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Oshawa Times (1958-), 12 Mar 1965, p. 1

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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 94--No. 60 We $ 50c Per Weak var. --etivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY,-MARCH 12, 1965 She Os havea Sune Authorized os Second Class: Mai Ottawa and for payment Weather Clear and ¢éold today, Saturday, Snow. Low Saturday, 35. it ga Office Department of Postage in Cash, Report tonight. -Cloudy tonight, 20. High EIGHTEEN PAGES N ationale Hits Wagner On Rivard QUEBEC (CP) -- The Union Nationale party has finally suc- ceeded in opening debate on the Rivard escape after ex- pending much time and effort in vain attempts to bring up the topic in the legislature ear- lier in the week. The Opposition moved a mo-| re- tion of censure Thursday proaching the government for 'failing to take the necessary steps preventing Rivard's es- cape" and for "failing to give the legislature essential in- formation about the The debate continues today. Attorney - General Claude Wagner assured the legislature there was no political conspir- acy in the suspected narcotics . Smuggler's escape from. the provincial Bordeaux prison in) Montreal 10 days ago. However, he did not reply to} seven Opposition speakers who asked whether Rivard had re- ceived special! privileges in| Bordeaux. Previous opposition attempts to open the debate were turned aside by the government on the grounds it was not an urgent matter. The Union Nationale got its chance to move the} censure motion when the gov- ernment requested credits to| carry on administration. | 'REGRET' ESCAPE The motion said the Opposi tion was ready to vote the| money but "regretted" the es- cape. Mr. Wagner said "on a Rivard Writes Note To Wife MONTREAL (CP)--Mrs. Lu- cien Rivard said today she has received @ 'letter rem her hus- band dated» March 6 and sent from Vancouver. Mrs. Rivard said the four- page worry. She also quoted it as saying: "T love you. Forgive me." The letter said another will follow in two weeks, Mrs. Ri-| vard said. | Interviewed at her home in} north-end Montreal, she said| Rivard "told me he'd be in an- other place when next I heard) from him." Mrs. Rivard said the envel- ope containing the letter was| "glued together'? when she re- ceived it. She _She said a a representative of! Law Again Ousts Edmonton Mayor EDMONTON (CP)--For the second time in six years, Mayor) William Hawrelak has been re- moved from office after an in- vestigation of land deals involv- ing the city. In a written judgment Chief Justice C. C. McLaurin of the Alberta Supreme Court declared Thursday that Mr. Hawrelak had violated the City Act in a business transaction involving a company in which the mayor) held a 40 per cent interest. The City Act limits the interest of any elected' official to 25 per cent: of the shares of any firm Macnaughton May Retire OTTAWA (CP) -- Commons Speaker Alan Macnaughton, who spearheaded a_ continuing} move to reform parliamentary| rulés since becoming chief pre- siding officer in. 1963, may re- tire from the Commons. this year, informants said Thurs day. Mr. Macnaughton, Montreal lawyer headed for a Senate seat, sibly succeeding the late ator Charles B. Howard Sherbrooke, Que. First elected in the sete a Mount Royal riding in 1949, won the seat in the 1963 sie tion with one of the pluralities in the country. was elected Speaker in the) parliamentary session w hich! opened in June, 1963. He is understood to -be ious to devote more time to his Jaw practice and business inte is reported sen- of ests and to his family of three | gchool-age children. escape."'| letter told her not to), | Provincial jters. llow an emergency "mayoralty|have been announced after the 61-year-old pos-} largest} He} anx-| honor" that 'there was no con- spiracy, direct or indirect'? by those in the political or any other field. When he said the government has nothing to hide in the es- jeape, Jean - Jacques Bertrand |(UN -- Missisquoi) replied: "On the contrary, the refusal of the attorney-general to an- swer questions asked him en- sures that rumors, speculation and insinuations will continue to circulate throughout the | province." Paul Dozois (UN -- Montreal) St. Jacques) who presented the motion, called for a royal com- mission into the escape, saying the "government has set up royal commissions into much less important things." Jean-Noel Lavoie (I--Laval) told the legislature there was no police search of his sub- jurban Montreal home last | RELUCTANT OFFICER 'JOINS' TORONTO SIT-IN STUDENTS SEEK TOP-LINE SUPPORT }weekend in connection with! |Rivard's escape. Opposition Leader Johnson had asked how many search |warrants '"'were issued with re- lgard to mayors of Ile Jesus municipalities." Mr. Lavoie is} TORONTO (CP)! -- Organiz- also