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KINGSTON, JAMAICA, W.l'. WEDNESDAY,
JULY 12, 1961.
TWENTY-TWO PAGES
ition amendment to Premiers resolution on London Conference White Paper...
JLP MOVE: JAMAICA AS DOMINION
Alternative-to-Feder^tion proposed to House
CALL FOR ISLAND'S
INDEPENDENCE
ON MAY 23, NEXT YEAR
Australia's new GG on way
PROPOSAL for the proclamation of Independence for Jamaica
as a full Dominion of the British Commonwealth on M.a..yw 23,
1962 (National Labour Day) was introduced into the House of Representatives last night- as an alternative to Federation.
_
Brjtain may report in fortnight
on European Common Market talks
Warnings
byWI;
assurances
(Jlcaner Parliamentary Reporter
A
ST. ANDREW
SHOES
The proposal came from Mr. Linden G. Kewland,' the
British
mob Gagarin
Queen asks
Red
spaceman
to lunch
LONDON, July II (AP):
Queen Elizabeth II bragb.| ed protocal aside today and
| asked Soviet spaceman Yuri
Gagarin to lunch with her
Friday at Buckingham Palace'. Gagarin accepted.
"It was the Queen's own idea."
said a Palace spokesman.
London .newspapers had criticized the British Government
for not arranging a full-scale
VXP. welcome for_the first
man in space, who is here by
invitation- of the Soviet Trade
Fair.- ' '
.
The Government ' t o o k .the
position that Gagarin was making the trip as a private Individual and no official red carpet
need "be rolled out
. An obscure civil servant,
Mr. F. F. TnrnlmH, Secretary
of tbe Science Ministry, was
• the official greetec ton landtag
of a Soviet twin-Jet airliner
that brought Gagarin from
.Moscow.
The people of London, however, gave the 27-year-old
astronaut a thunderous -welcome. They cheered and applauded him .foE^lS miles from
London airport; to the Soviet
Embassy.
Princess Margaret was among
the watchers, she stood in the
grounds of Kensington Palace,
well back from the road that
leads to the nearby embassy. •
Prime Minister 'Macmillan
arranged to meet Gagarin at the
House of Commons later, and
Sir Bernard Waley Cohen, Lord
Mayor of London, invited him
to the old city's ancient mansion
house.
It was April 12 —three months
ago tomorrow — that the Russians announced Gagarin's orbit
^
' .
'
•'
'
>
JLP member ior East St, Thomas, who is also' vice-chairT117T
man of the party and general secretary of the Busta•WW I
mante Industrial Trade Union.
Mr. Newland's. proposal, electrified a jaded, half-full House
that had listened between 2.15
that afternoon and 9.45 p. m. to
Gleaner Federal Bureau
the seesawing debate on the re'. PORT OF SPAIN, July 11:
solution put forward by the
The Earl of Perth British Minister of State for
Premier, the Hon. Norman Manley, last Thursday, for . accepColonial Affairs, assured West Indian Ministers during
tance of the proposals worked
the two day European Common Market discussions which
out at the West Indies Indepenendetl at Federal Honse, here, today, that in the course
' dence Conference in London last Gleaner Parliamentary Reporter
of any negotiations, the British Government would seek
month for the "West Indies Fed. The resolution moved last
Gleaner Federal Bnrean
eration to become independent Thursday by the Premier, the
to secure special arrangements to protect the vital in?
PORT OF SPAIN, July 11: withi " th ^ British Common- Hon. Norman- Manley, asking the
terests of the West Indies. During talks scheduled to re! wealth as from May 31 next House to approve -the results of
Britain would not feel able to
.. In order to avoid a possible year
today, the islands' leaders
London Conference for indejoin the European economic com- sume
unfavourable vote ofl the report Tllis TCas ^p f u u text Of Mr. the
their Government would
pendence for the West Indies onj
munity, Lord Perth added, un- said
have
to
review Commonwealth
of the West Indies Independence | pfewian(j's proposal which he May 31 next year was debated j
less such arrangements were se- preferences
extended to British
Conference, the Federal Gov- moved x an amendment to tbe for the whole of yesterday's sitcured.
