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Ca TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising ....3-3492 PARP atl ath di alle All Other Calls ..........3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast i a 1 Mostly sunny Tuesday and colder, Low tonight 20; high tomorrow 82 rr OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1955 Price Not Over $5 Cents Por Copy Phone 33474 | FOURTEEN PAGES VOL. 14--No. 7 HISTORIC MOMENT A television camera (at right) on a stand in the Senate chamt- ber for the first time in history records the opening of Parlia- ment, Governor-General Vincent Massey reads the speech from the throne before a Joint assem- | bly of senators and Commons members at the opening of the second session of the 22nd Par- liament last week. (CP Photod Burt Asks Chrysler To Defer Vote Until Ford Strike Over WINDSOR (CP)--A strike vote at the Chrysler of Canada plant here has been postponed indefin- itely because the auto workers' union is unwilling to strike two Salor automotive 'plants at one George Burt, Canadian director of the United Automobile Workers (CIO-CCL) asked a general mem- bership meeting of the Chrysler workers Sunday to postpone a scheduled strike vote until the deadlocked Ford of Canada strikes are settled. The 2,000 workers who attended the meeting, held in a downtown theatre, voted overwhelmingly by show of hands to accept the post- , ponement, executive decision to a he Bost ponte t caught won,' Local chairman of the negoti h h told the Jrorker ro y had | nol executive to attend the meeting to give the negotiatin Chrysler unit of UA | the added power of being able to call a strike at any time, team of the 's Local 195 In asking for the delay, Mr. Burt, who returned to his job only last Thursday after a two months' ill- ness, said the most important prob- lem facing the UAW now was to Settle successfully the 13-week-old or! trikes, "The Ford strike will have to be ' he said. "You can help win it by producing more cars to keep the pressure on Ford to settle, and by keepin pay for the food and shelter for the strikers." your dues coming "in to Charles Brookes, president of 195's CHrysler unit and the strike | wi "We've been forced to change our tactics because it is not UAW strategy to take on two major companies in strikes at one time," he said. "When we called for the strike vote to be taken here we believed the Ford dispute would be settled by this time." He said the company hag not made any offer to the union yet in negotiations which have been going on almost daily for two months, since a conciliation board report on the dispute was handed down. The report rejected most of the union's demands. The 7,500 Chrysler workers now earn an average wage of $1.71 an hour, The union is seeking a 15- cent hourly wage ngreast. eight is ole a Si e, nts, ol MADRID (AP)--A P attack on censorship in Spain was. pub- lished Saturday by the weekly Ecclesia, organ of the Spanish Catholic Action. Ecclesia, only uncensored publi- cation in 'Spain, was commenting on a recent speech by Information Minister Gabriel Arias Salgado in which he defined the role of the press as being at the service of the state. Arias' speech was pre- limina regulat has since been being overhauled, g newspapers. Ecclesia is at present directed by a council responsible to En- Primate of in and Archbishop of Toledo, Epa Cardinal Deniel, e the dismissal of Father Je- Iribarren several months ago for publishing an attack on cen- cardinals sorship without the approval, Saturday, Ecclesia insisted the press had another role: Reflecting public opinion and bringing it to to presenting a new code The code withdrawn and is the attention of the government. "If authentic public opinion must have liberty to form, the press posed amendments to the Elections Act to extend the franchise in fed- eral general elections, Rev, Dan Meclvor (L -- Fort William) wants to enable all qual- ified voters absent from home on election day to cast ballots in ad- vance polls. James Brown (L-- Brantford) wants the vote ex- tended to all Indians on reserva. tions. They the d ts to the ¥ sheophed Act in A eed which appeared on Saturday's Commons order paper. ADVANCE POLLS At present, commercial trav- Widely Available, MP. Says OTTAWA (CP) -- Two Liberal | ellers, members of Parliament have pro- fisherme | sransportation employees, members of reserve | forces oe 'training and the RCMP may vote in advance polls. These polls are open on the Thursday, riday and Saturday preceding election day which by law must be held on a Monday. Mr, Mclvor said "all Canadians away from home on election day should have the right to cast their ballot." He also proposes that the three-day period of the advance polls should be extended to a week or more. All Indians living off reservations now are entitled to vote. The only Indians on reservations who may vote are