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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmar-- ville, Ajax; Pickering and neighboring in On. centres tario and Durham Counties, VOL. 95 -- NO. 47 She Oshawa Cimes y" ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1966 SUNDAY AFTERNOON BLAZE DAMAGES OSHAWA APARTMENT HOUSE City firemen battle a a three-alarm blaze at a Simcoe street north apart- ment building Sunday after- noon while hundreds of spectators look on. The $150,000 blaze completely gutted the third floor of the building at 496 Simcoe north and left more than 50 persons homeless. Some 70 city fire fighters battled the - RA.Emerson Oi CPR Dies MONTREAL (CP) -- R. A. Emerson, president of the CPR, died Sunday. Mr. Emerson; 54, has been president of the huge CPR .or- ganization since October, 1964. His death was announced by a CPR spokesman who said it oc- curred Sunday while his wife was away. His body was discoy- ered today. There was no immediate an- nouncement of the cause of| death. Mr. Emerson, a native of Plum Coulee, Man., first joined the CPR on summer employ- From: 19931 to 1933 he was.a locating engineer in the Ontario department of northern develop- CPR in British Columbia and 'Saskatchewan from 1935-39: He was roadmaster of Mani- toba district from 1939 - 41 and division engineer at Brandon, Man., and Moose Jaw, Sask., from 1941-44. He then became assistant dis- trict engineer, Vancouver, 1944- 46; district engineer Vancouver 1946-48; engineer of tracks, Mon- treal, 1948-50 and assistant chief ment as a rodman at Kenora, Ont., in 1928. He was a vice-president and director of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co, from 1958 to his ap- pointment as president. After starting as a rodman, Mr. Emerson became an inspec- tor in 1929, a transit man in 1930 and a demonstrator at the University of Manitoba' in 1931 engineer, Montreal, 1950-51. He 'served as chief engineer Montreal from 1951 to 1955 and became vice - president of oper- jations and maintenance in May, 1955 | He was elected vice-president jof the CPR in Oct. 14, 1958 and |was elected president of the jcompany and appointed chief loperating officer Oct. 13,1964. Firing Squad In Saigon t and was @ transit man on! ( blaze for six hours before it was finally brought under control: Many of the top floor residents were evacu- ated by ladder. The fire started in a ground-floor apartment and quickly spread to the roof. It was Oshawa's third major blaze this year. (For complete story and additional pic- tures please turn to Page 19.) --Oshawa Times Photo . | e Clubbing Seen Fisher Humane Method TORONTO (CP) -- A Univer- Heard hones that clubbing baby seals | jon the Gulf of St. Lawrence is| N |more humane than many meth:| ames ods of trapping and snaring wild -«Dr. De H."Pimbott called for| Fisher, former New Democratic ;more regulations but said the) Party member of Parliament |elubbing "is just as humane as|ro, port arth h |many of the small slaughter-| Arthur, '¢ays ie heard under federal jurisdiction." jisters. connected with Gerda Dr. Pimlott was one of sev- | Munsinger. eral observers invited by the ; \federal department of fisheries | Mrs. Munsinger is the central \the. St. Lawrence last week. |rocked Parliament with allega- | ras Pot been criticisms|tions of sex and security cases. |that the hunters, who took 50,000; i pad ; baby seal pelts in three days, Mr. Fisher, appearing Sunday some of the baby seals had been|8ram This Hour Has Seven skinned alive. Days, said two of the men he Dr. Pimlott said the skulls of heard of were English speaking the baby seals are soft and the|and two French speaking. than on adult seals with harder|Laurier LaPierre, one of the skulls. He said the club has the|program's hosts, complained potential of being a humane|that former associate defence weapon, but some abuses have/minister Pierre Sevigny |Sity of Toronto zoologist said} animals. | TORONTO (CP) Douglas houses in Ontario which are not|the names of four cabinet min- |to see the annual seal hunt in|8ure in an uproar that has |were cruel and brutal, and that night on the 'CBC television pro- club is therefore more effective} He made the comment after bow |but that press reports had not mentioned a prominent English- speaking man who was a for- mer Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, e had| been linked to Mrs. Munsinger! Weather Report Sunny and milder for to- day and Tuesday. Low to- night, 32. High tomorrow, 45. 