The Oshawa Times, 15 Sep 1961, p. 1

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THOUGHT FOR TODAY It's strange how many hot heads are produced by a cold war. Oshawa Sines Pe WEATHER REPORT Cloudy and cool today and Sat- urday, with a few light showers. VOL. 90--NO. 214 he Price Not | 10 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1961 Authorized Post Office as _ Second Class Department, Ott: Mail awe EIGHTEEN PAGES ALL ICELANDIC here the' Manitoba Icelandic descent. right, Oscar F. resi President Asgeir Asgiersson of .ceiand found amp.c evi- dence when he visited Winni- peg that Icelanders have made good in Canada. He is shown legislature of Left to Bjornson, Mine-Mill P Begins New Attack include accusations that Mr. Gillis and his board held secret meetings with representatives of | the United Steelworkers of] America (CLC), had promoted| secession of the 17,500-member| local to Steel and that a Local| 598 member favoring continued affiliation with Mine - Mill was| not allowed to speak at the meeting. A previous trusteeship im- posed by Mr. Smith on the local lasted briefly until a Supreme Court judge ruled it had been imposed improperly because the SUDBURY (CP) A new move by the Mine-Mill union's executive to place the rebellious Sudbury local under trusteeship was indicated Thursday as Na- tional President Ken Smith laid charges against the local's lead- ers. Five charges were laid against Local 598 President Don! Gillis and his executive under the constitution of the National Union of mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Ind.). A Sept. 22 date was set for the hearing. Mr. Smith's action was cen-| sured Thursday night at a meet- ing of local members, with eight out of about 1,000 attending vot- : 0 I ing against the motion. day for the Mine-Mill national In addition to condemning/convention in Edmonton next| Mr. Smith for laying the/week, Mr. Smith declared that charges, the meeting passed a "Gillis and his supporters have| motion congratulating J a m e s|violated their oath of office Babirad, president of Local 637 often enough. Their nefarious in Port Colborne, for calling a|plots to sell membership 'of this vole on whether the national|union to the Steelworkers now h Zent. { 'S vote was announced We: n of more by Mr. Babirad. an 6,000 members. The charges laid by Mr. Smith, Syusegay night's meeting fol- ow Teamsters, a hearing. Before leaving Toronto Thurs- dnesday ported by a petitio gan Sep with three members of | E de: | Asgeirsson and Health. minis- | ter Dr. George Johnson. local officers had not been given it po! "Finance Leaders '10th Test wan Guttormson, President WASHINGTON (AP)--Russia| has triggered its 10th nuclear] [blasts in two weeks and has| fired a powerful new rocket close to its target more than| 7.400 miles into the central Pa-! ific. The official agency Tass said the rocket, |launched from an undisclosed |site Wednesday, landed less {than five-eighths of a mile from target. The latest Russian atmos- pheric nuclear blast was set off Thursday in the Arctic. It had an explosive force Suv alent to i 5 {several million tons of TNT and Yepresentative James. Robert: hg third big explosion in Mr. Gillis assured Thursday's|the current series. meeting his executive had taken| Meanwhile, there still was no no steps to join Steel in an un- official word here on when iic derhanded manner. | United States would resume nu- clear testing. However, it was WANTS INTO CLC learned that the tests are ex- "I'm only doing the job I was pected to start in Nevada within put here by the membership t0|; week or 10 days. do--get into the CLC one way| Neither half of the Sofiets' or another. If that way is|;ne.two punch came as a sus {through Steel, that's the way it prise. will be if the membership wanis| Since Russia broke ils testing | moratorium at the start of this {month, Soviet nuclear explo- +» sions have been an almost daily --CP Wirephoto dent Soviet news| dent of the Canadian Labor Congress and a Steelworkers executive, and Sudbury CLC He told the night meeting: "We, the executive, are making any recommendations. Mr. Mahoney declared the na-|2ccurrence. had. bs tional executive would sooner| The rocket test ha en wreck the local than let a dem-|awaited since Russia earlier ocratic vote decide which way this month warned shipping the local is going. away from the target area, Express Concern Russia Triggers ACCRA, Ghana (Reuters) -- | | { meeting held earlier in the day. In contrast to an uproarious | - - Mine-Mill . Sign Pact | meeting Sunday which was fi-| | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- The| Teamsters