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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, 'Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- . ario and Durham Counties. f 7 ny VOL. 95: NO. 271 Ohe OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1966 10¢ $i Co Be por Wesk Herne Beli ized Author! ged as 'Secend. Weather Report Cold Arctic air ends brief mild spell. Light rain fore- cast. Low tonight $5, high Thursday 465. a8 Second Closs Malt Post Office payment of Postage in Cash Deportment THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES Viet Cong Slay Top Politician SAIGON (AP)--Two youthful assassinated a leading ith Vietnamese politician in Saigon today, and police an- nounced that one of the assas- sins confessed he was a Viet Cong. The gunmen, firing at close rafige from a motorcycle, killed 68-year-old Tran Van Van as he ein his car to his office. A short time later, one of the { discovery of the two 62-pound afeud between politicians native TRAN VAN VAN + killed by gunmen ir was seized when he fell off motorcycle near the resi- dence of U.S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. The other assassin escaped. Van, a wealthy, Paris-edu- ¢ated landowner long prominent Vietnamese politics, was a vent assembly which is. writing a constitution for South Viet Nam, His slaying a few blocks from Premier Ky's office over shadowed war. developments. Only minor ground actions were reported from the fighting fronts although U.S. bombers kept up their raids over North Viet Nam. U.S, destroyers shelled supply barges just off the North Vietnamese coast, U.S. officials reported the satchel charges in an ammuni- tion dump at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport, which was at- tacked by a Viet Cong suicide force last weekend. Both of the explosive charges were dis- armed by demolition experts. Shortly after the assassination of Tran, police seized a youth of about 20 named Vo Van En and after questioning him all day announced he had confessed he was a Viet Cong ordered to kill Van. There was speculation, how- ever, that the slaying might! have.an effect on the running to South Viet Nam and the ref- ugees from North Viet Nam who dominate the government. Ky and most of the generals on the ruling junta are from the north. Tran was a leading member of the southern faction and ran for the constituent assembly on a platform that openly appealed to southern sectionalism. On the war front, U.S. pilots flew 70 strike missions over North Viet Nam Tuesday, -hit- ting at lines of communications and storage areas in the Hanoi, Haiphong and Dien Bien Phu areas and in the southern pan- iading member of the constit- handle. PARIS (AP) -- The United States has virtually. written off any hope of getting France to occupation of par care, officials said A series of discussions be- tween U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville has not formally ended but the offi- cials said there is little hape of France changing its mind. The United States is leaving in France 27 army bases, nine air force bases and one navy base. The bases have been staffed by about 26,000 military and civil ser civil ser vic ic e personnel, Police Chief Asks Probe DETROIT (AP)--The Detroit Police department today faced & grand jury investigation re- quested by its chief. Police Commissioner Ray Gi- Tardin said he wanted the in- vestigation to clear away "ma- licious rumors, insinuations and distortions of truth' about his 4,400 men. ' 'WS. Quest For War Bases Tumeéd Down By France | along with 16,000 French na-| tionals. While agreeing to depart from| by next April 1, as President Charles de Gaulle has demanded, the United. States hopes to negotiate a formula under which the bases could Teadily be reoccupied in case of war. This would imply keeping the bases and some equipment in mothballs. TO REVIEW CASE France's position is that there can be no automatic reoccupa-| tion and that each case of| emergency or» war must be examined at the time. France would then decide on what if any use can be made of the jevacuated bases by U.S. or other allied forces. The Bohlen-Couve de Murville talks are expected to continue to resolve such matters as the future of a 500-mile pipeline running across France, and pos- sible payment by France for U.S. equipment left behind. points that it may take a. posi- tive attitude. The New York Times says in a@ dispatch from Washington that as a result of the French attitude the U.S. government is! proceeding on the basis that the| The rumors generally are at- tributed to unnamed