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Oshawa Times (1958-), 6 Nov 1961, p. 1

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oin The Drive THOUGHT FOR TODAY To make a long story short, there's nothing like having the boss walk in. To The Community Ch She Oshawa Gunes -- est WEATHER Cloudy and cool and a little mild creasing to 20 or Goa REPORT today, but fair er on Tuesday. Winds northwest 15 today, in- 30, Tuesday. VOL, 90---NO. 257 ~~ Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MCNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1961 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office NMepartmen: Cttow TWENTY PAGES FOUND SHOT IN: CAR Queen's Visit Worry Renewed After Blasts | Sandys arranged to meet|House all day," he told a re- |porter in a telephone conversa- tion. Snelling said Sandys would de- cide for himself what advice to give British Prime Minister Security measures were insti-/Macmillan, who has the final day. |tuted here after two bomb blasts |Tesponsibility 2 soi! ne Commonwealth Relations Sec-jearly Saturday, Police patrols oa ak coheed ' retary Duncan Sandys was met/armed with heavy nightsticks| P as oe aia aietent ee at the airport by Foreign Minis-/roamed Accra during the night.) | 4° Xt of Nkrumah and| : dj British. Hi But there were mounting fears}#8C¢ 4 Statue &.. 5 yin | offinissio 'Arthur Snell-lin Britain for the Queen's safety Ghanae Indenen fence Arch, ing lin view of the anti-government) e blasts took the 'govern- 3 : se|blasts. ment here by surprise, but pre-| Sandys said that he and his| ; |parations for the Queen's visit colleagues in the British govern-) Nkrumah denied a rumor) \otinied. Flags of British Com- ment thought it advisable for the | sweeping Accra that he left his| \onwealth member nations "final talk" with Nkrumah be-|official residence, Flagstaff\ flying in the streets fore the visit, scheduled to be-|House, and spent the night at the) Chief Inspector re reu s0n gin Thursday. He said Nkrumah main army camp here. welcomed the suggestion. "T have been here in. Flagstaff Tear Gas Battle On Berlin, Border jcurity arrangements for the Queen's visit, flew back to Ac- cra from Freetown, Sierra |Leone, after hearing of the ex- | plosions. The visit to Accra is the sec- ond by Sandys within a month. His earlier trip here was de- voted to talks with Nkrumah on BERLIN (Reuters)--East andj30 men, women. and children at- Anglo-Ghanaian differences. West Berlin police today threw|tempting to escape into West| A joint communique issued a total of 144 tear gas grenades|Berlin. after the talks appealed to Brit- at each other in what West Ber-| They also fired shots at a NS and Ghanaians to take the lin described as the biggest tear|West Berliner as he smuggled Utmost care to avoid misinter- gas duel to have taken place at/his 18-year-old fiancee out of Pretation of each other's policies the East-West Berlin border. East Berlin in the trunk of his/ 4d intentions East Berlin police hurled tear car, hitting the vehicle six The communique made no ref- gas at West Berlin workers who times. were removing a 300-yard wire-; 'The couple mesh fence standing just inside jj safely but West Berlin territory. 'four children from the group of The East Germans had previ-\39 made it acvoss the heavily- ously attached 't to their barbed' guarded border wire border fence. West Berlin police said they West Berlin police retaliated did not know the fate o' the oth- and each side, threw 72 gren- ers, who included the mothers of ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters)--A 1 British cabinet member arrived|Nkrumah soon after his arrival, here today for a "final talk"j}but met separately first with with strongman President|Snelling, who has been in close Kwame Nkrumah on Queenjtouch with Nkrumah on the Elizabeth's scheduled visit to in-| visit. ternally troubled Ghana Thurs- reached West Ber- only five men and Possible Victory 3 People Dead, Police Claim Murder Suicide TROUT CREEK (CP)--A man and a woman were shot to death outside a hotel here Saturday night and the woman's 70-year- old father was later found dead in his burning. automobile with a bullet wound in the head. Police said the deaths were a double murder and suicide. Dead are Mrs. Mona Ewan, 42, of Trout Creek, John Buchan, 50, of Woodstock, and Delbert Watt, 70. All were shot with a .303-calibre rifle. Mrs. Ewan and Buchan were killed outside the Evers Hotel. Watt's body was found in car -- which raced away from the shooting scene. Police said Watt set fire to his car before shoot- ing himself. Provincial police said Watt had ebjected to his daughter's relationship with Buchan. A man who had been in the hotel before the shooting said Watt and Buchan had an argument} in the beverage room and Watt left "Then Saturday night I heard! three shots,"' the man said. "I) came out to see what it was all! about and saw John on the ground and Mrs. Ewan lying in a puddle of water near the cor- ner of the hotel." Mrs, Ewan was employed in} a Trout Creek nursing home.