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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS * Classified Advertising .... + Al Other Calls .......... on] "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle . 80. Weather Forecast Clearing this evening; Sunny Fri- Say. Low tonight 60; high tomorrow OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1954 Phone 3-3474 Price Not Over 3 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES VOL. 13--No. 193 HAMILTON RINK WINS GENERAL MOTORS GOLD CUP . Shunaxing one of the most ex- citing and successful General Motors Gold Cup tournaments in the history of the Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club, George W. Read, general manufacturing manager of General Motors of Canada Limited, last night presented the Gold Cup and four chests of silverware to R. Bell and lis Hamilton Ferneligh Club rink who had top score in the day's play. Left to right, A. J. McDonald lead; Dr. A. M. Mac- Cormack second; T. D. Thomas MLA tourney chairman; Robert Bell skip; Mr. Read and Jim Hanna vice skip. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo ; | bly, 131 Roxborough ave., Oshawa, OFFICIALS IINSPECT NEW WOOLWORTH SHOPPING CENTRE Mt an informal ceremony, Wed- mesday afternoon, officials of the Femi many, Ln pl at a recep and inspection. of the -firm's. modelled and extended premises on King Street west. Fred Bart- lett, store manager (left), is shown welcoming the officials. Left to right are: James T. Left wick, executive vice - president; Herbert J. Cook, vice-president of New York City; Russell D. Campbell, m er, Canadian district stores and Walter Mus- selman, who was the first man- ager of the Oshawa store when it was opened... --Times-Gazétte Staff Photo" Charges Follow Ice Plant Fire Charges of attempted arson have been laid against Leo Albert Ham- and Alfred Joseph Baumgartner, 337 Colborne street east, Oshawa, in connection with a fire at the old City Pure Ice Company plant, on the south side of Bond street west, in Oshawa on April 25. The charge is the culmination of four months investigation by the On- tario Fire Marshal's department. The charge, which was laid yes- terday afternoon before Justice of the Peace William Igel, says that | the two men "on or abdut the 25th | | day of April, 1954, unlawfully did attempt to set fire to a building | owned by the City Pure Ice Com- pany. Limited." A preliminary hearing is set for magistrate's | court here on August 26, The fire on April, 25, which caus- | ed relatively little damage, wa investigated by Inspector P. S. Harding of the Ontario Fire Mar- | shal's department. Inspector Harding, who is attach- ed to the insurance branch of the Fire Marshal's Department and Inspector P. Nelson of the Fire Marshal's criminal investigation | department, have made numerous TO OPEN FAIR W. P. Watson, Livestock Com- missioner for Ontario, will of- ficially open Oshawa fair tomor- row afternoon at two o'clock, | starting what promises to be the most "complete" fair in the long history of the South Ontario Ag- ricultural Society. visits to Oshawa in the course of their investigations over the last four months. Today is F-Day in Oshawa. The long-awaited South Ontario Agricultural fair gets underway with a bustling afternoon of pre- star-studded stage show in front of the Alexandra Park grandstand this evening. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, the finest livestock from three counties will begin stream- ing into the fair grounds. The stiff- est competition in years is prom- ised, as local breeders arrive, each determined to take hbme a good chunk of the $5,000 prize money offered. Judging will get underway im- mediately after the opening of paration, capped by a sparkling, in Show Tonight Tees Off Fair the women's fair, at 1 p.m. Of- ficial opening ceremonies for the fair proper will be held an hour later, with Ontario Livestock Com- missioner W. P. Watson officiat- Bg. . While entrants are preparing their animals, judging will be go- ing on in the agriculture, flori- culture and women's sections, First event Saturday's program will be the j udging of beef cattle, at 10 a.m. This will be followed by judging of light and heavy horses, goats and sheep. Harness races will be held at 2 p.m. and two hours later, the grand parade of livestock winners will be staged in the front of the grandstand. Decision Is Seaway Will Be Largely All- Lm Project OTTAWA (CP) long. awaited St. Lawrence Lindh 1 be mostly an all-Canadian venture with the exception of an im four-mile stretch of canals and locks on the American side of the International rapids section. . But even in this part--the Barn- hart island area southwest of Corn- wall, Ot.