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poner MELBOURNE (CP) -- Dep- uty Prime Minister John Mec- Ewen tonight 'was asked to as- sume the premiership following the presumed death Sunday of Prime Minister Harold Holt while swimming. Governor-General Lord Casey asked McEwen to take over the office. The appointment was ex- pected to be only temporary as McEwen is the leader of the co- alition government's minority partner, the Country party. Lord Casey said the search for Holt was of no avail. In these circumstances, he had consulted his ministers and it was their opinion that it was necessary to appoint a succes- sor, he said. McEwen, 67, will be sworn in Tuesday, Lord Casey said. The governor-general also an- nounced that a memorial serv- PRIME MINISTER HAROLD HOLT -++Cabinet Stays Unchanged Home Newspaper Of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowman- ville, Ajax, Pickering and neighboring. centres in Ont- ario and Durham Counties. 10¢ Single Copy 55c Per Week Home Delivery VOL. 26--NO. 293 ice for Holt would be held in St. Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, at noon Friday. There was speculation here tonight that President Johnson would make every effort to be at the memorial service, but a Casey made no mention of this. The Australian cabinet will remain unchanged apart from McEwen's appointment. At Portsea, on the rugged Vic- torian coast where Holt van- ished, the search was officially called off until daylight Tues- day. There was almost no hope that Holt could have survived the riptides that swallowed him up. The tides off Portsea, 37 miles south of Melbourne, have claimed three other swimmers in the last 10 years without yielding their bodies, buns The appointment of McEwen as premier was expected to be only temporary because the major coalition partner, the Lib- eral party, was expected to ap- point a new leader shortly to fill the premiership. Federal Treasurer William McMahon, the deputy party leader, is in line to succeed Holt as Liberal leader. But observers in Canberra be- lieved his election would drive the Country party out of the co- alition because he and McEwen disagree on a number of key is- sues. Defence Minister Allen Fair- hall and External Affairs Minis- ter Paul Hasluck also are con- sidered likely candidates for the Liberal leadership. Gov.-Gen. Lord Casey is ex- pected to announce the pres- umption of Holt's death Tues- OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1967 day, although the prime minis- ter's press secretary, Tony Eg- gleton, told reporters today "We are all hanging onto a shred of hope that Mr, Holt is alive." Holt, 59, was an excellent swimmer and_skin-diver. He was wearing swim trunks and beach shoes as he walked from his maroon Pontiac to his favor- ite "rock plunge" at noon Sun- day. An old friend, Alan Stew- art, walked out into the surf a good distance behind Holt and watched him dive and disappear beneath the waves. Stewart said the surf was too rough for him, and when the prime minister failed to sur- face, he ran to give the alarm. Australians today accepted as fact that their prime minister had died in the sea he loved, DETROIT 1 GM Pact! Nears Finale (AP) -- A new} jthree-year contract, tentatively j agreed upon by General Motors |Corp. and the United Auto | Workers Union, was on the road jtoward expected ratification today. | The UAW's international ex- ecutive board will ask the un- ion's GM council, representing the 380,000 GM workers in the UAW, to approve the' pact. The council, in turn, is expected to recommend that the workers ratify it.. GM workers now make an av erage of $4.70 an hour in wages) and fringe benefits. | The contract closely follows the pattern established by UAW settlements won earlier at Ford, after a two-month strike, and at Chrysler, where local work stoppages halted auto produc-| tion for two weeks, Agreement on the GM pact came Friday. Local contracts remain unset- tled at about 100 of the 134 GM plants in 70 U.S. cities, and more work stoppages could re- |sult from talks on these con- |tracts, which supplement the national settlement. |GROOM DIES AT WEDDING DURHAM, England (Reu- ters) -- Arthur Mitchell, 70, collapsed and died while photogr: taken a few minutes after his wedding Saturday. His bride w ONLY aphs were being and as in her sixties. 3 Pa 3 eee 5 Mrs. Henry Wilkins of says her birthday .celebra- Church. She has three Hillsdale Manor is cele- tion today will be "just a sons, Richard B: Wilkins, brating, her 101st birthday family affair'? and she at- Oshawa; Fred J. Wilkins, today. "She is shown with tributes her age to "My Ponpano 'each, Fila.; and Mrs. G. §. Hunking of the faith in God." Her de- Edward B. Wilkins, Whit- ceased husband was found- by. Congratulations were Manor's staff. Mrs. Wil- kins still enjoys good health, er of the Gibbons St. Mis- but spends much of her sion, now known as the in a wheelchair. She Gibbons St. Evangelical received by her today from various parts of the world. --Oshawa Times Car Yields Three Bodies | heavy as POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (AP) -- Working in a light rain, 'a water-borne crane ate the} gg a ( iver's ths latched on|perstruc' s rning. ¢ fa alr yg ih early today;was placed on the barge. It was! weight of rush hour and Christ- and brought up three more bod-| believed that superstructure|mas shoppers' traffic. 