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THOUGHT FOR TODAY ~ ie The TV payehintrists are" 06 busy that their couches are just beds of neuroses. a ag -- arrRmens WY 053 2 ALL EE Set atatatatad goruni Clear, cooler tonight. Saturday sunny with light wirids. * VOL. 92--239 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1963 TWENTY PAGES: 10,000 Dig or Bodies In Italy BELLUNO, Italy--More than 10,000 men worked feverishly to collect bodies of the dead in the Vaiont dam disaster and then bury them in a gigantic mass grave to prevent out- breaks of disease. Up to 3,000 persons were be- lieved killed when a mountain landslide crashed into the dam's reservoir Wednesday night, sneding a vast flood roaring over the dam and down the Piave River valley. But most of the bodies are missing under the miles of mud and stone that turned the lovely alpine valley 60 miles north of Venice into a wasteland. Government officials said be- tween 1,885 and 2,000 persons are known to have been killed, but a local news agnecy said the death toll will reach at least 3,000. Officials at the Belluno pre- fecture estimated that 900 bodies have been recovered. Most of the victims were still buried under the tons of mud and rock that turned the lovely Alpine valley 60 miles north of Venice into a wasteland. Many of the bodies may never be re- covered. Deputy Mayor Terenzio Ar- duin of Longerone, whose town of 4,600 was wiped out, said at least 1,500 of the town's resi- dents were under the debris. About 100 electric company employees, their families and several hundred residents of other villages also are missing. Premier Giovanni Leone came from Rome to the stricken area as police moved out more than tino Sullo said the disaster was "truly biblical." The landslide, crashing into the reservoir, sent millions of tons of water plunging nearly 700 feet up the surrounding mountain sides. Then the rag- ing water boiled over the 873- foot - high reinforced concrete dam, the world's third highest, and roared down the valley, wiping out whole villages. No Canadians were known to > gg been caught in the disas- er. In Washington, President Ken- medy ordered the defence de- partment to provide "any assis- tance required and desired" by the Italian government. Th Italian magistracy in Rome and the government of Premier Giovanni Leone opened separate investigations to deter- mine if any negligence had been involved. | WOMAN URGED TO LEAVE FLOOD SITE OTTAWA (CP) Canada has made a cut-rate $1,300,000 sale of butter to Britain, first large export order. since 1959. But the transaction is de- scribed as a one-shot deal with little bearing on the big butter surplus of some. 225,000,000 pounds which Agriculture Min- ister Hays has said must be sold, probably at a loss. informants said Thursday 200 persons whose villages were endangered by the threat of new landslides. FEARS EPIDEMIC Interior Undersecretary Gio- vanni Giraudo said rapid re- covery of the bodies was the most urgent problem. He warned that if they were not the area would face a major epidemic hazard. Ktalian troops, police, Red Cross teams and U.S. military ea worked side by side. worked through the night under portable searchlights. Supplies and heavy earthmov- ing equipment moved into the stricken zone from all sections of Italy. night that Canada got half 5,000-ton tender called by Brit- ain for delivery by Nov. 15 to tide it over a current shortage until supplies are available from its conventional Australian and New Zealand suppliers. The United States is under- stood to have got the other half 'of the order--or about 5,500, pounds--in extreniély competi- order is for butter aged one or two years and therefore lower price, The loss to the federal treas- ury on the sale Jey will be more than $2,000,000. The dairy farmer under fed- eral support - price assistance Public Works Minister Fioren- gets a return of 64 cents a Butter Sale Costs Federal Treasury sis Montreal and Toronto. ered to Montreal dockside. be about 25 cents. ing need, may result delay b of the | pound for top butter grades, ba- * There is a federal subsidy-- amounting to 12 cents: a pound or about $40,000,000 annually-- which reduces the retail price so that butter remains more competitive domestically with bbitutes such as margarine.