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Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 23 Sep 1955, p. 1

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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS / Classified Advertising. RA 3-3492 .. RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazetté and Chronicle ho oobi Bion Sib doi Weather Forecast Sunny - with few cloudy intervals; - " Temperatures unchanged, light = winds. Low tonight 55, igh tomoxa - J row 65. Authorized Second-Class Mol Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 This de a high angle view of Oshawa creek bridge. The wind. | clearly seen. | right wing is the 'form' work. for jing ereek and surface of the ex- | tended Wentworth i HIGH ANGLE VIEW OF NEW BRIDGE | support of the deek and im the | feet high. The protruding steel |-right background workmen are | bars below the deck tie the two laying steel. The bridge is 42- wings in horse-shoe shape to give | built at a cost of $469,000, the | bridge is expected to be ope for traffic next year. Times-Gazette ] Photo street 'lid' are The on the the bridge more rigidity. Being | On Negro Boy | Killing store," said the Soyearali mother By SAM JOHNSON SUMNER, Miss. (AP)-- mippi's. most sensational trial in years was expected today to go to # country jury deciding the fate of #wo white men accused of murder- 'mg a Chicago Negro boy. Only character witnesses were scheduled during the day for 24- year-old Roy Bryant and his 36- year-old half-brother, John William Milam. Their counsel said the de- fendants probably would not tes- Hey. They were accused of murdering Emmett Louis Till, 14-year-old Ne- gro, and dumping his weighted body into the Tallahatchie river after, they claimed. the boy had "wolf whistled" at Bryant's wife. The defence appeared confident this morning that the all-male, all- white jury weuld 'free Bryant and Milam--principally, they felt, as a result of -testimeny by three de- fence witnesses attacking the iden- Missis- tification of the battered body as WORLD CHAMPION. CONGRATULATED x {ooking fresh and only slight] battered. Rocky Marciano congratulated by International Rening Club. President Jim Nor- Marc ' their USS. trained company lawyers had misinterpreted Canadian laws, strike Mound and silent yester-|and that competent UAW legal day as company negotiators met counsel advised that all necessary leaders of CIO United Auto Work | regulations were obeyed prior to ers im Toronto, discussing local [calling of the strike. Jabor management problems in| The Ontario Labor Relations existence at Oshawa and St. Cath- Board has set Sept. 27 for the 4 arines: factories in'.an attempt to| hearing, and the, union has indi- I pulled away. He said, "How about|.joar the decks for further bar- | cated that a formal reply to the a date, baby?' "' . gaining on major issues which | company petition will be filed be- She said the Negro wsed unprint-| may settle the walkout called by |fore that date. able words which she refused to the union after midnight Sunday | When the 60-day notice guestion repeat, and concluded with: "I've Non-economic problems at the |was raised by the company be- been with white women before." {wo plants, which include 1s ies | fore te colicilision boar Wien niori union shop, job post-| sat a shawa July A eorge PULLED HIM OUP [oe of in up of an appren- | Burt, UAW national director, de- Another Negro, she said, then tice program, have proved .aj clared: "If we are wrong this came in and puiled the first, one {stumbling block during the main | time, we have been wrong since out of Bryant's store. i talks. 1937." 7 ! 'I started out to go fo the car| A GM official said after yes- UAW leader's action in for my pistol," Mrs. Bryant added. | terday's meeting that 'some pro-| walking out of conciliation hear- "He (the first Negro) was stand-| gress was made" in isolating the | ings at Oshawa Aug. 9, and To- ing on the front porch of the store. issues, but declined to elaborate, | ronto Aug. 12, came under fire He whistled," | adding _ that similar talks would | yesterday from Norman L. Math- Mrs. Bryant said she was alone [continue today. |ews, leading labor relations during this incident, her husband |FILE PETITION [lawyer who said before the St. having gone away om a business! General Motors of Canada Lim- | Catharines Rotary Club: "It is to trip. [ited filed a petition Mogiay with be Bobed hilt the Govetnment wil Ontario Labor lelations | not sit idly by in any future cases pe defence did not ask Mies. the requesting that the UAW /|of this nature, but will take action and whistler, However, other wit. strike be declared illegal on|to curb the power accumulated by h th ounds that no 60-day