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fijj Used cars and trucks sulci {„< so far this year. Why not get YOURS from us too. |;,(erra Nova Motors Ltd. THE DAILY ^S. No. 238 THE DAILY NEWS, ST.' JOHN'S, NFLD., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961. (Price 7 Cents) \{ited Nations ',—- Committee Votes To Take Up Appeal To Moscow No Cause For Worry Over Fallout' OTTAWA-CP - Dr. A. H. Zimmerman, c'airman of the Defence Research Board, said'there is no real cause for worry in Canada over fallout from current Russian nuclear tests if thc Soviet Union sets off a 50-mega- j ton bomb. West Prepares Measures Against Radioactivity What Price Victory. met Bloc Tries To Stall Decision jNITED NATIONS (CP)-The United Nations :;ol committee choked off Wednesday a:is "had- and" the situation coui-j1 led filibuster and voted to take up im-" ' '"""" '""'"' jlely an urgent appeal to Moscow to re- from testing a 50-megaton H-bomb. .da was among sponsors of the appeal. ,e vote of 51 to 20 with 22 abstentions •d a three-hour procedural fight in which [soviet bloc delegates supported by some Asians tried to stall a decision. .•redited the out-1 firmness of com- ;m Mario Amadcoj He used his gavel speakers out and served notice he • ;-Vc!-.ite "obslruction- . ■-... on a proposal by _w oi Iran that the .-:. committee temporar- its general nuclear take up at once an resolution contain- ■a! to Moscow. r; against included nation Soviet bloc, -lavia, Afghanistan. | Guinea. Mali. Mor, ...... Arabia. Cameroon! :- I nitrd Arab Republic \s*taincrs were re- thr- Afro-Asian bloc. jlvtl OF FRIDAY was a reversal \ii last Friday when thej countries succeeded ] .., a procedural dead- *:* '.ed sponsors of the - to withdraw their plea bomb tests in all but the Com munist world, sponsors of the resolution decided to try again for priority. In addition to Canada and Iran they are Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Japan Iceland and Pakistan-all directly threatened by radioactive fallout from the Soviet tests. - • Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin, hopeful of repeating Friday's successful blocking action, accused chairman Amadeo of supporting a NATO bloc manoeuvre. Tsarapkin described Amn- dco's rulings as arbitrary and illegal, and at one point proposed that a special committee be appointed lo consider Ama- deo's decisions. The Russian got nowhere. Ousman Ba of Mali sad he supported a voluntary moratorium and that it was wrong le single out for consideration the specific 50-megaton blast. "Let no one'try to impose on us cold war solutions that will only aggravate tension,* he !' said. "I don't want to gloss over the seriousness of the matter but ns yet there is no real cause for worry in Canada," Dr. Zim-| merman snid in an, interview. "1 am not alarmed person-: ally." Canada's chief defence scientist said. He snid all radioactive allont become worse if testing continued for a long time. The fallout from the cirrcnt Soviet scries still was not as high as from the Unitcd States tests in 1958. It probably would be slightly higher by thc time the Soviet tests finished, as Rus- has said they will finish, at the end of this month. Dr. Zimmerman said it is "quite possible" tho 30-megaton bomb detonated Monday by Russia was intended as. a 50- megaton blast hut the bomb had proved inefficient. He said there has bcen a "terrible hullabaloo" about fall out. But In 195ft total radioactivity had bcen only .111 roentgens. This comprised .10 roe itgcns | from natural radiation such from rocks, .01 from x-rajs : .001 from American niclenr| tests that year. As a comparison, a universally lethal dose ot radioactivity would lie 400 roentgens. There would bc some survivors from a dose of .100 roentgens and widespread sickness from 20(1 roentgens. Protests Mount Against Soviet Tests LONDON (Reuters) - The non-Commur,!sf world prepared anti - radioactivity measures Wednesday as Russia was reported to have triggered still another nuclear blast. Unparallelled precautions, such as distribution of calcium in Scandinavia, were being proposed as protests mounted against the current Soviet tests. _ The latest blast was reported j to have taken place