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TIMES-GRZETTE - ; ; : ; Weather Forecast TELEPHONE NUMBERS HE D Al \ ! IM F S eo 7 , Some fog tonight. Cloudy with some { 5 4 . : sunny intervals Saturday. Continu- Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 ing warm. AR Other Calls....... RA3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Price Not Over TWENTY-TWO PAGES fod VEMBER 2, 1956 : VOL. 85--_NO. 256 Authorized As Sscouid Class Melt OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, NOVEM 8 Cents Per Copy Nova Scotia Mine Blast Traps 114 12 Me D { ONALD | As a bleak dawn spread over | BA ae INLOP the minehead desolation in this! Canadian Press Staff Writers town near the Nova Scotia- New SPRINGHILL, N.S. (CP)--Grief Brunswick border, automobiles ripped this|/formed an arc around the pits, a I re spp today. | waiting to serve as Be va if survivors were located More than 17 hours after a great Fi X Ba d through deep un- irst-aid workers a guplosion, vipred ¢ Ie igh Cumber- {able nurses, reculars and 2 land Railway and Coal Company's teers, stoo d y OSD po int No. 4 pit there was no word from yaleh Sprea om warcs 0 114 trapped men. Twelve others alls an 8 Dear gy prmory, tows 2p 4. and hope waned for xtra doctors ha en | were dead, a {to Springhill. Blood plasma and survival of ie ig 9 would other medical supplies came from] This town of all the aritime provinces not concede there were no Survive pean sianes and navy i Fg ors of the blast and pojsonius ters. Army troops joined volun- gases that seeped into the m teer rescue workers. workings But only the highly trained "There's still a faint hope. ' draegermen, wearing oxygen said mine manager George (a equipment, entered the dangerous, der > officals vi filled shaft But others, company OT THE FIRST gs ee Re as pr THE UNITED -- Eden, Quizzed Silent Israelis Claim AE HelimA, The dead, whose numbers Tr0S€ in the mines killed 125 Springhill ly from one in the immediate men ; pik Ay at 5 pm. AST (4 pm.| By this morning, hope that EST) Thursday to 12 early today. miners would be found alive was | included two rescue workers-- generally slight among the pithead courageous draegermen killed by erovy Ho. bist k 5 4 re ' coal gas alter en the Be Yeaegetman, Who) a ew i LONDON (CP)--PrimegMinister|House of Commons followed a wild|continuous session, mor that it, LONDON (CP) -- Israel today RAF heavy and medium bombers rhe 12th vietim died in hospital blocked tunnels, would say little i Eden refused today to say if Brit-|session Thursday night which at|should sit on Sunday. aunouneed oceunation of the en-|{today were keeping up their nop- where five other men lie with about conditions underground E Fain would accept or reject the call|one point had to be suspended in Denis Healey, Labor, said that ire Gaia Sinp a Camis ler Stikes against Egyptian afr critical injuries. They had been With grim faces they went about a; . of the United Nations General As- uproar for 30 minutes. on Tuesday Eden said he was in tion against Egyptian forces. 'None of our aircraft has been in the shattered surface buildings their rescue Fission wasting To sembly for an immediate cease-| Thursday night's session Pro-iclose communication with the The French defence ministry Teported missing," a British and workings above the 3.300-foot few words. None would describe i 3 fire in Egypt. duced a vote in favor of Eden's United States and the Common- oN . neh Tence Ptr | pokesman said level where most of the other min- conditions below for newspaper Proll ' i Answering a question in the policy with members following wealth, but reports had come nom "rib ut out of fighting] On Cyprus, an Anglo-French ers are believed to have been men, the Stoo ot. the Witht's de » i House of Commons, Eden de- the usual party line since from every Commonwealth condition" by' repeated poundings | communique issued this morning it the story of the mg j¢ scribed the UN resolution as al Eden's refusal today to commit|country that they were