THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1960.
VERWOERD'S FATEFUL DECISION Gold treasure
Ignored offers
to contact
African leaders
Johannesburg, Mar. 30.
Events of the day made it clear late today that the South African Government has made a fateful decision in its race relations.
The Prime Minister, Mr; Hendrik Verwoerd has deelded!
of
te ignore all offers
or demands for contheis between Che Govermanent and cadets organised. Africans, and has cut the Government off completely front more
million
than two
urban Africans,
Many of the Liberals and African lender::
have urged that
arrested lodny
contact be
made with former Zulu Quiet
Albert Luthuli, naw President - General of the African National Compresa,
Way out
AFRICANS
FREED
THEN
REARRESTED
Capetown, Mar. 30.
Liberala have contended that Seventy-three of the 234
Luthuli's views are mockunte and that sonte Way cal of the racial impares can be explored with him.
people arrested today were freed by South Africa's
supreme
These suggestions have been courts today. received coldly by Govern-
But all except three were im- leaders
obveniveediately rearrested by police. The courts had granted writs
ונטית
labelled Luthuli
who have
Dramatic turn in murder trial
Paris, Mar. 30.
The trial of “Mr Bill" took o drama! turn today as o prosecuting lawyer drow a horrifying picture of mur- dered bar ""hostess" Dominique Thirol writh- ing, a living torch, under the eyes of her murderer. On trial was "Mr "alias Georges Rapin, son of a wealthy French
family. secured of throwing petrol over the girl nad settlig fire to her in the furet of Fontainebleau, near
Paris,
Charles Lawyer
Delauney, representing the murdered girl's family, declared that the murderer Bad watched the dylus girl "as Nero watched Home burning,”
WOULDN'T TALK
The witnesses called tudiny were mainly from the under- work bars of "Pigalle"-the picturesque and sinister district Ling at the foot of Micen martre, where Hapin allegedly
gangster, played the role of hardbition
of
Ex-
They say he is attempting tour babes corpus to 13 people in establish a black government Johnnnesburg, 37 in Durban and In South Africa.
three in Pietermaritzburg, or-
The witnesses, true to the But
there huddering their immediate mitil today
release, traditions
Pigalle, been some light hop! that such
Immediately those in Johan asperated famod criminal
Durban left the lawyer Reus an exploration of views night esburg, and
Floriot by their take place. The arrests and
courts they were rearren tech, refusal to talk.
PROHIBITED harsh measures taken to main-
Florion did however succeed In cliciting the Information that Rapin was soon
time of Do- hors after the miniques murder, looking "very relaxed" and asking for the girl all over Pigalle.
Lain white supremacy dosled n such hopes,
The three from Pietermaritz- burg were not rearrested.
Among those arrested today of meed of the
Relations between Aldeans and Europeans in this country were lealers Tonight have probably not beni) anti-apartheid movements as bad as since the Zala rebel-, South Africa.
lon of 1879.--- AP,
Useful gifts for
four Russians
Moscow, Mar. 30, Marshal Rodion Mulinovsky, Soviel Defence Minister, today received the four Soviet soldiers who recently drifted 49 days across the Pacific.
The four men told him of the warm welcome they
received
ITL
Earlier uures put the mum- ber of arrested at about 150.
Publication of their named is proldbited in South Africa under the terma of the Publio Safely Adi of 1053 under what they are de. fained, but their names must be tabled
Parliar cat
within 14 days of their r rest.
They cannot be detain=" without trial or ball for purl. of 30 days or longer,
DISPERSED
fow
of
Cheerful smile and a wave from Dr Cheddi Jagan, the Chief Minlater
British Gulana. A ho la escorted by police near South Africs Mouse, London, recently. Several policemen refused to allow Dr Jagan and four colleagues to walk past South Afrios House (which in the centre of protesi demonsirutions against the Sharpeville shootings). -Reuter Photo,
Death toll mounts in devastating floods
Rio De Janeiro, Mar. 30.
More than 200,000 people are homeless as relentless rains swelled the raging floods sweeping through northeastern Brazil, spreading death and 'destruction, the latest reports said today.
Some No-one could be found to
mports from the stricken aren sala "umerous give any Information about a mysterious
"Robert"
corpses of humans and animais whom
of were seen riding the crests. Rapin says was gulity of the murder of Dominique and
the wavea of the invading of Farare hand
rivers." Roger Adam. whose death in aleu Tald я
Rapin's door,
The verdict is expected to- morrow.—-AFP.
During the tiny about 30,000 Contraband
Afrienn, from all over the Cape Peninsula, marched un Capetown to demand the release of their leaderA
aboard the Ameriein aircraft Caledon Square, about half-a-
seized
In Plaut State, reports sald 18 diles and towns are under water.
Tales of similar agedy came from Fernambuco, Alagous and Paraiba states.
has
nc
figures 10 people were known to plies and 40 Brazilian Air Force
planco have died.
airlifting supplies The Jaguaribe River, which from Rio and Sao Paolo,
bled through the uncom pleted Oros Dam, today reached President Juscelino Kubitschek the sea, leaving a trail of de- has appointed a commission to The Inge Tocantins estimate the damage to property veslation. River in Para State and Maran-in the Jaguaribe Valley. hao was rising at an alarming
The United States Icebreaker, rate.
the Antarctic | The north-eastern capitals and Glacier, up from
In-on a rest trip, left here yesterday the high cities have been
found in back yard
Chicago, Mar. 30.
News of a huge treasure find in the back yard of a wealthy deceased resident excited a quiet Chicago suburb today.
The treasure, all in gold pleces,, totals nearly $100,000. I was fourd with the aid of a map,
two buried under
fruit trees where it apparently had
been secreted during the last 10 years.
FOOTBALL STAR
The board belonged to Stanley R. Plerce, wealthy Chicago In- vestment broker and stor full- back on the University at 1013. Chicago football sqund in
He died on December 25 at the age of 67.
Pierce's
valued at dollars.
deen
hod estate about a hatt million
The gold was found by repre- zentatives of the Continental linois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chiengo, executor of the estate, a Chicago Daily News story stated,
A map giving the location of the treasure under two frutt trees on tho Expands was found in a sato Pierco owned,
no
a widower with Pierce, children, left his entire estate to the University of Chicago, AP.
Too late, judge says
Norville, Tenn., Mar. 30. Judge Fred Webb, considering a complicated legal problem, mutiered to himself yesterday! "Call for Soloman."
Plane plunges into sea
Cape Canaveral, Mar. 30.
Force lanker An Air pline went down in the Allantio about 60 mites vi the coast cast here Lo-
the night,
Const Guard it was carrying reported. tr person.
Coast Guard ameiats t Miami wold it was possibile the 16 had jumped out of the stricken plane,---UPI,
Canada's high
budget
deficit
Ottawa, Mar. 30.
A Canadian budget deficit of $405,800,000-second highest in the country's peacetime history is in- dicated for the fiscal year ending tomorrow. Financo Minister Donald Floming reported.
Bailiff Carl Bell, hearing the In a white paper presented in judge, stepped out to the hall the House of Commons, Mr 'sald Kovernment ending: "Salomon...Solomon... Fleming
revenues increased at twice the cutting of expenditures, rate one-third of the previous year's deficit of $609,300,000.
Solomon!"
"He doesn't answer, Your Honour," Bell reported.
the Mr Bell," judge replied. "I guess we're several thousand years too late, ---UPL
"Thank you
Revenue rose to $5,301,000,000, gain of 12 per cent over the 1958-59 total of 54,754,700,000, This was credited to economic growth and higher faxes.
Expenditures rose six per cent to $0.700,800,000. dolence re
heaviest opending item-27 por cent of the budget, or $1.328,300,000 ---AP.
vaded by hordea of evacuees for the footed one carrying two Talks postponed mained the
threatening
to pillage
stores helicopters and tons of food for ond markels for food and evacuees.. clothing.
(The State Department on-
Resene helloopters flying nounced in Washington today over the Booded regions re- that the government was send-
lines struggling
of ing four transport aircraft and sometimes three
two hellcopters to all the miles long, fleeing to safety..
victims,
pert
Close watch
Hollywood, Mar. 30. Negotiations to end the 24-dos actors' strike against the major studios were postponed, ending hopes that the strike would be settled, by mid-week,
Letchworth, Mar. 39. The incuting was put off until Government officials yesterday (It said the planes would today to allow time for further ended Letchworth's 57-year-old and medical study and consideration, accord- ban on the sale of alcoholle transport food
the thousands of¦ Ing to a spokesman for the As-drinks but only on condition the people who have been rendered | soclation of Motion Picture Pro- drinkts be sold in a building next
ducers.-UPI. homeless.)-Reuter,
door to the police station.UPI.
DEADLY THREAT ·
Thousands of people crowd- ed' on kitova are threatened by venomous anakes and deadly piranhas-A Merce man-caling small floh which But when they reached
can pick clean the body of a cow in a matter of minutes. from the Parlament building, thetr
In Rio Grande Do Norie stalu jenders asked to disperse,
more than 250 small irrigation which they
swept
supplies to about $30,000 worth of system dains have been The Africans then marched calculating machines which they away and almost the whole of
said were smuggled into
the state was reported flooded. by the Suprane Soviet and also! back to Lanum townships, scene with
Reports here were very cen navigator's of some of the shooting
aboard Italian engraved
Inst country
but in hard watches that you shouldn't week when more than 76 liner Conte Grande on a recent flieting tonight
Africans were killed.-ROUT trip here,
them up.
carrier Kearsage which picked į mile
then them
them
The Marshal presented
the "Red Star" awarded
with lusignia of the order of did.
get lost again"-AFP.
