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THOUGHT FOR TODAY The only person you should envy is the one you could be if you tried hard enough. Zhe Osha Ses WERTHER REPORT Friday cloudy with snow chang- ing to freezing rain in the mor. ning. Little change in temper ature, winds Hen, Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy Vol. 89--No. 11 OSHAWA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1960 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa " WEAPONS BY RUSSIA Soviets Cut Army ' By 1,200,000 Men MOSCOW (AP) -- Nikita 8. forces without hurting its defence Khrushchev: said today Russia|potential because of the strength has blueprinted such "incredible" |of its nuclear weapons including weapons it can discharge one of rockets and missiles. {every three men i armed| "The Soviet Union now has 'forces in the mext year or two.\accumulated enough atomic and | In a three-hour speech to the nuclear weapons," he said. Supreme Soviet the premier|"Since ne agreement has yet painted this picture: |been reached with the Western "Incredible weapons" are being|Powers over the cessation of | 3 {designed by Soviet scientists. atomic and nuclear weapon pro- 'FANTASTIC DEVELOPED Ice Storm On The Way TORONTO (CP)--Storm - bat- touched by children or unsuspect-| tered Southern Ontario, still try-|{ing adults. Hospitals in the Tor-| onto area reported treating more |than 150 persons Wednesday for | |{injuries suffered in falls on ice-| |coated streets | Traffic collisions caused many | highway snarls until two trucks could clear away wreckage. | Amsterdam Suburb Hit By Flood | AMSTERDAM (Reuters) A |dike burst during a blizzard to- |day, forcing the evacuation of all ing to break out of a layer of 115,000 citizens of a suburb of this ice, faced another destructive {Dutch city, threat of freezing rain today. | Every available navy and civil-| Already the victim of two such {ian vessel raced into the flooded |storms, the province was warned | Tuindorp Costzaan district and!to expect its next freezing down- snatched men, women and chil- pour tonight and Frida, BRIGITTE'S BABY | 1 Movie queen Brigitte Bardot | of her husband, actor Jacques | ment. Child was born Monday. Charrier, in their Paris apart- --AP Wirephoto Jooks at her baby in the arms 21-GUN SALUTE | |dren from the top floors of their almost-submerged homes. By afternoon the breach had homes the dominion public| Toronto were at Orangeville, seri-| the weather office here issued this|ously affected widened to 75 yards. In As Hydro crews toiled to re- store power to thousands of {flooded streets only the tops of qisheartening forecast: Solemn Ceremony OTTAWA (CP General Vanier drives t ment Hill today to open t session of 24th P. since Confederation As is traditional, day Is mony. his first an opening read the speech eutlining the zg Jative plans for th the Senate chamber th about 3:30 p.m, _ This is the high point of cere- ee as Opens Commons governor the the e Peace Oth iron g and Tower, gun 1 salute -man guard of drawn up in fr Peace Tower and will ected by Gen. Vanier before he d Mme. Vanier met a r of the Parliam honor will of be n Diefenbaker and Senat ment leader Walter Aseltine and drive the pin Field Regiment |r :|members Senate, | The area is reclaimed land ly- i proceeds Tap- Commons gold-tipped d informs the JOVernor Commons eft 1oureus chamber closed Maj. I to the Commi in the Senate In procession black rod Commons Speaker and members f > Commons ceed to the David Currie VC, t duties as firs first Lt.-Col his geant-at-arms by carrying the winds swirled over the desolate gas ymmons mace Ranged behind the aise Hiembe 5 iS Yk %d Cc the| | trapped buses and automobiles were visible. A small armada of boats worked feverishly to evacuate all the ooned victims by night- [fall ling several feet below a canal leading to the North Sea. Offi- cials said at noon the breach in {the dike was 33 yards wide and Istill growing. Engineers said the flood would continue until the waters were level with the canal Rescue workers struggled against a swift current to save soaked, shivering women earry- ing erying babies. Mar' of the refugees clutched household pets and small per- isonal belongings. The Netherlands Red Cross hos- pital ship Henri Dunant steamed {to the scene to help. Heavy snowfalls and slippery ice made rescue difficult. Icy {scene, : Navy dinghies, "A storm with a generous sup- ply of moisture is brewing in the Texas area. As it moves up rain will spread ahead 'of it, moving into southwestern Ontazio late to- night and persisting tomorrow n many areas teamperatures are sufficiently cold that the precip- itation should become freezing A third storm -- the first was Dec. 28 and the other Wednesday ~could have a