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THE OAlLt NlWS, ST. JOHN'S, NFLD., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20,1961
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Tshombe
"fleet Fw Talks
rFllJfo$pecls Of Success
Ippear To Be Dim
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U0POLDVILLE—AP — President Moise Tsh-
0( secessionist Katanga province and  Congo
:ft Cyrille Adoula met Tuesday for the prelim-
Sjolii bargaining conference calted in the hope
ij strife in The Congo.
He talks- at the guarded United Nations military
tfKitona on the Low.?r Congo River, were set up
L,lcan and UN officials in the hope of resolving
1 .,5tmgjrlc that has torn The Congo apart almost
,the first day of independence nearly 18 months
,.;.;tpcct( of success V
*;r.*i niMli!
, ..new flareup of shoot-
."l7abc:ln*illp. the Ka-
'tipital ''here UN troops
'-ja orders tn hold their
Go-betweens arranged,  only a
took place j procedural meeting of Tshombe
announced that its
p compelled by snip-
.„ fi' ilian-s and merccn-
5 continue mopping up op-
■i.mfinally occupied the
EM. i--. installations ol thc
^fciian Mining    Company
IN force was under or-
s hold back fire as long
ilihsmhf - Adoula talks
•i han chances ol sue-
■j last words before-leav-
. capital of Leopoldville
:ii meeting, however,
i urncd that no reconcil-
nfll, be possible inless
jat jives up his  "rebel-
the other hand,
|pmho indication that he
tt back down, even
|tVX lorces have   aken
complete control ol his
and Adoula to decide on such
matters as agenda and methods
j of tackling the thorny issues.
| Aides set tip a schedule for the
serious talks, likely to start to-
i day.
MAY END TONIGHT
Adoula said he hoped the talks
would wind up by tonight.
Under The Congo's provisional
constitution Tshombe is only a
„_.,-- -        provincial president   under   the
^hirierc du Haut Katanga (central   government,   far   from
"Tea! Elisabethville.   Three | ,hc exa|ted p0Sition he has trjB[1
|t-.pi*n soldiers werc ■ lo carve oul for hjm5clf as head
| of an independent nation.
DED TO 1101.1) FIRE j Adoula took with him these
j three leading ministers who havc
! bitterly opposed Tshombe's sep-
| aralist aspirations.
j Foreign Minister Justin Bom-
I boko, who charged the Katanga
| leader with high treason; Intc-
j rior Minister Christophe Gbenye,
a leading disciple of the late
premier Patrice Lumumba who
was killed early this year in Katanga, and Justice Minister
Remy Mwamba, vice-president
of the Baluba tribal party opposing Tshombe in Katanga,
Tshombe took with him only
his finance minister, Jean-Bap-
tiste Kibwe, and a young European as secretary.
India Place
Under Arm
Portuguese Still Holding
Out In Damao And Diui
DODAMARG, India (Reuters)—India placed Portugal's invaded territories under military rule Tuesday as some 2,000 Portuguese troops
were reported to have surrendered to Indian forces.
An Indian general was said to have accepted the surrender of Portuguese forces at army headquarters in Nova Goa, but troops barred reporters from entering Goa to watch the capital's fall.
An Indian defence ministry spokesman said there still were pockets
of resistance in the three small territories on India's west coast and Portuguese defenders were holding out in Marmagao, a port city across
Goa border from Nova Goa.
'Indian  naval  hcaduarters in         ■	
Ncw Delhi announced that two
Indian naval vessels hnd entered
the Marmagao harbor but gave1
no indication that the big port
hud surrendered.) •    j
The  three   territories    cover;
1,370 acres, an area smaller than j
that of Prince Edward Island.
EIGHT INDIANS KILLED
■n Goa at 3 p.m. local time .India had failed to act there
Tuesday with positions changing would have bcen a vacuum "and
hiinds several times, he said.)    | the only persons who could have
Indian news agency PTI
said Gen. J. N. Chaudhuri, head i
of India's southern command
who led 25,000 troops into the i
territories with air and sea sup-j
port, accepted the surrender ofi
Only eight Indians were killed' Portuguese forces at army head-
in the entire operation, he said,; quarters in Nova Goa amid
while Portuguese losses also ap- "thunderous cheers" from local
pcared to be light. The governor populace,
of Damao was being flown tt! ln New Delhi, Maj.-Gcn. K. P.
Bombay lor treatment for an in-' Candeth announced he was tak-
jurv and 40 wounded Portuguese j -»S over as military governor of
soldiers were admitted lo Nova!the three territories and gave
Goa hospital, he said. [aasuranccs for the security of
Portuguese gov- \ a" Persons ™& .Property.
ernment spokesman said a       ' w"im TW
dio reptrt from Goa picked up j
in Pakistan declared Portuguese
forces were "defending hcroio-
ally," in Goa, Damao and Diu.
