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Daily Average Circulation for March, 1953 12150 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Showers, maybe thunderstorm to. night, cooler tomorrow. Low tonight and high Thursday, 45 and 50. OL. 12--No. 88 Authorized os Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Oftowe OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1953 Price Not s"Conts Per Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES THE ANNUAL SMELT fishing expeditions to the lakeshore are now in full swing with crowds lining the beaches and docks from dusk the early morn- ing hours. A few good catches have been d in this trict. In the TOP picture Ed- ward Stone, left, of Burleigh. Falls, and Don and Mike Tur- eski, right, of 594 Howard Av- enue Oshawa show a few they caught early last night. Large dip nets with about a one-inch mesh are used to bring in the finny delicacies that crowd along the shore for a few weeks about this time of year. Two brothers Jim and Raymond Bailey, back, of Bonnie Brae Point, are seen in the BOTTOM as they man one net while Elwood Stone and the Tureski brothers bring in another catch with their net. Photo by Dutton--Times Studie Smelt Run Hits Peak Tonight: 'Elusive Finny Draws Hundreds hand. Pulley wheels are-'put out| going into the water. They way to The smelt are running -- and hundreds of able-bodied men in Oshawa and district are out chas- ing them. Night after night the shore of Lake Ontario has twinkled and sparkled with the lights from doz- ens of bonfires, torches and gaso- line lanterns. Now at its peak the smelt run marks the opening gun of the 1953 fishing season. The first touch of warm weather brings the smelt in thousands to the shoreline and they start nosing their way into creeks and. streams. Locally the catches do not com- pare with the thousands taken nightly to the eastwards and south west. Most fishers put in an even- ing's hard work ror an average bag of about 75 of the small clean In fact Oshawa smelt fishermen lag a long way behind most other Ontario dippers. They still rely on the old-fashioned method of dip- ping a net suspended by the corn- ers from the ends of four flexible pieces _of wood or metal and tied to theend of a rong pole. SOME USE WINCH Down in the Niagara district a ,big business is made of inventing new types of equipment to haul the net out of the water. Nobody dreams of yanking the net up by on the end of the main poles, the nets are suspended from ropes and the fishermen make the dips by winding the rope into a winch. Some enterprising fishermen even fix motors to the winches and fish in ease and comfort from arm- chairs which weigh down the ends of their poles. Introduced into the Great Lakes from seaward flowing rivers, the smelt has thrived and multiplied its numbers tremendously. Only a few years ago there was a theory that the smelt ran in seven-year cycles, disappearing for the next seven years. Officials of the de- partment of lands and forests dis- count that idea. They say the smelts ran unniticed until about six or seven years ago. It wasn't until just after the last war that the smelt were realized to exist in such fabulous numbers. Sucker fishers noticed the lively smelts leaping from their nets so they switched to a smaller mesh net and started to catch them. Doctors believe that the smelt in addition to possessing a delicious flavor, also contains an appetizing oil which actually furthers diges- tion. NIMBLE AS TROUT As nimble as a trout the smelt, so it is said, can even see the nets catch them is to net them as they pass over the mesh. If the net is too tight the smel can jump clear. So the nets have to be "bagged." In other areas rubber weights are put into the centre of the net but that is another modificaion of smeling which hasn't yet reached Oshawa. *Top run of the season is sup- posed, by theory, to occur tonight. The run will continue until about the beginning of May. Another odd habit of the smelt is to bite and hold tight. Discov- ering that, some fishermen use a net of very fine thread, which they knit themselves, and dump it on top of the smelt which them hang on while they are pulled from the water. Licenses to go out smelt fishing cost only one dollar. The owner of the net is the man supposed to be in possession of the license. Al- though the owner does not have to be actually dipping the net he had to be there on the spot with the man who is doing the lifting, His license can't be transferred. PIKE, PICKEREL Not only smelts come up in the dip nets. Pike and pickerel are SMELT RUN (Continued on Page 2) Nightmare Of Pain And Blood Marks Scene Of Plane Crash SEATTLE (AP)--Ground crews and daring helicopter pilots com- bined Tuesday to rescue 19 per- sons in a day-long struggle against nature after an army-chartered airliner crashed on deeply-wooded, snow-covered slopes of the Cas- cade mountains, killing the other six persons