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THE APARTHEID
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N Wednesday, one and a
0%
half million Europeans will go to the pulls in South Africa to choose a Govern- ment to preside over the destinies of '11 million natives, coloureda And Asiatics who have no real any in choosing those who shall rule them.
Choice before the veters will bo whether to give a third five-year mandate to the Nationalists and their Kive apartheid polley or
the opposition power
to
rties
United Party. Both share a common desfr the maintenanes of white leadership
in South Africa-but favour, dif- ferent approaches to the desired end.
Compartments
Nationalist form of
Tiparteld calls for com-
partmentation
of Euro-
peans, coloured natives and The chief Africans
architect of their policy, Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, Minis ter for Native Affairs in the recently dissolved Parliament, feuis confident. that further endorsement will be forthcoming. He and his supporters point to the fact that in the 1953
following elections,
five Гентя
uf apartheid wrangling, the Nationalists. were able to increase their all other majority over Parties in the Assembly from 13 to 29. This they take as an indication that their policy found favour, and will continue to su do. in the other corner of the arena there is the United Party, led by Sir De Villiers Graeff, which wants what ho
terma "discrimination with Justice to all races,"
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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1958.
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NO LARGE TAX RELIEF SEEN Seize
Backlash Of
US Recession
May Hit UK
By JOSEPH W, Grigg
London, Apr. 13.
Britons faced the gloomy prospect today of con- tinuing to pay the world's highest taxes for another full year.
Sputnik II Believed To Have Broken Up
London, Apr. 13. Sputnik II still was circling the earth tonight but was expected to disintegrate in its "next few circuits." Prof. A. C. B. Lovell of the Jodrell Bank Observatory sald that as of 9 pm, that the satel ilte and its dead dog passenger
"bas come down rather more slowly than we expected."
Lovell Fald this probably meant that the Sputnik launch-
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Derick Heathcoat
Amory presents his first budget next Tuesday and all advance indications were that he has on November 3 was a little no big concessions in store for British tax- payers.
Gaillard To
Seek Vote Of
Confidence?
0
heavier than we thought." The Soviets announced at the time of the launching that it weigh ed 1,120 pounds.
Disintegrate
Heathcoat-Amory took over his job only last January with a single assignment-to keep tight lid un Government spend-
Lovell said he expected the ing and save the pound from
"to disintegrate the threat of runaway infla-carth satellite
within the next few circuite" tion.
on its space' orbit,
He is ending up the current financial year with a mudest surplus of about £$23,000,000. He hopes to come up with a similor surplus for the 1958-59
Anancial year.
Paris, Apr. 13.
Only Promises Premier Felix Gaillard, frosh from a temporary victory aver" "right-wing Minitors But Britain's Munetal punaits who had violently opposed have sadly conceded this leaves Heathcoat-Amory little but
į
INVASION OF
Nuclear
WEST SUMATRA Explosion
IMMINENT
Singapore, Apr. 14.
Fighting in Sumatra reached its peak today in pre- paration for the Indonesian Central Govern- ment's expected invasion of the Western side of the island-possibly within 48 hours.
These were the major de- velopments:
United
A
report from PrCBS correspondent Wendell Mevick at Bukittingg that five Djakarls worships had appeared off the West Coast of Sumaira The rebel command predicted that amphibious land- ings would come today or by dawn Tuesday.
*
Sacrifice
Ahmed Lieut-Colonel Hussein, rebel comman der, called on his forces to "be prepared to sacrifice all and, Lovell estimated that in a necessary, die." "critical slage," the satellite's height was only between 110 and 120 miles, compared with a maximum altitude of 1,023 miles at the time of launching, As it circled nearer, it became subjected to the stronger pull and gained speed. of gravity Lovell said it now was taking only 08 minutes errth once,
his North Africa policy promises to offer to the nation's original orbit
₤1
inal
payers,
In his budget: pesch an
Heathooat-Amory Tursday, will point out that he has to keep a weather eye on twa contradictory ecotomio dati- gers a continged inflation threat now and the possibility that Britain may be hit by the backlash of the US recession later this year.
minutes.
to orbit the compared with iisd
time of 103.7
Profesor Lovell reported a Jater radar sighting of the Sputnik at 2120 GMT, when it was over the Atlantic.
Last Sighting.
"I take this opportunity to remind you once again, turn the very ground you are standing on into a battlefront and do not be afraid of death," said Colonel Hussein over the Padang Radio. Rubel resistance was silf-
oa the tening
North Sumaira_front_
Turns Self Into
Human Torch To
Defend Honour
Abadan, Apr. 13.
