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f --- The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 93: -- NO. 295 She Oshawa Cimes OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1964 " Authorized os Second Class Mall Post Office Ottawa ond for peyment */" Weather Cloudy And Milder Today. Sunny Thurs- -- day But Snow Expected By Evening. High-80. Low-28. Sf tole ee Report > THIRTY-FOUR PAGES a The Oshawa Generals re- turned victoriously to the city last night as they downed the St. Catharines Blackhawks 6-4 in the first Junior A Hockey game ever played in the new Oshawa Civic Auditorium. A crowd of more than 4,000, well over the seating capacity of 3,400, jammed the Thornton's WIN FIRST GAME IN NEW ARENA road ice palace to see the Generals' first game in Osh- awa since the old arena burn- ed down in 1953. Weston Adams, president of the par- ent Boston Bruins, was one of the club officials at the opening. UNION JACK STILL ALIVE Move In Senate To Kill TAWA (CP)--A tresh flood d up in and put it on a, piece of bunt and call it #. called. th Teat In the Commons ittee's report recom- Commonwealth, Both houses were headed for more of the same today. Tuesday's events were an anti-climax, however, to Mon- day night's roaring wind-up of the Commons' main flag debate in which a closure - imposed vote adopted the maple leaf flag, 163 to 78, after 33 days of bitter argument. . The chosen design is a single red leaf on a white ground with a red panel at each side. But it requires Senate endor- sation and a proclamation by the Queen before it can fly over the nation. . A bid to deny that endorsa- tion was made by Senator Grat- tan O'Leary of Ottawa, who moved that the government suspend action on the maple leaf flag and replace it with a design incorporating "appropri-|two independents and one in-| mammoth ate symbols of the founding peoples of this nation." The motion might reach a vote today. The 75 - year - old Conserv- ative 'told the Senate: "You cannot take a naked bit of fol-'ing one of its rare moments in Is iscite, favorite topics of :Con- +servative MPs. | But a flag without the sym- | bols of the past was no flag at 'all and 'I for one refuse to be- lieve that the majority of the people of Quebec want to tear the last vestige of the Union Jack symbol from the Cana- dian flag." TORIES TURN OUT Although Conservative sen- ators have insisted they do not intend to filibuster the flag resolution, observers noted that 31 of the 33 Conservative mem- bers of the upper chamber were present for Tuesday's opening of the Senate flag debate. The two missing were Sen- ator M. M. Hollett (Newfound- land) and Senator Rheal Belisle (Ontario). There also are 61 Liberals, dependent Liberal jseat Senate. Five | vacant. aa | Most of the Liberals also |were in attendance. | While the Senate was enjoy- seats CBC Brass Shuffle #="""""""* For Streamlining" OTTAWA (CP)--A shuffle of senior titles aimed at stream- lining the headquarters opera- tion of the CBC was announced today by President Alphonse Ouimet. . The main change places W. E. S. Briggs, the senior vice- president, in charge of the day- to-day responsibilities for CBC operations. This will free Mr. Ouimet to concentrate on pol- icy, long-range planning and fi- nancing. Eight vice-presidents, with a ninth still to be named, will have specific responsibilities in administration and operations. There formerly were five vice- presidents in this area. None of the eight is a new face. For the most part, they are continuing their . former duties under new « signations. Four. of the vice-presidents will assist the president in pol- icy and planning. They are R. C. Fraser, assistant to the pres- ident; J. P. Gilmore, planning; V. F. Davies, finance, and J. E. Hayes, engineering. HANDLE OPERATIONS The other four, handling oper-| ations, are: H. G. Walker, gen eral-manager for English net-|, ( works; Marcel Ouimet, general manager, French networks; Charles Jennings, regional | broadcasting, and E. S. Hall- }man, programming. A ninth vice-president, to be named later, will assist Mr. Briggs. Mr. Briggs born in St. Cath- arines, in 1906, served in the Royal Navy before entering the advertising field in Canada in 1929, Before the Second World War when he joined the Cana- dian Navy, he served in the North Atlantic. He was an an- nounced, producer and station manager for the CBC. (Union Jack) Red Maple Leaf Design more Dg and for Oe ur pose than royal lion flag, which is the = Queen's flag?" her} oug! both the Union ar fhassle developed over a special|Jack and the fleur-de-lis. a Senator O'Leary stressed that mending that the Union Jackjhe was not arguing for reten- be designated as the symbol of|tion of the Canadian Red En- Canada's allegiance to the|sign or for a national flag pleb- Queen and membership in the} . .. STIL WANTED the spotlight, the Commons launched its new flag argument with another verbal sparring match between Prime Minister