notice individuals of this type." nesses placed Till in the store the | the gr to terminate the existing| BURT REPLIES mgt Mes _Bryapt deseribed, Some {oF ea ® pargaiing he existing] George Burt replied heatedly received by the company as | last night: "What the UAW real- Banfi under the terms of the ly has no regard for is lawyers Labor Act. NON-ECONQMIC Union . officers that | (Continued on Page 2) Genemal Motors of Canada Lim- ited plants in five cities remained that of Till. All three said the body was bloated and decomposed. | STATE VOICES DOUBT State' attorneys privately doubt that they would get verdict of two children, "and stopped at the candy counter.' She said he ordered bubble gum. "I held out my right hand for some money, He caught my hand. voiced | a guilty | Acquittal however, "would not | end the publicized case. Both Bry} ant and Milam are under indict- ment also for napping in con- nection with Til disappearance. District attorney Gerald Chat- ham earlier said the two could not | be tried for kidnapping at this term of circuit court. Next term is next spring. The state rested its case Thurs- day after Mrs. Mamie Bradley, Till's widowed mother, cried as she looked at a picture of the body. WOMAN'S TESTIMONY Thursday Mrs. Carolyn wife 'of the co-defendant, testified that a Negro with '"'a northern brogue"' molested her a few days before Till was kidnapped in the early hours of Aug. 28 Spectators shifted to the front of their chairs as she told her story of the night of Aug. 24. '""This Negro man came into the Bryant, decla red tinue oS Six Men Missing In Barren Lands PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. (CP)-- of the party when they passed Discovery of a supply cache pro-|through Montreal in June and were vided the first clue today in the); iorviewed by the press. They search RO unre said at that time that they were | going to be joined by two Canadian vie fio the Buhogoitani Barren university students, , Dynamite Cache Found Near Whitby WHITBY (Staff) -- Members of the criminal investigation division of the Ontario provincial Police are conducting an investigation into the finding of a case of dynamite and two blasting caps in a clump of bushes, north. of Highway 401, near Lynde's Creek, on Thursday afternoon. The discovery of the cache was ness street, Toronto and David Ma- cuso, 53 Cairns avenue, Toronto, at about 3 p.m. They notified the Whitby detachment of the OPP and Constables C. Whitesides and H. Hockins investigated. The dynamite was turned over io Constable McCulloch of the CID who is continuing the investigation. The cache 'included 95 sticks of 60 per cent blastol and two blast- ing caps. BULLETIN George Burt, national director of the UAW-CIO in Canada, will meet with picket captains of Local 222 in the Hotel Genosha .at 7 P.M. tonight, union officials announced here at press time. The first major incident of the five-days-old strike developed at 8 m, , this morning when about 1,000 non-union office employees of General Motors of Canada Limited and were blocked by reinforced United Auto Workers picket lines before they could get through the gates. Traffic smarled on Park Road south as cars containing office workers met those of pickets com- ing off shift, but the Oshawa po- lice department, assisted by spe- cial umion police, kept the stream moving quietly and the ce employ, ed orders last night to report He work this morning at the south made by Robert Jenkins, 6 Caith-|# GM Strike Pickets Block Office Men attempted to enter the south plant | fi "GIVEN PROMOTION Leo, J. Henderson who has been appointed general manager of Cana- dian National Railways road transport department with head- quarters at Montreal. A native of London, Ont, Mr, Henderson has been serving as superintendent of road transport (bus) for the Cen- tral Region since 1953. Mr. Hender- son has a wide experience in road transport operations, a field in which he has ben engaged since 1929..Mr. Henderson is well known in Oshawa where he re-organized the routes of the Oshawa Railway | du bus service some years ago. as they drove past each gate, but no violence was reported, although further instructions were received. | Oshawa about w benefits. over. 7,100 GET BENEFITS off in Oshawa, some of them being many," idled less than 48 hours before the | Monday last. the UIC for henefits on Monday, operating at the plant, about 7,100 applications for unem- ployment by. now", said Mr. Hodgson. Oshawa Chief Instructions By Toronto a ployment { jJusuatie bene- | that the unemployed" would not 1 for more 5,500 of the |ceive the benefit of the incr foiooo striking UAW-CIO members| rate of unemp! loyment in Oshawa are being withheld by IBetomer 2 which come into