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, THOUGHT FOR TODAY Accidents would be reduced by more illuminated roads and few- er illuminated drivers. Oshawa Times Fine weather will continue, be. coming steadily warmer toward r the weekend, - Price Not 0 Cents Per Copy he OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 31,1961 Authorized aes Second Class Mall Post Office Department, Ottawe THIRTY-TWO PAGES 1 VOL. 90--NO. 126 - GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN NANCY AND LARRY, KISS "GRANNY" WILSON S. Africa Becomes Republic PRETORIA--South Africa be-|ment's racial policies but the came a republic today with the strike was crushed by sweeping country mobilized against dem-|arrests and stringent govern- onstrations by the non - white ment security measures. majority of its people. | Although Commonwealth links Church bells at midnight and|are severed under the new re- | {Tong revelry in this administra-| "i |government claimed a 'Granny' Wilson | 106 Years Today Mrs. Jenny "Granny" Wilson,|never drank or smoked and| 106 years old, is having a quiet always "liked to keep busy."| birthday at her home in Osh- awa today. A few friends and relatives/ for six house plants daily. will visit her this afternoon and already telegrams, birthday grandson, James A. cards and letters have arrived Huggins and his family. for "Granny," at 51 Brock has outlived two husbands and street east, Safe Landing For Crippled U.S. Airliner SHANNON, Ireland (AP)--A She still helps with the dishes, crippled American airliner with likes her cup of tea and cares{104 persons aboard -- mostly women and children -- today Mrs. Wilson lives with her/limped hundreds of miles over | "Bud" the Atlantic to a smooth landing She (here. The superconstellation ferry- the white stuccolhas 14 grandchildren, 31 great-|ing U.S. military personnel and cannon at daybreak heralded |, pic, South Africa will retain the birth of Africa's 22nd inde-|jiq 014 flag--which will be the pendent nation -- and the only only republican flag in the one si yioly ruled ropes: world to feature the Union Jack. 'mostly Afrikaners who long Proclamation of a republic wanted a republic free of the Was a victory for just over half 51-year rule under the British|the country's white population-- crown--braved rain for night-|the Afrikaners. The Afrikaans; {speaking whites have crusaded tive capital. {for a republic since the first | As the republic was born the Dutch settlers landed here 300 "'total years ago. collapse" of the three - day| English-speaking opinion var- * [strike launched Monday by ied from reluctant acceptance ||leaders of the 13,000,000 non- of the republic to bitter resent- | |whites to demand voting rights| ment. 1 |reserved for 3,000,000 whites. | | |BURN FLAGS A referendum. last October {gave an 80,000-vote affirmative But one Negro was shot dead margin to the change in gov- {land two were wounded Tuesday ernmental status. But observers " |night in townships outside Port believed the majority would Elizabeth, where thousands of have been smaller had voters Negroes demonstrated against/known the country would also the government by burning|leave the Commonwealth today. South African flags. The country's non-whites, who Police moved into the Negro were British subjects until to- township with armored -cars,|day, were not allowed to vote but claimed they were not re-lin the referendum. sponsible for the shootings. | prime Minister Macmillan in Johannesburg's streets were] nearly deserted. Hundreds in|2, Message to Verwoerd today in| the country's biggest city had| |wished prosperity and peace to stayed home earlier in the|the new republic. week, but today was a holiday for most people anyway. Some] s Jn Indian and Chinese merchants| sidium have kept their shops padlocked in silent Protest against Wwhite-| . supremacy rule. Charles R. Swart, a 66-year-| Winner old Afrikaner who once played| bit parts in Hollywood and was South Africa's last governor- |general, took over as the mor In Derby |republic's first president, His | EPSOM, England, (CP) -- | stakes tickets on Psidium, win- FIVE IN CANAD WIN ON DE Nine Had Tickets On Second Horse By THE CANADIAN PRESS Five Canadians won the $140,- 000 pot of gold with Irish sweep- ner of the Epsom Derby. Another nine held $56,000 tick- ets on Dicta Drake, the second place horse, and seven had $28,000 tickets on Pardao, the third-place horse. All those with tickets