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W on world issues.
™ arranged to depart
"toijlit local time 8 p.m.
y refuelling stop was
Fd lor Gander, Nfld.
|B«e to postpone the
** talk! because of the
tfftrtd by Preident
J> lather in Palm Beach,
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■ officials said Tues.
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Observers here believed Britain's application for membership in the European Common
Market might be touched on at
Bermuda.
Up for discussion will be
means to lessen East • West
tension, possible negotiation
with Russia on Berlin, disarmament, the Congo, Goo and nuclear tests.
United States State Secretary
Dean Rusk and British Foreign
Secretary Earl of Home, both
of whom attended last week's
Western foreign ministers and
NATO ministerial meetings in
Paris, also will be at Bermuda
for the talks.
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UN's Big
Problem
UNITED NATIONS (CP) -
United States ambassador Adlai
Stevenson consulted privately
with other delegates Tuesday on
the over-all problem of strengthening the United Nations peacekeeping machinery in the wake
of the Security Council's failure
to act in the Indian-Portuguese
fighting over Goa,
Gloomy Western delegate, saw
no immediate move such as 'reviving the issue in thc council
or tossing it into the General
Assembly,
Hut there was speculation that
Stevenson might go before the
assembly to demand that t undertake an urgent examination
of how it can deal with the use
of force by countries claming
justification on the grounds they
are opposing colonialism.
'Serious
Mistake'
MONTREAL (CP) - T. C.
(Tommy) Douglas, national
leader of the New Democratic
Party, said Tuesday night' India
has made "a serious mis ake"
In resorting to force to settle
its dispute with Portugal.
In reply lo questions at a press
conference about the invasion of
tliree Portuguese enclaves on tho
Indian sub-continent, Mr. Douglas said he is "disappointed by
what.India has done."
Any use of force to impose a
solution is a mistake in the present world situation, hc said.
I Mr. Douglas plans to fly lo Re-
j shia today; winding up a three-
'day visit to Montreal.
V
profited would have been lawless and anti-social elements; in
fact Ihey were beginning to do
it."
Nehru declared: "Taking any'
military action is contrary to
my grain. It hurts me to do it.
1 could only agree to this because the consequwices of not
taking it would have heen very
harmful even from the point of
view of violence."
Nehru said critics of the Indian action in the   United   Nations Security Council "obviously
are rather ignorant of the* facts,
the facts of today and during
the last dozen years or more."
Defence   Minister   V.   K.
the operation was its  justifica-1 Krishna Menon left New Delhi
linn. j by air tn defend India's action
He said the Portuguese admin- before  the Security  Council  in
istration had "cracked up" — if ] Ncw York.
. I NEHRU DEFENDS ACTION
Prime Minister Nehru told a
press conference the swiftness of
Kennedy's
Father
Suffers
Stroke
WASHINGTON <AP) - Pres
dent Kennedy's father, Joseph
P. Kennedy, who suffered a
stroke in Palm Beach Tuesday,
is to undergo surgery immedi- '■
ately, reporters travelling on thc
president's plane were told Tuesday night.
The four reporters aboard the
president's plane en rou e lo
Palm Beach sent back a pooled
dispatch by radio • telephone
which said:
"President Kennedy .as informed by telephone from Palm
Beach just before taking off for
Palm Beach that doctors wcre
going to be operating on his
father immediately."
Press secretary Pierre Malinger told reporters that "Dr William T. Foley, a noted vascular
specialist from New York, s being rushed from New Yerk to
Palm Beach by commmercial
jet."
Kennedy, accompanied by a
brother and a sister, left for
Palm Beach from Andrews Air
Force Base, Md., at 5:42 p.m.
EST.
The family members with the
president were his brother. Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, and their sister, Mrs. Jean
Kennedy Smith.
The president's mother, Mrs.
Rose Kennedy, and his wife,
Jacqueline, are In Palm Beach,
s is Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy.
The president,   scarcely  nine
jurs earlier, had chatted at the
Palm Beach airport with his
father, a former ambassador to
Britain, and then had flow
here.
ALBANY, Ga. — Negro demonstrators led by Rcv.
Martin Luther King march through thc busincss area
here Dec. 16th after they were placed under arrest hy
Albany Police Chief Laurie Pritchett. Thc Fav. King,
264 Negroes and one white youth wcre arrested and
jaild as they march on City Hall for a praycr demonstration in behalf of other jailed Negroes. The city
police and state highway patrolmen herded the demonstrators into an alley beside the City Hall.