persons | described as informed individ-| uals on one side of the law or the other. Chief among them: That the force is crippled with dissension and political! scheming, | That federal agencies have! facilities would not be available for American use even in the|, jevent of war. "We have little interest in counting on facilities we can't} maintain and have no assur- jance we can use," The Times} jquotes an official in Washington | as saying. The Times' report says) France has indicated on both| ELEVATED CAR LEAVES TRACKS. Dangling from the over- head tracks, this elevated train car rests on an auto- mobile after a derailment today in Chicago. The __wheels of another train are in foreground. Two cars of the eight-car train left the tracks. The train was head- ed south after dischar rging its morning rush crowd at the loop. The accident hap- pened at dist. Street and Indiana Ave. Many pore were injured in the ac- cident. ~AP Wirephoto N icholson Fails In Bid |= To End B C. Slowdown #=r: VANCOUVER (CP). -- Legis: lation to end the ential water- front tieup in British Columbia was expected to go before Par- lament in Ottawa today. Labor Minister Nicholson re- jturned to Ottawa Tuesday joleht, after failing in four days pute involving longshoremen, longshore foremen and water- front employers. Before leaving, he said he would ask the Commons today to approve a proposal to get wa- terfront gangs working again. He said it might involve arbi- tration, but declined to elabo- of talks here to resolve @ dis-| th mes alee ang cern that they ha athe con hopeful that yy "resolution and the bill passed won't take too long," he said. "This dispute can no longer hold up the distribution of prod- ucts and result in the layoff of ousands of persons in other industries." The dispute began Nov. 17 when 200. longshore foremen struck to back demands for rec- ognition as a local of the Inter- national Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Long- shoremen refused to cross a foremen's picket line. rate. ss Because of the mood Pane Pickets were removed on court order Nov. 21. Dock crews Death Penalty For Jack Ruby District Attorney's Objective DALLAS, Tex. (AP)--District Attorney Henry Wade says he again will demand the death penalty for Jack Ruby fence Gacouits 'Wade's chances for' wins ah in a new er trial of Seven-Day Rain Ends In West SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A seven-day rainstorm moved in- land from the West Coast to- day, leaving an aftermath of) flooded streams, damage, iso- lated communities and hun-| |dreds homeless. National guardsmen were} called out to evacuate 200 fam-) ilies from their homes in the stopped exchanging informa-|France, in the negotiations, was| Porterville area of central Cali- tion with Detroit police for) fear of leaks to the under-! world. Circuit Judge George Bowles, appointed by Wayne in September as a one-man grand juror, accepted the re quest without saying whether,) when or how such a investiga- tion would be made junwilling to assure re - entry fornia. where the Tule River the man. who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, These viewpoints were eXx- prossoa after Wichita Faiis was designated Tuesday as the site of a second trial, possibly in February, as ordered by the /Texas 'Court of Criminal Ap- | peals. Wichita Falls is 140 miles |northwest of Dallas. | Defence counsel said the ap- pellate court specifically barred the admissibility of testimony by a policeman, heard earlier, which indicated premeditation by Ruby to shoot the accused presidential assassin, Ruby's lawyers said élimina- jtion of that evidence brightened itheir prospects for a murder- {without . malice verdict, which does not carry the death sen- |tence. Wade said "we have five or six new witnesses we are going to use." He gave no details. | Ruby, 55, is a former Dallas rights unless she decided to go} overflowed its banks. It was the|nightclub operator who shot Os- | to war. The United States touk the position that re-entry would! be gan, i 10 years. As much as 19 inches | w eek, j worst storm to hit the'area in|wald before a television audi-| ence just two days after the as- agreement." County he of little value after shooting| of rain fell on the area in alsassination of President John F. |Kennedy. returned 40 -work cused by empldyers ee staging a deliberate slowdown. Employ- ers said Nov. 28 that longshore- men no longer would be called to work unless the union pledged a day's work for a day's pay. The union countered that any slowdown was caused by a lack of efficient supervisory