RNIECAST SuB&y, with oceaaiooftl cloudbr H )(^ AND l o w F rkds, todagr and Ttutrsday. u itUe ctuu>c« tu temperatures. Low taailh l wsd Tlmr*- T JjM fdods. Aiy -at Ketowoi, 35 and «3- Tues*. The Daily Courier day hi«b »od ktw. 37 and 35. rnOmnm, WMA CeiaMMm WdtocdNy, Mmtk 1% m i N a .2 0 1 Vat S7 M n S C i a i t Africa Acquittals For Verwoerd Court Finds 28 'Not Guilty ITEM-BY-ITEM STUDY In 'Costliest,' 4-Year Trial Critics Have Field Day PRETORIA (AP) — A three-judge tribunal to­ day acquitted 28 persons charged with plotting the violent overthrow of the South African government In Varied House Debate to establish a Communist regime. The unanimous verdict By BEN WARD ance costs. Canada should pull ment was perhaps “lining the Canadian Preaa Staff Writer out of NATO entirely, he said. pockets of its friends" through brought to an end the longest Mr. Argue introduced a mo­ an outlay to advertise home im­ and costliest trial in the coun­ (yiTAWA (CP) — Opiiosition provement loans by the chart­ critica had a field day in the tion calling for reduction of the try’s history, lasting nearly four payment to $1 — a technical ered banks. This amounted to a China In On Commons Tuesday, pouncing on subsidy of the banks. years and costing many thou­ FTnancc Minister Fleming's sup- move which Involves censure of the government. It was sched' He also contended the adver­ sands of pounds. It was a stun­ jlementary estimates as the tising was as effective in spread­ ever to pry open debate on a uled to come to a vote this after- ning defeat for Prime Minister noon. ing political propaganda for the wide range of pet subjects. government as it was in adver­ Hendrik Verwoerd’s white su­ Laos Talks MPs spent most of the day on The CCF motion met with premacy government strong condemnation from Mr. tising the loan services. an item-by-item study of Mr. Erhart Regier (CCF — Burn- The widely heralded "treason WASHINGTON (AP)—Indian Fleming’s final supplementary Fleming and Opposition Leader Pearson, the Liberal leader at­ aby-CoquiUam) said new teeth trial’* resulted from the arrest diplomatic sources said today spending estimates for the fiscal should be put into the anti-corn of 156 persons of all races in year which ends Good Friday. tacking the CCF move as “hu­ the Soviet Union is consulting miliating and disastrous’’ for bines law by setting out auto­ country-wide dawn raids De­ The figures total 1182,230.741 and matic prison terms for company cember 1956. A world-wide cam­ Communist China on the ques­ boost government spending for Canada. Paul Hellyer (L — Toronto officials found guilty of price- paign raised defence funds. tion of a cease-fire in Laos. 1960-61 to more than $6,000,000- fixing. These sources Indicated the CITY HAIL WELCOME 000—highest ever. Trinity) charged the govern­ Ninety-two persons were In- Of the 107 items in the esti­ dieted but the government prospects are about even for a ber of Commerce president ing a Rotarian luncheon and dropped the charges against 64 satisfactory political settlement Washington State Apple a television appearance. Pur­ mates, covering extra spending Blossom Festival Queen R. H. Wilson, look on. Queen by every department, 55 still soon after the trial began. to be reached between the West Katlv was in Kelowna with pose of their visit was to The defendants claimed they and the Ckimmunist bloc over Kathy Whiteman of Wenat­ publicize this year’s Blossom hadn’t been tackled at Tuesday VERNON RETAIL STORES AGREE chee signs City of Kelowna her princesses. Carmen night’s adjournment. were only seeking an end to the the neutralization of Laos. Snitlly and Sharon Coon, for Festival. — Courier photo: Nationalist government’s policy Allied diplomats who attended guest book as Mayor R. F. Charles Giordano) Mr. Fleming said the study Parkinson (right) and Cham­ a round of activities includ­ would resume today, final sit of apartheid—white supremacy briefings at the state depart­ ting before the 10-day Easter re­ ON ALL-YEAR MONDAY CLOSING and strict racial segregation. ment reported that Soviet For­ cess, and appealed for co-opera­ eign Minister Andrei Gromyko tion in completing the estimates VERNON (Staff) -- Retail stores here will BURST INTO SONG oromised President Kennedy on by the 6 p.m. adjournment so close Mondays from now on. A crowd in the Jammed court­ Monday he would relay the re­ Gromyko Delay Arouses salary payments involved could This was decided Tuesday night at a meet­ room burst into the African sults of his talks promptly te freedom song God Bless Africa be made this week. ing of the Retail Merchants