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Thought For Today The man who puts a limit on what he will do automatically puts a limit on what he can do, VOL. 93 -- NO, 174 She Pg Ay ag OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1964 shawna Gives Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Ottewa ond for payment of 'Thundershowers Postage in Cash. Weather Report * clearing over- night. Mainly sunny Sunday. Possibly less 'humid, EIGHTEEN. PAGES i 4 'Crack Shot Dies _ Trying To Stop Bandits Escape TORONTO (CP) -- Police to- pressed the hunt for the of a bank customer who had volunteered to help thwart @ $28,000 holdup because he was erack shot. Within hours of the fatal shooting Friday of Jack Blanc, 56, veteran of two wars, Police Chief James Mackey authorized a reward of $1,000 for informa- tion leading to the capture and conviction of the heavily-armed bandit who blocked pursuit with a hail of bullets. The windshiela of a police cruiser was riddled , spraying _ shattered glass into the eyes, face and neck of a constable. Police searched for a 1960 lavender - yellow Pontiac with Ontario licence number 293-140. Border-crossing points into the United States.were covered. Inspector William Perry and witnesses told how Mr. Blanc, a fur cutter who served in the Second World War and the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, met his death: The bandit fled from a Cana- British Posties Reach Pact On Pay Scale LONDON (Reuters) -- Gov- ernment and union leaders Fri- day night reached agreement on a new pay award to Britain's|of manager Henry Martens and 123,000 postmen. A statement issued earlier in the evening by the executive eouncil of the postmen's union said a negotiating position had been reached. H | i , mas iCKI 0 delivered mail. It has been - timated mail deliveries in the London area are about five days! behind. | Settlement of the postmen's pay dispute was announced) after nearly 4% hours of talks} between Postmaster - General! the manager's office. He took (AP)--Police found an eld- erly woman wandering the streets Friday and took her to hospital. $5 in your possession?" the admitting clerk asked. "If the hospital safe." dian Imperial Bank of Com- merce branch in suburban Downsview after ordering ac- countant Carman Lamb to fill a knapsack with money from the vault and cash drawers. Mr, Lamb took out in pursuit with the bank's revolver in hand but Mr. Blane told him: "'Give me that, I'm a crack shot." The two men followed for about a block and Mr. Blanc fired as the gunman was get- ting into a car. He. missed by about a foot and the gunman got out, took aim and hit Mr. Blanc in the head from about 50 feet away. His wife, who had witnessed the chase, threw herself on the body and screamed: 'That's my husband! That's my hus- band!" lobby, jumped onto a counter and waved the rifle at the staff and about 25 customers. After ordering the vault to be opened he was heard to say: tired of getting just what's in the till. All I want is a hundred grand ($100,000). "Pm When Mr. Lamb had filled the bag, the gunman divided the customers. and staff into two groups, men and women, and told 'them to. walk out of the bank and turn in opposite direc- tions. Inspector Perry described the bandit as between 25 and 30 years of age, five feet seven to 10 'inchs tall, of good build and tan complexion. He was wear- ing a white T-shirt bearing the letters CKEY and grey baggy pants with a pouch on his belt. A cruiser driven by Constable Donald Jackson arrived a few seconds later but was brought to a halt by gunfire. Constable factory condition. In the space of 200 feet the shots from his automatic rifle and .4%-calibre pistol at those behind him, but no one was in- jured, He then got into an un- occupied car and drove off. Wearing a red and yellow nose mask and a Beattle wig, the man entered the bank around 5 p.m. and walked into the rifle out of a guitar case, fired two shots over the head co shouted: "I waht all the money you have in the bank." He then: returned to the main SMALL CHANGE ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. "Do you have more than jin so, we'll have to put it in necticut men, car theft Thursday's robbery. Remand Pair Jackson was reported in sats. Suspected In gunman fired five or six Bows Holdup-Kidnap PEMBROKE (CP)--Two Con- They are Robert Bigelow, 26, of Windsor Lock, and Douglas iden, 21, of East Granby, Conn. They will appear before Magistrate S. C. Platus here next Thursday. Police brought r drove out the west gate of, Al- | BRINGS SURPRISE jeencu'rsrt