During
the
discussions
— S&G
products in the West Indies if
ernment is planning to have the Premier's resolution:
tbe
West
Indian
Ministers
reLiner
"Orcades"
at
Tilbury,
From
left
are
Catherine,
19;
VISCOUNT
DE
L'ISLE
and
(Continued on PAGE 17)
ting of the House of RepresenBritain joins tbe European Free
subject debated on a motion for
Essex, on Thursday, for AusViscount De .L'lsle; Countess commended' . special arrange- Trade Area.
Dudley V. CH Governor Gentatives.
ments
to
meet
the
vital
interests
adjournment in the Federal
tralia. Photo shows Viscount
De L'lsle; Lacy, 8, and Anne,
The Opposition opened-its case; eral-Designate of Australia,
of toe West'Indies.
14.
De L'lsle with his wife and
embarked with his wife and
House of Representatives on
• Conference sources said they
against
Jamaica's remaining! family aboard the P. i O.
The Ministers also welcomed believed
family
before
their
departure
it would not be possible
"Be It Resolved that this Hon- within the Federation. Mr' DonMonday.
the
discussion
as
enabling
both
a
to
extend to the West Indies less
This was the device used to ourable House taking note of ald Sangster, the deputy leader.
sides to .appreciate'the problems rotection
than that offered to
debate the Government's White the Report of the West Indies led off with a moderate stateinvolved. The discussions which ,'ew Zealand
by Commonwealth
Paper on the inter-Governmental Constitutional Conference. 1961, ment
began
yesterday
went
on
until
7
t
Relations
Secretary Duncan
fastening on the fact that
:this evening. Jamaican dele;
conference in the.House during presented to Parliament by the the new . federal constitution
Sandys, rece.ntly.
[attending were Finance M
Secretary of State for the Cothe sittings last April.
no provision for secession
iter,-Mr. \femon Arnett, and
But it is understood that the lonies by the Commend of Her made
61 any 61 the units, including
!Trade and Industry, Minister,
Speaker has not yet informed Majesty ' the Queen, which said Jamaica,
from
tbe
Federation.
r;—
the Government whether oj/not Report was laid on the * table
LONDON, July 11 (Reuter):
A huge United Air Linej
Luuse od vuc
raw
The
Government
will
report
to
'
Leader,
followed
up.
Then
PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad, Parliament, " 'probably in two DCS transport, winging in un6th of July, 1961.' rejects the the Government put in the Rev
debated in this way,'
• .. .
July 11 (AP.):
time on Britain's . talks der .oioudy skies, crashed In
Meanwhile, a motion by tbe proposals herein contained and Cyril " Morgan <PNP, SouthWest
Indian leaders yesterday weeks
with Commonwealth Nations landing and burned today killing
all
other
proposals
for
Jamaica
Independent Trinidad MJ>.,
told Lord Perth, British Minister about
east
St
James)
to
speak
for
the
they would be affect- at least 18, including the drivMr. Albert Gomes -which in remaining in the West Indies resolution.
of State for Colonial Affairs, the ed if how
Britain joined *he Eu- er of a truck hit by the airWest indies face disaster if Britgeneral terms calls for rejec- Federation and having .regard
an
Common
Two
Opposition
front
bench'
'.--..
A lii-iiniiitic story of escape by 30 people from Castro's Cuoa, was told when' ain joins the European Common iut informed Market.
tion of the report, nas not yet to the changed circumstances ]
sources liner. . . . . . . . . .- ..'.
T,i;htbonrne
Market without retaining Com- said today there political
The number of injured aboard
been-placed, on the Order Ea- and the economic needs and the
was
no
guaranMr. tin- party, "with"five pro-Castro hostages arrived at Montego Bay yesterday.
and
per. Mr. Gomes dispatched the national aspirations of the peo.
tee that any -firm statement of could not be determined immeThe drama had an equally dramatic end. when, two local fisher- —:—:—^ ... . •
_ monwealth trade preferences.
