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at Essex Fiamt BMze Destroys- Brick It's a Crime wmln mm CLOUDY, COOL 6 a.m, 58; 9 a mVcS Low tonight 56, high Thursday 68 JPollen count 34 See detail page 6 Financial page 37 Theatres, amusements pgs. 42, 43 The Canadian Press Associated Press United Press Reuters Associated Press Wirephoto WINDSOR, ONTARIO, CANADA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1957 SIX CENTS 50 PAGES Authorized as Second Class Mall Post Office Department, Ottawa VOL. 78, NO. 151 nn IT MM) -j uu vy i esse James Bamclits Grab Undetermined. $75,000 Blaze Rebel Shot Dead Water Lack Local Passengers Unaware Robbers In Mail Coach In Prison Uprising Hampers Bid A P.M.Sees Russ Missile Lead Short Diefenbaker Cites Need For Success In Arms Parley A i To Halt Fire 3 Convicts Hit by Wild Bullets, 2 Guards Beaten Unconscious G.N.R.

Crew kicked BUENA VISTA, Colo. (AP A prisoner at the Colorado State Reformatory was shot to. death and four others were wounded Tuesday, night in a wild, 45-minute riot by 125 prisoners. OTTAWA Whatever the Russian monopoly on inter continental ballistic missiles They were locked inside a cell "we may be sure that it will block with three guards, but soon not long endure," Prime Minis 60 officers armed and shooting Policeman ter John G. Pief enbaker said Tuesday.

Commenting on Russian claims Drowns Self, to have developed a long-range missile that could be delivered broke it up. Ia the turmoil- of flying chairs, swinging fists, bonk fires and bullets, Evaristo Gomez, 23, was killed. Three other prisoners ia the thick of the fight were shot in the leg and a bullet bit another in Us finger. to any point on earth, Mr. Diefen- baker said Canadian "must grasp Flames Spread From witclibox, Seen For Miles ESSEX Fire completely destroyed the Essex Brick, Tile and Cement Co.

at Essex late Tuesday night. Loss was estimated at $75,000. Firemen of the Essex fire department stood by helplessly with no water for hoses while flames raced unchecked through the building. The business is located on the outskirts of Essex and there are no fire hydrants in the area. Jack Geschiere, an employee of the company, said he was working in the'yard shortly after 11 when he noticed, flames shooting from the main switch box.

By; the time firemen arrived the flames were licking at the wooden roof of the single story brick building and minutes later were shooting high into the The blaze was visible for several miles around. 1 1 1 the fact that when nations can produce intercontinental ballistic missiles in quantity, yet another By Bandana-Masked Trio See Also Pictures Page 3 INGERSOLL While hundreds of unsuspecting passengers slept three Jesse James-style bandits entered the mail car of a Windsor-bound C.N Jt. train early tfeday, held up the crew, and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash. According to crew members the three men' boarded the mail car as the train started moving out of Woodstock at 3:15 a Jn. E.S.T.

At gunpoint the three bandits their faces concealed by red and. green bandanas forced five of the crew into a lavatory and the other three into a closet and locked the doors. No one was hurt though the bandits made threats of violence. Prior to locking them yp one of the. men asked, "Where's the money?" The employees denied knowledge of any money and the bandits ripped open four mail bags.

The bandit trio left as mysteriously -as they arrived. When the crew members managed to break out of confinement just after the train left Ingerscll, there was no trace Two guards were beaten un era will begin." conscious. CONDUCTOR C. E. EMBRY in charge of robbed One of them, Robert AUinger, 47, threw the lock that prevented 3 Children Crowds Horrified As Detective Leaps Into Quebec Harbor QUEBEC CITY, Que.

(UP) A high-ranking police official Tuesday night hurled two of his children to their deaths in the' St. Lawrence River then leaped to his own death clutch any of the prisoners from fleeing. He and Guard Sam Montgomery, 45, were then badly beaten. "That we are indeed on the point of entering that era is the sobering conclusion to be drawn from the Soviet Development of new weapons "underlines and re-emphasizes the urgent need for success la the negotiations of the disarmament subcommittee in London, Mr. Diefenbaker said.

