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Weather 'Forecast Cold Air Stays tonight, slightly milder Thursday: Low tonight zero; high Thursday 185. Dally Bverage ' Circuladion for Povember, 1953 Py VOL. 12--No. 304 uss THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1953 1 MAN DEAD, 18 FLEE BLAZING PULLMAN GAR * 8 Conts Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES OVERCOAT Latest clue in the mysterious disappearance of Marion McDow- ell in Toronto is an overcoat found close to the city. It con- tained a note with her name and 'a Montreal address, which police o 'NEW CLUE | find is non-existant. However, they are checking further on the address. A ransom note disclos- | ed yesterday is believed to have been written by a cragpol. Det.- Sergt. Maurice ichardson, above, holds the coat. 60 Below Lowest Mark In Province TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario was the coldest province in Canada to- day with temperatures sliding to 60 below zero in some of its northern regions. \ Armstrong, 140 miles north of Port Arthur, reported 57 below. Normally it would be having tem- peratures a few degrees on either side of zero at this time of year. | Met logists in Toronto said it | } | Tankers Collide, was the coldest spell to hit Ontario | for a number of years. | Ten below was forecast for areas | around Toronto Thursday with tem- peratures moderating for a short time Friday. Normal in the Tor- onto area and southern parts of the province at this time of year § Nine Tars Lost ; WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)--An Atlantic Refining Company tanker seeking safe anchorage in the fog-cloak- od Delaware river crashed into a sister ship early today, setting off fires on both vessels. Nine men were listed as missing. 1 Eleven of the 41 aboard the 10,699-ton Atlantic Deal- er were thrown into the river or jumped to escape the flames. Hours later only two had been rescued, Atlantic headquarters in Philadelphia announced after a muster of the crews had heen completed. Company officials said all 46 crew members of the 19,000-ton "super-tanker" Atlantic Engineer are safe. Fires aboard both ships were 14000 barrels of other refined eontrolled quickly by the crews. products. Preliminary reports indicated no| Scene of the collision was about the centre of the two-mile-wide Serious usage I elier esse river, 6% miles south of Wilming- ton and about 25 miles from Phila- A lifeboat with a crew of five i delphia. was launched immediately | A company official said the e time later ngineer was ored the Dealer. ne 1 Atlantic in as auc) Chilean ter apo, | the river, and was bum gy B02 Pada: 5 Fiche. the lifeboat BY the | Atlantic Dealer which probably seeking a safe anchorage spot. Delaware at that point is one of the world's busiest water- ways, connecting Philadelphia with the Atlantic ocean and providing access to the canal which is a direct route to Baltimore and the Chesapeake bay area. tic with 218, .of crude ofl and the Atlantic Dealer with 9,000 barrels of gasoline and Told He's Wanted For Murder Man Lives Months in Hollow Tree } HAMILTON (CP) Ontario | challenged the owner of the hoots J cial police today pieced to-|and out came the man. The boys Rho the strange story of a man fled to the police. lived in a hollow tree for | WORKED HOSPITAL ths because someone told him in | an hour this morning as high Ontario provincial constables # was wanted for a murder that [found Wisiewski once worked in a Hamilton hospital, doing odd jobs. Someone told him that the lice were after him--that he had illed a woman. Wisiewski disappeared from the hospital sometime last October, took the field of Barton township and found the large hollow tree which he made his home. He placed burlap bags inside, drove stepping-spikes so he cpuld climb up and look around without bein, seen and lived from food obtaine from district farmers. never committed. The story came out in police court when Stanislaw Wisiewski ared on a vagrancy charge. Bete John E. Robinson re- manded him for a week for mental examination, saying "this man cer- tainly needs help. Wisiewski was arrested after two boys on a hunting expedition in Barton township noticed a pair of boots protruding from a hole at the base of a large tree. They above. SNOW IN PENINSULAS Five or six inches of snow are Bruce Peninsulas. The weather office said the cold will probably reach. Montreal later