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wot, mentees wenn FRENCH REDS From AP-Reuters PARIS (CP)--Communists aaa Ral death anasanen ann aan SHOW Communist influence in the STULL meee at i man STRENGTH IN ANTI-DEGAULLE ROW didates obtained - percentages a] ass Gaullists scored gains t : pi ee g 00, # au vag i insite oe " particularly in country . pared with a previous total of there was no clear majority. There was no specific Com- general election in March but who campaigned against Presi- dent de Gaulle's domestic pro- grams claimed surprising suc- cesses today. in French regional council elections, including a near sweep of Paris' working class suburbs. areas, but the Communists took 45 of the districts around Pari sand backers of the French president made important gains. through- out the country, but in the only three in the first round of voting. industrial suburbs, often called the 'Red belt," is traditionally Strong, but their success sur- prised most observers. Waldeck Rochet, French Communist party general sec- retary, said: 'Our candidates Paris area, the Communist can- they had never got in the past."" Partial official statistics from the interior ministry showed that, outside Paris, Communists won 23 per cent of the vote as compared to 21.6 in the last dis- trict elections in 1964. The Gaullists got 17 per cent com- Some 15,000,000 people voted to elect 1,764 general council- lors to local parliaments in each of France's 9 3 depart- ments, A second round is scheduled for next Sunday in races where This run-off affects 123 districts around Paris. The Communist campaign was aimed at turning the local 'elections into a referendum on de 'Gaulle's internal policies, particularly his reforms of .the social security system. munist grievance with de Gaulle's foreign policy. Much of it, in fact, is to their liking. There was a distinct reaction against the Gaullists in three byelections for national assem- bly seats invalidated as a result of alleged irregularities at the the electors returned the same three opposition candidates as before with greatly increased majorities. The results left the Gaullists with the same precarious majority of one seat in the 487- seat assembly. TMP oan suttayesseenesingn a nnn rT : Pete se She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1967 ccna AtenmammeRNNT Ren BIT) ewe in Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, Weather Report Tuesday mainly sunny and warmer. Low tonight 50. High tomorrow 75, VOL. 26--NO. 222 10¢ Single Cop' S5¢ Per Week Home Delivered Authorized os Second Class Mail Post Office Department TWENTY-TWO PAGES ' Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash STARR APPOINTED -- KILLER STORM PROVES FATAL Seven Fishermen Die HUNDREDS IGNORE WARNINGS In Michigan FRANKFORT, Mich. (AP)-- | Hundreds of weekend fisher- 4 men, who came to battle an 7 ; | exciting game fish, ended up in ? ek be hare me | a struggle with a killer storm 9% cad es a . ~ tél that left seven dead. ' ie ol, er Kouseg re The Saturday squall that Ps me ile ; a lashed a fleet of boats along 60 PH apap --_-- - " ' miles of Lake Michigan shore- ee line sent some of the anglers oe he " : 2 home vowing they'd never let Ne ik cies out another line for the Coho . he ment two years ago. MEN SALVAGE small craft den squall Saturday which mated 150 boats were ov today. (Mr. Starr told The Times' The red flag, signifying smell) siong the shores of Lake h : rs as 25 feet. Seven persons feed Neorg In an unprecedented move aes Silos AER COATS craft warnings, was lowered at g s ak caught more than 1,500 aus Manin did Ghdan wetle turned or washed ahsore. Pp *| Ottawa correspondent today: 'I stormy weather ahead! In- alue, brown, cream and beige each colour. salmon. The shoreline was strewn grounded boats after the storm. "The atmosphere was that of a Roman holiday," said Louis & Jeske of Spring Lake, a veteran with: hundreds of 5 angler who put in at Point Bet- 2% sie as the squall built up. Jeske said many of the fish- ermen were "ill-equipped, ill- advised