They were marching more than See Russ Walkout At Arms Parley 200 of the camp's nearly 400 convicts into the cell block after dinner and recreation. Many were still outside the block when ing his third Gen. Charles Foulkes, chairman i ma rot hock, iamur- those inside suddenly grabbed chairs and began attacking the two guards with their fists and of Canada's chiefs of staff, ana of them. It is believed they did not alight at Ingersoll Authorities said Roland Masse, 42:. chief of detectives in the West Pushes.

Package Deal lyzed the broad defence outlook clubs. -1 Quebec City police lorce, was and said Russia's rocket hasn't outmoded North America's cur walking along a pier when he sud Despite Rebuff by Russians "There are about 18 cejls on each of the three tiers cn each rent defence planning. denly flung his son, Kicnard, 4, and a daughter, Micheline, 8, into side," Allinger said later. "About And military scientists urged 30 or 40 tx-ys actually started it caution, in interpreting the an nia Windsor, owner of the business, said the building was partially insured. He said he purchased the building last February when it was in a rundown condition and had since worked night and day installing new machinery valued at $50,000, which was turning out 10,000 bricks an hour.

Mr. Marochock, said he hadn't decided whether he would rebuild the plant which employed 15 persons. all." -y nouncement by Tass, Soviet news agency, that the Soviet rocket LONDON, Eng. (AP)-Some Western dipJofnas todky expected the Russians to walk out of the United 'Nations disarmament talks here, 'following a sharp Soviet' rejection of latest Western proposals. "They threw down mattresses from their cells and set them on flew at an unprecedented alti tude, covered a vast distance in fire.

They were burning up any a brief time and landed in thing that was loose, even the target area. Beck Claims The general and the' scien tists Insisted that too little has guard desk. i "I was unarmed. I closed the door when the trouble started so they couldn't get out. Then we started fighting them.

I picked up a table leg and started swinging. Then 1 was knocked unconscious. Station. 'm- i The freed mail clerks signalled the train to an emergency stop and a. telegram was sent to London in- 6.

forming CN.R. authorities there of the robbery. Road V. blocks were set up by Ingersoll and provincial police. The mail clerks were able to give slight descriptions of two of three bandits.

One was about 35, of slight build, five feet 10'inches tall. A second was considerably older and of the third there was no description. Two' were armed with Luger automatics: A post office official described the boarding of the train as "a daring He said apparently the men clung to the footbars on the side of the mail car until the train was moving and then forced the unlocked sliding door open. The train No. 9, hauling i6 passenger cars pro-ceeded to London where the mail car was taken off on a siding.

The mail crew remained in London to assist in the Investigation. Mail for Chatham and points farther west was transferred to another car. Investigation is proceeding this morning with the R.C.M.P., O.P.P., railway, post office and city police taking part. A search of the area is being made in the hope that the bandits may have stolen mail, as well as money, and abandoned it. Unioii Gaining Despite Probe been said by the Russians to justify reading into their words that they have accomplished a United States goal a rocket capable of landing a nuclear warhead accurately upon a target 5,000 miles distant WASHINGTON, (UP) Dve Beck Teamsters' president, re "But before I went down I Dem Captures Ex-McCarthy Senate Seat MILWAUKEE (AP) William E.

Proxmire tonight became the first Democrat the state has elected to the U.S. Senate since 1932. Proxmire, 41, scored an upset ported oday that his union has saw Gomet hitting another offi But the Western powers went ahead with plans to present Jtheir completed disarmament package to the five-country subcommittee next week despite the Russian rebuff. The- Soviet delegate, Valerian Zorin put the Moscow fejection before the; subcommittee Tuesday in a statement which accused the United States, Britain and France of preparing for a new war. Canada is the fifth member of the disarmament group.