war veterans and their Wives and those who pay income ax. that reflects it must have the same right as long as it does not harm the common good which is not forcibly the same as the opinion of the Ecclesia said, Government pressure on press, , the the magazine said, is illicit. government," Feb. 10 Deadline For Globe Offers TORONTO (CP)~ An advertis- ment offering for sale the Globe the ORILLIA, Ont. (C)--A trapper who lives in bush-covered Matche- dash township northwest of here has two loves--his trapline and a painter's brush. William Baker, 58, "fell in love" with the wild terrain as a youth. A blacksmith and builder by trade, he worked mainly on con- struction jobs. He served with the army in two world wars, As a Te- sult of his service he became al- most blind in one eye and suffers from arthritis, Now pensioned, he lives with his Trapper's Primitive Art Excellent, Experts Say as a guide among his other activ. ities, Baker has never had an art tytor, He says he paints scenes as sees them and decries modern art, Sometimes ' he sketches a scene on the spot but he usually relies on his memory, His finisned work is painted in oils in his home studio. Although Baker has painted hun- dreds of canvases, his only public exhibition was at Coldwater fall fair, He says his work isn't good enough." Vacsationers and neigh- bors disagree. In any case most Would Shoot Down Saucers COBALT (CP)--The New Year has 'brought reports of flying saucers in this northern Ontario mining area, Bright white discs were sighted Friday and Saturday by at deast 10 persons, Others have banded to- gether and are planning to take shots at the objects if they prove | hostile. But so far they have been | harmless. A single saucer was observed | Friday over Lake Temiskaming b; John Yunt, president of the Cobalt Chamber of Commerce, Ray John- son, mechanic at Agaunico Mines, and Al Jennings, a truck driver, They said it zipped about the sky for almost two hours. On the day after Christmas Mr, Hunt and Willy St. Jean reported seeing a bright object over the same spot, In North Cobalt Saturday bright | objects were seen by seven other persons. Mr, Maurice Parent, 28-year- old | miner, said the light was so bright "it was difficult to look af at." Wild Bullet Hits Car Glass TORONTO (CP)---Mrs. George Gula narrowly escaped being shot Saturday night- when a gunman's bullet shattered the window in her car, showering her face with broken glass. Mrs, Gula and her husband were driving past a drug store in west Toronto when the shot was fired. The gunman and an accomplice were being chased by the pro- prietor of the drug store from which they had stolen $300. The pair escaped with the money. Mrs. Gula was taken to hospital for treatment, Want To Pipe Gas Into Ontario WASHINGTON (CP)~Talks are scheduled to start here today which are expected to lead to the construction of a natural gas pipe- line through western Ontario to Hamilton, Union Gas Company of Canada and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company of the United States are asking the government to len ay AT to 15% billion to o pny consumers from a line running to Hamilton Tom Cy storage tanks in Lambton county, The line will serve Stratford, Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph and Hamilton, and other communities along the way, When Alberta gas becomes avail able in Ontario; the new Panhan. dle contract will be cancelled and the supply replaced with Canadian gas, SHADES OF PAST LONDON (CP -- It's like old times in the Blackheath district where highwayman Dick Turpin used to ride. Police with "dogs nightly patrol the area following Jeveral attempted purse - snatch- ngs PRESIDENT PLE FOR TARIFF CU WEEKEND DEATHS Highway Mishaps Cause Death Of 6 Twesty-seven persons died by vi- olence in Canada during the week- end, The four western provinces ac- counted for 17 of the deaths. In eastern Canada, nine of the 10 deaths were in Ontario. There were no deaths reported from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland, Alberta and British Columbia each, had seven deaths. Four persons from a family of five were burned to death at Bye- croft, Alta, There were no fire deaths reported from other prov: inces, Two persons died of asphyxiation and a young woman fell to her death in Vancouver. Two persons were shot to death, one at Saska- toon the other near Brandon, In eastern Canada, Mike Woro- towica, 40, died. of injuries suf- fered in a traffic accident Sunday at Contact Bay, Ont., a tiny Lake- of-the-Woods community, Two persons were killed in the Toronto area to bring the sitys fatality toll to seven so far this ear, y Freda Davidson, 20, was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with a freight train al a level crossing, Armando Stirpe, 43, was fatally injured when he stepped into the path of an oncoming car, Mrs. Annie Tannahill, 57, of Toronto, was killed