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'THOUGHT FOR TopAT Driving from Halifax to Van- couver is still a feat -- if you don't have a credit card. "Sunny with a few cloudy periods © on Friday. Winds S.W. at 10 VOL. 92--238 i Slide Triggers Flood Tragedy BELLUNO, Italy -- A moun- tainous landslide plunged into the Vaiont Dam reservoir Wed- jnesday night, causing a gigan- 4\tic flood that wiped out whole villages and left an estimated 7|3,000 dead. +| U.S. Army authorities--sum- j|/moned to help in the catastro- i|phe--said this estimate of the 4 | toll was given to them by Italian sources. The cascade of water and mud that overflowed the 873-foot con- crete dam--third highest in the world--all but wiped out several villages with a total population of about 5,000. Americans Irked By Canada Wheat Policy secret Canadian negotiations for a Japanese wheat contract, but that generally Canada does not agree with the American sys- tem of day-to-day price fluctua- tions, CHARGE DEALS MADE The U.S. has accused Canada of attempting to capture a large portion of the commercial world wheat market through long- range fixed-price deals; of ne-| gotiating secretly in commercial markets where the U.S. also has an interest in selling wheat, and said, "From the air the dam itself appeared in one piece." The dam held back waters of the Vaiont River, a tributary of the Piave. The Piave 'flows to the Adriatic Sea northeast of Venice. Police said the flood had swept away a building ma- terials factory with large stores of potassium cyanide, turning the Piave into a stream of poi- son, ' Police warned residents along the river not to drink its wa- ters and not to open any barrels ~~, found afloat or along its banks, : cial deals tying big wheat sales to the sale of other U.S. com- modities at low prices. Angry at Canada for appar- ently refusing to co-operate in a policy of gradually boosting woria wheat prices during the present Communist wheat crisis, the spokesman said the U.S. has officially protested Canada's pricing policies, Canadian officials here said they believe there is some merit in the U.S. complaints, particu- lerly that portion touching on WASHINGTON (CP) -- The United States has threatened re- taliation over Canadian wheat- pricing policies that could hurt the Canadian wheat boom. The retaliatory U.S. tactics would be aimed at reducing the world market attraction of Can- ada's long-range fixed - price wheat deals such as those ne- gotiated with Communist and other countries. A USS. agriculture department spokesman said various mea- sures under consideration might gee . : DAZED SURVIVORS LEAVE WRECKED HOME AFTER FLOOD Mac Unable To Fight Coming UK. Election BLACKPOOL, England (Reuters)--Prime Minister Macmillan told the annual Conservative conference here in a message today that it would not be possible for him to lead the party at the next general election. BLACKPOOL, England (CP) Britain's Conservatives were ex~ horted in a blood-and-thunder speech by their party chairman today to start now and take the campaign for the next election to the "constituencies, the wards, the doorsteps." Iain Macleod, co - chairman and leader of the House of Com- mons, received a wildly enthus- iastic ovation after telling some 4,000 delegates at the party con- ference here that any faint- hearted 'Tory warriors should itlee "Will we win? Of course wel Only one delegate--John Loch- shall," 'said 'the war hero and|Tane of West Derbyshire--raised confidant of Prime Minister|the leadership issue in a some- Macmillan, who underwent a/what critical way. successful prostate operation in} "We cannot have our leader London today. : out of action in the next vital Macleod said the conference's/eight months," he said. 'This dominant theme is pride in|conference should have a say in country and "'contempt for those/the leadership of the party." who run it down." MAUDLING PRAISED "Lift up your hearts, it will 4 ' ery +a i .| Butler and Viscount Hailsham gm il cle and other possible leadershi icting hi rty's fourth elec- eee Ba party's contenders sat side by side on tion victory. | é , jthe platform along with Regi- Pi A-ha priced Witoe nald Maudling, chancellor of the manoeuvring among possible og bs "ey received 7 praise from Macleod. successors to Macmillan should Macleod gave no hint of when resign. Macleod both opened leadership. Deputy Prime Minister R. A to close today's. debate, has in- |dinarily would have been deliv- jered by Macmillan. This was re- garded as a boost for Butler's succession chances and Macleod paid the 61-year-old veteran a handsome tribute, saying he had "taken his first faltering steps" in. policy-making under the gui- Butler. ; the election will be held but he jdeclared to applause: "The Con- servative party is like dry tin-| French