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ny Be pte RE EOIN ALTE en a a i le sas he Fc TOLEGS Fs le aks Sa ee oe i Weather Report Mostly sunny and warm this afternoon through Saturday. Low tonight, 68, High tomor- Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties, VOL. 94-- NO, 188 She Oshawa Times vel ee Bates OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY; AUGUST 13, 1965 Authorized 08 Second Class Me Ottewe and for pavment row, 88, . a! ig 4 in Cash, ) TWENTY-FOUR PAGES , TL nN rights leaders for years have predicted a race explosion in post-war Negro migration. tion in housing, jobs, education. Unless there was marked im- provement, frustrations cannot be checked. There have been ments. But enough. OSU jley, Pasadena, Long Beach. The areas grow steadily, with |areas -- mostly upper-middle- organize. to extend a sympa- improve- - apparently not |" NTA AE 'THE LID BLEW OFF LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Civil) lands in the San Fernando Val-) thetic hand--is there true inte- | gration. Most Negroes head here seek- this largest city in the U.S.| friction along the periphery as ing "a better way of life." In West, the Mecca of a massive! whites move out. In only a few some ways it is better. Wages are higher than in the south. They say there is discrimina-| Class, in district where whites) There is no discrimination in ublic place Wounded In LOS ANGELES (AP)--Riot- ers fought police on the streets of south-side Los Angeles today with guns, rocks and fire. Ne- gro comedian Dick Gregory, hit by a bullet, was among 100 persons wounded. Police jailed 72 rioters in the second night of violence along Central Avenue in the city's Negro district. More than 700 officers enforced a brief calm at midnight. Then, before RIOTERS IN LOS ANGEL USE GUNS, ROCKS, FI Dick Gregory One Of 100 Wild Melee Police, who hoped to get through the evening with a skeleton force after day-long ef- forts by civic leaders and so- cial workers to head off a new outburst, steadily beefed up forces, Finally there were 200 police, 195 sheriff's deputies, 283 sheriff's reserves and 40 Ca- lifornia highway patrolmen in the melee, ce The night's statistics: 17 ar- rests, 10 peace officers and a Wednesday and _ 'Thursday nights the lid blew off frustra- tions in a neighborhood in the . core of the city's large Negro community. | ; The only surprise in the first § large-scale riots by a racial group in Los Angeles was the cause: A seemingly routine § drunken driving arrest, The violence took place against this background: The Negro population began swelling during the Second World War, when Negroes flocked West at-2,000 a month dawn, mobs filled the streets|fireman injured, 73 lians in- again in an outburst of burn-|jured, a heavy toll of damage. ing, shooting and looting. None of the injuries was re- Gunfire erupted just after/ported as serious. Gregory, 32, had urged a throng! Officers sealed off a_ six- of 500 Negroes to return to their|block area, permitting people to homes. leave but not enter, hoping "I stepped behind a barri-|tempers would cool quickly, cade of police cars and the|They didn't. shots started," he said. "I felt} At least a score of vehicles a pain in my leg. I didn't fall.|were overturned, several were "I walked out past the bar-|burned and countless wind- ricade to a man standing there|Shields shattered. Two stores with a rifle in his hands, I told|were looted and: burned, then him: the mob marched down a street 4 William H. Parker, Los Angeles Chief of Police, is in charge of officers seek- ing to control that ~ has plagued a Negro section of the city the past two nights. , (AP Wirephoto) SN TI Bi ies. FRIDAY THE 13TH? DOESNT WORRY HELEN A BIT Today is Friday the 13th, And. according to folk and other lore if today a cat crosses your path or one _passes under a ladder -- then Kerplunk. Seven years bad luck, But pert Helen Smith, 18, of RR 3, Bow- manville, says phooey. She didn't . mind »being found under a ladder even though she admits to beng "a little bit superstitious," Helen is a clerk at the Oshawa Shopping Centre. No Serious Trouble Here' Amherstburg ; , Ont. (CP) Mayor H. Murray Smith of this Detroit River town is to meet} cod with town council and the Am- herstburg police commission to- night to discuss charges of *'in- ept" policing of teen-age delin- quency and possible anti-Negro disturbances. Speculation here by a town official was that the meeting would discuss the town coun- cil's failure to follow a recom- mendation of the Ontario Police Commission a year ago when it was suggested that another policeman be hired and another Police cruiser be added to the facilities of the five-man force. Mayor Smith said Thursday that contrary to a