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Daily Times-Gazette, 11 Jan 1954, p. 1

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Daily Bverage L "Circu'afion for November, 1953 12523 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Cold wave to continue tomorrow. Few snowflurries tonight and Tues- - day. High Tuesday 20, low zere. VOL. 13--No. 7 Post Office OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1954 Price Not Over $ Cents Per Copy FOURTEEN PAGES KREMLIN WARNS " Riots Could Mean . Third W BERLIN (Reuters) -- Deputy been overthrown the riots last June, "it would have meant a third world war." Nuschke told a press conference was made to him by Soviet ar cates' m Wait Lup its " age centres' es! Berlin oe the forthcoming ® four-power foreign ministers con- ference is held there or not. said Western agents should arned- from the anti-govern- riots through East Germany june that their efforts would orld War fail to overthrow the Communist regime. "Assuming even that the June 17 provocation had succeeded and our government would have been in| arrested, what would have been the result?" he said. "I asked this question in Mos- cow recently to Marshal Bulganin and Marshal Sokolovsky. They an- swered it would have meant a third world war." MEET AGAIN TODAY Nuschke held the press confer- ence a few hours before the Big, Four representatives in Berlin were scheduled to meet here for the third time to discuss a site and technical arrangements for the foreign ministers' conference. Western observers believed an- other meeting would be required after today, but the atmosphere of the - talks, started last Thursday, continues to be friendly, an Allied spokesman said. U.S. Reds Open Atomic Parley By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP) -- State Secretary Dulles and Soviet ambassador Georgi N . Zarubin begin talks today on when, where and with whom the United States and Russia may negotiate on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. Their first session, scheduled in ' state department office was be private. Indications were that b:.) no information would be th LS 4 th 1 - 3 | it g tween the United States and Rus- sia, or those two and Britain. A three-power conference looks like the best bet at the moment. PROPOSALS DIFFER While the talks beginning today are described as strictly proce- dural and may be followed by more preliminary discussions be- tween Dulles and Russian foreign minister Molotov at Berlin late t! month, the conference toward which they aim focuses on two issues: 1. President Eisenhower's I~ , made to the United Nations . 8, for an internatioonal 1 of atomic materials and know-how made up of contributions from the United States, Russia and other atomic powers and devoted to such uses as production of medic benefits of atomic ile materiale. I by M counter proposal oscow for a pledge against the use of ha bo Ty dros op ve n as a oar iting all such wea ons from the arsenals of the world. The Soviets have shown no inter- est in peaceful development apart from a Weapons ban. The United States is cially interested in eliminating atomic weapons only as part of a disarmament and peace program. Mother. Young Child Slain, s Father Held As Witness ROBERVAL, , (CP) -- An i be ori tae week An OUTDOORS IN UNDERWEAR A neighbor, Narcisse Langevin, told police he found the ies when he went to the house after seeing Boivin running toward Notre-D a m e - de-Lorette wea only his long underwear an clutching 11-m ont h-old Michele under his right arm. Officials at St. Michel Hospital here described the condition of Michele as critical. She suffered severe frostbite during the trip from her home to the village. She was dressed only in sleepers. Police said Boivin ran to the vil- lage church and knelt at the altar steps. It took two men to pull the : | unconscious child from his arms. CHICAGO (AP) Wint; weather, with snow, sleet and cold, hit wide areas of the United States from the Rockies to New and and deep into the south- - Snow fell as far south as Jack- son and Vicksburg, Miss. The « Snow belt in the south extended into eastern Kentucky and the mid- Atlame states to southern New More than five inches of snow in Charleston, W. Va., Sunday four inches and more than two inches in Washington Jersey, f of Mississippi and Kentucky. Snow and ice covered virtually of Arkansas. ving conditions throughout the sleet belt were hazard- . Four persons were killed in tucky and four in vania Sunday night in