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The Hometown Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Bowmanville, Pickering and neighboring centres, VOL. 94 -- NO, 14 She Oshawa Ti 'Oo coe ae ty OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1965 Weather Report Snowflurries Today And Tomorrow. Turne ing Much Milder. High-25, Low-10, TWENTY PAGES TWO HOMELESS his two brothers and three sisters were shepherded out by his mother, Mrs, Anne Duignan, while his father, Kevin Duignan, 6, was one of six children to flee a blazing Miller avenue home early this morning. He .and LITTLE ONES Frank, attempted to fight the fire. Kevin holds the family cat, as burned debris in the background litters the yard. Cause of the fire was not determined. Story and more pictures on page nine. $100,000 Worth Of Coins Stolen By Hooded Gunmen MONTREAL: (CP) -- Mont- tively cleaned three of the cha- real's turreted Chateau de Ra-|teau's. showcases of old coins mezay, built by a Frenchman,|whose value police put at $100,-) taken over by the British and/000. : ; once captured by the Ameri-| "Professional thievery," said cans, was looted of an esti-/manager John D. King of the the black market. '"'Any honest dealer will immediately ques- tion these coins,"' he said. Miss O'Dowd, in her 60s, told police she was upstairs in the | |Claude de Ramezay, who had jit built near Montreal's water- front when he was governor of |the city in 1705. He and his family occupied apartment she occupies in the/ii through 20 years of repelling mated $100,000 worth of its con-| Antiquarian and Numismatic So-|stone house when she heard|the British and the Iroquois; LONDON (AP)--Near death as in full life, Sir Winston Churchill fights on. "They say he's uncon- scious," said an old. friend of Britain's wartime leader, "and medically they must be right, but how can Winston ever be unconscious" Blinking back a tear, the friend added: "Ever since he was born, he's been a fighter. Every bone and muscle of the man has been taught to fight. Fight's the very soul of the man." as The friend, who wouldn't be quoted by name, tiptoed into Churchill's ground floor bed- sit man lying with his eyes closed, his heavily ~ veined arms and hands outside the covers of his bed, the. hands paler than the white sheets, Seeing the old friend enter, a nurse bent over the patient and, raising her voice, said into his ear: "Tt Sa-= me,"? It?s ane one?" "T put my hand on his," tents Sunday night. ciety of Montreal, which runs Gunmen in hoods intimidated|the chateau as a museum. Assistant Curator Anna O'Dowd| He believes the thieves will after visiting hours and selec-|have to dispose of their loot on NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Faces Charge In 360,000 Deaths MUNICH (AP) -- Josef Oberhauer, a 50-year-old waiter and former sergeant of the Nazis SS Elite Guard, went on trial today charged with complicity in the wartime murder of 360,000 Jews at the Belzec extermination camp set up by the Germans in occupied Poland. Canadian Jailed In Britain LONDON (Reuters) -- A Canadian vacationing in Brit- ain, who stayed at a West End hotel for 15 days and then said he had no funds to pay the £165 ($495) bill, was jailed today for three months for obtaining credit by fraud. Rob- ert Lawrence Shuttleworth, 24-year-old clerk, of Bracebridge, Ont., pleaded guilty to defrauding the Hilton Hotel. 10 Die In Plane Crash DURANGO, Mexico (AP) -- A twin-engined passenger plane burst into flames and crashed northwest of Durango Sunday, killing all 10 Mexicans aboard. noises. She came down to face the revolvers of two men who had broken in. They made her provide keys to the cases they were interested in and return to her apartment. They cut telephone wires before fleeing. NOT THE FIRST It was not the first brusque ture. It got its name from then it became a post of the fur-trading Compagnie des In- jdes, The British made it a gov- ernors' residence again when they took Canada from the French. But the guns of the Ameri- can revolution shook the cha- teau in 1775, and the United States Army moved in during entry for the 260-year-old struc-|General _Montgomery's year long occupation of Montreal. U.K. PAPER HINTS ABOUT JOB LONDON (CP) -- The Daily Mail says the first sécretary- general of the new Common- wealth secretariat is likely to be a Canadian, aided by two deputies, one from Africa and the other from Asia. "Tf there are no hitches," the newspaper said today, "the sec- retary-general will take his seat at the next Commonwealth prime ministers' conference in the second half of June.' The newspaper's reference to a Canadian is in line with spec- ulation that followed the senior Commonwealth officials' confer- ence earlier this month advis- ing their governments to estab- New Commonwealth Body To Have Canadian Chief? lish the secretariat which had been accepted by the prime ministers in principle last year. Informants said that Arnold Smith, deputy assistant exter- jnal affairs minister, had been sounded out by his Common- wealth colleagues on whether he would accept the post which would have the rank of high jcommissioner or ambassador. |FAVORED BY OFFICIALS Smith was known to be highly | favored by the senior officials.