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{i S| H } 1 | THOUGHT FOR TODAY Nothing shakes like having his cl he's in church. a golfer's faith ubs stolen while Oshawa Cimes _ WEATHER REPORT * Rain. and occasional thunder- storms tonight and early Tues- day, tapering off Tuesday after- noon. VOL. 92--NO. 94 She OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1963 Ottawa end for Serres Pe ae ae Toe Cite Caperenens, Postage Bomb Kills Watchman In Q -- Bomb wooden refuse box behind the ebec main Montreal post office and was called out to check a crude device left in an east-end park- recruiting office, which faces/ing lot. lieved the couple had no chil- Army sources said Mr. O'Neill was doing another employee a hen he came on duty at :30 p.m, EST instead of mid- ight. He walked out the back shortly before the bomb off at 11:40, throwing his iv-|tem of the National "}was replaced t fore a special train carrying ie pe Russians Orbit * Stork Twice -|ers-to-be showed no co-opera- ATTACK ARMORIES Molotov cocktails -- bottles filled with an inflammable li- quid and carrying a lighted wick --were thrown at three Mont- _|eal-area armories but caused little damage. A bomb described as a fac- tory-made high explosive was lobbed into the ventilating sys- Revenue Building in downtown Montreal. It exploded over a locker room and caused extensive damage, -|although no one was injured. A short section of track on the CNR main line south of Quebec City was damaged, apparently by dynamite, federal e campaign, It about an hour be- Prime Minister Diefenbaker passed through. Officer Races In 3 Days BEFORE SWEARING IN RITE PEARSON SWORN WITH NEW CABI \Hussein Orders Jordan Election AMMAN (AP)--King Hussein has ordered the election of a new Jordan parliament in an effort to restore peace to his troubled land, torn by pro-Nas- ser demonstrators demanding union with Egypt, Syria and Traq. Moving swiftly as police and army gunfire continued to echo in Amman, Hussein dissolved Parliament Sunday and named his great uncle, Sherif Hussein ibn Nasser, as caretaker pre- Fire Kills 5 Children; Police Holding Father WELLAND: (CP)--Police said|Gerald, 2, Robert, 4, Ronald, 6, today that laborer Jotm W. Smagata, 41, father of five chil dren who died in a fire which swept through their home here ly Sunday, is being held un- der the mental hospitals act. He was to be taken today to the Ontario hospital at Hamil- during the April 8!tan for observation. Smagata, father of 11, was aken into custody after police wandering in a dazed outside his blazing home in the south end of this Niagara Peninsula A patrolling police constable who discovered the fire -res- eued two other children but was foiled by intense heat from reaching the othe: rs, The victims were identified as five of the 11 children of Mr. and Mrs. John Smagata-- Cathie, 7, and Michael, 8. Jerry Raso, who occupies the other half of the semi-detached concrete-and-wood duplex, told reporters: 'It went up so fast nobody could have done any- thing." WAS SOON OUT The fire was completely ex- tinguished within 45 minutes and left virtually no traces on the outside of the home. The inside was destroyed. Two other children were in satisfactory condition in hospi- tal. Margie, 11, suffered burns to the face while Joseph, 5, was burned on the hands. Mrs. Smagata, 37, who was with a neighbor, was treated for shock and released. Of the other four, John, 17, and Ed- ward, 16, were out with friends, Frances, 14, was baby-sitting PICKERING (Staff) -- Town- ship Police Sergeant Bernard Box is reported "doing fine" to- day following his second scrape with the stork within 60 hours. The feathered friend of moth- tion with the officer Friday afternoon when Mrs. Leonard Ferguson, of Old Forest road, gave birth to a child in the back seat of the police cruiser. Sergeant Box had bundled New Satellite | CP from AP-Reuters MOSCOW--The Soviet Union launched another unmanned sa- tellite today in its scientific Cos- mos series, This one was named Cosmos 15. Tass news agency the satellite carried apparatus designed to continue Space researches in accordance with the Soviet program an- nounced March 16, 1962. The launching was described as routine. The previous satellite in the Cosmos series was launched nine days ago. The