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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- tf Be. Vine, FMGA,. neinhharing. Bid pee . Pickering Ged centres in On. tario ang Durnam Counties. VOL, 95 --- NO. 9 Oc Single 1 B0c Per Week Home Delivered anys sli iin kit a hn OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1966 Weather Report Cold snap 'snaps tonight. Chance of freezing rain Thursday. Mild. Low tonight, --~- PS. VIS ele ude OE Soe amegyae eee ee ep THIRTY-FOUR PAGES HE PARRIES, THRUSTS Chalk It. Up For Wilson LAGOS (CP)--The Common- wealth conference on Rhodesia swung into its wind-up sessions today with Prime Minister Pear- son making a delayed statement on what 'he has already termed the deplorable situation in the breakaway central African coun- try. In the opening session Tues- day, British. Prime Minister Wil- son rode out African demands that Britain take up arms against the white-minority reg- ime of Premier Ian Smith. His statement was mainly in reply to the free - swinging charges of Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai of Sierre Leone that Britain's campaign of eco- nomic sanctions against Rhode- Sia will not be effective and that force must be used. Wilson hinted that still secret economic weapons would be thrown into the battle if neces- sary to topple the government which declared itself indepen- dent from Britain Nov. 11. Margai spoke for 65 minutes and Wilson for about an hour in a "blow - by - blow" analysis of what military action would cost in lives and destruction. As a re- sult, the speech of Prime Min- ister Pearson had to be resched- uled for today. CONVINCED IT HELPS The Canadian leader has said he was convinced the conference here, the first Commonwealth prime ministers' meeting out- side of Britain, would assist in efforts to end what he called the| deplorable situation in Rhodesia. Aside from Sierre Leone, Zam- bia, a next-door neighbor of Rho- desia, also called for the use of force -earlier Tuesday in a speech by Vice-President Reu- ben Kamamnga. Conferences sources said, however, his tone in the closed session was more| moderate. | Conference sources said Mar-| gai, in a blistering attack, de-| manded military action at once to crush the Rhodesian regime and charged Britain with block- ing United Nations action to bring it down. Margai, a burly man who was the first African lawyer, in his} ; West Africa country, launched the attack in an emotional man-| § ner. He wore a shirt emblazoned with the letters '"'OAU" denot- jing the 36-nation Organization of |African Unity. | Wilson replied by asking Mar-| § jgai whether, if he were ap- |pointed commander-in - chief of an invasion army, he would be able. to give dates on when the |Rhodesian regime of Ian Smith |would be overcome. Wilson also jasked how this could be accom- |plished without the deaths of jthousands of innocent whites land blacks in Rhodesia, eco- {nomic chaos and the destruction of the Kariba dam on which |Rhodesia and Zambia depend} \for hydroelectric power. ates IMPRESSIVE i | Wilson's rebuttal of Margai's points was described as impres- sive by conference sources who jexplained that the tough debate jtook place in restricted session, |with only heads of delegations jpresent, each with an adviser. |An official said the heated ex- }change might have the effect of "clearing the air." Wilson explained Britain's op- position to military intervention and reiterated its responsibility in the crisis posed by Salis- bury's unilateral seizure of in-|was cremated on a funeral dependence. | pyre of fragrant sandalwood to- 'As well as hinting at the new|day to the chanting of ancient leconomic weapons, Wilson told| hymns and roars of grief from jthe 20-nation conference sanc-|a mighty crowd. tions had already halved Rhode-| just before midnight 100 per- sia's foreign trade. -_|sons- were injured in a stam- Conference sources said Mar-|nede through the garden gates gai's speech was the toughest at- leading to the tiny leader's tack on Britain's handling of the| modest bungalow where the crisis at the opening session. body lay in state through the Kamanga demanded that Brit-| night. ain use force and said he was} not convinced sanctions would) The funeral came less than 4 ini |hours after Shastri, 61, col succeed in bringing down the de- ' a i lapsed and died of a heart at. fiant Rhodesians. Sources said tack in the Soviet central Asian he