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THE LEADER-PO Siu MMia VOL, LI No. 103 T1I1KTY.1VVO PAGES REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1960 SINOUS COHY I irapra ULbiflg WEATHER FORECAST Mainly cloudy SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) Caryl Chessman went to his death in the San Quentin prison gas chamber today with a smile on his lips. The condemned sex terrorist, who had staved off execution for 12 years, died a few moments before a federal judge was preparing to give a 30-minute stay to hear a final appeal from Chessmans chief defence counsel, and just after the United States and California Supreme Courts had rejected appeals. The potassium cyanide pellets were dropped into the acid in the apple-green death chamber at 11:03.45 a.m.

MDT, and Chessman was pronounced dead at 11:12. Just as the fatal fumes ruse, the 38-year-old Chessman managed a laugh, almost a chuckle. Wrong number Also CHESSMAN'S," Page 14 "KEENLY Caryl Chessman, executed Monday at San Quentin penitentiary, is pictured in March after learning that California legislators killed Gov. Edmund Browns proposal to abolish the death penalty. "Even though I expected it, I'm keenly disappointed," Chessman said at that time.

i Low quotas may soon be boosted Ledr-Pot photo tive. On Monday, his last day in the city, Gen. Varner toured the RCMP barracks and lunched with the officers. Seeing the training depot for Canadas police force was one of the highlights for the govcmor-generaL VAMER INSPECTS RUMP: Georges P. Vanicr views with interest an RCMP escort provided for his car.

The mounted escort was strikingly uniformed in the famed scarlet tunics and provided a regal guard for the Queens represents- No previous With fanfare or quietly, prime ministers gather SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Caryl Chessman missed another stay of execution by minutes because of a wrong telephone number. Federal District Judge Louis E. Goodman said he telephoned San Quentin prison to order a 30-mln-ute stay of execution today to hear arguments on a new petition to delay the convict authors death. But by the time he reached the warden's office the deadly pel-lots had already been dropped in the gas chamber. The petition for a stay of execution was filed with Judge Goodman at 9 55 a.

PDT (10:55 a. MDT) as fast as lawyers George T. Davis and Rosalie Asher, could get to the judges chambers from the State Supreme Court, seven blocks away, where a similar plea was denied five minutes earlier. It took several minutes for the lawyers to explain the purpose of the petition and what had happened earlier in the day. Tlie judge then told his secretary.

Celeste Hickey, to get the warden on the phone. But the first time she dialed San Quentin prison, she did not have the first 4 hi the telephone niunber CL4-1460. She went back to deputy court clerk Edward C. Evensen to get the number again. When she had the warden's office on the phone, she turned it over to Judge Goodman.

The judge was informed the pellets had already been dropped, and there was no turning bark. By ROBERT MOON OTTAWA (Staff) Wheat board chairman W. C. McNamara held out hope Monday for rapidly rising grain delivery quotas in low-quota areas. He made the statement in the Commons sericulture committee in the face of gharge by Jack McIntosh I Swift Current-Maple CrccJs that there were discrepancies every year.

Mr. McNamara said snowbound wet grain had been given priority and moved out to terminal elevator drying points to save It. This had retarded deliveries in southern Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba, he said, and had resulted in wide discrepancy." The wheat board chairman said this situation wbs improving very rapidly," especially with the opening of the St. Lawrence sea- No one could hear him through Uie sound-proof walls of the hermetically-sealed chamber, but he spent his final moments mouthing words directed toward Mrs. Eleanor BlBck, Los Angeles reporter, who had interviewed him many times.

Chessman, condemned on two courts of kidnapping with bodily harm in Los Angeles lovers' lanes in 1948, took a deep breath as the fumes rose. His black hair was neatly combed and he wore a white shirt, open at the throat. SHOULDERS QUIVER At 11.03 a. a little more than five minutes after the pellets had dropped, 'his shoulders quivered slightly. He had entered the chamber at 11.02 a.

m. preceded by one guard and followed by tiiree others. The 60 witnesses jammed in front of the thick windows of the death chamber were silent. Associate Warden Walter D. Achuff announced the official time of death.

