Oshawa Times (1958-), 27 Mar 1962, p. 18

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bk. oi BAe BISHOP OF HAMILTON The Most Rev. John Rit- | ada at a special service yes- chie (right) was Paget terday at St. Andrew's Church bishop of Hamilton and the | ;, t Investiture was Old Catholic Churches of Can- ee ee Bloody Morque Tells Story Of Algeria stained bs Ps ts carried two corpses inside. One was a man ALGIERS (AP)--The concrete with a face battered to a bloody floor of the morgue was covered pulp. The other was a woman, with blood and barefoot Moslem'the back of her _ raincoat women were pouring water over' smeared with blood. the naked corpses "Tell this to the world, gentle- There were 37 of them, men men," a doctor said again and and women, killed in Monday's again to reporters. shootings ee sek b SF ge Outside the door, guarded by two policemen, a crowd of PACIFIC MISSION mourners screamed and sobbed.. DUMBARTON, Scotland (CP) An elderly woman beat her --The cargo carrier Photinia is head against a concrete pillar.\undergoing trials on Loch Fyn Tears streamed down the face with special pipe - laying gear and ashen-faced French soldiers with steel helmets lifted the can- vas at the back. A moan went up. Pphey brought more of them!" sobbed a woman. "My God! Why do you punish us so?"' Hospital. attendants in blood- of a policeman, who carried a fitted on her forecastle. She has tommy-gun been hired to put down a 53- ! | | | | | } 2 | conducted: by the Most Rev. John Schweikert of Chicago. (CP Wirephoto) ui | Sales In Tobacco Reported By Board TILLSONBURG, Ont. (CP)-- Sales Monday of 1,482,785 pounds of tobacco at an average price of 54.50 cents a pound were reported by the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers' Marketing Board. To date, 143,- 400,589 pounds have been sold at an average of 53.42 cents MALE MYOPIA TORONTO (CP) -- New York men's fashion editor William Ullman told the Men's Clothing Manufacturers Association of Ontario that men will have to be made more fashion-conscious if the industry is to make prof-| "They killed my son and I mile submarine pipeline for gasjits. New man-made fibres are fought for France," sobbed an between | linvisible hand of the dreaded | Mafia has dropped a net of fear jover the assizes court here, Fear Of Mafi Told By Monks MESSINA, Sicily (AP)--The, "Yes, I was afraid for myself as well. Because the malefac- tors had the power to beat me and kill me. At Mazzarino, who }where four Capuchin monks are/doesn't talk lives, who talks on trial for murder and extor-) | tion. | Terror stalked the countryside \around their Maggarino monas- ltery deep in the mountains of jcentral Sicily four years ago. Sums of money were extorted |from wealthy farmers and shop- |keepers. Refusal to pay meant/innocence came Monday with) {the admission by one of the ja smashed shop, a home con- |sumed by fire, a sudden beating '_or death, like the shotgun \slaying of farmer Angelo Can- Inada, 74. The four bearded friars were arrested, with three peasants, 'two years ago. Police said they dies." Brother Carmelo never iden- tified the malefactors. He did /not use the word Mafia. But his |meaning was clear to all Sicil- ians. | The first break in the seven defendants' stout insistence of peasants on trial that 'I alone lattempted to kill a Mazzarino policeman. Girolamo Azzolina, 28, said "I intend to free myself of a heavy weight on my conscience."'. He said police were holding his sis- a | South African | ~ 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Tuesday, March 27, 1962 177 'Papers Said Reporter Sees Decay Threatened said Monday South Africa's |newspapers still are under the) ithreat of government control. | In an article published in its} monthly bulletin, the IPI made jits first comment on the report of the South African Press Com- mission, the first part of which} was released last month after 11 years of deliberations. The organization of the free world's leading newspaper pub- lishers and editors published the article on the first page. The article said the danger of some form of press control has| been hanging over South African newspapers for the last 12 years and added: "Had it not been for... the |wree the authors of the terror,/ter and brother-in-law and "'as-/fear of what the free world lalong with monastery gardener|sured me they would not be would say and the strenuous op- \Carmelo lo Bartolo. His death|freed if I did not name my position to any form of control lin a prison cell after his arrest was listed as suicide. The crimes ascribed to the defendants -- Brother Venanzio, 35, Brother Carmelo, 83, Brother look of the Mafia. In Sicily the Mafia says whether a new shop may open accomplices." DRUGGIST TESTIFIES A Mazzarino druggist, Dr Ernesto Colajanni, trembling in Monday that Capuchin monks served as go-betweens in extor- tion of money from him. He testified that he paid out jof the English-language news: | Papers and an. important seg- ment of the Afrikaner newspa- |pers, underscored by a public opinion which has been made Vittorio, 42, and fear of the vengeance of the aware of the role of a free Brother Agrippino, 39--wear the Mafia, reluctantly told the court press | . . it is almost certain that there would today have been control or at least direc- tion in one form or another. or an old shop close, how much! 499 999 lire ($1,700) in goodwill| DANGER NOT PAST "tax" must be paid into its illegal coffers, prescribes the punishment for failing to pay, and protects interests and clients alike. BLAME FEAR money after unknown persons had set fire to his store. He said two of the monks relayed the extortion demands to him. Colajanni said he had been unwilling to go to the police "The danger is by no means past.'"' The article said... '"'the government will without doubt watch the formation and func- tioning of the projected press With the trial going into the after