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THOUGHT FOR TODAY ° Optimist: A fell finding a worm goes fishing. low who, after in an apple, elias Si "nitiaaasie i ' WEATHER REPORT Sunny with cloudy intervals and not much change in temperature today and Saturday. Clear and cool with frost at night. VOL. 92--NO. 98 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN 'PAGES NDP Leader! Links Judge With NONG TORONTO (CP)--A justice of the Ontario Supreme Court was linked Thursday night with a renewed investigation into the disposition of shares in North- ern Ontario Natural Gas Com- pany (NONG), The New Democratic Party leader, Donald C. MacDonald, said Mr. Justice Leo Landre- ville was the person referred to by former attorney - general Kelso Roberts, now lands and forests minister, in a statement Wednesday night. Mr. MacDonald said Mr. Rob- erts should either resign for making 'incredible statement" or be forced to resign by Pre- mier Robarts. Mr. Justice Landreville was mayor of Sudbury in 1957 when NONG obtained a franchise to distribute natural gas in the city in preference to a publicly owned gas system advocated by some aldermen. He was ap- pointed to the bench the same year. Mr. Roberts told the legisla- ture Wednesday that an investi- gation reopened last summer had convinced him that the leg- islature of 1959 was misled by sworn statements concerning the distribution of 14,000 NONG shares. Mr. Roberts said the new evi- Party Expels 10 NDP Youth Group Members TORONTO (CP)--Ten mem- bers of New Democratic Party youth organizations in the Met- Janything about it." Donald C. MacDonald, On- tario leader of the NDP, con- firmed the expulsions and dis. solution. Mr. Wilson said the 10 mem- bers of the council and associ- ated clubs were expelled as part of a "'witch hunt" against those in the party. who favor more| public ownership of basic indus-|dence," Mr, Roberts try and oppose NATO as a mili- tary alliance. He described it as an exten- sion of a similar purge last win- ter in British Columbia which "resulted in the expulsion of a dozen or so leading activists|aty evidence and he refused to the youth movement} from there." Mr, Wilson said he was ex- pelied without a hearing on the "charge of supporting an oppon- ent political party which was not specified." He said he learned at a. meeting of the NDP provincial council Sunday, at which he appealed the expul- sion, that the party was '"'some kind of youth organization called the Young Socialist Alliance," but he neither confirmed nor de- nied that he was a member. dence indicated that a certain elected official in a municipal- ity that had done business with NONG had received a major part of 14,00 promotional NONG shares. Speaking despite steady heck- Mr. MacDonald said: "He didn't need to name names, Anyone with a bit of knowledge of the background of the NONG scan- dal knew he was talking about one person, an elected official and a block of 14,000 shares. "Why don't you name him?" interjected Lloyd Letherby (PC --Simcoe East). "Mr. Justice Landreville," Mr. MacDonald replied. LAUNCHES ATTACK The NDP leader, whose ac- cusations in 1958 led to an in vestigation of NONG's promo- tional efforts in getting gas dis- tribution franchises, launched a heated attack on Mr. Roberts. "If the prime minister knew that the miniser of lands and forests was going to make the statement he did, there was a clear obligation on the prime minister's part to see that such a statement was not made," Mr. MacDonald said. The present attorney-general, Fred Cass, had generally de- clined comment on the renewed investigation by the Ontario Se- curities Commission except to say that a report was not ex- pected for several months. "If he didn't know, or if the minister made the statement. in defiance of the prime minister, then his resignation should be asked for." lie Frost) Quoting from his own speeches and those of Mr. Rob- erts in 1959, Mr. MacDonald said contradictory statements by Ralph K. Farris, president of NONG, and others in the ear- lier inquiry were brought to the attorney-general's attention. "Now the minister comes into the House and admits some wit- messes were liars. He even names Mr, Farris." "On the basis of new evi- inter-| jected. Mr. MacDonald said Mr. Rob- erts had been informed in 1959) that some 'evidence was per-| jured." | "The minister had document- look at it,"' the NDP leader said. |ALLEGES COVER-UP He said the current NONG in- vestigation was revived, not on the initiative of the minster but on the initiative of the British