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| May Be Banned THE TIMES TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All other calls ...... RA 83-3474 he Osha Time WEATHER REPORT Occasional drizzle tonight; Sune 1 Cay sunny with cloudy inter. .} vals; temperatures unchanged. VOL. 88 -- NO. 38 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1959 Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawo d,. oh EIGHTEEN PAGES GOVERNMENT ACTION? Death Sen OTTAWA (CP) -- Opposition Leader Pearson sees indications that the government is doing away with the death penalty and says Parliament--and not the cabinet--mus' make the decision « whether to move toward aboll- tion. He raised the matter as the Cc Friday debated justice department estimates for the cur- rent fiscal year, remarking that since the Progressive Conserva- tives came to power in June, 1957, the cabinet commuted to life imprisonment 17 of the 21 death sentences that came before it for review and that only four of the 21 had carried jury rec- ommendations for mercy. 'The question is not one of whether to abolish the death pen- alty," he said. 'The question is whether, if action is to be taken in that direction, it should be taken by means of executive ac- tion." ASKS DEBATE The commutation threw an ex- tra burden on the remissions LESTER B. PEARSON press it further, have the chance through debate on whether this step taken. Justice Minister Fulton replied that Mr, Pearson seemed to sug- gest the cabinet "should not con-| to decide measures aegisation| overcrowding in the St. Vincen B.C., prison. tinue to exercise the prerogative, " 2 *%lin a former health departmen of mercy." It should be realized quarantine station - at that "this being a prerogative. Sach individual case Is dealt With! camp at Valleyfield, Que. However, Mr, Fulton refused to|6,000 IN PENITENTIARIES be drawn into discussion of the| e principle of capital punishment under federal custody in eigh on grounds it was out of order penitentiaries is about 6,000. at this time. Mr. Pearson did not During consideration of the tenced to more than one year. At A nd li i shonld justice department estimates, (present only those sentenced to service and Parliament should|ps. "pyiton described emergency|two or mor: years serve their to relieve dangerous/terms in federal © de Paul Penitentiary near Mont- real and the New Westminster, | Mr. Fulton announced that the Temporary quarters to relieve| begin operations Sunday, taking| } {the overcrowding had been found over the duties of the remissions| | William Mead. B.C. and a wartime army The parole board, announced The number of prisoners now public relations and endowment tence Mr. Fulton said that prisoner overcrowding at Kingston Peni- tentiary will be eased when a new prison is opened later this year at Joyceville, 11 miles from Kingston, Conditions were crowded at | Dorchester, N.B., and Prince Al- bert, Sask., penitentiaries but were reasonable at Stony Moun- tain, Man. Mr, Fulton outlined the work of a three-man government com- mittee on penal reform that is making a study of custody, treat- ment and training of adult offend- ers, planning a system of mod- ern correctional institutions and is to recommend on the location, design and function of new or en- larged institutions, WIDER RESPONSIBILITY This study was necessary in view of the fact that the federal government had agreed in prin- ciple at a conference with the provinces last fall to assume re- sponsibility for prisoners sen- prisons. The t committee is to report by Dec. 30. new four-man parole board will t service. earlier, is headed by Magistrate | Thomas George Street of Wel. (land. J. Alex Edmison, former t director of Queen's University, is |a member. Flood Anxiety At Port Hope PORT HOPE (Stath)---Rumors here Riidey and Warned ia letter sons died and et least another from Queen's Pari e {nine were injured early toda situation throughout Ontario was/when searing flames swept a 5. In the afternoon, the United, of floods swept through town Friday as the thaw sent waters from high banks of snow flooding grave. went 'to the the Ganaraska river meet officials of the engineering JAound that levels had only increased about|department to discuss plans. ene inch, " Sze Fanily OFS | Six Others Die In Blaze and hoping for delaying cold snaps, to ease a situation which| is stated to be shaping up like the spring of 1029, At that time, the Ganaraska| fevels rose to record heights to] ASHLAND, Ky. send huge blocks of ice swirling persons, into the town's main streets: five, died Damage of over one million dol. through an old apartment build- lars resulted from the disastrous/ing early today. Five of the vie s. tims were children. The family victims were Mrs. Anxiety has reached almost Lon y fever pitch here with the news| POLLY McKenzie, 28; her husband, Jack McKenzie, 30; that there is a huge concentra.