traffic ac- ¢idents Cold air extended over wide nor- region, northern New York and sections of New England. MOVING DAY Next Wednesday is moving oy for the civic departments whic have been located upstairs in the PUC building. Others located in outside offices have alre mov- oo he Be A aL. pause necessa sruptipn of ser- vice, no onen meeting is to be ld_tonight but is expected that first in the new build- ing will bé a week hence, a" Pennsyl- |, Police said Langevin told them he found the other Boivin children, Jean, 5, and Denise, 3, trembling and crying when he entered the house. [] Mrs. Boivin, dressed in ski slacks and sweater was dead on the bed with her arms around the body of Diane. The bedclothes had been pulled up to cover the bodies. MOTHER SAVES CHILDRE AS FLAMES SWEEP HOME Blazing Plane Smashes House SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- A blazing plane crashed killed the presidents of Braniff International Airways and Texas Eastern Gas ions Sunday night. The plane smashed into an un- occupied house and burned for more than two hours, killing 10 wealthy passengers and two pilots returning from a week-end duck- hunt in the Louisiana marshlands near the Gulf coast. There were no survivors. The dead included Thomas Bran- iff of Dallas, Tex., sident of Braniff, ny ER , a roye of Shreveport, presiden Eastern, Which operates: the fe "big inch" and "lite inch" gas pipeline to the east. ; The bodies remained unidentified early today because they were badly mangled and chai The big seaplane, owned by United Gas Co., went down at Wallace lake, 10 miles south of here. T. J. Rucker of Shreveport, the first on the scene, said, 'I was driving to the lake when I heard the crash. I got there and saw as- sistance was impossible. I . . . called the CAA office at the Shreve- port municipal airport." The plane tore a 100-yard swath through the trees and undergrowth before it hit the house. PASSENGERS LISTED United Gas said the passenger list also included: Chris Abbott, 65, Hyannis, Neb., one of Nebraska's leading bankers; Edgar Tobin, 58, San Antonio, Tex., head of a large aerial mapping firm; Justice R. Querbes, Sr., 61, director of Shreve- port's First National Bank; Ran- dolph Querbes Sr., 59, his brother, a wholesale electrical company head, and E. Bernard Weiss, Shreveport, vice-president of Gold- ring's Inc., a clothing chain. Heavy Snow Due for N.Y. NEW YORK (AP)--Snow and icy winds of mear-blizzard propor- tions whipped New York City and vicinity today and a blanket of more than 15 inches by late tonight was predicted unless the storm subsides. Transmission Co. and 10 compan- | CANADIAN HELD One of four persons charged with cipating in the 1948 shooting of union chief Walter Reuther, Clarence Jacobs fis being held. in Windsor, Ont. Two Elect Jury Trial Robert Howard, 242 Conant Street and Ray Wood, 217 McKim Avenue, elected in Magistrate's Court here this morning to be tried by judge and jury on charges of breaking and entering the Biltmore Theatre January 8 and retaining three rad- ios stolen from the premises. The next jury sittings will be in Whitby February 22. According to Leon Osier, manag- er of the Biltmore, the rear door was, jimmied and three radios, on pla electric appliances, were stolen glone with cigarettes and candy rs. i The pair were apprehended on the night of the breakin, at 1.15 a.m. in the Oshawa railway freight yards between Bruce and Emma streets. Robert Higham, CNR in- spector, bumped into them as they attempted to cut through the yards. He suspected that the radios which they were carrying in a carton were stolen, and he turned the pair over to police. No bondsmen appeared to pay the $2,000 bail set for each of the * LOVE WINS OUT The subject of recent headlines in European papers, James Goldsmith and his bride, the former Maria Isabella Patino, daughter of Bolivian tin king Antenor Patino,. are seen at their wedding luncheon in the George hotel in Edinburgh with their attorney, Ian Smith, left. The wedding took place in Kelso after the bride's father, one of the world's richest men, with- drew the injunction he had secured to ban the marriage. Phoney Checks Bring Charge In Magistrate's Court here this morning Edward Loughrey, of Osh- awa, was charged with passing worthless cheques to local mer- chants between December 19 and 28. Six charges, involving $160, were read against the accused who did not plead. Five similar charges are pending. The case was remand- ed until January 18 without bail. waiting