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Oshawa Times (1958-), 6 Aug 1964, p. 1

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Thought For Today You're over the hill when it takes longer to get rested than it did to get tired. Price Not Over 10 Cents per Copy VOL. 93 -- NO. 183 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1964 The Oshawa Times and ~ Weather Office Department Postage Cash. Report Warmer Friday with a few scattered showers. Variable cloudiness. Winds westerly 15-25 ren | Comedian Says Tape Tips FBI HONOLULU (AP) -- Negro, Gregory, doing a night club comedian Dick Gregory said to-|date here, called a press con- day 2 letter he relayed to the| ference and said he had consid- Federal Bureau of Investigation|ered the letter phoney before three weeks ago told where to|Tuesday when the bodies were! . find the bodies of the three slain} found. : civil rights workers in Missis-| "If it hasn't come out al-|~ sippi. - ready," Gregory said, "you wil!) © e said he also has given the| find they (the civil rights work- FBI a tape recording containing|ers) were shot and beaten." names of the killers, The letter Gregory displayed Gregory had offered a $25,000/said: "They are dead and have reward for the information. He|been since June 22, 1964," | did not name its source. Civil rights workers Michael! The FBI in Washington said it|Schwerner, 24, Andrew Good-| © had no comment. man 20, and James Chaney,. 20, were last seen in Philadelphia, | : B Miss., on June 21. Cypriots Fight 2 With Mortars workers . . , were buried in a field not too far from Philadei- BURIED OFF ROAD The letter said in part: ' NICOSIA (AP) -- Greek- andj, ); ' i ts battled today phia, Miss., between five to After the civil rights workers| #9#s000. ms were killed "the three rights NORTH VIET with mortars and rockets along the Turkish beachhead in north- west Cyprus. Sporadic firing continued at mid-day in the area known as Tillyria, a mountainous prom- ontory dotteq with small Greek end Turkish villages. Turkish-Cypriots in the area control about 10 miles of coast, their only beach on the island. United Nations observers say the Turks have landed men and arms there. The UN declined to estimate whether the renewed fighting meant Greeks were preparing a new drive to oust the Turks from the coast. A UN source * @id say, however, that the use of rockets creel mortars ap- peared significant. Swedish UN troops were rushed into nearby mountains to fight a large forest fire be- _* touched off by mortar the road, and this is why these! three civil rights workers' have| never really been found." | The site where the bodies/ were found was about six miles| southwest of Philadelphia. } Two of the three bodies re- moved from an earth dam near| Philadelphia were positively) identified Wednesday as} Schwerner and: Goodman. Tee te i ne was tentatively) entified as that of Chaney. | i Gregory said the tape record-| ~~ indi sap egg 3 ing made "by a fellow whol °o> knows what's going on in Mis-| ang Soviet follower, is regarded| TOKYO (AP)--A shadowy but famous Marxist ruler of a little known corner of Southeast Asia suddenly has become the direct U.S. BUILDI . China Says US. Over War Brink PEKING (Reuters) -- Com- # munist China today warned the ; United States that iis attack on NAM RULER Viet Nam, which is fighting to |break the Communist strangle- }hold threatening its existence. | The two Vietnamese republics loffspring of the Indochina War| flower of French colonial arm- ies at Dien Bien Phu, Ho's| guerrilla army of 110,000 men| conquered a French union force} that once totalled 700,000 men during the Seven-Year War. | Ho expected to dictate terms} to the defeated French, but! French and Russian pressure| forced him to postpone total 'ol of Viet Nam. in favor of/marching tothe north when cont : . hthey~ cannot 'even Control. areas a divided country. y ' Attacks Protested SINGA PORE (Reuters) -- Foreign Minister Xuan Thuy of| Communist regime. These Tel North Viet Nam has protested| {against provocative attacks by} "the United States and its) agents," the official Communist) North Vietnamese bases \meant aggression against China and had gone over the "brink of war," In a government statement-- first official Chinese reaction to U.S. retaliation for torpedo boat) assaults in the Gulf of Tonkin --it said the "debt of blood" to oat eg tae Flo Chi Minh Is Now Direct U.S. Adversary Five years later, convinced that unity could never be achieved on their. terms, Ho's Communists began the guerrilla adversary of the United States;|that face each other across the campaign against the South, his torpedo boat nests the tat-/17th parallel are the troubled| then led by Ngo Dinh Diem. Even before Ho's torpedo Ho Chi|which Ho