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THOUGHT FOR The less capable a person is of 's lives, the running other people more likely he is to t TODAY ry to do so. dhe Oshawa Somes WEATHER REPORT Increasing cloudiness tonight, mostly cloudy Thursday, little change in temperatures except a little warmer tonight. VOL. 89--NO. 81 Price Not Over 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1960 Authorized as Second Class Department, Post Office Mall Ottawa TWENTY-TWO PAGES Bist ns 2 SOR Cold Weather Cuts Lo RE RE 2 ? DETECTIVE REG MARRATTO CHECKS FINGERPRIN 'SOGGY AND WEAKENED' 'Hold Cry O The Levees! n Mississippi CHICAGO (AP)--The turbulent|forecast along the Connecticut|Niota, 11l., across from Fort Mad Mississippi and Missouri rivers continued their relentless pound- River in New England. The major flood fighting was| ison Iowa, to Quincy, Ill Students joined farmers and ing against soggy and weakened along the Mississippi and Mis-|civil defence workers in the fight levees in the midwest United States flood belt today, threaten-| ing wew overflows Swollen rivers eatised trouble along new fronts) --in New England and New York! state--but the situation did not appear serious. However, the most severe flood in 20 yeais was Committee Rbsolves Chairman TORONTO (CP) -- The legis- lature"s labor committee today absolved Eugene Sparrow, chair-| man of the Workmen's Compen- sation board, of an alleged con flict of interest in the board's dealings with Business and Eco nomics Services Limited. The three CCF members of the 35-man committee opposed the report, compiled by Leslie Rown tree (PC--Toronto York West), committee chairman CCF Leader Donald MacDopald said the evidence showed that no government official benefited fi nancially from the business deal between the board and company or was there evidence to show a conflict of interest However, there was a definite appearance of a conflict of inter est between the two concerns, he said REFERRS TO MARRIAGE Mr. MacDonald was ref to the marriage of Mr. Sparrov May, 1957, to the widow of Her- bert J. Daly, founder of Business and Economic Services. At the time of the marriage the firm was doing business with the board in organizing and training staff. Mr. MacDonald said he could not approve of the report because there was an appearance of a conflict of interest between government official and the com pany. When this became appar ent, the board should have broken its contract with the firm "post haste." Mr. MacDonald agreed that the men serving on the board were "men of integrity', but for this very reason they should have in sisted the contract be broken when the marriage took place, Transport Minister Yaremko, a member of the committee, ar- gued that the board kept the com- pany on because its organiza- tional work would not be com. pleted until 1959. "You (Mr. MacDonald) admit there was no conflict of interest but only an appearance of a con flict of interest," said Mines Min- ister Maloney, "and appearances can be deceptive. Any suggestion of conflict has been amply dis- sipated." CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 a souri in Illinois and Missouri. h area today was al 50-mile and streams stretch the Lo He from Ito hold the levees in Niota. They The most immediate critical the levee south of the small com- munity. to iment, {DRIVEN FROM HOMES MIGHTY MICE | Toews ois oan: HALT TRAFFIC vacuated from their homes in Il in the lasl ROSIGNANO SOLVAY Italy, (AP)--Four passenger trains and several freights braked to a_halt on the main line to Rome outside this cen- tral italian town. No one had switched on the red signals but they were red anyway. Technicians opened the switch box at the control tower. Out scampered a fami- ily of mice that had been chewing on the wires, causing a short circuit. |e |linois and Missouri week. | In the eastern flood zones, hun dreds of persons were evacuated {in scattered parts of New York | state and New England as major streams reached flood crest | In New York state, the flows from the Susquehanna hawk, Hudson and sm streams and rivers gener were confined to the north east: ern part of the state. Evacuations of some 500 families were made in the Oneonta area, in the Troy- Waterford district and on the out- skirts of Syracuse ver Mo ller Toll Collectors Had Luxury Cars OTTAWA (CP)--Rumors that Montreal toll bridge employees were living beyond their appar- ent means were reportd to in- come tax officials in Montreal in § 1958, a