Planes Armed With Atomic Bombs | Mac's Operation PARIS (AP)--France's con- Termed Success troversial nuclear strike force has come into being and super-| OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Pearson said today the gov- sonic French planes are being toned .. au! ernment still hopes for a settle- The informants said a con-\™e"t of the longshoremen's Grete beginning has been made|SiX¢, but is prepared to. take with Mirage-IV planes rolling of| -- that are required. assembly lines and receiving|,,4° (4 Teporters after a cab- stamlc' boat Slinet. meeting that personal me- This oo ce levoheie diation by Labor Minister Mac- I 'of France's nuclear program,|pacnen would be-one of the ad- |ditional steps if current media- tion talks fail. jder, and lablaze, Le this conference, as we did at a spark will Later France is aiming to de- velop hydrogen bombs and mis-'_ 'Butler, who had been scheduled) P| the 69-year-old leader decide to|Blackpool in 1954, and again in |1958. Let the faint hearts |there is no room for them in lthe party." A'ter .scoffing at Harold Wil- [Britain, Macleod castigated the |Labor party leader's record and |declared, '"'this is not Daniel but Ethelred the Unready." Macleod added that, the social- stead been shifted to Saturday)ists were guilty of the "funda- when he will deliver the confer-|mental political heresy. ence's major speech which or- "The socialists believe that the purpose of power is to gov- ern and to direct. Freedom would not be an immediate casualty under the socialists, but her death by a_ thousand cuts would, in the end, be cer- tain, You cannot by legislation make men behave better to each had sie The Conservative philosophy was that the purpose of power| is to serve, 80) and|their way. Whoever they be, closed debate on a rah rah elec- tion resolution designed to raise spirits at the conference, de-| spondent after many months of|son's program for a planned conjecture regarding) the future include increased use of Ameri- can wheat giveaway programs, special refunds to customers buying massive amounts of | American wheat and other spe- US. To Sell YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Cite Judgment Error in Child's Death ... Page 11 |Lieut.-Goy. Rowe Addresses Scottish Rite Club .. Page ll Official Vote Figures Released ......... Page ll Chest Public Speaking Finalists Decided .. Page 11 Oshawa Symphony Orches- tra Plans Concert .. Page 11 Ken Hooper to Head Rubberworkers 'Skunks Invade" Bow- manville ee Page 4 Page 4 nyt ove 4 Surplus Wheat To Red Bloc WASHINGTON (CP) -- Pres- ident Kennedy has agreed to al- low the private sale of more |thaz 150,000 bushels of surplus |American wheat to Russia and \Eastern Europe with the stipu- lation that none of the exports will go to Cuba or Communist China. His decision, which in so many words was just good bus- iness for the United States, drew both bitter criticism and praise, The reaction ranged from Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond's denunciation that. it) 'amounted to" "arming "our 'en- emy," to Vermont Republican Alter Sales Tax Auto Firms Ask OTTAWA (CP)--The Cana- jdian Automobile Chamber of ;Commerce, an associate of Can- jada's major car makers, said jtoday the present federal sales |tax, now applied at the manu- facturers' level, should be re- placed by a "national commod- ity tax." This would, in effect, be a re- set ititail tax, applying to the end t us start now from tani consumer of any product. Such a move, said the cham- ber in a brief to the royal jcommission on taxation, would leliminate many of the present jadministrative problems, allow jthe federal and provincial gov- lernments to establish one col- \lection system for various re- jtail taxes, and also lower prices jand the existing tax rate. | Because the tax is applied to jthe manufacturers' price level --substantially lower than retail }prices--the existing 11-per-cent |tax could possibly be replaced |with one at seven per cent, said jthe brief. |. Some goods should be exempt from the proposed tax--such as food, fuel, water and perhaps communications--and basic pri- mary or secondary industries should be allowed to buy con- ditionally exempt goods. If these industries resold the goods, they would be taxed. Only goods used directly in the process of production would be exempt for these industries. Such things as automobiles and office. equipment would be taxed. Under the present system, |said the brief, the tax results jin pyramiding of prices because jit is included in percentage markups as the goods are passed down to the cus- tomer. This affects the com- petitive position of Canadian ex- port goods as well as domestic consumption. Service industries, now ex- empt from federal sales tax, would be treated as any ot..er commodty - producer. Besides being responsible for collecting taxes on sales to customers, they would also pay taxes on the goods they consume. George Aiken's view that "the deal should prove ben- eficial to both the United States and the people of the pirchasing nations." Pro-Red Labor Bloc Defeated In Singapore KUALA LUMPUR, Malaya (AP)--The powerful pro-Com- munist labor bloc in Singapore, the infant Malaysia's chief trade centre, called off its widespread but rapidly-tottering strike in de- feat Wednesday night. The central Malaysian gov- ernment, busy with security is- sues raised by Indonesia's hos- tile posture, appeared to have won a major victory on the home front. The strike was cancelled by the Singapore Association of Trade Unions, the Communist- lining labor bloc, after hundreds of workers affiliated with mem- ber unions broke orders and re- turned to their jobs. | The association launched the strike Tuesday after the Singa- pore state government threat- ened to outlaw seven of its big- gest affiliate unions on charges that they conspired in Commu- 'nist united front activities, siles to carry them. _An obscure line in a commu- nique issued following a cabinet ILA PRESIDENT ATTENDS PARLEY theeting Wednesday indicated for the first time officially that France had made its historic shift in armament. The-communique spoke of the withdrawat of French military Men from the naval air base at Bizerte, Tunisia, and said this) MONTREAL (CP) -- Dogged Was now possible because ofand patient, mediator Judge Sthe creation of new means/Rene Lippe tries again today Which the armed forces are be-/to settle the St, Lawrence River ginning to have at their dispo-|longshoremen's strike. --..; Judge Lippe, after seeing the International Longshore- men's Association (CLC) turn down his 6wn plan for a new contract, called in the ILA for = Because of this development, French defences in the Mediter- ranean area will not be com- romised by withd - Sentionsl , sie fork an afternoon session of more Fv] base, the communique|(alks with the Shipping Federa- nt on. 7 es For, the first time since the PP og Aca tel: sag ap Ot strike broke out last Friday, the po em i a r a Hy 4nesiITA's international president, fave. "Th Nene prinnge i Teddy Gleason of New York, is § are belleved'ty sit in with the mediator and to be somewhat more powerful the shippers Se ee i by bs Consequences of the strike, on Japan in thelwhich some authorities say is Second World War, which é costing Montreal $2,000,000 a -- isl Of 20,000! day were being felt Wednesday in various parts of Canada and as even as far away as France. CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Western Canada would be particularly affected if as some |fear, the strike causes Canada to POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL. 723-2211 jlose some of the wheat sales she has made to Russia. Some 60,000,000. bushels of Canadian wheat were scheduled jto move to Russia through 'Montreal, Quebec, Trois - Ri- |vieres and Sorel which have all been closed by the strike of /3,800 ILA members, | The 3t. Lawrence strikers ap- |pealed Wednesday to Mr. Glea- json for a request by interna- jtional headquarters to ILA lo-| jcals in Saint John, N.B., and Halifax for an immediate sym- p thy strike. Locals there said they had mot received any re- quest, but members would vote on any such request when it is received. The Canada - bound Cunard| liner Carinthia, avoiding Quebec City where her sister ship the Carmania ran into dockside vio- lence while departing last Fri- jday, was diverted to Halifax where she docked without inci- dent. Her passengers are to go on. to Montreal by train. But the 27,300-ton Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Can- ada and the Greek Line's 26,000- ton Arkadia were stid lying at anchor off the Island of Orleans below Quebec City. The Em- press, at anchor since Tuesday jnight, has 409 passengers jaboard while the Arkadia, = arrived Wednesday, has 313. Dockers Resume Talks There were unconfirmed re- ports, however, that the Em- press would sail downstream to- day, heading either to a Mari- times port or back to the United Kingdom from where its pas- sengers would be flown to Can- ada. In Saskatoon, the Saskatche- wan Farmers' Union urged the federal government to take ac- tion to end the strike, saying it is no longer a matter of local concern only. In Montreal Wednesday, Mayor Jean Drapeau twice ap- pealed to the longshoremen for help in getting some of the ex- hibits of a French trade fair here off the docks. The exhibits are mostly unloaded and are in storage sheds but the ILA pick- ets have refused to allow trucks on the waterfront and won't load the exhibits themselves. Mayor Drapeau attended the longshoremen's mass meeting early Wednesday when they re- jected