|canada broke up shortly after Contrasted with the federal) support price level of 64 cents, the going international price is|ately called a mass meeting of about 32 cents a pound deliv-/members for 8 a.m: Saturday The British desdline of Nov. 15, imposed because of press- in some men's strike on St. Lawrence . But some shipments are lieved" originating from Tor- ef onto missing the strike. Woodworkers Reach Accord In Principle TORONTO (CP) A final Tax Group Wants Co-ops Pay Share OTTAWA. (CP)--The Equit- able Income Tax Foundation said today that in the entire field of Canadian taxation there is nothing to equal the discri- mination in favor of co-opera- tives, credit unions and caisses populaires. In a bulky brief to the royal commission on taxation, the non-profit foundation said there is no excuse for these types of organizations not contributing their: fair share to the cost of government, Many of the h's- toric reasons for granting them tax exemptions were no longer valid, The foundation, with head- quarters in Toronto, was formed in 1962 by corporations and 1n- dividuals to maintain a contin- uing 'study of the entire Cana- dian tax field. The brief said the present bur- den of corporation tax is oner- ous "'and it becomes doubly so where competitors classified as Co - operatives escape paying their equal share." . Under the Income Tax Act, co-operatives can deduct patron- age dividends from taxable in- come and can thus reduce tax- able income down to three per cent of employed capital. New co-ops are also given complete exemption 'or the first three years of operation. Credit unions are completely exempt from taxation. The original concept of a co- operative consisting of a.small group of persons with common interests banding together to poo! their resources no longer] exists, se'd the brief. "The modern co - operative tends increasingly to become a powerful organization, with large amounts of capital en- gaged in a multiplicity of acti- vities, many of which are far distant from the farm level." CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS jecting Western demnation of South Africa be- of a group of Negro nationalists through the assembly's special political The brief said many .0-ops are carrying on their operations in a manner indistinguishable from their fully-taxed competi- tors. So far as credit unions and caisses populaires are con- cerned, said the brief, there is no longer any reason for srant- ing them total tax exemption. They also had grown out of their original concept of a small group of persons banding w.- gether to save mutually and en- courage thrift. bid . Oredit unions of this| modern day have become a Closely integrated and highly ar- ganized network of competitive financial institutions which span the nation from Newfoundland to British Columbia." They were Operating in direct competition to investor-owned banking and round of conciliatory talks to- day could set the stage for send-| ing 65 striking employees of Hanover Kitchens (Canada) Limited back to their wood- working benches. Late Thursday, David Lewis,! counsel for Woodworkers of America (CLC) announced that agreement union-management talks 4% months old. rectors. Eastern Canada director of the be no return to work until a full ified. The strike, which started May two weeks ago when union and other financial institutions. lently in the streets. toward ending the strike, now Meanwhile, H. Landon Ladd, agreement is negotiated and rat-| non-union members clashed vio- 'Dockers May Settle Feud On Weekend MONTREAL (CP) -- Negoti- ators for 3,800 striking long- shoremen spoke confidently of a settlement of their week-long walkout early today when a jmarathon. mediation session |with the Shipping Federation oi 2 a.m. | The union executive immedi- |to consider "some small Canada's per-pound price in|/changes" in the settlement pro- the British sale is understood to|posals made by the federal |mediator, Judge Rene Lippe. "If the members accept them, that would end the strike," said Paul Asselin, president of the largess Montreal local of the International Longshore- men's Association. Negotiators' for the federation however, made no comment fol- lowing the session, which started. Thursday afternoon, Leo Taylor, president of Mont- real Local 1657 which represents checkers involved in the strike, called a meeting of his group By JOSEPH MacSWEEN BLACKPOOL, England (CP) A daring piece of political show- manship by Viscount Hailsham has thrown the Conservative conference, ordinarily a sedate affair, into a wide open strug- gle for power. So chaotic has the situation become that the Earl of Home, foreign secretary, opened a speech today by offering a prize to any newspaper man who could find any indication that he plans to bid