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Cloudy with little change in temperature on Tuesday. Occa- sional light snow tonight. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Weather forecaster: Someone with whom the weather doesn't always agree. Authorized os Second Class Mall Post Ottawa and for payment of Office TWENTY PAGES 729 PERSONS RESCUED FROM BLAZING VESSEL | 100 Bodies Seen Near Greek Ship proached. Others struggled to swim as far away from the La- konia as they could, The water ¢ Oshavwa OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1963 Office Department Price Not Over in . Cash. 10 Cents per Copy | Four Killed In Holdup Try At Ottawa Rectory OTTAWA (CP)--A Boy Scout|they found Mr. Mercier dead| Inside the rectory, detective leader, a priest's housekeeper,/near the stairs to the second Tom Flanagan headed upstairs a 65-year-old spinster and ajfloor. He had charged throughi/after the imtruders With "some young gunman were killed by|the door with John Horner and/persuasion" he talked one of| bullets Sunday as the gunman|Rey, Guillaume Chevrier, the|tham into giving himself up. He| and a partner apparently tried|parish priest, after the rectory's|came down without a struggle to steal the collection boxesjsecond. housekeeper, Agathe! apparently realizing he couldn't from the rectory of a small'Jensen, had raced about 25 feet/escape through the rear fire thurch 4 to the church to sound the/exit, said the detective Police said no' alarm i On the second floor, police money there Justice Minister Chevrier was|found Miss Guindon dead of bul-| : Roger Binette, 21, shot andiin the church at the time, but/let wounds. Miss Bechard had! > ~ killed himself, police said. Reg-/he said that when he got out-ja bullet in her back and an- inald Binette, his 17-year-old | side after mass "I really didn't/other in her arm. Roger Binetie) ; brother, has been charged with|see anything." A crowd of about/was shot through the head. Miss), © capital murder. Conviction on/500 had begun gathering. He and|Bechard's sister, Henedine Be- the charge would mean an auto-\the priest are distant cotisins./chard, 61, was slightly wounded. | | there was LONDON (CP) -- A massive rescue operation has recovered 725 survivors from the liner matic life prison sentence. Un-| -- - der Criminal Code _provisions,| minors wnder 18 cannot hanged on conviction for capi tal murder. be Dead from the bullets of the two intruders who burst into the rectory of the little Church of Ohrist 'he King are, Paul Mer cier, 24, leader of the church' Boy Scout troop and formerly! from East Angus, Que.; s} | Alberte Guindon, about 45, niece) Turkish Cypriots flared across and housekeeper of the parish|the city centre here today priest, and Doralise Bechard | +] Civil War Hits Island Of Cyprus NICOSIA, Cyprus. (Reuters)--|vice-president, were in the cen- Miss|Gun battles between Greek anditre of some of the fighting reporter drove past rang It was the third straight dayjout, followed by a fusillade of As this the headquarters a shot 65, who shared a second - floor/of communcal violence in the'rifle and machine-gun fire apartment in the rectory with! island republic her sister. BULLETS FLY One of the parishioners who noon came rushing over from mass to help surround the rec tory until police came was Leo Binette, father of the two broth in sub - Greek Cypriots jclothes armed with streets in the Greek area Troops and police cordoned "\mittent bursts of fire civilian ma- chine-guns and pistols patrolled| 'WAR ON' "There's a war on. There's no a police- time for man said Two -British newspaper newspapers drove through cor- off the area round the Cyprus|"espondents were fired on as army headquarters and inter they the city's were| Turkish quarter early foday and ers. A police spokesman said/jearq from the direction of the|then were forced to get out of the elder Binette followed Mr Mercier and others to the door barracks One man was reported) \their car The reporters were forced to of the rectory and ducked back) woynded when firing broke out|undergo inspection by armed as bullets flew. He did not know)|, the suburb of Kaimakli at Turkish who was inside, said the spokes: man Mr. Binette and about 25 oth ers surrounded the. three-storey give an accurate assessment of proceed with the warning * dawn Police said the situation in the|Ury hotel city was confused, and could not rectory until about 50 policemen casualties, swarmed on the scene with drawn guns. Mrs, Binette was TENSION RISES in the area with other parish- foners. When police entered the house flared hetween the Greek Trouble island republic's |Turkish Cypriot } been rising following recent