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Mainly sunny and cold Sunday, Winds northerly at.15 mph. . THOUGHT FOR TODAY 'A hole in one, scored by acci- dent, can keep a duffer playing golf all his life. Oshawa Times "he VOL. 92--NO, 58 10 take Per. Cony President | Named In | Syria Coup BEIRUT, Lebanon AP -- Thejand told its leaders "we await revolutionary council in Damas-|your instructions." Egypt cus announced today veteran|granted diplomatic recognition, politician. Salah ey has al as did Jordan. : named Premier of Syria in the wake of an army coup d'etat eer pe angele an-| staged by officers friendly 0} nounced in Syria today. Bitar,| © Egypt's President Nasser. --_-- its chief, is believed to favor] Bitar, 50, was a cabinet min-/continued Syrian independence ister in the United Arab Repub- with close ties to Egypt and lic cabinet when Syria andjaiso to the revolutionary gov- Egypt were joined as one na-jernment in Iraq. OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1963 pa gy mg md gn Diss ge mye ~~ 4 EXPLOSIONS Ri DYNAMITE WORK 3 Dead, 27 Hurt | In South Africa Killer Grandma Harangues Jury tion. He quit, however, before the final split and has main- tained his support for Syrian in- dependence. The new rulers claimed con- trol of the country and pro- claimed today a national holi- day. They said the coup took place without bloodshed. Nasser, in Cairo, issued a statement saying his govern- t.ent's support for the new Sy- Tian regime "has no limits" Bitar is the leader o f the moderate wing of the Arab Baath Socialist party. This is a mutli-national party ir the Arab world and the group which re- cently staged the Iraqi revolu- tion. | There were reports of scat- tered resistance within Syria, but the country's borders were sealed and it was impossible to} check them. Syria broke away from Egypt SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-- Grandma Iva. Kroeger, found guilty of double murder along with her husband, Ralph, still hasn't stopped talking. "They must have been paid off,' she said when the jury of eight women and four men re- turned the verdict Friday. "T can sleep with a clear con- scious," she _ continued, B! aven't done nothing to no one. s.ate of ferment ever since. Soviets Claim US. Using Poison Gas MOSCOW (AP)--The Soviet Union charged today that the | Nasser said he had heard of mobilization on Syria's borders, but he did not say who was mo- bilizing. | Traq sent troops to the Syrian |border and said it would fight to prevent any interference with the new government. two years ago. It has been in a PRINCE INSPECTS Prince Peter of Greece in- spects a launch console in the Titap 2 blockhouse during tour of the missile test cen- tre Friday. In background is U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. J. H. Foster, president of the reserve officers association. h LAUNCH CONSOLE Her husband had to be re- strained by defence counsel Prince Peter and 12 other re- |Emmet Hagerty after each serve officers from nine |member of the jury had an- NATO countries visited Cape |nounced the couple guilty of Canaveral as part of tour |first - degree murder. Ralph of American military installa- | wanted to tum his chair around tions. Peter is a Lieutenant |so he could stare into the faces Colonel in the Greek army |of the jurors as they filed past reserve. (AP Wirephoto) |the defence table. United States has used poison | gas agaist cvtions i Sut" VAT aiikqthon Craze persons have perished. : "The world has become wit- ness of another monstrous ttn! ar inne tee SWE DS Ontario Soviet defence ministry. 'The American interventionists have} By THE CANADIAN PRESS pected to finish today. Most of again used poison substances in| Slogging along beside various|the walkers dropped ou: after : ' Bl Hi Seath 'Viet Nam. Hundreds offOntario highways today nearly|the halfway mark. The best of| year-old West Hill man was kill- ast Hits people perished, a great quan-|0 persons were reported at-|the co-eds trudged 34 miles. be- tity of cattle was poisoned." tempting or about to attempt/fore giving up. The newspaper says the U.S.!North America's latest fad--the| Of the tiree others repoited manufactured a poison 28S/50-mile walk. called "GB" at a factory near Denver from a formula cap- tured from the Nazis, and loaded it imto the warheads of splagiles, a "The cross-océan strategists grasped whatever the Best time reported so far was 11 hours and 20 minutes over a highway route northwest of London by one of 65 University ™ Woptom<.Qnigsie students who set off at 3:30 p.m. Friday. finished, one made it back to London at 4:17 a.m. today and the two others arrived at 6:30 a mile jovial today Peter Barnes, 21, of London|feet plodded to the end of the "They never was more wrong," the taciturn Kroeger re- " marked. West Hill Man The two 'ere found guilty of LJ strangling "ay Arneson, 70, and Killed When his estranged wife, Mildred, 58 Car Hits Tree | 15 Killed As PICKERING (Staff) -- A 28- ed early this morning when his car went out of control on High- Ge Pl way 2 and crashed into a tree. rman ant Dead is Roswell Walter Gar- rity. Pickering Township Police say Garrity! was)westbound on Highway 2 when 'his car struck tree at the intersection He was pronounced dead at ARNSBERG (AP)--At least 15 persons were killed and an- other 40 injured in an explosion that ripped through a forging plant at Belecke near here to- day, West German police re- ported. Their bodies were discovered by police last August buried be- neath the patched concrete) floor in the basement garage of the Kroeger home in San Fran- cisco. Assistant District Attorney Francis Meyer maintained the Arnesons were slain: so the Kroegers could gain ownership of a motel in Santa Rosa, Calif. HAD MANY OUTBURSTS Meyer's rebuttal speech was accompanied by a salvo of 124 interruptions from Mrs. Kroe- ger. The outbursts fel! nine short of her previous high ear- lier in the week when Meyer was making his closing argu- ment. Judge Harry J. Neubarth an- nounced after the jury was polled that the insanity phase of the trial of Mrs. Kroeger will start next Wednesday. She had pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity. All that remains fur Ralph is a penalty trial after his wife's insanity trial, He entered a straight plea of innocent. If found legally sane, Mrs. Kroe- ger also would face a penalty trial where the jury would de- cide between a life term or ex- ecution in the gas chamber. Mrs. Kroeger kept the court- room in an uproar throughout the 53 days of trial. She|4¢ shouted, fainted once, and fell asleep forcing a bailiff to carry her. snoring in her chair to an Py JOHANNESBURG (Reuters), Four violent explosions ripped through the world's largest dy- namite factory near here today, killing at least three persons and injuring 27 others. Officials said two Negroes and one white man were killed, although the number of Negro casualties still was being checked. They said earlier reports of a possible 35 to 40 dead were ex- aggerated. Officials at the factory hospi- _ SEEKS DAUGHTER . Truck driver Paul Morey, 31, claims he was fired from his job in Toronto because he took time out to search for his 13-year-old daughter, missing tal said 18 white and nine non- white casualties have been ad» mited. - The explosions at the factory at Modderfontein, 16 miles from dohannesburg, were heard as far as 20 miles away. People living within a five-mile radius said their homes were shaken and windows blown in. Hardly a pane of glass mained in the Modde: shopping area about one mile from the factory. ; The whole factory area evacuated, except for US. Will Pay Third Cost Of from her home since Sunday. --CP Wirephoto Nuclear Navy BONN (AP) -- An authorita- tive source said today the United States will shoulder less than half the $5,000,000,000 cost of an international fleet of 25 Actor Resting After Surgery HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Actor Van Johnson was reported in good condition following sur- gery for skin cancer. A spokesman at Cedars of Le- banon Hospital said Johnson, surface ships armed with nu- The cost is to be spread over 10 years. Under present plans, still subject to negotiation, the fleet will carry 200 of the latest model Polaris rockets. have a range of about 1,500 resting comfortably after the operation for what Paramount studio described as "a mild case of skin cancer OM|yoy, and top We ficials. Besides Chancellor Ad- anteroom, Important talks on the project have been going on here he- tween Livingston T. Merchant, President Kennedy's snecia! en- per l, for fear of further explosions. 3 A pilot who flew over the vast factory complex said there were four big craters in the site and trees were uprooted and scorched ali around it. Officials said an explosives store and three other b were destroyed and buildings extensively dama: Four dark - orange fireballs seared the sky to the north of Johannesburg, followed by mushroom clouds which slowly upwards and drifted ir the wind. sa Smoke rose from the factoty site, and more than two hours -- a fire was still burning ere. = The factory, belonging to rican Explosives and Chcnicat Industries, employs about 4,000 Pe ape 5 e es are chiefly in South alsics'e 'Nes gold mining industry. eo cman of- enauer himsel, his new detence| Sowiet Author minister, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, greedily atev was the record-setter, well un-|Toute. the accident scene by 'County| A spokesman said 15 bodies © has taken an i an 2 Hitlerite ey nag _* dare tee the 17 hours and 60 min-| Of» 65 walkers five of them|Coroner Dr. W. TomJinson. An/had been recovered from the ners ed e a e In oe inlarsion rege tT 'i. Atta ked F WP i te aed Rte utes set by United States At- =, ~ Gapeun' a? * = inquest will be held, debris. Many of ds fe gg sociated Press today, von Has- Cc or ° - e i Pp erious condition. ri iS action "cannibalistic steps" and|'0rney,- General Robert Kener ron, Ont. SHEARS HYDRO POLE ~--_- te Gea ee ; lice said it was believed the hd ernment rt 4 i a - : Lloyd Gord ent wants work to start as re ee aoa ay at Fone ing against Mr. Kennedy's time.