not con- from British-French air forces. |said "photograph reconnaissance working velo " % " n pment was well known 4 "I de- ™ \ted Four of the injured, accompan So Mhsine. : recommendation and said: "I de- himself at once on the UN actions|sulted. / } : has established that a high pro- ied by two doctors, were flown to d The mines shi t Lianged Thurs 3 sire to study both the terms of touched off another angry scene! He asked amid cheers from the There Suit way i word of » portion of the 100 or so aircraft Halifax in navy helicopters gay a a te Town. was rocked the recommendation and then the House, with Labor mem- Opposition and shouts of protest ground Hivasion bt ar Pn destroyed or damaged on the Two more rescue crews entered by an explosion felt for miles a speeches before I add any other hers shouting for him to 'resign. |from the government benches: Spokesman in. Baris said the con ground by Allied air forces were ifie ynine in_mid hen hie Flames shot up hundreds of feet word to my statement." Left - winger Aneurin Bevan, "What is jhe parliamentary €X- bined force on Cyprus was in- ma Jet fighters. # hb ing those who had be ; He refused renewed opposition aki as one of the Labor/ pression which comes closely to : ely aiding airera ave also pp speaking the creasing steadily taken a heavy toll of Tiyushin jet his gh the night Windows broke in homes miles 4 hefus opposition ne I ICAI TOTInE The maine of rou : away. The rumbling pithead ma- 2 ? a requests for an immediate halt party's recognize: eaders, BHA 1 THE i A Ed McCormick, one of those 0 Cm imbled "oti BE (0 the military intervention in the Eden word liar? A ShoResman at Igrael Army bombers.' \ t down for the second © Te ' ; " , IN ; : "liar" } _'headquarters in Tel Aiv reported| The communique added that as who wen idies brought SIRENS WAIL i. 5 Middle East The vast majority of the UN| (Use of the word "liar" is for- yo "Cioeral "oh ooo City, ERYP-| Egyptian witha nia xed time, and four buddies a Immediately the alarm sirens 4 Oppositon members asked him assembly has condemned our ac- bidden by the rules of the House.) tian headquarters. for the Gaza 2 4 3 a WE ip alas the bodies of their fellow draeger- aly - ne oie dertak to halt all/tion in being at war. It is going, Meanwhile, Britain's organized St ft tanked Israeli task ombers ursday had been the rock-strewn tunnels. wailed. Groups of people ran to to give an undertaking a : ly difficult for many lab ov t has } hed rip, after a 'tan raeli task moved downstream after the at- men from ward the mine A urther armed attacks on Egypt|to be extremely icult for y/labor movemen as launcl 2 force smashed into the city. tack into a position "partia SAD FAMILIARITY hil. . Slowly facts became known i until he had considered the UN of us to restrain action in the "stop the war' campaign with the "mpg "gyrrender put the entire blocking the eanal." Mothers, wives, sisters and c i Mine officials announced that 118 . resolution. country. Will not the government announcement of a massive rally ¢ivin in Israeli hands and ended In London, Fuel Minister Aw- dren of the missing men clustered oo" Lo 00 trapped. Poison gas "I can give no such undertak-|help us a bit? set for Sunday in London's Tra- 5 24 hour fight for the region. Is-lhrey Jones said the canal had in quiet, tearful groups as close was filling the slopes ; ing," Eden replied. "If Parnament as a forum of falgar Square. Protest meetings raeli troops. Thursday captured been temporarily closed, with mo to the pithead as they could ge Soon a crew of draegermen left " Hugh Ganskeil, leader of the popular expression is to be denied in a score of other major cities Rafa, the only other major centre ships passing through today. But It was a scene all too familiar in'goiarion "NS by plane. Another Oppositon, had opened the discus- an opportunity of considering this will follow. Wn the strip. 