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AL Community A boss is a man who's always early when you are late and late when you are early. / y Ches Sunny Saturday witha few cloudy intervals. Turning colder, / \ Heart Beats In The Communit The Oshawa Times Class Mail Post i i Sas Sagi ee 4 SAIGON BATTLE RA AS MILITARY REVOL : | AE Rebels Attack Banks Charged With Diem's Palace -Criminal C onspiracy Rebel-held Saigon radio said the armed forces had released all Buddhists, professors, teach- ers and students taken into cus- ean tody by the government during MONTREAL (CP)--About its August crackdown on Budd: 40 members of the RCMP hist elements opposed to Presi- today searched headquarters of the Seafarers' Interna- tional Union (Ind.) and the homes of Hal Banks, head dent Diem. (An earlier, unconfirmed. re- of the SIU, and other union officiers . VOL, 92--- NO. 256 io cane er ey _ PAGES OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1963 ve oo ae SAIGON -- A military revolt with strong backing broke out , today against the government * of President Ngo Dinh Diem in : South Viet Nam. > A high U.S. military: source in | Tokyo said he had heard--but ; could not evaluate--a story that Diem had been deposed and his adviser-brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, killed, 'There was no confirma- tion of either report, but hours after the revolt broke out it was evident that the regime was fac- ing the sternest challenge since it came to power. | Reports reaching diplomatic sources in Singapore said there jwas heavy fighting near the presidential, palace and there }was a possibility of a counter- j;charges against Mr. Banks andjconnection with the recent il- certain other SIU officers arejlegal strike by the SIU. | being considered. That walkout ended last week Informants said later that the, when_ trusteeship legislation conspiracy charge, carrying al clamping the SIU and the four maximum penalty of one year|other Canadian waterfront un- in jail, was de out in a Mont-jions under federal control was jreal magistrate's court somelenacted by cabinet proclama- |days ago but the warrant was|tion. lnot served on Mr. Banks im-| As Mr. Chevrier was speak- mediately. ing in the House, it was learned lthat the three trustees had ' , cracked down "on~the union Reporters in Montréal were treasuries, ordering union offi- ers' International Union of Can-junable to locate the 54-year-old|cers to submit all cheques for ada, have been launched by the/union chief immediately but| trustee approval. S. federal. government. Leonard McLaughlin, SIU vice-| The trustees thus took a ma-| Justice Minister Chevrier told|presidént, said he hadn't heard | jor step towards complete con-| the Commons Thursday that al/@nything about, the charge. port reaching diplomatic sources in Singapore said Pres- ident Diem had capitulated and sought refuge on a naval ves- sel.) The rebel radio said Saigon and its twin city of Cholon wére under firm control of the armed forces. ' It added that the armed forces had imposed a curfew over Saigon and Cholon from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. starting to- CONCRETE WALL SECTION PINS BLAST VICTIM | _Mink-Wrapped Bodies _ NGO DINH DIEM Reds Launch OTTAWA (CP) Criminal proceedings against Hal C.;BANKS UNAVAILABLE Banks, president of the Seafar-| Litter Indiana Arena | INDIANAPOLIS (AP)--A gas|was performing a gay Dixie-,air," said Major Albert Losche. |trol of the unions as provided charge of criminal conspiracy} relates to an assault onjin the all-embracing trusteeship explosion hurled flames and concrete slabs, as large as pi- anos through a crowd watching an ice show finale Thursday night, killing 62 and injuring 385. It'- was the-second explosion disaster in the United States within a few hours. Seven died| and 25. were injured in a mys- terious explosion which shat- tered a drug store in Marietta, Ga., earlier in the night. Red Cross, coroner's of- d civil defence agreed on! The fice an "ugh checks of the six hospi- dead: figure after thor-|tion No, 13; erst ty ith land number when the Indiana-|"Then they were, ae polis Coliseum was transformed limp on the ice.'; cial in 1957. has into a scene of horror. Spctators sail' there was' a Bodies, many still wrapped