Pearson and Opposition Leader Diefenbaker. It came after Hugh John iFlemming (PC -- Victoria- \Carleton) moved an amend- {ment to the committee report \to provide that the Red Ensign, not the Union Jack, be the Commonwealth flag. Mr. Pearson said the idea is to have a symbol associated with the Queen as head of the Commonwealth. "Therefore, what could be 'Storm Slams "Completely. specious," Mr. Diefenbaker interjected. *'My honorable friend is an authority on specious argu- ments,"' Mr. Pearson shot back. Referring to the Red Ensign amendment, Mr. Pearson asked: "How can we have a Cana- dian national flag, and a former Canadian national ftag as the one emblematic of our association with the Common- wealth?" Mr. Diefenbaker said the prime minister had made "a series of statements that are historically unsound." Mr. Pearson said that if Mr. |Diefenbaker "will just contain himself for about two minutes he will be able to get up on his feet and give me a lecture in history." |LEADERS TANGLE Both men then. got into a hassle over questions of priv- ilege, their anger mounting. The bitterness continued Northern US. HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A snowstorm "packing |day, driving: temperatures . far below zero in some areas and closing schools and roads. The powerful, storm, de- cribed by the weather bureau jas almost unprecedented for late autumn, covered the entire A weather bureau meteorol- ogist in Helena said "venturing jout of doors is considered dan- gerous unless a person is thor- joughly prepared." Schools were closed in Wyo-| ming, Montana, Idaho and Washington state. Heavy snow warnings were in effect for Montana, Wyoming jand North and South Dakota. | Winds at 35 miles an hour made life miserable in Cut Bank, Mont., where the tempe- |rature was 27 below Tuesday. Unofficial lows included 40 be« low in Havre. ' Winds of more than 80 m.p.h, toppled a brick wall in a resi- dential section of Cheyenne, Wyo. At Powell, on the storm's while Mr. Pearson completed his argument in support of the |Union Jack. It was a recog- |nized royal flag adopted by the in the 102-|qeadly winds churned through British government on consulta- areithe northern United States to-|tion with the Queen. Canada |was entitled to the same con- | sulfation. Hopes have been voiced. that the strike of the United » Auto Workers against Gen- | eral Motors of Canada Ltd., | may be settled within the next few days. A union official said in Toronto Tuesday: "I think you can look for something in the mext few days. An- other union spokesman said that there is "reasonably good hope," that 'the striks will end soon, ; | John Brady, a Local 222 official, said that the negoti- ating teams, "made pro- gress in the areas of sta- tutory holidays, vacations and pensions," during the master agreement bargain- ing Tuesday. The master agreement " negotiations resumed today. Special discussions be- tween the two parties were held Monday and Tuesday on local issues which were 'thought to have been set- tled last week. Oshawa and St. Catharines local agree- ment clauses on promotion were discussed. In addition to more than 14,500 Oshawa. strikers some 1,150 GM employees are on strike at the Wind- sor transmission plant; 1,000 men are picketing at. the Toronto Frigidaire plant, 650 at GM Diesel Ltd., at London, Ont., and 6,275 at McKinnon Industries, St. Catharines. PARIS (CP)--West Germany today raised what NATO spokesmen described as "vague peripheral suggestion" that atomic land mines sown along the West German border might increase the deterrent against attack from the east. The spokesman said German Defence Minister Kai-uew von Hassel touched on this idea only briefly as the defence min- isters of the 15-country Western alliance shifted discussion to military aspects of NATO. The land mines. suggestion appeared to be extremely sen- sitive and German © officials urged reporters to pay little at- tention to it. It had been cir- culated in the German press as just one of a number of Ger- man ideas for some time, they said. It also had been raised in various Western military com- mittees and had been given vir- tually no support from the other major powers, they added, Defence Secretary Robert |McNamara told NATO. further large-scale investments in stra- jtegic nuclear weapons are un- necessary because the United States possesses enough power to bring 100,000,000 quick casu- alties to the Soviet Unfon. In such an all-out nuclear ex- change the Russians would ex- pect to inflict the same num- ber of deaths on the American population, he said. Massive as such a_ shock would be to either the United States or the Soviet Union, it would be even worse if a full nuclear strike hit the closely packed countries of western Europe, conference s Ources quoted the secretary as saying. 