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FORMER CORONER SAYS INQUIRY SUPPRESSED CHILD'S DEATH, AT PEMBROKE Shulman Tosses 'Hot Potato' As Inquiry Opens TORONTO (CP)--Dr. Morton Shulman got his chance to speak before the Parker royal com- mission Monday and it wasn't long before he placed a hot potato in the lap of the Ontario government. The royal commission, called to investigate charges by Dr. Shulman that gdvernment offi- cials had interfered with the conducting of inquests, heard the former Metropolitan Toronto coroner tell of a 1961 Pembroke death in which he said author- ities suppressed investigations. Dr. Shulman told Ontario Su- preme Court Justice W. D. Parker that Dr. Smirle Lawson, Ontario's supervising coroner in 1961, and Dr. H. Beatty Got- nam, the present provincial su- pervising coroner who was coro- ner for Renfrew County, agreed not to hold an inquest into the death of a three-year-old child after "'too vigorous" application DR. MORTON SHULMAN +.» Negligence seen of oxygen by a nurse following an operation in Pembroke Hos- pital. "It is very obvious that this is a case of medical negli- gence," said Dr. Shulman, 41, who was dismissed April 7 as chief coroner for Metropolitan Toronto. The hearing continues. Dr. Shulman said that when he inquired about the death in 1964, he had been unable to find a copy of the coroner's report which would normally have been filed with the Crown attor- ney at Pembroke. Dr. Cotnam, taking the stand briefly, said he did not have a copy. Asked directly if he had destroyed or hidden any docu- ments concerning the death, he replied with a blunt "no." LETTER INVOLVES COTNAM Dr. Shulman said he found letters in a file in the basement of the coroner's building here that indicated Dr. Lawson and Dr, Cotnam agreed not. to call an inquest into the death of the three - year - old girl, Barbara Moore. Dr. Lawson wrote in one let- ter: "We, in Toronto, do not hold inquests into all deaths due to anesthetic or surgical deaths, as they are usually accidental. . .. In my own opinion, I do not think an inquest is necessary." Dr. Shulman said that after he did not get a report from John Mulcahy, Crown attorney at Pembroke, he wrote to At- torney-General Arthur Wishart, asking for an appointment. He read from a letter dated Jan. 20, 1985, which he said, was from Mr. Wishart, It said: «. , A very thorough inves- tigation was made at the time of the death, including a com- plete autopsy by Dr. Stanley Bobra, regional pathologist in Pembroke at the time. A thor- ough history was also obtained. " The letter also noted that the Crown attorney had been told the facts and the cause of death was set out in the medical cer- tificate of death. Dr. Shulman said he wrote to Mr. Wishart: "It is not for me to suggest what level of honesty you should expect from your own staff, however if it is not your intention to take any disciplin- ary action I feel I must at least clear the public slur on my own truthfulness." This was a reference to a pre- vious dispute between Dr. Shul- man and Dr. Cotnam. QUOTED FROM LETTER He then quoted from a Feb. 10 letter he said was from Mr. Wishart: "In your comments of Jan. 21 respecting Barbara Moore, then you have the temerity to infer that there are levels of honesty which the attorney-general ex- pects in the administration of justice. "Would you please bear in mind that in the administration of justice this province expects nothing but complete and unal- terable honesty and_ integrity. " ... You suggest that if I do not take some action about a particular member of my staff then you will take some steps to clear what you allege is some slur on your own truth- fulness. I am not aware of what the implication is in your state- mnt and it is not of concern to me what steps you care to take in this respect." Testimony then switched to two inquests in Toronto which had led Dr. Shulman to make public allegations against gov- ernment officials. During his testimony, how- ever, Dr. Shulman could not name persons who might want to suppress evidence. Dr. Shulman made his allega- tions of government interfer- ence in inquests after he had called an inquest into the death of a man in a fire at the On- tario Workmens' Compensation Board hospital contrary to the advice of Dr. Cotnam, the provy- ince's supervising coroner. Concerning another case, Dr. Shulman told the inqury he had told newspaper reporters last month that he feared an inquest into the death of John Stern, 20, of Toronto, would be "'a cover- up, whitewashed or swept under the rug."' The inquest into the death of Mr. Stern