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THOUGHT FOR TODAY The way io solve the disarma- ment problem fs to figure out & means by which eonld disarm last, Slim For Crew In Tower each nation rics Mot Guar # i6 Corts Por Copy Hopé NEW YORK (AP)--Deep-sen reach the main quarters of 4 divers battled against time and tower's ship-like hull, ley sens today to reach the Officers believe the tower was broken hulk of a Texas Lower jn an upright position, more radar island sunk in the Atlantic than 50 feet below the surface, 70 miles southeast of New York City "Luminescent" objects, believed radar domes, were spotted by & Fut hope faded for finding any diver Monday, survivors trapped in the storm- wrecked tower. All 28 men or missing. One hody has been recovered and another sighted but Jost, Rescue operations had been ' "legs" dramatically spurred Monday standing~--but bent over as if by a some giant hand, One was 10 feet and the other 25 feet below t when enigmatic tappings and sound which was likened to human voice were hear coming from the tower Then the rappings faded, | stopped--and were never heard again "A realistic 1.8, coast guard, Murky water, stirred by the 0 t of abonrd the big sation are dead Sane storm that wrecked the ower Sunday night, lowered visibility and hampered opera tions of were tower's three discovered Two the he surface | These legs will be sheared off by divers to permit a salvage boat carrying a diving bell and view," said the|diving gear to move into position "must be that directly over the tower's po the men in the tower are no Sition, longer alive," The navy was cautious about During the chill black night, the chances for any survivors, a flotilla of salvage and search/PY t officers recalled that several vessels hovered near the spot/Men trapped aboard the sunken where the tower stood guard as warning radar system DIVERS PLUMB DEPTHS | battleship ve! for 16 days part of the air force's early attack on Pearl Harbor West Virginia lived after the Japanese Jee, 7, 1041, It was conceivable, the air While searchlights and flares|force said, that personnel could played eerily over the scene, survive for a time if hatches teams of divers plunged into the on the watertight compartments 48-degree seas in attempts to/had been closed in time, Laos Rebels Pushed VIENTIANE (AP) Western t pushed their way into Vang Vieng Monday and captured the strategie rebel base on the road to the royal capital of Luang Prabang after only slight resist: ance, A dispatch from Associated Press cameraman Fred Waters said the town fell at 11:35 a.m, Monday after a 30-minute battle, Anothe was ne HOU Prabang, with plans for a link and then a turn east toward the rebel-held Plain of Jars, But the government's pr 0 § pects were seriously dimmed by reverses on the southern front, where pro-Communist forces on Friday captured Ta Vieng, one of the government's staging bases for the planned offensive against the plain The government force cap tured 16 prisoners including a woman, a howitzer and a Rus: sdan-made mortar and a large number of gasoline and oil Belgian Boxer Shot By Police RRUSSELS (Reuters)=--A for mer Relgian professional boxing champion died today of wounds suffered in a police-striker clash in the industrial south as the socialist party pledged con: tinued opposition to the govern. ment's austerity bill, target of J month long near general atrike Joseph Jo Woussem, 33, former Relgian lightweight King, was ate a highly dangerous situatios government column|in that ares." . th from Luang|™ wounded with another man and a voman when police fired on strikers at Chenee, near the strike-centre city of Liege in southern Helgium Monday, He was the fourth strike fatality, Back lifted in by Soviet planes that| have been supplying the robel| forces, The Soviet Union protested tg) the United States Monday that supplied planes "tend to widen the conflict in Laos and to cre Navy fire hoats go into action in the Cooper River as a Navy deperming dock at the east end of the Charleston 8,0, Naval Station burns, | still f n|identified senior RCAF offiger at a cost of #79,081 after the NAVY DOC A Wofoot wide washout near Yale in Western British Columbia eut a deep swath across teans-Canada highway, | 'Small Business' Type The Osha Times OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 196) Authorized Post Office o_ Second Class Mell Department, Otiewe WEATHER REPORT