MASS KILLER PLEADS FOR LIFE IN VAIN
Lincoln, Neb., April 21. The Nebraska Pardon
Board today refused to commute the death sen- ience of mass slayer Charles Starkweather and set his new execution date for May 22.
The two men with whom the decision rested made their decision after hearing 20 minutes of testimony by the redhatred ma alnyer who has admitted II killinga Starkweather, who once ler- rarised the entire Sáncoln area, was meek and quict. voiced an ho made his plea for clemency.
**Before, I didn't think muck of But ille 14 now worth the 20-year-old
11,
something."
killer wald.
"I'm Sorry"
"Where there is life there
hope," he said in a
taletin
voice.
always hope."
F
low. can
"I'm sorry for what I did," he
wald, “If there
Wag n way
I could bring them back. I would.
"I don't Zacl I was re- presented right," he wald, criticising his court-appointed allornoys, T. Clement Caug- kan and William F. Mais-
chull
"I was, I would have got
ffc."--U.P.L,
Cease-Fire Prospects In Algeria
Paris, April 21.
The prospects of a fense. Are between the insur- gents and the French in
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1969.
Convicts Seize
Mother At
Herter
To Make Knife-Point
First
Trip As
Secretary
Washington, April 21.
Algerla are regarded in The State Department fo-
government circles
here day announced plans for Mr Christian Herter to make his first overseas
04 trip State.
as more favourable than at any time since the in- surrection started in November 1954, "There are certain indica- itions
Ministry a Ferrign spokesman said today, "although for the moment we have nothing precise or formal from the In aurgent fenders.”
The Minister of Information, M. Roger Frey, suld today: "We
Secretary
of
He will By froin Washington next Monday aftertioon to at- the big four Western tend Foreign Minisera conference opening in Paris on April 29.
The department seid present
do not regard it as inpossible plans called for Mr Herler to
that Genaral de Gaulle's offer of cease-fire talles may be no- cepted in the near future, but at the same time we ure pre- pared to find that the present struggle may Continue for a long time yet."--Reuter.
Iraqi Citizens
leave Paris for the United States on May 2.
San Quentin, Calif., April 21.
Two desperate convicts escaped from San Quentin prison today, and held a woman hostage with
a knife at her throat for almost six hours.
They surrendered meekly after Telling reporters Their enny- platnis against the parote
system.
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Prison authorities suld the two men, trapped at the endi a nearby fishing pler, tossed their knife into the water and walked forward with hands up.
The woman hostage and her male companion who had been acting as a go-between with the guards were re- leased!
They were unharmed physi- cally, but neur collapse from the terrifying ordeal which began shortly after 9 am,
Surrender Promise
The break in the stalemate which raw the convicts tripped on the end of the "T" shaped pler a mille north of here came after Authorities agreed
to permit the cacaped burglar to He would spend five days In talk to newsmen in return for Washington and then dy to promise of surrender.
for the After Geneva about May 8
a brief Interview in East-West Forel Ministers which the convicts complained parole gainst the California meeting on Berlin aul Germany due to begin on May 11,
system, it was all over.
that the Observers noted Uming of Mr Herter's departure for Geneva appeared to leave mom for tuiks acong the Western ministers Lamediately
Boun, April 21 The Iraqi Embussy here rubl today that Kurds who recently arrived in Iraq from the Soviet Union were 1 Iraqi eitizens before they begon the con-
The
HOLD IT,
PLEASE!
Quell of Qualt poses for a souvenir picture by Wrensford Flute at the Griffon Bruxellois Club's open show at Brunswick House, Lon- don, on April 15. The dogs, both entered for the show are owned by Mrs. Cottrell Bridge. north Shropshire- Reuterphoto.
U.S. HAS ARMS TO STOP WAR
throughout prisoner
-Says Neil McElroy
New York, April 21.
Defence Secretary Neil H. McElroy said tonight
the U.S. has the military strength to dis courage an aggressor from either all-out or limited war.
་
He dented the charge of erities that the size of the US. defence Judget for the next fiscal year was set by a do- termination to balance the bud- fel.
Tals
Administration does desire to balance income and
outge," he said.
"This is merely sound fisex) policy. But such P dosire did not have a determining Julluence on the size of the defence budget.
"The determining influence on was what was
the siege threatened repeatedly that budzet
10 stash the throat of Mrs required for national security." Louis E. Cschwend, 53, of San Francisco,
She
who led the country 13 years forence with the Soviet Union, panlon, Douglas Harrison, 59, ugo, and their families--Reuter, i -Reuter,
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SUKARNO WANTS SUPREME POWER
Bandung, April 22,
President Sukarno today urged Indonesia's Constituent Assembly to adopt
a completely new form of government giving him almost unlimited powers.
It was the formal presentation of his long-talked-about
plan for n "guided democracy" and he told the 327
members of the Assembly that the present provi- Rebel U.S.
sional constitution must be scrapped.
