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oviet Union Celebrates Great Cosmic Achievement
n
Road To Planets
Is Now Open
MOSCOW—Reuters — Russia savored the sweet
taste of triumph Wednesday night aftcr firing the first
man into space.
Mjr. Yuri Gagarin, 27-year-old father of two children, climbed into a five-ton spaceship named Vostok
East at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time and roared into orbit at
18,000 miles an hour.
He made slightly more than one complete circuit
of the earth and landed safely at a prearranged but
undisclosed place 108 minutes later. His first words:
"I feel well."
Russians celebrated wildly at the cosmic achievement.
'The road to the
hZARETll. Israel—
\\ Eichmann walks
pe courtyard of thc
it Fortress April
I This photo, taken
liffk, was released
li 6th. Kirliinann's
I opined in
>April llth.
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open," declared the president of
the Soviet Academy of Sciences,
i Alexander Nesmeyanov.
j Scientists immediate y began
a painstaking medical examination of Gagarin. He was expected in Moscow Friday to receive the plaudits of his people.
Nikita Khrushchev, who had
promised a few weeks ago that
the first human flight into space
was soon to be realized, declared Wednesday night:
••Let  the  capitalist countries
; try to catch up ..."
Tass   news   agency   «aid
Khrushchev talked with Gagarin
by telephone and told him:
'•'You have made yourself immortal.
"1 will r
i in }
Uumbus Of
Ipsce Age
fW.\\ UTIRE
1 ■   i"! ward to a
"'ning to equal
■ (aiher was
'•'thei- and a
■■I Fins al thai
You and I and all oir people
will solemnly celebrate this
great feat in the conquering of
space. Let the whole world see
what our country is capable
Jeru-  I of . . ."
GAGARIN REPLIES
Gagarin, said Tass, responded:
"Now let the othcr countries
try to catch us."
Khrushchev replied:
"That's right. Let the capitalist countries try to catch up
with our country, which has
blazed the trail into space and
which has launched lhe world's
first cosmonaut." -'
Russians already were naming new-born babies after him.
A town in Soviet Moldavia
changed the name of its main
street to Gagarin and a sculptor
announced he will make a statue of him.
Gagarin's pictures filled the
pages of an unheard-of special
edition of Pravda. the Communist party newspaper. A massed
choir sang a new song called
Th? First Flight over Moscow
Radio. A special stamp was Issued.
In Moscow, students gathered
and cheered in Red Square. Excited crowds gathered around
the capital's lamppost loudspeakers to hear announcements
of the flight and rushed Into the
homes of strangers to see Gagarin's picture on television.
APPEALS FOR PEACE
The Soviet government issued
statement proclaim ng Russia's superiority In the space
race and appealing for world!
pence and disarmament. j
The statement said Russia's
space "achievements 'are not
being nut to the service of war
i-   n   dark-
■i-j-enlcr.
o space has
■■_ in a slight
in his back-
• thc 27-year-
vnild become
•■ew era and,
no (| the So-
Sheltei
r
^ „ Defence
^itarkne-s refused Wed-
J^conhrmordcny a-e-
■_? ai> under-round struc
concrete roof 20 feet
*ln;>iilt at Carp, 20
C to house the
"I  in event of
• Commons lo
■ «_.. "-""■ Mr- "a1*-
MC "e "Inii-lin-e in ques-
*t J *en described in the
k '. ^rimcntal army
fc ,Mb lament  and that
but are designed for the peace
and security of all people."
The Russians confidently announced the flight while Gagarin was still out in space, .inly
51 minutes after his takeoff.
The Soviet news agency Tass]
quoted progress reports from
the astronaut while he was still
aloft. Ovcr South America lie
said: "Flight is proceeding normally." Ovcr Africa he said: "I
am withstanding weightlessness
well."
Then, at 12:07 p.m Moscow
time, Tass reported Gagarin '.tad
landed safely at 10:55 a.m.
It quoted him as saying alter
landing:
"I ask tn reoort to thc party
and government and personally
to Nikita Khrushchev that thc
landing was normal.
"I feel well. I have no injuries or bruises.
"The completion of the flight
Into space open* new nerspec-
lives ln conquering of the cosmos."
Khrushchev, holidaying at a
Black Sea resort, sent a telegram to Gagarin declaring:
"The entire Soviet people acclaims your valiant feat, which
will be remembered down the
centuries as an example of courage, gallantry and heroism in
the name of service to mankind."
