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ter, leave All. Hand nd off at fee in the a meal, 75 watts. TER even fits -k time ! usted for . Motor d stand eater on 725-7373 Home Newspaper' Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman. ville, OL.. 26--NO. -272 Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres "in Onte ario and Durham: Counties, 10¢ $i 8Se Per Wes 4a gle Copy Home Delivered She Oshavwn Fimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1967 Weather Report Cloudy and warmer Friday with a few scattered showers, Low tonight, 30; row, 40. Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department ' Ottawa and for payment of Postage in Cash high tomor- F. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES As little ospital today, a ntil Nov. assault causing bodily harm. The youth had been brough inder police escort. George, Mr. and Mrs. George McDon suffering severe head injuries. A spokesman at Sick Chil dre blood clot. George McDonald| lay between life and death in|pa four-year-old son of -| tance, his morning "there is no hange in his condition. He's ery critical."' outh Held For Assault, Boy, 4, Critical Yesterday, Oshawa police 28 on a charge of threw every available man into the search for George's attack- I tier. Uniformed men, traffic offi- back to the city from Toronto'cers and detectives questioned many people. And, finally, at 10 p.m., Con- -stable Jerry Johnson received Id, 215 Celina St., was found|an anonymous telephone call. in a rail car Tuesday afternoon 0 He went to a house and later called two detectives for assis- They questioned a 15- Hospital, Toronto s a i djyear-old youth. "Our men worked very hard to cover a' lot of ground, said Detective-sergeant John Pow- The spokesman said George'ell. "'and it finally paid off." suffered brain damage and is s pbeing kept alive in an oxygen lent and receiving drug treat- ents. Yesterday, he had an _The youth was taken last night to a juvenile detention centre in Toronto. f The youth was returned to the mergency operation to removejcentre after his court appear- }ance in Oshawa today: | gram says in a world copyright . fer is being protected 24 hours a 'day here against possible at- mpts on his life while police} meeting learned that an inform-| Story that a former Mafia cour- 'Mafia Courier Reported Under Guard In Toronto TORONTO (CP) -- The Tele- |chief, James Mackey, RCMP |Superintendent Joseph Downey, OPP Commissioner Eric Silk jand their aides. | The paper says those at the A Maoh rts x | @re investigating. his reports of|ant walked into the Telegram Mafia operations in Canada. The newspaper says special _ Squads of Metropolitan Toronto » police, provincial police and office last October and told of jlarge Mafia bank accounts in |Canada, investment in private 'business, and criminal involve- Late this morning, George's 'c ae rents, George Sr., and Carol 5-year-old/ Anne, left their home in the cit Oshawa youth appeared in ju-|to be with their son. é enile court and was remanded RCMP detectives are investigat-| ment in gambling, narcotics and ing the courier's story. more. '* Senior officials of all three po-| " Be a apa at meetings| HEE fn raeb gala 5 coated | and could not be reached for! eats | » comment. There was no indica- Bg alle pa cg we Pai f = whether they were attend- in the event of the infecuanta ing & joint meeting. death was turned over to Mr. American police also have/Thurston Wednesday. The story joined the investigation cover-|says that the informant's life e ing Uni * CO, | hi been th it least sat"faseicn and Etope, thence inthe mattwecks story says. "If even half, a quarter, of HAGGARD of the U.S. Brigade move down from crest of Hill 875 Wed- paratroopers 173rd_ Airborne trail ter landing zone. Most of these troops had been in the savage battle for the hill since Sunday, taking heavy losses. The bloody fighting continued Thursday, Viet- nesday to make defence perimeter around a helicop- | | | ' SAIGON (Reuters) -- Ameri- can troops today captured Hill 875 in the central highlands after it was abandoned by North But a Reuters correspondent the hill Wednesday decimated a battalion of the|taken out U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade. The U.S. command in Saigon said there were no immediate details of casualties among ated by nightfall. of the bloodiest fighting in the Vietnam war. No official KEY INFORMANT The courier is described