on Psi- dium had them under pseudo- nyms. They were: Ti Ti, Ste. Therese, Que.; Ti Me, Hull, Que.; Georgina, Ot- tawa; Douglas 320, Dartmouth, On Dicta Drake: M. E: Randell, Newfoundland; All Wet, British Columbia; This Time, B.C.; Music, Ottawa; Beul Beul, Montreal; Limey, Ontario; Joseph Russe Markoff, Toronto; Bardouniotis, Angelo, Ontario; and Big Success, Tor- onto. On Pardao: Betty Boop, Brantford; Anne, Hamilton; Reider Skretting, Vauxhall (Alta.); Honey Dear, Willowdale (Toronto suburb); Can't Happen, Winnipeg; and Gerna, Montreal; Bingo, Tor- N.S.; and Harry, Vancouver. onto. Jews Murdered British Official JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- A British government official in Cairo was less than enthusias- tic toward Adolf Eichmann's "Jews-for-trucks'" proposal in mid - 1944, Eichmann's go-be- tween testified here today. The official was assassinated by Jews if late 1944. Joel Brand, who acetd as ne- gotiator between Eichmann and the Allies on the proposal, testi- bungalow in which she has|grandchildren and six great-|their families from Germany to lived since coming here as a great-grandchildren. bride 78 years ago. She spent her early years in The City of Oshawa sent 30 Mariposa Township, in the red Joses: crowned with "106"| Cannington area. She was deli- etters. o : "oldest ] ; have lost some of thelr|y oe live to be 20 years old. parkle now. One of the rea-| of oo for that is because shel Granny" moved to Osh- . is|awa when she was 18, to live Smply yfuses to'believe ste 'S|with her aunt and uncle. She "Granny" has reason to/moved to the Brock street ad- argue about her age. One of (dress when -she was married the first callers today was her|and has lived at that address physician, Dr. B. A. Brown. ever since. After a brief check-up the doc-| Mrs. Wilson has an 86-year- tor smiled and informed "Gran-jold 'baby sister" Mrs. Annie| 9 et? ny's" granddaughters that her|Squires, living in Florida. But heart functions just as well as her brother, who visited her on any healthy 30-year-old person's her 102nd birthday, died in would. March, 1959. Thomas A. Smith, Many have asked Jenny Wil-/then 94 years old, son the secret of a long life.|the way from New Westminster, Usally her answer is an honest,|B.C., in 1957, to be with his "I don't know." However, she|sister on her birthday. Doug Harvey | came all| McGuire Air Force Baes, N.J., was forced to turn back two ours after leaving Shannon when one of its four propellers and the pilot sould not A Pan American airliner in {the vicinity escorted the crip- ipled plane to safety. | TEXAN COULDN'T STAND COWBOYS | | SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) Manuel Arias, 36, appeared in corporation court Tues- job is largely ceremonial. LED REPUBLICAN DRIVE The real power still rests with Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- when its other members de- manded that he modify his apartheid policy of strict racial segregation and white suprem- acy. Swart took the oath of office a few hours after South Africa officially became a republic at midnight, left the Common- wealth and dropped the Queen as head of state. day charged with simple assault | He had punched an un- identified neighbor in the | nose. Arias testified that his | Swart said in his inaugural address that the new republic wanted peace and friendship with all nations. But he also made clear that South Africa woerd, who led the drive o a, ah md pe of the British Commionwealth fied at Eichmann's trial that Britain's Lord Moyne told him: "What shall I do with those million Jews? Where shall I put them?" J | Psidium, a 86-to-1 longshot, won {the 182nd running of the Eng- lish Derby today. Dicta Drake, the French { erican - owned Pardao | RENNES ARRIVE AT PARIS Paris Greets Kennedy, Talks Start Today nedy paid glowing tribute to de| Gaulle and emphasized the im- portance of their talks--a pre- lude to his weekend meeting in Vienna with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. Departing from his prepared cane third in a photo finish for the runner-up spot. The lightly - rated Psidium, which hadn't won in three earl- ier starts this year, moved away in the final furlong to take the top prize of £34,548 -- $06,734. Dicta Drake was 100-59-8 in| {the betting and Pardao 13-to-2.