Churchill In
New York
NEW YORK (AP)-Sir Win-
ston Churchill arrived' here!
aboard the yacht Christina Wednesday on an "entirely private" *
visit. Well - wishers gave !*iim|
a rousing maritime welcome I
nonetheless. I
The British wartime prime
minister, who has becn on a
Caribbean cruise, will fly to
England today.
Thc firoboats met the yacht
off the Statue of Liberty and
sent spray flying from 16 Eire
guns in a gesture of welcome
Four helicopters hovered above
Berthed ocean liners sounded
their whistles in salute as the
gleaming white yacht, owned bv
Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, moved to a
mooring.
The 86-year - old Churchill re-
mained below decks.
Icebreaker
Gets Through
By  THE   CANADIAN   PRE»S
The Icebreaker Labrador, pounding through heavy ice
In Sydney harbor, pulled into
dock early Wednesday while another powerful icebreaker, the
d'Iberville, was still outside the
harbor trying to reach the same
goal.
Both transport department ships were trying to reach
two freighters to escort them
through the Ice to open water.
The vessels have been trappd
at Sydney for three weeks.
GRENADE KILLS TWO
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Two
persons were killed by a grenade hurled into a crowded cafe
In an Algiers suburb by an in=
surgent Tuesday night Another
man in the cafe was injured.
The bomb thrower escaped.
Clouston President
Fisheries Council
TORONTO (CP) - Ross N.
Clouston, of the Frozen Fish
Trades Association, Newfoundland, and president of Roue Water Sea Foods Ltd., Montreal,
Wednesday was elected president of the Fisheries Council   *
anada.
He succeeds R. E. Matthews,
Toronto, who remains a direc-
leather
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lfl fog. "High
ATURES:
,YMt«day's)
■ 27     35
Nfld. Skies
THURSDAY, APRIL 11
Sunset today . .6:47 p.m.
Sunrise
tomorrow ... .8:18 a.m.
MoonrtM
tomorrow ....5:15 a.m.
New Moon  Friday night-
TIDES
High 8:33 a.m., 6:19 p.m.
Low   12:09 p,m.
THURSDAY, APRIL IS
*ty»n .._*• Sil"'<». low in southwest ....8:19 p.m.
gj J'* above Sirius.
tM-_tb_ Mut,»*««t 10:42 p.B.
\M«h above Alpha*. . .
<*» limes Newfoundland Standard) .
imputed for Tha paUj Newi,
_» _ -. ' ,ohn'«. K«wftwn«and,,' '/■  V' « '<.
* B»'ley R. Frank, .Bethel, Vermont.
tor for 1961-62.
. Vice • presidents eected on
the final day of the three-day
16th annual meeting
council include: M. Lessard,
I Quebec: J. B. Estey. Loggi-
ville, N.B.: A. B. Wilbraham,
Mulgrave, N.S.; P. K McGrath,
St John's, Nfld
Directors include: .1. E. Bur-
en. Charlottetown: H. W.
Welch. Fairhaven. N B.; D.
MacKenzie, HaUfax:
cey,   Rive
N.»:
H.    TV
Urges Rights
For Fishermen
TORONTO tCPt-The Fisheries Council .of Canada today
urged thc federal government to
give Canadian fishermen thc
same rights enjoyed by foreign
fishermen off Canada's cast
coast.
A resolution passed at
council's annual meeting criticized federal legislation \" '
bars large Canadian trawlers
from fishing inside the 12-milc
limit.
The legislation Is a conservation measure but cannot be enforced against foreign vessels
sine. Canadian sea jurisdiction
does not extend beyond thrce
miles.
The    council   descr bed
measure  as  discriminating
against  Canadian  vessels.
WASHINGTON—rresident Kennedv and British
Prime Ministcr Macmillan pose for photographers outside of thc President's office prior to thcir
meeting April nth.—(UPI Photo).
New Policy
Air Transport
By ROBERT BCE
Canadian Press Staff Writer
OTTAWA (CP)-The govern-
ment may spell out a new policy for air transport in Canada
soon, informants indicated Wednesday.
A special cabinet committee,
it is understood, has been studying how Canada can make the
best use of its over-all air services, both regional and transcontinental.
The problem now Is coming to
a head—as the cabinet faces up
to a major policy' decision on
transcontinental air services.