for him with the and owned by Dean Kelly |- JETLINER SIMILAR TO ONE ABOVE CRASHES; 35 LOST. 47 Killed In Air Crashes U.K. Jetliner Plunges Into Sea, 3) Perish In Frigid Waters PORTO AZZURRO, Elba (AP)-- Planes and ships searched the storndy, freezing Tyrrhenian sea off Elba"s Point Calamity toda; for the bodies of 20 persons still missing in the crash of a British Comet jetliner. A fishing boat re- covered the bodies of the 15 others aboard Sunday. The Singapore-to-London pride of British air transport plunged into the sea between Elba, Napoleon's island of exile, and the isle of Mon- tecristo, off the northwest coast of the Italian peninsula. Pilot of the jetliner was Capt. Alan Gibson, holder of the Dis- shed ving Cross, whose wife, Elizabe! ras e's four-year-old twins and baby son in London. With Mrs. Gibson were her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Archi bald, who operate a fishing camp at Timagami_ Ont., and recently arrived in Britain for a visit. There were 29 passengers and a crew of six, including Gibson, aboard. Today British Overseas Airways Corporation had not offi- cially given them up for lost, but a senior Airline official in Rome said: "I believe there are no sur- vivors." Fishermen here said even if any- one survived the crash, he could not have lived long in the frigid waters. MAY HAVE EXPLODED Though BOAC officials if® Rome and London were skeptical, a pre- lminay investigation today indi- cated the air, killing those aboard: in the blast. Gibson, a veteran of the RAF who had a total of 5800 flying hours to his credit, met Elizabeth Archibald and her parents during the Second World War while train- ing with the RCAF in Toronto. One farmer today told of hear- ing the plosi and ing "pieces falling toward the sea," followed by another explosion and a flash. Elba's chief surgeon, after examining the recovered bodies, said they died from a concussion, with the force coming from below, and were already dead when they hit the water. "All their faces were serene and in calm repose," the surgeon said. "They showed no look of terror. Death must have come without wa, The Italian air ministry and a six-man commission from London began an investigation. The group included representatives of the British ministry of civil aviation, BOAC and the de Havilland Air- craft Company, makers of the eight-mile-a-minute jet. CHILDREN VICTIMS BOAC said 10 of the passengers were believed to be children re- turning to British schools after spending Christmas with their par- ents abroad. One of the bodies recovered was tentatively identified as that of Chegter Wilmot, 42-year-old Aus- tralfan war correspondent and au- thor whose controversial book, The Struggle for Europe, was an international best seller. Queen Sees New Challenge By GOMER JONES WELLINGTON, N. Z. (Reuters) WHICH WINDOWS BEST TO OPEN To air your home, open win- dows that have the radiators The Queen today pr her faith in the Commonwealth as a great force for good in the world and described present difficulties as a challenge. "The arduous times are a chal- lenge to us to exert the Common- wealth's beneficient influence with telling effect," she said in reply to the loyal toast at a state lunch- eon in Parliament House. The Queen reaffirmed the dedi- cation of herself and of the Duke of Edinburgh to devote their lives and energy to the advancement of their pedples throughout the Com- monwealth. Saying she felt New Zealand was crossing the threshold of a great era, the Queen said: "May you continue to seize the opportunities which here have been so richly bestowed; and may you never fail in your determination to follow the paths of peace and orderly progress to which your steps are already turned so that the generations to come will honor your names and this nation and the British people which gave it birth." LATE NEWS FLASHES LOSES APPEAL; HANGS FEBRUARY 9 TORONTO (CP) -- An appeal by Mervyn Hutson, 29, of North Bay, against conviction on a charge of murder in the death of a three-year-old girl was turned down to- day by the Ontario court of appeal. Hutson will be hanged Feb. 9 as sentenced when convicted Nov. 5. PLAN INQUEST INTO BOYLE GIRL'S DEATH TORONTO (CP) -- Police said today an 'early in- quest is planned into the death of Helen Boyle, 24, labora- tory technician at St. Michael's Hospital who died Thurs- day night of injuries suffered in her office the night before. PRESIDENT URGES FARM SURPLUSES BE FROZEN WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Eisenhower