'Atomic Mines For W. German Border? McNamara, by implication, suggested there was no need for separate nuclear deterrent sys- tems such as those possessed by the British and French. McNamara said the United States has stockpiled nuclear weapons in West Germany alone equal to 5,000 times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima -- or a blasting power equal to 1,000,- 000 tons of TNT. He said that generally speak- ing the conventional power of the NATO alliance presented a 550 REDS DEAD Vietnamese satisfactory = . Troor: Suffer Heavy Loss SAIGON (CP) -- South Viet- nar.ese government troops last week suffered their highest ca- sualties in eight months in the war against the Communist NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Soviet Premier Will Visit U.K. LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Harold Wilson told Parliament today Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin will Wilson to visit Moscow. visit London for talks in the new year, and js anxious for Subway Collapse Traps Workers MONTREAL (CP) -- A section of Montreal's subway project collapsed today and trapped several workers. Six to eight men were pulled free in early rescue operations and other men were believed still trapped, 1 said today. But government forces killed 550 Communist guerillas, com- pared with 260 of their own dead. A total of 985 government troops were killed or wounded, the spokesman said. The figures did not include the battle in An Lao Valley, where casualties were reported heavy. Thirteen Americans were killed in action last week. South Viet Nam's government showed signs of cracking as 500 Buddhist monks and nuns be- gan a 24-hour hunger strike. Reliable sources reported that Phan Tan Chuc, education and cultural affairs minister, re- signed this. morning. He was in disfavor with the Buddhists. Unconfirmed reports said some other ministers may re- sign. Viet Cong, a U.S. spokesman Lamontagne Tells Of $20,000 Offer GM Strike May Soon End Say Officials OTTAWA (CP) -- Lawyer Pierre Lamontagne testified Tuesday he was subjected last summer to Liberal political pressure, bribery attempts, blackmail and slanderous ru- mors by persons seeking the release of a narcotics suspect 'linked to the dreaded Mafia. Appearing at the opening ses- sion of the Dorion judicial in- quiry, he said he was pestered for two months to drop his op- position to legal moves aimed at freeing Lucien Rivard on bail from Bordeaux Jail in Montreal, Mr. Lamontagne, 29, of Mont- real, has been acting for the United States government for six months, trying to obtain Rivard's extradition so that he can be tried in Laredo, Texas, on charges of smuggling heroin for a Mafia-ruled dope ring. In 2% hours of testimony in French before Chief Justice Frederic Dorion of the Quebec Superior Court, P. Lamontagne' made the following allegations: 1, That Raymond Denis, 31- year-old Montreal lawyer, for- mer executive. assistant to Im- migration Minister Tremblay and an "excellent friend" of his, offered him a $20,000 bribe July 14 if he would stop fight- ing Rivard's application for re- lease on bail, FRIEND OF LIBERALS 2. That Mr. Denis described Rivard, 48-year-old owner of a Montreal summer resort, as a eral election. tary secretary to Prime Minis- ter Pearson, telephoned him Aug. 11 and 12 asking him to help obtain Rivard's release as a favor. 4. That Mr. Rouleau said the RALLY 'ROUND FLAG: TRUSTEE Oshawa Board of Educa- tion Trustees were asked last night by Robert Nicol, Separate School Board rep- resentative, to set aside funds to buy the new Cana- dian flag as soon as it is | approved. The board decided to take no action, but chairman George Drynan said: 'This is a historic day for Cana- dians. The House of Com- mons has approved a na- tional flag." "T think we should rally "round this flag," said Mr. Nichol. "As soon as it is approved we should fly it above the schools." 'FIRST FLIGHT, DRAB GREY ARMADA: Gillis Purcell, now gen- eral manager of The Cana- dian Press, travelled as a war correspondent with the first Canadian contingent to reach Britain after the Sec- ond World War began in 1939. Now, 25 years later, he recalls the operation that took the Ist Canadian P idaaaag across the Atlan- tic. By GILLIS PURCELL Twenty-five years ago, less than four months. after the start of the Second World War, the Ist Canadian Division landed in Britain -- vanguard of 368,000 |fringe, the temperature dropped |from 27 above zero to 12 below fin a matter of minutes. $60,000 Boat Works Fire At Ann Landers--17 City News--13 Classified--30, 31, 32 Comics--28 District Reports--6 Editorial--4 Financial--33 'THE TIMES today ... Trustee Urges More Police Protection For Schools--Page 13 soldiers who crossed the Atlan- tic in five years of war. In two separate "flights" of closely guarded ocean liners, 15,908 young volunteer civilians --ill - armed. and only trained--landed at Gourock in Scotland Dec. 17 and Dec. 30, Whithy--Page 2 Generals Win Home Debut--Page 8 Obits--33 | Sports--8, 9, 10, 11 | Television--28 | Theatre--25 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, 