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aan To $40,000 Bankrupt Plot Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bow- manville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in On- tario and Durham Counties, VOL, 94 -- NO. 192 + aoe ver Melk errs "Botivered « Weather Report Rain and thundershowers to- _ hight, Clearing and turning cooler. for Thursday. Low to« night, 57. Hign tomorrow, 75, OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1965 She Oshawa Times Authorized as Second Class Matt fest, Ottice Department Ottawa and. for payment of Pestage Cath, THIRTY PAGES Pirate Gold Lures Four To Tragedy By HARRY CALNEK | Their home was built on a OAK ISLAND, N.S. (CP) -- A/ mound bd earth nie from year send of pirate|@ previous search, the man Hae peor ae ion i nigate as had done the digging long deaths Tuesday on this little|forgotten. More than 200 such| island off Nova Scotia's south| mounds dot the island, coast. WIFE UNDER SEDATION They died in a shallow, gas-| Rev. M. J. Finlay, Anglican filled pit they believed would| minister at nearby Western lead them to $30,000,000 in Shore, said Mrs, Restall was treasure that they were con-|under heavy sedation "but I vinced was buried here more think that even before that she| than 200 years ago by pirates,| realized what had happened. Robert Restall, 59, of Hamil-| 'The first thing I knew was ton, Ont., had been here since|When mother ran up, all ex- 1959 and believed he was on|cited, and told me to get the) & the verge of becoming a mil-|campers," said Ricky. They ss Honaire. He collapsed and died|went to the pit and got one) & in the pit. His son Bob, 24, | fellow out, then they chased) went to his rescue and also)me away, died. Rich Barber of Exetern, N.H. Karl Graeser, about 40, a|a teacher with the U,S. student Massapeque, Long Island, N.Y.|group, said Demont was gasp- mineralogist who was con-|ing, his head just above the vinced Restall was on the right|muddy surface when they) track, and Cyril Hiltz, 22, of|reached the pit. Marin's Point, N.S., a member; The students lowered Edward | of Restall's crew, both died in White, a Clarence, N.Y., fire-| an attempt to save the father|/man vacationing in Nova Sco- and son, tia and visiting the island Tues-| A fifth man, Andy Demont,/day, into the pit, He fastened was pulled from the muddy a rope around Demont and the hole unconscious, Gordon Hiltz,,two were hauled to safety. a brother of Cyril, and Leon-| "White was pretty woozy ard Keizer managed to climb) when we got him up and we from the hole when they felt|could smell the gas so we were the effects of the gas. Demont|afraid to send anyone else and Keizer are from Gold'down," said Barber. River, N.S. | While Barber went for help. night. Thirty six thousand LEGEND LIVES ON ito the mainland the other' screaming fans welcomed The irresistable attraction Of|teacher, Peter Beamish of An-|- -- the legend that Capt. Kidd bur- dover, Mass., and the sal l second performance. For the Canadian fans they had just one word 'wonderful'. They would like to come back next year. --Oshawa Times Photo By.Chris Dennett the mop topped quartet back to their city, Here the fabulous four were caught by an Oshawa Times photo- grapher as they posed for pictures during a press con- ference held before their Beatles John, George, Paul and Ringo were back for two hysterical, sweat soaked performances at the Manle Leaf Gardens last fed his treasure here is still|/reyived Demont with artificial! alive today, A group of teen-jrespiration and massage. age United States students ned | BRING UP BODIES their two teachers who rescued] Firemen from Chester, the Make Mash Demont are exploring the is-| noarest mainland town, pumped bd land in their own quest for the!s5e pit out-and James. Keizer, 1m nt fortune. la brother of Leonard, went u | And Floyd Matthews of}down to bring up the bodies. Moncton, one of many wh0) The exact cause of death! , co 't : -| SAIGON (AP)--U.S. marines, apparently had it zeroed in andjoperation--one of the largest Secke Det ean accident) ®88 a se prow Bn attacked a reinforced regiment|began plastering the area with|they have mounted so far in should stop us." ane od rise ~ "swamp gas." of the Viet Cong south of Chuj60mm mortars: and 30-calibre| Viet Nam. -- was being made As ifted in to cover yrs a tities gg Lai today and Maj.