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Daily Bverage Circuladion for November, 1953 125838 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle colder Weather Forecast Real taste of winter on way. Much Wednesday, cloudy. High Wednesday 10, low 5. VOL. 12--No. 303 os Second-Closs Moll, wthorized Ah tfas "Deportment, Ottaw 'OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1953 Price Not Over 3 Cents ot Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES FLEES ROUGH WEATHER, BURNS Oshawa firemen are shown here clearing out the smoulder- ing remains after flames from an exploding ofl stove caused $5,000 damage to a cabin cruiser docked in Oshawa Harbor this $5.000 Blaze Sweeps Boat " Flames from an exploding oil i stove reduced the hull of a 30-foot eabin cruiser docked in Oshawa Harbor to a charred skeleton this morning, causing a total damage of close to $5,000. The craft, owned by the Simp-| 'son_Marine Construction Company OF Pracea from Whitby Harbor to e from itby Harbor Be vile and put in to the local harbor to sit out the rough weath- or. No one was on the boat at the time the fire started. The two Simp- son employees in charge of the craft, were on board a sister tug, which had been towing a second landing barge and was also dock- ed at the Tr. From the nature and location of the fire it was assumed that the cause was the explosion of the oil stove in the bow. A call was made to the Oshawa Fire Department and an immedi- ate attempt to quell the fire with chemical extinguishers was made by the crew members. Firemen succeeded in confining the blaze to the forward part of the boat t they could not prevent the con- erable damage. In addition to the destruction of boat, the two crewmen lost all ir clothing and belongings stor- in the cabin. : + _ Just prior to the fire the two + men had finished painting the floor of the craft. They had gone to the other boat while the paint dried. « If the damaged boat proves to be + at all seaworthy it will be towed ck to Brockville, Otherwise it will be loaded on the landing barge and the other tug will tow both barges back home. Pickering Man B.C. Publisher morning. The craft, owned by Simpson Marine Construction Company, Brockville, was towing * a landing barge home from Whitby and stopped at the local dock to sit out the rough weath- er. The two crew members lost 3 IN HARBOR all their clothing and possessions stored in the forward section sof | the boat. The object being tossed out, in the foreground on the ex- treme left, is a damaged mantel radio. | choicer lots near the ravine, ers. Sale price in each case was About eight firms entered bids. The successful applicants were: T. A. Wilson Lumber Company of Cannington 'and All-wood Construc- tion of Toronto, 28 lots each; Jack- son Construction; Ridgley Con- struction and McCullough Construc- tion of Oshawa. Wilson and wood had placed offers on the lots early last Spring. : TWO SUBDIVISIONS The City of Oshawa opened Southmead in two subdivisions, not certain at first how building would develop in that extreme south sec- tion of the city. Last year, the 100 Southmead Lots Sold To Five Firms One hundred building lots in Southmead were sold by Oshawa City Council yesterday to five building firms who plan to begin operations in the spring. Thirty-seven other were reserved (according to policy of council established last week) for private build- first subdivision was snapped up by twq local contractors and is now almost fully built up. Although it is now the policy of council to allow private individuals to purchase city-owned lots as men- tioned above, some members stat- ed that in view of the impossibility for individuals to obtain NHA loans it might hold up development of an entire district if too many lots were reserved for private sale. At a brief council meeting at five o'clock yesterday two routine -laws were put through to con- ude the business of the year. Joe Domacola, 45 years, a Polish immigrant, was instantly killed when struck by a transport on Highway No. 2, in the easterly sec- tion of Newcastle, shortly after midnight last night. Domacola, who was a prisoner held by the German army during | World War II, was walking east toward the Rainbow Cabins where he was employed. He was struck by a westbound tractor-trailer out. 1fit. The driver of the transport swerved in an attempt to miss him Truck Kills Pedestrian On Highway At Newcastle with the result that the vehicle jack-knifed and hit a hydro pole on the south side of the highway. The load of fibre board on the truck shifted and compeltely