2 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Decision By Cabinet Seen Near OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minis- ter Pearson summoned his cabi- net into session on the Gerda Munsinger sex - and - security case today and Opposition Leader Diefenbaker held a long strategy meeting on it with his top members of Parliament. Mr. Pearson told reporters as he went into the cabinet meet- ing that the terms of a judicial inquiry into the Munsinger case will be discussed as well-as the developments in Parliament in the last few days. Any decisions made at the cabinet meeting would be an- nounced in the Commons later today, he said. He would likely have no an- nouncements after the cabinet meeting. Most of the cabinet ministers jappeared grim or thoughtful as 'they brushed through a crowd of reporters outside the door of the cabinet room. Justice Minister Cardin looked straight ahead and said nothing as he went in. Agriculture Minister Greene managed a small grin when he saw the crowd of reporters and the television cameras, and said: "It's just like old home week." DIEF CONFERS Mr. Diefenbaker, who re- jturned to the capital from the west coast Sunday night, first held a conference with Davie Fulton, former justice. minister, and Gordon Churchill, his close friend and former minister. Former members of his cab- inet, with a few other top-rank- ing Conservative MPs, arrived separately through the morning. Among the former ministers were Douglas Harkness, de- fence; Walter Dinsdale, re- sources; Michael Starr, labor; J, Waldo Monteith, health; An- gus MacLean, fisheries; Marcel 'Lambert, veterans affairs; Alvin Hamilton, agriculture; and George Hees, trade. | Also present were Conserva- |tive whip Eric Winkler and Erik |Nielsen, MP for the Yukon. | Mr. Hees, swinging along the corridor to the Opposition lead- ,er's office with his usual jaunty istep, arrived after the confer- lence had been under way for jmore than an hour. Meanwhile, the cabinet began to gather in the cabinet room on the floor below in the Par- liament building to prepare for g Prime Minister Pearson arrives on Parliament Hill this morning: for a meeting with his cabinet prior to the Commons. session which is expected to carry on the Munsinger affair debate. Asked to hold it for just one more photo, the Prime Minister 'said "Oh, I think I better get.to work." (CP Wirephoto) British Watch Munsinger Case LONDON (CP)--Canada's ex- plosive sex-and-security political affair is getting increasing at- tention in the British press. News reports and photographs are being featured in the big na- tional dailies, As yet there has been no editorial comment. "Night club Gerda says I am janticipated fireworks when the) no spy," reports The Daily Mail By PETER BUCKLEY MUNICH, West Germany) central figure in Canada's sex- and-security scandal, will fly Canada to clear her name, her new literary agent said today. | The agent, Josef von Fer- enczy, said in a statement that Mrs. Munsinger has left Munich to escape reporters, but would remain in West Germany, work- ing with his writers, for two or three days. In his statement, Ferenczy confirmed that Mrs. Munsinger, a 37-year-old former beauty queen, is the woman named in the Canadian allegations that she had links with two or more former Conservative cabinet ministers. Ferenczy, who has bought the world rights to her story for his feature agency, Ferenczy Presse Agentur, said he paid hundreds of thousands of marks for Mrs. Munsinger's "shocking story." Mrs. Munsinger, described by her neighbors as pleasant and respectable, slipped out of her modest apartment Sunday night with two unidentified men and SEE PAGE 3 New Commons. blowup. on , Canada tonight or Tuesday) night. : leaving Canada in 1961. She went to Canada in 1955. The apartment is said to rent for 150 marks ($40) a month. Klaus Reissner, manager of the Scotch - Kneipe Discoteque, said Mrs. Munsinger had been working on and off there for the last few months, earning $7.50 a night managing the buffet. SHE'S PLEASANT He described her as pleasant and obliging and said "she must have been a beauty at one time." None of her neighbors could give any information on her background, although all of them had kind words for her. 