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> f i Thoucht For Today So live that you will be a com- plete disappointment to the gossips. VOL. 93----NO, 42 vw ' he Oshawa ines Department. Ottowa ond for payment of Postag Prige Not Over lh Cah 10' deee par Cae OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1964 id Weather Renort Cloudy with a few clear inter- vals and a few snowflurries to- night and Thursday, cooler tomorrow. Little TWENTY-SIX PAGES | HEAVY SEAS POUND BRITISH FREIGHTER SOUTHEAST OF HALIFAX RESCUE 9 SEAMEN FROM U.K. VESSEL | French Troops Crush [ist Seas Gabon Army Rebellion | DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters)--|that two companies of French, A French official source gaid The army revolt in the West|troops were sent to the West|'it appears" the Gabon gend-| jy the North Alantic. | African republic of Gabon "has|Afnican republic 'to protect)armerie remained loyal to Mba ¥ _|been crushed," a radio report/French residents." and pointed out that France) NEW YORK (AP)--A Norwe- NEW YORK (AP)--A Nor- wegian freighter rescued nine men today from the dis- abled and helpless British merchantman, Ambassador, Ships Pluck Refugees From Earthquake-Rocked Azores LISBON (AP) -- Barthquake| refugees from, Sao Jorge began) arriving on other islands in the volcanic Azores chain today as|had about 3,000 population. a hurriedly. assembled rescue) fleet evacuation. | jreceived here today said. A government source said|was linked to Gabon by agtee-/gian freighter rescued the first | that in French eyes ousted) ments for not only economic but! survivors today from a_ help- PARIS (Reuters) -- French|President Leon Mba was still/also military support, jlessly drifting British merchant- troops early today "began Op-/the legal head of the govern-| The source said that "in|man in -the storm-tossed North erations to restore order' in Li-| ment, French eyes Leon Mba con-|Atlantic, the U.S, Coast Guard breville, capital of Gabon, in) Sources close to the French) tinues to be the legal head of the| announced here, the wake of a bloodless CoUuP/presidency said earlier in the|Gabon government," adding there Monday night, a source/day that French troops were|that the coup was "a military at the French premier's office|ready to intervene in Gabon|rebellion of limited character." e 8 Shortly before 9 a.m. the freighter Fruen secured a line to the derelict Ambassador and) Hamper Search For Rafts |today by the Vulcania, a 24,496¢ |ton Italian passenger liner. | Another Italian liner, the Le- onardo da Vinci, was the. first rescue ship to reach the Am- bassador, But after reporting |that she was unsuccessful in at--> tempts to pick up survivors be- cause of heavy seas, the da Vinci continued her Genoa-to- New York voyage when the Fruen showed up. Without power or operable pumps, the Ambassador flound- red helplessly, the coast guard aid. homes tion." pressed an eémergency|Pires, whose Angra do Hero-jisland with food and medicine. |stroyed at least 47 homes on ismo > district The first 510 islanders taken|Azores includes the islands of/Ani said the tremors on Sao|were said to be near collapse. off Sao Jorge by British and|Terceira and Sao Jorge, said|Jorge were the. result of a new! ltoday to restore the legal power remain fit for habita- the quakes on Sao Jorge were)volcano building up on the |**getting worse each minute.jocean floor, Officials at Lisbon E Velas, Sao Jorge's chief town,|We're going through a difficult)University Observatory declined) time, a terrible time." comment on the report. He said he sent troops to the. The quake waves had de- Governor otonio Machado in the central) The Portuguese news agency|Sao Jorge and hundreds more laire Aubame, who Tuesday was But no casualties have been re- appointed head of a new gov- American ships were put ashore) on Terceira island 20 miles) away. The vessels then headed back to Sao Jorge for more ref- ugees, but heavy seas with 30- foot waves were delaying the op- would destroy their island, Telephone and ~~ com- munications with Sao Jorge were shaky and reports from the stricken island varied. Some said virtually the