and the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers unions, both independent, have signed a mutual assistance pact under which they will co-operate in major areas of union activity. The Teamsters Union said Thursday the agreement, signed in San Francisco by the heads of the two unions, became ef- fective Aug. 18. Among other things, the two unions agree to recognize and| respect each other's jurisdiction as established in their constitu- tions and to assist each other in protecting and organizing work- ers under such jurisdiction. They also pledge to initiate joint organizing projects as may be mutually agreed upon and to assist each other in collective bargaining and authorized strikes, ockouts or other dis- putes, except jurisdictional dis- putes or where other certified local unions are involved. The unions also will co-ordin- ate 'heir efforts in the fields of legislation beneficial to them | and organized labor in general in the United States and Can-| ada. The Teamsters claim a mem- bership of more than 1,500,000, the Mine Mill than 100,000 nally halted by police, both meeting Thursday were or-| derly, | The only incident occurred when a man tried to speak through a floor microphone while Mr. Gillis was addressing a Jheeting, but was escorted out. "Take him out of here but Commonwealth finance minis- ters prepared to head home to day after jolting Britain over. the European Common Market controversy. At the end on their three-day, 13-nation conference here Thurs- day night the Commonwealth finance chiefs united in a strongly worded declaration of don't rough him up," Mr. Gil " special benefits in the European Economic Community for only certain Commonwealth coun- tries, it could be damaging to Commonwealth solidarity, the communique reported. It add- ed: "Certain countries pointed out that major changes in present Commonwealth trading arrange ments would inevitably force re- Blast about 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii. This was the first in a series of tests to try out more power- | {ful and improved carrier rock- ets than those that blasted two| Soviet astronauts into space. In a series early last year the) {Russians claimed one multi- stage rocket landed within 1.24 {miles of its target 7,760 miles {irom the launching pad. In the| {summer of 1960 the Russians| | claimed to have hit close to the! target 8,078 miles from the| launching pad. | i The United States as fired isuper Atlas rockets at distances fof 9,000 miles, from Cape Ca- inaveral, Fla., past the southern tip of Africa, but has been iclose-mouthed about accuracy. Puzzled By Crackdown In Katanga UNITED NATIONS (CP) |The crackdown by the United Nations on secessionist Katanga province in The Congo has caused dismay among some Western diplomats, it was learned Thursday. Interviews at the UN head- quarters in New York indicated the UN military action against Moise Tshombe's Katanga re- gime caught diplomats by sur- prise when they thought Congo- lese affairs were at last begin- ning to make some sense in a' peaceful way. Ambassadors -- who appeared | to depend mostly on news re- ports for their information-- were puzzled at the timing of the attack in view of the open- ing of the UN General Assem- bly next Tuesday. London's Fallout grave apprehension and con- {cern at the possible results of |Britain's bid to join the six- country Common Market. { lis ordered. Both meetings were addressed by William Maheney, vice-presi- alignment of their trading pat- terns and could lead to further trading blocs." The communique said ne Showing Increase LONDON (Reuters) -- Radio- | cotive fallout over London has) Identify Body Found On Beach TORONTO (CP) -- A de posed body found on a Toronto beach Wednesday was identified Thursday night as that of Peter- borough farmer Henry Sharpe, 40, who disappeared in his light plane en route to Toronto last] June. A Peterborough dentist, Dr.| A. H. Ball, made the identifi- cation after examining denta work on the lower teeth, Dr. Chester McLean, provin- al pathologist, perfornted an| com- ci autopsy Wednesday, He said] The communique. said it was|threatened by a man who Siies death was due to drowning, but|generally agreed that any im-|has been kept under R juries were consistent|pairment of Commonwealth in.|Surveillance. other in, wih a plane crash. A plane] wheel of the type on Sharpe's| plane was found in Lake Ontario after he was reported missing.