The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

TIMES-GRZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All Other Calls RA 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle E Weather Forecast Sunny, hot, humid today and Tues- day. Low tonight 65, high tomorow 95. . VOL. 14--No. 154 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JULY 4,.1955 * k Over Copy FOURTEEN PAGES Price Not $ Cents Per "a p TURN SAVAGE KILLER By THE CANADIAN PRESS Lakes and rivers turned savage killer during the Dominion Day | holiday to take more lives than! all other causes combined | A Canadian Press survey today! 3 accidental holiday deaths | f them drownings. 'f'raffic| 5 took another 30 lives and | ities were laid to miscel-| | laneous causes. | Forty-six of the drownings were! 57 Drown In Canada | tims of accidents not directly at.! tributable to the three-day holiday. | Such causes as suffocaion, indus- trial accidents and shooting swelled the violent death count to 114, MAY BOOST TOLL There were indications th= toll would. climb even higher because the highways were still crowded to- day with Americans returning home after the three-day Independ- ft Oshawa --the worst may be just around the corner. | SEE NO RELIE HEAT, HUMIDITY Mercury Soars To 88 Sunday May Climb To 90's Tuesday LATEST Latest reports from the weather bureau indicate there Is no relief in sight for south- ern Ontario and Quebec, where | thousands are sweltering in the grip of a heat wave. | George Shreve. manager of the local Public Utilities Com- mission, says Oshawa has no water worries, "There is no danger of a water shortage," he said. "Our facilities are good enough to meet anv emergency." The weatherman had this advice day for sweltering residents of and district Take it easy and try to keep cool 0 t a % . | 0 With the mercury soaring to 86 this area as put out by the Do-| weekend minion public weather office | Toronto at 9 am. EDT: Ont,, told The Times-Gazette today Here is the official forecast for | of city and aistrict residents on the , there was plenty of local in| activity, y The Oshawa Merchants baseball team of the Intercounty Baseball League drew more than 3,000 spec tators' at two games here Friday with the Kitchener team, the morn. ing and evening contest each draw« ing approximately 1,500. The mot orcycle races at Alexandra Park also drew a large turnout, Claire Grant, chief of the pro. vincial forestry station at Oromo, 15 miles northeast of Oshawa, re- ported slightly higher temperatures {over the weekend, By eight am. today, the thers Cooler air is moving into northern Ontario, but the south- ern boundary of this welcome weather will stall north of the resort areas of Muskoka and Haliburton Tuesday, leaving the rest of southern Ontario with temperatures in the 90's, ac- companied by increasing hum- idity and the probability of scattered thunderstorms. The weather bureau at Malton, hat the mercury will climb to at| least 95 degrees tomorrow in that| mometer registered 79 degrees, he rea, approximately 40 miles west| said, and forest areas wers "tinder-dry." f here. {in heat-blistered Ontario and Que-| ence Day holiday. The U.S. holi- bec. The toll by provinces in the day started Friday and ends to- | hours from 6 p.m. local time Thurs-| night | day to midnight Sunday: The accidental death toll over | Ontario 40, Quebec Dominion Day in 1952 was 100 but Brunswick 7, British Columbia 6,| that year the holiday was spread Mr. Grant said station's 1200« acre nursery is being constantly ire rigated in a fight to protect sands of seedlings from being burned out. { 'It has a very good chance of tu Sunday, the Do-| passing the all-time high of 98 de- minion meteorological office said | grees recorded in 1921," said an tomorrow may see a temperature | official, in the 90's. Despite the exodus of thousands Thi THE * lene Taylor, 4, is left. ette Coutu, Aurel's sister, is also | shown. She is also 4. The weath- erman promises no early relief Pi ah SINGING IN mates try to solve the problem by laying in a lawn - sprinkler on Colborne street east. He is Saturday and 88 Jean- | from the sweltering spell, but vi soar- " ibili What with the mercury soa | there is a possibility of scatter- ing around the 90's, it's not easy LEA cool these days. This fel- 28, New ed thundershowers tomorrow --Times-Gazette Photo low and his two feminine play- two-year-old Aurel Coutu' Mar- 3 Former POWs | Leaving China NEW DELHI (AP) Three former American prisoners of war who chose to live in China and : Abe now are returning home will ar- GRAND'MERE, Que. (CP) -- A rive in