today and move into New Bruns- wick and Nova Scotia tonight. Winnipeg forecasts said temper- atures which have been well below zero will rise. Alberta and Saskatchewan had {mild temperatures today. Brit- {ish Columbia reported normal | weather, just above freezing. Blaze Sweeps City Garage Firemen from the Cedar Dale fanned flames burning in the ga- page walls and piles of old lumber, behind the home of Bob Hoy, 1259 Simcoe Street South. Two dump trucks apd a loading tractor were in the garage at the oo 5 fg Ry e, ev arge. The large garage of shacl ne construction was covered with old Shoot metal It was used by Mr. , a trucker, as a repair garage. Tris Mr. Ho and an employee had n work in the garage and a fire in the stove because of the cold weather. They came uptown for some sup- plies and it was while they were absent that the fire broke out. Because of the nature of the con- strution of the garage, damage will be low. No estimate was avail- able this morning. Oshawa firemen were called at 11 o'clock. Deputy- Chief Ray Hobbs from the uptown station attended. Fire Damages Frame Home BOWMANVILLE (Staff Corres- pondent) -- A fire that went unde- tected for am hour this morning d heavy damage to a one- 4 Foreign Affairs Veterans In Running For Moscow Post OTTAWA (CP) -- Canada soon will inate an b to Moscow, it was learned. The nom- ination must be approved by Rus- sia before he can assume his post, unfilled for seven years. Speculation about the nominee # has centred around four veterans of the external affairs department, all of whom have 'served in some capacity in Moscow. The four are John B. C. Wat- kins, Canadian ambassador to Nor- way, Leon Maynard, Canadian am- bassador to Chile, and R. M. Mac- A lor | Donnell and J. W. Holmes, both | assistant undersecretaries of state | for external affairs. Canada has not been represented at M w by an since 1946. The previous year, Russia | withdrew Ambassador Georgi Za- roubin from Ottawa and in 1946 Canada called home ambassador Dana Wilgress from Moscow, Za- roubin, now Russian ambassador to Washington, left about the time |that a Soviet spy ring was exposed in Canada but a Canadian royal | commission cleared him storey frame cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gimblett, 123 Ontario Street, here. The blaze was thought to be caused by an overheated furnace. Flames broke through the main floor, gutted the kitchen and spread quickly throughout the house, No one was home at the time. Reports say the fire started short- ly after nine a.m. and burned for at least an hour before it was dis- covered and the volunteer fire de- partment called. N / The living room, droom and bathroom were badly damaged. One chair was carried out, but it is not known whether anything else was salvaged. SMALLEST STATE Rhode Island, smallest of the 48 | states in the U.S., covers 1,214 square miles. | Association To Raise Funds To Support Toronto Teachers TORONTO (CP) -- Ontario high hool teachers Tuesday took ac- on to back up their opposition to 4 single salary schedule with all resources at their command. Public school teachers favor the scheme under which both high school and public school teachers receive equal salaries for equal qualifications, experience and re- sponsibility. Te Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation is opposed on the grounds that high school and public school teachers should have parate salary scales so they "can Borgen for themselves alone." The dispute, which affects Tor- onto in particular, has been sim- mering for months. The rift was widened this week by decisions «taken at the annual assemblies bere of the OSSTF, representing 6,200 teachers, and the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federa- tion, with a membership of 4,500. +» MASS RESIGNATIONS The Toronto Board of Education : faced with a mass resignation EH Soachers if it Ny decision not to eliminate the single (salary schedule. Toronto has 883 high school teachers and of the | public school teachers about 400 | are qualified to teach in secondary | schools, The OSSTF, in the second ses- sion of its three-day annual as- | sembly, ' aj to support the {fight against the single salary |schedule in Toronto. It also voted in favor of a province-wide levy lon its membership for funds to support the Toronto teachers and |. to set up machinery to expel any federation member who teaches |after next June under any