mayor of Chomedey, joerg of a student civil rights vigil community on the island north} in front of the American Consu- |of Montreal. jlate here haye asked political HAD COMPANION |leaders to join a citizens' march Rivard escaped with Andre} [planned ¢ Car Watearsity of Seager "aus Prserpeston| Toronto students huddled over- ctiee. abtaintiz permission to|night on the sidewalk under e {blankets and sleeping | bags-- flood the Bordeaux hockey rinklhe second night of their dem jonstration -- to protest violence about 6 p.m. March 2 against Negroes in Selma, Ala. Student leaders, meanwhile, were sending 50 telegrams to Premier Robarts, Toronto Ma- yor Philip Givens and other pol-, iticians The wires asked them to par- ticipate in a public march from the legislature to the consulate several blocks away. The students were also trying: the weekly _|to arrange a meeting at city hall to present their views to Mayor |Givens today. Arthur Pape, 22, of the Stu- dent Union for Peace Action, said Thursday night the '"sit- out"? would continue until the Ne- groes in Selma are allowed to} demonstrate freely in their civil rights drive Thursday's vigil here was -|marked twice by the forcible re- moval by police of students who tried to block the consulate steps, and by a meeting be- tween a student delegation and W. Park Armstrong, the consul- general The students, oristrating in six were first dragged from the steps at 8:15 a.m_ to let the consulate staff enter the build- who are dem- hour shifts, ing on central University Ave- nue. Robarts Asked To March pathetic to the demonstrators and "'appalled" at the events in Alabama. But later, in answer to a stu- dent letter asking him to criti- cize racial violence in the state, Mr. Armstrong replied in a note: "Neither I nor my associates can comply with your requests to act in a purely personal ca- ipacity " The demonstration began Wednesday with a march of about 250 students, joined by some religious leaders and Police pulled another 30 stu- dents from the steps in the after- noon and dropped' them on the street. There were no arrests. A girl's sweater was torn off. Two Negro civil rights work- ers arrived in Toronto from Selma during the day. Lafay- ette Surney and Prathia Hall, executive members of the Stu- dent Non-violent Co-ordinating committee, spoke to almost 600 persons on campus. MET BY POLICE Then the students marched from the uniyersity to the con- sulate where they were met by about 30 policemen, blocking the doorway after 90 students had moved to the steps. In the morning, three stu- dents met the consul-general, who was quoted as being sym- ties groups. When about 30 walked into the consulate, po- lice removed then. Clergymen became involved again Thursday, Four Unitarian ministers presented a brief to Consul Daroslay Viahovich in ne D manche-Matin had obtained the letter but she declined to: say under., what. conditions. She added, however, that it would be returned to her Sunday. Eddy Lechasseur, a witness n the Dorion inquiry, was picked up today by police for questioning as officers contin- ued their search for the escaped Rivard. A combined force of Quebec Police, RCMP and Montreal police went to Lechas- seur's home in suburban Rose- mount at 10 a.m. He was taken to Montreal police headquar-; SAIGON: (CP) -- The South Viet Nam government today outlined a program of '"'total struggle" against Communists, saying the only way to stop them is to defeat them. "In case the war increases in intensity, we are certain that we shall not fight alone because our just cause is understood in the world," a government policy statement said. Meanwhile, United States and ~|South Vietnamese planes took joff from Da Nang Air Force |Base on more secret strikes. |There was no disclosure of their ao A dozen U.S. Air Force jet | fighter- bombers returned to the |base 365 miles northeast of Sai- gon in the afternoon with their {bombs and rockets gone. which: enters into a contract} Four U.S. B-57 Canberra! with the city under which money|hombers took off and returned| is payable. a short time later. A military Mr. Hawrelak was first spokesman in Saigon, without elected mayor in 1951 and re-|naming Da Nang, said four B-57| signed in 1959 after a royal com- jjets had made strikes on Com-| mission found him guilty of] munist Viet Cong concentrations| gross misconduct in land deal-|in Phu Yen province, about: 180| 'ng.