aboard. The last of the rescued was brought out 22 hours after the crash. The plane had been char- tered to fly U.S. servicemen from the east to Seattle. . The slow and painful job of bringing the injured out began im- mediately after the plane's plucky stewardess, Mrs, Adra Long of Berkeley, Calif the deep Ww. She was six miles from the place where the plane plunged into cush- joning trees when one of its two éngines failed and ice formed on its wings. The trees broke the fall but tore the wings from the craft. The fuselage broke into two parts, the forward section badly smashed and the rear half virtually untouched. The pilot, co-pilot and four of the servicemen were fatally in- jured. Mrs. Long said she awoke after the crash. "I was still sitting in my chair," she told rescuers, "I had been thrown clear of the plane." This was approximately 2:30 a.m., the position 40 miles southeast of Seattle at the 3,000-foot level. Snow was five feet deep. "I couldn't stand it up there," the stewardess said. "I had to see if I couldn't get out and get some ob- help. One of those boys up there one of his legs almost torn off. He was suffering terribly." Mrs. Long was taken to hospital for treatment of a long gash in her leg and severe chest injuries. The only other survivor to walk out was Pte. Odell Matthews of Washing- to the helicopter landing spot about eight feet wide, less than a mile from the wreckage, and to trucks which followed bulldozers up' the mountain. Rescuers followed Mrs. Long's trail of blood through the snow to come upon what Capt. Wallace M. Baker of the civil air patrol said was a sight "of complete and utter destruction. We couldn't believe that anyone had lived through it." He said paramedics who had parachuted in to the scene and civilian loggers had already started the slow process of getting the in- jured out of the plane. "They were taking them down the hill on stretchers to where the coast guard and navy helicopters could fly them out. "The survivors were huddled dazed and interrible pain about the wreck. Some of them were screaming as the rescue squad at- tempted to give them first aid. Jt was a nightmare. of pain and blood DETROIT (AP) -- The Ford Motor Company and the CIO United Auto Workers Union early today reached a tentative agree- ment ending a 14-day strike at the company's Monroe, Mich., parts plant. The strike over a union charge of "speed up' had made idle up to 40,000 Ford workers. The agreement will be submitted to the union membership for ratifi- cation this afternoon. The company Tuesday had an- nounced it would reopen 15 plants today which had been closed by a parts shortage due to the strike. 'ord said the reopening was poss- ible by the reshuffling of existing parts supplies. The new agreement is expected to permit an early resumption of full production at Ford plants across the country. Company officials said normal production at the Monroe plant would start Thursday if the agree- ment is ratified today. Ford, UAW Near Strike Settlement The Monroe strike was one of two that made idle a total of 80,000 auto workers Tuesday. Chrysler Corp. reported that a '"'wild cat" strike of 300 truck drivers forced it to shut down almost all of its oper- ations and send home 42,250 ef- ployees. In announcing the reopening of 15 plants Tuesday, Ford spokes- men said its layoff list had shrunk from a high of 40,000 Monday to 29,350 Tuesday. The Chrysler dispute flared up Monday night when 300 UAW truck drivers who haul parts from plant to plant, walked off their jobs. The drivers said they were pro- testing the use of a non-union driver, to remove Chrysler dies from an affected supplier plant here. Union officials termed the walkout "unauthorized." As a result of the Chrysler strike, the Briggs Manufacturing Co., a Chrysler supplier, also said it was forced to send some 6,000 workers home. . By ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP) -- Legislative action is expected shortly to deal with Britain's growing slum men- ace, As things stand, some 200,000 houses decay' into slums every year. Specifically, the government at- tack will be concentrated on the complicated rent restriction acts, gging the rents of millions of omes at pre-war levels. Although conditions vary, the main difficulty is that in many cases rents are too low to justify repairs being made. are many oddities. Two different families living in the same house may legally pay varying rents. Similarly, a person who obtained an unfurnished apartment before the war may pay about one-fifth of the sum charged a neighbor who took a flat furnished; that is to say with a few sticks of furniture in it These anomalies are caused by rent control. Another complicating factor is the system of subsidies, whereby municipal authorities pay part of the rent of new houses for certain tenants on their housing list. Where any particular person stands on this list depends on such Under