The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Monsignor THOUGHT FOR TODAY A philosopher says that only a mediocre person is always at his best. Dwyer Honored On Anniversary -- Pg. She Oshawa WEATHER REPORT Partly cloudy tonight and Tues- day. Winds decreasing to light tonight and Tuesday. « VOL. 92--NO. 65 10 Cente Por Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1963 EIGHTEEN PAGES $600,000 LETHBRIDGE FIRE Flames and smoke leap high into the air as fire de- stroys the Hull Block in downtown Lethbridge Satur- day. Damage has been esti- mated at $600,000, the most ROACH URGES TOUGHE ANTI-GAMBLING ACTION costly fire in the history of | the city. (CP Wirephoto) Heavy Storms Pound Broad Areas Of US. CHICAGO (AP)--Heavy rains over the weekend caused new flooding in the Ohio River Val- ley as stormy weather pounded broad areas of the United States, The fresh floods which hit sections of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia were the sec- S.D., tapered off as it moved eastward. Only light snow or flurries fell across northern areas in the Eastern one-third of the U.S, Hail, rain and snow hit southern California areas. A twister lashed Centreville, in central Alabama, injuring three persons and damaging 65 to 70 houses and buildings. 2 EVACUATE HOMES At Silver Creek, N.Y., about area to a fire hall, motels, res-| taurants and the homes -of resi- dents whose homes were not in- undated. Some residerits of flooded homes refused to leave, however, moving to quarters well above ground level. In the village of East Aurora, about 25 miles northeast of Sil- ver Creek, the fire department! pumped water out of flooded homes throughout the night. But the latest flooding was not as damaging as last week when some 30,000 persons were driven from unaer homes and property e was in the millions of dollars. Snow, rain, hail and torna- does made up the inclement weather pattern for the winter season's last weekend. A 'snowstorm which swept across areas in the Dakota and Minnesota, dumping up to 15 inches of snow in Rapid City, 500 persons were forced - near the Lake Erie flood waters from Cat- taraugus Creek, .between Erie and Chautauqua Counties, Many roads were closed. The flooding resulted from ice jams, thawing snow and recent rains in the area near Buffalo. The New York State thruway interchange at Silver Creek was ishut due to floodings. So were several other highways in Chau- tauqua County. Small boats operated by the coast guard and others shuttled evacuees from the Silver Creek Agents Operating To Cut Arms Flow BERN (AP) -- Israeli agents are believed to be waging a cloak - and - dagger operation against Evropean scientists and industries working on arms for the United Arab Republic, in- formed Swiss sources said to- day. The sources said arrested as Israeli agents by Swiss police earlier this month were implicated in a plot to kidnap Dr, Hans Kleinwaech- ter, a German missile expert. Dr. Heinz Krug of Munich, another German scientist on the same U.A.R. project, dis- appeared last September. Swiss police informants con- firmed an Israeli radio report that the alleged agents--an Is- raeli and an Austrian--fell into a trap set by the daughter of another German scientist. They were said to have been arrested March 2 after meeting Heidi Goerke, daughter of Dr. Jens Goerke, in a restaurant in Basel, Switzerland. Basel is across the border from Loer- rach, Germany, where Klein- waechter lives. Swiss police had been tipped off. A micro- Phone was concealed at their table and their waiters were Swiss detectives, The Israeli radio men tried to get Miss Goerke to persuade her father to aban- don his work for the U.AR., claiming he was helping de- velop weapons of mass destruc- tion to be used against Israel, The Jerusalem Post says these are believed to be cobalt war- heads for Egypt's Al Kahir missile. , The Swiss informants said the recorded conversation re- two men} Said the} vealed the agents' part in an undercover operation directed at European scientists and in- dustries working for Egypt. "This affair has ramifications in several other countries of West Europe, including Brit- jain," said the sources, Police said an attemp was made to kidnap Kleinwaechter Feb. 20. The sources said the arrested agents were involved in the plot. The agents will be tried be- fore a Basel criminal court on |charges of violating Swiss neu- jtrality laws, The trial date has jnot been set. Central Parts Depot Planned By Chrysler WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Chrys- ler of Canada Ltd. announced today it plans to build a central parts depot in Toronto to. re- place facilities now in Chatham, Ont. R. W. Todgham, president, said the plant will cost more than $3,000,000 and should be in operation by mid-1964, He said émployees of the |Chatham plant will be offered other jobs with Chrysler and that plans are also being stu- died to establish other com- pany activities in Chatham. Mr. Todgham said the move was "dictated by consideration of strategic location and mod- ern, efficient methods of distri- bution." Chrysler is the second auto-| mobile manufacturing firm to announce plans to establish a central parts depot in or near | Toronto. Ford Motor Company of Can- ada Ltd. announced March 1 it will construct a national parts depot and regional marketing Office building at Bremalea, OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Diefenbaker said today the, government '"'fully endorses ac- ceptance of the principle of col- lective bargaining" with its 150,- 000 civil servants. : Mr. Diefenbaker, interrupting a cabinet meeting at his offi- cial residence, handed reporters a copy of a letter to C. A. Ed- wards, president of the Civil Service Federation of Canada. lwho with leader of other civil service associations had _ re- quested the views of party lead- ers on collective bargaining. The letter said: "My colleagues and I have given full consideration to your letter regarding the question of collective bargaining for civil) servants, and having noted that the federation and other civil service associations do not Civil Servants Views Endorsed claim the right to strike, the government fully endorses ac- ceptance of the principle of col- lective bargaining. "As you know, there are dif- ferences in the views and pro- posals of your federation and believe that an endeavor should be made by the several asso- ciations to reach agreement on the way that the associations should be represented in such negotiations. WILL START TALKS "When this has been done, the government will at once en- ter into discussions with repre- sentatives of the associations to work out the principle and pro- cedure for effectively imple- menting collective bargaining. "I might add that we regard Couple Jolted | By Power Line WMARKET, Ont. (CP)--A and his wife were both to Hospital Sunday after, went to investigate a no e their home and they . B, Epworth, 66, and his wife Lela, 60 were in satisfac- tory condition with burns, cuts and minor head injuries. Police said strong winds top- pled a 30-foot antenna from the roof of the Epwroth home, It fell across high-voltage power lines snapping them. | ie When Epworth opened a metal screen door to investi- gate, the door hit a live wire and he was knocked over. When his wife opened the same door, feet. Newmarket is 20 miles north of Toronto. YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Rod-Gun Club Veteran Members Honored .. Page 9 Garage And Two Cars Prey To Flames ... Page 9 Dog Rescued After - 2 Hours In Creek .. Page 9 Five Girls Injured In Accident , OCCI Students Walk From Woodbridge . Page 9 Thieves Busy In Bowmanville .... Page 3 Ont., to replace facilities at Windsor and a regional de in Toronto. Released W MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- Two United States women, the first of more than 20 American pris- oners expected to be freed from Cuban jails within six weeks, claim that while in prison they heard Russians test-firing mis- siles, "I don't think they could be smail ones," one woman said. "They shook the prison bars in our hands." The women were released un- expectedly Sunday, "with no strings attached," according to James Donovan, the New York lawyer who negotiated their freedom. tive-born Americans will be re- leased when delivery of $53,000,- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 __ FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 000 worth of medicine and foods from the U.S. to Cuba is com- pleted. That should take about six weeks, Donovan said. The U.S, agreed to exchange the $53,000,000 worth of goods taken prisoner in the unsuccess- ful Bay of) Pigs iavasion of Cuba in 1961. Donovan said the other na-| for the release of 1,113 Cubans] Donovan a!so said Cuban Pre- mier Fidel Castro agreed to free nine skin divers arrested six weeks ago if the New York lawyer could prove them inno- cent of counter - revoiutionary activity. One of the women, who spent more than two years in Cuban jails, said the Russians are test- ing missiles at an underground rock quarry six miles from Guanajay prison, 15 miles from Havana. That is one of the sites where Russians installed inter- mediate-range missijes before last October's Cuban crisis. Mrs, Geraldine Shamma, a native of Boston, said the tests were conducted every three or four days and were powerful enough to shake the bars of the prison. Mrs, Shamma said pri- son guards, who became her friends during 29 months of con- finement, told her the missiles are being test-fired in a hori- zontal shaft leading from the quarry. The stocky, grey-haired Mrs. pot| Port Perry Family Walks From Barrie . Page 3 the acceptance of the principle as part of a larger pattern for improved personnel arrange- ments in the public sevrice." Earlier, Liberal Leader Pear- son, Social Credit Leader and New Democra- lar collages ' oe ts| would pr a arane ME pe Crown conporations. About one- third of the federal civil serv- the