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THOUGHT FOR TODAY Wet drivers are responsible for more accidents in traffie than wet highways. She Oshawa Sime WEATHER REPORT Mostly clear tonight and Tues day, colder, winds light becoms« ing easterly Tuesday. Vol, 89--No. 25 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1960 Authorized as Second Cl Post Office Department, lass Mail Ottawe SIXTEEN PAGES EARLY-MORNING BLAZE HITS GENOSHA HOTEL 'No Ch ange JET SHOT DOWN | In Defence | Policies | OTTAWA (CP)--Defence Min ister Pearkes said today the Canadian government plans no New Budget Watchdog Appointed OTTAWA (CP) -- Appointment {of Andrew Maxwell Henderson, | Israelis comptroller and chief financial] Israel, Syria Fight Battle DAMASCUS, Syria (AP)--Four had vacated. The FRANCE TO PROSECUTE LEADERS OF REBELLION Cabinet Decides Rule By Decree PARIS (Reuters)--The govern- ment into an emergency session ment today decided to prosecute Tuesday to approve special pow- the leaders of the settlers' revolt ers for the government in the in Algiers. 3 : Information Minister Roger wake of the Algerian insurree- tion. Frey said after a 90-minute cabi- / : ND 4 "ARxing RIE Cine NING R eis BE x why immediate change in its defence Arab fighter planes today shot | program despite the latest failure|down one Israeli Super-Mystere of the American Bomarc-B anti-| jet and damaged another in aj aircraft missile. {battle over the southwestern sec- read to the Commons a tor of the Syrian-Israeli frontier, | Sy eg received today from a spokesman for the United Arab | United States Defence Secretary Republic's First Army claimed. | | Thomas Gates which said that al-| He said four Israeli Super- |though Friday's Bomarc test did|Mysteres penetrated Syrian air| not result in the successful at-|space but were driven off, | {tainment of all the desired objec-| away ; | tives he is confident the basic| TEL AVIV, Istatl (AP) STiee missile design is sound. {Israeli and two Syrian 50 iers were killed today in a pre-dawn ASKS WHY {battle on the southeast shore of | Mr Winch asked why the gov-|the Sea of Galilee. It was the ernment found it advisable to|fourth straight day of shooting proceed with construction of Bo-|in the area. : marc bases in Canada before it| Later, four Syrian MiG jet was known whether the missile|planes fought a brief dogfight would be successful. {when two Israeli fighter planes] Mr. Pearkes said this was ne.|intercepted them at 11 a. And 2 4 officer of the Canadian Broad-inet meeting with President! claimed the United Arab Repub-| ng Corporation, to succeed|Cnarles de Se Sidi lic's army had fortified the vil: Watson Sellar as auditor-general|«g)) crimes committed against lage and was using it as a base|of Canada was announced todav.|the security of the state will be for firing into Israeli territory. Prime Minister Diefenbaker, brought to justice." ered 10 the arm After the Israeli advance into|making«the announcement in the| The government also approved | : ye Commons, said the appointmentia draft law enabling it to rule| The tired rebels trudged out |will take effect March 1. [by decree in accordance with the {rom behind their barricades in 00 Mr. Sellar, auditor-general for Fifth Republic constitution. jihe Aeart 2 He = at 2008, 19 years, retired last summer at| The cabinet decided to call the [SUccumbing to stepped-up arm Was |e" age of 65 from the $20,000-a|N + io1 (Pressure on their positions during ear ross | National / into special i}, last 24 hours, The auditor - general is the| po Gaulle met his ministers. Lie revolt ended without a shot watchdog over the public purse,ifour hours after the right-wing|!2Ving been fired since the first responsible onlv to Parliament. rebels bowed to increase army 02Y: When 28 persons died in a |He audits all receipts and pay-|pressure and laid down their Urry of gunfire between the in- VERSIONS CONFLICT {ments and ensures public money |arms, |surgents and security forces. The Syrians and Israclis gave|is spent for the purposes for| mp. .pinet ssesion originally] Minutes after the rebels moved conflicting versions of the shoot-|Which it was appropriated by|.