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Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties, VOL. 96--NO. 119 he Oshawa ines 10¢ Single Co; 85¢ Per Week Home Delivered OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1967 Authorized as Second Class Mail P: Ottowa ond for payment of Weather Report A few showers overnight and Wednesday. A _ little warmer. Light winds. Low to- night 40; high tomorrow 60. THIRTY PAGES 'ost Office Department Postage in Cash WAR DANGER HEIGHTENS: EGYPT BARS ISRAEL PORT Britain Holds Crisis Confab LONDON (Reuters) -- Prime Minister Wilson presided over an emergency cabinet session on 4 ithe Middle East crisis today after talking for more than two hours with King Faisal of Saudi E | Arabia. Foreign Secretary George Brown delayed his departure for Moscow talks to attend the Faisal-Wilson meeting and the cabinet session. As reports of the worsening situation in the Middle East came in, Britain followed the United States in warning its na- tionals there to leave the area unless it is absolutely necessary for them to stay. The meeting with Faisal and the cabinet session took on spe- cial importance following Presi- dent Gamal Abdel Nasser's dec- laration that the U.A.R. would close the Gulf of Aqaba to Is- raeli shipping. rivals in the Middle East, came to Britain May 9 on a state visit | and stayed for a medical check- | up. Faisal supports the royalist faction in Yemen while Nasser has sent troops and aid to the Republican regime fighting the Thant Mission May Ease Crisis CAIRO (CP) Egypt an-; In Israel, Premier Levi Esh- nounced today it had closed the|kol met top ministers and offi- Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli ship-|cials for emergency talks today ping, sealing off the major Is-|after receiving reports of Nas- raeli port of Eilath from the ser's speech, Red Sea and trade routes be-| Informed Israeli sources said yond, heightening the danger of Nasser's latest move could war in the Middle East. mean war But a Panamanian freighter,, Reliable sources reported an United Nations mary responsibility for keeping peace in the area. departure for Moscow was his second in five days because of royalists there. The British view is that the now has pri- Brown's postponement of his os Sued PREMIER NASSER U THANT identified as the 3,500-ton Ama- lia, sailed into Eilath harbor at dawn today. It crossed ihe Straits of Tiran at the mouth of the gulf after dusk Monday night. Egyptian President Nasser told airmen at a front-line air Egyptian cruiser, four torpedo boats and two submarines passed 'through the Suez Canal earlier, and observers here be- lieved they were headed for the Red Sea and a gulf blockade. Estimates put Egyptian troop strength in Sinai at 60,000 men the Middle East crisis. British officials said they now expect him to spend little more than 24 hours in Moscow, instead of| several days as originally! planned. But it was considered impor- tant for Brown still to go to Moscow at this point to. urge Russia to use its influence to AJAX ON PARADE FOR CENTENNIAL Saudi Arabia and Egypt are|prevent a major Middle East | on opposite banks of the gulf.|flareup and to assess the Soviet Faisal, one of nasser's chief'attitude to developments. "e . » » arrives in Cairo . bars shipping Chinese Riots Shift To Labor AP-Reuters against all Chinese who do not HONG KONG (CP)--After 11/join the anti-British drive. The From Colorful parade was staked by Ajax on Victoria Day as part of the community's week- majorettes of the Pickering Blue Notes Marching Band as they proudly parade the stories about Ajax. Centen- nial celebrations appear on City Page today. U.S. Advises Americans days of wild anti-British rioting, Hong Kong's leftist Chinese shifted their attack on the colo- nial administration to the labor colony's labor force is 99 per cent Chinese. REPEAT ASSURANCES base in Sinai: "The Israeli flag|today after a week-long buildup. will not pass through Aqaba Gulf|: Nasser praised UN Secretary- and our sovereignty over the;General U Thant for his quick gulf entrance is not negotiable.