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and Ex mum Wednesday January to LOCAL WEATHER Sunny cloudy intervals scab tered suowflurria Low tonight below zero High Thursday 15 For summary turn to page two can TELEPHONE For Examiner want Ads Tole hone PA laud The telepbou number to call for the Bantam or Editorial Ich is PA cam Barrie Ontario Can Nat More Than per Copyll 98th YearNo Vcrnci uver Drug Rings fSmashed VANCOUVER CPlBail It taling 5400000 was set nice day for eight of 23 persons or restcd here as alleged members of heroin distribution ring which police said is the largest ever uncovered in Western Can Edit The 23 were rounded up in raids Tuesday on 20 city and district homes by to city police and lleilP officers and one po licewoman They are charged conspiring to traffic in illegal drugs Two separate conspiracies are alleged The first said Special Prosc cutor Russell Wining involved 16 of the suspected traffickers and the distribution of 40 ounces of pure heroin worth an estim ated $250000 in the illicit drug trade since Oct Seven suspected traffickers are involved in smaller ring which Mr Twining said the Crown alleges dealt in caches of heroin ranging from 75 to 75 aapsules each Nn suspects were arrested in Victoria and two fathers or rested earlier in Calflary were said to be connected withthe some operations Eleven others are sought in the Vancouver area Magistrate Gordon Scott set ball for Alexander Robert lilac Donold 42 prospector and Michael Petrowski room ing house operator at $100000 each Theprosccutor described the two or ring leaders in the ma jor conspiracy along with Ron ald Edward Hill 32 auto sales man who did not ask for boil Hills wife Mavis Eileen also charged had hail set at $10000 after pleading she had baby to look aftcr Ball for John Pergpsb Slngh tracker was set at $50 000 the figure MrY Twining asked for those in the major conspiracy group omsids the ringleaders The cases wereromanch week No pleas were taken Police were armed with sevcnfootlong indictment and HeroOl Korean War To llang Sentenced By FormerColleagues SEOUL tAPt Chang Dn young first titular head of the junta that toppled civil rule in South Korea was convicted to day of plotting against the mil itary government he headed The revolutionary tribunal set up by his former colleagues sentenced him to be hanged Chang the army chief of stafi at the time of the May coup and hero oi the Korean War agreed only after the coup was an accomplished fact to head the ruling junta and take the countrys premiership Throughout his two months in office the real power was held by Gen Chung Hes Park the leader of the coup who re placed Chang as head of the junta Condemned to death with Chang on similar charges of counter revolutionary activity was his former secretary for mer Col Leo Hoi Yung The fiveman tribunal also ordered life sentences for four defend ants including two former junta members gave prison terms ranging from five to 15 years to nine personal and an nuitted nine others Dcnth verdicts automatically go to an apeals court If up held there they mufi be re viewed by Gen Park The revolutionary prosecutor called Chang Styli base op portunist and accused him of playing both sides of fence He said Chang military police to the Han River bridge May 16 to block coup forces from entering Seoul itn oust the elected government of Premier John Chang After he joined the junta the prosecutor charged Chang condoned efforts of his followers to take over the gov ernment by crgnntung fac tional group based onprovinlt clalism and other personal connections The mllita ry government meanwhile announced the sui cide of another leading official accused of conspiring against it it said Wi Chunglyong i7 director of the justice min istrys prosecution administra tion slashed his throat Dec 24 whileunder investigation as suspected North Korean spy warrants for the arrest of 38 persons when they began their raids The indictment named all sus pccls as conspirators and con tained 52 substantive counts of possession of narcotics for traf ficking purposes Police said the arrests con cludcd three months of investi gation in which three pounds of heroin were seen cached in one ounce bundles in washrooms of service stations and in coin laundrics As news of the arrests circu lotcd drug squad officers said the price of $5 cap rose stead lly until it was $10 by Tuesday evening THANKS FOR Capt Dimitrios Charissis of Athens left thanks RCAF Lieut Mike McCall of Sim one out pilot of the helicop ter that took him off his Canada Mgil Delayed 33 Days In Britain LONDON CPlThe post of Her workers decision to work to rule has in 10 days left mountain of undelivered mail higher than at any time during the Christmas rush The workers insisting that their protestagainst the na tional wage freeze is not slow down have uncovered some startling rules by which to work During the weekend for in stance letter addressed to tho post workers boss the post mastergeneral in London was returned marked insufficient addressstate name of firm The 173000 workers involved in the General Post Office oper ation also include telephone workers who are instructed to handle only one phone call at