| Peter Barnes, 21, a second-|, Port as ated ae blast caused by the bursting of Sti eda (@] @ e soon as possible on the nuclear 1ews "BS Bote pepo hl Of the 60 male students and|year student from Waterdown, | 400°). ron|2. pipe carrying compressed fl called "painful agonies of Sout Ont, shuffled in with a time of|@fter his car went out of con- pi ; j}.\five co-eds who started the hs = women and chil- hike, only 10 or 12 were ex-|11 hours and 20 minutes. The newspaper says that so far the use of chemical weapons "is limited to one colonial war, but who can guarantee that the peoples of other countries will not suffer from them too?" Observers recalled that dur- ing the Korean War,.the Com- munist side charged that the U.S. used germ warfare. The article, quoted by Tass, is signed by Capt. Vasili Pustov and Maj. Viadimir Polyansky. Red China Lampoons Khrushchev TOKYO (AP) -- Communist China today lampooned the In- dian Communist party, and in 44 Injured As Flash Fire Panics Pupils | BELLPORT, N.Y. (AP) -- "The kids behind were scream- ing and pushing," David Has- sell said. "I was terrified!" | From a bed crowded into a hospital corridor the 18-year-old senior described the panic of a flash fire which trapped scores of students on the second floor of Bellport High School Friday. Hassell was shoved through a window and broke both knee-| caps landing on a paved area.| The smoke, flames and fran-\Kenneth Allen Hamilton, 18, of|people's Daily. tic plunges to earth injured 44/Toronto and Allen Frank Moel- Students and a teacher. Criti-| Stephen Key, 19, of London, Ont., and Barry Gowan, 20, of| ¥&St of Whitby. Hamilton, were last in and col-| The accudent occurred at mid- lapsed at the finishing point as the university tower clock chimed 9 a.m. None of the girls completed the trip. Heather Creath, a pre- medical student from Brant- ford, lased for 34 miles. Three Men Killed Near Pembroke PEMBROKE (CP) --Threejan official report today. men were killed and two more} The rain and snow, the most are in serious condition follow- ing a two-car collision on an icy strip of road near here Friday. trol, struck a tree and. sheared ee sie shuiake wate bali off a hydro pol High ol to be workers of -the plant, which belongs to the Stepmann night and Hydro repair men had| rks. eee the new pole in place by 3,a.m.| The drop forging industry in this region -- eastern Westpha- lia--is hundreds 'of years old. For Red Chinese | 3 Children Die PEKING (Reuters)--Drought iJ still is threatening farms in In Q b F cord parts of Communist ue ec ire China despite widespread rain a and snow recently, according to BE eget age Pe Sp which tore through an apart- ment over a creamery here Fri- day. The bodies of Michel, eight Rains Ease Pain | since last November, fell in 17 of China's 27 provinces or au- tonomous regions, says the re- Dead are: Wayne Russell port, published in the main months, Denis, 4, and Pauline, Hornick, 19, of Sault Ste. Marie; ler, 19, of Field, B.C. All were 2, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Armand Chartrand, were found in the remains of their beds in one of two apartment units. Communist party n2wspaper, The precipitation helped win- cally hurt were Hassell, John|S0ldiers at nearby Camp Peta- ter wheat in the basins of the) rs. Chartrand, 22, and two Allers, 13, and fireman Richard} Harrow. They and 34 others! wawa. A fourth soldier in the car, particular its chairman, Shri-|were in hospital early today.|Douglas Clive MacKenzie of Seven others were treated and|Winnipeg and the driver of the pad Amrit Dange | Quoting from Lenin's writ-| rejeased, ings, as a preacher would quote; Bellport is an eastern Long jsecond car, Elwood Thrun, 43, the Bible, the Chinese vonanton| aan village of 2,500, about 75|dition in hospital. nists have in rapid succession i ' miles east of New York City. virtually excommunicated the) About 900 students and 65|the cars skidded on an icy strip Police reported that one of French, Italian, American and/teachers were in the building\of road and crashed broadside Me ®, Ae now the Indian Communists. They left no doubt that through all these attacks the chief target was Soviet Premier Khrushchev. So far there has been no open and direct attack on a Commu- nist party in a Communist state, except for the constant denunciation of the Yugoslav League of Communists. Peking's People's Daily says: "The Dange clique