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Sunday instead THOUGHT FOR TODAY Hardly a man is now alive who recalls when folks rested on of Monday. Oshawa Ti WEATHER REPORT Partial Clearing tonight. Sunny with cloudy periods and continu. ing cool Wednesday. : tice 10 Cents Per Copy She OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1963 Authorized os Ottawa end for of Sayment ot Postage in Cash. TWENTY-TWO. PAGES Cote VOL. 92--NO. 137 LONDON to dominate the British capital today as the authoritative Times expressed shocked re- action to the. moral aspects of the scandal as well as the polit- ical aspects. The Times says in an edit- Orial: "Everyone has been so assuring the public that the affair is not one of morals that iti s time to assert that it is." The tabloid, left - of - centre Daily Mirror says the scandal involving resigned war minister John umo, 48, and red- haired model Christine Keeler, 22, "swells in a manner which fs disturbing and sinister." Prime Minister Macmillan came back to London Monday from a Scottish vacation to face a gathering storm over the scandal which has shaken his tuling Conservative party. KNOW ABOUT LETTER Two leading government fig- ures were reported today to have known before Profumo quit of a letter he wrote to Miss Keeler in which he addressed ber as "darling." The letter was signed "J" and| Was an apology for not keeping "@ date. Informants said Ian Macleod, the Conservative party chair- man, amd Martin Redmayne, party manager in Parlia- ment, confronted Profumo with the letter on March 22 after) Bosca had been raised in Gales Strike In Windsor Bush Hour WINDSOR, Ont. gh AB eager of eddying gale-force winds heavy rain struck Windsor and Detroit minutes before rush- 'dur 'traffic started Monday, knocking trees, branches and 'UK. Crisis Near: Confident (CP « Reuters) -- The "Profumo affair" continued ac Parliament about the rumors linking Miss Keeler with a gov- ernment minister. Informants said Profumo de- nied the rumors to Macleod and Redmayne and said the letter had broken off an attachment he had found embarrassing. Asked about the 'darling' salution, Profumo replied that it was not unusual in his circle women friends. Redmayne and Macleod, the sources said, accepted Pro-|: that there was anything im-|: proper in his relations -with Miss Keeler, and Parliament |also accepted his statement. \T0 DEBATE AFFAIR since the Conservatives re- |turned to power 12 years ago, |was expected to come to a head Monday when Parliament reas- |sembles to debate what Opposi- jtion Leader Harold Wilson has jcalled "a direct confrontation" | with Macmillan on security as- |pects of the scandal, Macmillan had asked Lord) |Chancellor Lord Dilhorne, head) a secret investigation of the |Profumo case. | It has been pointed out that |Miss Keeler allegedly was hav- jng an affair with a Soviet dip- jlomat while having one with | Profumo. | The Daily Telegraph, |servative, reported that Dil-| jhorne's inquiry was expected to} be completed this week. Wednesday, the cabinet is| scheduled to hold its first meet-| ing since the scandal erupted a | week ago with Profumo's resig- | Con- to use this form of address to}: : fumo's assurance. Later in the). day he denied in Parliament): The crisis, the most serious] js of the judiciary, to carry out/? SILENT ON NAMES talk with Premier Khrushchev Wilson Russian Talks MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Harold Wilson, leader of the British Labor party, today began a round of trade talks with Rus- sian Officials after a three-hour Monday that left him pessimis- tic about hopes for a nuclear test ban treaty. Beginning a series of sched- uled meetings today, Wilson Peru Appears Returning To | jtions annually on Soviet terri- Begins saw Konstantin Rudnev, chair- man of the state committee for research co - ordination, for talks lasting more than an hour. Wilson said after his Kremlin meeting with Khrushchev Mon- day that he would see the Rus- sian leader again before flying to Warsaw Saturday, Wilson told a press confer- ence that Khrushchev apparen- tly had withdrawn the Russian offer made several months ago to allow two or three inspec- tory under a test ban. Khrushchev's position ap- peared to be that since the | ment Hill to let members of to enforce its demands for a 30-cent-an-hour increase over the next two years, a nine- hour day and union laber on sub-contracts. A picket turned up at each of the three gates to the Hill this morning. (CP Wirephoto) A member of the Ottawa local of the Laborers' Inter- national Union pickets Parlia- the Parliament and govern- ment members know they are on strike. The union went on strike in the capital Monday nation and his admission that jhe lied to Parliament in March \in saying his relations with Miss Keeler were not improper, The Financial