time and observe strictly other rules which have not been in practice for years One rule resurrectedthat all mail bags after being emptied must be turned inside out hadnt been observed for ages Postrnen sorting packages ae cordtngto size hadfallen into theIhabit of relying on their ex perienced eyes but now the tape measure is used Men on the rounds will de liver only mail that is clearly and accurately addressed They will not slide mail under door or through windoweven if asked to do so by the house holder SOCCER POOLS HIT litany people who devotediy follow the soccer pools have found that their weekly entries wet still in post office some where when the deadline ar rived It is estimated that some 50000 out of several million en trit didnt arrive in time Halifax newspaper sent by regular surface mail from Can ada Dec apparently was caught in the Christmas rush plus the slowdown and arrived 38 days after mailing The situation inconvenient though it is has caught the Brit ish sense of humor and cartoon ists and radio and television comics are having afiInld day Wednesday carrier pigeon was entered in race against the telegraph system also con trolled by the General Post Of flce The pigeon with message to the people of Sutton Surrey was dispatched from outside the Royal Opera House at the same time as telegram conveying similar greetings The pigeon won but it was all part oia publicity stuntthe ballet The Two Pigeons opens in Sutton Jan 29 lViliN cniiacrn WITH mason Brockville Hotel Destroyed BROCKVILLE fCP Po ilcc today charged railway coo ductor Davis to of Trenton with arson as the result of fire which destroyed the Grand Central Hotel this morn ing He will apcor in Magis trates Court today None of the 34 guests in the saroom hotel was injured Many fled the building in their nightcloihes The temperature outside was about zero strong westerly wind threat cued at one stage to carry the THE RESCUE Costa Rican freighter Suerte aground near Halifax Heli copters removed the crew from the ship which tugs could not reach CP Wire photo Belleville Stores Ravager By Fire BELLEVILLE CP Fire swept main business block int the heart of Belleville today and burned out the entire block in about two hours The whole Eelleville fire delt partment reinforced by truck and crew from nearby Trenton brought the wind whipped laces under control by mid morning But half dozen stores bowling alley offices and apart ments were completely burned out large section of the roof burned away causing the front wall along the length of the block to slant inward More Dairies Ma Take On Marchlrine As Butter Drops OTTAWA CWMora dairy outlets may addmargarine to their wares as butter cpnsump tion continues to slump farm and dairytrade spokesmIen said Tuesday They were cementing on the decisionof the Borders Com pany national firm to add margarine to their stocks for door to door sales in parts of Ontario 9H fi Hannam president of the Canadian Federation of Ag riculture said he is sorry to hear of the decision because Bordens is large firm and for competitive reasons other companies may join in He said the dairy induary is the only part of Canadiiin ag riculture today which is really in crisis St Johnyexecutiwe acc retary of the National Dairy Council of Canada said ather processors and distributor have been making or handling tter substitutes With butter con sumption slipping badly the last thrfe years more might follow our SUBSTITUTE HALF PRICE substitutes enjoy roughly ztol price advantage at retail level Canadian butter output continues to rise although consumption has fallen from an average 324400000 pounds over the peripd 1954 to Jean to an es timated 5700000 pounds thls year despite an increase in pop ulation Butter is multi million dollar government headache on which some sort of action is an ticipated before April fillend of the dairy year Stocks at years end totalled record 200000000 poundsplus most tucked away as govern ment property at zero degree temperatures pounds are in butter oila con varied for of butter which can be turned back to the original product About 60000000 The government is under pressure to lower the support price of 64 cents pound for top grades at Montreal and Tor onto if the price were lowered it is argued by the dairy trade consumption would go up flames to nearby buildings but firemen had the blaze under control and confined to the hotel by am The hotel was destroyed Loss was estimated unofficially at $00000 Anderson of Brockville who was in the room next to where the fire started said he heard lot of yelling and thought someone was having nightmare He went into the hall where he met Cpl Gerald Curtis of the Brockville police department and they knocked on the door but got no response They then broke the door down and dis revtrod the fire Both grabbed fire extinguishers and nearly had the blaze under control when the extinguishers became Two More Fires Strike Calgary CALGARY CF The fifth and sixth serious blazes in Cal gary in just over two months sruek the city overnight de stroying 313010000 private club and central fourstorey business block Firemen were called at 11 pm to threealarm blaze at the exclusive Glcncoe Club in