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Weather Forecast Fine day but. cool tomorrow. Drop- 12407 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ini, day. Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Fo Ts OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1953 Daily Average Circulation for September, 1953 ~~ as Second-Class_ Mail, EIGHTEEN PAGES VOL. 12--No. 257 Pou Office "Department, -Ottews THE QUEEN ASKS PARLIAMENT TO APPOINT DUKE TO REGENCY | Would Take Over SM To 5 > bin From Princess This Month House of Commons to name her husband, the Duke of Ed- A part of the new south plant of| Manufacturing Manager G. W. inburgh, as regent, should the necessity arise. A message from her to Parliament asked the House GM will come into production sim-| Read has announced the following ultaneously with the first 1954 as supervisors at the new plant to change the regency acts of 1937 and 1943 before she cars, it was stated by the Com-|where they will be in full charge goes on her Commonwealth tour this month, These acts provided that Prin- ¢ cess Margaret, her sister, would|in the event of a regency becom: HOSPITAL RECEIVES $4,000 GIFT FROM KIWANIS CLUB Oshawa General Hospital re- ceived yesterday a gift of $4,000 from the Kiwanis Club Tubercu- losis Prevention and Rehabilita- TB equipment for the new wing of the hospital. This was the bal- ance of funds left from previous | tion Committee to provide special Christmas seal campaigns. Above Ted Johnson is shown handing the cheque to William Holland, business administrator of the hos- pital, with President Morris Reed to the left and fund treas- urer Fred Bartlett in t:e back- ground. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Local Court Hearing First Edible Oils Case First prosecution under a recent amendment to the Ontario Edible Oils Act, proclaimed last June 1 is being heard in Oshawa today be- fore Magistrate F. S. Ebbs. The accused is Geoffrey Schilling, By- ron Street North, Whitby, manag- er of Community Food Products Limited of Whitby, makers of Avon Ice. Mr. Schilling was charged on September 9 by Samuel Black, a government inspector and- is ae- cused of unlawfully selling an ed- ible oil product, other than oleo- margarine . . . manufactured so that the resultant product (Avon Ice) is an imitation of, or resemb- les ice cream. Not represented by. counsel, Mr. Schilling encountered some diffi- culties this morning presenting his case, and although allowe great latitude by the court got into some situations where Crown At- torney Alex Hall was obliged to object. CHARGE 18 'SELLING' The Crown will call three or four witnesses. Mr. Hall opened the case with a statement. He said that the charge is laid under section 2(A) of the Edible Oils Act, an amendment passed at the last session of the Ontario Legis- lature. It states that no person shall manufacture or sell any ed- LOCAL COURT (Continued on Page 2) Rhee Will Fight-- To Unify Korea By GEORGE MCARTHUR SEOUL (AP)--President Syng- man Rhee today reaffirmed his decision to attempt to drive the Communists out of North Korea if a post-armistice political confer- ence fails, to unify his country-- or is not held. The South Korean leader was answering questions submitted to him by The Associated Press weeks ago. In his written answers, he re- affirmed his position and outlined a two-part plan for holdin; elec- tions in all Korea, once the country is unified. Rhee said he doubts if ac; ques- tions can be peacefully settled at a post-armistice peace conference. WELCOME SUPPORT "In the event the political con- ference fails, or is never held, Army Remits Coward's Term LONDON (Reuters)--Pte. Pat- rick Lydon, 25, sentenced to a Jeane imprisonment 'as the only ritish soldier in Korea to be court martialled for cowardice, walked out of his cell a free man Tuesday. Senior army authorities con- firmed his guilt and dishonorable discharge but decided to remit the prison term. At his court martial two weeks ago, Lydon was said to have cringed in fear at the bottom of a foxhole as 6,000 Chinese troops attacked his secot of the Korean front in November, 1951. Since his convictions, the public has been. hotly debating whether he should have been sent to prison. Scores of readers wrote to news- papers on'the issue, most of them sympathizing with the soldier, a volunteer for Korea, whose mental age was said to be 12. FAT FOLKS' FANCY FOOD When plump people tell you they eat like a bird, they prob- ably mean in comparison with what they'd like to put away, say ' dietitians. Could the average hefty doesn't realize himself how much food he or she actually: consumes, the ex- perts suspect. But"if your problem is feed- ing an undernourished bank- balance, the diet for you is a Classified ad in The Times- Gazette. Through a For Sale add you quickly turn dead-weight-items into lively, snappy dollars bills. So gather the stuff up, and phone 3-2233 for an ad-writer. the Republic of Korea must act to unify Korea and drive from our soil the Chinese who now are settling in the north with the idea of eventually