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Daily Average Circulation for March, 1953 12150 THE D . AILY TIMES.-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Sunny until evening, coolish, thun- dershowers overnight. Low tonight and high Saturday, 40 and 60. VOL. 12--No. 96 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953 Price Not Over 5S Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES THOUSANDS ATTEND JAYCEE HOME FAIR OPENING MORE THAN 1,000 persons were present last night at the of the Oshawa Home ders and Home Furnishings air at the arena. Formalities or place at 8.30 when Robert Saunders Opens City Home Fair Declaring that residents of Ontario enjoy the highest standard of living of any grou H. Saunders, Chairman of the Ontario Hydro Electric Power Commission, made a short ad- dress. Seen ABOVE, left to right, are Mayor W. J. Naylor, Mr, Saunders and Fair Chairman Roy Smith. Looking with admiration at one of the exhibits BELOW are, left to right, Don Brown, Jaycee president; Mrs. W. J. Naylor, Mrs, Don Brown and His Worship Mayor W. J. Naylor. J Bhote by Dutton--Times Studio p in the entire world, Robert H. Saunders, Chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission of Ontario, urged that citizens conserve and en- hance their resources to main energetic Hydro head was in tain that high standard. The Oshawa to open the Home Buildings and Home Furnishings Fair which is on tonight and tomorrow night at the arena. Mr. Saunders brought message of optomism to the large crowd who attended e fair. Chairman of the Fair, Roy Smith¢ welcomed the spectators and in- troduced Oshawa hydro manager George Shreve who, after con- gratulating the Junior Chamber of Commerce upon its sponsorship of the fair, introduced Mayor J. W. Naylor who added his congratula- tions. Donald Brown introduced Mr. Saunders. "It is a privilege to take part in a worthwhile project like this, con- ducted by a worthwhile organiza- tion," said Mr. Saunders. "Such displays as are here tonight re- flect the tremendous progress which is taking place in every part of Ontario." Mr. Saunders deplored the "ter- rible delay" in developing the St. Lawrence as a power project and consequently it has been necessary to add to the present Niagara ex- pansion program. He said that hydro has no desire to get itself into the realm of producing much base power from steam since too much coal would be required. It takes much longer to erect power plants and transmission lines. Therefore it has been an exacting task for hydro to keep up with the demand. Finally, the Hydro chairman asked public cooperation and sup- port for the job being done by the Jaycees--a small part of the over- all jojb which will keep Ontario Canada's banner province. Then Mr. Saunders turned the key in a model home, to officially open the Fair, Three Suave 'Gentlemen' Had Sure-Fire Poker Win NUERNBERG, Germany (AP)-- Three suave, middle-aged Germans | are under arrest here for cheating at cards with the aid of midget radios concealed under their ex- pensive evening clothes. Police said the men operated in elite gambling houses throughout West Germany with phenomenal success--until the day they were ught with their antennas down. 9: sharp-eyed croupier at a fash- able club here became suspic- lous and called in police, who found the men wired for action. The police said the men oper- ated this way: Acling as total strangers, they would enter exclusive gambling clubs--legal in West Germany-- and pose as men of wealth and prominence. One would play the part of a bored kibitzer. But strapped out of sight under his clothes was a com- pact, battery-operated radio trans- mitter. One of the other men would get into a card game, Hidden under his clothes was a tiny radio receiver. The kibitzer would watch the vic- tims' draw. On a telegraph key in his right-hand trouser pocket, he would tap out the information in| code. His partner would receive the signals in the form of impulses against his body. With the informa- tion, he would play his hand ac- cordingly. How much money the men raked | in was not revealed, but police indicated it was a tidy sum. The sharpers were nabbed in their hotel room here--packed to leave when the police closed in. In 1951 there were 1,429 women police in England and Wales, and 149 in Scotland. ® L 4 BRITAINS M.P.'s WANT MORE PAY Britain's Members of Parlia- ment are asking for a salary raise. They're now receiving the equivalent of only $2,800 a year. ' If you'd like better pay, too, there are good job-offers in The Times-Gazette Classified ads now or place a Work Wanted ad and let employers contact you! - For ad-writing assistance, dial 3-2233. 