South Calgary then split their numbers at 145 nm and joined other units ensue ng uraiarm call sounded for building css than block from the citys main intarsection There was only one injury fireman broke an ankle when he jumped from the second floor of the Glencoe Club Damage in the downtown fire was not immediately estimated it broke out in the basement of the saaycarold building then spread through first floor restaurantIand shop and three floors occupied by secretarial schoolr empty By the time they ob tained other from another floor the fire was out of control Cplt Curtis said be was patrol ling downtown Brockville when he heard man shooting from the top floor of the threestorey bridr hotel and noticed what appeared to be flickering lights thought it was party and went to notify the hotels desk clerk the officer said Desk Clerk Ross Monahan rang the hotels fire alarm sys tem then knocked on the door of each room Lloyd McLaughlin of Mat towa and Clifford Johnston of Bellamy Ont went down by rope from their third floor will we just werent taking any chances Mr Johnston cx plnincd 1P Ferguson of Malforytown 0nt said he went into the ball but when he saw smoke went back into his room and jumped from the thirdvslorey to back roof then jumped to the ground Lloyd Gallinger of Cornwall is president of the company which owns the hotel the third largest in Brockville Police Warn Motorists To Stay 0ft Highways TORONTO CF Bitterly cold winds whipping across the Great Lakes today continued to ferment blizzard conditions in ports of Ontario while the rest of the province was enjoying clcar skies The snowsqualls closed schools marooned school chit drcn and blocked highways Tuesday They were most sc rcre in the Niagara and Bruce peninsulos and Prince Edward County The snow started Tuesday morning continucd into the night and likely will persist un til the winds change from the present westerly direction The weather office says little change is expected for two days Provincial police warned motlt exists to stay off highway be tween tendon and Fort Erie be cause ofidrifling snow and mm crally poor visibility SAVED BY FATHER Two young men trapped in rowboat amid loose lea on Lake Erie were rescued when fish ing tug smashed its way to them through the ice John Payne 21 and Ray mond llough 20 become trapped about mile off Port Stanley when the ice sur rounded them Three fishing tugs worked more than an hour before Harold Payne Johns father got his tag the and through to the boat Two school buses were stranded in Milford southwest of Pictoa The pupils spent the night at their school when the buses were unable to make likir return tripst Highway crews were hard put to keep roads open in the at fccted arcas Some secondary roads were reported closed by the drifting snow Up in nine inches fell within few hours Tuesday in the Ni agara Peninsula cutting visibil ity to the point where snow plows were called off the roads Schools in the Vellond area were closed for the afternoon Snow was reported through out tho Georgian Bay areas for north as Parry SoundI The Owen Sound area had measured 11 inches of snowfall by noon Tuesday Heavy snowfall hampered the efforts of Port Dover firemen to fight blaze in on old frame business block Damage was es timated at $100000 as restaur ant three stores and two offices were consumed Four families were forced out of upstairs apartments Bullets Riddle Convict After Policeman Killed MONTREAL CP An es caped convict trapped on the secondfloor balcony of an east end tenement killed one police man and badly wounded another in gun battle Tuesday before he slumped dead riddled by is bullets What started as police trap in stolenbonds ease ended in death for 28yearold Constable Roger Robidoux of the Quebec Exports To NonCommonwealth Countries Break Old Record OTTAWA tCP Export sales jumped to record $555 200000 in October as shipments to the United States and non Commonwealth markets over seas surged ahead the Domin ion Bureau of Statistics re ported today The preliminary estimate15 per cent higher than the $482 700000 of exports in October 1060 was just shade under the months imports which also reached new peak October imports valued at $558000000 were 247 per cent higher than the year earlier level of $447400000 The small $2000000 trade de ficit for the month still left the country with $52100000 trade surplus excess of exports over imports for the first 10 months of the yarn In 1060 there was $70700000 trade de ficit during January October BOOST SALES The big October gain in ship ments boosted export sales for January October to $4001 000000 up 72 per cent from $4470100000 year earlier im ports in the 10 months rose 44 per cent to $4748000000 from s4ssaaooooo Part of the increased values for both exports and imports since mid year reflected the decline in the Canadian dollars exchange value to discount below the US dollar This has meant that exports sold for US dollars and other foreign ex change bring higher returns in Canada To Buy $6240000 Bonds To Help United Nations Deficit mm or The Cana dian government will purchase $0240000 of the special $200 000000 United Nations bond is sue designed to offset the UNs deficit it