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The Oshawa Times, 12 Apr 1960, p. 1

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EB THOUGHT FOR Before you give a person a free hand, make sure that he will not put it in your pocket. TODAY The Oshawa Ses ness with WEATHER REPORT Wednesday increasing clouds a few showers likely in the evening, little change im temperatures. VOL. 89--NO. 86 OSHAWA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, Price Not Over Authorized es Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa 1960 THIRTY PAGES LANDS MINISTER Paul Sauer, who is heading South African government in absence of wounded Prime Minister Hen- To Apartheid |LaborStays By RICHARD KASISCHKE JOHANNESBURG (AP) newspapers were filled with gov- that while there will be no easing of South will not, however, be named act- pol- prime is/AID FOR NEGROES ernment warnings today Africa's strict segregation icies while its wounded minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, on the sidelines. Lands Minister Paul heading the government woerd's absence, asserted authorities are determined stamp out Negro '"inciters and intimidators" the government blames for continuing racial strife. : Similar statements were issued by Foreign Minister Eric Louw and Justice Minister Francois Eramus. WRITERS WARNED There were also numerous warnings to foreign correspond- that Local ist party's leader in Parliament, Sauer, in Ver- to urban 10 Cents Per Copy AFRI CA PROMISES END TO CHEAP BLACK LABOR 'I'M A DEAD MAN Youth Holds Girl Hostage PULASKI, Va. (AP)--A young| "The time for talk is over," husband, holding his 10-year-old Jennings fired back. "It's time sister-in-law hostage, waved a for gunplay now." { shotgun at police and shouted| And, a little while later, Jen-| | wild threats early today as he nings fired his shotgun for the| drik Verwoerd, gestures as he | ister Francois Erasmus. They talks to Interior Minister J. F. | said joday mere woud be i : | easing of segregation policie Naude, left, at meeting, Cape- | p10 yerwoerd is on the side- town. At centre is Justice Min- | jipes, --AP Wirephoto alow. | pol , e The youth, 19-year-old Jack Jen- (plead with him in this southern nings, rushed into the bungalow Virginia town. 2 after he broke away, [to jail. He had been charged with |. o",\harmed. Officers said she | unauthorized use of his father-in-| coo med to have had several | =v § car. : |chances to escape during the] { He took his little sister-in-law, |pight but for some reason re- | Barbara Butts, into the bungalow,| mained with the wild youth. |the home of his father-in-law,| Jenning's shouts from the bun- |C. W. Butts. And he demanded galow grew viler during the night. that his 16-year-old wife, Sandra, Most of his invectives were di- be brought to the bungalow "or rected at his father-in-law. I'll come out shooting." At one point during his barri- |cade Jennings phoned The Asso- ciated Press in New York to dis-| Early today a small army of|cuss his situation. surrounded the home as senior member and the National- Autonomous meetings He By FORBES RHUDE --- . ' - LICE ALL AROUND Canadian Press Staff Writer [por ICE ALL AROU EAST LANSING, Mich. (CP)--| : 5 : police ! The Canadian Police meanwhile, allowed the gecpite its close to preside at cabinet Verwoerd recovers. ing prime minister. ties with Ameri-|¢he police, Barbara, and anyone world to get off my back." Red Cross and Capetown health oan" unions, is autonomous in its ae near him. wor 4,19 Bet 0 ry of Pulaski, authorities to distribute food par- operation, Dr. Eugene Forsey,| : | n Fo Owe, brn cels to needy families in the sub- ir , I am a dead man and you most of the neig rs ha Negro settlement of sun Jester of io % Cana | know it." he shouted through a|cided opinions about the 19-year- lan "abo Longress, sad. Mon, old. They described him as a fool- ents, some of whom were of a1 sending exaggerated reports of aig "yw, : imme ; a groes. Police ordered the South A white farmer who shot Verwcerd twice in the head Saturday. Pratt is being held under the emergency regulations now in effect, which permit the govern- ment to file charges against him at its convenience. It had been thought he would be arraigned Monday, bit a police spokesman said he *'will appear in court at some future date." Some papers speculate that Pratt, described by friends as a foe of Verwoefd's apartheid pol- jey, will be charged with high treason--punishable by death. MEDICAL REPORT A medical