satellites are believed to be plotting a path for man's first journey to the moon. said scientiifc| Mrs, Ferguson into the cruiser at 3.19 p.m. and headed for the Ajax-Pickering General Hospi- tal, six miles away, "as the stork flies". Speeds up to 80 miles per hour proved no com- petition for the beaky bird. The baby was born en route, without medical aid. A nurse assisted on arrival at the hospi- tal. | The officer had suggested to Mrs, Ferguson: "If you're 'go- ing to have the baby, let me know and I'll stop and we'll have it together." Experience apparently paid | for Sergeant Box who out-smart- ed the stork this morning. The officer rushed his wife to hospi- tal at 3 a.m. today and is still waiting to hear if it's a boy or a girl. Liberals, Fighting FREDERICTON (CP) -- The people of New Brunswick act as judges today in a straight fight) between the Liberal and Pro- gressive Conservative parties for the right to form the next goverriment of the province. Both the reigning Liberals and their opponents have en- tered full slates for the 52 legis- lature seats. There is one woman candidate. Showers are threatened for much of the 8 a.m.-6 p.m. AST voting period. The vigorous, bitter campaign wound up during the weekend. Louis J, Robichaud, Canada's youngest premier at 37, who led the Liberals to office in 1960 by defeating the Conservative gov- ernment of Hugh John Fiem- ming. Cc, B. Sherwood, 47, the PC leader, and Mr, Robichaud Prison Rioting Probed After Convicts Moved NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C (CP)--An investigation opens today into a pemtentiary riot in which the life of a guard was spared by meeting the demands three desperate convicts that tage by 14 hours from Friday night until Saturday morning at the British Columbia Penitentiary, maximum-security federal in- stitution. He was wired to a a six-inch knife was at his throat. i ns for his re- other prison- page, smash- iture and windows in y-stone penitentiary and fire to bedding. They were finally quetled by tear gas ,|years for robbery, was sent to fired by a force of 200 police land prison guards. | In retunn for Dennis' release, Gerand Caissey, 28 and Wayne Carlson, 21, were put aboard a plane for St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary mear Montreal. Nelson Wood, 27, serving eight Stoney Mountain prison near Winnipeg. Caissey had served five of 17 years for attempted murder and ammed robbery and Carlson three years and eight months for theft. David, 4, and his 10-year-old daughter, Carol Anne, Dennis |said Sunday that he would be /back on the job today. "I was offered time off but I feel fine," he said, Warden Tom Hail will conduct the investigation into the cause CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 of the riot and said the 670 pris- oners in the big prison, 12 miles east of Vancouver, may lose their evening recreational riod as a result of the uprising. He said "It will be a matter of discussion as to whether we have been correct in allowing as broad a night recreational Reunited with his wife, his son|i program as we have. There may be good reason to question whether the inmates are re- sponsible enough to have the program." The trouble started during a recreational period in the audi- torium outbuilding when Cais- sey, Carlson and Wood tried to escape by going through an au- ditorium window, They were stopped and went back into the auditorium, where they jumped Dennis, who was supervising the men leaving the building. About commentator Jack Webster to air their grievances and he was called to the prison. While. he was negotiating for the release of Dennis, talking to the three in the auditorium, then going to the warden and back again, about 200 prisoners began smashing windows and furniture pe-jand ripping out plumbing, Den- nis remained a hostage until prison authorities agreed to de- mands of the three convicts that they be transferred out of the pendtentiary. Tories For N.B. fought a hard campaign in lwhdh both hurled bitter | charges. | Mr. Robichaud branded the \Conservatives as spokesmen for "vested interests' whose. pur- pose was to block his "'govern- ment of action" in its plans to industrialize the province. Mr. Sherwood. charged the Liberals with "a sellout" of the province's natural