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mm mm LATE SPORT RACES NEWS FLASHES STOCKS TODAY'S NEWS TODAY WEATHER: Cloudy, Sunny Periods 82nd Year, No. 53 Want Ads 386-2121 ppTprr'. II cents i rilLj. WEESEND CENT VICTORIA, B.C.,' TUESDAY, 'AUGUST 10, 196524 PAGES UVJ CD Full-Scale Civil War New Fear Missile Silo Fire Kills 53 SEARCY, Ark. (UPI) Rescue workers today hauled 53 bodies of a construction crew from the blackened depths of a Titan II missile silo where they perished in the worst U.S.

disaster involving space-age Alta. Holds Lead In Willingdon Cup STOCKHOLM (Reuters) WINNIPEG (CP) Alberta held an eight-stroke lead over defending champion Saskatchewan today after 27 holes in the 36-hole Willingdon Cup inter-provincial team golf matches. Alberta's four-man team had a combined total of 444. Keith Alexander of Calgary, 1960 Canadian amateur champion, led the Albertans with a three-under-par 106 for the 27 holes. South African Negroes are arming in preparation materials.

The nuclear warhead of the Lions Give Tryout to Rams' Discard 'J, a "U.l Two workmen scrambled to safety through searing heat and blinding smoke shortly after the explosion Monday in the nine-level structure that is equal to missile had been deactivated and removed before the con- struction crew began making modifications in the 170 foot deep silo. The fuel inside the missile did not explode. There have bean three previous explosions at a U.S. Titan -missile sites all in New Mexico. There were no reported a 15-storey building.

Fire and the smoke apparently sealed off any chance the others had to escape. for a full-scale civil war, Barney Desai, president of the South African Colored People's Congress, said here today. Desai, 34 year old exilrd leader of the and apartheid congress, told a press conference the prospect of war in white ruled South Africa "is now very real." "The colored people's organizations in South Africa are now preparing for a full-scale civil war. This was a decision taken recently." The groups include the Pan 4Jrican Congress, the African A. J.

Beck, chief of maintenance operations for the Strategic Air Command, said he put on an oxygen mask and went into the launch site casualties. Peter Kiewit Sons Omaha, a contracting firm, was hired to do the $4.5 million modification job. Wood said the water in the bottom of the silo was from two places. One was the automatic himself and saw the escape door open. He said the only closed VANCOUVER (UPI) Dave Skrien, head coach of the Grey Cup champion B.C.

Lions, today began testing two-way tackle Bob Oetting, a recent Los Angeles Rams cut. Oetting. who played 'last year for the Canton Bulldogs of the United Football League, is here on a five-day trial basis. He is a candidate for an offensive tackle post on the right side of the Lions' front wall. Giardello to Meet Tiger for Title NEW YORK (AP) Joey Giardello signed a contract today to defend his world middleweight boxing crown against ex-champion Dick Tiger in a 15-round bout at Madison Square Garden here Oct.

21. Boxing Champ Suspended After Crash CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Carlos Hernandez, world junior welterweight boxing champion, was suspended for a year by the Caracas Boxing Commission today on charges of driving while drunk. Hernandez rammed his car into a wall Saturday night. Both he and his girl companion escaped injury. $9,000 Taken In 'Sidewalk Snatch' ROUYN, Que, (CP) A man got away with $9,000 in a daring sidewalk snatch today in this community 394 miles northwest of Montreal.

The cash was in an envelope being carried by an unescorted employee of a caisse populaire (credit union). The robber made his getaway in a stolen taxi. door was the entrance to the control room on the other end of the missile complex. water spray system in the President Johnson ordered an National Congress, Spear of the Nation and the African Resistance Movement, he said. launch duct or gun barrel, the wall that holds the missile inside the silo.

The other was from an immediate investigation of the He said the Negroes' case has auxiliary diesel power unit in the underground explosion and fire. A special team of 30 experts arrived on the scene today. silo, which has a fire-prevention been before the United Nations for 17 years and that 31 resolutions have been adopted, all of Capt. Douglas E. Wood, di unit which comes on automatically when power is disrupted.

0 1 'f1-'H-''--' "1rV rector of information at Little Rock Air Force Base, said the Wood said rescue workers re which ended up in South African Premier Hendrik Ver-woerd's waste-paper basket. 53 dead would "very likely" be ported bodies were stacked In piles around the ladders on the second and third levels of the the final total. He said muddy water in the bottom of the silo would have to be pumped out before a final determination could be made. silo. The ladders are used normally by workmen going from floor to floor.

