The Daily News (St. John's, N.L.), 1962-03-27

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r .Vvears another Bell Telephone
F C'«v of Canada said
Bpbefore the Board
^Lort Commission-
■- - i^flvcner. Bell's
Is indent of finance,
-i.X-apid growth of
;^v.lKc's economy
.„ Jntin"e t" vcquire a I
P^ofci-o^hinthe;
indui'-ry. !
i-ciicr was argil-
Bell Phone Company Seeks Avalon Stock
ing in support of Bell's application to the board for
permission to issue 150,-
000 new shares with which
to acquire control of the
Avalon Telephone Company of Newfoundland by
exchanging two ' Bell
shares for seven Avalon
j shares.
' He said the island economy is broadening and
growing rapidly and thej
development of a wider i
Plea To Transport Board
industrial base- is being
encouraged by the provincial government. New
resources were being located, techniques for economical production de
veloped and related industries established.
Large amounts of capital were required for this
development and there
was increasing evidence
that the provincial government's effort to attract
private capital was paying
off.
RESOURCES STRAINED
The implication for the
telephone industry, Mr.
Schrivener said, have
been that Avalon financial resources have been
strained to meet service
demands.
Avalon's earnings had
rcughly equated those ofi
Bell and he concluded that
ment, technical assistance j
and access to adequate
capital, it should be possible to provide Newfoundland with commun-
cation serices the equal of
those throughout the
"with careful manage-
trans-Canada. telephone
system at a rate of return
Avalon, Bell could improve Avalon credit rating
|and apply successful
methods and practices to
j expand service and assure
maximum operating efficiency, thereby improving
'potential earnings.
The Bell application
j arose from an offer by T.
B. Fildes of St. John's U
By obtaining control ol
that will justify the investment."
sell about 118,000 Avalor
shares to Bell. Bell want;
to acquire the 522,118 out
standing shares in Avaloi
to give it control.
The hearing was ad
Mourned until today whet
chief commissioner Roc
Kerr said the board wit
either hand down an in- .
terim decision or defer il
for further information
and study.
Li- Belts DO Save Lives
fAT BELTS IN STOCK FOR ALL
f        MODEL CARS
IfflHM MOTORS (19B2, LTD.
THE DAILY NEWS
THE DAILY NEWS. ,ST   lUHN'S, NFLD.. TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1962
(Price: 7 Cents)
Cuba Is On Edge Of Starvation
And Complete Economic Collapse
lood Bath In Algiers
■,n, KimnwiK. when Ihc Secret Arm> dislnmu-
"\|>. - Kurooiiin! cd .cutlets and posters calling
ci 'in ihr r.ill of Mie for a peaceful march on Bab ol
iiraniiMtiim Mon-iOued, the fightist suborbnn
' r!,-!:;.!','  march Ihal  stronghold encircled   by   20,000':
. wdi'aih   in   the French   soldiers   since   sav.gc
... tiiiv p(-r<iins street lighting there last Friday.
,:i.i :;.; ..ii'mided. The SOO.OOO  European settlers
lf   i..,)..■■   mil    as of the city already had paralyz-
[,Y'.t> KfA' -i na- •. cd Algiers with a general  .trik...
/■ii sn 1 radio broad-.   "We need martyrs," a spol.es-
■■ n'ffi: for npi.ro- man for the  Secret  Army fold
'■enin n-aiT  .srec-' reporters.   And in a little more waving the banners.
arnm:   the   S"cret lhan an hour of fighting thc Sjc- !   Al .an impromptu pre- confer-
w.M !>n puni-hed. i ret Army got ils wish. ence in thc city's main   hold;
mil \m.  appro' al—> j men who said they wcrc Secret
ri">approval of the Wounded Europeans fell two' Army representatives, said "our
vv.iy: ire 7'. vear steps from Associated Press oho-! resistance continues."
.in "a refer.id'iin ! lographcr Jacques Marqueion. I Thcy said plans wcrc being
Bullets smashed shop windows of j made for a m.iss movement ef
•i va,'. had i:.-; lhe Hoe D'Isly, onc of the city's ■ all workers and employees lhat
si i.. i'dealt a 'O-  main shopping centres, would strangle the economic liic
iis'inoV:-round varHURIa GAS BOMBS I of Algeria.
