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6735 Attend THOUGHT FOR TODAY There's a miracle drug that does wonders for reducers; it's called sulfadenial. 3eneral he Oshawa Motors en H Times WEATHER ouse -- P. 13 REPORT A few showers and isolated thundershowers late today and tonight,. cooler Wednesday. VOL. 91--NO. 125 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1962 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Ottawa and for of Payment Postage in Cash. TWENTY PAGES port yard walked off their jobs and set up picket lines around the properties last night after announcement came from London, Ont., that workers voted in favor of strike action to back up con- A PROVINCE-WIDE truck- ing strike by members of five International Brotherhood of Teamsters locals hit Oshawa and Whitby Monday night. Workers at eight Oshawa firms and one Whitby trans- Truck Drivers Strike On Piggyback sters (Ind.) and 65 transport firms. Robert Wilson of Windsor, TORONTO (CP) -- What one Ontario side has already predicted will become a "long and costly' trucking strike began to take} I s hold across Ontario today with] tiating committee, said follow the railroads almost as deeply|ing release Monday night of re- involved as_ the themselves. Rail "Piggyback," a brightjof Piggyback -- transport of point for the railroads in what/truck trailers on rail flatcars-- otherwise has been a recent his-/remains a Teamster aim. tory of curtailment and losses,| At Stratford, strikers pitched has emerged as a key issue inja tent for overnight duty and the dispute between the Inter-|posted signs to sum up the un- national Brotherhood of Team-jion stand; "Down with Piggy- apie ee = |hack. Let local drivers make a decent living." Terrorists Kil] x0. somputen \be long and costly came from) Injured Woman In Ambulance William Murray, spokesman for| ALGIERS (AP) -- European| |Relations Bureau, agent for the settlement talks have been scheduled. ' "The losses to the industry the heart of the city today and|Ployees of the companies in- killed a Moslem womanj|volved will be enormous," he wounded in an earlier terrorist| Said. "And people and indus- attack. tries dependent on the serv- This was the third time in re-|ices of motor transport will also cent days that European terror.| Suffer." ists killed wounded persons en-| route to hospitals. The strike deadline had been set for Thursday midnight, but ; Ken McDougall, president of oF oo suhag pees city, three |Teamster Local 938, said in Sere sl ofall pidlete' of ten | Loronto that the local advanced : 2 ste» |the deadline to today in re- rorist commandos. of the Secret sponse to company lockouts. gee ' Union officials in London, uropean policeman was/where the strike ballots were kidnapped by three Moslems in| counted, said 70 to 75 per cent of a car, resumably in retaliation|the members cast ballots, 63 per for Secret Army attacks. cent of them voting to reject a Medicare Scheme Protests Mount REGINA (CP) -- Petitions, delivered to her about May 25 plans for mass car cavalcades|notifying her she had been reg- to Regina and a request for ajistered. court injunction bespoke the op-| Plans were reported in sev- position of some Saskatchewan) era) centres residents to the medical - care|cajvalcades to drive to Regina plan today. and ask the government to de- ' Provincial Attorney - General|lay iniplementation. of the plan R. A. Walker, meanwhile, at-|until the impasse with the doc- tirbuted the opposition to ajtors can be resolved. One or- "'seare campaign by Saskatche-|ganizer said a 500 - car group wan doctors. |was expected to originate in The government's comprehen-,Moose Jaw. sive, compulsory medical-care |" , igs plan is scheduled to start op-) eration July 1. The Saskatche-| wan College of Physicians and Surgeons, representing the 904 Saskatchewan doctors, has de- clared its opposition on the grounds of "government con-) trol." The application for a court in-, junction was filed Monday, in Regina by Olive Beston of, VANCOUVER (CP)--A_ giant Regina. Miss Beston asked an|meteor with a flaming tail cast injunction against the Saskatch-|an eerie glow in the sky over ewan Medical Care Insurance|British Columbia, Alberta, Commission, the body set up