person- nel, the striking foremen. Waterfront activity has been at a standstill since, with more than 4,000 longshoremen idle, At least another 2,000 men in the forest industry have been laid off as a result, because of a lack of storage space for lum~- |ber and pulp. Mr. Nicholson proposed on the weekend that the foremen be given. grievance procedure rights and the right to form an association not connected with | the longshoremen's union. The foremen accepted, The B.C, Maritime Employers Asso- ciation turned the proposal down as a "device" and a 'primitive form of collective The emoplovers anada Backs Oil Sanctions JOHNSON ANSWERS LESAGE Pension Control Rights Defended QUEBEC (CP) Premier Daniel Johnson of Quebec said Tuesday night his province has every constitutional right to take over control of old age se- curity within its borders. He called on the opposition Liberal party and MPs from the province 'to join his Union Na- tionale government in backing the transfer of old age security to provincial from federal ad- ministration, If Ottawa persisted in its "paternalistic federalism, there remains the political force ex- pressed by the legislative as- sembly, or elections or refer- endum." The premier told the legisla- ture there is no question of an election now in Quebec and "the referendum is an efficient means of feeling the public's pulse when we want to separate an issue from all other consider- ations." Legislation providing for ref- erendums is included in the bills promised for the current session of the Quebec legisla- ture. So is the transfer of ns security to provincial oo. 'orn -- under tuner attack] an plan, and the federal pommel ment. refused. to transfer juris- 8c-ldiction and the equivalent fiscal' amounts, Quebecers might be subject to a system of double taxation and double benefits, DANIEL JOHNSON «+» « Quebec premier The premier answered that Ottawa could 'not refuse the transfer of jurisdiction. Quebec ie fr twat oe ea laws al ral rn to administer old federal program. He said pensions paid under @ future Quebec « administered old age security plan would be mane portable nk rill Can- LONDON (CP) -- Canada is prepared to support the inclu- sion of oil in United Nations sanctions against Rhodesia, says High Commissioner Lionel Chevrier. There had been speculation in diplomatic circles here for some time that Canada would endorse the African position on .oil though it was understood the Canadian government still had grave reservations whether an oll embargo could be made ef- fective without bringing on a trade clash between Britain and South Africa. However, during a television interview Thursday night, the Canadian high commissioner was pressed to give his govern- ment's position on this contro- versial issue, He replied: "Canada feels that if oll will be.a contribution to bring down the Rhodesian regime, then it will support the position." Chevrier said Canada favors sanctions of a mandatory nature that will assist in bringing down the illegal regime. DISCUSS SANCTIONS Earlier Tuesday, Chevrier presided at a meeting of the Rhodesia Oil Embargo -- May Spark Trade Clash -- Commonwealth sanctions come mittee which discussed Britain's draft resolution calling for man- datory UN sanctions. was a feeling mainly among African representatives that the resolu- tion did not go far enough. One informant said later the feeling among those who criti cized the British position was that "if you don't go for the quick kill, you might as well not bother." It is understood the first Brit+ ish draft resolution called for a worldwide ban on trade in ma- jor British exports but did not include a reference to oil, a major Rhodesian import. It is also understood, how- ever, that a second British draft does include oil, Britain wants to have the sanctions so imposed that British TT and control over Rhodesia is not wrested from its hands. It also wants the sanctions applied in such a way that it does not bring on a trade war with South Africa, a major ime porter of British g th Africa has stated it will not abide by any UN gan against Rhodesia. Tan Smith's Latest Proposal cial peronbitad oer ne sibility < Rm pny | A fgg 'th office| among the items no comment |senctions, and Open-Door Banking Policy Suggested By Top Banker OTTAWA (CP)--A Canadian bank president suggested Tues- day an open-door policy on U.S. bank agencies and Canadian control of chartered banks in Canada except for U.S.