Crux of the matter is what to
do about the once-a-day return
flight across Canada- that was
authorized for Canadian Pacific
Airlines in January, 1959.
CPA Was promised a review
of its transcontinental service in
two years—in other words, now.
Said the 1956 report of the air
"The frequency of service to
be provided and the points to be
served by CPA would be re-
reviewed in two yeara time and
could be varied if necessary in
the light of experience and conditions then existing."
The problem Is in the hands
of Transport Minister Balcer.
COUNCIL MAY FOLD
TORONTO (CP)-The Christian Drama Council of Canada
may fold unless ft-can raise between $6,000 and $10,000, chairman Douglas Maxwel aald
Tuesday. The council sponsored by 11 denominations including United, Anglican, Presbyterian and Baptist churches,
was established six years ago
to promote higher standards of
religious drama.
Yuri Describes
Date With Space
Hausner Paints
Eichmann As The
Evil Genius Of
Plan To Wipe
Out Jewish Race
JERUSALEM—Reuters — The prosecution painted Adolf Eichmann Wednesday as the evil genius of
the Nazi plan to wipe out the Jewish race.
The pale, stooped figure in the glass prisoner's
hox squirmed visibly as prosecutor Gideon Hausner
labelled hiin a race killer and dismissed defence arguments that Eichmann was only a pawn of Hitler.
Hausner said that Eichmann, as chief of the Gestapo department of Jewish affairs, "succeeded in part
in committing thc crime of genocide."
The hawk  • faced  prosccu'.or. : '    —~
said that for the mass murder i1930  law   covcring   Nazis    „d
ol*   .lews   and   other   Europeans', Nazi  collaborators,
'•there  is  no  pardon,"   forgive-1   Servatius  maintained Tuesday
ness or atonement. |that lhe ,aw is inva|id bccause
SHOWS LITTLE EMOTION ; it  provj(les  punjshnient  for  «.
Under the impact of Hausner s, tions commjtted before the
genocide charge. Eichmann ruh- foun(lin2 of the lsrael slale in
bed his hands over   his   rorc-;1948   eulside   its   borders,   and
shook    his    bald    head
head.
slightly and vigorously blew his
nose It was about the only sign]
of emotion from Eichmann, who1
at times during the slow-moving!
second day of his trial appeared
almost bored.
Hausner's   impassioned   state-
ment   highlighted  the   prosecu-!
, . ,,    . ., ! ion's day - long rebuttal of do-'.
roar    a   frightening   vibration. ■ fcnce daims „lat Eichmann is
and he sank deeper and deeper |bej      irM  ,mdcr   an   invaUd,
into   his   padded   hot    as   th-; retroactive law. I
against persons who were ..ot
By  JOHN  MILLER
MOSCOW (Reutersi—Yuri G
garin's date  with  space  bc_;
around   dawn   Wednesday   and rocket lunged upward.
ended  in  a  blaze of glory  at     lt was 3:07 a.m. Moscow ;im
breakfast time. Yuri was the loneliest man
Soviet    news    organs,    sovict | the world,
scientists and previous inlorma-'   His heart began to beat fast
tior.  available  on  space  travel, and faster as thc ten- ble ace
provided a picture of Gagarin's iteration increased, His breathing J.,
history-making day. became shallower and  shal-
fJ,h„C I?fi„\-fa^ TiLil i"oKS  iv   okpit {Eichmann was not just an  or- „    said   H  was   impossi,e  be.
force   major   was   awakened (.OI-.*-   IN   ORBIT dinarv co* in the wheel." Hans-  „,„,. nr „,- -nld ...ar
early at an undisclosed cam:.-    The. he suddenly H! all pres-' ™said °-.Wc shall attempt to CaUSC °r thc C d
probably somewhere in the cen- sure lift from linn.  Ile was in;prov, lhat ne initiated, pbnned.: CAUSE OF THE COLD WAI.
tral part of the Soviet* Union—to orbit. I or"anized and  imnlementcd the     Hausner referred lo thc Brit-
begin elaborate preparations for     Fifteen  minutes   titter  lakcolf. j extermination  or the   Jews   in ish  declaration  in   1017   which
the fastest and longest ride in he was over South America and: £„,.„.,,,- , promised .lews a national home
history. reported   by   radio:   'Flight   is j DEFENDS LAW 'in   Paleslins.   the   Israeli   state
lie   strapped  on   his   tightly-,proceeding   normally.   I   feelj   Hausnci! delved back into bib-: then under British control.
