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Weather Report Sunny with cloudy intervals and tt sit ced Se cold- Home Newspaper ay a OF Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman. gains Rolawea Miewad =. KUGSIURA WAKO ville, -- neighboring centres tario ang Wuiriuin Si Ew WinenS Tee Friday, 2d. Ui nea. ---- = ' TWENTY-SIX PAGES 10¢ Single Authorized as Second Class Mail Post Office Department VOL, 95 -- NO. 4 Se Per! Weak Horne Delivered Srasc' ond tor ponent of Pome tanh. vee Ma REL SL SWIFT VENGEANCE Cong Kill For Kill SAIGON (CP)--Allied troops and U.S. planes knocked out) hidden Viet Cong installations in widely-separated areas in the last 48 hours but the Viet Cong struck back tonight with two) terrorist attacks in Saigon. KENT'S HEIR? John S, Hodgson, a civil servant has taken over from Tom Kent as Prime Minister Pearson's policy adviser, the Toronto Star says in a dis- patch from Ottawa. It said announcement of the ap- pointment is expected short- ly. Mr. Hodgson, 48, has headed the defence depart- ment's defence division for two and a half years and is a dirctor of the Centennial Swap Terrorists exploded a mine) = outside the Saigon Airport and blew up a police sub-station in the eastern part of the city killing at laast two Vietnamese. Three American servicemen and three Vietnamese we re| wounded in the attack at the) TEACHERS' STRIKES FLASH ACROSS PQ. MONTREAL (CP)--With two major strikes of French-speak- ing Quebec teachers already in progress, some 30 teachers in the Vaudreuil - Soulanges area just west of Montreal Island voted late Wednesday night to walk out of their classrooms Jan. 19. The Vaudreuil - Soulanges teachers, at a meeting in nearby Dorion, rejected school board offers of improved sal- aries, working conditions and social security benefits. A spokesman for the teach- ers' union said early today that the vote was 97 per cent in favor of strike action. No fig- ures were given. He said teache ers feel they are underpaid, their working hours are too long and they have too many pupils in each class. About 10,000 students would be affected by a strike. Already off the job are a total of 639 teachers in six suburban communities just east of Mant» real Island and in the Hull area near Ottawa. A fourth walkout may be shaping up in Papineau County east of Hull, where 125 teachers have set Jan. 10 as a strike date. All the teachers involved are French - speaking and Roman Catholic. About 8,000 students have been left without classroom in- struetion in the Le Gardeur area east of Montreal. The strike centred on Hull affects 7,300 students in 383 high schools. : The Le Gardeur strike, which began Tuesday, was the first legal strike ever called by Que- bec teachers although groups have walked out previously on the pretext of holding "study sessions." The Le Gardeur group is seeking higher pay, improved working conditions and senior- ity rights. In Hull, the issue is pay. Teachers there say their salary scale is lower all along the line than the Ottawa scale. Negotiations in Hull are con- tinuing under a provincial con- ciliator, and spokesmen for the teachers say a settlement may come at any time. The school board has called a meeting for tonight to outline the situation to the ratepayers. - The Quebec government ap- peared to be taking the situ- ation calmly. After a cabinet meeting Wednesday, both Pre- mier Lesage and Labor Minis- ter Carrier Fortin told report- ers that the strike situation was not discussed. In all, 354 lay teachers are on strike in the Hull area. The 74 teaching nuns and religious brothers employed in the Hull -system are respecting the walk- out, airport. It was the new year's first| terrorism in Saigon which was) hit by a flurry of grenade-| throwing incidents aimed at! U.S. troops during the celebra-| tion of the Viet Cong's fifth' birthday last month. The U.S. 178rd Airborne Bri-| gade pushing through the! steamy swamplands west of} Saion uncovered a network of| bunkers filled with ammunition | and supplies as the Viet Cong fell back before the American! paratroops. The paratroops blew up the fortifications on the sixth day of! the first U.S. invasion in strength of the Mekong Delta a Communist stronghold. Other elements of the 173rd Brigade came on what one U.S. | spokesman called a Viet Cong) "general