- "cased for this morning [out from behind the barricades, ing Sundav. The Syrians claimed Parliament. In his annual report, |e" i ac delayed five hours|the army moved in, taking over the Israelis opened up first on|he calls Parliament's attention to| op "oy became apparent that the the former insurgent strongholds ALGIERS (Reuters) -- Right. wing settlers ended today their eight - day revolt against the French government and surrend- the village, an artillery duel de- veloped which lasted four hours. Israeli sources said damag their side of the frontier slight. The Syrians reoccupied the village this morning. United Na- tion observers intervened, and a cease-fire was arranged, cessary so that the construction | An Israeli army spokesman oo of sites might conform with the|said the Syrian planes were date the missile is expected to be driven off from the area over 000 is earmarked for this work/and 'two wounded in shooting in the new fiscal year starting Sunday. Api 1, 1, BLOW UP 50 HOUSES i pian the night Court Denies 2 to The Arab village of { etween the two countries, and ITawfik, in the demilitarized zone VANCOUVER (CP) ~ Tense|naimo Sunday that two men, | |rivalry between the west coast's|whose descriptions fit the pair| ym Ara armors ly th domi | 07 brcsiaie i, smermen uel Vrs Brepanng tn suf 1.0 bunk and 8 mers ul |claimed the Syrians fired first| Mr, Henderson, who has had a C es land that members of the U.A.R.|long and successful career in delivered to Canada, which he Metullah, close to the Syrlanls Lrmy disguised as farmers were business and in the public serv- said is in the summer of 1961. [rael border in northern Gaglilee. | 1. csing into Israel ice, joined the publicly » owned Work already is under way | The Syrian planes were trying| A United Nation spokesman CBC 'in 1957. near North Bay, Ont. and Mont|to penetrate into Israel's airloiq that up to this morning] He qualified as a chartered Laurier, Que., where bases. are|space, the spokesman declared. | cin reo "0 Syria had com-|accountant in Nova Scotia in to be established. The govern-| Seven Israelis and four Syr-\plained of an armistice violation.'1929, ment has already spent about|ians were wounded in the ground | - $10,000,000 on the base work and|fighting. Israel also reported that | another $18,000,000 to $20,000.-|an Israeli policeman was killed ° Off L] 1 Union Officia Beaten In B.C. {render, no | Reliable sources said the gov-| Red - bearded Pierre Lagail- |ernment would prosecute the larde, rated the most obstinute {leaders of the uprising, including of the rebel leaders, emerged student leader Pierre Lagail-jffrom behind the barricades with |larde, cafe owner Joseph Ortiz|700 followers, signalling the end land Jean Demarquet, a former|of the uprising. | right-wing member of the Na-| The rebels cimbed into, waiting {tional Assembly who joined La-|army trucks and were driven gaillarde's forces two days ago. |away to the Foreign Legion para. troop headquarters at Zeralda, HOSTILE TO DE GAULLE i i While the surrender of the Al.|12 Miles outside Algiers, giers settlers rallied the nation ORTIZ MISSING , the crisis has| Missing, however, was cafe left an aftermath of gonce Jos Ortiz, eo-leader hostility toward the 'president|with Lagaillarde of the revo! . He among conservatives im politics was reported to have slipped {and business. laway. Several members of the govern-| His followers gave up with La- ent, including Vice - Premier gaillarde's men after dismane 'Death Appeal {blew up 50 houses the Syrians | {waterfront = unions, which had who attacked Greaves, had been|Jacques Soustelle and War Min-|tling part of the barricade sure fallen into an uneasy lull, erupted following a N.AM.E. member ister Pierre Guillaumat, opposed rounding their stronghold in the there last week. OSHAWA FIRE-FIGHTERS were on the scene minutes after fire started.'in the Fleet wood Room of the Hotel Gen- osha early this morning. In the top picture smoke can be seen | tre hampering the efforts of the first fire-fighters attempting to direct water on the blaze. In the bottom photograph fire- | fighter Arthur Forsythe foes | picks up an axe which was Blaze Ravages anquet Room In Oshawa ained in the northwest corner of the building away from the bed- m area of the hotel The Fle hrou lobby Smoke billowing ridors, rooms and approximately 20 hotel em; as fire ¢g iy 1 banquet room nced be n a double ceiling Genosha early today d between the floors but was d n ridor Fire broke ed In a corridor re-named and t iderable smoke and