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Oshawa Times (1958-), 12 Dec 1961, p. 1

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Teamster Vote Proposal Called 'Illegal -- Page 9 © THOUGHT FOR TODAY Morale is when your hands and feet keep working when your head says it can't be done. he Oshawa Cimes WEATHER REPORT Overcast with rain and fog to- day. Colder and windy with snowflurries Wednesday. VOL. 90--NO. 289 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1961 TWENTY PAGES Ottawa and for of Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, payment Cash, Postage in ~ Robarts Names Justice Roach To Probe Crime TORONTO (CP) -- Premier|by the responsible government! arts; bowing to repeated 'departments. omic from a opposition,| "I have been given the re-| Monday announced in the leg- sponsibility of setting up a new) islature establishment of a one- man royal commission to inves- tigate crime in Ontario. He promised his government would take any action neces- sary as a result of the commis- sion report. The premier's decision re- verses a stand taken by for- mer premier Leslie Frost, who several times rejected opposi- tion bids for a crime inquiry. Mr. Robarts left little doubt that his decision had been forced by a speech in the leg- islature Nov. 29 by Opposition Leader Wintermeyer who linked names of individuals and social clubs with organized crime in the province. The Liberal leader's speech also implied illegal operations of many of the mentioned so- cial clubs were made possible ' iy : by the absence of aarteroncr JUSTICE ROACH 3 Oshawa Arrests In Betting Probe TORONTO (CP)--Six persons, Ernest Midgley, 51, Toronto, have been arrested here and in, Marguerite Dice, 33, Reginald Oshawa--and police say more|Cole, 47, both of Oshawa, and arrests are pending--in connec-| Joyce Miller, 31, John Riggs, 41, tion with what is described as a| and Regina!d Dann, 37, the last big gambling empire. three from Toronto. Two men and a woman were; Midgley, Miss Dice and Cole arrested in Oshawa, the re-\were arrested Sunday in Osh-| mainder here, on charges of| awa. Police kept this secret un- conspiring to keep common bet-' tj] after the arrest heye Monday| PRs... j night of the other One report says that "book-' The arrests wer¢ made by: making arrests during the last}members of the Metropolitan few months "'all tied in to a)/Toronto and Ontario\ Provincial gambling empire doing upwards) Police forces. of $25,000,000 business yearly in! Deputy Chief George Elliott of the province. the Metro force said the arrests Arrested and remanded to\developed out of an investiga- Dec. 18 on $5,000 ball are: tion into what he called "the agi "biggest bookmaking operation _ e investigated since the Metro po-| Find Eichmann |! v2: tomes" ini Guilty On All (°*, Fifteen Counts involved betting on other than horse races, police said. Police said papers were found, during a raid on an Oshawa home, indicating that almost $60,000 was. wagered in a day, JERUSALEM (CP)--The spe- cial Israeli court concluded the reading of its judgment on Adolf Eichmann today with a summary finding the former Gestapo colonel guilty on all 15 Living Off Avails Charge Is Ordered counts of an indictment handed down last April. LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Mel- vin J. Butler, 27, Monday was The summation, preceded by) ores red to trial by judge and detailed examination of Eich-|jury after a 19 - year - old mann's role in the extermina-| Prostitute said she gave him all tion of 6,000,000 Jews in Europe,| her earnings, between $9,000 and was a blanket verdict of guilty, $10,000 during seven months of The maximum penalty under a this year. special Israeli law is death Mrs. Ardis Eaton, The three-man court con- serving a three - victed Eichmann Monday of for prostitution, was testifying capital crimes against the Jews,'at the preliminary hearing of then proceeded to outline its Butler, charged with living off views on the details. the avails of prostitution. who is month term jOntario and the sufficiency of| administration in the province," | the premier said, "and I have) no intention of disregarding charges such as have been lev-| elled at two of the departments! of the government, and at sen- ior administrative personnel of those departments. "On the other hand, I must bear in mind that investigations into the conduct of public offi- cials and police officers can be be very destructive of mor- Me cee. he man selected to handle the task is Mr. Justice Wilfrid D. Roach of the Ontario Court