for succession to Prime Minister Macmillan. Hailsham's self-made boom grew to a pitch approaching that of the hysteria at American political conventions and cer- tainly surpassed anything in Conservative party history. He had only to show his face before party representatives at the Blackpool Winter Gardens to send them into ecstatic ap- plause. But Butler, 60, still appeared the top contender for the leader- ship despite Hailsham's cam- paign. Hailsham took the conference into the palm of his hand at the opening Wednesday when, with the stage instincts of a Barrymore, he entered the hall. He waited until other ministers had been dutifully introduced to dutiful applause, then -- spec- tacles on tip of nose--he saunt- ered alone and unintroduced across the stage, his portly fig- ure the e of lovable Brit- ish respevtability. But his sense of histrionics may be less appreciated in top Tory circles. One report already; circulating here is that some leading Conservatives are ir- ritated at Hailsham's abrupt bid for power, for today. In London, The Evening Stand- A US. BERLIN (AP) the International|/spokesman announced today that the Russians had blocked } in|all traffic on the Berlin Auto- principle had been reached in|ban to West Germany but' min- here|utes -later corrected the state- ment and said 'some civilian |traffic is moving in both direc- However, he said no details|tions." of the settlement could be made public until the terms are pre- sented for ratification to union|sion heightened over the most} members at a meeting tonight|serious East-West incident in| in Hanover, Ont. Terms must/four years on the lifeline Auto-| also be ratified by company di-|bahn. The conflicting official Ameri- can statements came as confu- First, the spokesman said the "totally blocked all 11:45 | Russians Autobahn traffic as of union, emphasized there wouldja.m. (6:45 a.m. EDT) with ar- |mored personnel carrier." He announced the Soviets ad- |vised this would continue until jan East-West controversy over 21 when the employees walked|the handling of U.S. military out of the furniture - making|tra'fic on the Autobahn was re- plant, simmered moodily until) solved. | In a second statement, about 20 minutes later, the spokesman said that "contrary to previous NEGROES FACE ARMED REVOLT CHARGE South African Trial Alarms 55 Countries By CARMAN CUMMING UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- African and Asian countries, re- protests, pressed for a quick, mew con- fore the United Nations Ge Assembly today. A 55-country resolution urged South Africa to call off the trial neral) charged in Pretoria with plot- ting armed revolt, and to free the prisoners. The resolution was speeded committee Thursday only hours after it was circu- lated to delegat PULICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 tested that there had been no time to give the measure fair co) 'ation, A number of Western coun- tries, includ'ng Canada, pro- Afro-Asian members insisted that it was a matter of life and death that permitted no delay. They said those on trial were being persecuted for opposing the government's apartheid (race separation) policy. The committee finally ap- proved the measure by a count of 87 to 1 with nine abstentions and 14 countries absent. Both the committee and the full assembly have 111 mem- bers, so today's vote was ex- pected to follow the same lines. RAPS TACTICS Canada, along with most Western members, backed the spirit of the resolution but cri- ticized the tactics employed to pass it. There were reports the move had been timed to coin- cide with the policy speech in the assembly earlier from the committee {by Gerhard P, Jooste, South Af- rica's external Affairs minister jand delegation leader. South Africa stayed away meeting. Portugal cast the cnly negative vote. ras Canada's delegate on the com- mittee, Jean A. Chapdelaine, said Canada was not in the ha- bit of mincing words in con- demning South Africa's race pol- icies. He said Canada's objections had nothing to do with. the hu- manitarian aspects of the issue but were concerned only with the "dignity and decorum" of UN deliberations. He spoke of the "'precipitous- ness" of the action and said a} vote should have been taken only after time had_ been al-| lowed for mature consideration and consultation. US. Army Trucks 'Delayed By Reds information, Soviet persoanel carriers were not moved into the eastbound lane (of the Auto- bahn), They were placed into the eastbound lane. Some civil- ian' traffic is moving in both