seizing the whole countr~, "In this action we would wel- come the support of the United States and the United Nations, but we do not ask. them t stay, against their wish, solely for the sake of Korea. If they do not feel now, as they did at the beginning of the war, that the fight for Korea is a fight for themselves, then we do not urge them to do any more fighting in Korea." Steel Profits Jump 100 P.C. NEW YORK (AP)--The Amer- ican steel industry's earnings for the first nine months of this year were 86 per cent higher than dur- ing the first nine months of 1952, Iron Age, national metal--orking weekly, said today. Third-quarter steel earnings were up 100 ver cent over the same period a year ago, the magazine said in a compilation of finarcial reports of 21 companies which ac- count for nine-tenths of the United States industry's ingot capacity. All-time records in production, sales and shipments this year made the higher profits p .sible. In 1952 the industry was handi- capped by a 54-day strike during June and July. OPP Constable Loses His Gun COBOURG (CP) -- Provincial Constable Ralph Tremill had to report for duty unarmed. Just be fore going on duty the other day he found someone had stolen his police revolver and 'a small sum of money from his home. Fire Destroys Quebec Hotel MONTREAL (CP)--Fire early today completely destroyed the Plaza Hotel in Chateauguay Basin, about 15 miles southwest of here, causing an estimated $150,000 dam- age. No one was reported injured. The flames which rapidly swept through the three-storey wooden structure threatened other build- ings for a time. - Cause of the fire was not im- mediately known, WORST THEY HAVE SEEN Following + visit to the Ontario | County Goal yesterday, the Ontario County Council has been invited to- meet the Legislature's Select Committee on Reform Institutions. The meeting, which is scheduled to take place at Queen's Park, was decided upon after the officials had studied a proposal made earlier this year by the county that some provision be made for the incar- ceration of wayward women who have committed no serious offence. The special committee, before meeting county officials, made an inspection tour of the county jail and agreed that accommodation provided in Whitby was the worst they had seen in any jail which they have inspected. The committee inspecting the Ontario County Gaol was made up Drunk Nearly Rammed Police '""He was thoroughly plastered-- as drunk as any man I've ever seen," testified Constable D. Wobds this morning when Milton Brown, 53, of North Oshawa, appeared in police court charged with drunk driving. Detective A. W. Alexander said the same thing, and added: "I have known this accused for a long time." "No doubt they both go to the same church," quipped Crown At- torney Alex Hall. Brown's record included a variety of offences over a long period of years. Magistrate F. S. Ebbs sentenced Brown to 10 days in jail. His car will' be impounded three months and license suspended for six months. On a second charge of |having liquor illegally (laid some weeks after the drunk driving charge), Brown was fined $50 and costs or one month, consecutive. As to the first charge, Constable Woods said he was attending at the scene of an accident on Simcoe North on the night of September 26 when Brown came along, nearly striking the officers. He was quite drunk. \ Brown's defence was that he had taken an excess of pills to kill the pain of his arthritis and they made him 'dopey'. He said he only had five or six beers. Whitby's Jail Branded "Mediaeval" By MLAS of chairman William Stewart, Pro- gressive Conservative member for Parkdale; Farquhar Oliver, Liberal leader; CCF house leader Grum- mett; Rev. W. Downer, PC mem- ber for Dufferin-Simcoe; James Dempsey, PC member for Renfrew South, and T. D, Thomas, not a member of "the~select committee bu: the local member in the legisla- ture, They made their inspection of Ontario County's 100-year-old jail during the foremoon and later met County Clerk William Man- ning and County Solicitor T. M. Moore when they discussed reso- lution sent to the department by Ontario County Council earlier this year. UNUSUAL PROBLEM During the discussion of the re- solution, and as an explantion, sel- ect committee members were told that the County of Ontario; in the past few years had encountered a woman of a normal intelligence who had become something mere than a problem. They were told that she had not been married and had brought six children into the world. On the first two occas- ions, they were told, the Salva- tion Army had looked after her in her time of difficulty and the offspring had been adopted. Fol- pany today. The changeover pro- gram is being expedited and al- though the first phase of this pro- gram is the resumption of truck assembly in the North Plant no later than next Tuesday morning, the passenger car program will not be long in following suit. The chassis line in the new south plant where Buick, Oldsmo- bile and Pontiac Chieftain will be assembled will start up before the end of this month. Work in the |! new south body department will, of course, get into action imme- diately following. About 1,100 productive and non- productive workers who formerly worked in the north or west plants will be engaged in. their regular activities in the new location by the time the model-year gets into full swing. The body work at the new plant will be on a two-shift basis and the chassis work will Ss under under superintendents J. D. Elliott and H. Coggins: standar fic and sors assigned to the new plant will be directly under their central departments. 