Times asserts that drops in the London Stock Exchange Monday--biggest in a single day since last October's Cuban crisis--were due to a na- tural reaction to political revela- signs across streets and side- ayalks. Hydro officials said "several" own} Main lines were knocked d by falling trees and several sec- tions of the city were without ..Fire departments said no Tires were caused either by or electrical sparks. The Detroit weather office said winds gusted to 70 miles an| hour and tornado warnings were posted. A large maple tree col- lapsed on a downtown house injuring two occupants. Almost as suddenly as ered through scudding clouds. The of rain fell in a half hour. it started, the winds dropped, the jrain stopped, and sunshine filt-| that temperature which had dropped noticeably as the skies darkened, rose about 15 degrees. A hot sun during the day had|C@ f soaked up ponds of water after|Portant, but brief. a hurricane-force thunderstorm 'sto Sunday in which winds reached paki he peg fee Pog a short| Lower meniee i nd 1.82 inches/holiday in Scotland in prepara-|time in three s poem pre rt fing. ldama ge reported. Monday's|¢ring the venture. tions surrounding the Profumo affair. It adds: "The basic point Macmillan has to meet is that he had not |shown proper judgment about \the security implications of Mr, \Profumo's activities. Fig Wide US. Areas CHICAGO (AP) Stormy/storm came after hurricane' weather unded broad areas|force winds caused damage es- in the 'a(hasotions of the United timated at $1,500,000 to $2,000,- States Monday as cold air from)000 Sunday in Kent County. Qanada ' the plains and headed into the | Atlantic coast. Temperatures dropped into the 40s and 30s from northern |New Angland through the north- swept eastward from| | ae | Violent wind, rain and hailjern Great Lakes region and into aro RECOVER lstorms and a few tornadoes|North Dakota. Light snow mixed Share prices started to re-|.ashed areas in Indiana, Ohio,|with rain fell in the Lake Su- | Stock |disastrous _ slide. |ful of a Labor government. Mac} the volved no security breach. Foreign Secretary Lord Home tion for the cabinet meeting. cover today on the London| Michigan and Illinois causing|perior d Market after Wednesday's| widespread property damage.\Upper Great Lakes. Macmillan's| At least two deaths were attrib- }own confidence that he will be|u:ed I vindicated brought a more con-|Several persons suffered minor \fident mood to investors fear-| injuries. district, with rain in the stormy weather.| Twelve Killed, to the Severe thunderstorms. devel-| |millan was pictured as confident|/oped along a cold front which| In Truck Crash investigation would! stretched from Lower Michigan! show that Profumo's affair in-| southwestward through western HOLE - IN - THE - ROCK, Kentucky into Texas. Behind the Utah (AP)--The peace that pre- Authoritative sources said the|cold front binet meeting would be im-|spread southward and eastward/desert was shattered Monday into the Great Lakes region. much. cooler aif|vails over the southern Utah jwhen a truck carrying 46 ex- Thunderstorms swept across|Plorers overturned killing nine n for the third|Boy Scouts, two of their lead- days with some|¢rs and a woman reporter cov- Alberta Hydro Power Not Heavy Vote Issue EDMONTON (CP) -- Owner-|Alberta Liberal party at a con-)bates for all installation and The list of hospital casualties reached 15, with at least two critical, as details of the trag- edy slowly came from the scene of the accident in the remote desert area between Escalante and Hole-in-the Rock on the Col- orado River. : The group was from the Og- den-Salt Lake City-Provo area about 200 miles north. Most were Boy Scouts, but Floyd LABORERS STRIKE | ship of power facilities in Al-| vention to draft an election pro-| line construction charges. berta, at one time expected to) gram. | rovide a major issue for the| ; 5 s0\election the proposal has been June 17 provincial election, Since announcement of the] far has generated little hustings|debated only occasionally. horsepower. Take-over of privately-owned has repeatedly said ownership wer companies in Alberta was of power is not an issue in Al- endorsed in November by the} | Premier E. C, Manning, who berta, told a television audience | during the weekend that any take-over of the magnitude pro- AUDITORIUM PROGRESS $1,000,000 $900,000 $800,000 $700,000 $600,000 $500,000 $400,000 $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 { $50,000 BRMSobeo. A |posed by the Liberals would) cost Alberta $300,000,000. | Liberal Leader Dave Hunter said last November the book value of the companies was $166,000,000. This did not repre- sent a fixed amount a Liberal government would be prepared to pay over a 20-year period. There would be negotiations with the companies and if a set- tlement was not reached