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THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS, Classified Adve-tising RA 83-3493 All other calls ........ RA 83-8474 The Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT Mainly cloudy tonight and Tuess day, colder Tuesday, scattered snowflurries, , winds light, Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy VOL, 87--NO, 305 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1958 Authorized As Second Clos Mall Post Office Department, Ottowe TWENTY PAGES For Lost LONDON (AP) Sg A new cal has gone out for South Atlantic Shipping Alerted Balloon (lieve a storm may have forced e|the Small World down in the At "Stand Up" Says VATICAN CITY (Reuters)-- Pope John has ordered members of his household to genuflect to when feels humiliated people kneel before him, Pope John XXIII i him only twice a day, because he ' Castro Troops Near Capital By WILLIAM L. RYAN HAVANA (AP)--A climax in Cuba's civil war today appeared to be drawing near, Fidel Cas- tro's rebels smashed at govern- counter-attacks on towns held or threatened by the rebels, (A rebel exile organization in Miami said the planes and strafed cities although the and Caribbean shipping to watch [lantie for the British balloon trying to span the Atlantic, Venezuelan of ] » project, sé p 2|"My mission is rich In consola- fielals decided Sunday night that [the project, sald in New York the ! a report that it had come down balloon's boat-gondola was sea-|tions, but also in humiliations in their country was a hoax, The London Dally Mall, sponsor of the 3,000-mile trip, requested Lloyd's to put out the radio mes sage after the word from Car. acas, Lloyd's broadcast a similar message a week ago, but the bal loon, trying to float from the Ca West Indies, was not sighted per of the craft, The fourth |was last heard from Dec, 17, member of the crew, hidden The 46-foot balloon, named the behind Mudie at left is Eiloart's |Small World, is carrying three son, Timothy, who handled {men and a woman, all British, communications equipment on {In a small gondola-hoat suspended the flight beneath, LABELLED HOAX The reported landing on the At- lantie coast of Venezuela was supposed to have come from a radio amateur. Venezuelan offic als labelled it a hoax after a It A CREW of balloonists, shown | the balloon's safe landing in | in their balloon "The Small | Venezuela has been termed a World" is believed lost some- | hoax, From left are: Colin AP Wirephoto jungle swampland at the mouth [fruitless two-day search of the] HAD SEA TESTS | Peter Elstob, a co-director of worthy, and both it and the crew | had undergone tough sea tests, "If they'd down, I'm not wor- irled," Elstob sald, adding he {thinks boat and crew will show up In some West Indies port, The crew is headed by Pilot |A, B. Elloart, 51-year-old London business man, His son Timothy, Is navigator, and Mudie's 30, Is co-pilot, 132, |wife Rosemary, MONTREAL (CP) = As mild Milder Weather || | EasesFlood Threat The pontiff told a group of pil |grims from north Italy Saturday: for stance only a moment ago (when I saw a bishop kneeling be- fore me, although this was a [demonstration of reverence to- (wards the heir of Saint Peter," He added that he had reached [an understanding with members lof his household, who now knelt before him only twice dally-- nary Islands to Barbados, in the|21, Is radio operator, Colin Mudie, when they first saw him In the I morning and when they took their ! | leave in the evening. ¥ | | (inches by 1 am. today, Harbor army knew the rebels were camped outside the cities, (In New York another group of exiles reported Castro had broad- cast an accusation that the Dom. inican Republic is "preparing an attack on Cuba' and 30 Vardi rebel radio said four of Castro's|"th Cuban markings are "ready columns were marching toward | 0 fly In onlay to begin general Orlente"s capital, Santiago de|'"); 4 : Cuba, after hitting army forces| (The exiles said purpose of the elsewhere in the province. |attack is to "provoke the inter The rebels said their goal was|Yention of the Organization of ment forces in eastern Cuba and President Batista's army waged a fierce offensive against insur-| gents in the central part of the| island, In Oriente province, at the eastern end of the Island, the of the Orinoco River, where the temperatures remained, the St, |officials hoped it would continue Lawrence River level along the|to recede as long as the mild American States or some inter. to set up an insurgent govern-|u.eionat organization to thwart an otherwise inevitable rebel vie- tory." Rebel reports from Oriente ine the 10,000 Batista troops there were in desperate trouble. The Insurgents