by police as possibly the most im- portant informant in the history of organized international crime, the newspaper says. The story says the police in- vestigation. followed a Telegram investigation into leads supplied by the informant, who is not named. Herbert Thurston, chief investigator for the Ontario Po- lice Commission, is heading the official investigation. The investigation was kept a secret until Wednesday when the Ontario Police Commission held a meeting attended by the Metropolitan Toronto police what he says is true it will be one of the biggest breaks ever in organized crime,'"' the story quotes Mr. Thurston as saying. "It may not destroy the Mafia, but it could very well de- stroy one of the most important Mafia families. And it may be able to uncover'a startling fact --that the Mafia, a basically Si- cilian organization, has allied it- self with large criminal outfits of other nationalities to escape detection." The Telegram says the family that could be destroyed is that of the Bonannos of New York and Arizona. PROTECTION Dogs are not always a postman's best friend so the post offite department is arming letter carriers with spray cans containing ani- mal repellant to ward off any attacks by menacing animals, The post office FOR POSTMEN says its postmen lost 704 engagements with unfriend- ly dogs in 1966, resulting in the loss of 889 man-days. The spray, derived from the pepper plant, has no ill effects on the dogs, that 71 troopers of the 173rd Air- the hill. a WASHINGTON (AP) -- Gen. William C. Westmoreland's opti- mistic assessment of Vietnam war progress has left senatorial critics and supporters of Presi- dent Johnson's policies as sharply divided as ever. Senator Joseph S. Clark (Dem. Pa.), a spokesman for dissenters, said he has no doubt Westmoreland, the U.S. field commander, and Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to U.S. Captures Hill 875 After Fierce Battle who visited the American posi- tions 300 yards from the crest of reported Vietnamese forces who -earlier|that 136 American dead were by helicopter and more than 140 wounded evacu- The official North Vietnamese news agency today claimed that American forces who swarmed/1,160 allied troops, including 710 to the top of the strategic hill to-| Americans, were "wiped out" in day--U.S. Thanksgiving Day--|fighting around Dak To in the after nearly five days of some|three-day period from Nov. 17 to 19. The agency said that North casualty figures|Vietnamese forces Sunday | nam time, Battlefield is | some 15 miles southwest of Dak To. This photo and NY38 of today were taken | by AP staffer Al Chang. --AP Wirephoto killed and 860 wounded in the fighting which raged around| donated $1,000,000 in | t | to Col. R. S. McLaughlin has bonds Hos- in Toronto, it the Sick Children's pital addition | was revealed today. Proceeds from the bonds will be used to finance con- struction of and equipment | for a new intensive care unit of the hospital. "We are simply delighted with the gift," Charles L. Gundy, chairman of the hos- pital_board-- of -trustees-told The Times today. "It's a great assistance to the whole building campaign," Mr. Gundy said Col. Mc- Laughlin's contribution will pay for the major cost of the intensive care unit Col. McLaughlin, currently at his home in Bermuda, has always been interested in the ANKARA (CP) -- Crucial dip- in world capitals today as fears of a Turkish-Greek war over Cyprus increased. hospital and has assisted in ' its development previously, |. 1" London, Prime Minister said a spokesman. The dona. |€Ster Pearson got solid British tion was made to the hospital |support for a Canadian plan board of trustees on Tuesday. Reena at a political solution for : yprus. The hospital started a 12- While the visiting Canadian year building program in 1960--which-will--cost- approx- imately $50,000,000 when com- pleted. The building program includes new buildings on Un- iversity Avenue and renova- tions to the present hospital. jthe negotiations to bring peace to the much-troubled Mediterra- nean island, President Johnson and UN Secretary-General U |Thant hurried special envoys to | Turkey. 