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THOUGHT FOR TODAY In many a case when/a person takes a good second look at something, he realizes the im- pression gained by the first look was based on an optical illusion. dhe Oshawa Snes WEATHER REPORT "~ Sunny with a few cloudy inter. vals Wednesday, chance of a shower or thundershower early, Wednesday, continuing warm. . 89--NO. 102 Price Not Over 10 Cents Par Copy OSHAWA, TUESDAY, MAY 3, 1960 Authorized ov Second Clow, Mal EIGHTEEN PAGES 7 bh, " ah FISHING DERBY IN The fish in this lake face a | sters drop their lines in the lot of temptation as 484 young- | third annual fishing derby at OTTAWA MAY SET VOTING AGE AT 18 S. Africa To Race By FRASER WIGHTON LONDON (Reuters)--South Af- rican External Affairs Minister Eric Louw today objected over discussion of his country's racial policies at the opening session of the Commonwealth prime minis- ters conference here. An informant said South Af- regation was raised at the first the 11-day conference. Louw, deputizing for South Af- rican Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, was reported to ha expressed his willingness to mee! NEW BRUNSWICK | McAdam, N.B. The contest is | game association, Trout and n perch were the main species| sponsored by the local fish and | caught. CP Wirephoto Controversy Over Chessman By LEIF ERICKSON |officers officially pronounced him SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP)--|dead at 10:12 a.m. The bitter conflict Caryl Chess-i Miss Asher, along with lawyer man created in life seethed on|George Davis, was in federal today after his execution, finally|Judge Louis Goodman's cham- carried out after 12 suspense- bers when the judge tried to de- filled years in death row. {lay the execution to hear coun- A federal judge, telephoning to[s€l's last-chance petition for a order a delay, got through to the stay. gas chamber Monday just mo-| They had rushed there after ments too late. He said sharply the state Supreme Court, by a that one of Chessman's lawyers 4-t0-3 vole, had twice rejected should have reached him sooner. appeal moves in the final hour Before the cyanide pellets of Chessman's life. dropped, state Governor Edmund G. Brown debated Chessman's| William 0. Douglas of the ickets on his Court |down, . aah outside the Miss Asher Stanley , California at, oo "torney-general whose official duty| had a fo resist Chessman's tcached the federal building persistent court appeals, said justice had been done under ex- sting law. But he declared Chess- man's death "should give im- petus to demands that the law be changed." DIED WITH DIGNITY Chessman; 38, convict - condemned for kidnapping 'and sexually abusing two Los Angeles | women in January, 1948, died| with dignity, as he had said he would. And he insisted to the end that he was innocent of the crimes that cost his life. Just before taking the last 33 steps into the death chamber, he| told Warden Fred Dickson he was not the Red Light Bandit who took| two women from parked cars in| lovers' lanes and forced them at| gunpoint to performs acts of sex perversion Strapped in the straight-backed death chair, the dark - haired Chessman smiled reassuringly at a red-haired woman reporter he personally had invited to witness his execution Ignoring all the others of 60 wit-| nesses pressed against the cham-| ber"s heavy glass window, Chess- man talked to Eleanor Garner Black, trying to have her under- stand a final message she could not hear through the soundproof] glass. | MESSAGE TO ROSALIE | Mr. Black, Los Angeles Exam.| iner reporter, read his lips as say- ing, "Tell Rosalie goodbye." Whatever else he said could not be grasped. The farewell was for Rosalie Asher, - Sacramento lawyer, In Chessman's last night in the wait-| ing room outside the gas chamber he named Miss Asher as the ex- ecutrix of his estate in a hand- written codicil to his will. He directed that future royalties from his books and writings be used to campaign for the abolition of capital punishment, The ritual of death was over in 10 minutes for Chessman, after| 2 years of court battling which} won postponement of eight previ. ous execution dates and attracted world-wide attention to his case. His body was to be cremated to-| day without ceremony at the Mount Tamalpais crematorium and the ashes sent to Glendale, Calif, his one-time home. He was strapped in the chair at 10:02 a.m. Two prison medical CITY EMERGENCY | PHONE NUMBERS | POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 Goodman's chambers at 9:58. Judge Goodman listened to them for two minutes. They asked time to argue whether the U.S. Supreme Court could be re. quested to review preme Court's denials, author = A salvage crane hoists part of the fuselage and wings of a | Royal Canadian Air Force | bomber from Lake Michigan 