disastrous effect on power and communication lines, already strained to the breaking point INIGHTMARE CONDITIONS Wednesday's storm toppled trees and Hydro lines, Telephone communications and power were disrupted in many communities and nightmarish road eonditions confronted motorists, Near Brantford, two loaded ine tank trucks were |among dozens of vehicles ditched ne tanker {"The arms we already possess |are, so to speak, about to appear,| |are even better, even more for-| {midable."" | |AREAS HARD-HIT | Hardest - hit areas outside of | by the storm, Shelburne, Oshawa and Guelph In the Orangeville district about 3,000 families were eating by ndlelight as ice snapped more than 50 hydro poles. Power was expected to be restored to half the homes today and to the| remainder tonight | About 1,400 rural customers | around Shelburne were blacked | out and about 200 were without electricity at Brampton. More] than 1,000 homes suffered disrup-| tions at Oshawa. The General] Hospital at Guelph had to use {emergency equipment when {power failed in some areas. previous Bampton, JAMES MUIR Pe ft, during the storm, O i ferret skuitied oft highway the|¥ RAISES JINEMAN ply, we should dro Chairman James |, 0 t.o1ied blast duction, we are compelled to continue this production, "We have a powerful rocket technique; the air force and the fleet have already lost their pre- vious importance. We have al- ready decreased the .production of bombers and will stop it al. together. Our military aviation will be almost entirely rockets, "The Soviet Army wields such means of warfare and such fire- power as no other army has ever had." RAPS EISENHOWER The Soviet premier assailed Presid Eisenhower's decisi to end the U.S, moratorium on nuclear weapon tests. "In the existing situation, if one country resumed tests, it would be followed by other states 1 " he warned, adding: : "I would like to stress again that the Soviet Union will in the future adhere to its pledge not te resume experimental explosions, does so, To observers in the diplomatic gallery it seemed that in much of his speec disarmament ag S| cob arges 41 soined the highway, n while Gen fue population fo safety in Am-|other turned on Mts side. There|g 'mnean today praised linemen) icon might well have been dis-| Now, he said, plans are for a ment in the Commons chamber] and senators in the red-carpeted) and panelled Senate chamber. CEREMONIAL RIDE As they are gathering, Gen. Vanier, accompanied by Mm: Vanier, leaves Government House for the 20-minute drive to Parliament Hill with a mounted escort of scarlet-coated RCMP. If the mild spell in the capital folds, Gen. and Mme. Vanier will ride in an open, landau. Otherwise they w 8 closed automobile. | hoy n N 1 use They will proceed to the cham-|y {thre { gentleman| 0 se bers of Senate Speaker Mark Drouin where the usher of the black rod, Maj. C. R. | Lamoureux, meets them to con- duct them to the Senate cham- Senate, senators and the Supreme Court of Canada w be as- sembled, B them will be the| members of the diplomatic corps. | Once Gen. Vanier is with Mr. Diefenbaker |right. and Mme. Vanier judge | seated on his on his Subpoena Slapped On Diefe Min by Prime slapped OTTAWA (CP ister Diefenbaker was a subpoena on opening of Parli cations were the power of blown in by a random breeze Newfoundland bailiff Hardy Barfitt showed up at the prime minister's office shortly before a cabinet meeting Wednesd served the subpoena Mr. Diefenbake witness in a foundland : action involves election campaign funds. Mr. Barfitt made a service on Allister Grosa tional director of the Progr Conservative party Earlier, he had on Hon. W. J. B without portfolio from Newf land. CIVIL ACTION The subpoenas ca witnesses in a civi Redmond Grant of Mo says he paid $10,200 the Conservatives' Newfoun treasurer to pay off campaign debis. He money wasn't used for ti pose intended, and seeks torn piece of paper a papers ster und served whe a says the pur its re The defendant is W. 8. Perlin treasurer in 1957, and the case has been set for trial Jan. 21 in the Newfoundland capital Justice Minister Fulton called into Mr. Diefenba fice shortly after the serving, apparently for tion, but it appeared that tion by Mr. Barfitt lacked was bpoena ilta- n {during The member nbaker Mr. Grosart well although court ore could be obtained naming a commission to go Ottawa to take evidence In addition, authorities on par- liamentary privile noted that May's Parliamentary Practice states that "members of both houses are, by the law and cus tom of Parliament, exempted from attendance as witnesses session Parlia- as to of ment "Any to attempt A who refuse attend as a witness might . be treated as a breach of privilege, unless permission had been pre- punisn -|viously granted by the House for his attendance Lava Burst At Hawaii Volcano HONOLULU (AP) burst. from a fissure in Village on the lower slope of Kilauea volcano Wednes- day night and headed for the sea less than a mile away. The eruption was no immediate threat to inhabitants of the vil- lage or settlements on the popu- lated southeast shore of Hawaii Island, some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu Most of Kapoho's 300 residents -- Glowing lava Kapoho 2al had been evacuated earlier in the {Rodney Webb 7 {Dept alW a nons remain. standing F: r reads t spee Senators and others re- ated At the completion of this cere- mony, G Vanier departs, once again rece ; a 21-gun salute. TWO NEW MPs There will to the ceremonial two new Commons Paul Tardif (L (PC additions his year as members Russe and - lastings- i. Mr caused Omer Frontenac)--are Tardif won a byelection by the death of Liberal Gour and Mr. Webb a byelection caused by the death at the last on of ternal Affairs Min- id Smith. mmons ill elect ty Speaker to replace Defence Minister up the post on enter- the cabinet. The goverment » Jacques Flynn (PC -Quebec South sé E ste idnes 5 ( w a Ass0- Sevigny ) gave Il prope 3 ANTOINE PINAY More Ministers May Quit Posts PARIS (Reuters)--Conservative cabinet minijters scheduled a meeting today dent de aulle's dismissal of party leader Antoine Pinay as fi- nance minister At least two of the four remain- ing Conservative ministers are h from the| to consider Presi- sterdam. Heavy Earthquake 'Shakes Tokyo City earthquake shook Tokyo tonight. Although the quake was heavy {there were no immediate re- ports of damage or casualties in | TOKYO (Reuters) -- A heavy| {was ne fire or injury in either ac- 4 who "did a magnificent job un-| |cident. | der the most exacting conditions » \ |astrous. " | Temperatures in the low or|following the Dec. 28 storm. ! mid - 30s were forecast for most | The commission said between| Southern Ontario areas today,|os gag and 35,000 customers were | which meant there would be little | 11° ked out for prolongued per-| thawing, |iods during that storm. Damage| Hydro crews worked round-the-|t, municipal utility facilities was [clock to 'repair circuits. Most|agiimated at more than $1,000,000. breaks were expected to be fixed | he tonight. | LONDON (Reuters)--Snow .and| Police guarded fallen power ice brought traffic chaos to Brit- | lines to make sure they were not|2in today after one of the coldest nights in four years Tokyo. . | PREMIER IMPOSED' | Tey winds sweeping across Eu- rope from Russia sent the tem- | | perature tumbling below freezing| | | Quebe | | | { QUEBEC (CP)--A Union Na- tionale legislature member who announced he is quitting politics because he disagrees with the |way Premier Paul Sauve's suc- cessor was chosen left Quebec City Wednesday presumably for his quiet rural village of St. Jean Port Joli. He left behind him in the pro- |vincial capital a group of baffled {Union Nationale party members and perplexed government offi |cials. | Dr. Fernand Lizotte (UN-IIs- let) told reporters he is resign- ing because Labor Minister An- |tonio Barrette was "imposed'" on party members as party leader jand premier during a caucus Jan. 7. | He said chief party whi {Emilien Rochette and J. Alfred |Plourde, (UN Kamouraska) agreed with his view but both IMr. Rochette and Mr, Plourde denied it. CHANGED HIS VIEW Mr. Plourde said it was true {that before the caucus he had |disagreed with the choice, but {that he had swung to Mr. Bar- rette. Mr. Rochette denied Dr. Li- Quits In Huff {everywhere, upset train sched. | ules and blocked main roads with| frozen snow | Hundreds of cars were aban-| | doned overnight along exposed] {main roads. About 200 trucks| |lined up at the foot of an impas-| {sable hill near Gloucester, in | western England, and another 100] | cars and trucks were stranded on the main road outside Cardiff, |zotte allegation that members| Wales. | | c MPP | s | YOUNG MAN TAKES MONEY LONDON (AP) -- A few hours after Harred's devart- | ment store opened its Janu. arv sale, a polite young man picked his way through a crush of bargain hunters, smiled to the the girl cashier in the woollen goods depart- | { ""The weapons which are being . He also said: The Soviet Army Praises land consumer goods, together Five deaths were attributed to constant in the face of an increas-|International tensions are lessen- |absolute necessity because the| 'Had they not set about neu-|are currently at 3,623,000, down {jected it, this reduction of 1,200,- ament talks are due to start a! h 3,335,000 in the Allies of the The girl, briefed on special [tion announcement climaxed al murmured the young man. He strolled |ment and assembly-line produc- {designed and which, as one