-Mr. Hawrelak denied any) miles south of Da Nang. wrongdoing. He was elected again in Oc-| HIT GUERRILLAS tober, 1963 for a one-year term] Six Vietnamese Skyraid- ers left Da Nang. On their re- and returned to office for two} years in an election last fall. turn authorities said they had Annual salary is $15,000. jhit guerrilla targets inside the Alberta Premier Manning] country. said in an interview Thursday| In the past, strikes on targets |any change in the City Act to al-|in Communist North Viet Nam Lechasseur, 33, is. a self-de- scribed 'importer' and friend of Rivard, the fugitive who es- caped from Bordeaux Jail in inorth- end Montreal March 2. | election must be suggested by| planes returned. Strikes against} the Union of Alberta Municipal-|Communist supply routes in ities 4 |Laos are not announced. Mr. Hawrelak said he plans); The government statement, an immediate appeal. jissued by premier Phan Huy NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Canadian Slain In Bangkok BANGKOK (CP) -- A 20-year-old Canadian tourist, John Graham McLeod of Winnipeg, objected when a bandit triéd to take his wrist watch and was shot and killed Thurs- day in Thailand's Ayeuthya province. McLeod was travel- ling on a bus which was held up by 11 well-armed Dandits about 50 miles north of here. . Sketchy reports said he swung at one armed robber and was shot through the head. A British embassy spokesman who identified the victim, said a Vancouver man, Garry James Thorleifer Gregory, was riding with McLeod on the bus. Queen Mother To Visit Toronto LONDON (Reuters) -- Queen Mother Elizabeth will fly to Toronto in June for a five-day visit to take part in golden jubilee celebrations of the Toronto Scottish regiment, it was announced today. | Cardinal Dies In Rome VATICAN CITY (AP) Clemente Cardinal Micara of Italy, a leading member of the Vatican Curia and the Pope's vicar for the city of Rome, died Thursday night after a long illness. | /U.S. that it discontinue bombing jseems South Viets Prepare For All-Out Warfare Quat, said the people want peace and freedom after years of miseries, oppression and domination, "The longer the destructive war continues the more heart- felt our longing becomes. "To fulfill the .aspirations of U.S. Feels Bombs Unbalance Reds WASHINGTON (AP) -- Offi- cials here view the new U.S. jet strikes against Communist formations in South Viet Nam as showing success in throwing the Reds off balance and in- flicting casualties. Paul Martin Backs U.S. Viet Stand OTTAWA (CP)--External Af- fairs Minister Paul Martin again came to the support of the United States today in a sharp Commons exchange with| T. C. Douglas, New Democratic Party leader, on the Viet Nam situation. Mr. Douglas Canada' has suggested asked whether to the North Viet Nam, country with which the U.S. is not at war, as a prelude to a peace conference. Mr. Martin said Mr. Douglas was suggesting that the U.S. i unaware of its heavy respons hility in Viet Nam. He said the! U was trying to resist a form of pressure from North Viet Nam which involved a_ prece- dent which could affect other countries in Asia and the free} world generally. Mr.. Douglas also said that the objectivity of the Canadian jdelegation on the international) jtruce commission in Viet Nam to have .changed since 1962. with a change of govern- ment in Ottawa. : He referred to a 1962 commis- sion report by Canada and In- dia which blamed both North and South Viet Nam for the si-| tuation and to this week's Ca- nadian minority report blaming a fonly the Communist north Mr. Martin denied Mr. Doug- las' suggestion and said that Ineither report was dictated by ithe government of the day. .|matic moves toward a negoti- jone section over a 10-day per- jiod. |TACTICS CHANGED \that lacking. which they +protested the lack of protection against mob vio- lencesin Selma. Rev. James Reeb, a Unitar- jan from Boston, was fatally beaten in Selma Tuesday. Rev. Robert Wrigley, assistant minister of the First Unitarian Congregation, said Mr. Viaho- vich assured them the brief would be sent to Washington. the people, we must first of all put an end to the destructive work of the Communists." The government issued its strong policy statement against a background of foreigi? diplo- ated settlement of the war. But military. authorities in South Viet Nam appear much less bullish. Reports reaching the Pentagon indicate these authorities feel the contribution of the jetstrikes has been small so far. However, it is. noted that the operation has been under way only since' Feb. 24. Apart from actual damage in- flicted on the Viet Cong, auth- orities evidently hope the jet strikes will demoralize the Com- munists and boost the morale of the South Vietnamese forces. One U.S. adviser was quoted as telling his superiers that South Vietnamese troops Ino area reacted jubilantly. Bet The strikes have been car- ried by F-100 fignter' bombers and 8-57 light bombers. The B-57s flew about 150 sorties in It is said here that the de- cision to use the U.S, jets in- side South Viet Nam grew in part from the appearance of larger concentrations of the Viet Cong. Much of the Red ac- tivity earlier was in the form of ambush and terrorism by relatively small bands of guer- rillas. Considerable official stress is placed hére on reports that U.S. jets have been successful in stalling anticipated Communist attacks and in breaking up Viet Cong concentrations. One cable from Viet Nam spoke. of a claim that one of the B-57 bombings made a hit right on a Viet Cong unit.