bulletin issued at noon today said there had been a distinct improvement in Ver- woerd's condition following a sat isfactory night. "There has been gradual relief in the inevitable pain and discomfort, and the prime minister's progress re mains satisfactory," the an nouncement said. The South African Press Asso- ciation eaid four doctors keeping a constant vigil over wounded prime minister and that detectives were keeping a day and night watch in the corridors of Pretoria General Hospital where he lies The cabinet called on Sauer Sou iM rican press to flop printing the giier "was the strongest chal- name of David Pratt, wealthy. cer to Verwoerd when the|of knowledge of Canadan proce- {most a game here as Canadians can silver. ionalists inister Johannes Donges. The Cantdian decisions dures, including those of legisla- party leadership chose a mew Itures and courts. prime minister 18 months ago. rush to get rid of the silver now| Most stores were charging two discounted at an extra two percents extra on a U.S. quarter, cent by Canadian banks. |and one cent on dimes and nick- CARRIER BOY or BE COSTLY AND EXCHANGE Mr. Cathcart said the discount may affect the bumper year ex- adian banks are now ing a discount on deposits S. coins at a rate of two per cent above the prevailing rate of discount on U.S. curren- cy. As high as 30 per cent of the collection of carrier boys has been in U.S. silver coins. This means that your carrier would suffer considerable loss if he continued American coins in for his delivering Nyanga. Nyanga was the target 4... night. {broken living room window. of big-scale police and army D F % siiber . raids last week, and hundreds r. Forsey was a member of goo Shelton replied. |feels that he is persecuted. suspected of leading a Negro 2 panel which discussed *'organ-|"s - labor in Canada" at aj jail for screening. The boycott sentinar held by Michigan State . . now has just about collapsed. University. 1 1 11- al ! cer Johannesburg's anti - govern- pineal panel Imematy were | : ; rof. Samuel Barnes of Univer- ; ment Rand Daily Mail says 2 sity of Michigan, who studied the | had prevented a caucus Monday | Dru oun y : 3 doctorate, and Tom Downs, ex- 3 from EH Ry jacting the Maii ecutive assistant to the president the Transvaal _or/of the Michigan AFL-CIO. TORONTO (CP) -- Canadian|must be insula' e supported Finanee|international = unions to dictate drug in the leaves of a common| Researchérs are reported try- Even it they! Jamaican evergreen plant, it was|ing to find a chemical brake to oir reported here today. {control the drug, which appar- {sons so far, the drug has shown white blood cells. | promise in treating leukemia and| The report says means also |some other types of cancer--but must be found to control such! sity of Western Ontario's Collip|porary loss of hair. medical research laboratory at| Y ost tores London, Ont., discovered the drug | . sie Sent leaves of a Jamaican plant Newspaperman | TORONTO (CP)--Thinking up!/Brady said the decision was called the periwinkle, the doctors | ways to unload extra United made to keep the OTC from be-|were studying its uses as a pos- RATS AFFECTED | DURBAN, South Africa (AP)-- Tea brewed from the leaves Norman Phillips, foreign editor of had no effect on diabetic rats but|the Toronto Daily Star, was re- | "generalized infection apparently after being under detention since] related to depression of white : Saturday. blood cells." On. his "You're not," state policeman lish, immature boy who always work boycott were hauled off to ized growing rift in the National party Canadian labor movement for his| cted by a eompli- Aintionnlists Dr. orsey 3814 It would be im lcancer researchers have. dik (cated wr rR peri- "Cape Penn possible merican sicads - of ooyered an important anti-cancer winkle jeaves. Tested on relatively few per- ently can go too far in supressing * {still has undesirable side effects. | side effects as severe constipa-| 1n Re used Drs. R. L. Noble, C. T. Beer tion, urine retention, mental de- . . and J. H. Cutts of the Univer-|pression, skin tingling and tem- |by chance. - States coinage has become al-!coming '"'a sink hole" for Ameri- sible treatment for diabetes. ut Of Prison |the report said some died from a jeased today from police custody Leukemia is characterized by handed release, Phillips was| his passport, cha \ y and Canadian money. 