the i Until the weekend, Mr. Hun-| ter was the only leader to speak about the issue and his com- ments were scattered. He said suggestions the issue had split his party's ranks were untrue. "For. every supporter we may have lost because of our stand on power we have gained four." A total of 226 candidates are seeking election in next Mon- day's voting. In the last legis- lature Premier Manning's So- cial Credit party held a massive majority of 61 of the 65 seats. Redistribution since then has re- duced the total seats to 63, Loveridge, Civilian Rule LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peru ap- peared headed today for a re- turn to civilian rule as Fernand Belaunde Terry built up a de- cisive lead in unofficial presi- dential election returns. The ruling military junta, which annulled last year's elec- tion on fraud charges, remained silent on Sumday's balloting. It also was marred by voting ir- --| regularities. But they worked to the disadvantage of the mili- tary's chief opponents, the members of Victor Raul Haya de la Torre's American Pop- ular Revolutionary Movement mr Pounded By Gales 'ico: r0.1 0 il the vote. Hé was well ahead the one-third-plus-one of the to- tal votes required for election. Despite his unsolicited Com- munist support, Belaunde is con- sidered a staunch friend of the United States. Haya de la Torre was run- Ining second. The military |stepped in last year and voided |the election when it appeared lhe would win. He led an anti- |military revolt in the 1930s. | The military's long-standing lopposition to Haya and APRA, |however, apparently does not japply to Belaunde and his left- \leaning popular action party. | Protest Parade | Over Segregation DETROIT (AP) --A racial segregation protest parade June 23 for which sponsors say they hope to get 100,000 march- ers has the city council's in- formal approval. Three of the nine members of the council approved a_ petition \for the parade Monday on rec- ommendation of Police Commis- sioner George Edwards, Final council action will be taken Tuesday. tlawed unist party, Bel- Kenned i bei Poot 40 per cent Gent. | Even as the proclamation was jissued here at noon EDT, | The proclamation said: United States had not accepted the offer, it now is a dead let- ter, although Russia still is will- ing to accept "'black box" chem- ical inspection stations on jts territory. "The possibility of a test ban confined to atmospheric, space and underwater tests, which we put to him, seems to offer more hope for an agreement," Wilson told newspaper men. ROBERT MENZIES Menzies Takes Trip Abroad CANBERRA (Reuters)-- Prime Minister Sir Robert Men- zies said today he would leave Thursday for a trip abroad to meet British Prime Minister Macmillan, Canadian Prime Minister Festoon and American rr Kennedy Orders No Obstruction bama's governor today to "cease and desist" from any il- legal obstructions of justice or "conspiracies or domestic vio- lence" in the Alabama racial crisis, Kennedy did so by a presi- dential proclamation shortly be- fore two Negroes were sched- uled to seek entry to the all- white University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in the face of a pledge by Governor George C. Wallace to block the doorway in person. Kennedy said he was acting under authority of the constitu- tion and laws of the United States. Wal- lace had taken up a stand at the doorway to the university. "I, John F. Kennedy, presi- dent of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution and statutes of the United States... do command the governor of the state of Alabama and all other persons engaged or who may engage in unlawful obstructions of justice, assemblies, combina- tions, conpiracies or domestic violence in that state to cease Menzies will arrive first in London for trade talks with Macmillan and his installation as a Knight of the Thistle, and will confer with Kennedy and Pearson on his way home. Queen Elizabeth, who dubbed as an instigator and co-ordi- of the FLQ, blamed by police bee. since March; MONTREAL (CP) -- Georges Schoeters, self-described co-or- dinator of le Front de Libera- tion Quebecois, refused today to name members of the terrorist group at a coroner's inquest into the bombing death of an army watchman. "I do not know what can hap- Pen to me and I do not know what pressures can be put on me but I will not give the names," the 33-year-old Bel- gian-born economics student told Coroner Marcel Trahan, Schoeters, one of 15 persons held as material witnesses in the bombing death April 20 of watchman Wilfred Vincent O'Neill, was continuing his tes- timony in the second day of the resumption of the inquest into the death, Monday he described himself nator of the terrorist activities for a series of bombings in Que. He was asked today to name nine or 10 persons who met in a midtown restaurant early last February. : Testimony about the meeting, including the names of those present, was given Monday b: Alain Brouillard, an 18-year-old student also held as a material witness. "I do not want to give the names," Schoeters said. 