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THOUGHT FOR TODAY The best ten years of a woman's life are between the ages of 29 and 30. Osha Somes WEATHER REPORT Partly cloudy, warm and humid, scattered evening showers and thundershowers. The Price | 10 Cents Per Copy VOL. 90--NO. 170 OSHAWA ONTARIO, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1961 Second Class Mail Ottawo Department, SIXTEEN PAGES Authorized as Post Office CHARGE FRENCH BREAK CONCLUDES HIS TESTIMONY Adolf Eichmann, flanked by guards, looks toward the judges bench as he answers questions from the judges during his trial in Jerusalem today. Eichmann, on trial for criminal responsibility in the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews, concluded 25 days of testimony with a plea that the judges accept his contention that he was only a low-ranking |to increase the revenue of the|volved will fall between £150, person "who had to keep my | nose in the card index files." --(AP Wirephoto via radio from | Jerusalem). Russian Radar Ship Near Capsule Splash CAPE CANAVERAL, Fa. or what they were there for. But| clouds AR trawler|l would guess they were there equipped with radar is reported|to learn as much as they could (AP) --' A Russian the sky changed from blue to pitch black. LONDON (AP)--Prime Min- |ister Macmillan's government |increased postal, telephone and [telegraph charges today in an pening move to get Britain's| {public and private economy on jan even keel. Postmaster General Reginald Bevins told the House of Com- mons the new rates are designed | post office department by £25, 000,000 ($70,000,000) a year. His announcement came 24 hours before the scheduled pres- entation of a sweeping new aus- ~~ |terity program to Parliament. The cabinet this morning ap- {proved these belt - tightening | measures, designed to combat |inflation and protect the pound | sterling. The move also cleared the |way for negotiations for British membership in the European Common Market. The ministers met at the call and all of the sudden of Prime Minister Macmillan. The program to which they gave consent is expected to Austerity Tax {Plans Okayed the price of many consumer | goods ranging from automobiles {and television sets to cigarettes and beer. 2. Arrangements to draw sub- stantially on the International {Monetary Fund to protect the pound by reinforcing Britain's gold and dollar eserves. Esti- {mates suggest that the sum in- {000,000 ($420,000,000) and £300,- {000,000 '($840,000,000). | 3. Imposition of a freeze in| {the wages paid government em- {ployees and workers in nation- |alized industries such as the railways and coal mines. 4. Steps to organize public and | private investment into a five- {year plan. | Lloyd's demands for restraint |could trigger bitter political and |trade union disputes. School teachers, already promised sal- |ary boosts, may be the first to test the hold-the-line measures. | U.S. AIRLINER GAGARIN AT GANDER Yuri Too Weary For Mess Dinner 'There was a star right in/skim off up to £200,000,000 to have cruised within 20 miles|of the whole process." ($560,000,000) a year in shop: of the spot where astronaut| The 35-year-old air force cap-|the middle of my window. GANDER, Nfld. (CP)--Soviet Virgil Grissom's space capsule tain has been undergoing exam-| landed in the Atlantic Ocean. That was the gist of reports lination by scientists, doctors "I was still looking up in the {black sky and the capsule pers' spending power. It will be presented to the and psychologists about his ride|started the tunaround. I could House of Commons Tuesday by TAKEN TO CUBA | MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- An | Eastern Air Lines propeller- cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin left here for Cuba today after stop | ping on Canada soil for a night's shrugged off a planned dinner reception, RCAF mess recep- tion and a possible tour of the town TUNIS (AP) -- The Tunisian government charged today that French troops were landing on the beach five miles west of Bizerte in defiance of the cease- fire that halted hard fighting in the city astride the approach to France's big naval and air base on the north Tunisian coast. A French government spokes- man in Paris said the report of an amphibious landing was "completely crazy--a fantastic report." He said he was