agadir's
two giant earthquakes, fires
and the lash of a tidal wave
across the white beaches early
Tuesday.
No one could say for certain how many bodies lay under the mountainous rubble
of twisted steel and crumbled
walls.' Most of the victims
were Berbers and Arabs but
there are a number of Europeans and a few American
tourists.
There were some still liv
SANTIAGO, Chile—Motorcade bearing President Eisenhower drives through the
streets of Santiago. The President stands and waves to crowds lining thc roule
of the procession while riding in an open car, right rear. Some 400.800 cheering, shouting Chileans showered Eisenhower with blossoms and confetti and
smothered Communist attempts to spoil the reception.—UPI Radiotelephoto.
Five Firemen Die
Fighting Blaze
ing, trapped by fallen beams \ "™ "
and girders, or huddled    jn'fl,onueaL
makeshift haven beneath the
cover ol piled wreckage.
An amd odor of dust and
death hung over the city, a
Reuters correspondent re-
ported. Rats ran freely
through the destroyed city.
Officials said it would be
impossible ever to get an accurate count of the dead. Even
the total number of injured
could not be determined.
At the casualty clearing centre at the air base two miles
from.the city, the injured list
totalled 2,000. But Moroccan
officials pointed
three-quarters of Agadir's
buildings were shattered and
thousands of the city's population could not be accounted
for. Many made their way to
other towns.
MONTREAL    (CPI — The   neau. 33. Henri Robichaud. 40.
bodies of five firemen were \ and Erban Souch about 40.
recovered    Wednesday   from'-.    Souch was the father of 10
the burned and water-logged ; children,
ruins of a business and resi-
! dential block in northeastern   THREE INJURED
Three other firemen nn thc
Fire  Director Armand Du
rclte  said  the  roof  collapse
was probably caused    b.v    a
smoke explosion. He said the
bravery of the dead firemen
will never be forgotten.
"I wish to extend my heart-
It  was  the  biggest  single   roof when it fell through suf-   felt .sympathy to the families
disaster to hit the Montreal, fercd minor injuries. who have bcen so sadly ber
fire   department   since 1877 .   The three-alarm blaze start-   caved."
when    seven    firemen    died   ed shortly after 5 a.m. in the   LEAVE 19 CHILDREN
while fighting a fire in a com-, two-storey extension behind a      The  dead  firemen  left    <••
mercial building. . throe-storey block    of stores; total of 19 children.
Wednesday victims were j and apartments at the inter-, Besides SouclVs 10. Garicpy
trapped when the second- i section of Mount Royal Avon- had five. Robichaud two and
storey roof on   which   they . ue and Papineau Street. : l'Ooiseau and Lctourncau onc
were  standing suddenly col-      It was brought undcr con-' each.
lapsed.    Their  todies  were . trol two hours later. I    Lieutenant Fcrnand Dufort.
found in thc basement under Twenty families in the j 40. one of the three men res-
10 feet of rubble. There was; apartments above the stores j cued spent the day in liospi-
eight feet of water in the j were safely evacuated. The I tal for treatment of bruises,
basement. j building's    extension—   used [The  two other men.    Ernest
They  were   identified    as   mostly as storage space—was j Desroches.  46.    and    Parfait
"that '• EuseDe  l'Ooiseau. 32,  Lionel; destroyed. Twelve stores wcre | Boucher, 21.   were   released
1 Gariepy, 30, Marius   Letour-' heavily damaged. shortly after treatment.
Train Crash:
Lesser
Charge
COCHRANE, Ont. (CP)-The
murder trial of Mrs. Anne Lister, 40, came to an abrupt end
Wednesday when the Ontario
Supreme Court jury accepted
her plea of guilty to a lesser
charge of manslaughter. She
will be sentenced Friday.
Mri. Litter wu charged after
the rifle-slaying of her spokesman husband, Ted, 43 at their
Schumacher, Ont., hone Sept.
KILLER
TO HANG
BRAMPTON. Ont. (CP)-An
all-male jury Wednesday found
John Hartford, 19, of nearby
Port Credit guilty of murder in
the rifle-slaying of Trans-
Canada Air Lines clerk Beverly
Wright, 29, of Malton Airport
last Nov. 24. Mr. Justice D. P.
J. Kelley of the Ontario Supreme Court sentenced Hartford
to be hanged May 16
Back To Normal
BONN, West Germany (Reuters)—The Rhineland painfully
returned to normal Wednesday
after three mad days of pre-
lenten carnival - carousing in
which 30 persons were killed
and 123 injured in traffic accidents. Apart from the road toll
four persons were hurt in
scuffles during carnival processions and a policeman in Lue-
deinghausen had his nose bitten
off.
Remove Bodies
From Wreckage
BAKERSFIELD, Ca if. (AP)
—Workmen Wednesday removed from the wreckage the last)
bodies of 14 persons known to
have died in the flaming collision of a Sante Fe passenger
train and a big oil tank truck
Tuesday.
Seventy-two persons were injured in the smash-up at a
grade crossing seven miles
northwest of Bakersfield.
Of the 109 aboard the train,
bound from the San Francisco
Bay area to Chicago, only 24 escaped unscathed. Fifty-one, in
cluding 27 of the less-seriously
injured, resumed their rail
journey eastward after being
ferried by bus to Barstow, Calif.
Behind them lay a nightmare
scene of blackened and jumbled
cars in the quiet flatlands of
the lower San Joaquin Valley.