Israeli citizens.
Hausner said Eichmann's responsibility for Nazi atrocities
was cited in the Nuernberg war
crimes trial after the Second
World War.
The prosecutor quoted Israeli
Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen
o.i the anti-Nazi Law: "We shall
never forget nor shall we ever
forgive."
, Hc said Nazi criminals had
The 46-year-old prosecutor re- j made themselves the mem*-- of
.iected dsfencc lawyer Robert ;tha human race — "ever.".!-'*
Servatius' claim Tuesday that|wbo catches them is competent
Eichmann was "free of guilt ,(o lfv themj ,ike slave r8dcri
and was on trial for things he 0|. whit.  siavers.-
:• drawn into by thc Nazi re- j   Hausner  rejected   a   defence
ic. suggestion  that   Eichmann   be
Our argument is that Atlo.f ,ricd bv an international .<
well."
laced gravity  suit and  walked
out to the launching pad, where :    He lopped through space
a   huge,   multi - stage   rocket giant   orbit  that  took  him   139
pointed at the sky. ; miles from earth at its farthest
, Scientists  and  eng
wished him luck.
j point and back within 109 mil'
at its closest.
He had a number of dials to
An elevator whisked him up; read and plenty of things to
the rocket to the entrance of his keep him busy.
shining silver spaceship. He; He made morc radio reports:
took his place lying down. A few: ..j sce lhc eai.ln nSjbi*jtv
adjustments were madc to his;good j ,lcai. vou pci.fed,v .
harness and the maze of equip-, .Tnc nigll, 'js ,m{\m^ w_||.
ment surrounding him. Hc was|T sc. thc ca,lh  visibility good.
scaled
away.
Then Ihere was
Thc  seconds   ticked
Onc
«l
cry th inn.
'Continued on Page H
Some
Spy Suspect Seen As
Frightened Man
MONTREAL (CP) — Defence joign  power,"  presumably  Rus-
lawyer Paul Aubut v sited To-
PRINCESS ANNE ILL
Pyke,  Lunenburg,  N.S,;   W,  E LONDON  <AP>   -   Princess
Simpson,   Halifax:   f\.   H.   V. Anne. 10. was confined to her
Earle, St John's Nfld.; R. Vy- bed at Windsor Castle Monday
era,  Bonavista,  Nfld.;  P.  Rus- with a suspected ease of mea-
St. John'a. ales.
masz Biernacki in his Bordeaux
Jail cell Wednesday and reported the 37-year - old espionage suspect i.s ' a frightened man."
"But I told him not lo le
afraid, lhat he will get a fair
trial and the same treatment ns
.any Canadian," Mr. Aubut said.
Biernacki appeared for the
two-hour meeting unshaven and
apparently afler a sleepless
a nighl. Biernacki appeared
frightened by the fad he is in
a still - strangp country and hr
is unfamiliar with Canada';  in      Piprnarki.   a   M.oon.a
dirial system ; hydraulics rnzuiFPr fnr .
Biernacki is being hdd with-j real  firm  nl  rnnwillins
out   bail    pendine    preliminary j eei
Mr. Aubut said he asked
Judge Paul Hurteau to
Biernacki on bail and that the
judge- postponed decison until
10 a.m. today uftei- bearing argument from .lean Miquelon,
special   federal   prosec llor.
"Biernacki has as much right
to bail as anyone else,' Mr. Au-
bi't said. "We've had similar |
'espionagol cases before and
l>ai' was allowed. "Even if hc is
a foreigner bc should have (he
same   privilc;c-    as    a   Cana
licol  history  for  the  first
orded case of genocide and
shalled  legal   precedents   from
othcr countries  to   defend
rael's anti-Nazi law.
The attornev - gener-il said he
should  comDhte   the   prosecution's  rebuttal  Friday  morning
when the trial resumes after
dav's break.
Today has been sct aside in
Israel as a remembrance day
for thc somc 6.000.000 Jewish
victims of Nazism.
Wednesday, for the first timc
since hc appeared n court.
Eichmann's scholarly face broke |
inlo a smite. He was talking
with his hui-lv. jovia defence
lawyer al the start of the oro-
ccedings.
Bul as the day wore on. he
slumped into his chair between
thc two grim - faced Israeli
guards who watch him constantly to prevent any suicide
attempt.