| Her husband died 22 years ago.) Buchan was a lightning rod salesman. Watt, a railroad fireman, for the last 25 years had been farm- ing. at Commanda, about 19 miles southwest of here. Trout Creek is about 30 miles south of North Bay. Canadian Reds Said Concerned ("thi nisn:, accoraing to the By K's Moves TORONTO (CP) -- Canada's U.S. Mobutu Soldiers Held Under Guard LEOPOLDVILLE (AP)--More than 130 of Gen. Joseph Mobu-| tu's centrai government sol- diers who mulinied in the face of Katanga province air attacks} have been flown to Leopoldville under tight guard, the United Nations. announced today. The UN said they were pulled }out of Luluabourg "'in the inter-|UN est of preserving law and order"' in the Kasai provincial capital-- a_ city still gripped by fear and) unrest following a _ midnight rampage by Congolese troops last week. European tefugees arriving here from Luluabourg told a |gruesome story of rape, beat- ings and arrests on the night of |Nov. 1-2, when some of Mobu- tu's troops launched a night-long panic, building up the general |tension during Mobutu's short- llived attempt to invade Ka- |refugees, some 400 white peo- jple. including missionaries and businessmen, were rounded up jinto Luluabourg's Hotel Pax by | frightened Congolese soldiers. understands that Russian nit-|RAPED 9 TIMES clear testing and th» discard of Stalin are "causing some cof siderable controversy" within the party of Canada. top RCMP officer said today = The refugees report at least 18 fmissionaries -- mostly Belgian |Roman Catholics--were beaten. |'women who were raped. One ters in Luluabourg, saying this be is a matter only for the Congo- lese government. But the UN spokesman today admitted that the world body) had flown back 132 Congolese § so diers. They arrived Sunday} © night, stripped of equipment and ammunition belts, their three DC-4 transports tightly ringed by UN guards at Leo- poldville airport. é The spokesman explained these troops had requested to} leave the Katanga-Kasai border) area where Mobutu last week) attempted to invade Katanga land bring the breakway prov- ince back under central govern-| {ment authority. Raiding Called national president of the inde- pendent Mine-Mill Union Sun- |day accused the rival Steel-| workers Union of raiding in {Thompson to divert attention from its own difficulties 'at Lake,..Man. ; Ken Smith of Toroith told a) ipublic meeting at this northern! ranks of the Communist! Luluabourg hospital reported 15)mining town that the Steelwork- ers are trying to oust the inter-| RCMP Commissioner C. W.|Belgian woman, eight months|national Union of Mine, Mill) Harvison made the statement in pregnant, claimed to have beenjand Smelter Workers (Ind.) in| a speech today to the Canadian Club of Toronto. raped nine times. ' As the refugees' stories have {Thompson to take the pressure} joff bargaining sessions at Lynn}, \ Commissioner Harvison saidjbeen made known the UN has|Lake, : three members of the Canadian|still refused to give any infor-| The United Steelworkers of found in bed. . : Communist party have been in|mation from its field headquar--America (CLC) represents) --(CP Wirephoto. See story-- Moscow for the high-level Soviet meetings of recent weeks. He said the Canadian Com- munist party has faced many turn-about policy changes in the past, "but surely these recent events must be cause for deep) TORONTO (CP) -- Police to-|sons thought and soul-searching on|day ordered 'the evacuation of ajcalled the most dedicated Communist." downtown Toronto office build-| position in the jurisdictional dis- | Police Evacuate Office Building --\ing after finding "enough nitro Housing Act's Rates Dropped OTTAWA (CP) -- The lending rate under the National Housing|knobs of, the safe missing and/says most French-speaking Ca- glycerine to cause a huge ex- plosion."" A bottle full of the explosive was found in the office of stock- brokers Thompson - Aher and Company. A woman employee found the jnickel workers at Lynn Lake.