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Daily Average * Circulation "for June, 1953 231 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Friday. Weather Forecast Continuing sunny and very warm Low tonight, 65; high to- morrow, 85. VOL. 12--No. 165 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottowe NSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES EW PLANT MAY STOP o BEAT duce carried in a milk delivery wagon were scattered over Al- Milk, eggs and other dairy pro- | bert Street, Oshawa, this morn- sib 5 nal ] Ea TOGETHER FOR ing when a car collided head-on | with the horse-drawn vehicle. | The horse received only minor injuries but driver Norman Adair ACCIDENTAL OME went to hospital with leg injuries when he jumped from his wagon and crates landed on him. The milk wagon was split open in Canadian Singer Beaten To Death NEW YORK (CP)--The nude, bloodied body -of a lovely Cana- dian-born blonde singer was found in her west side Manhattan apart- ment today by police who went there after reading a man's suicide note. The young woman, Florence Forsberg, a native of Fort Frances, Ont., was a vocalist in the chorus of the Broadway hit, "Wonderful Town." She had been beaten about the head and stabbed and there were marks on her throat, police said. The death note was written by Lester. Johnsen, 25, who, police said, apparently killed himself with a rifle in his own bedroom about two miles away. | The note said: "I killed Florence Forsberg." {And it gave her address--34 West 69th street, just off Central Park. Dr. Jerome de Crosse said she appeared to have been dead three | or four hours when police found | her. l "Wonderful Town' stars Rosa- lind Russell. Showing at the Winter Garden, it is a musical version of the prize-winning hit play, "My Sister Eileen." Police said Johnsen's mother and sister heard a shot from his bed- room at 7:15 this morning. Rushing in, they found him face down on the floor, a rifle protrud- ing from beneath his body. Russians In Attack KUMSONG BULGE, Korea, (AP) U.S. officers said today Russian military advisers were serving! with some Chinese divisions which | LETT the accident. Driver of the car, Julian Straszewski was uninjur- ed. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio. Police And Pickets Tangle As Miners Ignore Courts TIMMINS (CP)--The embers of r unrest smouldered today in hor gold-producing Porcupine eamp near here, Mine owners, union leaders and the miners themselves watched for the spark that could ignite a whole- sale walkout and force the closing of all 13 mines in the area, includ- ing the highly-productive McIntyre Porcupine group. : Last night more than 1,000 hard- rock miners hurled defiance at their bosses and the courts as they threw their support behind the dis- pute over wages and working hours at the Broulan Reef mine, one of the area's smaller producers. The men, members of the Porc- upine Mine Workers Union, an af- jate 'of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL) virtually ignored a court injunction granted Wednesday to Broulan Reef, order- ing the miners to stop picketing and to halt interference with em- ployees or others desiring to enter Leo Behie ask for every available man in the Porcupine area to be on the Broulan picket lines at 5:30 a. m. today. They answered with cries of "we will." i Picketers tangled with police Wednesday as more than 750 work- ers forced the closing of Broulan Reef, Preston East Dome and Hall- nor mines. One policeman's coat was torn during a scuffle when a mine foreman attempted to drive a car through the picket line. There were no injuries and no arrests. "The chips are down in this fight," Behie told the miners Wed- nesday ' night. "We have tried to co-operate with the provincial police, but we intend to maintain our position. If the steel companies of the United States and Canada cannot defeat the Steelworkers' union, then we don't propose to let a little hay- wire outfit like Broulan Reef do it." Mr. Behie said the only issue at | or leave mine property. The miners jostled for room in the Steelworkers' hall and spilled | out into the streets Wednesday | night to hear union representative' 'stake at present was whether Brou- {lan Reef was going to destroy the union. Staff representative James Rob-| ertson of Toronto said the chall- Truce Showdown Put Off Again By GEORGE McARTHUR PANMUNJOM (AP) -- The Com- munists called today for a retess until Saturday in the Korean armi- stice negotiations--presumably to consider a new Allied proposal-- as speculation mounted that Drvak is near in the stalemated talks. 