pro- |posals to amend the. constitu- | tion. Two Turkish, Cypriots were Rritish authorities promised Outskirts of West Berlin 'killed Saturday and the casualty) blood 'igunman with a jtoll during the overnight |sibly two dead and nine wounded Sunday was the second straight day of violence on the island republic The incidents followed recent political clashes between the Greek and Turkish communities over Greek proposals to amend the constitution The Greeks have about three - to - one population ma jority Cyprus army yhil Kutehuk, Turkish gun-) Turkish fights was given as one. or pos-/T: Masked Youth Nets $600 At Kingston KINGSTON stocking '|his head hid in the rear seat REY. C. CHEVRIER of a car here Sunday night and |robbed a service station attend- lant of $600 as he was driving) Whitby temperatures reached a four} while Orono recorded a to a bank night depositary. Ronald Brazeau told police he below, had closed up. the gas station, hig put the day's take in containers jon the front seat of his car,|ton 'vigilantes' guard on the balcony of a lux- They were finally standing | l@ lf | BERLIN (AP) East Ger man guards fired on a man at- allowed to,tempting to flee from East Ber- "Beilin today as other smiling Com {careful when you drive through|munist guards were admitting |the Turkish quarter."' West Berliners through the Ber- Meanwhile, the Turkish Cyp-|lin wall to visit relatives in the riot communal leader Rauf Den-|Communist sector British . military hospitals to aid the {Turkish wounded in the shoot- ing. 5! Turkish spokesman said and would deliver it to clinics where urkish and|ktash made an urgent appeal to communities) the Saturday although tension has] tor blood supplies The Communist guards fired |10 bursts from 'sub - machine- guns at a man apparently try- ing struggle through barbed wire on the southern West Berlin Snow Sighted For White Christmas for but and much snow, if any." A storm which dumped four Cypriot|should be real enough to shovel.jinches of snow on Texas Sun However, the weather pattern |day is moving up the eastern from the Pacific bringing the west coast residents wan Temperatures in the Oshawa area climbed over the weekend and show. signs of staying above zero until after Christ- mas. Most districts recorded be-| (CP)--A youthful|tween 20 and 30 degrees above over zero this morning Oshawa had a high of 32 and low of zero during the weekend high of 24 and low of h of 28 and low of one below. The says the present weather |when something which felt like/pattern is coming from' the Pa- a rifle barrel pressed into his'cific rather than from the north|naimo real estate man, almost) Ney, 'ruled out" in the inhabitedione. back. A voice said: eft." "Turn and "extreme cold is ajseaboard and may characteristic wet Christmas to} about 'Tuesday may | seep into. Alberta and Saskatche- | fiyrries weatherman 'in Edmon- Most Ontario points had snow Sunday and tempera tures were mainly in the high 20s. Goderich, on the southeast ern shore of Lake Huron, got some relief from a week long storm which left 30 inches snow. Residents have had only sporadic mail delivery for the last week but postmaster A. W.\cratic leaders of the House Of assassination was should] Representatives Homoth said deliveries be back to normal today. RAIN LIKELY IN B.C. Temperatures for . most B.C. are forecast for the 40-de- gree mark.and rain is expected/token of|days last-minute Christmas shoppers. |starts Jan. 7 leaves in doubt the ment of Kennedy's death It could also result in a Na-jtime of final approval of Frank|appropriation and its much-dis-| presidential plane at the Dallas taking a bath--a financial|puted Communist trade amend- airport. ment. to. dampen the enthusiasm East Berlin Border Guards Machine-Gun Reverse Visit police said .they through the wall during the cor seven|could not see the victim because|responding period Sunday. - Cypriots lie injured.iof poor early morning light and, a By THE CANADIAN PRESS jareas of Alberta and Saskatche 31,000 4 white Christmas will prob-| wan ably be confined to the dreams|UP to 30 degrees headquarters of British Columbians and the adjoining office of Fad-| most other Canadians 'the snow| hit Ontario 4 of} of|on Tuesday Lakonia, the Christmas cruise ship swept by fire and aban- doned off Lisbon today, a Greek » Line spokesman said. i, GREEK CRUISE LINER LAKONIA ON EARLIER VOYAGE Fragmentary re ports indi-| cated the rescued total might go higher. But the U.S, Air Force reported sighting about 100 per- sons in the water, all of whom appeared dead. More than 1,000 persons were aboard the liner when fire broke out Sunday night. Some reports put the total at 1,046, including a crew of 395 while other re- ports gave a total of 1,081. Al- most' all were British, but one Canadian was 'reported to be among them, The 5,686-ton Argentine freigh- ter Salta messaged she had crammed about 500 survivors aboard before leaving the scene, A radio report said the Brit- ish liner Stratheden had -picked up 300, some injured, plus some dead but there was no confir- mation in London. The Strath- heavy fog. But they heard the|000 applications for visits. About|West Berliners must wait a full guards shout "Halt! Halt!" This/800,000 West Berliners are eli-|day before they can 'cross into was followed by a fusillade, fol-| gible. lowed by the screams of a man.