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XN 9. number of citizens are likely to wi. ( Rescue workers continued to obe the wreckage and officials Daily Average Circulation for March, 1953 12150 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Extra good news! Sunny and warm- er after a cool night. Low tonight and high Wednesday, 32 and 585, VOL. 12--No. 93 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953 Price Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES NEW QUEEN'S SCOUT CONGRATULATED Threg scouts of the 4th Osh- awa Scout Troop admire the Queen Scout badge received by Phil Slyfield at the annual ban- quet of the troop. The other three scouts also received their Bush- man's Thong and Green Cord. They are (left to right) Bill Car- son, Phil Slyfield, John and Tom Hill, Black Photo by Dutton--Times Studio Fire Chief Elliott Stresses Danger From TV Aerials ¥ a thunderstorm hits Oshawa lose their houses. That was the dire warning given last night by Fire Chief W. R. Elliott who sub- mitted a complaint td city council about the number of "sloppy jobs' of erecting TV aerials there had been in the city. Mr. Elliott suggested that at an early date council should pass a by-law or other legislation govern- the erection of the aerials. he of them are not properly guyed," he reported. "Others are grounded to bathroom soil pipes and have no proper lightning con-| > ductors." "I can see trouble developing," warned Mr. Elliott. Fires and ex- plosions were likely to result dur- ing storms, He passed on to coun- lose a wall," Gord Attersley. commented Ald. Despite a plea from Ald. Norman Down, chairman of the general pur- poses committee, that 'I'm not in- terested in television never to own a set," the matter was referred to his committe for and hope cil a draft by-law obtained from [study Toronto which would govern the erection of the abrials. "If lightning flashes down and hits some of these aerials that are fastened to the soil pipes then, poof, the house that is struck is going to Steelworkers Seek Old Library Building Local 1817 of th United Steel-| workers of America, CIO, is the latest organization to submit a bid for the city library building on Simcoe Street South. Col, R. S. Mc- Laughlin has donated a new library to Oshawa and A city wil De able «to dispose of presen when the new one is built. "We would appreciate it if you would let us know if the building is for sale and give us some idea of the price," said the letter from the steelworkers. They intended to use the property as offices and meet- ing places for the union members. "What are we asking?" was Ald. Hayward Murdoch's question. hold we offer it to the union for 000?" "I don't know if we can jump at a price like that," replied Mayor Jack Naylor. "The price might, MASTER TV PLAN Aldermen were frankly baffled by an application from an English company to set up a '""televigion" system in the city. If granted per- mission the company would erect a huge mast which would pick up TV programs. I then be piped to private homes through wires, the same as the telephone - service. The programs would The company offered the council a five-per-cent royalty on service charges in return for a five-year franchise. "Should we not contact the CBC on this to see if it is OK?" asked Ald. Joseph Victor. This application was alse turned over to the gener 'eom- mittee. Hh rposcs pend on what It be used' but, off hand, I should say that we should 'ask somewhere between $65,000 and $100,000 for the build- The city property committee is studying the bids for the building and a meeting will be held tomor- row night to discuss its possible sale price. The local Red Cross branch has asked if it could rent the property. Train Hurtles Off Rails, 5 Known Dead, 125 Hurt DILLON, S.C. (CP)--At least five persons were killed and 125 including two Montreal women were injured when a 17-car stream- liner, bound from Miami to New York, hurtled off the rails near here Monday night and piled up a mass of twisted wreckage. Many of the injured were taken to hospital in critical condition, The Canadians were identified as Ethel Love, Montreal, and a Mrs. Morrison, also of Montreal. Their condition was not immediately said more bodies may be found. Some of the injured lay for hours ed in the shattered cars of the tlantic Coast Line's fast passen- ger train, the East Coast Cham- pion. Skilled rescue workers used ace- tylene torches to reach the vic- tims. Doctors crawled after them, SWEET-TOOTH TAKES 18 POUNDS The average American is es- - timated to consume over 18 pounds of candy a year. If you're after sweet returns on something you'd like to sell, a Classified ad in The Times-Gaz- ette is for you! Yes, For Sale ads get you buyers for real estate, cars, businesses and merchandise. For the help of an experienced ad-writer dial 3-2233. sometimes operating on the spot to free the injured. Part of the train caught fire and the