spoke vehemently. = city of Tashkent where he had THE WIDOW OF India's, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri is comforted by So- By PETER JACKSON NEW DELHI (Reuters)--The frail body of Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri Kierans, Once Bitten, Isn't Least Bit Shy WASHINGTON (CP) -- A =| ond letter from Acting Revenue Minister Eric Kierans of Que- bec has been sent to the United States government, this time to Treasury Secretary Henry Fow- le' known immediately, a spokes- man said Tuesday, but presum- ably it also concerned Canada's inclusion Dec. 6 in tightened but r. } Just what it said was not) just signed an important agree- ment forswearing war with Pa- kistan, Shastri's eldest son, Hari Kis- han, lit the pyre with a faggot N L tt at 12:32 p.m. local time (2:52 ° W a.m. EST) and flames shot up bi e e er to consume the body. More than 1,000,000 Indians cabinet, \jammed the streets to watch The U.S. government still has | the body of the prime minister, not acknowledged Kierans' let-|jeader of India's 500,000,000 peo- ter to Connor but sources say|ple for the last 20 months, any reply is certain to follow| drawn to the cremation site on diplomatic channels. la gun carriage The pyre was Funeral 'Scen lit on the banks QUEBEC (CP)--Premier Le- ; }Sage and his health minister,| Eric Kierans, turned away re-| porters' questions Tuesday on} | emerging from a meeting to dis- Py still - voluntary restrictions on|cuss Mr. Kierans' controversial Of A Vi t D foreign investment by U.S. busi-| letter to the United States sec- 1e ea ness. \retary of commerce viet Premier Alexei Kosy- gin, right, as he visits Shas- tri's bier in New Delhi to- of the sacred River Jumma-- near the place where Mahatma Gandhi was cremated in 1948 and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's body was cremated in 964. sands of spectators burst through the cordon of police and |troops and marched behind the funeral procession crying 'Lal Bahadur ki jai" (Lal Bahadur live forever). day. The body is wrapped in the national flag of India. More than a million griev- 1 Million Indians Pay Homage To Leader Of Last 20 Months Cries of grief broke from the thronging crowd as the proces- | sion near the cremation site. | Marigolds and rose petals) covered the six-mile route in the} |path of the gun carriage like a} En route to the pyre, thou-|crimson-and-gold carpet. A hel-|three Indian service chiefs of licopter showered rose petals from the sky. Scarlet - tunicked drummers | moved at the head of soldiers,| sailors and airmen marching with reversed arms. The scar-| NEW YORK (AP) -- Thirty- one crew members are missing --and at least 11 are feared dead--after a Spanish freighter with a crew of 38' sank in a fierce North Atlantic storm. Six men from the stricken freighter, the Monte Palomares, were plucked to safety Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard, One other is known dead. Four men .rescued by the American freighter Steel Maker |\said the vessel's master and |"'many" others were drowned, jbut they reported they saw 18 jothers alive and five more on ja raft. The coast guard cutter Es- canaba picked up two more sur- |vivors on the raft and the dead man. Ship Goes Down 31 Of Crew Lost The vessel, en route from Norfolk, Va., to Barcelona, Spain, sank Monday in heavy seas 840 miles northeast of Rer- mtida. She was carrying a cargo of grain that shifted, causing a bad list in 30-foot seas, The coast guard cutter And- roscoggin today took aboard the skipper and 29 crew members of the Greek freighter Lampsis who has abandoned ship about 240 miles from where the Monte Palomares sank. The coast guard here said the men were removed in the cut- ter's lifeboats and none was in- jured. They abandoned ship at 1:17 a.m. EST. Weather at the scene was good. | | | | With ing Indians watched rites today as Shastri's body was cremated. (AP) let and gold hackles of the elite corps of guards gave a splash of color against the jungle and blue uniforms of other detach- ments. The procession was led by the staff with officers drawing the carriage. Drums muffled with black cloth sounded a solemn beat and a band played Abide Me, a Christian hymn which was one of Shastri's fa- vorites. The pyre itself was built like a bed with sticks of sandalwood laced round the body on a low brick platform. Chanting priests heaped more sticks on to the body until it was hidden from sight. Led