Hong Kong Saturday, July| top union official was arrested 9, the Indian Red Cross announced Sunday on a charge of intimida- today. | tion in front of the Laurentide mill The announcement said informa-| of Consolidated Paper Corporation | tion was received from the Chinese which has been affected by a work| led C that the ex-prisoners-- | stoppage for some time. | ' J aelmonyil Tek Michel Chartrand, -feshnical iiliam Cow! Dalton, Ga. : que for the ¢ would be escorted to the Hong|council of National Syndicates frontier on that date and|(CCCL, was taken into custody as on over to a British Red Cross|a crowd that rose to several hun- representative. | dred persons gathered at the mill's| announcement did not men-| gates. ; tion two Belgians who also were| After being released on $150 bail, | charges of attempting to intimidate | Laurentide mill manager Don. Foss, but he denied the allegation. Chartrand said much of the crowd at the Laurentide mill gate was made up of employees of Con- solidated Belgo mill in Shawini-| gan Falls, aud. the . of xGanndian i . winigan Chemicals and the Alum- inum Company of Canada. The i i the 4 Judi | following Claim Union Head |GM And Union Tried Intimidation Resume Talks Negotiations between Local 222,. UAW - CIO; and the General Mo- tors of Cagada company Lid. here are expected to resume tomorrow, an eight-day adjourn- { ment The unjon, representing some 10,000 production workers, called a temporary halt to contract talks onthe grovads- tiat- the Goaiony 'Local 222's memotiating commit- tee, led by chairman Douglas Sut- fon, met the company today to Laurentide mill, employ some 4,500 workers, All but Shawinigan Chem- icals and the aluminum company have Been hit by work stoppages. due to return home. Chartrand said he was arrested on' End Strike, Minus Gains, | On Britain's W atérfront LONDON (AP)--Eighteen thou-| return if northern groups did like- sand British waterfront strikers| wise, Not until Sunday night did streamed back to the docks today|the northern ports agree after a bitter, confused stoppage| The strike began as a jurisdie- that made hundreds of ships idle| tional struggle by NASDU to gain for six weeks and cost the nation|equal bargaining rights on the millions of pounds in trade. | waterfronts with the big Transport The strikers gained virtually|and General Workers Union. nothing. They went back in full] At its height the force this morning but many were more than 20,000 men out bewildered and angry as a result| members of the TGWU--which op- of inter- and intra-union squabbles. | posed the walkout--kept at their "Operation backlog' got under | tasks. . | way as strikers formed up into] The TGWU accused the steve- angs to clear 171 ships which at|dores union of 'poaching' 10,000 of ast count were held, up at the|its members in provincial ports. docklands of London, Hull, Man-|As a result the parent Trades chester, Liverpool, Birken- Congress suspended NASDU from head, Rochester and Garston. | membership. Eventually AGREED SUNDAY | agreed to stop recruiting and col- But the rift between northern!lecting dues from new members, and southern strikers within the] TUC acted as arbiter between National Ainalgamated Stevedores| the two battling unions. Manage- and Dockers Union remained. Lon-| ment, the National Jssociation of don area strikers earlier voted to| Port Employers, maintained * a | officials strike kept | but|{go back to the docks as workers. NASDU hands-off attitude throughout, con- tending the argument was inter- grievance cases. The meet- ing was "not a barg#ining session." A second" set of negotiations, covering almost 8,000 other GM workers in four other Ontario cit- ies, will also be resumed tomor- row at Toronto. NEWSPAPER ADS FAVORED Manufacturer O. Parker Mec- Comas, president of Philip Mor- ris, Inc., says his company is shifting much of its advertising union. The situation became even more confused when Bill Barrett, NASDU general secretary, and two other who called the strike their union posts and decided to They were unable to get strikers to end the walkout, Ten thousand men who left TGWU to join NASDU find them- selves in a bewildering spot. They have to decide which union they belong to. They left the TGWU in anger but now NASDU's London leader- the ship has accepted a TUC ruling t that they be 'relinquished' from membership. Where are they to go? Northern elements in NASDU refuse to accept the London NASDU decision, There were no incidents as the Seamen's Strike | me sie. mains sou 0 Grips B.C. Ports and caught one of the company's | six passenger vessels and seven | VANCOUVER (CP)--The Queen| freighters berthed in Vancouver. | Charlotte islands and a number of | Another three arrived late Sunday | small northern British Columbia | night. ports were without regular ship- Norm Cunningham, SIU port| ping servite today as the Sea-|agent, said union members would farers' International Upion AFL-!bring vessels now in B.C. coastal TLC) struck Union Steamships waters back to Vancouver before Ltd, Joining picket lines. LATE NEWS FLASHES Trying To Swim Lake Erie ANGLOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- Greta Patterson, a striking 18-year-old blonde, plunged into Lake Erie's choppy waters today in a bid to become the first person to swim the 15 miles from. here to Crystal Beach, Ont. About noon, she was seven miles out in the Jake and still going strong. | | | | | men returned to work today. In London they returned without wait- ing to hear from the northern re- ports. Officials said there was no absenteeism. | from radio and television to | newspapers this year and next. | He told newsmen that his | firm believed more people read | newspapers than listen to radio or watch television, 'Consequently, this year we will more than double our newspaper advertising and I feel certain the results will show our thinking was cor- rect," he said. Under Water 5 Minutes, Young Swimmer Rescued KINGSVILLE (CP)--Grant Bris- ow, 17, of Windsor, was saved from drowning Sunday after being under water for more than five minutes. Police said Bristow was swimming with two friends when he suddenly sank. He was found near the bottom after repeated dives were made by his friends and onlookers. Pulled ashore, he was revived by a fire department Fescue squad after about 30 min- utes, Bridge Topples | 2 Women Dead CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP)~A sus- pension foot bridge tore loose from its moorings near here Sunday, hurling more than 50 persons into the shallow waters of the Oconaluf- tee iver, 20 feet below. Two women died of injuries, Of 40 persons injured, 18 were ad- mitted to hospital. Mrs. Henry T. Haile Jr., 35, of Daisy, Tenn., died | fall with a baby in her arms. I| en route to a hospital. Her head struck a rock. Mrs. Lawrence Rain- internal injuries in hospital. The 150-foot.long bridge is a tour- | when it broke," He said between | 30 and 60 people were on it--many |of them children. Most of the vie- tims were able to wade ashore. Saunooke said he heard a snap, | turned and saw people "falling all over each other in the water, Women and children were scream. ing and crying. . . I saw one woman | don't know how many of them were knocked unconscious but a | water, 38, of Atlanta, Ga., died of [lot of them were suffering from | shock, | water." just laying there in the LOS ANGELES -- Cigarette | | Alberta 5, Manitoba 3, Nefoundland 2, Nova Scotia 1, Saskatchewan 1. | Despite the high toll, there were | few multi-death accidents. Except | for four double fatalities, the deaths came one by one across| | the country. Prince Edward Island | | s the only fatality-free province. | { In addition, 21 persons were vic- | over four days. There were 35 traffic deaths and 34 drownings. Nearly half the deaths total was regorded in Ontario with 2 drown- ings and 10 traffic fatalities as well as a fatal fall from a dam, an accidental strangulation, one case of suffocation and one person killed by lightning, | WHITBY Staff) -- An 1l-year- old Toronto boy was drowned yes- terday in the Rouge River, while his mother frantically tried to get nearby swimmers to rescue him. | Pronounced dead after firemen from three departgents wor over him for three hours, was Roy Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sig- mar Johnson, 330 Kingston road, Toronto. The boy had waded in to the river at a spot just south of High. | way 401 where hundreds of ba ers had gathered. The boy, appar- | ently slipped on the bottom of the | river. Boy, 11, Drowns In Rouge River -| ents, -and one His mother tried desperately te get nearby swimmers to pull him out, but in the confusion of the crowd the swimmers could not understand her. Ten minutes later the lad's body was brought to the surface. Fire- men from South - West Pickering, Ajax, and Scarborough Township worked over him with resuscitators until 7:30 p.m, under the direction of Dr. J. W. Bosh of Ajax, and Ar. Taylor of Scarborough. | The boy is survived by his par. | sister, Margaret, eight. Constable Frank Robson of Pickering Township Police Depart. ment investigated. LIBBY, Mont. (AP)--More than 260 heavily armed men combed | the rugged Kootenai forest