Chi Minh brought to| boats assaulted U.S, destroyers Minh, onetime cabin boy, cook] an end in 1954. By crushing the] in the Gulf of Tonkin this week, there had been increasing talk in Asia amd in the United States of the possibility of American attacks on North Viet Nam as a means of halting aid to the Communist guerrillas in the South. Ho previously had scoffed at this possibility, "How can they talk about in the immediate vicinity of Saigon? he said in an interview in April. FEARFUL OF WAR Despte his derision, Ho prob- {ably is deeply worried over the effects of an American-South Viet Nam strike at the North or the possibility of open war- fare between the North and the South. His anxieties are not over the damage which might be done to his almost non-existent industry or to the remote pssi- bility that his armies might be {North Viet Nam news agency! defeated by those of the South. This is sheer stupidity," the North Vietnamese people must be repaid. "The Chinese people will ab- solutely not sit idly by without lending a helping hand." The Chinese statement made no mention of any impending Chinese air or naval action against the United States in the Gulf of Tonkin. The U.S. at- tacks on North Viet Nam con- stituted the first step in extend- ing the war in Indochina, the statement said. The situation was of the utmost gravity. Of the Viet Nam torpedo boat incident Aug. 4 (the second one) in the Gulf of Tonkin, the state- ment added: "The facts proved and will continue to prove that GEN. WESTMORELAND . « . U.S. Commander | bat, today joined American and this so-called incident is an out- and-out lie, purposely fabricated by U.S. imperialism in order to extend the war in Indochina." SAYS TOWNS BOMBED The Chinese statement said the U.S. had already made "many armed provocations" against North Viet Nam, includ- ing the bombing earlier this month of North Vietnamese coastal towns. The interpretative statement was worked out at an all night emergency meeting of the coun- try's top leaders, reliable sources said. Observers said the statement could be the basis for immedi- ate Chinese counter action in the Gulf of Tonkin. On the other hand it could simply be justi- 'fication for future action in case of a further deterioration in the Indochina situation. It was noted the statement was issued after the official New China news agency had quoted U.S. Defence Secretary Robert McNamara as saying that air reprisals against North Viet Nam had ceased and only naval:patrols were continuing. Most diplomats here were convinced that China, despite tiugh words, is loath to get in- volved in a direct conflict with the U.S. in Southeast Asia, es- pecially if Russian military sup- Abandon Hope For 5 Miners CHAMPAGNOLE (CP)--Hope was abandoned today for five men still missing deep in the Mont Rivel limestone mine near this French community. Mayor Andre Socie told re- portérs "'for us Mont: Rivel is now a mount of tragedy." Three different attempts to reach the missing men from the side and above ended in failure or were abandoned, _ Two small vertical sounding drills continued to pierce the mountain in the hope of some trace of a truck contain- ing one of the men efitonibed by a cave-in 10 days ago. But officials said it was too late to pull anyone out alive. Rescue teams broke into a section where two of the miss- ing men were believed to have tapped out signals until three days ago. The chamber was empty and mounds of rubble prevented an advance into other parts of the mine. Fourteen men were trapped in the huge underground: laby- rinth July 27. Nine were res- cueq unhurt Tuesday. te * en Jets Could Carry Nuclear Weapons SAIGON (AP)--About 30 U.S, Air Force B-57 jet bombers, capable of carrying nuclear weapons when fitted for com- South Vietnamese forces stand- ing watch to meet any attack from the Communist North. The fleet of high-flying, twin- engine Canberras sped to Saigon unheralded while a steady shuttle of transport planes completed overnight a buildup of troops and material in the area adjoining the North Vietnamese frontier. ( Air traffic came toa virtual halt today. The general feeling in Saigon was that, if nothing important happened in the next 2% hours, the Gulf of Tonkin crisis probably would be past. The alert status in South Viet Nam's capital was nowhere near what it would be if an at- tack were considered imminent. There was no public an- nouncement of the arrival of the B-57s but they wene seen by a correspondent on a runway apron occupied Wednesay by six supersonic F-102 Delta Dag- ger fighters from Okinawa. The F-102s were gone, perhaps to augment defensive aerial forces at Da Nang, a base on the South China Sea 280 miles northeast of Saigon. which also lacked confirmation elsewhere. One was