'general general their their respective respective Fred Gilmore will be assistant superintendent of the chassis oper- ation. D. W. Rowden and W. J. Richardson will be general fore- ment of paint, trim and hardware operations. R. G. Joyce will be general fore- men of body-in-white. The Inspec- w. Jackson and ion Department will have a num- ber of foremen on body and chas- is in the new plant and Main- tenance will have-. Wonnacott as general foreman. In material han- dling, D. A. Jackson will be gen- eral foreman. In the departments of tooling, s, production control, traf- irchasing, the supervi- Movement of mate automatically be regent if the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, be- came king before he was 18. QUEEN'S REQUEST The Queen's message, read by the Speaker said: "The uncertainty of human life leads me to put you in mind of the possibility that a child of myself and my dear husband may accede to the throne whilst under the age of 18 years and I would recom- mend to your consideration whether it be not expedient to pro- vide that, in that event and also from the new plant will be sim- plified by the use of several large vans with five-ton capacity and bodies 30 feet in length. These will transport, securely and eco- nomically, components which will continue to be made in the north and west plants; for instance wir- ing harnes, plating, radiators, rods and tubing and trim sets. ing necessary during my lifetime while there is no grandchild of ours who can be the regent, my husband should be the regent and be charged with the guardianship of the person of the sovereign. "I would also reccomend that oy should take into consideration he expediency of amending the law so that the heir apparent or heir presumptive to the throne should be capable of being regent if he or she has attained the age of 18 years." The Queen also asked that steps be taken to permit her mother, Queen Elizabth, to sit on a counc or staff which will preside in her absence from the country. Home Secretary Sir David Max well Fyfe announced to the House in ringing tones: "A message from Her Maesty the Queen, signed by Her Maesty's own hand." He then REGENCY (Continued on Page 2) be on a one-shift basis. lowing this, they were advised, the | salvation Army had given up hope of re-establishing the woman and she had been later charged under the Children's Protection Act dnd following this under the Female Refuges Act. s This latter act provides for the incarceration of "females who, through drunkenness or other vices, lead idle or dissolute lives. In recent years, she had given birth to four more children who had become the responsibility of the County of Ontario and were costing the county about $2,500 an- nually for their upkeep until they reached the age of 16 years. NO PROTESTANT HOME Members of the committee were advised that there was no other place for her protective custody other than in the Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Women where she hardened criminals although she herself could hardly be termed a criminal. There are homes for such women provided by the Roman Catholic Church, the committee were told, but no such home for Protestant women and inasmuch would be confined with possibly | | PRINC oS ee SS MARGARET DUKE OF EDINBURGH as it is believed that there are at JAIL (Continued on Page 2) EDC Out PARIS (AP)--The Soviet Union has told the Western powers in its latest note that creation of the | proposed European Defence Com- munity and a separate peace treaty between the Bonn government and the West would make re-establish- ment of a united Germany im- possible. French foreign ministry sources reported today that this Russian declaration its note, delivered in Moscow Tuesday, was followed by a statement that the EDC also would make any Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Germany, such as the Western powers are demanding, a pointless one. It said the United States, Britain and France would come into such Red Attacks On In Open meeting having already concluded separate agreements with the Ad- enauer government "to drag West- ern Germany into the North At- lantic bloc and create an army of revenge in Western Germany,' the sources reported. Communist parties in Western Europe already are campaigning vigorously to prevent ratification of the EDC treaties by parliaments of the six participating countries --West Germany, France, Italy, 1 r embourg. 