In China?
Plane
Miami, Apr. 13. The crew of a Cuban air- lines passenger plane commandeered B DC-3 plane with 11 passengers aboard today and flew hero from revolution-torn Cuba.
One of the passengers was United Press newsman Harold Lldin, who said the declaton for the sudden change in flight plans apparently was made by the crew after toke- off from Havana about 2.30 p.m. The plate was scheduled to ty to Santa Clara in
By WARREN DUFFEE
Washington, Apr, 13. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey {Democrat, Minnesota) Haid today 'that Russia set off a nine-kiloton underground Central Cuba. explosion in Communist Chins during the past year. Nine kiletons la the equivalent of 9,000 tons of TNT,
Mr Humphrey said it was the largest explosion ever recorded from China. He said he got his information "from the seis- mologists, from Sovlet journals which were transiated and from information that I was able to talher from other countries,"
The Atomic Energy Commis- sion declined to comment.
It
about
The wife of a Persion work-sold it had nothing to add to its mon burned, herself to death in previous announcements
tests in Communist the courtyard of A Muslim weapons temple to defend the honour of countries.
FOUR TIMES
the family
name
after her
husband had been falsely ac cused of shaving off the beard of a Mostem priest, it was re-ever, ported here today.
Senator Humphrey said, how- that the administration had information on the Calna test and "I think it should bavo
The priest, who was attacked been made available,"
He told the United Press later and shiven by two men during the night of Friday to Saturday, it was not known whether the nuclear claimed to have identified one China explosion was
45 Ahmed bust-that-be-back-“ronson to de«. Khedmaatkalr, 往 workman in leve it was." Ho said the blast- the oil port of Bandar Maw was four times greater than last |
year's underground atomic ex- plusion in Nevada,
of his aggressors
Reports Denied hour
An
Cairo, Apr. 13, Indonesia Embassy spokesman here today denied reports that the Indonesian Ambasador had resigned.
The spokesman said. that he had no information to Indicate that the Indonesian Ambassador
to Bagdad and Charge d'Affaires in Bolrut had rasigned. Drilled
Press
Khedmaatkait Was
released
Senator Humpluty made the succeeded in | statement on the ABC-TV pro- after he had establishing his innocence, But gramme, "College News Con- he was too late to save the lite ference," after announcing that of his wife who had soaked his Senate Disarmament Sub- herself in petrol and set herself | committee would open at in- the vestigation this week into the
alight, after promising priest
all the tortures Gehenna-France-Presse.
was reported ready today. to ask for a voto of con-. fidence which would give kim a free hand to softto the crisis with Tunisia.
his right- M. Galilard and wing opponents fought out the Tunisian crisis. tann 1-hour Cabinet meeting yesterday
It was the last possible sight- it
the giant which the
day for Iremler, for the
ing of the moment nt leest, emerged
space radar station at Jodrell Bank because the Sputnik's the Nationalists victorious.
The vote probably would have, inter alia, removed
The Conservative Government predicted orbits are below the
committed to a "light British Instrument's horizon. coloured voters from the come on Wednesday or Thurs still le
Sald the the Con- money" policy against inflation Professor Lovell common roll and put them day and would give
and it was generally believed telescope would be kept in chance to on a separate roll with votives
throw the 38-year-old Premier Heathcoat-Amory will base h readiness for use tomorrow, but three representatives
have out of office before the Cabinet's budget on this. The polley al-dded: "I confidently expect to the Assembly.
ready has pushed the Gover-hear from America in the mean- decisions are put into effect. enlarged the Senate toj Politeni --circles--prolícies | ment_Inta-s-head-on clash with time-that it-Is-stopped-crblim almost twice its original that the debate would be hot the labour unions over increasing the earth." aize, have abolished the mui the vote close. But many od wage demands for railroad, In Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tobu arca by well-entrenched US scientists said they belleved | rebel fighters. The Government Rusala's second earth satellite, made a rare mention of casual-
dog-carrying Sputnik II, tles on its side.
which Medan, flamed out in the earth's
the broadcast -almosphere.or.crashed to carth
Central An unobserved sometime during Government anouncement, made the day.
I clear that the Indonesian Air Smithsonian Force had intensified operations Astrophysical Observatory said in a familiar pré-invasion pat- Most observers believed assumption was based on tern. absence of lato official that air-sca control gave Dja-
of the 1,120-pound koria the balance of power. sightings satellite-United Press,
doubted whether the bus, coal mine and other of "God Save the person
and banned the right-wing would be willing to workers in nationalised indus-
epen up a crisis that would be tries, of the Union Jack. More recently there have of the greatest in the post-
the
had
been the move for segrega" tion in churches and the proposal for apartheid in universitics.
war. history of France.-United Press.
