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ot ok OS -- A Daily Average Circulation for July, 1953 2078 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle 80. Weather Forecast Sunny and slightly warmer Wednes- day, low' tonight 55, high tomorrow VOL. 12--No. 192, Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Beportment, Otrowo OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1953 Price Not Over S Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES FIRE GUTS DOWNTOWN BUSINESS DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $10,000 CHILDREN WELL CARED FOR IN SIMCOE HALL PLAY-YARD Every day, in the play-yard be- hind the Simcoe Hall Settlement House on Simcoe Street South, groups of children are finding play and recreation provided for them by staff members and vol- unteer workers. In the top pic- ture are shown John Wilson, Theresa Rosati, Jimmy Wilson and Ilene Malska engaged in construction work with building blocks. The lower picture shows three of the younger children, David White, Doug Wilson and Lynda White finding fun in their play in the sandbox. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Final Count Gives Starr Lead of 1.199 Final check of August 10 federal election results in Ontario Riding was completed by officials at the Returning Officer's office this morning. Because of "gross errorz" made in one or two sub-divisions, the final totals vary considerably to those shown in the preliminary check. The official figures now given are taken from the sheets deposited in the ballot boxes by the DRO's on election night. Winner Michael Starr (P-C) ends up with 12,482 votes, a plurality of 1,199 over John Lay (L) who received 11,283. On election night, Royal Couple Free from Iran Land in Italy Damage estimated to of Mrs. J. Graham, at 25 apartments. Evil-smelling business district after the swept through the premises. ing into an adjoining paint J | SMALL BOYS NUISANCE The Times - Gazette compilation | credited Starr with 12,696 and Lay | with 11,412. The final figure for | Powers (CCF) is 5,524, exactly the same amount as compiled for-him | in the newspaper office on election night. Lloyd Peel (LP) ends up with 393 votes or three more than credited to him on election night. Sanders Free After \ 4 Years In Hungary Jail NICKELSDORF, Austria (AP)-- Edgar Sanders, British business- man jailed by Communist Hungary for nearly four years as a spy, rode across into Austria today a free man at 12:59 p. m. (7:59 a. m. EDT). The Red Hungarian government pardoned the 47-year-old Briton last night and expelled him from the country where he and Amer- ican Robert -Vogeler were sen- tenced in February, 1950, on char- ges of espionage and sabotage. Vogeler was released in April, 1951. Like Vogeler, Sanders came across the frontier to freedom at Nickelsdorf, a little Austrian bor- der station. Russian tanks on man- oeuvres and Austrian farm com- | bines cluttered the narrow road on the Austrian side of tHe frontier. Sanders crossed the frontier in a car of the British legation in Budapest. He looked pale, wore his cus- tomary glasses and a grey suit. Shortly after Sanders ,crossed, the Italian legation car bearing Vincenze Sciotto, an Italian, also reachéd Austria. Sciotto was convicted of espion: age and sentenced to four years in prison in 1951. An Italian foreign ministry spokesman in Rome earlier today declined to comment upon Sciotto. | Spokesman said that publicity on | the case might harm members of | Sciotto's family who are still in Hungary. The spokesman said the ministry had known of 'Sciotto's arrest and that the Italian: goéverninent "had sought repeatedly have him | freed. The spokesman said Sciotto was employed by a Hungarian con- struction company. Sanders did not get out of the car when it stopped at the frontier. Sciotto covered his face with his hand as he sat in the back seat of the Italian car, attempting to avoid photographers. Sanders smiled out of the car and waved in reply to the greet- ings of reporters who shouted: Welcome to Austria." During their trial both Vogeler and Sanders "confessed'" their guilt, and both the British and U.S. governments promptly branded the confessions the result of Communist pressure interrogations. As a result of Sanders' convic- tion, Britain broke off trade rela- tions with Hungary and the United States also took retaliatory meas- ures. Hungary recently has shown in- terest in reopening trade with Brit- ain, and it was presumed the Brit- ish have readied concessions along this line in: exchange for San- ders' release. Following Vogeler's release, the U.S. permitted Hungarian consul- ates to reopen in New York and Cleveland, O., rescinded- a ban against American travelling to the Communist satellite, and