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PHONE 3-2233 FOR WANT AD RESULTS > THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET -- » Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TIE Weather Forecast Seven and rain are here now. Low tonight and high Sunday, 40 and 558 {i days to Spring but the wind |} i i VOL. 12--No. 62 Authorized as Second-Closs Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa > OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES PEE WEE PLAYERS GET LACROSSE TIPS "Put a pocket in my stick, Mr. McDonald, sald Jimmy Pet- ers (right), and big red - headed Blayne McDonald, (left), of the Hamilton Tigers lacrosse club at last night's CRA Pee wee Base- ball Boosters Sports Celebrity Night. Jimmy is a red-head, too, and his query hit Blayne the right way and immediately he got down to explain how it was done. A crowd of awed young- sters gathered around within sec- onds. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio' Iran Oil Negotiation Collapse, Court Order Spurs Mossadegh By JOHN H. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) lo- Iranian negotiations to settle their two-year-old. dispute over Iranian oil nationalization have virtually collapsed, United States diplomatic officials reported today. Premier Mohammed M of Iran is expected shortly to reject the settlement proposals presented him Feb. 20 by Prime Minister Churchill's government. Authorities sald Mossadegh's be- havior is so unpredictable that no "one can say definitely he will re- Ject. the British p: all "available information in Wash- ington. leaves no reasonable doubt that he has decided on such action. What effect this would have on Iran's internal political fight in re- lation to the Russians is a matter of speculation here, some of it ap- prehensive. Settlement of the oil dispute would give Mossadegh quick con- trol of large sums of money -- up to $100,000,000 advanced by the U.S. --to put his economic system on its feet, and thereby perhaps ease the political situation. Iran broke diplomatic relations with Britain last fall. The 'US. acted as go-between since that time. The current round of nego- tiations began when U.S. Ambas- sador Loy Henderson went to Teh- ran in December after lengthy con- sultations in Washington. Britain's Feb. 20 offer was en- dorsed by the U.S. last Saturday as "reasonable and fair." Mossadegh has. told Henderson, however, that in his opinion the proposals would saddle Iran with "economic bondage" for years. Although Britain offered modifi- cations in February to meet such fears, Mossadegh epparently felt it was not politically feasible to set- tle. His recent attitude appears to have been strengthened by a decls- fon of an Italian court at Venice earlier this week. The court ruled that the British-owned Anglo-Iran- ian Oil Company could not attach a tanker load of Iranian oll just arrived there from Iran. The British company, which has not been paid for its properties tak- en over by the government in Iran, claims that oil sold by Iran now-is company property. The ATOC sery- ed notice of appeal of the court decision. In the light of the Italian court decision, Mossadegh may well be- lieve he can find buyers for Iran- ian oil without the co-operation of the British and American govern- ments. IN GOOD HEALTH His hundreds of friends in Osh- awa and district will be pleased to learn that James, Heffering, former president of ing Liberal Association, is in good health and 'feeling fine" on a winter holiday i The information was contained in a post card sent to a local resi- dent this week. . N.B. Mineral Future Brightens By THE CANADIAN PRESS New Brunswick may have a bright future. Premier Hugh John Fleming said in the legislature at Frederic- ton Friday that for the first time in generations the province may have "an adequate economic foundation." He his prediction on the large bd8e metal discoveries in New Brunswick, the projected develop- ment of Canada's largest army camp, plans to use the St. John river to supply power and other capital programs to be carried out by his administration, Highways will scon be a common topic for representatives from Brit- ish Columbia, Alberta and Saskat- chewan, IS INCOME TAX INCOMVENIENCE? Suffering from insomnia caused by income taxes? Clas- sified ads in The Times-0azatie fix it all up fast, and let yi sleep like a contented Kitten! Gather up thcse belongings you've been holding on to, but not using. A