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~ NON-ATOMIC EXPLOSION IN ALBERTA Generating shock and heat waves, a huge mushroom erupts out of black smoke after the explosion in southern EL PASO, Tex., (AP) -- A father-and-son team hijacked a jet airliner and held it for nine hours Thursday, causing a fu- rore in congress and a protest from Cuba that the incident was a pretext for preparing an at- tack on her. In a vote to the United Na- tions security council, Fidel Cas- tro's government protested the assumption by U.S. congressmen that Cuba was behind the hi- jacking. The note charged that the con- gressmen had launched a vir- tual ultimatum and threat of war against Cuba and said this altitude was part of a deliberate campaign to set the stage for armed action. The long seige in the plane at the airport here ended with one blow by an enraged border pa- trol official who had been among a group of hostages. BOUND OVER The hijacker pair. Leon Bear- den, 38, and his son Cody Bear- den, 16, were bound over to a federal grand jury under bonds totalling $200,000. On orders from President Ken- nedy not to deal with the hi- jackers, border patrol men shot the tires from the $5,000,000 Bo- eing 707 jet as it rolled toward a takeoff for Havana. Then, his adventure coming to a fast climax, Bearden allowed FBI men aboard as his hostages Plane Theft Attempt Stirs Storm In U.S. Gilman, an associate deputy re- gional commissioner of the bor der patrol. When Bearden for a moment dropped his eyes, Gilman with one bone breaking wallop knocked him to the plane deck, his cheek spurting blood. Gil- man's broken hand later was placed in a cast. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said in Washington that the el- der Bearden in January had visited the Cuban embassy in Mexico City and indicated a de- sire to go to Cuba. But the gen- eral feeling in Washington ap- peared to be that the Cuban government had no part in the hijacking. The takeover of the continen- tal airline's Los Angeles-to-Hous- ton flight came as the aircraft was 20 minutes from El Paso, on Texas' far western tip. ENTERED COCKPIT Bearden and his son, slightly built, entered the cockpit be- hind two stewardesses. "We're going to take this plane to Cuba," the elder Bear- den told Capt. B. D. Rickards, the plane's commander. "Alter your course 45 degrees to the south." Rickards, a veteran of 34 years of flying, adviscy El Paso international airport, with a code word, that the plane had been hijacked. Then he persu- aded Bearden that the craft had left the plane--all but Leonard Alberta Thursday of 100 tons of TNT. ~CP Wirephoto Strong Support For Trade Move LONDON (CP) -- Britain has taken a decisive first step that could lead to an end of her at- titude of semi-detachment from European affairs. With an overwhelming ma- jority, Conservative parliamen- tarians Thursday backed Prime Minister Macmillan's bid for ap- proval to apply for full member- ship in the six-nation European Economic Community. The talks will begin in Oct- ober, but few doubt that the en- "There is no way of escaping a decision," he said. "If we now shrank from making a decision to apply for membership, that would amount to a decision to stay out of the European com- munity." As he developed this argu- ment, a representaitve of the League of Empire Loyalists stood up in the public gallery and shouted that the govern- ment moves were 'nothing more than a betrayal." suing negotiations will be long and tough. The government motion auth- orizing the start of Common Market negotiations was ap- proved by 313 votes to five. Dis sident Conservatives and most Labor members kept their seats as they abstained. Before the motion was ap- proved, the Commons rejected a Labor amendment that would have committed Britain to re- frain from Common Market membership until a Common- wealth prime ministers' confer- ence gave the green light. The government motion also was approved by the Lords Thursday night. The voting brought to a cli- max one of the most dramatic debates in years. There were pleas for main- tenance of Commonwealth The Commonwealth relations secretary studiously ignored the scuffle as the loyalist was dragged out of the chamber. Sandys' speech, frequently in- terrupted from both the govern- ment and opposition sides, stressed that there would be full consultations with Common- wealth nations at all stages of the negotiations. But he left no doubt that a decision on whether or