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THOUGHT FOR TODAY He who keeps his shoulder to the wheel will never have it pin- ned to the mat. Osha Times WEATHER REPORT Sunny with cloudy intervals to- day and Thursday, warmer. a little VOL. 90--NO. 201 10 Cents Per Copy he OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1961 Second Authorized as Post Office Department, Class Mail Ottawe THIRTY-SIX PAGES aring Rescue 1500 Feet Over Alpine Glacier CHAMONIX, France (Reut- ers) Rescue teams today snatched the weary passengers to safety from their teetering perch on a broken cable-car line high over #3 an alpine glacier. French officials said all the # stranded passengers -- about 80 --had been brought to safety after a night of terror swaying in tiny aluminum cable cars 1,500 feet above the slopes of Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak. They were trapped there Tues- day afternoon when a French jet plane sliced through one of the cables on the line. Six per- sons were killed when three of the cars plunged to the snow- covered slopes below. Daring rescue workers clam- bered out hundreds of feet along support cables to attach ropes to the cars. Then the cars were winched to safety with agonizing slowness. Some of the passengers low- ered themselves to the ground hand over hand on ropes. But others--including many women and children--spent the night in freezing weather in their teeter- ing cars as the rescue workers struggled to reach them. AANY LIGHTLY CLAD Many had gone out only in shirtsleeves or thin summer dresses for the trip across the valley in bright sunshine. The shivering passengers wrapped themselves in newspapers and everything else they could fin when the thermometer plunge at sundown. i The rescue workers toiled; through the night with big searchlights playing on the ca- ble cars. But it was after dawn } before the last stranded passen- ger was brought to safety. last chilled and §8 #8" traction cabie to be broken. | family and an Italian father and son--were killed. 4 Helicopters flew the survivors & here and to Courmayeur, on the guish they had gone through, § during the night was etched in| # many of their faces as they § were brought to safety. © Some had spent almost 20 % hours trapped in the cable cars. The rescue operation was an| i exercise in daring and sure-| footedness carried out by alpine] 4 climbers and specially-trained police rescue teams. | RESCUERS RISK LIVES Time and again they risked ® their lives clinging to the cable lines as they inched out to the cars to attach ropes to them. Then the agonizing business of #% towing them to safety began. The teams could only move the LABOR BOARD CHARGE cars at a speed of about 800 feet an hour. | Before the accident it was re-| garded as impossible for the] "We had never taken this pos-| sibility into account," said| Pierre Jacquet. "Installations at| landing points are painted red to warn off planes. But it is obvious the pilot did not see the installations." : ; There was one previous acci-| dent on the cable line over the Vallee Blanche. That was in 1959 when a French helicopter hit the line. The crew of the helicopter died but there were] no casualties among the cable- car passengers. A lieutenant at the military alpine school here said the plane ® Tuesday passed between the| ' traction and the support cables + of the line. "The collision ripped a fuel| tank from the aircraft but the 4a' pilot quickly managed to regain {height," he said. The survivors of the freak ac-| ALPINE RESCUE cident could not find words to- day to describe their fear dur-| ing the night in their perilously- The plane zipped over the fof so at well above the speed It was a U.S.-built F-84F French|of sound. No one reported actu- i ji is- | it cut the traction rched cars. |Air Force jet on a reconnais-|ally seeing Pe The agony was indescrib | sance mission over the moun-| cable, but one sightseer, Fran i! id survivor tains, 'The plane, piloted by a|cis Blanchard, a Frenchman Emile Rieben. bik Capt. Zetgtbr, eB fmpounded| with the International Raver 9 "We end had by civil investigators. |S ae i re come. We expected to crash on| When the "traction cable on|}oW U eo ie po to the glacier below. It looked|the line snapped, three cars| Three rescue centres were set even more horrible under the raced backward out of control| yn in mountain cabins and doc- mounlight, land plummeted to the glacier. iors stood by with hot drinks, The plane which slashed the/The six persons aboard them--| food and warm clothing for the cable line amazingly was able! Puts Off Strike Two Ships At Least 6 Days (Collide DETROIT (AP)--UAW Presi- target for a Thursday midnight I n F 0 g dent Walter Reuther, having walkout in support of the un: agreed to a government request ion's new contract demands. QUEBEC (CP)--The Cunard liner Carinthia and the Canada to postpone a planned strike against General Motors for at uly ES Yay View aides have 1 ! least six days, returns today to| Sev IEl SNC, V8 0 AGES FETE Steamship Lines river - cruise the bargaining table of his No. 1/Insisted tha oy or hi vessel Tadoussac early today contract target among the big anc age Po a re ome collided 'in thick fog in the St. three automakers LS cusiry is Bi lh Lawrence River, 30 miles west ay cpects ** : ) d . There were no reports Reuther says he expects "t0imyis Ford and Chrysler deny al-| of Jere. but both vessels rh stay with them as long as nec: hough they agree they collab-! J y Sels essary." This could signal| an ov Aiey coral: damaged. Ay Mt i hs orate with GM during negotia ; * 8 83 h sor 8 "lock Early reports said the river arviud - fhe ioc Jargainingl;ons cruise ship had collided with the from ' which contiaris Fa Y! In agreeing to delay strike Norwegian freight vessel Hapef- emerge in a matter of hours ,.i,, "Reuther said the union! gel after weeks of preliminary hag- w.