A British Crossword Puzzle
700
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ACROSS
1 A.B. Scol on the roud. (0)
4 Names in a divorce suit. (5)
7 Like a child making fu
(2, 2, 4)
# Steep. (0)
D Though in Grecen, part la in
South Arlen. (0)
11 Noliced Dick? (7)
13 Like a distant parent? (7)
15 Goat wool. (0)
18 In tours? (5)
19 Advance order for city divi-
Alons. (0)
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DOWN
1 50/00lb of hay. (5)
2 He may not work without
atint. (0)
1 The body in the
muit7 (7)
motoring
4 In which a coin's easily lost.
(0)
5 Four, in pairsi (3, 2, 3).
6 Butter bread? (0)
10 Held up by the pollee? (0) 12 One of these wide open
spaces. (7) 13 Struggled for a stronghold,
by the sound of it. (8) maybe for 14 10 gallons in Th London-bound Scots. (.
(0)
20 Some river mouths are. (3)
21 Journey's end,
10 Fragile G-girl. (6)
stelon?
Buenos Aires, Mar. 30. Police sald today they had seized
the ocean
Police sald another $30,000 worth of machines still were at large. They did not reveal any details as to how the contraband was smuggled Into Argentina,
Police sald several arrests had been made but did not give out any names, The machines were taken from local retall stores where they were on sale.-AP.
Macleod in Nyasaland
Zumba, Mar. 30.
Mr Jala Macleod, the Colonial
Secretary, who arrived in
Nyasaland yesterday, conferred
The Health Ministry was to
day rushing in supplies and manpower to fight disease and the threat of epidemies.
All available Brazilian Navy craft are already in the north- cast or on their way with sup-
Allies might deny
U.S. use of
bases, Senate told
Washington, Mar. 30.
A wartime aide to General Douglas MacArthur warned a Senate Committee today that allied governments might deny the United States use of overseas bases in case of war.
Relired Brig. Gen. Bonner
here today with the Governor, Fellers mised the possibility in Sir Robert Armitage, and recommending that Congress cut members of Nyasaland's Exccu-President Elsenhower's foreign tive Council.
ald programme in half,
deal
with
General Felters, now Nalionai The talks ture expected to Director of a group called the the ending of Citizens Foreign Aid Committee, Nyasaland's year-long emer told the Senate Foreign Rela- geney over the form of a newtons Committee opposition to constitution for the protec-American uses of buses has be- torate, and with the question of come serious in such key breas the release
of Dr Hustlogy ins Iceland, the Philippines, Banda, the dotained African | Okinawa, Panama and Culo. nationalist,China Moit Spo-
U.S. DEFENCE
cial.
6-year-old loses
his business
7
Weather
stops Nye
London, Mar. 30. Mr Aneurin Bevan, 02-year- ald
Labour Party Deputy lender, la cancelled his plans to spend the next two weeks in Brighton, the party announced here inst night,
Всел has
Mr Bevan, who
In requesting a 50 per cent reduction in Mr Elsenhower's recuperating from п major $4,175,000,000 foreign,ald re- abdominal operation performed quest, General Fellers salt "It in December, sold carlier this high time" that money from week that he planned Brighton the programme be channelled visit to continue his into. US. defence
valescence..
NEW SERVICE TO TOKYO VIA
OSAKA/KYOTO
con-
4
"Our economy is threatened The Labour Party statement National City, Calif., Mar. 30. and the cruellest, bloodiest die- said the vialt was postponed
Six-year-old Terry
Allen tators of all history threaten our because of weather conditions. Kinney decided to go into bual. survival," General Fellors cold. --China Mall Special. news when he noticed many curs "To put foreign ald ahead of lost their hub caps when driv- ing over tho washboard-Eike
17 An addition to the family treat in front of his home,
who became a fomurua mallor. (0)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Ursa, 4 Presume,
# Clce, # Nose, 10 Aver-age. 11 Nee, 12 Tled, 14 HI-ath-and,
17 Redan, 18 Gruit, 22 Ostlers, 20 Emil, 27 Airs, 28 Nescind, 20
Terry started colleeting the caps and put up a sign reading: "Hub caps -40 cents,"
Testerday
the polles closed
Undo, 80 Cell, 31 Dressed, 32 Trek. Dowr 1 4 Rosklo, 3 Agenda, down his business when they
our defence would be #richtal bolh for ourselves und the rest of the free world”-UPL
It works
Vage Laxdı, Mar. 30.
New cardinals
Vatican City, Mar, 30. Pope John XXII, handed revimi new 'cardinals their red Tints today.
The cardinals included Use While impecting a submarine fikat Africani, Japancen and Princess Margaret | Philippine bishope to be raised
wald, "Why, it works!" lugi. chutoku-UPI,
4 Peach, 5 Reveal, d Scrub, 7 Megan, 12 Trio, 13 Edit, 15 Aerum, confiscated the caps and took yesterdror,
10 Dalt, 18 Tranice, 29 Result, 21 Fidie, 23 She-er, 24 Locks, them to headquarter før | peeped into the periscope and to the rank of prince of the
'owners is cal-URL
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