While men were involved in the rob-| jbery, in which $6,300 in cash |was taken, police made no men- jtion of a third man or of an imminent arrest. witnesses said three Mrs. Jean Millar, 21, a telier the Cobden branch of the |Bank of Nova Scotia, said three jmen entered it about 1:20 p.m. One of them ap- dressed in T- shirts and dungarees, were charged Friday with armed rob- bery, kidnapping, wounding and in connection with Cobden Ont., bank the pair to} Pembroke from Huntsville, | where they were stopped Thurs-| day night at gunpoint as they DAYLIGHT REVEALS RIOT-LITTERED * \States, \Tun Abdul Razak flew to Sin- gapore to meet with security officials. He returned to Kuala ;|Lumpur, the capital, reporting the situation much calmer and Singapore Race Riots Die Down SINGAPORE (AP) -- Riot- rocked Singapore passed the night with only sporadic racial fighting. Rioting between thé island's Chinese and Malays has taken 21 lives and injured at least 454 persons since it erupted Tuesday night, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia, which in- cludes Singapore blamed the rioting on neighbor- ing Indonesia's pledge to crush Malaysia. Local government sources contend there is no evi- dence that Indofesian agents were involved in the rioting. island, has A police spokesman said at noon there were no reports of fresh racial incidents since : }dawa, mobs were scattered and nine arrests were made. although two potential With Rahman in the United Acting Prime Minister + |said he saw no need for Rah- STREETS 'NOT REALLY IMPORTANT' "Stop B-B Squabbling _'N.W.T: Member Urges OTTAWA (CP)--The honor- Mr. man fo cut short his U.S. visit, ..MAY RELAX CURFEW Razak said the 16% hour daily curfew imposed on Singa- Rheaume, who was|development and eventual crea- pore might be rélaxed next week. The curfew now is broken | ROCHESTER, N.Y .(AP) -- Hundreds of young Negroes, hurling bricks ang stones and overturning automobiles, battled with police today in a riot that spread for blocks and forced city officials to declare a(state of emergency. Two hundred state policemen were dispatched by authority of Covernor Nelson A. Rockefeller from outlying 'areas to help quell the disorder. At least 50 persons--42 Ne- groes and eight whites--were injured and taken to hospitals,|. police reported. The police chief's car was among a number of vehiclés overturned by the mob. In Albany, N-Y., the Rocke- feller office also said that Maj.- Gen. A. C. O'Hara, the gover- nor's military chief of staff, had been notified of the situa- tion, and a ranking officer of the National Guild had been ordered to a state police sub- station near Rochester. The state of emergency was declared by City Manager Por- ter W Homer nearly five 'hours after the Negroes stoned and fought police and jwhite motor- ists, looted stores and -Over- turned police cruisers. JOIN IN LOOTING A reporter sai dhe saw gangs of white teen-agers take advan- tage of the disorder and join in for periods in the afternoon. Singapore's population of 1,- 700,000 is nearly 80 per cent Chinese and the Malay minority has been increased by the Chi- nese stranglehold on the is- land's retail trade. Malay and Chinese leaders in various communities were re- ported to havye agreed on steps ing and|the The riot was touched off in a Negro section near downtown Rochester shortly before mid- night when two policemen at- tempted to arrest a young Ne- gro on a charge of public in- toxication. Four or five young Negroes attacked the police- man. Word of the incident. reached). EMERGENCY DECLAR IN ROCHESTER RIOTIN Battle Looters In Lake Ontario City ing a street dance nearby. The youths. swarmed around the police. Fights broke out. The two policemen called for assistance and about 15 patrol cars sped to the scene. The battle spread-up and down the street. Police were withdrawn a few minutes later from. the riot scene. They blocked off the area with ropes and patrol cars, WINDOWS SMASHED The mobs smashed windows in dozens of stores, Looters carried off television sets, fur- niture' house holq appliances and liquor, witnesses said. Many of. the looters cut them- selves while breaking windows. Their blood sprinkled the side- walk, A radio reporter, Howard Gates of WBBF, Rochester, mingled with Negroes and re- ported one of them described the situation as "dynamite... they had to explode." Rochester has been the scene in recent years of activity by the militant Black Muslim or- ganization. About 14 Black Mus- lims were arrested in 1962 on charges of resisting arrest after police interrupted a meeting