to| Washington state and Idaho administer the plan, restraining) Monday. the commission from _continu-| The spectacle caused momen ing registration of herself as ajtary panic among fans at a beneficiary. baseball game in Vancouver. Miss Beston said she has|Sightings were also reported at been wrongfully registered. Her| Victoria, Calgary, Fort Assini- claim objects to automatic reg-jboine, Alta., Spokane, Wash., istration under the plan. It says}and Lewiston, Idaho. she has not at any time regis-/ There were as many descrip- tered under the provisions of a/tions as there were people who cited section of the Medicaljwatched the huge fireball Care Act, but that a notice was' streak across the sky in a south- erly direction. Hundreds of Vancouver resi- jdents jammed switchboards at the airport, weather office and RCAF headquarters with re- ports of a flaming airliner, an off-course rocket or a comet, But authoritative observers said it was a meteor. Research scientist Fraqk j Hughes of nearby North Surrey, CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 chairman of the Teamster nego-|hallot Mr. Wilson said the five|ment Workers Union (CLC), combatants|sults of a strike ballot favor-| ing a walkout, that elimination} jtheir layoff. | the Motor Transport Industrial) |65 trucking firms. He said nojextended; companies should not lbe put in a straight jacket by |restricting their Piggyback op- jerations, gunmen halted an ambulance in|and to the more than 8,000 em-| phe jydge proposed that' high- the international. Giant Meteor Causes © Panic On West Coast | Court Rejects Transport workers are shown as they joined the picket line shortly after 8 p.m. (See story, page three) --Oshawa Times Photo tract demands. The strike deadline, originally set for Thursday midnight, was ad- vanced to last night by a ma- jority vote of the union's ex- ecutive Monday morning. Above, group of Smith 35-Hour Week 'Sought By | Garment Union ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (CP) The issue of a 35-hour week conciliation board report agreed! will be introduced into contract to by the companies. negotiations in Canada soon by In announcing the result of the|the International Ladies _ i Teamster locals involved would|was announced Monday. hold separate policy meetings to) Bernard Shane, Canadian decide when to strike. vice-president of the union, said He said about 58 per cent of it will insist on a 35-hour week the voting maintenance workers| Without loss of pay during ne- favored their new, separate con-|g9tiations to be begun in the tract. But a spokesman for Hus-/near future with the women's band Transport in London indi-|Cloak and suit industry in Tor- cated a strike would soon force/onto and Montreal. Shane made the statement siected: conciliati ...|during a speech to a dinner PP nan Haina Serine sing An.|tendered by the Canadian dele- derson of Belleville, offered a\Sation at the annual convention package increase of 2314 cents|o! the Garment' Workers Union an hour but rejected union de-|here. A number of employer mands for curtailment of piggy- representatives from Canada' back. also are attending. g , sal Cloak and suit wee one le 2 pow Toronto, Montreal , jedlay peg at present work a 37 workers in and Winni- 44-hour Piggy- will be Contracts in Toronto and Montreal expire July 31. Locals in those two cities include about i , 4,000 cloak and suit workers way drivers with five years' se The remainder of the union's |niority be given the right to|/1g 909 Canadian membership move into poorer - paying jobs,| work 39-hour week. \displacing employees with less seniority, if they are laid because of Piggyback. The increase in the present | against the death sentence given " 'BOMBSHELL' EFFECT Nazis Appeal JERUSALEM (AP)--The Is- raeli Supreme Court rejected to- day Adolf Eichmann's appeal jurisdiction of the Israel court. It is clear that all acts of per- secution, deportation and mur- der in which the accused took part constitute war crimes within the meaning of the Nazi and Nazi collaborators' law un- der which he was tried here." This was in response to an argument by Eichmann's de- fence lawyer, Dr. Robert Ser- vatius, that the Israeli court had no authority to try the