com- municating with the French in Bizerte to see what was happen- ing. The Tunisian information min- ister said landing barges put ashore French units in the Cap Blanc area near the village. of "|Nador. The Tunisian government meanwhile invoked new restric- tive measures against France as officials awaited the arrival of United Nations Secretary- General Dag Hammarskjold. BAR FRENCH PLANES only international airport, was closed to all French planes. Air liaison with France was main- tained by the national airline age of two flights daily. El Aouina airfield, Tunisia's Tunis Air, which has an aver- TUNISIAN CEASE-FIRE 'Crazy Report' French Declare ported a total of 670 dead had been counted in Bizerte and put the wounded at 1,500. The Tunis press charged new "provocations" and violations of the truce by the French. These reports said French planes had flown over the towns of Kasser- ine in the north and El Kef, near the Algerian frontier, Complying with a cease-fire call by the United Nations Se- curity Council, both sides stopped the hard fighting that erupted last week after Tunis. ians besieged the base and sent a flag-planting expedition into the French-held Sahara Desert. The -Security Council resolu« tion also called on both nations to pull back to pre-battle posi- tions, but French government sources said France would not comply until the Tunisian gov- ernment guaranteed her free communication to and between the various installations of the Bizerte base. French sources in Paris said Vice-Admiral Maurice Amman, commander of the base, and Tunisian officials should first negotiate a return to normal conditions, including an end to the blockade the Tunisians im- posed a week ago. About 1,500 persons gathered from 100 miles around to greet the world-circling Russian hero, | jet Electra was hijacked on a flight to Tampa today and its pilot was forced to fly see the sun shining through the|Selwyn Lloyd, chancellor of the window. . . . | exchequer. 'BAND AROUND EARTH' from a U.S. Natoinal Aeronau-|into space Friday. tics and Space Administration] : official and another source Sun-| CLOSE TO TRAGEDY sleep. The four-engine Soviet turbo- prop carrying Gagarin and his French citizens in Tunisia were ordered to get special au- day. Lt.-Col. John A. Powers re- ported recovery forces saw the trawler in the general area of the impact zone Friday. He said only one trawler was spotted. James E. Webb, NASA ad- ministrator, was asked about reports that Russian trawlers had been sighted. He replied Washington: "Well, of course I do not know exactly what ships were there during a TV-radio interview in| At the end of the 16-minute] voyage there was near tragedy. The side hatch of the space capsule, Liberty Bell 7, secured by explosive bolts, blew off pre- maturely. The capsule sank. In recounting his experiences, Grissom told the story chrono- logically. After liftoff, Grissom said: "I was looking out the win- | dow and there was nothing but | Rasminsky New Bank Governor OTTAWA (CP)--Appointment ulation about Mr. Coyne's suc:|blow the hatch when the bolts all sectors of the economy of Louis Rasminsky, 53, ds the|cessor had Mr. Rasminsky as|eXploded prematurely. new governor of the Bank ofithe leading candidate for the WATER COMES IN Canada succeeding James E. Coyne was announced today by the central bank's board of di- rectors. The announcement said the choice of Mr Rasminsky, an au-|years as governor to be suc-|/that the helicop thority on international finance and foreign exchange matters who has been a deputy gover- nor of the bank for the last 61% years, was approved by the fed- eral cabinet. Directors of the bank met here Saturday to choose Mr. Coyne's successor Mr. Coyne, governor since the start of 1955, resigned July 13 Tollowing tHe sénate's res jection of the government's con- troversial bil! to fire him. The choice of Mr. Rasminsky came as no surprise. Most spec- Trafficc Water Dead Total 57 In Canada By THE CANADIAN PRESS post. Mr. Rasminsky is only the {third governor in the bank's his- [tory. The first was Graham |Towers, who retired after 20 {ceeded by Mr. Coyne. | Mr. Rasminsky automatically|SWam- over to help attach the|compares with the |becomes president of the Indus-|fécovery line. The rotor wash cent decline that had trial Development Bank concur- rently with his appointment