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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Why is it that a man who races locomotives to crossings is afraid of the dentist? " ' he Oshawa Fimes WEATHER REPORT © Sunny with a few cloudy periods Tuesday, continuing cold, winds westerly 10 to 20. Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy VOL. 92--NO, 305 Authorized as Second Class Mi Ottawa and for payment Department il Post Office of Post in Cash. age SIXTEEN PAGES Ontario Shivers Fitlden, 19, crashed ,through her door at Hotel MISS AMERICA, Donna William who early Sunday morning to lead Axum of El Dorado, Ark., poses at Baptist Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. Sunday with Florida Hotel Blaze Kills 21, Injures 66 JACKSONVILLE, Fila. (AP) her to safety, Fielden is from the burning Roosevelt Miami, Fla. (AP Wirephoto) Buffalo, vice-president for sales Ashes and blackened debris injof National Gypsum Company. the Hotel Roosevelt's once-| Mayor Haydon Burns, com- | grand ballroom held the secret|missioner of the police and fire ," today to the cause of a fire that department, said city fire mar- .#* left 21 dead and 66 injured shals inspected the hotel within Flames burst out Sunday injthe last 10 days and found it or around the main floor ball-|complied with all fire safety i room, spewing heavy smoke and jrules deadly gases upward through)... oo. pena the 12-storey, 300-room hotel--| CAUSE UNKNOWN packed with nearly 500 Gator cere is no negligence a. Bow! weekend guests. volved in this fire in any way," ; Nineteen victims were as-|the mayor said. 'We know that ; phyxiated -- choked by smoke|the origin was in the ceiling of and fumes. One woman died in|the ballroom bt the cause has a plunge from an upper-storey/N0t yet been determined. 5 ssistant fire chief} William H. Johnston, who Sed of eet piaek. bought the Roosevelt in 1960 ly the cool efficiency of|from the Meyer Hotel chain and Ph on and dramatic rescues|Spent, $1,000,000 renovating the by navy helicopters of guests| 97 - year - old structure, said: who fled to the roof averted a The hotel was as fireproof as worse. tragedy. you can get a building. It is a The fashionable hotel on Aw "ta... Me rere ams Street near Main was didn't stay in their rooms. The packed with 472 guests, many |smoke just built wp and people here for Gator Bowl week fes-/Panicked. tivities. that ended Saturday| Chief Fire Marshal E. C. Mc- with North Carolina State de-|Dermon said evidence indicated feating the Air Force in foot-jthe blaze began in or near the ball 35-0. The two teams were' Emerald Room, a few steps up staying at other hotels from the main lobby. Flames = were confined below the third LADDERS TOO. SHORT floor 8 Most of the deaths occurred)" \any of the 479 transient and above the eighth floor, agomz-/20 permanent guests were .in ingly out of reach of the city's! nicht clothing or 'only partly two 100 foot aerial ladder! qrecsced when the fire was first trucks. reported at 7:45 a.m. Among those rescued were) Trapped guests leaned from Miss America of 1964, Donna | windows to escape the smoke = Axum of El Dorado, Ark. The!and pleaq for rescue. Some fell | 21-year-old beauty and her cha-)pack or across window sills, un- perone, Lucile Previti, were in| conscious hospital overnight. They suf-| Police bellowed instructions fered smoke inhalation from the street via megaphone Miss Axum said all she took for the trapped 'to remain calm with her when she fled in py-jand stay behind closed doors to jamas, slippers and a beaver|await rescue. Most of the guests coat were '"'two pocketbooks and/had been evacuated by the time my crown." the fire was..under control at Business executives © w e 9:30 a.m among the dead. They included James Jackson Swick, 5 59, owner - president of Copeland O Sausage Company. His wife, Lo- rena Eaker (Rena) Swick, 47, p also was killed the "By Erhard On Another executive among dead was Wade Hildinger JOHNSON CITY, Tex., (AP){open discussions on possibilities President Johnson's first ven-|that might exist." RESCUE UNDER WAY : |tawa three a | - | Election Call | To End Crisis i |to = |\political parties couldn't form a *\King had asked loannis Paras- '| kevopoulos, 4' governor of the Bank of Greece; to head a caretaker cabinet and] *\hold the elections timistic Note Hit OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1963 In Coldest Snap The temperature dropped tojinces and_ blizzard conditions below zero in Ontario during the|prevailed in Newfoundland. night, setting record lows in| Nearly. eight inches of snow many areas. was' dropped on Newfoundland The White River district was|during the night. At mid-morn- the