of the group. Police said they had been told one of the men was carrying a gun. . The - organization has pro- tested what It' calls police 'bru- tality, As rioters grappled with po- lice near downtown today, loot- ers began breaking into stores a mile and a half away. Windows in about a. dozen mail trucks at a post office in the area were smashed. Police encountered new prob- Reginald Bevins and union lead-| | Thursday. ers. . | Reports said the government) had agreed to a 614-per-cent pay) increase--or a wage boost of 15 shillings and sixpence ($2.35) for provincial postmen. | lems as word of the riot spread to other parts of the city, Gangs of white teen-agers moved into the two-square-mile area of the conflict and began looting. One Negro, a priest of the Ethiopian Church, dresseq in hundreds of other teen - aged the Negroes who had been attend- to end the communal strife, but their plans were not disclosed. Communist Threatens Tea a. 1ittte." woman replied. After an hour of counting, $21,300 was placed in the safe, able member for the Northwest/raised in the Peace River coun-|tion of a province of the north. jeash and she laughed at him.|Territories braved Ottawa's|try and doesn't speak French,| "The simple fact of the mat- |Then they approached Mrs, Mil-|soggy heat wave Friday andjcalled for a return to the great jter is that 50 per cent of this lar. Her cash drawer was|gave the Commons a cool re-|westward and northwad push|country is not even in confed- locked. \freshing view of Confederation.|/that marked Canada's pioneer|eration yet. We are going to en- While kee ping Mrs. Millar} «part of the trouble in south-|@ays. He asked for more gov-|ter Confederation at some point ~--~|and other bank employees un-|ern Canada," said Conservative|¢™mment emphasis on northern), . . and we are not going to let proached one teller, demanding Lafleche Reads Riot Act MONTREAL (CP) -- Mayor; Alexandre Girard of suburban) Lafleche read the Riot Act in| the main corridor of Lafleche} city hall Friday to a handful/residence Friday afternoon. der close watch, scooped up available cash from th Mayor the bandits e tellers' cages and the bank Mrs. Millar was forced by The mayor said the telephone | caller, whom he. refused to identify, told him of a gathering of 26 to 28 men at the Beaulne} Mr. Beaulne could not be Burwash Escapee Back Behind Bars SUDBURY (CP)--A 19-year- MP Gene Rheaume, "is that those of you who live down here in the south are starting to vault. Anne McQuaid, 35, an ac-|squabble about all kinds of| countant, was. shot in the knee./things that are not really im-| S ik Q § | otrike lerms, two bandits into a car. portant." Language, said. "Quite frankly, I am. amused |when I see the efforts of many ;people in this chamber, includ- ing the prime minister, hobbling jaround on their pidgin French jas if this' were some kind of for instance, he 'UAW Pushes | Grievances | DETROIT (AP)--General Mo- jtors Corporation presented the jproposals Friday for five con-| }you people who live down here in the south spoil it for us. : | "We are not going to let you! ruin Confederation so that there is nothing for us to enter." | Mr. Rheaume, who lives N.W.T., in | Yellowknife, spoke after Northern Affairs Minister|s : Commissioner Michael J. Mur- phy. Laing clashed with Gilles Gre- goire (Creditiste -- Lapointe) jover whose civil servants should jlook after Quebec's 2500 Eski- scribed Communist would lead an anti-police dem- onstration in Harlem today de- Harlem Demonstration NEW YORK (AP)--A self-de- said he pite a ban on it by Police Murphy announced the ban at police headquarters Friday night while about 300 pickets |United Auto Workers Union with} mos. | marched outside chant ing | Commissioner Murphy has re- fused demands to suspend him pending outcome of a grand jury investigation. now under way. | In St. Augustine, Fla., mean- while, five men identified as Ku Klux Klansmen were charged with cross - burning as flowing robes, tried to halt some of the. fighting. "Go to your homes, please," said Rev. Gabre Kristos Mik- ael, fingering the large cross hanging from his neck. Father Mikael,' in an inter- view later, gave this description of the long night: "Tt was all spontaneous, but there unquestionably were hun- dreds of people egging this thing on. It was an uncontroll- able moment for young and old of civic employees and citizens Mr, Gregoire said the federal who happened to be present. reached for comment, but his|old Burwash industrial farm es- alike. . . . I spoke to one patrol- man who said he was going to shoot if he