National Harbors Board witness . testified Tuesday. Reports that two toll collectors owned a luxury hunting lodge in the Laurentians and that another flew an airplane were passed on the national revenue depart- said Port Manager Guy Beaudet. He also had informed the officials about cars driven by some toll collectors He was continuing testimony before the Commons railways committee studying operation of the Jacques Cartier Toll Bridge in Montreal. Six former toll collectors were arrested this week on charges of theft and breach of trust. They were among eight dismissed in 1956 and reinstated on the basis of an arbitration report whose meaning is a subject of contro- versary between the author and] the board TO SIT THURSDAY The committee, which resumes sittings Thursday, has skirted any reference to individuals in- volved in any RCMP investiga-| tion. At one point Tuesday, chair- man Gordon Fraser (PC--Peter- borough) cautioned committee members a Za inst mentioning names of toll collectors contained in documents filed by the harbors board, The Montreal bridge, run by the harbors board by agreement with the province and Montreal, replaced its toll collectors last September with an automatic system. Bridge revenues jumped. Mr. Beaudet told the commit: tee earlier that two armed men threatened harm to him and his family last August unless he stopped: the installation of the automatic collecting machines Some toll collectors also were threatened and Associate Defence Minister ' Sevigny told reporters t he threatend by tele phone on numerous occasions last Mr. Sevigny said the MARCEL DUCEPPE (One of 6 Charged) threats stopped when he named a cabinet minister operations and the record investiation in and made a full and both the CNR moved in last year. Mr. Beaudet described again up on the regulation He checks for cash fares agreed three of the last had regula tions. He said there were where discrepancies curred between the time money was picked up at the bridge and when it arrived at the Montreal office of the treasury Both were small--not $2--but he had been complied with all had a was the locked bags 'year. ~|and let waters up to three feet piled thousands of sandbags or acres were under water. was Filed with the committee were more documents detailing bridge of checks maintained to keep an eye on toll collectors. The CNR police 1958 RCMP how investigators in cars checked requiring toll collectors to hand out receipts that showed | more of the collectors scrutinized two cases oc- the was possible to work bills out of used to handle the money. That had been rectified.| and training facil ART THIEVES PLUNDER GALLERY IN HAMILTON Threat Of Fl By THE CANADIAN PRESS [snow Tuesday but the low temper- A flood threat eased in South-|alures offset the scant amount of ern Ontario and Western Quebec Precipitation. Tuesday but heavy rain caused| Brantford firemen had to re flooding in parts of the/Move some persons by boat as mes and 40,000 acres of flooded sections were more than Saskatchewan farmland were es-|8 quarter-mile wide. timated to. be under water. | Ross Cameron, a farmer on the + : utskirts of Brantford, used a Cold weather cut down flooding o i ' we in Southern Ontario and in the boat to transport 36 cans of milk | Montreal area ito a dry spol and then found out \ a . 3 "10 ., ' | Many low-lying areas were hit/!he Pickup truck couldn't get bv 'water 'neat or EFA 1 | through to him. He said he'd have )y water near Brantford as the t | 400 - gallo by flocd crest on the Grand River|,> MOVE about gallons 'hy passed through and communities boat today. downstream prepared to receive the crest today Tractors and other heavy equip- ment were rushed to the Mont- Ireai Riviere des Prai- to clear drainage channels Police Arrest Boy-Driver, 9 TORONTO (CP) -- Mayor |Charles Hiscott of suburban Lea- side today demanded that police explain the arrest of a nine-year- |oid boy who his parents said has been charged with driving a Ww EP LOY ered Some parts of te Re es go-cart in a school- {vi age § main street, ._. |yard without a licence, n Nova Scotia, some base- The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs ments were flooded at Digby on James Peter Oliver, was arrested the Bay of Fundy and some riv- Sunday and taken to the police ers in the southwestern part of A station, the province were reported two Police admitted that the boy Spring. thaws on the prairies| d,s go-cart were taken to the Spring. \haws on 'de p Sistation but they denied there had turned loose runoff waters butip oh anv thought of laying only the southeast section of Sask- charges either against him or his atchewan reported flooding. Near arents. Weyburn, 60 miles southeast of |" Regina, one source estimated 40,-| suburb of ries deep run off In St. George's, Que., iles southeast of Quebec the {army dynamited ice jams as they {formed on the Chaudiere River. 