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Oshawa Times (1958-), 19 May 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today Success. in the mistakes when ing. VOL. 93 -- NO. 117 art of making nobody is look- he Oshawn Hines Authorized es Second Class Mo! payment Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1964 Ottawa and = for Weather Thundershowers Report ending before midnight. Cooler Wednseday. Sunny with cloudy intervals. it Post Office Department of Postage in Cash. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Bomb Remove Safely From Montreal Bridge MONTREAL (CP)--A home- made bomb was found early to- day on the Victoria Bridge Spanning the St. Lawrence River--a sinister climax to a se- ries of incidents which marked the Victoria Day holiday here. Det, - Sgt. Leo Plouffe, the) Montreal police' department's bomb disposal expert, dropped the device into the river. The) bomb was discovered several hours after an anonymous tele- phone caller had warned the bridge was in danger. The bomb episode came in General mayhem developed) Underscoring the situation during the demonstrations, re-|was the fear of recurrence of sulting in at least 85 persons|the 1955 St. Patrick's Day riot IN DESI PEARSON | being pulled in by police. Thugs|--an episode arising from the) carrying switch - blade knives| suspension of hockey great Mau-| were reported to have joined|rice (Rocket) Richard--and the the street marches. istreetcar riots the following However, no one was seri-|year, sparked by a student pro- ously hurt and there were no'test against the cost of tram reports of major damage. fares. | Sgt. Plouffe said he dropped) Monday, as in the 1955 and |the bomb from the bridge into! 1956 outbursts, the hoodlum ele- the river when he was told the} ment jumped into the act. But spot where it was found--about 700 feet from the south end of the span across from Montreal sharp police action--the force was obviously better geared to ftieal with such trouble -- pre- OTTAWA (CP):-- Prime Minister Pearson said to- day his cabinet has decid- ed to replace the Red Ensign with a flag design- PUSHES LE NS FOR FLA Vets Bawl, Boo * During Address vertical centre stem, were shown Monday on paper mounted on cardboard,. € Mr. Pearson said the designa were unveiled because he the wake of separatist-inspired|_was: not over the St. Law- ed with maple léayes and | thought the people "should have manifestations Monday in the centre of the city. Cuba Alerts Troops F or Exile Threat MIAMI, Fla. (AP)--Refugees from Cuba say the country. Is on a virtual wartime emergency basis because an exile group announced plans to be fighting on Cuban soil by Wednesday. Exiles arriving here in flight from Premier Fidel Communist dictatorship said highways in Cuba were jammed with troop-carrying trucks, by tanks and cannon, heading into mountain and coastal areas. The astro regime, they added, apparently is taking every possible defensive meas- ure against raids such as that of last week when exile raiders burned a sugar mill in the east- pino, one of 48 ref- jitters have made the Commu- nists desperate." Widespread arrests of Cubans suspected of anfi-Castro lean- imgs were reported by exile sourees. "It appears to be something like the situation which ceded the Bay of Pigs invasion of April, 1961," said an anti- Castro ljeader, quoting under- ground sources. nNIiNnt ed Castro's| |rence Seaway's St. Lambert] Vented things from flaring out hese |. The separatists marched from' |MADE FROM SHELL |Lafontaine Park in the east He said the bomb was Inside) central belt of the city--a mon-| a plastic bag. and was made|ument to* Dollard was the as-| }from a Second World War shel!) sembly 7 to the Place Ville casing apparently filled with an|Marie showplace in the down-| explosive. town area, launching their ac-| Train and vehicular traffic) tivities. was allowed back on the bridge} at 2:40 a.m. EDT after it had ' been closed for five hours while Norway Foils the bomb hunt went on. | Following the separatist dem- can lonstrations, many of the persons K Visit Blast picked up by police were re-) Ost (Reuters)--An attempt leased after a cooling-out pe-itg blow up the royal estate riod. But 30 of them--29 young) where Russian Premier Khrush-| | men and one young woman--ap-|chey will stay during his official] | peared in court today, most of] visit to Norway at the