| 4 3 the protection racket. Diversion Move , THOMPSON, Man. (CP)--The & WARNED HUNTERS Anthony Buchanan of Port Loring, Ont., said he had warned the four hunters-who died of asphyxiation over the weekend not to use charcoal in their stove. The hunters' bodies were found Sunday morning by a friend in the Small cabin which they had rented, All the windows were closed and the bodies were | Page 3) Claim O | pe 3 Commissioner f TORONTO (CP) -- RCMP| Commissioner C. W. Harvison| said today that American! crime syndicates are moving into Canada. "The American syndicates are showing an increasing interest jin Canada and are moving to jexisting criminal organizations jand to expand their criminal |activities," he said in a speech to the Canadian Club of Tor-} jonto. | "They are already active in| \the field of gambling, narcotics trafficking, counterfeiting and in "There are many indications, and there is some evidence, that the syndicates have already started to treat Canada as an area for expansion of their ac- tivities." Commissioner Harvison said it is "'urgent" that the crime prob- lem be tackled before crime syndicates become established in this country. f RCMP million-dollar operations, tightly ° organized from the upper ranks right down to the lowliest hood- lum"--are casting eyes on Can- ada because of stepped-up activ- ities against them in the US., the end of tourist trade to Cuba and shutdown of gambling and other vice establishments -- ih Cuba. He said experts in the field re- port that crime syndicates are more powerful now than they were in the heyday of the prohi- bition years, He said the overlords wield a power greater in many ways than that of the heads of legi- timate b usin-ess enterprises. They are aided by "bribed and corrupt officials," have goon squads to enforce discipline and hold the "power and ability t buy, ruin or remove perman tly many of those who opp: them." The police forces of Ca: he added, are taking ste; improving our efforts the incursions of s NEEDS ACTION NOW "Action now might prevent crime and suffering and loss of life and heayy financial losses in the future," he said. is-important that such planned and taken quickly. or greatly reduced in Canada, he said, "'there is room for doubt that the syndicates would be in- terested to the point of taking over direct control." Already, he added, gambling jin Canada involves "many mil- lions of dollars" with the crim- inal bookies raking off a 10- to |Mine-Mill is bargaining agent! for workers at the International) |Nickel Company plant here. Ken Woods of Local 1026 of |Mine-Mill said about 200 per- attending the - meeting, to explain _mine-mill's pute. Novelist Explains Desire To Secede VANCOUVER (CP) -- Cana- dian novelist Hugh Maclennan| Act for home-owner mortgages| Wires protruding from the holes./nadians would like to be inde-|g and rental housing has been re- duced to 6% per cent from 6,% -|Works Minister Walker an- nounced today The reducticn applies in pro- She called police spotted the bottle of nitro. Police said the safecrackers had been scared off before they had a chance to blow the safe. when she pendent of the rest of Canada 12 but they do not believe pendence is either possibl responsible. He told a meeting of the Van- Milk Drought Caused By Lengthy Talks 15-per-cent profit. "An awareness of the part of the public might bring about a |falling-off in the patronage of |the bookies and horse - parlors, and therefore in the profits to the operators. Increased police |activities against the bookies is another means by which gambl- NEW YORK (AP) -- Lengthy|ing can be curbed... . peace talks in a Teamsters Un- jion strike that has caused a 13- |day milk drought in the city and on Long Island were recessed|cutting off the wire and tele- early today after management|phone services that are essen- negotiators claimed exhaustion. | "Another means of curbing jand indeed, seriously crippling | widespread gambling, lies in the tial to their operations." Mayor Robert Wagner called) Commissioner Harvison. said % hours after the temporary halt at 3:30 a.m.-- r start of|---- inde-| joint sessions that he had said € OF would continue until a settle- ment was reached. Irving R. Wisch, chief man- the gangster syndicates--"multi- en- tive action as is possible be If gambling could be stopped crime." . bovce of his spee, \leased to the press of delivery, Kills Girl, 16 POWNAL, Me, (AP) -- A hunter: who thought 10-year-old was being kidnapped by two men fired a shotgun blast at their car Saturday, killing the girl, police said, _Authorities said Harold K, La- pierre, Jr., 25, of Freeport, told them he was returning from a hunting trip when he saw the men with the child. The two men with Brenda were Paul D. Levesque of Pownal, and his father, William, with whom the girl, a state ward, was board- ing. The youngster had run away from the Levesque home pre- viously and was apparently at- tempting to do so again. "I thought they were trying to kidnap her or attack her," Lapierre said. "The man was dragging her into the car." portion to a variety of projects) The bomb squad was called into couver Institute Saturday that a erence to the Queen's visit or 72 i 4 We ades, pec negg was hurt, West their children. entitled