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i y Average Circulation June, 1953 12,301 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Cloudy with showers and cooler 'weather Sunday. Low 65, high tor morrow 76. ~ VOL. 12--No. 179 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1953 Price Not Over $ Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES IT'S EMPTY 'Hushed City On Vacation Police, bus drivers and motor- ists themselves all agreed that this weekend sees the year's heaviest traffic on Ontario highways and partielasly in the Hamilton - To- - Oshawa, A108 i TL ie early Friday, was . obvious that' Civic Holiday week- ' end was to be a record. Not only do many persons have a three - _. day long weekend but thousands *" of others are on vacation. TRAFFIC TERRIFIC "The traffic is heavy but it's just starting," OPP Sergeant Hefferon said this morning. "We will have all our men on duty Monday evening when it is expected to be really bad. I hope vers take their time and there will be no trouble." . Highway 401 was crowded with vehicles late last night and early this morning. Most could be easily identified * as holiday - makers. Conversely, the City of Oshawa, took on a hushed aspect as some 15,000 workers and their families began their holidays. BUSY BUSES At the city 1 depot this morn- ing one driver summed up the sit- uation: "Whew" . Up to press time today, only one highway accident in tthe dis- trict was reported in which persons were injured. | Tomorrow and Monday are ex- pected to be relatively quiet, al- though there will be considerable traffic of American tourists. But Monday night, with thousands re- turning from resorts, will see roads again jammed. Because of the warnings which have been issued and the congest- ed condition of the roads, past ex- perience shows that serious acci- dents are not so likely to be record- ed at such a time, in spite of the dense flow of traffic. 2 Planes Go Down C WASHINGTON (AP)--U. S. offic- jals today drafted a rejection of Russias protest that American pil- shot down a Soviet plane--and pondered the curious timing of the ussian communication. American fighter planes downed the Soviet craft Monday in the dy! hours of the Korean war. The United States says it was over Korea. Russians say it was over Red China. But the Russians waited four days before protesting. Meantime, Wednesday their MiG- 15 fighters had attacked and de- stroyed a U. S. B-50 bomber off Siberia. They charged this aircraft violated Soviet territory. The U.S. denied this, protested "in the strongest terms' and demanded a report on some survivors said to have been picked up by the Rus- sians. U. S. officials wondered, consid- ering the ceaseless contest between East and Sest for propaganda ad- rges Fly Up vantages, why the Russians had delayed and then protested. Were they attempting a .bold cover-up for their own action? Two senators complained bitterly that the United States had been outfoxed. Senator Ralph Flanders (Rep. Vt.), a member of the armed ser- vices committee, said that letting the USSR tell the world first about the B-50 incident in the Sea of Japan was "just another case of stupidity at the Pentagon or the state department, or both." Senator Albert Sparkman (Dem. Ala.), a member of the Senate for- eign relations committee, said: "I think it's a mistake to let the Rus- sians and Communists get the jump on us so many times. It puts us continually in the position of answering Communist propaganda when we could be out first with the real facts." Crown Jewels From German HECHINGEN, Germany (CP)-- ational police hunt was . ody. So a 'gang who stole the crown jew- of Frederick the Great from the ern Castle museum one the Lk pe of the historic jewels is placed at 5. 