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Oshawa Times (1958-), 24 Jul 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today The fellow who is right half the time has a superior batting Average, VOL. 93 -- NO. 173 Not Over 10 Conte ver Coby re a RRC LON gn gt ce eae eae ROR She Oshawa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1954 : . imes ' ) daa) * Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Ottawa ond for poyment of ~~ Weather Report Mainly sunny, 'hot and humid ' with chance of late Saturday. Postage in Cash. thunderstorms TWENTY PAGES vy 'Teller f Tells | Of Terror At Gunpoint HUNTSVILLE, Ont. (CP)--' "They repeatedly pointed their. guns at me and threatened to kill.me . . . at one time, one of them threatened to put the gun in my mouth and pull the trigger." This is how Mrs. Jean Millar, 21-year-old mother of two, de- scribed her ordeal after she was taken hostage by two guamen who Thursday held up the Cob- den, Ont., bank in which she worked, : "But they didn't do anything to me," she said in a relaxed voice in a telephone interview early today, more than 12 hours after the holdup. She was brought to the police 'I Dated Suspect' Says Girl COBDEN, Ont. (CP)--'I was stunned," said Beverley Gra- ber, attractive 19-year-old farm girl who said she had been dat- ing one of the men suspected of robbing the local bank: of $6,000 and taking a woman tel- ler as hostage. Beverley told her story after' she had gone to the bank to look around with many of the other residents of this quiet little vil- station here with the two men who were arrested at gunpoint at an Algonquin Park gate, some 25 miles east of here and about 150 road miles from the quiet Ottawa Valley village of Cobden. The two men gave up quietly. Two men escaped with about $6,000 from tills of the Cobten branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia shortly after noon Thurs- ay. | OPP said they had recovered | $5,998 and two loaded rifles. | Police said two men they identified as Robert Bigelow and Douglas Olden were being driven to Pembroke in connec- tion with the case, Both men were from the United States. Bigelow's home- AS UAW NEGOTIATES Record Auto Makers Report Profit, Sales | HOT SPOT PEACE ohn ride PARLEY SPURNED Washington, Bonn Fell DeGaulle's Asian Talks | WASHINGTON (AP)--U.S. of- ficials brushed aside as wholly unacceptable Thursday Presi- dent de Gaulle's mew call for an international conference, in- cluding the United States, the NEW YORK (AP)--The big|1 automaker totalled $1,138,000,-|from $890,000,000 a year earlier Soviet Union and Communist lthree U:S. automakers are earning more money than ever 000, or $3.98 a share, comparedjand in the first half of $2,062,-| with - $878,000,000, or $307 a/000,000 from $1,687,000,000. China, to make peace in South- east, Asia. impression that between de Gaulle and the United States the gap on Western. European policy is wide and beyond the possibility of bridging. : De Gaulle's challenges also drew a cold rebuff from West Germany. In Bonn, de Gaulle's reas- sertion of his design for an in- town was given as Windsor before. share, in the 1963 first half, World-wide sales in the first] Rejecting de Gaulle's argu- Lock, Conn., and Olden's as East Granby, Conn. The two men were being driven to Pembroke to be charged this morning. The bandits wounded account- ant Anne MecWade, 35, in the knee with one of two shots fired during the robbery when she could not open the vault. A network of police roadblocks |was set up across eastern On- & tario and into Quebec after po- lice learned the gunmen had forced Mrs. Millar into their 1955-model getaway car, which had Connecticut licence plates. "We drove outside Cobden and the men stopped tne car,"' Mrs. Millar said. "We left the FREED HOSTAGE CLINGS TO HUSBAND _. \attributed the surge to expan- {halt totalled 93,643 vehicles, yp|ment that a military solution in |Chrysler Corp. reported Thurs-| Sales totalled $5,082,000,000; in}from 738,292 a year earlier. |South Viet Nam is impossible, day that profits and sales|the 1964 second quarter against) Ford's profits in the second | Officials said a conference is be. soared to record levels in the|$4,516,000,000 a year earlier.