Judge Lippe's formula, and received a longshoremen's| delegation at city hall in the afternoon. The French extefliti In opens Friday' and so far re has vw |been no hint as to whether the exhibits will make it. The strikers complained to Mayor Drapeau about police since the strike began mention- ing what they called "some un- fair arrests." Mr. Drapeau pro- mised them all possible co-op- eration, generally operating in such a way that American freedom to change its own prices has been der the present seller's market, accentuated by the huge demand tain, Canada-U.S. wheat prices might have been increased gra- dually by as much as 15 cents a bushel, giving Canadian farm- ers a possible additional. $45,- 000,000 and U.S. farmers an ad- ditional $60,000,000 in wheat rev- entire assembly line since Wed- nesday morning. cal 707 of the United Auto Work- ers (CLC), door arena Dp day. The stopped with the close of the night shift, failed to start again struction and hospital si VIL Military Hospital about one hour, formed by Dr. W. W. Badenoch, a Harley Street surgeon who specializes der diseases. agi said Macmillan had is There were no complications. tal Tuesday night after he ex- perienced severe pain during an afternoon cabinet meeting, cheerfully for' the operation, spending much of his day in hos- pital Wednesday conducting state and political business with callers. his There were no complications and his condition throughout and at the end of the operation was excellent. A further bulletin will be issued early this evening." reduced drastically. The spokesman said that un- for wheat behind the Iron Cur- WINS PEACE PRIZE Prof, Linus Carl Pauling, a nuclear scientist of Pasadena, Calif., today was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1962 by the Norwegian Nobel Commit- enue for the current crop year. tee. --AP Wirephoto 4700 Idle At Oakville OAKVILLE (CP) -- Some |whien Pp ! massive Ford of Canada plant! Company and union officials 4,700 production workers at the here continued today a wildcat strike which has paralyzed the The strikers, members of Lo- planned a mass tally this afternoon at an in- in Hamilton, 15 miles southwest of here, Near-peak production on 1964 ears and trucks 'at the Oakville lant was halted early Wednes- production line, Pearson Still Hopes For Dock Peace LONDON (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Macmillan today underwent an operation for a bladder ob- sources aid it was successful. The operation at King Edward lasted It was per- in kidney and blad- An official statement after the prostate gland removed. Macmillan, 69, entered hospi- The prime minister prepared A brief medical bulletin said: 'The prime minister has had prostate gland removed. Police and longshoremen had a rus-in Wednesday after rov- ing groups of ILA members Struck at various points across a seven-mile stretch of harbor, casting off the morring lines of ships that have docked since the Strike started. At their morning meeting, the longshoremen turned down Judge Lippe's proposal for a three-year contract with wage increases of 10 cents an hour in each year. Union sources indicate the men are not guarreling with the 10-cent increase but fringe ben- efits and working conditions are still a bone of contention. The sources say the men want time-and-a-half for Satur- day work paid as of this year and not in the third year of a three-year contract, |Chiang Kai-shek said today Na- ticnalist China's counter - offen- sive action against the Commu- nist mainland 'may now come at any minute." statement in a message mark- ing the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the Nationalist Chi- mese republic. mainland provides a scene for our attacks by sea assaults, by air and popular uprisings in the enemy's rear," Nationalist shall liberate every single com- patriot on the mainiand." Free China Plans Counter-Offensive TAIPEI, Formosa (Reuters) President Chiang made _ his "Every bit of territory on the the 75-year-old leader said. "We |representative in Canada, ap- |pealed to the men to return to Plant -shift pickets blocked lant entkances. had hoped production would re- start with' Wednesday night's shift. Instead, the workers went en masse to a union rally at a nightclub' hired earlier by the day shift. The union had attempted without success to arrange sep- arate meetings, to keep the night-shift at work. Picket lines encircled the plant during the night but did not interfere with management and maintenance staff. MEETING ORDERLY The 14-hour meeting was or- derly and businesslike. Edward G. Bruce, president of the union's Ford local, and Jack Taylor, UAW international work and pursue their differ- ences through normal channels. The men have demanded im- proved working conditions be- fore they retum to the assembly