when a car driven by her son went control and turned over in a ditch near Burleigh Falls, 10 miles noith of Peterborough. Karl Juravinski, 32, was fatally injured in Hamilton when hig car went out of control and crashed through a guard rail fence, Edward Deehan, 73-year-old far- mer, was killed when his car was struck by a New York Central pas- Maidstone, near Windsor. HIT BY BUS At Renfrew, 50 miles west of Ottawa, Mrs, J. W, Scobie, about 65, died when a bus from which she had just alighted backed up | and ran over her, { Lee Edward Louke, 12, was | killed when a shotgun accidentally discharged in the hands of his eight-year-old brother at Simcoe, Ont., 256 miles south of Brantford. At Victoria Harbor, Ont. miles northwest of Orillia, the body of Arthur Bressette, 36, was found in his burned-out home. Po- lice said he died of sutfocation. At St. Ubald, Que., 45 miles northwest of Quebec City, the body of Luc Delisle, 35, was found on a street after a drinking pansy. He had been beaten abou! head. Police held a man as a material witness, White House Angry At Benson's Ousting Of Attache From Tokyo gang AAP) -- White cials ured _to- 3a i! ity program is basical y sound, An official thoroughly familiar with what » callad the 'rescue of er's pi 48 in the case ald Benson violated ** a very definite rule" of procedure and thus precipitated "a very embarrassing situation." This source, who asked not to be named, said presidential assistants are satisfied that the security pro- gram covering government em- loyees is essentially a good one need of no drastic overhauling, The official said Benson "prob- ably could have averted this whole controversy if he had conferred first with State Secretary Dulles" regarding Ladejinsk CONFERENCE REQUIRED The White House rule was des- cribed as calling for the heads ol government departments, such as Benson and Dulles, to sonfer when there are differences of opinion W/ A man orn adeimgiy's Jast month ousted insky, Russian-born but a natural: zed flo my from his post as agricultural attache in Tokyo, security and technical grounds. The state department had given Ladejinsky security clearance be fore Congress transferred jurisdic. tion over such attacks from that department to the agriculture de- partment, The upshot of the controversy touched off by Benson's action wag the hiring of Ladejinsky by the Foreign Operations Administration for a land reform job in Commu- nist-threatened South Viet Nam, The FOA is reported to have acted on instructions from the White House in giving Ladejinsky the new assignment, He got full security clearance from FOA after what an agency spokesman sald was a full FBI investigation. Manitoba Priest Found Slain In Car BRANDON, Man, (CP) -- A Ro- man Catholic priest was slain Sun- day near this southwestern Mani- toba community. His death ap- peared to have been payment re- ceived for befriending a stranger or strangers on the highway. The body of Rev. Alfred Quirion of St. Edouard, Alta, was found about 4 p. m,, slumped in his car. The car was in a ditch five miles east of here. Father Quirion had been shot three times, once through the right side of the body and twice in the right arm. GENERAL ALARM Two hours after a passing mot- orist made the discovery, and after RCMP had issued a general alarm and set up road blocks, three men were arrested in the Brandon Ca- nadian Pacific Railway depot. They were being held for ques- tioning in connection with the slay- ing but so far no charges have been laid, Police said a railway locker which they opened with a key being carried by one of the men contained two revolvers, a pistol and two hunting knives, One of the slugs recovered from the 44-year-old priest's body has been sent to the RCMP laboratory at Regina for ballistics tests, Father Quirion' was returning to the little Alberta settlement after |i driving a group of seminarians to Winnipeg. Over 40 Killed In Brazil Wreck RIO DE JANE I R O, Brazil Reuters)--At least 40 persons are feared to have been killed when a passenger train crashed in north- ern Brazil late Saturday, first re- ports received here said today. The accident occurred near Ara- acaju, capital of the northern Bra- zilian state of Sergipe. First reports sald the train crashed at high speed, but no fur- ther details were immediately available because of bad commu- out of |! senger train at a level crossing in | { ousted Lade-| _ | is essential to our security; TO VISIT CANADA Prime Minister Mohammed Ali of Pakistan is expected in Ot- tawa Jan, 24 for a short visit before going on to London for the conference of Commonwealth prime ministers. Crown Says Police Car Was in Wrong WINDSOR (CP)--A charge of careless driving has been laid by Ontario Provincial Police against a Windsor police constable who was involved In an accident ear- lier this week while chasing a speeding truck. The charge was laid against