'it will certainly be the govern- Nova Scotia coal towns after a... fay from Cape Breton sion by asking whether the gov- grave matter, what answer have Indivdual union members are, The Gaza territory, a finger of ment's intention to see that mine accident Cars lighted airport runways for ernment would accept the decision we got for people outside?' talking openly of staging protest land separating the southern end closing is as short as possibl Blocking the way of rescue night landings. ieadlights of oth- of the UN General Assembly for Clement Davies of the Liberal strikes which could seriously ham-!of Israel from the Mediterranean,| A British admiralty Sommul. crews is a pile of fallen york al ers lit the ball park where a navy ' ; a cease-fire. party joined in today's attack on per the campaign to seize the has long been a centre of Israeli: | que issued today said 355 sorties the 3.300-foot level down the slop: helicopter landed a doctor and i Gaitskell contended that a reso- Eden. He called the UN resolution Suez Canal zone, The rumblings! Egyptian border troubles. Elim-| were flown from British ca ing shaft from the surface. supplies. > % lution passed by a apalority of 65 a directive given by the highest | rsist despite a statement by Si ination of fegaveen (commando) and an unreported number ui area was said to be free of| Highway convoys of first aid Wf] a 5 the Br -|court in the world. | Thomas. , hairman of bases in the Wrea was one of Is- French naval aircraft. no one knew what lay workers, other volunteers and Fi "in all honor, in out opin:| Nettled by Eden's' refusal to the giant Trades Union Congress, 'rael's announced objectives in its In these sorties 71 Egyptian 2 ps more gas and ? to. 4 fon. is bound fo accept." state his reaction, the Oppositon that the TUC "will hot counten- thrust into Egypt Monday. craft were destroyed and 30 dam: Today's renewed clash in the asked that the House be kept in| ance unoffical industrial actiomy"' The air minis stry in London said aged. zhi mine, one of the | Soringhi said they had al the feeded to seams MIDDLE EAST AT-AGLANCE | Anglo-F rench Bombs from PE , SH OE rvivors lay in the/in almost every home. 7 By THE CANADIAN PRESS vt issing were in| It was some time before the i 3 --- ppe possi Ae Ne oor RY how names of the trapped miners be- A trol pi Leg capture city of Gaza, appesr In eon: if th air | ca kn 4 . could last er came known ; UNITED NATIONS -- General Assembly voles fo eall for n gyp 'S Ir oIrce [TILL E THE ong they failed The usual method of finding the i : 3 Farly today an exhausted res-| names of accident vietims is to go 4 ; immediate cease-fire in Egypt; Canada abstains, calls for a LON cue crew stumbled to the surfacelinto the lamp house and see what UN military foree to guard Egypt-IsraeH border. rad DON (CP --Egvnt was re- (sider that the destruction of the fields came from carriers, am to report they found two bodies lamp: pegs are empty J x LONDON -- Eden refuses to say if Britain will accept or p near defeat today in the' Egyptian Air Force has been com- RAF spokesmam said. 1.400 feet below ground level but This time, because of the danger reject UN cease-fire call; stormy scene in Commons follows 2] operations of the Middle pleted." FLEE TO CANAL 3400 feet Pelow 2 of. a second' explosion. the ares rer amet Try in Yara n a Nes East battle zope, but ramifica-| As far as land operations were Col. 'Moish Pearimann, an hs 'It looks bad, boys, mighty bad was cleared of spectators. Only confidence Ak Opposition calls for tions of the fighting raged un- concerned, he said there wasraeli Army spokssok gaid ea bad' one veteran! the draegermen were permitted at immediate halt to Middle East intervention; report Sues Camal abated throughout - the world. nothing to report so far on the Egyptian forces in the rt miner said the pithead wy closed. As Israeli troops smashed into Anglo-French side j Sinai were 'fleeing westwards te Mine manager George Calder, Gas explosions in the Springhill ~ #5 4 PARIS -- French claim destruction of Egyptian air force Gaza City and claimed virtual! He announced that Thursday