1 But the Soviet note was one of the strongest statements that the Russians have made against the creation of a European army, according to the French sources. S DEMOCRATS WIN ELECTIONS NEW YORK (AP) -- Democrats jubilantly hailed results of Tues- day's scattered state and local elec- tions throughout the United States as pointing to further gains next year. and the Republican high cam- mand conceded we are in trouble." But, confident things will be different in 1954, when control of Congress is at stake. His Democratic coun- terpart, Stephen A, Mitchell, claimed his party is "on the march from north, south, east and west." Both noted the locdl character of the Tuesday elections. In many cases there were state and local issues which cannot be expected to carry major weight next year. But Mitchell pointed to a White House statement stamping Presi- dent Eisenhower's endorsement on all Republican candidates, where- ever they were running, and said + 4 said Republican national | chairman Leonard W. Hall, he is| Republicans Admit They Face Trouble that gave the results added signif- icance. FEW SURPRISES Actually, Tuesday's balloting pro- duced few real surprises. Chief among these were two Democratic victories in New Jersey. Robert B. Meyner won the governorship, first Democrat to do so in 10 years. Har- Pressional seat held by the Repub- icans since it was formed in 1932. In .New York City, Democrat Robert F. Wagner, Jr., rolled up the highest plurality since 1945 to win the mayoralty. He defeated a Republican, a Liberal and one other candidate. Wagner is the son of the late Sen- ator who wrote the Wagner Act, labor relations law of the early Roosevelt administration. In Virginia, which Eisenhower carried last year, the Democrats retained the state house in the face of the most determined campaign by the Republicans since 1929. There, at least, the two - party rison A. Williams captured the con- | price half reported half-point monthly \ places living costs at the bighest level in 16 months. (CP)--The consumer index jumped by another point during September to 16.7 from 116.2 as living costs ose for the fifth month in a row. The bureau of statistics today the second consecutive rise, which The yardstick, based on 1949 prices equalling 100, now is just 1.5 point. below the record high of 118.2 reached in December, 1951. In the United States a new high was reached in September when Belgium, the Netherlands and Lux- |the American yardstick, based on 947-49 prices equalling 100, rose to 115.2 per cent of the 1947-49 average. It was the seventh con- ecutive monthly rise. FOOD, RENT RISE Higher food prices along with other price jumps for rent, house- system in state and local affairs appears to be some distance in the future. Thomas B. Stanley was elected Virginia governor with the backing of the powerful Democratic organ- ization headed by Senator Harry F. Byrd. Republican Ted Dalton was the Republican loser. Out-of-Town Group Aids Red Feather An out-of-town contribution to the Community Chest which gave great pleasure to President Murray P. Johnston was a cheque for $25 from the Brooklir Women's Institute, received this morning. This may act as an incentive to other rural groups to lend a helping hand in sending the Chest fund over its objec- tive. Both the federal Senate and House of Representatives now are | almost evenly divided. All 435 | House seats and a third of the Sen- ate's 96 will be filled next year. Hall undoubtedly had this in mind when he commented: "There is no question about it --as of today we are in trouble politically. . . ." In New York Wagner succeeds Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri Jan. 1 in the $40,000-a-year mayoralty --second biggest political job in the .U. S. Impellitteri tried to run as an in- dependent but a court ruled his nominating petition hadn't enough valid signatures. The observatory, ing the area involved, said it was of such violence that it must have been registered by seismographic instruments throughout the world. Machine Tells Of Big Quake FAENZA, Italy (AP) The Bendani observatory here recorded early today an earthquake which it described as being of "catas- trqphic proportions." Multiple shocks were registered. without indicat- ' hold operations and health care sparked Canada's September in- dex rise. Clothing prices ease slightly. The food column rose to the highest in more than a year, in- creasing by 1.5 points to 115.5 from 114 as prices rose for lettuce, fresh tomatoes, bacon, pork chops, but- ter, lard, er3s, shortening, or- Consumer Price Index Soars To 16-Month High OTTAWA | anges, grapefruit and canned fruit. These offset declines for beef, lamb, veal, chicken, potatoes, canned tomatoes, cabbage, onions and turnips. SHELTER INDEX AT PEAK The shelter index rose to a new high of 124.5 from 124.2 as rents PRICE INDEX (Continued on Page 2) WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH IS THIS? The man above was recently snapped by The Times-Gazette candid camera man. He can secure an 8 by 10 inch print of the above photograph by calling at the office of The Times-Gaz ette and identifying himself. Tirnes-Gazette Staff Photo. \ 3