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The Oshawa Times, 29 Sep 1961, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Many a person tunes out the voice of conscience when money is talking. PV Aer / dhe Oshavon Time i, WEATHER REPORT Increasing cloudiness Saturday and a little warmer, with the chance of a few showers. Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy VOL. 90--NO. 226 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1961 Authorized as Second Post Office Department, Cl lass Mail Ottawo EIGHTEEN PAGES ELISABETHVILLE (Reuters) Secessionist Katanga province today faced a new deadline for the expulsion of about 100 white mercenaries still serving in the Katanga army. A senior United Nations offi- cial said Thursday night the UN had given Katanga's President Moise Tshombe '"'a matter of ® |days" to carry out the expul- £ sion order. | White mercenaries were {chiefly blamed by the UN for {the fierce resistance that |greeted the world body's at- tempt earlier this month to end the province's secession from The Congo. Eight days of bloody fighting ended with a cease-fire 10 days ago and with Katanga 4 still maintaining its breakaway ov oy 0 rl i suatas. ANGLE ON MISSING G.I. { About Mrs. Jon Floeter and her | duty. Not so, says the Army. | she received in August. The son, Jon, Jr., pose with a | They claim he has been dis- | paymaster is checking. fe ad Re. 2 20 white ofiicers al- the UN, but others have been returning to Katanga in-recent weeks. BEGIN INSPECTIONS Expulsion Of Whites Ordered ready have been deported by Ghurkas of the Indian army were busy Thursday digging in and setting up machine-guns on the perimeter of the UN head- quarters. Observers said the {moves were part of an attempt|, by the UN to convince Tshombe { it means business if he refuses : to come to terms. Mahmoud Khiari of Tunisia, | who is conducting negotiations {with Tshombe, {Thursday the president's de- {mands for withdrawal of all UN |troops from Katanga. reinforcements hurried to the | brushed aside | : le or | Today, 150 troops and police ° {town of Kipushi where at least | {20 persons including one white ; were killed in tribal fighting | Wednesday and Thursday. Lifejacket Found Near | I! CARO rE yey photo of her GI husband she | charged and they'd like to > os says is in Korea on active | have back $91.30 allotment ix (AP Wirephoto) | Meantime, UN and Katanga| BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Syria's army rebels installed a new # civilian government today and declared their independence of | Cairo. "The regime of tyranny has gone forever," said Damascus radio. Accusing President Gamal Ab- del Nasser of the United Arab Republic of turning Syria into a prison, the broadcast said: "We do not oppose Arab unity. We dispute your claim to Arab lead- '{ ership." ER RR Cairo radio today said Abdel Hamid Serraj, former Syrian |officers today began inspecting| EAST TROUBLE AREA leach others' military positions) strongman and United Arab Re- opened SYRIAN REBELS NOW IN POWER the dispatch of all Egyptian naval units, However, Nasser said, the Sy- rian army revolt by then had succeeded in putting down the nationalist elements in the areas where the troops were to land. "Before midnight I ordered that planes heading to Latakia return. But the order reached them after 120 parachutists were already dropped. "I ordered the forces which had landed not to shoot but to surrender to the naval comman- der there so that no Arab blood would be shed." He said he also withdrew (in Elisabethville. . | The inspection was being car- | ried out by the mixed commis- [sion set up to supervise the | cease-fire. 'Death Follows Gromyko Quiet About Plan For Berlin Talk UNITED NATIONS (AP) may be seriously interested in main points which is that even- Western foreign ministers were (arranging a Big Four foreign|tually the stationing of Western Bite By Snake reported today to be. making ministers conference, but obvi-|/troops in West Berlin must t y | BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- A |torn lifejacket was found Thurs- day afternoon by a brother of {one of the three men still miss- {ing and presumed dead after [their boat was overturned in {Lake Ontario at the beginning [of the week. A fourth man in the boat -- Ross Prescott, 23, of Bowman- ville -- was found dead on Wed- nesday. He was floating with a Port Hope == x3! PM Ca VERNON, B.C, (CP)--Prime Calm Talking slow progress in obtaining in-| ously it is in no haste to do so.