agreed to aid in the return of Nazi-looted Hungarian goods in the U.S. zone of Germany. The Hungarian announcement of Sanders' pardon implied the action was based on a clemency petition submitted to President Istvan Dobi earlier this month by the Briton's wife, Winifred. She gave her lettor of appeal to Hungary's ambassador in London, Imre Horvath, just be- fore his return to Budapest on Aug. 11. Shah Reza Pahlevi, of Iran, and his beautiful wife, the Empress Soraya, arrived by air in Rome to- day to join Italy's growing colony of exiled royalty. After years of unfriendly rela- tions with the unpredictable Pre- mier Mossadegh, the Shah and his wife fled from the country over the weekend and took refuge in Iraq. Mr. Mossadegh immediately made a thinly-veiled threat against Iraq. The flight followed an unsuccess- ful attempt by Iran monarchists to wrest control of the government from the premier. No lives were lost as mass arrests preceded the | putting into effect of the plans. In Italy the couple are staying at the Excelsior Hotel where they reserved the royal suite. Fall Fairs Seen As Lifeblood Of Agricultural Industry . Fairs are the lifeblood of the agricultural industry, and there- fore the main basis of Canada's internationally known high stand- ard of farm products, Willaim P. Watson, Livestock Commissi for the province of Ontario told the members of the Oshawa Ro- tary Club at a luncheon in the Genosha Hotel yesterday. In recognition of their efforts in staging; the annual Oshawa Fair to be held this week, members of the executive of the South Agri- cultural Society were seated at the head table as guests. They heard Mr. Watson, one of the outstanding agriculture authorities in Canada, pay tribute to fairs for their at- tempt to inspire farm people to raise a better class of livestock products. "If it weren't for fairs,"" he said, "Canada's products would not have such a high reputation around the world". OVER 250 IN QNTARIO The speaker, who himself took over as manager of The Royal Winter Fair in 1948, noted that there would be 250 fairs in On- are Class A and 29, with Oshawa as the newest member, are Class B fairs. The ones that have not kept pace with the times had fallen by the wayside, Mr. Watson said. Those who had done so had prospered and grown in stature. RECEIVE FEDERAL AID Class A and B fairs were eligible for federal assistance to. improve the grounds and erect new build- ings. Class C fairs received only provincial aid which was based on the amount of prize money paid out. The livestock judges at these fairs have a great responsibility, he explained. The judge must select the ideal of the breed, based on utility more than appearance or beauty. Livestock are not particularly efficient converters, he said. It took a lot of feed to produce meat or milk, One pound of wheat con- tained the same amount of energy as one pound of meat. However, FALL FAIRS (Continued on Page 2) BM Troops Enter Paris As Strike Worsens PARIS (AP)--Premier. Joseph Laniel threw _down the gauntlet before France's strikers today, telling them he would negotiate no more until they went back to work. The Christian (Catholic) work- ers Federation (CFTC) called on its members to continue their walk- out. The Socialist Workers Force (F) said they would talk the matter over. The deadline hour passed this morning without any union move to 'get the strikers back to work. The government brought three companies of tough paratroopers --about' 500 men--into the capital to cope with any violence. But a government source 'denied reports Sat tanks had been rushed to the city. The premier served his ultima- tum in a radio speech Monday night, Demanding that the union workers who have snarled France's communications and transportation for almost two weeks report back to work this morning, he said: "The government has henceforth definitely fixed its line of conduct. There will be no more talks with those who do not return to work Wednesday. "There will be nothing more left but a vast national effort directed toward the necessity of assuring the country's essential services-- no matter what the cost. FIRST SILKWORM FAN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN First person mm the US. to go in for silkworm raising was Benjamin Franklin. He failed. But if you'll go in fer raising dollars through Classified ads in The Times-Gazette you'll succeed, say regular advertis- ers -- and they speak from ex- perience! Use Want Ads often, then, for selling, renting, hiring help. Dial 3-2233. tario this year. Of these, seven Work Stops at Westinghouse HAMILTON (CP)--A work stop- page, involving 1,900 employees of the main plant of the Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, occurred this morning