Columbia government which had uncovered certain material. He accused Mr. Roberts of hav- ing covered up the facts. "That is an absolute falsehood and I rise on a point of perso- nal privilege," Mr. Roberts de- clared. "It is an absolute false- hood." ling from government benches,| ; City Boy Dies In Fire=s= = Two Firefighters Hurt A house fire, that caused only $250 damage, claimed the life Thursday afternoon of a five- year-old Oshawa boy. David Grant Flint died in a cubby hole underneath the burn- ing stairs in a house at 158 Ce- prime minister of the day (Les-\f cst lina street. He was found by Captain C. Pollock, of the Osh- awa Fire Department when fire fighters had hacked away three bottom steps of the staircase. Fire fighters feverishly sear- ched the smoke-filled home and at first cout find no trace of David, still believed to be inside until his mother suggested he might be hidden under the staircase. MATCHES FOUND A partly-used book of matches found near the body led the fire department officials to believe the fire might have been start- ed by the child himself. Dr. R. Clark, chief patholo- gist at the Oshawa General Hos- 14 MINERS 8 STILL Mi tt. STORAGE AREA UNDER STAIRS WHERE BOY DIED needy or those Mail-Order Drugs Urged By Probe TORONTO (CP)--A_ select|abolition of the ll-per-cent fed- committee of the Ontario legis-|eral sales tax on prescription ature recommended today that/drugs, removal of import tariffs "\a central mail-order outlet belon scientific equipment used in set up to dispense drugs to the|drug research and manufac- using Jarge|ture, and steps to reduce the quantities of expensive med-|cost of advertising and promot- icines. The estion was one of ing drugs. The report was signed by all Rescue Hope Dwindles In Mine Gas Explosion -- URG, W.Va. (AP)|bulances and rescue - vehicles CLARKSB' " Clinchfjeld Coal Company an-|stood by. Ri nounc shortly after noon EST today that 14 bodies of 22 men| shaft were a few cars belonging trapped by an explosion in its!tg the men who went inte Compass No. 2 mine near here the pit Thursd ft down have been recovered. There was practically no hope| . the other eight--even deeper in|Side ng er what had the mine--would be found ailve.|Place. Fans which circu Three bodies were found first|*hrough the mine con! near the main mine tunnel,|9Perate. The shaft was not A NEIGHBOR COMFORTS sorrow-stricken Mrs. Flint as she waited for news of her 5-year-old son who died of asphyxiation in a Celina street fire Thursday. Ethel lormed an autopsy The father, Whelsby Flint, was at work when the fire oc- curred and was notified im- mediately. The family's four other children, Brian 14, Larry, 12, Dorothy 11 and Joyce 9, were at school. A nest of recently-born kit- tens was found by fire fighters upstairs unharmed. David, who was born Jan. 16 1958, was a member of St. George's Memorial. Anglican Church. ' The funeral service will be held Monday, April 29, at 2 p.m., in the Gerrow Funeral Chapel. Rev, L. M. Ware, assistant rec- tor at St. George's Church, will conduct the service. Interment will be in Oshawa Union Cem- this jation. Firefighters arrived in time i to prevent the fire from spread- ing from a downstairs hallway. A partly burned staircase and charred ceiling were the only damage apart from water and smoke damage and debris lit- F tering the hallway floor. Platoon chief Mart Ostler said when he arrived the desperate mother was just about to rush into the house to search for her boy and had to be restrained jfrom entering. Firefighters jdonned oxygen masks and dis- jappeared in the smoke. | Still was a child inside and spec- Two People Killed, |tators waited anxiously in the | street. Hit By CPR Train searcuen ww vain WARREN, Ont. (CP) -- TWQ\sefirched | Chief Ostler said the..men through the smoke persons were killed Thursday | upstairs and downstairs, but in night when struck by a train|vain, He said he rushed out- while walking on the railway) side again and asked the mother tracks in front of the station in|where else the boy could be. this community 32 miles east of/ Jt was then that Mrs. Flint Sudbury. Michael Herbert Miller, 45,|the stairs, suggested the cubby hole under which, apparently and Ruth Serena. Giddens, 39, of|the child had used as a hiding North Bay were hit by a CPR|place previously. Vancouver-to - Montreal passen- ger train. The couple apparently did not|grief-striken mother hear the train approaching. When Chief Ostler finally stepped outside and told the the boy was found dead she was led away by neighbors. FIREFIGHTERS HURT One firefighter was injured 65 Loggers Acquitted oii" cre jeral Hospital to be treated for a |badly cut hand. Firefighter C. |Vermoen was released after On Assembly Charges "iit seers ve |was given first aid on the spot, jalso for cuts to the hands. KAPUSKASING, Ont. (CP)--|rioting charges. Mr. Brooke re-|other 19 were the ones arrested| Mrs. Flint told neighbors she With charges of unlawful as-|served his position on the other|at the scene. 