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THE DAILY NEWS
Vol. 66.    No. 51
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1959
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[Rioting Sweeps Nyasaland,
23 Africans Are Killed
vjYKK.  Nyasaland   'CPi j arrests,
• (p.-fad across Nyasaland |   The bloodiest  rioling was re-
Von the heels of the ar-  ported from Nkata Bay where, in
African nationalist leaders'addition to the 17 dead, 13 Afri-
n.:Y.ia'l 23 Africans were | cans were wounded.
7ed killed by security police :    The Nkata Bay shooting broke
'battled tl'c mobs with bul-; out when a mob tried to break
c!ub; ant tear gas. [ through   a   cordon   of   security
,;b:e JJ "ei-aii 1(1 t,i|.v* forces to release prisoners jailed
7.h doiiiiii.-ii't.lioiis against under liie emergency regulations,
r.:.c r.i.v.i-d into violence Meetings and public gatherings
.1^,.,. ..,, 4ii,oan-siiuai'e-mile ' are banned under thc regulations.
j:,h :il, i.„-icriior -Sir Rob- TURN UACK MOB
rni.'.ii-tr dill,tied a stale of; Security forces opened fire and
ioroA'.d begun t'uc mass  turned   back   the   mob,   reports
frnm  l'iP areas said. But other
accounts said mobs freed somcj
....... cs nt Nzimba and rioting|
broke out in the centre of that
town.
Three more Africans werc shot
to death by police in the Blan-
tyre-Limbc area and two died at
Karonga near the Tanganyika
border when police opened firc J
on a crowd of 2,000 natives, Another w.i.s killed in the Fort Manning area when police disperse
deiv.o.istrators wilh  gunfire.
Rimers in some areas were re
ported using women and children
> a screen.
Dr. Hastings Banda, prcsident
of the Nyasaland branch of lhe
African National Congress, was
arrested and removed from the
protectorate.
Banda. who returned to Nyasa-
July after 40 years
abroad, wants and end lo lhc
"white settler" rule in his country and is opposed Ir the central
African federal inn of Northern
and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
US Embassy Members
Forced  Into Hiding
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) - U.S. I
Embassy personnel here went
into hiding Tuesday to escape
demonstrations set off by a Time
magazine article that enraged Bolivians. The Bolivian government]
itself was harassed by a tin |
miners' strike.
Thc embassy staff was reported
to have slipped out undcr guard
and taken refuge outside the
seething capital, but its whereabouts was kept secret.
Bolivian officials and businessmen paraded past thc govern-
>l ment palace in a new demonstra-
n | tion against the magazine article.
Thc article quoted an unnamed
U.S. Kmbassy official. It said he
I made the following assertion as
j a "wisecrack:"
| " The only solution tn Bolivia's
1 problems is to abolish Bolivia.
Let her neighbors divide up the
, country and the problems.' "
j The quoted in question ap-
I peared in the current hemis-
! phere edition of Time which circulates in Latin America, but not
in the North American editions.
In New York, Henry R. Luce,
editor-in-chief of Time magazine,
issued the following statement*.
"I very much regret that a re-
portorial story on Bolivia in Time,
the weekly news magazine,
should have been made the occasion for expressions of unfriendliness toward the United States.
"The story in Time was a factual analysis of Bolivia's economic difficulties — difficulties I
which for many weeks Bolivians |
themselves have described as
likely to lead to a crisis,
difficulties."
In Washington, the stale department told the Bolivian ambassador it expects his country
"to take all passible measures to
safeguard the lives" of an estimated 1,800 American in Bolivia.
Senator Styles Bridges (Rep.
N.H.) told reporters he favored
sending U.S. troops to La Paz if
mob violence continues. He also
said foreign aid to the country
should be stopped.
To Confer On
Berlin Crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pi
dent Eisenhower Tuesday inv—
Prime Minister Macmillan to]
come to Washington for a discus-;
sion of the Berlin situation.
The White House said Eisenhower asked Macmillan to come
here at his convenience and that
no time and details have been ar-
nged.
Macmillan said in London
Tuesday after returning from his
visit to the Soviet Union that hc
would like to mcet with Eisenhower around the middle of Lhis
month.
Tuesday reporters asked White
House press secretary .lames C.
Hagerty ahout Macmillan's expressed wish tn confer with
Eisenhower.