The Venetian blind behind which Warden Fred R. Dickson stands a little distance from the chamber was partly open. Usually it is shut during an execu tion. i Chessmans 12-year court fight to escape the gas chamber ended with a series of three denials all within 45 minutes of the execution hour and an intended 30-minute stay of execution that came too late. The California State Supreme Court denied a series of petitions filed Saturday and Sunday after an unprecedented special session in chambers in San Francisco dils morning.

They met again to deny a new petition for a stiy filed 45 minutes before the death hour. In Washington Associate Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the United See CHESSMAN'-Page 5 experience PORTLAND. Ore. (API -Police took into custody Sunday a St.

Bernard dg who obviousiy never has done duty in the Alps. They were called when a 30-foot chain he was dragging got tangled In a hedge. He had no identification tag. We tried to get him to lead us home, said Patrolman M. L.

Mattoon. "But he would just go arnmd in circles. They put the dog In a cage at the police station until the hum one society came after him. formally, although both insist that the South African problem cannot be ignored. Dicfenbaker and 1 stroqgly favor dealing with the matter informally, a course that apparently is receiving quiet support from Macmillan.

Nehru told a prom conference Nee r.Ms GATHER Page" TODAYS CHUCKLE A popular tong Is one that makea us alt think we can sin. Ken Mayhew dies after operation Lawyers, students cry for liberty way. The gap was being narrowed. He said the latest quota figures fur the three provinces as of April 23 showed 41 staUons were on a two-bushel quota, 641 stations on Uiree bushels, 13 staUons on four bushels, 444 staUons on five bushels, 267 staUons on six bushels. Two stations in the BriUsh Columbia bloc were on seven bushels.

When Uie discussion on this point began, Mr. McIntosh asked how many Saskatchewan points were now on the six bushel quota and why there was a wide varia-Uon between tha north snd south of the province. i Northern Saskatchewan experienced more snowbound grain Uinn the south. Mr. McNamara Uten cited the figures for Uie threa provinces and said there had been a large amount of grain threshed with high moisture content, with about 60 to 73 million bushels moved out.

-Mr. McNamara said the bulk of producers had Uius been allowed to move Uie bulk of this to the level of six bushels to the acre. Mr. McIntosh aald that every year there had been discrepancy and every year an excuse had been offered. 1 Mr.

McNamara said there had always been inequlUr in Uie past but exptanaUona and not excuses had been given. "Oh. yes, Mr. McIntosh Interjected, Mr. McNamara said the mart ketlng opcraUon had been of first and foremost Importance.

To meet marketing requirements it wu ne. cessary to draw from certain areas, Mr. McIntosh Mid he could not accept Mr. McNamaras statement. CCF House leader Huron Argue said he did nt oppose the broad See QUOTA rage I Russian chief of staff retires MOSCOW (Reuters) Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, 63-year-old Soviet armed forces chief of staff, has retired and Is said to bo ill, Informed sources said here today.

The sources said his successor is Marshal Matvei Zakharov, former commander of Soviet forces in East Germany. YORKTON (Staff) Ken-neth M. Mayhew, prominent Saskatchewan newspaperman, and editor of The Yorkton Enterprise, died in hospital here early Sunday following an operation. He was 54. His unexpected death instilled profound shock In this community 8 000 where he had worked and made his home since 1928, and In and sports circles In the province.

lie entered Yorkton Union hospital, at 8 a.m. Saturday for surgical treatment. Following the ISTANBUL (AP) Turkish students, who have been carrying on virtually alone a campaign against Premier Adnan Men-dens government, won the support of prominent Istanbul lawyers in new demonstrations LONDON (CP) To the beating of tom-toms, a beaming Ghanaian student poured a libation of gin on the ground In front of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and Invoked a divine blessing. Outside the hotel of External Affair Minister Eric Louw of Bouth Africa, torch-bearing demonstrators waved placards and a limited protests against apar-. theid.

