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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, ' Pickering and neighboring centres. 10¢ Single B0c Per Week Home Delivered VOL, 94--No. 54 he Oshawa Sines Authorized @s Second Class Mall Post Office Department Ottawa ond for payment of a in Cash, Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1965 * Weather Report Overcast, with drizzle today. Turning to snow. Cooler. Low tonight, 30. High Fri- day, 35. Postage Skating Champion. "Miss Peggy Fleming (left) of the United States won third Miss Petra Burka (centre) of Canada is the 1965 Women's World. Figure place and Miss Regine Heit- zer (right) of Austria took the second place-spot, The BURKA -- BEST IN THE WORLD three young ladies com- pleted the free-skating part of their program before a capacity house at the Broad- moor World Arena, --(AP Wirephoto) 'Viet C /| SAIGON (CP)--United States and South Vietnamese planes " \today bombed and strafed a /|large force of Communist guer- '|rillas at Quang Nam, 250 miles * \northeast of here, The air strikes were followed '|up by a Vietnamese Army heli- | copter landing. The government '|troops. made contact with the Communist Viet Cong and a battle was reported raging. The guerrillas, estimated to '|be at battalion strength, were '|located after a clash with a /\Vietnamese Army patrol in which a U.S/ Army adviser was wounded. The Vietnamese planes were joined by eight U.S. F-100 jets. Meanwhile, in Saigon the 18- day-old government today sum- moned its ambassadors home to NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Lithographers Sign With ITU NEW YORK (AP) -- The 9,000-member New York Union Rivard Dominates In Dorion Inquiry inform them of its policies, in- cluding its desire for peace, but not at any price. The govern- ment has strongly denied spec- ulation here and abroad that it is looking for a negotiated set- tlement. GENERAL ARRIVES Another series of talks began today when Gen. Harold John- olumn explained his visit by saying: "Since my last visit in Decem- ber there has been a change in government and some change in planning." The U.S. mission arrived a day after South Vietnamese military leaders announced a new four-man executive com- mittee, disclosing a new armed- forces power structure. The shake-up came as Com- munist and government troops built up in the central lowlands and highlands for what in- formed sources said could be a major test of strength. Viet Cong guerrillas roving in battalion strength have all but taken over three key highways and one railway in the region, threatening to cut South Viet Nam into two parts. Usually reliable sources said the government reinforced its one division in Binh Dinh prov- ince with two marine battalions, an airborne battalion and two infantry battalions for a total of some 8,000 or 9,000 regular troops. : The Communists are reported to have about the same num- Provincial Police today held to their theory that Lucien Rivard is somewhere in Montreal de- spite reports placing the es- caped narcotics suspect in other areas of the country. "We still say he's somewhere here in the city," said Sub- Inspector Paul Gagnon of the QPP. "I haven't seen or heard anything to make me change my mind," His statement followed a re- port from Saint John, N.B., that police there were investi- gating reports Rivard and An- dre Durocher, his fellow es- capee from Montreal's Bor- deaux Jail, might be in that area. A similar report' was investi- gated Thursday night by On- tario Provincial Police in the Toronto area, Officers heading the com- bined Montreal, QPP and RCMP manhunt here have maintained ever since Tuesday night's jailbreak that Rivard, a 49 - year.- old suburban resort- owner and centrai figure in the Dorion inquiry, most likely would hide out right in Mont- real. On that basis, they have con- city's underworld. centrated their search on this|p OPP SAYS RIV NOT OUT OF CI U.S. Jets Rip Sightings Reported In Ontario, New Brunswick MONTREAL (CP) -- Quebec| escape was Rivard's "Dear Al- bert" letter to Albert Tanguay, warden at Montreal's Bordeaux Jail, in which he regretted any inconvenience caused by his weird flight from the provincial {prison Tuesday night. When the letter, mailed Wed- nesday night and postmarked Montreal, was read to the Que- bec Legislature Thursday by At- torney-General Claude Wagner, Rivard's full - of - consideration remarks provoked much mer- riment. Not so humorous was a report by U.S, law-enforcement agen- cies to the U.S, Senate crime committee describing Rivard as a key drug runner whose career went back to the 1940s. Police say Rivard probably is hiding out in the Montreal un- derworld where he is believed to have great influence. So far, po- lice admit their numerous checks have produced no solid evidence as to his whereabouts. Mrs. Rivard told reporters: in an interview Thursday night that her husband is innocent of Texas charges accusing him of running narcotics into the U.S. from