a story that Ho Chi Minh, president of North 'Viet Nam, had been replaced 'by a pro-Peking subordinate in the North Vietnamese Communist party. The other was that two squad- rons of Soviet-made MiG fight- ers had been flown into North Viet Nam. The spokesman said he "had nothing to back up". the rumor about Ho Chi Minh. He pointed out that U.S. and South. Vietna- mese intelligence officers main- tain a close liaison and said they found nothing to support it. He said he had no information about MiGs, READY TO FIGHT The spokesman said Ameri- can and South Vietnamese millf- tary forces are prepared to meet any Communist retaliation for the U.S. aerial counter-at- tack, Wednesday against North Viet Nam's torpedo boats and shore installations. he U.S. is considering. bring- ing in more air rer if it is needed, he said, but there are no plans to increase the ground forces beyond the 5,000 recently announced U.S, military per- sonnel in South Viet Nam now A U.S. embassy spokesman WASHINGTON (CP) -- The United States government and military watched for any clue that Communist China would come to the aid of her Red neighbor in North Viet Nam after the U.S. bombing raids against. North Vietnamese na- val and supply installations. Many officials in Washington port was not guaranteed. were alive and in good health. Hoyt, 33, had refused to quit his post' as long as there is still hope." With him in Stan- leyville are Vice Consul David Grinwis, radio operators James Stauffer and Donald Parkes and administrative officer Erne-t Houle. |TROOPS ROLL IN | Trucks of paracommandos in jfull battle gear rolled through |the streets of Leopoldvitle this morning. Other soldiers took up positions outside the capital's main post office and other kev government buildings. An airlift of evacuees from Stanleyville to here was stopped Fighter Aircraft Sent To Thailand BANGKOK (AP)--The United States has ordered two squad- rons of fighter aircraft into Thailand in.connection with the Tonkin Gulf crisis, a U.S, em- bassy spokesman announced to- day. "The movement of these units has been undertaken as a precautionary" measure after full consultations with the Royal Thai government and with its | jreported today. He reserves his real fears for} (In North Viet Nam thousands Oscow ress | He warned "the U.S. govern-|his giant neighbor, Communist] of people held rallies to protest ment, the Royal Laotian govern-} China. : _ |against the U.S. attacks and I : ment and the South Viet Nam| Should the Vietnamese mili-|draft petitions to the interna- S estraine ladministration must bear the|tary situation deteriorate, Red| tional commission set up in 1954 "ae _, .Jentire responsibility for the|China's Mao Tse- tung might| calling for measures to prevent MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Soviet| crave consequences arising out| Well carry out his repeated|further "aggressive act,s" the press treatment was restrained|o¢ their dangerous provoca-|Promises to come to the aid ofjofficial North Viet Nam news today on American raids on|tigns," North Viet Nam. agency reported.) -- Magma naval bases.! The protest was contained in oie ee ea a" ton a letter addressed Wednesday y gan, carr a Tass tai geia_ corchal® en aire eSmutagen enim and tussa, oxi "Twa Top Senate Groups |that U.S. attacks on North Viet ence, other participants in the A LBJ's Actio Nam could lead to widespread armed conflict with "danger- ous eonsequences,"' conference, and countries mak- ing up the international com- mission in Vietnam--India, Po- doubted Red China would take outright military action al- though the Chinese government said "the Chinese people will absolutely not sit idly by with- out lending. a helping hand." There was no _ interference with American reconnaissance flights over the bombed area. President Johnson, in an- nouncing the decision to bomb North Viet Nam late Tuesday night, said it was aimed as a warning to North Viet Nam not to enlarge the Southeast Asian hostilities in which the U.S. is deeply involved. The raids were approval," the spokesman said. But, except for the two head-|land and Canada. ordered after North Viet Nam discounted two Saigon rumors,'500. Many Officials Doubt Red China Will Attack lines "Aggressive activities of the U.S.A. in the Gulf of Ton- kin" and "'an encroachment on The agency quoted Xuan Thuy's letter as saying that on the night of July 30, the U.S, and. the South Viet Nam ad- ministration "'dispatched naval) vessels to intrude into the ter-| ritorial waters of the Democra-| tic Republic of Viet Nam and| simultaneously to shell two of, her islands--Hon Ngu and Hon| Me. Wednesday night as rebel forces| sovereignty," it made no com- chased off and fired at two/|ment of its own planes trying to land. The Tass