11-nation assembly outside the formal conference to inform them rica's policy of strict racial seg-| ve are con ¢ |ting one of them apart from the| well, southernmost tip of Green- Objects Debate | Tunku (prince) Abdul Rahman, [prime minister of Malaya, gave |advance notice he would refer to |the racial issue in his response to the United Kingdom speech of [welcome at the opening meeting, | But after the two-hour session, he told reporters he could not say| {what had happened, The meeting was opened off. icially by Prime Minister Harold formal meeting this morning of Macmillan at his official London| passengers i |residence, 10 Downing Street. | Fer the first time in the history {of Commonwealth meetings, they| fronted by an issue sel. other government ministers at the|rest--the problem of South At-|la |rica's racialist policies Elections Act May Be Reviewed OTTAWA (CP)--The Commons| Gordon Alken (PC - Pamy elections committee agreed today sound - Muskoka) sald the come to consider later in the present mittee has received only a "'smat- In Storm | parliamentary session whether|tering of opinion." It would be {the voting age in federal lec. | premature and unfair for the 0 COPENHAGEN (AP)--A small|tjong should be red ittee to decide for or Danish Greenland freighter 1s/years from 21, |against the proposal. feared lost in a storm south of | The motion proposing the age| There might be merit to the Greenland with 18 people aboard | 4, 0100 was placed before the proposal, But if' members were Officials announced today that committee by Frank Howard asked to vote today, they might wreckage has been found "pre-| (nop cieena) and ded|fcel they would have to yo sumably" belonging to her. | Alexis Caron (L--Hull), |the motion en grounds that it had Th a 8, of 499 tons, carry- ing eS unt Foner: pins pA Progressive Conservative and uot received sufficient study. luding two ,| Liberal bers of th commit-| has been unaccounted for since tee persuaded Mr, Howard to de-| ». Saturday morning when she re-|fer the motion until later in the D rt ported her position some 60 miles|session to permit committee | one 101 south-southwest of Cape Fare-|members time to give the pro- C d Danish Ship {posal careful consideration, nd, | Mr. Howard said the time has This is the same area where a|arrived to give young Canadians Danish Greenland liner, the Hans between 18 ans 21 the right to Hedtoft, hit an iceberg in Janu.|vote in federal elections. Rages Plane Swap bout diti in hi try. | gid de el SAFETY MONTH objected to discussion of South| Africa's domestic affairs at the SCORE BOARD lan For A clark came out at 10:02 an asked Goodman's secretary, Ce- leste Hickey, to telephone the Canadian Press Staff Writer prison. She miscopied the num. OTTAWA (CP)--RCAF acquisi- ber, and could not reach San|tion of an American manned in- Quentin until the clerk had given terceptor to replace the CF-100 her the number again. may depend on United States willingness to-buy a Canadian TOO LATE By DAVE McINTOSH Canada, U.S. conference on the ground it was not in accordance with past tra- Total ditions of such meetings. Monday--For--May MUST CONSENT 1 ! No topic can be put on' the 9 1 agenda unless it has the consent of all the Commonwealth dele- gates. South Africa maintains that its racial policies are its own do-| mestic affairs, | Accidents Injuries Fatalities Charges laid for traffic offenses 15 15 ary last year and went to the bottom with 95 aboard. All of them perished. The presumed loss of the Hanne 8 would be Denmark's third maritime disaster in 15 months. Last summer an excur- sion boat caught fire on a lake in South Jutland, and 54 lives were lost. The Greenland trade depart- ment, who chartered the Hanne S for a trip to Copenhagen with a cargo of cryolite ore, reported today that some wreckage was found Monday a few miles south British Columbia and Alberta had reduced the voting age in provincial elections to 19 and Saskatchewan to 18, MORE IN FAVOR After the committee had de- bated the subject for about 30 {minutes, Mr, Howard sald "I {have heard more arguments by {members in favor of this proposal than against it." However, he agreed to let the motion stand if the committee was willing to consider it before for the first time in ary history, has decided to hear a divorce petition by a Quebec woman on grounds of desertion, In Divorce By JOHN E. BIRD Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)--An important broadening of the grounds on which Quebec and Newfoundland residents may obtain divorces hinges on a divorce petition now before Parliament, riiament~ The 8 divorce Parliament has power to grant A telephoned appeal to Justice Judge Goodman asked. 