'Trouble-Shooter To Be Appointed UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- Secretary-General U Thant is expected to follow up the UN Security Council's unanimous approval of a British peace for- Turkey announced early today jit was turning down a Greek proposal for further talks. The Turkish government reaffirmed jits determination to ensure the security of the Turkish-Cypriot minority on the island 40 miles on the verge of landing troops on Cyprus. jlomatie activity was under way! \leader took a personal hand in l off the Turkish coast, increasing speculation that the Turks were TURKISH-GREEK WAR THI SANTA 'SAM' GIVES MILLION | World Diplomats Strive TO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | For Political Solution ATENS |said in Ottawa Wednesday that Canada is working feverishly through diplomatic and UN channels to ease the tension. The UN force in Cyprus is al- most a personal creation of Martin And now Canada is deter- mined to do everything possible to prevent any recurrence of the withdrawal of the ignominious force from the Middle Fast ast summer, wrote Dave Mc- Intosh, Canadian Press staff writer in Ottawa. McIntosh, a | veteran reporter of Middle East jconflicts, visited Cyprus during the last summer's Arab-Israeli Turkey Will Intervene LONDON (AP) -- Turkey has jwarned the Western allies of its President Johnson, who inter-|firm resolve to intervene mili- \vened when war on Cyprus ap- peared imminent in 1964, res- ponded to the new threat by sending Cyrus Vance to Ankara tarily in Cyprus unless Greece pledges in advance of any peace talks to cut its forces on the is- land. Dak To tince Novy. 1. mula for the Middle East by The U.S. and South Viet-jsending trouble shooter Gunnar namese military headquarters|Jarring to the area to try to get estimated that allied forces|negotiations started. killed 1,290 North Vietnamese in| Informed sources said Thant the 23 days of fighting. \would name Jarring, a veteran ley in November, 1965. day. It was the highest death toll|Swedish diplomat who has among American forces since|served in the Middle East, as 217 U.S. troops were killed and|UN mediator under terms of the 232 wounded during a fierce|British resolution the 15-nation five-day battle of Ia Drang val-|council approved late Wednes- Key point of the resolution was a call for withdrawal of Is- Curfew raeli troops from territory it SEE TEMPORARY LULL The Greeks have, ignalled their readi to rectly with the Turks. jthe situation in the eastern with orders to proceed from} British informants, reporting there to Athens. Vance, a New|this today, said the Greek gov- York lawyer, served Johnson as\ernment so far has declined to a troubleshooter in last sum-|provide such a pledge under the mer's Detroit riots. He is a for-\pressure of military threats. mer deputy defence secretary. however, dis- cuss all outstanding issues di- These developments, coupled with widely advertised Turkish 'tion G 'member of the North + 2! ons, led the + \Treaty Organization, before foreign office to describe Med- Vance's arrival. were given for the battle since|wiped out two companies of the it was announced late Sunday/ist Battalion, borne were killed by units of a North Vietnamese regiment un U.S. General's Optimism Ineffective In Senate 173rd_ Airborne -|Brigade, in repulsing three American attacks on Hill 875. Earlier American reports said Imposed a total of 246 Americans were} CALCUTTA (Reuters) -- Po- on several industrial districts of Calcutta after one man was killed and several were injured on the second day of violent protests against the ousting of the Communist-dominated gov- ernment of West Bengal state. Steel-helmeted troops in At about that time, Westmore-|trucks moved through deserted land was terming the 20-day) streets in the industrial areas | Dak To battle "the beginning ofja leftist-inspired general strike} a great defeat for the enemy."|called Wednesday continued to Creighton W. Abrams Jr., who tad been to Dak To and had made an aerial reconnaissance Police earlier today opened fire to disperse demonstrators who stopped a local train and of the battlefield. tried to set it on fire "With due respect to Gen.