| Sovrango finished fourth at odds | of 100-to-7. { A throng of about 250,000, in- cluding Queen Elizabeth and other members of the Royal Family, watched the famed 114- mile race under perfect weather A 101-gun salute boomed out as Kennedy entered the city in a big open convertible with de Gaulle. Mrs. Kennedy followed in the car behind with Mrs. de PARIS (Reuters) -- President [Kennedy settled down to talks with President de Gaulle today after receiving a rousing wel- come from thousands of cheer- ing Parisians at the beginning|Gaulle. of his three-day state visit to| The cannons were still blast- inster Winston Chu: the Jews "then the ®an have them" trucks. neighbor and a friend had been playing the guitar and singing for three days. "I don't blame you," said Judge Lawrence Lang in finding Arias not guilty. "I couldn't have put up with it that Jong, myself." Joins Rangers NEW YORK (AP)--The sign- Managing Director Frank ing of Doug Harvey to a three- Selke of Canadiens said he was year contract as playing-coach notified by General Manager of New York Rangers of the Na- Muzz Patrick of the Rangers tional Hockey League was an- that Harvey will sign this after- nounced today by Admiral John noon. U.S. Holiday Toll Sets New Record CHICAGO (AP) -- The death toll in the United States during the extended Memorial {would not tolerate any interfer- lence in its domestic policies. | The new president said South |Africa claimed "the right to de- |, {cide for ourselves on matters of domestic policy according to the | |expressed will of our own elec-| torate, without interference {from outside." | As Swart spoke, thousands of | {police and armed security| troops stood guard in African townships to head off any pro- test against apartheid. STRIKE CRUSHED conditions. The Queen, an ar- dent fan and owner, did not have an entry in the race. | An Irish hospitals sweepstakes based on the result of the classic for three-year-olds. Although a longshot won the race it did not cause much astonishment. With a field of 28, it was considered the most wide- open race in years. CHANGED HANDS France. {ing out over the River Seine text, Kennedy said the "present The two leaders began their taiks, which will take place in five meetings during the next three days, Kennedy and his wife arrived. cover the entire list of interna- tional problems as a prelude to [Vienna this weekend. | when Kennedy Quai d'Orsay, the French for- eign ministry, where he and his two hours after|wife will stay. The talks are expected to|the steps into the building. [MOUNTED ESCORT Kennedy's summit meeting with) A motorcycle escort accom- |Soviet Premier Khrushchev in|Panied the two presidents and« their wives part way into the De Gaulle also gave a lunch-|City and then gave way to color- reached the relationship between France and the United States is essen- tial for the preservation of free-| dom round the globe." | He described de Gaulle as "a| captain in the field in the de-| fence of the West for more than| 20 years." | De Gaulle assured Kennedy of | our deepest esteem and friend-| ship." { ALWAYS FRIENDS | De Gaulle beckoned him up Lord Moyne was British dep- uty minister of state in the Mid- dle East. He was assassinated in Cairo in November, 1944, by two members of the Stern Gang, a Jewish terrorist organization. Brand said he told Jewish leaders in Istanbul that Eich- mann promised to spare 10 per cent of the 1,000,000 Jews as soon as agreement was reached in principle on the exchange of the million for 10,000 trucks. "I pleaded and begged," Brand said. COULD HAVE JEWS He said Eichmann had told him that if President Roosevelt and British wartime prime min- i wanted in exchange for the Earlier, Brand's wife Hansi, a Jewish ledder in occupied Hun- gary, testified that Jews often contemplated assassination of Eichmann but did not kill him because of feared reprisals. She said she headed a "committee for aid, not heroes." "Our anxiety was to keep the people alive," Mrs. Brand said. "We did not know whether the death of Eichmann would help our people." Mrs. Brand said Jewish lead- ers had no firm knowledge of |the Nazi hierarchy. Drug Cures Some Cancer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Re- The lead changed hands sev- eon party for Kennedy and his|ful gold-helmeted and beplumed eral times before Psidium, Eng-|wife and 40 other guests includ-| republican guards on horseback. lish-owned but ridden by French|ing French Premier Michel De-/ De Gaulle and his wife had "We have never known Amer. Search has shown a certain drug icans here other than as friends cures a type of cancer which and allies and as such we wel.