Const. John Hughes, who was uh. ing a police cruiser last Tuesd when he tried to overtake a reed. ing truck. The police cruiser was in col lislon with another car at an east end intersection, Witnesses sald fhe Jolice car went through a red | nese Refrains | rom Comment OTTAWA (CP)--The income tax appeal board has denied as an in- come tax deduction $27,789 which an unidentified contracting firm said it spent in 1961 for renova. tion of a country home where gov- ernment officials were entertained prior to ngotiations about con. tracts. Ina Judgment denying the com- pany"s appeal--heard in camera-- and: made public Saturday, board member W, S, Fisher {| International and reciprocal" cut in tariffs world. He said:" "Our own self-interest requires such a program because (1) 2co- nomic strength among our allies (2) economic growth in underdevel- oped areas is necessary to lessen instability growing out of the vulnerability of such areas to Communist penetration and subversion; and (3) an fn. creasing volume of world produc- tion and trade will help assure our own economic growth and a rising standard of living among our own people." Eisenhower Cites Strong Reasons For His Pr WASHINGTON (AP) -- President ogra) today || asked Congress for power to make a "moderate, gradual ogram by as much as 16 per cent. In a special message, the president said in its own in. || terest the United States requires a foreign economic' !| program that will stimulate economic growth. in the free ] In the first.or § series of pr messages to the' Democratic 84th Congress, the president specific ally renewed the request he made last year's publican-led a. without success for a 3- year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with new tanift. eutag power. 8 in the foreign eco. "Ly tied, isenhower also rec- ommended Customs | § HON oH He asked (Continued on Page 2) TOKYO (AP) -- Piping adic radio heralded the last day of sc! talks between United Nations retary-General Dag Hammarsk 1d and Red China's Premier Enlal with one of its bitterest|s blast against the United States. The propaganda broadcast heard here, appeared to bode little good for dtr Ra fl long journey to talk over the release of 11 American airmen ar and during the Korean war charged ed with shying by. the (The New York Times, in a a dis atch from New Delhi, said India| m s made clear to Peiping she fa- ee an agreement lea to quick release of the airmen, patch, by Times correspondent A. M. Rosenthal: quoted qualified sources as saying Indian authori. ties have indicated it would be politically wise to make such a settlement whether Peiping's spy charges are justified (The dispatch said the Indians See Hammarskjold Mission A Failure have avoided publicizing this stand, uled | feeling their efforts to might be hampered if Red got the idea Nehru governs ment amine Jet Govern: caNToN TENSE n io Cao Tn. Sok Si ported by a Canadian ed uns uD al ? » get to in time cover mm 5 .m "| with C! 150 men 1 ware PE Ca ya ay, he re- poi "I feel people in. C a lot more than has een to ten by Petping. Stevenson said; * ficial made a remark abot wh would happen if the 11 U.S, 5. affmiien were released, lead to be. lieve that they mi e had more oan hat phave has told them," he said, "I express no opinion as to a it should be necessary to entertain public officials in order to obtain contracts for work to be done for apparently the appellant---and, no doubt its competitors--have found the benefit of public bodies that such entertainment has been not only necessary but also bene- ficial from a business point. of view." The written judgment did not digclose the identity of the appeal ing company or its location, It LOS ANGELES (AP)--Interrup- tion"of a stage production in Holly- wood of the comedy 'Charley's Aunt" climaxed the roundup by secret service agents of 12 persons nted for the counterfeiting of sald the con. trolled 95 per cent of the 'shares of a susidiary company which was thé actual operating company and entered into construction contracts almost exclusively with federal, provincial and municipal govern- ment bodies. CONVENTON DATE WASHINGTON (AP)--The Dem- ocrats announced Friday they had picked Monday, Aug. 27--the sec- ond latest date in party history nications between the scene and here. to start their 1956 convention to a te for presi. dent. $24,000 worth of $20 bills, Agents descended on the Carou- sel Theatre Friday night arrested two of the actors in the play and ripped up backstage flooring dur- ing the performance to seize two bags of fake bills, he final arrest in the three- state roundup were not announced until Saturday night, after the 12th erson was arrested here, NDER THE STAGE Guy H. Spaman, secret service agent in charge here, described the show-stopped raid during the performance of 'Charley's Aunt." Agents, who went backstage, said Laughs Fall Flat As FBI Finds Fake Bills