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~ THE TIMES ~- _ "TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve tising . RA 38-3492 All other calls .....:..RA 83-3474 The Oshawa Times ) " WEATHER REPORT A: little milder tonight, occas. fonal light snow with drizzles Thursday, Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy VOL. 87--NO. 284 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1958 Authorized Post Office Second Class Mall eportment, Ottawa TWENTY-TWO PAGES COFFIN CASE Indian Denies ho Hunters' Murder WASHINGTON (AP) The United States will begin firing a series of satellites from the new Vandenberg base in California in| USE MICE AND APES IN U.S. SATELLITES Test Series Is Announced second stage, the announcement sald, is a new liquid-fuel rocket, HIGH WEIGHT "The first Discoverer-launched i. Lt | QUEBEC (CP) -- Quebec Pro-| Mrs. Lazore said the Indian "48 |yincial Police say they are not was at Brockville, on the recom- Mountains near Malibu Beach | ing many occupied by movie [surprised to learn a Mohawk In-mendation of a Cornwall physi- flames spreading across a hill- | broke out in the canyons and | today. Hundreds of homes have | stars, dian in Miami, Fla., has repudi-| cian, He escaped from the insti- side on Bob Hope's White Oak | slopes of the Santa Monica | been ordered evacuated, includ- o ated his. confession to the murder tution in 1955 and was arrested the next few weeks, Some of satellites are expected to weigh them will carry mice and mon-| approximately 1,300 pounds," the keys, announcement said, "This in~ The defence department's Ad-|cludes the weight of the second vanced Research Projects Ag-|stage vehicle which will orbit as --AP Wirephot Gta ency announced today that thelan integral part of the satellite rere ------ |of three United States hunters in|by immigration officials in Ken- 26 HOMES DESTROYED California Brush Fire Cuts Swath Of Ruin MALIBU BEACH, Calif. (AP)|stood by through the night play-; A prolonged dry spell, a sudden An explosive brush fire cut a|ing water on their homes. One of rise in the wind and a spark from black swath of destruction/them was actor Jackie Coogan, an unknown source combined to through the mountain playground [who cancelled a television ap- touch off the fire at noon Tues- of Hollywood movie stars today, | pearance Tuesday night to watch day along a main highway eight destroying 26 homes, menacing|over his house. miles inland from the Pacific scores more and routing hun-| Fire officials said the blaze Ocean. The possibility of arson dreds of families. {may be worse than the Malibulis being investigated. The $50,000 home of actor Lew [fire two years ago that burned| The fire swept over a ranch Ayres was one of the houses de- (for five days, blackening 42,000/used by the 20th Century - Fox stroyed as the flames raced eight {acres and destroying 99 homes. film company to make western miles across the Malibu hills to|Some of he same ground is be-/movies, causing a company the sea, driven by dry,gale-force|ing burned over now, but most of shooting a television film to flee. winds. |the fire is in the hills running] Evacuation centres were set up Property on ranches owned by down to the seashore about 20 in three schools along the ocean actors Ronald Reagan and Bob miles from Los Angeles. side of the hills, More than 130 Hope was damaged. Canadian-| Early today the fire had cov- persons were bedded down born actor Glen Ford evacuated ered 14,000 acres in a mad, bil- them his flame threatened ranch, lowing surge that left firefighters] Eight firemen were burned trucking out several head of prize helpless to combat it. / when a sudden wind shift sent cattle with him "This thing has gone crazy," |the blaze roaring back at them. The film colony of Malibu said county Fire Chief Keith | They fought through to safety but Beach lay only a mile from the Klinger, directing more than 1,- suffered burns on their faces and Jeaping flames and residents 000 men on the fire lines. hands. in 0 Girls Bitten {Irish Extremists Dogs Sought |x e Firebombed By City Pound City pound dog controllers are skimmed low over a misty moor Ireland (Reuters) breakout Tuesday from a deten- Irish Air Force tion camp here, Of the 60 two were injured seeking two dogs which attacked here today, dropping gasoline