-owned Mercantile. Earle McLaughlin, chairman and president of the Royal Bank, made the points while fencing with the Commons fi- nance committee on the touchy Mercantile issue, Washington has sharply pro- tested proposed Bank Act changes to halt the growth of Mercantile. The committee is studying the amendments. maintain the foremen are man- agement personnel and not rec- ognizable as a bargaining unit. MAKES APPEAL Mr. Nicholson said he had left both sides with an appeal to get cargo moving while the matter is under discussion in Ottawa, He said he was hold- ing off on saying more "'in hope of a miracle." After his departure, however, the employers issued a press Statement saying Mr. Nicholson had failed to grasp the basic facts of the situation. They at- tributed similar failure to Pre- mier W. A, C. Bennett, who also had asked them to accept the Nicholson formula, and to the union. "This is not a normal dis- pute," the statement said. "Wages, fringe benefits etc. are not at issue. The employers' position ts either right or wrong. There Can be no com- promise," sittean members ao COURS found Mr. McLaughlin a hard man to pin down, The "practi- cal banker"--by his own defini- tion--told questioners he fa- vored Canadian ownership of banks in Canada for a variety of reasons. But he did not favor the gov- ernment taking over Mercan- tile, which he termed "'a diplo- matic question." He evaded direct comment on what the government should do, but said Mercantile was un- likely to put Canadian-owned banks out of business. Mr. McLaughlin said if the speculation about U.S. retalia- tion over Canada's stand on Mercantile meant curtailment of Canadi bank agencies in New York, it would be a serious matter. DEPEND ON AGENCIES The Royal and other. banks depend on their New York agencies to handle international U. K. REACTION AWAITED 'COUNTRY UNDER SEIGE Heavy Weather Rhodesia Concern For Future Grows Delays Ships WIARTON, Ont. * (CP)--High winds and heavy seas Tuesday ferced two cruise ships bound for the Montreal world's fair to remain tied up in this Georgian} Bay port, 20 miles northwest of Owen Sound. The Muskoka Lady and the Muskoka Miss were on their way to Toronto where they wil! winter when they ran into bad weather. | The 70-foot-long vessels will) be used to ferry passengers be tween Montreal and the Expo 67 site in the St. Lawrence River, starting April 15 4 SALISBURY (Reuters)--Rho- desians awaited reaction today to Prime Minister Ian Smith's surprise suggestion for an '"'un- biased and uncommitted com- mission" to settle its independ- ence deadlock with Britain Observers here noted an in- creased feeling that the country is under siege, and concern about the future of the former British colony despite the fact that most white Rhodesians ap- peared relatively unaffected by events of the past four days Smith made his new = sug. gestion in a televised press con- ference Tuesday night, after his cabinet denounced British terms for a settlement as being a de- mand for "unconditional and abject surrender," Smith did not go into detail but a spokesman for the prime minister said today: no formal approach to Britain had been made on the idea, The spokesman said the com- position of such a commission would have to be agreed upon by the two governments. The spokesman said the idea for # commission came to Smith Tuesday when he was com- posing his broadcast, The prime minister thought the commis- sion could see for itself whether the British government was right in doubting that there was freédom of speech and opinion in Rhodesia. The Smith cabinet, which Monday rejected the, working document signed aboard a Brit- ish warship off Gibraltar by the Rhodesian leader 'and Prime Minister Wilson of Britain, pub- lished a lengthy statement set- ting out. its case. The proposal for an interim administration headed by the governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, was described as a "Quisling government" that would: merely be a tool ¢ British govern- ment. Industrialists were holding a series of meetings to discuss likely effects of United Nations- backed sanctions against the breakaway colony which Britain announced it was seeking. But Smith reiterated Tuesday his view that new compulsory sanctions would have no more effect on the Rhodesian econ- omy than the British-initiated voluntary Measures now in force. He said customers round. the world would still want to buy the high quality goods and ores whith his country had to offer. Rhodesia broke with Britain and proclaimed its independ- ence 13 months ago. dealings in U.S. dollars . and Sterling. If the U.S. forced a retaliatory withdrawal, Canada would have to depend on foreign banks to conduct these im- portant