ISSUED INVITATION
In reply, Hagerty said:
"The president has invited the
prime minister of Great Britain
to come here to Washington at
his convenience."
Hagerty said the invitation was
given in a direct message to Macmillan but jidded, to further questions, that there was no personal
exchange such as a telephone
call.
Asked aboul thc purpose of the
nceling, Hagerty said:
"Il certainly is to talk about
hr situation in Berlin ... and I
leuter-.' — Colonial llie government of "cowardice."
n Lcnnux-Boyd told! Thc debate followed a day of
Ci'iv.n-.ons Tuesday | trouble in the British protcctor-
rccrcl information'ate, part of the Rhodesian Fed-
.•is in Nyasaland : eration, in which a state of em-
Europeans. ergency was declard ajd 23 Af-
i iv a s speaking in a' ricans wcre killed in clashes with
nice in Nyasaland. i police..
:-(itT.■  attacked  'he,    Defending the Nyasaland gov-
oi- i!.s  handling ofiernment's actions to control the
James  Callaghan,  situation, Lennox-Boyd said:
■riy's chief spokes-     "Some  days   ago   information
:-i; allairs. accused  came to lhe notice of the govern
ment of Nyasaland which was ofj
a vcry serious kind.
"That information made it'
clear that plans had been marie I
for congress (the African National Congress) to carry out
widespread violence and murder
of Europeans, Asians and moderate African leaders and lhat, in |
fact, a massacre was being'
planned." |
Amid an uproar from thc Labor
ranks, Lennox-Boyd said he had
seen this information but he was
"not in a position to disclose the
information or its sources."
He said it was essential for
Nyasaland Governor Sir Robert
Armitage to strengthen the security forces at the earliest possible moment.
Lennox - Boyd promised that
when law and order was restored in Nyasaland, Britain
would resume constitutional talks
on the future of the territory.
General Strike
Ties Up Ceylon
V Die
In Bus
Crash
IAYAN Mexico (AP*--
ieven persons were killed
ia the blazing crash of
ngcr bus and a heavily
ruck carrying whisky nnd
coholic beverages. Some
ictims burned to death in
vrr onlv six survivors..
ives iiere killed.
tis'i occurred on thc Pan
rican Highway   about   -30 j
-lorih-'Cst of Mexico City, I
F.'fcha Rosa 'Red Arrow i
•''.•ins "1 passengers and ]
i'-'t'r wa« heading from thc,
border city of Juarez, across
Rio Grande from  El  Paso,
'•n tne Mexican capital.
Cciaya and Cortazar it ]
o tht? truck and flames
■e for miles. j
- -.iid lhc truck -vas
■ed without warning lights
that the driver of the bus
o the truck without
■J it in time lo stop, Sur-
loo harily injured to
wtioned. officials said,
|   Students
Demonstrate
|   In Bogota
i BOGOTA, Colombia C\P)-Po-
! lice battled thousands of students
demonstrating against the gov-
| ernment Tuesday.
j Many were reported Injured as
I club - swinging police broke up
[ rampaging crowds that damaged and overturned automobiles
throughout the capital.
t'vi n-'ir., a|s0 turned water
hoses on thc students.
..•.any demonstrators were
members of a so-called "workers-
students front." Hundreds massed
in front of the presidential palace
shouting accusation? against thc
regime of President Alberto
Lleras Camargo.
Orators addressing the crowd
accused lhe government of "denying freedom of expression."
They called on lhe police to "turn
your guns against the government." Somc of the speeches demanded the ouster of the minister of development, Rafael Delgado Barrcnechc, and called for
a reduction of public transportation far*,
-0MMANI1S DESTROYER
TAWA CPi - Appointment
•■ynir. Evan Pctley-Jones,
51 W.T.cmton as commander
a.U-i Cayuga was an-
tsiiay by naval head-
•ets- Since March, 1958, hc
ocmive officer of tne
ro>f' St. Laurent
SETTLE TCA CLAIM
VANCOUVER CP - A $50,000
settlement by Trans-Canada Air
Lines as compensation for thc
death of one of the 62 victims of
the Mount Slcsse plane crash
Dec. fl, 1956, was made in Supreme Court Tuesday, Edith
Marie Edwards, widow of Fred-
crick Wilfred Edwards of Vancouver, was awarded $40,000 and
thcir daughter, Mrs, Marsha Gail
Funk, 20, received $10,000.
