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THOUGHT FOR TODAY White lies have been out of fashion for years -- now they come in technicolor. he Oshawa Times Clear and very cold tonight. Partly cloudy wi th snowflurries and not quite so.cold Saturday. r VOL, 92 -- NO. 33 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1963 Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment of Cash. Postage in EIGHTEEN PAGES on SCENE OF TORONTO FIRE TRAGEDY West German House Backs U.K. EEC Entry BONN (CP-AP)--The upper house of the West German Par- liament today unanimously passed a_ resolution calling upon the government to do its utmost to get Britain into the/4 Common Market. i Such a resolution is highly unusual. It was another indica- tion of the mounting pressure being put or Chancellor Aden- auer to oppose' actively French President de Gaulle on the Brit- ish entry issue. ae The upper house consists of representatives of the 10 states that make up West Germany and exercises an. important voice in legislation, although it can be overruled by the Bund tag (lower house). "The upper house observes, with great concern the difficul- membership in the Common Market- with the understanding that this would be transitional to full membership. While London has not offfici- ally taken up this suggestion, nformed sources here said the British are showing some in: terest. British Foreign Secretary Lord Home flew to Brussels Thursday for a 24-hour visit in- cluding talks with Belgian For- eign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak on the European situation. WON'T SULK In @ major foreign. policy speech before an Anglo-Belgian Chamber of Commerce Dinner Lord Home said "after the fail- ure of the Brussels negotiations {on the Common Market) we doing their world is (Market) and the possibility of our joining in when times are better." Home said that in the Com- mon Market negotiations Brit- ain's partnership in Europe was denied "'because two visions of Europe came into head-on col- lision."' One, he said, was "'of a Eu- rope so ordered that it would be a third force between Rus- sia and the United States, a Eu- rope protected, exclusive, nar- cissus-like, in its self-glory." "The other, a Europe of equal, democratic, politically mature nations in complete partnership with America (and) duty by the whole outside." = "ys are not going to sulk and re- tire from the game or even re- fuse to go on the field with the Player who has not observed ties that have occurred oecause of the interruption of the negod tiations on the entry of Brit- Metro Man Charged i oe Roger: @ifioassy staff was WEST TORONTO HOUSE FIRE KILLS 8 CHILDREN Iraq's Premier Killed In Pro-Nasser Revolt BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)-- Junior officers in Iraq's armed forces staged a pro-Nasser re- volt today against Premier Ab- del Karim Kassem and claimed they had "destroyed his dirty rule.' Blaring Egyptian martial mu- sic over Raghdad radio, the rebels claimed their planes and tanks had destroyed Kassem's defence ministry in Baghdad, where the premier lived under heavy guard. The rebels announced at one point, 'we have destroyed the tyrant."" The broadcast did not make clear that the 48-year-old premier had been killed, but the Iranian government said it had received word from the Iraqi. capital confirming Kas- sem's death in the defence min- istry. Turkey's semi-official Anatol- ian news agency also reported that the premier had been as- sasinated and 19 Iraqi Army generals arrested. REPORT UPRISING | The British embassy in Bagh- dad reported to London that junior officers had risen against Kassem's police state regime but did not confirm immedi- ately the report that the pre- mier had been assassinated. "The population of Baghdad itself is quiet,' the embassy's first messages to London said. The foreign office in London "that the afe. In the 1958 revolution, when Allen reporty said British coor that Sir Kassem seized power, the Brit-| sh Embassy was sacked. ain,' the resolution said. "If a resumption of the ne- gotiations does not come about, the danger would arise that Eu- rope would be divided into twojt, economic blocs. Because of this the political relations of the Eu- ropean countries to one another would necessarily be adversely influenced. WANTS ALL-OUT EFFORT j "The upper house requests i the government, in co-operation | the spirit of the rules." He said Pritain wished the six-nation Common Market well and was not asking the Belgians 0 choose between their market partners and Britain. France's five market partners tried to get Britain into the trade group. The foreign secretary de- |clared: "Where we hope you will help 1s--and yourselves--is by keep- ng alive both the ideals of a iberal, responsible Community With Manslaughter TORONTO (CP)--Alfred Brig- den, 89, was found lying on a couch in a Toronto boarding house Thursday night after wit- nesses said he and another man had had an argument and a struggle. Brigden was dead when taken to hospital. Anthony Bratkosky, 20, a resi- dent of the same boarding house, was charged early today with manslaughter. The Istanbul airport received a radio report from Iraq advis- ing that all airfields in t he country had been shut down. The rebels, calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command, an- nounced that a national guard had been set up under an army colonel identified as Abdel Ke- rim Mustafa. The council pledged to respect the United Nations charter and international agreements, to fol- with the governments of the other members of the Common Market and its institutions, to do everything possible to ~void this danger and bring about the resumption of negotiations with Britain. This would be in ac- cordance with the spirit of the Common Market treaty, which contains an invitation to all over European peoples to become members." The upper house will be the]j first to consider the new treaty of French-West German co-op- eration that Adenauer is seek- ing to have ratified before his retirement next fall. The polit-}; ical parties are using ratifica-|wili know it and the world will|for days featured stories »n the tion to force Adenauer to take/pe faced with history's greatest|Canada - U.S. nuclear contro- Russia wants without the risk of war. But he warned that if new Soviet nu- clear missiles are Risks Said Too Great For Missiles In Cuba WASHINGTON (CP) -- Pres-,;goes dent Kennedy says he belicves to seize power nto Cuba, the United Svatcs a more clearcut stand in favor' crisis, of Britain and against de Gaulle. The risks in such a situation|dealt mainly with the Cuban Because of his long close as-|would be so alarming, Kennedy|and European issues. Veteran sociatior with the French pres-|told his press conference Thurs-|observers said it was fantastic introduced! Cuba. for the United States, which he said must not be stampeded into rash action on the basis of rumor and. hearsay concerning Soviet strength in Though U.S. newspapers have versy, the press conference ident, the chancellor is widely|day, that he believes "the So-|that the Canadian issue was net held to be less determined to/ viet bring about British entry than|c his words in public would n- dicate. He pleaded with Bundestag to believe that this is not the case and argued that) the treaty would help European} unity not hinder it. | DISCUSSIONS BEGIN | Meanwhile, British-West Ger-| man exploratory talks started in Bonn on what can be done| in the face of the Common Mar- ket crisis. | Sir Eric Roll, undersecretary in the British ministry of agri- culture and a veteran of the Brussels negotiations, met with West German Common Market experts from the foreign, eco- nomic and agricultural minis- tries, British sources said that Roll brought no magic plan and ex- pected to receive none. His pur- pose was described as sound-! ing out all possibilities to see| which the two sides consider to have the greatest chances of suc| cess, Foreign Minister Gerhard) Schroeder suggested that the} deadiock might be broken by first granting Britain associate CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 vaution and care." The president said the same|discussion, the 3 sa LEADERSHIP BID Harold Wilson, 46, shown in his auto outside his home in a London suburb today, was out in front in first round ba!- lotting today for leadership of Britain's Labor Party. But he missed nailing down the job that could make him the next prime minister. A runoff elec- tion between Wilson, a leftist, and George Brown, a_right- winger, was set for next week. | (AP Wirephoto via radio from London) Union will 'proceed with! raised. Cuba was the centrepiece of | probably because! |the administration had put on a} | | | big television show the previous| night to counter Republican charges that offensive weapons Still exist in Cuba. | The Canadian issue came up| Moscow Visit | For Thomson LONDON (AP) -- Roy Thom- son, Canadian-born newspaper magnate, took 170 British busi- ness tycoons on a flying trip to Moscow today and jestingly an- nounced he plans to take over Pravda, the official Communist party newspaper, and Izvestia. "I'm going to make a bid for Pravda and Izvestia," he. said in a jocular vein. 