700 Wounded Spelled SOS With Bodies By GEORGE McARTHUR FREEDOM VILLAGE (AP) -- One thousand American soldiers cut, off from their lines. . .700 of them wounded. . .all so desperate that they spelled out a giant S O S with corpses of their fallen com- rades, . .eventual death for 900. That new story of horror in the early days of the Korean war--in November, 1950--was related today by Pte. William J. Trabucki, 21, Pittsburgh. He just had been re- turned by the Communists after 29 months in their prison camps. The 1,000 were stranded after a "horrible" "battle in which there were nearly 75 per cent casualties. "We were desperate. . .so desper- ate that we even spelled out mes- sages with bodies in the snow," Trabucki said in a brief interview which didn't allow time for many details. Trabucki said one plane sighted the S O 8 in corpses and he under- stood helicopters were being sent to pick up the wounded. But help never came. "Instead, a message came through to take off in groups of five. Most of us didn't want to leave the wounded so somebody-- II don't know who--arranged to | surrender." Under the surrender agreement, 'the wounded wefre supposed to be released. But they were not. "I'd say few--no more than a dozen out of the 700--liveg." The Communists left some of |the 700 wounded behind, but lined up more than 1,000 men and ordered them to march north. For 28 days they struggled over North Korean roads, arriving about Christmas at a prison camp and captives labelled Death Valley, {rabucki said, In the next few weeks "over 200 men died of starvation." YOUTH DIES DESPITE RESGUE TRY WASHINGTON (AP)--The United States has secretly allocated more military aid to Indo-China in a move to bolster French and native forces now trying to stop a new Communist offensive. Authoritative officials who dis- closed this today said the extra money will go for more American '"'hardware"--guns, tanks, artillery, planes, ammunition and other milj- tary supplies. Delivery will be speeded, but it is doubtful if the additional equip- ment can arrive in time to influence the outcome of the battle between Communist-led rebels and French forces in the kingdom of Laos. The new funds will be turned over to the French and Indo-China states to help finance a French plan for creating 54 new commando battalions during this year to fight against Communists in all areas of Indo-China. U.S. Speeds Aid To Combat Reds This plan was outlined to Presi- dent Eisenhower by French Prem- ing top level talks here three weeks ago. money involved was not disclosed, tial." The money will come from mu- tual security aid funds appropriated by Congress last strengthen United States allies. It is understood part of the money will be taken from funds reserved for Europe and the remainder from $540,000,000 set aside for military aid to the Far East. The U.S. already is reported giv- ing France $450,000,000 a year to-4 ward the Indo-China war, now in its seventh year. France is estim- ated to be putting up twice as much money, plus manpower, QUEBEC (CP) -- The bodies of four children, slain with an ax, were found in blood-soaked beds Thursday and police are holding their father as a material witness. Solicitor-General Rivard said Georges - Hebert, 45-year-old tile and cement worker, described by neighbors as a "quiet man," has made statements to police which are to be produced as evidence at a coroner's inquest today. No charge will be laid against Hebert until the inquest has been held. Hebert was picked up in a downtown tavern by provincial police shortly after the battered bodies of the children were found in his three-room apartment in Quebec West. His wife, whie*18 *| pregnant, is also being held as a material witness. The bodies, their heads smashed beyond recognition, were identified as those of Rene, 9, Louisette, 7, Nicole, 5, and Gaetan, 3. Blood on the bodies and on the walls near the beds was dry, lead- ing police to believe the slayings occurred Tuesday or Wednesday. The ax was found Thursday night, but police declined to say where. Rene and Louisette were found on a living room couch. The two babies, Nicole and Gaetan, were in a small bed in the bedroom. Police, checking a. tip from a Quebec City morgue attendant He- bert had visited earlier, entered the deserted house and made the grim discovery. Police said their information was that Hebert Thursday informed his wife, living with her mother, that the children had been killed in a Ax Kills 4 Children