end of | them charged with disturbing/next month was foiled early to- | the peace. | Bail was fixed at $50 each and preliminary hearings set for May 29. Two of those arrested] Monday night and released on) $25 bail failed to appear in| court and warrants were issued for their arrest. | The affair started out as a} protest -- as announced some! time ago--against the Victoria) Day holiday by anti-confedera- tionists promoting recognition of a hoiliday in honor of Dollard des Ormeaux, the hero. of the Long Sault. Dollard and @ small band of patriots are said to have inter-| cepted an Indian war party en route to attack Montreal after the city was founded in 1642. The settlers gave up their lives to the man but they fought so fiercely the Indians were dissu-| pre-laded from placing the settle-| ment under siege. Police Chief J, Adrien Robert/ Monday night described the do-| day, police said. } | Medical teams give first aid Police said a man with a dog had been seen early this morn- ing close by the Bygdoe royal estate, three miles west of here. | to two track officials injured | when a 150-mile-an-hour rac- | ing car left the course and ran them down at Mosport, , \leaf is the chief ingredient in |two designs for a Canadian flag # ting, RACING CAR INJURES MOSPORT OFFICIALS Sunday. The driver, Dave and John Rashkis of Toronto. cause has yet been determin- | other is without the blue bars. plans to choose Thursday the specific design it will place before Parliament, WINNIPEG (CP)--The maple shown Monday at a press con- Pearson. Both designs bear three big red maple leaves on a white background and one has a ver- tical blue bar running the height of the design at each end. The The prime minister said that while no decision had been made these: two designs were being considered "along with about 300 others." But there were indications that they were the two most favored. ference with Prime Minister}, a chance to look at them." He had not yet discussed the ques= tion with his cabinet. ' At the same time Mr. Pear« son added his own post mortem on the rowdy reception he re« ceived when he presented hi# case for the maple leaf em-¢ lem, He said he was surprised at the strength of the demonstra. tion, although he had expected some reaction from his aud- ience of 1,900 legionnaires and their friends at a downtown theatre. "T was assured that there was not going to be this type of elec: toral expression," he said. At the same time he realized how "strong and sincere" emotions become on the question of blems. Greenblat of Montreal, walk- ed unhurt from his potent Lotus - Chev. Injured were: Peter Miller of Peterborough Both were acting as. flag- marshals at the time of the accident. They are still under observation in hospital. No ed for the mishap, --Oshawa Times Photo --Max Wickens No Survivors Seen On Fiery LONG: BEACH, Calif. (AP)-- A tugboat stood by a burning freighter 20 miles off a remote Mexican coast today after a grim night's vigil. The crew awaited a chance to board the ship with little hope of finding anyone still alive. Nine persons including the captain are missing from the Norwegian freighter Sandanger, burning and racked with explo- sions since early Monday. ings Monday as "'a major dis-| turbance." | It was not known if the miss-) | oa! Captain Slain, Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Cas- tro's economic chief, said Sun-| day in a speech broadcast by|SET UP ROADBLOCKS Havana radio that new exile at-| His men threw up roadblocks tacks might be made "because|t« keep things under control at the United States is be hin d/various points and some consta- Freighter ers doubled they could suryiveé the raging flames or the choppy seas. The captain, John Kellmer, 53, holds the gold medal of the Norwegian Shipowner's Associa- tion for his long service in the Norwegian merchant navy. An air and sea Search was discontinued after life rafts were found either empty or overturned, the US. Coast ; Guard said. The body of an unidentified woman was recovered from the sea by a Japanese ship, the Boston Maru. The ship was due to dock today with the body in San Diego, Calif. them." He appealed to, Cubans to rise bles patrolled on horseback to disperse knots of demonstrat- 'ors. Sailor Held Forty-five survived the disas- ter, the coast guard said. They in arms against such raids. ia , | On Freighter Exiles In Miami | Plot New Moves =: i« sae NEW YORK (AP) -- Anti-| Szule reports. Others were said crew Castro Leader Manuel Ray) ready to follow Ray into'Cuba.