Calls For Final Pus WEATHER REPORT Community Chest Drive THOUGHT FOR TODAY A penny saved government didn't manage to get. is a penny the She Oshawa Gimnes Mainly cloudy and cooler to- night and Tuesday with scat- tered showers or snowflurries. VOL. 92 -- NO. 264 Authorized @s Second Class Mail Post Office Department, payment of Ottowe and for Cash. Postage in Seize On Disasters TOKYO -- Opposition patties turned the disastrous coal mine explosion and triple train crash that took more than 600 lives into a major campaign issue today with charges of neglect. Socialist and Democratic So- cialist politicians seized on the double disaster in their current general elect on campaign, claiming more safety precau- tions should be taken in the mines and on the railways, The election is 10 days away. The leftists held Premier Ha- yato Ikeda's conservative gov- ernment responsible for the tra-| gedies, charging the accidents resulted from the government's "one-sided policy to protect mo- nopolistic capitalist classes' at the expense of workers' lives. The coal dust explosion in the mine at Omuta, on the south- ern island of Kyushu, killed 449|°" miners, injured about 450 and left seven unaccounted for, the Mitsui Mining Company said, Police said, however, they had counted 452 bodies. KILLS 162 The train wreck six hours later and 600 miles to the north} killed 162 persons, including William Scott, 28, of Colorado Springs, Colo., who was study- ing in Tokyo. At least 70 were injured, | Two persons were injured to-| day in another train wreck. A| slow - moving passenger train) rammed another passenger jlives a year. }would investigate the train and| OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1963 payments of labor accident in- surance. AVERAGE 10,000 A YEAR | The pileup near Tokyo was |the second three-train crash in) 18 months, Japanese rail, acci-| dents take an average of 10,000) The leftists announced they ' A mine accidents independently. The opposition parties had few concrete issues last month when Ikeda dissolved the lower house of Parliament, He called the election in an attempt to en large his Liberal Democratic) party's overwhelming majority} of 286 seats, compared with aif combined opposition total of 154.| Mine union officials at Omuta} also said they' would press for new demands. The Omuta min-} and management have a long history of bitter struggles| and one union man said: "This| is one disaster that's going to} lead to big trouble in jabor-} management relations." | REDS USE AS LEVER Soviet Communists also seized on the tragedies to accuse the! Ikeda government of failing to provide adequate safety regula tions, The Soviet z2overnment newspaper Izvestia predicted the disasters will "hardiy in- crease the chances of the ruling Liberal-Democratic party." Only one train crash in Japan has cla'med more victims -- in 1947 when 184 passengers were | | Lp Wreath-laying ceremonies at the Oshawa Cenotaph pre- ceded the annual Remem- brance Day religious service the Ladies' Auxiliary of Branch 43, Royal Canadian Legion and Harry Brown, president of Branch 43, are shown above placing a train that had halted half a mile killed in a derailment north of out of the Hiroshima station, ;Tokyo. The mine disaster was| Although the pressure was on| the worst in Japan since 1914 Ikeda, the president of Japan|When 687 persons died in a gas National Railways, Reisuke Is-|¢xplosion. j hida, said he was accepting full) At Omuta, a city of 202,000) responsibility for S§aturday's|hardly a family escaped with-| disaster and would resign. |out losing a relative or a friend. The mine owners ware to be) Hundreds of funeral services given' 1,000,000,000 yen\ ($3,000,- 000) by the povertiaevit to' pay! compensation to the victims. 'neighboring towns, A yen is worth .003 of a cent in| The battle to save the injured Canadian funds. continued in primitive Tenyro The government also hasjhospital, now bad'y _ over-! agreed to take steps for quick!crowded. British Session Key To Election LONDON (Reuters) -- Politi-; The socialists will also chal- cians preparing for a new ses-|lenge the development of the} sion of Parliament Tuesday are|new nuclear TSR-2 bomber on convinced it will be the key to|the grounds of expense as well success or failure in the next|as question the military worth general election which must be!of the 1,400-mile-an-hour jet. held within 12 months. In Parliament, Tory support: The campaign will in effectjers will be anxiously watching begin with the final session of|Douglas - Home's performance Pariament before the ruling}/to see whether