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REPORT Mainly sunny and continuing very warm today and Sunday, VOL. 90--NO. 209 ver Price Not 1 Copy 0 0 Cents Per CALVES AND PIGS PERISHED IN THESE FLAMES $30,000 Barn Blaze 1 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1961 Second Class Mail Ottawo Authorized as Post Office Department, EIGHTEEN PAGES Khrushche Turns Down Test Appeal MOSCOW (AP) -- Premier hrushchev today formally re- |jected the Kennedy-Macmillan appeal for a ban on nuclear [tests in- the earth's atmosphere |and suggested a big power study of major world problems to [stave off the threat of nuclear -- -- -- | war. | "It goes without saying that Call For Talks {the Soviet government cannot land will not agree to such a deal," Khrushchev said of the | Western proposal for the em- |bargo on further atmospheric tests. | In a broadcast statement con- Fails To PARIS (AP) -- ®President de Gaulle escaped injury in a bi- zarre assassination attempt with fire and explosives on a country road Friday night, official sources said today. The old sol- dier shrugged off the incident. "This was just a little joke in bad taste," de Gaulle said. The presidential limousine sped safely through a wall of flame from an inflammable mixture apparently touched off "4 |to serve as the fuse for a plastic i|lbomb. The plastic charge, weighing eight pounds, failed to go off. Police quickly arrested a man. ATTEMPT TO KILL FRENCH PRESIDENT Plastic Charge Ignite France and possibly civil war. De Gaulle, ruling the nation un- der emergency powers since the April military uprising in Al- giers, shares little of his politi- cal power, Outside the govern- ment, political groups have had little chance to develop a rea- sonable alternative to de Gaulle's rule that could com- mand wide public support. : Friends of the president have worried about his apparent un- concern for his own safety. Mother, Son Viewed Sourly {cerning the move by President Plastic explosives are fre- Kills Calves, Hogs Five calves and 30 pigs per|further attempts at releasing ished Friday evening in a $30,-/the animals. 000 barn fire on a farm on the He managed to pull an ele- 7th concession of Whitby Town- vator from the doomed barn ship. The barn was owned by before running around the west Jackson Brothers, who reside/end of the barn to an adjoining on adjoining farms. pig pen where he released two Frank Walsh, an employee of sows and their litters and drove the Jackson Brothers, who with|them to safety in a field nearby. his wife and five children live, Fire fighters arrived to find in a house on the farm where the flames pouring out of the the barn was located, said that barn. They could do nothing to he had been returning from a halt the fire and concentrated neighboring farm when he their efforts on saving the came in the farm lane and house, about 60 feet from the noted the west mow in the barn barn, and a driving shed, about | afire. feet from the barn. The He called the Brooklin fire pig pen which joined the. barn brigade and then attempted to|on the south west corner, was a| enter the barn with the intention total loss. | going down through a stair-| Heat from the burning barn way to the stables below to re-|raised blisters in the paint lease the pigs and calves. Hel on sald he 3 poem Buck by The house, incidentally, had Lesage Promotes | been painted that very day, [paint blisters. One of the owners, Alfred Jackson, said that he had been working with a combine in a field some distance north of the barn when he glanced towards the building and saw the flames. Stored in the barn, and lost in the fire, were 3,000 bales of hay and nearly 800 bales of straw. Walsh said that his car had been parked about 30 feet from: the barn but he managed to drive it out of the fire range without mishap. His wife, Joan, |the Russian leader of a "double| took their children, George, 8,|act'--mixing threats with mod-| Maureen, 7, Elizabeth, 5, and eration--and repudiated his re-| twins Karen and Katharine, 2, [ported statement that Britain,| to the car until neighbors ar-| rived to take them to homes) away from the fire. | Alfred Jackson estimated ge loss would reach $30,000. There the south side of the house.