of. Appeal. Among. previous in- quiries conducted by the judge was ene in 1958 into charges of intimidation laid against the In- ternational Brotherhood of Teamsters (Ind.). The question of when to start the inquiry has been left up to the 70 - year - old chief com- missioner The premier said Mr. Justice Roach will inquire and report on "1, The administration of the laws and regulations regarding the incorporation and operations of social clubs, having regard to allegations made by the leader of the Opposition in his speech of Nov. 29, 1961. "2. Any improper relation- ships, as alleged by the leader of the Opposition in his speech . . . between senior officials of | the legal staff of the attorney- {general and any person or per- sons, and more particularly re- lating to (a) the termination of| investigations; (b) the suppres-| sion of evidence; (c) the pay-| ment of money; } } "3, The extent of crime in} thelaw enforcement agencies to} deal with it." AW WORKS ALL NIGHT N PICKETING Toronto Man Wins Appeal In Fraud Case OTTAWA (CP)--Toronto mil- lionaire hotelman Ben Smith and threé others including two Americans won appeals in the Supreme Court of Canada today gainst stock theft convictions CONTINUES AT GM PLANTS HERE, UAW - GM TALKS MAY RESUME TODAY COUNTER-PROPOSAL i. By RAE HOPKINS were adjourned at 4 a.m. Mon- United Automobile Workers,|day after negotiators failed to CLC, officials worked on almeet a 12.01 a.m. strike dead- counter proposal to the General line set by the International Motors of Canada Ltd. offer)UAW. Thursday, until the early hours} An estimated 8,000 south plant of this morning. workers walked off their jobs Following a brief ad-\and set up picket lines here at journment, the union committee|11 a.m. Friday. By Monday resumed its meeting at 10.30)morning GM plants in Oshawa, a.m. in an attempt to "work|Toronto, St. Catharines, London out a negotiable proposal to|and Windsor were strike-bound submit to company officials|@"4 surrounded by picket lines. when talks between the two|, The largest picket force was patties resume." in Oshawa where an estimated Contract negotiations between |2;500 workers walked the Picket the union and company, ex. (lines, completely blocking all pected to resume at 1.30 p.m.|%™M operations here. Monday, aimed at settling the) Today, the picket line strength current GM strike, failed to|was reduced by about 1,000 and reopen, \salaried personnel were permit- ; jted to enter the offices. Monday (SET UP PROPOSALS _ morning, only GM plant protec- | At noon today, officials of|tion workers, and 38 American both sides were still setting up| Federation of Labor power plant proposals. A high-ranking UAW|workers were allowed to report official said this morning no/for work. time has been set yet for talks! to resume, but in all probability|SALARIED PERSONNEL they would reconvene this after-|RE' N noon. Steve Nimigon, chairman of The UAW negotiating team,|the Local 222 picket committee meeting in committee all morn-|Said late Monday afternoon the ling took a luncheon break and|committee met and decided to \wilf reconvene at 1.30 p.m. tolallow all salaried personnel te hear sub-committee reports for|return to work Tuesday. its master committee to bring! Heald" the committee was to the union-company bargaining| seeking identification of office tables. |workers to permit them to cross German NATO Officer Accused By Russians | MOSCOW (Reuters) The |Soviet government "has asked) the United States to hand over }Gen. Adolf Heusinger, West | ~ the Soviet foreign ministry press|Britain, F ranee, Yugoslavia, | department, said the accusation/Greece 'and other European was based on documents from/countries as well as in devising Nazi army archives and an ih-'a plan for the seizure of Switz- a for which each had received prison terms of six years. The three others freed by the Supreme Court were Charles Stuart, North Bay, business- man, and New York. lawyers Stanley I. Schonbrun and Sol R. Rauch. They were convicted on a charge of stealing a cheque valued at $960,000 from Brilund Mines Limited last year and their convictions were up- held last June by the Ontarfo Appeal Couri Chief Justice Patrick Kerwin, in pronouncing judgment today, said: "In each of BITES OFFICER GETS 14 DAYS DUBLIN (Reuters) -- De- tective J. K. Branigan told a court Monday that a man he arrested had bitten him "in that part of my anatomy which cannot be produced in court as I am sitting on it." Brian Walsh, 22, described by Branigan as "'one of the worst blackguards.I have met for a long time." was jailed | for 14 days after pleading | guilty to assaulting the detec- live Branigan said he went to a dancehall where Walsh had been ejected and was using bad language. He said he ar- rested him and put him in his patrol car. "T tried to hold his legs in the car because he was try- ing to kick out the windows, I was in that position when he gripped' me with his teeth |™ and refused to let me go. "It was very painful had to count to 10 or I would have destroyed him." these cases the appeal is allowed, the convic- tion of the indictment quashed and a verdict of acquit- tal threof directed to be tered." The Crown the trial that cheque by stripped the Brilund and left the company with 21 ining claims of questionable e charged during the theft of the the four men Mr. Justice Fauteux said that the Crown's case was that the four men by an elaborate fa- brication obtained for their own use and benefit the sum of $960,000 from Brilund's bank account. Prior to the transaction Smith treasury German chairman of the NATO standing committee in Washing- ton, to stand trial for war crimes in Russia. | Soviet note, announced at a press conference here today, asked Washington to take steps to arrest and surrender Heusin- ger, a former general under Hitler, so he can be tried for crimes against peace, military crimes, and crimes against mankind The note said the case of Heu- singer came completely under the 1945 agreement of the United States, Britain, Russia and France for the trial and vestigation carried out by the Soviet commission investigating Nazi crimes, CLAIMS PROOF Algon with its note, Russia has handed the United States photocopies of documentary evidence which it said '"'proved" that Heusinger was guilty of war crimes. Reporters at the press conference were invited to inspect a dozen showcases full of documentary "proof."' Russia said in the note that these documents '"'irrefutably prove" that Heusinger took di- rect part '"'in the planning, punishment of German warpreparation and implementa- criminals, tion of aggression by Nazi Ger- | Mikhail Kharlamoy, head ofi'many against the Soviet Union, en-|-- Decision Pleases | U.K. Right-Wing | LONDON (Reuters) -- British; bombs shipment, which was an- right wing legislators were|nounced last Friday, is among heartened today by the govern-|their supporters -- whether it ment's decision {o withhold ajrepresents the feelings of a promised supply of 24 bombs for| large group of the party or just the United Nations operation in|a vocal right-wing minority. | Katanga pending clarification) Weath, in announcing the de-| erland. sub-committee From August, 1942, it said, been completed, Heusinger took charge of puni- around between tive expeditions on temporarily|and the UAW's negotiatin occupied Soviet territory and team should be ended." "organized bloody reprisals' against the civil population. It added "'the Soviet govern- ment deems it necessary to bring Heusinger to trial for the crimes he committed." Asked whether Heusinger would be tried in absentia if D the U.S. refused to hand him over, Kharmalov said the So- viet government would await the American reply to its note before deciding on a course of action. The note said the case of Heusinger came under the 1945 agreement of the United States, Britain, Russia and France for the trial and punishment of German war criminals. Kharlamov said the accusa- tion was based on documents from Nazi army archives and| an investigation carried out by the Soviet commission investi- gating Nazi crimes. his doctorate of philosophy in Valentina Gri J aan " ? sataher of Ake' phos ioe 4 political science at the Univer- Sugaling sity of Toronto. commission, read out the com-'- reports Pay Student Costs Government Urged TORONTO (CP) -- Davidson unton, president of Carleton University, said Monday night the federal government should pay the cost of bringing Afri- can students to Canada on scholarships. He said a tremendous differ- ence would be made in the pro- gram if the federal government underwrote transportation. Can- ada's help for Africans in the field of education was ex- tremely small in comparison with other foreign projects sponsored by the African Stu- dents' Federation in honor of |George Mwicigi, who is return- ing to Kenya after working on Union officials said when the/the picket lines, have the "wiggling |, the company | n, General Motors today termed e strike "'unfortunate and un- ecessary" and said its pro- '/posal which was under discus- Talks between the two parties 5508 sion when the union recessed negotiations