MONTREAL STAR'S EDITOR
SAYS HE'S  DUMBSTRUCK
Panic stricken crowds I:
through the heart of Ihc city
helicopters hurled down tear g
bombs.
At a street corncr, where «<
eral Europeans lay dead, crowds
on thc sidewalk slum ed "murderers, murderers" at thc soldiers, ' In thc street Europeans
dipped French flags   hey  were
comrades'"then marched awn",    at tlle shattering disintegration that has taken place since my last visit there
just a year ago. In 1961 some people in Havana grumbled and cursed the |
steady ingrowing of communism. But at least they looked healthy and ate j
well.
MONTREAL (CP)—In a copyrighted report from Gerald Clark, its associate editor. The Star says Cuba is on the edge of starvation and complete economic collapse.
Mr. Clark wrote from Kingston, Jamaica, following an eight-day visit
to Cuba. If you have ever seen anyone die of cancer you will understand
what is happening to Cuba, Clark wrote.   "I left there Saturday, dumstruck
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HORRIFYING SIGHT
ALGIERS <AP> - The con-1 A heavy army truck pulled up
crele floor of the morgue was | and nshed-faccd French soldiers
covered with blood and bare-1 in steel helmets lifted the can-
foot women werc pouring wa'cr|vas at thc back. A moan went
ovcr the naked corpses. up.
There wcre 37 of them, men I   "They brought more of them:"
'm"'', and women, killed in Monday's: sobbed a   woman.    "My   God!
p""es- j shootings.    Their    bloodstained I Why do you punish us so?"
not;j.g ' clothes were piled in the corner |   A man shouted,  "let  mc kill
iy   ,'f i of the morgue of thc Mustapha | them, let me kill them."
1 ss'i Hospital. |   Two white-coated male nurses
terror outside the door, guarded by \ held him by thc arms as hc
;two policemen, a crowd of I lunged towards the soldiers.
\ mourners screamed and sobbc 1. Hospital attendants in blood-
v.nnm.: An elderly woman heat her i stained coats carried two corp-
hcad against a concrete pillar, ses inside. One was a man with
Tears streamed down thc face | a face battered to a bloody
policeman, who carried a ! pulp.   Thc othcr
Great
Fraud
• The RCMP j'.
!.-«imvr in ;;
"In 1!)(J2 the crumbling has i The main force in Cuba, how-
taken nn ominous proportions," j ever, is the big flexible mass of
wilh women battling in market people who last ycar wavered in
places for food for their child-j their enthusiasm but did not join
ren. the vociferous   group   of   anti-
Mr. Clark recalled that a year j Castroites in open condemnation,
ago .he had written   that   any i So long as thcir stomachs werc
invajion of Cuba would be met j full there was relative   content-
with stiff resistance.   This had ment and the remarks were re-
been confirmed    a  few   we As I strained. OTTAWA (CP)
later when   Cuban   exiles   had I   "But now hunger has brought j Monday described
tried to recapture the country,     on hitler   and   open   resentful j dence game that is so
FOLLOWED IN HAVANA          | comments even by people  who i would make O. Henry
|    "Today 1 would not make such j a  few   months   ago    classified I Grafter look like
| prediction because the situation themselves as supporters of the! jn comparison.
J has changed drastically.   Castro I revolution."                                j   it js  tin  sin kuk -  literally
still has a rigid core of fanatic j                                                  | translated,  "the  heavenly swin-
i supporters,  particularly   among |   He quoted an unnamed Cuban j die," now  being pulled off
] the teen-agers   who   are   being: Communist as saying "The Unit-!Hong Kong  with such
j steadily indoctrinated.   He  also led States has won this round," mnte skill that victims
! has   an   effective    police,    who j He said he  was astonished  by  reeling in confusion,
even took   to   following mc m I the frankness of the members of |   Some victims are arriving
I Havana.   He can boast   of   at j Ihe Eastern bloc—cspcu ilb 1 ^J  Hong Kon    ilready   tagged
least 300.000 armed militia men : Germans—who    said   that'   the | an easy mark by the swindler.