entire population of 20,000 had assem- bled for evacuation; other re-| ports put the number at about 7,000, BEGIN EVACUATION The American freighter Steel Director and the British cable ship Mirror and freighter Par- thia began the _ evacuation. Other vesstls were speeding to join the flotilla. "The air is impregnated with sulphur,"' said one of the first} arrivals on Tefceira. "In the) village of Velas only three Sharp Urges More Trade With US. WINDSOR, Ont, 'CP) ~-- Eco- nomic relations between Can- ada and the United States are entering a new and most pro- ductive phase, Trade Minister Sharp said Tuesday night. "It will be marked . . . by closer consultation at the gov- ernment by the revolutionary committee in charge of the coup, had refused to accept of- | ported. The Portuguese Lusitania said, The French government, the There was no indication of thejat the request of friends of nature or scope of the opera-| President Mba and in virtue of tions, jagreements between France arlier it was reported here|and Gabon." | Unconfirmed reports reaching Paris said the French troops Ousted Gabon. i erred res cpr President Other reports said Jean - Hi- Back In Power official source said, considered a message of resignation read over Libreville radio Tuesday) iby Mba "did not constitute a} resignation but was simply a} document drawn up by rebels which he was obliged to sign." An army . led coup seized power bloodlessly from Mba, 61, Monday night and forced the president to announce his resig- nation, A revolutionary commit- tee was set up to rule the coun- try on Africa's Atlantic sea-| Vulcania was other survivors in the 65-degree water, ----, thre of the seven men sti guard reported, aboard her, the coast The coast guard cutter Coos Bay manoeuvred to assist in| the rescue. The Italian passenger liner searching for Two aircraft flew search pat- terns, hampered by a cloud cover, Some of the stricken freigh- news agency reported the vil-| jlage of Velas was almost com-| fice, Fi board, LIBREVILLE (Reuters) ter's crew abandoned ship Tues- day in a raging storm which One of the ship's two lifeboats had been smashed by the pounding seas. But the crew also had available two 10-man |liferafts which the freighter ear- ried. Bormann Said 'Real Fuehrer' During War LIMBURG (Reuters)--A for- pletely . destroyed. The health|The French Army, in a brief had stove in her forward hatch operation marked by some fa- croatinees, yon cote ond tee talities on both sides, today for- pital collapsed, but the patients CYPRUS GUN-RUNNING GROWS cibly reinstated as Ga- \\had earlier been evacuated. bon's president Mba, and flooded her engineroom, leaving her wallowing in the pounding seas, Rescue aircraft dropped three FELT FOR 12 HOURS Tuesday the tremors were felt for 12 hours in all the is- lands of the central group--Ter- ceira, Graciosa, Pico, Faial and Sao Jorge. The quakes occurred as peo- ple evacuated from six villages on Sao Jorge from a previous series of quakes were returning home. Thunderstorms and gale force whose government was ousted in a bloodless coup Monday. The F.ench troops were rushed to the independent West African state early today amid reports that a revolutionary army commit Was ruling the Rebirth Of EOKA Alarms British country. ' LONDON (AP) Concern| British ministers alse have In today's action, the French} mounted in. official British quar-|been embittered by the Cyprus troops occupted most of the/ters today over reports indicat-|government's apparently com- 20-man life rafts that inflate as they hit the water. The Coos Bay radioed the res. to mase a zig-zag course in --_ of spotting survivors, add- jing: "Two rubber life rafts are adrift with four or more men strategic points here including ing that gun running to Greek-|placent attitude to the gun run- the airport anq its installations, Cypriot irregulars on Cyprus is|/ning and arming of irregulars. winds reaching 75 miles an the radio station and the post:continuing. Officials estimated) Commonwealth Secretary sundown yesterday." Minutes earlier the cutter mer Nazi official, accused of at least 73,000 murders under ge euthanasia ( kill- ng) program, today a the evils of the Nazi leader to his deputy, Dr. Hans rmann ** cue ship Vulcania at 7:15 a.m.