It took more than 15 hours
to clear the roadbed and replace a quarter-mile of ripped-
up rails. It was nearly 20 hours
before the official toll was
established, A Santa Fe spokesman estimated the property
loss at more than $1,000,000.
PARLIAMENT:
Chevrier Attacks
Govt. 4Bad Policies'
Lionel    Chevrier,    (L—Mon- coal  among  the  industries  i
treal-Lauvier), said Wednesday
that Canada's current unemployment problem can be blamed on bad policies put into effect by the Progressive Conservative  administration.
This is particularly true in
the fiscal and monetary fields,
said the former Liberal transport minister as he singled out
aviation, textiles, uranium and
Last Look
which government policies had
cost jobs.
The MP for Montreal Laurier
spoke in the seventh day of
Commons debate on a $15,000.-
000 supplementary spending
estimate for 1959-60, the government's contribution to the
winter works program. Under!
the program, the government
pays half the payroll cost of approved capital projects undertaken in winter by municipalities.
The item again failed to win
approval, being debate right up
to the 6 p.m. adjournment of
the abbreviated Wednesday sitting. The debate will continue
today.
Moreover. Opposition Leader
Pearson indicated the Liberal
MPs are nol willing to let the
expenditure item pass thc
House. He said he, as well a;
some other members in his
group, still want to speak in thc
debate.
Mr. Pearson said he doesn't
accept the charge that the Opposition is prolonging debate on
(Continued on Page 5)
Finch Murder Trial
Finch's Lawyer
Winds Up Case
More
Propaganda?
LONDON (Reuters) _ The So-
vlet Communist party has criticized the Russian radio service for
not taking full advantage of its
propaganda possibilities. The criticism li contained in a directive
issued by the central committee
of the party and published in the
latest issue of the committee's \.... —« ..«..«. —~~	
journal, Partiynaya Zbiyn (Party ated with a crisp click as the
i.      ..._ felL
LOS ANGELES (AP)-Dr.
Bernard Finch's lawyer ended a three-day summation of
his case Wednesday with a
claim that the weathy surgeon is too intelligent to have
blunderingly murdered his
wife.
The physician, tears in his
eyes, rose from the counsel
table and embraced the lawyer, Grant Cooper.
Cooper, making his final
appeal in the long, sensational trial concluded with a
demonstration of how the doctor claims he was able to
shoot his wife in the back by
accident.
DEMONSTRATES  KILLING
Using a pistol borrowed
from the prosecutor, Cooper
demonstrated a peculiar backhanded throw—"a tennis-playing back hand"—that culmin-
The lawyer faced his client
across the counsel table and
said, loudly for the jury:
"If he's a murderer, he's
also a consummate actor. Dr.
Finch, if you've lied, you're
as vile as they make them."
The tennis-loving 42-year-
old physician and his shapely
23-year-old mistress Carole
Tregoff, have been on trial
since Dec. 8 charged with the
murder of Barbara Jean Finch.
36.
The state says they coldly
plotted the killing to prevent
Mrs. Finch from gett ng a big
divorce settlement. The doctor says he shot his wife accidentally when he tried to I
throw away a gun she pulled
on him when the defendants
went to the Finch estate last
July 18 to ask his estranged
mate about her divorce plans.
(Continued on Page 5)
AGADIR, Morocco (AP) -
The old Berber in the tattered
robe shuffled down the dustry
road from Agadir.
He turned once and looked
long at the panorama of ruins
left by the great earthquakes.
Then he slowly raised a finger and pointed it accusingly
at the sky. He stood for a moment, arm raised. Then he joined the others, fleeing the horror of Agadir.
Women trudged silently, sheltering small children with their
arms. French and Berber ming-
on the road, a sad cavalcade
of cars, horses, donkeys and
the walking. Now and then
knots of the fleeing shrank back
to let a truck convoy of Moroc-
soldiers rumble by, on the
way to Agadir.
Some women wept as they
walked. The men were mostly
silent.
HIT BY GIANT HAMMER
Some stopped to stare back
at Talborjt, Agadir's old Moroc-
can quarter, which looked as
though somebody had flattened
it with a giant hammer.
The quakes had robbed them
of home, livelihood and, in
many cases, loved ones. There
was little left to talk about.
Allah had visited torment upon
them. They were leaving a
place of sorrow.
PARIS
NATO   To   Create
Mobile Task Force
PARIS (Reuters) — The Atlantic pact Wednesday announced a plan to strengthen . its
trouble-shooting capability with
a mobile task force armed with
nuclear and conventional weapons able to go anywhere in a
hurry.
The multi - nation force will
be created during the next 12
months, with the United States,
Britain and France each providing a battalidh to ts initial
strength, Gen. Lauris Norstad
told a press conference.
It will be under a single command and will have its own
transport and tactical aircraft
and naval support, the Supreme
Allied Commander in Europe
added.
FURTHER EXPANSION?
Norstad said he hoped the
force would be expanded to include two other countries,
which he did not name, and
eventually increased to include
eight or more countries.
In Washington the state department spokesman, Lincoln
White, said tbe United States
favored the plan and any other'
that would improve the effect
iveness of NATO defences.
American officials said that
nuclear warheads earmarked foi
the task force would remain under U.S. control, as stipulated
by the Atomic Energy Act.
NATO MEETING
The Associated Press quoted
government sources in Londor
as saying NATO defence minis
ters will meet later this month
to consider making the alliance
an atomic power. The source.1
said the U.S. was agreeable.
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