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DURBAN. .South Africa-A motorist is questioned at one of the many roadblocks which were thrown up at strategic points throughout Cato Manor,
■ Durban suburb and seat of much native unrest. Roadblocks were manned hy Army troops under police supervision.-(UPI Telephone).
West Rejects New
Red Disarm. Offer
Verwoerd's Attacker To
Be Held Without Trial
Will  Debate
S. A. Question
OTTAWA. CI1*—-The Com- against any action that would
mons is to debate South force the Canadian govern-
Africa's racial segregation • ment to raise the question at
policies after Easter, shortly  the London conference, indi-
C.KXKVA.. Reuters - The
West Monday rejected tbe
Communist bloc's five basic
principles for complete disarmament as the lOnation
conference entered its second
month still deadlocked.
Delegates from the United
Slates, Britain, Canada.
France, and Italy rapped the
Soviet principles submitted to
the conference Friday by Russian delegate Valerian Zorin.
The West also rejected a So-
\ iet proposal that tlrrrnuclear
powers at thc conference im
mediately declare "solemnly"
thai they will not be the, first
to use nuclear weapons.
British delegate David
Ormsby-Gore led the attack |
fnr the Western side when he |
said the Soviet's latest proposals were "the sheep's cloth-.
ing" with wheih Russia sought
to clothe "the familiar wolf"
of its original disarmament
plan.
The West already has rejected the Soviet plan for disarmament in four years.
Not Obliged
To Support
OTTAWA. (CP)-Thf Su-
preme Court of Canada ruled,
Monday that Ontario taxpayers
are nol obliged to continue to
tupport public schools after1
becoming Roman Catholic separate school supporters.
In a test cast of major interest to Ontario separate and
public school supporters, the
court said Ontario law does
not create a continuing liability in such circumstances.
It said thai if an Ontario
property owner switches his
support from public to separate
schools he cannot continue to
he taxed by a municipa ity for
public school bonds issued
while he was I public school
supporter.
The court's decision upheld a
judgment of the Ontario appeal court which reversed a
ruling by Mr. Justice H. A.
Aylen of the Ontario Supreme
Court.
UNANIMOUS JUDGMENT
A unanimous judgment written b.v Mr. Justice Wilfred
Judson said that money raised
annually to pay public school
debentures "must come, not
from   all rate-payers   of   the
municipality, but only from
thosc who arc supporters of,
thc public schools ..."
The judgment said that lhis1
ensured "lhat no part of thei
money for the public school!
debentures shall be raised from j
separate school supporters."     '
The Soviet bloc—Russia,
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria—has rejected the three-stage western
plan.
Zorin declared Monday that
if the West "battles against"
this formulation of principles
it will rind itself fighting
against the United Nations
disarmament resolution which
called for measures toward
the goal of general and complete disarmament.
The five principles cover
the scope of disarmament
measures, call for total disarmament within four years,
and envisage the creation of
an international control organ.
The delegates Monday entered the second month of
discussions without a break
In the deadlock in sight. Delegates have only 19 days left
before starting a six-week recess which will send them
home during the summit conference opening in Paris May
before the conference of Commonwealth prime ministers in
London next month.
At the fequest of Opposition Leader Pearson, Prime ;
Minister Diefenbaker agreed !
Monday to holding a debate'
similar to that on Friday |
which resulted in unanimous I
approval by the British Com-1
mons of a resolution condemn- j
ing South Africa\<i apartheid '
policy. j
Thc government likely will I
give notice of a resolution on
the question when the Commons meets Monday. April
25 aftcr the 11-day Easter ad- j
journment. Thc Commons may
be asked to qive unanimous
consent to debating it that
day or the discussion may be
held Wednesday, April 27
after the required two days'
notice of resolutions has expired.
Mr.  Diefenbaker cautioned
eating that South Africa might
refuse to attend if its apartheid   policies  were  to  be  a
matter of discussion.
FEARS FOR FUTURE
He also said he Tears for
the Commonwealth's future
if the prime ministers' conferences should sit as judge and
jury on the actions of member
nat'ions.
Mr. Diefenbaker gave his
support to the suggestion of
Prime Minister Nehru that
the Commonwealth should
adopt a declaration, of basic
principles of human dignity.
11. W. Herridge, CCF-Kool-
enay West, speaking for the
socialists, rejected Mr. Diefcn-
baker's plea for a delay in the
debate until aftcr Easter.
"We suggest, that now is the
time for the prime minister of
Canada to speak up for Can-
No Breakdown On
Apartheid Policy
Proposal
To Nfld.
