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LJ Daily Average Circulation for June, 1953 12300 TH DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE » Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle A) Weather Forecast Few showers likely but sunny Thurs day. Low tonight 65, high tomo VOL. 12--No. 164 Authorized Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Otows OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1953 Price Not Over ' § Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES CONFERENCE DEALS WITH WAR VETERANS' ALLOWANCE PJ Plies. Deputy-Minister in charge the Department of Veterans' Affairs, yesterday af- , ternoon met wit ational Em- loyment Service and Canadian ion officials to discuss the ration of the mew Section 4 the War Veterans' Allowance Act. In the group above are the folowing; sitting, left to right: J. R. Kirkham, Oshawa S.: W. J. Smith, Dunbarton NES.; F. C. Ramschen, DVA, Toronto; Ben Jacklin, Business Manager, Canadian Legion, Oshawa; Ed- ward Cheetham, Oshawa NES.; P. J. Philpott, Deputy Minister, DVA.; standing, left to right, Norman Hodgson, Oshawa NES.; G. E. Charron, Manager, NES. 1 Oshawa; P. J. Densham, Osh- awa NES. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. PUT IN CELLS seamen, Bible Quoting Driver Jumps In Path Of Truck BOWMANVILLE (Staff Report- er) -- A Toronto heating contrac- for narrowly escaped a ser- ury ear mo as hurled himself in front of a and hurled himself into the path of the oncoming truck. When questioned by Provincial Police Constables Ron Chittim and Pat Cornell of the Bowmanville De- tachment, Haggerty stated he had of | been going east to Havelock, Ont. on High Nervous, Bible quotin Hi Drive, to: of John G. , 39, of 2 ormanda 'Weston, Ontario, was taken anville by C. H. Ruiter tario St., wmanville, a trucker, who had swerved .violent- ly into the ditch in an effort to avoid striking the man. Ruiter told police that Haggerty bad leaped from his parked truck to clear up some urgent business. "My truck ran out of gas,' said Haggerty, "I had to get to Have- lock. And when you have to do something you have to do it. That's the way it is. It's in the Bible, you know." Asked why he had thrown him- self into the path of Ruiter's veh- icle Haggerty told police he had to stop the truck in order to reach his destination. The would-be-sui- cide then explained that he was go- ing to Havelock to make arrange- ments for his father's release from the Ontario Hospital in Whitby, hore he has been a patient since DOCTOR CALLED At first angered, and om the verge of violence, Hagge be- came subdued and e the name of a Havelock physician, Dr. D. J. Holcroft, as reference. An early morning call to Dr. Holcroft determined that Haggerty had been on the verge of a mental | breakdown for some time, and DRIVER (Continued on Page ® Mau-Mau Man Wins New Trial KITALE, Kenya (Reuters)--The Kenya Supreme Court today quashed 'Burning Spear" Jomo Kenyatta's hard labor sentence and ordered the controversial ha- tive leader #0 be tried again on charges of running the Mau Mau anti-white terror cult. The Supreme Court also ordered new trials for five other African leaders convicted and sentenced along with Kenyatta this spring. The court held that Ransley Thacker, special magistrate who ¥ sentenced the men to seven years' hard labor, had no jurisdiction to try 'them. . ' The men were arrested last Octo- ber a few hours after a state of emergency was declared in Kenya becduse of Mau Mau attacks. All the accused pleaded innocent. PARIS (Reuters) -- Seven per- sons were killed and more than 100 wounded when some 2,000 North African demonstrators clashed with police aftes a Com- munist-led Bastille Day parade in Paris Tuesday night. Six of the dead were North Afri- cans and the seventh was a French Communist trade ion leader. They fell when police¥opened fire to disperse the mob of demon- strators, brandishing clubs and knives. Among the wounded, for which the highest estimate was 135, were at least 82 policemen. Three police vehicles were over- turned and burned: Several private motor cars were wrecked. Store | windows were shattered and side- {walk cafes turned into a shambles of broken chairs and glasses. Calling Soldiers Names Starts Pitched Battle My AR dea oR a Nation about half an oy rein, Strong police pickets remained on. guard all night but no further incidents occurred. When calm was restored, humdreds of Parisians came to celebrate their national day by dancing amid the debris of the battle. The Communist party reported later that "Fascists"" had stoned its headquarters in ventral Paris. Non-Communist sources said a passing group of French parachut- ists, who had marched in a great parade down the Champs Elysees in the morning, were Freeted with " by SAVAGE WAR By JOHN RANDOLPH SEOUL (AP)--The Chinese to- night renewed savage attacks on the east-central Korean front with a two-prong, 3,000-men assault south of Kumsong. The attack broke a day-long lull in the biggest Red offensive in more than two years. The new assault--backed by tanks--was believed aimed at a main Allied highway. TORIES Vets Can Augment WVA But Few Know It-Yet Under an amendment to the War Veterans' Allowance Act, passed last year, it is possible for a vet- eran