Ostentatiously or quietly, prime ministers armed and circulated, gather!) ig In small groups for preliminary exchanges on the eve of the 10th and probably most momentous Commonwealth conference since the Second World War. Nehru sees apartheid peace risk LONDON (Reutersi Indian Prime Minister Nehru warned today South Africa's apartheid policy of racial segregation is "a danger to world peace." Nehru spoke to reporters as ether leaders of 11 British Commonwealth countries hrld prepa ratury talks for their ill-day con ference starting Tuesday. Nehru predicted the apartheid would not survive for long. "It could only lead to the abandonment of that policy or con flict on a big scale, he said, "Apart from the morality of It, it is a danger to world peace," Asked about his talks lost month with Chinese Communist Premier Clmu En-lal, Nehru said the two aides had ''completely different sets of facts' about their frontier dispute. The premier said Communist China posed a potential threat to peace in Asia but not In the near future.

China's rapid Indus-trial and population growth, he added, made for "a tremendous explosive situation with no easy answer to It. It w-ould help, he declared. If Conununist China was brought Into the United Nations. "It really verges on absurdity to go on railing the Island of For-mi of Taiwan-Chlna and Ignoring in the United Nations the biggest and most populated country In Die world. Also "NATO MINISTERS.

Page 9 operation which was performed at 11 a.m. he went into a coma from which he never emerged. He was predeceased by his father, James F. Mayhew, in January this year. Kenneth MacTavlsh Mayhew, born at Renfrew, was the only son of James Ferguson Mayhew and his wife Mary Bcrthea Richards.

He received his education in Renfrew. While attending collegiate he served as correspondent for the Ottawa Citizen and during his vacations got a good grounding in salesmanship by selling brushes. Although the youngest agent In a large sales force he won the bronze, silver and gold medals for performance. CORRESPONDENT When he left school Mr. Mayhew continued to serve The Citizen.

but In addition acted as Ottawa Valley correspondent for the Toronto Star and Montreal Gazette. On Oct. 18. 1928, he accepted a position as reporter for the Enterprise and left for Yorkton. In 1938 he was appointed news editor; in 1942, assistant manager and on Jan.

1, 1947 entered partnership in the firm and was ap-pointed associate editor. In 1932 he was appointed editor, and a year later became vice-president of the company and Us largest shareholder. He was active In every phase of life, but he was first and foremost a reporter and writer. His colorful reports on a score of murder trials, the Karnsack See KEN MAYHEW Page. 5 The students Intended to demonstrate In tlie square, site of monument to Turkey's war dead.

But troops threw a ring around the square and pushed tlie students back into winding side streets. The demonstration by the 3,000 youths, mostly students, was the day's first Incident in tills city under martial law. The soldiers pushed the demonstrators back with tlie butts of tlictr rifles. Suddenly tlie crowd broke and scattered Into several small aide streets. Officials and reporters on hand for the NATO session watched the clash from the windows of tlie city hall, NO SHOOTING There was no shooting, although Premier Adnan Mcndcrea had warned Sunday that more anti government demonstrations would not be tolerated, and a government announcement said the army had been ordered' to fire on demonstrators If necessary to disperse them Neither Mendrirs nor President Celal Bayar were on hand at the opening NATO session to welcome the ministers, presumably because they were busy with tlie local crisis.

Already under martial law after student demonstrations against Mcndcres last week, Istanbul was a virtual ghost town Sunday with Imposition of 24-hour Mnv Day curfew. Only NATO ccnferces and reporters were free to move about with special passes. The initial pace was leisurely. Britain's Harold Macmillan found time between entertaining groups of colleagues at his country residence at Chequers during the weekend to be installed as chancellor of Oxford University and to show Canada's John Diefen-bakcr some of the high spots of his new academic kingdom. Indias Jawaharlal Nehru paid a call on Aneurin Bevan.

convalescent deputy leader of the British Labor party and a longstanding personal friend. A us-traliaa Robert Menzlcs visited former prime minister Sir Anthony Eden and Sir Winston Churchill. Preliminary discussion centred on the place to be allotted In the talks to South Africa's racial policies. It a pj Years increasingly likely that such talks will be held outside the formal agenda. While Louw himself made no statement, his friendliest col-league appears to be Sir Roy Weli-risky of the Central African Federation, who he disapproves any mention of the South African situation without permission of South Africa herself.

