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'Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow. manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties, VOL. 94 -- NO, 163 50¢ athe Oshawa inne Per Ses Heme 'Belvered Leet OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1965 Authorized os Ottews and Second Closs Mail Post Office for pavment of Postege (pngheps Bere Osh, aAAtsay necenw ELane ' Weather Roort Cloudy . and Showers or ee humid -- today, thundershowers tonight. Sunny and cooler Thursday. Low 'tonight, 55. High tomorrow, 72. Cash, Pi THIRTY-FOUR PAGES BARRELS OF 150 MM howitzers dwarf the troops that man the heavy artil- lery as they stand in ranks during change of command ceremony today in Saigon. Scene was at South Viet- namese military headquar- ters as Brig. Gen. Nguyen Juu Co, Vietnamese defense minister, took over from Lt. Gen. Tran Van Minh as chief of armed forces _ general staff. staff. (AP)" Traces Of Acid Found In Washroom Of Plane VANCOUVER (CP) -- Micro- traces of acid have shaped a working theory for the explosion that wrecked a Canadian Pacific Airlines DC-4B last week persons to their deaths. Vancouver coroner Glen Mc- Donald said Tuesday that the acid was found. on pieces of the plane's washroom. Other evidence pointed strongly to an explosion in that section. He said a person could have made an explosive acid mix- ture in the washroom with in- gredients easily carried aboard. Dr. Warren Lovell, a Seattle pathologist experienced in such investigations, said a relatively small explosion could perforate the compression skin of the air- craft and bring the plane down. The acid traces had not yet been identified. An inquest into the deaths of the 46 passengers and six crew members opened today But Mr. McDonald said it might take four or five weeks to turn up enough evidence to classify the deaths as homicide, suicide or accident, and until then the inquest cannot conclude. spokesman at a press confer- ence later, said the remains of all passengers will be x-rayed before they are released for and sent 52) burial. identified. None shown evidence of blast injur- jes. Mr. MeDonald, acting as Only 20 have been positively have so far Mr. McDonald suggested that a bright high school student or a first-year university student could have made a picric acid mixture in the washroom with ingredients carried aboard. He said picric acid is "*g0 BOTTOMLESS . .. LITERALLY HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP)-- | Mrs. Patsy Bonner Hodges | says she recently ordered a | two-piece bathing suit from a mail order firm. When the package arrived, it was two pieces all right-- both tops. Mrs. Hodges mailed back the pieces and said she wanted the usual kind of two- CALLED TO MEETING A score of officials and inves- tigators were called from the| scene of Thursday's crash, 170) miles northeast of. here, for a| closed - door meeting Tuesday.. piece suit, top plus bottom. Sorry, the mail order house replied in a letter, we don't have suits with bottoms in that style. Crash Victim Had $125, 000 In Insurance, "VANCOUVER (CP)--The Sun says B.C., man took out a $125,000 insurance policy on himself be- fore embarking on the Cana- dian Pacific Airlines plane that crashed, killing 52. The newspaper identified the man as Douglas G. Edgar, 40, one of the passengers on the flight. The Sun says the policy would have cost Edgar about. $4.50, and was in favor of the widow, Evelyn Victoria Edgar. "Mrs. Edgar would not com- 'ment on the report. Varicouver police said Edgar was convicted twice in 1959 on charges of keeping a gaming house, which they described as a "heavy-betting poker game." One of the bodies from the crash now in the Vancouver morgue has been _ tentatively Tdentified as Edgar's. It was one of those x-rayed for metal fragments which would indicate proximity to the blast believed to have wrecked the airliner. The $125,000 policy is the heaviest single policy known to have been taken out by any of the plane's 46 passengers. ; Mrs, Edgar said her husband was travelling to Prince George looking for a construction job when the DC-6B went down. Mrs. Edgar said Tuesday she had strict instructions from her lawyer ta discuss the insurance) an. unemployed Surrey, ® Paper Says | | DOUGLAS EDGAR policy with no one, including police, without his advice. She said her lawyer had told her she would be interviewed) by detectives, «a explosive a fly landing