1177 accused until he could talk! All 20 settlers are to be re-/when she noticed smoke com- sembly dismissed against 65 out of 242. loggers at a mass trial here, Magistrate W. S. Gardner begins today on charges of riot- ing against all 242 defendants. Crown attorney S. A. Cald- may be dropped. to each one personally. | The charges against the men} resulted from a raid by some |400 striking loggers last Feb, 11 jhad been busy in the backyard jleased again on $5,000 bail./ing from the house. She rushed Chief Justice McRuer, declining|over to the telephone next door to quash the charges against,and called the fire department. Coulombe, said the. weight of She said David had not wan- jat a logging camp at Reesor evidence and inferences to be|ted to play outside that after- bick indicated the riot charges|Siding, 40 miles wes: of here,/drawn from that evidence must/noon, because he said other where independent log-cutting| be decided by a jury. children on the street had hit | Word quickly spread through i |the watching crowd that there / etery. 8% Sugg' nine brought down by the com- Labor Minister H, Leslie Rowntree, who was named chairman a few months before entering the cabinet, tabled the report today in the legislature. "| The ten aay "|neth Bryden added the recom: mended federal licensing of 'all drug manufacturers in Canada, members -- eight Conserva- tives, one Liberal and one New Democrat "--except Liberal-La-| lateral working section. bor member Albert Wren, who WOULD BAR BRANDS 63 dependents. about 1% miles from the main|@ged. The elevator which entrance. Eleven others were|catry 10 men down found a short time later in a gag area was still The 22 men, all married, had|cHANCES LOOK SLIM Announcement of the finding|through mine drifts However NDP member Ken mendation that federal laws be amended to abolish brand names since the "use of brand Russia Agrees On Supporting Peace In Laos MOSCOW (AP) -- Premierjeral practitioners Khrushchev assured U.S. Un-|doctors in selecting the cheap- dersecretary W. Averell Harri- man today that he joins with the United States in affirming full support of the accord on keeping Laos neutral and peace- he had Laos situation for 314 hours in the Kremlin with Harriman. The communique declared: "The Laden: yo and onary of the council ministers re- affirmed that both governments|Four men, three from Toronto, fully support the general agree-| were charged today with break- ments on the Laotian question|ing and entering while armed about which there was an ex.|following a wild gun battle change of views between them| Thursday night with police in a at Vienna and a mutual under-|sawmill house here. standing reached." Harriman earlier met Soviet| wounded and all four arrested, Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-| one after he was tracked down myko. Harriman, a former ambassa-| they forced their way into the dor to the Soviet Union looked|house and were ambushed by serious as he left the skyscraper] Police. Soviet foreign ministry. "We have had a talk. about|of no fixed address, who is in events in Laos," he said.' "Both| South Peel Hospital with a gun- of us reassured the other that/shot in the hip; our governments are endeavor-|men David Read, 34, in hospital DAVID FLINT ing to do all they can to main-|with a gunshot wound in the |tain the neutrality and inde-j/arm, William Glover, 35, and pendence of Laos." names is the most important Single factor making for high promotion costs and prolifera- tion: of products." A summary of the report was released to the press before it was tabled. In its summation of the re- port, the committee stressed re- peatedly the difficulty for gen- and other of the first victims of the gas|explosion are 5,000 explosion was made by Mine Superintendent Harry Chapman, whose brother is one of the missing miners. The bodies, Chapman re- ported, were found near the of a drift in which 13 miners were scheduled to be working when a rumbling gas --" hit the mine Thursday opening Seven other men were as- signed to a drift 2,000 feet far- ther into the mine and two men were assisting both