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Vol. 67;   Ne. 159
THE DAILY NEWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1960
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Congo Govt. Calls For U. S. Military Aid
Robichaud Names
New N.B. Cabin*
FREDERICTON (CP)- Louis
J. Robichaud who was sworn in
as New Brunswick premier Tues-,
day night, announced the names
of 12 men who will form his-Lib-
rral cabinet.
Mr. Robichaud. the youngest
provincial premier in Canada at
34. will hold the attorney-general's portfolio.
Other cabinet ministers with
their constituencies are
Piovincial Secretary Treasurer—L. G. Desbrisay, Moncton
City Public Works—Andrew F.
Richard. Kent.
Lands and Mines—H. Grahan.
Crocker. Nortthumberland.
Agriculture — .1. Adrien Le-
vesque. Madawaska.
Health and social services
—Dr. Georges Dumont, ■ Besti- j
gouche.
Labor - Kenneth J. Webber,
Charlotte.
Education - Henry G. Irwin,
Municipal Affairs— Joseph E.
Lcblanc. Westmorland.
Industrial Development — Michel Fournier, Gloucester.
Ministers without portfolio -
Donald Tarpcr, Westmorland:
William R. Duffle. Sunbury.
Urge Tight Rein
On Slush Funds
Belgian Paratroopers  In
Retreat From Mutineers
LEOPOLDVILLE - Reuters - The Congolese government appealed
Tuesday for 3,000 U.S. soldiers as Belgian paratroopers retreated from
attacking mutineers in the Lower Congo region. The crisis blew up as
Premier Patrice Lumumba flew to Elisabeth in a bid to stop the session of
mineral-rich Katanga province from the rest of this former Belgian colony.
Lumumba's cabinet called for help from both American and United
Nations troops after getting a report on the Lower Congo situation from
Waller Van Der Meersch, Belgian ministcr for the Congo.
Nation Of
Sitters
OTTAWA *CP' - A tighter
rem on federal elect ion campaign expenses wad** urged in (lie
Commons Tuesday bv Opposition
MPs.
.1. W. Pickersgill "I. - Bona-
vista-Twillingalc expressed lhe
fear that unless something is
done to reduce trie cost of campaigning for election. Canadian
democracy' will give way lo plutocracy—a rule ol thc wealthy.
Among his proposal s. The
placing ol a limit on expenditures by both individu.il candidates and their parties, making
radio and television campaigning a "public matter" without
charging cand idates, meeting
some costs from the federal
treasury, outlawing some expenditures altogether, and a special
inquiry into the whole situation.
The British have sct limits on I
campaign expenses, said Douglas Fisher <CCF-Port Arthur),
"I can't see why we couldn't do
something like that in Canada.'
They spoke before lhc Commons gave second leading—approval in principle—to legislation
incorporating all thc Elections
Act amendments recommended
by the House elections eommitlee in a June 13 report.
Chief among them is a proposal for granting advance poll
privileges to all persons who
havc reason to believe thcy will
be away from home on 'a federal election day. At present, this
privilege is restricted to travelling salesmen, transport workers, fishermen and members ol
the RCMP.
Advance polls, now hcld on thc
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
before the Monday election day,
would bc moved ahead to the
preceding Saturday and Monday.
The House committee considered—and r c jc c t e d— pro
posals to reduce the minimum
voting age to 18 from 21 and to
permit absentee or proxy voting, and lo establish permanent
voters lists.
LEOPOLDVILLE, Congo-llcliiwlcd police face a crowd of stern-looking
Congolese in thc .streets of this troubled cily, July 7tli. Belgian paratroopers moved inlo position during lhc day lo protect Europeans in Leopoldville
from a mutiny hv African troops that IhrcaUncd white residents of the
iKwIy-iiidcpendeiit Congo. Oulsidc tin* capital. Europeans were handing
together iii groups for common defense against the* possibility of widespread
violence.-..I'l'l Badiolclcphoto).
U.S. Rejects Latest Spy
Plane Charge By Russia
Seeks Alteration
WASHINGTON
I'nited States accused Russia
Tuesday of shooting down a U.S.
reconnaissance bomber over international waters al least 30
miles from Soviet territory.
Thc United States demanded
the release of two air force officers held by Russia.
Thc accusation was made in a
note delivered by the U.S. Embassy to thc foreign office in
Moscow. The note rejected a
Russian charge that the aircraft,
operating in Arctic waters off thc
Soviet - Norwegian border, had
violated Soviet air space
Immediate access of U.S. dip
lomats to I ho tun ki
vivors of the six-man Rl',-47 crew
was demanded and thc Soviet
governnent was asked tn return
to U.S. officials llie body of thc
pilot. Capt. William G. Palm.
