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* Daily Average Circulation for January, 1954 / 28 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Cloudy today and Tuesday. Seat- tered showers. Low tonight 40; high tomorrow 45. VOL. 13--No. 50 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1954 Price Net Over 3 Cents Per Copy FOURTEEN PAGES MYSTERY BLAST Buildings Lifted In Air, Five Die PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Five Jevasms, including three children a isighborhood lunch room, were Sunday night when a violent explosion destroyed two in a crowded section of A 17-year-old girl, trap for six in a public telephone under the mountain of rubble unharmed. Twenty others including four firemen, were : he blast of undetermined origin in one of the most ck buildings were lifted air, turned half way and dropped on the rear structures. Not a wall was when firemen arrived flames licked at the pile of bris. Some 500 persons were routed from their homes and Red Cross authorities estimated 50 fam- ilies 'were sheltered for the night. APARTMENTS UPSTAIRS The buildings housed the lunch room and an adjoining jewelry store. The upper stories contained apartments. The dead included the proprietor of the lunch .room, Isadore Pearl- man, 50, and three Joung custom- ers. The bodies of Bruce Schwartz, 9, and Salvatore Baladino, 6, were found under the soda fountain. The body of 15-year-old Marie Marone was uncovered nearby. The fifth victim was Mrs. Fanny Rudolph, 45, who lived in an apartment above the jewelry store. er husband, Samuel, 45, suffered t [cuts and bruises. The impact of the explosion bent an Form sign across the street into a U-shape. Windows for blocks were shattered. Patrons of a nearby theatre were shaken but | remained in their seats. Several neighbors told police they noticed the odor of gas in the area just before the blast. Gas service in the neighborhood was immediately cut off to prevent possible spread of the flames. News Dealer Released IN VIOLENT RENT CONTROLS END EDWARD BRYAN CORNWALL (CP) -- Edward C. Bryan, Cornwall news dealer sen- t d to 10 days in jail on con- Told Priest Of Murder, Toronto Clerk Is Charged a "fic : break but Pam pe was ¢ murder in the strangling of his 22-year-old wife. Police said that, in answer to a call, went to the couple's four-room brick bungalow ia suburban Swansea at 12:20 a.m. id found the body of Mrs. Shirley in a bed. said a three-year-old girl, n the had recently was asleep in the bed be- body of her mother. said the Sniders had been about months) They Mrs. Snider had been two hours when they at the home. police detectives. ar- Snider in downtown Toronto. TO PRIEST , a city waterworks de- , was taken into city © detectives on street in central Toronto talked with a priest on downtown St. Michael's thedral that man had told him he had killed his wife. Officers went to address §iven by the priest--a bungalow in e suburbs--and found it in dark- ness. Swansea Jolice said today a priest called them to report that a man had told of a murder at a confession. Officers went to the Dmealow at 77 Kingsway South in the suburb on the city's west- ern outskirts and found it in dark- ness. They sald they found a door open, however and they went in and found the dead woman and the baby. There were bruises on the throat which police said they be- lieved had been caused by a pair of hands choking her. Officers said the room where the woman's body was found showed no signs of a struggle. The child was sleeping peacefully. Neighbors took care of her over- an night and police said she would | probably be put in the care of the | Children's Aid Society later today. | Snider was questioned at down- town Court Street police station before the charge was laid. Neighbors said the uple had lived in the bungalow for about six months. tempt of court charges arising from publication of magazine stor- jes about the slaying of Marie Anne Carrier, was released from his sentence Saturday. He was taken into custody after the jail term was imposed Friday. Chief Justice J. C. McRuer, who presided at the trial which con- victed 2nd Lieut. Peter Balcombe, said he granted the release in view of Bryan's good standing in the community. He said he be- lieved the deterrent aspect of the sentence had been fulfilled. Balcombe was sentenced Satur- {day to be hanged May 25 for the {murder of the 21-year-old reserve army sergeant. | In addition to Bryan's sentence, {fines totalling $14,000 were im- | posed on the publishers of the mag- azines. without rental repulations include amilton, Few Cities Take Up Provincial Controls . By THE CANADIAN PRESS Most Ontario centres, for the first time since the wartime Sep- tember of 1940, will be without rent controls when the province vacates the field Tuesday. Only major centres to hold some form of rent control are Toronto and suburban York township, Ot- tawa, Windsor, Brantford, Brock- ville and Sault Ste. Marie. control field to the provinces. Other provinces . made provision for