the Suez Canal, to get away." said soberly that he felt there was mine have alwavs been feared be- "has been completed" with more than 100 planes destroyed on Yotor in_toe Sinai desert, and and during the night air action He added that "tens of thou- still hope-- 'though it may only be cause of the pit's recognized high 5 ground; Anglo-French air action continues. Anglo - French official - sources was extended to all Egyptian air- sands" of Egyptian troops, com- iit nope. gas content and memories of the } CYPRUS '-- Anglo-French command ela E claimed the Egyptian Air Force fields. es sisting of two divisions, an ar- "Pretty grim" was all the 1891 blast " " t > ire in Lato ms Egyptian des- |"practically out of action," the| The airfield called Kheroub mored brigade group and auxil- leader of one rescue crew would, The men ride into the pits on . oyer set on fire in latest air attacks. United Nations wound ap a an all- West, about 25 miles from Cairoliary groups, had faced the Ie- "rakes"--strings of loading cars # . " pc PEIPING -- Red Chinese demonstrate against British [night session during which the on the main desert road to Alex-!'raelis in Sinal. RELATIVES WEEP joined 'into a frain--and runaway ; 7 Middle East intervention. General Assembly voted for anlandria, was "viol==tly bombed' He conceded that some Israeli Hundreds of men and wome) rakes have accounted .for many ROME -- Pope Pius calls on Roman Catholics te pray for immediate cease-fire in Egypt. during the latest attacks, the units Loser to the canal were many sobbing. clustered around mine deaths in Nova Seotia and Middle Fast peace; diplomatic sources tell of Nasser resig- gp In Paris, a spokesman for the spokesman said. meeting stiffer resistance the wreckage of surface buildings New Brunswick. Along with gas i ' nation rumors. renc efence ministry said 100 A communique from Anglo Pearlmann did not reply when shattered by the blast" Almost explosions and coal and stone| gia 4 . am: a Egyptian planes were estimated to French Readquarters on Cyprus asked about the Israeli drive in every family in this town of 7.000 falls, they have taken 1,600 lives DISCUSSING THE FLAMING | Henry Cabot Lodge, " - have been destroyed on the ground said an Egyptian destroyer was the sputhern half of the Sig! had a relative in the mine since 1900 MIDDLE EAST situation with | things over with Mh ns talks -. . ; jo damaged to such an extent that set on fire in the latest air attacks Penin! ula towards the Enterprise As the hours passed with no| In Halifax Thursday night Presi: the delegates of the countries | Pierson Dixon, and in bottom 1 tf | they would take a long time toin the Middle East Channel--ihe narrow strait lik. word of survivors, fear mounted dent Lionel Forsyth of Dominion concerned in the conflict U.S photo Lodge listens as Egypt's 1 10 ome als repair. The destroyer, one of the 3,000- ing the Red Sea and the Gulf of that this would be Canada's worst Steel and Coal Corporation, the {iniieq Nations s representative I Omar Loufti does the "talking. | hese, he said, included 16 So- ton Skory class sold by Russia to Aqaba : mine disaster since 1914, when 193 parent operating company, said rare : viet-built Tlyushin-28s--medium jet Egypt last summer with arms and, Egyptian gun positions eom- -- ---- | : Me. t 1 t derstand the ex ombers with 2 speed of about 650 other war equipment, was set on manding the channel have for i Ag AR og a TI Hy ® at ther tne he had In E t That Nasser miles an hou (fire off Alexandria Thursday, the years blocked Israeli ships from through Springhill at 5 p.m. /not conferred with mine officials DESTRUCTION COMPLETE {communique said reaching the southern Israeli post wail or ! 