|come to an end. : IAEGER, W.Va. (AP) -- An} .t°. And | formation from Foreign Minis-| Some Western officials think] Rusk has said many times attractive 23-year-old divorcee HsJaCkEL on about overturned Minister Diefenbaker called ter Andrei Gromyko on Soviet Premier Khrushchev probably that the United States has no|djed Thursday night four days|, J lagain Thursday night for new plans for negotiating on the prefers to stall off a conference (intention of weakening the posi-| after she had been bitten by a Bons Terry. brother of miss. East « West disarmament and Berlin crisis. |until after a Soviet Communist tion of the West Berlin garrison rattlesnake during a church 2 Ys 4 S| other cold war negotiations. de- lls For Municipalities that even though the West is bludgeoned with words by Premier Khrushchev, "we must not be paralyzed by gloom; we must meet him with public vice - president, escaped when they visited his home in Damascus. , Syrian broadcasts declared 200 Egyptian paratroopers sent to put down the rebellion had been wiped out. Other broad- casts said 120 Egyptian com- mando invaders had been cap tured without bloodshed. forces were involved. The broadcasts did not make clear whether they were giving different versions of the same action, or whether two Egyptian fire on Syrian rebel forces and | ki Nasser said in Cairo that to naval forces approaching Lata- a. GET RECOGNITION The Jordan government of King Hussein, long an opponent of Nasser, quickly recognized the new revolutionary govern- ment, and wished it success. Jordan's action was an- nounced immediately after a: cabinet meeting presided over by King Hussein. May Become avoid bloodshed he ordered the a firm and calm response." e return Thursday night of Egyp- snake|lUZ mah Donald Temy, 3, Of | pte Russia's rejection of the ) Mr. Diefenbaker said Mr. U.S. State Secretary Dean party meeting in Moscow late/by any arrangement which im- service which include | Rusk and Foreign Secretary next month. There is specula- plies that the troops are there handling. | Earl Home of Britain have|tion he may sign the treaty with|through agreement with either| Mrs. Hagerman was bitten by spent a total of more than 10 Communist East Germany or Russia or East Germany. |a yellow timber rattler on the hours meeting with the Soviet|announce definite plane for {right hand Sunday, night at te foreign minister in the last|signing it at that time. He may Church In Jesus at the town of Tax Scheme Issue | eight days, and their main ques-/not want to get into negolia| Jolo. tion about Soviet intentions are tions untih he has acted. 3 Shé died at the home of her Home and Gromyko spent 80| Delights Pearson Western diplomats reported minutes together late Thursday! REGINA (CP) | said to be still unanswered. stepfather and mother, Mrs. the talks have yielded some|in their second meeting. Rusk | Ro Leader Lester B. Pearson, in a| {Robert Elkins, without receiv- Uys ls di HR slight indication that Russia|previously had held two long| Liberal ing any medical 3 Rphon rself somfetences with Siomyke and pref stopover here Thursday on|had been bitten seven times by i se he uled to meet him again|, {ry by private plane to York-|copperheads and rattlesnakes enned aturday, |ton, Sask., said he '"'would be|but has never had a doctor. Her ¥ GOES HOME SUNDAY delighted to fight an election on|husband said he had received UNITED NATIONS (CP)-- et on West Beach near Port | Hope. He, along with his brother-in- law Joe Cembal of Toronto, set |out Thursday morning at 8.30 |a.m, They walked 25 miles along {the beach between Newcastle |and Cobourg searching for the missing men. | The water-soaked lifejacket | was turned over to Bowmanville | Police Chief Kitney who i {heading the investigation into the accident. | Chief Kitney said today the |jacket did not appear to have _|come from the overturned boat. | the| indicated that | The quantity of algae in jacket, he said, the life preserver had been in RR 1 Hampton, found the jack-| West's latest proposals. | Speaking of the disarmament nited Na- [plan put before the a uU Khrushchev has set out to de- stroy or take over the UN by d K di establishment of a tions by Presid land Soviet about 2,000 here: "Even though Gromyko has {turned it down, I hope negotia- |tions may continue in good |faith. If they do, we have a {chance of progress in the im- |mediate future." He told a banquet meeting of the Union of British Columbia ESCAPES DEATH the water for some time. TO FACE COUNT Others searching for the men| are Glen Sommerville, George| Mitchell and Lloyd Hazelton. | All are from Oshawa. Marauders Killed | In Israeli Clash JERUSALEM (Reuters)--Two| "marauders" were killed Thurs-| day night in a clash with an Is- Ell was OAKVILLE (CP) -- Ronald Ell, 21, -hung by his fingertips from a 150-foot-high bridge to save himself from being hit by a train--and lived to be charged with trespassing on CNR property. Police