4 arrested "We invite Americans over here kemia. and then we give them only 94 Reports on the Canadian re- lor 95 c i % TJ cots on their dollar,' Te search were presented last week peck chirt, said. "The exchange rate em-|; : : Sater from Wall by but I'D Chicago at a meeting of the jo {think our federal government should do something to correct ithis situation." |CO-OPERATIVE EFFORT under surveillance, Mr. Fisher suggested that no/ After the Canadian discovery, Looking serious and apparently |discount be charged on nickels/researchers in Indianapolis pro- under great strain, Phillips went the progress of leu-|flight from Johannesburg Wed- day afternoon. In Phillips told reporters i did not know whether there 3 Research. hoy financial to accept payment | stayed barricaded in a brick bun- [third time that morning. No one| { |was hurt and police continued to| ; | ! "I'm not mad at anybody," he| labor movement, jennings threatened the lives of {old the AP. "I .just want the : Cte given alsources Mac I pected in the tourist trade. He gver production of white Dioed ticket for the eight o'clock plane|most of the pollution in the Great men's haunt, owned by the muck is now being removed and! said he favored a.move to place cells. The doctors manage: 0 from Durban to Johannesburg to-| Lakes comes from the United United States but on the Cana-/put where it should have gone in an arbitrary parity rate on U.S, isolate an alkaloid from the plant|nicht and another ticket for a|States side and the worst of-|dian side of the lake. The On- called VincaLeukoBlastine which|[ondon - bound Sabena Airlines fender is Detroit. Wearing sunglasses and an open |tion : Pn v U.S. were the main offenders and| American Association for Cancer| ere any conditions attached to|announced formation of a Great| |his release or whether he was|Lakes 'working group" or com- | | mittee study of lake pollution this sum- pany - JOHANNESBURG, South Af- rica (CP)--Prime Minister Ver- woerd's government today prom- ised a drastic revision of the "cheap black labor" system on ¢ (which white South Africans are |dependent. | Justice Minister Francois Eras- mus told a meeting: "The white {man will again have to. learn to |work as our mothers and fathers {have worked." Meantime, 150 policemen sup- [ported by three armored cars "™ raided 10 Negro townships south. %% west of Johannesburg. The similar raid on Western Township Monday. Verwoerd, who was shot twice in the face by a would-be assassin {Saturday, continued his painful ' [recovery today in a Pretoria hos- 4 |pital. Erasmus, a firm advocate of tion policy, spoke at Cradock in g \related organizations' to whites. "| The Justice minister als {blamed "idlers and other supe {compelled to work, he said. Police Swoop On Negro Areas Lands Minister Paul Sauer, who is heading the government in Ver- woerd's absence, said authorities are determined to stamp out Negro "inciters and intimi- dators." Similar statements were made by Foreign Minister Erie Louw, and newspapers today were filled with government warnings that there will be no letup in Verword's policies. The government was criticized in unsigned leaflets that fluttered down from tall buildings in Jo- hannesburg. the government's racial segrega- fg (Cape province, He called for the|pyin , . ," 4 |eradication of '"'the undermining| activities of communism and its/stake, Act before it is too late." keep y peace between whites and. non- seni back to Negro areas and| Addressed to "white South Afrl- |the emergency, abolition of the laws requiring non . whites to |carry passes, release of political prisoners and consultation be- {tween government and Africs» {leaders "Where are we going?" the {leaflets asked. "Fresh pass raids |--mass arrests--Nazi emergency |laws--each new step leads to "Our future at in Africa is ASKS INQUIRY A call for an inquiry into the basic causes of African discontent was voiced today by the leader |fluous Africans" in the cities for|0f the United party, Sir de Vil : tne racial rioting. They should be|liers Graaff. Graaff, speaking to a press | Sous sence in Capetown, said an inquiry would provide an oppor. 