Mexico and Canada. She said he is unarmed and would not resist arrest if police found © im. of Lithographers has signed as an affiliate of the AFL-CIO International Typographical Union. The 120,000-member ITU, traditionally identified with the process of printing with raised type, thus has moved into the rapidly growing field of lithography -- printing from a flat service. ITU Presi- dent Elmer Brown and Edward Swayduck, president of Local 1, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, both have advocated eventual merger of all graphic arts unions, Pipeline' Blast'Leaves 17 Dead NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) -- A rural home area near this ceful northwest Louisiana town looks like a war- torn jefield today. Seventeen persons died, homes were levelled and cars were reduced to melted heaps after a gey- ber of battle-tested troops in| To date, the manhunt has|, Rivard was confined in Bor. im-{t 4 deaux Jail pending the result the area, carrying weapons im-jturned ett Fog br of his fight against von ported from Communist coun- Spgkegman. said, er ae the pale and drawn, 32-year-oldjhusband telephoned her every} The commissioner said that | SvhInsp. Gagn- «aid inves-| Mr: Favreau. r tries. Montreal lawyer accused of of-jday after his June 19 arrest,jin his opinion Denis offered 'a go.0rS ate Co mung Gord rew: fering a pot-au-vin -- Frenchjand Liberal organizer Guy|bribe of: some sort' to Mr. on @ report to Attorney-General| Gordon Fa 6 e , ° for bribe. Masson to Denis, Lamontagme but that the) ( , ll I g F d Claude W the perform "But the dominant. and forbid- athe \ sabisiniapailes sien: said JRC rd 1 rove it in .@) . us10n i ire i ; of Bordeauy personni At Liberal MPs son, U.S. Army chief of staff, arrived here. Johnson, heading a high-level deleg ation from Washington, Commissioner McClellan saidjMinister Pearson and on Feb. OTTAWA (CP) -- The central through Mrs.j15 as chairman of the caucus figure of the Dorion inquiry isjone prong went 1g supposed to be Raymond Denis,|Rivard, who has testified herjof Liberal MPs. ding figure, in jail in the wit-|went through Mrs. Rivard and/court One reason for lack of ness box or going over the|Raymond Rouleau, brother of|sufficient evidence for prosecu- prison wall, continues to bejthe MP, to Guy Rouleau, whojtion, he added, was that Mr. beady ~ eyed, crag - jawed Lu-jon Nov, 24 resigned as parlia-/Lamontagne had destroyed his cien Rivard, 49, suspected king-|mentary secretary to Primejcredibility by waiting 27 days ser of flame erupted from an underground natural gas pipeline explosion Thursday. pin in a $56,000 000 narcotics smuggling conspiracy run by the Mafia crime syndicate. Dupuis Arraigned, Will Sue Kierans ST, JOHNS, Que. (CP)--Deb- precise enough at the present|word to his associates onair and smiling, Yvon Dupuis|stage of proceedings. Earlier in Superior Court at between two lawyers Thursday|Montreal, Mr. Dupuis, through three|a lawyer, filed notice of a $100,-|length of hose and vanished. charges involving a $10,000 in-|000 libel suit against Revenue} strolled into magistrate's court! and was arraigned on fluence-peddling allegation. The some 7,000 pages of tran- script now are crammed with testimony about how Rivard and his henchmen pulled finan- cial and political strings to try to get the criminal out on bail. When he testified at the in- quiry's hearings in Montreal, Favreau May Post Reward Rivard applied a four - letter for foul- ling up these attempts at bail. }On Tuesday night, he went over the wall of Bordeaux Jail on a There has been testimony at Minister Eric Kierans and his|the inquiry that Rivard has The former minister withoutjexecutive assistant, Charles|bags of money stashed away in portfolio, who left the federal cabinet Jan. 20 at Prime Min- ister Pearson's request, was charged with having obtained the sum for himself or another person during efforts in 1961 to get a racetrack charter from the Quebec government. He stood while the charges were read in court, but did not enter a plea. Defence lawyer Raymond Da- oust said the charges as drafted are "too vague" for preparation of an adequate defence. He asked that the Crown specify when and where alleged events took place, and provide the names of "'persons at present unknown" mentioned in the in- dictment. Jacques Ducros, representing the Quebec attorney - general, Denis. The suit was based on state-|least three witnesses have said| \Switzerland and Mexico, At ments made about alleged ef-|they fear death al. the hands of| forts by the MP for St. Jean-|Rivard's gang Iberville-Napierville to get the racetrack charter. | The jlegations by inquiry is probing al- Montreal lawyer contended that the charges are All three charges against Mr. |f Dupuis refer to the sum of $10, ing abortive efforts to get racetrack established at Luc, Que. alt St.