8. | also' was turned |sociate warden Louis S, Nelson. "It's too late totheir waiting car| Reporters at first understood|jet interceptor for the RCAF's state building at 9:55 Judge Goodman to say he Davis grant @ half-hour delay, but' the three judge later told reporters: minutes later and were in Judge wanted an hour's delay. the state Su- despair-shaken 'CLARKOLA' transport plane. The phone finally rang outside| Authorities here and in Wash- the gas chamber after the lethal ington are talking about a Can- potassium cyanide pellets had ada-U.S. swap in plane purchases fallen into a pan of sulphuric|but no decisions have been taken. acid, The matter has not yet reached "Has the execution started?" the Canadian cabinet and may not for some time, "Yes, it has, judge," replied as- The idea is that the Canadian might be will " a would! Air Defence Command if the U.S. avernment would buy the Cana- lan CL44 for the US. Air Force's Military Air Transport "It was too late. One of these|Service. The CL-44 is manufac- lawyers at least should have been tured by Canadair Limited, Mont- | here earlier." real. Miss Asher and Davis quietly] Such a swap could be classed left. Davis tried to console the as production-sharing, a matter| woman as they that has been pressed by the Ca- walked slowly down a corridor. |nadian government fince cancel- m-- - {lation of the Arrow jet intercep- jor program early in 1959. } 1 'WAS NOT GUILTY' '% | Last Words 7 | By Chessman The following statement by| You have asked me if I am Caryl Chessman originally Was Sorry, and I tell you I am. I am {made in 1955, when his execution sorry for a childhood that was {seemed imminent. Last January wasted, It seems irony that most |Chessman and assistant manag-jot my childhood was spent in in. ing editor George Flowers of the|stitutions that were designed to {Long Beach Independent revised correct my ways and mend my {the statement slightly. The Inde- manners. They failed to do that pendent published the copy-land, I am sorry. . . . righted story Monday afternoon,| Now I am gone. Whatever use after Chessman's execution, [t Juignt Have been to society is {cance y an act of vengeance. By CARYL CHESSMAN You ask me A (Copyright 1960 by Long Beach jin to pel i have 8 Soules, |sependet, distibuie by The|lifetime I was guilty of many Assoc SS. crimes, but not these for which LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)--|mv life was t CY These words are not intended to] about : ee - elicve |be published unless the state of there is none. Caryl Chessman |California has finally taken its hag gone to oblivion, so that so- vengeance upon me. ciety can forget one sorry life. That, you see, is just what cap-itime. "y program. resentative John E. Moss (Dem TV idol of teen-agers Teen-Age Idol WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tele-| sentatives subcommittee on legis- vision entertainer Dick Clark was lative oversight. accused in the congressional pay- ola hearings Monday of improp-|line--he called it a "Clarkela" erly taking $7,000 from American|after the witness' name -- flew Airlines as pay for plugs on his|in the face of federal airwaves The charge was made by Rep- Calif.), who gave the 30-year-old| some pointed questions during the sec- ond and last day of his appear- ance before the House of Repre-| Moss said the deal with the air- regulations. Clark replied that such plugs were common in the broadcast ing industry and said he believed |the American Broadcasting Com- | making its report to the Com- mons. of the position last given by the missing ship. LATE NEWS FLASHES TORONTO (CP) -- Bain, former superintendent of the Ontario Training School at Guelph and assistant superin. d at Cobourg, will duties Monday as superin- tendent of the training school at Bowmanville, it was ed today. He succeeds John S. Morrison, recently appointed to a new three-man Ontario parole board. ° Decision On Cayuga Friday TORONTO (CP) -- Whether the passenger ship Cayuga will be sold or scrapped will be known Friday noon when [fléche in the Montreal district tenders to purchase will be opened, Built here in 1906, the ship (Would mean the granting of a a divorce for any reason but the practice since Confederation has been to dissolve a marriage only when a petitioner can prove adultery, Non consummation must be proved to obtain an annulment, Adultery tept Nova: Se a-"where extreme |eruelty also is recognized. Pare lament handies Quebec and New: J t provinces do not have divorce courts. Parliamentary approval of a petition by : Mrs, othy Nora Alice Hurst Earle of Ville La {pany had given him specific ap- | proval for what he did. | Clark said the plug was to the |effect that transportation for | guests on his American band. | tand show was provided by| American Airlines. { Timing of the $7,000 payment | was not brought out, but the im- carried more than 15,000,000 in the 48 years it operated on |Parliamentary divorce for the Lake Ontario. The