announcement was One of the planes was hit but|printed alongside the joint the pilot managed to fly it back|American, Soyiet and British to Leopoldville. The pilot of the|}communique marking the first second plane, flying in fromjanniversary of the test -ban Bukavu, was reported wounded. |treaty. | a me business of government, the)statement to the Commons to- to alday and Mr. Diefenbaker was sissippi, and a young man in|}, Pret : oe Pees i - yy many in his democratic re- the civil rights information de- public of (North) Viet Nam-- }ence from France, ai down." Behind his benign exterior g Y calls itself Revolutionary Figbt- }ers of the National Liberation capitals of Brazzaville and Bu-| j y Ho' main city of the northern Congo|jumbura. guerrillas by Ho's northern which fell to the rebels Wednes- the rebels had occupied the city. The message. added that went off the air Wednesday aft- ernoon after a message saying dents laid wreaths today in memory of Hiroshima's nuclear the attack when an American B-29 dropped the bomb over the ing a rapid decision on a Cana-| He said the government will! halt." /expected to reply at that time.| dian flag broke down Wednes-|press straight on--without any| He repeated this stand to re-, For some eachs: Conserva-| oo in Mississippi." He/ang by a few in South Viet "The whole thing has been a Nam--as his country's greatest hides one of the most single- minded, skilful. and. ruthless 2 2 8 | 1 tin ontinues |Front (NLF), better known as | the Viet Cong (Vietnamese | Communists). LEOPOLDVILLE (AP)--Con- Pi Messages today indicated that\the enemies of the expanded y- U.S. Consul Michael Hoyt of|forces of American advisers to troops of the Stanleyville garri- son were still battling just out- that the "popular liberation army" had taken over. The reb- dead as this rebuilt city of half a million people marked the centre of the city Aug. 6, 1945. day night over Progressive Con| summer recess if need be--with} sed) ti i i e n 7 porters when the talks collapsed) tive sources have said the oppo- servative refusal to agree to ajthree items of business, includ-| following a day of comings and( sition intends to debate the flag! | whitewash from the president patriot, the undisputed leader of (Communists: From" his head- els are being financed and ad-| TORC golese Army troops are re-| vi | STRONG FORCE Brief messages reaching the|Chicago and his staff of four\the young republic of (South)| side the city in the neighbor- Wreaths Laid 19th anniversary of the U.S. F d Electi Th t time limit on parliamentary de ? S to the governor of Mississippi Indochina's war for independ-) quarters in North Viet Nam, he vised by Chinese Communist} ivi is sai ted still fighting Communist- Its driving force is said to be Congolese capital from Stanley-|other Americans in Stanleyville| hood of the airport. In Hiroshima atomic bomb attack. OTTAWA (CP)--The summit/Credit Leader Thompson and) the ies ing a request for $696,000,000 in) oings of party leaders 'to his|and other measures fully. They| | fo Hoover and the FBI on} leads a force in the south that diplomats in the neighboring i s Gariad | rebel wartlore on. the 8! jabout 25,000 men trained a ville by a roundabout route said | The airport control tower HIROSHIMA (CP) Resi- Some 240,000 persons died in political talks aimed at ensur-|Creditiste Leader Caouette |business of Parliament, |interim spending authority now] office. As a result, the Commons|entering the ninth day of de-| ren vast eaiq| debate until Christmas and bat-| was back today in the legisla-| bate. : Rag oe 8 "by desctne said te the government's proposed! tive deadlock which sparked ef This item will be followed by| interim spending Dill at e ich| flag design right into an elec- forts among the party leaders/a bill to put into effect new tax-|jength, wants to force the eov.|tion if necessary. to reach a compromise. sharing arrangements withlernment to withdraw the flag| Political sources said that Prime Minister Pearson, an-| provinces. Finally, the MPs will] resolution. |barring some new and success-| nouncing the breakdown, placed be asked fo approve the gov- "Well, we don't propose to) {Ul compromise effort the Con-/ the blame squarely on the Pro-jernment's proposed maple leaf. Manan propes \servatives faced 'two. alterna-| gressive Conservatives follows flag and its companion motion|¥/@4 '0 this kind of tactic, taj sivas | ing a meeting with Opposition|to recognize the Union Jack as| 'hese threats, and indeed to this)" moy could continue with| Leader Diefenbaker, New Dem|the symbol of Canada's Com-|Ptibe. But we do not intend, if| c ocratic Leader Douglas, Socialmonwealth connection. we can avoid it, to allow | eller enr yap The Shortly before the talks broke *#uation to bring about an elec-| |. : lies ' | down, 'Mr. Pearson recorded a tion. We gre think an election| which cose the a ee | television broadcast saying "the|}8 in the best interest of the)... confident no vote will ever |government does not intend to Canadian people at this time. jcall an election on any of the} Mr. Diefenbaker, who con-| "or they could curtail their |current issues that faces us, 1/Sulted the caucus of Conserva-| debating efforts and let the flag| jwant to make that perfectly/tive MPs before meeting first\issue come to a vote, knowing| clear." 