di- rections using the westbound lane." THEE DELAYED Since Thursday morning, the Russians have delayed three convoys, one of them twice, but cleared two other groups for the trip between West Berlin and West Germany without a holdup. An 18-vehicle American _con- voy with 61 men aboard, de- layed by the Russians for 16 hours Thursday as it tried to cross the East Germany border, was stopped again by the Rus- sians this morning as it tried to enter West Berlin at the Babelsberg checkpoint. The Russians made the same demand they had made at the East German border Thursday --that the 61 soldiers dismount to be vounted. The convoy com- mander refused, upholding the U.S. contention that military convoys are not subject 'to in- terference if their papers are in order, Reliable informants sa d about 100 Soviet troops were de- ployed around the checkpoint as high-ranking Russian offi- cers stopped the convoy. The Russians were reported armed with sub-machine guns and war ammunition pouches and some wore steel helmets. YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Chest Speaking Contest Winners Declared ... Page 9 Mental Health Clinic | Presents Report ...... Page 9 Dry Forces Plan Plebiscite Campaign Page 9 Girl Bruises in New- castle Auto Plunge ... Page 9 Thieves Steal Whitby Area Cash Register .. Page 9 $105 in Grants Lost | Through Boycott ..... Page 9 Hailsham Antics Irk Leading Tory Group ard says the possibility exists that Hailsham may have to re- sign from the cabinet because of hostility toward him in cabi- net circles. Hailsham's biggest perform- ance came Thursday night when --after Macmillan announced he would resign because of illness --he announced he would dis- claim his peerage. He had delivered an unchar- acteristically turgid speech be- fore 2,500 -- another 1,000 failed to get into the hall -- and had humbly accepted a vote of thanks. TEARS IN HIS EYES Then he rose again and; eyes glinting with tears, begged leave to "tell in my own words," of his desire to renounce his title and revert to plain Quintin Hogg. By this time the yells "we want Hailsham, we want Quintin" were loudly mingled with For He's a Jolly Good Fel- low. Throughout his earlier speech dowagers and teen - agers alike nodded happily and murmured "hear, hear" as Hailsham re- called Britain's imperialist past and foretold a glorious future. An American observer received furious glances when he mut- tered "garbage" after Hailsham said Britons should not be ashamed of any of their past wars. Butler, meanwhile, was enjoy- ing a more modest if more glamorous acclaim at a Tory dance adorned by some of Brit- ain's most striking beauties and most blue-blooded aristocrats. A spotlight followed Butler and his wife on the dance floor and he was cheered out of the hall in the manner of a cricket! star. In the hard light of morning, the over-all picture remained) unchanged -- Butler in the lead but delegates thoroughly con- fused and ready to expect any- thing. OAKVILLE (CP) -- The huge Ford of Canada plant here swung into operation Thursday after 36-hours silence as wild- cat strikers returned to the as- sembly Iie after" winning a first-round battle with manage- ment. But the 4,700 members of Lo- cal 707, United Auto Workers (CLC), promised at a mass afternoon rally in Hamilton their return is temporary. Ford has 10 days, they stip- ulated, to settle assembly-line grievances or workers will strike again--once more paral- yzing the plant's entire produc- tion of 1964 models. Ford Strikers Net First Round Win hours to persuade the angry strikers to return to the factory and leave the matter) in yng boyd of the bargaining com- m le get some satisfaction and find that the company is bargaining in good faith, the members said they would take the same ac- tion in 10 days." centrate on smoothing out work- ers' complaints about plant dis- cipline, 1 ti on the assembly line and im- porting of supervisors and sup- erintendents from the United) States, It took union leaders three Mr. Bruce said: "Unies: we He said negotiations will con- A. ated pr OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Min- ister Pearson said today he won't hesitate to tell President Kennedy how the Canadian gov- ernment and Parliament feel about the comments by U.S. La- bor Secretary Wirtz and AFL- CIO. President George Meany on the proposed Canadian trus- teeship over five marine unions. ~He said the Canadian people will not be intimidated by such statements, He added that he hoped the statement Thursday by Mr. Meany would not be