in the No- (disarmament by Britain ai s vaya Zemlya region of the So-; jead to world disarmament. viet Arctic at about 3:31 a.m.j president Tilo of Yugoslavia EDT. Prevailing winds were:saj__ ;n all interview publisV.e: expected to carry any fallout to- j ward Siberia initially. Western! Canada or Alaska was expected! to get some of it late Friday. The United States Atomic Energy Commission in Washington confirmed Wednesday's blast, but said its force was probably less than a megaton, which is the equivalent of 1,- 000,000 tons of TNT. ASK FOR TABLETS Communist John Takman, a member of Stockholm's city council, proposed distribut on of calcium tablets to all children in the Swedish city to limit strontium-flO, a radioactive pro- in Belgrade that he was 'deeply concerned" about Russian plans to detonate a 50-megaton bomb. Canadian External Affairs Minister Green said in Ottawa Wednesday's blast indicated the Russians intended to disregard world opinion and go right on with their tests until they set off the 50 - megaton explosion. JAPAN PROTESTS In Tokyo, Japan protested to Russia in a verbal note against Monday's blast and said no possible explanation could justify it. Fallout was reported drifting Welcome Diefenbaker Visit U. S, Forces Make Armed Thrust Into E. Berlin lew Party To Sign Up rade Union Locals i Bulley iltcd in the cars pped its rcct and rd car. damage te ;t r by city a5 a man i. 11' RORIT.T MCE >.M -cp. _ The New ■i't P.-.rty will soon i -.fiun-iy-wide campaign .;■ ira-le union locals he- 'f party political pro- ti!fiv*!> said Wcdncs- '•' application forms—in '■—art* to hc mailed out * 'oials early next week, V instructions on how to (ormi-lly with the new fended this summer by T and the Canadian La- res-- 6.0*0 individual locals affiliated with Canada will receive the astro ill ive |V\ 'AP>-Cuban gov- officials here scoffed *-**■*' at rumors circulated that Premier Fidel »s been slain. They said - make a public speech | "o announced Tuesday Mice had thwarted an- .;•-• to assassinate him "•"okas. application forms. Their total membership is more than 1.150,- 000 workers. In some cases, the affiiation material is being sent to the national headquarters of unions— rather than lo the individual locals. Some of the larger unions want to. forward the membership forms themselves, including special material of their own on why individual locals should affiliate with the new party. INCLUDES MESSAGE Included in the affi iation package will be messages from CLC President Claude Jodoin and NDP Leader T. C. Douglas, who is to resign next month as premier of Saskatchewan to lead the new left-of-centre political party. 'API Nuritidin secretary of the «mmittce of the Soviet P* Party, told the party P Tuesday 5,000 Soviet P1 are at work n 22 P receiving economic P" the Soviet Union. Weather *<-*. with dr'izi today 60. -ttnperatures BERLIN (AP) - The United States made an armed thrust into Communist East Berlin Wednesday to enforce the right ; of U.S. occupation forces to TOKYO <AP) — Two major', move freely anywhere in this Japanese newspapers warmly i divided city, welcome the coming visit of Ca- '■ The entire 0,500-man U.S. gar- nadian Prime Minister John; ,..son was on the alert for six Diefenbaker. .tense hours. Ten U.S. Patton The mass circulation Yomiuri; tanks and two armored person- ays in an editorial: "Wc wc|.!ne| carriers rolled up to a cross-, come him heartily—not only. be-j.ng poi..t and aimed their guns cause of pur close ties with din-; at the East German police. The ada. bul also because of what British and French also bol- we have in common." ! stcrcd their border forces. Yomiuri says Japanese and j Twelve us milj(m pnlicCi Canadian common interest is to,wi,h , tf. fixC(,/ro(lc in Increase trade with Communist | thrcc jc m yanls into Kasti Chun, while maintaining close i Bei.lin to csen|.t (wo Am(ll.icans' rehitions with, he United States. \ m civi|inn <.,,,„ Mnf, ,„ „ The financial newspaper Ni- |privnte car with armv.issue ... hon Keizai Shimbun says «" ■■-* editorial: "Wc heartily welcome his visit and ardently hope that our Iwo countries can try to further reinforce their co-operative relations." Yomiuri says: "We bclicfve