have al- ready gone so far in their de- generation that they have be- trayed Marxism-Leninism and proleterian internationalism." Dange is considered head of the "'nationalist" faction in the Indian party which has criti- cized China concerning the bor- der dispute with India. Peking's particular fury was prompted by a letter Dange' sent to Prime Minister Nehru on Nov. 14, 1962--after the Chi- nese launched their border in- vasion. People's Daily said it "sides with the Indian reaction- aries and violently opposes so- cialist China." |when the alarm sounded. | into the second. a Pembroke are in serious con- Yellow and Huai Rivers, var-lother children, as well as a ious winter crops in south China family of seven who occupied and spring planting in north/the second apartment, escaped China, and was especially help-|the fire, Mr. Chartrand was not ful in the Peking area and other| nome. parts of north and northeast) Poss of the co -. cperative China, which have had an eight- creamery and the two dwelling month dry spell. units was estimated between However, rain still is needed|$100,000 and $200,000. in some of those areas, the re-| Buckingham is about 25 miles port says. east of Ottawa. PARTY LEADERS USE HOLDOVERS By THE CANADIAN PRESS A flock of promises both new and old, a split in the Social Credit hierarchy on the nuclear issué and a three-party assault on the Liberals shared the spotlight this week in cam. paigning for the April 8 federal election, All four party leaders strewed promises along their paths through the hustings. Most of them were holdovers from last year's platforms. | Prime Minister Diefenbaker. | who opened his formal cam- paign drive in Winnipeg, said a new Progressive Conservative governmem would establish a CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 special fund to pay the rail- ways for losses on unprofitable branch lines pending their abandonment under a new na- tional policy. He gave no details of the pro-| |posed fund or policy. Mr. Diefenbaker also pledged} postal workers and said he would summon parliament "as soon as possible" after the 'elec- tion should he win. Liberal Leader Pearson dusted off promises on farm policies, medical insurance, a national scholarship fund and the extension of family allow- ances to students over 16. He also said he would go to the United Nations to lead Canada's search for. peace if elected prime minister. BALANCE BUDGET In a series of speeches .in Ontario, Mr. Pearson said a Liberal Zovernment's first aim would be to get the economy rolling and raise the national income. Any new spending on social, benefits would have to await 'a balanced budget made possible by national prosperity. Robert Thompson Social Credit Leader promised the At- lantic provinces a_ special his party to immediate pay) $1,000,000,000 fund to develop Promises Litter Speech Trail provements and possibly a|claring he would leave the causeway in the region. party and form his own organ- He also outlined a policy tojization rather than accept. nu- let homeowners deduct depre-|Clear arms under any condi- ciation of their houses for in-| tion. come tax purposes and extend ENDORSES VIEWS National Housing Act mort- ; ; gages to cover existing homes. bac tas ceca Pons T, C, Douglas, national|sociai Credit, endorsed Mr. leader of the New Democratic/Thompson's nuclear views. Party, restated policies for an} Near the week's end, all increase in old age pensions t0|¢hree w icki i 4 $75 a month from $65, medical --. oe insurance and a national de-| 'The Conservatives, New Dem- velopment fund. ocrats and Socreds found them- He added a new ne: A na-|selves on common ground with tional . transportation hority| attacks on the Liberals in gen- to integrate all forms of-trans-jeral and Mr. Pearson in. par- port and eliminate duplication) ticular, of service. One of Mr. Douglas' aides, The Social. Credit split began|Harry Pope, later apologized when Mr. Thompson said he|for some of the remarks he and his deputy leader, Real|made about Mr. Pearson in a Caouette, agreed that if a non-| public speech. political committee of parlia-/ The Liberal leader welcomed ment decides that nuclear weap.