when guards opened fire an two Oshawa girls in separate in- firebombs in a bid to drive a threw tear gas bombs during the cidents recently runaway band of underground phreakout. Sixteen men got clear A five-day search for a beagle extremists from their hiding pt two were captured by patrols hound that attacked 15-year-old places. hortly afterward. Marcia Fair, 529 Masson street On the ground a force of 200 The TR.A.. a small hut fanat was continued today police dnd troops moved over the ica) organization pledged to end Marcia was tobogganing with a gorse- and heather-glad scrub- partition in Ireland--by force if land necessary--ha%s been banned by group of children at the Oshawa : Golf Club Eriday afternoon when Object of the hunt are 14 mem- {he government of the Irish Re- bers of the outlawed Irish Repub- public a as by authorities the attacked her. She A lican Army, the remainder ol i, the British Northern Ireland. CURRAGH, Planes of the was well dog Toronto Truck Strikes | Post Office BOWMANVILLE -- A Toronto truck driver, 8. Kirchenblatt 34, struck the front of the Newton-| ville Post Office and general| store near here Tuesday after noon when he attempted to avoid a collision with a line of east. bound traffic on No. 2 highwav.|sion cameramen at the jail where Kirchenblatt said he was ap- proaching the line of cars from| the rear when he applied his brakes and found them to be faulty, As a result he said his truck careened off the highway and into the combination store the Gaspe Peninsula bush five years ago. Wilbert Coffin, 43, a prospector, was hanged in 1956 for the mur- der of one of the victims, Richard Lindsay, 17, of Hollidaysburg, Pa. The others slain were the youth's father, Eugene, 45, and a friend, Frederick Claar, 20. The Indian, Francis Thompson, told Miami police last week that he and a companion, Johnny Greene, shot two of the hunters. But Tuesday night the 5-year-old Thompson denied his story when interviewed by televi- he is being held, "I don't know anything about it," he said in reference to the slayings. NOT SURPRISED In Quebec City, Lt.-Col. Leon Lambert of the Quebec Provincial treated by Dr. J. E. Todd and given an anti-tetanus shot ht for obser- white, has a » back of its name t is suspected that in the neighborhood oe Street School 0c urred an to the of 'Poley' 1s dor live of North Sim The other id when Gloria Gulenchyn, 239 Ma- laga road was walking to Simcoe street south school. Public Health Veterinarian Dr. J. E. Watt ported that the dog had been tied up at an Oxford street address broke loose and attacked the girl, biting her on the ankle A pound official said, "we want to exam the and keep them under observation for a Tic d Both girls were back to school toda. re- e dog 38 Ships Threatened about 60 who staged a mass Minimum Wages For Plumbers Set TORONTO (CP) An agree ment 'setting minimum wage rates for 12,000 plumbers has been signed between the Plumb- ers and Steamfitters Union (CLC «nd a group of 25 contractors who operate on a national basis The agreement is the second of its kind negotiated by the union in Canada. It sets the minimum at $2.25 an hour for the four easterly provinces and at $2.35 an hour for ather provinces. Contractors covere by the agreement are engaged in oil refinefy construction and other large projects. A number of alleged members were rounded up and sent to the Curragh camp after Prime Min ster Eamon de V ra declared a state of mergency in July, 1957 The Curragh camp, known lo- cally as The Glasshouse, was set up during the Second World War to house armed agitators, There have been many protests the Irish government about the camp for detaining per without trial under emer- S. t using; sons gency power THOUGHT FOR TODAY Another pain-in-the-neck is the excessively modest person who has nothing to be modest about 0 In Ige-Clogged Stream MONTREAL (CP Shipping fnched through the navigation system between Montreal and the Great Lakes during the night as captains and pilots fought to get out before the system's Saturday closing. But they were being hampered by the onset of an early winter Some 38 ships -- including 12 ocean vessels--Tuesday were re- ported in danger of being frozen into the system, which gives way to the St: Lawrence Seaway next April ot | caught," think they'll Lachine Canal