in/second, small fexplosion. When mink, erupted to the ice. Many|the big crane pulled the debris} others were trapped in concrete/apart, fire broke out again jand shattered bleacher _ type' briefly. iseats, One woman probably ex-| HITS SECTION 13 Fire marshals at mid-inorn- ing today placed the blame in the tragedy on a leaking tank|* "a of liquified petroleum gas, be-| aft vag aeeee > 4 ing used to heat popcorn pop-| The coliseum a age te _ pers under the shattered sec- han ete aan ee Barre Every ambulance in Indiana-,ments. Built 'in 1939, it 'has a pressed the feeling of spectators. | "It's part of the show," she: obbed. "It's got to be! It's got many tals, three improvised morgues| 9); . ities was\TePlacement value of $6,000,000, and numerous funeral 'homes nee ct. Mae lasaced were| according to state fair board of-| where bodies were taken. ltaken to 'six hospitals in the' ficials. a The injured numbered 385, of\area, including the army hos-| Ironically, the opening - night| whom 176 remained in hospital|pital at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.|performance started 12 to 15, --many in critical condition. Finally, the hundreds of fire-|minutes late, said John Ladue, Many victims were charred by|men, policemen and civil de-| one of the show's stars. Had it the leaping flames or crushed|fence workers turned their at-|Started on time, the hy under tumbling structural con-\tention to the dead and began|have been moving out for 10) crete slabs which mushroomed laying them in rows along the Minutes or more before the from the explosion. side of the ice opposite the gap-}blast. | One of six Holiday on Ice'ing hole in the south side of ik 7 DEAD, 25 HURT cae aoe ves ie howl are directly <= as : | y M4 'Ss wove rectly Nein cece' tine pertore | to the ice to help tug at the jchunks of concrete, some of ers Were off stage and-a chorus | them as big as pianos. A huge commercial crane was brought lin and it uncovered the last of |the seats. | | Many of. the bodies were! j}charred by gusts Md flame that| lroared 90 feet in t e air, to the| |ceiling of the huge amphithea- Hospital Strike Fails HAL C. BANKS '+ }mons reply to Michael MP for Ontario riding and la-} Explosion Rips Georgid*Store, : the brutal|Capt. Frank lying therelneating of a rival union_ offi-|of the Canadian Mercha beer' laidjice Guild, who was beatfn in a jagainst Mr. Banks in Montreal:|dark parking He added that additional! Owen Sound, Ont., knocked down, hotel. was blood. The attackers escaped. This was one of a string of violent incidents documented by Mr. Justice T. G. Norris in the f his one-year investiga- nto Great Lakes labor | Strife and shipping disruptions, The judge recommended that 'ges un- cial rep tion 'the government lay against Mr. Banks and hi jon lieutewants. Twos lawyers wete assigned to study the situa they sent a re- r. Chevrier early this a month. THREE TESTIFY The Norris report, tabled in Parliament July 15, said three former SIU officials testified un- der oath that Mr. Banks was implicated in the Walsh beating. Mr. Chevrier revealed the conspiracy charge in a Com- Starr, bor minister in the former Con- servative government. Later, Opposition Leade Diefenbaker pressed the justice minister for the date of the Walsh incident. Told it was some time in 1957, Mr. Diefen-| |baker asked: iter, in the.initial blast. The fire. - MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Anjthe vicinity earlier for Judging by effluxion of time? Why not a ~ To Halt Work TRENTON, Ont; (CP) ee section except the seats. 140-bed Trenton Memorial Hos-' : ? pital is functioning normally, BLAST WAS VERTICAL Z according to officials, although; The force of the explosion a strike of 74 non-proiessional), workers moved 'nto ifs second! day telday. ~ Non-union .workers have re- There wasn't nvuch inflamma-\drug store at the height of a tion Thursday night, killing) jseven 'persons and injuring at! least 25 others. Firemen and civil defence was straight up or the tragedy, workers worked through the worst in the history of Indiana-| night to clear debris in a search polis, could have brought a-farjfor other possible victims. The heavier toll. Most of the debris|front portion of the two-storey, : jfell down, although some small concrete