'She always looked nice--well dressed and pleasant," said a neighbor, a car salesman, "I would not have thought she could have been involved in a scandal," "She always dressed well, al- though not flashy," said a free- lance writer gyho has a nearby apartment. Heinrich A. Kutzer, lawyer for Mrs. Munsinger, said an agree ment with the Toronto Star would end at midnight tonight: Gerda To Fly Here -- Clear Name: A gent Blonde Quits Munich To Work On Her Story knew Pierre Sevigny, former as- sociate defence minister, in a so- (CP)--Gerda Mundnger, blonde|. Mrs. Munsinger moved into cial manner but denied she was | her apartment about three years|4 spy. Sevigny said he knew |ago, apparently after spending]| to! some time in a Swiss hotel after] ally." Mrs. Munsinger 'very casu- CARDIN STARTED IT The Munsiner affair erupted last week when Justice Minister Lucien Cardin said two or more former cabinet ministers in the Diefenbaker government had been involved with the German woman. He said she had been engaged in espionage for the Communists but didn't say when, Lawyer Kutzer told reporters Mrs. Munsinger could not see anyone because she was suffer- ing from "nervous strain." An interpreter, who came to the door of the apartment, pras told the "fate of the Canadian government probably hung on Mrs. Munsinger's story." "We are not concerned with the fate of the government," said the interpreter, an elderly Munich. English teacher. a Here we are only. con- cerned with the personal affairs of the lawyer's client." The many reporters who were attempting to get the Munsinger story were forced out into the street Sunday after a. dispute with the building's janitor in which. one . reporter | (George Mrs. Munsir-or was first 1 Munsinger case likely. Diefenbaker says there was no "security risk" in Mun- singer case. cated in } 4... by. Rob Reguly, a reporter for The Star, who quoted her as saying she' entered a car which had just pulled out. The escorts pushed away one reporter and their car struck another as they drove off. Earlier, Mrs. Munsinger said her being connected with the af- fair was a case of mistaken identity. Ferenczy described Mrs. Mun- singer as "very distressed" and undecided as to whether she should return to Canada to "clear my name," Before leaving the apartment Sunday night, Mrs. Munsinger had holed up for 36 hours as she negotiated with persons seeking to buy her story. In Toronto, the CBC said it will_make a filmed interview with@Mrs Munsinger at noon to- day for possible telecasting in Cuba Prepared "Had Lunch TORONTO (CP) -- The Star quotes Gerda Munsinger, cen- tral figure in Canada's sex-and- security case, as saying that George Hees twice toook her to lunch--and that was all. "The former trade minister yesterday became the second former Diefenbaker cabinet member whose name she's dropped," The Star says in a Munich story by staff writer Robert Reguly. "But her association | with Hees stopped at the door of the downstairs dining room in Ot- tawa's Chateau Laurier Hotel, where he twice treated her to cocktails and lunch, she said. Graham of the Toronto Tele- "~am) wag pehed, re} rmeérly. barter a) |camped on ihe fuira-foor fand. . ing of the Newspaper Quotes Gerda: With Hees" The Star says Mr. Hees de- clined comment on her state- ments when reached in Ottawa Sunday night. "I'm giving this matter a great deal of thought and I think anything I say should be said in the House of Com- mons," The Star quotes him as saying. Mrs. Munsinger told The Star earlier she knew Pierre Sev- igny, associate defence minis- ter in the Diefenbaker govern- ment in the 1958-1960 period. She said the cabinet minister gave her a birthstoge ring and had attended races in Boston with him, flying there on a After lunch they parted." government-owned plane. Commons met at 2:30 p.m. EST.| Mr. LaPierre said he was "hu-| Informants said that by mid.