he does weil Conservative party's five-year|enough to: improve the Conserv- term of office runs out next/alive prestige with the voters fall which: has sllpped badly in re- Both Prime Minister Sir Alec cent months | {man McEvers, president of were being conducted in the|qeath toll.in a_coliseum Diast-- \city's only' crematorinm and in}now blamed on leaking gas ig- nited-. by held this morning. Mrs. Nor- wreath. The Legion represen- MONY AT CENOTAPH tatives are followed by Al King, first vice-president of the Ontario Command of the | and presi- | Canadian Cor dent of the Oshawa unit (Oshawa Times- oto) Blast Claims 71st Victim INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The Students og sehold| BERKELEY, Calif; (AP) -- ere hes kanead wae Ls Two junior college students with Mrs. Cecile Hoffer, 72, India-| borrowed Krag sg gen te napolis, died in Methodist HOsl es porona a tivet orivine , pital today of injuries suffered|® 'd go Bes in the explosion. Her husband|/Viduals to launch an earth sa- was killed outright in the blast. tellite. Mrs. Elenora M. Ricketts, 81, They had a dress rehearsal Indianapolis, died in Methodist|*! their balloon-ifted | shot in Hospital Sunday of injuries suf-| ne too" packard Piriares ae. fered in the Hallowe'en night! orted everything functioned disaster -- the worst in Indiana |p o othiy history. : pence 2 . : «| Their four-stage, 31-inch solid The woman was one of the 385 persons injured in the viblent pay Oe er Se explosion that ripped piano-sized sent a tiny noes b0ne chunks of concrete from a box- to about 70 miles altitude. seat section and hurled them into the air along with specta- "It flew for 44% minutes--we tors' bodies. know that for sure,""" Dave Gui- ___..|dici, 21, an engineering student jat Oakland City College told The Associated Press. "Every- Forgettul Guard thing went perfectly. The trans- |mitter aboard the cone worked Angers de Gaulle fine. We tracked for 10 seconds PARIS (Reuters) -- The | after blastoff. We lost it, but hinted tua ay ang-|Picked it up again as it re-ent- French Mobile Guard today ang aced, Through liye we know Doug'as-Home and Labor Oppo- sition Leader Harold Wilson are counting on the legislative pro- ceedings to enhance prospects of their rival parties. Some observers said Doug- has - Home may' exercise his privilege and name a _ polling date in May or June but other) political sources said the gov- ermment's chief asset will be to use all the time left and put off the election until the 'ast moment, Labor membors. pian to hit \ning a $700,000 poster campaign ered President de Gaulle when : } it forgot to play the Last Post/exactly its or nega hs during the 45th anniversary ce-|though it bur up. We cou even hear it re-enter the atmos- phere."" Meanwhile, Conservative pub- | licity men were reported plan- remony marking the First during the next six months to| World War armistice. project a fresh Tory image and; Elysee Palace sources build up their aristocratic chief|the slip provoked de Gaulle' 4 hay as the new leader. "keen dissatisfaction." "You can say," Guidici de- But the biggest impact on The Last Post honoring the|clared, "we did in miniature the eleciorate was \ikely to be|dead of the First World War what we're going to do in six Douglas-Home's hand'ing of the| should have been played during months when we launch our sa- big clashes with Wilson on the|a one-minute silence after de|tellite. The only difference will floor of the Commons which/Gaulle placed a wreath of pink)be everything will be bigger will almost certainly develop|and red gladioli on the tomb of}and we'll launch at the horizon : 'the unknown soldier. and not straight up. said s|TO LAUNCH SATELLITE during the session. the government hard for atleg- ediv plannirg "the biggest peacetime spending sprec" without knowing whether the country can afford it. HELP The Chest | CLIMB __ 261,800 __250,000 225,000 _ __ 200,000 175,000 __ 150,000 125,000 100,000 75,000 _| 50,000 _ 25,000 Start ( Named TORONTO (CP) -- A petite blonde University of Toronto student was crowned Miss Can- ada of 1964 in the glittering f- nale of the Miss Canada Pa- geant Sunday night. Caro] Ann Balmer, 18, who is also Miss Toronto of 1962 and Miss CTV of 1964, won the title over 21 contdstants representing all provinces'except Alberta and Saskatchewan. Miriam Martin, 19, a gracious dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty from Winnipeg, places second in the three-day pageant and Mary Dorothy Harford, 21, slender, five-fo»t-eixht, brown- haired Vancouver girl. piaced third. The three wingers along with