spokesman Tuesday night "Traffic but moving 'Most of the trouble is ice on the machinery the valve couldn't go down or up." MAY HALT TRAFFIC A spokesman for the transport depariment's signal service said CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 don't get said late is slow | that unless the weather warmed] up, traffic may be halted for the winter. The official forecast for the region called for tempera- tures just below the freezing mark with occasional snow or risk "of freezing rain today, Twelve west - bound lakeships were reported late Tuesday caught in Montreal Harbor be- cause of jammed lock gates, but Lachine Canal authorities said traffic was moving up and down the system / In Lake St. Louis, about 15 miles west of Montreal, 18 ship were reported waiting their turn at edging through the Lachine Canal and into Montreal Harbor I'wenty-five miles further west another eight ships were \tied up a'. Cascades Point on the eastern tip of the Soulanges Canal. In Toronto, John J. Mahoney, general manager of the Domin- ion Marine Association, said he had sent a telegram to Transport Minister Hees protesting the de- lay in taking measures to get traffic moving. MEMBERS COMPLAIN Mr tion represents Canadian ships on the lakes, said members had been calling all day complaining of lack of movement in the locks Once into the St. Lawrence stream below the canal system, which empties into Montreal Har bor, ships may move unhindered Swift, wide water breads up ice and slush before it can take hold However, Montreal Harber of ficials said it appeared the ocean shipping season may end before the projected Dec. 15-17 dates Mahoney, whose organiza and post office, owned by 8. J.|Police, said Thompson's repudia- | Brown, |tion came as no surprise, Damage was estimated at $1000 "But I am surprised that he to the building as doors, win-|took so long to make the denial." dows and front wall were caved| Meanwhile, in Syracuse, N.Y,, in. Damage to the truck was $80.|/Thompson's mother, Mrs, Cather- The accident was investigated|ine Lazore, 59, told police her son by OPP Constable J, T. MacDon- was in a Canadian mental insti- ald, Itution at the time of the murders, De Gaulle Wings To North Africa ALGIERS (AP) -- Charles de|living conditions for the 9,000,000 Gaulle left France by plane for! Moslems in the hope of winning Algeria today to try to speed YP em away trom vebel Jeadar his program for halting the na-| way 5 tionalist rebellion. It is his fifth| It includes distribution to Mos- trip to the North African terri-|lem farmers of 625,000 acres of tory since becoming premier. During the five-day visit he was expected to remove 'Gen. Raoul Salan from control of civil ad- ministration in Algeria and to re- turn government control to civil ians Salan, the French military com- mander for Algeria, has been in charge of the civil administration {through 'agricultural and indus- trial programs and raising pay and working conditions, Despite de Gaulle's hope that a wide range of Moslem opinion would be represented among the 46 Moslems elected to the Na- as well since the May 13 uprising tional Assembly, the 46 all cam- of right-wing European settlers Paigned as supporters of the in and army officers that brought de tegration of Algeria into France, {land withjd' the next five years, creation /of 400,000 new jobs (tucky. 6 CNR Trains Late In Oshawa | CNR officials in Toronto |delayed six easthound trains for | | periods up to five hours on the CNR line at Oshawa during the night, Three of them were pas- senger trains, | The coupling came loose when a 100-car freight train was shunt- |ing from sidings about 8 p.m. Be- fore it ; | freight train pulled two drawbars: [ It was 1 am, before the line |was restored for service, Biggest |delay was to the No. 18 express and mail train from Toronto to Montreal, which reached King- ston five hours behind schedule after leaving here at 8:50 p.m. EST, US. Urges Russ To End Radio Ja UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (CP) The United has appesled to the Soviet Union to |as one way of removing barriers to friendly eo-operation with the West. U.S. delegate George M. Har- rison estima the Soviet Union spends $100,000,000 a year to | maintain 2,500 Jamming transmit- ters, | Harrison told the United Na- tions special political