| Queues formed outside the 12/til midnight. At the wall in the heart of the|permit offices in snow - covered; The permits are only avail- city the flow of West Berliners|streets, more than 13 hours be-jable for West Berliners. The dropped sharply today after alfore the 1 p.m. opening hour.;Communists don't let the East weekend rush. Most people ap-| After parently were saving their prec-| - ious passes. to visit relatives in East Berlin, during the holidays. | Only about 1,300 had passed! Ottawa Prorogues pointe wh Some after twcy, With Pat On Back opened. Madre than 12,060 weng, TEARS SPILL As on the previous nights, there were tearful partings Sun- day night at the crossing points home. OTTAWA (CP) -- The first) At the Chausée. Strasse session of Canada's 26th Parbia-|checkpoint, East Berlin, to remain only un- receiving the passes, the/Berliners travel the other way} as West Berliners went back an East Berlin jeden's office said it had heard |the report but had no direct jword from the ship. The Montcalm said it had 100 survivors and the Argentine liner Rio Grande reported an- other 50 picked up. An Associated Press corres- jpondent who flew over the Lak- onia at 3 p.m. (10 a.m. EST) said the vessel was still afloat but was blazing furiously and listing heavily to starboard. ment, elected last April, But at the 12 permit offices|prorogued Saturday night with|sister up to the steel and con- in West Berlin, about 13,000 per-/, government' declaration that/crete barricades. She kissed her sons queued up in freezing wea- Canada is currently enjoying a|sister goodbye, then bent down ther to apply for permits. good rate of growth. jand planted a kiss on the nose West Berlin authorities said The speech from 'the throne|/of her sister's guide dog. riety the passes lesyed were closing the session, read by| "There are enough tears be- ig Boog ang holidays and) hier Justice Robert Taschereau|ing shed along this wall to wash : of the Supreme Court, said "'it/it away," one man said after The official East Germaniis gratifying that in recentileaving his élderly mother in news agency ADN reported that!months unemployment has been|the Communist zone. West Berliners crossed) reduced. to the lowest rate ex-| "It's just like visiting some- progress remains to. be West Berliner who saw his aged the number going over since the made."' parents. visits began Thursday night -- For nearly all it was their first reunion with relatives since the Communist built the wall in ugust, 1961 Communist authorities an nounced they had approved 358,- 'Foreign-Aid Bill | Passage Predicted WASHINGTON (AP) Johnson Delayed JFK Murder News WASHINGTON. (AP)--In the|room, and in the small cubicle moments after John F. Kenne-| where President Johnson was dy's death, President Johnson|sitting with Mrs. Johnson and took special security precau-|with Rufus Youngblood, the se- tions against the chance the as-|cret service agent who had Ne one step in ajbeen with him, and I walked up cs : Misi forces|niot to cripple the Unitedito him. sunday and predictec Passage States by killin its leaders, in-! " " » fire a of a compromise $3,000,000,000 cluding Fineelte I Saad ig ie Eset ams, wien foreign-aid money bill today or} Malcolm Kilduff, assistant|, 100Ked at him, very frankly : White House press secretary,|! didn't know what to call him, But the Senate's schedule of/said Johnson had this in mind|and .J just blurted out, 'Mr. meetings every three!when he requested \Kilduff to/President.' And he turned until the new session| withhold briefly the' announce- around, and I will never forget Demo the|that he could be spirited to the|the look on his face, because 1 jam not sure but I am_ fairly jsure that this was the first time he had been called 'Mr. Presi- Kilduff, in a radio interview dent. 15 SAILORS SURVIVE 27-HOUR ORDEAL Winds Swamp French Ship HALIFAX (CP) French sailors suffering cold and exposure arrived in Port-aux-Basues, Nfid., Sunday after a 27-hour ordeal in a bru- tal storm which took the lives