structure threatened to placed embers of Local 163, pieces of concrete were found coliapse, hampering rescue op- phew ae ie eer a on the opposite sdie of the reations. ntern a ion £), pe reds hi , and! véted Ao strike 'Wednesday arna. Hundreds of children and night/ | mittee. of inquiry was named by corn and soft drinks to venders. parade and window-decorating} Labor Minister Leslie Rowntree to stud: the question of apply-|anapolis, who worked ing computsory arbitration in commissary, said: miles northwest of Atlanta. labor-management disputes af- 'I don't have any idea what The explosion occurred about feeting public hospitals, happened. I was underneath the 6:30 p.m. shortly after a cos- in thelulation of near 40,000, is ble material in .the shattered|\downtown Hallowe'en celebra- |, litself was quickly extinguished.|explosion ripped through a/jof their costumes. All of the dead were found in- side th more recent' charge?" «Mr. Chevrier said the two spe- e building. Twenty-five cial lawyers were told to deal|down the rescue shaft with the persons were admitted to hos-|with the Norris report---in par-|capsule, helped the trié into the pital ~with injuries. Most werejticular two incidents that oc-|little compartment and accom- treated and later released, but/ curred in 1957 and 1960. eight were listed in serious con- dition. Leslie Blair, a photographer He said the other charges be- Serv- lot outside an| ported to be docking the pay He punched, kicked and left lying in a pool of fish, an official) law. | Meanwhile, shipping firms hit by the SIU walkout were re- \of sailors who took part. Communist China ~ Downs U-2'Plane TOKYO(AP) -- Communist Ciina said today the 'Chinese Air Force shot down a U.S.- made U-2 high-altit recon- naissance plane that intruded oyer the tua Tung area near neha Pekin? monitored ist Chinese and was on rassing mission," dio, In @ broadcast in Tokyo, said the plane belanged to the National- weal a 5 ip 'Space Sh MOSCOW (AP) --The Soviet Union announced today it has launched a space ship into or- bit which can manoeuvre in all directions, change its orbit both sidewise and_in height. The announcement said the apparatus 'Is called Polyot I. Polyot means flight. The ship apparently is un- manned but contains a mass of control mechanism which. per- mits it to manoeuvre in' such a@ manner that, if desired, could be\ moved alongside other craft in space. At one stage it flew with a maximum height of 592 kilome- tres (368 miles) and a minimum -altitude of 343 kilometres (211 miles). Trapped Miners alfted To | BROISTEDT, West Germany pAll three miners trapped deep inside a flooded iron mine for eight day$ were brought to the surface today through a rescue shaft, All were reported well. | The miners -- Gerhard Han- jusch, 43, Emil Pohlai, 34, and |Fritz Leder, 36--were hauled up }in a rescue capsule from a gal- lery 259 feet underground. A |mine foreman, Paul Syska, went |panied them back up. The rescue was accomplished through a shaft drilled after ing considered include action in iahilach ist So laecthe Ci for the Marietta Journal, said| he was sitting in a booth near} the rear of the store when the blast occurred. "There was an explosion and uninjured. '"'I know what had hap- pened. 1 picked up my camera walk."' Fire Chief Howard Shaefer stands. It got dark all of a sud-/tume contest had come to ansaid the cause of the explpsion 'den, and then I was lying with,end. Officials said the death toll|had not been determined. } concrete and timbers on me." 'could have been higher if the|confirmed reports indicated the royal palace, the -King an- "There was a big boont and blast had come a few minutes\ex plosion may have bgeninounced Morocco would not bodies were flying through the earlier. Many children were inicaused by leaking -gas. TOTAL TRADE RECORD POSTED HELP The Chest CLIMB '261,800 250, 225,000 . 200,000 175,000 150,000 125,000 - 100,000. 