Mr. Zorin said the Soviet Union considers the talks deadlocked, and charged the West with evading issues and lying. His objections were largely a repeat of previous Soviet criticisms of the West Mr. Diefenbaker continued that been gaining steadily in member cer with a c.lub." the Soviet announcement "is an ship despite corruption charges Allinger, a guard, for 20 years, and Montgomery were taken to other reminder to use all, ievelled at some Teamster offic whether we be private citizens or ials, including Beck himself. hospital.

They were reported in the harbor. The third child, Llsette, 12, ran along the pier, screaming hysterically for help. But, as bystanders looked en in horror, Masse caught, the child when she tripped over a coil of rope. He then leaped into the water clutching her ia his amis. Crewmembers of a ship tied up nearby threw lifebuoys into the water in a futile rescue attempt Authorities said Masse appeared depressed the last two months.

They said he left his office Tuesday evening, wenthome and told his Wife he was taking the children for a drive in a police cruiser. The children were walking along the pier with their father as darkness was setting in when he suddenly turned on Capt. Jo Bonne, skipper of the Prins Willem III, said he was aroused by the cries of a child. "I looked through the porthole and saw a girl about 10 years of age running wild and being chased by a man from the end of the pier toward my boat," he said. "Following them through an-elher porthole, I saw; the man grab the girl after she tripped over a coil of rope, snatch her firmly to himself and jump into the' water less 50 feet beyond the bow of my ship," Bonne aid.

-He said he and his crew threw in positions of government re fair condition today. Beck's report was made public sponsibility, of the rapid develop The cause of the riot was. not ment that science is making in determined immediately, engines of destruction." in a press release issued by the union's international headquarters here while Beck and. the Teamsters executive board were meeting in Los Angeles. Whatever may be the degree victory over Republican Walter J.

Kohler, 53, three times governor of Wisconsin, in state's special election to name k. successor to the late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy State Governor Steve McNichols, who planned to drive here from Denver today, said he understood the prisoners "believed they were of monopoly conferred on the Soviet Union by its success in The Teamsters have been a this field, we may be sure that being worked too hard." Earlier Case Revived Returns from 3,096 of the it will not long endure. major target of the Senate committee investigating racketeering in the labor-management field. state's 3,361 precincts gave Prox The dead prisoner, admitted from Denver, was serving his Research into longrange rock ern proposals.

The' Russian delegate gave Harsh rejection to the newest mire 374,825 and Kohler 276,914. eU has been pressed forward second reformatory term foi rob Committee disclosures led to Kohler, a staunch supporter of elsewhere, and especially in the bery. I A.F.L.-C.I.O. charges that the United States, during the past Mail Driver's Murder, Robbery Link Sought union is dominated or controlled President, D. Eisenhower, had promised to continue backing the administration.

But he took a several years and we can expect by corrupt influences. Georgi Called The committee expects to rec that the day is not far distant when the design of missiles ommend five laws this fall to pro which can. reach virtually any tect rank-and-file union members. where in the world will be widely 'TooV of Beria MOSCOW, (AP) Nikita Western proposals for a two-year ban on nuclear weapon tests and the latest version of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection plan to guard against surprise attack.

He said the Soviet Union stands by its proposals for a "first disarmament i agreement, emphasizing that it should be preceded by a pact to halt immediately nuclear weapon' tests. understood." House Passes TORONTO Possible connection between the Woodstock theft and the murder of a mail truck driver, Weldon Boyd, in Toronto in December, 1956, when $7,500 in registered mail was stolen will be probed by Ontario Provincial Police and Toronto police. beating in many of the areas where the Republican Party previously had been strong. Proxmire has consistently opposed many of the president's programs and policies. He also had strong labor sfipport.

Proxmire three times sought, unsuccessfully, the governor's post He was beaten twice by Kohler and once by the Republican incumbent. Governor-Vernon Thomson. I devoutly hope that the first effect of this event will See DIEFENBAKER Page 6 Khrushchev calls- Georgi Malen-kov a "shadow and tool" of Lavrenty P. Beria in an article published today in the magazine Rishts Bill WASHINGTON, (AP) The U.K. Denies Hubby Weds life; buoys into the water, but to no avail.

