The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1960-05-11

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Vol. 67.   No. 109
THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1960
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U. S. Will Aid Any Ally
Attacked By Russians
Canada Wants Spy
Flights Dropped
By DAVE McINTOSH
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA iCPi-A dispute may
he brewing between Canada and
■the United States over any American continuation of spy flights
over Russia.
•eternal Affairs Miiiisiei
MOSCOW-Sovict Premier Nikita Khnislichrv, speaking May 7th, before
the Russian Parliament, holds photographs which lie identified as pictures
of militate and industrial turrets taken hv the shot-down Aineriean plane
piloted hy Kraneis C. Powers, in his speech Khrushchev revealed that
Powers is alive and in j-nod health in Moseow.-(lTI lladiolelephoto).
territory.
I1ECI.INE COMMENT
But Washington officials de-
dined to say that the U.S. would
not continue to use other planes
nr aircraft based elsewhere for
spy flights.
Informants here said Canada
described Tuesday as "rather lias made clear to the C.S. lhat
wild speculation" press reports the reconnaissance flights over
from Washington that the flights Communist territory should be
are still going on despite the de- halted.
struct ion of nn American spy They said the suggestion to Ibis
plane inside Russia May 1. effect was implicit in Mr.
However. Washington reports Green's C o in in <> n s statcnieni
said I'.S. Slate Secretary Herter Monday that a continuation of
has left the impression lhat spy such incidents a.s the May 1 flight
flights might be continued until might trigger a nuclear war.
Soviet secrecy is relaxed. It is recognised here, however.
A   I'.S.   statement   Wednesday  that Canada can do nothing to   Bosha
said the I'.S. has promised Japan' slnp the flights if lhc I'.S. feci.--      The
that it will not use U-2 rcconnais-  they are essential to help main-    perls
sauce   plancs   there   for   intclli-  lain the warning system again"
Communist surprise Soviet  attack.
Says Mr. K. Is Waging
A Threat Campaign
Verwoerd's Absence
Mfe ■   ■ ■ H   ■ HEW 11 scncp miss'nns ovei' Communist surprise Soviet  altaek.
Regretted At Talks HSd^Vnei
Flooded Area
Man Of i
Bosham   !
LONDON C'Routors' - A
leather • beaten former sailor
lood fast in a London court
oom Tuesday, defying I lie lord
if thc manor and claiming his
Domesday rights as a "Man oi
WASHINGTON AI'-The UniWd Stales pledged Tucs-
y In ?o to the aid ol its allies which might he attacked
Russia lor allowing American spy planes to use their
At the same time the state department a«used Smirt
-mier Khrushchev ol waging; a campaign of threats and
ii'iidation against small countries iinioeeiil of anv wrong-
di parlnieiit
replxiiia lo  Klinislidio
Bv  \\..\S HXRVKV
Canadian  Press Staff Writrr
The real tragedy or the Con
momicalih conference is that (
lhe bil man who isn't here.
As worried ministers grope fn
a solution lo the South Africa
problem, (he absence from Lot
don of ailing Premier Or. Ilei
drik Vcrwocrd is '
Sicltod                                          Fur Imw h widely regarded     X'wcckly magazine. Thc Kcon-
\\ith Verwoerd slowly recover-  he.-.,s   a    impenetrable   man,   omist, says Louw will be nu more   urbs
■ jng from bullet wound... his place  with a mind closed to entreaty or   impressed by his   isolation  than  day
"  ' ~"   "a rhinoceros can he tickled with   .«;,m
,• iT|irn:ich  British officials, usually
1 polile in Iheir assessment of visi-
alfairs minister. ling   dignitaries,   are   unusually
I     II will be Louw's (Inly lo carry binnl in thrr   remarks   about
back lo the sick man in Pretoria Louw.
• n true picture of lhc feelings ol U."i London paper says  it   is
i his   Commonwealth   colleagues— "no secret that some nf the prime
■ nnd Hint is exactly what .some oh- ministers arc developing a con-
■ servers (ear lie mav fail tn (In. siderable personal antagonism to-
casingly re-  IWOMATIC MlMSTKR            . wards this dogmatic man."
r \mw
perls delving back into Iceland's feudal past tn a Latin
document signed by Richard
Ihe Lionhearlcd and lhe Domesday Book itself, compiled as
a kind of giant real estale list
in 108fi.