on it would set it off." "The biggest problem in mix- ing it would be to avoid being blown up in the. process." Investigators have found no traces of nitrates, which would indicate use of such substances as nitro-glycerine. Both Dr. Lovell and Mr. Mc- Donald: stressed that discussion of picric acid is hypothetical, since the acid burns have not been identified. Picric acid, a basic substance in several widely - used 'high Dnornnarinrnoeerreenr eet STEVENS LONDON (AP) -- Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S, ambas- sador to the United Nations, died in London today, the U.S. Embassy announced. Stevenson had been visit- ing London for talks with British officials. He had seen Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart this morn- Paul ss nnn unre aeity seo SAIGON (AP) -- Ground and air war raged in the Da Nang jjarea of South Viet Nam today as more than 150 planes at- tacked a suspected Viet Cong headquarters and Viet guerrillas overran a_ govern-; ment outpost, killing 26 defend-| ers. Between 150 and 200 U.S.) planes blasted a 1.5-square-mile| area 40 miles south of Da Nang \for three hours in one of the heaviest air assaults in the cen- tral highlands in months, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said. Twenty-five miles southwest of Da Nang, a guerrilla force of unknown strength overran a government outpost at An Hoa killing 26 in the garrison and wounding one, a U.S. Army spokesman said, One U.S. Marine was killed and one wounded Tuesday night in a skirmish with the Viet Cong seven miles northeast of the Da Nang air base, a U.S. marine spokesman reported, Viet Cong casualties were not known. The Son La army depot, 125 miles west of Hanoi, was at- tacked today by 21 U.S, Air Force planes, spokesman said. Cong) Net ATT ON DIES He died in St. George's hospital. The embassy said it did not immediately have de- tails of the death of the man who was the unsuccess- ful Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. Stevenson, 65, died about noon EDT. mm Battle Activity Stepped Up; Both Sides Execute Raids The pilots reported they de- stroyed 20 buildings and dam- aged six others, A Fourteen South ~ Vietnamese and American planes joined forces today to attack an army |barracks, 30 miles northwest of Vinh. The pilots reported de- | stroying two buildings and dam- jaging two others. Some 2,900 men of the U.S. jist Division's 2nd Brigade be- gan landing at Vung Tay, 40 miles southeast of Saigon. C-130 transports were flying them to Bien Hoa to build up American strength around the big air base, 15 miles north of the cap- ital. The men from the 1st Divi- sion will bring U.S. troop strength around the Bien Hoa base to about 7,000 men. About 800 Australians also are sta- tioned there. Defence Secretary Robert Mc- Namara and Henry Cabot Lodge leave. Washington for Saigon tonight for a week-long war survey that is expected to lead to a sharp boost in U.S. combat strength in Viet Nam. Such an increase may result in a call-up of thousands of mili tary reservists and an increase in draft quotas. Nicotine Killed Two Boys; _ jenlarged by ire air sa lfrom the main crash scene. ~j\at Chilliwack were leaving forjof close-up photos of Mars. the explosives, is prepared by the action of sulphuric and _ nitric acids on carbolic acid. | Study of the wrecka"ge|' TORONTO (CP)--A coroner's showed acid burns on a toilet|jury said Tuesday that nicotine} |bowl and the lavatory floor. A|poisoning -- not food poisoning| |portion of a stewardess' over- jas first suspected--caused the) night bag bore acid traces and|deaths June 16 of two. east-end| junder a analysis a}Toronto boys. nightgown the bag was} The jury recommended that | shown to be 'pellaaied by what|tobacco manufacturers lab el) could be acid, Part of the nylon|their products: "Keep from the} garment was bonded to a piece|reach of children.' of metal, another possible con-| Thomas Darke, 2, and his) sequence of contact with acid.