crews. Outside a small crowd of There was nothing on the peat tin F late into ite As rescue crews rr tH mine, a company A : i : i s. E { : Ur rH pelle ball 75 % = a : FE 5 i i g god 3 : BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) -- Two of the gunmen were y a dog 20 minutes later, after The men are John Paul, 23, and Toronto Harry Ross, 32. BOWMANVILLE (Staff) -- Nearly 2000 striking rubber- workers went back to work this morning at Goodyear Tire and Rubber plants in New Toronto and Bowmanville. Bowmanville Local 189 mem- bers ratified an agreement last night in the town High School. About 60 per cent of the attend- ing °400 union men voted in favor of the new contract. The Bowmanville local has about 474 members; New To- ronto Local 232 around 1,600. New Toronto rubberworkers ratified the contract at 10 a.m. this morning and were reported going back to work at 4 p.m. The new contract, set out on a two year basis, calls for an across-the-board four cent an hour increase for the first year. Goodyear Plants : Return To Work During the second year, piece-|were not in serious condition. workers will get a five and half|One was wounded in a leg and cent an hour increase and day-|the other in an arm. workers six cents an hour hike. The contract, includes employment weeks. benefits The retroactive pay section|staked out since noon Wednes- shows a four cents an hour in-|day after Metro police were crease dating back to Feb. 24. Under health and welfare,|would be made. there will be a weekly indemn- ity increase to $50. Better benefits under the pen- sion plan setup were also includ- ed in the new contract. The Bowmanville workers walked off their jobs April 22, two days before a strike deadline set by their dating from|night in township cells in Cooks- Feb, 19, 1963 to Feb. 19, 1965, | Ville. supplementary _ UD: /POLICE ARE TIPPED or Rubber- No policemen were injured but Det. Sgt. Victor Hill of the Toronto Township Force had a lucky escape when a gunman shoved a pistol into his stom- ach. He pulled the trigger but the. weapon misfired. The wounded were in hospital in this town 10 miles northwest of Metropolitan Toronto but The other two were held over- Fifteen township and Metro- politan Toronto police had been 4 Men Arrested == After Gun Fight 22", ets mistakenly believed there was a safe containing a large amount of money in the home of Frank Ball and his son Gordon who operate a sawmill] adjacent A spokesman said the intrud- to the house on Highway 10 two miles south of this Toronto-area town. Metro officers had kept a group of men under surveillance for some time. Six township men were staked out in the house and nine Metro policemen were scattered around the pro- perty. They kept in touch by walkie-talkie. Shortly before 10 p.m. a car pulled up outside the house and four men got out. They smashed a porch window and then the glass on the kitchen door, per- mitting one of the intruders to reach through and unlock the door. As they entered they were ap- proached by Sgt. Hill whose life a moment later was saved by the misfire. Then the gun miis- but were caught in a witherirg crossfire by officers stationed around the house. DIVE THROUGH GLASS After several seconds the in- vaders fled through the house and dived through a giass storm door at the front. Three of them, including one of the wounded were arrested at their car, Police searched briefly in the dark for the fourth man but 'had no success until a neighbor, tipped that a robbery attempt Frederick Jackson, offered the use of his Weimaraner. 3 Oshawa Men | Face Trial On Bookmaking Three Oshawa men were come mitted to trial this morning, charged with conspiring to place bets and make book. peared before Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs in the Oshawa court for a preliminary hearing. They ap- They are James McElroy, 72, of 13% King street west, John Raymond Keyes, Hotel, and Edward Henry Will- iams, 64, of 77 Gibbons St. All three elected trial by judge and fired other gunmen opened up|jury. 48, Queens Magistrate Ebbs found the evidence sufficient to commit them to trial on the charge that they 'did conspire and together, each with the othe: with diverse other persons un known, to record or register bets and to engage in bookmak- ing." rand A charge of keeping a common betting house against the trio, and a charge of bookm: against Keyes alone, will be -- with after the trial next june. Before the trial was sched-|settlers had piled wood for ship-/ A gpecial assizes has been him that morning. uled to resume at 