| With flags at half mast, and plans to enter Cuba with highly-| Ray's pans call for the land-|Capt. Jacob Natvig, 51, lying' trained infiltrators and sabo-| ing of small but well-equipped|dead in his cabin, the 10,500- teurs to rebuild the underground groups that can be introduced) ton freighter Pomona arrived in smashed in the aftemath of the! into Cuba without arousing| Honolulu Monday, Bay of Pigs disaster, The New alarm in the Cuban defences. | Natvig's body was discovered] York Times says. In Miami, indications that|!@St Friday as the 443-foot-tong | In a dispatch by Tad Szulc more exile raids will be| Vessel Steamed 600 miles east of from "Somewhere in the Carib- ). nched Suuine Gidea snoank: Hawaii en route from Lo An-| HONOLULU (AP) -- An uni- dentified crew member is under lock and key aboard ship and police say he is a suspect in the axe - killing of the Norwegian | were taken aboard the German freighter Bodenstein, which went to the aid of the stricken ship. The Bodenstein was. to: ar- rive here today with the surviv- ors. The 450-foot Sandanger was sailing southward en route from Long Beach to Le Havre, France, via the Panama Canal when the ship caught fire off |Baja California, 400 miles from Long Beach, The cause of the fire was not known, The ship sent out a distress signal at 2:18 a.m. and about a half-dozen ships responded. The Bodenstein reached the ship within an hour. But no one was able to board bean,"' The Times says Ray was preparing Monday night to leave for an undisclosed spot on the ed Monday as refugees arriving here told of troops movements geles to Formosa with a cargo) the Sandanger due to the inten- of 9,500 tons of scrap metal.|sity of the fire, feeding on a Natvig was from Lillensand,| highly combustible cargo of cot- 0 iI Nor , Cuban coast. hie the island 'Norway. | Ray, head of the anti-Castro revolutionary junta, had prom-| ised to be back in Cuba by May! TEEN GANGS BATTLE, WOUND AND PILLAGE ton bales and wood pulp. ing ere Sill "aboard;-but reseu-| Laos Dilemma Sparks SEATO To Rush Meet BANGKOS (AP) -- The per- manent council of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization met in an unscheduled session in this capital of Thailand' to assess the situation in Lao. The council, composed of the ambassadors to the eight SEATO nations and top SEATO military officials, met for about an hour at a session requested by Graham Martin, U.S. am- bassador to Thailand. Informed sources said the council exchanged views on the new attacks by the Pathet Lao. SEATO's members .are the) United States, Britain, France,| 'Close To | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A } spokesman today the Unlicd States Js "not ruling out" any measures --. pos- sibly including military moves--which it may find necessary "to preserve the neutrality and independence of Laos." VIENTIANE (Reuters)--Pro- Communist Pathet Lao forces today were less than two miles from the new headquarters of retreating Laotian neutral- ist commander Gen. Kong Le and could attack in force at any} time,.a Western military officer) said here. | Kong Le set up a command) Laos Red Army Attack was forced to abandon when neutralist positions on the Piaine des Jstres in central Laos were overrun Sunday, Reports here* haye said the Pathet Lao gave Kong Le until Monday to surrender. A neutralist officer who flew in here from Muong Khuen, still held by neutralist troops, about 15 miles north of the plain; said the military situation on the plain was grave, He said a Col. Soulideth, who was reported by the Pathet Lao radio to have defected, was leading about 18 tanks on the plain fighting the Pathet Lao. REFUGEES TRICKLE IN Refugees were reported to be Australia, Pakistan, Thailand,|post at Ban Khong, six miles| trickling in from Muong Phanh the Philippines and New ites | land. Moscow LONDON (AP)--The ' British government announced today it is seeking Soviet and Red Chi- nese co-operation to halt attacks by Communist-led Pathet Lao forces in the. kingdom of Laos. A foreign office sp kesman, reading a statement, said: "We have followed with seri- ous concern developments in Laos resulting. from the con- tinued attacks by the Pathet Lao. "Her Majesty's ambassador in Mocow (Sir Humphrey Tre- 20, anniversary