] and women.   But their loyalty ;s j Cuban revolution was a failure, j agents in Chinese
I less  certain;    they   themselves; A Yueoslav said 'you"can say i abroad, the RCMP s..id.
j are ill-fed.                                  i that Cuba Is near eollapst
BUENOS AIRES. Argentina:  Britain's Prince Philip
waves to crowd as he leaves the Argentine Supreme
slick "it Court Building here, March 23rd, after visiting with
Gent.e: members of the court.   The Prince is currently on a
pettty th'ef goodwill tour of Latin America.
2™.Nuclear Weapon Offer
§;:By U.S. To Canada?
t Roche,- Xuir. lhe .-,(•- i tommy-gun.
' j "Thcy killcd my son and I|
| fought for France," ohhctl an
i' elderly be-spcclacled man.
the back of hcr raincoat smear
ed with Wood.
"Tell this lo thc world, gentlemen," a doctor said again and
again to reporter!
DREADED MAFIA'S
By DAVE McINTOSH
OTTAWA (CP) - The United
The fraud is based on the vie1 Sta'es, has offered Carfada J0!nt
aim's own greed.and gullibility. ,c,onlr<?! ovc,r m'clear ,veaP01s .
Cornicing him that he can make! Cfanad'an lc"iiotJ on the basls
a lot of quick, easy money by |of „the Anglo-American
cheating at fan Ian. In the end, |ke., ,*ystJem' a rel,ab,e
laid Monday.
thc victim himself is cheated.
Usually  six membcrs
•ndicate take part—the
Net Of Fear Over,s:pp.™
Court In Messina
land."
the
The U.S. offer has been agreed
upon by the Canadian and American defence departments and
fl*ntir ri^ ^'^ty shipshape Jayne Mansfield gets the once over from
X M   i Sa'^01 followin8 ^e actress' arrival at New York's, Idlewild
>PDe_      22nd'   Miss Mansfield flew in aboard a TWA jet for' a per-
1o). rara«ce tour of theatres playing "The George Raft Story."—(UPI
MESSINA, Sicily (A
invisible hand of the dreaded
Mafia has dropped a net of fear
the assizes court herc
where four Cahuchin monks an
trial for murder and cxtor
tion.
ror stalked the countryside
around their Maggarino monastery in the mountains of central
Sicily four years ago. Sums of
money were extorted from wealthy farmers and shop-keepers.
Refusal to pay meant a smasned
shop, a homc consumed by fire,
a sudden beating—or (oath, like
the shotgun slaying of farmer
Angelo Canada, 74.
The four bearded fiiars werc
arrested with threc peasants,
two ycars ago. Police said they
wcre the authors of the terror,
along with monastry gardener
Carmelo Lo Bartolo. His death
in a prison cell after his arrest
was listed as suicide.
the "tail"
hand,
who is introduced to
Ihe victim as Hakka Ts,ai, and
finally the "assistant."
After weeks or mont is. during
which the swindlers' trail is obscured by a system of 1.0 U's
The crimes ascribed to the I and tne participation of crooked
defendants - Brother Venazio, lawyers, the victim gets 10 to 20
35, Brother Carmelon 23, Bror.n- Per cent of his money back and
er Vittorio, 42, and Brother A3- consoles himself that it could,
rippinon,  39-wear the  look  of  have becn worse. I
the Mafia, I    Until recently, the RCMP said,
MAFIA GIVES ORDERS ''ttle was known of the swindle.
In Sicily the Mafia says wh_■ But lh«n an cxPert member of
'one tin sin huk syndicate came
forward with the detals.
He is "no longer active,
statement said.
THE COUNTRY PARSON
new shop may open or ai
old shop close, how much "tax
must be paid into its illegal cof
fers, prescribes the punishment
for failing to pay, and protects
interests and clients a ike.
With the trial going into the
third week, the friars have
tified lhat it was fear that got
them involved in thc evil doings
around Mazzarino.
They told how "gangsters",
forced them to co-opeiate in tbe
extortion racket or be killed.