resources and with "mismanagement" and retorted that the vested in- terests he represents are those of the people of the province, After a campaign that saw them canvassing from door to door during the day, speaking at rallies at night and making television speeches in between, both leaders returned to their home constituencies today to await the election result. The lone woman in the run- ning is Mrs. John Coughlan, one of five Conservative candidates im traditionally Liberal Glouces- ter. Both Mr, Robichaud and Mr. Sherwood are confident of viic- tory. The premier predicts Lib- erals will take 42 seats; Mr. Sherwood says the Conserva- tives will win 32. Couple Overdue In Light Plane TRENTON, Ont. (CP)--An al- batross aircraft. from Trenton RCAF Rescue Co - ordination centre today was searching the heavily bushed, hilly terrain be- tween Montreal and Sherbrooke, Que., for a light aircraft, occu- pied by a man and his wife, and Joanne, 10, was visiting relatives in Hamilton. Constable Larry Jewell said he first saw sparks and smoke while making his rounds at 2 a.m. "Then a neighbor woman started screaming that the house was on fire," he said. "She said there were children upstairs..." The constable telephoned the fire department, then tried vainly to get inside the house through the back door. "There was no chance." He raced to the front of the house, went in and found two! children near the door. "y and pulled her to the porch. Then I went back and pulled the boy out, I tried to go back in but we could only get about two feet in the house." Three men arrived with a ladder and they placed it against the building, Const. Je- well said. "We tried to go through the bedroom window, but the smoke and heat were so bad we couldn't even start up the ladder." Neighbors said Mrs, Smagata and the two older boys left the house when the husband, a 41- year-old laborer, returned home about 10 p.m. Police said Mr. Smagata was found wandering about in a daze outside the house. One child was found in the dining room and the others beside their beds. U.S. May Send Back Toronto Holdup Suspect PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) U.S, immigration authorities are planning the return to Can- ada of a Canadian watchmaker wanted for questioning in con- nection with a Toronto armed robbery, Tad Theodore S 42, was arrested by Palm Springs police Saturday night at the request of the U.S, immi- gration department. Officers said that nine months ago Szmaus bought a $100,000 apartment house here and has been running it under the name of Ted Zymas. The immigration service gave no details of the Toronto rob- bery other than to say "a very substantial amount of cash or jewels" was involved. Szmaus, a former . Hamilton jeweller, has been sought by To- ronto police for nearly five years and was at one time on the RCMP's list of most-sought- after men, He was arrested' in May, 1958, and charged with grabbed one by the arm mier to manage the government until elections are held within four months, The new premier succeeded Samir Rifai, whose government fell Saturday after 24 days in office. Rifai, an advocate of Arab unity, resigned after 31 of the 60 members of the House of Deputies voted against his ad- ministration on a vote of confi- dence. Premier Hussein met with his new cabinet Sunday' night, then told reporters his government will "strike with an iron rod" against anyone who disturbs the peace. SUPERVISE ELECTION He said his interim regime has only one task--to supervise free general elections to give Jordan a House of Deputies "which can reflect the real will preme objectives in reaching an understanding with sister Arab States and achieving Arab unity or federation." Hussein said the deputies, by voting down Rifai's pro-union policy, showed they did not rep- 9a the true will of the peo- ple. dicated he would like to bring his country into the new United Arab Republic, but President Nasser has made clear that he thinks Arab unity is for repub- lics, not monarchies, Nasser has . @ bitter enemy of the royal regimes in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Troops shot into the air here Sunday to scatter demonstrat- ors demanding that Jordan join the U.A.R. Hussein was cheered of the people toward their su-|dted The Jordan monarch