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* COST: $1,500,000,000 nem 'Huge Weapons Progr Ne i EP OEE 3 Hit Bho Be 88mm CARL GUSTAV ANTI-TANK WEAPON PAUL HELLYER +» « to re-equip and Improve OTTAWA (CP) ~ Defence Minister Helly er today an- nounced a five - year weapons program for the armed forces totalling about $1,500,000,000. He said in a statement that ~ ue ge is omg: 0 re-equip and improve mobility a the army, provide an adequate air and sea lift for immediate deployment in an emergency, acquire tactical jet aircraft and maintain a rela- tively constant improvement in} anti-submarine capability. One of two. new. detils .are acquisition of the Swedish Carl Gustav anti-tank weapon to re- place the army's seven-year-old Heller the planned pur- chase about 1970 of a conven- tional submarine to replace the HMCS Grilse on the west coast. Major Program Items .. . --An initial order for 15 de Havilland aircraft of Canada Bvffalo transport planes, --Four helicopter - carrying am Unveiled destroyers and two support fo ype. the lines of the, tanker supply ship Provider. --Twelve more Sea King heli- copters. ; --The American torpedo sys- tem known as Asroc (anti- submarine rocket) to be built into the seven Restigouche class destroyers. --Four additional Hercules transport planes for the RCAF. : ~---A.tactical jet fighter, still to be selected. This p'ane will not be the expensive Ameri- can McDonnell Phantom jet. --Improvements in the RCAF's Argus and Neptune and the navy's tracker anti- submarine planes. For the army, the 81-mmn mortar, more anti-tank guided missiles, five - ton cargo trucks, a new. "family" of radio sets and ble equip- ment for the airborne special service force. ~ : The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL, 93 -- NO. 300 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1964 ¢ Oshawa Times Authorized a3 Second Class Ma! ond for payment be Weather 'Réport | Cloudy Tomorrow, Turning Gradually Colder Tonight. High-28. Low-20. il Post Office Department of Postage in Cash, TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Dorion Strikes OTTAWA (CP)--A judicial in- quiry into charges of attempted bribery and coercion by assist- ants to federal cabinet ministers struck a temporary snag today as public hearings resumed un- der Chief Justice Frederic Dor- ion of the Quebec Superior Court. Several lawyers raised strenu- ous objections against permit- ting Mrs. Pierre Lamontagne, 29-year-old wife of Montreal| } r Pierre Lamontagne who| levelled the charges, to testify about a conversation with her husband last July 14. Mr. Lamontagne testified last "\week that he awakened his wife about 3 or 4 a.m. July 15 to tell her that Raymond Denis, at that time executive assistant to. Immigration Minister Trem- blay, offered him $20,000 to drop his opposi' 'o bail fora?" teal ma. whose extradit Lo the United States was sought in connection with narcotics smug- ing. Mr. Lamontagne Was counsel for the American government in proceedings to extradite Lucien Rivard, wanted in Texas on charges which linked his name with mafia international crime syndicate. [| Mrs. Lamontagne, a short blond dressed in a pink suit and nayy blue pillbox hat, took the stand to testify about coming to Ottawa last July 14 with her husband at Mr. Denis' re- quest. She testified in English. Under questioning by Andre Desjardins, counsel for the ju- dicial inquiry, Mrs. Lamontagne Inquiry Snag testified her husband went to} / see Mr. Denis when they ar- rived here from Montreal about} | 10 p.m. on July 14. Later the two returned to the Lamontagne's. room in the Cha- teau Laurier where, after talk- ing "generalities" for a while,| ; they began to discuss the Ri- vard case. At this point, she| } said, she fell asleep. She said that after Denis left,| | her husband awakened her) about 4 a.m. She had started asking why her husband roused her. She had started to reply tha 'the wanted to tell me .. ." when Guy Guerin, counsel for : & Mr. Denis, intervened with ob- jections that Mrs. Lamontagne's evidence on what Mr. Lamon-| 