Lynda Homer of St. ines, and Vici Gilliland of Bur- lington, Ont., who placed fourth and fifth respectively, competed| in talent, swimsuit and evening! dress competition' for a 24-| hour television show on the CTV} network Suciy. evening Miss, Bailnt:". who says has néver hid a music lesson in her iife, woa- the judges'! A she Cathar- «. University Student Miss Canada mer, a physical education stu- dent and « model with 34-22-34 measuremen's, won the bething suit preliminary competition. She plans to resume her s!ud- ies--this is her first year at wii- versity -- when her duties -as Miss Canada end a year from today, She will use her earnings a5 Migs Canaja--at least $5,000 for personal appearances for the pageant's spoasovs ans $1,000 in scholarships -for her education Other special scholarship award winners were popular singer Pawine Thompson, 20. of Listowel, Ont., ana dancer Shan- non Harding, 20, of Galt. Walter Pasko, president of Miss Canada Productions which produced the show, says next year's pageant will again be held in Toronto, He estimated |the cost of this year's pageant jat about $125,000 and said he did hearts with a bouncy interpre-|not break even. tation of 'ne Freach - Canadian' yr pasko and his associates 'o'k song Ly' Fiachre, madejiast year purchased 'the rights amous everal yeits agO CY to the original Miss Canada pa- singer Giselle Mackenz.¢ geant, started in Hami!ton 17 On Friday evening, Miss Bal-/years ago. * # CAROL ANN BALMER Could Launch Satellite, -| Dave's partner in this 'ven- ture into do-it-yourself rocketry is Kelly Macdonald, a student at Contra Costa Junior College who decided recently--for some strange reason--to drop engi- jneering in favor of pre-medi- cine. Kelly is 20 and both boys live in El Cerrito, next door to Berkeley. "To be fair," Kelly said, 'we've had great support from NASA, (National A er o nautics and Space Administration), nom the University of Califor- nia and from the navy. The navy is furnishing us parts for the 102-inch rocket for our satel- lite launch and we will fire over the navy's South Pacific test range." Gas Pipeline Company said today it has ap- plied to the Ontario Energy Board. for permission to build a 142-mile natural gas transmis- sion pipeline across southwest- ern Ontario. The announcement said. the company hoped to begin the project in 1964 and complete it in stages during the next sev- eral years, The cost could reach $30,000,000 including compres- sors and related facilities. No date has been set for the hearing before the energy CHATHAM (CP)--Union Gas| "\try honored the war dead #\services Sunday. In many Cana- AFL REMEMBRANCE By THE CANADIAN PRESS Old legionnaires who did bat- tle in two world wars marched with Canada's young fighting -|men today in the annual observ- ance of Remembrance Day. Churches throughout the coun- in dian centres it was another day of rest for banks, stores, offices and businesses with remem- brance shown by traditional parades to cenotaphs and :| wreath-placings. There is no uniformity of the closing of commercial enter- prises' throughout Canada on this day, variously referred to Brief Opposes Memorial Idea OTTAWA (CP) -- The Royal Canadian Legion came out to- day in opposition to proposals for a national theatre or a per- forming arts centre in Ottawa dead. reation do not inspire remem- men--more than 100,000 of them --who laid down their lives for Canada," the Legion said in a brief presented to the cabinet by Judge C. C, Sparling, Dominion president, It urged that the govern- ment's proposal fur a national cenotaph and shrine of remem- brance on Nepean Point, just east of Parliament Hill, be car- ried out. The project has been postponed because of criticism. | Company Plans - Second Child For Duchess LONDON (Reuters)--The Du- hess of Kent is expecting her nd child in the spring, it was announced today, The duchess is in Hong Kong with her army officer husband, who is a cousin of the Queen. The child will be 11th in suc- cession to the throne, taking precedence after their first son, the Earl of St, Andrews, born in June, 1962, Anannouncement from their home in Buckinghamshire, southern England, said if the child is a boy it will be named Lord (Christian name) Windsor. If it is a girl she will be called lady (christian name) Windor. The duchess is being attended by an army doctor in Hong Kong where the duke is serving as a memorial to Canadian war F "Places of amusenient or Fée- berance of our fello& country- with the Royal Scots Greys. His regiment is due to return to England in December and they will go to West Germany