FIRST IN HISTORY Explosion In Dissel Engine "Then the light went out The explosion was believed to have occurred in a diesel engine and I heard people screaming to get to the ladder. Girl Banged With Bottle Knocked Out THE PAS, Man. (CP)-An assailant beat a nine-year-old girl unconscious and locked her in a trunk, RCMP reported today. A spokesman said the girl was in good condition in hospital with cuts and bruises on the neck. He said the girl had gone to the home of a friend Monday, but the family was out for the in one of the little rooms ringing "Everybody ran for It and Gold Cup Driver Draws Suspension with everyone gathered around the ladder no one could get up.

the launch duct. It erupted on level two, 40 to 50 feet below the surface of the launching site which is topped by a seven-foot- "I felt my way around the wall and went through part Searcy, was scene of explosion and fire that took 53 lives. AP of the flames and back to the dangerous driving in Sunday's INSIDE VIEW (looking up) of silo shows men working on 108-foot missile underground. Silo like this in thick, electrically-operated door. tunnel entrance.

Then I felt Gold Cup race here. Referee Bill Newton said to Charles F. Strang, chief of my way along the wall to the control room and they took air force missile safety, arrived day at his home in Towson, he ordered the suspension, ef me out in an ambulance," he at Little Rock Air Force Base BID TO RESCUE CAMP said. and was directing the investiga SEATTLE (AP) Veteran driver Norm Evans, of Chelan, has been given a one-year suspension, the first in unlimited hydroplane racing, for Lightning Starts Fires The other- survivor. Herbert fective Aug.

8, after Evans in the Miss Lapeer and Roy Duby in the Miss U.S. 5 collided at the day. After she knocked on the door a man appeared, dragged her inside and beat her unconscious with a soft drink bottle. Saunders, 59, recalled "I heard someone say, 'Help tion. The explosion at the site 10 miles northwest of Searcy, one of 18 in north-central Arkansas, occurred at 1:30 p.m.

Monday, start of heat 2-A. He said the man took the girl 1 219 Con3 Killed In Major Battle to the back of the building and The two Detroit boats were jockeying for position in the north turn when they slammed deposited her in the trunk, locking it as he fled. looked down and saw smoke coming out I held my breath until I got to level two. I couldn't hold it any longer and I gasped and started coughing. But I made my way to the control room and they got me "I was standing next to the ladder," said Gary Lay, IS, one together.

Both were damaged. A severe lightning storm left 38 forest fires in its The girl's friend and family "Norm is a very lucky man of the survivors. "All of a sud wake in the Revelstoke area. to be alive today," Newton said. SAIGON (AP)-A large gov den, I heard an explosion and i iif "He cut blindly through the ernment force attempting to re saw a big flame of light.

reached home shortly and heard cries for help. On investigating, they found the girl, who had regained consciousness. They took her to hospital. roostertail of the Taboe Miss di lieve the besieged Secial The B.C. Forest Service reported today that the storm gave the Kamloops forest district its highest 24-hour total of new fires so far this season, but yielded rectly in front of the Miss U.S.

5, CHESS TOURNAMENT "Duby had no choice but to little new rain for the area. climb right over Evans' boat." Evans suffered a bruised Late Sales At Vancouver However, all the fires were Czechs Want To Sell More PRAGUE (AP) The Czecho shoulder but escaped serious in Under control by mid-morning. jury by ducking into the cock Before the storm hit forest Castro Plays Smart To Checkmate U.S. Canadian Pacific, 50 at pit of the Miss Lapeer as the service firefighters had ex Forces camp at Due Co has killed 219 Viet Cong in a "battle of sizable proortions" that is continuing, a U.S. spokesman reported today.

Government casualties including American dead and wounded so far are "moderate," the spokesman said, but added: "I describe them as moderate only because of the large number of troops involved." The government (one was battling ils way westward along a- east-west highway through the Central Highlands, in an attempt to reach the Special Forces camp five miles from the Cambodian border. U.S. 5 cut a six-foot gash in the tinguished air but five of the slovak Dally Rude Pravo says Czech officials told a visiting Rolling Hills Mines, 1,000 at Copper Soo, 500 at Utica, 800 at Merit Oil, 1,000 at rear deck and ripped out half district blazes. See story on Page 2.) the windshield. Canadian parliamentary delega Peel, 500 at Dundee, ROBBED of jewels worth $4,500 Monday by thieves posing as window cleaners was Lady Spencer Churchill, 80, widow of Sir 1,000 at Galaxie Copper, tion that if trade between the two countries is to increase "conditions must be created for 500 at Mt.

Washington, 500 Washington, 500 PHOTO CONTEST I 250 at 4 at Hurley at North Gate, ate, international referee in New York who will transmit them by an open telephone line to Havana. Plays by his opponents will be relayed the same way. Tormont, 2,000 Winston. Two men dressed in overalls and carrying buckets stuffed the jewels in their pockets and fled. Czechoslovakia to sell more on the Canadian market and thus obtain means for paying for Canadian goods." River, 1,000 at .30: Con.