|brother Glen, 3, were the chil-| The toilet bowl was flattened,|dren who died dn a manner) the floor dished as if pushed} -------------- Bie down violently, and the wash- room basin bent by a_ force pushing up from beneath. Dr. Lovell said a small. ex- plosion near something vital-- such as a' seam in the inner compression skin -- could be Mariner 4 All Ready For Mars PASADENA, Calif. (AP) --| \tucocrath Mariner 4 has re- In other develor ts, the|sp ded to its first earth com- army announced that 18 men |mand in five months, indicat- from the Royal Canadian Army| ing it is ready to begin later school of military engineering|today making an historic series the pressurized cab The rear of the lahe broke) off as the aircraft flew at al jlevel of 16,000 feet, Bodies from |this part were found 1,000 feet) armed with) At 10:28 a.m, EDT scientists) lat the Jet Propulsion Labora-| crash site, metal detectors. An army spokesman said the|tory sent a signal across 134,- Eating Cigarettes Blamed |medical witnesses described as 'unique." Dr. A. L. Chute of the Hos- jpital for Sick Children here said in all his medical experi- jence he had never heard of a child dying from eating cigar- ettes. But he said apparently the boys did manage to con- jsume the bitter-tasting tobacco and it killed them. The boys, children of appli- ance salesman Peter Darke, 30, and Christine Darke, 25, be- came ill June 15. The inquest was into the death of Tommy. TOOK 16 DAYS Dr. Ramesh Gupta, chief tox- icologist in the attorney - gen- eral's laboratory, said a_ six- man scientific team took 16 days to pinpoint the suspected cause of death -- minute quan- tities of nicotine poison in the |blood, stomach, liver and brain tissue. Shortly after the brothers' deaths, merchants in suburban East York were asked to re- move stocks of frozen parfait jeakes since the children had jeaten such a cake shortly be- fore they became ill, But reports that the cause of 'death might have been food soldiers will join RCMP and/000,000 miles of space ordering|poisoning were discounted by transport department officials) warmup of Mariner's in 'searching for wreckage. The)ments. Twenty - four minutes) mine detectors-can detect metal] later an answer flashed back, up to two feeet below the sur-jsignalling that Mariner was} face. _lobeying. instru-| Dr. |who leave cigarette butts with- Gupta's evidence. R. Gupta said all parents in reach of small children are -|waiting for someone to tell them PRESIDENT JOHNSON: MORE SOBER WARNINGS ™ plans fresh domestic steps to United States Digging In For Long And Dirty War By ARCH MacKENZIE WASHINGTON (CP) -- Pres- ident Johnson gave the Amer- ican people another sober warn- ing Tuesdey that the war in Viet Nam keeps getting worse. He indicated there may be U.S. troop buildup there to 150,000 or more. Increased aggression from North Viet Nam "may require an increased American response on the ground," Johnson told a televised press conference. "It is quite possible that new and serious decisions will be necessary in the near future," he said. U.S. troops now total- ling 71,000 would be available for "more active combat." All this boils down to a sharp increase in American man power to help counter Viet Cong strength, which, U.S. sources say, includes three regular di- bsg of the North Vietnamese Arm, The United States is digging itself in for a long war and draft more men aged 19 to 26 and to call up reservists; indi- vidually or by unit. It also means that U.S. com- bat troops will get increasingly involved against the Viet Cong. Johnson said the decisions to WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen- ator Abraham Ribicoff, (Dem. Conn.), chided the automobile industry Tuesday for, as he put it, "always lagging behind, something should be done" about auto safety and other problems. General Motors officials, tifying at a Senate hearing on auto safety, protested that their company has a_ long-standing and costly program to elimin- ate mechanical hazards from their cars, and to promote safety generally. But Frederic G. Donner, Gen- eral Motors chairman, said the company must operate in "a climate of public acceptance." "If we were to force on peo- ple things they are not pre- pared to buy, we would face a customer revolt," he told a Sen- ate government operations sub- committee headed by Ribicoff. Basing his questions on re- sults of what he said was a Cor- nell University study of serious accidents, Ribicoff asked "why the doors on General Motors cars seem to tear off easier than others" in a collision. He said the study showed that less than one per cent of the doors of Ford and Chrysler cars were pulled loose in accidents, while the percentage for General Mo- tors cars were given as "an as- tronomical 5.6 per cent." Harry F. Barr, vice - presi- dent in charge of the GM en- gineering staff, said he knew of "no indication such a differ- ence exists." He, Donner and GM President James M. Roche said they had never seen the Cornell study. Donner said GM has a con- tinuing study of ways to im- prove car locks and hinges, He tes- 'risking their children's lives. Car-Industry Hit For 'Safety-Lags' would know about the Cornell study, and on what it based its figures. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, (Dem. N.Y.), asked whether the Cornell report "'isn't critical of General Motors." "Oh, it might be,"" Donner re- plied. 'I'm trying to say we are improving our door lock. We recognized. the need for doing something about it... and very vigorously." Red Diplomats Spies: Hoover WASHINGTON (AP) -- Most Communist diplomatic person- nel in the United States are a dangerous threat to national se- curity, J. Edgar Hoover said to- day. "The great majority of the 800 Communist - bloc official personnel stattioned in the United States, protected by the privilege of diplomatic immu- nity, have engaged in intellig- ence assignments and are a dangerous threat to the secur- ity of the United States,"' the FBI director said. In a fiscal year-end report, Hoover said members of the American Communist party "continued to constitute a ma- jor disruptive. influence. on the national scene" during the year. Hoover said racial and stu- dent demonstrations throughout the year were neither instigated nor controlled by Communists, but "Communists used the op- portunities presented to infil- trate many of the demonstra- tions and exploit them to their benefit in line with their own said those working on_ this objectives." ESPITE HAZARDS AND POLICE, THIRST MARCHES ON Beer Worth Risk Of Life 'n' Limb JACUMBA, Calif. (AP)-- Mexican border. Two truck Two motorcyclists roared into vans loaded with beer tumbled a train tunnel, off a: flatear into Carriso A few minutes later, having Gorge, 1,000 feet deep. timed things badly, they The railway figured 'the roared back out. A few inches beer, 72,000 cans, was a com- behind them was a train. plete loss. What was at the other end of the tunnel--and worth a confrontation with a diesel lo- comolive? Beer, Thousands of cases of it--all there for the taking. The only problem: Getting 'it out. On May 5, 11 cars of a San Diego, Arizona and Fastern Railway train were derailed north of Jacumba,. in eastern San Diego County near the But adventurous San Diego County youths figured other wise. They heard about the beer, and headed for Carriso Gorge. "It must be one of the' most inaccessible plac.es in the state," said a railway official. "The only way to get there is over the railway right-of-way, four miles in, four miles out, through two tunnels. It's all private property, of course, ny and there's a sheriff's deputy watching it like a hawk." DEPUTY SEIZES BEER Sheriff's Deputy Alfred Dart has pounced on 24 people. Dart seized all the beer they had risked their lives to re- cover, Four. were prosecuted\ for trespassing, the others re- leased, Despite Dart and diesels, nearly all the beer has disap- peared. "There were a couple of close calls in the tunnels," Dart said. "'There were those two fellows on motorcycles. They managed to turn around and were putt - putting out when the front of the train tore the licence plate off the rear fender of one of the cycles, I doubt if they'll go in there again." Then there was a jeep sur- prised by a train, and vice versa, in mid-tunnel. The jeep backed into a niche where it survived, thanks to a clear- ance of 1 inches between it and the train. One youngster fell while: be- ing lowered into the gorge on ropes, He suffered a concus- sion. Perhaps the worse fate was suffered by a truck. driver from. San Bernardino, Calif., and three friends. They la- bored 36 hours in the blister- ing heat of the narrow gorge, hauling beer out of the defile inside truck tires lowered on ropes. And who was waiting for them, and their loot, at the tunnel's mouth? Yep. Deputy Dart. Dut railroaders say the big joke of Jacumba is in the beer-drinking. As one railway official explained: "The beer was in refriger- ated vans. Once it gets warm, it tastes terrible, even if you re-refrigerate it. There wasn't a beer in that gorge worth They leave today for Saigon. Johnson told the public last Friday that things in Viet Nam will get worse before get better. The Pentagon's view is that the Viet Cong, striking harder in the current rainy sea- son, will be more active in Au- gust. American battle fatalities