claimed th captured the city of Palma Sof ano, an important point on the main highway between Bayamo and Santiago, and inflicted 600 casualties on a government force, including 286 prisoners taken, Re bel casualties were put at 27 dead and 50 wounded, The rebel broadcasts sald a ment in Oriente shortly, In the central province of Las Villas, Batista's forces apparently had started a large-scale offen. | sive to counter a string of rebel | victories which threatened the provincial capital at Santa Clara, The government was sending heavy artillery, tanks and bomb- ers against Castro forces in Las Villas. The rebels reported govern- ment planes bombed Santa Clara and the rebel-held town of Jatibo- nico, in Camaguey province near the Las Villas border, Camaguey dicated that CUBAN WAR AT CLIMAX ARMY, REBELS BATTLE i harbor front dropped about two|weather--about 30 degrees above | PRINCESS ANNE lies between Las Villas and Orl- LATE NEWS FLASHES 7000 Japanese Homeless By Fire TOKYO (Reuters) Eight United States warships Sunday night raced on a relief mission toward a Ryuku Island port town where a huge fire this morning was reported to have left 7.000 persons homeless out of a population of 33,000, 22 Teenagers And Children Arrested TORONTO (CP) Twenty-two children were arrested during the weekend, police said today, Eleven teen-agers, eight of them girls, were locked up Saturday after police raided a noisy party on downtown Huron street, Eight boys between the Ages of seven and 12 were charged with breaking into a supers market, Three 13.year-olds were charged with using BB guns they received for Christmas to smash windows. where in the Atlantic, Ships | Mudie, 32, navigator; Mrs, have been asked to search for | Rosemary Mudie, 30, his wife, . LJ Ex-Lumberjac Kills 4 LJ On S ootin am a es !8mall World was reported down | P g search for the Hoaxer, | Although the lack of radio mes GUELPH (CP)--Police say bit-|ville house owned by Mrs, Ida| A half-hour later, in Guelph, sages has raised fears for the the deaths of loved ones sent a adoptive sister, Mrs, Wintemute|tertaining two longtime friends, [the craft actually is not overdue #7-year-old former lumberman onjand Jim Nelles, 60, a roomer, Mrs, Caroline Addison of Hamil a shooting rampage Saturday were also in the house at the|ton and Joseph Carr of Alberton, Morocco, Dee, 12, eluding himself, The little girl slept through the wer a knock at the kitchen door, [three weeks, but the quartet car. Constable Roy Burkett of the episode and Reynolds had given He returned and sald to his wife: [ried food for three months. provincial police sdld Sunday his wife sleeping pills earlier in|"Harold Reynolds is here." | Weather experts, however, be. his adoptive ig tried to grab pw gn Sots het . Maude Grisch, 66, with a husband when he pick up but JS8-calibre nistol, then climbad her armas wouldn't move, miles from his Greenville kitchen at gunpoint when he tried home to Guelph where he shotlio stop Reynolds going into Mrs, fo Be ri Sar 1 "Cs i Convert Currency their ichen pie McQuinn wasihad heen distressed since the s' cousin, {death of his son in a lumber ac- IN RT short time later, policemen|cidont a few years ago and that By ALVIN STEINKOPF It sagged a little in the first ul P alo} LONDON (AP) - A strong hours of trading, but was sup ay six miles north of am FT FOU : government securities developed started going forward, shoulder, They stopped, got out a0 To in the [today after weekend Levu Oped I ae up and approached his vehicle with house at Greensville 25 miles ments by 10 West European coun. |" "| drawn guns, an " : (part, Reynolds' bitterness, One CUrrencies may convert them into|deals was the lively demand for Reynolds was slumped In the addressed to police said: "This is| into any kind of money, (Rovernment securities, which in Tingrry blood oozing from a a little bit of justice the hard way| Government leaders generally 8 matter of minutes were hoisted \ 'ha Ie 1 Sid y | me 24 ): He died in St. Joseph's Hospital|under this phoney system called foreign exchange restrictions will nnepe nce ($1.22 at Hamilton a half-hour later,|democracy with the phoney Bible. (encourage wider trade Freer convertibility of the ma without ever having regained con-| packing hypocrites." | Investors grasped their first op. jor European currencies seemed Reynold's wife, Susan, 50, and sald: "I'm going to settle this/lLondon Stock Exchange, to dem-|some doubts were expressed their three-year-old granddaugh-|once and for all." {onstrate confidence in the state's|chieflly in France, There, with de ter. Dawn, were sleeping in the| Mrs, Grisch was felled by bull. securities, The freer pound, now valuation of the franc