3 | privately with Mr. Pearson.and)¥e government has been| "But nevertheless an electicn|!ater with the prime minister] pledged enough Commons votes | could be forced on the country|and other party leaders, made!from among smaller oppositicn| jif the opposition use the Tules| no immediate comment. groups for the flag to be ap-| to bring the nation's business,' Mr. Pearson was to make a! proved. PHONE NUMBERS CITY EMERGENCY POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 |have said they're prepared tol; WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two top Senate. committees over- whelmingly approved toay a resolution giving bipartisan backing to President Johnson's military actions in Southeast asia. The Senate foreign relations and armed services committee sped the resolution to the Sen- ate floor for what Democratic and Republican leaders hoped would be quick passage there. They did so after State Sec- retary Dean Rusk asked them to put Congress on record as leaving communist aggressors "in no doubt whatever" of the unity and determination of the American people to defend Southeast Asia against Red ag- gression. Only Senator Wayne Morris Dem. Ore.), a member of the foreign relations committee who has denounced the resolu- tion as a "'pre-dated declaration of war" in Asia, voted against it. Rusk, supported by Defence Secretary Robert S. McNamara. and Gen,' Earle. C. Wheeler, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told the senators that re- cent North Vietnamese torpedo boat attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin "are no isolated incident." "They are part and parcel of a continuing Communist drive British Actor Hardwicke Dies NEW YORK (AP)--Sir Ced- ric Hardwicke, the British-born actor who spent a lifetime on the stage and screen, died early today at the age of 71. '|ment awarded him against Har- ranges between 16,300 and 16;- small naval units engaged U.S. warships in international waters twice this week in the Gulf of Tonkin. The Red Chinese accused Johnson of ordering the bomb- ings "to enhance his position" in the U.S. presidential election campaign and spread the war in South Viet Nam to the north. State Secretary Dean Rusk said the situation is explosive in the aftermath of the "very successful" air strikes that cost the Americans two planes downed and one damaged. 'The North Vietnamese claimed they shot down five planes, damaged three and captured one Ameri- can pilot. ¢ Red China has been support- ing the guerrilla warfare in South Viet Nam by funnelling supplies to North Viet Nam by land and by sea via the Gulf of Tonkin. (Continued on Page 3) to conquer South Viet Nam, con- trol or conquer Laos and even- tually dominate and conquer other free nations of Southeast Asia," Rusk said. Rusk, Defence Secretary Rob- ert S. McNamara and Gen. Earle Wheeler testifieq behind closed doors in support of a resolution giving two - party backing of President Johnson's military actions in Southeast Asia. A copy of Rusk's opening statement was released by the committee. The House of Representatives foreign affairs committee also set a hearing, with its schedule calling for House passage Fri- day. Oshawa Man Sent To Jail TORONTO (CP)--An Oshawa man fired a shot that rico- chetted off a steel post and wounded a man and two chil- dren was sentenced to four months Wednesday, for posess- ing an offensive weapon. A charge of intent to wound against Gregory Shevchenko, 45, was dismissed. Evidence disclosed that Shev- chenko drove to the home of Leo Hardoon, a suburban Don Mills contractor and tried to collect money on a $10,000 judg- doon, for whom he worked as a sub-contractor. Hardoon was on the lawn playing with some small chil- dren and went to call police when he saw Shevchenko carry- ing a .32-calibre. rifle. As he walked away the shot was fired, s Heavy ham, Ont., WATER EVERYWHERE rains Monday and Tuesday caused the Maitland River to overflow at Wing- some 40 miles north of Stratford. It was a case of water, water every- where as Nancy MacAuley, left, and Judie Burke paused © for a drink at a fountain in Wingham's Riverside Park. (CP Wirephoto) " '

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