cov- ered the cab which was jambed against the pole. A woman driver, who was unidentified other than that she lives at Goderich, pulled bales of the lead aside and crawled to the cab where the driver was trapped. She smashed the wind- shield and pulled the stunned driver to safety. Hamilton Sets "| Building Record | HAMILTON (CP) -- Hamilton's {1953 building total of $31,853,005 will exceed the record set two years ago by more than $6,150,000, Fred J. Veale, city building com- missioner, announced today. He believed the release of steel for such projects as office build- GERALD M. BROWN VANCOUVER (CP -- Appoint- ment of Gerald M. Brown of Pick- ering, Ont., as publisher and vice- resident of the Vancouver News- erald was announced today by Roy H. Thomson, the proprietor. Mr. Brown succeeds Ray A. Bar- ford, who is transferring to the Thomson 'newspapers' overseas di- vision. . At the same time Mr. Thomson announced the appointment of B. J. Wood of Vancouver as Jeveral manager of The News-Herald, only morning paper in Vancouver. Mr. Wood has been assistant publisher. | Mr. Brown, former city editor | of The Toronto Star and The Windsor Star, has been chairman of judges in the spot news section of the National Newspaper Awards since their inauguration four years ago. wing the Second World War, Mi. Brown was for more than two yeas director of public relations for the RCAF. Since the war, he has mana ged an advertising agency and, for the last six years, headed his own public relations ccm any. EDMONTON (CP) -- Albelig's 1953 polio toll stood at an uh- official. 109 deaths today. Confir- mation by the department of an- otaer four cases shot the case total to a record 1,394. ings, bowling alleys, theatres and other commercial ventures played a part in the high mark this year. Mr. Veale said that December has exceeded the same month in 1952 by nearly $2,000,000, and he sees no reason for an abatement of building in Hamilton in the nex | year. a Senate Lists Seaway High NEW YORK (CP) -- The New York Times says today that the St. Lawrence seaway project likely will be the first order of Senate business in the next sessions of the United States Congress opening Jan. 6. In a dispatch from Was n by Claytown Knowles, the paper quoted *'a high Republican source' as saying that the bill to authorize the U. S. to join Canada in the project will be brought in early because of its long-controversial LATE NEWS FLASE nature. ES today in Rotorua in the BOY SCOUTS OVERDUE TREMORS ROCK ISLAND AUCKLAND (AP)--Nine earth tremors were felt centre of the New Zealand's North Island. Townspeople were awakened by the noise but no damage was reported. CALGARY (CP)--Five Calgary Boy Scouts ahd two scoutmasters were reported overdue Monday night in wild, mountainous country near Lake Kananaskis,, about 75 miles west of here. The group carries en- ough food for another three days. LONDON FIREMEN WIN PAY INCREASE LONDON, Ont. (CP)--Increases of $280 per year across the board, plus some other pay adjustments, were awarded city firemen today by. an arbitration board. Firemen had asked a $450 increase. APPOINT CONSUL AND TRADE COMMISSIONER OTTAWA (CP)--Arthur Evan Bryan, 61, of Ottawa and Winona, Ont., has been named consul and trade commissioner in Detroit, the trade department an- nounced here this morning. BORROW $1,000,000 FOR POWER PROJECT ITHACA, N.Y. (AP)--The New York state power au- thority has borrowed $1,000,000 from five New York City banks to finance initial stages of the $600,000; 000 St. Lawrence River power development. AJAX (Times-Gazette Staff Re- porter) -- Ajax and surrounding district received a welcome New Year's gift today in the announce- ment by Slough Estates (Canada) Limited that all three of the new industrial buildings recently under construction have been leased to new industries, The first two larger buildings have been occupied for some time by major industries. Three new buildings of 11,724 square foot area were started in July, 1958, and are now almost completed. Building Number 3 will be oc- cupied early in January by Glenn S. Woolley and Company Limited, manufacturers of compression moulded plastics, including bake- lite. The complete line includes plastic dinner ware which has been widely accepted as ideal for use where lightweight and freedom from excessive breakage is requir- ed. This company operates several smaller manufacturing units else- where, and it is their intention to gradually consolidate their produc- tion facilities in Ajax. While this first building will be rented, it is revealed that this company has