'I don't know whether I'll be successful, but I'm going to try. They don't have enough advertising for my liking but I could make them pay." He flew in the world's. larg- est civil airliner, a Russian-built TU-114 jet-prop. The eight-en- gined red-and-silver Soviet plane with lounge and dining room touched down here today from Moscow. "We are all capitalists here, all free enterprisers,'"' said mil- lionaire Thomson. "This is not a junket, although I hope we will all enjoy ourselves." low a .non-alignment policy abroad and a policy of democ- racy at home. PLEDGE OIL FLOW "The new movement," a com- muvique said, 'will work to in- crease our financial potential and guarantee that oil will con- tinue to flow abroad." Between communiques_ the rebel-held radio played patriotic songs of President Nasser's United Arab Republic with which Kassem had carried on a bitter feud. Another broadcast assured all Truck Users Plan Talk With Auld TORONTO (CP) -- Represen- tatives of some 3,600 Ontario companies who use truck trans- portation, fearing that the gov- ernment has already decided to set up a system of rate-filing in the province, will meet Transport Minister James Auld mext Monday to discuss the question, "We understand rate-filing is a fat accompli," J. W. Cargill, chairman of the transportation committee of the Canadian Manufacturers Association's On- tario division, said Thursday. Rate-filing involves informing the government of the rates charged by truckers for various forms of shipment. Such filing can be ordered by the cabinet under the Public Commercial Vehicle Act. The rate schedules would then be available for pub- lic inspection. | Mr. Cargill said he will head a delegation representing 3,000 companies to meet Mr. Auld. After the meeting, W. R. John- ston, chairman of the Canadian Industrial Traffic League's On- tario division, representing 600 oniy in a peripheral way, Aside from a reference to nuclear weapons control, Kennedy also expressed the "highest - confi- dence"' in State Secretary Dean Rusk. .The secretary had been criticized by Prime Minister Diefenbaker for having allowed the state department to make an unwarranted intrusion in Ca- nadian affairs by issuing a pub- lic statement criticizing Cana- dian nuclear policy. Kennedy's Cuban remarks, | delivered with obvious feeling,| represented a blast aimed at| two targets: 1, At the Kremlin leaders who continue to keep a formidable supply of short-range arms in | Cub: ube, 2, At administration critics, in and out of Congress, who sug- gest that U.S. Intelligence may be overlooking ominous hidden stocks of Soviet missiles in Cuba. MIGHT BE WRONG Kennedy expressed confidence that such secret stockpiles do net exist, But he conceded he could be wrong. If he is, Kennedy implied, it wouldn't make much difference because hidden weapons would have to be uncovered and placed in position before sse-- and this would be discovered y aerial reconnaissance. He said: "We cannot prove that there) is not a missile in a cave or that the Soviet Union isn't going| to ship (one) next week. Wel prepared for that. But we will] find them when they do, and| when they do, the Soviet Union and Cuba and the United States must all be aware that this will produce the greatest crisis which the world has faced in its history." He aiso warned President de} Gaulle that if the French jeader} persists in attempting to split the North Atlantic alliance, the! Western camp will face. dis-| aster, following government charges lof spying against Soviet diplo- |cret Woomer companies, will meet the min- ister. Mr. Auld said Thursday no decision has yet been reached by the goverment on rate-| filing, but added: "Ontario is the one jurisdic- tion without rate regulation, surrounded by others with it. It is not a particularly good thing for our carriers to have} their extra-provincial rates set by other jurisdictions and not} be able to retaliate." | foreigners in Iraq their lives and properties would be pro- tected. The rebels said they were rising against imperialism in the name of Arab brotherhood. "In the name of God, people of Iraq," said a communique, "we have been able with the help of God to destroy the enemy of God and of the people, Abdel Karim Kassem, and his gang which has used the coun- try for its interests and which choked liberty and disrupted the law." Kassem expressed similar sentiments July 14, 1958, when § he seized power in an army re volt in which pro-Western King ; Fhisal Il, his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Ilah, and Premier Nuri Said were killed. Voices on the radio chanted "union, union" in am apparent cry for union with Nasser and the U.A.R. The rebels also broadcast a statement mourning the ."mar- tyrs"' who fell in a pro-Nasser revolt against Kassem in 1959. The broadcasts gave indica- tions that the rebels' control was not complete. Communiques and statements urged the people to fight on the streets for the revolt. Heavy Europe Flood Damage LONDON (AP)--Flood dam- age mounted in Western Europe today as a thaw spread across the continent. Western Europe's death toll from the cold wave rose to 578. Greece and Yugoslavia were hardest hit, but several British counties were threatened. In