and ill-informed." IGNORE WARNINGS Since Labor Day weekend, thousands of fishermen have been lured to the area around the mouths of the Platte and Manistee Rivers where the Coho gather before swimming upstream to spawn in their home waters where they were planted as fingerlings by the Michigan Conservation depart- Sunday afternoon for the first time in three days for this northern stretch of Lake Michi- gan. Michigan, victims of a sud- Despite the warnings, fisher- fishermen in waves as high 000 and 2,000, went out on the/sized scores of boats, struck by| ¢ |lake Saturday. | winds up to 30 miles an hourjed at hospital in Frankfort for men, estimated at between 1,-| The storm swamped and cap- | and waves as high as 25 feet. 'ie 4 (AP Wirephoto) Nineteen persons were treat- shock and exposure. Leaflets Dropped SAIGON (AP)--As the blast ing back and forth across South \Vietnam's northern frontier went into its third week, U.S.| jplanes dropped leaflets urging | [North Vietnamese villagers to| jjoin the South, officials said some 240,000 leaflets were| dropped in a village just above} the border warning of "the ter-| rible rain of death and destruc- tion" caused by B-52 bombing attacks in the area. Meanwhile, Gen. a \ AT RALLY Marcel Pepin, president of | Ontario Riding Member | To Hold Two Positions OTTAWA (CP) -- Michael Starr has been named interim opposition leader, Robert Stan- field, new Conservative leader, announced today after a caucus of Conservative MPs, The 56-year-old former labor minister who was a candidate for the Conservative leadership will also act as House leader for the Conservatives. will carry out my responsibill- ties to the best of my ability \for the good of Parliament and \the party. (Mr. Stanfield will rely on | : William C } 'ae 1 '| the Confederation of Na- | Massacre nar |Thant Has Bsuree's20,.0S; 275] toner Trece Union snouts MY Mdement and the jutemeat < O ess because of allied' victories dur-| his point across during a ee . s | : : Caged y y : |bench," said Mr, Sta: i @ | ing the last two years, "we are| rally called by the CNTU jbench," sai tr. Starr, when MICHAEL STARR nol position ies ich| Sunday night in Montreal, {asked what Haison there would lose Escape {i in a position from which where some 2,800 striking | «++ New Position R LEVEL, DEPT, 447 Boutonnieres > table or to wear in your omes in coral and talisman ase. ee ae . LEVEL, DEPT. 252 1 d with a convenient hanger round the house . . . takes 1.39 LEVEL, DEPT. 312 ICKIES weaters, under sport. shirts, les fits all sizes. Rib s, one front and one back, ~ @ ALL LEVEL, DEPT, 928 Wlidhecinia LLER-4 ONLY 11 Bore design with easy spin ral and reverse on a single 119.95 LEVEL, DEPT, 254 s E-NECK T-SHIRTS dy for play or school attire. | rib knit cuffs . ... black, 6x. | 47 or 2 for @ 2.87 AR, UPPER LEVEL, DEPT, 901 o> Reported /the picture of ultimate military| |success may be viewed with] bus and subway workers en- jbe between him and Mr. Stan- BENIN CITY, Nigeria (AP)| --Informed sources say hun-) a an oe gio | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fifty congressional action is desira ssioni t stern region of | members of the U.S. House of ble in respect to policies in SEVOERIOIUSY: CBE |Representatives proposed today theast Asia." | Biafra, were massacred in the} hoe ' smal | Sou i Congress take a forma 'As they prepared their move | Goldberg, U.S |that wake of the federal recapture joo, at U.S. policy inthe: Viet- th --Arthur J. U ambassador to the United of Benin City. is wid nam war. ° s Mid- 'orty-si ic. is The capital of Nigeria Forty-six Republicans anc said Sunday he does| t rejection of west Region, was calm today. |four Democrats proposed a res-|Nations, } Its military administrator,|olution asking Congress to|not believe Sovie Lt.-Col. Sam Ogbemudia, how-| decide "whether further|his bid for help in getting North ever, denied the alleged whole-| = che i lle RNa CES sale sanghier. ut informants) Pane insis a sons yer messed iat ot ero ve Hundreds Flee Floods The commander of the feder- ward in his campaign to crack) savage Rio Grande, mon-|sandbag dikes around homes civilians or soldiers. Federal|yecord torrent raging into pra ge said Harlingen was in al force, Lt.