| There was no proof, it was acknowledged. The same cable report men- tioned a number of B-57 strikes jcausing sec ondary explosions on jthe ground--that is, explosions occurring after the U.S. bombs had gone off. This suggested ammunition stocks had been hit. Although there is official con- fidence that the jet attacks are incréasing Communist casual tangible "proof appears to be| HISTORIC VISIT? The Duchess of Windsor arrives at the London clinic where her husband, the Duke, is recovering from a third operation on his left eye. As soon as the Duke is well enough, Queen Eliza- beth is expected to pay him a visit and meet the Duch- ess -- a historic occasion Signalling the end of the royal family's boycott of the Duchess in effect since the Duke left the English throne to wed the divorced Ameri- can, --(AP Wirephoto) members of Toronto civil liber-|fi By JOSEPH E. MOHBAT Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) At- torney-General Nicholas Katzen- bach says he's ready to enforce any court order forbidding police interference 'with Selma, Ala., demonstrators seeking to insure Negroes' voting rights. He does not foreclose the pos- sibility of the government's us- ing federal troops to do so, And he foresees swift federal prose- cution of any Alabama state and 'ocal officers he feels are responsible for Sunday's bloody violence against Negro demon- strators. These were the key develop-| ments Thursday at the attor- ney-general's first press confer- ence since assuming the top U.S. law office Feb. 13. Referring to a federal court hearing on a suit by Negroes de- manding an unmolested march from Selma to Montgomery, Katzenbach said: "T think our position would be pretty clear. The court issues lieve that order would be com- plied with. In the event it was not complied with, it would be enforced." Katzenbach said he has no doubt federal law was violated in Sunday's demonstration when clubs, horses and tear gas were used to rout the civil rights marchers. He said he referred to a prohibition on officials' act- ing under Lge of law to de- constitutional 'reason to believe enforcement of- pon non-violent BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)--A white Boston minister who came to Alabama to join the drive for Negro civil rights died Thursday night, 48 hours after he was beaten by a group of white men. The death of Rev. James J. Reeb, 38, brought telephone calls of sympathy from the pres- ident and the vice-president of the United States and messages from others across the contin- ent. The Unitarian minister and father of four children died at University Hospital where he had been in a coma since brain surgery Tuesday night. Mrs. Reeb was there. Reeb and two other Unitarian clergymen were beaten when they were attacked by a group of white men on a Selma street. The other ministers were. not hurt seriously. Reeb was driven 90 miles to Birmingham, where he underwent emergency sur- gery. Wilson Baker, Selma's public safety director,-said four Selma men had been arrested and charged with murder. They were released later on $25,000 bail each. Baker said Alabama law permits bail on a murder charge if there is any indica- tion a juny will not return the death penalty. Masked Bandits Take $10,000 MONTREAL (CP) Four bandits, said to be armed with machine-guns, held up a bank in suburban Longueuil today and escaped with an estimated $10,000. Police said they believe they now have the men trapped in a house in nearby St. Lambert. Police recovered a car used by the bandits soon after the robbery at the Banque Cana- dienne Nationale at St. Helene Street and Desauiniers Boule- vard. Police said the four men, all wearing masks, burst into the bank at 10:50 a.m. and forced the employees and several cus- tomers to line up against a rear wall while two of the bandits. ransacked a teller's wicket. an order--I would hope and be-|:. and peaceful citizens in the way in which they did," he said. "We are going to pring charges against those whom we can identify as violaters, and we are going to do so promptly." The only alternative to the course of federal action he has has been urged by some," Katzer-bach. Aid Hinted For Selma said "I have not recom- mended this course to the pres- ident, and I believe that I am right in not doing so. What will occur in the future I cannot pre- dict." oped to chosen so far, Katzenbach said, would be "the dispatch of troops to Selma to displace lo- cal law enforcement and to take over their functions." "I am aware that this course WASHINGTON (AP) -- Four thousand churchmen from