000, collectors estimate their value #0 be at least $7,000,000. All German frontier checkpoints and airtislds were lerted and all 'people leaving Tmany were carefully searched. Stolen Castle Police believe the burglars cli- mbed over the castle wall during cut the iron grate of a museum window and smashed the panel. Inside the useum they -sashed Inside the museum they smashed four show cases containing the crown jewels. Amember of the Hohenzollern family said the jewels were not insured. Police said only the crown of the German emperors remained untouched. BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY BARRIE (CP) -- Thousands of wisitors poured into this Lake Sim- coe town Friday night in prepara- tion for today's opening of a gala eentennial celebration. Highlights i. She 1 week-long affair will include band festival, fireworks, a re- gata, a field day, a soapbox derby, exhibits, square dance and CHEAP UPKEEP SALISBURY, N. H. -- Select- man Aram Guliman figures it costs him about $23 a year to keep his 1923 Ford running. He bought it new for $680. fiddling contests, a beard-growing contest, parades and mass picnics. the night and with 'special tools] Two young girls had the thrill of their young lives Testoraay. when 'they met Canada's minister at Oshawa i sta- tion. Mr. St. Laurent made a N stop call and was pre- hile to leave Shen a pretty per Foam irt Tay out of the crowd ng 'a og of chocolates for og - eat on the train. .She stayed around just long enough to have her picture | taken ken 2nd. then then vanished in maining Ry a: he Srowd sling. er, 'At the right is Zenna Dyzike- % | blocks long, | confiscations, MILLION FOOD PARCELS ATTRACT REBEL SWARMS Germans Defy Commie Orders BERLIN (AP) -- Defying Communist arrests and new masses of hungry East Germans swarmed into West Berlin today to snatch up free West- day, were the vanguard of a week end invasion of thousands of Rus- sian zone factory workers, using their day off to '"'come and get | Rd They included employees of the huge Leuna synthetic gasoline re- finery and other large state-owned industries. SHOW DEFIANCE Many of these workers had de- fied Communist police and 'Rus- | sian tanks in the great strikes and demonstrations of June 17. Now they again showed their defiance of Communist orders by accepting the Western bounty. By midmorning the crowds arosad the big ah city hall relief station were three city wit | he standees four and six abre; West Berlin tins announ- ced there would be enough food for all who applied. This could mean that parcels would be made available for all the more than : | 18,000,000 inhabitants of the Rus- CANDY AND FLOWERS FOR MR. ST. LAURENT wick, aged 7, of 47 Bloor Street East, who gave the prime minis- ter. & bouquet of flowers. ~--Photo by Dutton - Times Studio. sian zone. STEAL FOOD Hundreds o East Germans had their prized fats, milk and flour Seized Friday by Communist po- ice Most of the confiscations occur- red at Potsdam and other stations at the end of Berlin's suburban es, The Communists en ui confiscated Western food as Soviet aid, West Berlin police oud broadcast a warning for E to find other safer routes home, This , the food stations served only Tesidents of the Rus- sian zone, many of whom rode 8! ern food parcels. Distribution of the U.S.-financed gifts 'was due to pass the 1,000,000 mark during the day. In the crowds, as the gigantic '| give-away rolled through its sixth Strong Coffee BAYREUTH, Gerany (AP)-- The late Heinrich Koll, 61, quaffed breakfast coffee loaded with mer- cury from an old thermometer, a helping of sulphur and a dose of knockout drops. But when he died, medical au- thorities said what carried him off was pneumonia, A German court today sentenced 24-year-old widow Ine Kolb to six years imprisonment for attempted murder. It found her guilty of feed- ie Heinrich the potent breakfast ast. The coffee? It caused Heinrich acute discomfort, doctors said, but that was all. ¢ miles on overcrowded trains and buses. So big was the flood to Berlin that in many places the public tratsport systems became snarled. CRIPPLES QUEUE In the horde were scores of crip- ped and war amputees, many eaning on canes or on the arms of friends. Hundreds stood through a heavy early morning rain to get their gifts. cr gaint he mered away at the November with threats of PA the fox-hunting takers: The first rast Monddy season in Britain. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Russian planes have appeared over the polar perimeter of the North Am- erican- continent and Greenland, where the United States has air bases and other defences, about a dozen times within the last 12 months. Similar scouting expeditions over Japan average about one every 'af two weeks, a well-informed U.S. Air Force source said today. This information was made available in answer to questions arising out of the incident two days ago in which Soviet planes shot down an American B-50 bomber which U.S. officials said was flying 40 miles off the Siberian coast ov the international waters off Japan. The information was received before Russia formally protested that four U.S. fighter planes shot down a Soviet passenger plane with 21 aboard near the Chinese- Korean border last Monday. The exact number of incidents involving forays by Soviet planes in the Arctic, the time, location and circumstances--none of this data may be given. But in only one instance, already reported, were shots fired by American air- men against the Russian aerial re- connaissance parties--when the foreign craft nade a firing pass at the U.S. planes which discov- ered them. The approximate dozen instances " | of Soviet scouting of this continent SUNKEN BUS RAISED © Still holding the bodies of 10 people who were unable to get © out, the Colonial Coach Lines bus which yesterday plunged into the + Williamsburg Canal is seen be- ing hauled out. The bus was <3 dowed directly to a funeral par- lor with its human remains still aboard. Driven by Lorne Chese- brough, of Kingston, and former- ly of Oshawa, the bus was roll- | ing towards Montreal from To- ronto when at 4.05 a.m. yester- | day it smashed into a stalled truck on Highway 2 and dived down' an embankment into the canal. It landed in 20 feet of water. The death toll was 20. Seventeen people escaped but Mr. Chesebrough is still in hos- pital at Cornwall in a state of shock. and Greenland are only for the last year. Others are suspected to have occurred before that. Only two such incidents during the last 12 months have been made : | public. Last November, two F84 jet fight- ers, on patrol at 16,000 feet over Russians Coming Over North Pole In Planes eastern Hokkaido, Japan, encount- ered an LAll--a Soviet - made, propeller-driven fighter -- bearing Russian markings. The U. S. Air Force planes closed in and flew alongside the Russian aircraft until it crossed the international bound- ary and headed for home. Last Feb. 17, two Russian planes of the same type were discovered by U. 8. Air Force interceptors above eastern Hokkaido. The Sov- iet planes made a firing pass. The two F84s returned the fire, with one of them hitting and apparently damaging one of the LAlls. Nei- ther American plane was hit. The February incident was at least three miles inside the international boundary separating Japan from the Russian-held Kurile Islands, where the Red Air Force report- edly maintains big bases for fight- ers and long range bombers. This contrasts with the Russian attack two days ago on the B-50 which the U. S. contends was 40 miles beyond Soviet territory and far out over international water. In the spring of 1952 vapor trails were sighted above the Aleutian Island chain which extends out- ward from the Alaskan mainland. There was no actual sighting of Russian aircraft nor radar pickup. But it caused an alert of U. S. air defences throughout Alaska and the northern United States. Storm Smashes Edmonton Area EDMONTON (CP)--"Sunny Al- berta," beset by floods in the south in June, now is redling from record rains in the north. The downpour, which at times 'State Funeral Fo or Taft { WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congres- sional leaders arranged today for @a state funeral for Senator Robert A. Taft, prcbably on Monday, with 'gletails to be announced later. Jack Martin, administrative as- 'sistant to the late Senate leader, said Mrs. Taft and the family had consented to the state funeral and "that burial would be at Cincin- nati, Taft's 'home town. Taft's death Friday, from cac- r, contipued to evoke expres- Fons of grief and praise, 7 By Canadian Press Staff Writer A "dishonest" campaign letter, those Petawawa horses, motor-car taxes and co-ops figured in the federal election campaign Friday. Prime Minister St. La'rent said at Cornwall, Ont., he has no inten- tion of repudiating a Liberal feder- ation campaign letter sent to Cana- dian troops in Korea. He said the letter is neither dishonest nor libellous. George Drew, Progressive Con- servative leader, said the previous night at Sarnia, Ont., that the letter was the "most dishonest" he had ever seen and, demanded that Mr, St. Laurent repudiate it. The letter said the Liberal gov- ernment is frying to make certain troops get a "fair share" of Can- ada's *"'high" living standards, but that the Progressive Conservatives "think the government has' been extravagant in providing such lavishness and luxury for the armed services." It quoted Maj.