-Gen, Lewis}machine + gun fire, informants {rows heavily wooded terri- the ne halt aad eanile tsland|oline engine installed over the Walt, by Sw geod ee pen bs oe Tuesday evening, Ricky, 14,/mouth of. the pit to operate a mander, sai ed casua ' Nearby marine elements § I i EI will run into the hundreds. jwere reported pinned down bY; 'Yhe big sweep by Vieina- ly - headed son of Restall, illed the hole with! a I Seaaned aimlessly around th pune bas Se | "We're not through counting|automatic weapons, SMA@lllmese forces in the Bo Lang Valley, about 30 miles south of ather and) « tall) yet," Walt told reporters at the|arms, grenades and mortars. Brower dled. : linet uate" oid Beamish. "He Da Nang air base, 60 miles) The sources said the Vietithe frontier with: North 'Viet "We were close, We were|was. really excited. He was|north of the battlefield. | Cong barrage ules 1 A = Nam, was in its fifth day to- getting very close," he said. _|sure he had it this time." | Marines said the battle wage hi i alam pipdag hs and the spokesman said He has been on the island| Restall's scheme was to sink /the biggest yet fought by Amer-|{ e hi a poy th TD alee | Viet Cong now have been since 1960 when his maacher, 8 nage ge ~ 21 icans in.the Viet Nam war, satel AB tty : [ip ss nary oe od her husbanddeep, then drive , | rines stor into ac-| 80! Bs ° | cas ' mr elena' aby He has read to the spot he believed ice nices lecdine ceatt and heh _The massive _marine sweep not been reported. been carrying on his educa-|contained the treasure, licopters about 10 miles south of | A U.S. spokesman claimed to- have TORONTO (CP) -- A man armed with a shotgun held off police for 45 minutes in a gun battle in a down- town Toronto sporting goods store Tuesday night before being subdued by tear gas. A passerby first spotted the man in the basement store below an Ontario Liquor Control Board store about 9.30 p.m. and called police, Police Chief James Mac- key was called to the scene while on his way home from a Beatle demonstration in front of the King Edward Hotel, He said the man had broken through a window into the store and was load- ing a 12-guage shotgun when a police car arrived. Chief Mackey ordered po- lice reinforcements not to fire unless the man did. He called on the man to sur- render and was answered with a shotgun blast. Police 'traded about a dozen shots with the man and then fired at least two hand cannisters and three rifles cannisters of tear gas into the store, James John Horodenchuk, 26, an unemployed teletype operator formerly of St, Catharines, was later charg- POLICE, GUNMAN SHOOT IT OUT ed with Ss. and en- tering and discharging a firearm with intent to re sist arrest. During the battle, custom- ers at the liquor store above milled about in confusion before escaping through a side entrance. One woman fainted in the excitement, oo she was the only casu- alty, 'dtu GRAZING BLOW, NO BLAST freighter loaded with The Frederick L. Blair made port safely despite a large hole punched in her bow above the waterline, The freighter's skipper, Capt. W. Banfield, said: 'It was a arazing blow. If we had been been: it."" here. marking the harbor entrance. The. 108-foot under her own power, the explosives were unloaded. 1. in (7 ; . s day that 1,330: Viet Cong fight- tion through correspondence| In the past, millions of dol-ihair Chu Lai beachhead, itself . vad oe course lark have' Been ape by vA ho mes northeast of Sazon | WW @QX=P@iMtedd ever islet m acton ist | prisoner, LOOMED FROM FOG Explosives-Laden Ship Hit, But OK HALIFAX (CP) -- A coastal;This great big vessel loomed explo-jout of the fog, hit us, appeared jsives was reported to have col-jto stop for a moment, lided with a larger ship in fog|went on-her way again. I don't off Halifax Harbor early today,|/know if they were aware that Newfoundland freighter|they had hit anything at all, It hit dead on that would have He said the bigger ship loomed out of the fog, struck the Blair