early next year on a new posting The duchess, formerly Kathe- rine Worsley, is a member of a well-known family in Yorkshire, northern England. board. The high pressure line would carry western Canada natural gas to and from underground storage tanks in Lambton County. The line would extend between compressor sta- tions south of Sarnia and at Oakville. Diameter of the line would be not less than 30 inches. Provinces Vary Paying Tribute as Remembrance Day and Arm- istice Day. In Quebec most business and government offices remained open. In Edmonton, banks, bus- iness and government offices were closed and there were no home deliveries. EXCHANEES VARY In Toronto and Montreal the stock exchanges maintained normal hours, if at a reduced pace. But in Winnipeg the grain exchange was shut. The homage of the nation was shown officially by a service in Ottawa. Wreaths were to be placed at the Nationa] War Me- morial by the Silver Cross mother, Mrs. Mary Stodgell of Norwood, Man., and by Gover- nor-Generai Vanier and Prime Minister Pearson. Three of Mrs. Stodgell's five jsons who served overseas died jin battle. As Silver Cross mother she represents 104,000 mothers ar. 9 to' the" \Atlantic tario. Sunny but cool weather was the B.C. interior, with showers along the coast. in Canada who lost sons during the Second World Weather prospects in many inbario through the tough language of a tough cloudy skies; showers: and chilly air was fore- cast, with the only exception being tip of southwestern On- expected on the Prairies and ClO BOARD ATTACKS RAIDS Said 'Plain NEW YORK (CP)--A contin-| juing fight against the Canadian jgovernment trusteeship over jfive maritime unions was prom- jised today by Paul Hall, head jof the Seafarers' International {Union (AFL-CIO). In a speech before the AFL-| CIO's Maritime Trades Depart- ment convention, Hall attacked Canadian Labor leaders and Prime Minister Pearson for ac- tions in the Great Lakes labor battle centring around the SIU 'in. Canada. Referring to opposition against the trusteeship legisla- tion, Hall said: "The fight will not end now-- the fight cannot end now." Hall, also president of the MTD, which has 29 affiliated unions--including the SIU--rep- resenting nearly 1,000,000 mem- bers. The SIU and other MTD-| affiliated unions which picketed | Canadian ships in U.S. lakes ports last week in protest against the Canadian govern- ment action called off the pick- eting Friday pending a policy decision here. TALKS TOUGH | Hall spoke--frequently using sa a pooklet, entitled Union Busting--Canadian Style had been distributed to dele- gates. it gave the SIU's summary of events involved int he lakes dis- pute and comments on the Ca- nadian government trusteeship. | | | NEW YORK (AP) -- Three jmen posing as detectives forced Itheir way into a Bronx apart- jment today and stole $30,000 worth of jewelry. It was the third large gem theft here in four days. The robbers knocked two women to the floor after enter- ing the apartment. Then they swept up the jewelry and fled. The women are Mrs, Rhode Toronto of Birmingham, Ala., and her mother, Mrs, Jack Ru- bin, 63. Rubin, head of a jewelry firm lived in the apartment with his wife and was taking a shower at the time of the robbery. He emerged just as the trio fled and hurled an empty bottle at them down the apartment steps A $200,000 gem theft from a real estate man and his wife was reported to police Sunday night. Last Friday a group of gunmen, posing as police, stopped a jewelry messenger station wagon and stole $3,000,- 000 worth of jewelry. About three-fourths of the loot later was found, however, in the abandoned station wagon. Real estate man Emanuel Si- mon and his wife told police that |jewelry valued at about $200,000 LATE NEWS FLASHES East German Seaman Seeks Asylum ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- An East German seaman defected from his fishing trawler in port here today. The unidentified sailor walked into the office of the Golden Ea- gle Refining Company on a harbor wharf and told a Ger- man-speaking employee he wanted political asylum in Canada. Theft Trial Resumes at Brockville BROCKVILLE (CP) -- The defence resumed cross- examination today of car dealer E. Murray Billings in the trial for theft:of his former accountant, Dolores Clow, challenging his earlier testimony about the blonde divorcee. The trial of Mrs. Clow, 37, on a charge of stealing $228,000 from Billings Motors: Limited while employed there between 1958 arid 1962 entered' its second week. Police Hunt Young Arson Suspects HAMILTON (CP) -- Police are looking for two young boys 'suspected of trying to burn down the city's $10,000,000 e'ty hall. 