burning oil, emergency lights and cutting torches cast a weird glow over the tragic scene. Roaring northward, the train carried an estimated 300 passen- gers, many of them vacationers returning from a winter in Florida. Five coaches, seven pullmans, two diners, two lounge cars and a baggage car comprised the stream- liner. Eleven overturned and six remained upright. Mrs. Frank Hicken of Spring- field, Mass., lay pinned in th wreckage for nearly five hours. She joked with her rescuers until a doctor reached her with a hypo- dermic. She was dug out from9 beneath a car at 4:12 a. m., and taken to hospital. A surgeon was lowered into one of the telescoped coaches to cut wanted all industry to owned, Labor circles that all large-scale industries should be taken over by the state. U.K. Labor Plans To Socialize Pools OXFORD, England (Reuters)-- Britain's next Labor government will probably take over the huge privately-run football sweepstakes and possibly the whole of the lig- uor industry to help to pay for social services, John Parker, Labor member of Parliament, said today. Labor's policy for the next elec- tion will be a moderate one, includ- ing maintenance of high taxation and an extension of public owner- ship, he forecast at a conference organized by a university interna- tional committee. Parker said that while no. one publicly there was a feeling in off the left leg of a woman in an effort to free her, First Blossoms Seen in St. Kitts ST. CATHARINES (CP)--Apricot which is before city council asking for a liquor vote to be taken in the annexed area were explained last night by City Solicitor John Hare. P. O'Donnell, who wants to re- open the Blue Swallow as the Pon- tiac Inn, submitted the petition six weeks ago. While it was being con- Lorne McTavish alleged there were irregularities in the document. After studying Mr. Hare's three- page report, council last night left the petition with City Clerk Fred Hare who is to keep it until he feels confident that he can attach the legal certificate of sufficiency and Sod it to the liquor control rd. NO ADDRESSES Outstanding in Mr. Hare's report was the fact that the addresses of the signatories were not attached to the petition, The solicitor said the required certificate could not be attached in all honesty as the the people who signed the petition actually lived in the annexed area. Mr. O'Donnell,' reported the sol- icitor, had offered to aid the eity officials in checking off the names would take several weeks. It was in 1913 that the area, which was to be annexed by the city in 1951, came under the local option law. A special annexation amendment provided that the local option would not be affected by sidered by Mr. Hare, the Rev. R.| officials had no way of knowing if against the voting list but that | with Liquor Petition Legal aspects of the petition the annexation. In Cedar Dale, which was annexed in 1923, the re- tail sale of liquor was prohibited. EIGHT QUESTIONS There were eight questions that could be asked in a liquor vote, said Mr. Hare. The current peti- tion was only asking for three of the eight questions and they were for a decision on whether the Pon- tiac Inn could have a beverage room for men, a beverage room for women and a licensed dining room. "They are not asking for an ac- tual liquor outlet and that is im- portant," noted Mr, Hare. A vote, if taken, would have to be based on the voters' list used in the last provincial election. On the polling lists in the an- nexed area during the last elec- tion there were 5,402 voters. The required number to be on a peti- tion asking for a liquor vote had to be 25 per cent. A quarter of the registered list totalled 1,351 people. Mr. Hare pruned the petition of jall signatures written in as "Mr, and Mrs." and found that 1,471 names remained -- or 120 more than the required 25 per cent, CAN'T BE WITHDRAWN Allegations that the petition was signed by people to whom it had been misrepresented were, said Mr Hare, 'really immaterial." The names had to be counted for once they were put on they couldn't be drawn. Some names on the petition, in the cases of husband and wife, seemed to have been signed in the same handwriting, observed Mr. Hare, There wasn't much that LIQUOR PETITION (Continued on Page 2) Reviewed Its agreement with Fittings Lim- ited expiring April 30, Local 1817 United workers of America, CIO-CCL, last night invited man- agement "to offer a reasonable contract settlement" by that date. If the company fails to respond to this appeal, a special meeting of the employees will be called to take a strike vote. Fittings employees .last night packed the UAW hall auditorium that talks with the company had an hour. The present hiring rates laborers workers. SEEK CONCILIATOR In a twin-move to speed negotia- tions, the meeting approved an ap- Piiestion to the Ontario Labor Re- ations Board for the services of a conciliator and asked the company to resume