purchased industrial land in Ajax and it is a reasonable supposition that the present announcement may be the forerunner of further news of building operations on company-owned property. ELECTRICAL PARTS Building Number 4 will be occu- pied at once by a firm which will manufacture component parts for the electrical trade, a company which will be a joint effort by old established electrical firms oper- tmp in the United Kingdom and in the Montreal area Canada. While expected employment figures have not been released, it is un- derstood that requirements for fe- male workers will be substantial, Jane Boycotts Film Premiere ST. LOUIS (AP)--Jane Russell cancelled a scheduled personal ap- pearance but St. Louis police re- served some seats for the premiere today of the controversial movie "The French Line." The film was released by How- ard Hughes' RKO studio in defiance of the film industry's self-cepsor- ing Breen office, n calling off plans to come here for the premiere of the movie in which she is featured, Miss Rus- sell said she agreed with the Breen office and that she doesn't want to be associated' with any movie denied a seal of approval, Roman Catholics of the St. Louis archdiocese have been advised to boyeott the film. Chief of police Jeremiah O'Con- nell said the police morality squad would be on hand for the movie, said to have been rejected by the Breen office because of a costume worn by Miss Russell and a dance sequence by her. 4 3NewIndustries ToOpenIn Ajax Building Number 5 will be taken over about January 15 by a firm yet to be specifically named. It is own however, that the company is allied to the television industry now assuming large Zroportions in the industrial life of Ontario. As in the case of -the other two indus- tries, no estimate has been releas- ed regarding probable employment figures. . The announcement made today is indicative®f the mounting inter- est in Ajax as an ideal industrial centre. It is also proof of the eco- nomic soundness of the provision of rental industrial space by Slqugh Estates. A total of almost 100,000 square feet constructed and fully occupied augurs well for the future of this enterprising British company and it | is probable that construction of fur- ther buildings will be announced shortly. Indian Report Brings Blast PANMUNJOM (AP) South Korea's foreign minister today as- sailed India for backing a report blaming South Korea for sabotag- ing the explanations to balky war prisoners. "We are not surprised," Foreign Minister Pyun Yung Tai said, '"'be- cause we know India will side with the Communists on all-important issues." Pyun's attack was the opening blow of an expected South Korean thunderclap against India's neu- trality in the touchy prisoner sit- uation. India, chairman power of the five-country repatriation Commis- sion sided with-Poland and Czech- oslovakia in a majority report that | accused South Korea of controlling { compouhds housing more than 22,- | 000 anti-Communist North Korean | and Chinese war prisoners. | Only a small number of the anti. | Red prisoners ever met Commun- | ist persuasion teams in the 90-day | explanation period. Those that did | rejected return to their homelands | by an overwhelming majority. | A minority report by Sweden and Switzerland blamed Communist ex- planation teams for dragging out the interviews sometimes as long | as five hours. | Gauges Smashed Rboard Carrier DEVONPORT, England (AP -- Forty-one engine-room gauges have been smashed on the 18,000- ton aircraft carrier Warrior, Royal Naval headquarters reported here Monday night. | A spokesman said New Year's! leave has been suspended for 80! engine-room sailors while an in- | vestigation is carried out. By IAM BARNARD SEOUL (AP)--President Syng- man Rhee today called on the Al- lies to halt "futile discussions with the Communists" and join South Korea in "the last great battle to annihilate the Red forces that seek destruction of the Free World." The fiery Korean Dah, in a Quit "Futile" Discussions, Renew War, Rhee Urges U.N. | sacrifices shall not have been in vain, we call upon them to con- clude futile discussions with the | Communists, and to rise with us in | courage and valor for the last great battle to annihilate the Red | forces that seek the destruction | of the Free World. . . ." wed Premier Soumannah Phouma of Laos cabled a protest to the United Nations after Communist- led Vietminh rebels sliced his country in two, but yesterday the insurgents began what appeared to be a withdrawal into the jungles. French aircraft pounded the rebels in what appeared