The Russians said in their protest note Monday—1() days after
the plane disappeared — tnat
Palm's body had been found in
a rubber life raft. Three crew
members had becn reported
missing.
Earlier the U.S. accused Russia of deliberately and recklessly'
shooting down the plane.
A statement issued hy press
secretary  James  Hagerly  after
In U.S. Air Bases Roebuck  Raps
Gov! Measure'
LONDON 'Reuters) - Prime,
Minister Macmillan promised'
Tuesday to consult with President Eisenhower about possible
alterations in the present arrangements for American bases
in Britain.
He told the House of Commons
that they will discuss whether
the nine-year-old arrangements
should be modified or improved. I
Macmillan was replying to
angry and repeated protests
from Labor MPS about the possible use of British bases for U.S.,
reconnaissance flights over Rus-'
Moscow's announcement Monday that a British-based RB-47
plane was shot down July 1 pro
vided fresh ammunition for thc
Socialists.
But Macmillan served notice
that he will back fully thc American argument that the six-en-
gined reconnaissance plane was
shot down ovcr the high seas
outside Soviet Territory.
The U.S. Air Force used British bases under an agreement
worked out in 1951 by Prime Minister Attlee and President Truman.
Macmillan said some Britons
regard the American bases as a
threat to British security "but 1
am bound to say I think there
are many more of us who feel
that tlieir absence would be an
even greater threat."
il by Preside
Eisenhower also in el'leet accused Soviet Premier Khrushchev of trying to mislead the
world by connecting the P.B-17
incitknt with the U-2 spy plane
case.
"The American RB-47 plane, '
liberty said, "was ovcr international waters and at nn tunc
flew over Soviet territory, Soviet
territorial waters or Soviet air
space.
"The   -shooting   down   of   this
' plane . . . can only have heen a
deliberate and reckless attempt
to create an international incident."
, "Anv attempt to connect the
fb hi of tin*- aircraft w th tlu 1 <
flight of May is completely without foundation and the Soviet
authorities, including Mr.
Khrushchev, know this."
I VANCOUVI-.lt sCP) - British
j Columbia's deputy health olliecr
says Canada is becoming a na-
lion of sitters and watchers and
1 litis type of living could pose a
j threat lo thc Western world.
j ln a talk to a community
: h?alth resources conference
Monday night Dr. G. R. F. Elliott said
"The greatest evil in our intense specialization in thp field
nf recreation today is mass spec-
"I wonder if perhaps there *s
not a dark threat lo the Western
world iu this type of living
"If people are trained today tn
sit and watch professional sports.
I wonder if they would also sit
and watch while some power-
hungry bureaucrats take their
government  away  from  them'.'"
He sairl participi
I  form
of   I
The appeals came on the heels
of a request to the UN Monday
for technical assistance to reorganize I It e Congolese army,
which is in the throes of a six-
dav mutiny.
there were few details of Belgian troop setbacks in the Lower
In Brussels, a government
source said the withdrawal of
paratroopers by ship from the
porl of Matadi was "only a tactical retreat."
EXPECT 1.000 TROOPS
About 1.000 paratroopers and
commandos were expected
shortly in Leopoldville from Ki-
lona naval base at the mouth of
the Congo River.
There were reports of trouble
at Leopoldville"s Camp Leopold
and authoritative sources said
the paratroopers from Kilona
would be sent to the camp immediately on arrival.
The i:i-day-oM republic was
faced with economic disaster because ol the secession nf Katanga
province. The breakaway was
proclaimed Monday night by
P rav incial P r c m i e r Moise
Tshombe.
But Tshombe Tuesday night
appeared to backtrack from his
secession proclamation, He told
a meeting attended by representatives  of  foreign  governments
"It appears that international
opinion has wrongly interpreted
the decision made Tuesday night
by the president of the government.
"The first preoccupation of the
provincial   government   of   Katanga is to  restore order  and
peace throughout Katanga.
EXAMINE  SITUATION
"As for the political future of
Katanga, the government Rnd
Ihe provincial assembly are examining the situation."
Lumumba flew to Elisabelh-
ville backed up by a Belgian government statement that Katanga
is legally part nf the Congo under
thc central government at Leopoldville.
Tshombe had said Luiimmaa
would he ordered to leave Katanga as soon a^ hc arrived.
The provincial premier accused
Lumumba of deliberately establishing the Congo's reign ol terror to  set   up   "a  ruinous  and
Kennedy Moves
Steadily On
OTTAWA (CP) - Senator Arthur Roebuck said Monday he'd
rather be dead than vote for a
government measure *o transfer
control of Canadian domestic affairs lo the British Parliament.