has in-|, JOHN DIEFENBAKER Helped By ESP, 500 Seek Girl Near Comwall volunteens combed the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Valleys Sunday in a vain seanch for a missing Dutch girl after twin @ month later. Her uncle, Rev. John len, a Roman however, when he drove through the capital in an open car. Take Six NEW YORK (AP)--A week- end of raging brush fires and building blazes took at least six lives, left many hundreds home- less and caused millions of dol- lars worth of damage in the bone-iry eastern United States. The weather bureau in New York said the first substantial rain in the stricken area is ex- pected in Pennsylvania and Maryland tonight, Three members of a New Jer- sey family were missing. Police said they may have burned to death when a forest fire en- gulfed their home. The rash of fires was the sec- ond in three weekends, From Maine to Virginia, thou- sands of firemen fought blazes: Most of the fires were reported extinguished or under control today. MANY HOMES BURNED More than 350 homes were destroyed or badly damaged and about 300,000 acres were blackened in raging brush fires, whipped by high winds, on New York City's Staten Island and in New Jersey. One hundred homes were destroyed or dam- aged on Staten Island.. The New Tighter Belts Urged For US. WASHINGTON (AP) -- De- fence Secretary Robert McNa- mara has issued a new order for global belt-tightening in an effort to overcome the stubborn sion of $5,000 in jewelry stolen from Toronto jewelry salesman Ralphael Adler. about 17 hours overdue at Sher- brooke Airport. The white Cessna 180 took off from Montreal's Pelican Flying Club at 3:23 p.m. Sunday. It was due at Sherbrooke around 4:50 p.m. An RCAF spokesman said the aircraft was fuelled for about four hours' flying. The pilot has between 600 and 700 hours flying experience in- cluding some instrument time. The spokesman said weather conditions were favorable when the Cessna left Montreal but j}turned bad later. Heavy rain jfell in the area and winds be- |came strong and gusty. v 26 Men Rescued From Freighter ST. JONN'S, Nfld. (CP)--The 26-man crew of the 2,089-ton! freighter Helga Smith was res- cued Sunday night by the United States Coast Guard cutter Campbell after the ship sprang a leak and began sinking 40 miles east of Cape Race. A spokesman at the US. Naval base at Argentia, Nfld., said the cutter picked up the men from lifeboats in 14-foot waves. drain of United States gold and dollars overseas. The Associated Press learned today a confidential memoran- dum went last month from Mc- Namara to the joint chiefs of staff, the military departments and other elements of the de- fence department. Asked about this, the Penta- gon said McNamara "has pointed out that continuing ef- forts must be made to reduce the adverse impact of defence department. expenditures over- seas,"" The department said it is re- viewing many areas for pos- sible savings "including num- bers of support personnel over- seas as well as the cost of our overseas support operations." Weekend Blazes Lives | York City fire commissioner, Edward Thompson, said that fighting Saturday's wave of fires on southern Staten Island was "possibly the greatest task in the history of the New York fire department." About 1,000 alarms were sounded in New York City Sat- urday. Many volunteers aided the regular fire department, more than half of which was involved in the Staten Island fires. - Ten square miles of Staten Is- land were burned over. The latest figures from New Jersey officials were: Three known, dead; three missing and feared dead; 87 injured; 152 homes and 100 other buildings destroyed; 157,073 acres burned CORNWALL (CP)--Five bun-|!! Few Surprises In New Cabinet OTTAWA (CP) -- Lester, Bowles Pearson, smiling and jaunty in striped pants and cut- away coat, arrived at Govern- ment House today and was sworn in as 14th prime minister of Canada, With him were 25 Liberal members of Parliament, his choices for cabinet posts in the new government, Mr. Pearson first went in alone to see Governor-General Vanier to take the oath of office and present Gen, Vanier with his list of cabinet members. The list required formal agreement of the Governor-General. As soon as Gen, Vanier con- sented to the list, the names of the 25 cabinet