and an aus | == rates by all foreigners, stood up|a more serious financial shakeup . Li to other currencies, {than other lands. | . Fog Kills One Bergman Children . In Custody Action Nn oad ras | ROME (AP)--Roberto Rossel: court to give him custody of the TORONTO (CP)~Fog began to and slid sideways Into the train. ree children of his marriage to| ft over Southern Ontario today He was cut on the nose. Ingrid Bergman because of the! highway crash Ibound flights at Toronto's Malton | iin Lars Schmidt." | George W. Bath, 33, of Orange. airport yesued ni ho. aha; Miss Er white mattiageli® four-day Christmas holiday, ville was killed at Brampton, 20 being cancelled during the night| Itallan film divector has? of them in traftic accidents, a others injured as heavy fog cut i [under Italian law, was married today, | visibility to six feet U to Schmidt in London last Sun.| The survey began at noon, lo In a freak accident near Bar an er 00 S day {cal time, Wednesday and ex oured a legal separation in Nov.|2rriving reports may boost the Hoary Prulgt a sat Joday | ember, 1987, i of the three, death toll higher, rv Peraans Huiere injuries children was awarded to Miss| Fifty-three Canadians perished five miles south of the town, as a| FALL RIVER, M AP) fourt this week by Rossellini s/than this Year. 8 South of the town, as All, «R, Mass, (/ lawyer asks that this b versed, CNR freight was approaching the The British tanker Lubiosa sails|\*VYer asks tha his be reversed.! In addition to the 39 traffic fat crossing in fog today for the Netherlands West train ay he Ralted jt on he ing from the slaying of its chief| crossing, Two panel trucks and a cook at sea. station wagon, all travelling north Police plan to seek a warrant from the other, . with being a fugitive from just Garfield Lee of Caledonia, Ont. jee. Police Capt. James D. Cros driver of the northbound station san said Messer has admitted Their condition was described as/pational waters off Delaware serious ; , {Christmas Day. Since both the Occupants of other vehicles | yiotim, Evan Powell, M4, of Mid Truckdziver Don Alfored of orime. occurred at sea. police | pearby Minden said he heard the consider the British have juris-| train's whistle but: didn't see the/giniion | the oraft, An earlier report of | Arnold Beaupre Elloart, 51, skip The Venezuelans terness over family conflicts and|Wintemute, 73, Reynold's other Mr, and Mrs. McQuinn were en- safety of the Small World's crew, t that killed four people In-|time of the shooting, n McQuinn left the room to ans-|expected to take from two to ¥ pight that Harold Reynolds shot the evening, She told police she killed lo his lanaladyls car and drove] Mr, Nelles was forced into the! urope a 10118 and the latter's wife, Mary, 83, In| Const, Burkett sald Reynolds suing Reynolds' car along alof nig daughter in a car mishap two years ago world-wide demand for British ported strongly at home fon saw him pull over to the| : outh of here. They recounted. in| tries that foreigners holding their The spectacular feature of early FATALLY WOUNDED bullet wound under his right ear, for there most certainly is none predicted that the liberalizing of [by as much as eight shillings, | sciousness. Another, written to his wife, portunity, on the opening of the to be off to a promising start, but basement quarters of the Greens-'ets in the chest and head, convertible into dollars at official [terity budget, the country faced {lini has asked the Rome civil leaving a toll of one dead in aj Meanwhile inbound and out-/Guedish actress' miles northwest of here and four because of the fog, not yet been formally dissolved Canadian Press survey showed rie, 50 miles north of here, five v {tended to midnight Sunday, Late cars smashed into an almost-sta Slaying When she and Rossellini we-| -. i } Bergman In various mishaps during the| Wi Batre stash Securted sa Stirs Problems A petition filed with the eivil|1957 Christmas perled, shorter! V 'rOSSIng a gh y J, The engineer sald he could see Indies leaving behind the cars were going to hit the|international problems arls hit the train from one side. Alcharging second cook William | truck and car, southbound, hit it |Messer, 25, of Cardiff, Wales, | wagon, and his 'wife, were taken!the stabbing to hospital with multiple injuries The killing oceurred in inter either escaped injury or suffered |jleharough, England, and Mee cuts and bruises ser are British subjects and the| crossing's wig \ Maxwell Plowman, Rritish vice couldn't stop on the consul at Boston, said the deci.