and then went on her way. The Blair was loaded with high explosives to be used on| Stanley Knowles, New Demo- an undersea oi! exploration "i project in the Sable Island area cratic Party giombey ot Par about 18¢ miles southeast of then was dark and foggy and we didn't see very much, "Our whole bow was crushed, I'd estimate the damage at labout $50,000," | GUNFIRE REOPENS L.A. RACE RIOTS Muslim Mosque New Front In Police-Negro Shoot-Out LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The restive calm of south Los An- geles was broken in pre-dawn darkness today in a gunfire ex- change at a Black Muslim mosque, Eight members of the mili- tant Negro organization were reported wounded. Twenty-five were arrested. Police said they were fired on as they checked reports that weapons were being car- ried into the mosque at 56th Street and Broadway in the Watts district. Officers returned fire and stormed the mosque. Inside they found 20 Negro men..A search of the building failed to turn up any weapons. A Molotov cocktail was discov- ered on the roof, Knowles Asks MINNEDOSA, Man. (CP) -- The collision occurred about|ter Pearson Tuesday to. make 10 miles from Halifax and three}a clear statement immediately mile; from the lightship/on his plans for a fall election. In an address before a party wooden-hulled/rally of supporters from Mar- Blair limped back to Halifax/quette constituency, Mr. Police} Knowles said it would be polit- roped off an area around thejically immoral for the govern- pier where she docked while|/ment to call an election on boundaries based on the 1951 census when Mr. Pearson had Capt, Banfield said the crash) made '"'such a song and dance" j|happened about 4:50 a.m, ADT./out of redistribution. rs, Restall believed in her ous syndicates and individuals, ,. Pa El AR imcaee theories for solving including Janet an i ia pegging officially de-| ent Franklin D, Roosevelt, . "h 4 at | i .| A marine briefing officer in W F ] | re eae yl Saigon said American casual-| oman al S the mystery and made a home But more often water rushed ties were light, but unofficial . into their shafts just when they;Sources _Sald the marines also As A Bandit believed they were about to ee serious losses, 1. on the island, living in a trailer - like house beside the ke.the great discovery predict we'll have some : : make. the great os {tough fighting tomorrow,"| TORONTO (CP)--A woman roar of his generators and Walt said. "They (the Viet) wearing facial makeup which pumps. She planted sweet peas » a s |Cong) are well dug in." police said resembled Indian Rivar S a oral ul yi One unconfirmed report from Da Nang said the marines hadjan attempt to rob an east-end that struggled to grow beside war-paint was foiled Tuesday in | surrounded a Viet Cong regi-| bank. the house. ment, which usually numbers} The woman entered the) between 1,000 and 1,500 men, jbranch of the Canadian Im- | Two units that landed from/perial Bank of Commerce, her} (CP) -- Eddie|Montreal furniture store to the| helicopters were reported under face heavily lined with eye- Lechasseur, 33, friend of Lu-jamount of $40,000. heavy fire from small arms) brow pencil, Putting her hand cien Rivard, now awaiting trial! Lechansseur later appeared/and mortars in the landing|in her purse, she demanded in Texas on narcotics traffick-/before Judge Benoit Turmel onjzones. The Viet Cong were re-| money from teller Mrs. Ruby ing charges, pleaded guilty/four counts which _ resulted ported firing from well dug-in| Morgan, Tuesday to plotting a $40,000/from testimony he gave at the] positions. . : : | Mrs, Morgan 'stalled, then) fraudulent bankruptcy, 'Dorion inquiry and at the pre- Heavy Viet Cong fire also was|pressed the bank's alarm we Lechasseur changed his plea|liminary hearing of Robert|said to have been received from|zer, : to guilty when his trial was/Elilien Gignac, 38, another|nearby hill positions. : Branch Manager David Da- about to proceed before Acting friend of Rivard, who faces aj] UNDER HEAVY FIRE vies grabbed the woman from Chief Sessions Judge Armand|capital murder charge. Strikes by armed helicopters) behind and slammed the purse Cloutier, | Lechasseur is accused of per-jand fighter - bombers were shut on her hand, Police found He is to be sentenced Sept.