other associations, and we -- JOHN DIEFENBAKER 2 More French Unions Strike PARIS (Reuters)--Two more major French unions today de- cided to call strikes as repre- sentatives of 2,000,000 workers prepared to resume talks with the government on labor prob- lems that have paralyzed the country for the last two weeks. The Socialist, Catholic and Communist - led unions repre- senting France's nationalized TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario's royal commission on crime has found evidence of enormous il- legal gambling but no other "alarming" organized crime, no syndicate control and no cor- ruption in the attorney-general's department. In his 120,000-word report ta- bled in the legislature today, Mr, Justice W. D. Roach of the Ontario Court of Appeal found that gamblers have had a happy hunting ground with "so- cial" club 'charters, aided in the past by slow-moving machinery in the provincial secretary's de- partment, Tougher and more co-ordi- nated action against gamblers was recommended by the 71- year-old , whose report follows 66 days of hearings last year as a one-man commission. Two high police officers linked in evidence with gam- blers were hit by the commis- sioner, He recommended the removal of Deputy Commis- gas and electricity industries announced today they would stop work for four hours Wed- nesday and for a further four at.a date al "committee " set up by President de G last week, to discuss the disparity of wages between the nationalized and private indus- ants affected work in Ottawa. tries. to be set later.|has sioner James Bartlett of the Ontario Provincial Police and the "usefulness" of Insp. police officers--be ied with a. view to possible' prosecution. NEW YORK (AP)--Printers have voted to continue their newspaper strike here, dim- ming hopes of getting eight ma- jor dailies back on the streets this week. By a margin of 64 ballots-- 1,621 to 1,557--the union print- ers voted Sunday to reject a contract settlement proposed by Mayor Robert Wagner and ap- proved by publisher and union negotiators March 8. The strike by Local 6 of the International Typographical Union began last Dec, 8--101 days ago--against four news- papers. Five other major dailies closed voluntarily at the same time. One, The Post, resumed publication March 4. Publishers' re p r e sentatives expressed regret at the print- ers' rejection of the proposed Printers Reject N.Y. Strike Deal she also was knocked off her} other closed dailies were to go ahead with their voting today on the contract-expiration issue. In two other major develop- ments Sunday, the striking Ster- eotypers Union ratified a con- tract agreement with the pub- lishers, and the Photoengrav- ers Union voted to authorize its leaders to call a strike if they failed to get a satisfactory contract by 4 p.m. today. Besides the printers and ster- eotypers, a third striking union, the mailers, is negotiating for a new pact. And in addition to the photo- engravers, five other non-strik- (OPP Commissioner Eric Silk announced that he has received and accepted the resignations of Deputy Commissioner James Bartlett and Insp, J. Allan Stringer, Peterborough district inspector. The resignations were effec- tive immediately at the tabling of the Roach report. Among the commissioner's conclusions: 1, The Mafia is not a factor in Ontario organized crime, de- spite some suggestions to this effect, 2. The decline of kingpins Joseph McDermott and Vincent Feeley has resulted in "sub- stantially" reducing gaming and bookmaking but "I am not JUSTICE ROACH one to three men and paving! the OPP take over. The OPP's employment Stringer of Peterborough| constables officials from doing their duty faithfully. OPPOSES APPOINTMENT In an addition to his report written after the findings had been completed, Mr, Justice Roach took issue with the On- tario government's. recent deci- sion to appoint an official of deputy minister status as OPP commissioner. Eric Silk, for- mer assistant deputy attorney- general, was named to succeed] commissioner W, H. Clark, who retired. The judge said the read the announcement as _ proposing For further details on the Roach royal commission on crime report, read stories on page 12.of. this paper. so naive as to think that both have been completely eradi- cated." 