:
John Gyles (Northeast
Her
British 'intention whether or not diately. A UAL official said the
motion,-to the Speaker while pie of Jamaic.-, req-ests ™"
len guided the party. In a 60-foot launch, out of dangerous waters'
took
IIP
the
to seek negotiations would be plane carried 109 passengers and
he was in London during the Majesty's Government to take
available before Parliament rises 7 crewmen,- from Philadelphia.
| The' refugees told of ieiang
period the Independence Con- the necessary steps to -introfor its long summer holiday.
duce legislation to grant Jamthe Cuban launch by .force, and.
A surviving passenger, John
ference was in progress.
i of playing hide-and-seek with
Byrne of Omaha, said about 10
It is understood that the aica independence on the 23rd
Castro searchers during their
minutes before the plane was
Gomes motion can be debated of May. 1962 and to seek ad- j hazardous voyage to Jamaica.
to land, the captain • informed
only Sfter the Government has mission for Jamaica to tbe Bri.
CANBERRA,
July
11
(APh
The party 'was brought to
decided .what it is going to do tish Commonwealth at Nations
The absence ]bf Australian ob- passengers it had lost its hyKingston late yesterday afterwith the report. His motion will as a Dominion."
jections to Britain opening ne.-i draulic fluid.
noon, and late last night, the.
!0tiations on membership ' of the • The pilot urged the passengers
As Mr. Newtani ~ originally
thus be debated only jtfter Monrefugees were tinder. .InterroSuropean market should not be not to be disturbed by th^ sight
day's debate, if it -is held- on moved it, the amendment did
TinFederal
Judges,
in
Chambers
in
Trinidad,
have
interpreted as implying Austra- of "a lot of. fire engines" near
gation by hlgh-rankine police
the motion for adjournment or not include the words conrefused
the
Attorney
General
leave
to;
file
notice
of
aplian
approval, a joint communi- the runway.
and security officers.
if it is taken as an amendment tained in the passage startque issued in Canberra said to- Byrne said the passengers repeal-against
Stewart
Bramwell,
former
manager
of
the
.to a Government motion calling ing with "taking note et«."
Montego Bay fishermen Mesday.
.
in the first line, but as the
for acceptance of the report.
srs. Tabane - Maragh and Cleve- Bellevue Hospital.and Henslej Whittingham, chief store- It followed two days of discus- acted calmly. When the plane
The Government is unlikely-fo mover of the amendment read
,' keeper of the .institution. sions between Duncan Sandys, touched down, he said, the hy, land Waugh, fishing from • a
ask the House to-accept the re- out the text of it, the Leader
The Attorney General had Britain's 'Commonwealth Rela- draalic system apparently failj canoe in the Hose Hall sector,
ed to operate. •
(Continued on. PAGE 17)
port however, because the Prime of the Boose, the Hon. Florifiled grounds for an appeal proi about 10 miles from Montego
The plane, coming in from the
Minister and other senior mem- zel Glasspole, leaped, to bis
visionally', pending the approval
iBay, sighted the 60-faot launch
West' swerved sharply oif the
bers of the Cabinet are known feet-to protest against ac.
of the Federal Judges hi Cham"heading straight for the shore. '
runway as the landing gear apto be against some of its major ceptance of the motion is beber* to grant leave to file noing "irregular and not in
peared to collapse. It careened
Danger
(Continued on PAGE 17)
tice of appeal out of time.
.Gleaner Federal Borean
order." into a survey crew truck near
Realizing that the boat's
Bramwell and Whittingham
PORT OF SPAIN, July 11: the runway and killed the
The Premier, Mr. Manley.
course
would
take
it
into
danwere
arrested
in
August
last
quickly supported .. Mr, GlassThe Spanish, tanker Bailen driver.
gerous waters, they signalled it
year and charged jointly with which ran aground off Matura A UAL official, T. E. Johnson,
pole's protest. Said Mr. Manley:
to
stop,
and
found
that
it
had
Henry
Stimpspn,
mattress
maker,
'Twould say. Mr. Speaker, that
Bay, Marizanilla, four weeks) at first announced
there had been;
aboard 27 men, six women and
for the falsification of accounts ago and was refloated', sailed -Gleaner Parliamentary Reporter
for the Opposition to have the
*-»-«"— TLater
-'— "--•--"—
no . fatalities.
the airline
eight
young
children.
and
conspiracy.
