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ree TIMES LEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All other calls ....... RA 3-3474 mp ----y The Osha Stmes WERTHER REPORT Friday cloudy and cooler and likely a few scattered showers, Winds southwest. Price Not Over VOL. 88 -- NO. 95 7 Cents Per Copy "OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1959 Authorized As Second Class Mail Department, Post Office , Ottawa THIRTY PAGES CNR FIREMEN'S UNION IT WAS A LONG SWIM hospital after taking a severe | real. His wife Liliane at his side i i swam wi i art of th beating from wind and cold | er th him p of the Four days and 160 miles lates French frogman Louis mais rests in a Quebec City during his swim from Mont- | NEGOTIATIONS START Truckers Troop Back At Hoffa's Bidding TORONTO (CP) -- A wildcatyman of the four-man committee. |wildcat strike a week ago said walkout of Teamsters' Unionjand Mr. Johnson issued the call{today the men are "dribbling members here appeared to bejto return to werk. back to their jobs." Lour- -CP Wirephoto over today as union representa- Mr. Johnson travelled from De-| Spokesmen for Smith Transport | tives and transport operatorsiiroit on instructions. from Mr. NEW YORK (AP)- Fidel Cas- '0 aides told New York City po- :e today of a possible plot to assassinate Castro, prime minis- ter of Cuba, while no is in the United States. Ca:iro now is in New York. The aides said they told the pelice the plot might be put into eifect by six men, including five brothers Police headquarters transmit- ted the report to every precinct in the city, and directed all mem- bers of the police force to be on the lookout for two cars the aides said the men were driving. Hundreds of patroimen and de- tectives already are protecting Castro during his stay here. There was no immediate indica- tion whether more were being assigned to the guard as a result |of the plot report. Castro's schedule today called - Casiro Feared cidents during Castro's trip ex- cept for picketing bv foes. However, since arriving in New York Tuesday Castro has given his police guards considerable concern. During public appearances, he| i has moved out of the cordon of| police around him in order to| greet persons in crowds of well- wishers. Police have sought to| keep people a considerable dis-' * tance away. OTTAWA (CP) -- Prime Minis-| ter Fidel Castro of Cuba will con- fine his visit to Canada to one| day--Sunday, April 26--in Mont-| real, a Cuban Embassy spokes- man said today. He said it had been hoped that Mr. Castro would be able to get to Ottawa to pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Diefenbaker | but that this was not possible. Billy Joe Wright, 26, left, and | William D. Werner, 24, right, | were returned to San Quentin | Prison, California after they surrendered following a daring escape. The two convicts escap- ed from a work detail and held a man and a woman hostage at § newed talks ESCAPED CONVICTS The woman, Mrs. Louise Gsch- wend, a San Francisco house- wife, was held at knife point while Douglas Harrison, her fishing companion was used as a Zohetween with prison offi- cials. CALLS STRIKE ON MAY 1 'Door Left Open For More Talks MONTREAL (CP)--The loco- motive firemen's union today called a nation-wide strike against the CNR for Friday May 1, but left the door open for re- with the publicly- owned railway. | If the walkout goes off, it will {be the third firemenr's strike in Canada in 27 months. The decision to strike was an- nounced today by W. E. Gamble, vice-president of the Brother- {hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (CLC). The work stoppage is set for 12:01 a.m. local Standard Time May 1, timed to hit the CNR when it plans to unilaterally alter the terms and condiiions of em- ployment for firemeyn. There was no immediate com- ment from CNR officials. The railway told its 3,500 fire- men that it will implement May 1 the recommendations of.a un- right support from other railway unions. The question of support was ex- pected to be discussed Friday in Ottawa between Mr. Gamble and Claude Jodoin, president of the 1,000,000 - member Canadian La- bor Cangress. The dispute, fought through two strikes on the CPR, revolves around the use of firemen on yard and freight diesels. The un- ion and the CPR reached agree- ment a year ago whereby the company protected jobs of pres- ent firemen but no longer hired new men. / Mr. Gamble said his negotiat- ing committee stands ready to meet with the CNR with the "ob- ject of reaching a settlement which will be saisfactory to all concerned." "Certain writers and newspa- {pers have been quite vocal in |their