| Islon on where Messer will be! {tried is up to the British ministry lof transport, He expected a de {cision from London in two or three days According to our regulations the ministry can schedule the 5+-6574 [trial in the United Kingdom or in 211 a Rritish Commonwealth coun: | bub try," Plowman explained, CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5.11 FIRE DEPT. RA HOSPITAL RA 3. West German Bank Rids France BONN, Germany Ap The West German national bank is making $60,000,000 available to France to help her put through her currency reform. A government spokesman said other county also are making money available lo the French, But he declined tp name the countries or say how much was involved, . an ANY today seve and |' began a feet during the night to lessen the zero {threat of flooding to low-lying {communities on the south shore mainland opposite Montreal Is- land, Two lce Jams, one stretching . p v mstre, p p| Laronale, Que., 30 miles down. t left the Canary Islands, off|20 miles downstream from the ' ' 1t le The trip was eastern tip of Montreal Island, stream--waited patiently for ice- had caused the water level to rise to a dangerous b4 feet, two inches by noon Sunday, The river began dropping stead- ily about 6 p.m. Sunday and re- ceded to a level of 62 feet, six continued, Normal level is| 1 Siiips STILL WAIT ... | Princess Anne Has School Plans | Meanwhile 13 ocean ships trapped in the harbor by the two LONDON (Reuters) -- Eight- year-old Princess Anne is re |Jams---the other blockade is at ported to have 'started a cam- palgn" to persuade the Queen to let her go to a boarding school, The Sunday Dispatch says she wants to go away Just Mke her 0-year « old brother, Prince |breakers to break a path for them, It appears that most if not all will still be here for New Year's, Rain and rising temperatures Saturday put a sudden end to their masters' hopes oft getling PEEPING TOM MISSES STRIPPERS DALLAS (AP) -- Bouncers at a burlesque lounge thought they had caught a burglar early Sunday. morning when a man crashed through the celling of the dressing room, narrowly missing three strip- pers But the man insisted he had not climbed through the altle to reach an unguarded safe in the second-floor office, He Identified himself as a patron who had left the lounge, scaled a 40-foot tree to enter the attic and locate a peephole in the dressing room celling. While squinting through the peeophole, he said, he lost his balance, slipped off a colling Joist and crashed through the sheetrock ceiling, Christmas Death Toll At New Record High "relationship! By THE CANADIAN PRESS |alities this year, there were three a flight of stairs in a rooming At least 58 persons died during| deaths by drowning--two of them house Christmas Eve, young brothers in Ontario; five in fires and eight due to unclassi- fled causes, including that of a man in the crash of a light plane in Labrador, This was the picture by prov- inces (traffic deaths in brackets): British Columbia 9(6), Alberta 2 (2), Saskatchewan 1 (1), Manit- | oba 7 (7), Ontario 20 (10), Quebec 10 (8), New Brunswick 2 (2) | Nova Scotia § (3), Newfoundland 1 (0, | 10 PREDICTED The Canadian Highway Safety| Charles, who attends Cheam School in Berkshire, The paper adds: "Up to now the Queen has had firm views on Princess Anne's upbringing, the ships out of port before then, The lcebreakers N B. McLean and Ernest Lapointe, after cut. ting a channel upstream from Sorel, 50 miles downstream, were nearing Montreal East when the| 'Prince Philip wanted Prince change in the weather developed, Charles to go to school, But the Héavy ice broke from the sides Queen feels that a governess' of thelr channel and transport de. | education is best for her daughter partment authorities sent the --and until now she has resisted breakers back to clean up the all blandishments, i | corridor, | "But Anne's pleading , . |developing a] BUSY NEAR SOREL into a relentless cam. Both the McLean and the La: paign--so that people In the pal. Ing near Sorel again today along | give way." with Canada's largest breaker, | ; a---------- A fourth icebreaker, the Labra dor, suffered slight damage to her | Ford Co. UAW the weekend and entered drydock for repairs, TORONTO (CP) Contract floes moving, are playing a ma. | Wlks between the Ford Motor Jor role in preventing the river ' VN 4 Auto Workers (CLC) resumed to- from spilling over its banks and day with little prospect of agree flooding Montreal area commun. pointe were expected to be work: (a0 helieve the Queen may soon D'Iberville, engines at Quebec City during Talks Resume The icebreakers, by keeping| Company of Canada and United ities. ment before the new year, James Cauley, 16, of Westport, 30 miles south of Smith Falls, died Thursday following a two. car collision Christmas Eve on Highway 15 near Westport, Reginald Russell Griffin, 25, of