of between seven and 10 of their shipmates. Chief Engineer Gabriel Sines- Fifteen jslabs, tarpaulins and wind. "Our ship was sinking and the jcaptain ordered us to abandon," jhe said. "The captain stayed jaboard but the others dived into the sea.. The yswam but not all of them were able to get into tre, 49, of Marseilles, the senior! the two life boats surviving officer of the 2,300- ton French ship Douala which sank Saturday 80 miles south of Burgeo, Nfld., told reporters "We were soon very cold, |Thére was driving snow and we were coated in frozen spray."' He said he believes Capt. Mi- that howling winds ripped off|chel Lable and the first mate, hatch covers and allowed the ship to fill with water. He said the hatches, covered with two - inch - thick wooden CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. HOSPITAL 7 725-6574 23-2211 were drowned when the Douala went down. They saw the search plane just after: daybreak Sunday. It was an RCAF Argus search air- craft from Greenwood, N.S. They signalled with flares to a ship which passed close' by during the night, but it didn't steei|transport department ice- from|straps, were blown off by the breaker Sir Humphrey Gilbert had been informed there were seven dead. Sinestre said he Two men who had died were/believed 10. men had died left in the boat. Another was lost overboard while being trans-| victim ferred from boat to ship. Another died before the Gil-|and which continued to lash the|Gladys Wiscombe, carrying a bert reached Port-aux-Basues.|sea until Sunday. It left 14 sea-|coal cargo from North Sydney The 15 survivors were taken to}men dead, The Douala was not the only of the storm = which |struck the Maritimes Thursday and four a hospital at Channel, near Port-|and presumed drowned. aux-Basues, where they. were | treated for various minor injur-|coastal vessel Mary Pauline lost ies and. exposure, Meanwhile, two other vessels, the Ludwig, believed to be a trawler, and the small freighter Langlade, out of the French- held islands of St. Pierre-Miue- lon off Newfoundiand's south coas picked up five men from the second lifeboat. They were expected to arrive at St. Pierre with the five survivors and the see them. Just after daybreak | bodies of three men who had Sunday, an RCAF Argus search\died in the lifeboat aircraft appeared overhead and saw the last of their flares It was not immediately known how many men the Douala car- Of the 19 men in Sinestre's|ried. Health Minister James Mc- |boat,. 16 were picked up by the|Grath of Newfoundland said he|freighter Corfu Island w sometime today| their lives Friday within 20 yards of safety. They drowned when their dories swamped alongside the: Zeta, a by to rescue them from their sinking vessel. Only Sylvester | wood Island off southwestern | children died today when fire Hynes, the Mary Pauline's first}Nova Scotia Friday. The vessel|raged through: a mate, was lfreezing sea. Isaac Douglas, 60, of Fortune, | Nfid., was washed were early Saturday when a sea Lawrence, Nfld. The 7,000 ton | missing|to Marystown, Nfld.. was found Six members of the 175-ton| and apparently powerless. She | | | small|dead are the two crew members Newfoundland trawler standing|of the longliner Ruth Lillian plucked from the|had been fishing out of West-|Spring Valley estate house. broke over the schooner Phil! The E, Lake, 14 miles south of St.!when she drifted away from the Lebanese) found her 70 miles northeast of|ald, as aban-|Halifax. |taped for broadcast Sunday night by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, told of the tense, hectic minutes after Kennedy's death a month ago in Dallas' Parkland Hospital. |. Surgeons pronounced the pres- jident dead at about 1 p.m. and | Kilduff said that about 10 min- jutes later he told Kenneth |O'Donnell,, White House ap- pointments secretary, that the news of Kennedy's death had| WHITBY (Staff) -- wW not been made public and sug-) : ) _--- " |string of Christmas tree lights gested it be done. -- jalmost spelled out a bleak O'Donnell told him to check/Christmas for about 220 resi- |first with the new president. dents of Whitby's Fairview DESCRIBES SCENE Lodge, the County Home for the Kilduff described the aged, ments that followed: 8 The ide "Well, I walked through the in th Plagateitd me them all, through the emergency|!