Dangerous
Fisheries
16.
There has been considerable
speculation lhat Soviet premier Khrushchev will unveil
a new Russian proposal at
the summit.
London  Knew
David Pratt
LONDON, AP—David Pratt,
the wealthy farmer held in
the shooting of South African
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, fitted snugly into the
cigar and brandy atmosphere
of the National Liberal Club
in London's West end.
"He was a reserved chap,"
said a fellow clubman. "The
last sort of fellow you would
expect to pull a gun on anyone."
I In the club, haunt of the
I wealthy and titled, the respected members werc stunned at the news of Pratt's al-
Britain  Backs
U. S. Proposal
GENESVA, Reuters - Britain, officially but reluctantly,
Monday backed the joint Canadian-United States proposal
on width of territorial seas
and offshore fishing rights.
Agriculture and Fisheries
Minister John Hare made it
plain that if the proposal Is
adopted by thc 87-nation Law
of the Sea conference It will
mean for Britain a higher
price for fish and a loss of
trawlermen.
The Canadian-United States
proposal lays down a six-mile
territorial limit with an additional continuous six-mile
fshlng zone In which those
' states which have fished there
regularly for the last five
years or more shall continue
to do so for another 10 years.
SOMI SUPPORT
Other delegations later expressed support for the Joint
proposal which must receive
two-thirds support from the
delegates to become international law.
Canadian delegate George
A. Drew challenged the Mexican delegation which said the
joint proposal was not a compromise resulting from genuine negotiations.
Drew thumped the rostrum
to emphasize that negotiations
had begun almost two years
ago when the first Law of the
Sea conference reached stalemate and had continued ever
since.
"I have been waiting," Drew
said, "for some sign from
those countries, such as Mexico, that claim a territorial
sea of more than six miles,
to show some sign of compromise-such as shown by
those countries   that   claim
leged assassination attempt.
They remembered him as a
i well-mannered fellow with,
I like themselves, all the equip-
; ment of the upper crusfc-
j origins in the "stockbroker
j belt" of Surrey, good school.
Cambridge and, of coutse, thc
I club.
A GENTLEMAN
"We all knew Mr. Pratl-a
gentleman   in   every   way",
someone recalled.
Though he lived in s yle in
South Africa, Pratt loved to
visit London. He made the
club his second homc. He came
here last fall.
Another club member said:
"Pratt was very interested in
British politics. During the
election campaign in October,
he helped the local Liberal
candidate."
Pratt went canvassing with
Mrs. Pamela Bute Hewes, wife
of a Liberal Party official.
Once as they walked together,
Pratt said:       \
"A lot of us don't like what
is going on in South Africa
. . . apartheid can't last."
Pratt, a good-looking 52,
| went to South Africa as a boy
I with his stockbroker father.
' He attended an expensive
school and finished bis education at Cambridge. Then he
joined a firm of London
countants.
But the rosy-looking world
of David Pratt went awry. His
two marriages failed.
By his first marriage he had
a daughter, Susan, now 23.
She was among the last debutantes to be presented to
the Queen before such royal
patronage ended in 1958.
Pratt had two more children by his second marriage to
the daughter of a Dutch millionaire. They separated about
about two years ago.
OTTAWA. CP - A Newfoundland MP denounced
Monday the compromise Can-
ada-U.S. proposal on terri
torial fishing rights as "re
grettable and dangerous."
Charles R. Granger L-Grand
Falls-White Bay-Labrador said
in the wide-ranging Commons
budget debate that Newfoundland and Labrador fishermen
"stand to lose" their trawling
rights because of thc proposal.
Under the proposed plan,
worked out at the international Law of thc Sea conference at Geneva last week,
territorial waters would be
idened'to six miles from a
country's coastline instead of
the present three miles.
A country would have exclusive fishing.rights for a
further six miles out to sea.
but other countries whieh
have traditionally fished inside this corridor could continue to do so for 10 years.
NEGOTIABLE MATTER
At the Geneva conference,
Canada spoke for a group of
nations which wanted to make
the privilege a matter for bilateral negotiation between
the host country and the outsider. The U.S. supported by
Britain, wanted the privilege
written into sea law and made
effective indefinitely.
"Thc proposed 10-year dc-
iay in protecting our fishing
rights is regrettable and dangerous", Mr. Granger said.
The entire Labrador was endangered by the plan.