that Japanese government leaders should try to exchange views on tlic Communist China issue with Mr. Diefenbaker as frankfy as possible (because) basically, Japan's international position is similar in many respects to that of Canada." cence plates. Under orders, the two American-;, had refused to bow to the Communist requirement to! show their identification papers to the East German guards. Thc U.S., Britain and France do not recognize the East German regime. The U.S. insists on maintaining its war-won right that American officials, whether civilian or military, can move freely in this sectored city without displaying passes. DON'T PRESS ISSUE However, the U.S. command refused to press the issue later when the Communist guards halted two army sightseeing buses and insisted on inspecting the passengers' identification papers. The army said it pulled the buses back because it wanted to spare the women passengers "undue harassment." It was the first time the Communists had barred entry inlo East Berlin for the army sightseeing buses, a regular feature of U.S. garrison life in West Berlin. As U.S. officers aboard the bus argued vainly with the Communist border guards, the U.S. commandants in Berlin. Maj.- Berlin, Maj.-Gcn. Albert Watson II. drove past them into East Berlin unmolested to see the Soviet Commandant, Col. Andrei Solovyev. WARNS RUSSIAN The U.S. command later announced that Watson warned Solovyev of the serious consequences of the "illegal and unacceptable" Communist "restrictions on Allied access to East Berlin. A statement said Wat son had referred the mat cr to Washington with an urgent request" for instructions on how lo deal with it. In Washington, thc stale department put the authority of the government behind Watson's use of force. Early Wednesday night,. the U.S. tanks and armored personnel carriers- werc ordered to return to their barracks. duct of fallout, in bones. City j near northern Japan and fore- council will consider the propo-' casts of rain increased public sal. |anxiety. Newspapers called for. Norwegians may soon get ex- j immediate measures to preven! tra calcium in bread as protcc- j contamination by the "ashes <•' igainst stro'ntium-90. Thc j death.". Norwegian government council > In Bonn. Ihe West Gcrmai for radioactive hygiene is con-j govcrnmcnl said every prccai: idcred the measure among;tion was being taken in ca.1- others. i fallout reaches dancer levels. In Britain, where plans have] In The Hague. Dutch Pub"- bcen made tn supply children j Health Director Pict Jluntc* with dried milk if fresh milk i dam told a radio audience tlicv gels dangerously radioactive. I was "no cause for anxiety ; the campaign for nuclear di»-itlic moment." armament reported a spurt inl He said rationing nf foo: membership applications. j could bo introduced on short no- The CND advocates unilateral' tice if necessary. Gromyko Repeats Peace Treaty Threat By ROBERT ELPHICK ^f Soviet party policy. MOSCOW 'Reutersi— Foreign i The congress was still do:*-. Minist.r Andrei Gromyko re- J to Western reporters but Mc peatcd Wednesday R u s s i a's cow radio broadcast a summai threat to sign a separate peace of Gromyko's speech and Tr: treaty with East Germany if news agency reported otlu there is no agreement with the | proceedings. West. j Gromyko said the danger • But he added that Russia is' war would havc becn great- doing everything possible to I "if the Soviet Union ■ Rioting Continues In Ciudad Trujillo CU1DAD TRUJILLO (AP) - Police used clubs, tear gas and noise bombs Wednesday to break up a rioting crowd in Santiago, the Dominican Republic's second city. A number of persons were injured bit no deaths were reported. About 50 were arrested. The violence erupted following funeral services for a victim of rioting last Friday in Cui- dad Trujillo, Jose Ccrda, 27., He was one of four persons reported slain in fighting that day between police and anti-govern ment rioters. After graveside rites hc e for Cerda, about 500 persons marched into the city chanting "libery, liberty." Their demonstrations developed into a riot as street signs were torn down and street lights! broken. Police then descended! on the crowd, which retaliated by