of the proclam-| ation of independence by a Cu-| ban congress in 1902 | Ray had been living in San Juan but resigned last week as a consultant to the Puerto Rican planning board. He then went into hiding, ieaving his wife and) LONDON (AP)--Britons went; The Rockers owe something five children in San Juan back to work today from the} to Hollywood. They ride mee According to/The Times dis- three-day Whitsun weekend with| ful motorbikes and wear leather patch ray will conduct sabotage 84 dead on the crowded roads) jackets, jeans and cowboy designed to make clear to the and 200 arrested for teen-age! boots. The prototype was Mar-| Havana regime that it is in a Violence. lon Brando in The Wild One. war. The traffic deaths were twice|- But the Mods, aggressors in Ray is concerned that the Cu-| /@St year's figure. The teen-age| every battle this weekend, are ban exile community in Florida ag were the worst the coun-| a homegrown cult. iy hgh Aa ] ry has seen. and elsewhere in the United)" RIDE SCOOTERS ernment is drafting a law to out!aw possession of the pills without a prescription. The 'first Mods versus Rock- ers battle broke out, largely by. accident, at Clacton, an east coast Fesort, at Easter, This time the word went round London's teen-age grape- vine that Margate was to be the States may be let down if quick e Thousands of youngsters in resu'ts do not appear immedi-| the garb of 'Mods' and "Rock- ate'y } ers," rival cults, battled on the infiltrator| beaches of resorts along the mostly formed from for-| Southern coast mer officers of Castro's army. Frightened families hurriedly and experienced guerrilla fight-| Sought shelter as Mods stormed! ¢s, have left "this general areajafter the Rockers, wielding and may be already in Cuba.'"'| chair legs, knives, bottles and studded belts. | Reinforced police arrested } them in by the dozen. At Bour-| Some "We of Ray's _ CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE. 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 | habited by retired colonels and | aged widows, more than 40 were arrested Thus was celebrated the fes- | Spirit on the Apostles. They dress expensively, ride motor scooters and often are as vain of their appearance as their '"'birds"--their girls. Many male Mods use eye- bow pencil, cye shadow, trans- parent lipstick and even rouge.' Hairstyles change every week. Some weeks a male Mod sits astride his motor scooter with toes pointing out. Next week the birds at the moment wear a) perpetual scowl. On weekends they "purped up' on purple get heatt scene, : Margate police got tough and arrested 50 youngsters. The | main. battleground shifted to | Brighton, where 76 were jailed | Monday night. The Daily Telegraph sug- gested the cure may lie in fire hoses or corporal punishments. "More rods," it said, "could mean fewer mockers." | nemouth, a resort normally in-| toes have to be pointed jn. Mod) WOULD END HOLIDAYS The Times had a suggestion) to combat both road deaths and vacation violence, "Bank holidays. (long week- | tival of Pentecost, commemor-| tablets, an amphetamine stimu-| ends) should be abolished," it ating the descent of the Holy) lant which enables them to god! said | without food and sleep. The gov-| s fs UK Resorts Terrorised ing on beaches were splashed all over morning papers. Pictures showed a Mod kick- ing a prone Rocker in. the head; blood streaming from stab wounds in a young man's back; black - jacketed toughs deaping over balcony to escape deck- chairs hurled by Mods; a gang beating a sole opponent; un- armed police struggling to re- southwest of Muong Phanh, his|to the Kong Le post in Ba former headquarters, which he) Khong. . © x UK Begs Peking, To Aid velyan) has already been in touch with the Soviet govern- ment and we shall be discuss- Chartered ' American planes airlifted refugees and wounded to Vientiane, 110 miles south- west. of the plain, and flew in medical supplies, Seventeen Russian-built tanks belonging to the neutralist forces fought their way out of Muong Kheung, 15 miles north of Muong Phanh, through nar- row mountain passes, the officer At one point he told report- ers he had a "hankering" for the blue-edged flag, but said he understood, the blue 'bars were not correct from a heraldic point of view. He did not. say how important this might be. in reaching a decision. Mr. Pearson:talk with report- ers followed by a day a