water wood Room in Oshawa's largest was done to the rest of hotel about 4:30 a.m Parts of a banquet No one Ww injured corridor adjacent to th hotel guests wept room had te be torn rooms, some by firefighters to pour clothes, others 3 ater on the blaze. sarrying the rest of their cloti has been discovered in their hands f blaze but D0S- The fire wa t t i are being considered the elevator op Fire Chief Ray Hobbs will make Matthews, 41, who thorough examination of the in the alarm and hen went f damage later today. floor to floor waking the The room was used for a He had gone to the small group Sunday afternoon floor to check on the wa ad been checked at mid when he saw flames sight. The possibility of a cizaret from under the door. The | -ibutt stuck in one of the chairs in the rooms were also called advanced by the chief but by telephone not confirmed. The wiring Most of the people from the also be inspected, he said. upper floors were taken to the Hotel employees stated they ground by elevator as SMOKE... , nan on the second floor filled the stairs aff saw immediately before the fire was Oshawa Times night staf SW | hoticed. Desk clerk Dave Smith the flames burst i out. do, N€| aid he saw the man wandering second storey window at 2 ont in the corridor near the Fleet- the same time from their of '"® wood Room but watched him go across the street and notified w=. washroom. occupants. of the coffee shop. : | np. "aatthews said a tall dark ROSES STRUNG {man came down the stairs and Minutes later the first fire tried to go out the locked side trucks arrived at the scene and door. When asked what he began pouring water through (wanted, the man replied he was the windows. Later more hoses looking for the coffee shop. were strung through other parts Mr. Mathews said the man of the hotel to reach the Blaz "appeared in a daze and stag No estimate has been made' of gered down the street." Harry the damage. The fire was con- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 and 101 wood Room was com ged. The fire ad- out in the recently PI C dam the dec ho el as as the hall and filed out of their! em In night of ha No cause or the 1 but was any idea of foul play. He said the burned room was locked and {couldn't have been entered | Firefighting equipment from all three Oshawa fire stations were called in to fight the blaze All but the aerial ladder truck were in use at the height of the bl Firemen were forced {masks and air packs to use to man- Finer, hotel manager, discounted | - used to tear away the ceiling. On the right is Fire Chief Ray | Hobbs sizing up the situation. Earlier he was almost over. come with smoke. --Oshawa Times Photos Hotel bottles had to be taken back wana Trucks Blasted In Oregon Strike PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Twohaul paper rolls and ean earry the room, The smoke had pour-|Strings of parked trucks hauling|19-ton loads. FIRE CONTROLLED After hoses had been pouring water into the building for about an hour another smoke filled room was discovered Chief Hobbs was almost overcome with smoke when he rushed into ed through the double ceiling into this room but there was no blaze Most of the guests in the hotel were commercial travellers and the lobby was full of half-stuffed play ¢ While the fire fighters were battling the smoke and flames upstairs the guests ook refuge in the restaurant sip- ping coffee. Mrs. B. M. Parsons, of Lindsay, was shivering in a nightie as all the doors were open to clear out the smoke. Another man, R. La Chapelle ran down five flights sg went, An unidentified traveller was sitting on his samples in the mid- dle of the lobby reading a novel oblivious to all the commotion. Mary McMahon, who has been living in the hotel for sometime, said she grabbed the "first thing with a zipper" and ran Water poured down the stairs into the lobby. More than two hours after the fire trucks arriv- ed men were standing by with the hoses. Others were shovel ling debris out the window or try- ing to clear the water away by directing it down the elevator shaft Mr. Finer said later today that business was back to normal. Aneurin Bevan Makes Progress LONDON (AP)--A medical bul-| letin today said Aneurin Bevan, deputy leader of the Labor party. | "has made some progress over the weekend" in his recovery| FISH RETURNS OTTAWA (CP)--The Supreme