Association. Moscow and expected an an­ The biggest blowup Tuesday when the acquittals were an­swer within a few days. came when CCF Leader Argue Voting against the motion were two large nounced. Negro, white and In­ U.S. officials were said to cot objected to a $740,000 payment grocery concerns, whose representatives felt that dian women were among those sider the "few days’* could for NATO military and mainten­ a considerable amount of tourist trade would be rushing to congratulate the de­ mean as long as a week and Speculation Of Red Move fendants. conceivably even two weeks. lost by the Monday closure. Among the chief targets of the Nevertheless these aUied dip*, UNITED NA’nONS (CP)—|tle for three — Mexico. In^a The meeting agreed that closure would be trial were leaders of the African lomats considered tee resoluuop Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei and the UnRcd Arab RepubUc, in the form of a “gentleman’s agreement." National C on gress, outlawed adopted by the Southeast Asia Gromyko’s delay in leaving for classified as neuteals. Ste^ Premier To after the race riots that fol­ Treaty council of ministers at the Warsaw Pact meeting h a s ensoc, who orig^lly insisted lowed the police massacre at Bangkok carried enough teeth aroused speculation that some that the 10 - nation committee Sharpville last March. to be effective in the event the Important Russian move is continue, now has expressed The court found there was "no Soviet Union stalled indefinitely. al»ut to be made at the UN, or willingness to add Mexico and evidence of Communistic infil­ The resolution declared tee in Washington. India. Officiate Fire Marshal Probers tration into the congress "nor SEATO powers would take "ap­ was it proved the congress had propriate action” unless tee Gromyko had been scheduled Stevenson met with African Premier Bennett and Educa­ to leave Sunday for the Com­ delegation chiefs Tuesday and become a Communist organiza­ Communist bloc ends military assured them of substantial tion Minister Leslie Peterson tion.” intervention in Laos. munist bloc parley that opened are among provincial and civic Tuesday in Moscow, but Soviet U.S. support and technical help The Judges said the congress It was also reported here for a broad aid plan, provided dignitaries to attend the official members and the others ac­ that while hostilities are sfill sources indicated today he will opening of Dr. Enox Junior Search Charred Ruins remain here at least until Fri­ the African nations take the in­ cused were working to change underway in Laos, tee fighting Senior High School in Kelowna “the present form of state” but itiative in mapping out the pro­ Two investigators from the ccd L vc&irs is not on as intense a scale as day. Thursday. in recent weeks. Many diplomats, including gram. B.C. fire marshal’s office are Magistrate D. M. White said the government failed to show Ceremony begins at 1:30 p.m., today “we had a rash of a r s o n th ^ w an^ a Communist rtatc. some close to the Russian dele­ SAY FRANCE WON’T PAY when school trustee and build­ probing the charred ruins of Occidental cold storage plant three or four years ago, a n d ^ ® ve^ct also sMd^^^^ gation, believed Gromyko was Informed sources said the ing committee chairman J. P . lo e t v fto r jWfilS DO pTOOf tnC CODffTCSS ID' Ouster Plea Ignored staying on to relay Russia’s ex­ French government has refused Hume welcomes those attend here for clues that might indi­ Ihf rn.is tended to achieve this new state pected answer to President to contribute to the cost of the ing. cate arson in Monday night’s Both times, tee person violent means.” The judges OTTAWA (CP)-Erhart Reg- Kennedy on Western proposals UN Congo force, the first ma­ One part of the ceremony is $6(X),000 fire. ing it was apprehended and^^^^^^^ however, teat the con- ier (CCF — Burnaby - Coquit­ to halt the fighting in Laos. jor Western power to Join the being kept a ‘secret.’ It is the Investigators R. R. W i l s o n ®®"/tcted, he said. gress action program "contem- lam) suggested Tuesday that There was also speculation Russians in that position. Ihere unveiling of a tribute to Dr. W and Arthur Owen-Jones arrived Maximum penalty Jot arson gj illegal meth- the government replace Hon. that Gromyko’s delay meant was no explanation for the here from Vernon Tuesday. t® ® 14-year prison terni. ods and that its aoplication in Douglas Harkness In the de­ agreement was imminent on a J. Knox, after whom the school French action. 'HAPPY' is named. Mr fiwpnJones said today J estimates of damage resulted in illegal action fence portfolio.