store' near the mar-| | shy Plain of Reeds, a strong-| ~ hold and infiltration route close to the Cambodian frontier, ATTACKS INTENSE Meanwhile military com- manders in all four tactical zones report an increase in the number and intensity of guer- rilla attacks and harassing ac-| tions since the end of the un- easy Christmas ceasefire. United States paratroops, with Australian and New Zealand units, moved into the rice- growing plains of the Mekong Thirty-five skaters were nN SUA Commission. (CP) Reds' Parley Comes Apart At The Seam". bined force of government paratroops and South Korean marines assaulted a Viet Cong base area in Phu Yen province, "HAVANA (Reuters) -- Cracks in the tri-continental solidarity conference against imperialism became evident today following a Chinese accusation that Soviet agen in Europe enabled the S. to send troops from West Germany to South Viet Nam. At the third session of the con- ference Wednesday, a Chinese delegate accused the Soviet Un- fon of collaborating with U.S. imperialism for world domina- tion and regarding America as Russia's principal ally. The Chinese delegate did not once name the Soviet Union,} but the anonymous subject of| his attack was not in doubt. Most of the delegates appar- | ently disapproved of the Chinese attack. but some African andj Asian delegations -- including} Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, | Laos, North Korea and the two Viet Nams--were reported to be | in agreement. The conference has brought together 500 delegates from rev- olutionary parties and guerrilla) As-| movements in 100 African, jan and Latin American coun- tries. killing 288 Viet Cong. Delta for the first time in the! cleared from this roller rink war Saturday to penetrate an| in Buraby, neighboring Van- UESLLUNLPESUUA LAI ASCARIS RINK ROOF COLLAPSES, BUT 35 ESCAPED DEATH thawing snow. Officials warned other older roofs could fall as a thaw. ended a couver, Wednesday night, 20 minutes before its roof col- lapsed under the weight of TT Ht POTTS AL RL Rays Of Hope cold snap on the southern British Columbia coast. (CP) old Viet Cong sanctuary. lisbon In two days of fighting the al- lied force; which included South Vietnamese paratroops, reported killing more than 200 guerrillas, before the survivors broke away towards the Cam- er, At the same: time, A New Deal For Indians, Paper Says | a com- 230 miles- northeast of the cap- ital, and have so far reported| Stam says a 50-year, $500,000,- 000 scheme to help Ontario. In- dians and depressed white com- munities has been devised by|" the provincial and federal goy- ernments, | The story says the cabinet "'is) | to approve" the plan at a meet- | ing today. | It describes the program as a double - edged attack on pov-| }erty among Indians and white| people living in depressed com- | munities of Ontario's northern) As the suspension of U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam con- tinued for the 14th day, spokes- men said B-52s from Guam struck Tuesday night 70 miles) northwest of Saigon. Accused Hangs| Himself In Jail gg os for the program| MONTREAL (CP) -- Pierre| is expected to extend well into! Toutant, 22, accused of capital|the next century, and lead murder, hanged himself in his| eventually to the end of the re- jeell in Bordeaux jail in Mont-| serve system, the story says: jreal Wednesday night, provin-| The. Telegram says Sidney cial police reported, : Asbury, of the provincial wel- Toutant was arraigned in| fare department, will head vatl court Dec. 30 on a charge of} four-man provincial - feder capital murder in the stabbing| committee which will utes death of an airline stewardess, | the project. Claire Laroche, 21, whose body was found in an apartment that} INTEGRATE INDIANS Mr. Asbury is quoted as say-| FIRST U.S. NEGRO BISHOP The Most Rev. Harold R Perry, the nation's only Roman Catholic Negro bish- op, poses in front of St. Louis Basilica in New OCriszos scheme be wilt "he he and his elder brother shared. ing it will take 60 years to re- habilitate the Indian into the white community. Under the program, the prov- | ince will take charge of admin-| istering the total needs of the j | Indians for the first time, the paper says. | Mr. Asbury said the key to the war is an educational "up- grading of most of Ontario's 50,- 000 Indians backed by job train-| ing and guaranteed living stand- The Telegram mentions three| specific provisions of the pro-! gram: 1. Identical welfare services| for Indians and whites. | 2. Subsidized housing. The province has set an initial tar- get of 600 prefabricated homes, and plans to setup a public housing authority in Kenora' 3. Training of youth for spe- | ish American Oil Co. and the|agreement signed by B-A and TORONTO (CP)--The Tele-|° lreport says. jholdings of AMC stock. cialized jobs. 