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In Montreal Slaying Quiz I PHONE 3-2233 FOR WANT AD RESULTS THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Balmy breezes, sunny and mild today and Good Friday. Low tonight and high tomorrow, 85 and 55. : 'VOL. 12--No. 78 Authorized os Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES +4 . GALS OF CCI TOP CHEERLEADERS Oshawa's Central Collegiate In- stitute_won the trophy for the best cheering section in heavy competition at the finals of the city school hockey leagues. The students were led by this attrac- | tive group of cheerleaders, They are, left to right, Sonia Shelen- | SPLIT UNITY OF WEST SEEN RED PEACE' AIM Show Prosperity Peak production was maintained while the car manufacturers were | { Customs Figures . |in Oshawa factories throughout the [announcing new assembly records | _ koff, Donna Jackson, Liz Olin and Sylvia Bilenduke with Anne Sabo holding the trophy. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio. TORONTO (CP) - Police ar- rested: two men last night for ques- tioning in connection with last week-end's slaying of Charles (The Kid) Waggoner. They gave their names as Frank Pattagiia 37, and James Rogers, alias Smith Poirier, 26. : Detective Inspector Archie Mec- Cathie said they were arrested on Grab Two Men At Toronto of Montreal police, Police took them into custody at a hotel on Jarvis street in central Toronto. "I don't know what their con- nection is with the case," the in- spector said. "They (Montreal pol- ice) asked us to hold the fellows | and that's what we did." He said an escort is expected today to take Battaglia and Rogers a coroner's warrant at the request back to Montreal. Urges Bloor Bridge Be Moved To John | A new 44-foot wide bridge is to| "It wouldn't be sound economic be thrown across Oshawa creek | practice to put the old bridge over where it crosses Bloor Street West | important John Street and build a and Ald. Cephas Gay last night new bridge out in the country to wondered what was going to hap- serve rural traffic. With only light pen to the present narrow steel country traffic going over it that bridge that spans the waterway. bridge might last for another 50| of t is a well constructed years and it would be wiser to build bridge. Could it not be put across |a new wide bridge over creek at the creek at John Street thus add- | John," pointed out Mr. Richardson. é ° ing another east-west through street to the city's road system?" he ask- ed at a meeting of the traffic ad- visory council. Bob Richardson, representing the | city engineer's department, said it \s the official intention to re- e a bridge in the annexed area | ith the spans from Bloor Street. narrow and was already too old for the use it would get on John St. "A bridge over John Street has {always been discussed and a 'wait | {and see' policy has been in effect | for 50 years. It might be better to put this steel bridge across so that at last we will have something there," observed Ald. Herb Rob- inson. | The city engineer's department | | will be asked to comment on the | { feasibility of the scheme. | CIO Rubber Workers : i wa vi Walk Out On Strike NEW YORK (AP)--A CIO union Rubber Couipany negotiations here United Sia.es after contract became deadlocked. thousand employees are aifected. Negotiations are scheduled to resume today, and a company spokesman said he is "very detin- itely optimistic' about early settle- ment. He estimated the strike would last no longer than two or three days, if that long. A spokes- man for the CIO Rubber Workers Union declined to make any pre- diction. m 19 plants |but three or four' of the 19 plants | iclock--were idle before dawn, | No wage demand ig involved, the | (the issues, he listed hospital care, | {pension plan revision: and the! length of the new contract. The {company wants a longer contract | than the union does. A 21-month | contract expired last Tuesday. i Wages of the union's members | were raised 10 cents an hour last | Aug. 11 under a wage reopening | | clause. Current average wage rates | were not stated by either company | or union. Believed the victim of gangland vengeance, Waggoner was found shot through the head, his body weighted and thrown in a creek. Inspector McCathie declined comment on a report that Wag- goner's slaying is tied in with the theft last year of a shipment of gold bullion at nearby Malton air- port, just before it was to have been loaded aboard an airliner. Later Ontario provincial police said they plan to question the Tor- onto men about the Malton robb- ery. However, police believe they al- most captured a man wanted in connection with another gold rob- bery. They think Harry Hedderson, sought since the theft of gold bul- lion from a baggage truck at the railway station about 18 months ago, slipped out of the hotel just before the other men were ar- rested. Battaglia is well known around Toronto as . ras Pastor Faces Two Charges In Road Death | ter what kind they were Charges of dangerous and care-| less driving have heen laid against | Rev. A. H. McLachlan of Ajax, driver of a car which collided with a light truck, resulting in Sarah Dillon of Pickering, acting | Hum-| Crown Attorney Russel D. | past 12 months but the total collect- | the government was quietly taking | ied by federal authorities in cus-/ an excise tax for each vehicle. {toms