--the Canadian govern- ment reserves the right to build a parallel Canadian link if Canada and United States find they cannot get along in seaway oper- The Canadian government, in an exchange of notes with the U.S. made public Wednesday, agreed to let the U.S. build the four-mile $70,000,000 link at Barnhart and also do $2,000,000 worth of dredging jas the scenic Thousand islands see- WILL BEGIN LOCK But the Juttinationsl Tapids sec- tion will not be left to the U.S alone. The Canadian oll, signed by External Affairs Minister Pear- son, declared that Canada will im- meditely begm a 4,000-foot, $14,- 000,000 canal and lock on the Cana- dian side at Iroquois, Ont., about 27 miles up-river from Cornwall. The external affairs department said in a press statement, which was amplified at a press confer- ence called by Mr. arson, that the U.S, also has been committed by Congress to build a canal on the American side near Iroquois. But Mr. Pearson expressed the hope that the U.S. "may subse- quently decide not to proceed with this work at this time." The $300,000,000 27-foot seaway, providing a water lane for ocean- going ships from Montreal to Lake rie, is to proceed immediately, dovetailed with the $600,000,000 On- tario - New York power project which has already started. The seaway is to be completed by the end of 1958, Still to be decided between Can- ada and the U.S, is the question of tolls and methods of easing border restrictions on the movement of labor and materials. Discussions for easing labor-material curbs now are under way, but ironing out the tolls issue may take some time, TOLL ISSUE Mr. Pearson said that if each country decides to impose its own tolls, there will be no administra- tive problem. But if the decision is made to administer tolls jointly, then Canada will insist on a larger share of the charges because of her heavier investment in the seaway. On the current division of works, the U.S. will spend about $72,000, 000 or at best the $105,000,000 set aside by Congress for the job. But Canadian costs will amount to $190,000,000 or more. At Lachine, Que., canals, locks and channel enlapgements will cost about $122,00,000 locks in the Soulanges area a few miles up- river from Montreal will cost an- other $47,000,000; dredging of Lake St. Louis between Valleyfield, Que., and Cornwall will cost about $4, 500,000; the Iroquois canal, $14 - 000,000; and another $2,000,000 will SEAWAY (Continued on Page 2) been battling for months on They agreed to this Wednesday, after eight months of off-again, on- again negotiations and during a day of tangled manoeuverings in which Prime Minister St. Laurent plunged in personally in a vain at- tempt to have the disputants work out a settlement without arbitra- tion. Today, with the threat of a paralyzing strike out of the way, the government was still at work on two points: 1. Who will be the man named to dictate terms of settlement. 2. How will he be appointed and what procedure will be followed in the big job he has in resolving railway-union differences on which monetary estimates run to $60, 000,000 a year. Rail Strike Off As Unions Agree To Arbitrate Issue OTTAWA (CP) -- There will be no rail strike. Unions that havé been threatening a tieup of Cana- dian rail transport, and the railway companies they have | submit their multi-million-dollar dispute to arbitration. | stood, would like to see the rail- fringe benefit demands, will The government, it was under- ways and the non-operating unions representing 145,000 men agree on an arbitrator among themselves. Authoritative union informants say the unions, whose leaders had been empowered to call a strike if negotiations failed, will leave this to the government. The railways have been silent on that issue, though it was learned they favored arbitration as long ago as Tuesday, 24 hours before the announced collapse of rail- union negotiations and subsequent formal decision of the antagonists to submit to arbitration, In Regina, Percy Bengough, pres- ident of the Trades and Labor NO STRIKE (Continued on Page 2) West Coast P-C's Move Against Party Rebel VICTORIA (CP) -- The national Progressive Conservative party has ordered a new federal associ- ation established in Victoria riding in the first concrete move against British Columbia party rebels, it was reported here Wednesday night. . Robert H. Fort, president of the existing Victoria federal Progres- sive Conservative ation of ts said he received 'notification of the new move from Maj.