'Authoritative quarters had pre-| dicted a showdown today. But the negotiators talked only for 24 min- utes, and then recessed until EB m. Saturday (1 a. m. E turday). There was no official hint as to what went on during the brief meeting, which was delayed for 15 minutes while the United Na- tions Command delegation awaited a hurried message from its base camp at Munsan. ' But observers outside the confer- a| Worker said the Reds asked for 2! Thursday and accused the Reds |ence hut noted that Allied inter-| preters held the floor most of the | time to deliver three separate | | statements. Communist correspondent Alan Winnington of the London Daily | the recess, suggesting that the | | Communists planned to relay a Inew UN proposal to headquarters for an answer. Gen. Mark Clark, the UN com- | mander, flew to Seoul from Tokyo | of violating the secrecy which shrouds the armistice talks. Clark told reporters a Peiping | radio report that Allied delegates | staged a walkout at Wednesday's | negotiating session "violated the | executive nature of the truce ses- sions." | The Peiping radio turned sec- | refive again Thursday night. Knowles To Visit Oshawa Next Week For First Time Stanley Knowles, CCF party whip in the last Parliament. and member for Winnipeg, will be the featured speaker at a public meet- on Thursday, July 23 in the | Thwa Hall. The meeting is being sponsored | by the CCF-Labor Election Com- | mittee in the interest of its can-| didate in Ontario Riding, Ald. J. Wesley Powers. Mr. Knowles, a printer by trade and a union member himself, is touring Ontario industrial éentres on behalf of the CCF. He spoke recently to a huge picnic audience i» Windsor under UAWA sponsor- ship, This will be his first appear- 'Penn. enge put forward by Broulan Reef | was actually the outcome of the pact of the entire industry. ' "We are prepared to stay put STRIKE (Continued on Page 2) Local Mason Elected To igh Office Further masonic honors have been accorded Worshipful Brother Charles MacKenzie Wallace, Oshawa, who yesterday was elect- ed as district deputy grand mas- ter of Ontario District at the an- nual convocation of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, in Toronto. He succeeds | Wor. Bro. George Finnie of Port Hope. ¢ man, who then left his office. CHARLES M. WALLACE A resident of Oshawa for many years, Mr. Wallace was initiated as a member of Cedar Lodge, No. 270, 'A.F and A.M., GRC, in Sep- tember, 1920 and was elected mas- ter of the lodge in 1937. He served as secretary of Cedar Lodge from 1943 to 1945 and was district chaplain in 1942. Mr. Wallace is a director of the Oshawa Scottish Rire Club and a veteran of World War 1 in which he served from 1915 to 1919. Local Doorman Missing 6 Days Carrying $3,000 No trace has yet been found of an Oshawa man, John Donald, 72, 177 Mill Street, who disappeared {last Friday carrying $3,000. John Donald, missing Oshawa man, was reported today fo have at least boarded his train to Montreal safely. John Mor- rison, manager of Rainbow Confectionery, 148 Simcoe Street South, saw Donald board his train at 4.40 p.m. last Fri- day. Donald had asked the tick- et agent what time he would attive in Montreal, Morrison said. Donald, who had recently sold | his house was due to board a train |on Friday night, the first leg of a | journey to Scotland. Howewer, |a nephew, Cecil Durne, reported to police that Donald, who was doorman at the Regent Theatre in | Oshawa, had not been on the train. He has not been seen since. Because of the large amount of money Donald had on his person, it is feared foul play may be a factor in his disappearance. Mrs. Cecil Durne said a fireman had reported seeing Donald with a | severe gash in his forehead. On |: | Thursday, Dr. W. H. Stanley said |: |he had put eight stitches in the Donald was scheduled to sail {on the S.S. Atlanta on Saturday. | CNR officials are investigating but | so far do not report whether or not he boarded the ship. tall, weigh 170 pounds, has grey hair and was wearing a blue suit. Famed Author Hilaire Belloc Dies of Burns GUILDFORD, England (AP) -- Hilaire Belloc, 82, poet, novelist and historian, died today from burns received when he fell into a fireplace at his home Sunday. Belloc was one of the literary giants who dominated the decades at the turn of the century. Through tw generations, beginning in 1896, Belloe's facile but meticulous pen poured out a seemingly endless cascade of brilliant essays, novels, histories, poetry and light verse. | Altogether he wrote 153 books. He was born in France, but be- {came a British subject in 1902. Hunters Dead Near Food-Filled Truck GASPE; Que. (CP)--Searchers Wednesday found the bodies of [the scene as they opened an. in- three United States hunters who entered the forest west of here about June 12. The bodies of Eugene H. Lindsey, 47, his son, Robert, 17, and Albert Clark, 20, all of Holidaysburg, were found about three truck indicated they may have | Police cut off "routes leading to | vestigation. Only persons on offi- {cial business in connection with |the search were admitted to the area. The fact that most of the hunt- |ers' provisions were found in their Donald is five feet, eight inches |§ ance before an Oshawa audience. RUSSIAN NAVY STOCKHOLM (CP)--The naval correspondent of Svenska Dag- bladet, a Stockholm newspaper, es- | timates the strength of Russia's Baltic Sea fleet at nine cruisers. 