as governor of the Bank of Canada. The native of Montreal, who was brought up in Toronto, has been a deputy governor since Jan. "11935, ad anc éfgtative director of two major interna- tional organizations, the Inter- national Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Manitoba and Saskatchewan | The earth was very bright. vo "Then there is a band around the earth, starting with a sort of light blue at the bottom and fading into a darker blue." | After landing, Grissom re- {ported, "I unstrapped myself and disconnected everything ex-| cept my one suit inlet hose which provided me with cooling. . «+ « I disconnected the helmet {and rolled up the neck dam (a blue sky above me. We just|,ypher collar to keep out water) passed through one thin lay.'r of 55 that anything occurred, I would at least float. That was the best thing I did all day." Grissom said he called a res- cue helicopter over his radio and told the pilot he was ready to exit as soon as the recovery cable hal been attached to the capsule. He was waiting for word to "I looked up and I saw noth ing but blue sky and water starting to come over the sill. . . I went into the water." The astronaut said he saw ter had not {hooked on to the capsule and he |blew him away. A second helicopter put down a sling to pick him up. "I tried to get over to him but I was having difficulty get- ting through his rotor wash and also J had neglected to close a port dowii on Ty suit, where the inlet hose comes in, and was getting water in my suit. I was getting lower and lower all the time..." Peter John Hope, 24, Toronto Traffic and water accidents |each had six fatalities apiece, physiotherapist, when his car waged a grim battle as Can- each with three drownings, two overturned on the Queen Eliza- ada's leading accidental Killer traffic and one death by mis-|beth Way Saturday. during the weekend. It close. Traffic crashes had a slight edge, claiming 25 lives. There were 24 drownings. A Canadian Press survey from 6 p.m. Fri- day to midnight Sunday also listed three fire deaths and five from miscellaneous causes for an over-all toll of 57. Ontario, hit by ever-mounting traffic deaths, again topped the was cellaneous cause. Ttere were three traffic deaths and a fire fatality in Nova Scotia. New- foundland had three drownings. 2 DIE FROM FIRE British Columbia listed one drowning and two fire deaths, while Alberta had two drown- ings. There was one traffic death in New Brunswick. The survey takes in only ac- Susan Ellen Black, 3, Fort William, when run over by a car in a driveway Friday. Randolph O'Connell, 18, Bar- riefield Army Camp, drowned Sunday in Deadman's Bay near Kingston. William Brown, drowned in Lake day. 38, Toronto, list Eleven persons died on the cidental deaths connected with|CARS COLLIDE province's roads. Only last Fri-| day Attorney - General Kelso| Roberts called for up to 350 more police to help cut highway accidents. The province also had five drownings and a boy was accidentally shot by his brother Quebec deaths, seven drownings and two asphyxiations. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 | I normal weekend holiday activi- ties. It does not include natural deaths, known suicides or slay- ings. * Ontario dead: Raymond Van Hedegan, 20, Elsie Beek, 16, both of Picton, James Cressman, 19, Water- loo, when his sports car collided with another vehicle Sunday. Dwayne Archer, 6, drowned in the Trent River Sunday while fishing with his parents Mrs. Lawrence Gallagher, 31, | TAXES TO RISE Informants predicted Lloyd's new economic measures will in- clude: 1. An increase -- possibly as high as 10 per cent -- in sales tax and excise duties, boosting More Business Spending Seen OTTAWA (CP)--The trade de- partment said today a mid-year review of capital expenditure plans for 1961 showed an in- crease of three per cent over last year, slightly higher than |forecast at the start of this year. The department's private and public investment forecast said planned total capital outlays of $8,430,000,000, about $100,000,000 |up from the forecast made at {the beginning of 1961. Capital expenditures in 1960 ran to $8,200,000,000. | "The planned business invest- {ment program is about one per cent below that of 1960, and this three per been ex- pected earlier in the year," the report said. Big Plane Lands On Three Engines