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& Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, neighboring ken Whitby, Bowman- Poteet: centres tated in On- fario and Durham Counties. VOL. 95 -- NO. 32 16e¢ Single Cop: BOc Per Week Home elivered Authorized as Class Mail Post Office Ottawa and for payment of Weather -Report _ elon ostly clou: Mostly. ais ways tures. dy teday and Fri- tame ae wipe Snow. ' Low tonight, 27, High tomorrow, 35. Department Cash. Postage i "TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES (eecteennecenennen sternere erent ANDACTTIN VIFFVUDLLIVIN A emo Pe RNY) Trial, ° By GERARD MeNEIL OTTAWA (CP)--The govern-| ment was accused Wednesday, of charging George Victor Spen-| cer with espionage, condemning) him and fining him his_ life's .pension--all ' without trial or hearing. 'Spy Denied W hy ?" . The 57-year-old postal clerk was fired in December under article 50 of the 'Civil Service Act This meant loss of pension and no appeal. LINKED TO CASE His name was publicly linked The accusations came at the /jast fall with a spy case that outset of debate on the 1965-66) jast May resulted in expulsion justice department estimates.|of two Russian diplomats. Earlier the Commons approved! prime Minister Pearson said $1,500,000,000 in defence spend-!snencer "voluntarily admitted ing for the same period. |improper activities" and hasn't Opposiiton spokesmen de-| complained about his dismissal manded a closed judicial in-| One of the reasons Spencer quiry into the Spencer case and) was under surveillance was that suggested the government is} Spencer said in November that trying to hide something by|if he told what he knew, "both }denying him one. |he and the reporter who heard | Prime Minister Pearson, him would be assassinated. opened the justice debate by) 'The other reason is the pub- saying an inquiry isn't neces- lic interest," Mr. Pearson said. ' | » Pears ed ry. Spencer was given "'lawful| Mr. Pearson said he has per- ees sonally examined all the reports and just" treatment. Conservative spokesman El- don Woolliams (Bow River) re-| plied that Spencer has been} fired as a Vancouver postal) clerk, lost his pension, can't g0} anywhere unobserved, and has| not yet been given a hearing by e) anybody. Chalry Skorge Jr., 20, was booked at Nassau Coun- ty Police Station today on a charge of murder. He is shown above watching flames destroy the Mineola Hotel in Mineola New York. One resident of the hotel perished in the blaze. Skorge was photographed by free- lancer John Drennan. Po- lice said the bearded youth remained at the scene of the fire yesterday. The pic- ture was taken minutes after the fire alarm sounded. | | anne TE aes ASKS 'REAL REASON?' "What is the real reason the government has refused to} grant an in-camera judicial in- iquiry?" New°>Democratic Leader Douglas asked. "What) } CHARGED IN HOTEL FIRE and documents in the case, tak- ing a "great many hours" in doing so. The issues involved were im- portant and had aroused gen-| uine uneasiness in the minds of} MPs, Opposition Leader Diefen-| baker and NDP Leader Douglas| had asked for a judicial inquiry, | Mr. Pearson said he also ex-| amined other security cases of| the last 10 years which might} throw some light on the Spencer ase. DISMISSEAL 'JUST' are they trying to cover up for?} Spencer's dismissal with loss "Did the department of ex-/of pension rights was both "law-| ternal affairs make accusations/ful and just." Spencer's rights} that they could not substanti-)as a citizen were not violated.| ate? _ Surveillance was both in the "Is the government's refusal|imterests of Spencer and the to have an inquiry an attempt! Public and has been adapted to to whitewash ineptitude and in-| this particular situation. competence? Before the final decision was "This is what we want to| taken to dismiss him, Spencer know." Pg? teen 3 kent , ; ; r or official of e civil servi Mr. Woolliams said Cana- comiiissian. at whik sine So dians would prefer an ounce of was given an opportunity i freedom to a pound of security. dtute tis cuss J ' The government's argument i S 4 Neither at this hearing nor in ---- pornig.d yr oe earlier discussions with security officers had Spencer made any was weak, | | dismissal or treatment received. FRANK AND FULL, It was not the government that made Spencer's name pub- |complaint