fi ihe National Unemployement Serv-|Octobe The new regulations, which' fi Nr. Norman Hodgson, manager|crease the payments to a married of the service in 'Oshawa, said to-|man from $24 to $30 a week, do Gay that he had received iastruc-| not apply until the la a tions from his regional office in| made. pight weekly contributions' Toronto to withold payment until the' higher rate; To "obtain the $30 a week iment, workers have to make payments at the 60 cent rate, 1 existing rate is 15 cents a we | TAKE TEMPORARY JOBS Many other Oshawa _indu: have been hit by the UAW-GM pute and Mr. Hodgson reports | steady increase in ED licatons 1 Since early September, General | insurance benefits from people Motors in Oshawa, as in all other | off from "feeder plants" dependent GM plants in Canada, has been on GM operations and: Hanami laying off men while preparations companies. were made for the model change-| "Some other plants have been | fluenced in .a 'small way, {have had a few applications from About 9,000 employees were laid | Ly firm employees, but not e sal "These unemployed, and many strike deadline of 12.01 am. on|of the GM workers, are seek {temporary jobs. Some of them h Mr. Hodgson sald {hat the men | gone apple picking." laid off on Friday had reported to| Oshawa businessmien refused #8 comment yesterday when asked the extent of lay-offs eaused hy the strike. Fraud Charge Withdrawn Against Campaign Agent TORONTO (CP)--A charge o fraud against John E. Preston, campaign agent in last June's On- tario election, was withdrasg Thursday at the request of crown. Mr, Preston was agent | seph Keenan, unsuccessful Li didate in the Since the strike at the huge Ge: eral Motors of Canada Ltd, plant began on Monday morning, there have been conflicting rumors in ther the men| aid off before the strike are en- titled to unemployment insurance after the picket lines had begun and were such benfits eligibic to receive e. "Up to last Friday night we had insurance benefits. It should be up around the 7,300 mark Mr. Hodgson is preparing a full report on the unemployment situa- tion in Oshawa and details will be released late today OTTAWA CONTROLS POLICY "Up to today we continued to pay Snekits to people laid off b of model ch or chortage of Jo. a cameraman for the magazine "GM Topics" was jiwsatened with destruction of his '""We had about 1 000 men strung around that plant," a union offi- cial claimed. "We, don't intend to let the office-workers in there." Employees at the main office regularly since (he strike began and Local 222 officers p Bri this morning that north plant office SR have no access to the fae- Rif Fog LR REL i y, a A similar' office workers parts plant, according to a k but as soon as word reached Lo- cal 222 strike headquarters in UAW hall, extra pickets were dis- patched by truck to seal off all entrances. Pickets jeered { the « office- workers this wek, according to ficers, bit was Purned back pesee- fully oma a brief exchange of a officials ocowld net be reached for commend.. Ten Die As Hurricane Janet Hits MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Janet, so powerful that her winds have made ocean waters look like "boiling buttermilk,"" whirled west- ward in the Caribbean sea today | about 1,500 miles souteast of! Miami. Janet, 10th tropical storm of the season, has winds estimated at 115 miles an hour over a small area near the centre--a well-defined eye about 20 miles in diameter--and an uncertain future. Hurricane warnings have - been ordered up from Grenada north to St. Lucia and storm warnings in the remainder of the area from Dominica to Tobaga, at the east- en entrance to the Caribbean. | The hurricane smashed across Barbados Thursday, flattening flimsy wooden structures in which the poorer of the island's 200.000 inhabitants live. | Ten persons who took refuge in| struck the Barbados Thursday day night were, killed when. a church collapsed, in Port of Spain reports received' here today said. A thousand persons were left homeless after the hurricane struck shattering buildings by up-! A radio message received here | told of the find a little more than halfway along the canoeists' planned 600-mile route. from Stony Rapids in far-north Saskatchewan | "LATE NEWS FLASHES to Baker lake in the Northwest Territories. RCMP. search for the party was launched by a note the canoeists left with the Mountie department at Stony Rapids, 1t gave their planned route anfl said they had enough food for 80 days. NO SIGN OF THEM If they did not reach Baker lake on schedule, the adventurers said, it would be a good idea for the RCMP to know their whereabouts. There has been po sign of them at Baker. The leader of the expedition is Arthur R. Moffat of Norwich, Vt, |described