1:30 p.m.,|ment to a strikebound mill. {called for Oct. 1 at Cochrane| however, defence counsel] Three strikers were killed inito hear the murder charges. to meet with the log-ja blaze of gunfire and nine oth-| The third day of the Kapus- gers in the theatre being used|ers wounded. kasing hearing brought testi- as a courtroom to discuss the| Meanwhile, there were devel-imony that several of the log- proceedings with the men andjopments Thursday in Toronto|gerg joined the raid on Reesor 2 decide whether the loggersjon charges of non-capital mur-/Siding because they feared that I F t u arter Of 1963 themselves should testify. der against 20 setilers as @ Tre-|financial help from their union, n Irs Defense counsel John Brooke|Sult of the shootings. the Lamber agd Sawmill Work-| 4 local union officers, New Toronto workers left their $69,500,000 Trade Surplus <i 0 sn nis Co, set the new contract pack- age at 16 and a half cents an hour increase. President of the Bowmanville Local, Don Kemp, said this morning that "I'm happy it is of Toronto moved Thursday 'to dismiss the charges of unlawful assembly against 65 of the bush- workers for lack of evidence, and Magistrate Gardner upheld the motion. But he stilled the murmur of approval from the audience when he said they still faced CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Ontario Supreme Court upheld) the committal for triai of Paul Coulombe, 34-year-old manager of the settlers' co-operative, on the murder charges. But he or- dered the 10 other settlers to be returned before a magistrate for further evidence on the prelim- inary hearing of similar charges against them. Defence counsel Joseph Haf- fey had argued there was no evidence at the preliminary hearing linking the other 19 to POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 |the shooting. Crown spokesman isaid it had been understood that ie the purposes of the prelim- inary bearing, it would be ad-| mitted thet Coulemba and thal Chief Justice J. C. McRuer of |ers Union (CLL), would be cut off. OTTAWA (CP) -- Continued strong increases in exports gave Although Mr, Brooke objected|Canada a trade surplus of $69,- to the admission of statements|500,000 in the first three months to police by the striking log-|of 1963, the bureau of statistics gers, Magistrate Gardner said! reported today. he was wrote down '"'what they con- Satisfied the officers; Preliminary figures showed that in the first quarter exports sidered the important part Of|totaied $1,487,300,000, a 6.6 per the conversations" and there- cent increase over the $1,395,- fore ruled the statements ad-| 499.000 figure of the January- missible. One typical comment. was that of Anatole Carriere, who was quoted as telling police: "I had to attend the meetings in March period in 1962. Meanwhile, imports dropped 3.5 per cent to $1,417,700,000 from $1,469,900,000 in the same order to get financial aid for|Period last year my kids. It was either going In the first three months of The bureau of statistics said the improvement in the trade balance was influenced by last year's devaluation of the Cana- dian dollar to 92.5 cents in terms of the U.S. dollar and surcharges levied on imports.| The emergency surcharges, im. posed last' June, were 'swept away April 1. The trade figures for March showed a surplus of $23,200,000, the 10th consecutive monthly export surplus since June, 1962. Exports totalled $502,800,000, a 6.8 per cent rise over the $470,- 800,000 recorded the previous March. Imports declined 9.5 per cent to $479,600,000 from $530,- with the rest or my family iroze| 1962 Canada had a trade deficit ot £74 BOD DOs ta death ex atarved."* 100 000 over with. We have been neg- otiating since last November." Asked to comment on the two- year contract, Mr. Kemp stated: "Our people are not too happy with the two year contract. We wanted a one-year deal. Two years is too long to be tied up with a contract." He. said he liked the other pro- visions in the contract. Mr. Kemp said he was sure that the Goodyear plant in Bow- manville would be calling all workers back to their jobs. The last strike by the rubbr- workers at the Goodyear plants wae in 1046. THESE ARE FOUR detec- tives involved in a gun battle during an attempted robbery at a sawmill near Brampton, 'Ont.. last night. The detec- tives, (left to right) Fraser Rock, Victor Hill, George Wil- son and William Snarr, hid in the sawmill owner's home after getting aj\tinoff on the robbery attempt. Two gunmen were wounded and two others arrested after the battle. . « --(CP Wirfnhato¥