Court of Canada today refused an application by Marvin McKee, 20, | for leave to appeal to the court] ggainst his murder conviction of | a Huntsville taxi driver, McKee is under sentence to be hanged Tuesday, Feb. 9, at Parry Sound, for the rifle-slaying of Bruce Spiers, 22, last June. The jury which convicted McKee made no recommendation for mercy. Chief Justice Patrick Kerwin rejected McKee's application be- cause there was 'no ground in law' on which the court could grant the application for leave to| appeal. The court heard only McKee's| counsel, W. H. Green of Parry Sound. Chief Justice Kerwin said that Mr. Green had stated all that could be said and that it was not necessary to hear crown| WITH LOST REEL into violence during the weekend with the savage beating of a top| A car believed to have been |driven by the two men was found union official, | I dd ion. abandoned in Nanaimo Sunday. The attack, py President Rich IPotice said the pair may be from BH Greaves | ine Engineers | Windsor, Ont., and there is a (CLC). was the 32nd incident of|chance they have fled to the violence connected with a seven-| month jurisdictional dispute. | SIU agent Rod Heinekey re- {ported in Nanaimo that his car It brought a slashing attack, "co. oi With red lead Fri- against '"'gangsterism" from Pato 0 G0 Fo 0 po ene ica. O'Neal, secretary of the British w= ] Columbia Federation of Labor | to for readmittance to the CLC olan : : led for|Was turned down--and blamed (CLC). A meeting was called for|pppmn'y oh on to discuss possible federa-| joday to Siscuss p | In Ottawa, President Claude tion action. & ind x i Jodoin of the Canadian Labor Greaves was kicked and beaten Congress said he learned of the unconscious by two men who| AR : burst into his office late Satur. |attack with deep regret and day. He staggered to a mnearby|™ isgust.' {hotel for aid. Hospital officials] He added in a statement that said he was in satisfactory eon-|he has wired the Vancouver La- | dition. |bor Council and the British Co- THIRD ASSAULT CORNER BROOK, Nfld. (CP) -- Canada's first "fish story" of the year comes from the 10th province, where the speckled - trout season opened Jan. 15 through the ice. Dean Hiscock was fishing Birchy Lake through three holes. He used a $14 salmon reel--no rod--at one of them. When he came back after attending another hole the reel was gone Says Hiscock: 'Six hours later I caught a trout at the same hole where 1 lost the reel. In his mouth was a hook with my reel still attached." Hiscock says he has wit- nesses to confirm his story. counsel W. C. Bowman. ! Greaves has been attacked |thorities "in the hope those re-| {for Portland's two strike-affected daily newspapers were blown up late Sunday night in Portland] and nearby Oregon City. Dynamite charges were used to blow up four trucks here, police {Oregon City The explosions jolted a large |City, 13 miles to the southwest jratalives or injuries. |at lof the city. A police demolition squad that rushed there found an) |spreading into the warehouse. for the -newspapers for years-- said. Six trucks were blasted in 20d have continued to do so since iv y t % 0 jest vioelnce since the strike be- area in Portland an reson! gan. There have been a few fires | iin but there were no reports of|y fist fights on the picket line--but The explosions here occurred nothing like what happened last a warehouse in the heavily night. of stairs buttoning his shirt as he|industrialized northwest section] Police could find no witnesses. three times in the last 18 months. sponsible for this despicable act The first attack occurred In| will be apprehended." Montreal and the second in| «The Canadian Labor Congress which he escaped injurv--in Van-| © -|will in no way tolerate gangster- couver seven months ago during gang Zlism in the ranks of the Canadian a strike against Northern Navi-|j por movement," he said. gation Limited. pe EE - |lumbia Federation of Labor ask-| |ing them to co-operate with au-| je Gaulle's decision to use ents. | pre pressure against the insurgents. | mp fei 4 | A A : ir) e uprising ended with a care on "a6 Trt of serial action -- but 30 os side 1 |shots. A rebe icopter sped of {Gaulle in te National Assembly, 7. Lagaillarde's headquarters nn P 0 resu ma net [iD the university shortly before | Debre's i hy ih reworts the surrender. Flite army hell 