bit of dusting and polishing'll make 'em look mighty desirable to folks who need 'em. For experienced ad-writing service phone 3-2233. Sessions At Edmonton, Highways Minister Gordon E. Taylor announced that ministers in charge of highways construction in the three western provinces will meet in Edmonton March 21 to discuss federal aid for highways--'"especially of military highways." The Saskatchewan house heard Provincial Secretary J. W. Burton state that his government is still trying to find a better method for paying compensation for the use of surface rights in the province. He said they are studying ways of giving owners of freehold min- eral rights more protection from so- called "slick operators." The CCF party in the Manitoba house demanded that the province pay a supplementary allowance to old-age pensioners whose incomes are limited to the pension of $40. The motion was defeated 28 to 17. The Nova Scotia house agreed on a voice vote to shelve a bill which would allow appeals against decis- ions of the public utilities board. Among other things, the board sets rates on bus fares, electrical and telephone services and milk. G. I. Smith (PC--Colchester), who introduced the bill, said board members were human and can make mistakes. There should be some avenue of appeal. Maximum temperature on rec- ord was 136 degrees in Libya in "northern Africa in 1922, Friday, 13 Tornado Fatal To 17 In Texas, Oklahoma HASKELL, Tex. (AP)--Rampag- Hail as big as golf ing tornadoes killed at least 17 per- | Lawton, Okla., and Fort Sill with | sons in west central Texas and |d3mage estimated at more than Oklahoma Friday, smashed seven | The wild winds wrecked homes, towns and caused damage expected | farm buildings and power and to run into the millions of dollars. | communication lines and smashed | Fourteen of the dead were in!a hospital at Knox City. Texas. Scores were injure vicious twisters struc in a zig-zag patter was wrecked, but escaped serious y. Three small Texas towns and their farm areas--Jud, O'Brien and Knox City--bore the brunt of s the | its patients | the wild, dancing winds, A woman | was killed at Bradley, Okla., as a twister smashed southeastward across that state. and took heavy An estimated 300 homes were damaged in Knox City, population |2,000, and R. A hospital | farmer who lives north of the town, said at least 25 homes were de- stroyed. At the hospital a serious fire threatened for a time because of a broken gas main. H. Howell, 39, a Howell's mother said she saw the tornado funnel roaring toward her about 3:30 p.m. but that it hit before she could get to the storm cellar. A neighbor's automobile Port tnd Bicksc Skin where | was soared 5 ards bye win ., Where | was 3 yar y the wind, two other persons died, she said. balls lashed | At the L. B,*Ashley home near | Jud nothing was left intact. Six | desolate-looking chickens squatted | forlornly on the wet ground. A big white sow and her shoat were kil- led. Sideboards of a truck were wrapped around the trunk of a bat- tered tree. Parts of the truck were scattered for nearly a mile. The sheriff's office at Haskell |' said Mrs. Ashley, her son and lit- tle daughter were among those killed. Bill Mowell, a railroader, said he saw it first about 2 p. m about the time Jud was struck. "It looked to be about 300 yards wide," he said. "It moved very slow . . . I'd say about 20 miles per hour. It would travel on the ground awhile, then pick up some. It was boiling and very black." AFTER PURG ONTARIO REGT. An Oshawa major has been giv- en the honor of leading a Canadian Major F. Stephen Wotton of 319 | Burk Street was morning that he had been chosen sentative of field officer rank. It| will be his first peace-time trip to | England. "it is a signal honor for the On- tario regiment, the city and my- self," said the major this morn- | duty lasting about two months. received at the passing out parade at the Royal Military ,College at Sandhurst on July 3, 1943. » Only 38 years of age, Major Wot- ton has been with the local unit, the 11th Armored (Ontario) Regi- ment, for 20 years. Before war broke out in September, 1939, he spent six years with the militia. He enlisted at Oshawa the day after war broke out and became an instructor in the tank corps. After a spell of duty at Camp Borden he went to England as a sergeant in the first group of Ca- nadian armored corps personnel. In that group were local veterans Murray Johnston, Bob Schell, RSM informed