since December, 1961, climbing much more swiftly as direct contact with the Viet Cong in- These big bases are being lo- cated at seaside places where, it is thought, American neeit might can be brought into the picture. Diplomats in Washington say they doubt whether the United States will actually take over the full South Vietnamese war effort, They suggest it is to the American advantage to be able to say that the South Vietna- mese are fighting for their own government. U.S. policy-makers are said to believe they risk a further erosion of South Vietnamese morale if they start to run mat- ters openly. Thus, U.S. "advisers" are exe pected to continue to operate with South Vietnamese units, of- fering advice but not issuing ore ers. What will actually happen, ff is suggested, is that American combat units will go their own way in stepping up contact with the Viet Cong, as, in fact, they have been doing already. There does not seem to be any indication a joint military command will be set up, al- eves the U.S. commanders on the spot are believed to think it would be a lot better if the pers States were running the be made depend on a report|figh Look Better heey gS i (AP)--For thé first time many . months, President Pi Ben has some slight hope for imp: U.S. Soviet relations, despite bit- ter differences between the two powers over the war in Viet Nam. The break in a long diploma- tic stalemate came Monday when the Soviet embassy here notified the U.S, disarmament agency--to. the complete sur. prise of administration officials --that the Soviet government agreed to resume disarmament talks at Geneva. . Exactly the opposite Soviet response, if there was any re« sponse at all, had been ex- pected. The date of the disarmament talks has not been finally de termined. U.S. officials intend to make proposals primarily for agree- ments to halt the spread of nu- clear weapons in the world, and to expand the limited nuclear test - ban treaty, concluded in 1963. The United States wants to proliibit underground tests as well as those in the atmosphere. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS. Toronto Won't Probe Corruption Charge TORONTO (CP) -- City officials said Tuesday night pre- liminary study of a Toronto alderman's charges about slum housing shows a judicial inquiry would not be justified. Ald June Marks presented 324 pages of controversial documents at city hall last week and accused some landlords of deliber- ately creating slums for their own profits. Dorion Charges, If Any, Decided Today OTTAWA (CP) -- John Cassells, Ontario Crown prosecu- tor, will indicate later today whether he will recommend charges as a result of the Dorion inquiry. "If I decide charges are to be laid, then I will say only that the matter is in the hands of the RCMP," he said in an interview. Dr. Sam Sheppard Must Retum To Jail CINCINNATI (AP) -- The U.S. 6th circuit court of ap- peals today denied a rehearing for Dr. Samuel Sheppard in the case in which it had ordered him returned to the Ohio penitentiary to resume a life sentence for murder. Shep- pard, a Cleveland osteopath, had served about 10 years of his sentence when a federal district judge ordered him re- creases, total nearly 500 now. It is expected that American combat strength will be pushed past the 100,000-man level to perhaps more than 150,000 if the Viet Cong continue to punish the South Vietnamese forces, par- ticularly in the hilly central portion of South Viet am. The troops are readily avail- able. Authorities say the United States could furnish 250,000 men from its military, naval and air establishment of 2,500,000, But, they say, this would mean the U.S. strategic reserve would have to be replenished. Right now, the United States has the equivalent of seven di- visions in continental North America. Johnson said the United States will continue building supply and shipping facilities in Viet Nam, at a cost of millions of dollars. trial. leased last July 16 on grounds he had not received a fair Col. McLaughlin Donates Third 420 Wing Presents Wheelchair walking across the street for." A ..In THE TIMES today... Floor To Library -- P. 15 To St, John Ambulance--P. 5 Mays, Marichal Pace N.L. To All-Star Victory -- P. 11, Ann Landers -- 17 Obits --- 30 . City News -- 15 Sports -- 10, 11, 12 Classified -- 26, 27, 28, 29 Theatre -- 22 Comics -- 32 Whitby News -- 5, 6 Editorial -- 4 Women's -- 16, 17, 18, 19 Financial -- 31 Weather -- 2.