50 m arrest, a police constable brought him home and said: Southwestern Ontario receivd| 'We're charging your boy for about two-tenths of an inch ofidriving without a licence." Terror Reign Of Brutality | JOHANNESBURG (AP)--South!port from a leading British indus Africa's police are determined to|trialist, Reuters news agency re- press their campaign to stamp ported Tuesday night. It quoted out what they call Negro "ineit-| Viscount Rochdale, chairman of ers and intimidators' whom the the United Kingdom cotton board, Nationalist government blames|as saying that a boycott cam- for continuing bloody racial strife.|paign in Britain against South Af- This was declared by the assist-rican goods "is deplorable from ant commissioner of national po-|every point of view." vier AT " p lice, Brig. C. J. Els, at the ad- (Britain was South Africa's best ministrative capital of Pretoria | statement to the Johannes-| Gs omer and South Africa was | a stalement to. Hi long Britain's fifth-best market. And, durg morning Eng ig anguage added Lord Rochdale, no trader paper, the Rand Daily Mail. |i) his right senses would provoke | Els echoed the arguments of his one of Bis best customers.) chief, Justice Minister Francois Erasmus, who has alleged in Par-| SEEK SOLUTION liament that Negro agitators are| Political, church and some busi- waging an "unprecedented reign ness leaders are putting pressure of terror against their owh law- on the Nationalist government to {abiding people" to keep them geek a solution to the racial erisis from returning to work and oth-|through negotiations with respon- erwise fight the government's sible Negro leaders, hut govern- Segre; on policies. nt officials show no sign of {ment BROUGHT ON CLASHES heeding the pleas, Police moving against these al- leged intimidators brought on '1 Tuesday's bloody clashes in Ny- anga, a Negro settlement near Capetown | Els said: "Intimidation and in-| citement are serious offences against the state emergency reg- {ulations, Police will act swiftly against these troublemakers wherever they are found. We warn these people we will not rest until we have rooted them ali out." MUNICH, West Germany (AP) Another statement of the Na- A group of West German scien- tionalist government's determina- tists contends that the public is tion to stick by its apartheid pol-| being misled about the possibility RRESPONSIBLE' Space space. Part of the criticism is directed at Wernher von Braun, a former countryman who built rockets for Hitler and now is doing the same for the United States. Dr. Rudolf Kuehn, a Munich astronomer, mentioned von Braun Bantu administration and devel-| opment, M.D. de Wet Nel, in a speech Tuesday night. . He de- ciared "South Africa's present racial policy is the right one, and it will continue to be followed by the government." (The Nationalists received sup- LATE NEWS FLASHES Cheating On Sidewalk Construction TORONTO (CP) Preliminary reports from a Toronto 1 Works department investigation indicates widespread cheat- ing on sidewalk construction by contractors engaged in city projects, Controller William Dennison said today. He said sidewalks are supposed to be at least five inches in depth 'but that in many locations the concrete was only four inches deep. Regulations stipulate curbs must be at least 18 inches deep but some were as shallow as 13 inches, 57 Persons Reported Drowned In Launch TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) Fifty-seven persons were reporied drowned in the Persian 'Gulf today when their motor launch was wrecked in a storm. Fifteen persons, including the skipper, survived, the newspaper Keihan reported. . West Germany Defends Talks To Spain exceeding hown how it BONN (Reuters) The Adenauer government today stoutly defended its secret moves to establish bases in Spain and insisted that West Germany must continue to seek supply ities outside its own territory. jam OHS. oods | Officials at Owen Sound said that the previously threatened mill dam on the Sydenham River was safe barring unexpected rain. Work crews had been standing by to sandbag the top of the dam