contention that strike action spokesmen prepared to sit down Hoffa, to whom Ontario Labor and discuss the truckers' griev-| Minister Daley had sent a plea {for intervention. ances. Today's meeting was set after| members of local 938 began a re- furn to work Wednesday night at the their own four-man commit-/ Mr. Johnson will act as chief end, pokesman for the union group at today's meeting with rep esenta |port companies in Ontario. Ltd.,, and Kingsway Transports/for a visit with Mayor Robert F. |return they should be able to get a luncheon at the Overseas Press back into full operation this week- Club. | So far, there have been no in- | Mr. Castro will return from Mont- L4d., said if the men continue to Wagner. He then was to attend real to Cuba. The Cuban leader has been vis- iting the United States and will arrive in Montreal from Boston. The external the end of a pier for six hours. (AP Wirephoto) affairs depart- -- hefore vilians tear Lt.-Col. John C. Blake, execu- i agit al eet Prison officials sald the quintet Desperate Revolt muse mie x surrendering ion-rejected conciliation report of- by the brotherhood would not re- fering wage increases, but also|ceive the support of eiher labor providing for gradual elimination or the public," said Mr. Gamble of firemen helpers from diesel en-|in his statement. "We do not ex- gines in yard and freight service. pect to receive editorial support. Mr. Gamble announced the/We have never had it. strike decision after formal no-| "We are confident that trade principles will Gordon and Bernard, Members oes 0 yd ' Tava auth J . # mmit! to i . ne, mn prune jo ics Dayli | working' tules of the employ-| concerned, * could not have hoped to escape, the 'state and we regret . ech bo, infor you nos | Time To if although a leader, kidnapper |Charles (Bull) Martin, told' the In Balloo heading an assault force very 125 strike call is being issued today, | troops, said when asked if negoti-/t0 be effective at 12:01 a.m. (local tion, A spokesman for Hoar Trans- port stated that things to be back to normal. For| and did not expect it to last. PICKETS WITHDRAWN Pickets were withdrawn from most of the strike-hit companies Irag Red Bastion | U.S. Officials Fear WASHINGTON (AP) Many U.S. government officials have about given up hope the revolu- tionary government of Iraq can resist Soviet Communist domina- There is growing fear here that| fraq soon will become a hidden satellite of the Kremlin, if it has not done so already. Since the Iraqi revolution last July 14, U.S. officials have watched the tide of events in Irag with growing dismay. Pre- mier Abdel Karim Kassem has become increasingly dependent on or allied Communis support. The British, Turkish and Iranian governments which had persisted in believing Kassem would crack down on the Reds: when the time came. now are said to share U.S. pessimism. back {appeal Mr. Johnson said he felt the problems could he expected the meeting. "We are asking the men to re- a couple of weeks, however, he/turn to work immediately with a ; : regarded this as a peace treaty|promise from the committee and : ling after six hours aloft. {myself that thier grievances will be heard in accordance with the existing contract," he said, MONTREAL (CP)--Officials of shortly after Wilf Roberts, chair-/two transport companies hit by a | winds be settled at scientific pound balloons. {prison NEVERS, France (AP)--Strong out." | today forced a young | French astronomer to give up his balloon flight for a look at the planet Venus after he had soared {42,000 feet, Andouin Dollfuss said the at- {tempt was worthwhile for the | data though he had hoped to reach {82,500 feet. He made a safe land-| The 34-year-old scientist, a vet- eran of 43 balloon flights, sought ito rise into the stratosphere for observations of the planet free of distortion caused by the earth's atmosphere. Dollfuss rode in a sealed 1,000- aluminum gondola tached to a cluster of 100 10-foot superintendent, "we want ations were considered: out and restore order." MOM REPORTED a Svared iy Jen LAW AT HOME | {ing campaign ribbons, steel hel- |meted, carrying riot guns and LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP)-- | ballasted with bandoleers of car- A junior citizen got a dis- (tridges ani tear gas charges. | couraging lesson in law from | The troops drove the malcon- Sgt. William W. Saylor at tents from the first to the third the state police. post 'here [floor of a wing of the prison. Wednesday. |They opened steel doors with "It's nice outside and my |acetylene torches and finally mother won't let me go out [Pushed the rebels into an area and play," the young caller from which