negotiations, "in good faith" so a settlement can be reached by the end of the month. The company had proposed the present agreement be renewed claiming the union's demands, if granted, would 'ruin the firm." The union then asked management to make a counter offer, but com- to hear union negotiators report bogged down. The union is asking for a wage boost which would es- tablish a basic labor rate of $1.50 are $1.22 for machining division and $1.28 for foundry Fittings Wage Talks By Union| pany representatives refused on the grounds the parties 'are too far apart." Employees of the Ontario Malle- the same local, voted in favor of a lay-off of a sufficient number of men to ensure remaining employ- ees a 5-day week. The company had informed the union unfavorable business conditions compelled a re- duetion in the work week or a lay- ol , MEET OMI MANAGEMENT Union negotiators met Ontario Malleable management this after- noon to begin talks on the union's proposed contract changes. The Ontario Malleable agreement ex- pires on the same date as Fittings contract. Allan MacKay, local union presi- dent, was named to represent the local at the John Mitchell testimon- ial banquet May 4. Mitchell is re- tiring as district director of the union due to ill health, The union's international president, David J. McDonald will be guest speaker at the banquet, which will be held in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto. The mesung voted to ask Ald. Wes. Powers if he would agree to let his name stand as CCP feder- al candidate at the party's nominat- ing convention May 22. PRESS TIME FLASHES Crowbar Speeds Eviction TORONTO (CP)--Sheriff's officers used a crowbar to pry open the door of a west-central residence today to begin eviction of the family of Mrs. Anna Christopher, 67, whose home is being torn down to make way for a street extension, 'Nationalist Chinese Draw Back able Iron Company, members of | $300 G.M. HOLIDAYS RUGUST 10-23 General Motors vacation dates, which set the pattern for most other local industries and many retail firms, were announced yesterday. The plant will be closed from Monday, August 10 to Sunday, August 23, when some 11,000 employees will enjoy their annual vaca- tion-with-pay. Announcement of the date was made by the company to union ' offici who have been pressing for a definite date be- cause many employees wish, at this time of year, to book cottages or lay other plans for holiday accommodation. It is believed that heavy poduction schedules have ne- cessitated the unusually late date for the holiday period. The August 10 vacation begin- uns is the latest ever set at Works Board Offered $25 Pay Hike city council last night that he was hopeful that the latest offer He submitted » proposal that the union members receive an extra this year. Last year's cost of living bonus of $60 a year is to be included in this year's basic pay. Ald. Wes Powers, chairman of the board of works, said he was trying to negotiate & scheme with the union so that garbage collec- ors could work on Saturdays and take time off on Mondays. Merch- ants have been complaining in weeks following notification that the Saturday collections would be stopped. Would Charge Employers For Accidents TORONTO (CP)--Employers who are careless about the safety of their employees should be hit where it will hurt'--'in the pocketbook," G. K. Shells, president of the Cana- dian Manufacturers' Association, said today. Addressing the annual confer ence of industrial accident preven- tion associations, which represent some 18,000 Ontario manufacturing plants, Mr. Sheils said CMA is trying to work out with the Ontario workmen's compensation board an "experience rating plan" under which the employer "whose plant produces more than its fair share of accidents," would pay a larger proportion of compensation costs, Reviewing the decline in accident rates, Mr. Sheils said IAPA "has undoubtedly developed a realiza- FREED PRISONERS SAY BRUTALITY KILLS 900 Names Stay On Reds Laid On 'Death March' FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea (AP) -- Accounts of death marches, semi-starvation, and calculated brutality came today from the second handful of Allied soldiers returned from Communist prisoner-of-war camps. Stories of many more dangerously ill Allied soldiers still in Red captivity indicated the Communists. do not plan to free all sick and wounded as they had agreed to do. MANY OTHERS Today's reports recalled the shocked words "'incredi small" uttered two weeks ago Rear- Admiral John C. Daniel, the UN truce delegate, when Reds told him 600 sick and wounded would be repatriated. The new development suggested that the Communists were failing once again on a solemn agreement. Sgt. Walter H. Mitchell of Green- ville, Tenn., said 'there were utte a few left in the hospital at e Pyoktong camp . , .I wi rather they had come than me . . . They ;, needed medical attention more. The returned isoners said treatment improved after the truce talks started in July, 1951, but varied since the ups and downs of the negotiations. 