taxes, although still gigantic, | That excise tax has been main- | | fell slightly from 1951's record tax. tained despite eloquent pleas hy | March 31 saw the end of the Ontario riding MP, Michael Starr, | fiscal year for the customs and | for it to be lowered and the revenue | exercise department. through the port of Oshawa, has single item in Oshawa's huge cus- | collected $68,077,700.69. [toms Eollections; t | In 1951 the all-time record was uring March the excise tax re-| established when customs collec- | alized $6,685,546.67 of the month's | tions went over the 70 million dol- | total collection of $7,803,359.50. Im- | lar mark. {port duty on materials amounted | Despite the two million drop in lo S1.115,402.50, to the last fiscal. year Oshawa cus-|$949 and sundry collections, which | toms revenue is many millions [iS all that a normal Canadian more than it was in the steady City provides, brought only $1,461. days of the late 1940's. For ex- 33. ample, in 1949 the year's customs| In March last year the Customs revenue received through Oshawa |COllections totalled $5,959,585.77. was a mere 20 million dollars. | Best month for collection during | Production was stepped up and | the fiscal year was March and the | raw materials and parts started |Only other month to go over the to pour into the city. More and | CUSTOMS more cars rolled off the lines and! (Continued on Fage 2) excise duty to] Within the | derived by the government from | * past 12 months the local office, the cars and trucks is the biggest | LIBERAL LEADER? The name of External Affairs Minister Lester Pearson will once more be popping up in a favorite Parliament Hill game-- speculation on the successor to Prime Minister St. Laurent as Liberal party leader now that a secretary-general has been | named for the United Nations. Christian Pilgrims Retrace Calvary | South Koreans Knock Off Reds SEOUL (AP)--A Chinese Com- é v the | JERUSALEM (Reuters)--Thous- ands of Christian pilgrims, bearing heavy wooden crosses, on Good Friday will retrace the steps of Christ on the way to Calvary. The traditional procession through the old city to Jerusalem will stop to kneel on the cobbles | at each of the 14 stations which commemorate incidents that took place as Christ went to his crucifi- xion on the hill of Golgotha. Along the Via Dolorosa--the way | of the cross--groups of pilgrims | from many countries will pray and chant as the Slocession winds its way to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Calvary. ~ On Edster Sunday the 'dragon! teeth" barriers ana mines at the | iraeli and Jordan governments to | : : munist battalion--about 750 men-- grim reminders of the Holy Land ,. it i fighting--w ill be a ang hit the South Korean Capitol div- members of the diplomatic corps |ision on the central front early in full regalia will walk to the today, but the sharpshooting RoKs Church of the Holy Sepulchre. {drove off the Reds with deadly There a pontifical high mass will | artillery and small arms fire, be conducted by the Roman Cath-| Eighth army headquarters aid olic patriarch of the Holy Land, |93 Communist bodies were left on Msgr. Alberto Gori. | the batile field and suother 75 Reds isti i | probably were wounded. Scores of Christians receive spe- | The Chinese crossed the Kum- hwa-Kumsong high wa# shortly cial permission from both the Is-| enter the old city to take part in | after midnight and stormed RoK the celebrations. [40 minutes of savage fighting the Reds broke off the battle and were NO PAPER TOMORROW {driven back across the road, the As tomorrow .is Good Friday. no army-said. Gp nv issue of The Times - Gazette will| For the second straight day be published. With few exceptions | American Sabre jets swept over positions south of Kumsong. After | Offers Crop Up All Over World By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS While Western leaders continued to sound words of cau- tion on the Red peace overtures, the Communists d:1 vered to the United Nations command in Korea today their latest proposal for ending the Korean fighting. In Washington, officials and Western diplomats saw in- creasing evidence that Russia's snowballing peace offensive is a reversal of cold-war tactics aimed at stalling the West's | defence buildup and wrecking the anti-Soviet world's unity. Some authorities say the Russians are running a risk, tco. If the Western world maintains its unity it may be able to create a stability which the Soviets will find difficult to upset. The spotlight remained focussed on Korea. More light will be shed on the situation when the prisoner-of-war talks open Monday. If the Reds resort to their customary haggling, the Western world will have grounds for questioning their sincerity. In addition to events in Korea these were the latest developments in the "surprise-a-day" peace offensive: | UNITED NATIONS: Russia's Andrei Vishinsky, recently returned from Moscow, for the first time in seven. years had no hard words for the West to put into the formal record on the UN's disarmament efforts. This approach | surprised Western diplomats but they noted the Soviet move contained | no indication the Russians had abandoned their own ideas on how disarmament can be achieved. | BONN, GERMANY: West German government sources forecast today that Moscow might soon extend its current "peace offensive" with a new note to the three {| Western Allies proposing talks on unifying Germany. ! It was believed that Moscow might make the move while Chancellor | Konrad Adenauer is visiting the U.S. and Canada. Adenauer sailed | early today. One of the chief topics he will talk about with President | Eisenhower is hastening the buildup of Western defences through creation of a European army, including 500,000 West German troops. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED POWERS IN EUROPE: | Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway warned that the Soviet threat against | the Western Allies had not diminished by one iota. In a speech at the | second anniversary of SHAPE'S creation, the North Atlantic Treaty | Organization commander said Soviet Russia has increased and continues to increase her military capacity, He made no mention of current Soviet peace moves. | BERLIN: | The Russians have invited the Americans and French to join them | in talks with the British on Allgatety over Germany. This is the out- growth of a recent incident h an unarmed British bomber was shot down by Soviet MiG fighters Jaffa Gate between the Arab old |all daily papers across the contin- | North Korea without spotting a MOSCOW: city and the lsraeli-held quarter-- SNAKES ALIVE! City Parking Lot Scene Wriggles With Activity For a few hours yesterday Osh- & awa had its own snake pit. News that the old city hall site was cov- ered with a thick wriggling carpet § of snakes was treated by sceptics as a late and not very funnly April Fool's joke. The story was true. "Snakes alive," was the cry that went up from astonished workmen when a truck backed onto the site, | hundreds of snakes on the ground. Jumping away from the site, the ent will follow the same practice. 'Communist MiG jet. The British admiralty invited the Soviet Union to take part in the | Coronation naval review and the Russians accepted, a diplomatic source | said. This was interpreted by Western diplomats as contributing to the' general atmosphere of conciliation now prevailing. The admiralty at London, however, refused to confirm the Moscow report. WASHINGTON (AP) --Russia's snowballing peace offensive piled | up evidence today that the Kremlin | to has reversed its cold war tactics in a bold plan to stall the West's defence buildup and crumble the anti-Soviet world's unity. Responsible officials and western diplomats here increasingly voice the belief that this is a major Soviet aim. They see the situation creating a critical problem of leadership for the Eisenhower administration, which must be ready to join in we negotiating settlements with Mos- workmen let 'the wrigglers take § over command for a few minutes. Nobody could tell what breed of snakes had arrived. | "Some were spotted and some |} were striped. Others had dark Vs | running déwn their backs. No mat- | I hate | snakes anyway," said city work-! man Bob Corneal. : | Working under instruction to get the old city hall basement filled in | ready to be used as a parking lot, the city employees waded in to | attack the mass of snakes. Spades flashed in the sun as the snakes had their heads lopped off | phreys, QC, said today. The case | by the score. One board of works | will come to court April 24. Mrs. "Dillon was a passenger in| went on strike today against the --many of which work around the |the car driven by Mr. McLachlan, | accounted for more than 100. who suffered minor injuries in the accident a mile east of Ajax. She Thirty-five |company spokesman said. Among | suffered a fracture of the left leg, fracture of the right wrist, lacera- tions of the scalp and severe shock | and was taken to Oshawa General | Hospital, where she died. | The deceased was a sister of Mrs, John McLachlan of White- vale and is survived by a brother. She was buried in Locust Hill Cemetery, yesterday. | The snakes that escaped the { slaughter, slithered down into cre- | vices and cracks for safety. Aver-| age size of the reptiles was about | {11 inches and they came equipped with darting forked tongues or fangs which might or might not | have been poisonous. Nobody tried | to find out. | Where the snakes came from is even more of a mystery. The truck that dumped them was carrying a | load of slag that was loaded at Fit- | tings Limited. Snakes are a rarity in Oshawa. | employee estimated that he alone US. On Its Toes opportunity for Allied governments ito create a stability which the Soviets may not hereafter be able | upset. This view is based on {the theory that if the Kremlin | loses its post-war momentum of aggressive expansion for a sub- stantial time, it may not be able to | get moving again. | In the face of the high speed {Soviet manoeuvres recently, the | administration is confronted with the need constantly to sound out and re-assess the immediate pur- | pose of specific proposals as well {as over-all intentions. Assisting in this task evidently cow while maintaining the military | will be the primary test of ams- power that enables it to negotiate | bassador Charles E. Bohlen, Pres- from strength. {ident Eisenhower's new envoy to At the same time, some author- | Moscow, who is due in the Russian ities suggest the situation is an 'capital by April 10. ° i Surprise-A-Day UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP)-- time in seven years his efforts t Rapid-fire moves in the new Soviet | introduce harsh words against the | peace offensive gave United Na-| West io the formal records on | tions delegates much to study over | Topmost in the minds of all dip- today and little hope for rest as lomats are the fresh proposals by they started a five-day Easter Red China for a solution of the recess. | deadlocked Korean prisoner-of-war The United States and Western | issue--apparently along the West- allies joined all other nations out- | demanded principles of non-forc- | side the Soviet bloc in probing ible repatriation. | warily the succession of dramatic| This action got a new boost Wed- {Red actions of the last few days. nesday when Soviet Foreign Min- | One observer said it looked like a |ister Vyacheslav Molotov an- | "surprise-a-day campaign.' 