|°Vll He.said that. was the fuehrer, the a leadership was first --_ < 4 psa go in each. Rafts last sighted at Britain in' 1941, tn 'those oe im ann. He added that at the moment office. that as many as 30,000 Greek-/Duncan Sandys made a vigor-|messaged coast guard headquar- ~ ~~ |Cypriots -- many of them vet-/ous protest to Cypriot, Foreign|ters in New York: "Consider to- > erans of the pre-independence Minister Spyros Kyprianoy/day only chance to locate life- US. Cuts Off Aid hour followed the tremors. EOKA guerrilla army--may be/when he was in London last/raft survivors. Request under arms. weekend. In Nicosia, a govern-|maximum aircraft coverage as A major concern for British;|ment spokesman replied that/soon as possible." officials is how much control|/Cyprus had both the right and} Two aircraft, one an RCAF Archbishop Makarios, president|responsibility to purchase arms|Argus and the other a C-130 of Cyprus, can exercise over the|for the security of the state. |Hercules dispatched by lrapidly growing so - called ge- the coast guard, were reported To Cuban Traders loret Rewiae [IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE on the scene soon after. when Bormann took over, the "horrible degeneration of the regime began."' From this mo- ment on the regime became re- ally criminal it was not generally recognized at the time, Hefelmann said. Hefelmann was the only de- fendant left to face trial in ¢on- - nection with the gassing of 200+ LONDON (Reuters) -- Brit-|Spite in the Family, The Guar-| " ish newspapers reacted angrily|dian of Manchester says: "Of-| agp is little doubt here that today to a U.S. decision to cut ficially or unofficially, boycott|"he irregulars owe their first loff small amounts of foreign aidjof firms doing business with/allegiance to EOKA rather than jto Britain and other countries|\Cuba is an active element in|the formal Cyprus government, This was regarded in govern- ment quarters here as an al- most unbelievably irresponsible response, since it took no ac- count of arms smuggling going on behind the backs of the Brit-| The Coos Bay, a 311-foot cut- ter in Portland, Me., indicated she. had sp tted the stricken freighter still afloat 660 miles southeast of Halifax. The Norwegian vessel Fruen, trading with ee U.S. policy." |EOKA was the underground The amount of funds involv-| "tp this the U.S. government|army which battled the British ing Britain was only about $5,-\is at odds not merely with Brit-|; the 1050s Maks : ish peace-keeping force on the! island. | | Britain has asked its NATO which arrived on the scene Tuesday night, also was joined 000 mentally ill people during the Second World War. The trial was planned as a spectacular exposure of Hitler's extermination of "people unfit to live' but two of the defend- ants died violently last week bg a third escaped abroad ear- er, |000.. In the case of France the| gj i ped Cyprus} 000. In the c ain but with all her European allies ani pevarel deateal War. opean nations to stop arms shipments to Cyprus. But little can be done from London to check the flow of weapons be-| | lieved to be reaching the island from the United Arab Republic, Lebanon and other Middle East os 3 TIST"S DATE BOOK turning to modeling and then acting. Here she relaxes-- briefly -- between scenes, in the kind of costume a steward- ess might wear at play (AP Wirephoto) KEP Shapely actress Marianne Case, who appears well-quali- fied for her role of the sexy airline stewardess in the movie 'Fate Is The Hunter," was a dental assistant' before . ernment level," he said. "It will be marked by an increasing ex- change. of views between the peoples of our two countries, or- ganized and unorganized." Mr. Sharp spoke to a dinner of the Windsor Junior Chamber of Commerce marking the or- ganization's annual Interna- government's itaine tional Night. Many in the au- for the new parliamentary ses-|problem of the high cost of get--same old platitudes' with noth-| dience were from the U.S 8 He said he hopes to see a fur- than usual. But it