early Monday morning was a substantial one. "It eontains a flexible ap- |proach to the solution of major jissues still in dispute, partfcu- larly in the employee benefit jarea," GM spokesmen said. George Burt, the UAW's Cana- jdian regional director termed |the proposal "totally inadequate to meet the needs of the Cana- dian worker -- and one that would fall far short of avoiding a strike." HOPE FOR EARLY | SETTLEMENT | UAW spokesmen said this jmorning they are still hopeful lof an early settlement. | Agreement was reached Sun- jday night on grievance pro- jcedures and union representa- jtion, but pensions, a fully paid |health insurance plan and the |problem of when to implement ja proposed wage. increase were |stumbling blocks. mission statement listing Heu- singer's alleged crimes. It said the plans' of Hitler's \ | | a of the situation there, cision to withhold the bombs,|@8sressive wars were worked Eleven additional Conserva- said that the government was out by the general staff of land United Nations Jets and his brother Harry owned or| controlled 600,000 company Riddle Strongholds ELISABETHVILLE -- United! cated on a ridge west of the Nations jet fighter planes today, headquarters building. were reported to have riddled) The spokesman said he did Katanga strongholds in new not know the origin or type of strafing runs aimed at breaking the aircraft that attacked the the resistance of the defiant se-| airport or if more than one cessionist Ptovince in The plane made the attack. Bombs Congo. were dropped during a five-hour Informed sources said one air period, beginning at midnight. attack was made on Jadotville, Two Indian Gurkha troops a big copper mining town 80\ were killed and one wounded in miles northwest of Elisabeth- the attack on the UN headquar- ville. ters, the UN announced. It said The jets, believed to be Swed- this brought UN casualties in} ish SAABs, struck at the city's|the Katanga operation to 10 railway terminals and installa-\dead, 37 wounded and 13 miss- tions of the big Belgian-owned ing. Union Miniere mining company,| Katangan casualties are un- the sources said. known, but Gen. Sean McKeown, | A UN spokesman in Leopold-|the Irish commander of UN ville said unidentified aircraft|forces in The Congo, estimated attacked Elisabethville airport) them at 50 to 60 dead. four times before dawn today,| .Ten Europeans--most of them dropping 26 bombs without dam-| Mercenary soidiers--were flown aging any United Nations instal-'to Leopoldville today under that) lations. guard from Elisabethville. The The UN headquarters in the UN said they had been taken Katanga capital also came un-| Psoner during the last week der heavy attack during the fighting in Katanga and night, the spokesman said. from would be interrogated here to Katangan mortar batteries |o- determine their nationalities and roles in the fighting The U.S. Air Force denied re- CITY EMERGENCY ports brosdcas by the Frecch radio station in Brazzaville that PHONE NUMBERS two U.S Giddemaaters a POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HCS3PITAL 723-2211 damaged in Monday night's at- tack on the Elisabethville air- port a New UN air attacks also were reported to have been made; 'against Kolwezi, a major indus-| shares of which 300,000 were in escrow. A total of 2,800,000 shares' of the company -had been issued to 1,800 sharehold- ers. trial centre 150 miles northwest of the capiatl, and on vehicles on main roads. The aerial assault appeared) aimed at paralyzing the Ka-| tanga regime's lines of commu- nication and transport between outlying centres and Elisabeth-| ville where the battle for con-| trol of the embattled capital was in its eighth day. today to have smashed an ultra- The UN said Monday its Tightist plot to assassinate Pre- fighter planes had destroyed a|mier Hayato Ikeda and other power station at Kolwezi, two|!eading members of the Japa- fuel tanks and a railway engine,|nese government. Thirteen men On the ground, the UN forces| Were arrested and weapons and Police Claim Assassination Plot Smashed TOKYO (AP)--Police claimed jpressed their campaign to|uniforms seized in pre-dawn smoke out resisting pockets of|Taids. Katanga troops. Police said the conspirators Heavy fighting Monday planned mass murder because brought a withering UN mortar they felt Ikeda's government assault on the northeast corner| WS incapable of preventing a of the city, still almost wholly |Communist revolution in Japan. in Katanga hands, Authorities said a Japanese UN patrols also bore down on|7dustrialist apparently fi- the