7 tagne said was hearsay and self-serving testimony not per-| : mitted under the Canada Evi- dence Act. Mr. Desjardins argued that he was not trying to introduce what was said between Mr. and Mrs. Lamontagne but only that thé conversation actually took place. ONLY IN COURT? L. Y. Fortier, counsel for Mr. Lamontagne, and Ross Drouin, counsel for the Progressive Conservative party, argued that the bar against hearsay evi- dence applied only in a normal court of law where there was accuser and accused. But Mr. Guerin was sup- ported by Norman Matthews, counsel for the RCMP, and Jules Deschenes, counsel for the federal government, on fhe point of inadmissibility. DINNER FOR 500 Ontario Jockey Club's annual Christmas dinner for stable employees at Toronto's Wood- bine race track. Chef Sharkey started the annual fixture 27 years ago at the old Dufferin NEW YORK (AP)--For more) than 24 hours after most of his crew had abandoned ship, the captain of the capac Amer- ; A ican freighter Smit oyager Which willy ba.served: Wednes- battled tcioe her afloat in the day by Jockey Club officials. | stormy Atlantic. ____ SCP Wirephoto |" But there was little he could : | do for his 7,600 + 'ton vessel, so Capt. Frederick Mohle boarded) a rescue ship Monday with three companions who had re- mained with him. The 459. - foot ship, its hull cracked at a seam under the pressure of a_ shifting grain cargo, wallowed atop 2,000 fa- thoms of white-capped water to- $500,000 Robbery "Like Television' 3 =f&es0 PATERSON. N.J. (AP)--Two, The panel bank truck,|the braneh banks. St, Anthony's| Mohle was still at the scene,| jackets, a pair-of pants and @ equipped with an alarm sys-|Church was the last one. |watching from the Coast guard | ski cap provided scant clues t0-| 1am ek tiie foal orn The bandits were discovered\cutter Rockaway and refusing day in the search for three gun. , : 5 : \by Rev. Attilio Giovannini, 54.\to give up hope that his vessel) men who escaped Monday with ine on from the main office of; "Father Gioyannini, mere than $500,000 in cash. the National Bank of Passaic) handcuffed by the bandits, said: the way to try) Police said early today they|County to deliver cash to three| "I didn't think they meant it. noe -- ei her 19.000-tor| had no description of the men/branch banks. The schedule|They were all wearing funny|cargo of grain to port, but the! track with one turkey. Now it takes him five days and 40 birds to repare the meal Take 1,200 pounds of turkey, wash, stuff, roast and gar- nish; serves 500. That's An- thony (Sharkey) Bianco's problem is he prepares the Captain Stayed Behind | After Crew Left Ship stayed with his ship. So did his third, mate and two seamen. The Rockaway radioed: its New York headquarters that) the Smith Voyager was adrift/ but "'in condition to revive' if} it could withstand the 15- to 18- foot waves through Monday night--and if the seas subsided. She was listing badly. The German freighter Ma- thilde Bolton steamed toward Puerto Rico with the 34 surviv- ors and the bodies of the four) who died. Shipwreck Found, 32 Crew Missing JUNEAU, Alaska (AP)--The wreckage of a freighter has jbeen discovered in the storm-) who wasicould be saved, | swept Aleutian Islands, but) searchers have been unable to find any of its 32 crew members and four lifeboats. The 521-foot Liberian vessel The best present Santa could bring Kenny. Currie, 5, is the ability to walk without braces on his crippled legs so OF WALKING } +he-could. wear his favorite cowboy boots. He also. wants a soldier's helmet for . Christ- mas. (CP Wirephoto) SAIGON (Reuters)--A direct showdown between the U.S. mission in Saigon and South Viet Nam's armed forces. com- mander, Lt. - Gen. Nguyen Khanh, appeared to be develop- ing tonight. As Khanh went on the radio with a military order of the day implicitly criticizing. the United States policy and role in Viet Nam, American officials pinned the responsibility for the week- end military coup on him. Projected increases in Amer- ican aid. to South Viet Nam have 'been suspended until the armed forces