'ies in the grim search for vic-|pieces were being hauled up in| Forecast of more than of Friday's bridge col-|an effort to reach vehicles|inch of rain for the Point Pleas-| : trapped under the debris. 'ant area brought with it the): ne ecagaacte ding me Of rise and ei what sported miss-|the 'river between Ohio and)This would ig sone sult repo West Virginia yielded eight bod-| The car was one of scores ad ies from four courts and a truck|cars crushed under the bridge's vehicles that tumbled off the] when the derricks pulled them' superstructure. bridge when the suspension) span collapsed into the swift- river, the crane also pulled upjies were recovered Friday, a on huge chunk of the bridge su-|few hours after the suspension It bridge collapsed under the| most of ete t | London, Bankers one} tims lapse. They brought to 16 the num-) ber of known dead. There were) increase its current. seriously Continues the main European market i |London. Dealers described it as} "very large," although not aS | a sainst the ' . the demand ot 'an immediate free elections and a At Grim Disaster Scene at the opening af the marketlnait to revision of the consti Friday. Ss Wi 'on: | above the normal demand On| OTe military dictators want Sitting on a barge in the|out Sunday, The other five bod- London of about five to 10 tons 8/116 King back to give them a fa- y. 7 iiidow. In Zurich, where banks funnel eade of legitimacy slightly weaker after the week- lend joint announcement by the U.S. treasury and Federal Re- fear that the river's level would| Serve Bank. - ae hamper| . divers in their efforts to reach| Twister Rakes | | North Alabama | | HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ATHENS the buying orders to \ demand was steady. said the pressure was (CP) -- CHARRED boards blackened left at the site of a fire ltions between the Greek mili- tary junta and King Constantine} Frederika LONDON (AP) -- Renewed) over his return to the throne ap-|for the king. U.S. assurances on holding the | neared deadlocked today after price of gold bd oe ie Greek cabinet discussed ie jfailed to ha Paes . iking's terms. There was no indi- Photo LDppore ye eae eect aeons elise. id miliary regime would! is © any cece' hem. kets anind today. : ks P Gold demand was heavy iM|qiq king, who fled to Rome "/ Thursday after unsuccessfully trying to start a counter-coup) Informants said flowing river. The bodies of two adults and| a child pried out of the car's| remains twisted metal were) taken to a temporary morgue in| a state armory. Russ Police "Fabricate' wm" U.S. Says Of Spy Charges {A tornado killed two persons |and injured at least 20 others as) | violent weather sturck a large jarea of North Alabama today. | The tornado veered around |Madison and Morgan countries, touching at least five communi- MOSCOW (AP) -- Soviet se-jand secret dispatches to trans-|ties, but jeret police boasted 'today they|mit misleading data about the/ Arsenal Snow Blitz Hits At Saskatchewan with false information about|and the submarine fleet. ili " i Valherm REGINA (CP) -- Most of Sas-| military strength. The U.S, em-| 'Apart from attempting to|\ kutohowan oul covered with|bassy said the Russians were|glorify the Chekists--from the/County, deep snow today after the first)indulging in "fabrications." : : blizzard of winter howled out of} The KGB--the Committee for|their anniversary, rthwest Sunday night. fo. caain dt Canhinad the northwest St State Security--said it capture Soviet fabrications regarding al-| followed Ji gusting to 58 miles Ge ag EN illo Winds gusting Up 5 le spy named Afonov who WAS lieved Western and particularly| victim was not identified. Police an hour piled snow into deep banks on highways and at times blotted out visibility. \ » said it used his radio apparatus!said in a statement, i i s|location of troops, defence bases|/at Huntsville.™, \had outwitted the United States|location of troops. cnatiee death was reportediat oso Springs in Morgan, old KGB name of Chek--on|mined immediately whether the) the article}person died in the tornado or seems to be part of a series of|drowned in heavy flooding that and working for U.S. intelligence. It|U.§. espionage," the eanbassy/sald 20 ete were admitted to hospitals, it missed the Redstone missile establishment but it was not deter- QUEEN ANNE MARIE spending the evening with id mention Vietnam !'" 7 King Constantine of their children as guests of speed Bh Ary be oe | not to 9 tathe succes } torrential rains he Greece sit in auto en route Prince Henry of Hesse at start. a' counter coup | to the Greek embassy in Villa Palissena in the Ital- against the military junta. | Rome early today after jan capital, The 27-year-old (AP Wirephoto from Rome) |i 4 he Oshawa Gimes ae nema -- OPE ABANDONED FOR HOLT and they dened "Like was not were greatly sad- President Kennedy he given time to show what he could do," says the Sydney Morning Herald. 