later was told he had experimented with the halluci- natory drug LSD hours before his death-fall from a Toronto viaduct DR, H. B. COTNAM +.» didn't hold inquest Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, neighboring ario and Durham Counties. VOL. 96 -- NO Pickering and centres in Ont- 10¢ Single Copy 55¢ Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1967 -- She Oshawa Times Authorized as Second Class Mail Po Ottowa and for payment of P: Weather Report Clear with a few cloudy pe- riods. Cooler tonight and Wednesday. Winds at 20, Low 45; high 55. st Office Department 'ostage in Cash TWENTY-TWO. PAGES BIG AND SMALL OF SPORTS CAR RACING The big and the small of sports car racing is illus- trated in this picture of Dorothy Hondorf, who weighs 89 pounds and Gil Vindent, who weighs 390. RE Se * 4 Both drivers are from Mont- real and both are entered in the Shell 4000 rally, an annual cross-Canada event. (CP Wirephoto) More Reward Money Posted For Abductor BURLINGTON, Ont. (CP)-- The Ontario attorney-general's department Monday offered $2,- 000 reward for information lead- ing to the arrest and conviction of Marianne Schuett's abductor. The offer increased the total reward to $5,500 as the search continued for the 10-year-old Kilbride, Ont., girl missing since last Thursday. _--- Other rewards posted are $1,- 000 each from the Burlington board of education, the Burling- ton police commission and the Hamilton Spectator. Local 707 of the United Auto Workers of America, of which the girl's father, Milton Schuett, is a member, has offered $500. Provincial police searched Monday through dense bush and rocky crevasses in a drizzling rain without finding any trace of the Grade 4 student last seen 'Commie' Charge Hurled; Sopha Challenges Bryden TORONTO (CP)--Ken Bryden (NDP--Toronto Woodbine) Mon- day night said Mike Solski, Lib- eral candidate in the Ontario} mark outside the house, prom- ising him he would be sued for slander. Mr. Bryden said use of the riding of Sudbury East, is "al|word "liar" was unparliamen- Commie." Mr. Bryden hurled the epithet in an interjection during a speech in the legislature by El- mer Sopha (L---Sudbury). "You are a liar," Mr. Sopha shouted, terming Mr. Bryden's remark a ment." Mr. tary and asked Chairman Allan Reuter (PC---Waterloo South) to order the remark wfthdrawn. "In view of your ruling I shall withdraw," Mr. Sopha said. Later, as the house was about "rotten, dirty state-|to adjourn, Liberal Leader Rob- ert Nixon rose on a point of Sopha challenged thejorder to deplore the NDP mem- NDP member to repeat the re- ber's statement, - entering a stranger's car or station wagon. Four witnesses who saw Mari- anne get into the vehicle have not been able to agree on it's make. "TI showed the four people pictures of every known make of car on Canadian roads... but they couldn't pick one out," said Inspector William Lidstone of the Ontario Provincial Po- lice criminal investigation branch, SEEK 'OLDER' MAN Police have released a ctom- posite drawing of the suspected abductor, based on descriptions of the witnesses who first said the man was about 40, The drawing, however, depicts a man one officer described as "older than the one we believe we are looking for." The only clue discoverec since the girl was reported missing is a blue running shoe found Friday beside a highway five miles north of Milton. Police at Oakville said they would investigate a burned-out barn and shed near Hornby, Ont., after the ruins had cooled down, Farmer Jim Hamilton said "there was something funny about it." {Ontario Hydro and the Allied) Hydro Strike Talks Called TORONTO. (CP)--Officials of} Construction Council have scheduled a meeting for this afternoon to attempt to negoti- ate an end to a strike that has brought a standstill to construc- tion valued at more than $500,- 000,000 in the province. is No reports were available on a meeting Monday, called by 'W. H: Dickie, Ontario' chief conciliation officer. The strike, which began Monday, involves 3,000 construction workers. The council, representing 13 unions, 'rejected Friday a 90- day postponement of the strike U.S. REDUCES FORCES ON SERVICE IN EUROPE ~ Caamsaa Waal Bid Confirmed | LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime;negotiations limited and as Minister Wilson today told Par-|straightforward as possible in Britain will become a liament néw b of the European Common Mar-/out negotiations for years. ket. The announcement came four|membership | Negotiations over Britain's last bid lasted 18 years after French President de/months. Gaulle vetoed Britain's