1 The spokesman said: "We con-| Most of the planes attacking air- of Eilath, Still Targets Quits Office | Ee Thursday came from the slope of at Springhill. He sald he was No. 4 colliery of the Cumberland 'terribly concerned." Railway and Coal Company. It Mr. Forsvth said he had been in ° plastered the mine surface with conversation with coal chief Har- y > y t § ; ihe Tubble Of Wrecked bujidings old Gordon Whe left Sydney nc o n 1ne | NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)- Aliod| ROME (AP)--A Middle East headquarters issued this commu- (diplomatic source in Italy said to-| The company's No. 2 pit, only Mr. Forsyth. Mr. Gordon said he yards away, was covered with could not understand the explo- pe explosion and fire in the/fighting and reseue equipment. nique today day Hat Egyptian Premier Abdel debris but all its miners escaped. sion. The princinal weapon against No, 4 Mine at Springhill, Nova According to Darrah Reid, how-| "Widespread raids by Royal Alr Gamal Nasser has resigned. Body of one man, kifled in, the 220 fe said, was stone dusting Scotia, at 430 pm. Thursday, ever, gas in the damaged mine is Force Valiant and Canberra This source said word had been blast, was hurled several hundred and the mine ha een dusted which trapped 118 miners has/so heavy that it is impossible |, be t d all night received throu h diplomatic chan- yards. Four others died within thoroughly Stone dusting is a pre- brought grief and anxiety to two for rescue workers to enter, even PoMbers eon nue all night qc that the Egyptian president's hours from their injuries and ventive insulation against volatile .acidents of the Oshawa area who with oxvgen masks against Egyptian air force bases resignation had been made to seven Stiiels mere in hospital with a ue ven aiitigled formerly lived in the mining cen-|. Mr. Doyle's father, Thomas/in the delta and canal area. clear. Twi > One of the draegermen was with the distressed relatives of oral Doyle. RR 3. Oshawa, Doyle, worked in the fame mine, "Photographic reconnaissance boomin) of eis Coun) overcome by gas and died in the the missing miners an employe of the Ontario Hos-|four Oe Yes hn Peon has established that a high pro- over to some form of international depths of the mine. Another miner Mayor Ralph Gilroy of Spring- pital at Whitby, and his sister, |father. Jack Reid," worked al portion of the hundred or so Egyp- control was jound dead inside the pit HI said the o-oparation JL Te Mrs. Cecil Yeo, 835 Hortop street,!vears' in 'the mine. He was in. tian aircraft destroyed or dam-| The Rome informant said Nas FIND 2:50 th I - ents a {1 P are anxiously awaiting news of jured in a "bump and has been aged on the ground by the Allied ser's resignation was intended to At 2:50 am. a ag yar bh i Imes: Senera y was an uncle and three cousins Wholunable to work for the past four air forces in their offensive Permit a settlement based on con- found two bodies at the 3.400-foot| "marvelous." Local appeals fori .. helieved to be trapped in the vears. Doyle's brother. Leonard) Fr """ltrol of the Suez Canal by "Amer- level--the area where most of the emergency beds and clothing has ine. They have learned that against military airfields were joans, Canadi or others' . pped had been worki bh t withi h min : of Boston, Mass. also worked in| 'i : icans, Canadians ers" pro tra men ha n king. heen met within an OUT. another cousin was killed {the mine some vears ago |MiG jet fighters. Raiding aircraft vided the control body did not in- "No. 4 mine was always al pnp Doyle explained "that a have also taken a heavy toll of clude British or French represent. gassy mine," commented Mr. op monic a inarer term for Jlyushin Jet bombers. atives. rae ermen e Boyle in an Interview with The a, explosion where there may Times-Ganette is moruing. {o De damage from falling rock but go RAL thony Nutting Believed speak about the mine, He lived Bot from fire or gas He himself Sir An ony u ing e eve . §* Of Deaths In Mine £3: 3.5 0 wi sr sis coming to the Oshawa district six auera g / LIX ge of once a year, he sai | t it iti t ; i years ago. He worked in mines weoLE TOWN SHAKEN ou 0 1 Il 18 a ine By HUGH DUNLOP "About the same time we found for years. A : o Canadian Press Staff Writer Benny Roy and Alex Spence un- GREATLY CONCERNED re in