throwing rocks. Santiago had been partly paralyzed for three days, duiing a mourning period decreed by political opposition to the Dominican government for those who fell in Friday's fighting. ! WEST .BERLIN-—Bayonets on rifles, U.S. Army military ^policemen cross the white border line back into West 'Berlin, Oct. 22nd, followed by car carrying E. Allan Lightner, Jr., after he was stopped for a second tithe',by'East Berlin police. Lightner, assistant chief of the ,U.S. Mission here, was freed by nine United States M.P.'s, who moved into East Berlin to enforce'. the diplomat's right to enter thc Red sector. It was the first time armed U.S^ troops had crossed into East Berlin during thc current crisis.—(UPI Photo). .-'.-• \ '" achieve an understanding with the Western Allies. Gromyko spoke lo thc Soviet Communist Party Congress as il finished its eighth day with ncw attacks on the Soviet anti- party group and Albanian Communist leaders, who disapprove Bargaining Fails BONN. (Reuters) — Bargaining between Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats and the minority Free Democrats on a coalition government for Westl Germany failed to produce! agreement Wednesday and 1 more talks were scheduled for today. A 5'2-hour session was held Wednesday after talks Tuesday j night uncovered unexpected differences between Adenaur's party and th right-wing free enterprise group. That Important Feeling MONTREAL (CP)- Renc_.Lc- clerc, 24, Wednesday charged with stealing a police patrol car and a constable's badge. ' "I wanted to feel important j t once in my life," he told Judge T. A. Fontaine. Leclerc is five-feet tall and 1001 pounds. Fallout Due Friday in W. Canada WASHINGTON (AP> . - The initial radioactive fallout cloud from Russia's huge nuclear- bomb test Monday is. expected to reach the Aleutian Islands late, today and Alaska or Western Canada late Friday. Ths was reported Wednesday by atmospheric radiation experts ' of the ' United Stales weather bureau. The ' cloud ' contains only small fraction of the total debris. The rest is high in the stratosphere and won't begin to come down until next spring. Qatar is ruled under British protection by Sheik Air bin Abdullah al Thani, who reportedly received nearly $50 million in oil royalties during a recent year. standing nn guard of peace. But for this perhaps a militai catastrophe would already ha' -ertaken mankind, he said. STILL TENSE "The world situation still k mains tense and unstable," h- said. The foreign minister claimed "no one can lose by the conclusion of a peace treaty with both German states, and all will win." To Increase Aid By HAROLD MORRISON Canadian Press Staff Writer The United States, concerne over the deteriorating situatio in South Vict Nam, is prepare to increase its military aid !■■ the proWestern Vietnamese. But there is reluctance If make any immediate large scale commitment of American troops to that area in fear thai it might invite Red China into active participation in the Communist fight against the South- Viet Nam government of president Ngo Dinh Diem. Thus there is doubt, no matter what Gen. Maxwell Taylor recommends to President Kennedy following his on-the-spot investi gations of any major Western military buildup in South. Viet Nam for some time to come. THE COUNTRY PARSON 'Many of our regular churchgoers seem to' be .'* 52/365ths Christian." 1 m '■V-'ll KI if. i r Mx iXi^i \.& Wan i lip I •tj
Object Description
Title | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1961-10-26 |
Date | 1961-10-26 |
Description | The Daily News was published in St. John's from 15 February 1894 to 4 June 1984, daily except Sunday. |
Subject | Canadian newspapers--Newfoundland and Labrador--St. John's--20th century |
Location | Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador--Avalon Peninsula--St. John's |
Time Period | 20th Century |
Language | eng |
Type | Text |
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Description | The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1961-10-26 |
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Transcript |
fijj Used cars and trucks sulci
{„< so far this year. Why not get
YOURS from us too.
|;,(erra Nova Motors Ltd.