- Gen. G. R. Pearkes, VC, Progres- sive Conservative military critic, as saying troops might forgo "some amenities" rather than Canada have a lower standard of living. Mr. St. Laurent said he had found on inquiry that Gen. Pearkes had made the statement in Parlia- ment's official report. The prime minister, on another St. Laurent Won't Apologise For "Dishonest" Letter subject, charged Mr. Drew with "misrepresenting and distorting" the facts of the Currie report, which said there was an admin- istration breakdown in the army works services. 'Mr. St. Laurent said there had never been any horses on the pay- roll at Petawawa, but no matter how often he told Mr. Drew this fact *'he keeps on asserting this statement which is not true." He was "getting a little tired" of 'Mr. Drew's charges that De- fence Minister Claxton is negli- gent: "Every one in Parliament-- including Mr. Drew--knows that LETTER --. (Continued on Page 3) reached cloudburst ' proportions, dumped nearly three inches of rain on Edmonton Friday night in: a little more' than four hours. Driven by winds that at times reached 52 miles an hour, the rains flooded basements, stalled automo- biles, cut off light service and dis- rupted communications. The weather office could not say | whether the 3.6 ipches that feil since Thursday night was a rec- ord. Water three feet "deep sloshed around in the basement of the ad- ministration building at the Ed- monton airport, cutting off power to the weather office on the second floor. Lack of power shut off the tele- types and because there were no reports from correspondents, the regular 9 p. m. forecast was not put out. The thunder storm extended as far south as Red Deer, west to Jasper and north to Whitecourt, 120 miles northwest of Edmonton. The storm was moving slowly east agd south and the weather office said indications were most of Al- berta and northwestern Saskatche- wan would 'have rain today. Celebrating 10st. Birthday By Dining Out Oshawa's grand old lady, Mrs. A. M. Farewell, King Street East, will celebrate her 101st birthday tomorrow at a dinner party at the home of her cousin, Mrs. T. H. Everson. Extremely active despite her advanced year Mrs, Farewell still does her housework including a little sew- ing and ironing and is well up in current affairs by her daily reading of the Times-Gazette, Her one joy in life and ap- parent incentive for living is her little friend ten year old Alice Mash, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ~Hugh Mash who share her home. Mrs. Farewell was born near Orono on April 2, 1852. The home in which she was born was built by her grandfather in 1837 on concession 12, Clarke Township, and has lived in her present neighborhood since 1881. NO PAPER MONDAY As Monday, August 3, has been proclaimed as a civic holi- day no issue of The Daily Times-Gazette will be publish- ed. All the news of the holiday weekend will appear in Tues- day's issue. é 101 TOMORROW hd All Allied PoW's Free In 32 Days MUNSAN (AP)--The Commun- ists today informed the Allies they plan toh nang over 400 Allied cap- ves y beginning 10 a. m. Wed- nesday (8 p. m. EDT Tuesday). The Reds said the Allied PoWs in each hour for four e : The Red Chinese Peiping radio said earlier the first Allied pris- oners released would be 'non- Korean™ sick and yrounded, includ- 1/ing Americans and Bri The UN captives "are ot to : start moving" down toward Pan- munjom, the Communists said. The Wednesday starting date had | been announced several days | but this was the first a: of how many would be Halkied over what time of day the ad will begin. Red correspondent Wilfred Bury el Me ci, em i ents out- Side the" conference ut he be- eves sic wounded will make up the bulk sonora exchange. The Reds have said they hold about 500 disabled | pris- oners. The Communists said they held 12,763 Allied , incl 14 Canadians. Allies are ing back about 74,000 Reds. # Private C. W. White (left) of 423 Simcoe Street South, Osh- awa and Corporal Beb Maginn, | of St. Thomas, with the 3rd Bat- talion, Princess Patricia's Cana- dian Light Infantry in Korea, DISCUSSING THE TRUCE IN KOREA discuss the truce as they Ie pare to tear down their bunk ers. National Defence Photo.