said Thursday that crossing the bridge over Sixteen Mile Creek Mon- | day when he stopped to watch bullwozer below. He did not notice the train approaching Foreign Minister | Andrei Gromyko's answer, Mr. | Diefenbaker told an audience of raeli army patrol while crossing tions organized by the OAS. Po- the border from the Gaza Strip, | i i til it was too late to run. lice said several persons were until it Ell was seen by the train hurt. Make Border 'Death Strip' BERLIN (AP) -- East Ger- many put girls and women to work today at turning sections | talk with Home, who expects to| Provincial tax scheme." have emphasized to Home all 3 $ AS 3 iti vko may meet in Washington! work of an East German peace and the West relating to the |other leaders of the outlawed |giers Thursday night after new B k {Army Organization (OAS). | The government is intensify- known whether Gromyko will be all Robbers ling its efforts to crush the anti- two men who held up a branch here and declare Algeria an tary Lord Home of Britain. with Home, who expects to re- Prince Edward Island and the peals for European demonstra- of Berlin's East-West border bery, were released,. picked up ting a big price on Salan's head. [iri week to continue the talks. may be seriously interested in said they have arrested 43-year-|leading part. (the 25-mile sector border. [ | fly to London Sunday. Gromyko over again that the Soviet gov- next week but nothing has yet treaty. ALGIERS (Reuters) -- Louisjcoup measures have been car- Berlin crisis and other East- European extr. mist Secret|"Algerie Francaise" demonstra-| going to Washington or whether] SAINT JOHN, N.B. (CP)--Po. Gaullist OAS in face of ears of of the Bank of Nova Scotia here| 'independent French republic." | Rusk is scheduled to meet turn to London Sunday. United States. tions. again and released again Thurs- There seems no doubt he is Western diplomats reported arranging a Big Four foreignlold Frederick G. Harrington on. De Gaulle is reported highly | | Rusk then will hold a final|/the issue of the new federal-|100 bites without medical atten- | ition. {may go- to Washington next | |week for another meeting with 1 Searc | Rusk. e Gromyko is understood to President Kennedy and Soviet|ernment wants to make a Ber- Foreign Minister Andrei Grom-|jin settlement only in the frame. been arranged, it was learned By this approach the Rus-/JoXe, France's Algerian affairs|ried out. today. . |sians seek to get one of their Minister, headed here today to| Troops using tear gas and This would be a new phase in| -------- > "7 © ©" |step up the hunt for fugitivesypported by armored cars talks between the Soviet Union H t F d former Gen. Raoul Salan and|proke up crowds in central Al- West issues. One source said it is not yet he wants folks With Kennedy to|lice said today they were nolanother attempt by Salan and Ollow up earlier conversations further ahead in their seare |his followers 10 seize power with State Secretary Dean Rusk ad in their search for : of the U.S. and Foreign Secre- Wednesday and escaped with] The OAS, violently opposed to alusk Deduied $24.000. President Charles de Gaulle's 1TOMyKo again Saturday mor-| The search has been widened self - determination policies for ning and then hold a final talk to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario, | Algeria, has made repeated ap- pp igk Dlanned 39. 20 to Wash. Two Ontario men, picked up There has been talk in gov- into a No-Man's Land. West glon Saturday night and it has|in a nearb after the rob- |e ircles in Pari siltartiner's: call. 3. *ihe. Y boon SPacaTal et Ges y motel after the rob-|ernment circles in Paris of put |Berliner's call it "the death also may go to Washington next day, and a police spokesman|somewhere in Algeria although| ~The women joined thousands alks ) said he is satisfied the two men |it is five months since the fail-|°f laborers clearing ground and the talks so far have yielded| were not involved in the hold-up, ure of the four-day Algeria mil-|"32ing houses under the super- some indication that Russia Meanwhile, police in Toronto|itary revolt in which he took a Vision of armed guards along Ministers conference later on, a charge of conspiracy in con-|dissatisfied with the 'general|along the Teltow Canal o bu is in no haste to do 50. nection with the robbery. slackness" with which anti-|the American zone. | U.S.-SOVIET TALKS FAIL | West, Neutrals Try Now | UNITED NATIONS (AP) | 5 -- but would work as a team with|Russians to drop the veto idea|ns ank 0 Western and neutral diploma p ea name blank, but the Western We ts a rotating chairman. This, he altogether. Soviet insistence on/powers are trying t sua joined today in efforts to ap- claimed, would eliminate the a multi-headed executive has i to ey aus point a temporary secretary-|idea of a veto which had been angered many neutrals who the assembly would have a general after latest U S.