| Police also used tear gas 1D Westmoreland," Hartke said, |break up a crowd outside the Saigon, "believe what they are|"more. people have been killed saying when they report pro-jin Vietnam while he was here gress." |telling us about the great victo- "But I can't believe we arejries in that war... . making all that progress. Their; 'We have a half million of the reports are certainly in disa-|best trained American troops greement with those we get/there, all our technology, all of from _ intelligent, responsible! our planes, all of the money of newsmen on the scene. | Communist party offices where] leaders of the United Front party, which formed the ousted state government, met the con- sider their next move. Several} police were injured when the crowd threw bricks at them. Official reports said more Senator John J. Sparkman (Dem. Ala.), a strong supporter |the greatest, most powerful na-|than 200 persons were under ar- | tion in the world. Yet, in somejrest in Calcutta following way, we do not seem to be able| Wednesday's rioting. looting Syria in the June war. Israel has stressed that it will not give up any territory unti the Arabs pave to direct peace talks. But the fact that both Is- lice tonight imposed a curfew|rae] and the Arab states raised no major objections to the Brit- ish formula was considered a major step forward after months of futile bickering. The British formula was adopted after rival Afro-Asian, American and Russian resolu- tions failed to attract sufficient) support for endorsement. | jseized from Egypt, Jordan and Rolz-B of I GUNNAR JARRING « » . UN Trouble Shooter tween Greeks and Turks on C prus, developed after a battle Canadian Ambassador George/last week in which 25 Turkish- two Greek-Cy- Ignatieff, speaking after council/Cypriots and approval of the British plan,/priots were killed. said: | "We believe that this resolu-"and's 600,000 inhabitants are ks for it- (reek Orthodox, the rest Turkish} A r Moslems. The two communities}made this point in a statement tion is clear and spea Also heading for the Turkish capital and then Athens was U| 'Thant's special emissary, Jose turies-long history of strife be- "very dangerous and a matter of great concern." Greece Warns 'No Threats' ATHENS (Reuters) -- Greece warned today that no settlement of the Cyprus crisis could be y- About 80 per cent of the is-jreached if it were subjected to military threats. government spokesman These other proposals were/self. It has the best prospects of have been in a state of armed|welcoming the intervention of the Middle East within a week.!ing peace in the Middle East." given the Turkish minority. Four LSD Trips Blamed For Badly Deformed Baby i. siss.r"ssu"saxa BOSTON (AP)--- University of Iowa pediatricians say they have encountered the first docu- mented case of a baby born with birth defects because her mother had taken the hallucina- tory drug LSD during preg- tried for a political settlement but got nowhere and this effort lapsed. | CANADA NEGOTIATING Zellweger's report did not ine} yyy dicate that all women who have} chromosome breaks as a result of taking LSD will have de-| formed children, but said LSD| taken during pregnancy defi- nitely: may cause birth defects. A UN mediator for a time NEWS HIGHLIGHTS withdrawn in favor of the Brit-lopening the way to the result|/truce since a UN peace force/American and United Nations and Greece He said at a Pentagon newsjkeep stores and offices closed|ish plan. h the which I believe we all desire,/ended civil war in 1964 that fol-jenvoys to stave off hostilities conference he had just spoken|and public transportation at a| There iii Spi his cea namely a state of just and last-/lowed the Greek-Cypriot majori- pecrees Turkey by telephone to his deputy, Gen. |standstill. jenvoy wo Is 3 ty's revocation of special rights)Over Cyprus. The spokesman sajd: "We think direct talks with Turkey will provide a satisfactory solu- tion, but not under pressure of military threats." Intense diplomatic activity jaimed at arriving at a solution jcontinued at the foreign minis- try here today. Pollution Threatens Building Projects iterranean as continuing to be divided Senate foreign relations|war." committee, said in a separate spe interview he thinks Westmore- land and Bunker gave "very satisfactory answers" to ques- tions about the progress in both military and civilian programs. Critics did not seem to agree. Senator Vance Hartke (Dem. ind.), a dissenter, told his col-} leagues Wednesday he couldn't understand why Westmoreland was making speeches at home while some of the most critical battles of the war were under way. | Reds Plan Conference MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Rus- sia has decided to go ahead with plans for an international Communist conference despite opposition from half the world's ruling Communist parties, ob- servers here said today. Many observers were puzzled by the Kremlin decision in the face of varying degrees of oppo- sition to