over 60 years of age to suple- ment his allowance through casual or intermittent employment with- out being penalized by deductions from his allowance. This new provision was thorough- ly explained to a group of National Employment Service and Canadian officials by Captain E. P. Philpott, of the War Veterans' Branch of the Unemployment Insurance Com- mission, at a conference held here yesterday afternoon. The main pur- pose of the conference was to make more widely known to veterans, who might be eligible, the new provisions included in Section 4 of the War Veterans' Allowance Act. This section, Captain Philpott ex- plained, provides that any veteran over 60 years of age who is un- able to maintain himself by follow- ing his former ordinary occupation may be paid a war Veterans' Al- lowance without reduction on ac- count of any earnings for casual employment up to $2.00 a day or $50 a month. EARNINGS OFF This allowance is different from the regular VA, which is paid on the basis of a yearly amount of '$720 a year for a single man and income, with income limits of $1200 a year for a married man, including the allowance. Any cas- ual earnings which bring the in- come over these figures is deduct- ed from the War Veterans' Allow- ance. This, however, is not the case with the allowances made under Section Four of the act. These are computed on a monthly basis, and paid in accordance with the t " TRICK ANGERS LABOR [No Press Reports On "Skullduggery" Termed "an iniquitous piece of political skulle duggery" concerning which, it was suggested, the press had been silenced, a municipal political issue overshads owed a national one at last night's meeting of the Oshawa and District Labour Council, The national issue was the con- tributory industrial pension plan recently proposed by Alderman J, Wesley Powers, the CCF candidate in Ontario Riding, which the dele- of income earned in each month by the recipient. In the case of what is termed subsidiary, or tem- perary employment, the VA pay- ments for either single or married men can be supplemented up to $50 a month without deduction from the allowance. There are other provisions, Cap- tain. Philpott explained, covering what is termed intermittent em- ployment, which is work of a full day nature, for which the full days pay is retained, but the War Vet- erans' Allowance is reduced by only one-twenty-fifth of the actual A award for full day of em- loyment. EPORT MONTHLY Application to. be registered for WVA AID (Continued on Page 2) Basic salaries of 2,500 employees | of General Motors of Canada in Oshawa, WindSor and other places in Canada will go up $25.50 per month, effective tomorrow. ; The increase comes about through a new scheme of incorpor- ating the major part of the cost of living allowance in the base salar- the same time the annual general increase will be augment- % ad Inadeatin tive. --v ompany spokesmen ay ex- ay the adjustments. They pointed out that salaried employees concerned had been receiving a cost of living allowance of $80] every three months. Now only $25 per quarter of that Basic Salaries At GM To Include Living Costs amount will be paid as a cost of living allowance at the end of the three months. That payment will fluctuate with the present con- sumer price index. :. The remainder of the original $80, which amounts to $18.50 per month, will go into the actual sal- ary rates of the men eligible to receive it. 3 The annual Zeperal adjustment of $5 per month has been steppéd up to $7 per month. All the combin- ed changes mean that effective tomorrow the basic salaries will jump by $25.50 per month. The old cost of living index put out by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics has been discarded. Any |those coming in force in Oshawa. fluctuations in the cost of living allowance to GM employees will be in future be measured according to the new consumer price index. Quarterly adjustments of $5 eith- er upwards or downwards, accord- ing to the way the index has gone, will be made for any shang to- talling seven-tenths of a point in pe ed that th e compan unc at the next cost of Hing review for sal- ary adjustment purposes will be made in October. Local circumstances are affect- ing the other General Motors di- visions in Canada which will make different salary adjustments to Lost Girl Found Dead The child was found dead in p and bush country by shouts of * ist guards. The parachutists took missiles from a building site and | bombarded Communist party head- | quarters while the guards retali- ated by hurling bottles. Truman Cleared Of McCarthy Taint WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senator | Joseph McCarthy (Rep-Wis) said today the federal bureau of inves- tigation has assured him that former president Harry S. Truman did not withhold any information he received from Canada about an atomic spy plot. ; In view of this, McCarthy said, there would be no occasion for the Senate investigations sub-commit- tee he heads to call Truman for questioning. A little more than two weeks ago, while Truman was on a vaca- tion trip east, McCarthy said there ad been "constant reports" that the ex-president had not turned over to the FBI a list of some 150 Soviet spy suspects received from Canadian authorities. McCarthy