The most vigorous champions of a full-dress airing. Nkrumah and Malaya's Tcngku Abdul Rahman, both have indicated willingness to pursue the subject in- British business invited LONDON CPi Prim Minister Diefenbnker today gave British businessmen an encouraging economic report on Canada especially as it applied to Anglo-Canadian trade and Invited them to pay an Increasing rote In further development. "Tills year, he bid Die Canadian Chamber of Commerce In Great Britain, "will be a gYod year Without Inflationary pressures," And he went on: "We shall make more progress with national development and with economic diversification. shall be able to welciwne and absorb Into employment many tens of thousands of Immigrants." Although there had been "con-Side; able unemployment' last winter, tie said, with Die exception of March "It has been lower month by month than In the nwnth a year ago." rr.R F.NT AHEAD His report on Anglo-Canadian trade was bright, During the flrt two months of lids year Imports front Britain were running 43 per cent ahead of last year compared with a seven per cent Increase In purchases fmn the Unit'd States and a total Increase In import from all countries of eight per cent, On the cwher hand our exports to Die United Kingdom In the same jwrind. from the latest sta-It 'tics, are 30 per cent above last year comramt to a two-, recent increase In 1939 ox er lP.Vt Putting It otherwise; British exports to Canaiia last year amounted to 73 per cent Die Divers will seek plane MILWAUKEE (AP) Expert deep water salvage divers planned to drop to the bottom of icy Lake Michigan today to search for the fuselage of a Royal Canadian Air Force plane which crashed Friday night moments after the pilot said he was confident of a successful emergency landing.

The plane carried sjx men, including an air commodore. A team of five volunteer skin-divers searched the murky depths Sunday. They found additional debris from the plane, but visibility of only a few feet and 40-degree water temperatures prevented a more thorough search. The RCAF said the two engined Mitchell bomber, with Air Commodore J. G.

Stephenson of Windsor, as one of the passengers, was bound from Ottawa to Truax Field at Madison, where Stephenson was to begin an Inspection of 30th North American Air Defence Region, Wing Cmdr. Joffre Woolfenden, RCAF officer attached to the 30th North American Air Defence See DIVERS Page 5 Troops dispersed a series of anti government gatherings in this city, where foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are studying the Wests strategy for the Faris Summit meeting. About 3,000 youths sliouling Freedom! Freedom! dashed with soldiers guarding the broad plaza in sight of tlie NATO meeting place. About 100 lawyers dressed In judicial robes assembled in tlie Istanbul Palace of Justice (high court), singing patriotic songs and shouting "Ltberty. They hud planned to march on the new city hall where NATO ministers are meeting.

Turkish troops moved Into tlie palace of justice and arrested at least 30 lawyers, six of them women, at bayonet point. The rest were forced to leave tlie building and dispersed. The incident in the court took place as 500 students marched silently down both sides of lull-klal Caddesi, the citys main business street, toward Takslm Square. KEN MtYltEW Beautiful princess and outsfudicn archbishop meet again Friday Principals in strange drama of British royally NOTES ON NEWS oHwy-'1 flap Weather fain ftrv! Innw frit tn mulhweoleri Albert overnight ft thta nuwwri During the rimy thfe fMertMUlfct will bevmnr imwrrr eng will prg Into weetrrn faUftlrh Die northern regiwu be mueuy twny Turwiev will be mny enA ft but eertner evrig in the northern er tong tr4wwn Where CU i'f fmn the nrth wtU bring timely Rkire end ftueUered there cut tr rein end rww, faint Wttfcer tftni Mninhr Tieiv; wine light bermnlng WC 1 5 Tuweteyi low tnmght mm high bennrrw York Ion ,5 end 45, prfn jo r4 5), Trinee Alberti mny toiv cfcwwW With gunny ntor4 Tiey Vft'f blinlej low-hich el Vnre Alxr4 fawkeiuun 45 North faille ford So 50 Mtplr rrrl Mmi Jewt Cloudy tnrfav ilh hnrr hi rflrrrwwwt; bmnr with ThwIrv, litlir rhenge In IrnU'eRiur; mle 5 fKuepl ligM evtrntgMi low -high 5050. Knglnft faUitft forerun! high Tammehue el ftm.