members and their portfolios were made pub- There were few surprises in Top posts went to Paul Mar- Essex East, Ont., who becomes Davenport, finance. Other ministers included J. W. J, oR, Nippissing, the 'Senate. SPECULATION AROUSED tagne, created by legislation. ters. South, got the agriculture post. be sworn in, followed immedi- Mr, Hellyer. Then the other new cabinet members were sworn in. Later each minister took a with his particular portfolio. tin, 59-year-old veteran MP for external affairs minister; Lio- nel Chevrier of Montreal Lau- rier, justice; Paul Hellyer, Tor- onto Trinity, defence; Mitchell Sharp, Toronto Eglinton, trade, and Walter Gordon, Toronto Pickersgill, Bonavista - Twillin- gate, secretary of state; Judy La Marsh, Niagara Falls, health 980.\and welfare; Garland, national _ revenue; |e: - William Benidickson, Kenora- ~ ait Ottawa West, Trans- and Senator W. Ross Mac- leader "in was speculation imme- diately that Maurice Lamon- mémber for Montreal Outrement - St. Jean, named president of the Privy Council will become head of. the new industry department when it is Similarly, Rene Tremblay who was picked as. a minister without portfolio, could be in line for the associate agricul- ture ministry promised during the election campaign by Mr. Pearson. Mr. Tremblay is from a Quebec farm area, Matape- dia-Matane, and Mr. Pearson had said the associate agricul- ture minister would concentrate on Eastern Canada farm mat- Harry Hays, Calgary Mr. Pearson was the first to ately by the four ministers who t,|had held posts in the previous Liberal government in 1957 and already were members of the Privy Council--Mr. Martin, Mr. Pickersgill, Mr. Chevrier and separate oath to be invested The oaths were i Robert Bryce, clerk of the Privy Council, in the presence of the Governor-General. ' Gen, Vanier handed over the Great Seal of Canada to Mr.' Pickersgill, who in turn gave it to Jean Miquelon, undersecre- tary of state, " SOME WORE SUITS Mr, Pearson wore a short black jacket with striped trouss ers, and a four-in-hand, Some of the ministers wore formal suits similar to Mr, Pearson's, but many came in business suits. When the Diefenbaker gov' ernment was sworn in six years ago, most of the ministers ar rived at Government House four and five to a taxi, ° Today, nearly all the minis; ters arrived singly in taxis or in their own cars. The new finance minister; Walter Gordon, arrived alone-in a mud-splashed taxi. * As State Secretary and External Affairs Minister Martin walked toward the mai entrance, the former said: " "You're walking'too fast; you seem anxious."' ~ , *'We've lots to do,"" Mr. Mara tin said, 10 FROM ONTARIO n the. geographical down, 10 or the 26 r: a ' are from Ontario constituencies, There are eight fr 1ebe. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Mani- toba and Alberta. Only province not represented is Saskatchewan where the Lib- erals did not win a seat in the April 8 federal election. All 17 ridings in that province elected Progressive Conservatives. In the former Liberal govern- ment, which was defeated in the 1957 election, Mr.. Martin held the health portfolio. Mr. Chev- rier had transport, Mr. Pickers- gill immigration and Mr. Hell- yer associate defence. Mr, Pearson was the external affairs minister in that admin- istration, led by Louis St. Laue rent. Counting the new prime min- ister, the Liberal cabinet to- talled 26 members compared to the 24 in the outgoing Conserva- tive cabinet. The Conservative cabinet never had more than eight On- tario members or seven Quebee™ ministers. The last previous Liberal cab» inet in 1957 had 21 ministers, headed by Louis St, Laurent, The average age of the new cabinet was 52 years. This com pared with the average age of 54 years for the first Conserva- tive cabinet in 1957 and 565 years of the last previous Libe eral cabinet in that year. ROBERT WOLF clutches arm of his weeping wife, Beverly, offering mute conso- lation after wind-swept blaze razed their home at-Mariners Harbor on Staten Island in New York Bay Saturday. Fires from Maine to Virginia left hundreds of persons home- less and caused damage run- x lars in at least 100 on Staten Island as well as over 100 structures in New Jersey, --AP Wirephoto ning into the. millions of dol buildings ed if