there could be told the sergeant. "Is it legal? Can she do it?" {neither escape nor retreat. | Surrenders were accepted only Saylor had to tell the young prisoner that mother was the after the priso ers stripped/ law in that area. collected even| naked. One trooper displayed al kitchen paring knife he took! from a prisoner. | A pistol, with which Martin! at- subjugated the hostages and marched them to the segregation section, last holdout, was not im- "1 never negotiate with any-| one; we were here to get them FOLLOWS .CNR NOTICE Egypt's President Nasser has been behind attempts to stage anti-Communist bids for power in| Iraq. But he has gotten nowhere. | Between Nasser and Kassem the U.S. remains neutral. Al- though Nasser's hostilitv to Kas- sem and to Soviet communism in Iraq has softened his attacks on Western powers, he still is not regarded as a dependable friend. Government experts believe Moscow prefers to move into the strategic oil area in stages rathe than in one great advance. By this theery the first stage was to break the Middle Eastern power of the Wes. This stag reached a climax with the assas- sination cf King Faisal and other pro-U.S. Iraqi leaders last July 14 The second phase would be to stant smile as she was inter- remained noncommittal about | her future plans or what treat- Ballerina Panama PANAMA CITY (AP) -- The National Guard said today it had dug up an arms cache landed on BRITISH BALLERINA Mar- | ment she received when got Fontevin maintained a con- viewed in Miami, Florida, but | ids held for 24 hours in a Panama jail. Police there are seeking her husband on revolutionary charges. ~-AP Wirephoto 's Hubby Fugitive "May 22" revolutionary move- ment---taking the name from the 'NUISANCE ANYWAY' | 300 Loy Hotly Defended TIMMINS (CP) -- The Royal Guards will get their bearskin toppers--at the expense of only 300 loyal Canadian bears. Recently awakened after a long] winter's hibernation, they'll give up |guards' prestige. al Bears mediately found. |standard time) 1959." Friday, May 1, Start Sunday By THE CANADIAN PRESS Tife union leader said the strike| Canadians in eight provinces action followed a CNR notice in|Will turn their clocks an hour which the company sought uni. ahead after midnight Saturday as laterally to alter the terms and Most communities start five or condition of employment for fire-|Six months of daylight time. men on the CNR Canadian lines| For most, daylight time begins and engineers on the Newfound- at 2 a.m. Sunday. Other centres land district, make the switch earlier at one The CNR has already an- minute after idm, a Cana- nounced that in the event of a dian ress survey shows. strike call by the firemen it plans|, Alberta and Prince Edward Is. to operate normally, {land stick to standard time all Union sources have indicated Year Yound, so do the Yukon and that if the firemen walk off their| pA Hie rar d jobs, they won't get open or out- re I eB Fort William and Windsor stay on standard but most centres THOUGHT FOR TODAY |change to daylight time at 12:01 The reason a large number jam, or 2 am. Sunday for a |six - month period. Those that of people make no attempt to get out of the rut they're in switch back to standard earlier is that they think they're in | | are 'Chatham, which goes back Sept. 6, and St. Thomas, Sarnia, | Stratford, Woodstock and London, 27. the groove. hich revert Sept "The guards onlv need 330 new | which means a of 300 hats annually, maximum - requiremet bears." The mayor was indignant about | a comment in The Times of Lon-| their lives to maintain the don that although a prime bear pelt is good hat material, "the It won't be a slaughter as some bear had to be shot first and| {reports say, Mayor Leo del Vil-| lano has told his critics. Anyway, bears are a nuisance. Mayor del Villano, replying to questions about its suitability) asked afterwards." | "Suppese we shoot a bear and| its pelt is not suitable," he said. | "We have nevertheless de- Op .« a British MP who spoke of the a beach 75 miles west of Panama date a year ago of bloody clashes "massacre of lh Canadian eased the amount of pussible City by Roberto Arias, fugitive between students and government pears," said that some people oases to a Norsing camp, of ol The third Chaise would sos th {husband of British ballerina Mar- forces. : i don't have their facts straight. es camp." stata as land brid "(Bot Fonteyn. The de la Guardia government. "In the first place," he said, | The hunt itself will be a sport- That could only mean alee Arias still was at large with Das accused Arias of plotting a "our bears are not small in ing affair, complete with the the gravest kind involving Rus.