CALGARY (CP) -- A Trans- Canada Air Lines DC-8 jet car- rying 111 passengers landed |its four engines operating fol- lowing a failure in flight. | The fire department was called out, but the giant craft {landed safely. Passengers were transferred to Vanguards for Toronto. Officials said cause of the en- gine trouble was not known. to Cuba, the Miamia airport tower said. The tower said the hi- jacking occurred shortly af- ter Flight 202 took off at 10.05 a.m. EDT on a regular flight to Tampa. The num- ber of passengers aboard was not learned immediate- ly. The plane was landed at Jose Marti airport near Ha- vans, the tower spokesman said. escort of 15 took off at 9:31 a.m. NDT (8:01 a.m, EDT) for Ha- vana on a flight of about eight hours. The first man into space ar- rived here exhausted Sunday night, ran into a bit of red tape, greeted a welcoming crowd with a minimum of fuss and hurried to bed without supper. Gagarin, a short, blonde air force major, had trouble getting off his plane because he lacked |a vaccination card. Then, com- iplaining of being tired, he MONTH ON STAND Near Its JERUSALEM -- Adolf Eich- mann today completed his mar- |athon testimony here to the (court trying him on charges of |murdering millions of European Jews during the Second World |War. The defendant answered ques- {tions from his defence lawyer, the prosecution and the three trial judges for more than a month. His testimony totalled 117 hours. The searching examination of |Eichmann ended this morning {with questions from the judges. He told the judges he was sorry ------ here Sunday with only three of he had to reject special requests |{from clergymen on the Nazi |anti-Jewish measures. | Completion of Eichmann's {testimony brought the defence |case near its close, with only {affidavits from defence wit- the remainder of the flight to|nesses obtained in West Ger- many to be presented. The court then was expected to adjourn for a week before the Bingo Battered But Not Beaten LONDON (AP) -- "Bingo," said Rev. Cyril Blount as he faced 400 enthusiastic bingo immorality." "Rubbish," shouted a woman in the audience. "If this craze is not curbed," conitnued the Methodist min- ister, "I am appalled to think of the sorrows it can bring to family life." "Nonsense," shouted a man and Forest Williams, 24, Bloom- Detroit, and Mrs. Eugene Mail-| Who was fanning himself with a Belleville Friday night. Mrs. Violet Black, 58, Tor- onto, when her car hit a utility pole Friday night. Donald Kerr, 22, of Toronto, drowned Friday night when a Simcoe. Maurice Labreque, 20, Corn- wall, when his motorcycle hit a guidepost on Highway 2 Friday night. a sports car collision in Wind- sor Saturday. counted six {raffic/field, in a two-car crash near loux, 29, Stoney Point, Ont., in|Pingo card. "Bingo is not gam- "» | bling. "Then why don't you play it | gregation 'prayed for the con- version of the bingo players. The preacher spoke to the Huron," Sun-|fans, "is a greater sin than sex|players from the caller's plat- |form at the Embingo Club, one of thousands mushrooming in | Britain. {FALSE GOD "Bingo," said Mr. Blount, "is a great sin because it's the wor- ship of a false god--and an ex- pression of greed." Ignoring a chorus of derisive "boos," the minister drove home his point by saying he knew of a wife and mother who --after playing bingo--had only Brian Hird, 11, Hamilton, ac-| without money?" demanded the nine pennies (10 cents) left from (cidentally shot by his brother |Sunday. Ronald Pritchard, 19, 44 near Almonte during a rain- storm. Roland Vinent, 75, Blvth, in a two-car crash near Stratford Sunday. minister. Mr. Blount had gone Sunday when|to a crowded hall at suburban {powerboat overturned on Lake/thrown from a car on Highway|Harlow at the invitation of Jack peal, a man in the audience said Wilding, one of the promoters of a game that is sweeping Brit- in | | ! drews, 12 members of the con- | her housekeeping money to buy food. Following the preacher's ap- the and his wife had met more nice people at the bingo hall in one week than they had met Harlow. Eichmann Trial gave cheers and claps on the oack but soon dispersed after he retired, International figures are common visitors to Gander, a major stop-off for transatlan- tic flights. GOT LITTLE SLEEP Keflavik, Iceland, en route here | | and to Cuba. Their