|was 'no. damage: t0,-the house man peace treaty and driving shed other than Nehru Flop | LONDON (Reuters)--Western Europe today looked askance at Nikita Khrushchev's call for talks on the German question, noting the Soviet premier mixed his appeal with threats. In West Germany, govern- ment sources said Khrushchev's call was not: convincing. They welcomed the new Western notes warning Russia not to in- terfere with the air corridors into Berlin. British newspapers accused France and Italy were Russia's hostages because they would not fight over Berlin. Khrushchev urged "business- like negotiations' over a Ger- in his Mos: cow speech Friday but at the same time warned that "man- kind is on the brink of another | miliary tragedy." Three Conservative members of Parliament returned from an interview with East German Communist leader Walter Ul- brichf and reported he said a separate Soviet-East German peace treaty would place all Kennedy and Prime Minister Macmillan, K hr u s hchev said they were trying to divorce the |question of weapon testing from Ithe over-all problem of disarm- ament They were trying to have the question considered "in isola- tion," he complained in identi- cal notes delivered to the U.S.| land British embassies. Fight To Keep Miss Mary Pungrooshe of | the Northern Affairs Depart- ment displays the Eskimo art symbol used to sbparate au- thentic Eskimo carvings from a3 ! 2 i BEWARE OF FAKES quently used by rightwing Al- gerian settlers in acts of terror- ism against de Gaulle's Alger- ian policies. De Gaulle was not injured. | The charge was placed along : (a road de Gaulle and his party were taking to de Gaulle's coun- try residence at Colombey-les- Deux-Eglises. The inflammable mixture was {touched off just as de Gaulle | cheap imitations. The depart- |and his party passed by but the | ment today issued a warning [cars sped on without stopping, to buyers to beware of imi- [the announcement said. De tations being produced far [Gaulle arrived at Colombeyon from the Arctic. schedule. - Fires Separate | \ ST. JOHN'S (CP)--Hot, windy| weather was expected today as firefighters battled to keep two big forest fires from joining into a partnership of destruetion in eastern Newfoundland. The usual overnight lull, caused by dropping winds, kept the Dunn's River and Bonavista North fires in at least emporary check Friday night. But it was apparent that if the two fires united, the prov- ince would face its worst crisis since the wild wave of forest fires sruck early this summer. They are now about 40 miles WASHINGTON (AP)--United States Defence Secretary' Rob- ert McNamara announced today that about 40,000 additional reg- ular army troops will be sent to Europe 'in the immediate future." Most of them will go to Ger- Big U.S. Buildup Of German Force Quebec Industry (In Effort QUEBEC (CP) -- Premier Jean Lesage is leaving for Europe Wednesday to seek out capital and to stir up interest in Quebec's feverish determina- tion to expand its economy. But the problem uppermost in his mind as he gave a final press conference before taking ting out of hand with cost to the Quebec and federal government riding from an initial $1,500,000 For Peace July. As a result the government chev and Prime Minister Nehru has decided to turnover controll aphear to have brought the of assistance to the social allow- 611d no nearer to peace. Nehru ances commission and has given monthly to $5,000,000 monthly in] MOSCOW (AP)--Two days ofi oo | questions of access to Berlin in East German hands. SOUR NOTE urces combined with a demand for a nec Sovite-style peace treaty with|coast. two Germanies. They said this would make apart. : The new threat developed Fri- many to strengthen combat and FIRST TRY? It was the first officially con- firmed attempt against de Gaulle's life since he returned to power in June, 1958. There had been vague reports of another attempt in April dur- Norstad, supreme Allied com- mander in Europe, asked the Pentagon for 38,000 support-type troops to round out the Europe- based 8th Army. Subsequently, Aug. 11, the army announced 3,000 troops would go to Europe. And, it was said at the time, additional men ficially acknowledged. -'wing oponents president's policies on to assassinate him. ing the generals' revolt in Al- geria but these were never of- For the last month security forces have been on the alert following persistent rumors that the bodies ence for Algeria would attempt]! Mrs. Murdered