was announced Tues duy Finance Minister min and the next session of Parlia mentwill be asked to authorize Canadian participation in the an whicI be for 25 years at tivo7percent interest The announcement indicated Canada will take its shareand no moreof the bond issue The Canadian purchas illmatch the Canadian shar of 312 per cent of thenorrnal Uh budget TheUN has run into heavy deficithecausa not all its mem bers are giving support military operations in be Congo and in the Middle ast along the lsraeliEgyptian bor der shadian troops are sitting part in both operations to rm Canadian dollars and similarly imports cost more in terms of Canadian dollars The report indicated that there would have been trade surplus in Octoberif it hadnt been for some $16000000 in de fence imports of US aircraft being financed under mutual de fence arrangements Exportsto the US in Octo ber jumped to $320200000 gain of 243 per cent from $257 oooooo year earlier Shiplt ments to non Commonwealth countries overseas rose 224 per cent But the months exports to the United Kingdom showed yeartqsyear drop of 139 per cent and those to other Com monwealth countries declined 50 per cent Provincial Police and para iyzing spine wound for Montreal Police Sergeant JeanPaul Vin CEII The dead convict was Ray mond Rouleau 30 native of Cornwall who escaped along with another prisoner from St Vincent dc Paul penitentiary last November Six policemen were waiting at usedcar lot in Montreals east end for the man who had paid for car Monday with stolen bonds and who was to take possession Tuesday FIRED AT PURSUERS Rouleau who was in the lot ins ectng the car he was about to uy spotted two detectives coming towards him and started to run They fire and he fired back Apparently wounded Roulaau leaped fence and ran up the back stairs of three storey building pattern of police but lets splintered the stairs behind him and punctured the tin sid ing of balcony enclosure He was like wild man staggering all over the place policeman said Robidoux started up the rear stairs followed by Vincent As they reached the second storey dah Robidoux cried attention look out He was instantly shot down by Rouleau Vincent tried to drag the wounded detective back down the stairs and was himself shot in the back He is in critical condition Rouleau died under hail of bullets as he tried to climb from the second to the third floor Indonesia Sets Up Shadow JAKARTA Reuters indu nesia today announced it has set up provisional government offices for Dutch West New Guinea at Makassar South Ce lobes The announcement said the IN NUTSHELL Bobarts Promises $600000 Building KENDRA Ont tor New highways and new $600090 provincial government building for Kenora were promised Tuesday night by PremierHobarts The building will be second capital for Northwestern Ontario he said Want Billiards Open Sundays TORONTO CF petitionisigned bytitl Toronto billiard parlor owners wasto be presented to board of control today asking that the citys pool halls be allowed to open Sundays Permission would take the form of an amendment to the To ronto bylaw legalizing Sunday sports and theatrical entertain ment To Begin CanadaFinanced iBridge RANGOON AP Constniction of thcTaketa Bridge with Canadian aid under the Colombo plan will start in March Under the agreement ada will contribute $900000 in aid plus other $000000 fromsales of Canadian wheat in Burma Swiss Find Uranium Deposrts BERN Reuters uranium deposits sufficient to supply rSwi erlands needs for perhaps 50 years have been found in rich coal field in Tuesday SYDNEY fAP central switzerland geologist announced IHuman Pound InSliark fisherman large shark caught 70 miles south of Sydn umanarm in Tuesday The isharkwas caught only 200 yards from where William James Stephen Mchop 25 disappeared alters fishing launch over turned inIlreaVy waters Monday Rulers staff of the shadow govern ment will assist the newly3p pointed indonesian governor of the disputed territory who President Sukarno says is al ready in West NewCuinea in an order of the day to troops in the South Celebes which has been designated the jumpingoff spot fo the libera tion of the territorySukarno told them not to be shaken by the attempt to assassinate him last Sunday March on he said Our enemies resort to immoral in human terror because we are right Troops continued to flow into the area and the government said Brig Suharto named com of the liberation forces Tuesday is to set up his headquarters in hfakassar soon HOPE FOR SETTLEhlENT But despite the warlike noises Western diplomatic sources in Jakarta were guard edly hopeful that peaceful set tlement of the Indonesian claims can be worked out They said they believe sin knrnos invasion threats are serious but thatao attack is likely befnre therlast four months of thisyear The sourcesifelt the IndoneZ sians would be willing to none1 tiate with the Dutch for the right to administer the tcrr tory leaving the question of ac tual sovereignty till later Meanwhile the gavernI announced that the death to in the attempted assassinatiofl ofSukarnohad risen to four as one of the 28persnns injured when grenade exploded during paradein Makassar died in hospital Tuesday night