by a priest, Hari Kishan circled his father's pyre with a burning faggot in his hand while a rifle salute was fired. Then he lit the pyre. -- The last post rang out, fol- lowed by reveilie. Cries rent the air from the sorrowing multitude. All the while, priests chanted sacred Hindu texts--"Let your eye go to the sun, your life to the wind, turn to the waters if they draw you, rest in the grene plants." The priests tucked dry grass in the crevices of the sandal- wood. The flames shot higher as ghee--clarified butter--was poured over the pyre. Holy water from the River Ganges was then sprinkled in a ritual going back thousands of | years. In accordance with custom, "It arrived in the last couple; Meantime in Washington, al HONG KONG (Reuters) -- A of days to my knowledge,'" said Merlyn N. Trued, assistant sec- etary for international affairs in the treasury department "I'm going to read it and that's all I can say." The letter to Connor was dated Jan. 4 and was made pub- lie last Thursday in Quebec by; moment. I'll speak at the proper} President Hubert Humphrey and .jeg Kierans. Friday, Prime Minister Pear- son rebuked him for bypassing normal! diplomatic channels through the two senior govern- ments. Premier Lesage called that letter a personal one un- known to him or the provincial spokesman said|Communist newspaper claimed had sent another) today that the United States and letter to the U.S. government--/|the Soviet Union were using the this time to Teasury Secretary|funeral of Indian premier Shas- j/Henry Fowler. tri to develop backstag contacts Asked to comment, Le-'on Viet Nam. sage replied The Chinese - language Ta "IT have nothing to say for the; Kung Pao noted that U.S. Vice- government M. Kierans Mr. time and place." Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin Mr. Kierans' letter to Mr.| were represented at the crema- Connor was described by Prime) tion in New Delhi today. Minister Pearson as "highly ir-| The high-level composition of regular,' and an infringement|the U.S. and Soviet delegations, on constitutional provisions giv-|it said, was not so much for ing the federal government sole|Shastri's benefit as to develop responsibility for foreign policy.!' behind-the-scene contacts. = them." he ORD PLOUGHSHARE AND THE SW Bankruptcies: During 1965, TORONTO (CP) -- Bankrupt- | in Canada will reach a | 'staggering' $500,000,000 for 1965 when all figures are avail- able, Percy Houghton, manager of the Canadian Credit Mens | | Association, said Tuesday. "The latest figures are shock- ingn" he said in an' interview. | 'We need tougher legislation to Figures showed bankruptcies in the first nine months of 1965 totalled $338,000,000. In 1964 bankruptcies were $207,971,000, up $14,000,000 from 1963. Mr. Houghton said $100,000,- 000 in bankruptcies would stem from the failure last, year of At+ _|lantie Acceptance Corp. itn cre TE TORONTO (CP) -- A major snowfall warning for south- ern Ontario was issued today by the weather office. It said falls of 6 to' 10 inches were possible before the snow, starting this evening, tapers off on Thursday. The snow would follow the '| coldest weather of the win- ter, with Toronto's overnight low three below zero, Lon- don's 14 below and Trenton six below. In Northern On- tario, North Bay dropped to 24 below zero, Sudbury to 20 below, Earlton to 27 below and the Lakehead and Mus- koka to 20 below. Timmins 40-below-zero mark broke: a record set din 1929 | when the mercury dipped to | 33 below Oxen strain as they pull a Vietnamese farmer and his family and bags of rice to- ward Trung Lap, near Sai- gon, followed by medium tanks of the U.S. First In- fantry Division, The. tanks were moving up to support of the mn. & the infantry units sion J divi- y began a massive operation in search of Viet Cong. (AP) The ing office 'warn- combination of weather Said: a searreceesenairimemmnarnenees |Shastri's wife Lalta and women jmembers of the family were jnot on hand to watch the cre- | mation. | Mrs. Shastri and her sons and jdaughters sat all night by the $900 Million Expert Says i: i'siiedhe "When completed figures for | ational flag. From time to time 1965 are published in March or|MtSs. Shastri stroked her hus- April they will undoubtedly be|>@nd's face. tc i] | WARNING: HEAVY | SNOW OVERNIGHT cold air, open water on the Great Lakes and a storm mov- ing through Missouri 'gives every indication of a major snowfall for southern Ontario. "Snow has already reached southern Michigan and is ex- pected to spread into the Wind- sor area toward evening and cover all of southern Ontario overnight." It added that. rising tem- | peratures "could force a | change to freezing rain in some areas along the lower lakes early Thursday. 