THE DAILY
^S. No. 238
THE DAILY NEWS, ST.' JOHN'S, NFLD., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961.
(Price 7 Cents)
\{ited Nations
',—-
Committee
Votes To
Take Up
Appeal To
Moscow
No Cause
For Worry
Over
Fallout'
OTTAWA-CP - Dr.
A. H. Zimmerman, c'airman of the Defence Research Board, said'there
is no real cause for worry
in Canada over fallout
from current Russian nuclear tests if thc Soviet
Union sets off a 50-mega- j
ton bomb.
West Prepares Measures
Against Radioactivity
What Price Victory.
met Bloc Tries To
Stall Decision
jNITED NATIONS (CP)-The United Nations
:;ol committee choked off Wednesday a:is "had- and" the situation coui-j1
led filibuster and voted to take up im-" ' '"""" '""'"'
jlely an urgent appeal to Moscow to re-
from testing a 50-megaton H-bomb.
.da was among sponsors of the appeal.
,e vote of 51 to 20 with 22 abstentions
•d a three-hour procedural fight in which
[soviet bloc delegates supported by some
Asians tried to stall a decision.
.•redited the out-1
firmness of com-
;m Mario Amadcoj
He used his gavel
speakers out
and served notice he
• ;-Vc!-.ite "obslruction-
. ■-... on a proposal by
_w oi Iran that the
.-:. committee temporar-
its general nuclear
take up at once an
resolution contain-
■a! to Moscow.
r; against included
nation Soviet bloc,
-lavia, Afghanistan. |
Guinea. Mali. Mor,
...... Arabia. Cameroon!
:- I nitrd Arab Republic
\s*taincrs were re-
thr- Afro-Asian bloc.
jlvtl OF FRIDAY
was a reversal
\ii last Friday when thej
countries succeeded ]
.., a procedural dead-
*:* '.ed sponsors of the
- to withdraw their plea
bomb tests in all but the Com
munist world, sponsors of the
resolution decided to try again
for priority. In addition to Canada and Iran they are Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Japan Iceland and Pakistan-all directly
threatened by radioactive fallout from the Soviet tests. - •
Soviet delegate Semyon Tsarapkin, hopeful of repeating Friday's successful blocking action,
accused chairman Amadeo of
supporting a NATO bloc manoeuvre.
Tsarapkin described Amn-
dco's rulings as arbitrary and
illegal, and at one point proposed that a special committee
be appointed lo consider Ama-
deo's decisions. The Russian got
nowhere.
Ousman Ba of Mali sad he
supported a voluntary moratorium and that it was wrong le
single out for consideration the
specific 50-megaton blast.
"Let no one'try to impose on
us cold war solutions that will
only aggravate tension,* he
!' said.
"I don't want to gloss over
the seriousness of the matter
but ns yet there is no real cause
for worry in Canada," Dr. Zim-|
merman snid in an, interview.
"1 am not alarmed person-:
ally." Canada's chief defence
scientist said.
He snid all radioactive allont
become worse if testing continued for a long time.
The fallout from the cirrcnt
Soviet scries still was not as
high as from the Unitcd States
tests in 1958. It probably would
be slightly higher by thc time
the Soviet tests finished, as Rus-
has said they will finish, at
the end of this month.
Dr. Zimmerman said it is
"quite possible" tho 30-megaton
bomb detonated Monday by
Russia was intended as. a 50-
megaton blast hut the bomb had
proved inefficient.
He said there has bcen a
"terrible hullabaloo" about fall
out.
But In 195ft total radioactivity
had bcen only .111 roentgens.