across the United States heard an appeal today for a visit by President Johnson to strife-torn Selma, Ala., and a call for a strong" bill to guarantee Ne- groes voting rights in the U.S. South Clergymen jammed the Luth- eran Church of the Reformation in an inter-faith rally called by the commission on religion and race of the National Council of Ghurches, The meeting was preparatory to sending a delegation to the White House and visits to mem- bers of Congress, seeking guar- antees against a repetition of the beating of voting - rights marchers and the slaying in Selma of Rev. James Reeb of Boston. The meeting applauded Meth- odist Bishop John Wesley Lord of Washington when he told Katzenbach said he h bmit to President Johnson to- day a draft of a message to Congress on voting. "The underlying problem in all of these events has been the right to vote," he said, 4000 Churchmen Urged To Selma them that many whites and Ne- groes in the South are "'disen- chanted and in great. despair" over the turn of events and that the president's. presence would do much. "His presence, and a. ay) statement of the action he taking, and a resolution in the | Congress, might even yet do much to avert disaster and strengthen the cause of freedom now," Bishop Lord said. RAISE FUNDS ious groups announced the launching of a joint campaign to raise funds for the families of civil rights marchers, including the family of Reeb, a white minister of the Unitarian Uni- versalist church. A statement issued by the Unitarian Universalist Associa- tion Boston, the Southern Chris- tian Leadership Conference, At- lanta, and the Amc-ican Friends Service Committee, Philadel- phia, said they will receive con- tributions. The churchmen came here by automobiles, chartered buses Simultaneously, three relig- Rev. Don Keating, Winnipeg, and Rey. Murdoch, 27, of Port Credit, were two Canadian clergy- men who joined civil rights demonstrators in . Selma, Ala. They were among. 300 persons who prayed and sang through an all-night vigil outside a church in Selma, Wednesday. and trains. } --(CP Wirephoto) SELMA, Ala. (AP)--A memo- rial march by Negroes for a white minister slain in Ala- bama's bitter civil rights strug- gle fizzled today. Nearly 100 Negroes stood be- fore a police blockade in this rain-lashed racial battleground but they were undecided on what to do in the face of a stern order from the mayor not to) march. "T'll stay here in the best in- terest of the city to see that there is no march," Mayor |Joseph T. Smitherman told re- |porters at the scene. Smitherman, standing under an umbrella against the driving rain, denied reports from Ne- gro Jeaders of an agreement to let the memorial march be held. The mayor's angry stand knocked down an_ attempted compromise by Leroy Collins, director of the federal Commu- nity Relations Service. Collins had said earlier that city offi- cials agreed to let Negroes walk in small groups to the court- house for their demonstration. Public School Costs Estimat Ann Landers -- 11 City News -- 9 Classified --. 14, Comics -- 13 District Reports -- 17 Editorial -- 4 Financial -- 16 15 THE TIMES today... Many Sub-standard Houses Here -- Dr. Watt -- Page 9 ~Canada Loses To Czechs, 8- ed At $755,631 -- Page 5 0 -- Page 7 Obits -- 16 Sports -- 6, 7, 8 Television -- 13 Theatre -- 12 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 10, 11 Weather -- 2 Police Blockade Halts New March Huddling beneath a huge transport plastic covering, the Negroes waited uncertainly in the rain, The march was planned a few hours after Rey, James J. Reeb of Boston, a white Unitarian minister, died in a Birmingham hospital. Reeb was clubbed here by a white gang Tuesday night. He died Thursday night. Four white men have been charged with murder in the case, And in Montgomery, civil rights lawyers put up witnesses for the second day in a 'federal court move to biock interfer- ence with a Selma-Montgomery march which the slain minister had sought to join. Tensions and tempers edged upward in Selma. The demonstrators had been in. the street behind the police blockade since late Wednesday. They had tried to march sev- eral times. BAKER ON SCENE Joining the mayor at the scene today was Wilson Baker, the city's public safety director. Negro leaders had said earlier he agreed to the plans for the demonstration. "I did not teli them 'they could march," Baker said. "I told them = would take it 'up with the city officials as to their walking in small groups to the courthouse." In other developments: President Johnson personally directed that a jet airplane fly to Birmingham to pick up the widow and father of the slain minister, A federal judge in Montgom- ery refused to order state police to' produce investigation reports on. Alabama's racial troubles,

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