'The blaze damaged a loading dock, cracked three large plate glass windows and caused $300 damage to the rear of the eight-storey building. jwas taken from a bredroom | Bishops Split On New Issue | . VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Bish- ops at the Vatican ecumenical ;council argued anew today over reform of the Roman curia and split sharply on a new issue: |Whether elderly bishops should jbe forced to resign their sees. Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, alluding to the flare- jup that occurred in the council |Friday when a German cardinal lcalled for basic reform of the jcuria's Holy Office, told the 2,- 300 council fathers that they had jo power to propose modifica- jtions or corrections in curia pro- cedures, "We can only make sugges- tions and recommendations," he|has the extent of the ring been! were was paraphrased as saying by 'council press spokesmen. Jewel Robberies Plague New York closet in their apartment during the weekend. The loot included a 24-carat diamond ring that Simon said was worth $35,000. He said he believes almost all of the miss- ing pieces were insured. They belong to Mrs. Simon. Mrs.. Jeanette Workman, who lives on the floor above the Simons, told police gems worth $4,000 were stolen from her apartment during the weekend. Police, seeking a more speci- fic figure for what they estimate was a $3,000,000 gem robbery Friday, have asked the victim- ized jewelers to show up at a police station to give an accur- s Printed by the SIU in the U.S., SIXTEEN PAGES Move Against Seafarers Despotism' It said that 'deliberate and concerted efforts of union-bust- ing elements in Canadian labor, management and government," had "perverted and distorted" a contractual dispute into an ex- cuse for the trusteeship, NEW YORK (CP)--The exec- utive board of the AFL-CIO's maritime trades department has drafted a resolution con- demning RCMP raids of the Seafarers' International Union of Canada headquarters in 'Montreal. It terms the raids--carried out in connection with changes against Canadian SIU Presi- dent Hanold C. Banks -- as "plain despotism conducted for the politcial purpose of harass+ ing the SIU,. inspiring antida- bor headli and creating an nr of hostility to the The resolution was prepared for Pog MTD's -- pa ¢on- vention, opening .here > sty rend which the Canadian go ] ment, the Norris royal commis- | sion, and the Canadian / Canadian government placing the SIU and four other mari- eed unions under a trustee- Ship. _ BANKS WILL ATTEND be Banks, a member of the MTD's_ executive board, and Paul Hall, president of MTD and president of the ent SIU, which is an affili of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations. The convention the constitutional convention of the AFL-CIO, which begins here Thursday. racy leader in 1957 beating incident, was reported in New York Sun- day. He is free on $2,000 cash bail and is scheduled to appear in court in Montreal again Tues- rate accounting of the loot. day. Death Uncovers Blackmail Ring LONDON (AP)--The mysteri- ous death of a beautiful brunette has put Scotland Yard on the trail of a big blackmail ring preying on prominent Britons, police sources reported today. The girl was known here as Julie Molley, 24, an Italian-born dentist's assistant who was a part-time model. Her body was found nine days ago on a bed in a rooming house just as guests were arriving for a party. Near the body was an empty drug bottle. In her room detec- tives found two diaries giving the names of scores of men prominent in business and so- ciety. The sources said police seized more than 3,000 photo- graphs showing Julie with men in compromising positions and several hundred letters. Some of the letters were said to have civil servants, physicians and show-business people. WAS WATCHED The informant said she al- ready was under police scrutiny at the time of her death. Ten weeks ago a prominent London professional man with friends in high places complained he was |being blackmailed by her. Only now, said police sources, | juncovered. | been written by army officers, | JULIE MOLLEY place advertisements in two newspapers offering a certain brand of raincoat for sale. The. advertisements looked innocent enough except to experienced perverts who recognized the jbrand name as a codeword. The advertisements brought stacks of would-be buyers. Some were invited to meet Julie and photographed with her, Some did not get to meet. her. They said the woman would They were blackmailed anyway,