At Sarnia SARNIA (CP)--A mother and her 10-year-old son were found beaten to death in a back yard early today in what police de-_ scribed as a case of double murder. Mrs. Durwood More and her son Danny appeared the vie. tims of a savage beating with an iron bar, Their bodies were found about 4 a.m. by neighborhood resi. dents returning home after vis- iting upstairs tenants in the building where the Mores lived. An unidentified woman told police she almost fell over the body of the boy as she took a short cut across a weedy, over- grown section of the back yard. The woman's body was lying four or five feet away. "It looks like a case of double murder," said detective Maur- ice Catt. The entire neighborhood was cordoned off by after the were More's husband has patient in St. Joseph's been a would be trained to follow. A successful as s a s sination| Hospital here for a week with West German government| . - | sourly noted that talks between Premier Khrush-|Khrushchev's call for talks was supporting forces in view of Russia's threat to West Berlin. The Pentagon announced also that transportation of military dependents to Europe will be suspended, beginning Oct. 9. The 40,000 men being sent abroad are all regular army troops. Officials would not name |day at the eastern edge of the {1,100-square-mile Dunn's River fire, which stretches nearly 20 miles from the Newfoundland south coast across a narrow k of land to the northeast Sudden winds spurred the fire towards the Bonavista Peninsula Friday, Gen. George Decker, army chief of staff, disclosed that 1,000 new men were being assigned to each of the three infantry divisions in Germany. Decker told the Association of the United States Army that the added men would permit the 7th Army to man and maintain an| would bring political chaos in|a slipped spinal dise. Police Suspicion Given Ministers - : y 'en left for home today with little social welfare agencies, whic I success to show in his role as handled much of the assistance, off on a tour of England, Italy, permanent the tense situation and deliver West Germany into where the second big fire was being contained in an 800- the units or tell exactly where they are coming from. Belgium and France was unem- ployment and reorganization of unemployment assistance serv- ices. Mr. Lesage said he can see only two solutions -- both of them effective only on a long- term basis--to perennial unem- ployment in Quebec. One was the establishment of manufac- four months to revise their rec- ords. Mr. Lesage said the govern- ment has discovered a "mons- trous" situation in some regions where some persons prefer to stay away from work and col- lect government assistance. He said the government is quite | East-West mediator. Both leaders seemed to be working in two different worlds. | On the eve of Nehru's visit Russia exploded its fourth nu clear weapon in the current se- {ries. As the talks proceeded, an {interview with Khrushchev was {published in the United States the hands of the Communists. It would mean an increase of {square-mile area. about 16 per .cent in American CARLA VEERING Coast Prepares military forces in Europe. The [present total is about 250,000. Sources said the reinforce- ments would start moving as soon as possible. The first wave may not be ready to cross the Atlantic until Oct. 1. Some time ago, Gen. Lauris turing industries and the other reforms his government tion. He said if unemployment in Canada remains at the presen level and gives no sign of abat- ing he will ask Prime Minister Diefenbaker to call a federal-| provincial conference to consi der the possibility of joint ac- tion on a wider scale. He said not only Ottawa bu the provinces as well have a re- the sponsibility in alleviating present situation. COSTS RISING On assistance to the unem ployed Mr. Lesage said the si tuation apparent has| genuine unemployed but cannot started in the field of 'educa-|subsidize ly has been get-ia staff of 350, Mr. Phaneuf said. quoting him as threatening to] make even bigger bombs so he| _|can frighten other countries out of making war. : : Nehru held to his position The inter - federation Council that nuclear testing should stop of Montreal, representing six|and that East and West should | welfare agencies, Friday sent ajtry to negotiate a settlement| telegram to Premier Lesage|satisfactory to both sides. protesting the changes .in the| (handling of relief payments.