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White Assassin Injures South African
Premier, Subject of Worldwide Rebuke
By ADRIAN PORTER
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
dica, (fl — Prime Minister Hendrik
Verwoerd, an uncompromising ar
chitect of South Africa’s white
supremacy policies, was shot and
wounded Saturday toy a middle
aged white man. Blood streamed
from Verwoerd’s head.
Three shots were fired. Two
hit the Prime Minister.
One pierced his right cheek,
went through the roof of his
mouth and fractured the right
upper jaw. The other entered the
right ear.
Physicians announced Saturday
there was no injury to the torain
and that Verwoerd’s general con
dition was satisfactory. He was
described as wholly conscious and
able to talk.
The need for removal of the
bullets is not urgent, a medical
bulletin said, and specialists will
decide when an operation should
* be performed.
The husky blond Prime Min
ister, 58, became a target, appar
ently of a .22 caliber pistol, as
he sat with his wife on a plat
form at the Union Exposition to
watch a parade of cattle.
A bullet struck him under the
right eye. With blood spurting from
the right side of his head and his
mouth, he fell into te arms of his
wife. Se wept as she comforted
him.
A member of Verwoerd’s body
guard also was reported hit.
The white gunman, about 45 and
well dressed, was seized by police
and civilians in a wild melee and
apparently badly beaten. He was
jailed at the police station on
the exposition grounds.
The assassination attempt came
only a few hours after a govern
ment spokesman declared that
neither Negro resistance nor for
eign pressure would force a
' change in the white supremacy
laws.
Foreign Minister Eric Louw,
rejecting mounting criticism
abroad, declared “We will not
hand over control of South Africa
to a native (Negro) majority.”
Riots and demonstrations the
past three weeks, initially against
the hated passbook system im
posed on nonwhites, have led to
about 80 deaths and hundreds of
arrests.
Security police took special pre
cautions for Verwoerd’s appear
ance at the exposition grounds at
Johannesburg’s Milner Park. With
out incident he delivered a half
hour speech opening the Farm and
Trade Fair marking the 50th an
niversary of the Union of South
Africa.
“No country in the world can
tread on the corpse of a fellow na
tion,” Verwoerd said. “We shall
fight for our existance and we
shall survive.”
Verwoerd said South Africa is
the Dark Continent’s most devel
oped country — “prepared to
serve in Africa and cooperate with
any state in the world, white or
black.”
But, he added, “We believe that
our good fellowship in industrial
life should be reciprocated.”
The Prime Minister said the his
tory of South Africa was one of
crisis after crisis, but out of every
crisis was born greater achieve
ment. What South Africa is ex
periencing today will mean not
defeat but greater progress in
every sphere of the nation’s life,
he said.
It was ironical that he was shot
by a white man rather than a
member of the black population
that has felt the sting of his
policies. An Afrikaner official said
the assailant was an Englishman.
The South African Press Assn,
said the gunman apparently was
a farmer from the northern
Transvaal Province.
South African whites are large
ly of British and Dutch descent,
with the latter generally the more
solid supporters of apartheid.
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Eisenhower Feels
Cuha Is Betrayed
By STANFORD BRADSHAW
WASHINGTON, UP) — President
Eisenhower says longtime friends
of Cuba feel the ideals of its revo
lution are being betrayed by the
government of Fidel Castro.
His frank appraisal was con
tained Friday in a long letter to
Chilean students who had criti
cized U. S. policies toward Cuba
during Eisenhower’s visit to Chile;
The Eisenhower letter pro
duced no immediate reaction in
Cuba, but observers in Havana
felt sure it would provoke a sharp
note from Castro’s government or
a long television speech toy the
Prime Minister. ,
The Chilean students had writ
ten to Eisenhower that they
thought the United States had
coddled Latin-American dictators
and had not done enough to pro
mote democracy and provide eco
nomic aid.