coldest spot with 37 degrees|ing the storm was buffeting St. below. John's with 45 - mile - an - hour It: was 22 degrees below at/winds. North Bay at 8 a.m. today; 24) Police officials at St. John's below at Sudbury; 16 below at/said practically all traffic in the Trenton; 28 below at Killaloe|city was halted. Bus lines ceased and 18 below at Ottawa. It was|operating and plane flights were two degrees above in Toronto. |cancelled. : | Although the warmest spot) arlier, Saint John, N.B., got elsewhere in the province was| eight inches of. snow, also re- |Windsor with one above, it set|@ucing traffic to a crawl, but a record Dec, 30 low for thejescaped much of the wind. leity.' The previous mark was| There was more than six inches I five degrees set in 1944. Jat Frdeericton, five. at Yar- Forecasters predict clear and) mouth and four in the Halifax cold weather for most of the)" 4)' cq), 5 | in| -Ab Charlottetown and Sydney, province today and, 'Tuesday it'was 'still snowing today, but lH : inot at the same rate as in New- uron foundland. Sydney had. only an Total accumulated snowfall) | : Adee hepeae a inch, and the 'weather office jfor Centralia, Wiarton and Sault here'ex pected the:storm to ae BACK IN BONN Erhard said Johnson is expecting West Germany to come up with new suggestions for easing tensions with the West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard addresses newsmen at Wahn airport in Bonn after arriving today Ste. Marie is 22 inches. Mus-} ths Sea koka reports 17 inches, Timmins|™°¥® away rapidly. 16 inches, Trenton six and Ot- BLIZZARD IN NFLD. o Parade Threat | cea heyor" y ane wader! If Mummers In Blackface weather with occasional snow- PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The lflurries in Manitoba. It was mainly clear and cold Congress of Racial Equality said today it will take to the in Quebec with snowflurries in the eastern sections. .Snow hit |sections 'of the Maritime prov- streets and physically halt. the traditional New Year's Day ;mummers parade if marchers are allowed to wea re C.O.RE, was : joiner move by the Chester, Pa., mittee for Freedom Now Louis Smith, chairman: of. the Philadelphia f C.O.R.E., and Stanley Branche, | | | Greece Given ATHENS (AP) -- King Paul today ordered election of a new parliament Feb. 16 in an effort solve the political 'crisis plaguing Greece at the same time it faces trouble on Cyprus. The king decided to dissolve the parliament elected Nov. 3 after leaders of the two major mittee, issued a joint statement! saying: "Since the city: of Philadel- phia has given the blackface mimics the green light, we have no choice but to use our bodies to stop this parade." government and refused to work |together in a coalition HISTORIC MEETING from the United States and talks with President Johnson, Soviet Union. (AP Wirephoto via cable from Bonn) E. Germans Seek | New Negotiation NICOSIA, Cyprus (Reuters)-- Greek and Turkish leaders to- day agreed to the creation of a neutral zone as a step to end bitter communal fighting in the capital of this Mediterranean is- land republic. British Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys told a press con- ference the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed to with- 'draw their forces in the vicin- ity of a cease-fire line here and to have them replaced by Brit- ish troops. '4 Sandys said the agreement was signed by President Maka- rios, vice-president Fadil Kut- chuk, who is leader of the Turk- ish community, and other high government figures. Sandys, who arrived here Se- turday, has been holding lengthy meetings .with a committee of officials here in an attempt to prevent the conflict from break- ing into a full-scale civil war. Shortly after Sandys's an- nouncement, disengagement op- erations began and were ex- eg to be completed by night- fall. Cypriot officials then sched- uled another meeting for to- night to discuss other parts . of a seven-point proposal put for- ward by Sandys Sunday. In addition to the neutral zone, these included the return of prisoners by both sides, the BERLIN (Reuters) West;be made to enable East Berlin- Berlin Deputy Mayor Heinrich ers to visit the West, he replied: Albertz said today his negotiat-|"I do not believe it would ment for passes to visit East) problems." */Berlin at a meeting with Com-| py 19:30 a.m. today, some 12,-|ward," munist officials in the near fu-| 00 West Berliners had crossed ture jinto the Eastern. sector to visit Albertz toh. a press confer-| relatives. The total number to- president of the Chester .com-jence the extension, the possibil-\day was expected to drop| be} lors would raise the question of useful at this moment to expand! ie 'Iprelonging the Ohristmas agree-|the present regulation to other| "24 hit 'battle area. re - establishment of Turkish |broadcasts from the Cyprus ra- |dlo station, the re-establishment lof postal services and the re- moval of Turkish dead from one | Sandys described the agree- jment as "'a very big step for- which would contribute |strongly to a relaxation of ten- sion. All Greek and Turkish Cyp- NEUTRAL ZONE HALTS BITTER CYPRUS FIGHT British Troops Take Over Line riot troops in the area were to be withdrawn from areas in the vicinity of the cease-fire line as designated by the British com- mander of the truce force, Maj.