Bourguiba Holds
giving Hasty Talks
These moves havuot re- ceived the solid support of Nationalist representatives, and in addition there have been воте among party members as to whether the original Nationalist conception of apartheid commands support it had in the past. Somo Nationalist members of the Assembly, for
the
Tunis, Apr. 13,
President Habib Bourguiba
rushed into conferenco with the Ambassadors of Great Britain and the United States today for talks about Franco's latest
•proposals to solvo
the two-month-old Tunisian crisis.
The
Turned Down
Scientists
the
Government has flatly turned down any general wage boosts that might set an in- Bationary pattern for the coun- try as a whole. The Chancellor an is expected to warn the nation that the Government will con- tinue to resist all wage demands, even at the risks of a big wave of strikes.
However, the Chancellor also is expected to announce
OIL TANK
The Central Government ad- milted that, is troops had been stalled for two days in the Take
Radio
Sharp Fighting
For the second day in a row, the Central Govern mont admitted sharp fighting It sald en. Celebes Island.
of posibilty of suspending nuclear
| weapons" tests.-United Press,
To
Pastor Tries
Kill Former Congregation
New York, Apr. 13. ousted pastor, armed with three guns and a hatchet, burst into his crowded former church in the middle of prayers today and sprayed the walls and celling with shotgun pellets in a frustrated attempt to carry- out a threat to kill his one-time congregation.
" kill everyone in the the congregation. In 1955, Mr church," the Rev. Moody Dun- Dukes sald, Dunning threatened ning, 54; shouted ns he walked
to kill him-United Press, into the monumental Baptist church wearing his ministerial robes.
He carried a loaded shotgun
Ho abo
that the Government already BLOWS TOP loyalists had anally cleaned out in each hand and had a pistoi
has laid plans to hit back at the US recession if it reaches Britain.
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rebels from the Kululi area of tucked into his belt. the Central Celebes, 1.500 mües had an axe. east of Sumatra.
Radio Padang called on
*
Police said the church was the residents of Sunda Alled to capacity with Its negro congregation of 300, including and Central and East Java to
Abadan, Apr. 13. instance, have expressed
The bank rate, boosted
Thirty-seven people received doubte regarding the
seven per cent last summer as
burns yesterday while watching aspect of economic
the 9-000,000-gallon all fire part of the Government's "save- partheid-the interdepen-
which has been raglug at the revolt. It told the Sundanese 100 children, when Dunning, a
entered.
Rov. The the-pound", drive, was cut back dence of black and white
to six per
Abadan refinery since Friday, that the best time to attack was negro, ent last month. having made itself more President Bourgulba has no
before the Central Government Nelson C. Dukea, Dunning's Financial experts generally pre- was learned here today.
Refinery director, P. E. Kuhl, received more "Communist, negro successor as minister, was congregation In apparent in the last few yet commented oMelally on the
leading the French Cabinet's decision last dicled another cut to five-and- years.
night to drop its insistence that a-half or even Ave per cent was among the injured. He and arms."-United Press.
prayer when Dunning throw his control later this year, particularly if a number of his officials were
robe aside, baring a 12 gauge This has been one of thean Algerian border
alump with mounting
um-watching the blaze, which was
the blaze, which was Danish Rumours shotgun in each planks of the United Party tion with Tunis
agreement precede any negotia-
confined about
hand. other employment sels in.
General campaigning, and it is
expectationa were tanks when suddenly the lid of issues,
such as withdrawal of plank which could carry
that Heathenai-Amety would one of the tanks was hurtled French troops from Tunisia.
Lax cuts to a into the air by the oil fumes great deal of support and M. Bourguiba held a surpriso limit any awing the United Party into meeting this afternoon with the maximum of about £150,000,000, exploding into fragments an it
in- fell, additional senta,
Ambassador, Lewis
These were expected to
Flames shot in all directions, Junes, and the British Ambassa- clude possible minor concessions
his BUT, Angus Malcolm, at
personal income allowances burning many of the bystanders By today, the fire had proc- presidential resklence in Salda, for lower bracket salary earners,
some reduction in entertainically, spent itself, end workers outside Tunis.