Explosion Sich as the one LONDON (CP) -- A report inistate since 1954. In that year he SPRINGHILL. NS. (CP I|conseions,. They're draegermen Mr. Doyle comes from a coal y Sterday Sua Shake the whole parliamentary circles today said negotiated in Cairo the Anglo- talked with Springhill draeger- too: mining family. He is greatly own, sai r. doyle Miners Anthohy Nutting, 36-vear-old min. Egyptian agreement under which man Ed McCorniick just after he 'Benny is in hospital now. 1 concerned for the safety of sev tome tom neighboring nines to) ster of state for foreign affairs, British troops evacuated the Suez came out of the blasted No. 4 Col- hear he's in fairly good shape. eral of his relatives. He received iF n any rescue operations may resign shortly. Canal base liery here early today. He and his Bill and Alex are dead one call immediately after the VI. JoVie Is now an attendant Th ir RET Lord Altrincham, editor of the buddy Fred Gaunicki are mem "Benny was about 20 feet fur- accident, but since then he has at the Ontario Hospital at Whitby " e Yesiznatiun, ! y Lame, Nation and English Review, a bers of a five-man rescue squad. ther down the slope than Alex. been unable to reach Springhill He lives with his wife and one (would be directly connected with Conservative monthly, told a re- I was at home when | heard when we found him. He didn't hy telephone. All means of com. Son. Tommy, 10. They visited the [the British government's military porter there is a 'definite move' the explosion," he said. "Within seem to have anv pulse munication are being reserved Mine during their holidays this action in Egypt tis believed in the party to get rid of Anthony 20 minutes I had my gear ready We dragged them to the sur. for emergency calls summer significant that Nutting has held gden as prime minister and set to go face A cousin, Alex Spence, was i EE -- ---- himself aloof om ths weeles hit "Some ministers are in a state "1 am a member of a fiveman Ed McCormick's brother Leon- killed in the disaster. Mr. Dovle T P Di Bles In the Touse of Com: of travail and 1 hope flere will be team. Fred and 1 joined the ard was among the trapped min- has learned Spence's brothers Wo rersons 1e | at least one ministerial resigna- Nuttimg has been minister of tion before long draegermen about the same time ers There was no word of him » rnold and David, are eight months ago "When I left home my wife had stil ped in the mine As Truck Burns . 'This is our first big rescue jus len aslecv " he said. "She a h and Joe Reid, brothers job S and turned all night and I y le's wife, the former BROCKVILLE (CP Two uni- | The five of us entered the gue I did too p Reid, are participating in dentified bodies were taken rom R on mine together. There was some "When | got tome she was al- the rescue operations. Both mem-' the burned-out wreckage of - od - smoke but not a lot most frantic with worry. She'd bers of a dagger crew. they had truck 10 miles east of here ay | A . " BUDDY DIES heard rumors abe a Ba ot a i dl ay the truck : : | ut the draeger- come out of the mine a short Police say the truck upset in a EGY T P SO E S I T RROG TED "Bill Ferguson, a dr aegerman men being killed by the ¢ time befor e accident to at-|ditch on Number 2 highway at House Sits Saturday i p P IAN RI N R N E A LONDON (Reuters) The House of Commons foday took the | - Egyptian prisoners of war, | capture during the fighting in | its Washington Embassy that n my crew was: only down 130 Then he said as an afterthoug ht, tend a co e in rescue opera-/5:30 am Two persons were To en. de dropped from the You know, were a volunteer tions. Dracgermen members are|trapped in the cab, one believed! unusual step of deciding to sit Saturday because _of the crisis kneeling, are interrogated by | the Sinai desert. The Israelite | the Egyptian forces in the Sinai R outfit, itrained and provided with fire(to be a woman. | in Egypt, "W! Israeli officers following their | government apnounced through | Peninsula are in- full retreat. i / 1)