- Gen. Peter Young. Sandys said leaders of both sides would meet daily under British chairmanship in an ef- fort to resolve differences. Meanwhile; Kutchuk indicated he believes peace can be as- sured on' Cyprus only if it is partitioned between the Greek Cypriot majority and the Turk- ish Cypriot minority, Kutchuk said there is "no pos- sibility" that the two communi- ties can live together after the last week of violence. "Each country must be mas- ter of its own house," he said. The Turkish Cypriots de- manded partition of Cyprus dur- ing Greek Cypriot under- und campaign that culmi- nated in independence from Britain in 1960. The Greek Cyp- "a rejected the idea of parti- on. Ships Collide, 8 Crewmen Die COPEN HAGEN, Denmark (AP)--Eight crew members of the French freighter Capitaine Louis Malbert were reported drowned or missing early today after the ship collided in a thick fog with a Danish tanker and sank, The Danish naval command reported Danish, Swedish and Soviet vessels had picked up 19 survivors from the 4,261 - ton freighter. The owners said the French freighter carried a crew of 27, ity of which has been mentioned| sharply from the record 155,000) by many West Berliners who|who crossed through the Com- visited relatives in the Eastern) munist-built wall Sunday. zone under the pass system dur-| The over-all number of passes ing the holidays, had not yetlissued near the 1,000,000-mark! been officially discussed. land West Berliners still were Asked if any attempt would jining up to obtain them. DEADLINE JAN. 5 Albertz said his government was prepared to maintain con- announced the | 63-year-old deputy Greek . elections customarily are conducted by a non-polit- ical. government. Paraskevopou- los, a leading economist, does VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The, 'not belong to any party. Vatican disclosed today that Patriarch Athenagoras of Con- stantinople has asked Pope Paul to call a conference 'of all) Christian church leaders/to dis-| cuss a common plan to fight} atheism and tyranny while pro- tecting world peace. The proposal for a "pan-Chris- Patriarch Plans To Join Pontiff jtacts with the East German re- |gime beyond Jan. 5--the day the |pass agreement expires. While it would not reverse its} refusal to recognize the East German government, Albertz said, West Berlin had "set new) }markings for policy in Gey-) many." Western diplomats have ex-) pressed fears that West Berlin| \city officials may already have tholicism and Orthodoxy date|gone too far in their direct con- from the ninth century. |tacts with the Communists and In a controversy over the ju-|jeopardized the allies' policy of risdiction of the Bulgarian/|not recognizing the Communist church, Pope John VIII anath.|Berlin government. The allies emized Patriarch Photius I for| contend that all of Berlin is still ence in 1439 in a vain effort to improve relations between the two. churches. Strained relations between Ca- | jers) -- This jmore Moslem demonstrations} Theft Of Relic Cause Of Riots SRINAGAR, Kashmir (Reut- city braced for today as police pressed their search for a stolen sacred relic --a strand of hair of the Pro- phet Mohammed The theft of the relic Friday from a mosque at nearby Haz- ratbal, where the hair had been kept for 600 years, touched off weekend that resulted in two deaths. Some 140,000 weeping and wailing Moslems marched through the streets of Srinagar Sunday mourning the less of the hair, kept in a small glass vial capped with silver. |a magistrate and superintendent of police.' The statement expressed the | government's shock at the loss jof the relic. It also said author- jities were "mobilized to recover and restore the relie." | But police were without a clue jin the theft after interrogating hundreds of persons. For the second night in a row a 14-hour |massive rioting during the|Curfew was in effect. Stores and business establish- ments were closed Sunday fol- j\lowing Saturday's rioting which |saw two movie theatres, part of ja police station and several |stores