if necessary. CHATHAM (CP) A new Thames River flood crest today brought the highest water levels in three years to Chatham, Thamesville and Wardsville and the communities were braced for worse to come. At 9:30 a.m. a reading at Chat- |ham's waterworks station set the river's depth at 14 feet, seven in- Iches above normal, Employees had been warned the muddy| stream would swell higher by at least six inches before the day| NEW COMMAND Captain James Cuthbert of Ottawa will take command of the department of transport's new ice-breaker, the John A. MacDonald. He is now captain of the supply ship Labrador. (CP Wirephoto) | | was out. Kennedy Cops Key Primary John F. Kennedy has hurdled an-| other high barrier in his drive for the Democratic presidential nom-| ination by winning the Wisconsin | lision with one of his principal rivals, : Immediately, the Massachusetis senator said the eléction proved his vote-pulling power with non- bert Humphrey of Minnesota in| six of Wisconsin's 10 congres-| for the total popular vote. | Vice-President Richard Nixon, | ring. Humphrey said caused him no pain. | | MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Senator|in the future political manoeuv- tario Museum March 4. | "I suppose numerically I'm the defeated candidate," he don't hurt. tions made, we have e' to believe very we did well." DIDN'T CAMPAIGN said, Mrs. Oliver said that after his primary election in a head-on col- "hut if I'm defeated T certainly In light of the predic- i 1 The vote for Nixon also was Catholics, farmers, and the labor |e to interpretation. He had no campaign in Wisconsin, Kennedy minimized the part to Re 5 [sional districts and in the battle played by his religion--he is a/crashed Piper Comanche aircraft Roman .Catholic--on his victory. |With four men aboard. e. "I believe the people] The single-engined plane bound|Phibious Canso sighted an oil He said: |opposition to stir his own party| 3 i Kennedy defeated Senator Hu- voters' interest and he did not fishing tug Noskca:J was success- Eleven Paintings Cut From Frames Hundreds of thousands of dol- lars worth of paintings in other parts of the galley were not HAMILTON (CP)--Art thieves slashed $56,800 worth of paintings from their frames at the Hamil- ton Art Gallery Tuesday night. |touched. Eleven paintings by Canadian| The burglary was discovered and foreign artists were stolen. by Superintendent John Critchley Another was slashed down the when he arrived for work at middle and left at the scene. |around 9 a.m. Two of the paintings were val-| Police spent the morning comb- ued at $15,000 each. One was|ing the gallery for fingerprints. worth $10,000. Others ranged in| Hamilton detectives flashed de- value from $800 to $5,000, scriptions of the stolen pictures Burglars sawed a hole through across the continent, a bottom panel in a rear door of| T. R. Macdonald, director of the gallery building. A burglar the gallery is in Europe. alarm did not sound. The alarm, gallery officials | ISSUES LIST said, would only have worked if, The Hamilton Art Gallery is- [the door had been forced open. sued the following list of pictures {stolen from the building: USED RAZOR BLADE | Springtime, a pastel by Leon Police said the paintings eight|I'Hermitte, $1,200; Corner of the oils on canvas, two oils on wood Doge's Palace, oil on wood by and one pastel, were slashed|J. W. Morrice, $1,000; Etude Ven- from their frames by a razor ice, oil on canvas by J. W. Mor- blade. rice, $1,400; One painting, Martin Luther's| Le Porche de L'Eglise, San Doubts, by James J. J. Tiscot,{Marco, oil on wood by J. W. worth $1,000, was slashed down Morrice, $1,400; Martiques, oil the middle and left in the gallery|on canvas by William Brymner, when thieves found they couldn't{$800; The Trader, oil on canvas removed the canvas from a ply-|by Cornelius Krieghoff; $5,000; wood backing. {The Coming Storm, oil on canvas Police said the theft might be by Conelius Krieghoff; $5,000; linked with recent art thefts in| Portrait of Jeune Fits-James, Toronto. Three 19th century Ca-|oil on canvas by Henri Fanton- nadian paintings worth $12,000| Latour, $15,000; Nature Morte, oil were stolen from the Royal On-|on canvas by Georges Braque, 1$10,000; Black Pool, oil on canvas Detectives here estimated the/by Gustave Courbet; $15,000; the election thieves took only about a half Woodland Nymphs, oil on canvas hour to loot the gallery. |by Narcisse V. Diaz, $1,000. Plane Wreckage Raised By Tug PORT STANLEY (CP) -- ess icopter