-Gen. Pearkes, member of ares for Esquimalt-Saanich. Mr. Fort said he immediately replied with charges of dictatorial action and that the new association is unconstitutional. The national move follows a vote of non-confidence of the B. C. Pro- | gressive (Conservative Association executive at Vernon July 17. The vote was a climax of an organiza- tional fight between provincial leader Deane Finlayson and Mr. Drew. C10 UNIONS TALK OF JOINT STRIKE Steel, Auto Workers May Combine For War On Firms TORONTO (CP) -- George Burt, Canadian director of the United Auto Workers, said today there was a "distinct possibility" three huge CIO-CCL unions might embark on a united strike within a month or two to counter what union leaders say is a united front by mana- gement to destroy labor's gains. The three unions are United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers and United Packinghouse Workers. They are now locked in labor disputes with basic steel, auto, farm implement and meat packing industries. LOCAL REACTION In inferpreting the Burt state- |ment, authoritative Oshawa sour- ces felt that any such geReral strike action would not enter the Oshawa situation as far as the auto and steel plants are concern- ed because they all, with one small exception, have contracts which do Mot terminate until next year. As president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, Mr. Burt has been meeting with the various unions for several weeks and his statement probably expresses what they have agreed upon among themselves. It is believed that while the suggestion might bear on Ford, the Steel Co. of Canada and other large plants in process of conciliation, Oshawa workers would not be called upon to fall e. In brief, Mr. Burt's statement does not' involve aly suggestion of a general-shutdown in Oshawa. A united strike in these indus- tries could seriously cripple Ca- nada's economy. Steel workers at Hamilton and Sault Ste. Marie have voted their union officials permission to call a strike although the dispute be- tween the USW and Steel Com- pany of Canada and Algoma Steel Corporation is still in the concil- iation stage. A strike vote by Massey-Harris- Ferguson employees in Toronto has been postponed until Sept. '7, following re-opening of negotiations between the UAW and the farm implement firm. A conciliation board recently turned down UAW demands for wage increases and other fringe benefits at Massey-Harris. The un- ion now says the company has threatened to cancel its agreement with the UAW unless the union agrees to company terms. On another stormy UAW front Ford of Canada Wednesday turne down the union's reduced demands to settle the auto dispute affecting Windsor, Oakville and Etobicoke plants. Individualist Leaves Fortune LONDON (Reuters)--In six or eight years, a fair-haired girl will be looking for a husband who doesn't like his mame. The girl, 12-year-old Genia Pugh will get $61600 under the will of her grandfather the late Maj. Her- {bert Owain Pugh if she can' find a husband Silling a h to adopt her Dame instead of having her take 1S. The grandfather made the stip- ulation in his will because she and her sister Imogene, 10, have no brothers, and grandfather didn't want the family name to die out. If Genia fails to find a willing man Imogene will have her turn. If neither succeeds, another branch of the family gets granddad"s ° money. GALT IS NEXT TORONTO (CP)--Hydro 60-cycle standardization for Galt is sched- uled to be completed by early in 1955, Ontario Hydro announced Wednesday. Crews will be moved into the Galt area next month. LATE NEWS FLASHES Canada Decides To Quit Korea OTTAWA -- Canada "almost certainly" will withdraw a substantial proportion of its 6,000-man brigade in Korea in the next few months. Emilie Dionne Inquest Is Tonight STE. AGATHE, Que. -- An inquest into the ' death of Emilie Dionne, who died here Aug. 6, will be resumed tonight. Voters Support Malan's Policies JOHANNESBURGH, S. Africa -- Premier Da- niel Malan's Nationalist party, pledged to racial segregation, strengthened its grip on South Africa today with a victory in provincial elections. Unionville Airman Killed In France OTTAWA---FO. Francis G. Robins, 22, of Union ville, was killed Wednesday in France when his jet plane crashed on a training flight. GRANDSTAND SHOW TONIGHT -- FAIR OPENS TOMORROW AT TWO O'CLOCK Attendance at Oshawa fair has been increasing year |will be staged tonight, featuring the most elaborate out-|are "bigger and better than ever." W. P. Watson, Ont- [tomorrow afierfioon at two o'clock. by year-and at. the opening of the two-day show tomorrow |door program ever seen in Oshawa. Midway, outstanding thousands will throng Alexandra Park. Grandstand show |cattle shows and excellent fruit and vegetable exhibitions 3 v ario Livestock Commissioner, will officially open the al ~Times-Gazette Staff Photos.