south of here today for a bear which apparently snatched a two-year-old | girl from her family's tent hear a logging camp Sunday. Undersheriff Ole Fagerberg iden- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer E. Curtis of Deer Lodge, Mont, Fagerberg quoted Mrs. Curtis as telling this story of the incident: | Two older Curtis children were | playing near the tent while the fam- ily was having a pienic. Suddenly, the youngsters screamed they had seen a bear come out of the shelter 'hopping on three legs." Mrs. Curtis rushed into the tent and discovered the child was miss- ing. When she ran outside, the bear had disappeared into the wilder- ness. "She didn't see the child in the tent, so she took it for granted Bear Snatches | Child, Vanishes tified the child as Ida May Curtis, | 5 the bear had gotten it," Fagerberg said. BLOODHO' S TO HELP Bloodstaifs were found im the tent, he addyd. Fagerberg paid all' available men --sheriff's giicers and volunteers--- were thrown into the hunt as soon trucj/from Deer Lodge, 300 miles Libby. They were expected to rive, here early today. The family was brought to Libby te Sunday night and placed in a private home after a short inter- view with authorities. They could not be reached immediately by telephone. £ A bear last week attacked Ed- ward Stark, 27, of St. Paul, Minn., in a sleeping bag at a camp ground in nearby Glacier National Park! Stark suffered a torn left ear, a ripped scalp and tooth-punctures | on one hand. First Glimp MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia gave | foreigners their first glimpse of {her new supersonic jet fighters | Sunday in a spectacular air force day show featuring a wide range | of war and transport craft. f Western observers watched in-| tently as' the pride of Russia's air| arm---fighters, bombers, transports | Russia Gives West Nations OH, TO BE Little wonder that these two teachers are smiling. After a year of hard work, they're off on a conducted tour of eight Europ- ean countries. Miss Mary Hewitt, left, a resident of Bright, Ont. has been teaching at Cedardale School in Oshawa for the past IN EUROPE. Back On Job At New Wing Construction work on the new $1,000,000 wing of the Oshawa Gene eral Hospital got under way today, when union officials orders ed tradesmen back on the job, More than 10 bricklayers, elegs Hiclans and plumbers sf i 'We are confident that ett] t can be reach said. The plumbers struek fol wage disput th sub Harold Stark. a a Announcer Dies In Air Plunge THETFORD MINES, Que. (CP) A 23-year-old radio announcer and amateur pilot plunged 5,000 feet to his death Sunday when his paras chute failed to open in what was to have been the climax of a re- gatta. : Ray Atkins of Bury, Que,, plum meted to Lake Aylmer while 5,000 spectators watched helplessly. The Sherbrooke, Que., radio ann died instantly when he hit water, Lake Aylmer is about 10 miles south of here. Expelled Prelates- Go To Argentina GENOA, Italy (Reuters)---Msgrs, Manuel Tato and Ramon No Roman Catholic prelates expolied from Buenos Aires by the Perom government three weeks ago, sailed for Brazil today amid pee ports that they will be allowed te return to Argentina, rt Italian churchmen said today the two prelates had received sion fo return to Argentina, but the Vatican was silent on the subs Ject to avoid publicity in the press ent delicate phase of relations bee tween the church and the Perom government, . Msgr. Tato is assistant bishop of Buenos Aires and Msgr, Novoa proe vicar of the Argentine capital, Af ter their explusion the Vatican exe communicated President Juam Peron and members of his gove ernment. , ai { Pe year. Miss Irene Preston, right, has been a teacher in Oshawa for the past five years. She spent one year at Centre Street School and the past four years at Westmount School, where she will return in the Fall ~Times-Gazette Photo | Of New Jets which seemed capable of carrying about 60 men each. SECOND SHOWING An aerial ballet starring a flap- wing, radio-controlled glider at- tracted attention. It was the second year the strange.looking craft had | been shown. Also taking part in the ballet, | Sprinkling rice and wine in Tokyo | and huge helicopters--passed over | accompanied by a 500-piece band, | bay to console the spirits of long- Japanese Divers Hunt For Legendary $400,000 Store By BOB UCHIMA YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP)--|! 