'Death marches over frozen high- ways in bitter winter weather were reported by two American soldiers. Pte. Roger Herndon of Jackson- ville, Fla., and Cpl. Orville R. Mullins of Covington, Ky., told of separate agonies in 1950 and 1951. erndon was captured in the winter of 1950. He said some 40 American and Turkish soldiers died in a nine-day forced march north from Kunu, where the U.S. 2nd division met disaster in vember, 1950. : 2 OF 17 LIVE "We were not allowed to stop for any cause--not even to go to the latrine," he said. "If you did, you would have to look out for yourself, "One night 17 of us were put in a small room. Next morning when I woke up there were only two living." Herndon, who had a wounded hand amputated by Chinese doctors eight days before the march, said many died from pneumonia. He said all they had to eat march was "millet and cra corn . communism had worked. "I've never been so happy as reach freedom today," he said. 'Any Limeys Out There? Is PoW's First Question By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP)--A from North Korean prison stock- ades today as some of the British Commonwealth and American sol- diers exchanges Monday landed in Japan on their way Home. Many of the UN prisoners who rolled through Freedom Gate today were laughing and joking, in sharp contrast to the solemn air of those freed as the exchange of sick and wounded began Monday. But today's group of 12 Britons, past |35 Americans, three Turks and 50 South Koreans told also of seriously sick and wounded comrades still in Red prison camps and of death marches over frozen highways dur- ing the bitter winters of 1950, 1951 and 1952, Among the Americans in the second group was Pte. Charles Sacco of Lorain, O. His parents live in Guelph, Ont. Pte. Sacco, a native of Guelph, went to the United States four years ago, and settled in Lorain. He later enlisted in the U.S. Army. (In Guelph, Sacco's father, Ro- sario, couldn't believe the news his son had been released, "Is it true?" he asked.) to the neutral - zone aE uh The sup brats the clouds as Pte. George ow. castle, England, stepped out and started to clown. "Any Limeys owt there," he called. Another member of the almost decimated Gloucestershire Regh ment yelled: "Any scotch out: there?" There was no burr in his voice, so his 'meaning was plain. Many of the returning prisoners showed few signs of wounds or ill- ness. Some spoke bitterly of friends left behind 'who, they said, were hurt far worse but for some reason did not make the Communist re- patriation list. Allied officers reported the Reds were carrying out a strange pro- cedure at their receiving point. Chinese and North Korean pris- oners returned from Allied camps were dusted with insecticide--even their rations and personal posses- sions were sprayed. The Allied officers said Red spokesmen e ed that it was all a precau against Allied germ warfare. Headless Valley Holds No Threat OTTAWA (CP) -- Nearly every-, Crouse told the army expedition body gives Headless Valley 85 wide | that a hid ian a the Expedition a herth as possible, but the a . apparently e: e McLeods an is Be exception. This summer L? a Wat be wes later Seen i ding a survey party e outside' selling a e of gold. A aush-talked about heart of the wild | report issued in Todr by the mines Nahanu Jegion in dhe Norwest | deparument Sau % the third man was tories for the third time. | never tracked down. Tom Valley, near the junction of | However, the RCMP says it solv- the borders of British Columbia, ed the case in 1921 the Mec. Be kon aud, tie | eS, oi | Levys died of Starvation and gs} es, a wild anim. rol we Tropical valley and the valley of | their heads. P y ons Vanishing MNE. The army prefers | ANOTHER BODY Deadman valley. The body of another prospector, Warrant officer L. J. McAdam also headless, was reported found 32, headed a party that went into'in the same region a few years the valley in 1950. He will return after the McLeod deaths. TAIPEH, F. (AP)--Nationalist China tonight announced it will co-operate with other interested governments in effecting the withdrawal of Chinese guerrilla troops from northern Burma. Dugal Now In Japan FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea (CP)--Paul Dugal, the first Cana- dian war prisoner to be freed in the current exchange with the Reds, was flown to Kure, Japan, today for treatment at the Commonwealth military hospital before being returned to Canada. tion on the part of the vast maj- ority of employers that, apart en- tirely from the basic humanitar- ian motive for it, accident preven- tion is good business. Employee morale is improved, operating ef- ficiency increased, production costs lowered. "Unfortunately there are still some employers--even some manu- facturers--who have not yet seen the light." ' blossoms