speech he delivered to the Dominion But he said it would be un reasonable not to discuss the flag issue. : 18S. ADVOCATE The legion has been the most powerful single advocate for res tention of the Red Ensign, un- der which many fought. "At the first mention of the command of the Royal Canadian) Legion in which he said he be- lieved "most sincerely" it was' time for Canada to unfurl bert flag with a maple leaf }de- sign. MET BY JEERS The speech before about 1,900 legionaires was met by jeers, boos and a battery of hecklers. The designs, both showing the maplé leaves branching off a Shuffling Near In Soviet Elite MOSCOW (AP)--A new shift in the Soviet Union's top com- mand likely will result from the death of Otto Kuusinen, 82, Fin- nish member of the Communist party's 12man Presidium and one of the last old Bolsheviks. Kuusi was appointed to the Presidium at Premier Khrushchev's bidding after the ouster of Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslay Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich in 1957, His death from cancer of the liver was. an- nounced Sunday. He was one of the last direct links of the 2 sincerely, Mr. Pearson said, "'that it is time now for Canadians to un- furl a flag that is truly distine- tive and truly national in char- acter; as Canadian as the maple leaf which should be its domin- ant design; a flag easily tifiable as Canada's; a flag which cannot be mistaken for the' emblem of any other coun- try; a flag of the future which honors also the past; Canada's own and only Canada's." Would such a change mean disrespect for the Union Jack? he asked. Cries of "yes, yes, yes" drowned out the prime minister's next words. Twice Judge C. C. Sparling, the legion president, came to his aid. "TI thought you were all ladies and gentlemen," he said once, "This is our honored guest in- vited here by you. Surely the Royal Canadian Legion has more courtesy and dignity than reported. party leadership with Lenin. that." ing the matter further both with| the Soviet government and the) Chinese government. We also, of course are in close touch with the United States and other interested governments:*~--- In Moscow, the Communist) party newspaper Pravda blamed Prince. Souvanna Phouma, leader of the neutral- ist forces in Laos, for the new fighting. It said Souvanna's recent ac- tions 'have heated up the situ- ation." Pravda criticized Souvann's announcement that his. neutral- ist forces haye been .merged with the right-wing faction. This announcement, Pravda said was not supported by the Pathet Lao, nor by most of the neutral- ists é | Pravda's allegations were imade in a dispatch from Hanoil |capital of Communist North' \Viet Nam. | Metro Woman | Dies In Falls jonly find courage like rats by strain the teen-age packs. Magistrate George Simpson declared at Margate: "These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little sawdust Caesars NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.:(AP)} A Canadian woman died Mon-} day after "most likely" being) 7 7 swept over the American or| © Canadian falls, police reported. The body of Mrs. Erica Fox- man, 40, of Downsview, a Tor- ines ee Ph }onto-suburb, was recovered at cr po i cs al shouted t0)the Maid of the Mist landing on lig. € on out, YOu/the Canadian shore near the Rockers." Two youths were! foot of the falls. | | hunting in packs," | Eyen outside the courts,| 5 te Photcgraphs of youths fight-| tered shop windows, Stabbed outside one 'court at) Police in Niagara Falls, N.Y., Margate. |said Mrs. Foxman and her hus-|- The sands and the boardwalks) hand, Louis,.had been visiting Where the youths clashed from! that city and were staying at a| | Youth hidden on the: sands dawn to dusk were littered with) hotel. They quoted Foxman as) behind warring factions of ripped-up boards, broken beach|saying that his wife, complain-| British teen-agers js "stomp- chairs, bottles, refuse and shat-| ing of*feeling ill, left the hotel) ed" during one of' the many '"to get some aspirin," clashes Sunday which have | ' ts "TERROR ON BRITISH SEASHORE turned usual staid British sea- shore resorts into places of terror, Clashes between the Mods" and their -- rival "Rockers" continued into their , second day, sending knifed. and club-beaten boys and girls' to hospitals. aaa AP Wirephote: by cable from Londog 4

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