|on particular industries and|in public--of Canadian partic: Original reports Wednesday said the body was not that of Workers more|the missing Peterborough man| stressed the danger that if Brit- but further checks were made. | A communique said most Commonwealth countries ques- tioned whether Britain could possibly get an agr t ade- quately protecting the Common- wealth, The communique disclosed that Britain's Commonwealth partners fear her membership in the Common Market might imperil its relationship with them and weaken the Common- wealth "as a world instrument | for understanding, prosperity | and peace." | The concluding conference | session dragged on for hours as| the ministers argued over the terms of the communique. FEAR ADVERSE EFFECTS terests would damage some or| all Commonwealth countries and could have adverse effects) areas. Several represent atives| ain succeeded in negotiating British delegation made clear increased one hundredfold since ASSEMBLE The three-stage Saturn stands on its launching: to the moon and Mars by 1965. pad at Cape Canaveral to- day where it will be tested on a short flight later this year. The huge vehicle is expected # | widely ¢ (United Nations forces through- % [to bring on a civil war. i} JET STRAFES IRISH D SATURN | to launch tons of instruments War To LEOPOLDVILLE (AP)--Pres- ident Moise Tshombe's Katanga army threw planes, armored cars and hundreds of troops into scattered attacks on out the Congo's secessionist province today. Tribal chiefs in the hinterland and white settlers in the Ka- tanga capital, Elisabethville, rose to Tshombe's call for a "war to the last bullet" against the United Nations and to keep | |the province independent of the| # | Leopoldville government. Tshombe himself, vowing to resist to the death, directed counter-blows against the UN in his mineral-rich province. The UN mission said the fighting started Wednesday when it moved to establish its security in Elisabethville be- cause white mercenaries i Tshombe's hire were disrupting Congolese unity and threatening At the big UN airfield and military base at Kamina, Swed- ish troops fought off repeated onslaughts by Katangans led by white officers and backed by armored cars. In Jadotville, a mining centre 60 miles from Elisabethville, 150 AIR, GROUND ATTACKS BY KATANGA'S ARMY I | Tshombe Vows Death Swedish troops in Kamina have only light weapons. The UN flew civilians out of Kamina together with 20 white mercenary troops held prisoner there. All were flown to Leo- poldville. At the same time the UN hur- ried reinforcements to their hard-pressed force, which on Wednesday proclaimed that its military action against Tshom- be's troops had restored the Jrovitice to Leopoldville's con- rol. At Jadotville, UN Irish troops defied an ultimatum to surren- der and were bombed and strafed by a Katanga jet fighter, The plane swooped low over the Jadotville airfield, where 150 rishmen have for three days beaten off repeated attacks by 500 Katangan soldiers. The United Nations in Leo- poldville announced that the fighter plane -- probably a French Fouga Magister -- was piloted by a Rhodesian arid was based at an airfield at nearby Kolwezi. The beleaguered Irish men were in touch this morning with UN military headquarters in Elisabethville and reported "we will hold out until our last bullet is spent." |beleaguered Irish troops were {strafed by a Kal 'the north Katanga base of na and the radio station there was knocked out. Since then all communications with the UN Kamina garrison have been cut off. Two companies of Swedish troops were flown from Leopold- ville this morning to reinforce the UN garrison. Pictures were permitted the first time today. --AP Wirephoto Former Premier, Aides Condemned YASSIADA, Turkey -- Ousted its view that until negotiations|Russia's current nuclear tests with The Six occurred, it was|began, the London County Coun- not possible to find out whethey|cil announced Thursday. satisfactory arrangements could] However, G. B. Courtier, the be made to safeguard the es-|council's scientific adviser, said, sential interests of Common-|the fallout was not expected to wealth countries. have any effect on public health. Harkness Reveals Life Threatened OTTAWA (CP)--Defence Min-|the fact that he once had en- ister Harkness revealed Thurs-|listed in the Canadian Army un- day night that his life has been|der his brother's name and sub- sequently was discharged be- cause he was mentally unstable. Mr. Harkness said he suspects this is the same man who signed the initials D. J. S. in a letter sent to Opposition Leader Pearson in which alleged evid- lence of Canada's part in the in- He told the Commons that the threat came after the minister disproved the man's story--told pation in last spring's