not to join would be taken by the Brit- ish government alone. IWA Seeks Carpenters' 'Suspension OTTAWA (CP) -- The Inter- national Woodworkers of Amer- jea. (CLC) has demanded that the Canadian Labor Congress suspend one of the CLC's big: gest affiliates, the 63,000-mem- ber United Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners. The IWA has charged before the CLC that the carpenters union is breaking Congress pol- fcy and is raiding the IWA jurisdiction among Newfound- land loggers. The IWA has 36,- 000 Canadian members. Claude Jodoin, president of the 1,150,000-member Congress, confirmed Thursday that the suspension demand has been re-| ceived. He said it would be processed according to the CLC constitu-| tion "as soon as possible." | H. Landon Ladd, president of | the IWA eastern district, said a| If Commonwealth leaders wanted to hold a meeting when an appropriate point in negoti- ations is reached, he said, "'we| shall be glad to join them." The five who voted against the government measure were four independent left - wingers| previously expelled from the {formal protest has been laid flouting CLC policy that seeks before the CLC, charging that the carpenters' union has been to thwart any inter-union strife over the Newfoundland workers. Charges of raiding led to the rights, protection of the position|[ abor party and one Conserva-|expulsion of the Seafarers Inter-| of British agriculture and a|tive, Anthony Fell, who early|national Union and the Team-|the aircraft began shooting at scrupulous guarding of the na-|this' week called Macmillan 'asters' tion's sovereignty. In wmding up the debate,| Commonwealth Relations Secre- tary Duncan Sandys sought tos allay fears on these issues. national disaster." | the | Brotherhood from CLC last year. Tells Ho Gunmen EL PASO, Tex. (AP)--Leon- ard W. Gilman, 43, played the hero's role Thursday in subdu- ing two gunmen who hijacked a Continental Airlines Boeing 707 and held police at bay for nine hours. "The elder gunman was say- ing, 'I would sooner commit suicide than to turn myself into the authorities,' "" Gilman said later. "He seemed to be getting hysterical." "That's when I made my move. I caught him behind the ear and threw a full nelson on him to keep him from getting to the two guns in his hip pocket." FBI agent Francis Crosby jumped the younger hijacker and it was all over. Gilman, associate deputy re- gional commissioner in charge of the U.S. border patrol out of San Pedro Calif, told this story: "When the two gunmen took over the plane they found out I was an officer and they searched me immediately for a gun. After that they kept a close watch on me. "One of the women became hysterical and began crying. I told her we would see that she got off all right. That's when I talked the hijackers into letting the passengers off. "I volunteered to be a hos- tage if they let the rest of the passengers go. When they started to take off from. the field, they made the hostages move to the middle compart ment of the plane. They made us fasten our safety belts. "Then those on the outside of! the tires." Gilman said the elder hijacker There would be no diminution|# of Britain's sovereignty treaty. This is the tion" governing the affairs of the community formed by Ger-|? many, France, Italy and the|f Benelux countries. : There was no commitment to participate in European federal- : ism and he was confident join-|} ing would not affect Britain's|} role in the Commonwealth. Sandys made clear the gov- i ernment definitely favored full membership. Diefenbaker Turns Down Tax Parley WINNIPEG (CP) -- Prime Minister Diefenbaker rejected Thursday night demands of three provincial premiers for a federal-provincial conference be- fore new tax - sharing agree- ments go into effect. Mr. Diefenbaker, who stopped off briefly in Winnipeg on the way to a 12-day holiday at his home town of Prince Albert, Sask., told reporters he has "no intention" of calling a new con- erence. ! The conference had been de- manded by Premiers T. C. Douglas of Saskatchewan, Jean Lesage of Quebec and Louis Ro- bichaud of New Brunswick. All complained of "inequities" in the new agreement which calls on the provinces to levy their own income tax and commits the federal government to a 1 withdrawal from the in- e tax field. he new tax-sharing legisla- tion, Mr. Diefenbaker said, al- ready has received first read- ing by the Commons. "J feel any further confer- ence in regard to the agree- ment . . . would add nothing to the information we already have in the discussions which have taken place." if shel; joined, he said, apart from the} spheres governed by the Rome|? '"'constitu-| ¢ > WARM SPELL COMING TO AN END WEATHER FORECAST Forecasts issued by the Tor- onto weather office at 5 a.m. EDT: Synopsis: A fresh cold out- break from Hudson Bay will move southward, reaching the southern shores of Lake Supe- rior by Tomorrow morning and will likely move over lower lakes areas by Sunday morning. Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Wind- sor, London: Partly cloudy and today. Scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Sunny with a few cloudy intervals Saturday. storm in the afternoon. Niagara, Western Lake Onta- rio, Southern Georgian Bay, thunderstorms. Sunny with a Sunny Saturday Some Clouds warm with increasing humidity Chance of a shower or thunder- few cloudy intervals Saturday with a chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Winds light, except gusty near thunder- storms. |burton: Mostly sunny today but with increasing cloudiness and chance of a shower or thunder- storm late in the day or early tonight. Sunny with cloudy in- tervals Saturday with chance of an afternoon shower or thunder- storm. Winds light. Northern Georgian Bay, Al- goma, Timagami, Sault Ste. Ma- rie, "White River, Cochrane: Mostly sunny today. Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight but | | | | Toronto, Hamilton: sunny,|clearing and turning cooler Sa-|Kapuskasing sy clouding over this afternoon|turday. Winds light today, be-|White River . with showers and scattered|coming northerly near 15 over |Moosonee . night. | Eastern Lake Ontario, Hali- 4 pre AAI Pre Marine forecasts valid until 11 a.m. Saturday. Lake Huron, Georgian Bay: Southwest winds 10 to 15 knots becoming northwest tonight. Scattered showers and thunder- storms. Lake Erie, Lake Ontario: Variable winds 10 to 15 knots becoming westerly or southwest- erly tonight. Mostly fair weather except for a few scattered show- ers and thunderstorms. | Forecast temperatures Low tonight, high Saturday: Windsor .....eess 67 85 St. Thomas . London Kitchener . Wingham (Hamilton ........ |St. Catharines ... | Toronto Peterborough ... | Trenton seversane {Killaloe .. {Muskoka .. [North Bay ...... Sudbury ...eeee. Earlton too little fuel for thé Cuban w Plane Subdued became frightened at the shoot- ing and pointed his gun at the head of one of the people in the plane. "His reaction to the shooting outside was one of the more dangerous moments on the plane. "The boy didn't talk at all but the father was very talkative. I talked the father into taking the gun from his boy. "I tried to appeal to him as a father. I said the boy didn't know what he was doing and didn't have any business with the gun. "The father said he was fed up with the American govern- ment. He said he was going to Cuba and become a naturalized Cuban citizen." The border patrol commis- sioner said he told the father that only a criminal or a Com- munist would do what he was doing and make his son help him, "He refused to answer me when 1 asked if he was a Com- munist. He denied that he was involved with Castro, but he said he had friends in Cuba. Songs Dedicated To Tommy Douglas OTTAWA (CP) -- As soon as Premier Douglas was elected leader of the new democratic party Thursday night, a new mimeographed song sheet was distributed to the delegates-- with two songs dedicated to Mr. Douglas. One of them, written by Walter Mann, an Ottawa CCF supporter, was entitled A Doug- las for Me, and set to the music of the Scottish ballad A Gor- don for Me. A Douglas for me A Douglas for me If you're nay a Douglas You're nae use to me Mike Pearson and Diefy Are in for a fa For the cocky wee Douglas Is the pride o' them a. Socialism Still Big Issue; PM WINNIPEG (CP) Prime Minister Diefenbaker declined Thursday night to comment on prospects of the New Demo- cratic Party. but stuck by his contention that the next federal election will be a batile between free enterprise and socialism. Reminded that Premier T. C. Pougias of Saskatchewan. chosen NDP leader, has picked up this challenge, the prime minister said: » 'It's the only thing he could do!" The new party, he said, is just the CCF 'continued under a new name." Mr. Diefenbaker stopped briefly in Winnipeg on his way to his hometown of Prince Al- bert, Sask., for a 12 day holiday. There may have been a lack of radical resolutions at the new party's convention, he said, "but Socialist parties can never back away from socialism." Did he feel the convention had left the CCF in the lurch and allowed labor to dominate the new party? 