to NHA financing--such|neutralize the explosive before the people of Quebec are ex- zement negotiator, said "about to internal troubles in Ghana which had resulted in the arrest of many leading opposition polit- Berlin police} seid East German police Sunday OPE 'THE WALL' opened fire on a group of about' Meanwhi'r Ger. Lucius Clay. ical leaders shortly before the talks. President Kennedy's representa- tive in Berlin, today opened an American exhibition in Berlin devoted to the wall dividing $215,000 For Katanga Force LEOPOLDVILLE (CP-AP) -- The forces of President Moise Tshombe, leader of breakaway | Katanga province, appear to have won another solid victory in recent fighting against cen- tral government forces trying to bring the province under its control, The central which announced last week it! had sent forces 35 miles into! Katanga eca:dtal, army Chief of Staff Joseph Yav said his sol- diers' only casualties in the bor- der fighting were three men wounded. derly - persons housing and ad- vances for university housing projects and municipal sewage treatment programs. In all these cases, the rate is reduced to 5% per cent from the present 5%. Mr Walker, noting in a state- ment that the decline reflects a} drop in the federal government} borrowing rate, also announced! that the charge on the govern-| ment's share of capital expend- itures for federal - provincial! housing and land assembly pro-| East and West Berlin--an exhi- bition which will continue as long as the wall stays up. He described' the wall as "something we must never for- get and never forgive." The exhibition, called simply 'The Wall is a photographic klocumentation of the wall built by East Germans Aug. 13 and subsequent Lorder events. government, | , 30,000 Balubas Seek $209,000 Ysa '$175,000 Ah. Vincelr. ing, St M. Tog/ bank, § as loans for low-rental and el-jemployees were allowed to en- asperated ter. Red MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia to test the same number of nu- jclear bombs as have already|nuclear tests h jects has been reduced to 5%4/heen exploded by the United|than the U. States, Britain and France. The U.S. Atomic Energy Com- s Cla' and frustrated by English-speaking Canadians. im Right right. to resume nuclear testing j has claimed "a full moral right'"'|in the atmosphere. Tass said that since Russia's ave been fewer S., Britain and France together, the Soviet Un- ion "has a full moral right to | mission said the Soviet Union set|equalize the situation and pre- |off 55 announced tests prior to|/vent a discrepancy between the jthe present series, in which|number of tests conducted by|h a handful" be cleared up. Among these, he said, questions of money and over- time pay--major bones of con- tention throughout the talks. The Teamsters had sought a). $7-a-week across-the-board pay increase. Management had of- Dalen Pills Stolen From Whitby Firm Tablets of a poisonous nature ave been stolen from a Whitby there have been 31, making a/the Soviet Union and the num-| warehouse, Whitby police report- total of 86. The U.S. total, in-|ber of tests conducted by the|ed today. cluding four in the current un-| derground series, is 157. Britain countries of the (Western) mili- tary bloc." Owned by the R Company, alston Purina are of matters remain to With K NEWPORT, R.I. (AP)--Pres- ident. Kennedy and Prime Min-| jister Nehru of India meet today | |problems with emphasis ex-| tests. | Nehru has called the latest series of Russian nuclear tests "an evil thing." Kennedy arranged to greet Nehru upon his morning arrival at Quonset Point naval air sta- Pri from New York. Nehru flew into New York Sunday after a| stopover in London where he) talked with Prime Minister Macmillan. Nehru is expected to press Kennedy for a moratorium on! } the building was bro-|nuclear firings as a first step| came|ken into during the weekend.|to a treaty banning use of nu- was|Police believe children may|clear weapons. red that|have been responsible. | On this Kennedy and Nehru ized to issue a statement on the|Russia will continue its nuclear) A number of. bottles of disin- are in oppositicn. |U.S. decision to reserve the |tests if America carries out nu-|fectant were reported missing.