Authorities said it probably would be at least two days before any of the bodies could be recovered because the tragedy took place during an ebb tide. Mrs. Masse was given sedatives and put under the care 'of a House of Representatives speedi ly; passed the compromise Ciyil Tivice in Day Rights Bill Tuesday and the Sen Kommunist. Beria was the former secret police-ohief executed as a traitor in 1933. The words of Khrushchev, the Communist Party boss, constitute the stiff est Soviet denunciation yet of Malenkov, former premier! who has been reported sent to Central Asia as director of the "Mail robberies require special technique and usually inside information regarding money mail bags in said a Toronto police official.

"There are only a few men who go in for this type of robbery and when a number occur it is usually the work of the same gang." ate, a few hours later, overwhelmingly defeated a move to shunt the measure to its judiciary committee. He the proposal for ae'rial inspection of Arctic areas as yielding "nothing useful either for disarmament or the prevention of sudden attack." Mr. Zorin also demanded that Asian, African and fLa tin-American countries join in the talks to change its "present narrow and onp-sidd vomnosition Sim etc Bomb LONDON, (Reuters) Yemen today accused Britain of attacking its forces with a new type of bomb which caused the victims to vomit blood and die. The Air Ministry immediately DETROIT, (UP) William Williams, 25, apparently liked the Idea of getting married so much that he played the role of. bridegroom twice on the The Senate vote of 66 to 18 power station at the town of came after a flurry of southern attacks on the compromise version.

ilar proposals to expand the accusation. U.S.T. Kamenogorsk. Khrushchev said Malenkov took advantage of Joseph Stalin i Wi I A Smile "What would you like for your birthday, dear?" asked a young husband. expensive.

Just something you made yourself." "Such as?" "Money!" "In June this year, a mail A statement from the" London been re- erence already have jected by the West. in Stalin's last years and prompt ed the dictator to do many things which now warrant denunciation. npr 1 When the bill was called up in the Senate Tuesday night, Senator Strom Thurmond S.C) put in a surprise motion to send it to the judiciary committee headed by Senator James Eastland (Dem. Explorers Unside Your Star legation of the Red Sea Arab kingdom said that "at 10 a.m. Yemeni local time on Aug.

25 British aircraft launched a savage attack, the first of its kind, on the area of Shukair in Yemen." I RA.F. planes have made a number of attacks on the disputed frontier between Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, alleging that Yemeni forces have invaded the protectorate. same Williams told Recorder's Judge Gerald W. Groat he married Shirley Petite Williams, 22, oa the morning of Jnly 18, 1956. He told Shirley he had some important business to conduct ia the afternoon, went to suburban River Rouge and married Rnby Nell Ramey Williams, 21.

The judge ordered Williams to appear for sentencing Sept. glO, for failing to support his morning bride after the defendant explains the reasons for bis nuptial doubleheader to a court psychiatrist bag en route from Toronto to Montreal, containing $21,000, was taken from a C.P.R. train. A bag containing newspapers cut to the size, of bills was substituted for the money bag shipped to the Bank of Montreal head office. At the time, police said it could have been an inside job.

In November, 1956, two mail bags were thrown from a mail truck in the Ingersqjl area. One containing $25,000 was found by LONDON, Eng, CP) The Times says the discovery by H.M.C.S. Labrador of a channel tlrough Bellot Strait is in the best tradition of Sir John Franklin and other 19th-century explorers who sought the North 'Editorial warns Russia's missile claims not to be scofied at Page- 4 -Letters show Stalin rejected invitation to meet with King George VI Page 33 Jack Kent 'reviews business news in weekly west Passage. The aircraft dropped on the Abandon Ship OSLO, (UP) The captain of a Norwegian Polar ship trapped in crunching ice off Greenland today radioed that U.S. Air Force rescue planes had ordered removal of all 23 men aboard.

.1 The Canadian Arctic -area bombs never used before in patrol vessel is easily the largest (previous British aggressions," the ship ever to negotiate the statement said. WILLIAM PROXMIRE wins McCarthy seat Pag 37 column a district tanner..

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