|response to Cairo's demand that If Israel wants to threaten us|the UN troops leave their posts with war they are welcome." |on the border between Israel The authoritative Cairo news-|and Egypt. paper Al Ahram said Nasser| Hopes for an easing of the cri- also banned ships of other na-|sis centred on Thant, who left tions from carrying strategic|New York Monday night for materials to Israel through the Cairo to confer with Nasser and gulf. other officials, Thant said he Ships entering the strategic|also plans to meet with Israeli gulf would have to pass Sharm|leaders "at the appropriate el Sheikh, where a towering|time." fortified post guards the south-| During a stopover at Paris, ern approach to the gulf. The|Thant discussed the latest Mid- Egyptian Army was reported to|dle East events with UN offi« have occupied Sharm el Sheikh|cials. He refused to talk to ree band standards and Centen- nial flags. More pictures and end of Centennial celebra- tions, Here are some of the Fire Toll Climbs To 260; Police Suspect Arson from windows in desperate at- pts to (Oshawa Times Photo) Monday after United Nations|porters Lal front. | Government broadcasts, re- , > i To Pull Out Of Middle East Drivers from leftist unions|peated every few minutes ian oe eee went aS -- making idle|throughout the day, assured the | : % more than 4 doubledecker|colony's 4,000,000 Chinese that| FORMIDABLE BLOCK | bed s ' WASHINGTON (AP) -- ThejIsrael has said it will fight if\buses and severely crippling|the colonial government, '"'with| It was from Sharm el sven! | @NSION Hi h Johnson administration regards|this artery is closed. ,.|Public transportation on Hong|the full backing of the British|that Egyptian artillery blocked| with Soup worry today the pos-| Only hours before Nasser's|Kong Island. government," could and would|Israeli-bound shipping for eight sibility of a 'war may| it, state department of-\" 'Three thousand maintain law and order. until Israeli troops occu- . j \break out in the tinderbox Mid-|ficials told editors and broad-\workers went on & aoen To do this, the government\|pied the post and nearby posi- In Tel Rviv uc dle East. ; casters at a foreign policy brief-| strike. has more than 20,000 armed|tions at the mouth of the gulf in As a precaution, the state de-jing that shutting the narrow] Leaders of the seamen's and|police,. 7,000 British garrison|November, 1956. | partment advised tourists and|Arab-bounded waterway would/textile workers' unions were|troops including three battalions} They later withdrew and) TEL AVIV (CP)--Armed in- From AP-Reuters other Americans on non-essen-|be a serious matter. reported planning strike calls. jof Gurkhas from Nepal, and/handed the strongholds over to)terference. with Israeli shipping tial business to pull out of the} A 1957 U.S. commitment to/ The Communists also were|some 2,000 local reserve units./the UN emergency Force. in the Gulf of Aqaba could mean danger area -- Israel, Egypt,|Israel, described as still repre-jsaid to be planning to try to| The broadcasts said workers war, informed Israel sources Beyants told reporters when he visited the disast Monday BRUSSELS (CP)--Arson was suspected by Belgian police to- day as the cause of a fire in night: "We must unfortunately expect several dozens of vic- tims." two stores in which some 260 persons may have died. Police listed 21 dead and 100 injured. Store officials had said 260 persons were missing, with most of them probably still in the wreckage. Police limited their count to bodies recovered from the ruins of L'Innovation, giant depart- ment store in the heart of the city's shopping centre and a neighboring store. | Belgian Premier Paul van den| still growing. It was feared it A spokesman for the store said the list of the missing was would be the world's worst fire since 323 persons were killed in a circus fire in Niteroi, Brazil, Dec. 17, 1961. The fire roared through Inno- vation at the. peak of Monday's mid-afternoon shopping crush. Scores of shoppers and staff were trapped in the inferno and others plunged to their deaths Office Bombed Of Cubans Opposed To Exiles' Strike MIAMI, Fla. (AP) -- A ae | bomb today tore apart the of-| fice of a Cuban unity group that| hours earlier urged Cuban exile} workers to drop plans for to-| day's general strike. But the 24-hour strike against | businesses already was under) way to protest the U.S. deten- | tion of Felipe Rivero, one of the most aggressive anti - Castro} leaders. The strike's avowed aim was to pressure the federal govern- ment into