¢ 'unwilling to extend the - gling. Current negotiations Gonera] Motors contract opened in Inte June . hour" beyond the new deadline. sulted from the fact the cargo Both the United Auto Workers The UAW chief said he was ship ran aground 40 miles up- Union and General Motors willing to extend Ford and river. near Deschambault. agreed Tuesday night fo an ex-|Chrysler contracts, which also. The Carinthia and the Tadous- tension until 11 a.m. EDT next Wednesday of their three-year contract which expires Thursday midnight to land safely after the accident. t tlement with GM. Both compan- tried to steer away from each ies also agreed. other. After Long Cold Wait BANFF, Alta. (CP) -- The most difficult rescue ever made] in the area of the Rockies was completed . Tuesday 'wher in: jured mountain climber Gordon Crocker of Calgary landed here by helicopter during a cloud- burst. The 29-year-old geologist had been removed by helicopter {from Mount Blane where he spent three cold nights awaiting rescue. Crocker was injured Saturday as he and Dieter Robach of Calgary neared the top of the 9,600-foot mountain near this re- sort town. He dropped about 70 feet when he slipped while climbing an almost vertical wall. Both men {were linked by rope, but Robach was unable to hold his plunging companion. A single piton which anchored the rope saved both men from falling several hun- dred feet. Death is no stranger to the pyramid-shaped mountain which {has steep slopes, giant sheets of {vertical rock and treacherous,| loose rock. The first party to climb the mountain lost a member in a fall. That was. in 1955. The 'INJURED CLIMBER GORDON CROCKER Injured Climber Safe Offer New he told about his ordeal from his hospital bed. six - foot-three climber spent all three nights high above} the timbe:line on Mount Blane. He was alone the first night while his companion climbed down to get help. Saturday night was spent in a tiny hole 400 feet from the peak. Crocker hammered a piton into the rock and tied himself with rope so "I could not fall out if I fainted." : The temperature dropped to 40 degrees. He had an extra sweater given to him by Robach| and he ate a ham ich and candy. A rescue party was organized Sunday. A helicopter found it impossible to pluck the injured man from the steep walls. Ro- bach returned Sunday with food and sleeping bags and remained the night, A rescue party reached Crocker Monday. He elimbed down almost 1,000 feet that day before darkness forced an end FRAUDS BY SEAFARER Reject Union's ' Bid To Bargain | OTTAWA (CP)--The Canada| {Labor Relations Board ruled to-! . day that the independent Sea-| farers' International Union of] Canada committed "acts of] fraud against the board" in| {certification hearings involving| {Great Lakes marine engineers. The board's ruling was con- |tained in a judgment giving its reasons for rejecting SIU bids for certification as bargaining agent for some 214 engineers and deck officers employed by| seven inland shipping com-| panies. { Signed by Board Chairman C.| Rhodes Smith, the 13-page judg-| ment upheld evidence given by two former SIU officers that a vote was rigged in 1958 to show that the engineers wanted to amalgamate with the SIU. ". . . The board finds that the so-called amalgamation vote in 1958 was conducted in a manner fraudulent tc the engineers, and that both the engineers and their employing companies were almost certainly misled by the| result of the vote so obtained. "No claim by the SIU to en- gineer ship in the union Proposals GENEVA (Reuters) = The| West today offered the Soviet Union two new compromise proposals in vital areas of the control system for the pro- jected treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, Soviet delegate Semyon Tsar- apkin rejected the proposals in a harsh reply that further dimmed hopes of any agree- ment at the three-power talks here. United States delegate Arthur Dean, presenting the proposals, said the Western powers were| to operations at the 8300-foot level. ISSUES WARNING MOSCOW : (AP)--Again blam-, ing the United States and its allies for the current world ten- sion, the Soviet government says it has stopped returning servicemen to civilian life and climbers then used a north ridge warned that aggressors will be because of the Western attitude Transport department sources route. Crocker and Robach used|wiped out "once and for an said the confusion may have re-|a west route which had never|war. starts been tried Hospital examination showed Crocker suffered a fractured right ankle and sprained left run out Thursday midnight: on sac apparently bounced off each ankle. His 165-pound body was|dion Malinovsky, the Soviet de- a day-to-day basis pending set- other as the pilots on both ships/covered with cuts and bruises. fence minister, had been or- Robach, who helped in the] rescue, suffered severe rope all" iff A statement issued Tuesday| night by the Communist partyf central committee and