-Soviet the main sticking point in Rus-|view it as an attempt to under-| clearer picture of what it is vot- Negotiations on the issue broke sia's old troika plan. mine the authority of the United|ing on. : . The United States was said to| Nations. Lee U.S. ambassador Adlai E. Ste- have turned down this Sal UN operations were virtually FOUR PROSPECTS venson and Soviet delegate Va- on the grounds the veto still shut down today while key dei-| The list of possibilities for the lerian Zorin met twice Thurs-/would be present. egates and secretariat' mem. POS! remains the same -- day. The. United States was bers attended the state funeral|Thant of Burma, assembly pres- said to have turned down the for the late secretary-general,|ident Mong; Sum of Tunisia, past atest Soviet plan for a four- eee {Dag Hammarskjold, in Stock- assembly president Frederick man executive to run the UN. four vould be Shusen from holm. {H. Boland o° Ireland, and am- Zorin said that the four would nations injecti an gmmunis But the corridors buzzed with bassador Ralph Enckell of Fin- ) s, Injecting a political el- ? "0 jand have to agree on any decision, | ement i i nto the UN administra. activity. Zac . a ' |tion Representatives of 12 coun- ar ay kee approatiied pre CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS | The door was kept open for|lries hope to have a resolution |yhen {further negotiations, however, /f¢ady Monday which would {and the United States is ex.|have the assembly approve the POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 U.S. officials also are reported opposed to the plan because the pected to meet with the Rus./faming of an interim candidate sians again in . few days. to supervise the running of the 5 : secretariat until a regular sec- MAY DROP IDEA retary « general can be agreed Some diplomats believe that upon. mounting opposi.ion to the Sov-| The group had intended to|sider this a stron let stand may finally impel t"e/out in the resolution with theldate to acwent th e fob. an Israeli army spokesman said today. | On the bodies were arms,]| ammunition and documents, the| Israeli said. The United Nations| command in Gaza has been in-| formed of the incident. crew dangling from the cross ties as the train thundered over. They were waiting for him when he crawled back to safety. Soldiers F or Pay In Katanga Army NDOLA, Northern Rhodesia (AP)--Some people call them les Affreux--the Dreadful Ones. They are white mercenaries--| e's Katanga army. | They are a mixture of dis gruntled French paratroop offic- ers, foreign legionnaires, ad- venture-seeking South Africans and Rhodesians, Belgians who say they want to save Katanga from Communism, and other Europeans. | Some were driven to Katanga by the passion for adventure, others by an unexplained, mys- tic search for something they had been unable to find else- where. Many cannot explain why they are in Katanga. This correspondent talked to|talion, the elite unit of Tshom-|line of 10 a.m. Tuesday against| : a number of these men. They |be s army, is led by tough white| Ford Motor Company in a move] said the world does not under- stand them and the press pre. veterans of Indochina and Alge negotiations on national sents them as criminals. No one knows exactly how Scholarship Fund In Dag's Memory UNITED NATIONS (AP) for a year's special g enough man-|study at the UN and Columbia some alre "University in New York City, | many of them still are in the Katanga army. Some left when |the United Nations demanded |p their departure earlier this year. Female workers were sighted soldiers for pay--and the main-| According to best estimates pposite | stay of President Moise Tshom-|there are still 30 regular Bel-| be' gian officers in army and some 400 mercena-| ries, ranging from a former French colonel to a South Af- rican judo instructor, Despite thier swashbuckling attitude, many live in fear of being shot in the back by their Negro troops. i It cannot be said that the mer- cenaries com m and Katanga} army units. Most are vaguely attached as instructors or ad- visers to newly promoted Negro officers. Only the paracommando bat- the Katanga officers, most of them French ria. During the recent fighting in mined roads, fired mortars into| UN positions and did most of| the sniping. To them, the United Nations was trying to ruin their the assembly votes there|The United Nations Correspond- RAGED AT TROOPS will be a host of abstentions. ents Associationannounced| The {This would place him in the top| Thursday it will establish a $50,-| when UN spot without strong backing. {000 scholarship fund in memory preferred to stay in their Slim has said that if he could|of Secretary-General Dag Ham-|rather than fight. be assured all delegates would marskjold. Journalists will be vote for him except Cuba and|brought from the less developed spondent had to promise not to the Soviet bloc, he would con-|nations y screamed with rage Negro Katanga troops| camps To talk with them the corre- write their names, although ady have been re-| vealed. "troika" to replace the secre- headed for Syria. 