This comprised .10 roe itgcns |
from natural radiation such
from rocks, .01 from x-rajs :
.001 from American niclenr|
tests that year.
As a comparison, a universally lethal dose ot radioactivity
would lie 400 roentgens. There
would bc some survivors from
a dose of .100 roentgens and
widespread sickness from 20(1
roentgens.
Protests Mount Against
Soviet Tests
LONDON (Reuters) - The non-Commur,!sf
world prepared anti - radioactivity measures
Wednesday as Russia was reported to have
triggered still another nuclear blast.
Unparallelled precautions, such as distribution of calcium in Scandinavia, were being proposed as protests mounted against the current
Soviet tests. _
The latest blast was reported j
to have taken place in the No- (disarmament by Britain ai s
vaya Zemlya region of the So-; jead to world disarmament.
viet Arctic at about 3:31 a.m.j president Tilo of Yugoslavia
EDT. Prevailing winds were:saj__ ;n all interview publisV.e:
expected to carry any fallout to- j
ward Siberia initially. Western!
Canada or Alaska was expected!
to get some of it late Friday.
The United States Atomic
Energy Commission in Washington confirmed Wednesday's
blast, but said its force was
probably less than a megaton,
which is the equivalent of 1,-
000,000 tons of TNT.
ASK FOR TABLETS
Communist John Takman, a
member of Stockholm's city
council, proposed distribut on of
calcium tablets to all children
in the Swedish city to limit
strontium-flO, a radioactive pro-
in Belgrade that he was 'deeply
concerned" about Russian plans
to detonate a 50-megaton bomb.
Canadian External Affairs
Minister Green said in Ottawa
Wednesday's blast indicated the Russians intended to
disregard world opinion and go
right on with their tests until
they set off the 50 - megaton
explosion.
JAPAN PROTESTS
In Tokyo, Japan protested to
Russia in a verbal note against
Monday's blast and said no possible explanation could justify
it.
Fallout was reported drifting
Welcome
Diefenbaker
Visit
U. S, Forces Make Armed
Thrust Into E. Berlin
lew Party To Sign Up
rade Union Locals
i Bulley
iltcd in
the cars
pped its
rcct and
rd car.
damage
te
;t
r by city
a5 a man
i.
11' RORIT.T MCE
>.M -cp. _ The New
■i't P.-.rty will soon
i -.fiun-iy-wide campaign
.;■ ira-le union locals he-
'f party political pro-
ti!fiv*!> said Wcdncs-
'•' application forms—in
'■—art* to hc mailed out
* 'oials early next week,
V instructions on how to
(ormi-lly with the new
fended this summer by
T and the Canadian La-
res--
6.0*0 individual locals
affiliated with
Canada will receive the
astro
ill
ive
|V\ 'AP>-Cuban gov-
officials here scoffed
*-**■*' at rumors circulated that Premier Fidel
»s been slain. They said
- make a public speech |
"o announced Tuesday
Mice had thwarted an-
.;•-• to assassinate him
"•"okas.
application forms. Their total
membership is more than 1.150,-
000 workers.
In some cases, the affiiation
material is being sent to the national headquarters of unions—
rather than lo the individual locals. Some of the larger unions
want to. forward the membership forms themselves, including special material of their
own on why individual locals
should affiliate with the new
party.
INCLUDES MESSAGE
Included in the affi iation
package will be messages from
CLC President Claude Jodoin
and NDP Leader T. C. Douglas,
who is to resign next month as
premier of Saskatchewan to
lead the new left-of-centre political party.
'API
Nuritidin
secretary of the
«mmittce of the Soviet
P* Party, told the party
P Tuesday 5,000 Soviet
P1 are at work n 22
P receiving economic
P" the Soviet Union.
Weather
*<-*. with dr'izi
today 60.
-ttnperatures
BERLIN (AP) - The United
States made an armed thrust
into Communist East Berlin
Wednesday to enforce the right
; of U.S. occupation forces to
TOKYO |
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