original! attempt to become a member of the economic community. Though all formal decisions binding on the ministers and treated as unanimous, about one-third of Wilson's. 21-member cabinet is opposed to Common degrees. The source who disclosed the decision said none of the cabinet had offered resignations at this stage, nor were any expected. The cabinet members opposed to Common Market member- ship made it clear last week they were switching tactics from trying to block a new ap- plication to concentrate on the terms of the negotiations over the British bid. Wilson is known to be an- xious to keep the scope of the Britain -- should her applica- jtion succeed--would become the jCommon Market's seventh | member. The six original mem- |by British governments are|bers are France, West Ger- }many, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Wilson said: "Her Majesty's government Market membership in varying|have today decided to make an application under article 237 of} the Treaty of Rome for mem-) bership of the European Eco-| nomic Community Common) Market and parallel applica-| tions for membership of the Eu-| ropean Coal and Steel Commu-) agency)." The prime minister's state- ment on the historic move fol- lowed a formal decision reached | earlier at a cabinet meeting lasting two hours and 45 min- utes at which Wilson presided. SAIGON (AP) -- U.S. fighter- bombers inflicted the heaviest aircraft destruction of the war on North Vietnam Monday, des- troying 11 Communist MiG-17 interceptors in the air and on the ground, the American com- mand reported today. As the North took another pounding in the intensified air war, heavy fighting flared across South Vietnam from the Central Highlands to the Me- kong Delta. American infantry suffered their heaviest losses in the delta fighting, where 16 were killed and 40 were wounded, The ground forces were sup- ported by fighter-bombers that attacked Communist positions in the South with a record 625 sorties Monday. In a delayed report, the Amer- ican command announced the loss of three U.S. Air Force suggested by Hydro officials. F - 105 Thunderchiefs during Heaviest Aircraft Damage Of War Inflicted On North raids over North Vietnam Sun- day, including two shot down by MiG-21s and one from unknown causes. The four crew members were listed as missing. The losses brought to 528 the num- |ber of American planes reported jlost over North Vietnam, includ- jing 15 shot down by MiGs. CLAIM 4 MORE Hanoi radio claimed the North Vietnamese Air . Force shot down three U.S. planes Monday while ground forces downed a fourth during the record day of MiG kills, But the Peking made a similar claim) of downing two American planes over South China April 24, a claim which the U.S. command in Saigon denied at the time. The Chinese also claimed April 29 that they brought down a pilotless American reconnais- sance plane. SAWCHUK IN GOAL Leafs 9-To-5 Favorites TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto as backup. Goaltender Johnny Worsley took over from Va- | | make alorder to head off moves France er|was expected to make to drag nity and Euratom: (the nuclear | Ships Alerte U.S. command did not announce) which sailed from London soon any losses for the day. lafter the robbery, was boarded ae" |United States, in $100 Million Saving Seen By Washington Next Year WASHINGTON (AP) -- The,would agree to purchase about agreement | $150,000,000 worth of military with Britain and West Germany|and civilian goods in Britain, announced today plans to with-|The United States will purchase draw up to 35,000 of its armedjan additional $19,600,000 of mili- forces and four squadrons of |tary equipment in Britain from |combat planes from West Ger-| April 1, 1967, to March 31, 1968, CENTENNIAL HIKE |cials said the troops cut would Hank Gallant, 24, of /|€ase Prince Edward Island, ar- rived in Winnipeg, Monday. He started walking, Feb. 6 at Victoria and plans to end his personal Centennial hike | in Newfoundland. ' Gold Theft LONDON (AP) -- Police) watched airports and harbors} and sent alerts to ships at sea! today for traces of a gas-gun| | | many, : |with thousands of dependents, to '| bases in the United States would IN OTTAWA At Ottawa, External Affairs Minister Martin told the Senate external relations commit- mean saving of around $100,- tee March 15 that the North At- 000,000 in the next year. jlantic Treaty and associated The total U.S. troop commit-|agreements provide that mem- ment in Europe now is about | ber states will not significantly 260,000 men, including 225,000;reduce their assigned forces