He told the Senate that such
action would be a betrayal'ol his
own efforts in support ol complete Canadian autonomy and
those of his British uncle. John
Arthur Roebuck, "the original
father of Canadian Confederation."
The 82-year-old Liberal from
Toronto said he is in the closing
years of a long life of public service as a member ol the House
of Commons, the Senate and as
attorney-general of Ontario.
He would not at this stage of
his life support a proposal to ask
the British Parliament to write
into the British North America
Act a compulsory retirement age
of 75 for judges of provincial superior, county and district courts.
CRIPPLE AUTONOMY
"Any transfer of power from
the Canadian Parliament and the
Canadian people to imperial jurisdiction is a serious crippling of
Canadian autonomy."
. lt also v^as "ridiculous" that
thc Canadian Parliament should
ask the United Kingdom Pain-
ment to legislate in a field over
whieh Canada hits complete jurisdiction.
A motion submitted last week
by Senator .1. W dc B. Fan-is lo
delay approval of thc government's proposal until the Supreme Court of Canada decides
whether the Canadian Parliament has power ovcr the retirement age of judges was ruled
out of order by Speaker Mark
Drouin.
There still wcre somc in Canada who doubted the full measure of "our nationality and who
tend to backslide in this matter
of Canadian autonomy.'
Move Into
New Home
LONDON 'Reuters - Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong - Jones Tuesday night
moved into Kensington Palace,
the first home of their own.
A 20-room section of the 17th-
century building was set aside
for ths couple on their marriage
May 6 as a "grace and favor"
residence, courtesy of the
Queen.
Historic
Milestones
OTTAWA 'CF - Two bronze
plaques   will   be   unveiicd   this
month to commemorate milestones in Nova ' Scotia history,
the department of national resources announced Tuesday.
One will be unveiicd today at
Victoria Beach on Digby Gut to
mark the western end of the
ponv express route established in
18-19,
The other will be -invciled at
Horton's Landing near Grand
Pre July 21 to indicate the landing of the Ncw England planters
Mr. K. Accuses U. S.
Of Proyoking War
Blast Planned?
LITTLE ROCK. Ark. AP> -
Thrce while men were arrested
Tuesday and charged with attempting lo blow up Philander
Smith College foi* Negroes with
a crudely made dynamite box.
The Federal Bureau of Investi-
MOSCOW 'Reuters'- Premier
Khrushchev accused the United
Stales and its allies Tuesday 01
'openly provoking" a major war
by espionage Mights over Russia.
"War can be unleashed by
fools." he said. "But it war :s
unleashed it will mean the destruction of the aggressors by
the socialist states."
He told a press conference that
the U.S. RB-47 plane shot down
July 1 showed that President
Eisenhower's promise to halt espionage flights was "not worth
a broken penny."
He said testimony from two
survivors held by the Russians
showed they had taken off from
Britain  on  a  "spying  mission."
Khrushchev read a 14-minute
prepared statement in a low-
tired voice. IIc emphasized thc
points of protest notes sent Mon
day In the lulled Slates. Britain
and Norway.
A few hours after Khrushchev
spoke the United States challenged the Russian account. Thc
White House accused the Soviet
Union of "a deliberate and reckless attempt to create an international incident" in downing
the plane, lt said the RB-47
never entered Soviet ait- space.
The U.S. Air Force has said it
was charting magnetic fields ir
a survey to improve maps.
One of the major questions
raised by Western correspond
ents at the Kremlin conference
was why Russia waited until
Monday to announce the fate of
the RB-47 after the sLx-engined
plane vanished over the Barent?
Sea July 1 a protracted search
was made for the aircraft, which
carried six crew members.
Margaret and Tony   drove   lo
their new homc on the fringes of 8a'ion  said that even as they
west London, from Princess Margaret's pre-nuplial home with the
(Juc-.n Mother.
The newlywcds have been living at Clarence House, across
the Mall from Buckingham Palace, since their return last
month from a six - wees, Caribbean honeymoon cruise.
arrested,    an    explosion
shook a small warehouse of the
Little Rock school board build-
Those arrested were identi
fied as  Emmett E. Miller,
Robert Llloyd Parks.   38,   and
Hugh Lynn Adams, 33.
LOS ANGELES <CP> - Sena-
lor John Kennedy's march to;
ward the Democratic party's]
presidential nomination crunched
steadily onward Tuesday against!
last gasp manoeuvres whipped
up by rival camps at the Democratic national convention.'       I
All nine votes from the District I
of Columbia sent the Massachu-!
setts senator soaring pasl the 700
mark in openly committed first-
ballot votes tabulated by The Associated Press. It takes 761 to
win the nomination.