|q Spokesmen, said the change is t imposing serious hardship on| 17,000 welfare cases in Mont-| PROPOSES WAY real. { Nehru apparently proposed a| The council asked the premier middle way, as he had in recent | to suspend the pending study. foreign policy speeches to the! Before Sept. 1 relief cases{Indian Parliament. There was| - were being handled by the city|no assurance that any of his) -| social welfare department with|proposals would have been more welcome in Washington than in willing to pay assistance to the 'laziness and inac tion." ti But Khrushchev remained de- | rmined to bring about a settle- ent in Germany. For Hurricane NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Hur-|her course more northerly dur- ricane Carla, her 125-mile-an-|ing the day. hour winds stirring up the Gulf| "A high pressure area over of Mexico, veered slightly to the|the eastern United States is north early today and plowed|moving out and it could cause toward the Louisiana and Texas|@ more definite change to the coasts. north," said Conner. The 800-mile strip from New|RESIDENTS MOVE Orleans to the Mexican border| Hundreds in the Louisiana buttressed defences for the first| coastal marsh country heeded of Carla's winds. |the weather bureau's note of The New Orleans weather bu- caution to evacuate the low- reau early toaay pinpointed|lands and seek higher ground. Carla's centre about 420 statute In Cameron, La., devastated miles southeast of "Galveston, by hurricane Audrey in 1957 Tex., near latitude 24.3 north|with more than 500 killed, only and longitude 90.7 west. la hardy handful -- police esti- The storm continued to churn maetd less than 25 -- of the {town's 5,000 population re- along at about nine miles an hour, | Hurricane forecaster Walter Conner in the New Orleans weather bureau said Carla would probably continue to shift Local Problems Now Engage Negotiators DETROIT (AP) -- Walter P.|told reporters after bargaining Seaton, said the naitonal eco- Reuther said Friday night the talks were recessed until 11 nomic agreement, which gives | il Oshawa Sailor { : United Auto Workers' labor con- a.m. today. He said local un- UAW members many long- Hurt In Crash tract negotiations with General|ions have adequate time during sought benefits, is contingent Motors Corporation can drag onthe weekend to complete their upon negotiating settlements on| HALIFAX (CP) -- A 16-year- indefinitely unless shop com-| negotiaions. If they don't, he non - economic problems. These|,iq girl was killed and three mittees and plant managers added, "this thing can go onl|include work standards, griev- teen-agers were injured in a reach agreement on working forever." ance procedure, compulsory highway accident at nearby conditions. Local unions unable to resolve Overtime. use > Supervisors bo Bedford Friday night. The UAW president said there their problems, he said, are hourly paid jobs, and how much i : isn't a habe of the union ex-|authorized to go on strike Mon time shoud be Slowed for re- Genevieve George of Halifax tending its 11 a.m. EDT Mon-/day. ief, washup and coffee breaks.| ~~ day tiike deadline against 120| The UAW and GM already Reuther said the union made ios Mtg fet GM plants in the United Staes.|have agreed on a national eco- it clear Wednesday when the| ole "The Sept. 11 date holds," he nomic package which the union Strike deadline was extended |PO°€: says will give GM's 350,000|five days that there wouldn't be CITY EMERGENCY Sheila Newell, 17, of Halifax, hourly workers an increase of| another extension. PHONE NUMBERS Able Seaman Henry Collister, more than 12 cents an hour| "All we can do is to create POLICE 725-1133 al19, of Hamilton and Ordinary each year in take-home pay. |sense of urgency," he said. (Seaman Edward Cassidy, 18, of FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 a main telephone Seaton acknowledged "There's|Oshawa are in hospitals here. {BROADLY AGREE quite a problem at the local|Their conditions were not seri "We're in essential agreement! level." He said nearly 15,000 lo-|ous. in the broad economic area," cal demands are pending, with| Collister, the driver of the Reuther said. 4,000 others either settled or car, and Cassidy are crew mem- Both Reuther and GM's chief withdrawn. "We'll