line. Company officials said ear- lier in the day they had re- The U.S. Army's Southern Eu- ropean Task Force (Setaf), with headquarters at Verona, south of the disaster area in the Ita- lian Alps, sent helicopters to the area. A Setaf information office re- port said word reaching. the U.S. command "indicated the toll may run into the thousands. . . . Italians reported to Maj. Harvey Mayse (commanding the U.S. helicopter unit) an es- timated 3,000 dead." P BODIES RECOVERED Italian authorities said 300 bodies had been recovered by dawn, with thousands missing, One of the hardest hit towns was Longarone, a community of 4,600 about 2% miles down- stream from the dam on the Vaiont River, a tributary of the Piave River. Longarone is at' the junction of the Vaiont with the Piave. . "The, town. of Longarone prac. tleally no longer exists," said Mario Laveder, town secretary, who was one of the few survi- vors. 'In its place," he said, "there temains only an enor: mous mass of mud." Laveder said disaster struck the town at 11:15 p.m. when the sleeping populace was awakened in terror by the roar of snrash- ing water. P) Residents in night clothes fled into the streets and ran in panic toward hills around che town. Few'reached that safety, Lave- der said. He said most of the inhabitants were drowned or buried in the ruin of wrecked buildings and mud. There were reports that the concrete dam had collapsed. But aj. Mayse of Wenatchee, Wash., who led a squadron of four U.S. helicopters over the area, said the dam 12 miles north of this Alpine city ap- peared intact. "The landslide that plunged into the reservoir apparently caused a huge overflow," Mayse 2 The volume of water released in the disaster was so great that in Belluno the level of the Piave suddenly rose 16 feet, flooding fields and roads. "We have no idea how many more are dead," Vice Prefect Carlo Prestamburgo said. He said Longarone, a town of 800, had been all but wiped out. Longarone is at the junc- tion of the Vaiont and. the Piave. ; wx The official said three other towns--Cadissago, Rivalta and Pirago, with a total population of 1,500--also were wiped out; Several other towns, including Castellazo with 1,000 inhabi- tants, also were flooded. Their fate was not known, There hes been no word from another village on the mountain the reservoir. Au-" thorities feared it pond swept away by the s Téiiag> army, rescue or oe Toss . planes and helicopters were bilized inte a massive relief army. Autumn rains had loosened a vast earth mass about 650 feet above the reservoir. About 10 days ago the mass started mov- ing down the mountain at a rate of about 16 inches a day. Hurricane Flora Kills 48 Cubans HAVANA (AP)--Deaths of 48 Cubans from hurricane Flora were announced Wednesday night as the government waited for flood waters to recede to learn the fate of thousands of others isolated in the country: side by flood waters, First reports indicated the death toll would increase and painted a grim picture of de- struction in the eastern provi struction in the eastern prov- inces of Oriente and Camaguey, ceived no official explanation for the strike. Union directors and their plant committee called a hasty meeting and termed the strike illegal. They went among work- ers asking them to return to work, "They weren't angry, but they told us to, go back to our of- fices and mind our own busi- ness," Mr. Bruce said. He said the main causes of dissatisfaction are a speedup on production lines and employ- ment of experts imported from the United States. One picket contended that workers who are unable to keep up with the increased work pace or who complain about it are dismissed. The spontaneous stoppage fol- lowed the suspension of a worker after a scuffle with a foreman. Car Kills Boy Driver Dies From Shock HAMILTON (CP)--Frank Su- milas felt so badly after his car killed a.boy that he died from shock, his daughter said Wed- nesday night. An inquest into the traffic death of Michael Ludford, 4, of nearby Winona had been sched- uled for Wednesday. It was can- celled because of Mr. Sumilas' death Sunday. Mrs. Ted Koprowski of Ham- ilton said her 73-year-old father, a. Winona farmer, suffered a stroke Oct. 4, two days after his car hit the Ludford boy. She said her father was upset by the accident and had told her the day before he collapsed: "'I have taken a life but I haven't George MacArthur, presi- dent of the Manitoba Winter Fair, shirtless, but formal to the extent of keeping his neck- tie in place, prepares to sign his name on a Winter Fair given one." cheque -- made for $50,000 on _ $50,000 SHIRT CHEQUE the back of his shirt, Direc. tors of the fair in Brandon volunteered the money Tuese. day in an attempt to start ac- tion towards the building of a new arena in the city. --CP. Wirephoto j a