the idea from its Com- munist partners. They thought the answer 0 1 rol might be that Russia abandoned| municipal affairs minister. hopes of a reconciliation with} Mr. McKeough replaces China and decided that it was| Wilfrid' Spooner, one of time for a meeting where the| two. Progressive Conserva- Russian party could be shown to| tive -- ministers personally be the inspiration, if not the| defeated in the Oct. 17 pro- master, of the world Communist| vincial election. The mines movement, portfolio held by the other Premier John Robarts to- day reduced his cabinet by one member in a minor shuffle that saw Darcy Mc- Keough, left, a 34-year-old minister, without portfolio, take on the major role of of Johnson's policies within the|to win because it is that kind of and arson in which 20 persons were injured. ONTARIO CABINET POSTS FILLED nancy. The baby girl, born in lowa | last summer, has a severely de-| formed right leg. Her 19-year-old mother took enough LSD at four times dur- ing pregnancy to have halluci- nations, "to go on a trip," the pediatricians say. j The report by Dr. Hans Zell- weger,-a_professor_of pediatrics, and: his associates is published lin the current issue of a British | medical journal, The Lancet, |printed and distributed simulta- neously in London and Boston. They said they are certain that LSD causes the defect in the baby because there is no ev- idence of birth defects in the families of father or mother, both parents were healthy, and the mother had taken no drug] except LSD during her pregnan- cy. "They also said that in both the mother and the father labora- tory analysis revealed breaks in their chromosomes, tiny cell structures which carry the genes, or hereidtary units. defeated minister, George |LSD SYMPTOMS Wardrope, was esiven to Medical literature recently lands and forests minister, |has contained several reports by investigators who found chromosome breaks among LSD users and said evidence indicat- ed that the defects could be Rene Brunelle, right, giving him responsibility for most of the province's natural resources. The premier also appointed Fern Guindon, |transmitted to offspring, but MPP for Stormont and j|none reported an actual case. chairman of the St. Law- The right leg of the baby -girl rence Parks Commission |born in Iowa is shorter than her left, and is attached to her hip at an odd angle. Her right foot also is short and has only three toes. since 1963, as a new min- ister without portfolio, leav- ing total cabinet strength at 22. Zellweger said - the critical} date of the mother's taking of | LSD appears to have been the 45th day of her pregnancy. ,. | He noted that it coincides with| the experience during the early 1960s with the drug thalidomide,} which was linked with limb de-| formities when taken between| the 42nd and 47th days of preg-) nancy. New York City. Crime Increases NEW YORK (AP) -- Murders | in New York Cify increased by) more than 13 per cent during the first 10 months of 1967, with an even greater rate increase in robberies and felonious as- saults, police revealed Wednes- | day. From Jan. 1 to the end of Oc- tober, 617 persons were slain as compared to 535 for the same period last year, an increase of 82 Although figures. for other} crimes of violence had been! completed for only the first nine months of the current year, these _ statistical 30 robbery jumped more than 30 per cent. In this period, 25,653 }persons were robbery victims jcompared to 15,208 for the same period last year, an increase of 9,845 | Muggings, for which there is no special legal classifications, are included in the robbery fig- ures, compilations | - showed that from Jan. 1 to Sept. }~ TORONTO (CP) -- Air pollution threatens to halt all building development in downtown Toronto, Walter Man- thorpe, city development commissioner, warned today. Mr, Manthorpe said the first casualty is likely. to be a multi- million dollar development plan envisioned for a vacant site opposite city hall. He blamed pollution from the Toronto Hydro smoke stack' on nearby Pearl Street for the stoppage. Montreal Taxi-Driver Robbed MONTREAL (CP) -- An unidentified--Montreal--taxi driver was taken-on-a-forced 175-mile ride to Perth, Ont., éarly today. Police said two youths, one armed with a knife, hailed the cab in Montreal late Wednesday night and forced the driver to hand over an undetermined amount of cash. 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