Mr. Granger said pcople In
other parts of Canada do not
realize the extent of foreign
competition in the fishing
banks off Newfoundland and
Labrador. From certain vantage points on land the sea appeared "dotted" by foreign
fishing vessels.
Italian
Govt Out
ROME (AP)—Thc ghost of
fascism .Monday toppled Premier Fernando Tambroni's 17-
day-old government, plunging
Italy into onc of it* gravest
political crises since thr war.
The 58-ycar-old Premier and
his all-Christian Democrat cabinet resigned under pressure
from his own parly.
Hc did nol ask for Fascist
backing but refused to reject
it when 24 fascist voles proved
decisive in a confidence vote in
the chamber of deputes Friday
nght. During the weekend Ihree
cabnet ministers resigned rath-
cr than accept Fascist support.
BITTER MONEY
• The rentral directorate nf llie
Christian Democrat parly md
Monday morning. A communique said in effect the memory
of Mussolini's blackshirt regime
—which once imprisoned Tain-
hroni—still was a bitter one.
A cabinet meeting was held
Monday afternoon. At sundown. Tambroni handed his resignation to President Giovanni
' Gronchi at the Qurinal Palace.
The president again faced
the task or finding a path
through the Italian political
jungle.
Italy has been in its cur-
;rcnt political turmoil since An-
itonio Scgni resgncd as premier
February 24. Tambroni formed
' his government March 25 as a
: stopgap regime to handle urgent business.
Takes Care Of
300  Children
Bv JACK RLTLEDGE
MEXICO CITY. AP-Por-
firio Guerrero, a poor taxi
| driver known as Popi, for
eight years has single-handedly been taking came of some
300 children who otherwise
would go hungry, unclothed
j and uneducated.
Years ago Popi met a priest
' who ran a centre where he
taught, fed and cured as many
poor children   as he   could.
SENS, France-Police repulse a farmer from prefecture
W9II here April 8th, as other club-swinging demonstrators
stage a protest against the government's stern agriculture
program. Fifteen persons were reported injured in
clashes with police in Sans.-(UPI Photo).
Popi began to help out. hauling the priest around in his
beaten-up taxi, running errands, sometimes donating a
few pesos.
The priest died in 1952, and
as there was no one to take
, over, Popi decided to do the
job himself. It was a nightmare, hc soon found out.
The Centro Cultural San
Francisco is a one-storey,
four-room, rundown, dark, unhealed place with an oildrum
cookstove and little else.
WORKED OVERTIME
Popi worked overtime as a
taxi driver and spent thc rest
of thc time at the centre.
He admits he isn't much of
an administrator. But he kept
the place going, managed to
get food to feed his brood,
five young women to teach in
the overcrowded rooms, and
received help from young doctors woh worked one at a time
in the dispensary.
The teachers are promised
100 pesos $8 a month, and
parents are supposed to pay
five pesos a month but few
do, and the teachers often go
unpaid.
Lately, Popi began to receive a certain number af
free breakfasts the government issues school children.
He usually holds back a.few
so children may eat them for
supper.
FUTURE BRIGHTER
The story of his fight and
his plight became known.
Publicity brought numerous
single donations and gifts, but
Popi and his "centro" needed
donations of food, clothing,
medicine and cash he could
depend on. This is now being
arranged by a committee.
The future looks brighter.
But Popi stil worries. He re-
recalls the times hc just managed to keep from having his
electricity turned off, and the
time recently when the landlady raised the rent.
The committee hopes to take
care of the rent boost and
other items.
JOHAXNKSBURC: - Renters - Prime Ministcr Hcn-
tliii Verwoerd Monday continued liis recovery from an
•assassination attempt and will remain in charge of the
South African government. His cabinet also served notice
lliat there would be no backdown on the apartheid policy
of racial segregation.
"The alternative is the abdication of the white man in
this country and everything hc has built up in the last
200 vears." 1*.sternal Affairs Minister Eric Louw said.
Polite decided Mondav against arraigning wealthy
while larmer David Pratt- 52. who was seized Saturday
aftci Verwoerd was shol twice in the face at an industry-
apiciiiluu* exposition here.
Pratt will hc detained without trial under regulations
of Ihe stale of emergency declared in 114 districts of South
Africa March M. Police said the British-born farmer may
face trial al a future date. Meantime his whereabouts
will bc kept secret.
EXTEND EMERGENCY        " ...-.-
AREA DEFENDS APARTHEID
Governor - General Charles q„ apartheid. Louw defend-
Swart sinned a proclamation c,| n,c government's moves.