releasing Rivero from} jail where he staged his own | protest. protest by continuing his hunger strike. The blast in the '"'little Ha- vana" section destroyed the of- fices of Cuban Exile Represen- tation, a group: formed in 1964. No one was hurt. THOUSANDS MAY STRIKE Cuban strike leaders predicted that 15,000 Cuban exile workers would stay off their jobs in Miami alone. They said many Cubans in New York, New Jer- sey, California and other exile centres had promised to join the Greek Opposition Predicts ""Mediterrane By GERALD MILLER ATHENS (AP) -- A crucial question hanging over the fu- ture of Greece's month-old mil- itary dictatorship is opposition. How much? How soon? How open? How effective? Some signs of resistance 0c- curred almost from the start of the military takeover April 21. A few protest handbills have been dropped on the streets and occasional anti - regime scrib- blings have appeared on walls. But this is minor. The real question is whether opposition opinion, now silent, could flare into armed fighting and another civil war. From the few opposition pol-| iticians who managed to escape the roundup after the coup have come warnings that a civil war lies ahead. Nicholas Nicholaidis, former president of the youth club of former premier George Papan- dreou's Centre Union party, said in Rome earlier this month an Vietnam' that Greece could become a "Mediterranean Vietnam." UNDERGROUND READY Mikis Theodorakis, a leading Communist believed by the re- gime to be in Paris, has been quoted by the European Com- munist press as saying an un- derground is being organized to oust both the military regime and the Greek royal house. Some diplomatic. observers, remembering the 1947-49 civil war, believe this could happen. Others feel that different pol- itical and economic conditions and the change position of .the jarmed forces make insurrection virtually impossible. After the Second World War many Greeks had little to lose in a civil war and Communist countries around Greece were eager to help the Greek Com- munists, The Greek Army was worn and bedraggled, incapable of defeating the guerrillas until Innovation and a_ smaller store, Priba, were destroyed and an adjoining silk products com- pany and several other buildings were still blazing hours later. It was not yet known .today how many of the more than 1,000 persons in the stores were able to escape. Asked by reporters whether sabotage was suspected, Brus- sels Police Chief Andre de Gryse said: "We will examine every possibility." ANTI-VIET LINK? Police were investigating a theory that it might have been linked with opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam. A store official said a number of threatening telephone calls and letters had been received criticizing the store for a two- week campaign to sell American goods. May 13, a group of young pro- Peking Belgian Communists en- tered the store to protest Syria and Jordan -- and sug- gested those headed that way put off their visits if possible. By rough estimate some 10,- 000 Americans are in the four- country danger zone. BLOCKADES PORT Pushing the crisis to a new peak was President Nasser's declaration that Israeli ships and other flag vessels carrying strategic goods to Israel can no American ships, the United States "is prepared to exercise the right of free and innocent passage and to join with others to secure general recognition of this right." There was hope that U Thant, United Nations secretary - gen- eral, would be able to temper Nasser's posture upon Thant's longer sail the Gulf of Aqaba. arrival today in Cairo. ABINGTON, Mass. (AP) -- An estimated $500,000 was, stolen today by robbers, wield- ing machine-guns, who cleaned out a Brink's Inc., armored car. The estimate was made by against the sales campaign. 