|quarter amounted to $179,700,-|yond serious US, consideration |second quarter and first half of|First-half sales of $9,868,000,000/000 equal to $1.63 a share, onjuntil at least a new mlitiary this year. Ford Motor Co. issued|compared with $8,663,000,000 inijsales of $2,672,000,000. This|balance is created in South Viet a similar report earlier in the'the 1963 first half, the former|compares with $155,900,000, or|Nam. week. lrecord, $1.41 a share, on sales of $2,-, De Gaulle's press conference | General Motors' sales and| World-wide factory sales to- 544,700,000. attack in Paris on the U.S. posi- earnings were the highest ever|;aijoa 1 973,626 vehicles in the| Jn the first half, Ford's earn-|tion in Europe, keyed to the reported by any company. Its\;acong quarter and 3,648,359 in|in@s were $324,000,000, or $2.93|statement that the U.S. no 4 |chairman, Frederic G. Donner,|the first half. This was up from|@ Share, compared with $277,-\longer dominates the Western + \and president, John F. Gordon,|; 646 747 and 3,158,602 in the|200,000, or $2.51 a share, Sales|world, produced no surprise i - fods rose to $5,088,200,000 from $4,-|here. 4 ; : "4a |previous comparable periods. rey . 5 ae a sion in economic activity and) Chrysler, third ranking auto- 434,1 0,00. | It a merely to harden the | General Motors Corp. and|which was the previous record car and walked through bushes to an old barn and stayed there lage. She said that she and Donna Dobson, 16, had been! out several times with 'wo men) being sought by police. | Beverley said she had gone to} a Pembroke drive-in theatre| with the younger of the two men Monday night. "He was) nice," she' said, "But the big| guy walked as though you had to get-out of his way." until about 20 minutes to eight. "One of the men had a tele- WHITES HURL EGGS scope on his rifle and they could see the car from the barn, Then they saw two policemen walk- ing around the car and one said 'Let's get out of here'... "We climbed a fence and went through a little bit of bush to a farmhouse. It was owned by John Holly, whom I've seen Pickets Replace resulting consumer confidence. leakas, Be iati ith the 4 hey ere nortaing With I pein 4, 70,0%, OF $03 8 lalioe contracts Ken Bannon share, a year earlier. First-half| UAW Ford department director [earnings totalled $114,400,000, or z "/$3.05 a' share, compared with for the company to cut prices, /sapes TOP BILLION uation, Malays were advised to give Ford workers and theiT| Chrysler sales in the second|Malays fought for. the fourth|observe the Moslem sabbath at families equity, and still pro-\quarter rose to $1,071,000,000/day in Singapore today, raising vide generously for its stock- ------|the official death toll to 19. But home today instead of going to mosques. HEAD MEN MEET great, Droaperity. Came we aces months ended June 30! profitability makes it possible| he 1963 first half, SINGAPORE -- Chinese wore equal to $1.61 a share, in the Battles Conti "It is obvious that Ford's att es ontinue | EARNINGS SOAR were getting smaller and less Harlem Rioting General Motors earned $602,- 000,000, equal to $2.11 a share, frequent. Official casualty figures The big three's reports of| earned - $60,600,000,| S " R said Detron: |$77,900,000, or $2.11 a share, in holders and executives." - |police said the racial clashes Ship Explodes Malay and Chinese head men of various communities on the island met Thursday night. dependent Europe based on French-West German political co-ordination also drew rejec- tions. Officials in Chancellor Lud- wig Erhard's. government re- peated their insistence that West German policy is based firmly on a closely integrated alliance with the United States and. ultimately partnership be- tween a unified Europe and America. However, former chancellor Konrad Adenauer, de Gaulle's co-architect of post-war French- West German co-operation said he agreed with the French lead-: er's statements regarding vari+ ous changes in the world's po- litical structure. U.S. officials were irritated by de Gaulle's likening of West- ern Europe's growing independ ence of the U.S. to the weaken- ing of Soviet control over the Communist bloc. Thy said that while the Soviet Union. followed a deliberate policy of central- ized control of the Communist world, U.S. policy since the Second World War was dedi- cated to building up. Western Europe to a position of partner> showed 197 injured since the jriots began, but the unofficial joouns placed. the Tijured.at.close' to 400. |More than 1,400 persons, NEW YORK (AP)--Peace has,denouncing, and escorted injin the three months ended June returned to jth riot-torn Ne-|three groups to nearby subway/30, compared with $464,000,090, gro sections of New York City,|stations. They were trailed. by!or $1.62 a share;.in. the-second. but jeering white youths hurled/hostile residents of the Lower) ry She said the bigger man was over six feet tall, with dark re- and 25, and 30. He had tatoos on both atms, The younger man was occasionally in the bank, and eke forced him inside at gun : "The men demanded They agreed on temporary ar- rangements to. restore order, but"details Were not available, Lee Kuan Yew, state premier ship in the Atlantie Commu. as, Killing 20, the} said to be between 20 and 23. "They said they were from Connecticut. I don't remember the place. The car had