municipal Zovernments to put on local controls. SAULT DIFFERENT Regulations controlling rentals in all Ontario centres but Sault Ste. Marie are to be a somewhat mod- ified version of the provincial con- trols. In Sault Ste. Marie they will be .extended to cover every private dwelling in the city of 36,- Cities and municipalities to be ggg after Ontario expire March 2 eterborough, Kingston, Kitchener, Teck town- controls ship, Waterloo, Fort William, Port Arthur St. Catharines, and Westminster township, North Bay, Sarnia, Oshawa, Owen Sound, Welland, Niagara Falls, Stamford township, London St. Thomas, Sudbury, Galt rillia, Woodstock and Guelph. A decision is still to be an- nounced by city councils at Belle- ville and Cornwall. Ontario, along with Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia, entered the field of ten- FOR SUCCESS IN MARRIAGE Give honest compliments. Theyre food for marriage hap- piness. The more compliments couples shower on each other, the happier their lives, studies reveal. Times - Gazette Classified folks are happy folks, too. cause of all the result-compli- ments that come in to 3-2233. 'Mayor WJ. Naylor Endorses 'Oshawa Hospital Campaign By W. JOBN NAYLOR May 1 ia opportunity fo my thanks to Hospital y Committee and the azette for me | Privile | of publiely ospital's appeal for $1,000,000.00 in volun- tary for an addition to the Oshawa General Hospital. man emenital Brojects that Osh at Osh- ever toner on, and there ason to believe that we be as successful as many municipalities who have had camp: . This of course necessitate the fullest co-oper-| ation from industry, business, pro- fessional classes and workers ut our city. been appointed, by the Oshawa City Council, to the Board Directors of the Oshawa Gen- Hospital in 1953, and again 1954, 1 have been enabled to a fuller knowledge and un- : hy ial matters. The® result ave become increasingly conscious of the need for greater hospital accommoda- tion and facilities. are some things in life that we cannot afford to do with- out; hospitals are included in this he city is responsible for pro- hospital accommodation suf- to take care of any out- of communicable disease, it is not otherwise compelled statute to build, or maintain BY Bitars. or to make grants to MAYOR W. J. NAYLOR hospitals, The carrying out of the Health Act, however, and public insistence on adequate hospital fa- cilities makes assistance from the city imperative. Our Oshawa Hos- : |dustrial expansion, new medical : | other changes which are taking place in a rapidly growing city : | sistance to provide more adequate pital has operated for many years without Jequésting any capital mugicipal grants from the city or county. However, with new prob- lems created by business and in- lans and methods of procedure respect to hospitalization, and such as Oshawa, it has been ne- cessary to ask the citizens of Osh- awa and surrounding areas for as- hospital accommodation at this time. We in Oshawa may be very proud of the fact that after a re- cent survey carried out by a re- presentative of the 'Joint Com- mission on the Accreditation - of Hospitals," the Oshawa Hospital has regeived award of full accred- itation, which is the highest ob- tainable. This is indicative of the high standard of efficiency and administraton in the operation of our hospital. come of an appeal. ant-landlord relations May 1, 1951, the day after federal controls ex- pired. Saskatchewan took over con- In' part due to a stronger pre- sentation by Local 2251 of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO-CCL), Sault Ste. Marie coun- cil voted to set up a three-man board of rental appeals and ap- peint an investigator-appraiser. The board will consist of a ten- ant, landlord and a neutral chair man and will administer regula- tions for one year. Cost of operat- ing the rental Spency has been es- timated at $7,000 but no. final study of the plan for salary requirements has yet been made. Sault Ste. Marie's controls widen the coverage of the provincial act which is concerned only with dwellings built before 1947. A modified form of rental control is to be continued in Toronto for trols a year earlier when the fed- eral gover t first d the six months and in suburban York township for one year. Landlords, in York township can raise rents 10 per cent; in Toronto a 10-r #- cent increase is permitted if the approval of the rentals adminis- trator is obtained. ALLOW INCREASE In Ottawa, where controls are to continue to Dec. 31, a seven- per-cent rent increase is allowed; shared accommodation is decon- trolled and landlords no longer require a reason to dispossess a tenant at the termination of a lease. = In Windsor, modified controls will be force until 1955 with a three-man commission expected to be named to handle complaints, In Brantford a three-man board is fo hear appeals from landlords or tenants. There has been no date set for the lifting of controls. Dwellings untenanted after March 2 will decontrolled also any cases where dwellings are leased