'They wore white shirts with anti-American slogans lettered in red. One of the young demonstra- tors was quoted in the Commu- nist weekly Voix du Peuple as saying: "Neither arrest nor jail nor firing squad will ever stop us."" Pierre Bolle, vice-president of Innovation, said the fire broke out. simultaneously at opposite corners of the building on the first and third floors. He said the whole. building was in flames in 10 to 15 minutes. A police officer spoke of other places where the fire seemed to have flared at the same time. Brussels radio sent out re- peated calls for witnesses of the fire to help police in the inves- RP ld Cole, pr t of the First County National Bank of Brocton. He said the loot "by Ont. Registers Record Lows TORONTO (CP) Record low overnight minimum tem- peratures for May 23 were reg- istered early today at several Ontario centres. The temperatures, with previ- ous records in brackets: Wiarton 29 (33 in 1948); Kitchener 29 (32 in 1935 and 1963); Hamilton 33 (34 in 1963); Toronto International Airport 31 (32 in 1963); Trenton 29 (30 in 1935); Killaloe 26 (27 in tigation. 1963); Kingston 31 (32 in 1925). $900,000 Lost By Brinks To Gun-Wielding Robbers conservative estimate could run as much as $500,000." The gunmen stole the truck when it stopped outside a branch of the First County Na- tional Bank to make a pickup of money. The loot included, Cole said, some $250,000 in cash from the Raynham Dog Track representing receipts from Mon- day night's racing. Edward O'Keefe, executive vice - president of the bank, said the gunmen stormed into the branch bank, handcuffed and taped up two of the truck crew and a bank employee. "They were locked in the men's room," O'Keefe said, "and handcuffed to a couple of pipes." The truck was found, with the motor 'running, in Abington, a suburb of Brockton. For more than an hour, the three men were believed to have been abducted by the rob- bers as hostages. When the truck was found, police said, the robbers were transferring the money to a car. military Essential. Pro - Communist labor agi |tators moved throughout the By ANTHONY GREY PEKING (Reuters) -- China's deputy foreign minister walked out when British Charge d'Af- faires Donald Hopson tried to deliver a protest Monday night against orders to close the Brit- ish consular office in Shanghai, informed sources said here to- day. As Hopson's protest was be- ing translated, the Chinese offi- cial, Lo Kuei-po, stood up and walked out of the room. The deputy foreign minister accused British Foreign Secre- tary George Brown of using Chinese Deputy Walks Out On U.K. Envoy With Protest senting U.S. policy, defined the/disrupt the supply of water, gas|who lost their jobs because they gulf as an international water-|and electricity, but the colony's|resisted intimidation would be way and said that on behalf of|British government has a semi-|given other jobs by the colony's industrial- "many responsible ists' who oppose the labor strife. | Chinese diplomatic representa- tives in London last week. Brown summoned Chinese Charge d'Affaires Shen Ping to the foreign office May 19 to de- liver a stinging protest about the treatment of British diplo- matic representative in Shang- hai, Peter Hewitt, who was manhandled by Chinese Red Guards. The New China news agency reported that Lo, referring to Brown's handling of this meet- ing, said: "He (Brown) took an ex- tremely arrogant and unreason- able attitude and used shame- "shameful imperialist lan- guage" and taking an "'unrea- sonable rude attitude' towards ful imperialist language in un- restrainedly slandering the Chi- nese revolutionary masses." SAIGON (Reuters) -- Twelve southern allied troops were killed and 14 wounded in the first 12 hours of today's 24-hour truce in the Vietnam war to spokesman said. 4,500 GATHER AT QUEEN'S PARK TORONTO (CP) -- Hippies from as far away as San Francisco converged on Queen's Park here Monday strumming guitars, playing flutes and drums, tinkling tiny prayer bells, and »strewing flowers over everything. It was Toronto's first love- in and police estimated 4,500 came to watch, participate, and preach love of each other. Some wore Oriental robes and Riji hairdos, striped pon- chos and fur vests. A few girls wore mini-skirts the United States intervened, ending at the tops of their brightly - colored stockings while others preferred drab brown trousers and_ shirts, making .them almost indis- tinguishable from the long- haired boys. Boys and girls twined flow- ers in their hair, painted each other's faces, burned incense, bowed to the east, argued about Vietnam, and sniffed flowers. They carried signs reading --Trots Hate System, Not Pe- pope; Pot is a Hobby, Not a. Habit; Love is Mudlicious. PLANNED SPONTANEITY Supposed to be spontaneous, the love-in was largely plan- ned from start to finish. For