case. |MOUTH TWITCHES Occasionally as the judgment was read Eichmann pressed his lips together and twitched his mouth in a gesture familiar to observers who sat through his long trial last year. | The reading of the full Su-| |him for his part in the Nazi massacre of European Jews during the Second World War. The Supreme Court verdict |left the 56-year-old former chief lof the Gestapo's Jewish affairs section with only one last chance to escape the gallows-- an appeal to Israeli President Izhak Ben-Zvi. Eichmann, still wearing the dark suit and striped tie he wore throughout his 414-month trial last year, stared fixedly at the five judges as their judg- ment was delivered. Associate Justice Simon Ag- ranat read the high court's rul- ; ing, which opened with a brief/preme Court judgment was ex- review of the 15-count indictment|pected to take the entire day. charging Eichmann with crimes|The court chamber was packed against the Jews and against/with spectators, many of whom humanity. could colint among their rela- | ¥ tives victims of the Nazi slaugh- AGREE FULL The judgment then declared: "We fully concur with the judgment of the lower district court which tried, convicted and sentenced the appellant and we. associate ourselves fully with }the conclusions of that court solid founda- Only a handful of foreign cor-|{ of Eichmann's trial in April of} 1961. which rest on sales tions." A special three-judge tribunal had sentenced Eichmann to death last December. The for- jmer Gestapo colonel appealed lthe verdict and sentence in |March. | Justice Agranat, reading from} ithe High Court ruling, declared: | "Crimes with which the ap- |pellant is charged are within the Space F light Hinted In Russia t Jerusalem on the opening day gui ADOLF EICHMANN Verdict San On Smuggling Court Martial OTTAWA (CP) -- An arm y court martial retired today to decide whether Maj. jAllan Platt, |ter of 6,000,000 Jews. lcharged of conduct prejudicial William 48, is guilty as o good order and discipline by respondents were on hand, in| organizing and participating in contrast to the 400 who crowded| !ndochinese gold shipments. The major has pleaded not lty, The five - man court retired /after an hour-long review of the levidence and its weight accord- ing tv law delivered by Group Capt. vocate. J. H. Hollies, Judge-Ad- He warned the court about the evidence submitted by army | personnel |of wrongdoing in Indochina. He jsaid such evidence might be jconstrued as that of accom- |plices and require corrobora- previously convicted ion, BONN, West Germany (Reu-! ters)--Reports from scientists here and in Denmark indicated) |basic wage of $1.78 an hour would have been applied in four| |stages during a three-year con-| |tract period. | | WOULD COST HEAVILY | Mr. Murray said the proposed pact would have cost the com- panies more than $10,000,000 in |the three years. They had ac- cepted the report "in spite of|yiet Union, in a surprise move, the fact they did not know where|in effect rejected today a draft the money was coming from t0| declaration against war. propa- FH the Sire costs of an in-| ganda that it agreed to last usiry in which wages account|week, an authoritative Western source said. for more than 47 per cent of! The declaration was regarded |gross revenue." } | "Jimmy Hoffa's Teamstersia, one of the major break- seem determined to spread their throughs of the 17-nation Dis- |armament Conference here. war of attrition against the Ca- nadian transport industry from; : - Today's session of the confer- ence had been expected to give Quebec to Ontario," he said. A| final and formal agreement to GENEVA (Reuters)--The So- Teamsters' walkout in Montreal] earlier cut off highway to organize car|transport between the two prov-|the declaration, drafted by Ar-| Western delegates. inces, |thur Dean and Valerian Zorin, I. M. (Casey) Dodds, Cana-|the U.S. and Soviet delegates jdian director of the Teamsters, |Tespectively. It was approved Isaid Monday night strike pay|>Y the conference in committee [benefits of from $15 to $25 al week based on duration of the| walkout will be available fromthe delegations consulted their governments about the draft, today. But after a weekend in which| Russia Reneges On Peace Move