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Siac eae Sik: ex oils ats seul EX ¥ een ity Turns THOUGHT FOR TODAY A dollar won't do as much for you as it used to, but you don't do as much for it, either. Back School Debenture ¢ Oshawa Gi Request -- Page 9 WEATHER REPORT Clearing tonight. 'Sunny and mild Wednesday. Winds be- coming light tonight and wee 15 Wednesday. OSHAWA, ONTARIC, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1963 Authorized Ottawa and for @s Second Class Mall Post Payment of Katina god EIGHTEEN PAGES VOL. 92--NO. 54 Bus P lunge Kills Seven In NEW YORK (AP)--A hospital bus plunged into the East River when its driver was _ stricken, and seven of the 11 aboard are dead or missing. "The bus . . . was complet- ely submerged . . . I can't swim, I knew I was going to die," said one of four surviv- ors of Monday's accident on Welfare Island in the East River. The survivor, Elizabeth New- ton, 41, literally clung to the coattails of another surviving passenger, Richard Haas, 36, who broke through a door and dragged her to the surface. The bus shot off a road when the driver, John Alberts, 51, ap- parently suffered a heart at- tack and slumped under the wheel. ' Six persons, including Al- berts, are known dead, and one woman is missing. Welfare Island, less than two miles long, is a narrow strip in the East River between Man- hattan and Queens boroughs. It is occupied by a city hospital complex. All those aboard the bus worked for the city's de- partment of hospitals, which op. erated the vehicle, The bus catapulted off a sea wall and ceme to rest on its side near the shore. But 'before po-| the lice could get there, tides swept the vehicle 60 feet out into the river, 20 feet below the surface. The drama inside the bus was described by Haas, a physiothe- rapist. "T saw the driver bend down," he said. '"'When he didn't get up, I figured he had a heart River to die. Only my faith in the al- mighty 'God is the reason I was saved. "Then a man from physio. therpary pushed the door open out. I got hold of his coat and he pulled. me with him, on to the rocks." A crane finally lifted the bus from the water. Several bodies could be seen inside Rail Unions Try To Save 65,000 Jobs CHICAGO (AP) -- Five rail- road unions, representing 210,- 000 on - train employees and seeking to save the possible el- imination of 65,000 jobs, will meet with United States car- riers next week in an important session of their long dispute over changes in work rules. The new bargaining talks were set for March 13 after the U.S. "oe Court upheld right of the railroads to make sweeping changes in work rules and eliminate jobs re- garded by the carriers as un- necessary. The lines claim what they term antiquated work rules cost them $600,000,000 a year. A railroad spokesman and chief negotiator said the car- "move promptly as possible" to make the work in the rear and started to climb) 8 An Egyptian army tank is shown on battlefront near city of Mareb on the eastern fron- tier of Yemen where Egyptians and Yemen republican regime carried out military under- taking. The Egyptians are aid- ing the Yemeni republican re- EGYPTIAN TANK IN YEMEN gime against Yemen's royal- ists. (AP Wirephoto via cable from Rome) City Thriving Despite Worst Snows In Years WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- "I'm over 70 and I get around fine," the frail woman explained and hurried on, unperturbed by the 10-foot wall of snow that lined the street. attack. I jumped up and tried/ryles changes. He added he was to the wheel but the bus| confident there x ReRED a T's carom "or| confident there would be no na my feet." But spokesmen for two rail- Miss Newton, a ward clerk,|road brotherhoods warned of @ gave this version: possible strike if the railroads "The bus went into the water and was completely submerged. It was a horrible experience. I can't swim. I knew I was going Fur-Theft Ring Arrests Made In Montreal MONTREAL (CP) -- Police said Monday they have arrested eight persons--three of them women--in a series of raids during the last 72 hours that led to the smashing of a fur-theft ring. No charges had been laid, and police did not identify those ar-| rested. Det. - Lieut. Steve Savchuk, who organized the operation, said police conducted 11 simul. taneous raids at one point. Re- covered in the raids were $20,- 000 worth of furs and $15,000 in cash. Lieut. Savchuk