1 | wreck since 1951. ies fo the U.S. consul.general here. T Countess Back From Cave Life LONDON (AP)--The Countess of Mayo, once famed as a Mavfair hostess, is back in circulation afe ter spending two months in g Himalayan cave, The 51-vear-old countess who res { turned to London this weekend. told hey were buried in the local in- | reporters she had zone to Ri ernational cemetery where there kesh, northern India. to study Last year he urned over three unidentified bod- | Reds Attack Formosa Planes TAIPEI, Formosa (AP)--Four Chinese National ist Thunder-jets were attacked by four Commun MiGs north of Matsu island, 100 miles north. of Formosa, today and one MiG was heavily damaged, Nationalist air force headquarters announced. Reports Drop In Price Index OTTAWA (CP) -- The consumer price index dropped by one-half point during May to 115.9 from 116.4, reflecting the biggest decline in living costs in almost two years. Moscow's Tushino -airfield. | were slow-moving Yak-18s and |dead American sailors, Japanese The high spot of the show came gliders which passed through a| divers today plunged into their sec- hen 48 supersonic single-jet fight- | variety of intricate formations. | ond day of salvage work on the ¢ 8 1 knew I was| ers flashed past. Most of the other| The show came to a close with|wreck of the USS Oneida. tendent Richard D. Butts said two falling into the river aircraft had been seen in rehearsal |a mass parachute drop. Watching Legent says the 150-foot. gunboat welded metal stakes to which the First the cable on the lower flights over Moscow, but these jets|the aerial manoeuvres fromd "the | had $400,000 worth of Japanese main cable supports were attached | side of the bridge snapped and | were new. j reviewing stand were Premier Nik- | gold aboard when it took 117 men| were yanked straight by the weight | tilted the. bridge, pushing every- Another fresh sight that brought |olai Bulganin; Communist party |to the bottom 85 years ago. U.S. was no furniture and I had a {of the crowd on the bridge. The body to one side. . . a moment | cheers from some 100,000 Musco- | chief Nikita Khrushchev; Defence | naval records show two officers| He explains that the only earlier boulder and some wire netting. to | stakes had been turned to the ends later the other cable broke ,and | vites thronging the flag-bedecked | Minister Georgi Zhukov; Klementy | and 57 men were saved. attempt, in 1905, recovered one keep out monkeys. and welded .in a circle. then the bridge pulled apart." {field was a sleek new twin-engine | Voroshilov, president of the prae-| Sunday a 20-man Japanese sal-|chest of gold coins worth an esti-| "All I had to eat was fruit and Chief Osley Bird Saunooke of the| Dill, who received a fractured left [jet transport. sidium of the Supreme Soviet: and|vage team began raking sand and | mated $3,800, | potatoes. The Swamis offered me eastern band 'of the Cherokees, arm, continued: "I hit the water|" Also on display were 50 twin-| other government leaders including | seaweed away from the wooden| Takeshima found old papers curry, but it was too hot." who operates a trading post at oneland knew my arm was hurt, I jet fighters, seven four - engine | former premier Georgi Malenkov. | hulk, which has lain in 150 feet of | which said the Oneida was loaded She said she passed time in her end of the bridge, said a "bunch | scrambled to my feet and waded turboprop bombers, nine four jet| Special guests of the Soviet lead- | water since it collided with the! with 800,000 Japanese gold coins in | cave practising yogism. PY boys about the middle of the | to the bank. It seemed like there | bombers, 54 twin jet medium bomb- | ers were Air Marshal. Subrto lead-| British steamer Bombay in 1870 { payment for another naval vessel, "Very good for the s ridge got to jumping up and | were people everywhere in the ers of a model first seen last year | fore, and Lt.-Gn. Zdnko Ulpic, | Salvage boss Hisato Takeshima |the USS Stonewall Jackson, which | muscles as well as the mind,' down, bouncing the bridge--that's river, land four two-epgine heliconters'chif of the Yugoslav Air Force,' says he has been scouting the had been sold to Japan, | said, : is a plaque in memory of the mystic Swami seet whose members Oneida's crew. ' | dwell in caves, American naval officers are mot | She said she was the only woman at all sure there is treasure on | in the whole colony, : the Oneida, but. Takeshima says: le My cave was somewhat simpler b ist attraction at the Cherokee In.| Paul Dill, 13, of Nort Augusta, dian reservation, two miles north-|8.C., said, "it happened so quickly | east of here. Reservations superin-| that the first thin ap : Ase av han the 23-room house I ki up poking evervihing I have on sefore the war," she said, "There | |