transactions. Mr. McLaughlin thought Can- ada should allow U.S. banks to establish their own bank agen- cies in Canada similar to the ones Canada has in the U.S. These do not take deposits from U.S, residents. They make loans, handle let- ters of credits and look after similar matters and pose no sig- nificant competitive threat to the domestic banks. Mr. McLaughlin said such a setup would be reasonable form of reciprocity. The finance committee was scheduled to air the whole Mer- cantile affair Thursday when the firm's president, Robert McFadden, was to appear. But he won't be heand until the new year because of an attack of pleurisy. Walter Gordon has said that as finance minister in. 1963 he warned Firgt National City Bank of New York that growth restrictions would follow if it took over Mercantile from the Dutch owners. Mr, McFadden has said his version of the meeting was dif- ferent from Mr. Gordon's. In any event the sale went through, leading to the present impasse. Rioters Pledged Syria Support DAMASCUS (AP) -- Dr. Nu- reddine Atassi, Syria's chief of state, today pledged armed sup- port to what he called the '"'cur-/, rent public rebellion" in Jordan in a bid to overthrow King Hus- sein, "The elimination of the Jor-|= pro-| 9 tected by U.S.-British imperial-|# ism is the only course fo rpro-|= gressive forces in Jordan to lib-}= danian throne which is erate the two banks of the coun- try on both sides of the Jordan River and thus. clear the way of return to Palestine," Atassi told a rally. Atasst described anti - govern- 2 ment riots in western Jordan as |? "a full - bown public rebellion which will stop only when the throne is o a." spokesman _ the Moikt RE meaty oo the an escalating trade tion, which was made by Smith eeeick with § South Africa--Brit> ina Salisbury television a ain's third + best trading cus- pearance Tuesday night. tomer, (Smith did not.go into detail) 'They said they also feel that such sanctions could lead Brite ain on to a dangerous path that said today no formal approach|could do long-term Rey! to had been made to Britain on the|the national economy--now pull- idea, The spokesman said Smith ing slowly out of a yon into felt a "unbiased and uncom-j|which it plunged summer, mitted" commission could be e = made up of persons agreed| WILL PRESS WILSON upon' by both government.) CRITICISM EXPECTED Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Wilson was expected to face heavy criticism from Con- servative. opposition in Parlia- ment today for his decision to seek compulsory sanctions against Rhodesia through the United Nations. Following the Conservative party's move to the right on the Rhodesia issue at its annual conference two months ago, verbal fireworks are expected|™ from its leadership as well as the 'traditional attack from the right wing. Conservative Leader Edward Heath, freed from the restraint imposed by the bipartisan ap- Several Conservative speake ers are likely to press Wilson onthe questionof the terms Britain insisted upon for ime plementation of new 'constitu. tional proposals--terms rejected by the Rhodesian cabinet while accepting the proposals, Wilson, who went on televi- sion Tuesday night to explain the breakdown of negotiations with Rhodesian. Premier Ian Salt, ead Britain had offered 45 Phodests w perereerry in an attempt to halt the feud earlier this year. Under such. a system, he es Rhedesia and Britain would be» come one country until ty, rule was achieved in Rhi Council Rhodesia. guerrillas early this week in western part of the country. Ottawa Denies Air OTTAWA (CP) -- spokesman said today, SO ) NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Africans Seek Total Boycott At UN UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- African members of the United Nations sought support today to force the Security into slapping a total economic boycott on Mass Surrender Of Viet Cong Guerrillas SAIGON (AP) -- U.S. and South Vietnamese officials released details of the mass surrender of Viet Cong the Hon Chon Mountain area of Kien Giant province, on the Gulf of Siam in the south- Strike Deadline Set The transport department has not been advised of any strike deadline in its wage talks with representatives of 650 air traffic controllers, a department .. In THE TIMES Today.. City Council Holds Final Meeting--P. 17 & Whitby Scouts To Attend World Jamboree--P. 5 Whitby Steelers Tied For Lead--P, 12 Obits--35 Sports---12, 13, 14 Theatre----6 Weather--2 Whitby, Ajax--5 Women's--18, 19, 20, 21 Ann Landers--18 City News----17 Classified--32 to 35 Editorial---4 Financial---31 Comics--30