said most of the loot was found in a fur rier's shop in the north-end sub. urb of St. Laurent, The shop operated as "front" for a ware- house where stolen fur piecc were stored. Lieut. Savchuk said one of the most important items seized by police was a key--"a master key which has been used to neutralize alarm systems in fur stores and manufacturers' buildings while thieves helped themselves." or the changes into effect be- ore an agreement can be reached. OTHER TOPICS UNSETTLED The mew talks here will deal with the proposed e! ation of about 40,000 firemen from diese] locomotives in freight and yard service. The Association of American Railroads said if this issue is settled, other points re- lating to a drastic revision in pay structure and make - up crews will be discussed. The five unions, made up of trainmen, firemen, engineers, conductors and switch who run trains on 195 railroads, say the work rules changes would eliminate sOme 65,000 workers, including 40,000 firemen YOU'LL FIND INSIDE... Mall Plan Goes To Planning Board ... Page 9 School Caretaker Appeal Denied Muskrat Trapping Contract Awarded .. Page 9 Page ,9 City Boosts Pay For Elections ...... Page 9 Gas Firm To Study District Rocks .... Work Contracts' Condjtions Changed Page 9 Page 9 Despite one of the worst win- ters in recent years, residents of this snow-plagued city of 33,- 000 just east of Lake Ontario @|are carrying on much as usuai. U.K. Ministry Plan Greeted Well By Press LONDON (Reuters) -- Brit- ain's newly announced plan for a centralized defence ministry received a generally warm wel- come from the British press to- day. The Commons was told Mon- day by Defence Minister Thor- nycroft of the government's intention to bring Britain's sea, land and air forces under a sin- gle defence ministry. The ad-| miralty, the war office and the air force would function as subordinate departments under the central defence organiza- tion. The independent Times says the plan will be welcomed by all those in Britain's three serv- ices who place the needs of na- tional defence*before personal prejudice. "The decision to bring the jnew ministry of defence with jits subordinate service depart- ments into one building on the pattern of the American Penta- gon is not merely a matter of administrative convenience," it says. "It has an obvious sym- bolic significance." The Liberal Guardian gener- ally favors the plan but warns that merely putting the three staffs under one roof is not enough. 'Con's Hanging Time Reported By Mistake VANCOUVER (CP) -- Mid- night has come and gone and so has the hangman. And David James McMartin, 31, stil lives--in a cell just down the corridor from the ele- vator shaft at Oakalla Prison Farm. There are two ways out of Oakalla from where he lives-- down the curving, iron stair- case or through the elevator room. Those who leave through the elevator room mever come back. The top floor of the shaft is roofed over; a beam runs across the ceiling to support the rope. It is the gallows. In a bizarre succession of er- rors Monday, McMartin heard over a prison radio that he had an appointment in the elevator) room within 18 hours to be hanged shortly after midnight for capital murder in the axe- slaying in Lillooet, B.C., last Oct. 11 of Mrs. Sally Bob, 36, mother of 11 children and the woman with whom he had been living. HANGMAN WAS READY The report was a mistake. McMartin, convicted Dec. 2 still has an appeal to be heard, au- tomatic in all capital murder convictions. The full story of how the situation occurred, how CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS a hangman was brought from Montreal and then sent home again, came out later in the jay. POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 A sheriff's officer issued a |Statement saying the hanging would not have come off in er- ror. "The sheriff always makes a final check with the attorney general's office in Victoria and the justice department in Ot- tawa before carrying out an ex- ecution," the statement said. "The mistake would surely have come to light by then." A newspaper had checked with Sheriff Frank Cotton Sun- day and learned all prepara They know that shortly city traffic will be swollen by autu. mobiles of summer vacationers, hurrying to their favorite para- dise, the nearby Thousand Is- lands country of the St. Law- rence River. Squalls from the lake have dumped 