IDving Boy
Asks For
Watermelon
. SARNIA(CP) -Longdistance
telephone wires hummed Monday
as calls went out as far as Florida—In search of a wa ermelon.
Seven-year-old Tom Mitchell,
wasted away to a -few pounds
and lying critically ill in an oxygen tent, had asked the impossible of his mother, seated by the
hospital bed almost continuously
since Tuesday.
The dying boy wanted again to
taste watermelon, unheard of in |
Canada at this time of year.     |
But the boy's father, Thomas,'
an employee of thc Bell Telephone Company put in calls
through Canada and lhe United
States.
A dealer was finally (mind in
Detro.it, An IB-pound watermelon
was shipped by bus to Port
Huron and the cardboard parcel
was whipped through Canadian
customs and on to Sarnia General
Hospital,
Monday night little Tom Mitchell ate watermelon, the juice dripping down his chin, a smile on
his  face.
Tomorrow he may be dead—he
has been given 24 hours to live.
Testifies
On Springhill
In Commons
OTTAWA (CP) - Dr. John
Convey, director of the federal
mines branch, says there was
evidence of decreased under-
grottnd stress before the fatal
coal mine explosion at Springhill,
N.S., last fall.
Testifying before the Commons
mines committee Tuesday, he
said mine "bumps" upheavals of
the tunnel floor — are not predictable.
Before the Springhill explosion,
there was evidence thai stress
was lessening, thai the situation was under control and that
mine operations wcre not at a
dangerous  stage  in  Nu.   2   col-
COLOMBO, Ceylon <CP>-
Stecl - helmeted police patrolled
Colombo Tuesday as an estimated 1,000.000 Ceylonese joined
in a one-day general strike. The
capita! became an armed camp.
Military reserves were called
out and 5.000 troops were stationed at key points to prevent
violence. Essential serv'
maintained and there were no reports of any incidents.
The strike was organized by
tlie Trotskyite opposition Lankd
Sama Samaja party to protest
the public security bill which em
powers the government to impose
martial law and a i
troubled areas without declaring
a national emergency.
Most offices and stores were
closed. Hotels were without staffs
and newspapers did not publish.
Some government offices kept
| open with skeleton staffs.
Buses moved in convoys with
armed escorts but train service
was normal, although there were
fewer passengers than usual.
Public meetings were banned
and most of the strikers stayed
in their homes.
Macmillan Ends
Khrushchev Talks
MANY FACE TROUBLE
TORONTO (CPI-The Ontario
transport department reported
Tuesday that with only 14 days
to go, more than half thc province's motorists still have to huy
their licence plates. "Even if
if they started lining up now,
we'd havc a hard time processing
them all before the March 18 j
deadline." an official said, |
Replying to a series of committee questions on whether the
mine operators — Dominion Sleel
and Coal Corporation — might
have ordered the men out of the
pit before the explosion. Dr. Convey said his branch had done
mine tests at Springhill and elsewhere to try to determine when
stresses would occur.
PAW.
Diefenbaker Says There
Must Be Defence  Sharing
CPi
Prmc Mi
. 'elenbaker said Tuesday
.'■"fan government has
'•-■••ar to the Uni cd States
l;"a1r">g nf defence produc-
T^must be "mandatory."
f* "-ouniryTahsonT
, wouldn't tolerate
,t *V againit their sins—-
,„'«> figure that others
«e»r it M badlj..,
"We'll never be satisfied until
we have a vcry large shari
much larger than now,' he said
as he entered a Commons debate
revolving around defence in general and the governmcn 's j-prap-
ping of the CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft in particular.
He was replying to opposition
charges that the government has
turned over the main job of defending Canada to the U S.
Following the prime minister's
speech, Paul Hellyer (L-Toronto
Trinity) said "we are apparently
going to be content to ride on the
backs of the Americans" as far
as defence goes.
"We have decided for a moment at least to have no defence
at all," Mr. Hellyer said.
The Commons was winding up
a two-day dehat during which
both the Liberals and llie CCF
put forward motions of non-confidence in the government.
The Liberal motion said government delay in determining air defence policy and co - operation
with Canadian allies is preventing effectise use of Canadian defence production facilities and
manpower.
The CCF motion added the accusation that the government's
hesitation"is contributing to the
erosion of Canadian sovereignty."
Mr. Diefenbaker said the government's purpose "is to ensure
that . . . Canada will have that
defence which her financial situation will permit, her international
responsibilities demand and
which co-operation and partnership should ensure."