|; Dupuis' resignation after seeing}, a preliminary RCMP report on|,- allegations against him. Immediately after the prime|p minister's statement, Mr. Du-|that puis rose on a question of privi- lege and denied published ports that he had accepted $10,- 000 from the racetrack moters. assistant to Mr. Pearson told the Com- minister, mons Feb, 16 he asked for Mr. |jjticai pressure by *ierre Lamontagne, attorney ] *lfor the U.S. government seeking] Rivard escaped from Bor- 000 having changed hands dur-|Riyard's extradition to Texas, deaux Jail in Montreal Tues-| hat he was offered $20,000 July 4 by Denis, then executive the immigration and subjected to po- Liberal MP ruy Rouleau and others to ar- ange bail for Rivard. RCMP Commissioner George McClellan testified this week the force thought there Viriwas a two - pronged conspiracy| Jean) suggested that the gov- re-ito free Rivard anc that if there " |were a linchpin at the top Offers to locate Rivard, since it Pro-|this scheme Guy Rouleau was|was a reporter who had found |probably it. OTTAWA (CP)--Justice Min- ister Favreau says he. is con- sidering offering a reward for jinformation leading to the re- jcapture of narcotics racketeer jsuspect Lucien Rivard. | He told Gordon Fairweather |(PC--Royal) in the Commons Thursday that the possibility of la reward is a matter of gov- jernment policy and no decision jhas been reached. When Mr. |Fairweather asked whether an jamount had been set, an un- jidentified MP. shouted, "$20,- }000?"" day and wrote the jail gover-| nor Wednesday to apologize for the trouble he had caused him. | Opposition Leader Diefen- |baker asked whether Mr. Fav- reau has received a "message jof farewell" from Rivard. The| jminister joined in the general jlaughter and did not reply. | Marcel Lessard (SC--Lac-St. jernmeht ask newspaper report- 'Hal Banks, before taking his complaint to the police. Guy Rouleau has admitted that he made representations to government officials not only on behalf Of Rivard but also on behalf of bob Tremblay, a con- vict pal of Rivard's, and Joe (Bananas) Bonanno, a known Mafia figure expelled from Canada July 30. This week at the inquiry Ross be Drouin, Conservative party counsel, iinked Mr. Rouleau's name with that of Vincent Cat- roni, a Montreal underworld fig- ure. On Thursday Mr. Drouin got into a shouting match with Raymond Daoust, Rivard's law- yer. A little later, Chief Justice Frederic Dorion ordered Rol- land Blais, an associate -of |Daoust's, from the witness box told Leo - Rene representing Daoust, and angrily Maranda, OTTAWA (CP) -- The Com, mons was like bedlam for the fourth successive day. Thursday as Liberal MPs were charged with "collusion" with justice department officials and snoop- ing into files to embarrass op- position MPs. New Democrat Douglas Fisher named three Liberals who had placed questions on the Yommons order paper contain- ing information he said could come only from departmental files, Despite protests from Oppo- sition Leader Diefenbaker, Speaker Alan Macnaughton agreed to make a 'thorough in- vestigation." Mr, Diefenbaker wanted the issue handed immediately to the Commons privileges and elections committee and the Conservatives served notice als--Joseph Macaluso (Hamil- ton West), Ron Basford (Van- couver - Burrard) and Lloyd Francis (Carleton)--as the of- fenders. ASKED FOR LETTER Mr. Macaluso, in a detailed written question answered earl- ier this week, asked for tabling of a 1960 letter from Walter Dinsdale (PC--Brandon-Souris) on behalf of a constituent, Buddy Leeds, who had been charged with forgery. the firing line Wednesday over Bordeaux jail, used the letter in the Commons. Mr. Dinsdale, absent from Ot- tawa Wednesday, rose on a the opening of Thursday's ses sion and defended his actions. they might move such a motion after Mr. Macnaughton reports He said it was written while Canadian immigration -- policy Justice Minister Favreau, on|} Lucien Rivard's flight from|? question of personal privilege at|™ that he was making a farce of the inquiry, on his investigation. ldiscriminated against Chinese/® "victims" of racketeers who brought persons into the coun- THE TIMES today... Ab Walker Advocates Cities Pay More Benefit Costs -- P 9 Frenchman's Bay Residents Ask Sewers, Water -- P 5 Generals' Fans Will Vote MVP Award -- P 6 Ann Landers -- 11 City News -- 9 Classified -- 16, 17 Comics -- 15 District Reports -- 12, 13 Editorial. -- 4 Financial -- 18 Obits -- 18 Sports -- 6, 7 Television -- 15 Theatre -- 19 Whitby News -- 5- Women's -- 10, 11 Vv ther -- 2 try illegally. The letter indicated opposi- tion to pressing the charges and said the forged papers involved had never been used. CALLED HARASSMENT Mr. Fisher . said questions placed by 'Mr. Basford were in- tended as 'harassment' for the Yukon who first re- vealed allegations of bribe of- fers and coercion now before. a judicial inquiry. 