ground forces. without agreement of their al- Although administration offi-|lies. He also said "a decision by the balance-of-payments|the United States, for one rea- burden, they noted the actual) son or another, to withdraw sub- saving would be cut by the cost|stantial number of its forces, Johnson administration offi- cials estimated the transfer of} soldiers and air force personnel, lof housing the redeployed force|apart from consultation, would jhere and ferrying it between|be serious." the United States and West Ger-| Mr. Martin at that time re- each year for rotation jected the suggestion of any ma- > S. jor withdrawal of Cana- The. troops and planes arejdian troops from Europe part of the U.S. commitment to} He said such a _ withdrawal the North Atlantic Treaty Or-|could damage the "fabric of co- ganization. The agreement nowloperation" in NATO and do must go to NATO's defence|harm to Canada's "good name planning committee. with its allies." Under the same three - way| "It could cause our allies to plan, Britain would withdraw|ask themselves whether we are one brigade of 5,000 men and|making a respectable contribu- one squadron of aircraft to re-|tion to maintaining security in duce its costs. West. Germany!the woffd." gang who hijacked gold bars worth. £750,000 Britain's biggest bullion theft. A reward of £50,000 ($150,000) was offered by insurance asses- sors for information leading to recovery of the ingots and cap- ture of the bandits. The Great Gold Robbery, staged with speed and precision at noon in a London street Mon- day, was the most lucrative) ambush in Britain since the) |Great Train Robbery netted) more than $7,000,000 nearly four years ago. | ($2,250,000) in| It threw Scotland Yard into a frenzy of effort to stop the 140) gold bars, weighing more than 1% tons, from being smuggled) abroad. | A Dutch coastal freighter, by police and customs men in the Thames estuary Monday night after an underworld tip that the loot was aboard. But no gold was found, and the 500-ton| coaster Thea was allowed to proceed three hours later. Mother Reveals TORONTO (CP)--The_ Tele- gram quotes Mrs, George Moore of the armed fortes base) at Camp Borden, Ont., as say-| ing the family was not told the; Maple Leafs are 9-to-5 favorites|Bower, who suffered a groin in-|chon in Saturday's fifth gamejexact cause of the death of| to defeat Montreal Canadiens|jury before the fourth game,|and looked sharp in stopping 10|their three-year-old daughter in) tonight and win the Stanley Cup for the first time since 1964. The Leafs, who lead the best-| of-seven series 3-2, plan to start Terry Sawchuk in goal with Al Smith of Victoria Maple Leafslinstead of rookie Rogatien Va-|televised on the CBC national/ Morton of the Western Hockey League! will not dress. Coach Toe Blake of Montreal has not named his starting net- minder, but he was expected to use 38-year-old Gump Worsley chon. Toronto shots. The veteran said |he feels fit and ready to play. | Tonight's game, scheduled to} |start at 8 p.m. EDT, will be network. a Pembroke hospital in 1961. Details of the child's death were revealed during testimony | Monday at a royal commission inquiring into charges by Dr. Shulman that inquests in Ontarlb had been suppressed, 'NEWS HIGHL Family Not Told,| IGHTS 'Ulysses' Withdrawn At Cannes CANNES, France (Reuters) -- American director Joseph Strick today withdrew his controversial film Ulysses from the Cannes Film Festival, claiming he had been humiliated. Strick said festival director Robert Favre Lebret butchered the film, censoring some 20 of its French subtitles at a public showing last week. 1,323 U.S. Planes Lost In Vietnam SAIGON (AP) -- A U.S. military spokesman an- nounced today that 1,323 American planes and 812 helicop- ters have been lost in the Vietnam war. These include 528 combat planes and five helicopters downed over North Vietnam, 172 combat planes and 331 helicopters shot down in combat. Soldiers Join Search For Boy LUSKVILLE, Ont. (CP) -- About 200 volunteers in- cluding soldiers were expected to resume search today for 13-year-old Robert Hutchings of Ottawa, missing since Sunday in this district 20 miles northwest of Ottawa. .. In THE TIMES Today .. Joycees In Whitby Elect New Executive--P. 5 Argo Coach To Attend Sportsmen's Dinner---P. 6 School Trustees Reject Honorarium--P. 9 Pickering News---5 Sports--6, 7, 8 Television--21 Theotres---20 Weather--2 Whitby News--5 Women's--10,- 11 Ann Landers--10 Ajax News--5 City News--9 Classified--16 to 19 Comics--21 Editorial---4 Financial--12 Obituories--19 2 E = fbb MMi A A itil DUAN LULUUNAL A TAAL "ants