committee that the Kremlin started out with a dozen in 1948 when the Russians began jamming broadcasts of the U.S. state department's Voice of America, He said this 'army of jammers is one of the largest radio sys- tems in the world representing a capital investment of $250,000 000, Unofficial reports say de Gaulle will give civil control to Paul De- louvrier, a veteran economist, Salan's aide, Gen. Maurice Chal- les, would assume military com- mand, TO GET NEW POST De Gaulle was expected to give Salan the new post of inspector General of national defence for France. The cabinet created the] CHICAGO (AP) -- While an- post at a meeting Tuesday night guished parents prepared today in Paris but left it vacant for the|to bury the 87 children who with time being, Information Minister three nuns died in Chicago's Jacques Soustelle announced, worst school fire, the cause of the Duties of the post were not an- catastrophe still plagued investi- nounced. gators. During the tour, which was to qphat it started in the base of a begin today at Bone, de Gaulle giqirwelt in the northeast corner will inspect the Tunisian frontier of our Lady of Angels School region through which rebels slip was generally agreed. The why arms and the how were theories. De Gaulle also may meet some (pe police arson expert theor- or most of the 71 Algerian depu- jzed a cigaret flipped carelessly [ties elected last weekend to the into a pile of trash, a wastebas- new National Assembly. He was ket or papers may have sparked expected to discuss with them his Monday's blaze, A school boy five - year Algerian development speaking a smoke was one pos- plan !sibility, he said. WOULD BETTER CONDITIONS| Flames might have smouldered The plan outlined at Constan- for an hour, said Sgt. Drew tine Oct, 3 is designed to improve Brown, and then flashed up the LATE NEWS FLASHES Israeli And Syrian Artillery Battle JERUSALEM (AP)--An hour-long artillery duel between Israeli and Cyrian units broke out on the borders of the two | countries this afternoon. It ended after a United Nations | cease-fire request Greek Grain Ship Cut In Two LONDON (AP)--The 7.194-ton Greek grain ship Pro- dromos was cut in two in a collision in the fog-shrouded wa- ters of the English Channel today. The crew abandoned ship as an international fleet of rescue vessels sped to the scene All 26 crew members were reported rescued, Gaulle to power. | CHICAGO FIRE Premier Clarifias Inco Stand TORONTO (CP)--Premier Frost said today his govern- ment had "no intention whatever" of taking over the strike. bound International Nickel Company of Canada operations at Sudbury and Port Colborne. a Tearful Parents | Bury Children |staircase to kill the children and uld be fixed another| £3 | PREMIER DUPLESSIS Gilbert|52id today a loose car coupling| ' Que. Gov't Refuses | Free Schools QUEBEC (CP) Premier Du- |plessis has reaffirmed his gov- |ernment's refusal to subsidize educatipn in the province on the grounds that a state-subsidized education leads to state control, The premier re-emphasized the government's stand during debate Tuesday on a Liberal motion re. |gretting the government's unwill- lingness to establish free public education, free school books and a statutory grants to schools at all levels, He said there is no such thing as "free" education and called [the term one of the most hypo- critical used in connection with education, Provincial Secretary Yves Pre is for grant {widely varying local conditions, OUTLINES STAND Liberal Opposition House |Leader Georges Lapalme deliv- ered a lengthy outline of his party's stand favoring free pub- lic education and statutory grants, He spoke of Ontario's system of statutory grants under which school boards knew from provi. sionsin the statutes exactly what government contribution they would receive, He said that in Ontario chil dren attended school longer, The same applied to Anglo-Protestant children in Quebec who had free education over a certain number of elementary grades, {the Roman Catholic nun teach: § ers, Arson was discounted, but not ruled out, PLAN FUNERALS As the search for clues went on, plans for a mass funeral for the children were announced by church officials, Twenty - five priests set out Tuesday from the rectory visiting homes of the victims and seeking |approval for such a service