It. started when M-year-nld
Edward Martin refused tn pay
mooring fees worth about .00
parking to the Karl n| Iveagh,
the lord of the Manor nf R«-
nding ])oints lor iulellignice (lights
PILOT TO  UK TI.II',1)
I:
.1. Hiii
• i-nplun
m-hl lo
iiclir.it.-H it
Kile tc
tin: I'nited Slates that
is C. Powers, would he
charges nf being a. spv.
ml ,
upsday tlf
s appeared
Queen  Mother  On 3s*
Goodwill Visit
LONDON 'CPi—Queen Mother Referring to disorders  In  the
Elizabeth flew off Tuesday night federation during thc weekend in
for a goodwill visit to the Central which  more  than  100 Negroes
African Federation despite out- were arrested. MacLeod said:
breaks of Negro mob violence in "I think it would be very sad
the northern coppur belt area if the great desire of the Queen
'here. Mother to visit this territory and
The Queen saw her mother off the great desire of the people
»t the airport with  a cheerful that she should go, should be
wave.  The Queen  Mother will frustrated by thc incidents that
spend three weeks in the federa- have happened."
Ry BKN WARD I
Canadian  Press Staff  Writer      t
TIMMINS. Out. (CP) - Rescue lo he easing.
crews  began  moving  about   inn     Williin two hours Ihe river be-
more   families  from   thc   flood- gan a fresh rise, slicing through
icken residential area of  suh- its hanks tn overrun main roads
Mountjoy Township Tucs- into the township.
h the  rain-swollen Malta-     Civil defence crews and lown
River crested its control ship emergency units immedia-
and rolled unchecked into tely   began  evacuation  of  rcsi-
this mining district. dents and their belongings from a
six-block area along the fringes
Thc river rose three inches in of the already-flooded sectors,
i single hour Tuesday afternoon A "major disaster area" was
-biggest rise since thc flooding declared by W. R. McAdam, as-
dartcd Sunday night—and threat-; sistant. Ontario Red Cross com-
,„,i „,,„,,„j c„ i;,.„„ ,„ „,!,„,. ened to cut off nearly 500 atlcii- missioner. who flew in from Tor-
nl,Pn?^- C   tional families from supplies and, onto Monday to assess the situa-
points oi mow. .,   ,.,.,„.„._  ,,,„„ ,..„„ „. j,..,,;..
reason to believe lhat
have been different
with Verwocrd. He is just as convinced as Louw of the Tightness ?
of Nationalist racial policies, but  "
formidable   intellectually
Bosham appears to be .in--'
another small village on Km;
land's south coasl. Rut the
men of the village, under ;
feudal law still on the books
enjoy thc "benefits of Rns
Iminry"—thc right tn refuse tc
pay tolls.
the obscure origin of Bos
ham Manor was traced in court
Monday to before the Norman unfores
conquest in 106R when thc Earl
of Go d w i n approached the
Arnhbishop of Canterbury and
asked for a boseam or bless-
1 pilot,:
.rial under Soviet la
in  Clarence Cannon
if the House of Hep-  .|in),,r|  .„   „,,,,.,in    ,bp  ,„„.„,  itl
.ppropnations  com-  Ml(, .1a„anrsr D,f., „.|,j,.h j, ron.
sidering ratification nf a .Japanese-American security treaty.
ANSWERS KHRUSHCHEV
Tuesday's official c n m menl
I'.-mie trnm Ute chief Jatc denaf-
ment press officer. Lincoln While
who has been given the job of
providing the American side nf
the controversy.
conference. While
rotten reported I . S. intelliget
ilanes have ranjied as far as
es   of   espionage   flights   sii
lelligcnce chief Alien 1 miles' al a
secret briefing Monday, said the
high altitude V-2 plane hail nut
been shot down by a Soviet
rocket   a.s   Khrushchev   claimed
RupubSican
Candidate
aid. However, there was no danger of  loss of life. i CUTS AIRPORT ROAD
I   Monday nearly 700 persons in    The   rampaging
0 families were removed from | washed out the only road link   lne ian(i
The story goes that he pronounced it more like "Bosham." The archbishop said "I
give you boseam." The earl
and his men promptly seized
forced down bv "some ral>w »l> "'"ll a prepared answer
on and unavoidable me-  'vi,el1  n^cd    "bout   the   latest
■al or physiological defect." Khrushchev comments.