| Nehru said Sunday night in |Clear tests in the atmosphere. |These tablets are slightly lar- Saccoc Port ceptior has fired 22 and France 4. The Tass _ statement The officiai news agency Tass| after Premier Khrushchev |said Sunday it had been author-|reported to have decla | Protection In Congo _ ELISABETHVILLE (AP) The "Balubas Some 30,000 Baluba tribesmen,| their homes in the Negro town-|tary facilities. sitting in mud and filth on the| ships of Katanga more than two| A cemetery soon became ne- $150,000 saiaiik --_ began to leave|ditches. The camp has no sari- northern outskirts of Elisabeth-| months ago They said police of|cessary, and ene small area is ville, tell the sad story of The|T s hom be's interior minister,| dotted with white stones. Congo. Godefroid Munongo, had circu-, Swedish UN troops make reg-| They include men, women andi lated through the townships,|ular patrols through the camp| children. Fear sent them to this| threatening and maltreating}in armored cars. Once they) pong aes Nations protec-| them. opened fire when youths seized) ion--fear of ancient tribal en- ae a Swedish soldier. Eight balu-| emies and of brutality by the HACK UP SUBURB bas died. . | police The Balubas settled down in) Then days Jater it was discov-| The Baluba of Katanga are| what once was a handsome sub-|ered the bodies were being pre- political fo'lowers of Jason urban area. They hacked limbs| served with ice from a brewery. Sendwe insofar as they have from trees, gathered grass and|The Balubas said they were pre- any political consciousness made thousands of huts. Trees,| serving the bodies as proof that! | Sendwe is president of the As-| grass, shrubs and flowers have! the United Nations killed the} sociation of the Baluba of Ka-\disappeared and the Balubas| tribesmen, tanga province and was for-|squat in their huts. merly President Moise Tshom-| When it is dry, clouds of evil-|the be's most powerful political op-| smelling dust blow through the| tribal suspicions and intense ponent in Katanga camp. When wet, the Balubas/ hatred of the Congolese. Now vice-premier in the cen cook, eat ep and squat in the tral Congolese government at;}mud. Flies, rats and verminjcult: to form | eopoidie, Sendwe is an-e jmake their life miserable.|ment repres from Katanga. \Naked children wade in dirty! tions of The B $125,000 $100,000 $75,000 $50,000 $25,000 mud illustrate the deep sie tkpe * BII itieaiaiel Start IN DARK . | STILL Russians Told Of | The Russian people still have} * . - Uranium Mine City) MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Rus- sians were told today of "'ura-) nium City," somewhere in the Soviet Union, where workers get free food, the birthrate is higher than the national aver- age and radiation sickness is unknown. The existence of the town, not been infermed of the test) series which Khrushchev told the 22nd Communist party con- gress would end by Oct 31 after a 50-megaton bomb had fired. There have been Western re-| ports of four more blasts in the last five days. Western sources say Russia's recent huge detonations have! brought the Soviet power total/ to about 170 megatons--a mega- ger than aspirins, and are of a poisonous nature. Parents are warned to be on the lookout for these tablets. Any information regarding them shou'd be lice immediately. Thirty-Four Dead In Athens Storm ATHENS (AP) -- Torrential where uranium is mined andjton equals 1,000,000 of TNT--Jrains, hail and hurricane-force Pravda, the Young Communist League newspaper. The Tas saying Russia was again ready |processed, was reported for the| while the West has set off some-| winds lashed the Athens areal ; The 30,000 Balubas sitting injfirst time in Komsomolskaya| thing less than 130 megatons. for four hours early today, leav- missing, 300 injured and 3,009 The article did not say where to sign--"it could be today"-- homeless. names. They show why it is so diffi-the town is--and people men- an immediate treaty on genera! would be ended. The storm, the» worst in mem- ; a central govern-|tioned in the story were re- and complete disarmament on,ory, crumbled houses and) ative of all sec-\ferred to only by their first) the basis of which nuclear tests|turned streets into rivers more | ithan eight feet deen. wes given to the po- | statement ended by|ing behind 34 dead, at least 50| @ (RU Nehru Meeting ennedy New York that "I'm dead against any nuclear testing, whatever happens." He reiter- \fered a $9.10 package over two|0 begin, discussions of world ated the position that the im- To Equal Testing | portant thing is to stop all tests ---- |pected to be put on nuclear|now without waiting for a treaty "with inspection and controls and all that." The U.S. position is that a non-nuclear treaty requires agreements for international in- spection to make it effective. The American and Indian po- sitions also are diametrically opposed on the question of ads mission of Red China to the United Nations. The Indian position, as ex- pounded by Nehru, is that dis- armament is one of the major world problems. and "you can't deal with it without China." Nehru insists it would be easier to bring Red China into a general disarmament agree- ment as a member of the UN. MEETING THE P. Brenda G. Broad of Portland * ? Nj S| |

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