school board which operates a single salary schedule. ! The views of the. elementary school teachers on the issue were expressed by president. Thomas Aldcorn of the OPSMTF. He pledged in an address to the fed- eration that "'unanimous and whole hearted» support' will be given to the principle of a single salary scale. The OPSMTF has voted that qualified public school teachers would be considered to be acting ethically if they took high school Posts made vacant by resignations y 5. station battled a garage blaze for | winds | | is a high of 32 and a low of 20 expected today in the Niagara and : "CPR SPUR LINE CONSTRUCTION way tracks into the area of the | new General Motors south plants. | The top picture above shows the Bailey-type bridge which has been erected to cross the CNR ! Rapid proyress is being made | with cong' uction of the new spur | railway lus «ich is to run from | PROGRESSING tracks. The lower picture shows the connection from which the new spur line will branch off the main line of the CPR, --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. 'Smash Window ToMakeEscape By ART GALLAGHER Canadian Press Correspondent PEMBROKE (CP)--Ome man was burned to death early today when the tail-end sleeper of a Canadian Nat- ional Railways, westbound trancontinental train caught fire after leaving the station here. Eighteen other passengers in the pullman escaped through a window smashed by a woman with a travelling f | case. Some were cut and bruised as they plunged in night attire into the sub-zero weather. Police held one of the p. gers | i for questioning. He was believed patched to pull the ill-fated coach, to have occupied a compartment by then a flaming inferno, back in the sleeper. | along the main line to where the Name of the fire victim was not | Pembroke fire department was immediately known. Neither was [Waiting with a hose hooked to a the cause of the fire, which broke | hydrant. out shortly after 2:05 a. m., EST | on the train No. 1 from Montreal to Vancouver. The train was halted one mile west of the station here. | All passengers in the sleeper were | bound for northern Ontario points. | It is believed the victim boarded | the train at Ottawa and was trav- | elling to Haileybury, Ont. | With flames preventing escape | into the car ahead, those trapped in the burning coach fought their | lway to the rear, where a woman used her travelling case to smash | a window, through which the 18] struggled. ! | The body of the dead man, 'burned beyond recognition, was | found in the rear vestibule of the coach, where he apparently had suffocated while waiting his turn Police officers Huntly Munro and R. W. Ritchie were among the first to spot the blaze. They as- sisted the train crew in summon- ing aid. Investigation is being conducted by Cpl. Larry Gartner and con- stables J. I. Doney and E. N. Milner of the Pembroke detach- jen of the Ontario provincial po- ice. Dr. J. H. Joyner of Pembroke, treated the injured, who were moved into the adjoining car. Only a few suffered cuts, and all were allowed to continue on to North Bay after a three-hour delay. EXPECT INQUEST Coroner J. C. Bradley of Pem- broke was called. It is expected an inquest will be held. Those who escaped included: ? fore it was extinguished. When the | treal; the msn Crna Pacific Rail- ON ICY KOAD --- 6 Die, 4 Hurt TOUGH STOMACH ISN'T THE WORD PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters -- Sicilian stone - mason Gaettano Priulla, 21, has bet his boss that at the window. | 5 | Miss Margaret Jones, Kirkland BURNED TWO HOURS |Lake; Bill Vance, Montreal; Mrs. Pembroke firemen fought the Charles Hoyt, Ottawa; Dale Hoyt, blaze for more than two hours be- Ottawa; Miss Cecille Maille, Mon- Miss Joyce Martin, Tim- train erew noticed the fire, the 10- |mins; Mrs. H. Martin, Timmins; {car train was brought to a jolting [F. 'W. Wilkinson, Schumacher; {stop and the burning coach was|C. A. Napier, North Bay; J. C. uncoupled. A freight engine from | Dukeshire, Ottawa; R. C, Squires, the Pembroke station was dis-' Chicago; Joseph Bailey, Montreal. Feel Tough? Don't Worry It Might Be 'Money Sickness' * By FRANK CAREY |man told the AAAS' 120th meeting. BOSTON (AP)--Your stomach Bo . hodition, 10, physical trouble, headache, back pain or | ang joint pains or stomach trouble, |even an irregular heart might ac- it can take the form of serious tually be a form of 'money sick- |terical paralysis, depression, anx- ness" caused by a virus familiarly |iety states or reactions of "panic." | known as the dollar. Kaufman, a practitioner of in- | This new wrinkle in diagnosis | ternal medicine, explained it some- |was reported today to the Ameri-| what like this: {can Association for the Advance- | DEPENDS ON MEANING In Auto KIRKLAND LAKE (CP) A head-on collision on an icy high- way 12 miles north of here Tues- day killed six persons and injured four others. 