Arctic sir now entering North ern Ontario is expected to spread to this ares by Wednes. day, EIGHTEEN PAGES wilh i WASHOUT ON above, and railroad, below, | | Heavy rains over the week end caused other washouts and widespread flooding OSHAWA BACKS PLANE SERVICE | Firemen Sift Through | Airline Seeks Hotel Blaze Debris throughout Western British Columbia and Western Wash- ington TORONTO (CP) =~ Firemen|we won't know until the ruins and police continued searching the charred ruins of the Carson Hotel today but it appeared the of terror--a woman hanging by| 0 death toll in Monday's blaze her fingertips from a fourth. Points. would remain at two, Wilfred Fry, 49, and 8 man tentatively identified as Walter|for escape on a roof; a month. #te a scheduled airline service Carr, 40, died and 11 persons old baby being dropped 30 feet| between Montreal, Kingston and were injured when flames rip ped through the 76-year-old, 62- room huilding in downtown Tor- onto at the corner of Bhuter and are thoroughly searched." Eyewitnesses told of a scene floor window sill, then dropping; a man searching desperately {to a policeman's arms, | The baby, Jacqueline Me- {Guiness, suffered scratches when caught in a coat held by ~AP Wirephoto | Church' streets, None of the in- Const, Frederick Bunting, ~~ | jured was in serious condition, | First reports said four persons had died in what was described as the worst hotel fire in recent Toronto history, Police said, however, there was no reason to suspect other casualties "but Tax Accounting Urged Canterbury OTTAWA (CP) to adopt some for the billions of new auditor-general wants the had approved a $34,050 job, | government methods of private business in|#350 in hospital and medical| efficiency can be measured Accounting taxpayers' dollars it spends 2, The navy's expenditure of bills for a deserter, absent for more than a year, who was in| Canada's| government's treasury bo a r di dividual activities or operations and the development of reliable yardsticks against which their| "Only in this way can value for money spent he reasonably Otherwise, says Maxwell Hen-|jured in a car crash, The navy, | assured." being government 1s Cana and to Assure he money spent Mr, Henderson, 52 It contained the usual list of| Some of these: 1. A house built for an un. derson, it's impossible to know following tradition, hadn't dis-| whether efficient 4 dians they're getting value for|an airport construction contract/in working with management In| charged him 3. An extra $245,000 added fo) at Riviere-du-Loup, Que, be: Pro-|drums with Russian markings argument in his annual report hadn't staked out the runway) overnment troops which apparently had been air. tabled Monday in the Commons, route properly, | The auditor-general said gov- irregularities and questionable arnment accounts were del points turned up in reviewing signed to ensure that expend:| Jovernment spending oherations tures are made in accordance n the 108 J ar, rocket attacks in Laos by U8. BUILT COSTLY HOUSE with the appropriation made hy Parliament, NEEDS ACCURACY "Of considerable importance, however, is the necessity for Resumes MONTREAL - (CP)=A coron er's Inquest resumes tonight nto the death of Mrs, Marjorie Vosburgh and 11 of her 18 chil: dren whose bodies were found in the ashes of their Noyan, Que,, shanty Dec, 10, Abel Vosburgh, 63, only sur. vivor of the fire that wiped out the shack in minutes, is ex: pected to be called to testify at the inquest, to be held in Bed. ford, Jes 45 miles south of Montreal and 20 miles east of Noyan, "I have the legal right to call on him to testify," said district coroner J, H, Boileau," and 1 certainly intend to do so." Vosburgh has been held by provincial police since Jan, 8 on A coroner's warrant, Aside from Vosburgh's testi K BURNS Approximately six men were injured and another six were unaccounted for in the specs tacular fire north of the eity AP Wirephoto Swedes Fight Off - Baluba Tribesmen ELISARETHVILLE (AP) swedish UN troops today fought off hundreds of rebel Raluba tribesmen who wade three at. tacks on a train the Swedes were escorting in central Ka. tanga provinee, A UN spokesman said the Swedes inflicted "heavy casual ties" on the Ralubas but that ne Swedes were hurt, The Swedish troops were es corting a train travelling south from the coal mining town of Luena, about 300 miles north: west of Elisabethville, Ralubas had attacked the same