75,000 50,000 25,000 Start. --------- |record' summer trade, Canada's| riod. trade surplus at the end of Sep-| Imports advanced ss at 1.5 tember stood at $232,900,000--|per cent to $4,767,500,000. more than triple the figure at The end-of-September the same stage last year. Figures released to by the, 000. bureau of statistics Showed the: Canada's total® trade -- both improvement results panding traditiona} over-| third quarter, July to Septem-} seas surpluses and trimming|ber, established a record as ex-| more than $100,000,000 off the|ports rose 9.9 per cent to $1,- big deficit with the U nit e d/762,200,000 compared with. the! States, |Same quarter, last years and'im- Trade Minister Sharp has\ports gained 6.9 per cent to) forecast a 1963 trade surplus of/$1,549,300,000. jbetween $300,000,000 and $400,-! 000,000, oy ' trade Surplus of | exports in the January-\aga $111,000,000 ¢* trade| United States surplus last year was. $74.800,-/United Kingdom Other Common fyom ex-jimports and exports -- in the Cthers United siah United Ki m Other Common- Result was a third - quarter| Un- It appeared that the blast oc-|adults had come to the town the whole building shook," said} curred in a commissary, under|square in this northwest Geor-/Blair who. was An Toronto, a three-man, com- the seats, which supplied pop-|gia town for a gala Hallowe'en| didn't Wilbur Gauthier, 55,- of Indi- contest, Marietta, with a pop-;4%d went out the back door and| 18/to the front of the store. There|/Hassan II said Algerian forces were bodies all over the side- attacked the Moroccan town of , fight back. RABAT, Morocco (AP)---King |Guguig en masse today and he has ordered his troops to with- draw. At a press conference at the Exports §$ 1963 750.1 204 pA 1,061 952.5 5,000.4 4,621.5 wealth p Total _ Imports 3,273.8 3,25 383.1 276.4 834.2 wealth thers Total Third-quarter exports to the whicyg Js 11.3-per-cent lower than ms a ainst 9,000,000 for the same|/EXPORTS RISE ' eptember period were $5,000,-| monthyof' 1962. | V 400,000, an 8.2-- per + cent gain! / Trg@e figures for the first nine|United States 'yose 5.1 per centilast year, a Trade Surplus Triples OTTAWA*(CP) -- Swelled bylover the corresponding 1962 pe-tmonths, compared with the(to bring the nine-month total to }same period last year, in mil-/$2,874,200,000, up 4.6 per cent. | lions of. dollars; | 1962 |had declined in the first half 2,894.2 2,766.978f the year, increased 4.6 per 667.7'cent in the 34.4| uary-September period. But this 6.7\from Britain began to level out, 230,1,dropped 3.4 per cent to $137,- 777,5| 200,000 4,767.5 4,696.3/declines in the first and second Imports from the U.S., which third quarter to reach $3,273,800,000 for the Jan- still is only a fractional increase of 0.5 per cent over last year. The long decline in. imports Imports for the third quarter but, ause of sharper Algerians Hit Moroccan Town He said his government will abide by a pled@ \nade Wed- nesday in Mali to cease hostil- ities and seek a negotiated so- lution to the frontier problem with Algeria. A cease-fire in the frontier war is scheduled to be- gin at midnight tonight. The king said there were dead jand wounded in the Algerian at- tack. Figuig, a town of about 8,000 inhabitants, is several miles in- side Moroccan territory in northeastern Morocco, The de- fined and agreed-upon part of the Moroccan-Algerian frontier ends south of Figuig. ' The king stressed that Figuig at no time figured in the dis- {pute over the border. He has ordered the Moroccan garrison at Figuig, consisting of one company, to pull back a ki- Idmetre. He added that Algerian troops control the ridges around Figuig and are pounding the town with of the Moroccan pullback order the town most likely has been occupied by now. The king described the attack as "a diabolical plan" to shat- ter the agreements' reached Wednesday at Bamako, Mali, in which Algeria and: Morocco pledged to. seek peace and a artillery and mortars. In view|C "Surface contact was made with,the men': Sunday. The shaft broke through into the gallery early today. A medical specialist, Dr. Horst Hartmann, and _ three mine officials waited for the ber at the head of the rescue shaft, The miners were to kept there for several hors while the air pressur& around them was brought down to that of the atmosphere outside. The men were trapped in a |deadened mine gallery the size of a four-room apartment Oct. 24 when a nearby dam broke and flooded the mine. The wa- ters compressed the air in the gallery, aud the air ih turn kept back the water, ; Eighty - six other miners es- caped when the: water came pouring in. Forty