3.   The  state  department   as-     Replying.  White  said:   "ft   i-
sured  .lapan that  future  U - 2 typical that the  Soviet govern-
flights   from   .Japanese   bases ment singles out as the objects
would be "utilized only for Ies- of its threats those smaller coun-
itimate and normal purposes of tries of the free world who bear
weather observation." I nn responsibility for the recent in-
This assurance    was    clearly ' eident "
JONQUIERE, Que. (CP>-
The'd Mother is scheduled Jcan " M?r]e L««"dL 32-year-old j
European mine workers in the lo reach Salisbury, Southern Rho- commercial artist. Tuesday an-1
copper belt earlier sent a tele- esia, Wednesday. During her "?uncca He will bo a Republican-:
gram to Colonial Secretary Iain tour she will inaugurate the giant Llbe™ cand'dat« '" Jonquiere
MacLeod w a r n i n g of security Kariba Hvdro-elcctric project. ! constituency for the Quebec elec-
risks involved in the Queen Moth- tl0n June 22.
BmJ)SL  i*u   ,1.    .. , ,v.Shf   '?, fhed"lcdu *,? ,P  ,0    Mr. Lessard said he belongs to!
r„™n t0l|L heJ,0URn °f thVr,<!,ubllCOpr(r b,elt May 2l a n^v political movement which
Commons that the Queen and 2. The disturbances oe-' proposes the establishment of a
Mothers program "will bc cuircd in Northern Rhodesia, republic of Canada within the
watched carefully in the next few' part of the Central African Fed- commonwealth such as India
ria" j oration along with Nyasaland and: Pakistan, Ceylon and Ghana.     ':
I already flooded sections of the i with Timmins airport.
Hall Completes
Non-Ops  Brief
t I don't think my opponent t Martin• is attacking mc
| on that score," the lawyer for
'  Lord   Iveagh  quipped.   Iveagh
bought the manor in 1027.
Martin has claimed he was
born within the boundaries of
the   manor   and   always   has
'. lived there.   There now are S3
i men of Bosham officially reg-
: istcred.
Try Powers
For Espionage
field.
days."
REFERS TO DISORDERS 1 Southern Rhodesia." '
S. A. Wiirstick
To Apartheid
By DAVID OANCIA : far a.s this campaign  is being
Canadian Press Staff Writer     carried on here there is the dan-
LONDON (CP)-South Africa's > ger that our relations with the
Eric Louw. the centre of a race! United Kingdom may be ser-
relations storm at the conference' iously disturbed if it is permitted
of Commonwealth prime minis- to continue unchecked,"
tors, declared anew Monday j -	
night his country will stick by its ■
guns on racial separation. ARP      Bil      All*
ln a speech away from the con- KDU DV HUS
fcrence, the external affairs Min- i land i Reuters I -
ister said relations with Britain; TORONTO <CP»- Mrs. Sheila; Canadian Pacific liner Empress'!
misht be seriously disturbed kieran said Tuesday she remov-, 0f Canada, biggest to be built on !
by what he termed a campaign! ed her eight year-old daughter! the River Tyne for 53 years, was
against his country. from a school here because she i launched here Tuesday by Mrs.
Larlier the  minister sounded, was being taught   the   alphabet■ John Diefenbaker,  wife of the
MONTREAL (CP) - Frank H.
Hall Tuesday completed the non- SIMILAR STAND
operating railway employees''   The position is one the unions
1 Candidates were to be an-; brief oefore a three-man concilia-, have taken-in the past when their
nounced in other ridings. Mr, Lcs-1 'ion board by claiming the em-' wage demands were met by rail-
sard said hc is a former member j ployees must havc raises even if way arguments of low revenues
of the Liberal party and has cam- j the companies have no money lo; and it is a position past concilia-
| paigned for that party in former! pay them. ; ion boards  have sympathized
I elections. I   „„        .........      with.
I     Our position is simply that we   i
He said his group is starting on , must not  be  expected to  sub-. CHOU SIGNS PACT
I the provincial level before at-1 sidize public policy,  any more
, tempting to move into the federal' than we can expect to be sub-     PHNOM   PENH,   Cambodia
MOSCOW CP' — Thc Soviet may undergo a trial for espion-
I'nion notified thc United States age. probably not long aftcr the
LATE SNOW Tuesday that Francis G. Powers, end of the summit conference.