| tT ebl tion of snow and ice over the three sons, Jackie, 4; Dickie Joe, . 2, and Johnny, 1. ing square Hilles of the Ganaras-|™ is McKenzie also gave birth a watershed. to a stillborn baby during the As a result, the Port Hope fire and the infant was included Board of Trade, merchant's di- as a victim. vision, has called a public meet-| The 11th body recovered was ing for Tuesday evening to dis-|that of a 14-year-old. boy. cuss plans for emergency. The Police estimated at least 20 meeting, to be held in the town persons lived in second floor hall at 8 p.m. is designed to stir apartments of the converted the- up public interest. atre building. About 10 were be- The Ganaraska Conservation lived to have escaped, most of Authority held its annual meeting them by leaping from windows Labor, Firm Split In Logger Strike (AP)--Eleven men rescued 'five or six' per- including a family of sons using aerial ladders as huge in a fire which swept | sheets of flame and thick grey] and their |of neighbors after their parents 2 Die, 9 Injured In Montreal | Apartment Fire MONTREAL (CP)--Two per-| | unit apartment block in Mont- 's end, sending [some 125 panic-stricken tenants] ' fleeing into the street in night. clothes. Firemen probing through the charred debris on the top floor of the three-storey brick buildi In the best Valentine's Day | five-year-old sister Carol which tradition, five-year-old Doug | she rather nenchalantly ace VALENTINE BUSS FROM BROTHER TO SIS Valentine. From the looks of Carol it will probably not be her last Valentine or kiss eith- ¢ [through a crowded dance hall, in- ..'f |juring at least 35 panic-stricken 2 | people. | |pain all' over the ground." : |pitals where emergency facilities © |tion. i (agers, E TOPPLED IN SCUFFLE TER er for that matter. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Doug. Miller of 325 Leslie St. found the bodies of Arthur Hamel, 40, and Giselle Crousset, Miller bestows a kiss upon his | cepts, as he gives her her first EN |24. The identification was estab- lished by morgue officials FRIDAY THE 13TH through relatives of the victims. RAILWAY RATES | Witnesses reported fire SALISBURY, Southern Rhodesia (AP)--Puzzled Cen- postponed for a day Friday low-rate service from Salis- bury to London because there were so few passengers. Then they looked at the cal- endar--Friday the 13th, {smoke belched from the strue-| {ture at 8435 St. Andre Street. | At one time it was feared that |two youngsters had also perished |but they were found in the homes {had reported them missing. | GAS SCANDAL House sked To THOMAS L. KENNEDY [former mines minister Phil Subpoen TORONTO (CP)--The Ontario erts Thursday which showed 40- T. L Kenned legislature has been asked to calllodd persons made $15,000,000 Y Ex-Premier Kelly iP|orofit in Northern Ontario Natu Kelly before the bar of the House| to explain his statements about investments in pipeline stocks. The request came in a motion| by CCF Leader Donald MacDon-| ald as opposition parties pressed | ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) -- La- bor leaders reacted sharply Fri- day to Premier Smallwood's oust- the-woodworkers campaign but the president of a big strikebound paper company said he would be prepared to negotiate with the substitute union proposed by the premier. Mr. Smallwood shrugged off criticism and claimed over whelming support from the log- gers themselves. "It is their voice," he said, "that will decide the issue." He said telegrams were pour- ing into his office and for every : one against the plan he proposed in a radio and television address 3 3 Thursday night, there were 150 in favor. GOVT..SPONSORED UNION That plan called for Newfound- land loggers to give up member- ship in the International Wood- workers of America (CLC) and PREMIER SMALLWOOD form a new union of their own with the help of the government. the demands, supported in a mid- The premier accused the IWA December conciliation board re- of starting "a civil war" when it port. There have been no negoti.