in a protest over the unloading of trucks de- livering production materials and supplies. Mine Talks Broken Off NORANDA, Que. (CP) -- The United Steelworkers of America (CIO-C"L) and Noranda Mines Limited today broke off negotia- tions in a wage dispute involving 1,600 gold miners. The union seeks an across-the- board increase of 30 cents an hour and a shorter work week. A conciliation board report is- sued Aug. 7 favored a wage in- crease. The company nominee. pro- posed a four-cent increase, a union nominee a 22-cent boost 'and the 'board chairman an eight-cent ad- vancer Fight Fire Both Sides Of Village By BERNARD DUFRESNE FORESTVILLE, Que. (CP)--The small village of Ste. Therese de Colombier, already threatened by one forest fire, today faced an added danger from another out- break. Two new fires, which merged about three miles east of Ste. Ther- ese, broke out Monday night, and the tiny lumber town was today battling blazes to its east and west. The new outbreaks raged through three square miles of timber land. About 40 men from the village battled the outbreaks which have threatened 10 settlers' homes in outlying farming strips. The major fire, burning 10 miles north of this St. Lawrence river lumber centre, 200 miles east of Quebec City, was reported about 10 miles from Ste. Therese. Winds in the area died down and no im- mediate danger to the village was foreseen. Cause of the new outbreaks have not been determined. Jeannot Bourgouin, a villager, said: "I cannot say how the fire began but it certainly was not touched off by lightning because there was none. HATCHED IN RED CAMP Daring Escape Pla Meant Stealing J Frank Noel, AP photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner in 1943, came back from amore than 32 months in a Communist prison camp Aug. 9. He tells of the thwarted plan of an American pilot with: -~7hom he escaped to steal a Russian-made MiG-15 and fly it to an American base. By FRANK NOEL As Told To Olen Clements TOKYO (AP)--Four times planned to escape. Once 1 did. It was with ™a pilot, Capt. Zach- ary Dean of Kansas. It hap- pened in August, 1951. I had been a prisoner of the Communists then nearly a year. Dean, a fighter pilot, was shot down in April, 1951. Dean wanted to steal a MiG-15 and fly 'it back to an airfield in South Korea. We planned to swim the Yalu, sneak down around An- tung, Manchuria, lie 'up around the airport a few days, and watch the Chinese security guards. Eventu- ally he planned to snatch a jet and fly it away. 1 I was going to steal a fishing ' £ boat or bribe somebody and get out the best way I could. There were three of us involved in the escape plot. We began to connive, scrape food bowls for leftovers and horded up everything we could lay hands on that we could eat or use for trading or bribery. One stormy night looked like the night. We were ready. The third man had just come down with yellow jaundice and Dean and I decided to go it alone. That is not good. It is best that three men go together just in case of illness, injury orto keep watch while the other two slept. We sneaked out into a corn patch. The rain was beating down. We had all our possessions--Dean's wrist watch, two or three fountain pens, about $10 I had borrowed from Turkish prisoners, a straight razor Dean had stolen from the company barber shop, a Boy Scout knife I had. We got through that corn patch |all right. Then we hit a wood and | tripped over the undergrowth and {1 slid down an embankment that | left my behind bare. I think it was an open grave the Reds had dug. It was black as pitch. We didn't know it, but we had night blindness due to lack of vitamins. Blindly I walked on, fell over a fence and right into a pig sty. Then we swam a half-mile-wide lake. On the other side, probably all night long, we walked. Yet we didn't make over a mile from the camp. We slept all day in some bushes. We travelled only at night, of course. -We almost bumped into two or three guard huts but escaped. Dean began to get sick. His back hurt. There was a swelling in his groin. It was jaundice. Finally we saw a cowshed and crawled in there, Dean felt bad. We had been three days and nights in a torrential rain. We saw a farm compound and decided we'd take a chance. Maybe they wouldn't turn us in. There were about seven families in it. They gave us warm ood, kind- ness, dry tobacco.' Bu. when we started to leave, they grabbed us. 