'EASTER SALE CENTRE EVENT | An entire section of today's | issue of The Times is devoted sales event at th Values", 10 pages in Oshawa and district shoppers can find details the great variety of goods be offered at sale prices by many stores at the Shopping Centre. REUNION Mrs. Erika Kauder, 32, who | She and the children will live arrived in New York yesterday | with a sister, Mrs. Bealrice from Czechoslovakia with her | Rada, in Brooklyn. The mother, two children aboard the liner | MIS. Charles Brand, lives at |." t conti til ° | Kew Gardens, N.Y. Mrs, Kau- e sales event continues unti United States, embraces mother | der is a widow. | Saturday evening. which {tunity for criticism of the governs ment's handling of the situation. Both the United party and Ver- woerd's Nationalist party are for continued white supremacy in South, Africa but differ as te methods. The United party has a [Only 41 of the 163 seats in PRTO (AP)--The ¢ African 'ernment claims Ne- gro att tors have beaten the et and hands of law-ab Ne- groes until they were unable to move or work. Justice Minister Francois Eras. mus told a press conference Mon- day that the recent police action she has not seen for 11 years. | --AP Wirephoto | 'TOILETS FLUSHED, TONS OF REFUSE' Garbage And Filth Pollute Our Lakes By JACK VAN DUSEN | Mr. Macaulay said Americans|from the front yard of the Canadian Press Staff Writer dumped 40,000 tons of "garbage, Speaker of this House." TORONTO (CP)--Ontario Re-/muck, filth and crud" on Boblo| Mr, Macaulay said he called Minister Macaulay says|Island. The island is a fisher-/"3 certain general" and "the : " |tario government had issued fish-|*"¢ first place. : In a heated debate Monday|ing permits valued at $20,000 in| He charged that industries night on the eve of the proroga-|the area. i |around Detroit were the most of the legislature, he cited| "The muck was then removed serious offenders in water pollu- nstances to support his claim the and dumped a short way away tion. was aimed at agitators trying to enforce work boycotts in the campaign against South Africa's racial laws. . Erasmus said many of the vie tims of Intimidators '"'today are {on crutches and using sticks." | He sald intimidators stood om {street corners and made the sign |of slitting throats when any Ne- gro was seen going to work. This meant, the minister declared that the workers would be beaten up when they returned home. He said intimidators threatened to burn down the homes of work- lers and the factories of employ- ers, pulled workers off buses and trains and searched Negroes for their passes. | "We are taking action against intimidators. We are prepared to do everything we can to assist | Africans to develop along their {own lines and in their own terri- (tories. The bulk of Africans are {being intimidated and we are de- termized $e maintain law and or- Ider. "to make a complete | y | Nat: newspaper. As a young |and dimes. He hoped the banks|duced the same drug. Thé two directly to a beach front luxury| Liberal Opposition Leader Win-| Dope Pushers' Home Delivery TORONTO (CP) Controlter Jean Newman disclosed t that drug addicts in Met Toronto now have their livered to their homes. "All an addict has to do, no matter what area of the city he's in, is pick up the phone and some caps." Mrs said. 'Then five minutes later goes down to the street of his home and gets drugs the pusher." from t Thursday alU.S. Newman, who has been g a fight to clean up prosti- tution in Toronto, said she discov- ered the home delivery service for addicts through letters .she re ceived about prostitution in the aid the pusher charges $6 le plus $1 for and rick in r the addic 4 For been growing." CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 your business man he cannot absorb that loss. Thedefore it is no longer possible for him to ac- cept U.S. coins in payment. You can help your carrier boy by not offering him U.S. coins in - payment. They are using vending ma- i pay telephones and tips get rid of the U.S. change ithout loss. Even church collection plates were weighted with U.S. coins on Sunday. Canadian banks announced last they would discount two per cent more than bills, in a move to drive an rent excess of U.S. coins ack across the border. Ontario Travel Minister Cata- art said Monday the banks'| move was a silly one. "No help to the tourist trade." aid John Fisher, executive direc tof the Canadian Tourist Asso ation PREMIUM DROPPING The increased discount came in the face of a steady drop in the nremium on the Canadian dollar the first time in 11 months the Canadian dollar has gone be-y silver "low $1.04 on the New York moaey market 8 U.S. coins became worthless in ome Toronto stores and restaur-| ants and the Toronto Transporta-| tion. Commission refused to ac them. Many vending ma-| operators met the chal-| I adjusting machines so they would reject U.S. coins Ottawa Transportation "Com- mission also refused to accept | U.S. coins, Manager