FRENCH STAND
ment taxe to help Britain's living near the stores were able ailing movie industry, and cuts to return to their homer which United Government
evacuated is the unpopular purchase tax they
on Friday
A Good Start
IN
the last Assembly the Nationalista had seated
94 members, the
American
sources did not Party 57, the Liberals five announce the news until much and thore were three re- later and gave no details of the
discussions, presentatives of the Gape
Informe: under
sources said they Coloureds elected
latest French In concerned the
Un United land, however,
Both Britain and America are
their
own
Wednesday,
roll.
the
Party will be unopposed in known to be anxious that
24 constituencica-six more Franco and Tunisia settle their than five years ago. In the differences without a return to
on luxury items-Unlied Press. France-Presse.
Washington, Apr. 13.
A State Department spokes- man sdid the United States Government had no basis on which to substantiate reports published in Denmark that the Russians had halted their recent atomle weapon tests because of Intense radioactive fallout.
"We have no basis on which to substantiate the story," the Apokesman sald-France-Presse.
SWING TO: LABOUR IN ELECTIONS
London, Apr. 13,
field they will have 132 the United Nations Security Labour Party candidates have
16
candidates opposing 125
125 Council,
Sources close to the Tunisian Nationalists and
Embassy in Paris, however, of presentatives
have Saki agreement could parties. They start day's polling, therefore, Frobably be reached quickly between the two Governments with 24 sents and could now on a number of points that wall reduce the majority of have been left unsettled pending the Nationalists to less a decision on the border control than an overall majority, larue-United Prem, t
won 87. tests and lost 15, in the 30 counties in which the of recont County resulta Council olevilons are knóWN, Conservative motording Farty counia
The Conservatives have lost 13 nosis and gained 17. The
2- Käberalu · · BAYO Won nta and
+
lost seven.
and the Indepen- dents (mostly Tory in trend). hayo won five and tout.11. However, derplin the "Socialiai gains, the actual control of The County Councils his ngi changed hands anywhere.
Although 11 county results are fiot yet known, the totals so far show that the Conserva- iīves kola - 599 sosis; Labour
SHOTGUN FIRED
con-
Two members of the and struck his arms just as he @xgration leaped at Dunning pulled the trigger on one of the guns in an effort to spray the congregation with bullets. The pellets hit the walls and cell- ing.
An off-duty policeman was passing the church and heard the shot, He rushed in and sul duc helped the two mea Durning.
Polico sald Dunning was ono of pastor of the church, Harlem's oldest, for 13 years. 420, Independente 235 and in 1955, members of the con- Liberals 48, according to the megation asked him to expand Conservative figures.
the church, but he refused. The in court where However, Labour party head- dispute ended
quarters announced tonight it was decided that the church that their candidates had won belonged to its members, not
116t rain of 140 seals, Dimning. having won 171 and lost 25. The Rev. Nelson Dukes sald In 1835, the date of the last ¦ Dunning was given a $15,000 County Council elections; the settlement and that ho' replaced parly sufforod a net lors of | Dunring as pastos. · FOR B'yeur $3 scale-Brands-Frost. -after that; Dunning threatened
Instead, It touched wheels down
hero shortly after 4 p.m. Lidin, one of the newsmen arrested by the Cuban Gov- ernment authorities in San- Lingo last week, said nine of the other passengers were Cuban and one, Dr George Pfeffer, 28-year-old geologist, was from Toronto, Canada.
Asylum
Several other Cuban pilots have sought political asylum here in past weeks saying they would be forced to fly guns into President Fulgencio Batista's Government if they return
Cuba. But this is the first time a passenger plane with passengers aboard” has been taken
Lidin said most of the passen
gora apparently
thought nothing was wrong until one of them noticed they were fly- ing over what appeared to be the
Everglades. Their suspicions Wer confumed when the Stoward, Servando Mondo, 12 Havana, refused_lg. answer their questions, Crew members of the plane bo- sides Moeda included Capt.
Carlos Villamar and co-pilot Issac Romano, 29, both of Havona
Villamer said the passengers
will be returned to Havana.— United Press.
INSECURITY
......
IN CUBA
Havana, Apr. 13. Rebel guerillas and sabotage aclivity was reported to bo continuing at full intensity in the interior of Cuba today, despite the sending of new Government zeinforcements
to the disturbed Orienta Pro-
viaco
The new troops have orders to "liquidate" the main body of Castro's rebel leader, Fidet
forces.
There was complete calm foday in Havana but reports indicated that the situation in the provinces is tenso and that an overall feeling of in-
security exists.
It seemed that the Batista government, having put a price on Castro's head, la. delermined to wipe out all his centres of resistance. France-Press0
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