Police Hold Father tlevel-crossing accident and that he wanted her to come with him to make funeral arrangements. | Mrs. Hebert went into another {room and telephoned Police Chief Joseph Isabelle of suburban Que- bec West, where the Heberts lived in a second-floor dwelling. She asked him if all was normal at her home. Chief Isabelle said he could check. Telephoning back he told the woman all seemed normal, except that the children did not appear to be around. Mrs. Hebert said she would not go home but accompanied her husband to the city morgue. Hebert asked the morgue atténd- ant» about funerzl arrangements, repeating the story of a level- crossing accident, : The morgue attendant told pol- ce: "I was suspicious of Hebert's story. Usually when people come here after relatives have been killed in accidents, they are grief- stricken. These people did not show any emotion, so I decided to phone the provincial police." Police discovered the bodies and Hebert was taken into custody a short time later. A crowd gathered to watch as the bodies of the children, packed in | a large aluminum box, were taken away. Later police picked up Mrs. He- bert at the home of Mrs. Domin- ique Picard, her mother. A background of quarrelling in the Hebert home was dug up. by police in their investigation. Neigh- bors said the woman frequently left ome. PRESS TIME FLASHES 23 1 4 d. Adenauer Defies Upper House BONN, Germany (AP)--West Germany's upper house today post- poned indefinitely ratification of the treaties to rearm but Chan- cellor Konrad Adenauer said he will make the main sections law anyway. He said he will hand the treaties, which create a European army with 500,000 Germans enrolled, to ¢he West Ger- man pr t, for approved by the Bundesrat, or upper house, - Seven Mau Mau To Die NAIROBI, Kenya (CP)--Seven Africans were sentenced to death in the Supreme Court of Nakuru today for the murder of a Brit- ish farmer in a terrorist raid last January. ite the fact they have not been Kremlin By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst NEW YORK (AP)A rising tempo of oppressive measures against workers and farmers in the Soviet hinterland indicates that a frightened regime sits in power in the Kremlin today. Communist party leaders have been . instructed to tighten the screws on workers and peasants in all the 16 Soviet republics to wring out a maximum of production at a 'minimum of cost. And the Soviet press makes§ it clear that these orders extend to satellite Eastern Europe. That is not the only sign of un- easiness in the Kremlin, Appar- ently the purge is continuing--a purge of unreconstructed Stalinists. They are being lopped from re- sponsible party and government po- sitions. Security measures have been tightened everywhere, with Rus- sians taking over the chief police posts from men of other national- ities in" the republics outside the big Russian Soviet Federated So- cialist Republic. -o- The impression is that Premier Georgi Malenkov and police czar Stalin Followers Purging Lavrenty Beria, his first deputy, are working in concert to bolster their power. The best information is this: As long as Malenkov re- mains in the top post, Beria is safe, |and so long as Beria remains in | the No. 2 spot, Malenkov is safe-- the two are mutually dependent. Tightening of the security forces began before Stalin died. This slip- ped through Soviet censorship this week. It ties in with a report from a reliable observer who was in Rus- sia at the time of Stalin's death. This observer got the impression that Stalin suddenly soured on the power ambitions of the Malenkov- Beria combination, that possibly he even suspected his power twins en- gineered the deaths of Andrei Zhd- anov and other Stalinist leaders. 'Thus the arrest of the doctors and the fantastic story of their plot, all denied after Stalin's death. The party press now is demand- ing all-out production of farms and in factories. Average indexes of production, thunders Pravda, will not do. The norms should be aimed at the levels already achieved by the high-producers, the Stakhano- vite (speed-up) workers of farms and factories. ier Rene Mayer and his aides dur-|: The specific amount of additional | | but officials said it was "substan- |' year to help]: City Nurse Gets Post At Fairview Plump, bright-eyed and radiat- ing good nature, Miss Muriel Louise Gifford, a graduate nurse of the Oshawa General Hospital has been appointed to the post of sup- erintendent of Ontario County Fair- view Lodge. Miss Gifford will suc- ceed Mrs. Kathleen Read. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Gifford, RR 4 Oshawa, iss Gifford is well-equipped for the new duties she will undertake at the end of May. She holds a commercial dip- loma; trained for three years in the Oshawa General Hospital School of Nursing and spent a year as an outpost nurse of the Grenfell Mission on Harrington Is- and. Both her father, Lyman Gifford, and her grandfather, Hiram Gif- ford, were wardens of Ontario County and Miss Gifford has grown up in an atmosphere of public re- sponsibility and sense of duty. At her graduation in June, 1948, Miss Gifford spoke the valedictory for her class mates. As a child CITY NURSE (Continued on Page 2) Sober-Up Shots Studied In U.K. LONDON (Reuters)--British doc- tors have found that an injection of | vitamin B6, "bandon,'"' can sober up a drunk in three minutes with- | out leaving a hangover. | A doctor, writing in the British Medical Journal, says a woman of | 45 was brought into his hospital | singing, swearing and staggering. He gave her an injection of B6 and three minutes later she be-| came quiet, apologized for the trouble she had caused and said she felt quite sober. He claimed the same result in five other cases. Another doctor said the injections not only got rid of the excitement | '"'but of every other symptom of | intoxication, and will even dispose | ot delirium tremens in a matter of ours.' OF BURNS Stunned In Cab As Truck Rolls A 17-year-old Ontario Agricultural College student died in the Oshawa General Hospital last night a few hours after he had been pulled from the burning wreckage of an over- turned truck on No. 2 highway two miles east of the city. He was Allan K. Mitchell of Estevan, Sask. Despite the searing gasoline-fed flames, Murray Mar- tin, also 17, who was thrown clear of the truck as it rolled over, scrambled back to the wreckage and dragged the un- conscious Mitchell through the cab window. FERRYING TRUCK Martin was still in hospital this afternoon in good condition but suffering from bad burns to the face and arms. The accident happened on the Prestonvale Hill, just east of the city. Both boys were attending the vet- erinary college at AC. Preparing to return to their homes in Saskat- chewan they had picked up a panel truck in Oshawa for delivery out west and then proceeded on to Peterborough where they added a trailer loaded with furniture. It was while returning to Oshawa that their truck went out of control and overturned. Spilled gasoline caught fire immediately. No other car was involved, police said. After the truck skidded along the road and ditch on its side, Mar-[® tin managed to get out but Mit- chell, apparenly stunned, could not be freed for some time. Fin- ally Mitchell managed to pull him through the window. Following the accident traffic was held up for an hour. Provincial Constable Dryden is conducting the investigation. BIG OIL CONSUMER STOCKHOLM (CP)--Sweden's ofl consumption was the largest per capita in Europe in 1952, and third in the world after the United States and Canada. Total Swedish con- sumption of 1,111,000,000 gallons figured to 176 gallons for each in- habitant. A 4 SIR WINSTON NOW BULLETIN LONDON (Reuters) -- The Queen today conferred a knighthood on Prime Minister Churchill, investing him with the insignia of the garter. The. Order of the Mighest of wil he Gazer - knighthood. The Prime Minister will be Sivied "Sir Winston Churchill, Lewis Would Scrap All Laws Hitting Laber In Past 21 Years WASHINGTON (AP)--John L. Lewis asked Congress today to strike from the law books 'lock, stock and barrel" all labor laws passed in the last 21 years. The burly, 73-year-old mine workers chief, in a prepared statement, told the Senate labor committee: "'This proposal is seriously made. The ever rising tide of industrial strife in recent years and the re- peated governmental interferences . . Junder existing law and the bit- terness engendered thereby in all segments of our population justify the Congress in stripping the statute books of both the Wagner and Taft-Hartley acts." That would leave two basic laws dealing with organized labor--the 1932 Morris-LaGuardia Act and the 1914 Clayton. Act. The Taft-Hartley law, passed in 1947 to supersede the 1935 Wagner Act now is up for possible revision before the Senate and House labor committees. Most of organized labor favored the Wagner Act and wanted it kept on the books, No matter how amended, Lewis said, the Taft-Hartley Act will re- main "a thorn and a spear in the side of American labor." Labor is opposed to the provision for an anti-strike injunction con tained in the Taft-Hartley