Oshawa, was killed Thursday when his car smashed into the side of a CPR dayliner near Oshawa, | Dimitry Korolewicz, 72, of Port Arthur died early Christmas Day| from burns suffered in a fire at a! friend's home. | & Louis Totth, 27, of Toronto as | Conference had predicted 40 high-| killed Friday night in an auto col- about 10 home, unsolved | | way deaths from 4 pm, Wednes-|lision near Odessa, day until midnight Sunday, one miles west of Kingston, | {more than the last available fig: Harry McLachlan, 32, of Ham ure ilton died Sunday of injuries re: Of the 1057 total, 38 met death ceived in an auto accident there| in traffic accidents, Wednesday. | Ontario deaths: George D, Beck, 45, of Burling: | | Raymond Norris, 42, of Toronto ton was killed Saturday when his died Wednesday night from in-|car plunged into a ditch on High-| Juries received earlier in the day way 25. [ jwhen he fell three storeys from| Carol Stevens, 18, of Tupper: | {an apartment building window. [ville was killed Saturday night in| Michael Riel, 64, 'of Doulin Mis- a two-car collision near Dresden, sion Indian Reserve died Thurs: Of seven other people injured, {day in a fire which destroyed his/two were in serious condition. home, 20 miles north of Sault Ste. | Russell London, 19, of Dresden is| Marie in fair condition, and Kenneth Mrs. Violet May Burwash, 53,|Davis, §, with head injuries, was of Belleville was killed In an auto the most serious injured in the| collision near London Wednesday second car, containing Mr and | night Mrs, George Davis and family. | William Alex Foster, 20, and The body of an unidentified el-| Arthur Culloden, 20, both of derly man was found Sunday in| Belleville, died Wednesday after|Lake Ontario opposite the Cana: |their car smashed into a tree on!dian National Exhibition grand Highway 37 near Belleville. BURNED TO DEATH death was due to drowning Mrs. Bella Randissi of Fort| Ryerson Snache. 47, of Rama Erie was burned to death in an'Indian Reserve died in Orillial apartment fire Wednesday Thursday night afier he was ac Steve Demark, 50, of Toronto cidentally shot Wednesday in a died Thursday after falling down Fawn Bay home. | {stand in Toronto, Police said Daniel O'Connor, one of the | FRI's RCMP 10 most wanted men since 1955 is being and fingerprinted Lv a San Diego, | Calit,, police § officer shortly ente, Other reports sald Batista's planes and artillery heavily bombed and shelled rebel con- centrations around Santa Clara, One alm of the government of- fensive appeared to be to remove a rebel threat to the main high- way between Las Villas and Oriente, Despite rebel attempts to have places declared open cities, the government Warned that it would make all » out "Kiss Of Death" Murder Charge PEABODY, Mass, (AP)--A 90- pound, 41-year-old grandmother [was charged with a. "kiss of |death'" murder Sunday in the kitchen knife stabbing of her 26- year-old husband, Death of the 185-pound husband ended what police described as a stormy May and November mar. riage of Mrs, Rita Perkins and her husband, Lawrence, Mrs, Perkins has four children by a previous marriage, An autopsy showed Perkins died of a three-inch wound in the heart Mrs, Perkins told police her husband left the house Saturday night, saying he wanted to have a few drinks and would be right back, When he failed to return, government battalion was hold. ing out at Maffo, near the hi way town of Contramaestre, claimed it was surrounded and the town virtually destroyed, Duke Of Kent Squire's Girl HOVINGHAM, Eng. (AP) The romance of the young Duke of Kent and the daughter of the local squire had people in this Yorkshire village buzzing with excitement, They're convinced Queen Eliz. abeth's 23-year-old cousin is going to marry pretty Katherine Worsley, daughter of rich Sir William Worsley. The rumors flew during Christ. mas when the duke, a leutenant home on leave from his regiment in Germany, slipped away from the Royal Family party at Sand« ringham and drove 250 miles north to Katherine's home here, The duke had to get permission from the Queen to leave the party, Apparently she understood, and the duke met Katherine again for the first time in 10 weeks, He spent two days at the Wor she sald she found him drinking in a cafe but he refused to go after he was arrested by El Cajon police on a warrant charging him with the theft of a $15 traller, O'Connor had been living in El Cajon for several | | | | He dyed his hair red sley's big Georgian manor, Hove ingham Hall, Sunday he left to Irejoin his regiment, ras vik 4 MOST WANTED MAN ON FBI, RCMP LISTS years working as a handyman, frew a moustahee, gained 58 pounds and put a tattoo on his arm in an effort to evade detection, ~AP Wirephote *