statement by police Chief George Nannah earlier, the provincial police Mayor Says town to investigate possible breaches of the civil rights e. "Nothing serious has hap- pened here," he said. "It's been blown all out of proportion by the press." BURNING OF CROSS The incidents to which he re- ferred were the burning of a gasoline - soaked wooden cross at a main intersection of the town Monday night, and the marking of various town signs and a Negro church with such phrases as 'Nigger beware. The Kian is here' and "Home of the K.K.K." After this a number of Ne- gro residents of this town of 4,400 population received raci- ally antagonistic telephone calls, would not now be called to the Strike Deadline Is Midnight For 1,250 At Brampton Plant BRAMPTON (CP) -- Negoti- ations broke off completely to- day after a last-ditch effort to avoid a strike of more than 11,250 employees of American |Motors (Canada) Ltd. | The strike deadline for the |members of Local 1285 of United }Auto Workers (CLC) is mid- inight tonight, If the strike ma- terializes, it will hit American - (Motors just as production is |starting on 1966 model vehicles. James Peters, president of Local 1285, said little progress was made at a meeting between union and company representa- tives Thursday. The meeting is one of more than 32 that have taken place since discussions f started in May. "IKEDO DIES Hayato Ikeda, Japanese Prime Minister who put. his nation firmly on the road to. economic recovery follow- ing World War Il, died to- day in Tokyo. He was 65. He had been ill for more than a year with a throat tumor described &#s non- Malignant but of a pre- @ancerous nature. 44P Wirephoto) Wages and fringe benefits are main issues. The company and the union are about 1214 cents apart on wage demands and of- fers, he said. OFFERS 18 CENTS American Motors is offering approximately an 18-cent wage jincrease spread over a three- lyear period which will -expire June 30, 1968, Other proposals submitted by the company in June provided for a new pension plan, extra vacation- insurance as well as other benefits. D. B. Middleton, American ~ |Motors personnel manager, said the contract is almost the same jas the one offered by Ford Mo- tor Co. of Canada Ltd., General Motors of Canada Lid: and Chrysler Canada Ltd. Mr. Peters, however, denied that the company's proposals are on a par with the other three. He said that the union will continue their fight for in- creased pay and added benefits for workers in 50 production classes, --Oshawa Times Photo Bladen Heads Car Workers Loan Plan to take defence jobs. Today, the Urban League estimates, they still flood into Los Angeles at more than 1,000 a month. Nearly 12 per cent, or 334,916, of the city's 2,479,015 population, is Negro. The arrival point for most of the newcomers is the Watts area, scene of the rioting. Its population is estimated at 98 per cent black. It has the area's highest population density, 27.3 persons an acre, compared with the county average of 7.4. EXTENSIVE AREA From the Watts core the Ne- gro residential area extends in a wide belt westward, almost to the sea. There are Negro is- Comedian Dick Gregory winces in pain as he lies on a cotat a Angeles emergency hospital today after being shot in the left thigh as he stood in a riot- torn area of Los Angeles Negro neighborhood. Police said the wound. was not seri- ous. Behind 'him is Don Smith, a CORE Official. : (AP Wirephoto) OTTAWA (CP) -- Professor Vincent Bladen of Toronto and four top-flight. federal civil servants will administer the government's program of loans and benefits to auto workers and manufacturers during dis- locations resulting from the new U.S.-Canada automobile tariff plan, it was announced Thurs- day. Industry Minister Drury and Labor Minister MacEachen ap- pointed the University of Tor- onto dean of arts and science and four deputy ministers to serve on an adjustment assist- ance board. Prof. Bladen was chairman .of the recent royal commission on the automotive industry. Other members of the com-| mittee are deputy ministers, R. B. Bryce of finance, George Haythorne of labor, S. S. Reis- man of industry and J. H. War- ren of trade. | The announcement said many, automotive . parts manufactur- ers will have to undertake pro- duction of new parts and ex- pand existing plants, and be- cause of substantial re-equip- ment and expansion programs there will likely be layoffs. The government has undertaken to tive program. OPEN DOORS AFTER CENTURY YORK, England (Reuters) An enclosed community of Roman Catholic nuns opened its convent gates to the out- side world Thursday for the first time in a century. The Vatican gave special permission for a five - hour visit by the public to the Or- @r of Poor Clares who