today that the Soviet Union may} have launched a major space flight. The Bochum Observatory re- ported receiving signals on fre- quencies 19.995 and 19.997 me- gacycles, which the Soviet Un- ion has used for spaceships in the past. | The observatory said voices} also could be heard, but it was not certain whether they were connected with the apparent space shot. In Copenhagen, the Geophys- ical Laboratory picked up Rus- quirements presented by life|Sian radio conversations and a and needs a serious improve-|SP0kesman said it may indicate ment." ja Soviet space attempt is under- way. |COME AS 'BOMBSHELL' The conversations were on | The source said Zorin's move|{he same frequency monitored had a "'bombshell" effect on the|by Bochum Observatory, which picked up early signals from Zorin today put forward five re- vised points which, the Western jsource said, were absolutely un- jacceptable to the Western dele- | gations, | Zorin told the conference the |draft declaration in its present form '"'does not meet the re- NO REASON SEEN FOR STOCK PANIC WASHINGTON (AP) | Treasury Secretary Dillon said after a conference with President Kennedy today that "we don't see any reason for panic selling" in the stock market. Kennedy - summoned key economic and financial advis- ers to the White House to dis- cuss the United States econ- omy in general as well as the recent sharp drop in stock prices. Dillon told reporters he hopes small investors will realize that the economy is "very sound." Dillon said there was gen- | eral- agreement at the Ken- nedy meeting that the econ- omy will move up during the rest of the year. He said Dean told Zorin: the Russian Sputnik Cosmos V. Prices Pl WAVES OF SELLING HIT STOCK MARKET ummet Under Pressure TORONTO (CP) -- Canadian stock markets took another bat- tering today as waves of sell- ing pressure continued to knock down prices. At Toronto, the industrial in- dex--compiled from 20 leading stocks--dived by 13.33 points by ll a.m. to 544.63, its lowest point since February, 1961. Trading was heavy--a total of 1,074,000 shares at 11 a.m. com- pared with 634,000 at the same time Monday--and the ticker tape was running 15 minutes late. At Montreal, selling pressure struck the Montreal and Cana- dian exchanges hard and were struck down almost immediately at the opening trading. Brokers here are looking for "bargain hunters" to begin stepping into the market soon to lend it some buoyancy and temporarily stop the wave sell- ing to give the market a breather, SELLING UNWARRANTED They add that the turbulent selling is unwarranted because there has been little unfavor- able economic news this, year and that a lot of the selling is by: the. smaller investor fright- ened of taking a loss on his in- vestment, iis Panic Sales At New York NEW YORK (AP) The heavy sell-off in the stock mar- ket surged on today, driving prices down. The market remained locked| in the grip of panicky selling) which Monday sent it plunging) | to its worst loss since the crash year of 1929. } With selling orders piled up,| trading in some major stocks| did not get under way in the! first hour. | The high - speed ticker tape, | which Monday was 69 minutes) behind transactions at the 3:30) p.m. EDT close, lagged from} the start. The market averages quickly} showed that the price erosion| was continuing without letup. Trading in the first hour| soared to 1,780,000 shares, com-| pared with 1,090,000 in the like period Monday. The tape trailed by 22 minutes. The Dow. Jones average of 30 industrial issues at 11 a.m. was off 11.09 to 565.84. Trading in American Tele- phone--one of the bluest of the hardhit blue chips -- opened an hour late, off $2.12 to $98.50 on a whopping block of 50,000 shares. The massive selling gnawed deeply into the prices of blue chip stocks -- the solid, high priced issues considered to the foundation of the market, Bell telephone dropped $3.25 to a new 1962 low of $48.75. Royal bank was down $3 to $71.50, International Nickel $1.50 Falconbridge $3 and Walker Gooderham $2--all to new low prices for the year. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce dropped two points to 59, Interprovincial Pipe Line 1% to 74% and Investors Syn- dicate A 1% to 45--all 1962 lows. Other lows for the year were touched by Canada Packers B, Calgary Power, Walger-Gooder- ham and Steel Company of Can- ada, all down in a % to % range. Europe Stocks Drop Sharply In Sympathy LONDON (CP)--A storm of selling hit the stock exchanges of Europe and Japan today in sympathy with price declines on Wall St. Hundreds of millions of pounds were wiped off the va- lue of shares in London. Prices gyrated wildly on the major gx- changes of Switzerland and West Germany. The Financial Times index of British industrial common shares dropped 13.4 points, in two hours to 265.9, compared with the record high of 365.7 May 15, 1961, The Zurich Stock Exchange had its biggest drop since the |1929 crash but there was a sub- stantial recovery at midday. Union Bank of Switzerland dropped to 2,900 francs ($672) a share from 4,400 ($1,019), but recovered to 3,500 ($811). DROP SHARPLY At Frankfurt, Germany, stock prices, which have had a steady decline since the start of the ear, dropped sharply. Volkswagen, which dropped y |Monday to a new low of 552, was bid between 505 and 510. Toyko's stock exchange closed with a moderate but broad de- cline after an early selling rush. The Dow Jones average of 22% selected stocks fell 17.76 yen (4.9) cents) from Monday to 1,375.69 yen ($3.82). In the London exehange brok- ers let out a cheer when there was a big buying order for shell petroleum after the surge o Sales, "I had hoped that our previ- ously agreed declaration would be regarded as a symbol of co- operation. } "If we are to be confronted with this kind of tactic it is use- less to continue further negotia- tions on this declaration." Zorin blamed "events of the last few days" for the need to change the declaration. He said the "occupation of Thailand" by SEATO forces had caused a "sharp increase in the threat of war" in Southeast jsaid he has observed about 200|scriptions applied to meteors} meteors and "this one was the|but that it must have been a big! largest I have seen." one. | It was on a 20-degree angle| 'A meteor is usually seen for! jfrom the earth, about 10 de-|just a second or two. This one| grees in width and traversed|would have to be huge to have! - about 30 degrees in five sec-|been visible for so long or it Hughes who|would have burned itself out quickly." onds," said Mr. did meteor observation. work|more ee * erobs SAsERALd, GAME Fans in the third-base bleach- GLOWS WHITE ers at Vancouver's Capilano "It was glowing with a white Stadium were the first to spot |brightness like a magnesium|the multi-colored meteor when \flare,"" he said. it appeared during the 12th in- Other descriptions were less/ning. | scientific but more spectacular.| They cred out in panie and "It was as big as an aircraft) Vancouver and Portland Pacific hangar,"" said a control tower Coast League players looked up! employee at Vancouver Interna-|from the diamond, then ran for} tional Airport. "'It was the most|the dugout along with the um- amazing sight I've ever seen."'| pires. He said the meteor was visi-| A sportswriter at the game ble for 12 seconds. said the players thought the Dr. R. M. Petrie, head of the/fireball was headed for the Dominion Astrophysical Observ-| stadium, Play resumed aiucr « jatory at Victoria, said the de-'flashed out it sight. Asia. "Provocative actions in Thai- land, Laos and South Viet Nam may at any moment lead to a large-scale war with all its con- sequences perilous for the peo- ples,"' he said. Flow Of Refugees Ended: Red China LONDON (AP) -- Commun- ist China informed Britain to- day that the avalanche of refu- gees trying to move into Hong) Kong. has ceased and will not be resumed. This information was con- tained in a memorandum the Chinese foreign ministry handed to Hugh Morgan, the British charge d'affaires, in Peking. Morgan had called the atten- tion of the Peking authorities tos the problem on May 19. A foreign office spokesman ex- pressed satisfaction at the Com- munist Chinese response. 'LINEUP FOR GENERAL MOTORS OPEN HOUSE More than toured the piaht. The Open A section of the huge crowd waiting to enter the General ;Motors south plant is shown Airing the preview day Tues- day. 6700. people | oe House continues today anJ Wednesday, (See pagé 13)