backdown on their decision to dissolve the High National Council, it was learned today. Khanh,' and some key lead- ers of the Sunday morning coup, are among the strongest South Viet Versus U.S. Showdown In The Works? were "in the works" until Sun- advocates of extending the Viet- Namese war and moves to do this with new American aid 'imuch as expect Abolish Hanging In Britain LONDON (CP)--The House of Commons voted decisively Mon- day night to abolish capital pun- shment in Britain: In a free vote involving no party loyalties, the 630-member '| House divided 355 to 170--a 'sur- '|prisingly large majority of. 185 --in support of a private mem- ber's bill to outlaw hanging for | murder. The majority--nearly twice as eans that oP i almost certainly be ; come law sometime the Automatic -reprieves for the two convicted murderers now H under 8 of death are ex- pected' to be issued inthe next few days. 33 One of the prisoners, 18-year- old Peter Dunford, was sched- uled to be hanged Jan. 5 for committing two murders in one year. SPENDS QUIET EVENING Hangman 'Harry Allen, for more than 20 years a public ex- ecutioner, spent the evening of the debate reading Enid Blyton stories to his grandchildren. He declined any comment .on the vote, A vote against hanging was a victory for 69-year-old Labor MP Sidney Silverman, the man the House of Lords}, who presented the bill. Silvers man, a vociferous backbencher with a goatee, has been cam- paigning. against the death pen- alty for 30 years. ahs In Monday's debate he made an 85-minute: speech without the aid of notes--calling ing "a grotesque barbarity." Silverman based his..case on the inconsistencies of the -1957 Homicide Act, omise bill-that retained pene alty " four categories of mur- : 's 'cold, callous 'brutal titual "une less some useful social 0 ¥ attained," Silverman told the 'House, ACT UNWORKABLE Silverman said the 1957. act was unworkable because it spared murderers who their enemy in the back and hanged murderers who shot their enemy in the front. One of the most dramatic mo- ments in the debate was the ane nouncement by Henry Brooke, former Conservative home set- retary, that he had been con- verted te the abolitionist camp during the last 10 years, day's coup. Khanh said on the radio to- night that the,armed torce's would not "carry out the policy of any foreign country." MENTIONS U.S. THREAT He also said in a clear refer- ence to the U.S, threat to sus- pend its aid increases: "Better'to live poor but proud as free citizens of an independ- ent country rather than in ease and shame as slaves o{ the for- eigners and Communists." 'Khanh also specifically re- served the right of the armed forces to step in over the gov- ernment to "act as an interme- diary' in all disputes and dif- ferences benefiting 'the com- mon enemies: communism and NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Lennie Bruce Jailed For Four Months NEW YORK (AP) -- Comedian Lenny Bruce, convicted on three counts of giving obscene performances in a Green- wich Village cafe, was sentenced to three concurrent four- month terms in the workhouse. { Pope Calls For Peace, Brotherhood VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -- Pope Paul VI, in his \Chtist- mas message tonight, called for world peace' and human brotherhood and spoke out against racialism. © Churches To Build, Share Pavilion MONTREAL (CP) -- Seven Christian churches signed an agreement today to build and share a common pavilion at the 1967 Montreal world's fair. Cost of the pavilion was colonialism in any form." THE BALCER AFFAIR estimated at about $3,500,000. except that they were white|called for stops at three;masks. But then I saw their! not expected to arrive and, in the words of a witness|churches to pick up Sunday col-|guns and I knew .it wasn't a cau Theale. | Harkness Blames Diefenbaker "sppeared to be past their! youth." | The clothing, identified by the victims, was found on a road! near this city 10 miles west of| New York City. | The men, wearing Hallowe'en) masks, took over a Roman Ca-) tholic church