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"Daily Average Circulation for March, 1953 -- 2150 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Sunny \ Weather Forecast and a little warmer, accord ing to the weatherman. Low tonight and high Tuesday, 40 and 55. VOL. 1 2--No. 98 Authorized es Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, OMtowo OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES LATEST COMMAND PORTRAIT In this latest pre-coronation command portrait by Baron, Queen Elizabeth poses with Prince Philip in the green draw- ing-room of Buckingham Palace in London, wearing a pale pink evening gown of lace over tulle. sash is the blue ribbon of garter. With it she wears the of the garter. Her jewelry consists of a Russian fringe dia- mond necklace (a wedding pres- ent from the city of London), diamond drop earrings, two dia- mond bracelets and her diamond wedding ring. The diamond drop brooch -at the top of the blue ribbon is a family heirloom that was previously worn by the late Queen Mary. the Queen's head is a diamond diadem, the headband of which is composed of a row of diamonds between the two rows of pearls. The dia- dem, which is of great age was reset for Queen Victoria. The Duke of Edinburgh is wearing the uniform of an admiral of the fleet. 6 Children Die In Volcano Blast TOKYO (AP)--Aso volcano rupted thunderously today, killing at least six of 49) schoo} children ring into its depths. Pe Some \onaHicial death estimates ran as 10 as 10. One hundred children were re- rted injured in Aso's first erup- on in 20 years. The on I's were on an excur- sion inside the v crater of 5,267-foof Mt. Kyushu, Japan's southernmost is- lan They were looking into one of five volcanic peaks inside the gaping crater when it awakened with a smoking roar, blasting rocks into the air. Some were the ly not considered in The newspaper Nishi Nippon said the blast came from 4,339- foot Naka Dake crater, one of the five peaks. Rocks shot through grey smoke to almost 1,000 feet and then rained back to ground for 600 yards around. The great crater is 24,500 acres wide, and contains two railroads and nine stations. Full eruption of the entire crater apparently took place in pre- historic days. Only minor eruptions in some of the five peaks are recorded in Japanese annals. The last big eruption of Mt. Aso took place in 1933. It showered rocks and ashes practically on all of he 16,000-square mile island of Kyushu. At that time, the observatory is- sued an alarm and the eruption caused no casualties. Iranian Police Head Strangled TEHRAN, Iran (AP)--Iran's gov- ernment today blamed a group of retired army officers and govern- ment opponents for the murder of National Police Chief Brig.-Gen. . Mahmood Afshartus, found strangled in a roadside grave Sun- day. A communique issued by Col. Hoss! oli Ashrafi, military gov- ernor of Tehran, said the names of the alleged slayers and those who plotted the crime will be dis- closed later. communique said investiga- confessions of those res- ble led to the discovery of ' body six days after his mysterious disappearance in the heart of Tehran. The body was found several miles northeast of the capital in a shallow grave. A rope was around his neck, his hands and feet were bound and his mouth was stuffed with a handkerchief. Medical examiners said he had died at least four days earlier, probably by strangulation April 20. Afshartus, a relative of Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, was said fo have made a number of enemies because of his part in recent politi- cal arrests and as secretary of a To Death commission which named army officers for retirement in a recent shakeup. A police communique said he "died a martyr's death in the performance of his duties." The military governor named only one of those allegedly respon- sible for Afshartus' murder. He was Hossein Khatibi, to whose home, it was charged, Afshartus was invited just Before he dropped from sight. The invitation was accepted, the comygunique indicated, because Af- sha thought he was mediating between the Mossadegh regime and a Parliament member recently at odds with the premier. The communique said the plot- ters bound Afshartus, took him by car to a cavesnortheast of Tehran, tortured him by jabbing him in the chest with a knife and finally strangled him. Investigators said that before Af- shartus disappeared last Monday night he drove to a neighborhood near the Parliament (Majlis) Building. There he dismissed his driver, telling him to wait at the nearby police station. He left be- him 2 gun he usually carried in ar. Fire Kills 8 Kiddies Near Soo SAULT STE. MARIE, Ont. (CP) -- While a moth- er and father, badly cut and burned, clawed desperately at their windows from the outside, eight children died in an early-morning fire that destroyed a four-room home near here Sunday. Only the parents of five of the children, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Derry, escaped the in- ferno that claimed the eight young lives, All the children were burned beyond recogni- tion and the location of their bodies showed that at least five of the eight werc trap- ped as flames prevented them from getting to the only exit. Five of the dead were the chil- dren of Mr. and Mrs, Philip Derry --Dorothy, 7; Reginald, 5; Clifford, 4; Eleanor, 3; and John, 1%. The others were Derry's nieces--Wilma 14; Marion, 10; and Diane, 9-- daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Trudel of suburban East Korah township, who have three older children. The fire left the Derrys childless and homeless. Mr. and