(affects pregnant woman, U.S. Day J. Bergen, club president. Selke said he does not know the terms reached bi - MONTREAL (CP)--Montreal|vey and the New tore mot Canadiens announced toda pt they have been advised that vel- hetween the two National midnight Tuesday i | < cal sia defenceman Doug Harvey |Hockey League clubs, now that|went Bt 448 and Be me wil sign a three-year contract| Harvey has made his decision, previous high of 413 for a four- as player-coach with New Yorkiwill be held at a later date, not/day Memorial Day observance Rangers. vet determined. lin 1957. 5 Canadian, U.S. Police Probe Big Crime Here TORONTO (CP)--Top law en-| commission, sai forcement officers from Canada|will cover the and the United States meet here|ized crime in t with more than 650 deaths from all causes, extent of organ-|39; his brother Vito, 41, the interflow of crime between ment and means of c - orrecting| dition ing. Ouiarie and eastern parts of the them and methods for 2 Rearing strength-| The fourth man holiday weekend hit a record d the conference|each. The men, Alberto Agueci, is John S. ening the hand of the police. The closed meetings will The only open session of the cover all phases of the picture three-day conference -- to take and probably will pay special place behind security-tightened fo an international/ doors of the police commission narcotics smuggling ring, doing/headquarters--will come when business in the multi - million- Premier Leslie Frost addresses (Pops) Papalia, 32, also known| in the underworld as The En-| forcer. Papalia was arrested| {mid-March beating of Toronto gambler Max Bluestein, African leaders attempted to| {organize a work boycott coincid-| ling with the proclamation of a Danes, British | Fishing, Fighting COPENHAGEN (AP) Danish frigate today trailed the {Scottish trawler Red Crusader] {after shelling her near The | Faeroe Islands in a Danish-Brit-| |ish clash over North Atlantic {fishing rights. | The 274-ton Red Crusader re- {treated toward the Scottish | coast under escort of two Brit- {ish warships, which hurried to {her aid after the shooting Tues- |day. and| iti 4 he U.S. and Can-| Rocco Scopellitti, 28, were re-| The Brilich haval command today to discuss all aspects of ada, weaknesses in law enforce-| manded to June 7 for an extra- ers refused to surrender the {trawler, which the Danes ac- cused of fishing inside Danish The [territorial waters around Faeroes. The Danish frigate Niels Eb- besen was under orders to fol e edge of Britisi* waters. The Red Crusader was hit jockey Rogert Poincelet, pulled bre. {greeted the Kennedys at Orly|come you," he said. fi Surgeon - General Luther Terry away to win by two length. Psidium, owned by Mrs. Ar- Traffic deaths for the 109/TePublic to protest the govern: pad Plesch, is a chestnut colt He said discussions for a deal,hours between 6 p.m. Friday to by Pardal out of Linarella. |Moutiers, owned by the 80-year- |old widow of American pub- {lisher Ralph Strassburger, was |favorite for the race at 5-to-1 but was never in the contest -- Alafter Psidium turned on the |speed in the stretch. Psidium's victory, accom- plished over a hard, dry turf course after weeks of near drought, was the biggest upset in the .classic since Aboyeur won at 100-to-1 odds in 1913. "Vive Kennedy" as the car| swept through the gates of the their talks. THRONGS LINE STREETS Tens of thousands of Parisians lined the streets in spring sun- shine to cheer the president and his wife as they drove through the city from the airport. Andrew Hatcher, assistant press secretary to Kennedy, said he estimated the crowds at about 1,500,000. Attempt To Link Violence To Klan Hundreds of Parisians shouted airport. The two leaders shook carrying the smiling president/emerged from his plane. Elysee Palace, de Gaulle's offi- Gaulle were both dressed in cial residence, for the start of simply tailored suits, Mrs. Ken- {nedy in pale blue with a tiny straw hat. De Gaulle walked down a red said Tuesday night. carpet to greet the president as| Dr. Terry said in an interview he stepped down from the 707/that the cancer is a very spe- jet airliner. |cific type in which there are The president's plane landed not a great number of cases, at 10:20 a.m. about 10 minutes but it's one of the widely grow- ahead of schedule. De Gaulle|ing cancers. that happens to or- was still inspecting the guard|iginate in the womb of a preg- In