Smel. ters, 100 at $42.75. Frantic Deadline Rush Rewarding SEAMAN CONFESSES TO MURDERS Shipmates Slain Over Cuba Argument NEW YORK (AP) Refusal of the United States government to allow chess champion Bobby Fischer to go to Cuba for an international tournament is viewed by Prime Minister Fidel Castro as "a propagandistic 1 1 0 for dispatches from Havana say. Castro is "delighted" by the government's refusal and has taken personal charge of arranging for Fischer's participation by telephone from New York. The U.S.

stale department, in rejecting 'an application from the 22-year-old chess champion to travel to Cuba, said permission Is granted only to journalists, businessmen with long-standing interests in Cuba and persons on humanitarian missions. A Havana source said Castro decided to pay the heavy expenses necessary to main Final week of the Times photo contest closed with a bumper bundle of enu'ics from All over B.C. In all, judges had 161 to sift through before picking the final winners. They are: Percy Orrell, Mirror Lake, B.C. ((The World In Which We runner-tip, Joe Kiss, 322 Edward Street, Victoria.

Christopher Wirtz, 604 Fran- the i weeks' winners a further cash prize of $25, Response to this year's contest has been tremendous and hundreds of entries have been received at the office. The judges have hud some tough decisions to make, But not everyone can win. Maybe those who have been unlucky will have better luck next time. Over-all winners will be announced next Tuesday. to "Ybor City," Tampa's Latin section which is heavily populated with Cuban exiles.

The Cuban also said the captain pulled a knife on him. MIAMI (UPI)-A Cuban sea-' man confessed today he shot the captain, the first mate and three crew members of the freighter Seven Seas during a heated political argument over Cuba, federal authorities reported. The alleged confession came from Roberto Ramirez who was picked up before dawn today in a skiff about 60 miles from here, armed with a revolver and several knives. Stay In Commonwealth for 14 hours after the shootings. Eight persons were aboard the Seven Seas as she plowed through the seas last Saturday.

By late night five had been killed. Two men, Ramirez and the young seaman who hid in the locker, survived. But another crew member, the cook, was last seen going into the engine room and his whereabouts remained a mystery. Ramirez told his questioners he was standing watch at the wheel of the coastal freighter Saturday night as it sailed without cargo from Miami to a dry-dock in Tampa. He said he was arguing in favor of the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba.

LONDON (Routers) Singa pore has asked to remain In the Commonwealth as an independ ent country, British officials said tain open telephone and tele here today. The officials said Britain would support this. Seven Seas, identified as Gerald Davison, appeared and threw up his hands. Ramirez said he did not threaten the cook, and Davison disappeared toward the en gine room, which now has five feet of water in it. Ramirez was picked up early today by the German freighter-Bellavia.

With him he had a 38-calibrc revolver, silver-tipped bullets and several knives. Burywaise and three dead shipmates on the Seven Seas were found adrift by the coast guard late Sunday. She was lowed into port at Key West, Monday. Burywaise named Ramirez as the gunman who shot down one of the crewmen In his bunk, fore his very eyes. Burywaise said he saw Capt.

Diaz lying dead in a pool of blood on the bridge, but the coast guard said a trail of blood leading to the port rail Indicated that Diaz was thrown overboard. res Avenue, Victoria (People of the World) runner-up, Alice Kimoff, RR 3, Victoria. F. William Voreggor, 14G1 Jamaica Road. Victoria (Animals of the World); runner-tip, John Willow, 190 Dcnlson Road, Victoria.

Winners will receive $10, runncr-up an honorable mention. Winners will also have their pictures entered In the final judging to decide the three to be sent to the national finals. In the national contest they Hand chance of winning trip round the world or numerous cash prizes. In addition, the Times will present the best three out of graph lines eight hours daily during the month-long tournament, which begins Aug. 25.

According to Cuban officials, Fischer will dictate plays to an Canada's Extremes High Medicine Mat, 8.1 Low Port Arthur, Ramirez said he turned from the wheel and shot the captain and first mate, then went into the crew's quarters and shot three other shipmates who earlier had argued against him. He said he shot them while ihey slept. At one point; the federal official said, Ramirez recalled seeing the 17-ycar-old seaman who had in the locker and told the story Monday of murder on the Seven Seas. The young seaman, Elvin Burywaise, identified Ramirez as the slayer. Ramirez said during the interrogation he was not angry at the teen-ager because the young sailor had not argued with him.

As he was putting a lifeboat over the side of the vessel, Ramirez related, the took of the A federal official, who asked to remain anonymous, said he was present at the interrogation of Ramirez by bther government authorities. The federal official related the grisly tale of murder aboard the death ship, as told by the Cuban seaman. Ramirez said he abandoned the ship in a lifeboat after the The Seven Seas was discovered adrift Sunday with one crew member hidden In a locker where he said he had remained The captain of the vessel, Ro-gelio Diaz, and first mate, Ald-rick Hinds, were arguing against him, he said. Ramirez, dressed in Bermuda shorts, sneakers and a grimy sport shirt, alleged the captain first threatened to turn him over Malaysia's still sufferln' from a malaise, Patients need hospital beds, an' gittln' hospital beds sure lakes patience, Gntchcr Christmas lists readyT RACING Pages 11, 12 7.