the present set-up, there |dis Slum Clearance Problem Due For Early Boost In U.K. This system of priorities, the in- dependent weekly, the Economist, notes, means it is "largely chance that determines whether a family lives in a dream-house or in a grimy tenement." Of Britain's total of 13,30,000 occupied homes, it is estimated that more than 2,290,000 are more than 100 years old, and another 4,000,000 more than 75 years old. Most of these unfit homes are located in the chief industrial cent- res and in the mining towns and villages, causing the left-wing New Statesman and Nation to comment: "This decay is eating out the heart of industrial Britain; for the isease is located at the centre of our economic life, where most of the industrial working class is born, works and dies." Apart from decay, British hous- ing is often rudimentary by Cana- dian standards, The 1951 census showed, for instance, that there are 5,100,000 households in the country which have no bath. These are some of the problems that Housing Minister Harold Mac- Millan and his lieutenants are ex- pected to tackle in any new legis- lation. In a recent speech in the House of Lords, the lord chancel- lor, Lord Simonds, said: '"'There is no aspect of the law on landlord and tenant relationship which is things as length of time in the district and number of children. not under our urgent and earnest consideration." LONDON (AP) -- Scotland Yard today charged John Reginald Christie, owl-eyed clerk, with the murder of three more women in his sleazy flat in Notting Hill, This brought to four the number of murder charges placed against Christie, mild-mannered man of 55 whose hobby was said to be photo- graphing nude women. March 31 Christie was charged with the murder of his wife, Ethel, 54. Her body was found uncer the floorboard of the grubby flat, now ripped by police in their search for more bodies. The charges accused him of the strangulation murder of Rita Eliz- abeth Nelson, Kathleen Maloney and Hectorina McKay MacLennan during January and February of this year. The half-clothed bodies of the girls in the 'teens or early 20's were found walled up in the pantry of the flat last month. Their discovery touched off a country-wide manhunt that con- tinued for a week before police finally caught Christie at Putney, another London district about three miles from Notting Hill, Owl-Eyed Christie Still Meek Facing 3 New Murder Counts Investigations still are being con- ducted at the Notting Hill horror house. The remains of two other women have been dug up by police in the sooty garden behind the flat. Today's hearing was brief. Chris- tie was present only three min- utes. During that time the new charges against him were read out. The next hearing in the case will be at Clerkenwell on April 22 and will last a full day. This is ex- pected to produce the first com- plete outline of the case against the little clerk. During today's hearing Christie answered "Yes sir" once in a low voice when told of the magistrates decision. These were the first words he had spoken in court. Then he walked briskly out of the room. Christie's smallness impressed spectators, He is a tiny man with a tiny head. He wore a neat blue suit and highly polished black shoes. Only one thing marred his dapper appearance. Police have forbidden him from wearing a necktie for fear he might make an attempt on his own life. PRESS TIME FLASHES States may be involved. Britain Quits Wheat WASHINGTON (AP> -- British ton, D. C, The others were carried |in five feet of snow." pariment. afd today. . . . Trucker Foils Highjackers CHATHAM (CP)--Provincial police today sought the occupants of a black sedan which the driver of a transport said twice tried to force his load of liquor off Highway 40 between Chatham and Wallaceburg. The car Had pieces of cardboard fastened over its licence plates. Police believe a gang operating from 'the United Pact LONDON (AP)--Britain confirmed today she will withdraw from the International Wheat Agreement, signed April 13, because she was unwilling to pay more tha~ $2 a bushel for wheat. Chaplin Finished With U.S. movie comedian Charlie Chaplin has surrendered "ss United States re-entry permit, indicating he does not inter.d to resume residence in the U.S. the justice de- v Fleeing Plane Brought Down By Guerrillas RANGOON (Reuters) -- Twelve Burmese Army and Navy officers were believed killed when an air force C47 was shot down by Chin- ese Nationalist guerrillas, front- line reports said today. Some of the Burmese officers were reported fo be of high rank. Burmese troops have been bat- tling the Nationaiists in northeast Burma on the frontier with Com- munist China. The Rangoon government has formally asked the United Nations to find the Formosa government guilty of aggression because of the presence of Nationalist forces on Burmese territory. The plane was shot down about 50 miles southeast of Kengtung, the reports