| Most of the 10-man band the gov- revolt i Panama Patterned after Northern Ontario. sanction of the Ontario 'Society Sic: Fran frag and probably: Tur- ernment claims landed with him Fidel Castro's suc cessful revolu- And in the second place, for the Prevention of Cruelty to . i |at Santa Clara Sunday. The gov- tion in Cuba, and with the aid of have received letters indicating Animals key. ernment accused Arias of trying Panamanian oppositionists hiring|we plan to kill 1,000 bears this! : | i Since both Trin and Turkey areio launch a revolution against soldiers in Cuba. year. gain indirect coatrol of a Middle Eastern government as in Iraq. Authorities are convinced MOST DANGEROUS MOVE $1,000,000 Loss In Ottawa Fire OTTAWA (CP)--A smouldering, smoking pile of ashes and crum- bling masonry is all that remains of a big furniture storage build- ing, destroyed by an all night fire. Elbert A. Boyd, president of the storage firm which leased the three-storey building from other Ottawa interests, estimated the Joss at $1,000,000. Some 14 hours after the fire started at about 6:40 p.m. EST President Ernest de la Guardia ance, and Turkey is a member oA also of NATO, any such trouble 2nd ypelied his wife from the would involve the great powers. COUDIN. used to discuss events in Pan- LATE NEWS FLASHES { If lama. She sald she did not know {where her husband was or when she would sée him again, The Panama National Guard The 39-year-old dancer flew to |New York Wednesday and re-| Lending Rate 1 " Up %a Per Cent units Doctors Warm Khrushchev MOSCOW (AP)--Doctors have advised Soviet Premier Khrushchev to cut down on his food and drinks -- or else. A dispatch dated Moscow said Khrushchev suffered fainting Benzol-Laden Ship Barred From Seaway | LANORAIE, Que. (CP) -- A spells on Mar. 10, 19, April 3 and 7, followed by temporary blackouts. Doctors may work on the theory that Khrush- chev may have a brain tumor but he declines to submit to a thorough checkup. State Of Emergency Extended SALISBURY, Southern Rhodesia (Reuters) -- Parliament today formally approved the continuation of the state of em- ergency in Southern Rhodesia for another month. Jt was de- clared Feb. 26, | Guard Stabbed In Kingston Prison Ward KINGSTON (CP)--A guard on duty in the psychiatric ward In Kingston penitentiary was stabbed today by a con- viet patient, Leslie Needham was stabbed below the left ulder blade with a broken chisel. His condition was not believed serious, T He convict, Nicholas Prokopy of Toronto, is serving a two-yepy term for breaking, entering and theft. |large Norwegian tanker carry-| ling a Russian cargo lay at an-| {chor here today after St. Law-| j {rence River pilots refused to {guide the ship claiming it was] dangerously over-loaded for pas-| isage through the seaway. | The 98l15-ton Olav Ringdahl, Jr. is destined for Toledo, Ohio, Ifrom a Russian port on | {Black Sea where she took on a cargo of benzol, a coal tar |produet. | Spokesmen for the pilots said the ship is drawing 23 feet of water--and the pilots do not * want to handle vessel drawing {more than 22.6 feet with cargoes 'such as benzol, 1 y ni firemen today MONTREAL (CP)-The prime family, long a power in Pana-| Woanesdoy. Wig tons 'of water lending rate of the chartered manian politics, has a big estate. on the Ottawa riverfront building banks is to go up one-quarter per Rober s father 38 a fore pres-| located on Bronson Point. cent to 5% per cent April 27, it|ident of Panama split a year No one was injured in the fire, was learned today ia financial |ag0 With the de la Guardia ad-| except for a spestsior fFeated io sirgies : ale. the isle Ju tiers aid aearih of 3.begeh st when he stepp e prime rake, € 3 . i: ¢ 2 prised In p ing rate for the most credit. Cottage near Santa Clara turned| worthy commercial borrower, up Jottors ich py Arias, kluding CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS Yas increased 0 3% per eent.john Wayne, Autharities M 9. ; | A 5% per cent, the prime rate aye Was 3 Fiend and business POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSRKITAL RA 3-2211 will be the highest in recent" police said circular felt shoul: years. It touched the same level go. patches bearing the number | in August, 1957. dropped 16 529 were found in a utility bag, per cent by February, 1858 and apparently left behind when the {then went up to 5% per cent last |rebely fled. It was assumed the 'month. were trying al -- BUSY MONTREAL WATERFRO!'T waterfront sh The Montreal of | bustling ih activity as crew- | the St. Lawrence Seaway iif : lt - are for the vovage Into the Great Lake --CP Wirephoto is | men, awaiting the opening pi