'While a lighter fall of snow is expected throughout cen- tral and:northern'areas of the province, the regions princi- pally involved are southern Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, Niagara and Lake Ontario." me eT |figures are known to want the }post of prime minister. They twice those for any previous; AS morning came and the year in Canada's history." | body to ee oe = = ' 4 riage she clutched at her hus- In the nine-month period, On-|;and's body and placed her jtario led all provinces with | torehead on his feet bankruptcies costing $240,484,- 000. Quebec was next with $76,- 618,000, P bl { Mr. Houghton said federal | to em and provincial governments _ oe legis- ation" to curb bankruptcies. N L d The federal government should ew ea er establish a special investiga-| tions branch because some| NEW DELHI (AP)--Leaders fraudulent bankruptcies were | of India's ruling Congress party spread over several provinces. /began discussing the political jfuture today as the body of {Prime Minister Shastri was jeremated by the holy Jumna River. Despite their grief, Shastri's successor, Prime Minister Gul- zarilal Nanda, and Uumaras- wami Kamaraj, president of the tuling Congress party, met to discuss election of a new par- liamentary leader who tradi- tionally is asked to form a new government. There was noindication whether this meant that a chal- lenge to Nanda was developing in the party. As home minister he was No, 2 man in Shastri's cabinet, and his elevation after Shastri's death was automatic. At present he is believed likely to hold the top job until gen- eral elections next year. At least three strong political are Defence Minister Y. B. Chavan, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, in- formation minister and daugh- ter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, and right wing leader 122 Bodies In Morgue By CLAUDE E. ERBSEN RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- New landslides threatened Rio de Janeiro today as torrential rains mounted in intensity after bringig death to more than 120 hillside slum dwellers. An estimated 40 more deaths from floods were reported in nearby Niteroi, and other ca- sualties were reported in the Bazilian mountain resorts of Petolpolis, Teresopolis and Ca- choeira de Macacu, But commu- nication breakdowns prevented details reaching Rio. The Rio morgue was crowded with the bodies of 122 victims, and police believed more than 200 have perished in floods and slides set off by the wost down- pour in the history of this 400- year-old city. Nearly one foot of rain has fallen in the last day and the weather bureau foresaw no let- up. Authorities were unable to give an accurate estimate of the number of injured who jammed the city's hospitals or flocked to improvised dispensa- ries for first aid. Many persons were feared still buried beneath 30 major land and mudslides which began Monday as driving rains weak- ened the mountainsides. In an effort to avert epidemics, po- lice and firemen worked fever- ishly to uncover the victims. Thousands of homeless and hungry jammed schools and other public buildings. Thou- sands more huddled in the rain waiting for emergency shelter and transport. Damage caused by the disas- ter has not yet been estimated, but federai aud state authori- ties made nearly $2,000,000 available in emergency aid. Hardest hit so far have been persons have been killed in landslides. The nearly one foot of rain that has fallen in the last day set off the landslides that have left thousands homeless. (AP) A WOMAN IN Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, touches the body of her child in an im- provised morgue at the edge of hillside slum where child and more than 120 other the. squatters whose flimsy| Many slum dwellers refused shacks perch on hillsides over-| attempts to evacuate them. In looking the fashionable Copaca-|the Santa Theresa district, bana district. But flood waters} where more than 30 already also began surging into sea-|have perished, police tried level districts. ainly to move out a group liv- Several hundred hillside about 200 feet beneath a shacks and a dozen