|jury and the obstruction of jus-|called in, and the marines be-/a flashlight in the purse 7 tice gan charging up a hill in the' Doris Evelyn Berry, 49, of} He admitted defrauding cred-| The hearing was face of the fire. As they reached, Toronto was charged with at- ftors in the bankruptcy of ajuntil Sept, 21. the top of the hill, the Viet Cong/tempted robbery. j THE CURSE OF CAPTAIN KIDD REMAINS Oak Island Retains Its Secret N.S. bought the half-square- mile island in 1949 and dig- ing has. continued _ since. Restall, the latest to obtain exclusive treasure - seeking rights, held a unique theory that the fortune was located 200 shafts fn side tunnels rather than have been drilled by treasure- the main shaft seekers, including individuals, He also believed the money syndicates and companies in- pit was not the private pre- corporated especially for the serve of any one pirate--such | search as the Captain Kidd of Eng- BEGAN IN 1842 land most commonly _ con- Since the first of the big nected with the island--but spendefs--a group of Truro. the "bank" of numerous pri- men--began digging on the is- vateers who employed slave | land in 1842, expeditions have labor to build it. He figured been started by Texas and they used it for 20 years to New Jersey millionaires, pro- horde their treasure. fessors, contractors, manufac- Restall's wife, Mildred, said turers, hard - rock miners, in an interview several years groups of Nova Scotia busi- after her husband began his nessmen and U.S. President hunt: Franklin D.. Roosevelt All "Today we are diggers. To- have failed to unlock the sec- morrow we may be broke or ret or disprove the legend that we may have a few. million there is a treasure dollars, Either way, the ex M. R. Chappell of Sydney, perience for us will be unique," MONTREAL postponed Augers have been driven down to 170 feet, passing through oak chests, cement, metal, gold and pieces of parchment, according to the drillers, At that level, the sea poured in, years trying to outwit the en- gineers of 1704 who appar- ently dropped a shaft down through the centre of the is- land in such a way that it would flood within a few years i" contents were not re- moved, ai far from the first to attempt to find an answer to the intake tunnels which let seawater gush in and flood the workings to within 30 feet of the surface, but he was sure he would solve the mystery this summer The treasure hunt began about 1795, 91 years after the original construction is be- lieved to have been done. Three boys discovered a de- pression in the ground under the limb of an oak tree and dug down 10 feet to an oaken platform, Later, searchers say they have, found similar plat- forms to a depth of 90 feet, each covered with charcoal, putty and coconut fibre, OAK ISLAND, N.S. (CP)-- When the last oak leaf blows away from Oak Island, the legend says, the buried treas- ure of 18th century pirates will be found. But the last leaf died five years ago according to the is- land's owner, and the tiny dot of land, one of many islands in the Mahone Bay area of southwestern Nova Scotia, holds its secret vears, still The. deaths of four men Tuesday wrote a tragic: chap- ter in the romantic history which has enshrined the is- land since privateering days along the Maritime and New England coasts 250 years ago. They died in the latest search for a fortune said to be worth between $30,000,000 and $200,000,000 and which has eluded the most modern meth ods of excavation One victim, Robert Restall Sr., had spent the last six Byron Edmondson, per- sonnel service manager. at General Motors of Canada, rolls the first bow! at the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club this morning, to mark the official opening of this year's General Motors Gold Cup Tournament, Keeping a critical eye on Mr. Edmondson's style are Orville Eagle (left), presi- dent of the club, George Read (centre), meet chair- man.and Mayor Lyman Gif- THE FIRST BOWL OF GM CUP TOURNEY ford, Play got underway at 9.15 this morning, and 46 clubs -- 32 in Oshawa and 