be working/bers of the destroyer escort |negotiator, Vice-President Louis! over the weekend," be said. |Columbia. | mained. All died when the car in which she|tod stores and busi- nesses were boarded up solidly. Former Oshawa Youth Drowned Police are dragging the St. Lawrence River today for the body of a former Oshawa boy. Kemp Burgess, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Burgess, who was reported missing at 4:30 p.m. Friday, after he had gone by boat to Beau Rivage Island. It is not known if anyone else was in the boat. The family now lives in Gan- anoque. Mr. Burgess was trans- ferred there last summer from his position in Oshawa as bank manager. The boy's grand- mother, Mrs. Ella Kemp, still lives in Oshawa, at 496 Simcoe St. N. | Castro Executes KEY WEST, Fla. (AP)--Five members of the anti-Castro in- vasion force that landed in Cuba April 17 were executed Friday night for crimes com- mitted during the Batista re- gime, Havana Rario reported ay. The five fell before Fidel Cas- tro's firing squads at midnight, the broadcast said. They were among 14 of the in- vaders who were tried before a military tribunal in Santa Clara "riday, Their names were listed as Ramon Calvino Inzua, Anto- nio Valetin Padron Cardenas, The trial of the 14 lasted Emilio Soler Puig, Jorge Ping Yung, and Roberto Per¢z Cru- zota. April Invaders poral in the investigatiojs de- partment of the Havana police during the dictatorship of Ful- gencio Batista, had been ac- cused of committing many mur- ders and of torturing prisoners and other crimes. The trial of the 14 lasted about eight hours. Meanwhile, a prisoner of Cu- ba's Isle of Pines reported in a letter to his family at Miami that the 4,000 political prisoners on the island are "practically in- sane and desperate" because of inactivity, "horrible" food and lack of medical care. The letter was smuggled out] of prison and brought to Miami this week. The writer's name was not disclosed for obvious Calvino, who had besn a eor-) Teasons. additional number of armored personnel carriers. | The army chief said the 3,000 men and the lightweight, am- phibious, air-transportable troop carriers earmarked for Ger- many were already on their way. He did not say how many carriers were involved. Volunteers Aid Hunt For Boys TRENTON, N.S. (CP)--Resi- dents of three counties we re|than $500,000. asked today to help in the search for four Trenton boys missing|Lieutenant - Governor Onesime since Tuesday. Gagnon, former finance minis- Residents of Antigonish, Guys-|ter, and former attorney - gen- borough and Pictou counties/eral Antoine Rivard, now a were asked by police to check|judge of the Superior Court. their barns for any sign of the| Lemire was ordered to trial missing boys, aged between|at the fall assizes on the first seven and 12. of six charges laid against him, force, testified in court Friday that he told two former Union force. Roy, 49, was testifying at the Lemire, 71, former Quebec dis- trict chief on the force, and one of three men charged with de- frauding the provincial govern- QUEBEC (CP)--Hector Roy, provincial police corporal and former member of the now dis- banded Quebec Liquor Police Nationale cabinet ministers about irregularities within the preliminary hearing of Rosario ment and the public of more Roy mentioned the names of dealing with alleged payment of false expense accounts and sal- aries to Dell-Ray Laforest, his stepson, awaiting trial in the case. AWAITS TRIAL Leopold Perreault, former in- spector on the force, also is awaiting trial. Roy, an inspector on the force between 1948 and 1956, said he suspected salaries and expense accounts were being falsified and that confiscated liquor was being stolen by some members of the force. He said he visited Mr. Rivard at his home and told him what he suspected. He said he made his complaints orally. "I submitted precise facts, I told Mr. Rivard everything," Roy said. "After this," he said, "Le- mire told me to stay away from the accounting department." Africans hurl stones at arm- |Katanga province Sept. 6. Ka- . : . tanga police broke up the ed United Nations troops on | gic; hance. one of several an Elisabethville street in | by natives objegting to the UN TROOPS STONED IN CONGO UN. Some Swedish soldiers were injured in the incidents, (AP Wirephoto via radio from Brussells) tr