"The revolutionary constitu- tion of 1945, Sukartio declared, "must be re-embraced In sub- stence und spirit to enable the, nation to achieve stability. Indonesia urgently nooda thorough-going and revolu- tionary overhaul of our state and sociul syalım."
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Asserting that there have been too many deviations from the principles of the revolu: tion, he said: "The resulls of this are deviations in almost all fields, in government and social life, in the military, social and economic fields. Deviations almost continuous- ly for the past ten years,"
Ike Returns From Holiday
Washington, April 21. President Elsenhower return- ed to the White House today from his two-week holiday In Georgin.
Alles said he looked refresh- ed by his stay in the sunshine. On one day of the hoilday he pinyod 30 holes of golf, which is believed to be the greatest In a lengthy speech on the
number in a day since he suffer eve of his departure on, a wped his heart attack in 1955. — around the world, Sukarno out- lined his complete plan,
"Leadership"
He repeated Is cialm Usat Western parliamentary te mocracy is completely unsull able for Indonesia,
and sald there is an urgent
need for "democracy with leadership."
He emphasised his contention that "guided democracy is not
President
"Democracy with leadership"
dictatorship," insisting that "160 substance is leadership with consultation."
Мого authority muet be Captain Leonard of New York, McElroy said the Group
given the President, however, U.S. has the greatest force of Cheshire, VC, said today
he said, with the powers of the work! to dis- bombers In
he would ask the Austro- the political partion 'sharply all-out attack, and
Han Government to allow
order courage an
curbpil, in
to assure scon will have intercontinental
stable government. ballistic misstics and miselle. some of the 1,100 "sick
Speaking of the political squipped nuclear submarines as and forgotten" victims of
perles, Sukurno said “It is not German concentration natural under M system of camps to come to Aus-guided democracy to have op-
sense position in the
that o tralia.
continuously and in- With his wife, whom he mar-group ried in India a fortnight age, heclscriminately opposes the Cay- BD well arrived in Australia yesterday, ernment in Parliament They have established about 30 as outside.”—U. P. I. hames for the incurably sick "Throughout die world,
The U.S. also is expable, be
Enid, coping with localized pagression wherever it might break out,
"For over a decade we have
Mrs Gschwend, dazed after five hours of facing death only kalle-slash away, said her captives "latened 10 my been doing two things to coun prayer."
ter and cope with Communist fy-told" then "they-havernico-inspired local power grubs," he
mothers," said the mother of a, suid."
grown daughter. "They didn't Power Is Vital turn me They listened to my prayer the Apustuship First we have been faljodne our own forces to mout such a prayer."-U.P.I.
threat-and second: we have be helping to build up military strength of the world to the same end."
Bridges Silent
Group Captain Cheshire sald 1odny that 1,100 stateless spoole were in a desperate position in Germiny Kia" find” been abandoned by the alike. "These people were mutl
the Rated and tortured by free
Germana, in many cares, for helping allied servicemen to. escape during the war." he said.
the
tho
He said it was vital to security of the US. to maintain
Washington, April 21. the military strength of freo Union, deeder Harry Bridgee world allies through the milit- refused to tell the House Comary assistance part of the collec=" mittee on Un-American Activi-ve security programme-physical ties today whether he ever had U.P.I.
been a Communist Party mem
bor.
Invoking the Fifth Amend
men!'"for the first time in my
life," the president of the Inter-
national Longshoremen's
And
Busted
Bath, Aprli 21.
Michael Ridewood, 17, was
Scars
"They havo been left with and mental BOATS which render them incligible to be admitted to such countries sa Austrnila.
"The people are in a shocking plight, The Germans hate them and are not treat- Ing them properly."
Group Captain Cheshire suidi that about 90 of the stateless,
Warehousemen's Union also defined £7 for knocking the clined to say whether he was n steel sida panel of a bus with Communist at the time he up- his fiat, told the court: "I didn't people in Germany had their plled for an American passport i know anyone could bend n bue only relatives in Australia
China Maut Special. to Europe last July-U.P.1,
so easily."--U.P.L
"Let Russians Read Dr Zhivago
SAYS TOP SOVIET AUTHOR
Paris, April 21 Mihail Shokokov, leading Rusalan, novelist, sald today Boris Pasterak's book Dr Zhivago should havo been published in Russia no that Soviet, readers them, selves could condemn Pasternak.
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Farmer
Returns
Soon
Sydney, April 21, Stanley Yankus, the rebel U.S. chicken farmer, is returning home to discuss with his wife whether to migrate to Australia.
Yankus, who is "searching for freedom" will leave Amerlen on Friday,
for
He said today: "I have made my decision about Australia but I want to talk to my wife about
"My wife is in this with me London, April 21. Prime Minister Harold Mee- and she wants to know all about millan is being fitted for a new Australia before we decide," head.
Yankus, who ts rebelling Madame Tussoud's wax against American agricultural museum sald It will show Mr quota resektions, Is. spending Macmillan's aging since his pre- today and tomorrow in Canberra, sent likeness was put on display the Australian Federal capital,-- eight years ago. U.F.I, Chino Mail Special.
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