|(oday in a five-column headline Executes War Profiteer By GHORGS SSPER : SAIGON (AP)--A government firing squad today executed the) first war profiteer sentenced to death in Premier Nguyen Cao} Ky's pledged crackdown against widespread graft and corrup- tion. A battalion of Vietnamese paratroops sealed off the Saigon market place to prevent any in- terference from the city's large Chinese population as Ta Vinh, 34, a wealthy businessman of descent, was tied up at dawn at the execution stake. The government rejected all appeals for clemency for the fa- ther of eight who had been con- victed of "economic sabotage"' by a special tribunal named by Ky to deal with war profiteers The charges against Vinh, man- ager of an import-export firm, included hoarding, speculation, illegal transfer of funds and bribery. Vinh's wife, wailing and shout- ing, appeared at the square with seven of her children to plead for her husband's life. Na- tional police kept her behind the barbed wire from sight of. the execution. OTHER PROBLEM EASES | ° While political effect of the execution remained un- clear, a different problem for the ernment appeared to be simmering down. Shops re- opened in Da Nang this morning after two days of peaceful dem- tions there protesting the ul of Lt.-Gen, Nguyen i as commander of the army's ist Corps Thi, 43, a potential rival to Ky, was fired last Thursday by the rest of the ruling military directorate. He had been virtual overlord of the country's five northernmost provinces. Downtown stores in Da. Nang the closed for five hours Sunday, in! 4 a peiieral stiise organized by Thi's supporters -in the coastal garrison town 380 miles north- east of Saigon. An The body of Ta Vinh, 34 | a businessman. of Chinese extraction convicted of pro- | fiteering slumps away from | post to which he was tied | after firing squad of 106 men fired a ragged blast of carbine bullets into his chest in Saigon's downtown market piace early Sunday, & American mission. led by Health Secretary John W. Gard- French-Canadian names brought up in connection. with...Ottawa jner arrived in Saigon to explore | Scandals, ways of helping the government carry out the social reforms promised by President Johnson} jand Ky at their meeting in| 'Honoluld last month. OTTAWA (CP) -- Consumer | prices were higher last month jin all 12 cities regularly sur- veyed by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, the bureau reported today. With food prices leading the |Way, increases in the city in- juna ch Mr. Pears 'Consumer Pricies Show Rise In 12 Cities Across Canada dexes measure the change of prices prevailing in each city, but do not indicate whether it | is cheaper or more expensive to | live in one city or another. | The indexes for February, with January indexes in brack- | ets, are; Halifax 136.0 (135.5); miliated" by. the succession ofjmorning Mr. Fulton had been|accompanied by a photograph of |Mrs. Munsinger relaxing in her) on.|Munich. apartment, | "Minister stakes his career on \'woman spy' case," says The Times headline in telling of Jus- tice Minister Lucien Cardin's al- legations that the woman, a one- time model, had been romantic- ally involved. with some mem- bers of the Conservative cabi- net of John Diefenbaker. (The Munsinger case has re- ceived substantial newspaper play in the United States, par- ticularly in. the tabloid press. The New York Daily News de- voted its entire front page Sa- St. John's 124.4 (124.1): turday to headlines and one pic- sions" against Cuba. Saint ture of Gerda Munsinger, bear-| dexes from January ranged be-| John, N.B., 138.7 (137.8): Mont-ing the caption "The matter|ing Jimiting the number of Chi- | tween one-fifth and four-fifths of| real '141.2. (140.1); Ottawa 141.5|harries Canada." one per cent, The indexes are based on 1949 Winnipeg 138.1 (137.3); Saska- front pages in West Germany | injand other large equipment be-| 132.4|France and Italy. No editorial |longing to Peking's representa-| | prices equalling 100 in each city jexcept St. John's, Nfld., where jthe base is June, 1951. The in- MONTREAL Sevigny, former minister' in (CP) -- the fence baker government, assosiate said today (140.6); Toronto 143.8 (143.1); toon and Regina 134 (133.3); | Edmonton and Calgary | Vancouver 137.5 (136.6); Pierre de- Diefen- sue