14 in Whitby -- keep the action going until late this evening --Oshawa Times Photo caused damage conservatively estimated at $175,000,000. Loot. ing accounted for untold addie tional millions. ORDERS ASSESSMENT Governor Edmund G. Brown ordered a state assessment of public damage and said h@ would ask federal aid in res building. Federal funds would be available under a law cover+ ing damage to publicly-owned buildings and utilities and streets and highways. A group of Negro labor lead- ers proposed a five-point com- munity action program include ing a 50,000-worker communi peace and rebuilding corps, j placement, slum clearance, hos- pital construction and federal assistance. Patrolmen said the mosque was "'a mess" with blood on the floor of the front room, fire also broke out a block away as officers led the sniper escaped. liament for Winnipeg North|oners to a bus. Police nadied s Centre, called on Prime Minis-| Second building with bullets but The two incidentsplus the wounding of a Negro man as he ran from police--broke a calm that prevailed the first CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) night the curfew was lifted in|Engineers wrestling with @ the riot zone. Before the shooting outburst, the 46-square-mile Negro trou- ble district experienced its first night this week of "the closest thing possible to normal life." There was even a footba!] game, DEATH TOLL RISES The riot death toll, however, rose to 34 with the death Tues- day night of a 47-year-old Ne- gro woman. She was shot by a national guard machine-gun Sa- turday as she crashed a road- block in her car. The death figure was one Short of the toll in the 1943 De- troit race riot -- --worst in the U.S. in recent times, Thirty-eight lives were lost in a 1919 Chicago riot. Still - wary Watts residents worked to put their daily living in order, The national guard withdrew some of its troops and the outside help flowed in. Torches fired 536 buildings in Watts, destroyed -201, and troublesome. spacecraft power system today, said they felt they had the problem licked and that prospects were bright for Thursday's scheduled blast- off of astronauts L. Gordon Cooper .and Charles Conrad. The launching of the Gemini 5 spacecraft on man's longest planned space journey is sched- uled for 10 a.m. The difficulty arose Tuesday night at the McDonnell Aircraft Co, plant in St. Louis, where Gemini spacecraft are made. Computer runs indicated that excessive leaking of gaseous hydrogen might occur in space- craft fuel cells, Tests continued the night and morning and officials reported that the trouble appeared to be |clearing up and that there was ja good chance no postponement would be necessary. | There were unofficial esti- jmates of a delay of five to 10 jdays if the system had to be lreplaced. TORONTO (CP) -- Mrs. Rev. Dr. J, R. Mutchmor, M here early today. Sukarmo Pulls Out OCEAN DRIVE BEACH, tornado roared down on thi Tuesday, injuring about. 45 mated $1,3000,000 worth of from nearby Myrtle Beach a 10-to-12- block area early reported. 'NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Rev. Mutchmor's Wife Dies At 75 J. R. Mutchmor, 75, wife of 'oderator of the United Church of Canada from 1962 to 1964, died of cancer in hospital Of The World Bank PARIS (Reuters). -- Indonesia withdrew Tuesday from the World Bank, 74 months after it left the United Na- tions in protest at Malaysia getting a seat on the UN Security Council. World bank sources said they could make no comment on Tuesday's news and have no idea of the reason for Indonesia's action. Heat-Spawned Tomado Hits Florida S.C. (AP) -- A heat-spawned s South Carolina resort town persons and causing an esti- damage, Air force personnel air force base blocked off today after some looting was Ann Landers -- 17 City News -- 13 Classified--16, 17, 18 Classified -- 24,25, 26 Comics -- 28 Editorial -- 4 sm TRON RL ty wth . .In THE TIMES today... District Ontario Scholarship Winners -- P. 13 Pickering Council Defers Marina Zoning -- P. 5 Whitby Steelers Lose Playoff Opener -- P. 8 Obits -- 27 Sports -- 8, 9, 10, 11 Theatre -- 11 Whitby News -- 5 Women's -- 14, 15, 16, 17 Weather -- 2 eS