were stoned once more, At that point I prayed." the state attorney - general vowed to "vigorously pursue lawbreakers until peace re- turns," charges of police brutality. He said he fears mass street meetings this weekend could touch off racial violence like the bloody rioting that started last weekend. A swelling chorus of protests against the ban came from| | civil rights leaders, many of whom have been pleading for moderation in the crisis. They demanded a meeting with Mayor Robert F. Wagner, urging him to rescind the. ban and reprimand Murphy. How- ever, they also opposed the planned demonstration, William Epton, a Negro who says, "I am a Communist," de- clared he would head the Har- lem Defence Council in a march late today, DEMONSTRATION BARRED Murphy said he barred the demonstration 'in view of the tragic and unfortunate events of the last five days to preserve and improve the uneasy peace which now prevails." Negro leader Bayard Rustin said Murphy's order would re- sult in 'fa disaster" and lead to "the most vicious kind of behavior." Rev. Richard A. Hildebrand) of the New York branch of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People said the ban 'will probably lead contribution to biculturalism." |tract changes, the main ones in| He told reporters later hejwife told a reporter she didn't capee is back in custody today| "Don't forget John," inter-|grievances and strike language.|Snd transfer te tecmuicline took the "extreme" step be-:know what all the fuss was|after about 12 hours of freedom.|jected Douglas Fisher (NDP--| Leonard Woodcock the}in northern Quebec to the pro- cause a telephone caller in-|about. Norman Duckworth of Dundas/Port Arthur) with a wicked|UAW's GM department 'chief, vincial government. Mr. Laing formed him 'that ex - police) She said htere were 10 per-|took to the bush Friday, but was| grin. jimmediately disputed the com-|said he is in no hurry to do chief Georges Beaulne andjsons at her home Friday, four|picked up early today by prison} Mr. Rheaume: 'And many | pany charges used to 'preface anything of the kind. He hoped some friends wanted to take of them children. Only three!guards as he walked along the| others, and the leader of the op- | the proposals. \the federal and Quebec govern- over the police department." men were present. by Killarney road. position, too." Earlier this month, Woodcock! ments would continue to be The Riot Act prohibits a pub-) see psig ; |Said he foresaw "trouble at the|"good neighbors" but the Eski- an, offence under the act were | Woodcock said he has seen noth-|lasted most of Friday as MPs liable to life imprisonment. . jing at the bargaining table|began study of the northern af- No incidents were reported |since to change his mind. fairs department's $90,000,000 for a strike. The company con-|$1,000 annually to university : |tends that the union, in some|students was passed 137 to 14, the south shore of the St. Law- OTTAWA (CP)--Are Liberals|There have been 16 Liberal} Opposition Leader Diefen-|cases, has threatened strikes|over the repeated objections of rence River opposite Montreal and Conservatives headed for a|speakers, 20 Conservative, three|baker put the seal on the party's|over strikeable issues to force|Creditiste and Conservative Island. The mayor has firedjcollision on the flag issue which|New Democrat, four Social) stand in a Wednesday television|the settlement it wants in a dis-/MPs from Quebec who claim The city also is said to be in| both groups that they are dug] ¢ government wants it to di | rindi y 2 Or the gove tc s-|S0ver 1 $ jo or an finanelalaificutes and thelim unsiterably.in- ther. Fespe |gohve Parhovsen tn a eget election wil'be called. Quebec government has an-/tive stands on the issue. Ition on the basis that Parlia- "T think today Canadians as ek cettanint trustorstiy os at, week. . Tye ee eer * Pr Se (Reuters) --- At least 200 persons. died 3 S| Prime Minister Pearson said\ 10" ._[18, Wi e Heur-de-lis or what-} gnd 200 were injured when the Egyptian ship Star Monday or! Fri : vince the government and their CO i ' ! ; gyP acre imposed, possibly Monday or|Friday the government will not| ever French-Canada would like! of Alexandria blew up while unloading ammunition lie gathering of more than three; lend of August." The UAW con-/Mmos involved would have to ap- persons at a time, he said, and FACE CRASH ON FLAG tracts with GM, Ford Motor | prove any transfer. also imposes a 9 p.m. curfew Company ang Chrysler Corpora-| The discussion on cool north- P ] i t C i Friday night. : . go | GM saig the no-striRe