2 When the revolt broke out, h tary-general's post. tian air, naval and ground units said, he ordered two regiments of reinforcements to Syria and ! Given To OTTAWA (CP) {Gordon got the government's | go-ahead Thursday night to run Go-Ahead Signal Gordon World-Wide Problem LONDON (Reuters) -- Jor- dan's prompt recognition of the Syrian rebel regime may mean the revolt will develop into an international crisis, 'diplomatie observers feared here today. Hitherto neither Cairo nor Da- mascus has claimed any outside support for the two-day revolt. -- Donald ing whether he would be dis-|Both sides have spoken of it as missed, demoted or reap- an internal affair. pointed. An informed source told Canadi the publicly - owned Canadian | National Railways for another |two years. His reappointment as chair- man of the CNR board was an- nounced by Transport Minister Balcer in the final minutes of the longest parliamentary ses- sion in Canadian history. | Mr. Balcer also announced {the full make-up of the CNR"s recently - expanded board of di- rectors -- keeping three present directors including Mr. Gordon and adding nine new faces. The 12 - man board -- it for- merly had seven members -- is expected to meet soon in Mont- real and confirm Mr. Gordon as president of the railway company. The dihectors, who get $5,000 a year, have the duty |nt selecting 'the president, sub- ject to cabinet approval. Mr. Gordon, 60, president and board chairman since, 1950, has received $75,000 a year--the highest - paid public servant in Canada. He moved into the president's chair after a career that took him from a dollar - a - day fac- |tory job, through the deputy governorship of the Bank of [Canada into a government- owned rail empire worth $3,- ,000,000. He was reappointed {just two days short of a full |year after his term of office as la CNR director expired. His new three - year term is active to last Sept. 30. For the last year, Mr. don has been attacked, criti- cized and praised in his CNR post -- all the time not know- UAW President Sets Deadline Gor- DETROIT (AP)--United Auto| i Workers president Walter Reu-| : ther Thursday set a strike dead- to break a deadlock in contract non- | economic issues. | Reuther announced the strike| --| Katanga, the mercenaries deadline at a press conference| shortly after he returned to the! bargaining talks. A strike at Ford would make leave idle more than 120,000 hourly workers and halt 1962- model car production. Ford and the UAW have been working on a day-to-day exten-| sion of their old agreement. The| extension is subject to cancella- tion by either party on 48 hours| notice. The UAW is reported seeking to better its agreement with| General Motors in negotiations Zovering Ford hourly workers. day that Mr. Gordon would be reappointed after top rail union Now, observers said, it will be Press last Mon-|difficult for Jordan to escape charges--irrespective of whether there is any truth in them--that leaders had expressed confi. |it is helping the revolt. dence in him. Lionel Chevrier, Liberal transport minister, cri- ticized the year - long delay by the government in making u its mind. | | The Communist world will a former/then probably accuse western imperialism of being behind the rebellion aimed at taking Syria p| out of the United Arab Repub- ic. Named to the CNR board with| Some British officials have Mr. Gordon were two present directors = J. R. Griffith, 67, Saskatoon, and W. Gerald Stew- art, 52, Moncton, N.B. said privately that any change ;and split up of the U.A.R. could only be for the worse and pro- mote world. instability in the Arab er TYRE mor reve retro-| § NUCLEAR NECKWEAR Linda Bromley of New Rochelle, N.Y., holds in her left hand a personal radiation detector whose maker says could be the next thing in la- dies 'neckwear should threat of nuclear fallout increase. The lead shield plastic-cover- | ed detector, "galled a dasi- meter, is the Size of a half 'dollar and weighs one and a half ounces. Its manufacture er says it provides a permane ent record of individual ex. posure to fallout and can be worn or carried at times. (AP Wilenhatn)

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