| However, he may' not feel able| to leave Ottawa at this time, since he had spent much time abroad, including three years as ambasador to the Soviet Union. || JUST A 'SITTIN' President Lyndon B. John- son sits in a rocking chair on the porch of the Lewis Ranch --*one of his prop- Texas today. The President took newsmen on a tour of the ranch where he worked on his State of the Union CHERCHEZ LE IN GERMAN A BERLIN (Reuters) -- Red- faced West Berlin police are hunting a car thief--in their own. ranks. "It is all very embarrass- ing," a police spokesman said as the guardians of the law lined up to have their own fingerprints taken. A few days ago a police ra- dio car spotted a stolen Volks- wagen outside a bar. Inside were a policeman's hat and coat. As a man with a civilian overcoat over his police uni- form left the bar and walked toward the car, one of the ra- GENDARME UTO THEFT dio car crew stopped him and asked "can I see your papers, colleague?"' "Certainly," plied, "they're in the car." He got in--and drove away at top speed pursued by the radio car which later found the Volkswagen abandoned, It had false licence plates of po- lice origin, "There's still a chance that the thief is not a policeman and that he just got hold of the uniform," the spokesman said. "But we don't believe that ourselves. We must find him." SAIGON (AP) -- South Viet Nam's young generals took a more open hand in the direction of the government today as three of them' were reported named to posts in Premier Tran Van Huong's previously all- civilian cabinet. The government also moved to step up the war effort by giving its ministries power to draft personnel and requisition property. Reliable sources said Maj.- Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu : be- came deputy premier and took over the defence ministry from ertieg ---~ wear Stonewall, | and Inauguration speeches. Huong. The air force com- 2 "Young Turks' Given Top Jobs | the man re- said the friend, "and he pressed my hand. Imagine. "Unconscious Perhaps he is. Perhaps the whole thing's automatic, and I would be sur- prised. But whatever it is--he fights on." STREN OF SIR The Vee-Sign Droops But Winnie Fights On room Sunday and found the , "WINNIE" OF In a speech 24 years ago Sir Winston told the boys at his old school, Harrow, on the northern. outskirts of London: "Never give in. Never give WINSTON Churchill Spends A Restful Night LONDON (CP)--Sir Winston |Churchill's strength is gradually lebbing and his physician, Lord Moran, today announced that "he is a little weaker." The valiant 90-year-old war- rior was slowly giving way to the cerebral stroke that felled him last Friday. A crescendo of sympathy and sorrow was well- ing up around the world as Brit- ish officials quietly began prep- arations for the great homage that will be due the wartime leader in the event of his death. , There was no doubt that al- though a commoner, Churchill would be accorded a state fun- eral with all the honors due a sovereign. It. would be the greatest honor since the death cf the Duke of Wellington in 1852, The 82-year-old Lord Moran, who served Churchill all through . the Second World War, arrived YESTERYEAR in. Never, never, never, never, in. nothing great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.' UNITED NATIONS (CP) -- With the United Nations' bank account almost empty and a small mountain of bills on hand, Secretary - General U Thant planned a financial appeal at the: resumption of the General Assembly's 19th annual session at 3 p.m. EST today. Quaison-Sackey of Ghana was to speak after Thant, presumably to back up the secretary - gen- eral's implied bid for voluntary contributions or other aid. The UN has enough money in sight to meet its $2,000,000 semi- Assembly President Alex| monthly payroll at the end of January, but not enough to pay off in mid-February. In addition, it needs money to pay debts of $45,000,000 to gov- 3rnments and business firms and $40,000,000 to the UN work- ing capital fund. It got into debt for its Congo and Middle East peacekeeping operations because the Soviet Union and allies would not help pay for either operation, and Belgium, France, South Africa and other nations would not help pay for The Congo operation. The assembly last month re- U Thant To Dun -- UN Debtors Today frained from voting to avoid a clash over whether the delin- quent countries should lose their votes for non-payment of as- sessments. As a result, it has not been able to adopt new as- sessments for 1965. In response 'to Thant's plea, member countries could pay the assessments they owe the United Nations, forgive the debts the United Nations owes them, make voluntary contribu- tions or write off their UN emergency bonds. | EASTVIEW, Ont. (AP) -- A young mother, her night cloth- ing aflame, hurled her twin }four - year - old sons te safety through a second-floor window before perishing in a fire that raged through their apartment home early today. Mrs. Claire Simard of East- view, adjacent to Ottawa, had both legs through the window and was poised to follow her sons in a 15-foot jump to the ground when she was enveloped in a sudden burst of flame and smoke and fell back inside. One of the twins, Denis, suf- fered a deep head gash in the fall to safety but was reported in good condition in hospital. The other boy, Claude, escaped injury. iene Simard, husband of the |victim, had left for his con- struction job at Ont., a few hours earlier, The temperature at the time of the fire, of unknown origin, hov- ered around the zero mark. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Le- mieux, owners of the two;storey frame duplex, and their four Morrisburg, 9 mander, Brig.-Gen. Nguyen Cao} sons aged 4 to 9 years, escaped Ky, became minister of youth) Mother Tosses Sons To Safet Y the downstairs apartment with- out difficulty. By the time Mr. Lemieux discovered the fire, the front windows were the only avenue of escape for the up- stairs family. UAW-Ford Men Battle It Out TORONTO (CP)--Representa- tives of the United Auto' Work- ers (CLC) and the Ford Motor Company of Canada continued negotiations here today on a new contract to resolve a dis- pute which brought 10,300 Ford workers vut on strike at various |Ontario centres Friday. | A spokesman for the com- pany said the talks resumed at a.m. on production work standards which, he said, is the last non-economic issue yet to be resolved. The bargainers then will get down to work on an economic package deal offered by Ford Friday, he said. | and sport, and army security| chief, Brig.-Gen. Linh Quang Vietn, was made _ information minister. Thieu and, Ky were leading members of the "young Turk"' group of generals who dissolved the high national council Dec. 20, and nearly caused the gov- ernment to collapse. The coun- cil had acted as a provisional legislature. The military was reported to have insisted on cabinet posts jas its price for the agreement jwhich ended the crisis. resulting Itrom the December purge, | Israeli Art Display At Libra Blackstock Area Shaken By Ann Landers -- 11 City News -- 9 Classified -- 16, 17 Comics -- 15 District Reports -- .13 Editorial -- 4 Financial -- 18 THE TIMES today... ry -- Page 9 Earth Tremors -- Page § Don Mills Are Schoolboy Champs -- Page 6 Obits -- 18 Sports -- 6, 7, 8 Television -- 15 Theatre --.12 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 10, 11 But unless a settlement is reached, the assembly will face the problem next Monday of electing a steering committee and adopting an agenda. This would involye voting and a So- viet-U.S. showdown. at Churchill's residence at 11:17 am. (6:17 a.m. EST) and is- sued his medical bulletin 30 minutes later. The bulletin said: "Sir Winston had a restful night. He-is a little weaker, but otherwise there is nothing to report." This was the seventh bulletin since Churchill was stricken with cerebral thrombosis Fri- day. All have told of the steady decline of the aged statesman. arrived for the mo it at 11:17. red 'was issued 30 min- . Moran was asked by report: ~ whether Churchill was tak- t. The grey - haired doctor re- plied: "I can't answer that." Before driving away, Moran said the next bulletin would be issued at 8:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. EST). Moran examined Churchill twice Sunday. After the second had a peaceful day, but he has lost .ground." ; Medical experts said the biil- letin meant Churehill's cone dition was deteriorating. Hé was getting worse and it was -- had to be expected, they sald, Churchill's three surviving children stayed late with 79- year-old Lady Churchill near the bedside, dispersing only in the early hours this morning. His actress daughter 49, said as she left: "He sleeping peacefully." ' Sir Winston's son, Randolph, and 24-year-old grandson, 1 ston Spencer Churchill, left after 1 a.m. with no comment, The younger daughter Mary, wife of former cabinet minister Christopher Soames, stayed on with her mother, Outside the house, on- secluded residential street south of Hyde Park, a smi crowd of reporters and phot raphers waited through lent night. Sleet and rain las! down and = winds sent bottles c¢ : sidewalk, apparent at noon Sunday when his doctor announced after a 45+ minute examination that his pae tient showed pulse irregularity, It was evident that the which had withstood the mense strain of the nesses and accidents, | the director Britain' and Heart Association, Dr. ley Williams, commented 'I am not ; ia no improvement. It is a very serious Another tate said passed through a Churchill phase that was the typical aftermath of a stroke -- "rest» examination he said: 'After a restless start, Sir Winston has OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Min- ister Pearson said Sunday he hopes Sir Winston Churchill is lessness, then quiet, and then gradually getting weaker." Pearson Urges Canadians To Pray For Churchill to Canada, said "all we can do_ is Rope and pray that he will come out of this crisis as he has in the past." able to recover from the stroke| yr, Pearson said that S that has put him into a deep/winston, even if only half Bad coma. scious, is. fighting his latest The prime minister, at a press conference on his return "battle" as hard as he has ever fought. Oblivious to snowfall that turned their Weather -- 2 bird feeder into something SNOW? WHAT SNOW the heavy aa ig ? resembling an ice' cream cone, two tufted titmice and _ @ black cap chickadee move in for a frosty lunch at their favorite hangout in the yaré@ of a Louisville, Ky., resi- dent, (AP Wirephoto) a