-Col. Murta fe the spine of Biafran resistance.) and storm sewers. officers said many Biafran sol-|fringes of five South Texas cit- the most danger of the five troops captured Benin from On 5 Rio Grande Ramat Muhammed, meanwhile g In Benin itself it was hard to|strously bloated by Hurricane| RECALL 1938 FLOOD diers slipped out of uniformljes today after ripping out a/Texas cities threatened by the Biafran troops Wednesday. ordered his troops further east-| HARLINGEN, Tex. (AP)--yhad spent the night building| tell whether the dead were/Beulah's cloudbursts, sent a) The department of _ public when Muhammed's forces fiood control dam. rampaging Arroyo Colorado. arrived. The Texas department of} r SAID BIAFRANS LOOTED public safety warned residents|crest of 34.2 feet in 1958. After Muhammed, 29, blamed the/along the side channel--the |that flood the 300-foot wide steel Biafrans for civilian disorder, Arroyo Colorado--in Mercedes,|and concrete dam was built around Benin, saying they did|La Feria, Harlingen, Rio Hondo|near Mercedes to turn flood-wa- "a helluva lot of looting.' Hejand Lozano to flee to high|ters into a man-made channel also claimed Biafrans shot/ground. : jand away from the Arreyo)and pregnant women and tortured) Nearly 1,000 Harlingen resi-/the cities bordering it. dents fled to shelter by dawn as} water topped the rim of the|here, new rains in the Nueces Arroyo and lapped into neigh-/-River watershed sent fresh |borhoods of fine homes. \flooding into the little town of At 6.30 a.m. CDT the Arroyo|Three Rivers, and people trying surged with 38.2 fect of water|to start. cleanup work were |--more than a foot above the | driven back to high ground. A predicted crest--and it stilllrecord flood crest on the rose. A call went out for more | Nueces bore down on Corpus 'volunteers to help crews wholChristi today. other Midwesterners. The Arroyo carried a flood Meanwhile, 150 miles north of Study Viet Policy has wrecked peace hopes. S.D.) said Saturday night the! United States indirectly told} China several years ago. it! would face massive retaliation including nuclear firepower, if it entered the war in Vietnam. The state department said no one has been threatened and} the White House declined com- ment on Mundt's remarks. dent of the United Automobile) (Workers, advocated a pause in| bombing of North Vietnam "for! a period until I think that we have done everything reasona-|and was dismantled by a Cana-|take the Communist pressure|the smallpox incidence in the don day. Oct bly possible to exhaust the pos-| dian navy bomb disposal unit. | off Con Thien ie : sibilities of new initiatives that PRISONS EASE | ON PUNISHMENT LONDON (AP)--Canes, birch rods and cats-o'-nine- tails will go up in smoke at prison yard bonfires Sun- day, the home office ordered today. The fires will mark the official end of the corporal official end of thé corporal punishment in British pris- ons. The last man to feel the birch whip got 15 lashes in 1962. The order applies to 40 prisons that keep the imple- ments, in case a_ visiting magistrate orders their use. {down as transport minister recently to run the new Cana- dian Transportation Commis- sion he formed earlier this | By GERARD McNEIL OTTAWA (CP)--A new look |Parliament reassembles today with John Diefenbaker, J. W. | Pickersgill and Guy Favreau| year. |gone and Robert L. Stanfield) Newcomer Stanfield is the | guiding the Conservative Oppo-junknown quantity as the Nova | sition from the galleris. Scotia premier won the Con- | A rich legislative plate is|servative leadership at the To- bing served for the occasion|ronto PC convention this month. by the minority Liberal govern-| An acting leader will repre- ment, hoping for a new opposi-|sent him until he can win a tion mood with Mr. Stanfield. |seat in the Commons. He is Prime Minister Pearson is|contesting a