will require Canada-|Plenty of hard a business ing ther development of U.S. relations at level. "I hope it will be marked by| a willingness on the part Sethe chance to compete in the United States. turn by a recognition on the) part of Canadian manufactur-/¢ra! Vanier ers that improved access to the U.S. market must be paid for's in similar 'coin." Both governments would be| working in this direction during forthcoming world trade talks,!! CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE 725-1133 FIRE DEPT. 725-6574 HOSPITAL 723-2211 é present version of the complex'the session's schedule. contributory of American manufacturers to|Plan, in the face of strong criti-\der immediate criticism from ive Canadian manufacturers a/cism from the Ontario govern-jleaders of opposition d ment and others, was the main|who together outnumber the 129) vised in January following con-' item "T hope it will be marked in|throne read at Tuesday's open-'mons jing ceremony by Governor-Gen- the new session, including study of a new 'white paper' state-| ment on defence policy, major; ; > , 1 ' egislation on railway regulation\@Windling American investment/and by insurance firms and and ™ : reacting Columbia River power|dian ownership of Canadian in- treaty with the United States, ti jlegislators hard at work well jinto' next summer islative program had some sur- | prises too ifor needy iSenate reform in the form of alCaouette, leader of Le Raillie-\L961-62 proposals of the Mac-'ment's plan. | OTTAWA political Canada Pension) The throne speech came un- in the speech from the/Liberals in the 265-seat Com- Conservative Leader Diefen- baker called it "pallid . . . larg- outlined ely containing leftovers from jlast session." He said the gov- bee arg had given no recogni- tion to current economic prob- of The throne speech ome other massive tasks for lems rising _ living ratification of the far- and the need for more Cana- SS All these issues, although an- cipated, are likely to keep \figure was $25,000 and aboutlajlies .. ." |gained its independence, $20,000 for Yugoslavia, Noting the effect of the cutoft| The two other countries al-|on the other nations Involved--| Will B W fected by the ae ement| France, Yugoslavia, Spain and 1 e War |Tuesday--Spain and Morocco--| worocco--as well as on Britain,| jwere told that aid would be The Whines eave: | frozen at its present. limits un-| °°" coibetan feds . | Unless UN itil the U.S, discovered what] "The countries on the Europ- : Isteps they wtre taking to halt}ean and African side of the At- is ates as well as from the un- ltrade with Cuba. lantic dislike the Castro regime, | A ts: 7 k jofficial groups in Greece: and Spain receives $31,800,000 in| but they do not believe that cut- Cc ° ur. Turkey, U.S. military assistance, but no/ting off trade is a proper or ef- a. Informed sources in Beirut, economic aid. Military assist-|fective means. of getting rid of NICOSIA (Reuters) The Lebanon, said Greek « Cypriots ance to Morocco is classified, jit." jleader of the Turkish-Cypriot|and a few Turkish - Cypriots but economic aid amounts to| The Daily Express had a ban-|minority has attacked Greek-|are buying small arms in Bei- $21,600,000 ner headline reading: U.S, Slap/Cypriot arms imports, jrut but there was no evidence In an editorial headed Petty/for Britain Vice-President Fazil Kutchuk|°! 8y large-scale purchases, sai - wee cabled his protest to the United) There is also concern lest the y Nations Security Council Tues-/gowth of the irregulars preju- LAST SESSIONS LEFTOVERS' -- DIEF day. He called the imparts "once the attempt through the |Jectionable and unlawful," add-|United Nations to set up a . ' ° ing the weapons "are used|Peace-keeping force of 10,000) § against innocent Turkish we er ' zens."' | Britain's forces on the island TO] 1e eec dl re | ] | The island has been racked|"0W number about 5,000 and lby fighting between its Greek-|these can be increased, A fur- jand Turkish-Cypriot communi-|'h¢? 