the So- viet cabinet said Marshal Ro- | dered to hold up demobilization| of military personnel whose] | {of good faith remaining in -the Will Wipe Out Aggressors:. K The number of men involved| was not announced, but Soviet Premier KhruShchev had an-| nounced July 8 that a military cut of 1,200,000 men which be-| gan last year was being halted on Berlin. How far the cut had already gone was never an- nounced. WARNS WEST Khrushchev Aug. 7 warned that Soviet troop strength might have to be boosted even further. He accused the West of pushing the world "to a dangerous brink' in the conflict over Ber- {vious 'opening up vast new per-| spectives for concluding this| conference, successfully." "If there is the slightest trace Soviet position, then this is the time for a demonstration of it," he said. The proposals introduced to- day followed two alternative compromise proposals laid be- fore the conference by the West Monday aimed at meeting pre- Soviet demands for a comprehensive test-ban treaty. Adventurer's Boat Seized By Police NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP) Police early today seized a boat in which Niagara adventurer Major Red Hill planned to shoot the rapids below the falls, travel downriver into Lake Ontario and cross the lake to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. based on this vote can be enter- tained by the board." | The judgment results from {three hearings before the board {over the last nine months on ithe certification fight between |the SIU and three rival unions, the National Association of Ma- rine Engineers, t he Canadian Merchant Service Guild and the nadian. Brotherhood of Rail port and General sought the rkers, all affiliated with thelthe way, Trans o {Canadian Bess, SIU officers--John J. Wood, di- rector of the siu's licensed divi. sion from - October, 1958, to April, 1961, and Michael J. Sheeh SIU or i from 1949 to November, 1960 -- gave sworn testimony of SIU actions to take over the engineers. "The members of the board, after observing the wintesses on the stand and examining the transcript of their evidence, have come to the conclusion that the evidence of Mr. Wood and Mr. Sheehan is to be pre- ferred to that of the witnesses for the SIU," said the judgment. Roberts To Contend Leadership TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney- General Kelso Roberts today formally declared himself a can- didate for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conserva- tive party in succession to Pre- mier Frost. Mr. Roberts, 62, tossed his hat into a campaign ring where three younger men already have squared off in a contest to be settled at a party convention Labor-Con The dispute took a startling} ice {turn June 15 when two former here Oct. 23 25. The Toronto lawyer, {Frost In 1949, told m ting of supporters that he try again this time. Swim To BERLIN (AP)--An East Ger- man swam to freedom today across the Teltow Canal under a hail of bullets from Commu- nist border guards. He climbed out on the west bank of the canal unhurt. During the last week Commu- nist troops have killed two men trying to swim the 60 yards across the canal, which forms part of the border in the divided city. Berliners now call it the Death Canal. Police reported Communist guards elsewhere on the border flung tear gas grenades and fired water cannon Tuesday night at about 60 persons gath- ered at Alexandrinenstrasse, in Kreuzberg in the American sec- tor. Shortly after midnight the Communists opened up again when a group of Western youths started catcalling. About 5 a.m. a Communist water cannon at Treptower- strasse suddenly let fly at a po- Bullets Follow Freedom fee patrol car on the Western side. President Heinrich Luebke of West Germany was in the city today for a look at the situation. He arrived Tuesday night after breaking off his vacation. Luebke's - visit was attacked by the East German official news agency ADN as "provoc- ative activity." ADN charged his flight was a violation of the 1945 four-power agreement on access to Berlin, which the Communists claimed last week permitted ue of the air corridors only for supply of Allied garrisons. The Western powers told the Soviet Union last week it had no jurisdiction over Allied flights into Berlin. In a radio speech Tuesday night, Mayor Willy Brandt re. jected Soviet Premier Khrushe chev's suggestion that Soviet troops join the U.S., British and French in a token garrisoning of the city. As he prepared to go to GM| A transport Jepartment burns to his neck and hands. He service would normally end this; for hammers-and-tongs bargain- source said reports indicate the|qropped 10 feet in the accident.