this | ing. He hasn't yet been told what | date he will be sailing but antici- | holds the Canadian forees and effi- | pates that he will be on a tour of | ciency medal for 24 years of army On his march through London, | his life, Major Wotton was edu- the young major will be wearing | cated at Centre Street School and the coveted belt of honor that he |the Local Major Leads Contingent In London Coronation Parade Barker, Sergeant - Major Wright, | Sgt. Frenck, Sgt. Wilkins and Sgt. armored contingent in the Coron-|Sheriff. They underwent a three- ation procession through London months.instructors' course before | next June. returning to. Canada in Maroh, | 1941, Three months later Major Wot | ton returned to England. He took | by Central Command as its repre- | his commission with honors and as a lieutenant fought with the Ontario's through Sicily, Italy ae | | France. After the war's end he {returned his interest in the regi- | | ment and attained his majority in| | May, 1951. Among his other decorations he | { service. A resident of Oshawa all In private life he is the office manager for A. and J. Sager (Can- ada) 'Limited and Britman Limi- | ted. His wife is the former Shirley | Anne Reynolds and they have two daughters and one son. | The Canadian army representa- | tives to attend the Coronation are being chosen: by the individual corps associations. Applications on behalf of other ranks are still un- der consideration and by the end of next week it may be known if any other members of the local regiment will be going to England. RSM Jack Barker went to Lon- don in 1937 to attend the Corona- tien of King George VI. OTTAWA (CP) -- George Drew, Progressive Conservative leaddr, launched - a - mew - attack on Minister. Abbott's 1953-54 so-called "social-dividend" budget. The Opposition leader, riding out a number of noisy interruptions in the Commons Friday night, reiter- ated charges that the budget gives no tax relief to the small-income man and does nothing for the farmers, while helping those with high incomes and providing tax relief for corporation. . It was for those reasons, Mr. Drew said, that the Progressive Conservative party plans to sup- port a CCF motion of non-confi- dence in the government, moved by M. J. Coldwell, CCF leader, in the budget debate last Feb. 24. The CCF motion, a sub-amend- ment to a similar Progressive Conservative moticn, describes the annual government financial state- ment as a 'rich men's 'budget." It regrets that while tax cuts were made retroactive to Jan, 1 and exemption levels were double for corporations, the same was not done for inccme tax payers. It re- grets also that while credits al- lowed on dividend income were doubled, the same was done for Drew Attack Stings Liberals In Ottawa those who work for their income. Mr. Drew will resume his budget speech Monday. It is probable that a vote will come early in the week on the CCF motion and a Tittle later on the Progressive Conserva- tive amendment. The Progressive Conservative motion says the goernment took no steps to deal with waste and extravagance, to give tax relief to the needy, to offer encourage- ment to farmers, or fo permit an independent inquiry into adminis- tration and accounting in the de- fence department. Mr, Drew said if it was appro- priate to make a retroactive pro- vision for corporations--and he be- lieved it was--it was equally ap- propriate to make a similar pro- visicn for the individual income tax payer. "We believe there could have been very much greater reduc- tions all along the line," said Mr. Drew. The government would find it hard to explain why those on $2,000 and $3,000 a year earned in- come got little or nothing while the person with $10,000 a year from corporation dividends paid no in come tax, This series of high =~ speed photos shows an air crash ar- ranged by research scientists at Ravenna, Ohio. The embankment in the plane's-landing path was shaped so as to cause the air- craft to ground loop, and the top TELLING THE STORY OF AIR CRASHES photo shows the plane approach- ing the barrier with engines at full throttle. The plane strikes the barrier, and the, undercar- riage and wings buckle. Staged accidents like this will eventually 4 Whitby Girl Attacked By 'Fat Man' WHITBY (Staff) -- A nine-year- old girl was criminally attacked on her way home from school yes- terday afternoon. The little girl, who attends Con- lin's Public School, on the 5th Con- gession, Whitby