a Con- necticut licence." | "Monday they took . Donna and I to the drive-in and Tues-| day we went to Ottawa to ineet| his brother at the airport, but) the brother didn't show up." | Mrs, Frank Shean, operator) of a restaurant across the} road from the bank, said the| farmer's car. One held a knife! te my neck and threatened to kill me. . cut the telephone lines in | . . They told me to farmhouse and I did. Mr. Holly gave his car." Mrs. Millar said the gunmen drove with her in the 1958-model car through Douglas, some 15 miles south of Cobden, along a back road to Eganville and then through Algonquin Park toward Huntsville. missiles at Negro and white/East Side neighborhood, who} demonstrators outside policej}continued to hurl missiles at headquarters late Thursday|both police and pickets. night. Police arrested seven whites| Police Inspector Henry Yack,|who were in an auto from which| 59, was hit in the right eye by|an anti-Negro placard had been| ja stone, He was held in a hos-/flung. Six men and youths were pital overnight. jcharged with disorderly con-| An egg narrowly missed Po-| duct. One boy was charged with| lice Commissioner Michael J.\juvenile delinquency and re-| Murphy. He was cursed by the|leased in custody of his parents. | whites as they threw eggs at) The seven were the first! him. : ; jgroup of whites arrested since} None of the pickets, who were| racial disorders broke out in the men met the girls there. "They} As they were leaving the park) Protesting alleged police bruta!-| city last Saturday night. (the men) must have put $10\at the west gate "a police offi-|ity, was hit. worth of quarters in the hear box. I remember thinking they would wear out the records." cer asked for the g y's licence.| ; Peace returned to Harlem in The anti-picket crowd swelled; Manhattan and almost complete j}to 1,500 as the demonstrations| peace to the predominantly Ne- (Continued on Page 3) Mystery Covers Cyprus Convoys NICOSIA (AP) Another| carefully guarded military con-| voy rolled out of the port of Li- masso! and headed for unknown | in, bases inland in Cyprus early to-|- As the Greek-Cypriot govern-| ors day. i United Nations observers re- ported 13 trucks "with unknown cargo" left Limassol at 1:50 a.m. and another 17 trucks pulled out at 3 a.m. -- both tnation." f It was the. second convoy,! loaded apparently with military) spplies for the Greek-Cypriot government, to rumble towards the Trodos mountains on this troubled island in three days. Last Monday night 36 trucks were seen leaving Limassol port laden with large crates U.N. Secretary - General U Thant, who today concluded two days of talks in London on the Cyprus crisis, has complained to Greek-Cypriot President Ma- marios that UN forces have been denied entry to Limassol to check on arm$ imports. ASKS MAKARIOS Thant asked Makarios to al- low UN forces full freedom of! movement which he said had been agreed on when the UN troops arrived in Cyprus. Thre has been no word of a reply from Makarios, Thani also sent a message to Fazil Kuchuk, Turkish-Cypriot vice-president, saying he had received word that arms were being imported into Turkish- Cypriot areas. Thant said he CITY EMERGENCY had also appealed to Greece) and Turkey to help stop the} arms buildup on the east Med-! iterranean island. | ment'continued its arms buildup -- claiming this was needed because Turkey threat-| ens to invade the island--ten- sion persisted in the latest trou- ble spot, the village of Hamid} | Mandres. On the bleak hills about three miles north of Nicosia Greek! and Turkish - Cypriots squared) off and fired sporadic shots at} each other. Finnish troops of} the UN force were trying to} |were shielded from progressed, But only a fraction|gro Bedford-Stuyvesant section of them -- mostly teen-agers/of Brooklyn, after five nights of from the Malian - Americanjrioting, gunfire, looting, vandal- neighborhood around headquar-| ism and hundreds of arrests ters--participated in the jeering) Deputy Commissioner Walter and barrages. Firecrackers}Arm said police commands in| were also hurled. Harlam and Bedford-Stuyvesant The pickets, sponsored by the| Were being "stacked" with men Congress of Racial Equality,|to cope with any emergency the. bar-| this weekend. rages by wooden barriers set; A number of Negro leaders up by police to hold the whites/have rejected the racial peace back out of range. formula that Mayor Robert F. After three hours of picket- Wagner proposed in a radio and the C.O.R.E. demonstrat-| television appearance Wednes- 8, were taken in tow by the|day night. 