'amount of notes payable The First Break In BA Oil Strike VANCOUVER (CP) ---Brit-| A union spokesman said the | independent Gas and Oil Wérk-|the union at the Port Moody rs' Union Wednesday an-jrefinery is basically the same nounced settlement of the 15-| as the formula proposed by week strike at B-A's Port\B.C. Labor Minister Leslie Moody refinery near Vancou- | Peterson and accepted by both ver. jsides more than a month ago. A joint statement by union| The spokesman said negoti- jand company said settlement | ations since then have been terms were accepted Tuesday|aimed at settling local issues. by a union membership meet-|He did not elaborate. ing, and a_ two-year contract |two years on the basic wage of was signed Wednesday. | workers a 35 cent increase over Some of the refinery's em-| The Peterson formula gave ployees were to return to work}$2.75 an hour and outlined job today and the rest either Fri-|security and automation pro- iday or Monday. Sixty union /tection clauses. Union leaders members were on strike. lsaid protection from _ layoffs The Port Moody refinery is|due to automation was a key the second B-A plant to settle |issue in the strike. ith strikers since the Gas and) 'The formula alsb .gave work- | Oil Workers and the Oil, Chem- right. to six months' lical and Atomic Workers Union notice of automation changes, | |(CLC) struck plants from Van-|yp to 2§ weeks' severance pay couver to Clarkson, Ont., start-| for workers laid off because of ing Sept. 19. automation changes, and also An. agreement was signed/outlined plans for a_ standing with the OCAW at Brandon, | union - management committee Man., Dec. 11. on automation. Rambler Took $50 Million' In Loans During Walkout DETROIT (AP) -- Loans of|30, 1966, to $53,000,000, Terms nearly $50,000,000 were taken|of the loan placed restrictions out by. American Motors Corp./on AMC's financial operations, during a three-week strike atjincluding payment of cash divi- its Kenosha, Wis., plant last/dends. summer, the company's annual; The company did not pay a ers the The report and proxy state-| |1965. ment, now being mailed to The company said personal ;stockholders, also said bonuses|factors were responsible for re- |to top officers were eliminated/ductions in certain officers' for 1965, cutting their annual/stockholdings 'rather than lack |remuneration by some 12 per |of confidence in the company's) cent. {future."" In the proxy statement, sev-; AMC reported profits of $5,- leral top executives were- also|200,000, or 27 cents a share, for shown to have reduced their the fiscal year. Profits for the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1964, The loans increased the| were $26,200,000 million or $1.38 jment on a republished report dividend in the last quarter of|- CANUCKS KEEP GABBIN' CROWN MONTREAL (CP) -- Ca- nadians have won the title of the world's most fre- queit telephone users for the 13th consecutive year. Statistics released in the 1965 edition of the World's Telephones, compiled by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., show that Canadians placed an average of 622.8 calls dur- ing 1964. The United States held second position with an av- ,erage of 591.0 calls per per- son. Sweden followed with a | Bargaining y JERRY BUCK NEW YORK (AP)--More peo- ple than ever set their alarm clocks for milkman's hours to- day and hurried to work along darkened rain - swept streets. to end the New York City transit strike mean- while reached the hard stage. Many who had been walking in tried driving. Others looked at the brooding skies and went back to bed to catch up on some of the sleep lost since bus and subway workers struck New Year's Day. The only ray of sunshine was that the negotiations had pro- duced its first hopeful sign at a marathon session that ended only hours before the morning migration. Emerging