are celebrating the centenary of their founding. Some nuns in the virtually silent life behind the 20-foot walls had been isolated from the outside world for up to 60 years. "Who are said the bewildered 82-year- old Mother Abbess who joined the order in 1901 -- shortly after she had seen the first electrically - powered horse- less carriage. Recognition Due For Singapore OTTAWA (CP)--The Cana- dian government has_ recog- nized Singapore, which has day night. the Beatles?" | TUSCALOOSA, Ala, (CP)-- Robert Shelton, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, said Thursday that: recent racial in- cidents in Amherstburg, Ont., are not the work of the Klan. He said in -an interview the' Klan knew nothing about the in- cidents and it-was not a Klan activity. Negroes in Amherstburg, 14 miles south of Windsor, have reported insulting telephone calls and a cross-burning inci- dent at the main intersection of the town, the main terminus for the "underground railway" that Amherstburg Race Trouble Not Klan's Work -- Wizard smuggled Negro slaves into Canada about 100 years ago. | Shelton said the incidents were "probably the work of teen-agers with the avowed pur- pose of creating turmoil, or pos- sibly Negroes themselves, to create an incident which would help them collect money."' "We (the Klan) are in con- stant correspondence with in- dividuals in Canada about or- ganizing up there," he said. "However, we are just in the early stages, There is great in- terest in the Klan throughout Canada." By JOHN BEST MOSCOW (CP) --. Observers believe the latest massive pur- chase of Canadian wheat by the |Soviet Union may be the fore- |runner of still larger Soviet purchases in the world market |during the coming crop year. This view has been strength- assist affected workers and help, withdrawn from the Malaysian|ened by the big deal announced the manufacturers because the federation, as an independent|in Winnipeg Wednesday and by economy as a whole will benefit|and sovereign state, Prime Min-jan official Soviet admission from the U.S.-Canada automo-|ister Pearson disclosed Thurs-|Thursday that this year's Rus- |sian crop is poor, Soviet Union Seen Prepared For More Wheat Buys In Mart Two years ago, when Russia had a poor harvest, it made a big deal for Canadian wheat and then followed this up with other large purchases from countries like France, the United States and Australia. The same pattern may well be repeated this year. France, especially, is probably in a good position to land a contract since Russia has been intensively pro- noting trade and political rela- ticns between the two countries. "*You shot me once. Now get off the G-- d-- street.' "The crowd dispersed. There was no more shooting." Gregory said the shooting was directed at the police, not at him. Doctors at Central Re- ceiving Hospital termed his in- jury minor. Police said rioters set a liquor store, a drive-in restaurant and a clinic afire at the corner of Central Avenue and Imperial|just stood by, or strolled Highway, turned back firemen with a barrage of rocks when they sought to fight the-fires, then watched the structures burn to. the ground. Later a lumber yard nearby was set afire. The scene of the rioting is a normally quiet area deep in the heart of what civil rights lead- ers have referred to as Los An- geles' 'black ghetto." And police and Negro lead- ers say the end is not in sight. New violence is expected to- night -- unless unruly young gang leaders can somehow be brought under control. 'An outburst Wednesday night, when a white officer arrested a Negro on a drunken driving charge, led to an eight - hour demonstration with heavy dam- age and more than a score of injuries. After day-long calm, knots of youths and young men formed on street corners at sundown Thursday. Two shoeshine boys began chucking pebbles at pass- ing, cars. In no time, crowds poured out of homes, apartments and shops and were joined by others from , outside the area. They jammed sidewalks and over- flowed into the street, blocking traffic. Rocks grew larger and more numerous with dusk. The tar- get: Anything that moved, in- cluding other Negroes on foot and in passing cars. LID BLEW OFF With darkness, the lid blew off and for 4% hours--from 7:30 p.m, to midnight when po- lice proclaimed the situation controlled--an estimated 6,000 persons milled, ran, shouted, cursed and fought virtually un- controlled. BELLEVILLE (CP)--A trail EX-PRESIDENT OF BOY SCOUTS ONE OF ACCUSED Cobalt Trail Led To Europe hardening agent in steel alloys. , steal between $500,000 and $600,- looting others. Just before midnight as the mob began to thin, a flying wedge of 75 policemen marched ~. Pw fr tay ged that was quarters for the ringlead- ers and dispersed