'Too little and too police, whose conduct they were) late" was a typical comment. this talk had brought hundreds! jof congratulatory . telephone calls and telegrams, including | CALL OFF STRIKE | Francis Cardinal Spellman, Ro- LONDON (Reuters) -- A New eo Archbishop. of strike of 123,000 British mail- |", . {day.on "ealm, reason and un- a was called off to- derstanding,' was issued in be- _ |half of 7,500 clergymen of all avert an all-out clash. HELP WITHIN 'FAMILY' | But the mayor's office said) BRITISH POSTIES a message of support from men set for midnight Satur- | A call for sermons next Sun- ifaiths, j quarter of 196% The "Previous| Ini league 165 record was $536,000,000, or $1.87 yuring a share, in the 1964 first quar- ALGIERS -- The Egyptian| ter. First-half earnings of the No./freighter Alexandria exploded) in the harbor of Bone Thursday} COMMONS OK'S fiting 16s, hospicat omciats saig STUDENT LOANS today according to the Algerian; OTTAWA (CP)--The Com- news agency. nit The fire spread to dockside! mons gave final approval today to the contentious lodgings and a waterfront hos-| |pital was badly damaged. | | First 'indications were that} student loan bill by a vote der| of 137-to 14, on the eighth day of debate. \the explosion took place under The Bill was opposed by ithe ship's hull, reports said. The Alexandria was tied up six French-speaking Conser- vative MPs from Quebec in the eastern Algerian city,| when the explosion rocked her.! and the eight Creditistes present, |The flames spread to the adja- }cent neighborhood before being jbrought under control early to-| 'day, informants said. Turks List Dead Men As Spies For Greece ISTANBUL (AP) -- They im-|community believes all will be! patiently wait each morning for|forced to go eventually, the doors of the old Greek con-| The deportation, which began| sulate to open. They crowd int@jast March, has sent shock} the vaulted anteroom, quietly|waves through the estimated| talking, arguing or occasionally/59.090 Turkish citizens of Greek crying. [descent residing in the Greater| They are Greek citizens Or-|[stanbul area. | dered to leave Turkey. Many of them were born in} Turkey. Many have never even! visited Greece. So far, Turkey has ordered They fear some kind of re- prisals against them also. The Turkish government denies this,| saying that as Turkish citizens) they enjoy full citizenship rights| more than 800 of Isatnbul's es- or ;_| timated 9,000 Greek nationals ous Under the gongtt | Pearson Feels Strongly On Aid To Malaysians pack up and leave, The Greek) The Turkish government de- nies that the Cyprus conflict} has any direct connection with the evacuation orders. The ex-| pelled Greeks have been engag-| ing in activities detrimental to} national interests, the Turks| charge. | Greek officials laugh at this.| Sources close to the Greek con-! sulate say the. first lists of 409 included nine persons over 80) years old, 92 over 70 and five mostly curfew violaters, have been arrested by the 7,000 po- lice and combat troops trying to check the riots on the island. Because of the explosive sit- of Singapore who is of Chinese descent, blamed the riots on Malay extremists. He said the! clashes, which began during a moslem religious procession Tuesday, posed '"'a very grave Barry And LB] Will Discuss Race Issues | WASHINGTON (AP)--Against| a backdrop of harsh words, Re- publican - presidential nominee Barry Goldwater is scheduled to talk to President Johnson' to- day about steps "to avoid any inflating of trouble" over civil) rights in the presidential eam-| paign before the Nov. 8 general] election, "TI don't want to exploit the campaign in any way that will cause disorder," the Arizona senator said Thursday night. He talked with reporters just after he had voted: against Johnson's $947,500,000 program to combat poverty. The Senate passed the bill 62 to 33. It now goes to the House of Represen-! © tatives. Goldwater said he will offer a Johnson his ideas on what can be done to avert a civil rights blowup, dent's thinking in return. Goldwater has, in effect, E dared Johnson to make an is. sue of civil rights. Hours before he won the republican nomina- tion, the Arizona senator said in San Francisco: Divorce After $30-Million Penny Pinch LOS ANGELES (AP)--A 14- and seek the presi-|~ By STEWART MacLEOD {Commonwealth country Canadian Press Staff Writer danger, and Prime Minister, What discourages Canadian| Pearson is known to have strong) officials in planning aid for/feelings on the question of "fam-| Malaysia is the realization that ily help." regardless of what help is of- fered, the federation's troubles) PEARSON FOR SUPPORT with a threatening Indonesia) At the recent Commonwealth will probably continue indefi-/Ptime ministers' conference in nitely. London, Mr. Pearson stoutly This has been a common feat- Supported the inclusion in the ure of all Southeast Asian flare-;\Communique of a paragraoh ups. Instead of briskly battling) Pledging support for the thréat- to a