over his projected BUT fled lic, Mr. Pearson said. It was Wilson-Kosygin Spencer himself and he did it! voluntarily through the press. REMOVES THREAT The investigation into Spen- cer's. activities "'was to identify and remove a threat to national operation came after the col- lapse of Atlantic Acceptance NKRUMAH: SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME and surrender before 11:30. ACCRA, Ghana (CP) -- An Otherwise we will attack their army revolution overthrew buildings. All phone and cable service was cut. Jubilant crowds swarmed missed. The Convention Peoples party is dissolved with effect President Kwame Nkrumah's government today while he was on a visit to North Viet Nam residences." The coup leader was identi- fied by the radio as Col. E. K. through the downtown streets of this steamy seacoast capital. Thousands gathered near the and Communist China. Kotoka, 40, commander of the The pre-dawn coup led by ele-jond Brigade based in the north- ments of the 2nd Brigade was/ern city of Kumasi. It has been announced by Radio Ghana at/holding manoeuvres near Accra Ussher Fort Prison on the wa- terfront after Kotoka's broad- cast that political prisoners from now. It will be illegal to belong to it. I appeal to you to be calm and co-operate. All per- sons in detention will be re- leased in due course." ~ SEE WHEN NKRUMAH'S 6 a.m. GMT (1 a.m. EST). Fighting between troops and president's security guards was continuing four hours later in Nkrumah's Flagstaff House res- idence. Small arms fire could be} heard and smoke from burning vehicles and buildings could Led seen from outside the walled | | } | lately. | There was no news of the} army commandér, Maj. Charles Barwah. Barwah was given the top post last July by Nkrumah and reports circulated at that time that the move was de- signed to head off an army re- bellion. compound which houses all/ROADS SEALED a Ghana government executive} Roads leading to ministers' offices. | mansions were sealed and shoot- The radio broadcast a warn-|ing was heard near the home ing from: unidentified voice that|}of Defence Minister Kofi Baako. "all ranks of security service must lay down their arms now fice, cable station and ministry | Ghana. The myth surrounding Kwame broken. dissolfed. Kwame Nkrumah has Troops guarded the post of-|been dismissed from office. would be released. The Nkrumah regime used |preventive detention laws to|« hold hundreds of dissenters. The full text of Kotoka's broadcast: "Fellow -citizens of Ghana: "T have come to inform you that the military with the co- operation of the police have taken over the government of Nkrumah has been Parliament has been "All ministers have been dis- ! | | Trust Firm 'Kept Alive' By Ontario TORONTO (CP) -- Attorney- General Arthur Wishart said Wednesday the Ontario govern- ment saved British Mortgage and Trust Co. of Stratford from collapse last summer by offer- ing to float the company with $3,000,000. The offer was enough to pre- vent depositors from withdraw- ing their money and no money was actually spent, Mr. Wishart said in an interview. Mr.. Wishart said the rescue Corp. depleted capital assets of British Mortgage. Depositors be- gan demanding their money and the company's liquid assets were in danger of running out. There was fear that if Brit- ish Mortgage collapsed, depos- itors of other trust companies would demand their money, PETERBOROUGH (CP) -- About 200 'demonstrators pa- raded outside the Tilco Plastics Ltd. plant here early today and several more are expected this afternoon. The demonstrators, nowhere near the 1,000 expected, pa- raded despite a warning by On- tario Attorney-General Arthur Wishart that violation of a court injunction on picketing will bring action from his depart- ment. The 200 demonstrators showed up at the plant about 7 a.m. and, by 8 a.m., there were less than 150 remaining. Nearly 400 trade union mem- bers ringed the plant Wednes- day in the second day of dem- onstrations by organized labor against an injunction limiting the number of pickets at. the strikebound plant to 12. Mr. Wishart told reporters in| Toronto Wednesday that his de- 200 Picket Peterborough Plant Workers Union of America (CLC) are on strike at the plant. The company has con- tinued to operate and on Dec. 20 obtained an Ontario Supreme Court injunction limiting the pickets to 12. The strikers,. who