150 inches of snow this winter. Hardy residents dig themselves out, 'then keep dig- ging to make room for more snow before the next storm Strikes. The city still has a long way to go before reaching its rec- ord total snowfall of 245 inches in the winter of 1899-1900, but in many of its areas there is no room for more snow. IT ROLLS BACK DOWN "You can pile it up only so high and then it rolls back down into the street,' said W, R. Gal- loway, head of the department jof public works. He has six snow blower and 15 trucks. In the rural areas, where the accumulation has reached nearly six feet, things return to Near normal once the snow | Teacher Hiring Progressing In Toronto TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto board of education has hired more than half its required 20; high school teachers. Assistant Superintendent Har- old Deane said Monday 103 ap- plications has been fully pro- cessed and more were under consideration. A large number of education boards sent interviewers to Tor- onto during the weekend to in- terview prospective teachers. All boards start hiring teachers on the same day to avoid dis- rupting university students in their final year. There have been predictions that the province faces a serious shortage of secondary school teachers. Not all boards were as suc- cessful as hundreds of officials bargained for the attention of teachers. Altogether, 2,300 high school teachers were required and the only new material available was 450 graduates from the Ontario College of Education. plows open the lifelines to mar- ket. Northern New York is a dairy couitry. "You get used to it if you're born here," one longtime resi- dent said. Six Will Die For Attack On De Gaulle PARIS. (AP)--A special mil- itary tribunal convicted 14 men Monday night for -the Secret' Army's machine-gun assassina. tion attempt on President de Gaulle last August. Six were sentenced to death. Only three of the condemned were in the prisoners' dock, The three others, as well as two de- fendants given life. terms, were tried in absentia and are still at large. Of the six others, all in court, one was sentenced to life, two to 15 years, one to 10 years, one to seven years and one to three years, There were no ac- quittals. Under terms of the decree establishing the special five- man court, there is no appeal. Only executive clemency by de Gaulle can save the condemned from execution. De Gaulle and his wife and son - in . law narrowly missed death when machine - gunners "But you get darned sick of| fired a shovel handle," another chimed in. A locai travel agent, Thomas} Ai Bourcy, says he gets juery about s plows, three snow loaders, one! Florida or California -- \every five to 10 minutes on the tele- tually leave town. hicles can continue through the narrow streets, the city has declared a parking ban on one or both sides of 41 city streets. Buried fire hydrants have been marked with signs. ihward travel ¥~- to phone. But more persons think about southern climes than ac- To ensure that emergency ve- to get Marie Bastien-Thiry, %, an air de Bougrenet, pect ater j years in prison for his part in Algerian Generals' putsch in 1961, and Jacques Prevost, 31, electrician and veteran of the Indochina war. His weapon jammed when he tried to fire on de Gaulle's automobile. previously tia to 10 Foreseen The Nova Scotia government nas unveiled a record bill for its | services during the next fiscal 'year, but record income is lik- |ely to give the province a bal. |enced budget. | Finance and Economics Min- ister G. I. Smith, a Truro bar- rister, presented an annual bud- get that predicted no tax in- creases for the business year be- ginning April 1. As in several years past, the Progressive Conservative gov- ernment plans to use money transferred to and from the hospital reserve fund to provide a balanced budget. The record expenditures of $116,000,000 include some $31,. ways and $23,850,000 for health. Revenue is expected to total $115,712,00 with $35,871,000 from a greatly increased share of federal-provincial tax shar- ing arrangements providing the biggest return. Gasoline taxes, hospital sales tax and liquor commission revenues make up most of the rest. These were the topics in other legislators: Winnipeg--Opposition Leader Gil Molgat accused the Mani- toba government of becoming so dependent on boards and 100,000 for the education depart- ment, about $25,560,000 for high. Balanced Budget In NS. commissions that it is neglecting its responsibilities. The Liberal leader said the Progressive Conservative gov- ernment has failed to take ac- tion on such matters as labor legislation, highway construc. tion and the use of crown lands, Regina Deputy Liberal Leader A. H. McDonald, oppo- sition financial critic, said the CCF government is overtaxing Saskatchewan residents now so it can announce tax reductions next year before an election. Dymond Tells Gave Drugs To Addicts TORONTO (CP)--Health Min- ister Matthew B. Dymond says that as a young doctor he gave withdrawal drugs to addicts without realizing it was against the law. Dr, Dymond, a Scottish-born general practitioner from Port Perry, Ont., made the comment Monday when he told the legis- lature that Ontario's Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation is studying the pos- sibility of using diminishing doses of narcotic drugs to cure LATE NEWS FLASHES tions for the hanging had been made. Radio stations picked up the news item. MecMartin's family heard the same news report that shocked their son in his cell. They phoned his lawyer, who phoned court officials, Court Clerk James Hird was sent to Sheriff Cotton's office with an official copy of McMar- tin's motice of appeal. The hang- Man was sent home. It still was not clear where the mistake occurred. Court of- ficials said that under a 1960 amendment to the riminal Code, all convictians fof capital murder are automatically ap- | pealed. @¢ his two small children today in jail on a theft charge. and his family, including' his cash today. Stole $1,000 To Aid Children LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Robert 'Elwood Service of Till- sonburg, who told detectives he stole $1,000 to. help support was sentenced to six months Cuban Sees Nuclear War Threat HAVANA (AP) -- Foreign Minister Roa complained to United Nations Secretary - General U Thant today that the United States is preparing aggression against Cuba and that it could lead the world into nuclear war. Manager Robbed Of $5,000 In Cash ST. ZOTIQUE, Que. (CP) -- A credit-union manager seven children, were stuffed into cupboards which then were nailed shut by three hooded bandits who robbed the establishment of about $5,000 in addicts. - During debate of his depart- ment's estimates, Dr. Dymond said an amendment to federal legislation in 1961 has been in- terpreted as allowing doctors to prescribe narcotics to ease ad- dicts through withdrawal from drugs. "The foundation is looking at this system to see if it can be made applicable to Ontario," he said. He said the English have treated addiction as a disease, while Canadians have been too prone to regard it as a crime. As a young doctor, he treated addicts as sick people and it was not until he came to Tor- onto that he learned he was out- side the law. "Now that the law gives the doctor the right to do it, I can LT.-COL. BASTIEN-THIRY ie force guided missile expert and admitted 'plot leader; Lt. Alaine & JACQUES PREVOST j Justice. CHINA REJECTS PLAN BY INDIA Opening Of Talks Said Impossible PEKING (Reuters)--The Chi-) Meanwhile, an Indian protest nese Communist newspaper Peo-|note to China, dated March 2, ple's Daily said today China| was released here. will "never accept any inter-| The note emphasized India's national arbitration" in her bor-|"'deep concern at the Chinese der dispute with India, government's persistence in con- The statement is included in|tinuing arbitrary and illegal = a lengthy editorial summing up|forts to locate and align the China's 'position following ajboundary between China and weekend defence ministry state-| areas m § Kashmir which have ment that Chinese forces had| been By tee occupied by Pas completed their planned three- "ts ot month - long withdrawal along "any = ag eae the 2,000-mile border. rengersents involving Indi Observers said it implicitly tory, between parties that rulects suggestions by Indian|have no legal or constitutional Prime Minister Nehru that the}ground to stand :. is invalid dispute could be referred to the}and unacceptable to the gové Hague International Court of|ernment of India." Back To Work . ing ofogotnions atoerter! Qrder Defied "o DELHI. (Reuters) -- By | Frenchmen Prime M'nister Nehru told Par- liament today India is protest- Pe sharon sae India's insistence that no di- rect talks can unless China