his airport speech, Ken-|of honor when it touched down./nant woman." warmly as Kennedy Mrs. Kennedy and Mme. de MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)-- the judge who advised him to {The justice department planned |use the Fifth-Amendment plea. to continue today its efforts to| link the Ku Klux Klan to mob/UPHOLDS CONVICTION violence against "Freedom Ri-| Also in Montgomery Tuesday, ders" in Anniston, Birmingham the Alabama Court of Appeals Those invited from the United three times by gunfire in Tues- dollar range, spotlighted re-'a luncheon t oday. States include Albert Whittaker|day's brief encounter after the cently when a US. grand jury, Premier Fro: t, wi S | returned indictments on four attend the LL a am of the U.S. Secret Service, Al- Danes put a boarding party Ontario men. Three of the men|week he would explain Ontario's) ert Ward of the bureau of nar-aboard the trawler to take her have been arrested. An intense position during his Iuncheon|otics, Vincent Clayton of the|over. The Danes said the frigate search was being made for the|speech. He said he was partic-| revenue department and John|opened fire when the British other. ularly anxious to learn of any|Faucett of the bureau of cus.|/skipper made a dash for free- Officials of nine law agencies|lack of co - operation between|{oms. Representatives of the dom. will attend the meeting, ar-!Canadian and U.S. agencies. |immi ranged by the Metropolitan Tor-' A recent U.S. crime commit- the New York State police are/peared, the Danish boarding onto Police Commission. tee report spoke of definite alS0 expected. {party returned to its frigate and C. O. Bick, chairman of the criminal links between New| Canadian representatives at|the trawler kept steaming to- York state and Ontario, but po- the meeting include: Toronto/ward her home port of Aber- CITY EMERGENCY lice chiefs in most of the cities| Police Chief James Mackey,|deen. PHONE NUMBERS concerned in the report denied Commissioner W. H, Clark and| Britain and Denmark are dis- any knowledge of organized Assistant Commissioners W. J.|puting fishing rights around The {crime connections. Franks and W. H, Kennedy of|Faeroes, between Iceland and {the Ontario Provincial Police; |The Shetland Islands. British POLICE RA 35-1133 BAIL WAS $30,000 RCMP Commissioner C, W.|trawlers have challenged Den- The three men arrested fol- Harvison and Deputy Commis-|mark's attempt to restrict them FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 | owing the grand jury indict- sioner C. W. Goldsmith of the|by extending The Faeroes' ter- {ments appeared in court Mon-|\RCMP crim inal investigation|ritorial waters to 12 from six HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 | day. Bail was set at $30,000! branch. miles. » 2 i cot ATT A Bn and Montgomery, Ala. This is the third day since the government launched a hearing in federal court aimed at (1) making permanent an existing injunction against the {KKK and (2) Obtaining an or- gration depart ment and. When the British warships ap-|der requiring Montgomery po-| lice to provide protection for | future interstate passengers. [ During the second day of tes- [timony before U.S. District {Judge Frank Johnson three wit- [nesses refused to answer at {least some of the questions put |to them. They pleaded the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, (saying answers might tend to |{incriminate them. | One witness was cited for con- tempt after he refused to tell {upheld the conviction of 12 Ne- groes arrested in a series of lunch-counter sit-ins, ruling that a merchant can serve custom- ers he sees fit. Ten Negro students each were {fined $100 and costs and sen- fenced to 30 days in jail under a city ordinance that makes it jerty of another after being warned to leave. Two Negro leaders, Rev. F. L. Shuttles worth and Rev. Charles Billups were convicted of organizing the sit - in demon- strations. Eight more integrationists ar- rived at Jackson, Miss., Tues- day and followed their prede- cessors to jail as the "Freedom Rider" movement continued. {unlawful to remain on the prop-| J CANADIANS IN CONGO MARKET Smiths Falls, Ont. At centre is Congolese woman carrying large basket of fruit. «(CP Wirephoto) Two signallers from detach- ment of No. 57 Canadian Sig- nal Unit visit market in Lu- luabourg in Kasai Province. Left to right are: Cpl. Pete Thomas of Kingston, Ont., cook M. Lacoste and -Signal- man Jim MacFarlane of -