went out Dec. 14 in support of a wage in- crease demand, claim they are obeying the injunction and or- ganizers of the mass demonstra- For The Second Straight Day tors say they are not joining the picket line but merely ex- ercising the right to peaceful assembly nearby. : The strikers are seeking a 10- to-12 cent increase in their hourly rates. Top rate now is $1.12 an hour, Stanley Rouse; president of Local 872 of the International Association of Machinists (CLC) and chairman of the Peterbor- KILLED BEFORE HE TALKED? Ot.Lawyer, MONTREAL (CP) -- Police jwere trying to establish Wed- Police Probe Connection Talks Fruitless By JOHN WEYLAND {charge d'affaires here, Lee MOSCOW (AP)--Prime Min-|Chang, Wilson told reporters. ister Wilson said today that he| Wilson said Lord Chalfont con- had held "very full, very frank,| veyed British government views almost hard-hitting' talks on|0m the Viet Nam situation and Viet Nam with Soviet Premier|they "will no doubt be passed Kosygin. But he indicated that}on to Hanoi." no progress was made. Kosygin has accepted an in- "We all recognize the ex-|Vitation from the British prime treme difficulties, and the dif-| Minister to visit Britain and the| ferences of our positions,' Wil-| date is being worked out, it was son said. | learned. Wilson told an airport press} Besides Viet Nam, Wilson conference just before flying/said he and Kosygin spent home after a three-day visit/"perhaps even more time dis-| that he could not claim any re- cussing disarmament, non-pro- | | security." dence was secured by normal | starting a run that could have |shattered a whole section of the |financial community, the attor- i ania ce king | Rey-general said. tego ge ag gpl this kind, He said he was informed of| ; ould be in-| the situation by the registrar of] missible in court. Law officers . eatiel | h a eae loan and trust companies, a ad advised against prosecu- F | tion. ;member of his department, oe : ee early in July. If details and names arising) 'The attitude of the Trust Com- from the security investigation| panies Association of Canada| were made Public, "our secur-| anpeared to be one of waiting ity would be "gravely Preju-\to see what happened after diced" or made impossible. British Mortgage closed its The prime minister said Spen-| doors, Mr. Wishart said, and the| cer has been treated with "'scru-| other firms did not want to get pulous fairness," involved. In removing this threat, evi- | nesday whether there is any connection between the fatal shooting of a lawyer who spe- cialized in bankruptcy cases) and provincial government ef-| forts to stamp out a bankruptcy} partment has been watching the situation closely and began collecting evidence as soon as the mass demonstration took place. He said his department has movie and still photographs of the demonstrators. jracket. : "T knew what was going on| Investigation of the shooting there as soon as it happened. yjof Francois Payette, 36, contin- will not overlook it. Action will|ued amid unconfirmed reports be taken without delay," he|that he was killed before he said. but did not elaborate on|could give the police evidence | the type of action. jhe had uncovered about bank- jruptcy rackets. 30 STRIKE Another report said Payette About 30 women employees of|had recently given information, Tilco, members of the Textile|by letter, to Claude Wagner, .({USing peaceful assembly as a ough Labor Council's special in- junction committee, said the Peterborough trade unions are protest against use of injunc- tions in labor disputes. A similar protest developed in Oshawa last month against an injunction limiting pickets in the strike by the Oshawa Times unit of the Toronto Newspaper Geil (CLC) against the Oshawa mes, WILL ANSWER Mr. Wishart told the legisla- ture Tuesday that persons show- (Continued On Page 2) THE COUP'S THE THING By REUTERS The coup in Ghana was Af- rica's fourth this year and the eighth in nine months. Countries which have under- gone upheavals are: Algeria, June 19, 1965--Col, Houari Boumedinne deposed President Ahmed Ben Bella, Burundi, Oct. 18, 1965-- Army officers launched' un- successful coup to overthrow monarchy--100 killed, 50 exe: cuted, Congo (Leopoldvie, Nov. 25, 1965--Gen. Joseph Mo<« butu ousted President Kasa« vubu in bloodless coup. Dahomey, Nov, 29, 1965--~ Gen. Christophe Soglio de- posed