16, 17 Weather--2 | 1939, after voyages in perfect |weather. They were the first Common- wealth force to come to the side of Britain and France in the war against Germany. Many of, their fathers had made the same trip for the same reason 25 years earlier in the First World War, The first flight was a ong grey armada of five camou- 4+ half- ; Canucks Overseas 25 Years Ago CANADIANS. DISEMBARK AT GOUROCK, DEC. 17, 1939 flaged Juxury. liners, } guardedjtack but missed disaster by a{Allied shipping was 'serious. In by. sea and air forces of hoth|hairsbreadth at the end of the|late Britain and Canada, It evaded zig'zag seven-day voyage. | the threat of German sea at- The German threat against! November, two' German cruisers sank the armed mer- chant cruiser Rawalpindi south- , arch of Bermuda. Their escort | was the battle-cruiser Repulse, | right through the convoy enter- ' Furious " rived Dec. 30 after an eight-day east of Ireland with 270 dead. Two pocket battleships, Deutschlande and Graf Spee, were roaming the Atlantic. Submarines were on the prowl. BRUSH WITH LINER The first - flight troopships were the Aquitania, Duchess of Bedford, Empress of Australia, Empress of Bfitain. and Mon- the battleship Resolution and the aircraft carrier Furious of the Royal Navy. Unknown to most of the 7,449 troops, in the darkness. of. the final night, the liner. Samaria, outbound for New York, sailed ing the Firth of Clyde, striking her starboard side against the and her port side against the Aquitania, Lifeboats were torn away, davits twisted, but miraculously none of the three ships was seriously dam- aged. The second flight, with seven ships carrying 8,152 all ranks, spent Christmas at sea and ar- voyage. Its ships were five Brit- ish liners, the Almanzora, Or- monde, Orama, Andes and SEE -- CANUCKS "good friend of the Liberal contributed 3. That Guy Rouleau, 41-year- old chairman of the Liberal caucus and former parliamen- Politically Pressured He Tells Dorion Inquiry 4 PIERRE LAMONTAGNE .+ + » Subjected to pressure Liberal party had treated Mr. Lamontagne well and was dis- pleased with his continued oppo- sition to the Rivard bail appli- cation; that the MP and his brother Raymond were ready to guarantee that Rivard would not skip bail. 5. That telephone callers iden- tifying themselves as Guy Lord and Andre Letendre, respec- tively former and present, exec- mie soca ot pray ong ster Favreau, to) Aug, and 11 the minister was un- with hi tt rty" 0. had : ya he in the past and ; would be needed in the next fed- him. (Mr. Lai es 9 said he didn't know Mr, nor Mr. Letendre/ and that the calls could have been placed by im- postors,) He had learned later that Mr. Favreau knew nothing about the two calls at the time.) 6. That Raymond Daoust, a | anesmggel Montreal criminal lawyer who was represi Rivard, called him Jaly ot ot his parents' cottage near Chi- coutimi and said he understood bail for his client had been "fixea," that he seemed to know about Mr. Denis' bribe offer, 7. That a man id himself as Bob Gingras ¢ him twice the same night to ask why he still refused to '"'co- operate" when bail for Rivard had been "'fixed;" that this man said he knew something about a trip Mr. Lamontagne had made that he wouldn't want his wife to know. 8. That false rumors swept: Montreal legal circles in August that he had accepted a $10,000 bribe in return for helping Riy- ard go free, Mr. Lamontagne will be back in the witness box today for crogs - examination by 16 out- side lawyers, who represent the five political parties, the justice and immigration departments, the RCMP and the principals in the inquiry. . _ Looking haggard and speak- ing softly in a small courtroom normally used by the board of transport commissioners, -Mr. '|Lamontagne said he was in- creasingly worried that Rivard would disappear if he were granted bail and gave the RCMP a written statement about all the pressures he had been subject to, Aug. 14, ORDERED INVESTIGATION Mr. Favreau told the Com- mons last month he ordered an investigation into the matter and decided Sept. 18 that the RCMP had not turned up enough evidence to warrant prosecutions against anyone. The Opposition accused him of making a serious error of judg- ment and the government 'set up the judicial inquiry. Rivard still. is in Bordeaux Jail awaiting a hearing set for Friday on his writ of habeas corpus. He was. arrested June 19 and ordered. extradited to the U.S, Sept. 15 at the request of the American. government.) Mr. Lamontagne said he was retained by the U.S. justice de- partment June .16. An Amer- ican official had instructed him to oppose bail at all costs since the U.S, authorities had reason to believe Rivard would skip bail. He gaye this account of the next two months: Mr. Daoust, 'acting for Riv- ard, opposed the extradition and the hearing was adjourned several times. On July 14, he received a call from Mr. Denis (Continued on Page 12 (Continued on Page 3)