train during the weekend, wounding three Swedes about old miles outside Luena by 100 Balubas armed with guns and bows and arrows "The Swedes repulsed the reb els," he continued, 'but the train then reached part of the rail track which the tribesmen had torn up. As the train backed up to return to Luena, about 400 more Ralubas appeared and made another attack." "The Swedes opened fire and the Ralubas retreated, There were about 80 Swedish troops on board the train, | MANY INJURED : "The train was about 500 yards from Luena station when The spokesman said the train the Ralubas launched a third was first attacked today a few attack which the Swedes drove porters of deposed Congo pre mier Patrice Lumumba, follow ing discovery of a plot to as. sassinate provincial President Moise Tshombe and his cabinet ministers said to include about 15 Eure peans Twenty-nine American mis sionaries and their families have arrived safely in Ruanda Urandi after being detained by Kivu spokesman in pro-Lumumba forces in province, a UN Leopoldville said Two French newspaper men were expelled from Leapoldville after apparently being beaten hy military police of army chief Col, Joseph Mobutu, They were seized after going to Thysville, Those arrested were mony, the highlight of the in quest 1s expected to be the re port of provincial government pathologists who analyzed the | bodies of the dead, exhumed by lorder of the attorney-general's department last Thursday, Provincial police have already disclosed that Mrs, Vosburgh was dead before the fire started, | A report, not confirmed or denied by provineial police Di. rector Josaphat Brunet, also says that one of the Vosburgh| ehildren--probably a 17-year-old son---suffered a head injury that would have killed him, but he was alive at the time of the) five, | In Quebec, criminal charges! accounting to provide complete 'for and ucourate costs of the in- ducers." Vosburgh Inquest Mr, Henderson said his audi tors are extending their efforts in improving cost controls and| studying internal control proced- | made his| cause a government engineer Ures, | One tem listed in his report; When $2,406,175 in grain owned by the Canadian wheat board was lost in the 1050 col: lapse of a Port Arthur terminal elevator, there was a dispute as to who would bear the loss, The elevator company paid $1,631, 175, The government authorized payment of the other $775,000 from a special wheat board mc: count earmarked for purposes the benefit of (grain) pro Today cannot be laid until after a cor oner's inquest is held, Dr, Boil: oau signed certificates of accel. Archbishop To Retire LONDON (Reuters) Dr, Geoffrey V¥isher, Archbishop of | Canterbury and spiritual head of| the Church of England, an nounced here today he will be retiring May 31, He is 73, Dr, Fisher has headed the Anglican Church since 1045, A simultaneous statement from the office of Prime Minis- ter Macmillan said the Queen will confer a lifetime peerage on Dr, Fisher on his retirement, Informed sources sald the successor to the archbishop in jhe. R730 ($21,000) a year post HOON. he , who nominates the archbishop on the recom. méendation of her prime minis. ter, is due to leave London Fri. day with Prince Philip for a tour of India, Pakistan, Nepal and Iran, The decision of the Queen to grant Dr, Fisher a life peerage means he will be able to con- tinue to take a prominent part in national life by speaking in the House of Lords, of which he has been a member by virtue of his clerical office, dental death shortly after the fire without calling an inquest, | but opened one later after Police} investigations, EXECUTION WALL Castro He has sat in the House of Lords since 1030, first as bishop of London and then--from 1045 ~A8 Archbishop of Canterbury, Kills Three More HAVANA (AP) = Fidel Cas: tro's firing squads executed three more Cubans early today as the pramier's military tribun- als stepped up punishment of opponents of the revolutionary regime, Castro also openly purged op- position in labor unions, firing hundreds of workers, The executions raised the un official total since Castro came to power to 580, shot early today in Havana's La Cabana fortress were Juan Mesa Lopez and Julio Llevra Suarex, accused of 'counter revolutionary and terrorist ac. tivities," and Balbine Emilio Dia, charged with attempting to] ~ kill pro-Castro radio commenta- tor Jose Pardo Llava last fall, Llevra Suarez also was