Ttie
three
men
right of amendment, that amendfrom Port of Spain for Spain, admitted its first.report'was in
Tlu; (ioviM'unifiit has ordered the Banana-Board, to
i ment m u s t ' b e relevant. Thi= suspend plans for introduction of mechanical loading of One of the men who' could speak a Gleaner Education Reporter were- found guilty and Bramwell yesterday.- She underwent re- error.
i amendment is totally new." a
little 'English, told the fisher- The Ministry of Education and Whittingham each sentenc- pairs here while an inquiry in- Reporters said i7 bodies had
j different subject. It is not_,an bananas, the Hon. Kcble Jlunn, Minister of Agriculture men that they had been without plans to implement a pilot scheme ed to 18. months' imprisonment. to the grounding was held by been, brought to an emergency
j amendment amending anything. and Lauds.'aiiuouuced in the House of Representatives, food and water since ' Sunday in correspondence c o u r s e s Stimpson was sentenced to serve the Registrar of Shipping.
morgue.near 'Stapleton Field.
I It is substituting a wholly new yesterday.
night, and they .wanted to go, to .for students 15 years and over. eight months. .They filed appeals,
and
Bramwell's
and
WhitI subject and I would
ask
you,
rStariing
in
September
this
year,
Montego
Bay.
Mr^Munn said the use of me-:
-1 Sirr if' iveeir to.: ~K>' ' aef er • your? chanical loaders would cause a i
The fishermen boarded the a carefully-selected number of tingham's were allowed while
'
"Gleaner Farm Desk
i decision on the matter until to. large number of workers at thei
launch and took their canoe .in students will be given a two- Stimpson's was dismissed.
Racehorses may now be im-j morrow morning when you have ports of - Bowdcn, Port Antonio;
tow, and Mr. Maragh took over year correspondence course in The Attorney General then
ported into the island from thej.the opportunity of examining if and Monlego Bay to be thrown;
the wheel.
^preparation for the Jamaica In- filed an appeal in June.
~
It is understood that . the
United States,. Canada,
New with care."
On'the way into harbour, the, termediate Certificate.
'out of -employment.
j
Zealand and such other terri- Mr. Glasspole put in again
Said the Minister. "Govern-i
canoe overturned, broke loose The examination is to be based Crown will not enforce its right LONDON, July 10 (Reuter)—
as Britain's Prime Minister for
tories of the West Indies
as; that if Mr. Newland wished the ment accepts-the views of the!
to argue the point before the
. two fishermen noticed
. . a ion a syllabus already- prepared. full
the'Minister of Agriculture will r report
to be rejected,
then Commission of Enquiry that!
The
-Federal Court when if re- A Sir Anthony Eden has taken reasons of health in the wake
but
t
t
.
approved
by
the title of Earl of Avon, it of the Anglo-French military
mnf 5**r
r\t
n rmr>
r,rtA
aTY*iir\i_ . . ' .
_* _ - .
j there was >pnly one way
he manual labour, where available,
from time to tim? decide.
quantity
of arms
and
amunitlje Ministry, and the • standard sumes later this month, and the
could do it: to argue against should be employed to the bana-S
tion including rifles and sub- is expected to be slightly above court here is not likely to pro- was announced today. Kis new intervention in Snez in 1956.
This is the result of an order it and vote against it.
Since then, with the excepmachine guns in the launch, and the level of the Third Jamai- ceed in action - against them. title in. addition to the Earl of
na indusu^ in preference toj
Avon is Viscount Eden of Royal tion of an occasional speech, be
made recently by the Minister The Actina Speaker. Mr. Al- mechanical
Gleaner Farm Desk
as soon as they had. berthed at ca Local Examination.
loading,
provided!
Leamington Spa, ' ' . .