Mrs. Derry smashed their way to safety through their bedroom window, then tried to break in to rescue the children in another bedroom and the living room of the unfinished four-room frame dwelling. Flames and smoke turned them back. In their desperation, they left in their own bedroom their infant son, who had been sleeping with them. He died with the others. The death toll was the highest | in many years in a fire in Nor- thern Ontario. City firemen fought the blaze, half a mile from the city limits. Neighbors'in a bucket brigade car- ried 500 gallons of water to keep the fire trucks supplied, as no fire hydrants were available. The children gathered at the Derry home Saturday afternoon for a party celebrating the ninth birthday of Diane Trudel. It was Derry, who would have been seven today. also a celebration for Dorothy Wilma Trudel agreed to look FIRE KILLS (Continued on Page 2) Sabres Poised For Trip to UK. Bs Canada's Gift dian-made F-86 Sabre jets are ready for delivery to Britain, RCAF officials said here today. Canada is giving between 300 to 400 of the fighters to the RAF. Nearly 100 of them now are poised at Goose Bay, Labrador, ready for delivery across the At- lantic, the RCAF said here. The Sabres are the only Allied planes in service today which can fight on equal terms with the Rus- sian MiG 15s. The Allied squadrons disadvantage in relation to the Sov- iet air forces in East Germany and the satellite countries for lack of faster jets. Thirty per cent of the cost of the Sabres including components and engines is borne by the United States as mutual aid to Britain, and the remaining 70 per cent by Canada. * The RAF in Germany, forming part of the second Allied tactical air force, is already training pilots and preparing equipment to put the Sabres into operational service. NURSE SHORTAGE BLAMED ON M.D.'s The New England Journal of Medicine says that physicians are partially to blame for the shortage of nurses. According to the Journal, some doctors bully their nurses, while others marry 'em. If you're interested in doctor- ing your bank-balance, Classi- fied ads in The Times-Gazette are the nurses you need! Yes, Want Ads are wonderful to put broken -down bankbooks back on their feet. To sell, rent, find a job phone 3-2233 for an experienced ad-writer, Eisenhower Pledges Full Employment In Message To CIO President Reuth . WASHINGTON (AP)--President Bisenhower Saturday assailed "the stupidity of mass unemployment' and pledged "every useful measure, private and public," to avoid it in the future. In a letter to CIO President Wal- ter Reuther, the President said he "firmly" subscribes to the Em- ployment Act of 1946, which estab- fished the council of economic ad- visers and made it public policy to "promote" full employment. The ' letter, made public by the C10, was hailed in the CIO News as "'a clear outline for a liberal mic philosophy for America sort of economic philosophy h has proven so beneficial to the country gnd its people during the past 20 Sears." - Eisenhower's letter was in ans- wer to one Reuther sent him April 6. Reuther asked the President to summon a 'broadly representa- tive conference at the earliest pos- sible date to draft a worksheet for full Produetion and full employ- ment." Eisenhower said: "The Employment Act of 1948 re- flects a determination on the part PRESIDENT IKE « « » Gives Word of the American people to see to it that the stupidity of mass unem- er ET PRESIDENT WALTER «s+ Is PI d BONN (AP)--Nearly 100 Cana- |g in Western Europe have been at a [to think UK., EGYPT REOPEN SUEZ DEFENGE TALKS DRIVERS HONORED FOR SAFE DRIVING Four drivers of the Russell Transport Company of Oshawa were honored by their employers and an insurance company at a dinner Saturday night. The Spars cover a year of safe iving. Seen, left to right, are F. C. Russell, company mana- ager, and A, Baptie, insurance { | | representative, and certificates to Frank Hughes, Syd McAfee, Allan Bertrand and | Lorne Smith. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio Reds Still On Truce Stubborn Proposal PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP)--The that a six-point proposal by Nam new Korean armistice talks dead- locked again today as the UN com- mand rejected a Red prisoner ex- change proposal which it said of- fers only return to Communist rule or "endless captivity" for Re who refuse to go home. In their second meeting since Oct. 8, both Allied Communist delegates, stood pat on their own plans for settling the exchange problem and bringing a truce in orea. Another session was scheduled for Tuesday morning. The truce talks were broken off Oct. 8 by the UN command when it refused to force any prisoner to go home against his will. Although the Allies threatened to call off the talks again unless the Reds show willingness to nego- tiate constructively, Lt-Gen. Wil- liam K. Harrison, senior Allied delegate, said it's "far too early" al such a move. Harrison opened the meeting by Sunday was "unreasonable and obstructive.'"" He later said bluntly sigh the proposal was "unaccept- able." Nam devoted his remarks to a ds | restatement of the Communist pro- posal. It calls for: 1. Within two months after an armistice, repatriating those pris- oners who want to go home. 2. Within another month, sending to a neutral state, to be chosen by the negotiators, all who refuse to go home. 3. Six months for making "ex- planations'" to the refusing prison- ers by representatives of their homelands. 4. Sending home those who change their minds. 