1,200 men, including a bat- y a i : e : : nd pete jtalion of Coldstream Guards (CP)--The Liberal compulsory retirement age, and|ment des Creditistes, said the;pherson royal commission,|ties since before Christmas and have bee laced hi 4 legislative menu the prospect of an attack on the throne speech contained "the|would ease some of the regu- the problem now is under de-| 55 fale n r fen the alert lative ties on railways' ability/bate in the UN Security Council! ""itwation all pees ion contains fewer main dishes|ting elected to Parliament ing of interest to average peo-|to compete for business. in New York. Station calls for it, A new federal labor code, a ple. | The Senate retirement age--| A. spokesman for the Cyprus) chew- fisheries development program) The government used only I5inot specified in the throne|government said Monday night and a new impetus for urban|words to announce its plan for/speech--would be 75. But it jik-|that the island asked other urgeons The decision to go ahead with slum clearance also are part of|legislation on "'a comprehensivelely would apply only to newjcountries for arms after Brit-| system of contributory pen-lappointments to the $15,000-a-jain refused a request Dec. 31-to . sions. jyear posts in the upper cham-|supply the Cypriot security| Stage Strike D The Canada Pension Plan was|ber. Present senators: were ap-|forces with weapons. This was parties introduced last year, and re-| pointed for life. |"completely lawful" because! ) Senators showed no visible re-|there was a, threat to Cypriot] In Italy wT sotiiaees winss ca action as they heard the news,|**'Ttorial integrity, he added. | government will stake is polr|a%@ & government. spokesman] ,However, countered Kutchuk,| ROME (AP) -- The 2,00 che tical life om this modified ver-|indicated the reform measure assent of the vice « premibbdhsinar take _ sg ge ings? = By po nie cee a low prioriiy in the legis-| which was not obtained." disad ie. sae Po efi si all seins weve Quebec, tative program. In Ankara, Turkish Informa-jhigher salaries anda later re- It has been strongly criticized The throne speech said the|tion Minister Ali Ihsan Gogug tirement age. ; costs,/by Ontario: Premier Robarts| provinces will be consulted be-/warned that if the Security) At the same time 200,000 in-|f fore the measure for interest-|Council could not find an ac-|dustrial and _ pharmaceutical lother interests operating _|free loans to university students ceptable peacekeeping plan for chemical workers began a Ivate pension' plans, The plan|'S introduced -- education js the|Cyprus, the result would "al-|three-day national strike, It was dustry faces an exhaustive going-over constitutional prerogative of the|most certainly" be full - scale|their third Strike this year in| . New Democratic Leaderjbefore a Commons: committee.|PFOvinces. The gove rnment;communal war in which Tur-jprotest against a rupture in ne- SAA Douglas called it a mixed bag) As usual, the throne speech opes the plan can start by|key would be: forced to inter- gotiations for a new contract. of proposals "'falling short ofjdivulged few details of proposed|(#!!: ' vere. Hospital activity went on as TRUC. ithe imagination and boldness government legislation. But in- _ Both Mr. Diefenbaker and| Cyprus was relatively calmjusual, Chief surgeons constitute The announcement of the leg-\that these times require formants indicated the shape of|illes Gregoire (Creditiste--La-Tuesday following a cease-fire|a small percentage of the total) Toronto trucker Ralph Allan ; Social Credit Leader 'Thomp-|some of the measures pointe) raised a question of fed-|arranged at Polis, northwestlof Italian hospital doctors. They) Black, 30 of 15 Birchview "not a very am- The railway legislation, fol-(@tal invasion of provincial re-\Cyprus, by UN observer Lt.-\threatened another strike of crescent, died of injuries while Real.!owing generally the lines of the)Sponsibilities in the govern- Gen, P. S. Singh Gyani of In- three days next week if their Tuesday after his three-ton dia, idemands are not listened to. | truck collided with a fast interest-free loans|son termed it university students,|bitious _ program," , ¥ KILLED IN WHITBY freight in Whitby. The acci- dent occurred at the Dunlop drive -- ONR crossing. (See Page 5) ~Oshawa Times Photo > CS