On sharing of defence production with the U.S., he said:
"We have made il clear to the
United States that sharing in production Is mandatory, and that
Canada will not be satisfied wilh
crumbs,
'We shall insist on our (air
share of production and cost-sharing in production , . , because a
partnership will not work if onc
has the loaf and the other has
the crumb."
Fear Floods
j  In Ontario
j TORONTO - CP - Ontario
Planning Minister Nickle said
Tuesdav hc has sent telegrams
to allert 25 river valley conservation authorities that floods
arc probable in view of this
winter's excessive snow and current mild conditions, He is also
mailing warning letters to every
Russia Calm
About US
Moon Try    I
MOSCOW-AP - Thc Soviet
news agency Tass put out a one-
paragraph report Tuesday on
the U.S. noon-sun rocket probe.
Moscow Radio broadcast only
thc launching time without
commeni.
Seek Solve
Anastasia
Mystery
HAMBURG, Germany '(API-
West German consular officials
in New York City and Canada
! will try to obtain new evidence
in thc 40-year-old mystery of
Anastasia, youngest daughter of
Czar Nicholas II.
j Officials announced Tuesday
that consular authorities will hold
hearings in New York City from
March 13-18 and later in Montreal and Toronto.
Thcy will act for a Hamburg
court that has been working on
the mystery for 15 months.
The question is: Did the Communists kill Anaslasia with other
members of the Russian royal
family in 191B or did she survive
to become Mrs.Anna Anderson
of Bad Liebenzell, Germany?
And if Mrs. Anderson is not Anas-
anastasia, then who is she
The House of Hesse in West
Germany is contesting Mrs. Anderson's claim to be Anastasia. insisting she is a Poli h farm
laborer.
In Ncw York, the consular officials will hear Gleb Botkin, son
of thc Czar's personal physician,
and Mrs. Hermann Gud the former Russian princes Xenia
Georgievna.
In Montreal, thcy wil re
evidence from theformer Duke
Dimitri of Lcuchtenbcrg an
Toronto from the former grand
duchess Zolga Alexandrovni
HEADS RINK INQUIRY
L1STOWEL, Ont., (CP) - Eric
Silk, assistant deputy attorney-
general, said Tuesday lie will
conduct an inquiry March 17 into
lhe deaths of seven hoys and one
adult killed Saturday when the
roof of the Listowel Memorial
Memorial Arena collapsed. He
said tw0 more weeks will be required to complete investigation
into the- tragedy.
Canadian
Exhibit To
Be School
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The
modernistic Canadian pavilion at
the 1958 Brussels World Fair nas
been bought by thc Eas Belgian
town of Genck to be reconstructed
as a school, it was learned here
Tuesday.
Calgary Ousts
Laggards
CALGARY (CP) - Some 35
high school students have been
asked lo leave school his year
tinder the Calgary public school
board's laggard policy. Some 135
students havc been asked to withdraw since 1955 when the plan
was started. I
Listowel
Disaster
Debated
OTTAWA (CP)—A meeting of
the Commons banking committee
Tuesday became a forum for
questions about Saturday's rink-
roof collapse in Listowel; Ont.,
which killed seven Peewee
hockey players and a recreation
John Taylor (PC — Vancouver
Burrr9ad> asked K. R. Mac-
Gregor, federal superintendent of
insurance, whether the government when it makes financial
grants to community rinks makes
any provision for insuring the
rinks.
Mr, MacGregor replied that it
docs not. He also replied negatively when Mr. Taylor asked
whether the government takes
steps to have such rinks inspected.
The questioning stopped when
committee members protested
that the interrogation was irrelevant. The committee was discussing bills to change the name of
companies.
By HAROLD K. MILKS
MOSCOW (AP) — Frine Min-
] ister Macmillan flew home Tuesday night with final Soviet salutes
and an agreement that Central
Europe's disputes should be settled by negotiation, not by force.
"See you again, and best
wishes," the British leader called
out in ■ Russian — amid Soviet
cheers — before boarding his!
Comet IV jet airliner at Vmikovo
airport.
Applause of the airport crowd
and a final warm handc asp from
Premier Khrushchev marked the
windup of Macmillan's 10-day
mission to Moscow and what a
British-Soviet communique called
a valuable exchange of views.