burned to the ground. |The hysterical crowds also set ifire to parked cars. The theft of the hair brought \ [ ® e t Common Market's increasing duties against U.S. farm prod- tian". conference of . Catholic,|defiance. Relations deteriorated Orthodox, Protestant and Angli-|steadily. The ambition. of the can leaders was relayed to the/Byzantine patriarches for equal- Pope Saturday by Metropolitanjity with the Roman Popes con. Athenagoras of Thiatiron, an of-/flicted with Catholic dogma that |the Roman Pope is the su- under four-power occupation. They were particularly dis- jturbed by a protest made di- |rect to the East Germans by the West Berlin city government The body of one of the two/strong reaction in neighboring persons killed during rioting) Pakistan: against India's handl- Saturday when police opened|ing of the riots. fire to subdue demonstrators) Pakistan's minister for Kash- was carried at the head of one|mir affairs, Khan Habibullah procession Sunday. Khan, said the "'appalling sac- Couple Died d R h ture into the deep water of per-| Some question about Erhard's|ucts, particularly poultry, which eyon eac sonai diplomacy was a success,/enthusiasm toward East - West|have cut into American sales according to both German and talks had been raised Saturday | abroad. American informants who hadjnight after his press secretary, Fla. (AP)--' Ludwig Erhard. ficial emissary of the -patriare: 'creme 'pone Saturday over the Christmas ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) --| 'The final schism occurred in|Day slaying of an East Berlin Patriarch Athenagoras I of the)1054, when Patriarch Michael youth who wss trying to flee Orthodox Church will join Pope|Cerularius, refusing to makelacross the wall. Such protests Paul VI in Jerusalem for the|any concessions to the Vatican,|normally are made by the three first meeting between the heads|was excommunicated by Pope|Western allies to the Russians, of the two religions for five cen-|[eo IX. Leo proclaimed ana-|who invariably say they are the Government officials said to-|rilege' was "a sequence in a day police opened fire "in self-|drama of hatred and bloodshed" defence' against Saturday's/directed against Moslems in In- rioters who "'tried to burn alive'dia. JACKSONVILLE a part in his two-day meeting Karl-Gunther von Hase. said the| BONN (AP) -- West German with West German Chancellor German leader found Soviet re-|Chancellor Ludwig Erhard re- sponses to conciliatory Western|turned today from his two-day A man and a woman were lean- If nothing else the ing out a 10th-floor window of leaders in the West's y the' Rooseelt Hotel. Black with the East g ch Erhard had the Berlin and Ger- p two new moves "'not very encouraging." Visit with President Johnson. smoke poured out around them. other and reached "'full agree-/man problems uppermost in his "They appeared to be gasp-|ment and understanding." mind in making the assessment ing for breath,' said Dr. Jack) The phrase is a stock one in DISCUSS TRADE Moh, of Limberton, N.C., who'the copy book of diplomats. But! The central issue at the 'con- watched from a fifth floor win- this time, said Erhard, "it is|ference were. trade and related dow. not a diplomatic statement, it}economic questions, rather than "They hung there for absutjis just the truth." East-West problems, informants 30 minutes and they seemed to. A communique issued Sunday | said. get weaker after their meetings said that German. observers noted that "They were holding hands Johnson and Erhard were|Erhard was aware that French "Finally, you could tell agreed "that it is highly import-|President de Gaulle will not !ik- were dead ant to continue to explore alljely be too pleased with the com- "It was the most tr thing opportunities for. the improve-|munique's urging greater eco- in the world, to sée those people|ment of East-West relations, the/nomic integration of Europe and hanging out the window a dieasing of tensions, and the en-japproving the U.S. position that know they weren't going to|largement of the prospects of/both agricultural and industrial make it a peace that can be stable be-!products must be included in "If 'those just'cause it is. just.' @ forthcoming tariff - cutting ne- they ladders had Erhard told reporters the meeting had been a clear suc- cess for the joint effort to se- cure peace and freedom and that ties between the United States and West Germany had been further strengthentd. "This visit has brought us fur- ther along our way,' Erhard said | Hospital Given Rich Royalties PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) Composer Frederick Loewe has given music royalties worth an| |proposed early this month that turies. | The