• under-the Animals (Diseases and phonsus Malcolm who was that workers carry out theirl Banana exports to the United the United Fruit Company wharf
has remained out of. the poliStudents taking tbe course
It was announced last week tical arena.
Importation) Control Regula(Continued «n PA*;E. 17)
on Fish Lane, about .2 a.m., Mr. will Include children who have
tasks
diligently
and
efficiently
Kingdom for the first six months Waugh hurried to th; police
that the Queen conferred ;an Sir -Winston Churchill, Britions, 1948, acting under powers
and take the greatest possible care
recently left school or who
Earldom upon the former British tain's wartime leader, is how the
conferred on him by the Aniof this year, were 680,270 stems station and reported what they are abont to leave, .and the
to
ensure
that
the
bananas
re, ANNOTTO BAY, S.M. July Prime Minister. The. Earldom al- only living ex-Prime Minister
mals (Diseases and Importations) j
ceive the minimum of damage." more than for the first six had seen.
teachers of certain recom- II (From our correspon- '• lows the 64-year-old statesman,
Law.
' i
has not accepted a title.
The Minister's statement was months of last year.
A strong' force of police tinder mended schools are now being dent): Mr. James Myrie, 80, who has been politically inactive who
Sir Winston still retains his seat
Detective
Inspector
N.
A.
FosThe Minister's latest order!
as follows:
•„ .
.
.
.
Invited
by
letters'
from
the
labourer
of
Rosend,
died
on
since his. retirement in 1957, to In the'House of Commons, how"The 1959 Commission' of En-!; Figures made available by the ter, and including Detectives Ministry to send .In- lists of the bus "Port Maria Special" resume a political role in the ever, though he has not addressbecame effective on Friday j
quiry into the Banana Industry j Banana Board recently show that Sergeants Cecil Alcock and -. students considered by them while.on the way to Annotto House of Lords. ' last. Before that, racehorses
.,,.._-.-..- ed the House since his resignastrongly recommended that the
could be imported only from
"~ for the sit months ending June Dudley Davis, Actlng-Corporal suitable for the course.
.Bay Hospital, this morning.
Sir Anthony Eden, reslfned tion in 1955.
Gleaner Federal Bureau
necessary action to facilitate the 30 .last, the "island . exported Erol Cornlffe. and Detective
Great Britain, Northern Irepurchase of Bananas by "weight 5,072,462 stems, against 4,392,192 Dndlfy Dobson harried to tbe
land and the.Republic ot Eire.
PORT. OF SPAIN.-July 11:
A fireman on the tanker
(instead oJ by the count bunch) stems over the_ corresponding wharf where they took the
The order -has .been .made to
"Texaco Europe", burned
should- be- undertaken as a mat- period ;ln 196'5. ":
party into protective custody
' '•
To
"aeaih~6h"fbe
nigh
seas,
.... permit, iorsci-from new; strains
;
•and seized the weapbns and
ter of priority.
it
was
learned
here,
last.-.
""'of blood"tb inter the .island' to
" "Government- has accepted The ihcrcas' Is considered re- ammunition.
..
,..
:.. ^-pattxcJPSte. in. Ideal
faceST and,
ibl» recommendation, and the markable in .view, of the . fact At the station Arcs''-Superin- Gleaner N'ew York Corresponr
"'
The'
b»dy
"
"ofRoHbclge
so - multiply •ana 'sllniuliite these;
dent
Banana Board, vwith the- full
tendent Charles Panton and SuPrestsctcr,
a
Norwegian:
• as well as to Inject -.'new blood
NEW YORK, July 7:
concurrence of the All-Island that gale force winds early in perintendent S. F, Langford orwas
brought
ashore
and
"'into the local itrains for the imBanana Growers' Association, December last were estimated to
The American public with its
(Contlnned
on
PAGE
17)
taken
to
San
Fernando"
provement of those strains.
anxiety over the situation in
has for some time been pr«- have reduced output prospects
General Hospital when the
Castro's Cuba was given further Scottish Peer Warns" by the underground terrorists had been Lord Malcolm continued:' "A'nd
parlnr plans for tbe Introductanker docked at Pointe-aTo ensure that no equine or
over
the
succeeding
twelve
or
Picrre which' is about five
cause (or. alarm today by Lord New York Journal American, trained in Cuba. He told the i f . i t does, the'Reds could protion of baying by welfht later
LAUGH
IT
OFF
' livestock diseases arc brought
miles from San Fernando.
Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, a one of the afternoon papers.
fifteen months by 20,000 to 25,Journal American that they were bably not be dislodged by anythis year.
into the island by any possible
Lord Malcolm's barbs were well supplied with weapons and thing short of war."
former Member of 'Parliament
"To assist in streamlining these 000 stems a week at the very
importations from
the new
for Inverncsshire, Scotland, who aimed at Dr. Cheddl Japan, ammunition.
operations, which involve 'the
sources, the Minister in tho order
He told Americans that the
said that "a well-organized Com- > Leader of the People's Progresinstallation of weighing equip- least.
has made provision for the vacheart* possibility
of British Guiana bemunist machine Is on the move sive Party. He described .him 'To Brazil's
ment at all buying stations and
Owlnc to stiff competition
1
cination, quarantine, and final
coming
a Red beachhead in South
in British Guiana to take that as leader of tbe Conp to take 'They're set for violence If It's
shipping ports, the Board has al- earlier in tbe year which sent
rejection of any animal which it
colony over for Moscow's first British Guiana into the Red needed", he added, ."just as the America Is particularly seriso given consideration to the the banana market in the U.K.
is thought will endanger the Gleaner Trinidad Correspondent -introduction
beachhead on the mainland of camp. He said Dr. Jagan had Communists were in Cuba-when ous,, because the territory, the
of various . devices crashing down to a record, prePORT OF SPAIN, July 11.
health of local livestock.
South America. Lord Malcolm been branded a Communist as they rode to power on the band- size of New York State, could
A cane farmer, Mr. Lalchan lor mechanical loading of ships. war low, exports were ajao
.was passing through New York far baek as 1954 by a British waggon of Castro's Twenty- "serve as a bridge to the heart
A new Quarantine station is Jangla, 23 of Central Barrac- "Thff question of mechanical affected adversely a- the Banaon his way home after what he Government Commlnfon.
sixth of July Revolution move- of the restless northwestern
being built at Palisadoes Air- kopre near San Fernando, was loading of bananas wai examin- na Board fonnd Itself obliged
provinces of Bn)7Jl."
shot to death in his home, last ed by the Commission of Enquiry to ship only first quality fruit •TBi sorry, sir. The presidents described as "a personal fact- He told of a corps of trained ment.
' •
port to meet the exigences of niflht
"All
indications
point
to
Guifinding
tour
of
the
territory."
saboteurs
at
the'
disposal
of
the
He said that such things «s
In
thii
period.
the new order. The station !» Mr. Jangla and hi* wife had which concluded:our company Is filled
The story was promptly head- "PPP; and he said there was evi-1 ana becoming another Cuba no: drought _ and
unemployment
Accredited observers yester•xpectcd to be tfcady in the next Just returned from the garden at • 'Chapter 7 — Para. 13—
this moment"
lined "Reds Plan Guiana Coup, dence that at .'least lome of the later than the end of the year."
(Contlnned on PAGE 17)
(Contlnned on PAGE 17)
(Continucd on PAGE 17)
the back of the house.
tnt weeks.
may start
debate
Monday
by Perth
Whole-day
debate
The proposal
9
Airliner
crash
kills IS
Women, children among them
refugees, hostages
cose:
Unemployment -danger...
Banana Board
ordered: Suspend
mechanical
loading plans
OrdeE allows
racehorses
IronLlLS.
A.G.DENIED LEAVE
TO APPEAL
Ministry-plans,
correspondence
course
pilot scheme
Communique
'Bailen' s&ils
NEW TITLE TAKfiS
EDEN TO LORDS
Banana
exports
climb
Dies on bus
Flaming death
on the high 'seas
BG may become Red beachhead,
ex-MP tells Americans
Shot dead