Township, told po- lice that "a fat middle-aged man in a dark green car' had offered to take her home and had driven two miles up a side road where the alleged attack toak place. She add- ed that the same man had driven her to school in the morning with- out molesting her. Provincial constable Gordon Keast of Warky is investigating the incident. _ 100 Missing As Tornado Hits Village RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP)=-- Arkansas state police said this morning that four small mountain villages were reported struck by a tornado about 12:45 a. m, Eighteen houses were reported destroyed at Bunker Hill, a smail mountain community about 10] miles northwest of here, Troopers who arrived at the town about 5:15 a. m, CST said they could find none of the 100 residents of the town. Three persons were hurt in the twister that struck Millcreek, just south of Bunker Hill, The first tornado report was re- ceived from this small hamlet of some 200 persons by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. State police said Dover about 10 miles north of here was struck but that no one has been mpported in- jured. EPPING, England (CP) -- In- mates of a model prison for women in this Essex district are allowed hair curlers, lipstick and a choice E HINTS CZECH LEADER DIES Red Doctors Fail' To Save VIENNA (AP)--Klemen Dictator t Gottwald, Communist presi- dent and dictator of Czechoslovakia, died today at the age of 56. Gottwald had returned to Prague from Marshal Stalin's funeral in Moscow only Wednesday. The Prague radio said he was taken, ill with pneumonia and pleurisy Thursday morning and 'developed rapid complications Friday. SKEPTICAL. Although Russian doctors were called to his bedside in an effort to save his life, East Europe's most powerful satellite leader died | nine days after his life-long friend and idol, Stalin. Although Prague radio indicated that Gottwald had taken cold from Moscow's icy winds, Western dip- lomats in Vienna said they be- lieved many Czechoslovaks would look at the suddenness of his death with skepticism. It seemed almost too much of a coincidence that two Communist dictators should die one after the other. Tha Prague radio announced that Gottwald died at 10 a.m. GMT 3 a.m. EST today. At his bedside, nouncement, were many famous Soviet specialists, together with the country's top doctors. The announcement was broad- cast to the Czech people at 1:11 p.m. GMT 8:11 a.m. EST by the Prague radio. It was read after the radio de- layed its regular noon newscast for one hour and 11 minutes. News of his death had been ex- pected hourly. It was clear from medical bulletins issued last night that he could not live for more than a few hours. The first announcement of his death did not give the reasons for death. But he had developed a maemorrhage of the thoraeic cav- ity Friday and was given blood transfusions. He 15st consciousness at 7:15 a.m. today and apparently died without regaining 'conscious- ness. Gottwald, born Nov. 23, 1896, in the province of Southern Maehren, was the son of humble Austrian peasants, As a young man he became a carpenter in Vienna where he went to live with relatives. In 1922, at the age of 26, he saw an advertisement in a Communist party newspaper seeking a clerk. He applied for and got the job, thus beginning his* career as a Communist. After praising Gottwald today for his later achievements in the Conscience Bothers City Resident WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- An Osh- awa resident has added $8.75 to the "conscience gnoney' fund at the Windsor office of customs and ex- cise. Harold Beardmore, sollector of customs and excise in this city, received the money be a note by registered mail. It will be forwarded to the receiver-general of Canada. The enclosed note said: "Enclosed please find $8.75 which is duty on $25 worth of gifts which I failed to declare at Christmas time. Upon returning home I felt that this duty should be paid." It was signed: '"A law-abiding citizen". The letter was postmark- of five colors of linen dresses. ed Oshawa. said the an-| | Communist cause, the radio added, perhaps significantly: "Those attempting to destroy the unity of Czechoslovakia will mercilessly wiped out." It urged the Czech people to be on guard against all foreign and domestic enemies. In this and other respects the announcement of Gottwald's death was identical with that of the ane nouncement of the Jest of Stalin in Motown March 