clause|spending estimates for 1964-65. | Mr. Beaulne has been a e in. its contracts had been) Earlier, a bill authorizing the source of friction for some abused. Under the contract,|government to guarantee bank iwi ce DOwn Election Roa the city council of Lafleche, a| him on a number of occasions, jonly a general election can|Credit and three Creditiste. |speech, jpute over issues not subject to|the legislation invades a provin- but each time the aldermen'solve? Unless one side gives way, de-| 'TO put it frankly, the stand|walkout action. cial field and is unconstitutional. haye reinstated him as police! The answer seems to be yes|bate could be prolonged indef-|0f the government is that Par-| LATE NEWS FLASHES | nounced plans to put,Lafleche| The flag debate is scheduled| ment ' a whole, in the interests of unity | under 'trusteeship on this' ac-/py the government to resume glade lg into law and amity, would be: prepared count. Mayor Girard said the sg : to compromise to bring about a Several Conservatives tried on cars. Persons convicted of tion expire Aug. 31. Friday,jern regions and national parks only certain issues are cause|and credit union loans of up to troubled community of 12,000 on, chief. in the light of statements from|initely jliament must either do what the ie ay '<cekanne' sic clea Death Toll Rises In Ship Explosion Riot Act will remain in effect flag based on the Ensign as it more than a week ago to con- Tuesday. To enforce the act, he ordered Police Capt. Fernand Boucher | sional program for the first| |budge on this intention. "The flag is part of our S€S-) to hire 15 special consiables to|part of the session ang we want supplement the regular :20-man to finish it", he told a reporter. force. debate postponed until after a/ jsummer recess. They have ad- vised the government that de- bate on the flag will take many more weeks. DEBATED 6 DAYS CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS The Conservatives want the| jcolleagués to accept the maple leaf flag as the Canadian flag and the Canadian Red Ensign as the banner ada's Commonwealth connec- tion ' The government has proposed the maple Jeaf flag a sthe Cana- dian fiag and the Union Jack as denoting Canada's Common- wealth association. The Conservative compromise effort failed to win wide enough marking Can-|¢ to have to show the historical past and the contribution of the French to Canada on the Wir. Neither Liberals nor Conser- vatives are said to be unani- mously in favor of the positions of their party, But they seem able to do little except try to convince each other to modify their positions and*hope that the flag debate will run out of speakers. | in the Algerian port of Bone Thursday, latest esti- mates said today, Johannesburg Bombing: Five Held , JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -- Police are holding a white man and four Africans in connection with a time-bomb blast that injured 25 persons at a rail- road terminal here, Friday. Technician Poisoned By Uranium to more trouble than the meet- ing would have," adding: "We were just beginning to get 'this thing quieted down and now the police are stirring up trouble again." The fatal shooting of a 15- year-old Negro youth last week by police Lieut. Thomas Gilli-| gan led to protest rallies last; Saturday in Harlem that erupted into rioting and looting DEATH OF A MARKSMAN The body of a man shot dur- ing a bank holdup in Tor- Blanc, 56, was shot as he chased a bandit: from a bank So far the government's pro- support among those who insist} Conservative House leader| is Hig grey ty a a aps pret eh i rge posed flag of three red maple|the Canadian flag must 'retain|Gordon Churchill 'says this will} : ; leaves on a white ground with/as one element of it the Union|be no problem. Some of his se-, Uranium poisoning in an explosion at a nuclear plant. a vertical blue bar at each side|Jack in the upper iefthand core| | Five other employees were also hospitalized after the unexplained blast, jnior colleagues with long e thas been debated on six days.'ner. |rience- in too Connie aioe. which spread to the Bedford- | Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. | | CLAIMS SELF-DEFENCE Gilligan, now on sick leave, said he shot in self-defence. with a revolver. A policeman was reported injured in the robbery. The bandit escaped with an estimated $20,000. --CP Wirgphoto onto's suburban Downsview is carried to a waiting ambu- lance Friday 'night as detec- tives watch. 'The man, tenta- tively identified, as John POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211