them. A few minutes later, the riot was pro- nounced controlled. IT WAS BEDLAM It was bedlam while it lasted. No one was safe. While many down, a hard core of several hundred gave peace. officers for a time, more than they could handle|#fter.an . Several patrolmen and taunt- ing, cursing demonstrators! tried to pull them from squad! cars. Others that they were lured into the riot area by false reports of trou- ble, then ambushed. Firemen responding to small blazes were set upon. : Shots were exchanged several times during the evening, and California highway patrolman Robert Mitchell was shot in the leg. Police returned «gunfire vig the darkness in one inci- ent, WED 55 YEARS . SEEKS DIVORCE ST. LOUIS (AP)--Charles H. King of St. Louis ob- served his 55th wedding. an- niversary by filing suit for divorce Wednesday. King seeks the divorce on grounds of general -indigni- ties, alleging his wife had Ya nagging disposition and a violent temper." ili qui Ei 5 F i front Police, after a couple managed to. disperse most of the crowd and arrest 16 per sons on charges of disorderly conduct. One policeman suffered mi- nor injuries when he was hit by a flying object. He was treated at hospital and re- leased. A motorist suffered fa- cial cuts after a rock was hurled through a car window, BLOCK OFF STREET Police blocked off one road for three blocks after windows in several cars were broken by rocks and bottles thrown from the crowd. One of the cars was a police wagon and another was owned by: a detective. Po- lice in cars and on foot guided many motorists through the area. 2, > EE LONDON (Reuters) -- The bullion market fell 13g cents no evidence of anticipated g for a big Canadian wheat d death toll in the crash of a theim station when it struck train moving on to another partly overturned. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Price Of Gold In U.K. Falls price of gold on the London an ounce today to $35.17%4 U.S. currency. Dealers reported little demand. There was old sales by Russia to pay eal. Dead Toll Increased To 4 LAMPERTHEIM, West Germany (Reuters) The trans-Europe express train here Thursday rose today to four. The luxury express from Basel to Hamburg was speeding through Lamper- the last car of a freight track, jumped the rails and that led into the United States and across the Atlantic has brought charges against six men in the disappearance of more than $600,000 worth of once-strategic cobalt stockpiled by the federal government in @ tiny village near here, Discovery that sand and gravel had been substituted for the valuable metal in a ware- house at Deloro touched off a ~ furore in the Commons. this spring. It had been stored in 1958-59 and 150 tons were re- ported missing when federal au- thorities decided to release it on the market. Provincial police, who brought an accused group into .court here Thursday, reporied tracing the cobalt as far as Texas and Europe with the help of the FBI and Scotland Yard. The metal is used as @ special IRVING MOLDOVER Two sets of charges were laid and both included William Re- gan, 70, former reeve of Deloro, 30 miles north of here, and one- time purchasing agent for Del- oro Mining and Reduction Co. from whose warehouse the metal was taken, The company ceased refining in 1961 and since then Regan had super- vised demolition of the plant and acted as part-time watch- man, Irving Moldaver, 50, of Peter- borough, scrap metal dealer and past president 'of the dis- trict council-of the Boy Scouts Association there, was charged jeintly 'with' Regan with con- spiracy to steal $70,000 worth of the metal between Dec. 1, 1963, and last March. ¢ 'Regan and four other men were charged with conspiring to 000 worth from May 1, 1964, to the end. of last February. They were Leonard Vigodda, 27, and his father Samuel, 50, scrap metal dealers; Herbert Mar- acle, 40, laborer, and Bernard Boulter, 20, laborer, all of Belle- ville. Five of the" six--all except Moldaver--were arrested Wed- nesday night and appeared in court here Thursday before Magistrate T. Y. Wills. They were remanded to Aug. 18 with- out plea. ' Bail was set at $10,000 for the Vigoddas and $5,000 apiece for Regan, Maracle and Boulter. Meanwhile, police had been advised that Moldaver was on the way from Peterborough to Belleville with a lawyer to give himself up, which he did at mid-afternoon. 7 Russians Short On Drugs MOSCOW (Reuters) -- A huge reorganization of the Soviet drug industry was foreshadowed today following serious complaints of a shortage of drugs in Russian hos- pitals. The Communist party newspaper Pravda says complaints are coming in from all over the country, both from doctors and patients. .. .In THE TIMES today... 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