George cept chine ene hy would end the discount before the or oups have co-operated since hotel from his place of detention. start of the tourist season. Mean-| while, he said, "if we exchange] 11958. His first action was to put [through a call to Canada but he |termeyer supported the Macaulay |claims but said no solution would | |be found unless other jurisdica-| being for ex- The outlook across most of the | south for today was for clear! Imlach He |LONGEST SESSION FOR TICKETS T ARDEN {his newspaper. noisiest sessions on record. | Asked how he was treated | long batch of bills and legislation. | ; f . was under detention, i i Leaf Gardens today as standing room tickets | 00. 3 Jelieve it University of Toronto, recently | Phillips said his make sure of getting one of the 2,000 tickets. A is still holding public . hearings drillers were very minor contrib- Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens with gusts up to 53 miles an discharges from the increased Both clubs slept late. today. Canadiens, who {public weather office said. {flushed into the lakes, Leafs, who held their final pre-game work- jsto, the lakes Jeiore, taking was hour. There were no reports of He told of a huge pile of U.S. Both coaches say they are sticking with their the silver with a smile it may| Chemists cannot yer make VLB was told that this would not be|tions such as Michigan join On-| =" help reduce the irritation. . . ."|synthetically and each gram possible untii Wednesday after-|tario in studying the problem. | > immediately took out his| The first session of the 12th {portable typewriter and started jegislature was to close today while: tinder detegti Phili Lieutenant - Governor Keiller . y : i - hidis r detention, 11ps| Mackay was to prorogue the ses-| TORONTO (CP) -- A lineup of about 1,500 said: ig Mr. Macaulay said the Great| |is against South African law for|Lakes committee will be headed went on sale at 10 a.m. for tonight's third game |me to discuss conditions in the ¢ ths ' : : of the Stanley Cup finals. detention appointed to head a special com- mittee studying oil and gas drill- few seat tickets which were not picked up by | Stron Winds Belt and has not yet made its report subserib bef Mond ight' : os | g to the government. subscribers before Monday night's deadline also | - 'Southern Ontario ery min | | utors to pollution af the. lakes. : NWR 3 A ' | h yas. bei ras by face off at 8 p.m. EST in the nationally-televised lore harm was being tauted ny game. Canadiens lead the best-of-seven set 2-0. [hour swept many areas of South- ie b iit to the lakes b: + 3 shipping brought to the lakes by ern Ontario Monday night but be- the St. Lawrence Seaway. arrived Monday night by train, were bedded down ample in hotel quarters a mile from the Gardens and Ships entering ports such as skies, temperatures ranging up- a wards to 55 degrees and westerly|new loads "with 'very little con- out Monday afternoon, were to hold a noon meet- cern for the people who consume ing at the arena when coach Punch major damage from Monday's |garbage being dumped near the blow front lawn of Speaker William previous lineups. Both clubs escaped serious in- juries in the first two games. Fireman Dominick M ga i | noon, |iyping a message to be filed to|after the longest and one of the A sion and give royal assent to a hockey fans jammed the street in front of Maple It was all very correct but I by Prof, G. B. Langford of the {place of detention." Some had been in the line since 1 a.m. to [came as "a bolt f » "Ame as "a bolt from the blue." |; 2 in the lakes, This committee were available. Mr, Macaulay said oil and gas TORONTO . (CP)--Strong winds industrial waste, garbage and The fourth game is here Thursday night. came lighter early today, the| Ships' toilets were planned to stay there resting most of the day. Detroit were also flushing: oll {winds from 15 to 25 miles an . the water." | to lay down the strategy for tonight. + i x Murdoch, Progressive Conserva-| In the north, clouds and S0me | ive member for Essex South who | showers were forecast with tem-|lives near Amherstburg on thel peratures up to 48 degrees. shore of Lake Erie. % ' ventura took a spill last night while battling a blaze at the | ped from the sill of a window { tura was uni FLYING FIREMAN home of a fellow fireman in | Plainfield, N.J. The ladder slip- and Delaventara, hose and all, toppled to the ground. Delavene --AP Wirephots |. » L)

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