accused LATE NEW S FLASHES Diefenbaker Defends Cuba Trade WASHINGTON (CP) of spying for the U.S, govern ment, They had been convicted less than 12 hours earlier, La Ca. bana was jammed with an un. digclosed number of prisoners awaiting trial for anit-Castro ac: tivities, On the heels of a warning to the bus drivers union to close ranks behind Castro's revolu tion, the labor ministry dis. missed 360 employees of the re. cently natonalized Cuban Elec. tric Company, No official reason was given, but the workers sald they were fired for being "un. patriotic" and potentially dan. gerous to loyal workers, Road, Rail + Flood Crews 'Race Time VANCOUVER (CP) -- Flood Prime Minister Diefenbaker defended Canada's trading position with Cuba today and said Americans seem to forget that, despite its embargo, the US, still sells much mon Police Roadblocks To TORONTO (CP) -- Police e to Cuba than Canada does, | Start Again roadblocks set up in Decem damage mounted in British Co» day night, the Conservative ma- servative ety for n The fire is believed to have started in a courtyard storage ished at the rear of the hotel and ate through the four floors in minutes, Twenty-five resident guests leaped from upper win. dows and ledges to fire nets, | An estimate of damage was not immediately available, but owner Charles Hemstead said he paid $270,000 last April for the hotel, formerly the Elliott House, and had spent $100,000 on renovations, He had offered the hotel for sale at public auction Jan, 31 | the date set for an inquest into the fire | Dull Session OTTAWA (CP) = The Com- mons eased into the post-Yule work grind Monday with a slow: paced, humdrum debate on Fi- nance Minister Fleming's baby udget, Just before adjournment Mon- lowering Interest rates, expand. ing the money supply and bring. ing about a lower premium on the Canadian dollar as a stim. ulant to exports, The vote was 150 to 40, with Liberals and the one New Party member siding with the CCF, RESUMES TODAY Debate on the budget, pre: pared by Mr, Fleming Dec, 20, the day before the Commons recessed for Christmas, will re- New Province Plan Attacked OTTAWA (CP)~Erik Nielsen, Progressive Conservative MP for the Yukon, today voiced his opposition to a move to form an 11th Canadian province of the Yukon and part of the North: west Territories, "It's geographically impossi- ble and politically undesirable," he said of the new-province pro posal Monday to the Northwest Territories Council by one of its members, Col, H, M, Jones, director of the federal Indian affairs branch, t Budget Debate to the revival of the three-power That Britain and Russia, chairmen of the 1064 Geneva conference the Savang Vathana of Laos concur, constitutional aut Laos, that Canada, India and Poland dispatch an explorator: to Laos had been rejected by three make up the truce com: mission, which has been ad: journed since July, 1958, Terminal Here | OTTAWA (CP)~Two Quebec airlines Monday opened a battle before the Air Transport Board serve southern Ontario The hearing is expected Ito last two more days, Nordair Limited seeks to oper. | Toronto, Quebecair Incorporated wants to run a similar service from Montreal and Ottawa to King: ston, Oshawa and Windsor, Neither Trans - Canada Air Lines nor Canadian Pacific Air. | lines is intervening in the appli- | cations, Nordair called a parade of witnesses, chiefly municipal of- ficials in the area, to support its bid Maurice Tessier, counsel for Quebecair, and E, G, McNeely, counsel for the city of Oshawa, contended that downtown Toron- to is as close to Oshawa in point of time as Malton Airport is, But witnesses being cross. examined maintained that a service linking Kingston and sume today, It has four days still to go, The first sititng day following the 26-day recess also saw these developments; 1, H, W, Herridge (CCF Malton would be preferable to one linking Kingston and Osha- wa, Many of the witnesses called by Nordair said sir service at Kingston is essential to attract new industry to the ares, There was a' general criticism of present rail service st King~ ston as inadequate, There was also criticism of mail and ex~ press services, Board Chairman Paul Davoud, tried vainly to elicit from wit nesses testimony on how much extension and maintenance of runways at Kingston would cost and who would pay. He said the board wants to establish the traffic, revenue, and cost of first year operas tions, market 