Cayuga last sailed Labor Day, 1957, after |first time on grounds other than $143,000 in losses was accrued during a four-year period. adultery or non-consummation. a . Howeyer, the step would not W. German Minister To Resign mean that Parliament has BONN (Reuters) created a precedent and that -- West German Refugees Minister |Quebec and Newfoundland peti- Theodor Oberlaender, who has been under sharp criticism be. |tioners will be able to obtain rause of his Nazi past, said here today he will resign in a few |divorces merely by proving de days time, sertion, wa plication was the plugs were made over recent weeks, Last Friday, when the point came up fleetingly, there was mention of Clark getting $7,000 | worth of airline tickets in return {for plugs. An ABC spokesman {said then the airline tickets were {used when Clark's show went on the road. Clark spent most of the day in- sisting that the money which came to him from side activities {was not payola. The term generally is taken to {mean under-the-table payments to influence a disc jockey to play| certain records so often the pub- lic is led to believe they are de-| f servedly popular. The payments have taken various forms, in. cluding cash, Clark objected to defining pay- ola to include income such as he| had from a number of music pub- lishing and record manufacturing firms, He has testified he owned some, wholly or partly, before ABC told im to get rid of them. |itkal punishment is. Now that the state has had its vengeance, I should like to ask the world to consider what has been gained. I know that there are many |who say that the presence of |Caryl Chessman upon this earth !is a menace to society, But so- ciety has had many other oppor-/ |tunities to keep Caryl Chessman| {from its midst. In fact, for nearly 12 years, it was able to keep this poor human, Caryl Chessman, from intruding upon anyone's |property or privacy. (A DIFFERENT PERSON Evidence was given Monday Capital punishment, it is said,/that Mr. Gray had a contract lis applicable to those who cannot |with Dimensional Inv e s tments be rehabilitated. Yet the Caryl Limited under which he was to {Chessman who came to death/receive a fee of $275,000 for his TORONTO (CP) The royal commission investigating the pur- chase of Sarnia Indian reserve {land will recall Metropolitan Tor- |onto's assessment commissioner, |A J. B. Gray, to the witness |stand today. Land Probe Body Will Recall Gray the deal. A letter produced Monday|§ showed that Dimensional offered | Mr. Gray $215,000 in addition to a $60,000 fee provided by an ear-| lier contract, The letter was produced by R.| ' L. Kellock, the Ontario Liberal party's counsel at the probe, He threatened to quit the hearings when Dimensional counsel Nor- man Borins and Joseph Sedg-| SE Irow so long ago, and the Caryl part in the land transaction. (wick, royal commission counsel, |} Di | criticized his confection with a {Chessman who was p d by al bought 3,100 acres BOMBER WRECKAGE gas fumes, were quite different of the 3,450-acre reserve at about {persons. 00 an acre after signing an { I feel that I had a useful life agreement with the federal gov-| |ahead of me, had the state been ernment March 14, 1959. |interested in justice, instead of Evidence has shown the On- vengeance. Perhaps my books|tario Hydro-Electric Power Com- were not masterpieces of litera- mission agreed to buy 176 acres day night during an emergency ture, but they were readable and of the land from Dimensional for landing attempt. All six Cana. Printable, and possibly offered $7000 an acre. The royal com- dian Air Force men aboard Some contribution to hum a n/mission was set up by Premier died. --AP Wirephoto {Haug There might have been Frost after CCF charges in the| where the B-25 crashed Fri- law firm representing former Di- mensional investors in a litiga- tion. The letter was signed by Sam Ray and Saul Sigler, majority shareholders in Dimensional when the company purchased the Kehoe pleads. Gregg, aged 15 land. | months, is one of the many said no money was to be given children admitted to the cor- to Mr. Gray until all the 3,100 ridors in the children's ward acres brought by Dimensional! of Oshawa General Hospital, had been sold, { "Come on folks, get me out of this corridor" little Gregg A) CLEAR THE CORRIDORS' ; enough rooms for all patient when the new hospital wing | built. The campaign for fu: for the wing is in its sec day. where overcrowding is most acute, The son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kehoe, 287 Division street, Gregg is recovering from pneu- monia, and is well enough now to realize how lovely | ' in the corridor. There will be f ond --Oshawa Times FU | 4 hoto, Ww YN. g 1 oon TH I more and better books, legislature that Hydro bungled| X 1 - 11d In \ 1 Objective: $850,000 7 1} 7 -- 1 } i