ter otoUte humjdfly rvord high 147 Rwwfd tiw Avetwge hifh Average krw Average ftunwt Imnorww YwtenUy lernemiureg Me. Mm PreHlfc fagirve ...,.51 frinr Albert 4) 1 fatkMlnrvn VfWMi 4 fatevwn 55 rvrktnn 44 faif! Nurth fall KWd 30 Indissoluble, and conscious of my duty to Uie Commonwealth, I have decided to put these considerations before all oUicrs. As this public renunciation and the monUis Uiat followed showed, Uie princess is a Vcply religious woman. Suggestions that she might enter a religious order were not entirely idle gossip. And so her marriage, enriched by its incomparable abbey setting of pomp and pageantry for the royal bride will be a deeply religious experience.

But despite tlie ceremony's Insistence on the lifelong nature of the marriage vows, Uie Royal Family's guests at the wedding will include a number of ti voreed notables. One is Prlncoi Georg of Denmark, Margaret's cousin, Who divorced her first husband, it was on the archbishop's advice that Uie British Rojal Family stayed away from this cousin second marriage to Uie prince. In the place of honor behind the Queen and Prince Philip will stand Uie bridegroom' divorced parents. Tlie second and Uilrd wives of Armstrong-Joncs Sr. will sit in the nave.

One notable divorcee still ap-parently Is barred Uie Duchess of Windsor, Uie twice-divorced American for whom Edward VIII gave up Uie Uirone. Neither nor Uie duke will be at the kllng. of. Yet no one would call him popular. After Uie Townsend affair he was booed in public.

Newspapers said he was out of touch with the 20th century and called for him to resign. AU this made no difference in his belief in the lifelong dura ton of Christian marriage, in the sancUty of Uie words "those whom God hath Joined together let no man put asunder. This was Uie view he pressed on Margaret in 1955 and the view she accepted that she must not marry the divorced Townsend. Her historic renunclaUon of her love for Townsend said: "Mindful of Uie church's teaching that Christian marriage is Canterbury and Anglican Primate, was Instrumental in breaking up Princess Margaret's romance with Peter Townsend, the divorced air hero she wanted to ninrry. On Friday Uie archbishop will be officiating at her marriage to Antony Armstrong-Joncs.

Margaret's sorrow will have come to a happy ending, and the church's teaching of Uie sanctity of marriage will have boon upheld. The arthi'dr.) Is one of the groat brains of Britain. He lives simply, smokes a pipe bus a genial good humor. He likes a game of cricket and a glass of wine. in abort, he Is exactly tlie sort of man Britons normally approve Rv 4)1 IN I ROST LONDON iAPt Two principals In one rf the strangest dramas of British royalty beautiful, gnv prince- mid a plain-spoken, richly robed Archbishop will meet again Friday at the altar of Westminster Abbey.

"Margaret Rose, the arch-bishop will say, "wilt thou have this man to be thy Wedded husband, to Uve together after Gods ordinance In the holy estate of matrimony?" "I will, Uie princess will reply And the archbishop may then be permitted a moment of sell congratulation. Jive years ago Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of "Our anti U.R. propaganda la a flop, They dnp't know what lewrh tounlrr Is. See U.K.

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