'potential, growth prospects and possible integra« tion with other routes, Dr, Alexis Zinger of Montres] estimated from a 1060 survey he conducted for Wheeler Afr. lines, that there would have been 13,735 plane boardings at Kingston in the preceding 13 months if air service had , available there, Other witnesses included Dr, H, N, Curran, Queen's Univer. sity, Mayor W, T. Mills, Alder man George Voster and Indus. trial Commissioner Edward Whittaker, Kingston, Councillor Arthur Brinklow, Napanee; Reeve E, R, Pearson, Pittse burgh Township; Reeve Earl McEwen and Deputy-reeve Are mand Quintal, Kingston Town. ship, Kingston businessman Maj, Gen, Frank Worthington; and Mayor lan Beresford of Ganano. Kootenay West) accused the Hr of parts olumbla River treaty, i 2. External Affairs Minister Green called on the big powers to keep hands off Laos, The civil war now raging in Laos, threatens the peace and stability of Southeast Asia, said Mr, Green, WOULD REVIVE IT Mr, Green also told the House, in replying to Paul Martin (L--~Essex East), that the Ca- nadian government is agreeable Laos truce commission, He attached this condition; co which established commission, formally re. quest its revival and that King He described King Savang as 'the only Aoherally recognized ority" in Mr, Green said his suggestion mission concerned, The he countries Pact Sign WASHINGTON (CP) = Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Pres. ident Eisenhower, in a history. making ceremony, today ed the multi-mitlion-dollar Colums« bia River treaty, described by Diefenbaker as one of the "great joint achievements of the 20th century," The 60-year pact, under which British Columbia will get one half the additional power pro- duced in the United States from three big dams to be built in B.C, is "more than a blueprint for technical and economic des velopment," Diefenbaker said, "It is a symbol of intelligent partnership," Speaking in the White House cabinet room in the presence of the four other signatories and a group of Democratic and Re« publican senators, the Canadian prime minister praised Eisen. ower as a crusader of peace, Noting that Eisenhower is to step out of office in a few days, he expressed on behalf of Cana« dians thanks "for all that he has done in time of war and of peace to reinforce and enhance the strength of this close and {lumbia today as highway and railway crews used time to clear roads an The men gained another day ber to catch drinking drivers will begin again, deputy chief John Murray said today {in the battle to restore road and {rail service as two Pacific [storms threatening the lower| {mainland moved northward, A other storm, however, 8 ex: recious| tracks | of rubble following a crippling! [ind rainstorm, treasured partnership." More Earthquakes Hit Japan off, inflicting many casualties TOKYO (Reuters) = Five weak earthquakes rocked 84 miles west of Leopaldville, to {| The troops are at present dug in report on unrest in the army pected Wednesday, Its full pos CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 3-113 FIRE DEPT, RA 5.6374 HOSPITAL RA 3.2211 {around Luena station and a helicopter is due to leave from Kamina base about 100 miles from Luena with fresh ammuni {tion and other supplies." | The Katanga provincial gov erament meanwhile announced that it had arrested more than TY) persons, most of them sup camp where Mobutu is holding Lumumba a prisoner At the United Nations, Secre tary - General Dag Hammar skiold rejected Congolese Presi dent Joseph Kasavubu's demand that he recall his special repre sentative in The Congo, Rajesh war Dayal of India, the nearby Khoshi area today following a sharper series of quakes Monday, the central meteorological observatory reported, There were no report ts of damage or casualties, Lumumba Flown To Elizabethville ELIZARETHVILLE (AP) - Semi-official sources said deposed Congolese premier Patrice Lumumba was flown here today from Leopoldville under close guard, {tential has yet to be , Highway Minister Gaglardi sald Monday night damage caused by numerous rockslides and washouts on the Trans-Can| ada Highway through the Fraser, canyon area, about 80 miles) {hartheast of here, will run a {least $1,000,000, CANADIAN Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker and President Eisenhower today sign a treaty for co-operative US, + Canadian development of vast resources of the Columbia river, «AP Wirephote 4