fired off a letter to Attorney-General Herbert Brownell asking whether the justice depart- {ment and the FBI ever got such a {list from Truman. He called this la first step toward deciding whether to ask the investigations sub-committee to call Truman as a witness. In New York at the time, Tru- man told reporters he had no com- ment because "what I could tell you, you wouldn't print." In answer to reporters' ques- tions today, McCarthy said "I've otten assurances from the FBI that Truman did not withhold any information which he Zo from any Canadian source, including Mac- kenzie King, in regard to espion- age." He declined comment when asked specifically if Truman had Jithed over a list of names to the Quick Way To Get New Post Office MERRITTON (CP)--The 5,000 residents of Merritton will soon be able to buy stamps again--and for- get that special trip to St. Cathar- ines. Postmaster George Foley of nearby Thorold said today the Merritton office, which closed July 4 when local merchants refused to continue handling the sub post of- fice, will be run by his office. The action came after Mayor F. 0. Leeson complained that the town was being "treated like a rural outpost." Residents have been travelling three miles to St. Catharines to | get their stamps. HOT STUFF Thumbs Down By St. Laurent On S. Saskatchewan Scheme By Canadian Press Staff Writer heat was on Canada's politi- cal leaders Tuesday. Prime Min- ier St. Laurent bore the brunt Temperatures bubbled up to the 90s in Saskatchewan but the 71- year-old prime minister walked among sweati crowds at the Yorkton Fair, s| ng hands with young and old. Even in seaside Ne% Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, where George Drew, Progressive Conser- vative leader, and M. J. Coldwell, CCF head, were campaigning for the Aug. 10 federal election, the mercury neared 80. COOLING OFF . The political talk in the July heat was dollar-sterling difficulties, trade and tariffs. and a national health scheme. After listening to dissertations on such generally dry subjects, cream. parlors, soft drink stands amd parlors. At Saint John, Mr. Drew refer- red to a statement made at Ottawa the previous night by External Af- fai inister Pearson that Canada is wonking with other 'Common- wealth Countries and the United States on plans for sterling con- vertibility. The Liberal government's '"'con- version to economic common sense. comes a little late," Mr. Drew said. The Progressive Conservatives two years ago had called on the govern- ment to take steps to break the dollar-pound barrier, but the gov- ernment had "'sneered" at the suggestion. CONGRATULATIONS "Now they admit it can be done. I congratulate them on the fact Mr. Drew promised during his 50- ! minute speech that a Progressive | Conservative. government would listeners made for ice act immediately to reopen British | {markets for Canada's basic pro- ducers. : they have finally accepted reality." | Earlier, at Fredericton, Mr. Drew said the federal government should give financial backing to hydro development "in every prov- ince where federal co-operation is required." TARIFF BINGE Mr. St. Laurent, after addressing a grandstand audience at the York- ton Fair--his fourth Western exhi- bition in as many days--moved on to Regina where he said that if the Progressive Conservatives have their way, there is danger 'Canada will go' on another tariff-raising binge." rally that the Progressive Conser- the trade policies which he said | had proved disastrous in the early | 1930s. They would erect new trade ! barriers, giving 'some sort of CAMPAIGNS (Continued on Page » He contended before a Liberal H vatives, if elected, would return to of searchers today. MINAKI, Ont. (CP)--Search par- ties combed a narrow strip of land between two lakes near Wade, Ont., early today as the first def- inite trace of a five-year-old girl, lost since July 5, rekindled a cold search. Two Kenora men, Harry Hawes and Joe Bynski, discovered a spot nearby where Geraldine Huggan, Huggan of Winnipeg, fell on her face while traversing a swampy area near the shore of Long lake. Clear footprints were found near the spot and hand prints and the mark of a tiny face showed where the child fell. At Kenora, the Ontario provin- cial police said the footprints were measurable and fitted the size of the shoes worn by the child when she wandered away from her par- ents' summer cottage near Wade, 10 days ago. The section between the lakes was not searched before the dis- covery. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jared |U Foreign Ministers Challenge U.S.S.R. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) -- Britain, France and the United States posed an immediate challenge to Russia today to join in a four-power foreign ministers meeting aimed at reuniting East and West Ger- many. The call for a session next|go autumf on Germany, and on com- pleting an Austrian independence treaty, was agreed upon by British, .S., and French foreign ministers in a five-day conference which ended with issuance of a commmu- nique Tuesday night. Notes from all three western governments were prepared for dispatch to Moscow within 24 hours. The proposal on Germany repre- sents initiative by the west to put squarely up to the Kremlin--in the face of its internal Beria purge and in the light of anti-Communist un- rest in East Germany--a challenge to do something definite about one of the worst sources of tension. State Secretary John Foster Dulles of the U.S., the British act- ing foreign secretary, the Mar- Yuess of Salisbury, and French oreign Minister Georges Bidault also called for restoration of "true liberty" to the Soviet satellite peoples of Eastern Europe and an- nounced that if those countries achieve freedom the door to unity with the community now being created in Western Europe is open them. On far eastern problems, the three ministers announced that economic embargoes against Com- munist China would be continued |' indefinitely after an armistice and that the policy of barring Red China from the United Nations would continue pending further consultation. Britain and France joined with the United States in pledging to work for peaceful unification of Korea. The three warned Red China against using prospective peace in Korea for new aggressions else- where in Asia. They also said that, if the Reds break an armistice with a new attack on South Korea, the United States, Britain and France will again go to war. LONDON (Reuters)--The palace official - whose name has been linked romantically with that of Princess Margaret left the country today for a posting in Europe-- two days before the Princess is due back from a tour in Africa. Townsend, a Second World War air hero and formerly manager of the London residence where the Queen Mother and Princess Mar- garet live, has been appointed air attache at the British embassy in Brussels, Belgium, Reports say he is due there to- day, that he left Dover for Bel- gium by sea. He was posted to Brussels soon after world press reports linked him with the Princess. The hand- some, 38-year-old flier had been temporary comptroller of Clarence House and was expected to remain there with the office confirmed. The surprise appointment out of the - country ended nine years ser- vice with the Royal Family. The controversy in Britain over the reported romance centres on the fact that Townsend is divorced. e broke with his wife last year charging adultery and has custody two children. The wife has since married the co-respondent. Mr. John de Laszlo, son of the famous portrait painter. | Lord Beaverbrook's London] | Daily Express has said-it was be- | lieved that senior ministers would | be opposed to such a marriage Townsend Out of England Will Not See Princess because political difficulties would arise, the Church of England would be equally opposed as they were tightening up the Church's attitude to the remarriage of divorced peo- ple, and court officials were hoping that the Princess would not seek to contract a controversial mar- riage. North York Postpones Deadline TORONTO (CP)--Reeve Fred McMahon Tuesday night assured North York residents that no steps would be taken immediately to en- force tho township's one-family residence by-law. At a meeting of the North York central community council Mr. McMahon said the Sept. 1 deadline, established earli. r, would be changed. A resolution was passed asking that enforcement of the by-law be put to a vote of the people. After the vote was taken the reeve said no action would be taken until after the resolution had been dis- \cussed by council. FASTER NOW EDMONTON (CP) -- Ernest J. Corp, who flew out from the Yukon in a few hours recently, has seen some drastic changes in transpor- tation. It took him 15 months to reach the Yukon from Edmonton when he joined the gold rush in gates d d, endorsed and re- solved to forward to the Canadian Congress of Labor. HANDWRITING ON WALL Near the end of the Tnosting in a brief speech supporting the plan, Alderman Powers remarked that the older parties had seen "the handwriting on the wall" and were taking drastic measures. He cited an incident. The "Progressive Yonservatives, he said, had sent aletter to city council requesting endorsement of two items in the party platform: removal of sales tax on ah munici- pal purchases and taxation of the Armouries equally with other halls in the city. The Council voted to support the PC stand. AGAINST IDEA 3 the "I am not condemning items," Alderman Powers said. "But I'm 'against the idea of a litical party asking endorsement om a city council.' "City council is supposed to be non-political," he stormed. *"Such an iniquitous piece of litical Skullduggery should not con- ned." 0) Immediately delegates wanted to! know why they hadn't heard about this. How was the vote recorded? Why was the press silenced? (Editor's _note--The Times- Gazette was not silenced by anyone. This matter was re- cognized as so obviously a pol- itical dodge to obtain council support for party policies for Purely publici es that t was ore council sed fo be caught by this political trick.-- Editor.) _ "Maybe the reporter didn't think it was important," Secretary M. J. .