from the talks be- tween the transit authority and the striking unions Mayor John Vv. Lindsay reported: "There has been some move- ment. nevertheless the gap re- mains wide between them. New offers have been made." RAIN SLOWS TRAFFIC Lindsay declined to predict if this could lead to settlement of the six-day-old strike but he de- scribed the new offers as "a very important move." The rain slowed the- incom- ing traffic today and cars were bumper-to-bumper on many ma- 449.6 average. | No Comment py. fl wey 'On Gas-War WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Defence department officials Wednesday declined all com- that the U.S. joint chiefs of staff had before them a plan to expand non-lethal gas warfare in Viet Nam. The report, in the Wall Street Journal, said the plan is to use non-lethal chemicals that would be more effective than the tear gas currently being employed there. Officials «said that if there were such a plan it would be classified, and that if there were a tactical decision in- volved it would not be an- nounced. | The U.S. government has said in the past that tear gas would be used in Vietnamese areas when considered necessary. A dispatch from Saigon four |days ago said U.S. paratroop- lers sprayed tear gas from heli- copters in an unsuccessful at- tempt to knock out a concen- tration of Viet Cong guerrillas Sépt.'a share. in a jungle area. |in New Yorkers. Taxed by the | jor arteries. Surveying the traffic and the rain Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes said: 'Some people will use the weather con- ditions as an excuse to stay home and I hope they will." Commuter traffic in the Grand Central aad Pennsylva- nia Railway and Port Authority bus terminals was heavy. A spokesman for the Long Island Railroad said: 'It looks like the Second World War when gaso- line rationing forced people to use the railways.' Negotiators for the transit au- thority and the striking Trans- port Workers Union and Amal- gamated Transit Union, both AFL-CIO, plan to get back to work early today. In New York's five boroughs, and from Connecticut to New Jersey, people bound for work cut short their sleep to face an- other day of fighting the traf- fic and crowded railway facili- ties. The strike proved: once again |that crisis brings out the best strike's frustrations, they still managed to keep their perspect- Ive. A grey - haired executive who had been waiting an hour for a train at Pennsylvania Station said with a touch of pride: "New York is the only city in| the world that could have with- stood this." Irving Kornblum, a Green- wich Village lawyer, was forced DION, THE MURDERER WILL 'H AVE HIS SAY' A Killer Among Crimefighters to walk to work and found he enjoyed it. "What a wonderful walk it was," he said. "I'll do it much more often and I look forward to it again." One thing that has been con- tributing to the prevention of chaos in the strike has been that the morning and evening rush hours have been spread out over a longer period. Hours before the winter sun appears thousands of auto head- lights pierce the darkness as workers get an early start. Thousands more ride the com- muter trains into Manhattan at an hour that surely must lead some to believe they'd just got- ten home in time to turn At Last Light A Dismal N.Y. Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes announced a plan Wednesday for staggered prork- ing hours in lower Manhattan. He divided the area into four sections and asked employers to voluntarily begin letting work- ers off at intervals between 3 and 5 p.m. The New York Stock Ex- change and the American Ex- change said they would close trading 90 minutes early and Macy's said it was calling off its usual Thursday night late- closing at its Herald Square de- partment store. The unions have demanded $216,000,000 in higher wages and benefits and the transit author- around and come back. ity had offered a $29,000,000 package, What Strike Does To New Yorkers: NEW YORK (AP)--The sub- way train marked "no passen- gers" rushes by. Thousands of clerical workers, supervisors and policemen are working through the strike for the tran- sit authority, many in 12-hour shifts. The authority must run trains to prevent rust from forming on the tracks. The huge ventilating and signal systems have to he kept in good shape for the