says, |are in the portfolios of scientists and designers, are incredible weapons." has firepower that no other army ever has pos-essed; rockets are |taking the place of bombers and G t the production of bombers will with labor productivity, increased MONTREAL (CP) -- Monetary last year more than the cufrent authorities did "precisely the seven-year plan called for the right thing" in October, 1958, United States is no longer the ice conditions and Assistant Com- ing demand for loans, James|ing, and agreements are possible {missioner Thomas H. Trimble of| Muir, president of the Royallat the May summit meeting in |the provincial police appealed to|Bank of Canada, said today. Paris {motorists to stay off highways. Addressing the bank's annual] Khrushchev told the Supreme roads are not in driving condi-|tralizing the terrific head of mon-|from a high of 11,020,000 in war- tion," etary steam generated by the pre-|time and nearly 6,000,000 in the | vious increase in the money sup-1949-55 period, have seen an inflation |PI.ANS CUT. FORCES {000 from the current figure will {be brought about without wait- {ing for the Western powers to {join the Soviet Union in a dis- Geneva this spring. (Western experts last spring |figured the Soviet Union and her |European satellites had 3,200,000 |North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- Tel, opened a sack and [fjon.) s2i | "Empty it in here please, |BOASTS OF PROGRESS arrangements for a collector |long review of Soviet achieve- to empty the till from time to |ment during the last year in time, poured in about £800 |which he assured the 1,300 dep- ($2.136). |uties that Russia is ahead of all Y with the sackful of [tion 'of inter-continental ballisti Qeatl ; _ [tion -CO stic : Scotland Yard is look- |micsiles of various types. | The premier said his govern- 'ment is able to cut its armed were mot allowed freely to ex-| At Edinburgh, the heavy snow : | enabled authorities press their views at the caucus cessfully for the first time an| He said members had been| "electric blanket" built into the| asked to propose what they roadway of the Mound--Britain's| wished although they also were | first main street with its own told by Attorney - General An-|heating system |toine Rivard that no cabinet min-| The street was kept completely |ister except Mr, Barrette would free of snow and ice. 63 Killed laccept the leadership. | In Peru Mr. Rochette commented that| Dr. Lizotte, 55-year-old physician | iwho has been in the Legislative Assembly for 11 years, was not {in any condition to make a state- ment and that he had acted un- der the strain of fatigue. | i |MAY BE EXPELLED The chief whip said the party | has not considered yet whether |to expel the doctor, but his posi- {tion in the party was rather pre-| | | Earthquake | LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Supplies| carious. |and other aid were rushed today| | Before Mr, Barrette was|to Arequipa, victim of Peru's |chosen party leader, there had| Second severe earthquake in less been reports based on party|/than a month. | |sources, that some members| At least 63 persons were re.| | wanted a ballot to be held dur-|ported killed and 200 injured in| ling the caucus. the south Peruvian city. Com-| | No ballot was held and the munications with this capital | [members unanimously signed a|Were broken Wednesday night petition to Lieutenant « Govern-|and officials said the toll might| {ment Onesime Gagnon asking|be much higher. | [that Mr. Barrette form a govern-| Five planeloads of medical sup. iment. plies were loaded. President Manuel Prado and Premier| Pedro Beltran planned to accom. | LATE NEWS FLASHES | pany one of the planes, | Many of Arequipa's 80,000 resi-| ents slept in the streets Wednes d day night following the last of West German Premiers teeth. day after earthquakes had ripped to resign--Agriculture| BONN three tremors that levelled houses and stores and knocked| over telephone poles | Discuss Neo-Nazism to test suc-|_ Bank Man wri CLAIMS {cease. Production of industrial when they held the money supply world's leading military power.