four-engine, turbo-prop airliner landed on time at 7:15 p.m. but none of the passengers --Gagarin, a crew of seven and an official party of 15--Ileft the craft until 30 minutes later. Two health department nurses boarded the plane and found Gagarin and three others |in the party were without cards End lawyers make their final a dresses. VERDICT LONG WAY OFF The judges then will adjourn to consider their verdict. Their deliberations are expcted to take thre or four months. To the end of his testimony, Eichmann stuck to his argu- ment that he was only a minor cog in the Nazi extermination machine and that his function was only to draw up railroad timetables for deportation of Jews to the Nazi death camps. Israeli Attorney-General Gid- eon Hausner hammered -away at this claim and pictured Eich- mann as one of the key men in the brutal persecution of European Jewry. from the stand were in answer to questions put to him by the presiding judge of the tribunal which will decide whether or not he is hanged. "You have told the court that |you took an oath as a soldier and could not break it," presid- ing Justice Moshe Landau said. "Were you a soldier in the SS?" "Yes, at least I had a duty and I felt that duty in my heart," Eichmann replied. Spacecraft Takes Ride, Moon Later WASHINGTON (AP) A Ranger I spacecraft--first ver- |sion of a vehicle that later this year may crash-land on the moon--will be launched on a 1,000,000-mile journey into space within a few days. The U.S. National Aeronatucs and Space Administration de- scribed in detail today its new- est and most complicated exper- iment in lunar and planetary exploration. But NASA declined to give the exact date the 1=*'nch Back at his church, St. An-/ during two years' residence in|attempt will be made at Cape Canaveral, Fla. showing proof of vaccination, necessary before stepping on Canadian soil. While airport officials tried to nurse Chris Dunn began looking at vaccination marks of some of the party. Y She didn't inspect Gagarin's arm. "I didn't really need to, and I didn't want to embar- rass the little guy all done up in his uniform." [ country. French assets in Tunisian banks were blocked. The banks had been ordered to {already change no French money. Tension remained high with Gagarin, who flew to Moscow French tanks and paratroopers from Poland Saturday night, standing watch through battle. got only two hours' sleep before scatted Bizerta and weary Tu- boarding the Ilasyam 18 for|nisian forces holding out in the {native Cashab. | thorization from the interior {ministry before leaving the The Tunisian news agency re- 9 Children Die In Fire LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- A mother and five of her 10 chil- dren died early today when fire broke out in a tenement build- ing and destroyed the flimsy Arab Volunteers To Help Tunisia League council voted unani- mously today to send a party of volunteers from Arab coun- tries to Tunisia. A league spokesman said the |agreement called for one party d-|reach health officials in Ottawa, | of volunteers to go to Tunisia as soon as possible, with others to follow later. Several Arab nations, includ- ing the United Arab Republic and Saudi Arabia, already have offered Tunisia military aid in the campaign to oust the French base at Bizerte. CAIRO (Reuters)--The Arab from their big naval and air structure within minutes. A sixth child in the Negro family was still missing hours later and was believed dead. Mrs. Mattie Maryland, about 50, died when she tried to res cue her children. The five chil. dren's bodies recovered were those of Gee, 4, Ivy, 3, Linda, 2, Pameéla, 1, and either Willie James, 9, or Bobby Ray, 8. John J. Jr., 14, and Dale Lee, 11, were taken to hospital with burns but were not considered in serious condition. Mattie Ruth, 13, and Christinel 10, es- caped without injury. The mother escaped the flames, which broke out just after midnight, but turned and dashed back into the building when she realized her children were still inside. Eichmann's final remarks | A A COUNCIL'S GIFT TO MRS. D. Diefenbaker, Mrs. Olive wife of the prime proudly displays minister, the white | fox furs given to her by the Northwest Territories council during her visit to Fort Simp- son. Mrs, Diefenbaker ac- companied her husband dur- | ing his five-dav tour of the north. --(CP Wirephoto)