rec- ommended today that $2,500,000,000 of present United States' farm surpluses be "frozen" from regular markets od 'em, heating-experts advise. This directs incoming cold air to face level rather than to the floor, which would chill your feet. But if your floors or radia- tors n n the Clas- sified section and head straight for the Building Trades col- umn! That's where you find service-firms ready and able to help you. : On the other hand, if you are offering a particular ft of service to the public, tell 'em about yourself through the Want Ads! That's where folks . are trained to look for help where they need ' it. Phone 3-2233 for an ad-writer. HILDREN In 19-Below from their burning home in {| this morning. In bed with the children when she first noticed the blaze, Mrs. Joseph Forsythe wrapped two infants in blankets, carried them outside and at the same time guid- {| ed two boys, four and five, downstairs. She left the chil- dren in a snowbank while she summoned help. Mrs. Forsythe suffered slight burns to one hand and shock. None of the children was injured. Her husband was starting his car in a nearby garage when the fire broke out. The large frame, insul-bric cov- ered home on Highway 12, one miles north of Greenbank, was levelled despit the efforts of fire- men from Port Perry and Ux- bridge. Rescued by their mother and seeming little the worse after a half hour in the frigid air were: Darcy 5; Joseph 4; Paul 3 and x George St ighbor Mrs. orge Stone, a nel y first cared for the shivering fam- ily. They have now gone to Mr. Forsythe's parent's home at Stouffville. Members of the Whitby De- tachment, OPP attended and Rept traffic moving on the busy high- way past the burning house. Mr. Forsythe is an employee on the day shift of General Motors in Oshawa. "Joe got up early for breakfast and turned up the stove," Mrs. Forsythe said. "It's a range, fed by oil. Then he went across the his car, to see if it would start. I was still upstairs in bed with the kiddies. , Suddenly I io led moke. room downstairs was = 'Hire. It was all I could do to get the children out of the house. Then she ran across the road, Death Toll 12 On Week-End By THE CANADIAN PRESS Violent or accidental death came during the week-end to 12 persons in eastern Canada. Four were killed in a car crash near Truro, N.S., and a mother and her young child were slain near Roberval in northern Quebec. ; A Canadian Press compilation today listed five fatalities in On- tario, five in Nova Scotia and two in Quebec. : Also in Nova Scotia, Bette Muir, a secretary at Roseway Hospital at Shelburne was killed when a car skidded off a road. y A level-crossing smash killed grocer James Martinelli, 60, at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. BLAME ICY ROADS When cars went out of control on icy Ontario roads, 'Reginald Lock, 30, of Port Hope was killed at Cobourg, and Randy Laws, 6, near Guelph. Marjorie Woods, 9, was asphyx- iated and her mother, Mrs. Jane Woods, 39, was overcome by fumes from a gas heater in their apartment at Port Dover. A silk scarf caught fire while Mrs. D. H. Sinclair, 86, of Owen Sound, was putting wood in a kit- chen stove. Mrs, Sinclair was fatally burned. Gylien Boivin, 30-year-old lab- orer, was held as a material wit- ness in the slaying of his wife, 35, and their two-year-old daughter, Diane, at Notre Dame de Lorette, a remote village 20 miles north Roberval, Quebec. Police said they believe the wife was strangled early Saturday and the child bat- tered to death with a block of wood Cold To Stay, Forecasts Say By THE CANADIAN PRESS Parts of Canada shivered Mon- day in the coldest blast of polar air in two years and weather of- ficials said there is no relief in sight. 'emperatures at Ottawa, To- ronto, Sudbury and Saint John, N. B., Sunday hit the lowest point since the winter of 1951-52. The low at Ottawa Sunday was 18 ber low, Toronto two below, Sudbury 31 below and Saint John six be- low. Weather officials said similar be- low-zero temperatures will prob- ably prevail in the areas Monday and Tuesday. Meanwhile the Prairies and the Maritimes recorded temperatures about 15 degrees below normal for January. The warmest spot in the country Monday was the west coast, with mid-40s predicted. Prince Rupert recorded 35 degrees Sunday and Vancouver 32. A chinook wind blew east from the Rockies into Alberta Sunday, . giving Edmonton a high of 31, Banff 40 and Calgary 29. Similar temperatures were ex- pected Monday. But the rest of the country