'We fought loose and dived into n et a cornfield and under some climb- ing bean vines. We lay there in the mud for about an hour. They turned about 50 boys between 10 and 12 loose to look for us. They found us and raised hell. Then the 'grown folks bound our arms behind us and bound us to- gether with ropes. They said we had to march back the whole 27 miles we had come from the camp. They never let us loose until we got back .to the camp. Then they threw us in the hole-- Dean. for two months. I got six. Neither of us served the full sentence, but the Communists never let us forget that we still had part 6f our sentence hanging over our heads. Dean served about 32 days in that hole--an abandored, uncleaned latrine. I served about 42 days, b Dean's origially was shorter than mine, in a better hole which was not a latrine. But it stank. One thing I'm pretty proud of. \When those. sentences were pro- nounced, there was applause from the 1,600 men in Camp 5. I was a prize reactionary. Breaking out in the middle of the afternoon, the fire attracted hund- {reds of spectators, who crowded close to the scene and hampered the work of the firemen. Police trying to hold: back the crowd had an almost hopeless task, as small boys slipped through -and crowd- {ed close to.the burning store. The entire two-storey building, which also houses the Holmes real estate office, Gold Medal Cleaners, Gordon's paint shops and five apartments on the second floor, suffered damage from smoke, al- though the flames were confined to Mrs. Graham's dry goods store. W. Soo, owner of the building, placed the damage to it at between $1,500 and $2,000. All of the above premises suffered damage to some extent. SMOKE BILLOWED OUT Mrs. J. Graham, proprietress of Firemen Save Nearby Shop close to $10,000 was done yesterday afternoon when fire gutted the dry-goods store. Bond Street, Oshawa, and threatened the adjoining business premises and upstairs smoke rolled out over the plate glass windows of the store were shattered by the heat of the flames which Prompt and effective work by the Oshawa fire department kept the fire from spread- shop where stacks of highly inflammable materials were stored. the gutted shop, said she had left it to do some shopping and return- ed to lock it up and secure the keys to her car. When she opened the door of the store, a gust of smoke came from it and drove her back from the entrance. The fire alarm was turned in by Mrs. J. Gordon, who lives in one of the upstairs apartments. She smalled smoke, and noting that it came from the store, she dialled the telephone operator and asked for the fire department, without stopping to look up the depart- ment's number. The firemen ar- rived promptly at 3.55 p.m., and were on duty at the scene until 5.10 p.m., leaving boarded up a gutted shop with a hole chopped in the roof. ONLY RAGS REMAIN It was reported to The Times IRE F (Continued on Page 2) Appealing for aid fo® his fellow- countrymen 'who have suffered in the recent disastrous earthquake, George Vlassis, director of the of- fice of information of the Royal Greek Embassy at Ottawa, has written the following letter to The Times-Gazette: "Dear Sir: As a result of the destructive earthquakes the cities of Argostolion, Zakynthos (Zante) and Lixourion in the Ionian Is- lands are completely ruined, as well as a great number of villages. Condition of populace as regards food and morale is tragic. Up to today, (August 13) the number of dead is over a thousand and that of the wounded cannot be calculat- ed. The Greek Red Cross, the arm- ed forces, doctors, nurses and all the Greek people offer their as- sistance. The Embassies of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, France, Russia, Holland, Call For Goods To Aid Greeks Brazil*and others have declared their willingness to offer all assist- ance possible. Here is a list of things urgently needed: 1. Large tents (eapacity for more than 10 persons); 2. Cloth- ing, used or new; 3. Blankets; 4. Dressing materials (bandages, gauzes, cotton, adhesive plaster); 5. Antibiotics (penicilline, strepto- micyne); 6. Antitetanic serum; 7. Splints for temporary immobility of fractures; 8. Metallic Iodine; 9. Wood;, 10. Pitch paper; 11. Building material; 12. Assembled houses. We earnestly appeal to you to bring to the attention of the readers of your newspaper the extent of the calamity which has befallen these Ionian Islands and the urgent and dire need, which exists for relief work. Canada and Canadians have never failed Greece in the past. We know they will not fail her in her present need. Very sincerely yo! GEORGE VLASSI Director This potogtaph of an Oshawa citizen was snapped on Simcoe Street South by The Times-Gaz- ette candid camera man, If the person in the picture will call at the office of The Times-Gazette ~~ WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH IS THIS ? and identify himself, he will re- . ceive a free eight by 10-inch print of the photograph. Yester- day's candid camera picture was that of Mrs, William Rorabeck, 202 Hibbert Street. ~TimesGazette, Staff Photo.