5 e Red purge-master who en- Wn the bloodless Communist seizure of power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 became ill Thursday--only a few hours after his return from Moscow, where he stood in the bitter cold in Red Square for the funeral of his friend, Joseph Stalin. The Czech radio issued the first bulletin on his illness Friday. It said he had suffered an "acute attack' of pneumonia and pleurisy, a chest inflamation. A second buls | letin a few hours later reported a "rapid decline in blood pressure and | an onset of circulatory fails ure." The sudden announcement and subsequent bulletins were broad. cast by Prague radio in a pattern similar to the Moscow announce- ments on Stalin's last illness. Before the new report, Pragu radio had broadcast the text of The previous medical bulletin every our on the hour, In between, the Talli played uninterrupted solemn too, was in the same paler as the Russian announces ments on Stalin, The earlier communique said the doctors decided to make a 'relieve ing puncture of the thoracie cavity and a blood transfusion, "After these medical measures, the communique declared, 'the state of health of Comrade 'Gotte wald continues to be serious." ttwald was absent from hig CZECH LEADER (Continued on Page 2) GOES TO CORONATION Among thousands of Canadians attending coronation of Queen Elizabeth on June 2 in London will be 16-year-old Virginia Kai makoff, seen here holding her pet cat. A high school student, at New Westminster, B.C., Vir- ginia was chesen, along with ane other student from same school, to represent Canadian Junior Red Cross at the historic event. CLOAK-AND-DAGGER HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP)--A former Maryland governor told Friday night how he and two of his weéilthy business friends took a financial flyer . in free-enterprise espionage which robbed the Com- munists of a top-secret jet fighter plane. The amazing financial venture of three well-known American busi- ness men into the cloak-and-dagger land of Eastern Europe espionage circles caused a series of diplo- matic upheavals between the Dan- ish government and enraged Polish officials. The business men, all officers of Fairchild Aircraft Company here, are former governor William Pres- ton Lane, Jr., a member of the board of directors; Richard 8S. Bouttelle, president of the firm, and Arthur F. Flood, executive vice-president. A retired United States Army officer, Col. Ulius (Pete) Amoss, who lives on Gibson Island, a quiet little retreat about 20 miles south- help to prevent unstaged acci- dents, east of Baltimore, master-minded the plan, The plan, which began about a year ago, was climaxed March 5 when & Polish Air Force lieutenant landed on the Danish-owned island of Bornholm with a Soviet-built MiG-15 jet fighter plane. 'The American business men were said to have put up about $10,000 to finance it. One member of the spy group said Col. Amoss, who formerly headed the East Europe division of the U.S. office of strategic | services, made at least two trips to Europe to lay plans for the venture, which involved no bribing. His chief of operations was des- cribed as a "brilliant intelligence officer, not an American," but was otherwise unidentified. Just how they did it remains a mystery for 'security reasons,' but a member of\the U.S. spy ring said the Polish flier's end of the task was done for 'patriotic rea- sons," and not for money. The flier, Lieut. Francsizek Ja- rewski, will probably be given the protection of formal recognition as a political refugee Monday, accord- Flight Of MiG From Poland Engineered By U.S. Civilians ing to an announcement Friday night from the Danish foreign office. Shortly after the young Pole dropped his prize on Western soil, the angry first secretary of the Polish legation at Copenhagen rushed to Bornholm to claim the plane, He didn't even get to see it. Heavily - armed guards sure | rounded the jet until it was loaded on a ship and sent to Copenhagen under armed naval escort. The Polish secretary, Mieczy- slaw Lakomy, spoke of "grave con- sequences" if the plane were not returned, but the Danes replied bluntly: 'not until they get=a good look at it Meanwhile, air experts from the West calmly stripped the fighter plane of its vaunted &s=crets. Only Friday night, a Danish fore eign office announcement said the examination of the had reached "such an advanced stage that a final report is eipetiét this week-end." EE ----