Brother Carmelo explained
why he didn't go to tie police:
"I was afraid. I was not afraid
for myself, but I wns afraid fori
tlie .monastery." I
Pres. de Gaulle
Will Brook
No Nonsense
i.y DAVE OANCIA
Canadian Press Staff, Writer
The diplomatic strains which
have developed between Paris
and Moscow arc another indication that President de Gaulle
will brook no nonsense — nrii
from the Russians—as
"When I was a kid, we got
the blame for our mischief, but
nowadays wc blame the parents, the environment—anything but the kids."
Long Sessions Between Rusk
And Greymko: No Progress
GENEVA (Reuters) - State
Secretary , Dean Rusk of the
U.S. and Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Gromyko held a marathon meeting on Berlin «ind other
issues Monday but. no progress
was reported.
The 3..-hour talks were thoir
second meeting Monday and the
longest single encounter between
the two since the 10-nation disarmament    conference    opened
ire two weeks ago.
Rusk told reporters "we had
good long talk this afternoon
which has been usefu for both
sides.
Gromyko said they did not
agree when to hold another
meeting. He also said he did
not know how long hc would be
in Geneva.
Rusk is tentatively scheduled
to leave for Washington roday
but a final decision s nol expected until a few hours before
his planned departure.
PAY TRIBUTE
Rusk said he wouk hc attending today's session of the
disarmament conference, .vhichj
Monday, along with the separate
three-power nuclear    test   ban'
talks/ was confined to a brief
meeting, paying tribute to a
United Nations official who died
last night.
The test ban talks between
thc U.S., Britain and Russia
have made no progress since
they resumed last week under
the umbrella of thc disarmament conference.
An authoritative' source   said
it was unlikely that the test ban
talks would bc expanded to in-, ....... .......  .........  -..,„ ...  ....
elude neutral nations as proaos Evian agreement between France
ed last Friday by Canadian ex-1 and the Arab Nationalists on a
ternal Affairs Minister Green,    cease-fire in Algeria.
strives to achieve peace in Algeria.
Thc aloof, iron-willed Feaeh
leader was reported to be f'.
ous over the Soviet Union's r
ognitio of the Algerian pro
-sional government based
Tunis.
France curtly announced that
Ambassador Maurice Dejean had
been recalled to Paris for 'consultations." Almost at the same
time the French foreign office
said Russian Ambassador Sergei
Vinogradov was "invite'd to resume direct contact wilh his
government in Moscow "
With two terse announcements
i Paris two of the world's im-1
portant diplomatic miss ons were
reduced from ambassadorial to
charge d'affaires level
This act could have hrown a
monkey wrench into the summit
machinery, as some British observers have suggested. j
But, say the pro - Gaullist
sources, it's extremely important to try to understand the
French reasons for the action.
Premier Khrushchev's official
recognition of the Algerian regime came within days of thc
by the U.S. state department but
as yet has not been accepted or
acted on by the Canadian government, the source said.
Prime Minister Diefenbaker
has said Canada wants joint
control with the U.S. over any
nuclear warheads on Canadian
territory.
But he has not defined his interpretation of "joint control"
and on Feb. 25 told the Commons that joint control Is ".m-
possible" as long as U.S. law
remains unchanged.
U.S. law stipulates that Ameri'
can nuclear warheads must remain in American custody until
they are used.
LAW NOT AMENDED
Without amending this law,
the U.S. has offered Canada the
"two-key" system now used to
govcrn control and use of American nuclear weapons based in
the United Kingdom.
Under this system, the authority to use the nuclear weapons
must come from thc U.S. president. This is one key. Then
Britain can decided whether "r
not to fire thc weapons. This is
the second key.
In practice, there are actually
two keys on the firing panel of
the Thor missiles stationed in
Britain. One must first be turned by an American officer and
the second by a British officer
to fire the nuclear-headed missile.
The system means that Britain
cannot decide by herself to fire
the weapon but has a veto power over any firing.
Unless or until the US.
changes its laws governing control of nuclear weapons—and
this appears highly unlikely at
this time—the Canadian government has the choice of accepting
or rejecting the U.S. proposal.