™ their nineties, stood by fire exits as Whitby volunteer fire- fighters battled a $1000 blaze in the living quarters of Lodge Superintendent, Mrs. Douglas Coates, Saturday night. A-spokesman for the fire de- partment attributed the blaze to a faulty string of lights on the Coates' Christmas tree. The flames destroyed the tree in seconds. They caught the drapes, then destroyed a chair, a number of Christmas pres- ents and partially-burned a tele- vision set. Mrs. Coates arid her daugh- and|ter, Phyllis, 9, were in the Yule Tree Fire Hits Whitby Home For Aged doned by her 27-man crew Sat- urday after she grounded on the Magdalen Islands Friday, She refloated 20 minutes later, ap. parently without damage. The 79-ton coastal schooner mo- by an aircraft Sunday drifting) was 40 hours overdue. The cap- tain reported by radio that all hands were safe. Still missing and presumed Estate House Fire Kills 4 Children Found wrecked on lonely Ellen-| BALTIMORE, (AP) -- Four large green port, N.S. | The children's parents, Mr. The navy tug Glenside was/and Mrs. Sid Poland, a 12-year- towed into Halifax Sunday byjold daughter and a house guest another navy tug, the St. John./fled to safety in the pre-dawn Glenside. was unmanned|chill. Police identified the dead as navy tug Tiverton. The St. John|Star Poland, 7, Joel and. Don- five-year-old twins, was|woman accompanied her blind j loft northwest Africa. |MIDNIGHT DISASTER Then shortly before midnight Sunday (7 p.m. EST) came the first wireless message telling of the fire aboard. It was followed jearly this morning by this final janguished signal: "S O S frm Lakonia. Last Temperatures should be)!2t0 the Communist zone during|nerienced since 1957, though fur-|one in prison," said a young|time. I cannot stay any more "not|the weekend, bringing to 34,000 ther in the wireless cabin. We are j\leaving the ship. Please help immediately." All but the stern of the ship was ablaze and explosions rocked her 608-foot length when rescue vessels arrived on the scene about 180 miles north of the Portuguese island of Ma- deira and 550 miles northwest of Casablanca. The water was |dotted with lifeboats and swim- ;mers, | Great clouds of smoke rolled jup from the red' hot hulk. Peo- ple wild with joy waved from lifeboats as rescuers ap- The passengers were a gay and carefree group when the' Lakonia left. Southampton last Thursday for a sunshine cruise |of Madeira, Teneriffe and. the Canary Islands int he Atlantic temperature was 64 degrees, warm enough to give those in the sea a chance to survive. CHILDREN ABOARD A Canadian among the pas- sengers was identified only as a Mr. C. Hoyst of Hove, England. Officials of the line believed two babies and 30 to 34 children under 12 were aboard. Some ac- counts told of mothers tossing children into lifeboats and of pa- rents struggling in the water to keep their children afloat, U.S. and British military planes criss-crossed the area, spotting swimmers and life- boats and directing rescue boats. A U.S. Air Force air rescue report received in Orlando, Fla., said a C-54 flying over the area from the Azores told of the ca- sualties. It said "the 100 were wearing life jackets but all ap- peared to be dead," DESCRIBES RESCUE Wireless messages told of the dramatic rescue. The master of the British tanker Montcalm, Capt. E. J. Kempton, radioed: "There are a lot of people in the water around the burning vessel. We are picking up as many as possible." "The vessel was on fire every- where except for the aft por- tion," said a radio message from one of three planes from the U.S, 57th Air Rescue Squad- ron based in the Azores. 'Survivors are in lifeboats and on life rafts which have been dropped by U.S. Air Force aircraft, Four vessels are in the area and are picking up surviv- ors. About 60 per cent have been picked up so far. "However, there are many survivors still in the water. The weather in the area is reported good. The wind is from the northeast at eight knots." PLUCKED FROM SEA Other accounts told of hun- dreds hauled from lifeboats and from the sea onto the decks of ships. The line's spokesman in Lon- don said it appeared about 470 persons had been rescued thus far, At that time, radio mes- ages from the scene indicated the total saved was consider- ably higher. : The British liner Stratheden radioed she had picked up 300 survivors, some injured, plus some dead. The Argentine freighter Salta was alternately reported to have from 220 to 400 survivors. The Montcalm said it had 10 Osurvivors and the Ar- gentine liner Rio Grande another 150. of Newport Beach, Calif., holds his pet dog, Tex, whose channel-changing jingling -dog- tags, plays havoc with the family TV programming. It seems the dog-tags are in 'tune with the sensitive chan- iNorman, 3. 'apartment at the time. nel-changing instrument in the DOG TAGS BUG TV Twelve-year-old Bill Haynie TV set and every time Tex scratechees, the channel' changes, and since Tex scatches at a pretty feroci- Ous rate, the Haynie's set looks like an electronic roul- ette wheel, (AP Wirephoto)