Eisenhower briefly mentioned
the criticism in a speech during
his Chilean visit, and promised a
detailed reply. The 14-page letter,
transmitted through the American
Ambassador in Chile, was that
reply. In it, the President sought
to clear up what he felt were
misconceptions about U. S. poli
cies in Latin America.
“In all candor,” the letter
added. “I must state that many
long-time friends of Cuba in the
United States and elsewhere in
the hemisphere who were heart
ened-by the ideals expressed toy the
present leaders of Cuba when they
assumed control have been grave
ly disillusioned by what is com
ing to be considered a betrayal of
these ideals in such matters as
freedom of expression, equal pro
tection of the laws, and the right
freely to choose a representative
form of government.”
In Santiago, Chile, U. S. Am
bassador Walter Howe invited
seven student leaders to make an
all-expense-paid visit to the
United States. They accepted.
New Best Man Named
For Margaret Wedding
LONDON, (#) — A young doctor
was named Saturday as best man
at the May 6 wedding of Princess
Margaret and Antony Armstrong
Jones.
He is Roger William Gilliatt, the
only son of the late Sir William
Gilliatt, former gynecologist to
Queen Elizabeth II.
Gilliatt replaces 35-year-old
aristocrat Jeremy Fry in the best
man role.
Gilliatt is a consultant neurol
ogist at the National Hospital lor
Nervous Diseases and has a pri
vate practice in Harley Street, the
golden row of British medicine. |
The announcement came from
Clarence House. London home of
Queen Mother Elizabeth and the
Princess.
Fry announced Wednesday he
was bowing out on doctors’ orders.
His physician, Dr. H. Gordon
Neill, reported Friday that Fry
had jaundice.
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17 Projects Given
Legislative Study Group
By Lawmakers
The Legislature handed the
Legislative Council a flock of pro
jects to accomplish between now
and the lawmakers’ next meeting
in January.
A total of 17 separate jobs
were included in a concurrent re
solution passed by both houses
shortly before adjournement.
The council, a permanent ten
member interim group, was di
rected to:
1. Complete its study of state
support for public schools.
2. Study the desirability of a
stepped - up vocational education
program.
3. Study borough government,
an area in which the legislators
failed to reach any agreement at
the session.
4. Cooperate with the Local Af
fairs agency in a study of the
problems of classifying cities.
5. Continue to study a proposed
probate code.
6. Revise the Alaska criminal
code and submit it to the Legis
lature for approval.
7. Study and make recommen
dations on legislative organiza
tion.
8. Prepare a handbook on state
government for the use of legis
lators.
9. Prepare a legislative draft
ing manual.
10. Make a suggested revision
of the joint rules of the Legis
lature.
11. (Prepare other legislative
aids, including current editions of
the annual summary of legislation
and tables of sections of the Al
PUBLIC FIGURE
DUNFERMLINE, Scotland, UP) —
A prankster with a paint brush
early today brightened up a sta
tue of Andrew Carnegie, the local
boy who made good in the U. S.
steel industry. Carnegie’s coat was
painted green, his vest a bright
yellow, and his trousers were
given pink stripes. The bronze
statue was erected in 1914 by the
people of Dunfermline, Carnegie’s
home town.
Former Nome Student Will be
Finalist in Alaska Spelling Bee
Karen Swim, formerly a stu
dent in the Nome School and now
in Anchorage, will be one of the
finalists in the Alaska Spelling
Bee later this month.
Karen is in the 8th grade in
the Orah Dee Clark School.
aska code repealed and amended
by 1959 laws.
12. Prepare a directory of state
officials.
13. Study the application of
overtime provisions in the Alaska
wage and hour act.
14. Study and make recommen
dations on changes in the bounty
system of Alaska and on the ad
visability of a state-federal, co
operative predator control pro
gram.
15. Look into the'advisibility of
the state acting as its own in
surer.
16. Proposed legislation on the
problem posed by sale to minors
of obscene printed matter.
17. Study and report on the de
sirability of establishing a semi
autonomous public works author
ity to manage state capitol im
provements.
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