MAKES MAIDEN VOYAGE
NEW YORK (CP) — The Empress of Canada, new 27,300-ton
flagship of the Canadian Pacific
fleet, arrived in New York Tues- j technicians and othcr workers
day on her maiden voyage from j and enquired about the radio
Liverpool. The white - hulled, link which will carry the servicer is scheduled to carry pas-1 ice across Canada and ulti-
sengers on Caribbean cruises mately by cable under the Pa-
this winter. cific   to    Australia    and   New
Sukarno Delays Dutch
New Guinea  Invasion
SANTIAGO, Dominion Republic—Opposition leader Dr. Viriato A. Fiallo is
shown waving to cheering crowds as he rides into Santiago December 15th
on a horse-drawn buggy. Fiallo toured the Cibao Valley region making
speeches denouncing President Joaquin Balaguer.—(UPI Photo).	
30 Dead, 120 Injured
In Air Crash In Spain
SEV1LLA, Spain (AP) - At
least 30 persons were reported
killed Tuesday when the chartered plane of a photographer
hit 60,000 • volt cables and
plunged into a crowd of hundreds on hand to greet a motorcade bearing $250,000 worth of
flood-relief suppplies.
Hospital and other soi
said 30 persons were killed and
120 injured seriously, some by
electrocution from the broken
cables.
The pilot and co - pilot were
among thc dead. '
The photographer, a Spaniard
working for a Madrid magazine, jumped before the plane
hit the ground and was in hospital with serious wounds.
Hundreds of persons had lined
a highway on the outskirts to
cheer the arrival from Madrid
of foo'd, clothing, toys and other;
supplies for Sevilla victims of a
Tamarguillo. River flood Nov.
25-26.
The crash of the plane, a single • engine craft, turned the
throng from joy to tears. Children of working families beset
by Ihc flood were among the
dead.
" The Sevilla province government expressed deep regret nt
the accident and cancelled all
ceremonies for. welcoming the
motorcade.
Britain
Committee To Study
Decimal Change Over
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain
Tuesday stepped decisively toward switching to a decimal currency system with appointment
of a government committee to
determine how the change can.
be effected.
Treasury "Chief Selwyn Lloyd!
told thc House, of Commons that
the government has decided to
introduce . the decimal system
unless difficulties arc over-l
whelming.
. He said he has named a com-
mittee to advise on the mostj
convenient and practical form a'
decimal currency might take.   !
The decimal system, based on
units of 10, would replace the
present system 'of pounds, sliill- \
ings and .pence, in which 12 pennies make a shilling and 20 shillings a pound, which is worth I
about ,M. I
Lloyd said he hoped the
mittee's report would be ready
in 19G2. He said the government
would not make a final decision
until the report -was -available.
Asked   whether   the   possible
vitch was part of Britain's application to become a" member
of the European Common Market (whose six members use the
decimal system) Lloyd said:
"That's a very different ssue,
but not totally unconnected.
Conservative party legislator
Sir Godfrey Nicholson said the
government should not undertake to wreck Britain's historic
currency system without a mandate from the people.
Monetary experts have estimated it will take two to three
years to effect the switch at a
cost of some _i50,000,000 ($420,
),000).
SANTA KILLED
LINCOLN, England AP—An
85-year-old Santa Claus, Arthur John Graves, was killed by
automobile as he walked
home from his post in a toy
store Monday . ight.
Queen Talks With
Diefenbaker On
New Phone Circuit
By JAMES NELSON I
OTrAWA (CP)- How does a
prime minister open a trans-!
atlantic telephone conver ation
with the Queen?
He say's: "Hello."
She says: "are you there,
Mr. Prime Minister?"
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
and the Queen engaged in a
carelully - scripted 4',i minute
conversation Tuesday — with
the whole country eavesdropping—to mark the inauguration
of a new multi-purpose cable
under the Atlantic, the first link
in a ncw round-the-world Commonwealth cable.
Mr. Diefenbaker received the
call Irom Buckingham Palace
on a white telephone in thc
Convention Hall of the Chateau
Laurier Hotel here, while 100
invited guests listened in on
other phones set on convention
tables. The Ottawa ceremony
and the conversation were televised by the CBC.
Mr. Diefenbaker said the new
cable, carrying voice, pcture
and teletype messages, was an
achievement in which Britain
and Canada could tah; pride
based on ownership and manufacture.
CONGRATULATES WORKERS
The Queen, whose voice carried crystal-clear through the
facilities,    con gratulated
Zealand.