Cuban in- € vasion. vasion was sketched. a : : | The letter was read in part No identity of the man was|. % given by Mr. Harkness beyong il the Commons by H. W, Her- RED PLANES SHAD OW AIRLINER Concern Over Airlanes BERLIN (AP)--Concern rose tbday over use of the vital West- ern airlanes to Berlin after two West German fighters blundered into the city and Soviet MiG jets shadowed two U.S. commer- cial airliners, Communist East Germany called the landing of the two West German F-84 jet fighters in the French sector Thursday "a monstrously provoca- tive act." In a statement, the East Germans charged the two pilots were on a spying mission. At about the same time, the CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 'HOSPITAL 723-2211 | | American airliners flying frommilitary installations or fly|controlled by the Communists. Berlin to Hamburg were either shadowed or buzzed by Soviet planes into the city. The West German government ridge CCF -- Kootenay West. Mr. Pearson interjected that he had not given the CCF member {a copy of the letter. Mr. Herridge said the letter: writer identified himself as a former member of the United States Central Intelligence Ag- the invasion force. The letter said that with the knowledge of Prime Minister ency who had helped in training|g Road and rail traffic passes through Communist checkpoints Diefenbaker and Mr. Harkness, 200 to 300 Canadians--some of MiG jet fighters. The United| apologized to the three Western Saftes filed a protest with the powers and to the Soviet Em- Soviet representative at the Ber-| bassy in Bonn. lin 2 safety centre, The on =a Accounts of the airliner inci | in East Germany. ESCAPES CONTINUE Escapes from East Berlin con- tinued Thursday. Communist po- them veterans and others unem- ployed--had been recruited for the invasion force and that Ca-| nadian Army officers took part| |Premier Adnan Menderes, for- {mer president Celal Bayar and 110 top Menderes aides were sentenced to death here today at th windup of a lengthy political trial of nearly 600 members of Menderes' toppled regime. Fourteen other former govern- ment officials were dealt terms of life imprisonment in the ver- dict handed down by a special nine-judge civil-military court after a trial that began last October. Just hours before the sentence was pronounced Menderes suf- |fered a severe nervous collapse land was unable to appear in | court. Menderes and Bayar were condemned for violating the con- stitution during the years they rule. Hours after his collapse, doc- tors said Menderes was improv- ling. Newspaper men were es- |corted to a hospital room to see him. He appeared conscious but seriously ill. A tube had been inserted in his nose, The defendants were sen- fenced in groups of about 20 after being led into court under| heavy guard. a destroyer flotilla patrolled. Police Crack Car Theft Ring HAMITON (CP) -- A huge held Turkey under their iron] German pilots, who said they| lost their way on a training mission and landed at Tegel air- port, also was discussed at the air safety centr.e This is one of the few remaining occupation establishments in which the Rus- sians still co-operate. | After a three-hour meeting, an Allied officer said "there is nothing to worry about." ALLIES EMBARRASSED The incident was a source of embarrassment to the Western| allies as well as the Bonn gov- | | | | ernment. Under four-power ac-|air corridors from Frankfurt, |doors and widows at cords on Berlin that the West is| Hamburg and Hannover to Ber-|level bricked up by the Reds, |N trying to maintain, West Ger-| many is not allowed to Hel case of the two West| dents differed. A Pan American Airlines offi- cial said a Soviet MIG flew about 1,000 feet off an airliner's wing for a minute or two. The plane, a DC-6, landed on sched- ule in Hamburg with 40 passen-| gers. In Washington, the state de- partment cited two instances. It said one Soviet fighter flew only 20 feet off the wingtip of one Pan American plane, and a MiG zoomed only 100 feet in front of in training and landing opera- lice fired into West Berlin after tions. a man crashed through the Red border barrier in a truck. No one was hurt and the driver reached the British™s ector of West Berlin safely. Farther along the barrier, two women and a man were helped {over the five-foot wall dividing the city by an East German po- lice sergeant. He then followed them to freedom. Three other East Berliners broke through Severely Bumed | In Blazing House COBOURG (CP)--Ms. Dain-| try Fitzhugh is in critical con-| fire at her home early today. the nose of another. There are three 20-mile-wide