others are missing and believed dcowned. After elearing the decompre3- sion chamber, the miners were tu go to a nearby hospital for a quick medical checka» before the reunion with their families, Announcement of the break- through early. this morning brought shouts and tears of joy, } | kept an almost continuous vigil at the rescue site since contact was estabtished with the trapped miners last Sunday, Non-Operating Rail Workers Up Demands MONTREAL (CP) Can- ada's non - operating railway workers today presented new contract de is seeking to bring theirC wages to the sam level as is Stries. " ' J to put a'figure on the wage? demand. --. the -only involved in the pro- Mr, Hail said the im will seek a one-year contract. He said he hopes the reduced de- compromise in their frontier quarters, the January-Septem- ber total stood at $383,100,000 v 5 , jadded: dispute, His voice steady,. but emo-| tional, the 34 = year = old king! ' mands. will make it possible to get a quick settlement instead of the prolonged disputes that have resulted from 'previous jcontract negotiations, ¥ v 'Tthe jth fleet in the South China , it an- men in-a decompression cham- 's and from the hundreds of persons at jthe' head of the. shaft. Many id in several basic : attack from the palace by loy- alist troops. The United States, which has 16,560 military men in Viet Nam,--ordered military forces near the country.-to move as necessary to protect American lives. This would involve mainiy Sea ahd air force transport planes based in The Philippines and on Okinawa, hg Confused and fragmentary re- ports reaching Tokyo through various diplomatic ¢ said planes bo: led Diem's' palace while rebel-com: tanks and armored' cars over key sigeet intevsections. The Japanese embassy in Sai- gon said the rebels broadcast they had successfully taken over the government, but shoot- ing was heard for at least two houts after that, A garbled broadcast over rebel - seized Radio Saigon in 'dicated. the revolt was led by 14_ marine and army generals and colonels, headed by the for- mer presidential adviser, Doung Van Minh. Another garbled rebel broad- cast said Diem and Nhu had been given an ultimatum to sur- render gr be killed. around /Diem's "yellow stucco: palace. Marines in battle dress surrounded the national police headquarters in Saigon and took over, outlyi i i Ay fficials in Washington jt a coup of "real propor. tions" that appeared to be mov- ing fairly far, 7 A rebel broadcast claimed that the armed forces revolting against the Diem regime had seized control of Saigon. 'The broadcast also reported that anti-government forces had sur- rounded the presidential palace : : arenes for immediate at- ack. The radio said the navy and|¢ some combat units protecting! wi Heavy | fighting, was reported tempt' was night, All meetings and gatherings were prohibited. Civil servants were urged to continue théir work "properly" or be consid ered opponents of the armed forces and be punished. b The rebel radio earlier had called on Diem and his power- ful brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, to surrender peacefully orbe killed, : A committee of s backing the coup Safety woul The - » said a republican youth camp near Saigon was captured by the army after brief resistance. ' . chairman of fie, commit- the Coup ae semntied coup. was i [ as 40- year-old Gen. Duong Van Minh, se general ta ans ree general staff. More tly he has; been President: Diem's military: : eneral bi against th a and etic en 3. me. Police, air force, special forces, air- were captured by anti-govern- ment forces, the Saigon broad- cast said The radio said 85 per cent-of the armed forces supported the coup. The air force also was govern- thea 'situs tte ctu "hte launched the official Some the presidential palace had sur- rendered, é : 70-year-old chief| COSTLY CHAT U.S. Ambassador 'Henry Cabot lodge: 'talks: with a- young Vietnamese schoolgirl, Ly Thi Lieu Huong, in a Sai- gon street. yesterday, She was arrested shortly after she agreed to pose with Lodge for @ photographer of Newsweek Magazine. Reliable sources in Saigon 'said last night that the girl. had released police after President Diem had expressed his' displeausre over her detention, (AP Wire- photo from Nwsweek . Maga- zine) q