28 destroyers and more than 100 submarines. £PEU= 185 | STANLEY KNOWLES ibec Provincial Police said. miles from their abandoned truck. |died shortly after they entered the The truck, its battery run down, {rugged Gaspe hinterland. was found last Friday about 65! Their disappearance was re- miles west .of here, in dense bush |ported earlier this week after po- land, on an old logging road along |lice investigated their whereabouts. the St. Jean river. | The police had received several The hunters had left on a bear- |phone calls last week from rela- hunting expedition with provisions [tives who had not heard of the for about two weeks. Most of the |Lindseys and Clark since they food was found in the truck, Que- started out on the hunting expedi- | tion. struck along the Kumsong front. | a knife-wielding hitchhiker was The officers said the uniformed Russians were identified as divi-| sional advisers. There was no immediate official confirmation of the report. There was no indication how many Russian advisers were with |struggled with the hitch-hiker be- the Chinese attackers. Apparently [fore she was abducted. the Soviet military experts were |. at divisional headquarters -level or | id higher. | (This dispatch was heavily cen- sored when first submitted and |uniform when taken into custody. was rewritten to conform to UN command security requirements.) Mother-To-Be Taken For Ride By Knifeman BISMARCK, N. D. (AP)--An ex- pectant young mother who was abducted Wednesday night by {found on a roadside early today. Authorities said Mrs. Albert Geigle, 33, pretty wife of a Stras- burg, N. D., grain elevator oper- ator, was dazed but Apparently | otherwise unharmed except for | cuts on her hands suffered as she Held for investigation is a man entified by authorities as Donald | Blackwell, 31, of Regina. They 'said he had Mrs. Geigle's check- {book in the pocket of his RCAF 125 Striking Truckers Threaten Picket Action A meeting which has been in progress this morning will be continued this afternoon to determine whether 1,500 'building trade workers on the new General Motors of Canada Limited assembly plant on Park Road South will leave the job in sympathy with 125 dump truck op- erators who have been on strike since yesterday afternoon. If the construction workers who ® are members of the. AF of L as|ora, Stephen Kichko, Whitby and are the truckers, decide to respect | Arthur Carnegie, of Uxbridge, all {the picket lines which the truckers members of the local committee work on the gigantic industrial of the union. Local representative plant will stop. of Local 880 (Dump Truck Opera- The meeting was called for rep- | tors) is Jack Lowe, of Whitby. resentatives of the building trades | Truckers say that the rate they on the job and officials of the| were receiving from the Piggott Teamsters Union, Local 880, which | Construction Company, six cents a is handling negotiations for the mile per ton, was enough to give truckers. {them a living when they were al- DIFFERENCE OVER LOCAL |lowed to overload their trucks. Meanwhile it was stated today They were forced to do so in order that there has been some differ-|to make any money. However, re- Union locals in Windsor and To- ronto about the matter of jurisdic- erators in thé sense that they own their own vehicles could be mem- bers of the Toronto local was also under discussion. Meanwhile officials of the Pigott Construction Company, which is are awaiting the result of the meet- ing which, in effect, will deter- mine whether work on the job con- .tinues or not. A meeting was held yesterday morning and negotiations broke down at 1.30 p.m. at which time Kenneth Lunnie, of Gormley, or- ganizer for the Teamsters Union AF of L pulled the trucks and driv- ers off the job. LOCAL DRIVERS Also representing the truckers, He told officials he couldn't rem- ember even his name. | most of whom own their own veh- icles, are Dave Campbell of Aur- ence of opinion between Teamsters | tion here. The question of whether | truckers who are independent op-| constructing the factory for GM | cently the Ontario Provincial Pol- ice began cracking down and or- dered truckers to stay within the legal load for their vehicles, six | tons. UNABLE TO LIVE At this point, truckers stated they were unable to make enough to live on and pay the carrying charges