|year "until the conclusion of a "p... rector of the federal mediation ing, Relther was armed with a pilots realized what was happen-| Crocker was in good spirits as'peace treaty with Germany." | ri ed and conciliation service, a few new three-year agreement with ing only at the last minute. Fog, -- Sir ---- a yr piomal are hours before the UAW's inter- American Motors including the which settled on the river Tues- . . t {oat SEaSEtE ok Watts inten The six-day extension was re- quested by William Simkin, di- national executive board met first profit-sharing plan in the day night, was thick at the time tion to fi lin i 5 > AP ; ; ed ght for Berlin if neces-| | Tuesday night to set GM as the history of the auto industry. of the 5 a.m. collision. | sary. He called for the biggest Mine-Mill Gladiators In Brazil Crisis Await Fight In Court guarded by police under terms|ing rights for the local and said of a court order they are preparing for contract Judge J. M. Cooper Monday negotiations with Inco this fall night issued the order after the, Smith, meanwhile, said a mu- Gillis group complained Ken- tual agreement pact with the nedy had started removing rec-| International Brotherhood of lis and his executive were in|ords from the local's headquar- Teamsters (Ind.), announced business at the office of the Ca-|ters. The offices will remain|Tuesday night, doesn't mean the nadian Labor Congress. William [shut until a Supreme Court of two unions will join forces. Kennedy, appointed administra- {Ontario hearing Sept. 5 decides| "There is no question of a tor of the local by National cn occupancy. merger with the Teamsters. | President Ken Smith, is operat Kennedy was named adminis- This is merely a mutual assist-| ing from space in the hall of|trator by the national executive ance agreement, Mine - Mill is Local 902. a General Workers ,--giving him full control over|still Mine-Mill."" Union affiliated with Local 598.|the local's affairs for 90 days-- Gillis said he had not seen the The regular union building re-{as a long-term feud between agreement and wasn't sure mained vacant, locked and|the dissident Local 598 leaders|what its impact would be on Lo-| land the national executive|cal 598. But he added: | boiled over. In May the local, "As we had informed mem-| CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS {which represents 17,000 workers bers of Local 598 some time at the International Nickel Com- ago the national and interna-| pany of Canada, started with- tional offices of Mine-Mill were POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 SUDBURY (CP) -- Warring factions of tne International Un- ion of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.) set up shop in different locations Tuesday Local 598 President Don Gil. holding $25,000 a month in per-lattempting to bring Mine-Mil' capita dues to the national into the Teamsters organiza body tion. This has now taken place Both Gillis and Kennedy without any voice or vote of the| {Tuesday ¢laimed bargain-imembers of the union. RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazil's three military mrin- isters today agreed to ac- cept Joao Goulart as a fig- urehead president with a prime minister to be ap- pointed by Congress until 1963, a government source said. RIO de JANEIRO (AP)--Bra- zil's presidential crisis deepened {today as three military chiefs] turned down a congressional plan to make leftist Vice-Presi- dent Joao Goulart a figurehead president Although the heads of the army, navy and air force were united in their opposition to Goulart, at least one of the army commanders under them was reported defiantly support- ing Goulart. The leader of the anti-Goulart movement: War (Army) Minis- ter Odylio Denys, flew to Rio from his Brasilia headquarters Tuesday night following reports that the 3rd Army commander in Southern Brazil had pledged support to the vice - president. Marshal Denys went isto im- n | mediate conference with armed forces leaders to rally military oppesition to Goulart. Goulart, en route home from a visit to Communist China when President Janio Quadros resigned la=t week, was still in Paris waitiqg to see what Con- gress would do and how the si- tuation would develop Quadros, ele ct ed president seven months ago, had quit the| post last Friday, claiming that reactionary elements prevented him from carrying out his pro- gram to pull Brazil out of a deepening economic crisis. Congress scheduled a joint session in Brasilia today to de- bate a 1%-member parliament- ary commission's recommenda- tion that the constitution be amended to make the presi dency a chiefly ceremonial post. The governing power would be put in the hands of a prime minister chpsen by Con- gress The commission approved the plan 10 to 3--with three mem bers not voting--despite its pre vious rejection by the military chiefs. |U.S. Korean War, including the right to hold military men in service if necessary. Charge Teacher Killed Woman NEW YORK (AP)--A young troop buildup since ahi school teacher, convinced that a| § psychiatrist was telling every-| one of her irresistible urge to scratch her face, was charged] today with shooting his attrac- tive wife to death. | The victim, Mrs. Paule Af Laverne, 27, was shot twice] Tuesday as she clutched her) two year-old daughter in the| lobby of a fashionable Fifth Avenue apartment house. Her two sons, aged four and six, screamed while the family dog --a fear. Mrs. Laverne, who recently completed her internship as a physician, died at Mount Sinai Hospital next door. Almost at the moment the woman died, Ann (Mitzi) Koer- non, 26, walked into a police station ana announced: "I just shot somebody." | | great dane--ran away in GETS SECOND CLASP Group Captain. W. H. Schroeder (left) of Ottawa is presented with the second clasp to his Canada Decora- tion, representing 32 years of uninterrupted military service in the RCAF. Group Captain Schroeder, 50, is one of seven RCAF men to have received the second clasp and of these 4 wd only two others are still in the air force. Presenting the clasp, during a parade at Trenton, Ont., is Air Commo dore R. J. Lane, (CP Wirephoto from Nat. Def.) § \ ly