receiving a first threat be- council very carefully. If it sees third week, the friars have testi- fied that it was fear that got them involved in the evil doings around Mazzarino. When the trial began the robed monks sat stoically. The oratory of the court lawyers brought tears to their eyes. As it progressed the defendants be- came increasingly nervous. One of the peasants on trial, Filippo Nicoletti, 23, asked on the third day of trial that the courtroom he emptied of spec- tators and the doors closed. "TI am afraid," he said. The monks finally took the stand. They told how "gang- ster' forced them to co-operate in the extortion racket or be killed. The elderly white-haired Brother Carmelo explained why he didn't go to the police: "I was afraid. I was afraid for myself, but I afraid for the monstery, for th brothers, for the seminarians, was the British Columbia) proving to be embarassingly elderly bespectacled man mainland and Vancouver Island A heavy army truck pulled up next year. durable and this is no help to 'business turnover, he said. WOULD BE KILLED cause he was terrified. Eggs Production Lower This Year OTTAWA (CP) --Egg pro- duction in February was an es- timated 36,000,000 dozen, a de- crease of 1.4 per cent from the previous February, the bureau of statistics reported today. Consumption of natural, syn- thetic and reclaimed rubber was 9,792 tons in January, an increase of 21 per cent over the same month of 1961. WINDOW DRESSING LONDON (CP)--Gold plate so used in the windshields of Brit- elish planes to keep them free »ish planes to keep them free} from ice. The gold, 1-5,000,000th of an inch thick, is sandwiched no 'improvement' -- and 'im- provement' for it can only mean a toning down of the criticism of nationalism's race theory-- the threat of state control will no doubt be revived. "The government is convinced that South Africa is unloved abroad because it is misunder- stood. And the misunderstand- ing it ascribes almost wholly to the activities of English - lan- |guage newspapers and the strin- gers and foreign correspondents who follow the line of these newspapers, from whose staffs such people are usually re- cruited. "The press commission has only touched on this matter in passing, and it: is feared that some form of licensing stringers and foreign correspondents may not thin it is transparent is being be introduced by the govern- ment.... DRIVING BOOM There are 8,699,000 registered On the second day he testified, between layers of glass and Vehicles on British roads today the friar said: electrically heated. compared with 4,264,000 in 1951.' \that there will be any improve-| KINGSTON, Jamaica (CP)--| themselves as supporters of the If you have ever seen anyone die} of cancer, you will understand what is happening to Cuba, I) that has taken place since my) last visit just a year ago. | In" 1961 some people in Ha-| vana grumbled and cursed the steady ingrowing of commu- nism. But at least they looked healthy and ate well. In 1962 the grumbling has taken on ominous proportions, with women battling in market places for food for their chil-) dren. | All of Cuba is hungry and has just emerged from its first week of rationing with hardly a hope ment. revolution. Members of the Eastern bloc | Germans-- left there Saturday, dumbstruck/astonished me by their frank- at the shattering disintegration|ness in saying that the Cuban a failure and --especially East revolution is should be written off. A Yugoslav said flatly: "You can say that Cuba is near col- lapse." And even more significantly a ;Cuban Communist, referring to shortage, said quietly: "The United States the desperate food has won this round." For another thing, the Soviet Union has failed to make good its promises or, nncr, swims o> QL Economy In Cuba The International Press 'Africa's insignificant factories have been buili--a Hungarian tomato can- nery, an East German biscuit bakery and a Czech pencil fac- tory. There is no sign of any others under construction. ~ Agriculture has faltered. After last year's bumper crop of nearly 6,500,000 tons this year's sugar production is unlikely to exceed 4,000,000 tons (partly the result of drought, partly the ine difference of professional cane cutters and last year's unscien- tific cutting by amateurs re- cruited in the cities). Other foodstuffs are sold abroad for quick cash (Canada put another|last week received a planeload way, refuses to subsidize Cubajof Cuban tomatoes) despite a blindly. The Russians want pay-| ment beyond sugar. jgeneral decline of all farm items. ' When I was in Havana a year| This is the height of the har- An entire nation is on the edge|ago, Che Guevara told me how| vest season, and yet city people of starvation and complete eco-/60 factories, provided by thejare reduced to a diet of mal- Eastern bloc, were due to bejanga, a kind of sweet potato completed in a matter of|that at one time only the most months. In actuality, only three|impoverished ate. nomic collapse. LACK FUNDS | So desperately short of cash is Castro's government that it has not been able to place an order in Canada, on which it has relied for some essentials since the United States em- bargo, for four months. | Butter has not been seen for several weeks and milk is re- served for children under the age of seven. A year ago I wrote that any invasion of Cuba would be met with stiff resistance because) many people were loyal to Castro; this was confirmed, dis- astrously for Cuban exiles, a} few weeks later. Today I would not make such a prediction because the situa-| tion has changed drastically.) Castro still has a rigid core of| fanatic supporters, particularly) among the teen-agers who are| being steadily indoctrinated. He) also has an effective secret po- lice, who even took to following! me in Havana. He can boast of| at least 300,000 armed militia) men and women. 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