'INDICATES ANSWER' "The fact you asked that ques- tion indicates you have the an- swer yourself" he told a re- porter. The prime minister declined to comment on reports that the retirement of Premier Leslie Frost of Ontario indicated no federal election this year and that. Mr." Frost. would become government leader in the Sen- ate. Mr. Diefenbaker said Mr. tribution not only to his prov- Sault Ste. Mar ° : ince but to Canada." Frost "has made a great con-| flight and that they must land at El Paso to refuel. Rickards said Bearden told him there were four armed men aboard the plane and the cap- tain so messaged the El Paso airport. This caused some con- fusion for a time and also caused two of the hostage crew members, mistaken for pirates, to be roughed up as they alighted. The plane carried 67 passeng- ers, including the two gunmen, and a crew of six, four men and two stewardesses. Among them was a native of Vancouver, 45-year-old Norman Simmons, the record officer on the flight. His wife said Sim- mons telephoned briefly to their home in Sana Ana, Calif., after he ordeal and "sounded as though the bottom had dropped out of everything." "I have never heard him sound so sick," she said. "It seemed as if he was in a state of shock. He's a brave and cour- agerous man. He said he had jot been hurt, But he did sound Born in Vancouver in 1915, Simmons joined the ferry com: mand during the Second World War and ferried planes to Eng- land and flew back distinguished persons. He made 200 trans-at- lantic crossings before he quit to rejoin his company, Boeing Aircraft, as a flight engineer. He was Boeing chief engineer in Vancouver until he joined British Overseas Airways Cor- poration. In 1948 he joined con- tinental, When the plane landed here Capt. Rickards, 52, persuaded the Beardens to allow the pas. s to d k. Gil volunteered as one of the four to stay aboara. More Steel Fewer Jobs U.S. Record PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Steel mills in the United States are operating at a pretty good pace. But thousands of steelworkers are out of work. Production in the second quar- ter of the year hovered around 70 per cent of capacity--a so- called "normal" level. Yet some 100,000 millworkers were idle, according to the United Steel- workers Union. What is happening in this basic industry? tatistics tell part of the story. The American Iron and Steel Institute reports that U.S. mills turned out 38,500,000 tons of steel in the second half of 1960 with an average employment of 400,000 hourly workers. Production rose 16.4 per cent in the first half of this year--to 44,800,000 tons--while the aver- age number of jobs dropped to an estimated 381,000. In other words, more steel was produced in fewer man- hours. Government figures disclose a similar trend. The depart- ment of labor says steel pro- duction climbed 31 per cent from January to June of this year while employment rose only 11 per cent. What's the reason? | For one thing, many workers |get more job time when pro- duction goes up. This doesn't show in total employment fig- ures, But a bigger factor is automa- { | | New Democratic Party lead- er T. C. (Tommy) Douglas, and his wife Irma and daugh- ter Joan beam back at a happy convention crowd after the announcement that Mr. DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER WITH FAMILY Douglas had been elected the Party's first leader. ~CP Wirephoto Department Now Owns Two Holes ST. CATHARINES (CP)--The Ontario highways department, the building of Highway 405, now owns a two-hole golf course and a stone house. The highway is under con- struction from St. Catharines to the new Queenston-Lewiston In- ternational Bridge. Under its original plans the department bought two holes of the St. David's Golf Course from Mrs. G. C. Paxton and a 100-year-old stone house from art teacher Van Wheatley. Both Mrs. Paxton and Miss Wheatley declined to say how much they were paid. After payments were made the department changed the routing. Highways Minister Fred Cass said Thursday the proper- ties eventually would be auc- tioned. He said there is no standard rule for returning ex- propriated land to the original owners. Many farmers and landowners whose properties lie in the path of the new highway--scheduled for completion