'I can Belgian Claims He Started FLQ Schoeters. said 300 sticks of dynamite were kept in the living room of his house for three days. The dynamite was brought to his place early one morning by four persons he described only as members of the FLQ. From there it was trans- ported by truck to the north of Montreal, He said he was not in the truck and he did not see the dynamite again until the eve of Victoria Day at St. Faustin, in the Laurentians. He said he participated in transporting some of the dyna- mite back to Montreal by car. "There were three of us. I did not drive myself." Asked what kind of car it was, Schoeters said: "I cannot answer that ques- tion. I am not identifying any person." Shown a tract that was not described in court, Schoeters said he had mever seen it before but he did recognize a symbol on the left of it as "the FLQ battleflag." He said he participated in the preparation of FLQ symbols. Asked about the aims of the movement, Schoeters said: "We want no unemployment free school and medical ,care for everybody, because revolutionary . .)." Menzies a Knight df the Thistle) not in' a: ' »| At this point lawyer' Gilles during her tour here on March|®;, "7,0, copscience do $0."\ ) cuay said: 1 ask what this: 13, will attend his installation in| anq sobbed that he had not been|has to do with s he St, Giles Cathedral in Edinburg permitted to see bis lawyer but| 1h ie ane , July 1. that he had spoken with Crown : Menzies will fly from London) prosecutor Guy Desjardins,, Stage. to New York July 2 and will go Raymond. Daoust, one of nine "One cannot speak of the on to Charlotte sville, Va.,| ong representing the 15 ma.| "Hole affair here. We ate here where he will deliver the terial witnesses, said that by - ha dasag Thomas Jefferson Memorial of-11.4, sohoeters does not have, to| ee ation on DAY, | vacioee the names. Schocters sald: "Te want. to July 4. He will be in Ottawa the fol- lowing day, and Washington July 8 and 9. Iceland Rule Will Continue REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Pre- mier Olafur Thors' coalition government of Independents an Social Democrats was assured today of continued rule in this island member of the North At- lantic Treaty Organization. But the government coalition had a reduced majority of four seats compared with six after the 1959 general election. mot to compel Schoeters to back and said he was adjourn- Mr. Desjardins argued that Schoeters had sworn to "'tell the truth", all the truth and nothing but the truth." He said that by refusing to give the names, Schoeters was ds not telling "all the truth." Mr. Trahan then retired to consider the lawyers' argu- ments and decide whether or name members of the group. After being out briefly, he came ing the sitting until later today when "I will make known in a precise manner the procedure that we will follow to maintain complete respect for the law, for it is the respect of the law that is involved." Earlier in today's testimony, add something about flag. Blue was chosen because it rep- resents France, white the de- sire for liberty, and the red in the star because it is the color of revolution, It has nothing to with communism." When Schoeters was recalled to the stand today he said: "I didn't sleep last night. I wasn't allowed to change my. clothes. I was allowed to shave only 20 minutes before coming here. I wasn't able to see a lawyer." Schoeters and Gabriel Hudon, 21, an industrial designer, were named in testimony by Alain Brouillard, an 18-year-old social . science student at the Univer- sity of Montreal, as leaders of the FLQ, Outcome of Sunday's elections gave the government coalition 32 seats and the opposition 28 in the Alt hing (Parliament), founded in 930 A.D. Final results. were: Independence Party 24 seats-- --12,729; Progressives 19 -- 25,- and desist therefrom." 882; Communists 9--14,274. the scouts trip was under the auspices of) the south Cottonwood stake (di-| ocese) of the Church of Jesus) Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the Provo area. The adventurous expedition was led by a group of teachers| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pres- and college professors who had ident Kennedy is expected to se- led many trips into Utah's red ject his chief 'negotiator for the desert areas. {Moscow nuclear test ban 'talks One of the dead was H. Dar-|by the end of this week. rell Taylor, 45, a professor of| Informants who reported this languages at Brigham Young|today said Kennedy is consider- University in Provo and cout lig men both inside and outside leader. |the