for a year or longer. Only 90 days notice, instead of six months, will be required to vacate shared ac- commodation. Brockville will continue modi- fied rent controls until March 1 1955. Landlords will be permitted to increase rents but tenants may appeal the increases to a rentals officer with the county judge as higher authority. BRITISH GOVERNOR ATTACK Mob Uprisings Greet Return Of Gen. Naguib By ZEIN NAGATI KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Police bullets beat off a wild attack on the British governor - general's residence today by yelling Sudanese tribesmen brand- ishing steel - tipped spears in a demonstration against visiting Egyptian President Mohamed Naguib. At least 20 persons were reported killed, including the British police commander, Col. H. 8. McGuigan, and six of his men. More than 100 persons were wounded, 30 of them critically. Authoritative sources re- ported the Sudanese police chief, Brig. Martada el Mahdi, among the victims. The clash came after more than 30,000 demonstrators agitating for and against Naguib massed in the capital. Members of the pro-inde- peliencs Umma party, brandish- spears and shouting anti-Brit- ish and anti - Egyptian slogans, marched on the home of Governor General Sir Robert Howe, where Naguib was being entertained after his arrival by plane from Cairo. SEVEN SPEARED TO DEATH .. Sudanese police, under British officers, first tossed tear gas gren- ades at the pressing crowd and then opened fire when the tribes- Sentenced To Die Balcombe Appeals CORNWALL (CP) Second Lieut, Peter Balcombe, 24, con- victed Saturday of murder in the October stabbing of a 21-year-old girl from the Queber City distriet and t d to be hanged May 25, plans to appeal. thin minutes after the death sentence by Chief Justice J. McRuer ended the gin day trial defence counsel J. M. P. Kelly of Ottawa announced he will appeal the conviction and sentence, Balcombe, married and the father of two children, was ar- rested at Komoka near London, Ont., Oct. 18, three days after the knife-slashed nude body of Marie Anne Carrier of Bienville, Que., was found face down in a ditch 35 miles west of here. The girl's family said Balcombe previously offered to divorce his wife and jnary the girl but she refused UNIQUE CASE Army authorities said they can- not recall any previous case since Confederation of a civilian court sentencing Canada to be hanged. a serving officer in Capt. Raymond Savoie, who rep- resented the adjutant-general's of- fice at the trial, reported the ver- dict to his superiors in Ottawa. It was reported that, if Balcombe is executed, he will not go to the gallows as an army officer. Action to strip him of his rank might be delayed, ho'/ever, pending the out- The chief justice took two hours and 40 minutes to deliver his ad- dress to the jury, comprising six farmers, three millhands, a mech- anic, a salesman and a butcher. He said there was no possibility of a verdict of manslaughter in the case, that the choice was between C. [guilty of murder and not guilty. , | PART-TIME CWAC He reviewed in detail the evi- dence for the crown and for the defence, beginning with® the last time Miss Carrier, a typist by day and a member of a reserve army mixed unit in Quebec City some week nights, was seen ive in Quebec the night of Oct. 14. He said two things stood out boldly from the evidence: that it was the body of Marie Anne AT CONFERENCE Carrier that was found stripped of its clothing and that the clothes found in a cabin near Woodstock | were hers, "not thrown aside care- | lessly, but put in an attic where they might never have been seen for years." The chief justice told the jury: "The evidence Los over- whelmingly towards the accused, but you are the sole judges of the facts." The jury deliberated three hours and 47 minutes. Balcombe, a dashing figure in his immaculate officer's uniform, was asked x the chief justice if he had anything to say before sentence was passed. He replied The British-born Balcombe did not testify on his own behalf. simply: "No, my lord." It is one thing to know the need for hospital accommodation; it is another thing to feel the need. We do not know the hour when some person -- and it may be someone LATE NEWS FLASHES very near to us -- will need emer- gency medical assistance and hos- pital attention, so let us "Open our hearts and give our share." It may be that our contribution to this campaign will be one of the most profitable and worthwhile investments we will ever have the privilege of making. ' Catskill Club Fire Kills 7 Many Injured GROSSINGER, N. Y. (AP)-- Seven employees were killed and 26 injured Sunday as flames swept through a staff residence at the Grossinger Hotel and Country Club, largest in the Catskill moun- | tains. : Prompt action by fire fighters .kept the blaze from spreading to .champion in other buildings at the resort, which had a week-end guest list of 900, incliding heavyweight boxing Rocky Marciano, who is training here. Most of the guests apparently slept through the early