interpreted as an "invitation to violence." Mr. Meany said in Washing- ton the Seafarers' International WASHINGTON (CP) -- The threat of a shipping. crisis loomed over the Great Lakes to- day as George Meany called on organized labor to rally to the support of the Seafarers' Inter- control, a f ",,500,000-me cam Federation «. try." SIU as a free trade union. The Norris royal commission had condemned Banks's . leadership and firmly in. reply. tion Leader Diefenbaker, said the Great Lakes labor troubles centre on the progfessive de- struction of free trade unionism and the failure of Hal C. Banks of- the SIU to arrest this dé struction. ; and American labor leaders in Washington failed to understand these facts. Takeover Plan Annoys Meany | as dictatorial and corrupt, but Meany charged that the Norris report was intended as "a vitrio- lic and vengeful" attack against Bai national Union whose Canadian affiliate may soon be brought under Canadian government PEARSON TELLS U. MIND ITS BUSINE U.S. Labor Leaders Union of Canada--the prime tat= get of the trusteeship -- des serves the support of all A' CIO affiliates in its fight a; the destruction of free trade un- ionism in the Canadian marie time industry. Mr. Pearson, 5 slowly Opposi- U.S. Labor Secretary Wirts 7 inks. ; "The AFL-CIO refuses to be a party to any gross injustice to any individual no matter how unpopular the man may be nor how loud the outery against him," Meany said im a state- Warning that he won't be a party to elimination of Harold C. Banks from the Canadian SIU leadership under present the president of Ameri. Labor-Con- gress, of Industrial. Organiza- tions said the SIU "deserves the support of all AFL-CIO affiliates in its fight against the destruc- tion of free trade unionism in the Canadian maritime indus- At Ottawa, Labor Minister Maceachen said he was '"'absol-|the utely shocked" that Meany would consider the Canadian ment, timed 'with the. said a prreiahs com. e of four officials -- Mac- chen, Claude Jodoin, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, Meany 'and Wirtz--had been considering a: draft agreement for a voluntary. ip over Canadian SIU. This would be composed of one trustee from the CLC and one from the AFL- CIO. with the third--a sort of umpire--selected mittee of four. by the com- The first union-company meet- ings are scheduled for today and "will continue day and night until a settlement is reached," said Edward G Bruce, local president. ning and another 2,500 day-shift employees, who halted produc-|; picket lines Wednesday morn-|; ing, returned to their jobs this morning. g Overcrowding In Hospital Kills Child SMITHS F ALLS, Ont. (CP)/! -- "Distressingly overcrowded" tal school here for mentally-re- month, Dr. Hal Frank, super- intendent of the school, said Thursday night. He testified at an inquest into the death of Mauro Uliana, deaf mute boy from Port Ar- thur who wandered from a play- ground into dense bush Sept. 14 and was found dead two miles away on Sept. 20.. At that time, said young Mauro ad been when found by searching sol- diers, The coroner's jury recom- mended that in similar zases a full - scale search should be started sooner and that play areas should be fenced off. The search for the boy, said by the jury to have met an ac- cidental death "'due to expo- sure, starvation and exhaus- tion," was started the day after he disappeared, "Any blame for the death of the boy should be attributed to} § the administrative, not the gen- eral staff of the hospital due to the fact that the hospital is dis- tressingly overcrowded and is a monstrous size of a place," Dr. Frank testified. The school was designed to house 2,100 children but now ac- commodated 2,700 children pius 1,100 staff members. tion when they refused to cross|# conditions at the Ontario hospi-|/ tarded children were at least|: partly to blame for the death]: of a nine-year-old patient last|> a coroner who viewed the body|/ dead: only about three hours}? - DRIVER ESCAPES WHEN TRUCK ENTERS HARBOR Drivers of this half-ton pick-, up 'truck which plunged into the Oshawa harbor Thursday afternoon escaped through an open window moments before the vehicle sank in 27 feet of water. Betty Marie Eldridge, 24, RR 3, Bowmanville, swam 30 feet to shore in 45-degree water. Divers Bob Gibbs, left, and Gordon Lund, right, work-. ed for two hours. attaching chains to the submerged bé- hicle before it could be hauled out by Foote's tow truck. Con- stable G. F. Ouellette was successful in locating the truck in. the dark water.