are in bloom right inside the city but the cold weather is expected to delay blossom Sunday, with its full display of peach, cherry and plum blossoms, until about May 10. The cold snap is merely retarding, not destroying, development of the fruit, growers say. First British settlement in Aus- tralia was in 1788 at Port Jackson. Blitzed Towns, Orphans Of The Storm, Urge Aid As 'Matter Of National Honor' LONDON (CP) -- A recon: amount to be with the total, Speaking for the badly-mauled, Replying for the government, more aggressive policy of recon-|amount to be spent as well as the | cities of London and Westminster, | Harold Macmillan, minister of by C struction is being demanded by |proposed method of allocation. In |Sir Harold Webbe, a Conservative, housing and local government, said again on a team headed by Capl.| The army so far has escaped parliamentary representatives of | Southampton, little had been done (said businessmen from abroad | . ! W. W. Ker, a British officer at- unscathed. [communities hard-hit by the Nazi about restoring the badly-damaged (were amazed at the country's slow | losses suffered by blitzed cities and | tached fo the army's survey es-| Other legends of the valley fol- air blitz of the Second World War. |businéss district. Visitors to the |pace in restoring its industries and [the hardships endured by their | tablishment here. Other members lowed -- that it was a green and | spokesmen for the more severely port--one of the most important | damaged plants. |citizens must never be forgotten. will be Sgt. W. R. Tuttle, 26, of pleasant land fed by mineral | devastated areas ganged up on the in Western Europe--must be left, | Eight years after the end of the | The £4,500,000 allotment for 1953, | gwash, N.S. who made the trip springs amid the northern snows, |government in a non-party Com. he said, with a low view of Brit- war, Sir Harold said, some 1,300 he said, was primarily a prelim- | t year, and Sgt. F. 8. Miller that strange spirits shrieked there | mons debate, pressing for a boost |ain's post-war efforts at recon-|acres or nearly a quarter of the | inary target figure and represented | ey will use a helicopter in map- almost continually and that 10- (in the £4,500,000 appropriation al- | struction, valuable square mile of business double the outlay of work com-| property, known as the City of | pleted in 1950. Furthermore, more | London, was still completely dere- |than 75,000 houses had been built | lict. The bomb-shattered area was in the blitzed communities during | strewn with 'heaps of weed-grown |the years 1949-52. | | rubble, car-parking lots and other | 'The government, however, has | 'unsightly projects. [to strike a balance and keep a | . 'What an advertisement this for |close watch on such priorities as| View from a U.S. coast-guard ping the district {foot Indians were ruled by a | ORIGIN OF NAME | "white goddess." Game warden Gus Crouse, who| Maj. L. M. Sebert, head survey- settled at the mouth of the Nahanni or here, says chances of natural in 1920, says the mysterious deaths | disappearances and deaths in such located this year for re-building | programs in 18 blitzed centres. Hugh Dalton, former chancellor of the exchequer and a minister of Ralph Morley, Labor member | local government and planning in Jor 5 hampton, where more Yan Previews Socialist governments, ge. : private dwellings were des- [plored e shortage of essenti of the McLeod brothers gave the |a remote region are great. but|troyed by German raiders, des- building materials. With wounds valley its awesome name. | "try to convince the natives." |cribed the country's bombed-out still gaping in city centres, he Frank and William McLeod went | Part of the legends turned out to [towns as 'the orphans of the thought it was an odious sugges- British enterprise," he said. 'In /food, employment, homes and de- | Plane shows the British freighter into the Nahanni country in 1905 be fact. The army team has found 'storm." It was a matter of na- tion that German airmen, even if such conditions it is nonsense to fence," Mr. Macmillan said. "But enestheus, at top, aflame after to hunt for gold. Their headless hot springs in the valley. Vegeta- tional honor, he said, that they part of the Western defence force, appeal to industry to increase the I am prepared to do my best for | it caught fire off Madelina Bay, . bodies were found three years lat- | tion around the springs, even in | should be treated liberally. | should be trained in Britain to drop {export trade and save us in time | the blitzed areas and be judged by | Mexico. Its entire crew, compris- er. winter, is dense. charged there was general ' bombs. of acute economic crisis." the results." ing 80 men, were to take ALL HANDS ACCOUNTED FOR to the lifeboats from which all were later rescued by freighter Navajo Vietory, seen above, carrying out reseue work. There were na casualties reported by Navajo Victory.