morning Civil War Threat Ended As Syrians Proclaim Chief By SIMON ALLAWERDI DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- Re- volt-wracked Syria's army chief of staff sternly warned against further viol and d tra- tions today as the capital prepared to greet the nation's new chief state, Hachem Bey EI Attassi. Unconfirmed reports today said a new cabinet had been formed with Nationalist party leaders Sa- bri Assali as Premier. The rest of the cabinet' was reported to 'in- clude three other Nationalists, four members of Attassi's Populist Party and four "independents. Assali and his party were dom- inant in the regime of Al Sayet Shukri Al Kuwatly ousted from the presidency by a military coup blaze, which took 45 minutes to get | in 1949. under control. ATOMIC ESTIMATE STOCKHOLM (CP)--An "analysis of modern means of combat and the probable developments in ord- ce has been made by the Swedish defence staff. In a pub- lished article they estimated the United States has probably con- siderably more/ than 1,000 atomic bs and other atomic weapons, | while the Soviet Union's stock of Abombs may comprise a few Though rival factions of army rebels united behind Attassi and ex-dictator Adib Shishekly's cab- inet agreed to step out, new riot- ing broke out in Damascus Sunday night and 12 persons were reported wounded some seriously. % Troops broke up the demonstra- tions by firing on the erowds and using tear gas. The capital for the secord night was under a curfew, paso was calm again to- aay. ~ One person was killed and 20 injured Saturday night when pro- > of | army revolt Thursday .. sent Shi- Shishekly troops fired on mobs who were demanding the resigna- tion of the ousted dictator's cabinet and acting President Maahmoun Kuzbari. | Kuzbari, 'who took over after the shekly fleeing into exile in Saudi Arabi, agreed to step down in favor of Attassi Sunday. Attassi, 79-year-old political vet- eran and two-time president, was roclaimed head of the state in a roadcast Sunday by Col. Shawkat Shkeir, the army chief. AGREED TO i Shkeir said Attassi was agreed on a meeting of political and military leaders Saturday night at Homs, 90 'miles north of Damas- cus, The truce meeting apparently healed the split which had divided the rebels after their uprising last week. Attassi was due here today from Homs to be received officially. OFFICER MATERIAL CHESTER, England (CP)--Lt.- Gen. Sir G. Lashmer Whisler says more officer material is drawn from southern England than from {the north. A possible explanation, the said, is that industrial centres offer less opportunity for develop- ing leadership talent, Pellers Sold For $1,240,000 HAMILTON--C. Allen Snowden, president of Brading Breweries Ltd., announced. the pur- chase of Peller Brewing Co. of Hamilton. Sale was authorized by shareholders at a price in ex- cess of $1,240,000. MLA For Nippissing Dies TORONTO--W. B. Harvey, 47, Progressive Conservative member of pissing, died in hospital cerebral haemorrhage Sunday night. A North Bay car dealer, he was in Toronto attending the current session of legislature. Escaped Pen Inmate Caught KINGSTON--An inmate of Kingston peni- tentiary who escaped while under treatment in the Ongwanda hospital, arrested in Ottawa today. Still missing is James Moore, 26, who escaped at the same time. Royal Tour Encounters Snags MELBOURNE--A polio scare and a water- front strike interrupted Queen Elizabeth's Australian tour. Because of the polio outbreak, in Perth, beaches were de- serted on Australia's Labor Day holiday. A union call to dock workers halted work on the royal liner "Gothic" and 42 other vessels in protest the legislature for Nip- today after suffering a George Filion, 40, was the smooth progress of against suspension of 19 men. Everett Lovell, who is in at- tendance at a conference of Civil Defence authorities in Ottawa to- day dealing with the acquisition and maintenance of a stock pile of emergency medical ppli men charged with outthrust spears. The seven slain policemen fell be- fore the spear charge. Naguib came here with Egyptian Guidance Minister Slah Salem for the inaugural session today of the Sudan's first parliament. After the fighting, the governor-general an- nounced the ceremony would be postponed indefinitely. Salem was one of the men who helped engin- eer Naguib's ouster last week. MUSIC CENTRE The Royal Academy of Music at hool of music in the Commonwe th, was founded in 1822. By ROBERT HEWETT CAIRO (AP) -- The Egyptian government strove to keep public order today following the return of oust- ed president Gen. Mohamed Naguib as chief of state and a new outbreak of mob vio- lence. All government universities-- past hotbeds of mob action--were ordered closed indefintiely after wild demonstrations Sunday in which police wounded 12 rioters. One police officer also was hit by a shot from a student. The police opened fire as dis- orderly, slogan shoutin crowds of young people surged toward Re- publican Square from all over the city to cheer Naguib, their popular hero. The