4 Police said automobiles driven by Paul Kunce, 42, of the Barrie district, and Kenneth Hager, 21, of Timmins, met in a snowstorm after the Kunce car pulled out to pass another car at the bottom of a steep hill on Highway 11, five miles north of the Kenogami bridge. Killed were Hager, a hydro em- ployee; his 20-year-old wife, whom e married last June; his wife's sister, Mrs. James Eastman, 32, of Timmins; Mrs. Eastman's daugh- ter, Dorothy, 8, and Shirley, 6; and Mrs. Kunce, 36. Injured were Kunce, one-time proprietor of a Toronto fish and chips shop and now operator of a fishing camp on Little Lake, just north of Barrie; his daughter, Pauline, 13, and son, Roland, 9; and James Eastman, husband of one of the woman victims. Crash RETURNING FROM VISIT Hager's was a small English model. The six persons in the Hager W. Rice at power station on the Montreal | The Kunces are believed to have been visitin on their way south to Barrie. The impact drove both drivers against their steering wheels so violently that both steering col- umns were bent up toward the windshields. Rescuers spent three hours with crowbars to free | Hager's body, which was pinned |in the wreckage. ' | Dr. J. Brill of Timmins, who | had been travelling along the high- | way, came upon the scene in time {to help arrange to move the .dead |and injured to Kirkland Lake in {private automobiles. AVOID COUGHERS AND SNEEZERS Change your seat in the bus or theatre when someone near you coughs or sneezes doctors say. But if the seat you're wor- ried about is the job-opening on your staff, Classified ads relieve you of your predica- ment fast! Call an ad-writer right now and tell her what kind of help you need. She's a specialist at writing interesting, werful Help Ads. 3-2233 is the num- T. Girl, 7, Second Poison Victim TRAIL, B. C. year-old girl died in hospital Tues- day night, second victim of Christ- mas dinner food poisoning. Threatens Use Of A-Weapon SEOUL (Reuters)--South Kor- ea's defence minister said today that the United Nations naval and air forces in Korea will use atomic weapons if the Commun- ists again attack South Korea. Questioned further by reporters at a press conference here, Ad- miral Sohn Won II said "the whole matter is very delicate," and re- fused further comment. Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of staff. The defence minister - also said anti-Communist prisoners-of-war in riation will "definitely be released on Jan. 23." "We have made all arrange- (CP)--A seven- ments for anti-Communist prison- | ers now held in Indian custody. | They will be given civilian status | al guaranteed the freedom of | South Korea." Police said the Kunce car was | a late-model heavy vehicle, while | he will eat his car. He formally declared before a public notary here Tuesday that within six months the boss' small Fiat car will have disappeared completely, except for the tires. The boss has promised to give car were returning to Timmins | from a visit with Mr, and Mrs. | the Matabitchewan | river. The Rices are the parents | | of Mrs. Hager and Mrs. Eastman. | cousins who live just | north of Kirkland Lake. They were | Sohn conferred last week with | of the United States joint chiefs | Indian custody who refused repat- ! The girl, Jennie Hlookeff of | Grand Forks, B. C., djed of botu-| apmld {licence of Walter S. Koch, 21, of lism, a deadly and comparatively oo, Conestogo, Tuesday was rare form of food poisoning. Her |gyspended for two years. He was | father, 29-year-old logging truck |convicted of dangerous driving as driver Peter Hlookoff, died Mon-|a result of what police said was a| day. 75-mile-an-hour chase along coun- The poisoning is believed to have [try roads and was given suspen- resulted from consumption of | ded sentence on payment of court corn. costs. % KITCHENER (CP)--The driver's | Priulla a car for himself if he wins the bet. Priulla has in the last year been examined by several Sicil- ian doctors, who