outskirts of the city Monday|"@nced the plot in an attempt to clear snipers Arrests are 90 per cent com- who have been harassing the plete, police said, and an at- UN headquarters from hideouts|t¢™Pt is being made to learn if in neighboring buildings '\there is 'ta. man behind the g 8 . scenes. FOOD STOCKS DOWN Unconfirmed reports said the The fighting has sent 700 civij-/plan called for attempts on the ians into refuge in three emer-|life of Ikeda and 16 cabinet gency camps in the city and members and bomb attacks on brought a big demand for dwin- police headquarters, the giant dling food stocks. leftist Sohyo labor union and Long lines formed early today|Communist party headquarters. outside grocery stores in Elisa-|Police said the group planned bethville which had been sup-|to attack "soon," but would not plied by trucks bearing Redisay if a targgy date had been Cross markings. iset. ' 9 forces: The decisive role in this tive MPs were reported adding|*" ' o their names to an anti-bombs-| 'seriously disturbed" by for-the-UN resolution after Dep-| way fighting in Katanga had) uty Foreign Secretary Edward) developed. Heath Monday night announced |---------- angi | that the bombs were being with- a | held. M C d | Six conservative members ore ana lan | had presented the resolution de- ploring Britain's 'decision to U pl y d give further support to the pres- nem 0 e | ence of United Nations military | forces in Katanga." I N b The resolution said the bombs n ovem er "may well provoke further vio-- OTTAWA (CP) -- Unemploy- lence on the part of the Katan-;ment in Canada rose by 31,000, gans and more immediate andito 349,000 at mid-November wholesale destruction of life and/from 318,000 in October--"an) property." unusually small increase" --the| | Conservative right - wingers)Dominion Bureau of Statistics Monday failed in three bids to reported today. obtain adjournment of the) The November jobless figure House of Commons for an em-|was 80,000 lower than for the ergency debate on the issue,/same month of 1960 and repre- which is expected to dominate|sented 5.4 per cent of the Ca- a foreign affairs debate Thurs-/nadian labor force, compared day to 6.6 per cent a year ago. Musi JUDGE STRENGTH It was the fourth month in a The task facing Prime Minis-,Tow in which unemployment de- ter Macmillan and his Conser-|Clined from the corresponding vative party leaders between|Period of 1960 following 17 suc- now and then is to determine|Cessive months of increases in how strong opposition to the|the year-to-year comparison. a " The bureau of statistics said ' . jtoday employment declined less Thirteen Airmen than seasonally between Octo- ber and November, mainly be- ; cause of strength in the manu- Killed In Crash facturing industry. The employ- BRUSSELS (AP) -- Thirteen|/ment drop of 65,000 occurred 3elgian airemen were killed|mainly-in the farm force. when two Belgian Air Force Manufacturing employment, C-ii8 cargo planes collided inj}which normally declines at this mid-air and crashed and burned/time of year because of cuts in near the Cievres military air-/food processing and the output port southwest of here, the Bel- of construction materials, was igian defence ministry reported.|unchanged from October. ' was played by its operations section. ' Heusinger, who since 1937 was the first, officer and from 1940 the chief of this section, carried personal responsibility for its criminal activity. The statement said there was documentary proof that Heu- singer prepared a detailed plan for the invasion of Britain. It added that Heusinger Played an active part in the * preparation and carrying out of the "treacherous" attack on the Soviet Union--and belonged to the group which was particu- larly trusted and close to Hitler. It said he proposed to use' the most cruel oppression against Soviet people. Space Exploring Plans Approved UNITED NATIONS (CP)--!| The United Nations main politi- cal committee approved unani- mously today a comprehensive! program for international co-op-| eration in exploring space. De-| tails were worked out in pri-| vate between the United States and the Soviet Union. | U.S.-Soviet agreement broke a_ three year deadlock on} launching a UN program aimed) at ensuring that space be used strictly for peaceful purposes. Delegates from the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France all hailed the agree- ment as laying the groundwork {Gr fruitful co-operation in man- kind's newest scientific field.| ° GENERAL ADOLF HEUSINGER

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