3. The commission inquiry itself has served as an effective ing craft are king new contracts. All the news- Paper unions here with the ex- ception of the independent de- liverers union are AFL-CIO af- filiates. brake--t arily, at least-- on organized criminal activi- jes, 4, Policing of small commu- nities could he improved by abolishing municipal forces of that the commissioner be a dep- uty minister in the attorney- general's department, and he declared this, brought a danger of having the force "bedevilled by politics." However, Premier Robarts is- sued a statement saying that Mr. Silk. has' been given the status of deputy minister in the civil service but is not a deputy settlement. The vote raised the possibil- ity that the ITU executive coun- cil might submit the Of Cuba Rocket Tests Bp structed not to divulge any in- formation because it might pre- judice the Cuban _ regime against jie remaining Cuban prisoners. Bat she said: "I hope they don't think I'm going to sugar-coat all this treatment we've had. It was awful. We were freed for noth- ing. If I thought they had paid any ransom for me, I wouldn't have c back." The other woman, Mrs. Mar- tha O'Neal, whose parents live in Orlando, Fla., wouldn't talk about the missiles. However, at one point she turned around and said, "I heard them so often that I became used to them and didn't even notice the noise." The women talked with re- porters after returning on a flight from Havana with Dono- van. They appeared in good health. ' They said they had been charged with counter - revolu- tionary activity and sentenced to 10 years. But neither would ett Shamma said she was in- be specific about the charges. settlement to a referendum of the entire membership of Local 6, including some 6,000 commer- cial printers and the 3,000-odd newspaper printers. Two large units of the New York Newspaper Guild voted Sunday to extend their current contracts, as the printers had demanded, so that the agree- ments would expire simultane- ously with those of nine news- Paper craft unions. That issue has been a major stumbling block to ending the long labor dispute. Despite the printers' vote, guild units at Nefertiti's Ring Reported Stolen LONDON (AP) -- A ring re- puted to have belonged to beau- tiful Queen. Nefertiti of ancient Egypt was reported stolen from a London home today. Mrs. Brian Neale said: "The ring is a tiny scarab set in gold. The only way the thieves will be able to dispose of it is to sell it to a collector abroad. As an antique it is absolutely price- less--nobody would insure it." Mrs. Neale said Lord Carnar- von, who was concerned with excavation of the 14th century BC tomb of Nefertiti gave the ring to her sister, the late Mrs. Alice Walton. When Mrs. Wal- ten died eight years ago she left! the ring to Mrs, Neale. Carrying large banner back- ing the cause of their hus- bands, wives of French strik- ing miners wave from Paris' Eiffel Tower during sight-see- ing tour, In background is the Palais de Chaillot. Wives hope to see members of the govern- STRIKING MINERS' WIVES ment to plead the cause of their husbands. (AP Wirephoto) Little Evidence Seen Of Syndicate Control of the attorney-general's de partment. Dealing with municipal forces, Mr, Justice Roach - deals with club charters--can act even before prosecutions are 2. Legislation the provincial secretary an under oath question of cancelling wy, Sonnede "epiaiing way egal use of social ters 'by tipoffs on anti-gambling raids in the Ni- agara Peninsula. 2.. Former OPP constables Kenneth Lamorie and Carmen Lawrence, alleged to have re- ceived money for tipoffs, who evidence that anti - squad activities were being leaked to gamblers. Const. W. J. Wright subsequently was convicted, along with McDer- mott and Feeley, of conspiring to obtain police information t- legally, 3. Sydney Bloomberg of Tor- onto, alleged to have sworn to statutory returns as a director of the Humber Bay Community Association when he apparently was not a director, according to the report. The club's charter was cancelled in 1961 for vio lation of regulations, NO CHARGES LAID Mr. Justice Roach announced last summer that he would rec- ommend at the time that crown authorities study the possibility of charging Balsom. with per- jury and possibly other of- fences, as the result of com- mission evidence, but no charges have been laid. He did not recommend any criminal action against either Deputy Commissioner Bartlett --who had a heart attack after testifying last spring -- or Insp. Stringer, but he used harsh language in summing up the evidence dealing with them. He described some of: the deputy's testimony as "too fan- tastic to be credible" and said: "His purported explanations simply do not explain his con- duct and leave him in an aura of suspicion and distrust." OPP Const. George Scott, whose undercover work led to the three convictions, had tes- tified Wright told him that Bart- lett had received up to $2,000 for tipoffs, but the commission was intrigued mainly with Bartlett's story of how he found $1,000 in a flowerpot at his home after a McDermott-Fee- ley visit in 1957 and tried to re- turn it to them. The commission lost track of the $1,000 after Bartlett and a couple of other witnesses had testified to moving' it along from persons to person until it came into the hands of a Mc- Dermott-Feeley 'associate who had died in the meantime. CALLS FOR REMOVAL "The evidence .. . in my re- spectful submission necessitates his removal from the force," the judge said. Of Insp. Stringer, Mr. Justice Roach said there was evidence of an association between him and Feeley going back as far as 1955. He noted that in 1955 Continued om Page Three