on their trucks. They would have to have the rate they are asking, ten cents, in order to do so. Local 880 is a large one and cov~ ers a good portion of Southern On- tario. On this job there are truck- ers from all over the district and | from as far away as Hamilton and Toronto. The truckers called the Team. sters Union to act for them after |the OPP crackdown and Mr. Lun- ney was sent here to handle nego- tiations for the truckers. The position taken by the Pigott TRUCKERS (Continued on Page 2) TRUCKERS' STRIKE MAY HALT WORKON GM PLANT The group of men lined up in the top photograph are part of about 125 truckers who went out on strike yesterday at 1.30 p.m. Supplying fill and gravel for cement mix to the new GM plant under construction in the southwestern section of the city, the truckers are asking an in- crease in the hauling rate based on tonnage and mileage. Officials of the Piggot Construction Com- pany, with whom the men are dealing say-the walkout is a wildcat strike. Second from the left in the front row of the above photograph is Dave Campbell, of Aurora, a member of the com- mittee in charge of the strike. In the lower picture are shown some of the 100-odd trucks which lined both sides of Park road South in froi¥ of the plant after the walkout yesterday afternoon. Times-Gazette Staff Phote. Force Entry To Dominion Store B. A. McCarl, manager of Do- minion Store, reported a break-in to. police this morning. He said that marauders ad forced the rear door sometime during the night. Then by for:ing two other doors, they gained entrance tc the base- ment and to the storeroom. A hacksaw and bar, thought to be the tools used in the break-in, were found in the Commercial Hotel yard. It was not determined what quantity of goods was missing. AXE FALLS and installed a woman judge place. Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl's cabinet announced Fechner's ouster in his CHEESE CHATS The best way to keep cheese fresh in your refrigerator, ad- vises the Bureau of Dairy In- dustry, is to wrap it in waxed paper and then in metal foil. And the best way to keep from having vacant units is to advertise 'em for rent through Times-Gazette Classi- fied ads, advise Oshawans. Room or apartment, house or store, Want Ads get you ten- ants! Phone 3-2233. Wednesday night as an "enemy of the republic." It was the first shakeup in So- viet zone since the recent East German re- bellion and the remlin's purge of Soviet police boss Lavrenty Beria. "Red" Hilde Benjamin, president of the East German Su- preme Court and a longtime Com- munist, was named to succeed Fechner. Her elevation was a di- rect contradiction of the softer "pew course" recently trumpeted by the German Reds: Word of Fechner's axing came less than 12 hours after Moscow radio announced that the Beria purge had 'knocked off one of his ¢ vice- | led from the Communist party. Presumably he also lost his gov- {ernment position, though this was not stated specifically. The first blow in the anticipated | East German purge did not strike either of the two most-hated Com- | leadership announced munists in the regime, deputy pre- i mier and party secretary general | Walter Ulbricht and State Security | Minister Wilhelm Zaisser. | bricht to go ever since eS vt conpected U0: height in 1952 when for three Fearsome Female Is Named Minister Of Red Justice BERLIN (AP)--East Germany's | top lieutenants in the Soviet repub- only one who ever showed sympa- Red government held its purged [lic of Georgia, Minister of State thy and understanding toward the minister of justice, Max Fechner, [Security Vladimir Dekanozov. The | victims of the system he enforced. on a death-punishable charge today | broadcast said he had been expel- | The 4l-word communique an- {nouncing his ouster did not dis- | close details of the accusations | against him. | Fechner"s successor, 50-year-old | Mrs. Benjamin, has been a fanati- | cal Communist since 1928. The Na- | zis murdered her husband, a Jew- |ish doctor, in a concentration camp. Though also a Jew, she and their son escaped their attentions. Her career reached a fearsome Policeman | months she presided at a series of guihreak of violegce. "show trials" of alleged political |Zaisser's fall has been predicted | 8 |since the disgrace of Beria, com- (and economic criminals. munism's top man in that line. | She condemned two to the guil- Instead the first ax chopped down | lotine, eight others to life impris- Fechner, 60, bald, heavy-jowled, a |onment and handed out sentences former toolmaker, and a former | totalling 190 years to 17 other ac- Socialist who espoused communism | cused. 'In Western courts, their in 1946. Of all the top Communist | crimes at the most would have clique, refugees say he was the |been classed as misdemeanors.