| the blasts, saying they indicated ons are essential for defence|the other parties expect a lib- Canada should obtain them. eral victory and ar e desper- PARIS (Reuters) -- French mining unions and the de Gaulle government seemed 20 closer today to breaking their deadlock in the coal minets' wage strike, despite a national television appeal last night by Premier Georges Pompidou. Pompidou, who urged the miners to return to work, said the government decision to "requisition" the miners by a presidential decree did not mean the government was denying them their right to strike. The decree ordered the men to report for work or risk fines or imprisonment. He said the government had allowed the strike--which be- Urge Cardinal To Leave US. Legation ROME (AP)--Franz Cardinal Koenig left for his Vienna dio- cese today on his way to Buda- pest where he hopes to per- suade Josef Cardinal Minds- zenty to end his six-year stay in the United States legation. Mindszenty, 70, found a ha- ven in the U.S, legation when the Soviet Army crushed the 1956 Hungarian uprising The Roman Catholic primate has said he will never leave his country, even if staying means life in confinement. Koenig said he had not yet applied for a Hungarian visa. He did not indicate how soon he might make his planned visit to. Budapest. Asked whether he bore a mes- sage that the Pope would like to have Mindszenty come to Rome, Koenig said: "No one has asked me to deal with this matter with Cardinal Mindszenty. However, [ can dis- cuss the situation with him pri- vately." : Sources here had said he would convey to Mindszenty word that the Pope would like to have him come to Rome "if it seemed opportune," but that the final decision was left up to the Hungarian cardinal, Hungary's Communist gov- ernment' sentenced Mindszenty to life in prison in 1949. He was transferred to house arrest in 1955 when his health began to fail and freed in the 1956 anti- Communist uprising. A few days tater Russian tanks moved on Budapest. Mindszenty took refuge in the gan nine days ago--to continue two days before imposing the requisition order. But the coun- try needed the miners and an indefinite strike would mean a gradual slowing down. of France's economic life, with restrictions and suffering. Both the Com ist-led Gen- eet. MOSCOW (Reuters) -- lye Canada Downs East Germany STOCKHOLM (CP)--Canada eral Confederation of Labor and the miners' section of the So- cialist Workers Force Union, after hearing the speech, said they would continue to strike until the government negotiates with them. In Merlebach, eastern France, the miners' strike com- mittee of the Yorrane coal fields called Friday night for a special session of the French Parliament to be convened so that the government could "'ex- plain its actions." More than 200,000 miners are involved in the strike. Pompi- dou said in his television speech that the government had al- ready given a 7.25-per-cent pay ted a scrappy East Ger- man team 11-5 today to move into a first-place tie with Swe. den in the world hockey tourna- The East Germans gave the Canadians the scare of their lives by scoring four straight goals in the first five minutes Then at. almost the midway mark of the first period veteran Jack McLeod started Trail Smoke Eaters on their come- back with a goal scored from The Canadians trailed 43 at the end of the first period. Hugh McIntyre, 28 - year --old right winger who is the smallest man on the club, tied the score at increase to the miners since|1:22 of the second period only to have the East Germans go They are seeking a further|ahead 5-4 less than a minute wage increase of 11 per cent,|and a half later. Trail then ral- but the government is standingjlied for three goals to take a by its last offer of a 5.7-per-cent|7-5 lead and clinched the win package, spread over the next|with four more in the third pe- riod, Ehrenburg, one of Russia's best-known authors, was sube jected today to one of the most bitter official attacks ever made on him. The 72-year-old winner of two Stalin prizes. was criticized in ' a speech printed by the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda for publicly saying "it is not worth arguing about tastes in art" and for his praise of Stalin during the worst years of the dictator's reign. : The criticisms came in @ Speech by the party propa' ganda chief, Leonid Ilyichev, at a two-day Kremlin meeting be- tween Communist party ard government leaders and Rus sian artists, writers and intel. lectuals to discuss recent gov- ernment attacks on modernist painting, writing and music. llyichev said Ehrenburg's writings showed that the Jew- ish writer praised Stalin rather than observing the "theory of silence" shown by the Russian people during the repressions and killings of the Stalin era, "According tv Ehrenburg, one might think that everybody . « . Only cared for his own hide and thereby helped the evil to grow stronger,' Ilyichev said., PRIME MINISTER VISITS PORT HOPE Prime Minister John Die- leader Hon. Michael Starr, Minister is Progressive Conservative of Labor and Tory candidate fenbaker made a day-long candidate for Durham Riding for Ontario Riding. ; raises for the armed forces andinew roads, canals, harbor im-| Mr, Caouette denied this, de-|ately trying to prevent it, U.S. legation, visit to. Port Hope Friday. Garnet Rickard (left) an --Oshawa Times Photo ~ x > <= Saas en Pee abate egy ent esPenied ase --_ ee eT ee . ees LE igus aati r cas Sai Ms, At Min AA. Be eel rE ta et o e oh ts ene ee e e e ee - - >