5. If there are still some left who refuse repatriation, leaving their fate up. to a high-level post- armistice political conference. 6. All expenses of prisoners held in a neutral state to be paid by their homelands. telling North Korean Gen, Nam H Fire, Automobile Crashes Take Big Toll On Week-End Eight young children died Sun- day in a dawn fire that swept a navy veteran's unfinished home just outside the city limits of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. A Canadian Press survey showed one other fire death in Eastern Canada during the week-end. An unidentified man died in a Mon- treal rooming-house fire. There were seven deaths in automobile accidents, two drownings, two deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, one in a shooting mis- hap, one in a plane crash and one in a fall. All told, Ontario had 11 fatalities. Quebec eight, and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick two each. Ontario deaths, in addition to those in the fire at the Sault, were: John Ward Lynn, 36, of Lockhaven, Pa., when his single-engined plane crashed in fog near Mount Hope airport: Clayton Thompson, 38, of Owen Sound, found shot at his home, a shotgun beside him; Fred W. Harris, 57, of Sudbury, when his car was hit by a passenger train near Renfrew, CD Goes On Despite Peace Talk One hundred people in Oshawa are taking Russia's present peace overtures with a grain of salt. The dubious ones are members of the city's civil defence course. "The attendance is still excel- lent and the slackening of the cold war tension doesn't seem to have affected the local people,' was the comment this morning of T. D. Hopkins, the local CD co-ordinator. This morning he received in- structions from the provincial gov- ernment about the need for ener- getic planning of emergency shel- ters. Those attending the instruc- tors' course last week saw an 80- minute long English film dealing with the effects of atom-bombs and {the use of protection and shelters. Last lecture in the current course, which has been described by officials as 'the finest in Can- ada as far as attendance and en- thusiasm goes," will be held on Thursday evening. Jack Adams, the province's chief instructor, will be present and, with Mr, Hopkins, will outline future plans for Osh- awa's civil defence organization. "We now have a fine nucleus from which we can start the spe- cialized services such as warden and rescue," commented Mr. Hop- kins. A number of the people attend- ing the course have started to give lectures to various local or- ganizations. SIMCOE (CP)--John Fitzgerald, 80, visited his two daughters the other day--the first time he had seen them in 40 years. When his wife died in 1908, his two girls were brought up by their grand- mother. Mr. Fitzgerald left for the United States two years later and worked in several places before going to, Pickering, where he now ives. PROS AND CONS Top U.K. Papers Urge West Seize Red Peace Talk Offer LONDON (AP)--Leading British newspapers today urge the West- ern world to seize upon the latest Russian peace talk offer without delay. Most editorials caution that a full settlement of all the tense out- g issues between the East and West is too much to hope for now. But the independent Times sums up the over-all attitude of the British press in these words: "Even if a single area of friction could be regulated, the effort wuld be worthwhile." Referring to Pravda's article Sat- urday replying to the peace pro- gram laid down by President Eis- enhower in his speech of April 16, the Conservative Daily Mail de- clares: 'Snags may be hidden in the milder messages from behind the Iron rtain. These may be in- tended to lull us into a false secur- ity, to divide Britain from Amer- ica, or to end the war in Korea because the Reds want to concen- trate on Indo-China. . . . "Yet there still remains some- thing we have not had since 1946-- the spirit of reasonableness which has been completely absent from the Communist side. "Compared with what we are tomed to get from the Krem- ployment never again visits this land." lin, the Russian response to the president is a gentle zephyr or the cooing of doves. It certainly takes one more step forward on the road to reconciliation." : The independent, imperialist Daily Express says 'no possible harm can come to the West from talking to the Russians. Every pos- sible harm can come from a refu- sal to talk. "For such a refusal would enable the Russians to say that while they want peace the West does not." The pro-Labor Daily Herald ur- ges the Conservative government to "speak out now." 'Our own government in the last few weeks has left the initiative too much to Russia and the United States," the Herald says. "The opportunity is great and Britain should grasp it with both hands." The Liberal News Chronicle likens the president's speech and the Russian Trl to "the age-old technique of the market place whereby both parties state their extreme prices as a preliminary to coming to terms." "It is the duty of British states- men to help this cause along. . . the present moment calls for path- finders." The Times says the chief signif- icance in the Pravda article is the "new and more rational approach" by the Russians. "No less significant," it adds, "is their insistence on the danger of war and of an unregulated arm- aments race. ' "Their offer of 'serious, business- N MPN EEL AN like discussions," either directly among the powers or in the United Nations, cgn be accepted as sub- stantial; ard even now the Western powers should be consulting how best the offer may be answered so that little time may be lost once a Korean armistice has been