to be a fore-runner to a ground counter attack. Reds Move Into Jungle SAIGON (CP)>--The Communist- led Vietminh rebels, who late last week cut Indo-China in two in a Christmas-time offensive, appear today to be drawing back into the jungles to ambush any French counter-attack. Reports from the Thailand cap- pital of Bangkok said the Vietminh troops withdrew Sunday from the Laotian town of Thakhek, near the Thai border, leaving only a small guard in the smouldering ruins of | the town. The French earlier | evacuated Thakhek before the Red troops reached it in their drive across the peninsula. French planes pounded the in- vaders Monday in what appeared to be the prelude to a ground coun- ter-attack, Ground forces were re- ported ' massing south of Thakhek. Thailand also has beén reported massing troops along its border with Indo-China in the face of the Communist threat. Bangkok re- ports said the Thai cabinet met $475 SALARY BOOST GIVEN GITY POLIGE Board Asks Study Of 40-Hour Week Today, at the year's end, members of Oshawa Police | force learned what their salaries would be for the year 1953. Wages and other matters have been under arbi- tration. Officers of all ranks with the exception of the Chief Constable who was not included in the proceedings, will get an across-the-board increase of $475. They asked for $800. The Oshawa Police Commission offered them || $340. This brings the salary of a First Class Constable in Oshawa to $3, per annum, Other new benefits are listed in the Board of Arbitra- . | tion's awards but the appellants were not successful on every point of benefit they sought. The Board of Arbitration consist- ed of Judge J. A. McGibbon of Lindsay, chairman; C. L. Dubin, QC, of Toronto, nominee for the police force and T. K. Creighton, QC, nominee for the city of Osh- awa. John Hare, city colicitor pre- sented the case for the city while A. W. S. Greer, QC, appeared on behalf of the police force. The Board held a public hearing October 21 at which the arguments and evidence were presented, and a further private meeting in Osh- dwa on December 23, after which its judgment was written. The salary award of $475 for the year 1953 is over present earnings. The Board recommends that the Oshawa Police Commission consid- er the advisability og granting the force a 40 hour week. It now works 44 hours each week. The Board awards the nine paid statutory holidays each licemen | | year an increase of two. The | police application asked for 11 paid | holidays. | The Board recommends to the | Police Commission that Pea Jack- | ets be issued to all uniformed ranks | requiring the same. This recom- mendation was in accordance with the men's request. | The appellants had asked for in- | auguration of a platoon system. | The Board's opinion was that the | platoon system question should be | left for the Police Commission and {the Chief of Police to work out between themselves. The policemen's request for two pairs of boots a year, was ordered granted. Finally the Board decided to take no action in regard to the request for monthly cleaning and press (at city expense) of police ry h Mr. Hare argued t the hearing, . Hare that the $60 cost of living bonus which huad been given policemen was not incorporated into the basic pay, thus making the 1953 increase which 'was offered by the Com- mission $400, or just half what |the men asked. RECEIVED BY POLICE Marion 'Alive, Well' ~ Says Ransom Note *- TORONTO (CP) -- York county {crown attorney Harold Sanders | $50, said today a $50,000 'ransom note"' {has been received in the Marion | 8° McDowell disappearance case but he said that it probably was sent by some "screwball!" The note said the pretty 17-year- old typist, reported kidnapped by a hooded gunman from a parked car in suburban Scarborough town- ship Dec. 6, is "alive and well." It instructed the family to raise in extraordinary session and de- | $50,000 cided the governii®nt is capable of handling any emergency result- ing from the Indo-China crisis. ATTACK NO SURPRISE In Paris, the vice-premier and defence minister of Laos, Phouy Sanahikong, said the Red thrust was "neither a great victory for the Vietminh nor a surprise for us," since the attack had been ex- pected gince last October. The 'attack came after the Viet- minh leader, Ho Chi Minh, had been quoted as offering to mezo- tiate a peace with France. The French turned down the proposal, since Ho's offer refused to recog- nize the French-sponsored Viet Nam government here. \ CN Move Denied By Westinghouse HAMILTON (CP)--A spokesman for Canadian Westinghouse Com- pany