said. They saia the aircraft touched down on an improvised airstrip, believing it was in government control. Finding the airstrip surrounded by guerrillas, the plane took off but was shot down. The war office has not made any official release on the incident. FOLKS WHO COUNT ONLY HAPPY DAYS In some Arabian countries people seventy or eighty years old will tell you they're only one or two years of age, They count only the happy days they've lived, in adding up their life-time, By using The Times-Gazette Classified ads to solve everyday problems, you'll add consid- erably to the number of your happy days! Yes, Wants Ads fill your vacant units, hire you good help, sell things you no longer want and find you a good job. For and ad - writer who's happy to assist you with your ad, dial 3-2233. Steelworkers Get Pay Hike In Bridge Unit TORONTO (CP). -- The United Steelworkers of America (CIO- CCL) announced today its first settlement in 1953 contract negoti- ations with the Canadian bridge in- dustry. ' It said an agreement reached with Sarnia Bridge Co. Ltd. on behalf of 150 employees establishes a hiring rate of 1.43, which it said is one-half cent less than the class 1 job rate now in effect in the basic steel industry. Increases under the new agree- ment range from nine to 12 cents an hour. The agreement also establishes a 40-hour week instead of the pre- vious 42% hours. It provides for full pay for any employee on the day an injury takes place. Another provision is for job posting, so that employees will have a chance to before the vacancy is advertised. bid on an opening in the plant Overtime pay will be time and a half for Saturdays and double pay for Sundays; at present, it is time and a half for Loth. The agreement was negotiated by a committee of the union's local 4525 in Sarnia and staff repres- entative H. Rayner. UAW IS RESENTFUL OVER JUNE 2 WORK Blast Attitude Of City Industry A motion expressing regret that local industry has seen fit to order full production schedules maintained on Coronas tion Day, June 2, brought forth a strong blast from Malcolm Smith, president of Local 222, UAW-CIO, at last night's meeting of the Oshawa and district labor council. Adopted unanimously by the delegates, the motion ex- presses the official condemnation of city industry by the ruling labor body. FEELING OF RESENTMENT ¢ "There is a deep feeling of re- sentment among the workers at the attitude which has been taken by management both on this day and on the Good Friday holiday," said Mr. Smith. "It seems that they are only patriots where dollars and production are concerned. It seems that they won't allow anything to stand in their way. Out of dozens of employees who stayed off on Good Friday, General Motors slap- ped penalties on four, ranging from a week to four days suspension. For a long time we have been after them to close on June 2 but the reply has always been same." Continuing, Mr, Smith said: '"They also refuse .to give us the date of the annual vacation. The Industrial Relations Manager said he could name the week if we would go along with one week's vaca- tion. We're getting just about fed up. That company is cooking up a lot of trouble for itself." Michael] Fenwick council secre- tary added: "I have been told that some firms don't care to close be- cause they are owned by Ameri can industry. Is this so or should these managements observe a Can- adian holiday?" . P. R. Clarke from Pedlars said that firm would have observed the holiday if GM would do so. Another member observed that Coronation Day is a festival which comes seldom. The government should enforce its orders-in-council as to holidays. Mr. Smith reported that Michael the | Starr, MP, had brought up the question in the House of Commons but the secretary of state replied that no enforcing legislation had been passed. At a recent convention in Atlantic City, Mr. Smith was impressed with American observe ances upon the death of Dowager Queen Mary. Truce Talk Near Officials Feel WASHINGTON (AP)~The Unit- ed Nations command was reported about ready today to actept the wcommunists' suggestion for re- sumption of the Korean truce talks which have been bogged down since last October. } No final decisions on details have been made, informed officials said, | any but the UN probably will be pre- papaed to accept the Red proposal that war prisoners who refuse to go home be placed under control of 2 J neutral country. ts Instructions on these points to Gen. Mark Clark, the UN com- mander in the Far East, have not yet been confirmed, responsible sources said Tuesday night, ° Representative D ewey Short (Rep. Mo.) meanwhile said the U.S. should refuse to undertake peace negotiations that would leave Korea divided. A peace con- ference would follow agreement on a cease-fire. "There can be no permanent peace or stability in the Far East or. in the world with a divided Korea," said Short, chairman of. the House of Re pre