reached." The Conservative Telegraph warns that "only the most credu- lous could possibly look for an jeasy and general settlement of all | the grave issues which threaten the peace of the world." Its editorial expresses special interest, how- ever, in the Russian hints that a truce in Korea and a treaty to end the occupation of Austria might reasonably be expected. "And end of fighting in Korea and an end of acute tension in Vienna are solid gains, not be despised," says The Telegraph. The party line for British Com- munists is laid down by the London Daily Worker in a front-page ed- itorial headed "Negotiate Now." "It is the Soviet Union which has shown all the willingness, dem- onstrated by deeds, to date and it is about time the Western powers demonstrated some sign of their (professed willingness for peace." The liberal Manchester Guard- {ian says "this fs or should be the signal for diplomacy to take over. . . . The task of securing a partial relaxation (of the cold war) is as worthwhile as it is difficult." | canal, CAD IW later today. " Peaceful Atmosphere Seen Over Removal of Troops CAIRO, Egypt (CP)--Britain and Egypt today held their first meeting to negotiate the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal zone and agreed to meet again An Egyptian spokesman said the 80-minute meeting | between Premier Mohamed Naguib and British Ambassador Sir Ralph Stevenson and' their staffs took place in an "ex- cellent" atmosphere. Each of the principals made state- ments outlining their country's general position. of British Middle East land forces, The Egyptian delegation included Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and Lt.-Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, a close adviser to Naguib. The Egyptian stand was spot- lighted by Nasser Sunday. He as- serted Britain must vacate the leaving its defence to Arab states supported by Western mili- tary equipment. He rejected as "another form of occupation" a Western proposal to replace Brit- Stevenson was accompanied to® the meeting at Naguib's office by|ish control with a broad Middle Sir Brian Robertson, commander | East defence organization. This would include Egypt, the United Slates, Britain, France and Tur- ey. Today's meeting resumed discus- sions which were postponed last month when Stevenson became ill. Before the breakoff, Britain agreed in principle to withdraw her 65,000 troops from the canal zone, but asked guarantees that her mili- tary bases would be available to the West in event of war. oe | Trade, Not Aid' Plan Gets Boost In U.S. WASHINGTON (AP)--Represent- ive Richard M. Simpson (Rep. 1.) said today he is willing to .0p a controversial provision in his reciprocal trade bill which would bar any lowering of tariffs to levels found to imperil United States industry. _Simpson's new stand seemed likely to go a long way toward averting a sharp, open clash be- tween President Eisenhower and key Republicans in the House of Representatives on the touchy is- sues of tariffs and foreign trade. Simpson disclosed his position as the House ways and means com- mittee prepared hearings today on his bill extend the Reciprocal Trade Act for one year beyond June 12. This week's witnesses are from groups which support high protec- tive tariffs. The issue is especially important this year. Many U. 8. allies and and final. some adinistration leaders have been urging a relaxing of tariffs ade rriers to t for- eign countries to sell more goods in the United States--on the theory of "trade--not aid." Simpson is an influencial mem- ber of the tariff-handling ways and means committee. Under the present law, the presi- dent has power to negotiate new tariffs below levels determined by the tariff commission to constitute a danger to U.S. industry. Further, the president can set aside tariff commission recom- mendaions current import taxes be increased to provide ade- quate protection for U. 8. industry against cheaper competition from foreign goods. Simpson's bill, as originally in- troduced, would have taken away both these presidential powers and would have made tariff commis- sion "'peril point" findings binding PRESS TIME FLASHES Yollowing the NATO sessions, Claxton Rushes Home PARIS (Reuters)--Defence Minister Claxton cut short his Eu. ropean trip and left Paris toGay on a direct flight to Canada U.S. To Weed Out Arms Plants WASHINGTON (AP)--Roger M. Kyes, deputy secretary of de fénce, said today the Ei 43 panys 8 ation will review the whole munitions picture and weed out high-cost arms plants to keep the U.S. strong in peace and war. Ford Sees Export Troubles WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--Good Canadian business but worries in export markets were forecast today by Rhys M. Sale, president of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., in his address to the 1 The fifth Canadian Ballet fes- tival, which opened today in Ot- tawa promises to be the biggest one yet, with nine dance com- panies throughout Canada pre- senting 19 ballets during the six- day affair. One of the highlights of the event will be the presenta- tion of "Maria Chapdelaine," a French-Canadian ballet, in which Charlotte de Neve, seen above, "BALLET FESTIVAL OPENS of Toronto, will dance the role of a l4-yeartold lumberjack, Inter- est in Canadian ballet has been growing rapidly during the past 15 years. Annual festivals have helped to bring the art to every- onc, and not to privileged groups. The dance in Canada was pion- . eered. by dancers from Europe who have now been joined by native Canadians to help create a Canadian dance form. ENE