byelection Nov. 6 expected to start the busy fall]/in Colchester-Hants, the N.S. session by paying tribute to the| riding where he was born. i departed: Mr. Pearson told a press con- --The deposed Diefenbaker,|ference Sunday a statement on 72, his arch-rival in federal pol-;/-housing, a major problem itics for the last decade; because of lack of mortgage --Favreau, his justice minis-| money, may open business. tr and brightest Quebec hope} A couple of minor bills proba- only four years ago, who died|bly would follow, then a few DIES AT 71 Miss Minnie Mangum, spinster Sunday school teacher who embezzled nearly $3 million, died last night in Portsmouth, Va., at the age of 71. Her arrest in December, 1965, and the disclosure of the embezzle- ments brought ruin to the Commonwealth Savings and Loan Association of Nor- | earlier this year; days on departmental spending folk, Va. --The retired Pickersgill, ajestimates, with revision of (AP Wirephoto) 'formidable debater who steppedibroadcasting legislation to be, i A aN Parliament Has New Look Diefenbaker, Favreau Gone ,:3° 337.2, 9 introduced next week as thie first big job. With 44 sitting days available before the Christmas recess now set to begin Dec. 22, Mr. Pearson has set out 25 "essen- tial" pieces of legislation he would like dealt with. Among them are bills on divorce, abortion, birth control and capital punishment, with free votes to release MPs from party loyalties. Standings in the Commons: Liberals 131; Conservatives 94; NDP 22; Creditistes 8; Social Credit 4; Independent 3; vacant 3--Total 265. Three byelections haye been setfor Nov. 6 to fill vacancies in Colchester-Hants, Bonavista- Twillingate and Jasper-Edson. The vacancies were created by the resignations of Cyril F Kennedy, Mr. Pickersgill anc Dr. Hugh Horner respectively. MONTREAL (CP) -- Secre-|increasing clarity." | re | Ae told South Korean troops) : ; : southern allies} Vietnam to the conference table| United Nations ended a week-|"'have taken tremendous strides tary - General U Thant of the} end trip to Canada Sunday} for the International situation! than the discovery of a bomb during his tour of Expo 67. The bomb -- dismantled six minutes before it was scheduled to go off -- was found near Expo's li-nation Africa Place which was on the secretary general's itinerary. U Thant's visit to Africa | --Walter P. Reuther, presi-| Place was cancelled, The bomb, consisting of a 3.5-inch rocket launcher projec-} tile, was found on a canal bank} about 20 feet from Africa Place A report that a second bomb} had been planted at Expo was) checked by police and proved to be false. The report said a bomb would) \go off at Habitat 67, U Thant {had been the guest of Pierre! Dupuy, commissioner - general | of Expo, who has an apartment} at the futuristic urban housing | project. | .U Thant did not touch on the bomb incident during a_ brief statement to reporters at Mont-| real International Airport! before his departure for New York. | The Secretary - general said) |the H-bomb is the greatest dan-| ger facing the world today. | "This is the tragedy of our| itimes,' he said. 'The moral development of man has not been able to catch up with his) scientific development." Queen sOfSea Bid Farewell ABOARD THE QUEEN queens of the sea, the Mary and the Elizabeth, passed each other in mid-Atlantic for the last time today. And as their mournful! horns sounded in salute across the calm, cold locean at 2:15 a.m., a maritime} era ended. Both ships were fully lighted {with thousands of passengers jand crew lining the decks. zone. .