did so is "'to lay down preconditions making the open: NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Robert Wagner called negotiat- ors for New York newspaper publishers and striking printers into another mediation session today. Wagner, who has been seek- ing to settle the dispute since :|Jan. 26, asked negotiators for '|both sides to meet separately' before the joint session. He said early today that no progress was made in talks Monday and Monday night. Walter N. Thayer, president of The Herald Tribune, said at a press conference Monday that "a genuine effort on the part of the union to negotiate a set- tlement" has been noted, 'Thayer said, however, "I'm no yet encouraged that this means we're going to reach a settlement." As the dispute went into its 88th day today, four of the city's major newspapers were closed by the printers' strike and four were closed voluntarily. Only the New York Post was pub- lishing: The Post, which resumed publishing Monday, reported it put out about 500,000 papers, compared with a normal press run of 375,000. New Mediation pag Rhy x Talks Begun In N.Y. Strike pits Monday 31,000 --. in Lor- raine and others in southern mines rejected the back-to-work order and stayed out. Miners in the bigger northern fields, who have Mondays off, joined in the defiance today. The Roman Catholic Archbis- hop of Cambrai supported the strikers. Drafting workers will not solve the basic problem of inadequate wages, he wrote in a pastoral letter. Toronto Man Dies In Burning Home TORONTO (CP) -- Edwina Flint, 45, today pushed his two sons to safety through flames and dense smoke, then turned back and perished on the blaz- ing stairway leading to the downtown family apartment. Firemen found the body part- way up the stairs. It is unknown why Mr. Flint attempted to e- turn to the second-storey apart ment. Alex Flint, 15, and his brother Charles, 10 were the only others in the apartment when fire broke out. Mrs. Flint and her daughter Elizabeth were away from Toronto. ' By JOSEPH MacSWEEN LONDON (CP, -- New diplo- matic storms between Britain and France are predicted be- cause the BBC Monday night broadcast a television interview with Georges Bidault, self-styled leader of underground forces op- posing France's President de Gaulle. After watching the five-min- ute taped interview, several members of Britain's Opposi. tion Labor party said they will demand a government explana- tion. as to how Bidault slipped into Britain. At the same time Scotland Yard detectives, on orders from the home office, searched to discover whether Bidault, wanted in France on treason charges, still is in Britain and if so, where. Immediate reaction from Pa- ris showed hurt surprise and some anger. A Erench foreign office statement said: "It is dif- say it. ticult to understand how the BBC can lend its support by giving publicity to a so-called political movement whose sole aim is the assassination of Pres- ident de Gaulle." TRIES COMPARISON Bidault, twice premier of France, sought at one point in the BBC interview to make an oblique comparison between his current fight and Winston Chur. chill's battle against the Nazis early in the Second World War. When the 64-year-old exile was asked whether he really believes his "council of national resistance' can topple de Gaulle, he replied, speaking in English for the only time in the interview: "I think our chance is better raha chance of Churchill in "Big row breaks over Bi- dault," is the headline in The Daily Sketch, while The Daily _-- says "Storm over Bi- ault.' Whatever the outcome will be, Interview Of Bidault May Stir Up Storm it isn't likely to sweeten rela- tions between Britain and France, already curdled after de Gaulle blocked Britain's en- try into the Common Market and London cancelled Princess Margaret's visit to Paris. CALLS It A LIE Bidault said in the interview it was "just one more lie" by the French government that a military tribunal of his council passed sentence of death on de Gaulle as a traitor. Several times he referred to his proud record in the resist- ance in the days of Vichy France and compare dhis pres- ent fight with that struggle, say. ing it is easier now. He was elusive as to whether his council would approve ter- rorism, saying: "For three years I was re. garded as a terrorist by the Vi- chy regime and I must say it was much tougher and more -- than the position to.