rectory during a church service, held four priests and a janitor at gun- yoint, ambushed two bank mes- sengers as they entered the rec-| tory. and escaped with $511,000 in cash from the bank truck and $1,700 in charch funds. Working swiftly and speaking rarely, the trio vanished less than half an hour after they drove up to the rectory adjoin- ing St, Anthony's Church about 8:45 a.m. Deputy Police Chief William Ludwig said the robbeny, con- sidered the biggest in New Jer-| sey history, was the work of professionals who were well- versed in the route and sched- ule of the bank messengers, | workers normally employed onjat the wildcat walkouts, | lection money before going to| joke." Atlantic To Gulf Threat By Dockers NEW YORK (ap) Me John-)a Monday. The waterfront com- -- FOUR DIE | ship, But true to the tradition the German-born skipper Four members of the 42-man crew died and 34. were rescued| by a German freighter Sunday|Ulak Island 120 miles west of after Mohle's order. to abandon) Adak, the sea, on which he has spent|manned mostly by a crew from more than 40 of his 59 years,| Spain, left Vancouver Dec. 9 for hadi Yokohama. San Patrick, bound for Japan with a load of grain, went aground Thursday on a reef off ot | The 10,000-ton covered tanker, son administration moved today| mission of New York Harbor re- to try to head off an Atlantic-|ported 92 ships were berthed in to - gulf - coast dock stri as/40 piers in the port, but only wildcat walkouts crippled/ pier 30 ships 'were being. worked operations in New York and! Two ; i j i Passenger liners sailed} ppm without difficulty, | James Reynolds, assisfant la-| Operations were slow , hor secretary, left for/Houston, |in New York Pee aa Tex., to sit in on stalled nego-|Longshoremen at other major tiations between representatives) ports continued working. Union of the International Longshore-|jocals in men's Association (AFL - ClO)|awaiting the outcome of and shippers. |Texas talks The New York walkout in-| Thomas Gleason, president of volved 6,700 of the 12,000 dock! the union, expressed puzzlement| Ann Landers--16 City News--13 Classified--20, 21 Comics--18 District. Reports--6 Editorial--4 Financial--23 southern ports were the 'THE TIMES today... Rap Car Mileage Payments At City Hall--Page 13 Whitby. Legion Branch Explains Flag Stand--Page 5 Church League -Hockey--Page & Obits--2 Sports--8, 9, 10, 11 Teen Talk--i7 Television--18 Theatre--22 Whitby News--5 Women's--14, 15, Weather--2 ~ CALGARY (CP) -- Douglas Harkness said Monday he blames threats of Quebec Con- servative Leader Leon Balcer to break away from the party en- tirely on* Opposition Leader Diefenbaker. Mr. Harkness, former defence minister in the Diefenbaker government, was commenting in an interview from his Cal- gary home on threats by. Mre Balcer and Paul Martineau, an- other Quebec Conservative, to leave the Conservative party. and sit as independents in the Commons. J Mr. Harkness said, however, "TI would hope that Mr. Balcer and his friends would remain Conservatives in any event, whatever aime they might adopt." Asked if he. saw a parallel between his own 'position in the Conservative party and any new stance that the Quebec Conservatives might take, Mr, Harkness said: "T have always been a Con servative .. . what Mr. Balcer's position might be is. still a mat- ter of speculation.'" - MONTREAL (CP)©Two Que- bec Progressive Conservative members of Parliament were of different minds Monday night about the statements earlier in the day from two others on the possibility of quitting the party fo sit in the House of Commons as independents, Another Conservative, Georges Valade, member for Montreal-Ste. Marie, said he has just returned to Canada after a trip to the Far East and did not yet want to comment on, the feelings of discontent ex- pressed. by Leon Balcer and Paul Martineau. But Remi Paul, member for Berthier - Maskinonge-Dela- naudiere, said in a telephone interview from his home in Louiseville that he agrees with Mr. Balcer and Mr. Martineau. DOUGLAS HARKNESS _ oe» hoped they'd remain PC's