'Dele- nounced the. Kremlin's full support | gates wondered if another Russian |of the offer, indicating to the world peace shot would be fired today that it is a serious move to end {on another front. {the war 'in Korea. The latest surprise here came Efforis by India's V. K. Krishna Wednesday when Russia's Andrei, Menon to get the UN assembly Y. Vishinsky, recently returned !to seize immediately the new Red from Moscow talks with the new overtures as the basis for reopen- regime of Prime Minister Georgi | ing Korean talks here were side- | M. Malenkov, scrapped for the first 'stepped by the assembly's recess. 1 | When no agreement was reached| Tires are the main production | by the Wednesday midnight dead-| item among the 19 plants involved. | line, workers in the East started Also among the products are other | 900 En a e | Occasional water snakes have been |seen in the creek but this is be- {lieved to be the first recorded in- PoW Parleys Set and the strike moved quitting, westward on the basis of midnight. A company spokesman said '"'all [rubber items for automobiles, foot- | | wear, conveyor belts, hose, chem-| icals and plastics. | GIVES BOSS STONY STARE THEN JOINS PICKET LINE SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP)--The president of a small South Bend factory found only one of his 16 employees at work when he arrived at the plant Wednesday, The others were picketing. . Wendell R. Nace, head of the Precision Piece Parts Co., said the pickets ignored him as he walked past them, and the lone workman gave him a stony stare and walked out to join the & others. Nace was at his desk pondering the sudden walkout when one employee came to the door and yelled "April Fool!" Then ev- erybody went to work, » | stance of one of the huge winter- In Sit-Down |ing masses of snakes being un- HAMILTON (CP) -- More than 1900 workers of the Canadian Cot- tons plant staged a sit-down strike this morning in protest agains what they called an infringement | of their contract. The strike took place after Syd- | ney Emmerson, administrator for | the Hamilton joint board, Textile | Workers' Union of America, CIO | met the negotiating committee at | the plant this morning. | The issues involved are the dis-| missal of five workers and the pro- posed elimination of certain jobs in the plant, said to be in the interests of economy. Workers had | staged a meeting Wednesday. night | and decided to meet management today. When parties failed to make pro- gress the union committee reported ! back to the workers who sat down earthed within the city limits. SPANISH MUSIC HELPS SILKWORMS Spaniards trick silkworms in to producing more silk by play- Ing on castanets. Music in- creases the silkworms' appe- heir tite and -- thereby -- production of silk. If you'd like to make music for your own amusement and lack an instrument, look in The Times-Gazette Classified ad section. That's where you'll find splendid buys in the mus- ic-maker you waut. If you don't happen to see it, phone 3-2233 and place a Want- ed ad. i [ing indi os vind « » « He's Got Plenty MUNSAN, Korea (AP)--The only a few hours after Soviet Communists today handed the | Russia pledged its all-out support United Nations command their of China's Korean truce plan, latest proposal for ending the But many western observers still Korean fighting and agreed to a warned against over-optimism. meeting 'at Panmunjom Monday to | Wait and see if the Communists do discuss plans for exchanging sick jmore than talk about peace, is and wounded prisoners. i their advice. The Reds said they are ready to! One Allied spokesman here said set a date for resuming the long- the business-like tone of the Com- deadlocked truce talks. | munist message delivered Thurs Gen. Mark Clark, the UN com- day is 'heartening." mander, already has made it clear 'It's devoid of the usual propa~ that Allied truce negotiations will | ganda," he said. return to Panmunjom only after | Among UN forces in Korea the arrangements are completed for [latest Communist move stirred exchanging disabled prisoners. {fresh but guarded hopes. Delivery of the new proposals; But the Sotuh Korean National from Red China's foreign minister, | Assembly unanimously adopted a premier, Kim II Sung, fed mount- [resolution opposing any truce | hopes that the Com nist! which does not unify North and {world is serious about peace. | South Korea. The resolution called {The latest development in a the Red truce proposal a 'trick |chain reaction touched off by Red aimed under the cloak of peace to China less than a week ago came |gain time for another aggression," CERAM EEA AN CAD IW