Greece 12,000 villages were evacuated to higher ground from the area north of Salonika. Villages were flooded after the river Axious burst its bank. Parts of Yugoslavia were in chaos as flood waters swirled through villages and across ag- ricultural land, carrying large ice blocks. General mobilization of the population was ordered} around Stalac, in Serbia, to help fight the floods. The thaw melted the snows which have buried Western Eu- rope for weeks. Heavy rain lashed southwest France, sending avalanches crashing on to roads. One aval- anche fell on a snow plow, kill- ing one man and injuring two. Australian Bases Tighten Security SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) New security measures today were reported to have been clamped on Australian bases mat Ivan Skripov. The Sydney Sun says Skripov was the mastermind behind a spy ring trying to steal secrets about a new U.S. Navy commu- nications base being built in northwest Australia. The newspaper says fresh se- curity "screening" has begun of thousands of workers at the se- rocket testing base in south Australia. "The security authorities have evidence of a serious leakage of top secret information to an unknown Russian agent," the Sydney Sun adds. The pudgy curly-haired Skri- pov Thursday was ordered by YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... the government to leave the country. within seven days on charges he made "elaborate preparations for espionage." The Sydney Sun's Canberra correspondent tried to interview Skripov today as he drove away from his home in Campbell, a Canberra suburb, with his wife and nine-year-old son. The Russian diplomat, who appeared under great mental strain, told the correspondent he did not know when he would be leaving Australia. He refused to comment on the spying charges. The diplomat's wife also has been ordered to leave the coun- try. The Sydney Sun says Skii- pov's main job was to "'organ- ize spy tentacles" into a new $89,600,000 U.S, Navy communi- cations base in northwest Aus- tralila. At Woomera, the newspaper says Skripov's network tried to steal U.S., British, French and Australian defence secrets. The newspaper quotes author- Gales Block Country Roads .... Two Injured In Auto Accident Blood Clinic Near Objective .... Frenchman's Bay Cottage Burns Kinsmen Honor Past Presidents ... conservation Area Page Page Page Page Page $ Boosts Assessment Page itative sources as saying :: is g |believed Moscow was tipped off jlastt Tuesday that Skripov "knew the game was »)up." This fact, the newspaper says, explained Wednesday's jannouncement that Soviet Am- 9 |bassador Ivan Kurdyukov, who is now in Russia, was removed 3 |from his Canberra post. There was no doubt the secu- rity service would have liked to 9 |delay the arrest to trap other }members of the spy network, |but Moscow forced its hand, the 3 newspaper says. ABDEL KARIM KASSEM Icy Air Sweeps Across States CHICAGO (AP)--A blast of icy air fdnned by strong north- erly winds, swept. across broad areas in the eastern half of the United States today, ending a brief spell of fairly mild win- ter weather in many sections, Temperatures tumbled below zero from upper Michigan east- ward into northern Maine and southward into New York State. The mercury dropped to 19 be- low in Pellston, Mich., one of the coldest spots. New York State's iows in- cluded 16 below in Massena and Utica; 14 below in Binghamton, Rome and Plattsburgh; 13 be- low in Watertown; 12 below in Syracuse and Glens Falls; and three below in Buffalo. The temperature dropped to two below in New York City, the lowest reading in the city in two years. TORONTO (CP) -- An early- morning fire swept through a row of two-storey frame houses in Torcato's west end today and took the lives of eight children, the entire family of Mr. and Mrs, Roy French. Mr. French, 36, was forced back by flames and smoke as he vainly sought to rescue the children from their second- storey bedrooms, He had been asleep on the ground floor. Mrs, Effie Frerich, 32, was at work at Toronto's central post office when the fire broke out around 1 a.m. Fire Chief Coakwell said the blaze started in the kitchen- dining room area of the home and spread to two adjoining dwellings. The French house and one of the adjoining dwel- lings, belonging to Elmer J. Ha- chey, were gutted. The other received minor damage. The children were identified by police as Annie, 17, Albert, 15, Eileen, 14, Allison, 13, John, 12, Linda, 9, Sharron, 7, and Billy, '5. 