more sub-| psychiatric clinic that threat- | stantial buildings already have|ened to give way. collapsed, Others threatened to} Many of the victims were topple down on to dwelling/ children found floating in the areas below. flood waters. NEW YORK (AP)--Burning cars, an ice - bound avenue and near record traffic volume stalled the morning movement of workers to their jobs on this frigid 12th day of New York's subway and bus strike. "We could be in trouble," said Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes as he headed for a city hall conference with Mayor John V. Lindsay. Also reporting to Lindsay--to give him views on resolving the dispute and resuming transit service--was his three-man me- diation panel. Negotiations were recessed. On another front, a court hearing was to resume concern- ing the Transit Authority's ef- fort to obtain heavy fines from the two unions which ignored an injunction forbidding the strike. At least six cars caught fire in various parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, mostly due to overheating while caught in traffic jams in the windy 15-degree cold. A. broken prater main iced over seven lanes of an eight- eight - lane avenue in Brooklyn, practically halting all travel un- til crews could salt and sand the ice. Barnes feared that before the day was over the traffic volume would near, or top, the record 850,000 vehicles which entered Manhattan Monday. After another day and night of negotiations with solution seemingly no closer, Dr. Nathan P. Feinsinger, head of the three - man mediation group, said: "We plan to indicate to (Lind- say) the procedures which the panel believes should be ol- lowed to resolve this dispute and bring about a resumption of work at the earliest possible moment." Throughout Tuesday the 'city hours. Meany, president of the AFL- have been given me prove cor- Morarji Desai. Nanda served for five days as interim prime minister after Nehru's death 19 months ago! but was pushed aside in favyor| of Shastri. | ment in a day or so." NO SOLUTION SEEN But when the negotiations fin- ally broke up at 2:05 a.m. today Cold Adds New Woes To A Limping Gotham a solution was not in sight, dash-| strike, but no one has taken him ing the hopes of the 7,500,000 persons left stranded by the strike. up yet. Three leaders of the Protes- tant, Roman Catholic and Jew- ish faiths wired the Transit Au- The mediators gave no hint of what recgmmendations they would make to Windsay. Douglas MacMahon, acting chief of the striking AFL-CIO Transport Workers Union, had all but derailed proposals made by- Lindsay for means other than negotiations to end the 12- day walkout of bus and subway workers. Meantime, pressures are building on all sides to get the buses and subways rolling again. Meany said that he had of- fered his help in settling the thority and union, urging imme- diate acceptance by both parties of Mayor Lindsay's recommen: dations. The Fifth Avenue Association, a merchants' group, wired Lind- say: "Let's get the buses and subways rolling even if it means calling out the national guard." Raymond R, Corbett, head of the 2,000,000-member state AFL- CIO,. told Governor Nelson A, Rockefeller that 'continuation of the situation is intolerable,"* Economic losses to the city continue to mount at an -esti- mated $100,000,000 a day. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Latest Dominican Crisis Eases Up SANTO DOMINGO (AP) -+ The latest Dominican: crisis eased today as six leading rebel officers left the country and Communist labor leaders called off a lagging strike. The six rebels who left Tuesday were the first to was abuzz with rumors that the|~ strike would be over within|= In Washington, George|- CIO, said. "If the figures that i rect, they are not 'so far apart|= and they ought to get'a settle-| obey President Hector Garcia-Godoy's order naming 30 military officers of both factions in. the April rebellion to diplomatic and study posts abroad. 3 Indian Children Suffocate In Fire KINGSTON (CP)'-- Thee children suffocated late Tuesday night in a fire that damaged their home on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Indian reserve 35 miles west of here, Dead are Christine Hazel. 3, April Yvonne, 2, and one- year-old ima Marie. They were daughters of Geraldine Elda Green who is expecting her fourth child in March. ...In THE TIMES today ... 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