| | He said: "Drive only if it is an {meeting Mr. Muir said: {Soviet that Soviet armed forces of fet to 2,423,000 men. As he pro- |armament pro gr a m.,Disarm- {men under arms, as compared miss. | Khrushechev's demobiliza-| "Thank you," other countries in the develop- | 'Nestleton 'Woman, 55, Missing NESTLETON (Staff) -- A Nes- tleton woman, Mrs. Melville Werry, believed to be about 55 years of age, was still missing from her small farm hear here at 10 a.m. today. Her 17-year-old daughter, June, discovered her mother's absence about 4 p.m. Wednesday, when she returned from Black- stock High School. Members of the family spent most of Wednesday night eentact- ing relatives and neighbors and other possible places she might have gone. All' efforts to trace her have been fruitless, She was reported to have been despondent since her son was kili- | f of a re-emphasis of the form of armament which the Soviet Un- ion would find most effective un- der certain conditions. He told of the Soviet Union's {strength in these modern weapon |fields, claimed that the U.S. no {longer is the world's No. 1 milie {tary power, and without giving |any details, said the Soviet armed |forces are equipped with an "un. |precedented weapon." | TACTICAL ARMS | This may have been a refer |ence to tactical nuclear arms. He added: "The armed forces of the So- viet Union are equipped with pow. erful atomic weapons. But the weapons to be produced soon will be even more powerful." If some madman were to un- leash nuclear war against the So- viet Union, "we will be able to destroy him completely." "Everybody understands that A-and H-bombs will bring the greatest harm to those countries which have a very high degree of density of population. "You must remember that the territory of the Soviet Union is enormous, and it would suffer less while the West would suffer more. "And that would be the end of the capitalist world." Khrushchev spoke in all for three hours and five minutes with one half-hour break. led in an auto accident last year. CAN REFUSE SUBPOENA Word from St. John's Mr. Diefenbaker could Newfoundland court subg invalid outside the province this presumably I CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEFT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 0 open fissures a mile long tore a gaping hole in the centre tot the village The eruption climaxed twe i weeks of intermittent earth trem ors. In the last 48 hours the quakes grew in intensity, and ob- | servers said they shook Kapoho "like a bowl of jelly." NEAR 1955 DISASTER The present site of the erup- tion is jusi east of the Puna dis- trict which erupted in 1955 Some 500 residents were acu- ated No lives were lost. but damage to homes, sugar cane {fields and farm land amounted ito $1,000,000. e then. and | Mi inister Henri Rochereau and Max Flechet, secretary of state for foreign trade De Gaulle presides over a cab. inet meeting Fridar Observers said Pinay's dismis- sal is bound to weaken the par- iamentary majority of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre. It opens the first breach in the govern. ment majority since de Gaulle became president the new Fifth Republic | ry, 1959 Pin 68- of the new rchiteet f French economic recovery, was dismissed Wednesday after |a dispute with Debre over eco- ngrie and foreign policy. | (Reuters)--Premiers of 10 West German states | gathered here today for a closed-door discussion of the cur | rent wave of anti-semitic and nev-Nazi incidents Two Senators To Be Appointed | OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister Diefenbaket said today after a cabinet meeting that appointments of two senators-- one from Manitoba and one from Nove Scotia--will be an nounced today. | Coach Signed For Kitchener-Waterloo KITCHENER (CP)--Bobby Bauer, onetime great winger on Boston Bruins' famous Kraut line, was signed today to coach Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, Canada's hockey entry | |eilities | She was last seen when she {picked up the mail about 1 p.m. | Wednesday. There was a full pail |of water near the outside pump, {and the mail was on the kitchen {table when the daughter return. jed Apparently Mrs. Werry left a note. A son, Mervin, who oper- : + ates a service station north of y y [Newcastle, stated early this PRINCESS BRIDESMAID {morning that they thought the I {mother had packed - a suitcase Il-dressed in white like the | The young princess was one |and taken some money but they bride, Princess Anne rides to | of the five. bridesmaids, her |were not sure Chile, cut off several highways Romsey Abbey, Romsey, Eng- | first appearance in such a role. | Bowmanville detachment of the leading into Arequipa, which is| land, for the wedding of Lady | The bride is a cousin of Queen |OPP was still investigating this morning. No plans had br-ep About 60 per cent of the city | and its suburbs was reported de-| ¢ stroyed or badly damaged. | | | |MORGUE FILLED | Officials said the city morgue was filled with bodies dug from the debris Planes and troops arriving with | rescue equipment and relief sup- plies found large sections of the city and suburbs without water supplies and communication fa-| The shocks, felt in Bolivia .and in the Olympic Games next month, about 460 miles southeast of Pamela Mountbatten to Pavia | Elizabeth, made for a search of the area. Lima. i N. Hicks, an interior decorator. --~AP"#Wirephoto