Limited denied today that arrangements were being com- pleted to transfer radio and tele- vision manufacturing facilities! from Hamilton to Brantford. Sanders said: "There are about 99 chances in 100 that it is/ the work of a screwball but we have to take that single chance." AD PUT IN PAPER He said instructions in the note have been followed to the letter but no communication had been established with the writer. An advertisement was placed in a To- ronto newspaper addressed simply DON'T SPARE THAT BRUSH Brush hair and scalp vigor- ously before retiring. Be sure fingernails, comb, brush and other hair-items are perfectly clean. But for a profitable clean-up in your home, Classified ads are highly recommended. Simply clean out the belong- ings you've no use for through For Sale ads, and you've clean- ed up a pretty penny fast! Dial 3-2233 for an ad-writer. | to "K" and saying: "1 can get the | The note was received five days There was a second development |in the case with disclosure of the | discovery of an old suit coat and {hat on Hogg's Hollow bridge ia | suburban Toronto early today. | In the coat was Marion McDow |ell's name and the address 937 | St. Catharine street, Montreal. | Scarborough police are checking | this clue but Montreal police re- | ported there was no such number (and they were checking further. | FIND INITIAL-SCRATCHER Meanwhile Scarborough police | reported they had picked up a | youth who had scratched initials {on Marion McDowell's arm. But | they said the initials "KM" were | those of another youth who they { were convinced had nothing to do | with the case. | Acquaintances of Marion had told authorities earlier that the typist had exhibited the initials "KM" scratched on her arm and had said she scratched her name or initials on the arm of the youth ¥ho had imprinted his initials om er. Young Kidnapper Gets 21 Years MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP)--Mrs. Tommie Dene Doughty, 17-year-old unrepentant kidnapper of a five- month-old- Indiana child, Monday was sentenced to a 21-year-term in federal prison for the crime. New Year's Pp that echoed his previous threats to unify Korea by force, asserted that a decisive war with isnt is '"'eventual and inevitable." A few hours earlier the aged leader pledged to North Koreans in a new year's greeting: 'We will come to your rescue just as soon as we can." He told the people of the Com- munist-ruled north "never do we forget, even im the nightmare dreams that haunt us in sleep, the terrible plight in which you are caught." Th strong statement appeared to give new life to his repeated threats in the last stages of the war last spring that South Korea would drive, alone if necessary to the Yalu river boundary. Rhee reminded Koreans that he had agreed to a temporary halt in his aim to unify Korea and had promised the Allies to refrain from action for 90 days after the start of a Korean peace conference. SAYS BRE FINAL But the recent break-off of ne- gotiations to set up the confer- ence he said, "can be regarded as final." "If the United States continues to maintain its present strong stand, we shall never have to wait another three or four months in an attempt to prepare for a political conference that is foredoomed to be fruitless," Rhee said. "More than ever we aré con- vipced that as long as the Chinese there can be no successful confer- ence and no peace for our suffér- ing country." bd t was his biggest wish that '""our allies come to realize fully that the war in Korea" has a close link with their future safety from communism, "Now to make certain that these Communists are on Korean soil OSHAWA SCOUTS HOSTS TO MICHIGAN VISITORS A party of Boy Scouts from Flint, Michigan, together with their Oshawa hosts, pose in front of the Fire Hall on Simcoe Street North. The tour of the United States Scouts was inau- Furatod by Assistant Scoutmas- r Alan Dickson of the 15th Osh- awa Troop who is studying in Flint. During their stay here the Scouts will tour such places as the Police Station and The Times- Gazette building 'in addition. to the Fire Hall. Sunday the party attended services at Northmins- ster 'United Church. Wednesday night, entertainment is planned at Camp Samac in honor of the guests. Left to right, front row, are: Merle Perry and Jim Brew- er of Flint; Don Simmons, Osh- awa; Harold - Crystal, Kenneth Shoup and Pavid Browne all of | Flint. Back Row: Paul Butler and Mike Lovelock of Oshawa; Keith McKenna, and Stuart Kil- gore of Flint, Francis Abthorpe, Oshawa; Norman Asselstine, Flint and Alan Dickson, Oshawa. awa.