President Sourou Migan Apithy. Central Africa Republic, Jan. 1, 1966--Col. Bedel Bo- kossa ousted President David Dacko. Upper Volta, Jan. 4, 1966--~ Army deposed President Mau- rice Yameogo. Nigeria, Jan. 15, 1966~ Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and two re- gional premiers killed in army mutiny. Ghana, Feb, 24, 1966--Army ing contempt for the court would Bankruptcies Quebec's justice minister, on bankruptcies in Montreal con- struction firms involving a sum of $150,000, In Québec City, Mr. Wagner said Wednesday: _ "I have no comment to make. I know nothing of this affair." A justice department spokes- man said later justice depart- ment files will be checked to see if the department did re- ceive information from Mr. Payette about the fraudulent bankruptcies. | In Montreal, Leo Perrault of Leo Perrault Ltd., a lumber firm, said Wednesday: "Mr. Payette was acting for my firm in connection with a sults from a British contact made here with North Viet Nam. Wilson's disarmament minis- ter, Lord Chalfont, had "a very lengthy and searching discus- Transplant Case Over The Worst TORONTO (CP)--A 42-year-|t old Owen Sound man who re- ceived a transplanted kidney at} Toronto Western Hospital Jan.! 31 was reported Wednesday to be "over the most critical pe- riod." Hospital physicians said Arthur Van Zandt's new kidney is working sufficiently and he no longer needs the artificial kidney machine. Mr. Van Zandt received the kidney after Frances, Gagliardi, | 16, of Toronto, was killed in a) traffic accident. CHARLES KRANEFUSS liferation, European things like that." "It was very useful," dded. Biitish-Soviet relations were considered at length, the prime minister said. He did not go into details Asked about Kosygin's visit to Britain, Wilson said the date security, Wilson a ; jhas not yet been fixed. Lord Chalfont will return to Moscow at an unspecified date for fur- ther disarmament talks, he added, describing his own talks as "satisfactory and useful." Wilson was asked whether he had sent any written message to Hanoi in addition to Lord Chalfont's discussion with Lee He said he had not. He also said Lord Chalfont' had not conveyed any American message. Lord Chalfont "explained how we saw the situation," the Brit- | ish prime minister said, Wilson's special plane took off for London in overcast 'weather. FROM $150,000 LEADERS PAY L Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and Premier Jean Lesage of Quebec lead the funeral cortege of the late Paul Comtois as it leaves Parliament buildings. Seen AST RESPECTS TO COMTOIS in the back are former Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Opposition Leader jsum of roughly $150,000 which we lost over the last 12 or 15 months because of construction| firms that went bankrupt. I do} not know how many firms were involved." Detective-Captain Roland Jo- doin of Montreal police said Mr. Payette, found in the trunk of his car Tuesday, in the city's jnorthend, had been shot four | times. | Capt. Jodoin said he could not |comment on a possible connec- jtion between the killing and a |bankruptcy racket. He also declined comment on |published reports that the dead lawyer had been due to keep an lappointment Tuesday with city be brought before the courts to answer for it. The only alterna- tive would be for police to make arrests on charges of pratching and besetting which had not happened. "He said the demon- stration at Tilco was not dis- orderly enough to justify ar- rests," Jeering demonstrators taunted plant officials as they drove 35 non-union employees te work Wednesday morning and as the day shift began, Strikers and demonstrators shouted "scabs," "bums" and "finks". As cars left at the end of the day they were pelted with snowballs. Harold Pammett, one of the plant's owners, was jostled and had snowballs thrown at him and Sheriff Stanley McBride was drowned out by boos as he read the injunction. He was ordered by the attor- ney - general's department to read the injunction. Police Chief Jack Shrubb was at his side as he did so, 'reported to have seized power, 600 Canadians Still In Ghana OTTAWA (CP)--External Af- fairs Minister Martin said through a spokesman today that some 600 Canadians now in Ghana appear to be in no im- mediate danger. The minister received a cable from the Canadian high com- mission in Accra saying "all is calm" in the Ghanain capital despite a coup d'etat, The external affairs depart- ment said it had no detailed report yet on the coup. There are 156 Canadians in Accra working for the external affairs department and Cana- dian external aid office, There are also 36 in Kumasi and 30 in Tamate. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Injunction Issued In Teamster Strike TORONTO (CP) -- An injunction to restrict picketing at Noakes Transport Ltd. in nesday by Mr. Justice Donal Brantford was issued Wed- d R. Norand of the Ontario Supreme Court. The company sought the injunction after more than 100 members of t he International Brotherhood of Teamsters (Ind.) picketed the company's warehouse Monday. Noakes Transport is one of 55 trucking com- |police officials to turn over evi- dence he had uncovered about | bankruptcy rackets. | But he said: "We have taken| Mr. Payette's files from his) downtown St. James St. office and are examing them at head- quarters." The lawyer's wife reported him missing early Sunday. | | John D, Diefenbaker and George Hees, (CP) SWEEPSTAKE Call Him The Winner Who L NASHUA, N.H les Kranefuss, 72, rocked i chair in a nursing home told how he went from w to welfare. (AP) -- ¢ Kranefuss went on after spending the last from the we Pp Stakes in 1935 He said: "I was a gas station and Quincy, Mass., brother, Frank, and when I sp $2.50 ticket on the Irish sweep- stakes, When an American $150,000 he and brother won on the Irish sweep- working in living Shar- n his and ealth to our ticket, a stran to us and offered $10,0) for half. our. ticket." "Boy," Kranefuss the depression of 193 was a barrel of were sure of that be sure we were goi anything on our ticket the horse ran out?" Their horse won. Mi 1 was the sale of } sweeps ticket LOSE IN TAES The Kranefuss br Ifare enny his in my lit a horse named Dan Bulger was matched money, We couldn't ger came 00 in cash said, "in 5, $10,000 We The Kranefuss stuck with the ta $150,000 days was easier ng to get . What if He left for North Conw wrote a cheque become sole own of roadside ~cabi stake No, half their did Kranefuss discover others $6,000 mortgage, committed their second blunder when the stranger came to col- lect his $75,000 and they gave it to him in neat round figures. The tax hite wound up pvith about $33,000, Quincy TO PLACE ON WELFARE ROLE to pay. He provements Then the es thus were xes on the full in those so Kranefuss roadside mistake No. and headed ay, where he for $16,000 to er of a cluster ns, later a hidden which he had from the crossed the a rich man $8,000 into the business for im- broke out and the investment in cabins proved oS People just weren't travelling the highway. of gasoline rationing and in 1944 Kranefuss filed for bankruptcy. All this in less than 10 years in Quincy, Mass. ost All "The money loss didn't throw me too much," Kranefuss said. "I always was a bachelor and responsible for no one. I just went out and got a job." He first worked in a sawmill, then a shipyard and finally as a dishwasher. When his health broke down in 1960, he went on the welfare roll. And in a state where the sweepstake is legal, Kranefuss says, "I don't have the money for a sweepstake ticket." also sank another and additions, Second World War to be S in those war years day Dan Bulger finish line to. make of a grease monkey panies in the province affected by a strike of Teamster locals in Toronto, Windsor, Hamilton, London and King- ston, The strike is in its fifth week. Four Rescued From Fire By Motorist DUNNVILLE, Ont. (CP) -- Four persons, including two children, were rescued by a passing motorist Wed- nesday when fire destroyed a home on a sideroad five miles west of here. Mrs. Victor B. Collins, 49, of Dunn- ville kicked out a panel in the front door to gain entry to the house after she notic: ed the roof burning. Inside, Mrs. Collins found Mrs. Larry MacDonald, 22, and Mrs. MacDonald's infant son Larry and two-year-old daughter Donna Mae conscious. in a first-floor bedroom, All were un- ...In THE TIMES today .., "Rising Costs Put Squeeze On A Rezoning Of 2 School Sites Recommended--P, 5 d For Three G Bobby Orr Sideli TA COS ged"'--P, 13 Ann Landers--14 City News--13 Classified --22, 23, 24 Comics--26 Editorial----4 Financial--25 Obits--25 Sports---8, 9, 10 Theatre--18 Whitby News--5, 6 Women's--14, 15,16 Weother--2