in June of next year--have been critical of what they claim is unrealistic buying by the department. One Niagara Township fruit farmer, William Mabon, said in an interview Thursday he was offered $8,000 for 30 acres of his 70-acre farm. He said the Vine- land Experimental Station had evaluated each acre of his grape-producing land at $1,900 and at $2,000. U.S. And Russ Ships Collide LONDON (AP) -- A United States freighter and a Cuban- bound Soviet tanker collided in tion. This is where the union puts most of the blame. The| companies agree, but with qual-| ifications. | dense fog west of Gibraltar Thursday. The Russians charged that the U.S. ship had attacked the $966 For TORONTO (CP)---Building In- spector Jack Book of suburban Mimico testified Thursday that two builders paid a total of $966 to build his double garage. In an unexpected move by lawyer Aubrey Golden, repre- senting Mimico ratepayers, Mr. Book was recalled to the stand at a judicial inquiry and -ad- mitted the money was supplied "as 'a loan" in the spring of 1959. He gave his testimony after receiving protection of the Can- ada Evidence Act from Judge Ambrose Shea, who Is con- ducting the inquiry into alleged infractions of building bylaws in the town. Mr. Book said he was to re- pay the money "when and if I could," without interest. He said part of it had been repaid. Builder Joseph Kastelic paid Builders Loaned Garage Book said he was in "quite bad| debt" at the time of the cheques. TELLS OF THREAT Earlier, a construction engi- neer testified he was threatened by a private investigator when he refused to say whether he had bribed a Mimico building inspactor. Engineer Bernard Protter said he was threatened in a July 15 telephone conv er sation by a man who identified himself s John Garrity, investigator for lawyer Aubrey Golden. Mr. Gol- den is counsel for the ratepay- ers' association, which sparked the inquiry. Mr. Golden protested to Judge Shea that Mimico counsel Wal- ter Martin was drawing out the threat issue in questioning Mr. Protter "probably to embarrass us." ported today. but were 5.1 per cent below the $485,900,000 total a year earlier. Exports in the January - May period--mainly due to a 22-per- cent increase in April--rose 1.1 per cent to $2,169,000,000 from riod in 1960. $551,200,000 from $516,000,000, produced a trade deficit of $90,- 100,000. A year earlier there had been a deficit of $30,100,000. The May total left the coun- try with a $107,200,000 excess of imports over exports for the first five months of the year. In the corresponding period of 1960 there was a trade deficit of $174,400,000. Imports during January-May declined 1.8 per cent to $2,276,- 200,000 from $2,319,100,000. There were substantial export reductions to the United King- dom and the United States, down 5.8 and six per cent, re- spectively, from the May, 1960 figures. However, because of a Soviet tanker to further a U.S. blockade of the Castro regime. The two ships ~~ the 7,233-ton freighter Janet Quinn and the Russians' 17,597 ton Trud (Turth)--put into Gibraltar, the British colony at the western entrance to the Mediterranean. A dispatch from Gibraltar said the U.S. ship was holed and the tanker was undam- aged. But the Soviet news agency Tass said the Trud, carrying a heavy cargo of oil for Cuba, was seriously dam- aged and sprang a leak. 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But ex- because of a route change ini000, the bureau of statistics re-{ports to the U.S. in the five months were 8.4 per cent below May exports of $461,100,000|1ast year. were up $8,000,000 from April pprARKDOWN OF FIGURES Trade figures by major areas for the January-May period this year and last, in millions of dollars: 1961 1960 xports $1,160.9 $1,276.9 371.2 353.6 143.0 124.9 485.0 2,169.9 ports 1,555.3 256.1 104.3 360.5 2,276.2 Total Im Other Comm. All Others Total RICKSHA CHINESE FOODS By Popular Request We Will Be OPEN Every MONDAY From Aug. 7th On! B av speciuLs! TAKE-OUT AND DELIVERY ONLY Delicious Deep-Fried One dozen EE AI | 2 SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN with French fries and cole slaw 1.25 EEE EE] L] Reg. 1.50 For two Reg. 3.25 "If you can't come to us e will rick-a-sha you." THE RICKSHA 42 KING ST. WEST 728-1676 $645 in the form of two cheques, one in his own name and an- other in the name of his com- pany -- Triglav Construction. Builder John Kavcic paid a cheque of $321. 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