law. The law, Lewis said, "is a specie of fraud on not only labor unions but upon the country at large." The Norris-LaGuardia Act lim- ited the use of injunctions in work disputes. The Clayton Anti-Trust Act attempted to exempt labor unions from prosection by declar- ing that labor is 'not a ecommod- Lewis said these two laws should be allowed to "rule and guide in the field of labor-management re- lations" for a time. Use Scissors, Razor Blade To Operator On Van Doo By BILL BOSS Canadian Press Staff Writer PANMUNJOM (CP)--Pte. Arthur J. Baker of Montreal, second Canadian soldier exchanged by the Communists, said today he lost consciousness after being wounded near Little Gibraltar hill and was captured by the Chinese, who held him prisoner 17 months. The 31-year-old member of the Royal 22nd Regiment, speaking hoarsely due to a cold contracted six days ago, said he received good hospital treatment throughout his captivity. Baker, among the first of a group of Allied prisoners released by the Reds today, was named Monday by L. Cpl. Paul Dugal of Quebec City as one of 16 Canadians held by the Communists. Dugal was the first Canadian prisoner to be re- leased. Tired and somewhat grizzled in appearance, Baker told newspaper men he was captured Nov. 28, 1951, the day after the Van Doos' 2nd battalion made its famous five-day stand holding ground flanking Little Gibraltar against continuous Chinese attacks. The battalion underwent inces- sant shelling. On the night of the battle, Baker suffered shell and mortar fragment wounds in the legs, feet and trunk. He said he recovered conscious- ness in the Chinese lines and found his wounds dressed. "I was put in a cart and pushed by hand the first day until I reached a hospital," he said. "I stayed overnight and then was taken north by truck. Finally I reached a Chinese hospital." That hospital. became Baker's home until April 19 when one of the hospital hands told him he was | tha going to be exchanged, He left half an hour later, bringing nothing with him. He said he was well treated in the hospital. Doctors saw him regularly and his dressings were changed. "We got Chinese food--rice, let- tuce, potatoes and turnips. It wasn't prepared the way we cook it but it was all right." He had two meals a day in winter and three in summer. The reason he was so long in hospital was that, when his wounds healed, he contracted a form of sleeping sickness. He still tires easily and wants to sleep. He would seem to recover dur- ing his hospital stay, then relapse again, "So they just kept me in hos- pital.' Lieut. J.Y. Gauthier of Que- bes City was waiting at Panmun- jom to welcome Baker to freedom. Baker told The Canadian Press he couldn't believe someone from his own unit would be there to receive him. Gauthier, who accompanied Baker to Munsan, said the former Van Doo, whose term of enlistment in the Canadian Army expired more than a year ago, appeared in fair shape. Capt. George Vanner of Toronto, Canadian medical officer, at Mun- san, permitted Baker to be inter- viewed by newspaper men. Gauthier said Baker 'walked across under his own steam and we sat togehter in the am- bulance during the drive the Mun- san, He told me about hospital life. He said he thought he noticed { Commonwealth prisoners got preferential treatment to others especially when they discovered I was a Canadian.' " Gauthier added that Baker told him the hospital doctors were all women. When they noticed that a scar on his leg was rather large and was not healing they operated to close it properly. Gauthier said the released Mont» real soldier told him: "The doctors were competent but they lacked equipment, They applied a local anaesthetic and operated with scissors and a razor blade." Baker added that he saw other operations performed in a similar manner, Brig. Jean Allard of Nicolet, ue., commander of the Canadian 25th brigade, was waiting at Mun- san with Maj.-Gen. Michael West, commander of the 1st Commone wealth division. Allard said: '"'After an interview, we took Baker back into the war tent and issued him with a come plete Canadian kit. He was a changed man when he put it on-- pleased as punch as he donned his jacket, put a cap badge on and adjusted his beret in the familiar way. He said he was especially happy to have good Canadian army boots again." At the time of Baker's capture in 1951, Communist negotiators at Panmunjom were arguing with United N a tions representatives over a cease-fire liné and the Van Doos' battle represented a laste minute attempt by the enemy to wrest dominating ground from the UN forces.