three hours in the afternoon continuous entertainment was provided in addition to im- promptu folk groups that ap- peared everywhere in the park, Buffey Sainte Marie, a Can- adian protest singer, Canadian poets Leonard Cohen and Earle Birney, and various folk and blues groups kept part of the crowd amused while the rest listened and then moved on. Hippies From Afar At Love-In Policemen circulated among the crowd, aloof but polite. One of the organizers of the love - in, Brian Chapman, a red-haired, self-appointed phi- losopher of cultural hipster- ism, said the organizers were concerned because hippies and straight people didn't get along, Straight people are suspi- cious of hippies because some hippies look and act strangely, he said. The love-in was in- tended to bring them together so they could love one another, Mostly they just stared, Sizeable Clashes Disrupt Buddha's Birthday Truce mark Buddha's birthday, a U.S.| The spokesman said there were 20 incidents--11 of them significant -- since the govern- ment-called truce started at midnight. The Viet Cong-called 48-hour jtruce started at dawn Monday, but there were several sizable clashes reported Monday. Meanwhile the U.S.- said it said today. Officially Israel is saying only | that it is standing on a 10-year- 'Very Serious': {old statement to the United Na- tions by former foreign minise ter Golda Meir. She told the General Assem- OTTAWA (CP)--The cabinet | bly March 1, 1957, that "inter- met today to discuss the poten-/ference by armed forces with \tially - explosive Middle East|Ships of Israel's flag exercising crisis and prepare for an ex-| free and innocent passage in the pected Commons debate this aft-|Gulf of Aqaba and through the ernoon on international affairs.| Straits of Tiran will be regarded External Affairs Minister|by Israel as an attack entitling Martin declined to say anything | it to exercise its inherent right about developments in the Mid-|of self-defence under article 51 die East except that the situa-)of the charter and to take all tion is "very serious." |such measures as are necessary Prime Minister Pearson said|to ensure the free and innocent "it's a tricky situation, I don't | passage of its ships in the gulf know how we're going to handle|and in the straits." $t7" | Israeli Prime Minister Levi Neither had any comment on|Eshkol held emergency talks the United Arab Republic's|with his top advisers today and threat to close the Gulf of|was expected to call a cabinet Aqaba to Israeli shipping. meeting later in the day. Ottawa View NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Shulman Inquiry Adjourned TORONTO (CP) -- The Parker royal commission was ad- journed indefinitely today when Walter Williston, lawyer for Dr. Morton Shulman, the dismissed chief coroner of Metropolitan Toronto, disputed the ground rules laid down by the commissioner, Mr. Justice W. D. Parker. Ford Calls Back 85,000 Cars DETROIT (AP) -- Ford Motor Co. has asked owners of 85,000 1967 Cougars to return their cars to Lincoln-Mer- cury dealers for a change in the vacuum-operated headlight door systems, The Cougar has a concealed headlight de- sign in which the headlight door opens when the lights are turned on. 20,000 Farmers To March On Ottawa TORONTO (CP) -- Up to 20,000 farmers are expected to march on Parliament Hil] Wednesday to protest federal government agricultural policies, says Charles Munro, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. He said 7,000 farmers from Ontario and 10,900 from Quebec will participate. lost three planes in its bombing of North Vietnam Monday, bringing the total U.S. losses to 13 in four days. Air raids over the North were suspended today because of the ceasefire. were supersonic F - 4C Phan-|~ toms. The other was a small) 2 observation aircraft. Only one| = pilot was rescued and four are. i missing. \2 Waves of defending MiG jets|= and heavy ground fire have) 2 struck at U.S: planes during at-|= tacks which included two raids | => inside Hanoi's city limits and|5 one on Haiphong in the three| = days up to Monday. : Friday seven American planes |= were shot down, just one short! = of the record for one day. Two = went down on Saturday and one) Sunday, j -Smpretngnnnn savant nm .. In THE TIMES Today .. 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