BRITAIN'S MOVE
(Macmillan was jaunty and
smiling on landing in London. He
suggested that Britain should
take the lead in seeking ways to
case East-West tensions We did
not agree on many important issues. But we did agree that these
vital problems of Central Europe
should be settled by negotiations
Khrushchev and Macmillan admitted disagreement about legal
and political aspectsinvol ved in
German issues.
But the document, signed at the
Kremlin, declared:
"Tiie free interchange of views
and ideas which has taken place
has created a better understanding of the respective attitudes of
the two governments and has
thereby made a useful contribution toward the  forthcoming in
ternational discussions in a wider
DISARMAMENT EFFORTS
Specifically the Soviet and British leaders:
1. Agreed to continue their efforts to make progress toward
disarmament.
2. Promised to strive for agreement to stop nuclear weapons
tests under an effective system
of international inspection and
control. Their common objective
was defined as "the ultimate prohibition of nuclear weapons and
the application of nuclear energy
solely to p::." • '' lurposcs."
S. Acknowlc' ;ed a need for
early negoti i .to citalilii'n a
basis for settlement of such German issues as Berlin' future and
a German peace treaty.
4. Agreed that "further study-
could usefully be made of the
possibilities of increasing security by some method of limitation
of forces and weapons, both conventional and nuclear, in an
agreed area of Europe, coupled
with an appropriate system of inspection."
5. Agreed to increased cultural
exchanges and a study of prospects for greater trade between
Britain and the Soviet Union
TALKS—NOT FORCE
I relation to all the matters
concerning Germany and its
neighbors, the communique said
"The prime ministers endorsed
the principle that differences between nations should be resolved
by negotiation and rot by force."
Later Mr. Taylor told a reporter he is particularly concerned about the Listowel collapse because he and his father,
Listowel-born hockey great Fred
'Cyclone) Taylor, were in the
building only some 10 to 15 hours
before it collapsed.
The elder Taylor officiated at
a Friday night hockey game.
Graham
Relaxes
MELBOURNE, Australia-AP
-Taking a brief rest halfway
through his Melbourne Crusade,
Billy Graham went golf ng Tuesday after a day at the beach on
Monday. His doctors have ordered him to take it easy because
of the recurrence of th-j ey.
ailment,
Woman Dies
At 102
LINDSAY, Onl. - CP -Mrs.
Alexander Ross, 102, this town's
oldest resident, died in a nurs
ing home Monday. Shc had
lived here all her lifc.
Kremlin Rejects
Berlin Meetings
WARSAW -AP> - Tie Soviet
Union repealed Tuesday its intentions of making East Germany
the' guardian of the West's access
route to Berlin. It also reiterated
that if the West used tanks and
planes to keep hold of West Berlin it would mean world war.
In a note sent to the Polish ambassador in Moscow, the Kremlin
also denounced the projected conference of Big-Four foreign min-;
isters. and said only a meeting
of chiefs, of governments could
lower tension.
It offered to discuss a gener
peace treaty for all Ge many
such a summit conference.
The note was delivered just
after Prime Minister I acmillan
left Moscow for home.
Comedian
Lou Costello
Is Dead
BEVERLY HILLS. Calif. AP
Actor Lou Costello, 53, died Tuesdav of a heart atack in a Beverly
Hills hospital.
Tlie comedian suffered a heart
attack a week ago and seemed to
be improving his manager, Eddie Sherman,  said.*
However, he suffered another
ittack Tuesday that was fatal.    I
In a note to the Western powers
Monday agreeing to the idea of
a foreign ministers conference,
the Kremlin said it wo«ld prefer
a summit conference.
PROPOSES AGENDA
I The note to Poland proposed
I this agenda for an East-West
summit conference:
1. A peace treaty with all Germany.
2 The stains of Berlin,
3. European  security and dis-
' ■■v.nl withdrawal of armies
and creation of a unclear fret
i:u.ie and a zone of withdrawal of
both NATO and Warsaw pact
forces in Central Europe.
5, Reduction of the armed
forces of the great powers stationed in foreign countries.
A ban of atomic and hydro1
weapon^.
A ban on tests of these weap-
Weather
Cloudy with light snow
and snow mixed with rain
this afternoon.   High 35.
TEMPERATURES     :
Min Max
1'oronto       M 4t
Montreal     22 39
Moncton  .,. 23 —   :
Halifax   ..*»....- 30 31
Svdncy       21 28   -
St. John's      22 24 •
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