'A MAN OF ENORMOUS BRAVADO' Rivard: He's Running, But Not Scared MONTREAL (CP)--If 'Lucien Rivard is running scared, no- body is likely to know it. The fugitive accused narcot- ics racketeer has enormous bra- vado, say acquaintances who aren't necessarily friends, and a disdain not only for the law but for the smalifry in 'his own shadow world In his astounding cape Tuesday from Bordeaux Jail and since he has shown traits which his acquaintances did not normally associate with him -- kindness and considera- tion. He was generally known as a "tough" customer. He had made it clear sin pub- lic utterances he detests the "punks" of the underworld, al- though he had a modest start himself in his clashes with the law." Montreal! police consider he has been the cock-of-the-walk in OS underworld how "he a matter for got of sur- laration . of statement if he w would be far away the letter reached t innocence and. a trafficking of as. lucky he by the time he governor. back to the 19 By his drug career they believe goes own. description, he narcotics in a 40s. another made last year at the U.S.- Mexico border spelled trouble for Rivard, The .arrested man, Montrealer, blew the tions led to the setting up of the now-famous Dorion inquiry. Montreal lawyer Pierre. La- montagne, acting for the U.S. for|} Erik Nielsen, Conservative MP| Mr. Fisher cited three Liber-lthe Commons Thursday he is|T considering offering -a reward for information leading to: Ri- vard's capture. A reward could open the mouths of small Mont- real underworld figures Rivard has not hesitated to call "punks" in a number of state- ments to the Dorion inquiry in which he is a key figure. of the two-page handwritten let- ter in French was checked by A further bizarre event in the experts and declared: genunine, As he made good his escape, Rivard appeared to be a changed character, When he and escape-compan- ion Andre Durocher comman- deered a car from a passing motorist, Rivard. gave the driver $2 for taxi fare home and then called him to tell him whete the car had been aban- doned. ' Later he sent a letter, post- marked Montreal, to Bordeaux Governor Albert 'Tanguay ask- ing him to go easy on the guards because none. aided_in the escape--'we did not ask their assistance because we had no confidence in them." His letter contained touches of humor, an. apology for the trouble he was causing, a dec- None of his humor brushed off on the files Montreal police have on the 49-year-old Rivard --or on the U.S, federal grand jury indictment accusing him of being a kingpin conspirator in a fmulti-million-dollar narcot- ics smuggling racket. In his younger days he served two comparatively short terms for theft and was sentenced to three years for theft and receiv- ing and possessing stolen goods. The Montreal boy, whose first language is French, became a man of obvious affluence as the years rolled on, with a dusting of respectability and immacu- late grooming covering his short stocky frame U.S. law - enforcement agen- cies say he prospered on the was a resort operator with in- terests in a number of. other "legitimate" enterprises. In the role of a sound businessman he could be absolutely convincing. Last year he dropped in to visit a cronie at the British Co- lumbia_ penitentiary in New Westminster. Warden John Ma- loney said people are usually in- vestigated before being allowed visiting privileges but Rivard was allowed to enter when he said he had just one day in town. . The warden said: 'He was obviously a person of some means, well dressed, well- spoken and said he was a re- sort or hotel owner from Mont- real." A huge narcotics seizure whistle on Rivard as the mas- termind of a narcotics smug- gling conspiracy. Rivard was arrested in Mont- real at the request of American authorities acting on an indict- ment dated last May 17 which alleged Rivard from time to time 'would acquire and make arrangements to acquire heroin at various places outside the U.S, including Canada and Mexico." Then, while Rivard was fight+ ing efforts to have him extra- dited, the roof fell in. Opposition charges made in Parliament a_ bribe was offered to expedite Ri- vard's releast on bail--bail was never granted--and the allega- were government in Rivard's extra- dition hearings, has testified Raymond Denis offered him $20,000 to agree to Rivard's re- lease on bail. Denis, at that time executive assistant to then immigration minister Trem- blay, has denied the bribery ac- cusation. Rivard told the motorist whose car he borrowed after the Tuesday escape he fled be- cause "if they send me up I'll be about 70 when I get out." "Right now there are only two people I care about," he said, "my mother and my wife." In his letter to the Bordeaux Jail' governor, Rivard denied the charges against him in Texas--". . . l-am-innocent." "Fluff," a year-old kitten owned by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Illig of Sun Valley Court, is just a lonesome pole cat. She has been up this hydro pole since Tues- day. Mrs. Illig is shown. trying to coax "Fluff" LONESOME POLED-CAT down, .but without success. The inset photo shows the kitten on its high perch, Help was expected from SPCA authorities later to- day. (See. story on Page Oshawa Times Photo