RALEIGH. N.C. c.\P> — Snow pilot of the American spy plane was contained in a stiff protest
The non-ops are railway em- and heavy rain fell in North Car- downed deep inside Russia on delivered through the I'.S. Employees not actually  engaged  in  olina Sunday. Thc snow lasted an  May Day, "will be brought to ac- bassy.
running trains. hour at Grandfather Mountain, count under the laws of the Sov- The Soviet government pro-
It was the latest in thc area for ict state." tested what ii called the cs-
any year in local memory. i This indication that the pilot pionagc reconnaissance flight of
-'-  "-  '              -■             -'Powers' high -  flying  Lockheed
Launches
Liner
U-2 jet.
SEEK INTERVIEW
Thc  United  States  countered
with a request in a note of its
for permission for an embassy officer to  interview Powers, a 30 - year-old Lockheed test
pilot from Pound. Va., who is reported by the Russians to have
confessed he was spying for the
central  intelligence agency.
The flyer  landed  in  Russian
,-.....,  .,.„... „6,.™.5 .„     OTTAWA (CPi -Two former I thorily, gave some terse replies, hands in the  region  of  Sverd-
step up economic°and cultural re-' harbors board   officials   testified' to questioning bv John Drvsclale 'ovsk. 9°° miles east of Moscow.
If the government has decided. iations   b»tween  the  two  coun- j Monday   about  Jacques   Cartien<PC -  Burnaby-Richmond'.       Khrushchev s a i d  he   and  the
to force the railways to perform j tries. The ceremony took place ! Bridge toll  operations  at   Mon-|    "We just were not asleep." he! wreckage of his plane - felled by
girder to: aftcr  chou,   who   arrived   herei'real as one Quebec Progressive snapped at one point. He did not j Russian account by a single roe-
'sidized by public policy," Mr. (Reuters)-Chou En-lai and Pho
j Hall told the board during the. Proeung. Chinese and Cambo-
j second day of hearings into the, dian premiers, signed a commu-
i contract dispute. nique Sunday night agreeing to
Sharp Exchanges
At  Investigation
ln | Thursday  for  a  fpur-day  state
railways
unprofitable services
benefit the whole of the Canadi      iaua,  „„. a  ,vur.Uilv  sluie
^J^J^^,^^- and Prince Norodom Si-
hanouk,   who   recently   retired
Th«»   0*3 e/ininn ! '"""M.Y tinpiw.vcca, a<uu iUi. nail, i ,
i«»   p^.™ I chairman of the committee which] as Cambodla s premier, returned
, ,™,.„„„, nCgoljatcs for )ne ]5 unjons whjch (rom privatg talks at the seaside
represent 120,000 non-ops. I resort of Kep.
out the feelings of the Common-1 with   advertising slogans.   Mrs.
wealth leaders regarding South
Africa's continued membership
in the world-wide club if the controversial and wealthy country
becomes a republic.
MEMBERSHIP APPROVED
He raised the matter after the
Commonwealth heads had approved Ghana's continued membership when the newly-independent Negro country becomes a republic July 1.
Louw's remarks on apartheid
(racial, separation) came at a
dinner meeting of London's South i
Africa Club and his talk was
broadcast to his own country.
The foreign affairs chief has
been substituting at the prime!
ministers meeting for Prime
Minister Hendrik Verwoerd,. recovering from bullet wounds suffered in an assassination attempt.
He declared:
"The anti • South Africa campaign is every year increasing in
bitterness and i '
id intensity... in so
Kieran, a freelance wri er. said
her daughter, Susan, was taken
out of St. Basil's Roman Catholic j
separate school and sent to a
private school. She said the book
in use called Educational ABC's
of Industry, contained a nationwide contest in which children
were Invited to write about the
advertisers' products. School
trustee Edward Brisbois said thc
book no longer is used.
ZOO EDUCATION
CHARLESBOURG, Que. (CP)
-The' Quebec zoological gardens
lis summer will participate with
educational institutions in organizing group visits by students
wishing to learn about Canadian
animals and birds; Dr. J A. Brassard, zoo director announced
Sunday. In a statement announc
ing the opening' of the zoo for its
29th season, Dr. ■ Brassard said
the educational program will be
increased.this year. I
Canadian prime minister.