lin. These are the only routes to| the former German capital not the cellar of a. house on the bedroom by her husband who boundary. {burned his hands in rescuing At another boundary house, its her. street| The Fitzhugh House, known as| orthumberland Hall is one of | Cobourg's landmarks. Damage was $5,000. three men Jed to flee but only| two made § |car-theft operation, belived to| involve automobiles worth hun-| ~~ |dreds of thousands of dollars,(W Ould be no discrimination has heen cracked by Hamilton| and Toronto police. Nine cars have been im- {pounded and officials said they|since Aug. 21 when contract expected to recover many more within the next day or two. It is believed that the hub of dition after suffering burns at athe operation was at a garage|Pickets to eight. between Hamilton and Toronto. She was dragged from a blazing|Most of the vehicles were be-|man for I lieved stolen in these areas. Police said cars stolen in Tor-| {onto were altered fo disguise| without the protection of a con- their identity and then sold in |Hamilton. Vehicles taken here|to the days when we had to give were sold in Toronto after simi- lar treatment. Those sentenced to death in- cluded former foreign minister, Fatin Zorlu; former National Assembly chairman Refik Kor- altan and two of his aides; former finance minister Hasan Polatkan; and Menderes' for- mer political investigator, Ah- met Hambi Santar, and two of his aides. Among those drawing life terms were former deputy pre- mier Medeni Berk; former min- ister of state Izzet Akcal; former justice minister Celal Yardimji; and former public works minister Tevfik Ileri. Executions will be carried out |privately within 24 hours. There is no appeal to the sentences, but the death terms are subject to approval of the ruling Na- tional Unity Committee. Charges against the accused ranged from planned assassina- tions of opposition members to! | | misappropriation of funds and lesser offences. | | Must Report OAKVILLE (CP) -- Strikers at the J. A. Wotherspoon and Son foundry here were told in fore 3:30 p.m. today and be -- |ready to start work Monday. The letter, signed by Vice- President J. W. Wotherspoon, also said the company would no longer deduct union dues from They were flying to an area | swarming with Katagan soldiers based only a few miles from the UN installations taken over from the Belgians at Kamina. Some reports reaching Leopold- |ville said Katangan forces have {an armored train which is shell ling the UN base. Report Surrender Of Irish Troops USUMBUR4, Ruanda-Urundi (AP)--A station identifying it- self as "'the Katanga free radio" said today Irish UN troops be- sieged at Jadotville in the seces- sionist Congo province have sur- rendered to Katangan troops after suffering heavy losses. The station declared 57 Irish troops were killed at Jadotville before the surrender. The broadcast said the others were made prisoners and will Urging Freer Hand For Commanders WASHINGTON (AP)--Military chiefs are reported to be urging that United States commanders in Europe be given a freer hand to respond as they see fit to any Communist harassment of movements in or out of Ber- lin. Some Pentagon sources con- tend that Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme Allied commander in Europe, is operating under too- restricted authority to deal om the spot with such Communist actions. Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, chair- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was understood to have taken up this question with President Kennedy. Pentagon authorities say a po- tential danger lies in the present requirement, as they picture it, that U.S. commanders in Europe check with higher authority in the United States before re- be held ac hostages. acting to provocations. Strikers Told | workers, but would allow any| | wh do s The company added there against any striker returning to work. The 60 employees, on strike negotiations broke down, re. ceived the letter shortly after an injunction was granted limiting Walter Domski, plant chair- socal 1256, United Auto Workers (CLC), said: "We don't go back to work tract. We don't want to go back a bottle of whisky to a foreman © keep a job." 0 wanted to join the union to 50. 5 a John Boyd-Carpenter, Bri- tian's minister of pensions and national insurance, will visit Canada for nine days starting Sept. 25. His visit is particu- larly concerned with war pen- | CANADA sions business. He will visit Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, Banff and Cal- gary. i ~CP Wirephoto from UKIO

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