THE COUNTRY PARSON
aotMOM you're, as food as than
It N .«■ lotd ai yw riMuM,"
On the second day ol the convention, a day sct aside for more
of the ever flowing oratory of
such affairs, Kennedy was confident and relaxed.      , i
But his opponents refused io
leap out of the way of a Kennedy
bandwagon that never has lost
momentum.
GOING DOWN FIGHTING
Senator Lyndon Johnson of
Texas contended the battle
wasn't over except in headlines,
And if it was, he was going down
with the lone-star flag of Texas
still flying gallantly.
Johnson challenged Kennedy to
debate the major issues of the
candidates and convention, in
what would have been a high
point of a rather drab gathering
of the Democrats.. The move
fizzled.
California soppoirier*.^ Adlai.
Stevenson' of Illinois and Senator
Stuart Symington of Missouri
hurried into court in an attempt
to fence Kennedy off from any of
California's 81 votes on the first
ballot.
They filed a petition intended
to compel .California to honor a.
favorite son obligation to vote
-solidly on the first go around for
Brown. The
eaurt «ikklr turned them down.
C
Police Fire On
Indian Strikers
NEW DELHI 'Reuters' —Strik-. fighting crowd of 2,000 In the
ing   govern ment   employees j West India town of Dohad.
clashed with non - strikers and;   Police opened fire after tear
drew police gunfire Tuesday but I gas failed to disperse the strik
a  planned  nation-wide  walkout j ers   and   non - strikers,   who
by government workers did not  clashed soon after the scheduled
paralyze essential services. ' start of the strike at midnight.
One person was killed and six     Train, telegraph and telephone
injured when police fired on a . services   continued   to   function
j normally around the capital city
I despite the unrest.
'   Union leaders called on some
! 1,000,000 government employees
to strike for higher wages des-
• pite a government decree declar-
  i ing the stoppage illegal.
i In Bombay, the strike was re-
FORT WILLIAM (CP)-A five-', ported to be about 95 per cent
port statement that the talks will ' year-old American tourist was! effective,
facilitate further improvements : badly bitten by a Chippewa park Nearly 2,000 strikers were
in defence arrangements between ! monkey Monday and had to be rounded up by police under the
the two countries. ! rushed to hospital for an anti-.; government edict.
i tetanus injection. Fourteen  slit-'   A passenger train  near Cal-
Mr.  Anderson said he hoped cncs wcre requircd to close the cutta   was   nearly   derailed   in
State Secretary Christian Herter,  wound on »he left palm of Ste-' what police called attempted sa-
held in Washington by the Congo  phen Smjti, 01 Brainard. Minn.J botage. Someone had placed an
crisis, would be able to join the | whjle the injection was given <o  iron bar on the track.
N. A. Defence
Talks Open
OTTAWA (CP) - Four Canadian and two United States cabinet ministers began a meeting
Tuesday on North American defence. *•
Monkey
Bites Boy
talks today.
Mr. Anderson was accompanied by Defence Secretary Thomas Gates, Assistant Secretary
of State Livingston Merchant,
former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Gen. Nathan Twining,
protect the   boy   against   infec-
PROTEST OVER FLAG
DUBLIN   (Feuters)   -   Work
MADRID-It was a good day for the bulls nnd a bnd one for an antagonist
at this corrida in Madrid, July 3rd. A youthful matador "Orcguitn" is lifted into tlic air as hc is gored.by an angry bull. "Orteguita" was taken to
the hospital in serious condition.-(UPI Photo).
dUd,    dim    UU1I.     lYUUldll      IWlIllliU    '  . —i s.t e
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of-?ere Juesday ,was ■*" nP,foc
gtaf{ : lh    hours   when    dockworkers
I stopped work in protest against
The Canadian ministers at the I British  flags   surmounting   a
:alks, being held at the seign- crane and tower. About too men;
, iory club 45 miles east of the refused to work until the flags,
Capital,   are   External   Affairs were removed. The flags   were!
Minister Grecn.  Defence  Minis-1 put in place by crew members.
tor   Pearkes,   Finance   .Minister  of a Northern   Irclrnd   ship   to
Firming and Defence Production ] mark the July 12 Orangemen's j
I Minister O'Hurley. 'celebrations, |
! Weather
Cloudy with sunny intervals and few showers this
afternoon.   High 68.
r.WERArURES
Toronto       66     87
■Montreal   67     85
Moncton   58     84
Halifax       51*    77
Sydnev       55     81
St. John's   49     69