government, mina' SEK To Pick Test-Ban Negotiator This Week general disarmament confer- ence in Geneva, But they tempered this with considerable caution. It was understood that Khrush- chev, in responding last week to the call by Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan for a meet- ing, gave no hint that he was LATE NEWS FLASHES courts would decide the price. The purchase would involve three major companies--Calgary Power Company Limited, which produces. more than half the province's power; Canadian Utilities Limited; and Northland' Utilities. |CONSERVATIVES RAP IDEA Milton Harradence, Progres-| sive Conservative leader, de-| scribes the Liberal proposals as| "the most serious threat to free enterprise ever proposed by any political party." | The New Democratic Party, making its most concerted drive} in Alberta, has not fired a ma- jor salvo on the power ques- jtion. Party leader Neil Reimer told a television audience his} party would -help farmers, ob-| tain electricity by providing re- Terrorists Raid Tire Factory CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Anti-U.S. terrorists raid- ed and set fire to the Goodyear Company tire factory here. today. Four gunmen overpowered guards and employees poured gasoline over the tires and then tossed incendiary bombs into the stacks. They fled in a car. Police Cars Hit By Bullets DANVILLE, Ga. (AP) -- Bullets struck two police cars cruising the streets of this racially-troubled city early icday as state police were directed to make an hour-to-hour assessment of the tense situation. Dynamite Found Near Russian Ship GEORGETOWN, British Guiana (Reuters) Police Monday found 14 sticks of dynamite with fuses lit on a Georgetown wharf where a Russian ship was moored, it was learned today. Another 10 sticks of dynamite were found nearby. a | One name'mentioned often in jadvance ' speculation is that of |John J. McCloy, a former U.S. high commissioner for Ger- many. He is a New York banker |who has had considerable expe- rience, both in disarmament jtalks and in dealing with the | Russians. | The U.S, negotiating team and a companion British group are to meet with Russian represen- tatives in mid-July for another ltry at ending the long deadlock over a pact to outlaw atomic testing. Kennedy made the disclosure |Monday in a foreign - policy lspeech at the commencement of American University in Wash- ington, d Washington authorities attached importance to Soviet Premier Khrushchev's agree- |ment to the meeting after six months of Russian disinterest in Itest ban talks at he 17-nation going to give ground on his terms that the West has found unacceptable im the past. The Soviet has offered two or three inside-Russia inspections a year to police the test ban, but has refused to spell out what type of inspections. The West has called |for seven on-site inspections. | An optimistic theory was that |Khrushchev has decided to get down to scientific details on what is needed for an under- |ground test detection system--a |matter his Geneva representa- tives have declined to discuss. More pessimistic was specula- tion that he just wants to make propaganda and pry conces- sions from the west. The president's test ban pro- posal was widely praised in the \British press today. Kennedy's announcement was termed by Britain's Liberal Guardian, as '"'among the great State papers of American his- tory." The Guardian says: "His speech was almost free of platitudes: Instead he concen- trated on the difficult and pos- sibly dangerous talks of winning the more intransigent of his countrymen away from the men- tality of the cold war." The influential Times says: "If he (President Kennedy) can now solve his most press- ing domestic problems, he will be in a better position the next time he pronounces on the state of the world. "If the Communists are to mull over their own policies, it is very important that they should have before them a clear statement of American attitudes and objectives." The Daily Mail tive) says: "Suddenly it looks as though we could be in sight of a test- ban treaty. "President. Kennedy says he wants 'genuine peace .. . not merely peace in our time, but for all time.' So do we all. We must hope and pray that Mos- cow will bring the statesmen a shade nearer to the great ob- (Conserva- newspaper, the Manchester jective." $7,017 votes; Social Cemocrats 8)} HAROLD E, STASSEN, who was former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's special dis- armament edvisor and nego- tiator from 1955 to 1958, ges- tures during interview yester- day in which he said he fav- ored President plan for fresh start on trying to reach nuclear test-ban a- greement. Stassen added he placed chances of success at Kennedy's just 50 - 50. (AP Wirephoto) these are ne

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