|refuse to give up the post, say tion in .Saigon the toward military --Senator Karl Mundt (Rep. | night and showed more concern the past two years." HIT COMMAND POST In the border battle, Commu- fired ' 300 rounds today at Con Thien, a U.S. marine outpost just 214) Smallpox Kills nist gunners miles below the Marine $3.02. which victory over! he early strike Wednesday more than Expo 67 ' Ps demilitarized} commanders | y-| ing it holds a commanding posi-| infiltration routes Flash bulbs exploded on each deck against the clear, starry night. "We're watching history," jsaid one passenger to her hus-| band. | | "Darling," he replied, "we're |making it."" The Mary and the Elizabeth jglided past each other with a jhalf mile in between. A half hour before the pass- ing, strains of 'Auld Lang Syne broke out spontaneously among both passengers and crew on the promenade deck, of former Indon overlooking Communist down from) NEW DELHI (Reuters)--Ten SUKARNO'S WIFE ARRIVES Ratna Sari Dewi, 26, wife esian Presi- They _ will dorsed their leaders' rejec- tion of a contract offer of the Montreal Transportation Commission labelled as their final offer. which has a wake of Montreal traffic and slashed attendance at (CP Wirephoto) 'i! 10,000 Indians A NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Fs r| here last night from Japan. | hf be staying in | : --ecae, wile s New York. Ratna denied "There will be no messages or signals from Mr. Stanfield." (Mr. Starr also said whatever jstaff he requires to carry. out 'his two jobs will be provided. (Mr, Starr will remain in his Commons seat which is adja- cent to the one occupied by _ = John Diefenbaker in the last! OAKVILLE (CP)--A molotov session of Parliament, Mr,.|C0Cktail crashed through the - Stanfield will eventually occupy|!iving room window of an Mr. Diefenbaker's former seat.)|Qakville home owned by the Mr. Starr will be interim! director , }opposition leader until ela: * oe en ey Stanfield finds a Commons diteies banaue ing services seat. He will run for the Com-|@atly this morning. mons in the Nova Scotia riding} Rennie Vivian, his semi-inval- Bomb Hits Living Room [th during Commons' sessions. | | began left the IMZ, where Nor } 5a d small- . : ; e 1 1Z,. where North Vietnam thousand pe ople died of small of Colchester - Hants in a by-|id wife Merle, and their 17- has perhaps 35,000 troops. pox in India during the first election called for Nov. 6 ig CG r The B-52s mentioned in the|half of this year, it was Mr Stanfield sid on 3 i apgadg oe James escaped leaflets have been trying to/announced today. This is double . hcsaieey Aide Adel the baa the 3 a.m, bombing. ) : seat by acclamation on nomina | Fire damage to the Richmond Bi its ol 23, if no othe:|Road home was estimated at 0 ms ___|previous year. _ candidates oppose him, $2,000. Ford To Lay Off 900 Workers WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- More than 900 employees of Ford of Canada Ltd. are to be laid off today in the wake of strikes against the parent company in the United States. A spokesman for Ford of Canada said the layoffs will bring to 1,500 the number of United Auto Workers Union members forced out of work here. He said the layoffs resulted from a-shortage of parts from the U.S., where the UAW is striking against the Ford Motor Com- pany. | Transport Chaos Hits Montreal MONTREAL (CP) -- The city experienced transportation | chaos again today as thousands of workers travelled to | their factories and offices without the help of public trans- | portation. The 6,000 employees of the Montreal Transporta- | tion Commission went on strike early Wednesday, halting all bus and subway service in the city. Some 2,800 of them | voted Sunday night to endorse their leaders' rejection of a contract offer which the MTC labelled as final. Traffic re- mained heavy throughout' the city during the weekend but | did not become chaotic until the work-day rush hour this | morning. mr ..In THE TIMES Today .. "Campaigns Open -- P, 117 New Team In Whitby--P. 5 E "Pams" Win Opener--P, 8 2 Ann -Londers--12 2 Ajax News--5 City News--}1 Classified --16,17,18 Comics--21 | Editorial--4 | Financial--20 Obituaries--18 Sports--8,9,10 Television--21 Theatres--14 Weather-----2 | Sw xB ¥ aa eho tes miele reports she plans to divorce "Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Whitby News----5 aughter, artika, six Sukarno, who has_ never . 0." Women's--12,13 months old, upon their ar- seen Kartika. | petesWe go. u 3 rival at Kennedy airport (AP Wirephoto) li cL ) a e