se ntatives armed services committee. The Chinese and North Korean Communists have insisted that agreement on exchange of sick and wounded prisoners should be fol- lowed by resumption of full truce Red Peace Moves Seen Cover For New Aggressive Pattern By J. M: ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst Three times since the Second World War Communist forces have retreated when met by dtrmind rsistanc, only to brak out again resistance, only to break out again in new directions. New develop- mentssin Indo-China led observers today to wonder whether Korea is to provide another case in point. The indications of a new Com- munist offensive in Indo-China, carrying the war to Laos, which has been little touched, intensified already strong doubts that the Communist peace campaign is any- thing nrore than tactical cover for new aggressive adventures. Laos lies on the road to Burma, Thal land, Malaya and India. Signs of the new offensive, for which a considerable Vietminh force was reported concentrated, were less concrete than was the reaction of the French defenders, who were withdrawing from isol- ated border outposts to concentrate for defence of major points. If it develops, it would be di- rected against all Southeast Asia in search of a prize for which the Communists might willingly give up their frustrated attempt to conquer Korea. That would be in the pattern of Iran, Greece and the Berlin of air- lift days. It was a tactic laid down by Lenin. When the effort is not gaining anything, shift it. By ARTHUR GAVSHON JOHANNESBURG (AP)--White South Africans voted today in a fateful general election climaxing five of the stormiest years in the country's recent history. Mining millionaires, bearded Boers and plain citizens trekked in record numbers from city, bush and factory to voting stations that opened at 7 a.m, (midnight EST) for 13 hours. The government assigned armed police to all poll- ing places. Ragged trousered Negroes and Indians stood silently, even sul- lenly, by as the white man's elec- tion began--silent because they are voteless, sullen because the two chief parties are pledged to main- tain white supremacy. Their ma- jor campaign difference was over how to do it. The governing Nationalists, with a highly-geared political machine controlled by Prime Minister Dan- iel Malan, claimed right up to the opening of the polls that victory would be sure and easy. The rival United party, which the late Field Marshal Jan Smuts helped found, said cagily they could win if every supporter voted. A record turnout of 1,200,000 white voters was expected. At stake were 136 of the 159- seats in Parliament. Three white lawmak- ers already hold seats on behalf of the 50,000 coloreds (mulattos) in Cape province--the ofily non-whites in South Africa who vote--for white representatives. Eighteen United party men and two Nationalists were elected unopposed. In the 1948 election, Malan won a majority of five seats in Par- liament, although his organization polled almost 200,000 fewer votes than the United party. This time, white South Africans --outnumbered 4 to 1 by Negroes, Indians and mulattos -- had choose whether they are to boss the country's 10 million non-whites through the sternly-enforced race segregation policies of the Nation-|in alists or shift to the softer policy advocated by United party lead- ers. Malan claimed his segregation policy is the only salvation for all African White communities. His opponents, led by United chief J. G. N. Strauss, want to improve white-black relations because of the need for Negro labor. The Negro attitude toward the "black peril" talk from both sides in the election campaign was one almost of contempt. Non-white leaders have been conducting what to | cabinet ministers at once to is generally acknowledged to be an South African Race Vote Ends 5 Stormiest Years effective passive resistance came paign against race laws. They said regardless of which side won the election, the defiance campaign would continue. Since Malan ousted Smuts as prime minister in 1948, his polis cies have split South Africa's 2, 500,000 whites down the middle, They also have begun the process of uniting the country's non-whites against the whites for the first time. As a result, tension has mounted on all sides. Malan Tuesday night grdered a3) Oe toria--~South Africa's administra tive capital. Transport ster Paul O. Sauer told a political rally province that the prime minister's order was a result of rumors that "irresponsible ele- ments" might try some sort of unpleasantness. He did not elab- orate. Although the Nationalists won by only five seats in 1948, they held 86 of the 159 seats in the Parlia- ment dissolved when this election was called. They had increased their majority over the United Party to 13 by giving the manda. ted territory of Southwest Africa the right to elect six legislators and by defeating the United party in one by-election. 3