and four fishing tugs started the search after Port Tp' bot resident reported hearing » aircraft overhead shortly befo: a "loud splash" near the shory line. The next day am RCAF a ful Tuesday in its second attempt raise the wreckage of al running unopposed in the Repub-{had pretty much made up their|for Detroit from Buffalo April 3(lick. The site was marked with can primary, trailed both Ken-{minds before the religious issue nedy and Humphrey in the pop- ular vote, polls reported, the totals stood: | Kennedy 407,217; Humphrey 327,-| 830; Nixon 312,847. This gave Ken- nedy Y € cast in the Democratic primary. RECORD BROKEN | Even before the final count was came up.' The size of the "cross over"| The four men, believed to have With 3,120 of the state's 3,446 ballot, in which Wisconsin's reg-'died in the crash are: Bernard| 'S may Grosley, 45, pilot of the plane, vote for Democratic candidates--| james Bramlett, both of Detroit, | |and vice versa--will never bejand Stanley Stecko and Walter | per cent of the vote Know n. Wisconsin is one of the Moravchik, both of Warren, near| states where party choices| Detroit. No bodies were found in |are not confined to separate poll-|{pe wreckage and dragging oper-| istered Republican voters few ings, In Sheboygan, where Catholic| provincial police at St. Thomas. | | | | in the vote broke the previous voters constitute 22 per cent of| record, set in 1952, of 1,018,149. |the total, Kennedy had 55.5 per|.ause Detroit airport had no esti-| In an Ottawa story, it is indi- Coming on the heels of his spec- {ampshire |tacular sweep in New F [last month, this was Kennedy's Per-ce portant presidential primary. | But because of rules of these preliminary con- |tests, his opponents--as well as Nixon, the Republicans' already- acknowledzed candidate -- have inot yet conceded him too much the varying| nt Catholics, cent of the vote cent, {sec strai vie i im-| in. Lacrosse, | second straight viclory in an {where the Catholic vote is 23 per HEARD SPLASH a buoy. crashed in about 28 feet of water half a mile from Port Talbot. Malton Saucer NATO Weapon? ~ TORONTO (CP)--Avro's "fly- ing saucer" may go on the as. sembly line at nearby Malton as military requirement for NATO. ations will continue today, said The search was delayed be-| {cent of the vote. He took 44.3 per|mated arrival time. The first day|cated the vertical takeoff vehi- |cent in Madison, which has 22- | and 48.3 per of searching was called off be-|cle Will probably be one of the cause of bad weather. Canadian military projects to be submitted to the NATO arma- ments committee for approval Three RCAF planes, a U.S. hel-ifor general use. Trips Pure Hazard in connection with manned space flight. Kuehn said rockets still too unsafe for manned space icy came from the minister of | of successfully rocketing men into flights, basing his views to a wre far| large extent on the opinions of fellow scientists who have worked on rocket projects in Russia and the U.S Among the scientists are Dr.| Wolf Trommsdorf, who spent six| years on Soviet projects, and| Robert Lusser, who worked 10] years on U.S. government pro-| jects. | "Our criticism," Kuehn said in| |an interview, "is directed not | {just against von Braun, but at all| {other scientists--including some | here in Germany--who make ir-| responsible statements." i Kuehn and his colleagues argue | that rockets may always remain | far too unsafe to permit putting human beings aboard. Lusser put his criticism into a formal paper to the Society' for Aeronautical Sciences. He said in part "For an unmanned space and | moon rocket for scientific pur-| poses, a reliability of 50 per cen might be quite sufficient . . . in| the case of manned space craft, however, a reliability of 50 per jcent, implying the loss of half of all the crews, would be quite un- bearable on ethical grounds. "But the possibility of return| of the crews would be 1,000,000 times less. A trip to the moon or to Mars would certainly end with the loss of the space craft and the Ideath of the crew." | | Five-year-old Barry Ashby of Sandwich East township, told police in the Windsor suburb today he received his cuts and bruises from an older boy he BEATING VICTIM who kicked | said the older boy offered a puppy if he lollowed him. He | said the attack took place in a | shed near a railroad right-of. way. -CP Wirephoto knew as "Ricky", him in the face when he re- fused an attempted molesting. Barry, whose poor condition prevented prior questioning, y