in the matte said the whole affair had been blown "out of all proportion," and that security is not an is- Pr. (The story has been on the and on the inside pages {comment has been made.) Sevigny whether comment on a report he had given her a birthstone ring or For China Break HAVANA (AP)--Piime Minis-' ter Fidel Castro said today Cuba is prepared for a break in dip- lomatic relations with China, which he accused of "launching an imperialist - type campaign against Cuba." He also denied rumors of growing internal opposition to his government. In an angry 44-hour speech, Castro said Peking apparently was trying to provoke a break in relations by carrying out a "new campaign of calumny" and con- jtinuing its "economic aggres- Castro said he was consider- jnese officials in Cuba as a re- NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Scott May Walk From Commons TORONTO (CP) -- Reid Scott, (NDP--Danforth) says the 21 New Democratic Party members of Parliament may walk out of House today if the two major parties continue to maul each other over the Munsinger affair. Mr. Scott, oné of a number of Toronto-area MPs interviewed during the weekend over the 'sex-and-security Munsinger situa- tion, said he advocated the measure last week and will again today unless the issue is resolved, Ice Walls Trap Ship Passengers : NORRTAELJE, Sweden (Reuters) -- Great walls of ice today trapped 100 passengers aboard a Swedish ferry for a time in the Gulf of Bothnia. Icebreakers managed to |sult of a Chinese request to take jout of the country trucks, cars tives in Cuba. } said. He declined to she had ever been part free the vessel Skandia and she headed for Norrtaelje at low speed, almost 24 hours behind schedule. Royal Invitation Is Turned Down LONDON (AP) -- Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren and" Marlon Brando turned down invitations to tonight's royal film show, where the stars meet the Queen. Vivian Cox, organizer of the royal performance, said: '1 don't regard this as a snub to the Queen." But the cancellation from Brando and Miss Loren at the last minute were described by one of the promoters as 'a cloud of embarrassment.' Invitations to the annual royal show for charity always have been prized by stage and film stars. He was manager of the Sui Hing Import - Export firm and accused of "economic "sabotage" by a special tribunal. He also was victed of hoardi tion { func con- ng, specula ausfers and bribe He | a wife and seven ch (AP Wir ephoto) illegal , ed he received a telephone call Fri- day from Gerda Munsinger and he was "flabbergasted."' He said in an interview the call from Munich, Germany, came to his home and was di- rected to him at his office Mr. Sevigny gave nu details of the telephone conversation. Naturally I was flabbergast- he said. "I had not seen this person in six years and I assumed that she was dead after the announcement to that effect in the House." The former cabinet minister F] He said there had never been any personal animosity between himself and Justice Minister Lu- cien Cardin, who brought up the Munsinger matter in.the House. "It is incredible to think the government would paralyze the nation's business over this to- tally absurd 2ffair. . . . It is sheer nonsense." Mr. Sevigny said he has no objection to a judicial inquiry. "I knew the woman socially, but I have reached a point now where I have said all I am go- ing to say on the subject," Mr. of a group he took on private airplane trips. "T've just spent the most abdominable weekend of my life, and I woke up today, looked in the mirror and said 'This ean't be happening to me,' " A Toronto Star dispatch from Munich Friday quoted Miss Munsiniger as saying that she was a frequent companion of Mr. Sevigny from 1958 to 1960. Mr. Sevigny was deputy speaker of the Commons in 1958 and as- sociate defence minister from 1959 to 1963. ...In THE TIMES today ., Blaze Destroys City Apartment Building -- P 19 4 South American Boys Visit Ontario County -- P 5 Oshawa Generals Win, Lose -- Series Tied -- P 8 Ann Landers -- 20 Obits -- 27 City News -- 19 Sports -- 8, 9, 10 Classified -- 24, 25, 26 Theatre -- 6 Comics -- 23 Whitby News -- 5 Editorial -- 4 Women's -- 20, 21 Financial -- 27 Weather -- 2