| though Fenwick said. There were several ways the papers could miss it, he pointed out. He also said he sent several letters to city council him- self, asking endorsement on behalf of the Labor Council for policies included in the CCF manifesto. One delegate suggested the PC's might issue a last minute adver- tisement stating that Oshawa city council endorsed their policies. In the end, it was moved the executive obtain a copy of the re- corded vote, investigate the action thoroughly and possibly take some action to publicize it. SIMLAR PLAN In the discussion of the pension program, the chairman of the meeting pointed out that the plan would work the same as does the unemployment insurance plan. Secretary Fenwick said the plan would help the smaller plants who say the t offer pensi "This plan would meet the needs of those workers who have no hopes of pensions." e ci the Ontario Malleable Iron Co. There most of the work- ers are e upper age groups. "Once they are Tala off they have had it," he said. Under the pro- posed plan, he explained, a worker would carry a pension book fromy one job to another. Delegate W. G. Wilkins said # was time industry budgetted for d iation of h e same of ma~ Pp th as it does for depreciation chinery. Delegate William Rutherford the pensions could come out of excess Jrofiss and he wondw ered if the plan would interfe: with the present $40 a month ol age pension. p Men sald that many co panies even in Shiny ayes did n ve excess profits and thus wou LABOR Continued on Page 2) School Head For 28 Years Thousands of Oshawa men and women who have passed through Centre Street School since 1925 were shocked today to hear of the sudden death last night of its principal, Aaron W. Jacklin, BA, B Paed. at the age of 565. Mr. Jacklin came to Oshawa in 1925 as Principal of Centre Street School and during the intervening years the progress of the school had been his all-consuming interest in life. He was regarded as a leader locally in his profssion and gained 1898. "K. W. JACKLIN the affectionate regard of thousands of pupils who pa through his hands. Born in Hanover, Mr. Jacklin came from a family which home- steaded in that district. One of seven boys, he left home to attend Stratford Normal School. He be- gan teaching in 1917 and in the following years, when he taught at Gravenhurst and, for a year, at Pickering, he obtained his degree from Queen's University, and a pedagogy qualification at Univers- ity of Toronto. In addition he was qualified, through graduation from a course at Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph, to teach that subject. Not only had Mr. Jacklin been at Centre Street School since he came to Oshawa in 1925 but he has lived in the same residence at 40 Bruce Street for the same length of time. His wife, formerly Mary McEachern of Mount Forest, became Mrs. Jacklin at Mount Forest in 1920. An adherent of the Anglican Curch, Mr. Jacklin was a Past Master of Temple Lodge. He was an arden amateur naturalist. Surviving are Mrs. Jacklin and a son, Wilfred, at home, and two brothers Marshall and Victor, of Hanover. There is one grand daughter, Patsy. Mr. Jacklin had been ill since April 28 and since Easter has had to drop, a good many of his ac- tivities and get more rest. He was beginning to think that his con- dition was much improved when he was stricken suddenly yester- day afternoon. CHRISTIE HANGS Trap Springs On Killer But His Deeds Live On LONDON (AP)--John Reginald Halliday Christie, the Notting Hill sex strangler who confessed he kil- led seven women but might have murdered more, was hanged today in Pentonville prison. Even as he died, a controvery raged over whether the mild-ap- pearing transport worker and war- time auxiliary policeman was guilty of a baby's murder for which an- other man was hanged three years ago. The case of the insanity-pleading slayer, who walled up his victim's bodies in his apartment or buried them in his garden, shocked Britain as no other series of murders has done since Jack the Ripper. The senterce was carried out by Albert Pierrepont, England's chief hangman. its attached black hood over Chris- tie's head just before the sched- uled hour, 9 a: m. (4 a. m. EDT). Then the trap was sprung with a crash that echoed throughout the grim prison. A crowd of some 200 persons, in- cluding many schoolchildren, were gathered outside the prison gate. A truckload of police waited near the gate and the police patrol in nearby Caledonian road had been increased, but there was no dis- turbance. At the posting of the execution notice on the gate, the crowd surged forward, many laughing nervously and making jokes. '"Take it easy, he's not cold yet," one man shouted. "There's nothing to see. You won't see Christie," an- other called. The continuing controversy Pierrepont placed the noose with hinged on Christie's eonfession his trial that he strangled a ne bor's wife three years ago. T neighbor, Timothy Evans, was ace cused of killing both his wife and baby daughter but was convicted and hanged only for the infant's death. Christie's confession aroused Speculation that Christie also killed the baby, though he denied this. Queen's Counsel John Scott Hend- erson, after a secret government inquiry, announced Tuesday that Christie had lied in his confession and that he did not kill Mrs. Ev ans. Evans' mother and two sisters re- mained unconvinced and wrote the Queen Tuesday night, asking a pub- lic investigation. Seventeen Labor ite members of Parliament also presented an 1lth-hour motion dee manding that Christie's execution be stayed so he could testify af at 'such an investigation,