as a lecturer-explorer There other members are believed | te be Edward Lanouetie, 21, of Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bruc Leifavour 20, of Amsterdam, N.Y. and Peter Franck, 18, of San Mateo, Calif RCMP here had identification {for Moffat only. However, the thre} ~Ceniral Press Gamadian 'youths were named as members! rebels in northern Algeria. arrested. winds, is for his Moore, the hampion va the nth New York, vietory over Archie | ciano, 31, admitied ® was one light « heavyweight of his toughest fights, It was his kayoed by 49th victory im 49 professional ound of fights, Mar- | BERLIN (AP) -- eased 3 bout in 4 7 Killed In Algerian Clashes ALGIERS (AP) -- At least seven persons---six rebels and a French soldier--were killed during the night in clashes between French troops and nationalist Typhoon Hits Philippines MANILA (AP) -- The season's worst Pacific Typhoon cut a path of destruction through six north- ern Philippine provinces today with a 120-mile-an-hour More than 250 rebels were Hurricane | € [Two sea gulls, killed by a plane Russians Release Prisoners The Soviet 1 prisoners, including 15 Germans, 12 French- men, two Belgians, one Swiss and a, Dutch woman. Union today re- | rooting tres and hurling them on | | to roofs. The storm struck the " island | without warning. The acting gov- ernor and ministers toured the af- fected areas today and inspected | houses, some of them split in two by the storm. Reports from the ii d have been sketehy since the huvricane building have reported for work he ri ' tina's capital prepared a gala wol- | Peronista Fane loge vere come today for Maj -Gen. Eduardo |wreeked. Pietures Lounsedi, conqueror of Juem Perot [Peron and his late wife, Hva, wese and top man in the new govern |torp from walls and destr: er ment. onto-St, George riding. My, Ke who had accused Mr, Preston converting $1,500 in campaign to his own use, did not Predicts 90-Por Cont work wp to Friday," explained Mr, Hodgson. Mr. Hodgson estimated that of the 7,100 receiving benefits on Fri- day, more than 5,500 were' former GM ees. 222. financial = secretary said early. in the week, benefits to laid off men could be stopped because of the y men ro pot have pes been Federation of work been ures of eves, events, Fuad Mr , | vention OF ok a yl. the Hodgson stressed | rising Capital To Greel © Peron's Corel BUENOS AIRES (AP) -- Argeu-icrowds from Pho The airest of Peronista congress. Lopardi was fying bere from his/men is regarded as qne of the roared its way through, cutting | ications and flatt the flimsy wooden houses in which the poorer of the British colony's 200,- 000 inhabitants live, DEADLY WARNING BLOCK ISLAND, R. I. (AP)-- at Block island airport, are serving to keep other sea gulls off the run- way. Airport attendants staked out the birds, one on each side of the runway . to keep live gulis away, and pots are mo longer bothered by the numerous birds in the vi- cinity. doba for his installation as pro-| ernment aboard a dlosely guarded Para- guayan gumboat im Buenos Aires fo rebuild fargentin harbor, where he took refuge Tues-| ARREST STEER day. Paraguayan embassy officials | said he was in cion, Paraguay, sario, city, as students and other foes of | Tato and Ramon Novoa, were the ousted dietator moved to erad: | pelled last June during icate evidemees of Peron's power. | riers of Cor- (strongest measures by the new gov- to ward visional president. | trouble from disgruntled Per Peron meanwhile remained] supporters, Leaders of the ™ ion have called for peace and Oscar Ne © "perfect condition." | minister under Peron was Another gunboat has left Asun-| under arrest early today, ! for Buenos Aires! Roman Catholic Church ska ith orders to escort the ex-presi- | said the new government will ent to the Paraguayan cabital. lan order permitting two eo Violence flared Mere and in Ro- | prelates to return fo Argentina. Argentina's second largest| The churchmen 'Megrs. Maguel feud with the church, Al Street fights occurred throughout | tine officials ' connected With, Buenos Aires Thursday despite ef- | expulsion of the two prelates were forts of armed patrols to keep' excommunicated by the Vatican," a church when hurricane Janet! § PERON'S SUPPORTERS MUTE IN BUENOS AIRES Streeis of Buenos Aires that. two weeks ago were echoing to the cheers of supporters of then President Peron 'are now filled with people cheering his down- | armed forees over fall. Flag-waving demonstrators celebrating the vietory of the a dictator are hLcre led by a sailor one of the warship whose guns | were levelled on the city te frighten Peron into exile. ie Peron has not been found by rebels --Gentral . 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