3 y : : |copters pursu it in a spectac- #5 Detre bimsel} might i [ular chase just above the roof- e government's top civ TeP- tops and forced it back behind |resentative in Algeria, Delegate. |, barricades | General Paul Delouvrier, was re-| pith ported to have urged the govern. | Lagaillarde, a 28-year-old for- {ment not to take legal action mer paratroop lieutenant, was against the leaders of the upris-|Wearing his uniform and smiling ing. But de Gaulle was said to|as he stepped out to surrender. have insisted at today's cabinet|He exchanged salutes with the meeting that they must be pros-|army officers. ecuted. | His followers, dead-tired and | Growing right-wing hostility to|despondent after their eight-day |de Gaulle is based on the belief|revolt, shouted "Long live La- {that the president will yield to|gaillarde" as they trudged after | Moslem nationalism in Algeria|him. |and that his plans for state re-| A genge crowd watched the Sreanizalion oS he neo iS surrender in silence but mus | also sympathize with the army's| red a Cheer as Legailianie was views on maintaining a French riven off in 20 army jeep, Algeria. The Algiers corps commander, Gen. Jean Crepin, announced that BULLETIN the insurgent band would be di- PARIS (AP)--The French cabi-|rected into the fight against the net decided today to call parlia-'nationalist Moslem rebels. Spokesmen for the two other major waterfront unions, _the 40,000-member Canadian Brother- hood of Railway and Transport Workers (CLC) and the 10,000- stron g Seamen's International Union (Ind.) said their organiza- tions were not connected with the assault, The jurisdictional dispute, which primarily involves the SIU and the brotherhood, began i against Northern Navigation. The brotherhood took the 1,500- member N.A.M.E. under its wing| and has made considerable in- roads into SIU membership. TWO STRANGERS Police received reports in Na- The fire was prevented from Both companies have hauled he strike | little newspaper distribution s around the city, and some unexploded charge of dynamite lon the floor of the cab of one |truck, Its fuse had gone out. LATE NEWS FLASHES [CONTRACT HAULERS | A spokesman for The Oregon: |ian said the trucks were owned by firms which do contract haul- {ing for The Oregonian and The {Oregon Journal, the city's two |dailies where a strike was called Nov, 10 by the Stereotypers Union in a contract disputec | The papers hdVe merged forces| 'ald have continued at the Ore- gonian plant to publish a joint edition. * | Shortly after the explosions, |The Oregonian's switchboard |operator received a call from a man who said a bomb was| {planted in the building. | Police rushed to the building, but failed to find explosives. Seven trucks were parked side by side beside the warehouse in Oregon City, Six of the trucks were destroyed by the explosions and the flames that swiftly 'oeuvre in the dense smoke. Air'from a major operation Dee. 20.|curled through the big vans that Inquest Ordered Into Death An inquest has been ordered into the death of Louis Mil- ton Jackson, 39, of Townline east, Oshawa. Jackson died when his car, left the road on Simcoe St. N. Christmas eve. The inquest, conducted by coroner Dr. J. A. Patterson, will be held tonight in the Oshawa Police "Building. TCA Flight 26 Hours Late MONTREAL (CP)~Trans<Canada Air Lines Flight 539 from London arrived at Montreal airport today 26 hours late. The Super Constellation, scheduled to arrive here early Sun- day, developed engine trouble while over the Atlantic Satur- day night a few hours after it left London and was forced to turn back for repairs, The plane carried 59 passengers and a crew of six. Hope Dwindles For 2 Climbers WELLINGTON, N.Z. (CP)--Hope dwindled today for a Canadian and a New Zealand mountain climber now six days overdue in New Zealand's southern Alps. James R. Board of Calgary and New Zealander Anthony Evans, both experi- enced climbers, were last seen Jan. 22 after climbing Mount Tasman, New Zealand's second highest peak. They then were setting off to climb the tallest one, Mount Cools. RUI Firemen examine the ruins of a tw Ander storey frame house in n township, near Wind- | WEL NS PROBED BY -- x ROBED BY FIREMEN 0 alpee, 11, | in the fire, believed eaused by (insert) died Sunday. The boy's | an overheated stove. parents received critical burns ~AP