conclusion, there 'is a ten-\ened federation. And when a!) dency to wage guerrilla war-|African countries finally agreed fare wearily until most of the|t0 go along with the paragraph, is injis coming to Canada to lookjand the Communist party of The Greek national usually into the possibility of buying|Indonesia have in common 1s} jet reconnaissance planes, and\the belief that there should be} to talk with Mr. Pearson and|a showdown with Malaysia. Sec- other officials about possiblejond, a policy of aggression Canadian assistance. sérves to hide some fairly se-! So far there has been no Ca-|\rious economic ills at: home. nadian commitment for military assistance although it is gener- ally believed that some way will be found to help Rahman acquire aircraft, or other equip- ment, in this country, And it is.a widely - held view in Ot tawa, that Malaysia will use a) And if these were not reasons enough for a protracted cam-) paign, neither Russia nor Red China have been tight - fisted with their military aid to Indo- nesia, China has also pledged political support for its policies. year-old woman who said her husband made her live frugally |for 55 years of marriage was jgranted an interlocutory -- di- vorce decree and a $16,000,000 \settlement Thursday. Mrs. Ednah R. Capron of, |Newport Beach, Calif., said her 'husband, George, made her make many of her own clothes, denied her the help of servants and wouldn't hire her a nurse |when she was bedridden with a broken leg. Capron, 79, is worth $30,000,- 000, her lawyer said. deceased. has a week to settle his affairs and depart. The trouble is, 'say the Greeks, no one wants to buy their businesses. Or if they do, the price offered is ridiculous. The government, in effect, as- sumes control. Prince Charles' | Condition Better development" to the future of the 10-month-old Federation of Malaysia unless steps were taken to stop it. The federation, composed of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo) was formed last September with British backing. In Washington Malay- sian Premier Tunku Abdul Rah- man said he has evidence that Indonesia was behind the clashes. Rahman was in Wash- ington to seek U.S. support for the federation's struggle against Indonesia. Indonesia has pledged to Detroit Strike Brings Out New Dailies DETROIT (AP) -- Detroiters, who had been without their two daily newspapers for eight days, suddenly found themselves with three new dailies Thursday. All three blossomed in the wake of a strike by two craft unions which halted publication July 13 of the Detroit News, an evening paper, and the Detroit Free Press, a morning paper. The strike, over terms of a mew contract, was called by members of the International Printing Pressmen's Local 13 and affiliated Plate and Paper+ handlers Local 10. No new nee crush the federation. gotiations are in sight. world becomes a disinterested spectator PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 arrogant of Indonesia has stirred up far But Malaysia's threat from the quite far for some of them," he "confrontation policy' Said, "it really is." lot of replacements bfeore its! problems. with Indonesia are settled President Sukarno cf Indo- nesia has several good reasons for goading Malaysia, and these the Canadian prime minister was Clearly pleased. "It's going Malaysian Prime Minister Canada, ironically, contributes| economic aid to Indonesia under} LONDON (Reuters) -- Prince the Colombo Plan, and this is)Charles who is suffering from likely to come under critical) pneumonia, continues to main- review unless there is a drastic|tain improvement, Buckingham change of poliay there. Opposi-|Palace announced No The $16,000,000 divorce settle- ment may be the largest ever. One of the largest made known previously was the settlement received by Greg. Sherwood) Dodge along with her divorce! FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 { more interest in officia] Canada|Tunku Abdul Rahman. left the than other rumblings in the dis-| conference encouraged by the reasons are not likely to dis- sipate overnight. First, about tion Leader Diefenbaker said this aid should end "here and, 'tant Asian jungiés. This time aipledge of support. And now hejthe only thing that his party|now." j é today bulletin 'will be issued the palace from the late Horace E. Dodge Jr. Her lawyer said she re-| 'ceived $9,000,000, further until next week, added. Summer weather has re- turned to rain-swept Vancou- ver and shapely Joan Lock- wood of Regina has returned to the beach.. The vacation- ing prairie girl isn't really a WELCOME BACK . that tall -- the photographer used the angular 30-storey building in the background to set off all those curves in ihe foreground. (GP Wirephote) 3

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