ecumenical Orthodox pat-| riarchate of. Constantinople (Is-|-- tanbul) announced today that} Athenagoras will leave Istanbul | for Jerusalem Jan, 3 and that} the meeting with the Pope will be held on the Mount of Olives. | No further details were an- nounced. The Vatican disclosed today that Athenagoras has asked the Pope to call a conference of all Christian church leaders to dis- cuss a common plan to fight atheism and tyranny while pro- tecting world peace In an effort toward Christian unity; the 77-year-old patriarch the heads of Christian refigions thema for Michael and his fol-|concern of the East German re- lowers. gime. Fire-Swept Hulk Of Lakonia Lost LISBON, Portugal (AP)--The|she listed over again, and now burned-out shell of the Greek|the aft end was going down cruise liner Lakonia sank in 13,.-| 200 feet of Atlantic water Sun-| day as she was being towed, to-| 'Just. as she went down, she ward Gibraltar. |rolled back completely so that Capt. Trygve Gaasoe of the/her decks were pointing straight Norwegian tug Herkules, who!toward us on her port side." of the water, was directing the attempt to| Gaasoe said the Lakonia sank] ¢ fast while her bow lifted clear ; been long enough." This qualified, though, |gotiations estimated $1,000,000 to Desert Fire department ladder Sjwith a declaration that. there| Th trade talks are scheduled Hospital in Palm Springs id 'not reach upper floors'in|"should be. no -arrangement"|for next spring. between the| Loewe, composer of My Fair 12 structure. Most ofithat would perpetuate a divided!United States and the Europan| Lady, and many other broad- guests aped down stair-!Germany Common Market in which| Way scores, arranged to give the ways inside the building Erhard France and Germany are pow-|hospital 50 per cent of his music ference jroyalties during the life of the Air Force Base just before his} Germany hopes to reduce bar-|Copytight. jet transport left for Bonn, em-|riers to: its industrial exports} Rights on many scores, phasized a willingness to explore|and to maintain farm imports!Cluding My Fair Lady, Camelot, "new alleys" that might leadifrom the United States. France,|Gigi, and Brigadoon do not. ex- to agreements with the Sovietion the other hand, wants to seli|Pire until the next century. Union Germany more of.its own farm. .The 63-year-old composer re- The chancellor describeG 4is|products and is not miich inter-jtired to Palm Springs two years pray togéther during Pope Paul's three-day pilgrimage to the. Holy Land OPPOSED BY GREEKS Following Vatican approval of jthe proposal, Athenagoras con- sulted other orthodox churches |--those of Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Moscow, Romania, wae salvage the hulk, said the ship's|about 260 miles southwest of starboard list increased Satur-|Gibraltar é day night. = | "It was simply too burnt out! © Six men from one of two Por-|to stay afloat," he said. "The tuguese tugs with the Herkules|charred metal was cooling down were put aboard the wreck Sun-|after the fire, and this set up a day morning to close all star-|lot of irregular stresses, and the board portholes. The growing/weakened structure probably| & list forced them off after, four|simply broke up." % Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, |hours. Fire broke out on the Lak- Cyprus, Prague and Warsaw.| 'Suddenly at 2 p.m., thejonia on the night of Dec, 22 as| ° All but the Greek church fav-|Wreck heeled over to starboard|she was sailing from Britain to ored the meeting juntil the decks on that side/the Madeira and Canary Is- The meeting between the two|Were awash," Gaasoe reported||ands. Of the 1,041 persdéns meeting-of-minds with. Johnsonjested in cutting tariffs'on indus-'ago and spends about seven|spiritual leaders of 700,000,000\by ship-to-shore telephone aboard, 91 are known dead and on this sibject as "a step for-|trial goods months a year in his desert|Christians will be the first since}, "She righted herself a little,/64 are missing. ketball coach Norman Sloan ward in view of the readines 1e United' States has zom-/home. He has. no family and|/Pope Eugene IV met Patriarch|but we: could see that. the aft) The Lakonia was insured for| carries his daughter in his |to take new initiatives and to'plained strongly against the|travels extensively. \Joseph Il at the council of Flor-jend was beginning to sink. Then) £1,000,000 ($3,000,000). | arms as he leaves the burn- th sto the holding a press con- at .Austin's Bergstrom|erse. in- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 ESCAPE HOTEL' FIRE University of. Florida bas- ing Agosevelt Hotel in Jack- sonville, Fla, Sunday. Sloan's wife, Joann,' is at his side. AAP. Wirephoto) 7]