On Stage : they learned that actor George Lewis, one of the leadin yer ers, had stuffed a coup under the stage. ' ply Hived up h Soe ng and fou "- man said contained en oo bills, Lewis was arrested turing the intermission after the first acl and the sh ow w Stophed. Another ace tor, John B e, also was jar. rested x of the 12 persons, in - "unidentified 17-year-ol tease dancer, were arres Angeles, paman said all 12 rested in the case charged with negsing ing counterfeit lls except Glenard Elmer Sc idt, a printer who is charged with manufacture ing counterfeit money. stripe in Los I Printing Company, which publishes The Globe and Mail, was printed on the financial page of the morn- ing newspaper today. It says the Chartered Trust Com- | pany has been authorized by the | shareholders "to receive offers | for the purchase of all of the Issued | shares of the capital stock of the Globe: Printing Company or Yor | the purchase of the assets and un: | dertaking of that company. The two-column advertisement | says prospective purchaser should | apply to the trust company at 34 King St. West, Toronto 'for copies | government plans to set up a cor- of the terms and conditions of sale mittee of experts to find if the toll and other relevant information." | system is feasible in the province. It sets a deadline of 3 p.m. EST| Feb 10, 1955, for the submission of | A bill is to be brought down in the | legislature soon seeking power to offers. int an expert body to report The trust ¢ ed | on Jan, 3 the intention of the ex- {to the Hovernment on highway fi- nancing. ecutors of the estates of the Jate George McCullagh and William H Some of the most modern' high- ways across the border have been Wright to offer the newspaper for _ | built by what are called state sale. | brough-way authorities, state cor- "Soup" To Blow Up | oration which fat bonds fo py Which are part of the highways Building Is Found | draw their revenue from highway | Observers believe that in investi | TORONTO (CP)--Four ounces of tolls. | gating toll roads the government In many instances the loans are | '8 Showing reluctance to expand its | nitroglycerine, enough to blow 'ip | a fair-sized building, were found in | backed by a state guarantee but roads budget higher and has de- Afraid Time For Disarmament Is Past in other cases larger issues have | cided that if any section of he) " . Sel Gk oh ud [2 bh A Wiouk goverament an | vir, wails & supe Hihwas | CHICAGO -- Dr. Eugene Rubnowiteh, an atomic suburban Leaside Sunday. dorsment, scientist said today that tile time for effectively 'olice said the scove : : « dar © lowed the arrest of two Mags ara | Roads are costly in a province controlled atomic disarmament may have "irretriev- | pocket of automobile owners who fol- | ROADS COSTLY use it. In an area like Montreal, Fails men on charges of possessing | this size. The provincial govern- ably passed" because of the swelling stockpiles in th burglar tools. Chiifed are Arthit ment, which maintains public roads | Yui I : of i ng : in the United States and Russia. of his canvases are snapped up wife and family in the house he quickly by tourists. built himself. He hunts and acts Toll Highways To Be Studied QUEBEC (CP) -- The Quebec | cities, spent $75,680,174 on them ! during the 1953-54 fiscal year. Not quite half of that money went for maintenance and winter clearance, the rest for road construction and improvement, The figure equals about 25 per cent of the entire provincial budget - is roughly equivalent to what automobile owners pay to the provincial treasury in gasoline, licences and other taxes, In 1953-54 they paid $79,167,783, These figures do not include cost of bridges LATE NEWS FLASHES Yugoslavia Moves Closer To Red China BELGRADE -- Yugoslavia and Communist China have established full diplomatic relations and agreed to exchange ambassadors. Japan Halts Imports Of Canadian Jron Ore TOKYO -- Kyodo news service reported today that Japanese iron and steel manufacturers have decided to halt import of iron ore from Texada, B.C, be- ginning next April 1, Plane Crashes, Burns; No One Hurt ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- A National Air Lines plane bound for Miami crashed and burned on takeoff here today, A stewardess shepherded the 10 passeng- ers off. the plane and no one was hurt. WEEKEND SNOW. LEFT SCENE OF BFRUTY Dropping temperatures and | left the countryside vast |, girls, and some adults too, took light, clinging snow over Sunday, i scene of beauty, Many boys and | advantage of the holiday to go | skiing or just stay at home and make a snowman. ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo. one torists would pay a good part od ag in some heavily-travelled parts | of the United States; visiting mo- | dle, 31, and Wilfred Brown, 26. everywhere except in the large ' the bill,

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