'I hope that despite all the
difficulties which will have to
be surmounted in completing a
scheme stretching round the
world, work on the further
stages will go steadily forward
to forge these new and vital
links between Commonwealth
countries," she said.
"It is most important for ths
Commonwealth (nations) to
have the quickest and most reliable means of communication
with one another," Mr. Diefenbaker said. "These new cables
will enable us at all times to
talk to each other and will
strengthen the bonds within our
family of nations which bind us
together."
The Queen sent her best
wishes to Mrs. Diefenbaker, to
the Governor-G c n e r a I and
Mme. Vanier, and to the Canadian people. Mr. Diefenbaker
wished her and members of the
Royal Family "un joyeux Noel
—a happy Christmas," and the
Queen said thanks with a barely
detectable chuckle of appreciation.
She. then declared the cable
officially open and said, "may
it be used at all times to promote peace, happiness and
prosperity." The RCMP band
played God Save The Queen
here, and the band of the Irish
Guards played O Canada in
London, with everyone standing
in the Ottawa hall with telephones to their ears.
While the Queen's conversation with the prime minister
was taking place, other circuits
in the new > cable were being
used to send written messages
by teletype, and to transmit a
picture of the Queen to Canada
and of Mr. Diefenbaker to Lor«
JAKARTA (AP) - President
Sukarno's delay in ordering an
immediate military invasion of
Dutch New Guinea raised hopes j
Tuesday that Indonesia's de-1
mands might yet be settled by;
negotiation.
The president in a rally at
Jogjakarta in southern Java ordered the "total mobilization" I
of Indonesia's 93,000,000 people^
and told the armed forces to be I
ready "at any time from now
on" to seize the Dutch-held ter-1
ritory of. rugged mountains jungles and primitive peoples.
Any invasion, however, would
call for a difficult seaborne operation over about 600 miles of
water against Dutch naval
forces.
Some Indonesians had expected him to announce an. immediate invasion. But his failure to set a time limit was believed by observers to mean he
is giving The Netherlands government an opportunity to negotiate.
Some Indonesian officials still
felt the Dutch might agree to
negotiations outside the United
Nations and that there might
yet be a peaceful settlement of
the dispute over Dutch New
Guinea — the western half of
the island which Indonesians
call West Irian and which a
Dutch - sponsored legis ative
council recently renamed West
Papua.
DUTCH WILL NEGOTIATE
(The Netherlands government
announced at The Hague that it
is willing to negotiate. If suggested that a 17-member UN
committee yet to be set up
to implement a resolution on
liquidating colonialism, might
organize the talks. Sukarno s action, the Dutch said, could only
endanger attempts to reach a
peaceful solution.
(In London the British foreign
office- said it is pressing Sukarno to avoid force and is con
sulting with the United States,
France, Australia, The Netherlands and other interested governments.
(In Washington, U.S. state
department officials 'conferred
separately'with Dutch and Indonesian diplomats. President
Kennedy has urged both countries to seek an amicable solution.)
Car Kills 1
Child,
Injures 3
LIMBOUR. Que. <C1') - A
heavy car skidded down an icy
hill Tuesday and plowed iito a
group of 20 children waiting for
a school bus, killing one and seriously injuring three others.
Police said the intersection in
this community seven miles
northeast of Ottawa had not been
salted or sanded after overnight
rain covered it with a thin,
transparent layer of ice.
Ten • ycar - old Louise Joly.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. lean-
Paul Joly, died when crushed
between the car and a concrete
retaining wall near the bus stop.
'Dr. Gerald Brisson, Hull district coroner, opened an inquest,
then adjourned it until January..
Ten children were treated for
■injuries in hospital in Hull.
Tliree were detained: Nicole
Marleau, 9,* suffered a concussion, and Celine Laurin, !) and
Francine Scott, 10. suffered
shock. The seven others' werc
treated for. bruises and shock \
and released.
Fishermen
Rescued
; NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) -
j Five shipwrecked New Bedford
1 fishermen were rescued from
j gale - swept seas off Sankaty
; Head early Tuesday and the
' bodies of three others were re-
| covered several hours later.,
Two more are missing.
The men were members of the
crew of thc scalloper Barbara
and Gail, which surrendered to
the buffeting of the high seas
and piled up on rocks. She was
being towed Hy a United States
Coast Guard vessel at the time.
The coast guard pulled five
crew members to safety and.
then found the bodies of three
of their mates.
The Barbara and Gail, an B5-
footer built in Thomaston, Me.,
in 1929, lost her rudder Monday.
THE COUNTRY PARSON
"Evcry time you ride in an.
elevator, you prove your .faith-
others—the men who built:
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