was cold. Lowest temerature in Ca- nada--37 below was reported from Flin Flon, Man. Other low temperatures Sunday: Saskatoon six below, Regina 12 be- low, Winnipeg 18 below, Kapus- kasing, Ont., 22 below, North Bay 20 below, Windsor 10 above, Mon- treal 16 below, Quebec City, 22 below, Moncton five below, Char- lottetown nine above and Halifax 14 above, DRIVING DANGEROUS The low temperatures made roads in many areas icy and driv- ing dangerous. There were many minor traffic accidents in Ontario Monday. Up to four inches of snow fell Sunday night on Hamilton, St. Catharines and other Niagara pen- insula areas. Light snow was ex- pected in almost all of southern Ontario Monday. Scattered flurries were forecast for Tuesday. Heavy snowfalls were forecast for parts of the Maritimes. A telegraph company reported eight lines snapped in the London area by the cold. road to a garage where he keeps |.) Woman, Family Escape Zero Weather GREENBANK (Staff) -- Clad only in pyjamas, a courageous Greenbank mother rescued her four children 19-below zero weather early clothed only in night attire, to call her husband. "It was 19 below zero at that time," said Charlie Lunney, a Saintfield trucker. "It's a miracle the whole family didn't perish." CNR Discloses $200 Million Bond Issue MONTREAL (CP) Donald Gordon, chairman and president of Canadian National Railways, an- nounced today a new issue of $200, 000,000, 20-year, 3% per cent bonds to provide for the redemption Feb. 1 of maturing. 5 per cent bonds issued originally in 1924. The remainder of the proceeds of the issue will be used to repay interest-bearing capital advances from the government which guar antees the new bonds uncondition- y, both as to principal and in- terest. The new issue ill be dated Feb. 1, 1954, and mature Feb. 1, 1974, subject to redemption at the op- tion of the company on, or at a time after, Feb. 1, 1972, on days notice. The bonds are being offered at 99.50 to yield about 3.78 per cent to maturity and will be available immediately to the public through investment dealers and banks. Mr. Gordon said the advances from the government now being repaid represent part of the cap- ital expenditures made during the last two years. OTTAWA (CP)--Justice Minister Garson, acting finance minister, today announced that the govern- ment will eem for $474,355,489 the outstanding balance of three per cent second Victory Loan Bonds. The announcement also said that the government's rash resources will be augmented Feb. 1 when Canadian National Railways re- pays the government about $150,- 000,000 of temporary advances made it for capital purposes dur ing the last two years. India Urges U.N. Meeting NEW DELHI (AP)--India form- ally called today for the UN Gen- eral Assembly to reconvene 'at an early date" to consider the Kor- ean question. Indian officials refused to say what date they had recommended for t assembly to be recalled but they insisted the action was not intended to delay the freeing of war prisoners who have refused to be repatriated. "That is a matter for the two commands to settle, and as far as India is concerned, Jan. 22 is the deadline for their release under the agreement of those com- mands," a government spokesman said. India addressed her request for the recalling of the assembly to Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, the assembly president, who is also Prime Minister Nehru's sister. RELAYED TO 60 NATIONS Mrs. Pandit, who returned here after the assembly recessed Dec. 9, said through a spokesman she had forwarded the Indian request immediately to UN headquarters in New York for its distribution to the 60 member states of the inter- national organization. Thirty-one of these must agree before she can | summon the assembly. Windsor Union Fails In Vote WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) -- By a margin of three votes, Chrysler of Canada employees, members of Local 195, (UAW-CIO) failed Sun- day to register the required two- thirds majority needed to conduct a referendum in the plants on the question of setting up their own local union. ; A union announcement today said the matter cannot be brought up again for two years under present constitutional procedure. Agitation for breaking away from the parent union, of which they form a major part, has been growing and gaining support in hrysler unit ranks. Sunday's vote was the closest the pro-separation forces have come to gaining their point,

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