CITES  LEGAL PRECEDENTS
Prosecutor Hausner waded
brisly into the defence arguments Wednesday, armed with
legal   precedents    for   Israel's
The prosecutor said this home
as    meant    "for    those    *.-
i 000,000 Jews who are no more."
, Who more than the Jewish
i people from the point of view of
'the consequences bf the holocaust feels this terrible vacuum
which has been created within
thc  Jewish  people?
"Who can compare with us in
authority to sit in judgment in
view of what has happened?"
WANTS NO ANONYMITY
WASHINGTON fAP) - VS.
Navy Secretary John B. Con-
nallv blew the whistle Tuesday
on navy officers-of any rank—
who express opinions on high
policy, but hide behind anonymity. "If you are not willing to
be quoted by name, you should
no. be speaking," the navy's
new civilian chief told fOOO officers of both the navy and ma-
corps stationed In Waah-
ington.	
Hamilton, Argue. Swap
Insults In Commons
hearing  Tuesday  on  a   charge i land in May, 191..). i
of spying for an unnampd "for-1 immigrant,
OTTAWA (CP) — Azriciilture
I Minister Alvin Hamilton snd!
jCCF Leader Argim traded per-
Isonal insults in a verbal slus-
ging match in the Commons
to Canada (rom Pn i Wednesday.
a landed |   Mr.   Hamilton   described   Mr.
Argue, who represents Ihe Sask-
West Realizes Propaganda Value Of Space Shot
LONDON (CP) - Russia's
scientists and the first man
ever, to travel through and return from space reaped praise I
Wedneiday for a rocket shot1
heard around tht world.
Communist nations cheered |
aroiervedly. Western and
otter world leaden joined in the
praise although .the Weit realised the immense propaganda
value of the shot for the Com-
i-tunM cmm-4. '*;". * '■ • •
t Professor Bernard' Lovell, director • of- Britain's big radio
I telescope at Jodrell Bank, said
"Ihis is the greatest scientific
achievement ln the history of
man."
President Kennedy  described
it as an "outstanding technical
Britain's
The Russian exploit, and the
blow-by-blow description given
by'the Soviet news agency Tass
as the shot progres ed, was
headlined in newspapers around
the world. Radio. networks Issued special broadcasts.  News
paper offices were flooded witn
telephone calls as • earthbotind
mortals sought more information on the history - making
flight.
Gagarin, the 27-year-old cosmonaut, was hailed a a modern - day Christopher Columbus.
Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's Communist leader, siid
the H92 voyage on which Columbus dis c o v e r e d thc New
World now "pates into insignl'i-
received by Russians.
Loud speakers attached to
lamp posts blared the news as
the flight progressed. Streetcars
stopped. Traffic halted. Everyone hung on the words of the
announcer.
After the report of the successful landing, the crowds broke
inlo joyful celebration.
In  Home,  lhe Vatican  Radio
■aised the flight. The Vatican
newspaper Osservatore  Romano
Moscow  gave  a   typical   pic- i said the scientific progress rehire of the way the flight was i fleeted 'the "superior image of
atchewan riding of Assiniboia
as "the ass in bma."
He said Mr, Argu. »as trying to be a "little hoodlum "
For his part, the CCF Ittitr
accused Mr. Hamilton of using
the "McCarthy tactic of the
smear" and "slurring" his constituents with a "sly r*»marV.'
He challenged Mr. Hamlttoil
to meet him on any-public platform on the Prairies and repeat
his "scurrilous attack" which,
he said, would not be consld:
ered in good taste even by the
man as a spiritual creature
dowed wilh liberty and reason, i minister's colleagues.
capable of growing mastery of
the exterior world, according to
the divine commandment."
Communist Chinese n Peking
thumped on drums and gongs
to celebrate.
Stockhilm's evening newspaper Aftonbladet gave its entire
front page to the space shoot,
calling it "the most remarkable
news in history." But the news- j
paper Expressen called it "pio-i
paganda." .    I
Deputy Speaker Jacques
Flynn finally restored order and
asked  MPs  to  resume  debate
Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Argue
have been sniping at each other
during nine Commons sittings-
dealing with this program.
The two accused each other
Tuesday of "loose" and "inre-
sponsible" statements concejjy..
ing freight rate subventions oh'
western feed grains moving io<
eastern markets.
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