declared that the young stone-mason has an exceptionally tough stomach and could easily digest metal, nails, glass -- and, probably, such things as a steering wheel, a gearbox and a windshield wiper. ment of Science by a Boston doctor. | He said various physical symp- {toms can sometimes stem from emotional upsets which, in turn, can be brought on by 'money problems" possibl EP |in all income brackets. "Money sickness," said Dr. Wil- liam Kaufman, is "the most com- |mon psychosomatic. illness of our times"'--and yet one that is often missed by doctors in seeking the | underlying cause of a physical or emotional symptom. Anyone from a miser to a gam- bler and from chronic bargain hunters to "salesmen and execut- ives who are cozy with their own money but lavishly spend on their joompany's expense accounts," are candidates for the malady, Kauf- The trouble doesn't necessarily come from how much money you {have or haven't. It comes from the | particular '"'meaning" you have | come to place on money, and how 1you have learned to use it. And it {could come from "feeling" you | need more money when actually you don't. Furthermore, it all starts back in your childhood. "One of life's major disappoint- ments which almost every child ex- periences," said Kaufman, "is that his parents cannot provide him with | limitless money. . . . "The manner in which a child resolves his early conflicts about money will determine some of his {basic personality and character |'traits, aspirations and behavior ' patterns." 'Woman Slain In Gun Duel | PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) duel here Tuesday night. killed. Wounded were her Herman Walton, 38, a factory worker and former constable. Detective John I. Williams said | Walton told him he had been act- |ing as a bodyguard to Mrs. Mun- {son since she and her husband separated Dec. 23. Munson came A [to attempt reconciliation Tuesday ! woman was shot to death and two | pg i re men wounded in a kitchen gun | ght. Police quoted Walton as say "I heard three shots in the Kkit- Mrs. Gladys Munson, 33, was | chen," Walton told police. "I ran es- | in, He fired at me and I pulled my tranged husband, Albert, 29, and 'gun and shot back." LATE NEWS FLASH S WILL ACCEPT RED SUGGESTION PARIS (AP)--Foreign Minister Georges Bideault told the French cabinet today that France, the Unit- | ed States and Britain will accept that the Big Four foreign ministers meet Jan. 25. SUCKED FROM AIRLINER PARIS (Reuters) -- A steward fell to his death through the open door of a Belgian Sabena Airlines |Pact." plane shortly after takeoff here today. Russia's suggestion He was suck- Rule Author's Death Suicide HENLEY, England (Reuters)-- Capt. Evan John Simpson--unovelist Evan John--committed suicide. the coroner decided here Tuesday. Simpson, 52, who was to have | officiated as regional adjudicator | for the 1954 Dominion Drama Festi- val in Canada, was found shot in a wood near his home Sunday. The coroner said he had "tried ito find a loophole so that a suicide verdict shall not be recorded--but I cannot." Mrs. Dorothy Elsie Simpson said ther novelist-actor-plagi®right hus- {band had suffered from periods of extreme depression. Simpson, a British intelligence |officer in Greece during the Sec- yond World War, wrote several {books under his "Evan John" | pseudonym. They include "Time {in the East," "Kings at Arms," { "The Dark Path," "'Crippled Splen- idor" and his latest, "Atlantic Im- | His is survived by his widow {and two children. ed out when the door; which had not been fastened | properly, was blown open. | DRAMA ADJUDICATOR APPOINTED OTTAWA (CP)--Graham Suter, 34, of London, Eng., { has accepted the post of adjudicator for the Dom- 'Two Canadians Ask Clemency ALBANY, N. Y. (AP)--Counsel i inion Drama Festival's regional competitions. He will {tor two young Canadians doomed John Simpson. { fill the vacancy created by the death of Capt. Evan [to WEDS BARBARA HUTTON TODAY NEW YORK (AP)--International playboy Porfirio [of whether he would act on the Rubirosa said today he will marry millionairess Bar- bara Hutton this afternoon at the Dominican con- sulate. die in the electric chair for murder Tuesday asked Governor {Thomas Dewey to commute the sentences to life imprisonment. The governor gave no indication | pleas of Maurice Odell, 28, and {Walter Griffen, 27, both of Hamil- ton, scheduled to die next week for Ye holdup murder of a Buf- fi