'The war in Vietnam still rages. The withdrawal of Britain from the Far East has only just begun. \ustralia's relationship with her neighbors in Asia are still shadowy and undefined." Holt had 692 days in office after taking over from Sir Rob- ert Menzies. He stood staunchly by President Johnson's Vietnam policy, refusing to accept a sct- tlement which would give victo- ry to the Communists, Six thou- sand Australian troops are fighting with the anti-Commue nist allies in South Vietnam, and more are expected Very much the maker of his own foreign policy, Holt made two far-ranging tcurs through Asia, three to Britain and the United States and attended the summit conference of Vietnam allies in Manila Holt was one of the many gov- ernment leaders to visit:Canada during Centennial Year and managed a short personal visit with Prime Minister Pearson at Harrington Lake, the Canadian leader's summer home, in addi- tion to his official visits in Montreal and Ottawa Holt was the first national leader to get in touch with Pearson after the Canadian lead- er last week announced his plans to quit as prime minister and leader of the Liberal party, The Holt family -- his wife Zara, his three ster s and their wives, spent e night at he family's compound at Port- sea, Weather Report mainly cloudy and not quite so mild. Low tonight 85. High tomorrow 42, t Post Office Deportment t of Postage in C TWENTY-SIX PAGES 3 Die In Quebec s House Gutted 10 Children Lose Lives metal are (CP) -- Negotia-|terms inluded junta, meeting which ttestroyed storey house and killed 10 children, an older baby sit- continued for Constantine's mother, Queen|ond peace mission to woo Con and puppet status stantine bac k from Rome. . sources EXCHANGE REPORTS Greek Foreign Minister Pana-|former defence minister, Gen. | yiotis Pipinelis and the Ortho-| Gregory Spantidakis, and sever- dox primate, Archbishop Ieron-\al other top officers accused of the 27-vear- ymous, conferred with Constan- conspiring with the king It Was 3 tine at the Greek Embassy in the second major purge in Rome Saturday, and Pipinelis)armed forces since the | reported to Premier George Pa-|coup in which a grot demanded | padopoulos, the regime's strong-|nels overthrew th» parliamen- man, immediately on his return. tary government The cabinet held a Sunday announcement afterward. Reuters news agency} But their|Greek military leaders were be-!tempt. but a three- Rouyn. Reliable the regime has army generals, 2%-hour| There has aid the a part in e been ter and two parents Satur- day at La Sarre, Que., (CP Wirephoto) Greek Junta Keeps Silent Gold Rush On King's Bid To Return exile/lieved to be considering a sec out king and his family fled to | said retired five including the Ip ¢ me played s coup at- ilies had been occupants. started. Their only Aubin's sister. The Bouchards Const provincial near * police, living in the} the Bouchard family is 11-year- old Yvon who had been staying/was destroyed. with her uncle for the night. Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Guy Aubin/for the * were in Rouyn, Que., 45 miles/had exploded, he said. south of here, taking part in a religious retreat when the 'ire/Mrs. Marcel Bouchard, aged 40 surviving/and 30 respectively, their chil- E child, one-month-old Linda, was/dren Claudette, 12, Albert, 8, staying the weekend with Mr./Sylvie, 6, Johanne, 5, and Susie, lived on top floor of the ho@se and. the/laine, 8, Marie, 6, Daniel, 5, and * Aubins on the ground floor. The|twins France and Francine, 3. middle floor was not occupied. |The baby sitter who had been Andre Grenier of the|looking after them was Jocelyne who | NEWS HIGHLIGHTS | In La Sarre Tragedy LA SARRE, Que. (CP) -- A\charge of the investigation into coroner's inquest into the deaths|the cause of the fire, said that of 10 children, a baby sitter and|when he arrived at the scene a ; two parents in a fire that raced|half-hour after the blaze started through a wooden frame house|he could scarcely believe what has been postponed pending the|he saw. outcome: of police inv tion.| 'There was only one wall and 'The Bouchard and Aubin fam-|part of another standing." Firemen who had arrived only three-storey building when the/minutes after the alarm was fire started Saturday. Therejraised were not able to get near were no survivors among the 13/the building because of the heat. Grenier said it will be The only surviving member of/ difficult to pinpoint the cause of the fire because the building It appeared, however, that an oil-fed heater uilding's water tank Const. The 15 months the; The Aubin victims were Guy- in'Paradis, 17, Manhunt Under Way In Algeria ALGIERS (AP) -- A manhunt was under way through- revolt against the enne, The fugitives, today collapsed Friday. SAIGON A downed by heavy added. speculation made no that the new constitution being prepared by the reg the king COTONOU, visional Kouandete and throw, the third (Reuters) he| day, a U.S. spokesman said here today anti-aircraft fire chine-gun emplacements just zone dividing North and South Vietnam, the spokesman today, army "Was nice of the minister = 7 Algeria today for the leaders of the short-lived army regime of headed by Tahar Zbiri, took to the hills when President Houari Boumedi- former chief of state Col. their attempted coup MiGs Down Two U.S. Planes -- North Vietnamese ed two raiding American fighter-bombers near MiGs down: Hanoi Sun- A third plane was while attacking ma- the demilite north of Kouandete Heads Dahomey Dahomey dete, who led a bloodless coup against Dahomey President | Christophe Soglo Sunday, government fellow coup dence from France in 1960. Soglo, 58, previous coups, was unharmed but under house arrest with his wife, U.S. Ambassador Clinton Knox reported. (AP) -- Maj. Maurice Kouan- made himself head of a pro- Radio Cotonou announced. officers engineered the over- Dahomey gained indepen- who 'led the two since In THE TIMES Today... Sonte In Whitby--P. 13 Goods Stolen----P. 5 Generals Win--P. 10 Ann Londers--14 Ajox News--5 City News--13 Television-- victims were Mr. and