and burial on Friday. In the hospitals the fight for the living went on, Seventy-five of the injured still required hos- pital treatment. Two of them were nuns and one a school jan- E itor. Eleven children were in critical condition. Their battle was made easier by the overwhelming response to |appeals for blood and skin for grafts. Calls blood donors were so great that many were told to call later in the week and even after. BODIES UNIDENTIFIED And in the morgue, three charred bodies still lay unidenti- fie. Three girls were missing, but hopeful parents refused to believe the victims were their daughters. Examination of a steel 30-gal- lon can found near the wooden from prospective northeast stairway failed to turn j up any helpful clues as to the § cause of the blaze In Boston, the National Fire Protection Association, said open doors appeared to be the major cause of death, Association en- gineers reported heavy wooden doors on the second floor were) gases to spread quickly. ~ % 7 4 MEMBERS the OF arson | |open, permitting fire and hot| squad inspect a stairwell lead- | ing to the basement where oifi- | |atmosphere, 5 ? hol, i was {ming of foreign radio broadcasis|in Quebec province because of ary committees all the facts, Project Discoverer program will try to put up a 1,300-pound device in its first launching attempt] "late this year or early next year." At least a dozen satellite launchings will be attempted, Roy Johnson, ARPA director, sald, Johnson also sald that an at. tempt will be made next year to recover a capsule from a satel lite, bringing it back through the Johnson said that the program, for the present, does not include sending up a man, OVER PACIFIC The satellites launched from Vandenberg will be aimed in a southerly direction over the Pa. cific Ocean, Their orbit would be around the world over the North and South poles, The first attempts will be aimed to put the big satellites up to rel. atively low altitudes of a few hundred miles, ARPA estimates they might make two or three passes around the world or per- haps stay up for a week, The first Discoverer vehicle will be a two-stage rocket, The after burnout." Johnson said that he hopes the Atlas Intercontinental missile can be used as a satellite carrier within the next 12 months, He said that with the Atlas it might be possible to put up a satellite weighing 10,000 pounds or nore, using new high energy uel, UAW-GM Meetings Continue Master contract negotiations between General Motors of Cane ada Ltd, and United Automobile Workers, CLC, in Toronto eon. tinued through Tuesday night until 8 a.m, today, The negotiations, entering thelr fifth day, expected to be re. sumed tonight, Merge wari Big io oso esday prior Te master talks, The official statement was is. which TCA Hearing OTTAWA (OP)--Trans-Canada Air Lines has its last chance to. day to present argume! air transport board against al- lowing Canadian Pacific Airlines to' compete for transcontinental passengers, J. G, Edison, counsel for the government-owned TCA, fired the initial rounds of his final argu- ment late Tuesday as two months of board hearings neared an end, He challenged statements by| counsel for Pacific Western Alr-| lines, which supports CPA's bid| for transcontinental routes, that he interpreted as implying TCA! hasn't always given parliament. Cm Ep >. rel % oer BER AR clals believe the fire started in Our Lady of the Angels grade InLastDay nts to the and sued os began June 10, neared six month a ment and continued to press for a contract h woul the wage gap between Canadian ted States auto workers, now about 40 cents, Although the union has a mem- bership mandate to call a strike J if necessary, UAW spokesmen ) sald negotiations will continue ap ' ' long as there is hope for settle ment, Main item in the company's latest proposal is a six-cent-an- liour wage increase, or 2% per cent, which ever is greater, for each year of the contract begin. ning last Nov, 1, The second ine crease would become effective Dec. 1, 1959, and the third Dee, 1, 1960, The union has indicated it wants the increases dated Aug, 1, school en Chicago's northwest side Monday. --(AP Wirephofa) COMMUNITY CHEST SCOREBOARD \ "5 $30,000 $50,000 | $70,000 $90,000 $110,000 $130,000 $150,000 $175,000 ye | | 1 Pp 5120,434.74 SUPPORT YOUR COMM UNITY CHEST