display of force the demonstration before it endan- gered the country's shaky military gy ving and smilin aguib, wa g, peared on a balcony at the Ra idential palace and appealed in an impromptu speech for "moderation and forgiveness." Facing the first anti-government riots since the army overthrew ex- hing Farouk 19 Invaths ago, Nag- an e man wi him hg last i Bg ey am asser, patched their differences enough to a a show of unity. VISITED VICTIMS Then the two visited woun riot victims in a hospital. hoe demonstrators, who had screamed against Nasser a few hours before the shooting, kissed him. A joint statement Sunday by the cabinet and the revolution couneil said "some vicious elements and gpportunists tried to exploit this national jubilance (over Naguib's restoration) in achieving their vie- fous aims." 4 . : This obviously referred. to under gro un d. Communists NAGUIB 4 (Continued on Page 2) | Gas Fumes Kill Man Wife In Hospital Seventy-six-year-old Mrs. Jenniewhen his knock at the door remain. Pollard lies ill in Oshawa General Hospital today after spending eight hours beside the body of her hus- band, Charles, 88, at their home in Myrtle on Friday. Mrs. Pollard was almost completely overcome by the coal gas fumes that killed her husband and was unable to for civilian defence purposes. Mr. Lovell was in charge of medical supplies for the Canadian Army on the continent during World War II. move from the bed they shared. The couple were found short- ly after 3 p.m. Friday by Robert Rodd, a bread delivery man from Port Perry, who entered the house ed unanswered. Mr. Pollad went to the commune ity of Myrtle to live with his wife after he retired from farming in Bowmanville eight years ago. He was married in Bowmany 5 years ago and is survived two sons, J. Gordon "Pollard, Elk Lake, Ontario, and Ewart V. Pol- lard, of Toronto. Mr. Pollard's funeral will be held from Robinson's Funeral Chapel, Brooklin, tomorrow at 2.30 p.m. He will be buried at Bowman- ville Cemetery. "Hypocrites" To Accept US Arms Says Nehru States had 14 officers with the 48-In a letter to Nehru he also as- By SELIG HARRISON NEW DELHI, India . (AP) Prime Minister Nehru today re- jected President Eisenhower's of- fer of arms aid for India and de- manded the withdrawal of Amer- ican observers with the United Na- tions cease-fire team in disputed Kashmir, By giying military aid to Pak- istan, Nehru told parliament, the United States had intervened in the Indian-Pakistani fight over the Himalayan state and the American observers therefore '"'can no longer be regarded by us as neutrals." At the end of 1953 the United member UN military mission su- pervising the Kashmir truce. Eisenhower's offer of American arms aid "has done less than jus- tice to us or to himself," the prem- ier declared, continuing: "If we object to military aid being given to Pakistan, we would be hypocrites and unprincipled op- portunists to aceent it ourself." FOR DEFENCE ONLY Announcing the aid te Pakistan last week, Eisenhower said the United States would give 'most sympathetic consideration' to any request from India for such help. sured India that the United States will see to it that Pakistan used the arms for defence only. Nehru today made public his three-paragraph reply, thanking the U. S. president "for your per- sonal message" and saying his overnment will continue to follow s present policies "which are based on a desire for peace." In- dia now buys her arms where she pleases and does not accept direct "HYP ITES" St. Laurent Is Now In Ceylon By WILLIAM STEWART Canadian Press Staff Writer COLOMBO, Ceylon (CP)--Prime Minister St. Laurent said today the Western world perhaps should be | "a little more modest" about its accomplishments. He made the statement to a group of Colombo newspaper men at a three-quarter hour press con- ference held in the office of Cana- dian high commissioner James Hurley, The Canadian leader said in two weeks in Asia he has seen some of the "marvellous' achievements of vanished Asian civilizations. He recalled that on the outskirts of New Delhi in India he was shown an iron pillar that has with- stood rust for more than 2,000 years. "This iron pillar is of almost absolute purity," he said. "We can't produce that. "It would perhaps be a good thing for us in the West to be a little more modest about our ac- complishments,"' he said. He was asked many questions about Asian and Middle Eastern political probems to which he re- plied in most cases that he had not sufficient background to ex- press an opinion. (Continued on Page 2) "CONDEMNED" COURTHOUSE BURNS Condemned for years but kept standing for sentimental reasons, the historic century - old court- house, at Goderich, was al $ | loved by townsfolk and tourists "for its old-fashioned erbread architecture, 'was scheduled to be wrecked soon to make way completely destroyed when fire | swept through the famous land- mark Friday. The building, be | for a modern $500,000 hy The venerable building was (1 in 1854 at a cost of $4,000. Central Press aU ¥