time when passengers can return. About 2,800 members of two non-striking supervisors unions Fun. -fow.trains daily. .2 the 720 miles of track and look after the 6,700 idle subway cars and 4,200 buses. Clerical work- ers man the offices and police- men guard the trains and 481 stations. NEW YORK (AP) -- There were about 50 per cent more automobile fires Wednesday than on a normal day in Man- hattan. "The increase seems to indi- cate that people are driving more jalopies into town," Fire Commissioner Robert 0. Low- ery said. NEW YORK (AP) -- Emily Carazo has a_ four-month-old daughter, Joann, who is cared for by a babysitter when Mrs. Carazo is working as a hotel room clerk. But her babysitter hasn't been able to get to Mrs. Ca- Tao's in Jamaica, Queens, because of the transit strike, so Mrs. Carazo brought her baby to work. Joanne sleeps erih. while Mrs. Caraza keeps an eye on her and her work, nome NEW YORK (AP)--Some out- of-towners bring bicycles on commuter trains and pedal off to work after getting to Man- hattan. Some bring roller skates, including at least one Columbia University official. But William Johnson, 15, rides his unicycle four miles every day from his Bronx home to high school. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Fire Guts Hotel; 9 ST. PAUL, Minn, Dead, 16 Injured (AP) -- Fire swept a downtown hotel-apartment house early today leaving at least nine dead and 16 injured. Four were in critical condition. Fire- men were searching ruins of the four-storey Carleton hotel and apartments for more bodies, 400 Jobs Lost; Auto-Treaty Blamed WASHINGTON (AP) --A loss of 400 jobs at a Muncie, Ind:, industrial plant. was blamed Wednesday by Senator Vance Hartke (Dem. Ind.) on the Canada - United States auto agreement. He said Warner Gear, a maker of auto- mobile transmissions, was seriously affected by a produc- tion slowdown at American Motors and Warner's inability to find other customers among U.S. now producing transmissions Canada. ear manufacturers and other auto parts' in. consecrated during ceremon- ies today. Bishop Perry was appointed auxiliary biship of New Orleans last October he Poona Por' Sree ao, > Vee al, awe" OTTAWA (CP) --. The 13th man at the federal-provincial conference on crime opening to- day is Leopold Dion He's there in spirit if not in person as the death penalty is discussed by the provincial at- torneys-general and two federal representatives Justice Minis- ter Litcien Cardin and Solititor- Geheral Larry Pennell Commutation late last fall of the death sentence against the hulking 45-year-old sex stran- gler threw a floodlight on the issus of capital pusisawent, Dion who now sits in a cell in: St. Vincent de Paul Peniten- tiary at Montreal will. be eli- gible for parole in 10 years if the federal cabinet approves. Dion was convicted in 1964 of the strangling of 13-year-old Pi- erre Marquis. He was also im- plicated in the slaying of three other Quebec city boys in the spring of 1964 The commutation of Dion's death sentence has drawn wrath from Justice- Minister Claude Wagner and Premier Jean Le- aage of Quebec, There have been 22 commuta- tions of the death penalty since Arthur Lucas and Ronald Tur- pin the last to die under the law were hanged at Toronto's Don Jail Dec. 11 1962. The passionate opposition of Mr. Wagner to abolition appar- ently has drawn some provin- cial support. Attorfey-General Arthur Wishart of Ontario said this. week the death penalty should be retained for deliber- ate cold-blooded killers such as -bank robbers, Mr. Wagner came to Ottawa armed with a 15-page brief ar- guing his case for a national plebiscite on capital punishment and changes in the criminal code. The brief was due to be made public today. Several other provinces were pressing for tighter laws to help in the fight against organized crime. Another topic is a proposal for a-communications network between the RCMP the Quebec and Ontario provincial police and nolice forces in. hig. cities, ...In THE TIMES today 4 Heart Fund Gears For 1966 Campaign--P. 13 High School Board Names Standing Committees--P, 5 Hull Scores 30th, 31st To Pace Hawk Win--P, 8 Obits--25 Sports--8, 9, 10 Theatre--18 Whetby News--5, 6 Worften's---14, 15, Weother--2 Ann Landers ---- 14 City Néws--13 Classified--22, 23, 24 Comies--21 Editorial--4 Financial---25 16, 17