Monday cMending the emefg- *\Ve have to have separate
ency to another eight districts |)U| parallel development and a
—five in Transvaal and Ihree p,,liey of peaceful coexistence
in Cape Provincc-bringin-a thc between white and non-white,"
total district* affected to 122. he said. "The.alternative is the
There arc :10H districts in thc abdication ol the while man in
country. this country and everything he
Police in armored rars raid- has built up in the last 200
cd  n  Negro township    outside years.
Johannesburg Monday and sciz- ' "The permanent white popu-
cd scores of Negroes lor jation has as much right to
screening. There was no resist-1 south Africa as the black man.
ance. who was himself an immigrant
A deputy police commission-' from the north. A fact which
cr said Monday night that 150 js basic to thc whole problem
Negroes weir detained in the is the huge disproportion of
raid tn seek out -loafers and the non-white to the white
unemployed" in Ihe townships,    population."
Louw announced to a group. There are about 3,000,000
of 20 foreign correspondents in whites lo 10.000,000 non-whitei
Capetown that Norman Phillips. jn the country,
foreign editor of thr Toronto Louw said a large number of
Star, will be released after leaders of thc African National
police complete interrogatin-g Congress and the Pan-African-
him—provided he leaves the isi Congress were Communists,
country   immediately. The  Pan-Africanist Congress,
Phillips has becn detained a militant offshoot of the
undcr emergency regulations ANC. organized a campaign
since Friday. against laws forcing   all   non-
VERWOEIID'S CONDITION whiles to carry identity pass-
Referring In Verwoerd'.*; eon- hooks. This led to the fatal
dition. Louw said the prime shooting of more than 70 .
minister was nol entirely in- Negroes by police in anti-pass-
capacitated and thc issue of ap- book demonstrations March 21.
pointing an acting prime mins- TO MAINTAIN ORDER
ter not being contemplated. Asked   whether   the     police
Verwoerd. he added, still is would open firc again in the
in charge ot the government event of further demonstrations,
and will make the major deci- Louw said that if 20,000 Negroes
.-ions. Administrative details again threatened 140 police, the
will bc left to thc cabinet. police would bc obliged to fire
,     in their own defence   and   lo
When Louw was asked  -who maintaill order.
is in charge of the government     Buc he added. ..We now >re
i of South Africa at present?" hc alerlcd and ,hjs sort o{ thing
; reP|l(-d- : will not happen again."
"Thc prime minister Hc is Tne South African parliament
not completed incapacitated.! passed an unopposed motion
but meanwhile'the senior mem- Mondavi deploring the attempt
!ber of'the cabinet Paul Sauer «"■ Verwoerd's life and wishing
takes thc lead in the house. Hc hlm a speedy recovery.
also presides ovcr cabinet meet- Verwoerd, who was taken to
'i,,gSi" a   Pretoria   Hospital   Sunday
from Johannesburg,    was   re-
The external affairs minister ported "continuing to make
was rcporling on thr decision of progress." A hospital bulletin
a nationalist parly caucus earl-,said the 58-ycar-old premier is
i ier in Ihe day. not to name a "still weak and fatigued" but
deputy to Verwoerd. Ishows no sign of paralysis.
Foreign Ministers
In Pre-Summit Meet
WASHINGTON. (AP)—Foreign Secretary Lloyd of Britain predicted Monday that next
month's summit meeting will
ease European tensions.
Lloyd spoke out as Western
foreign ministers began gathering for three days of pre-sum-
mit meetings. Thcy hope to
forge a solid allied front.
Lloyd cautioned against expecting that the summit talks
■ starting in Paris May 16 will
end all East-West rivalries.
| "I think it will be a great
| mistake for anyone to think that
Ihe summit meeting will solve
everything." he said. "It won't."
I Lloyd was the first of the Al-
I lied foreign ministers to ar-
I riv.. The Italian government
i crisis delayed Italy's Antonio
ISegni, but Howard Green of
| Canada. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano and France's
Maurice Couve de Murville were
I expected to fly in Monday
[night.
SPAAK MEETS HERTER
|   Secretary-General Paul Henri
iSpaak of the Atlantic pact met
for one hour with U.S. State
Secretary Herter.
Spaak avoided predictions on
the final outcome of the East-
West parley, but hc served notice the Western Allies will
never accept any Soviet proposal to dismantle NATO in return for scrapping the Communist Warsaw Pact.
William Penn, who planned
the street and park systems of
Philadelphia in 1682, is considered the first American
city planner.
Weather
Sunny   becoming  cloudy
Milder. Hig h today 38.
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