The new Empress is being built
by the Vickers Armstrongs Company at a cost of about £8,500,-
000. The third Canadian Pacific
ship to bear thc name, it will enter service between Britain and I
Canada early in 1961.
Triton Completes Its
Undersea World Trip
Gangland
Killing
LONDON (Reuters) - Billy
Smith, 23-year-old car dealer,
was shot to death early Tuesday
in a gangland execution in London's central Notting Hill .district. Five men have been arrested. A companion with Smith
at the time was taken to hospital with head and back wounds,
believed inflicted by an axe.
Conservative member of Parlia- "know that any money was going ] ket—were transferred to Moscow
ment quit the Commons hues- astray.-' last week,
ligation during a short - tempered Replies of A.G. Murphy, for-. The protest note was handed
sitting. nier Montreal port manager and by Foreign  Minister  Andrei  A.
B.J. Roberts, former chairman now St. Lawrence Seaway chief, Gromyko to U.S. charge d'af-
of the board and now chairman engineer, prompted Mr. Drysdale, fairs Edward L. Frears at the
of the St. Lawrence Seaway An- '■. to comment that "Mr. Murphy is foreign ministry.
extremely difficult to get infor- "CALCULATED POLICY"
motion out of." '   it declared that "hostile acts of
The inquiry of the Commons < American aviation which have
Railways committee next week J takenplace numerous times in
will feature a string of former: relation to the Soviet Union are
Liberal cabinet ministers includ-1 not simply the result of the ac-
ing CD. Howe and former trans- tivity of the military command of
port ministers George Marlcr and theU.S.A. in various areas but
Lionel Chevrier, Transport Minis- j are an expression of a calculated
ter Hees also will testify. ' U.S.A. policy."
COLLECTION WEAKNESSES     !   It said that the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP)-Thc U.S. j ians. | South  America's  tip.  westward
atomic   submarine   Triton   sur-] SKIPPER HONORED j across the broad reaches of the
Its skipper,  Capt.  Edward L. j South    Pacific,    threading    the
^?ch. was whisked by helicopter! straits of the East Indies, cruis-1J^ ^ ^'staiiationl"of^
faced off Delaware at dawn Tuesday   to   complete   an   epochal
around-the-world voyage beneath
all the earth's great
days.
The Triton, a 7,750-ton vessel
powered with twin atomic engines, had done in less than three
months what a sailing ship ofi
Ferdinand Magellan's fleet hadj
done in a three-year cruise on top
of the water more than 420 years
ago. i
Aboard the Triton on her 41,500-
mile voyage-30,708 of t repre-
senting the circumnavigation!
route—were 183 men, including a
half-dozen scientists and technlc-
The committee seeks inforr.ia-
weaknesses in collection of   tolls   on   the   Montreal
to the White House where he was ing   under   th,   Indian   Ocean, j Sntfc «,lleX s^em last
awarded the Legion of Merit by I rounding'the Cape of Good bp. \ M nSS^^S cent
President Eisenhower. B e ac h and up to Pass St. Paul's Rocks
served for four years as Eisen- j again — and complete thc sub-
hower's naval aide. i merged navigation.
The- Triton  stated   fom New!   In h;r cruise, thc Triton broke
London, Conn., her home port,, several records.  Her 83 days, 10
moved southeastward across the;
Atlantic to St. Paul's Rocks, an
islet in the eastern Atlantic which
Magellan passed outward bound
from Cadiz, Spain. Here the Triton changed her heading and
steered off on the course of the
ancient navigator.
Down around Cape Horn at!
hours, 15 minutes submerged far
exceeded the 60 days submergence record set two years ago by
the nuclear submarine Seawall.
The 41,500-mile trip was longer |
by thousands of miles   han the
—for the day at least — after a
motion he backed had been defeated with the help of some Progressive Conservative colleagues.
The motion sought the names of
all bridge sweepers since 1946,
apparently with the view of helping establish whether old loll tie-
by way of the North Pole, I any collecting irregularities.
by sanctioning such action.
gravates international tension.
Weather
Cloudy, with light drizzle.
High today 45..
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I Montreal   59
k Moncton    46
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f Sydney    43
f St. John's    .... 34
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