'WORST I'VE SEEN' A fire department captain said "this is the worst I've ever seen." When Mrs. French arrived, the scene was a maze of fire trucks, hoses and ice-shrouded firemen. Her house was in flames. Helen Hodge, 14, a neighbor, said "Mrs, French came up and Started yelling 'Annie, Annie.' She started screaming and then she collapsed." She was taken to hospital as was her husband who suffered a three-inch gash on his leg. Both were suffering from shock, hospital officials said. Mr, French is a beer delivery truck driver. EVACUATE 50 A dozen pieces of fire equip- ment fought the blaze in zero temperatures, The Miller Street house was in a row of 10 two- storey structures, separated by Parents Lose Entire Family wooden walls, Fire officials evacuated more than 50 persons from the houses and from three nearby houses around in the Wadsworth Park section of Tor- onto. A neighbor, Jean Hodge, 18, said Mr. French told her before he was taken to hospital that the fire started after he left an electric kettle going when he went to sleep, Chief Coakwell said all the children were found in their beds, four in a front room, two in a centre room and two in a back bedroom. "It was a tough one to fight," the chief said as he surveyed the scene from an ice-covered sidewalk in front of the house. Mrs. Vera Hutchinson, an- other neighbor said she looked out the window and saw the French house across the street in flames. "Someone outside and I can't get the French kids out,' she said. "It's a shame. Everyone of them was blonde and good-look- ing."' From his bed in St. Joseph's Hospital where he and Mrs. French were taken, Mr. French said: 'The firemen wouldn't let me go back in, but I might as well have died, too, There's no use living without them. PUTS ON KETTLE "I was waiting for Effie (his wife) to come home from work, so as usual I put the kettle on the gas stove so I'd have a cup of tea waiting for her. "Then I went into the living room, and I must have dozed off. Suddenly I woke up. I could smell smoke. "Then I heard one of the kids crying. I can't help wondering which one it was, calling for daddy to come. "T ran to the stairs and I tried everything I could but it wasn't good enough. I just couldn't break through the flames." Oshawa Riding Names Walker PC Candidate WHITBY (Staff) -- Oshawa Alderman Albert Victor Walker will carry the Progressive Con- servative Party banner. in the next provincial election. The 52-year-old veteran of eight years in the municipal political ring was. Thursday night acclaimed Oshawa Riding PC candidate by a_ capacity crowd which braved sub-zero temperatures and biting winds to attend the Riding Associa- tion's nominating convention at the Legion Hall here. Only one other party stalwart was named as a-possible for the PC nomination. Ald. . Nor- man Down refused to contest the nomination, but pledged to "get out and support 'Ab.' Walker and help him win Osh- awa's seat in the legislature.for the Progressive Conservatives." BOYHOOD AMBITION Eight years ago, Mr. Walker fulfilled a boyhood ambition -- to become a politician. His in- terest in politics dates back to the time when he was a young boy and during his early teens, Albert Walker used to go to the old town hall, then at the corner of Simcoe and Richmond streets to hear election results. Incumbent chairman of Osi- awa city council's property, 'not have too much trouble WALKER CONGRATULATED BY WIFE parks and recreation commit- tee, Mr. Walker has been a chairman of one of council's standing committees for seven of the eight years he has been a member of the municipal gov- ernment. 4 Born in London, England, Mr. Walker came to Oshawa as a four-year-old boy with his par- ents in 1914, He married his wife Gladys, in 1940 and they have a son, Robert, 21, and a daughter, Judy, 15. Ald. Walker is a GM truck line employee, where he has worked for the past 32 years and is a member of Local 222, United Automobile Workers. Accepting his nomination, Ald. Walker said '"'a few days ago discussing the future prospects would not have been too diffi- cult -- but with events of the past 48 hours, it is now con- fusing as to our position, "Some fairly firm assurance had been given that a provin- cial election would be held at least by June, but now we ara hearing various predictions, so it would appear to be a case of preparedness -- and wait and see. "The Liberals in Oshawa Rid- ing are showing signs of life and it would appear they will be better organized than in the last provincial election of 1959, when it will be recalled *Lone- some George Drynan' carried on practically a 'one man' cam- paign. . " "The Liberals, however, are under some 'handicap in having a leader who is gaining a r2pu- tation as a man who has a promise for any and all occa- sions and as long as Mr. Winter- meyer keeps talking we should in this direction. The Liberals have chosen their provincial stand- ardbearer. "The New Democratic Party," Ald. Walker added, "will be the main opposition in the Riding. They have aot as yet selected their candidate, but I feel sure we can assume it will be the present member." Hy