| called 1200 members out of ations since the strike started. Anglo = Newfoundland Develop. Unfavorable comment came ment Company woods camps from some union officials, includ-| Dec. 31. They sought a five-cent ing President Claude Jodoin of hourly wage Ancrease over two the Canadian Labor Congress. years and a six-hour reduction of Frank Chafe, CLC Newfound! he 60-hour work week without |3n4 representative, said the pro-| loss of pay. " ) posal is a "calculated attempt to The company turned down geliver a large segment of the litical machine. POLICE RA 5-1133 hysterical and inflamatory | Newfoundland government elec-| CITY EMERGENCY |torate into the captivity of a po-| | PHONE NUMBE IWA's district president H. RS Landon Ladd said "the vehe- mence of Premier Smallwood's FIRE DEI'I. RA 3-6574 speech is a measure of his gov-| 99 erament's failure to back up his , HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 [oun conciliation board." : their attack against the govern:| ment over the question. | Liberal Leader John Winter meyer submitted another motion| Dies At 80 ral Gas Company shares they re 1es ceived at cut-rate prices. | TORONTO (CP) -- Thomas Mr. Kelly, 57, one of four pro- Laird Kennedy, a grass - roots moters who made nearly $500,000 ... . ER each in the venture, resigned his Politician whose 55 years of pub- mines portfolio in July, 1957, and lic life were highlighted by a quit his seat in the legislature for seven-month term as premier of Cochrane North six months later. ontario, died Friday night, He The CCF leader's motion asks ac go. calling on the government to or- that Mr. Kelly be required to re-| Ider a judicial inquiry into not/concile statements he made to only stock transactions, but also newspapers last natural gas safety and handling testimony of gas franchises. Both motions are likely to d on the order paper without com- tabled by Mr. Roberts. ing to a vote before the session ends. Premier Frost has \ already company stocks to any hitherto- Prost | scheduled a debate on the report undisclosed elected official, mier Fros | tabled by Attorney-General Rob-'either municipal or provincial. The veteran Progressive Con- week and his servative member of the Ontario last summer before legislature for Peel died of a the three-man investigating com-lyoqit attack at his farm home- ie| mittee which made the report goad in suburban Dixie where he was born. He had spent most of He told the committee he was Thursday in the legislature and unaware of any sale or gift of had an appointment with Pre- Monday. Mr. Kennedy's friends said he had not recovered from the shock BULLETIN Dulles Stricken With Cancer WASHINGTON (AP). going radiation therapy President Eisenhower, prayers of all of us that the further course of treatment will be successful. "In order to allow time continues on leave of absenc The announcement came shortly after Eisenhower had spent 37 minutes at Dulles' bedside A medical report issued afterward said that when Dulles was operated on for hernia F implant" was removed from the hernia and proved upon examination to be an "adenocarcinoma" a small cancer. The medical announcement also time the hernia sac was repa scope to contain "free cancer cells." "No further surgery is said. State Secretary cer and will continue on leave from his post while under- after visiting Reed Hospital, said he had "expressed the thoughts and of his daughter's recent death {Mrs. Marion Chudleigh, 50, and {her husband Erie, 54, were killed |Jan. 24 when the snow-weighted {roof of a curling rink collapsed at a Muskoka winter resort. Often called Old Man Ontario, the leainery, crag-jawed farmer became one of the best-liked fig- {ures in Ontario politics during the 14 years he served as agri: cultare minister. Thousands of farmers across the province knew him as Colonel Tom He became premier Oct. 19 1948, after George Drew resigned to become national leader of the Conservatives. When Tom Ken- nedy was named to form the gov- ernment there was general ap- plause but some criiicism from those who thought no man should hold that office without being elected to it The grumbling stepped when the caretaker premier announced he would serve only until a new Dulles has can- Dulles at Walter results of his operation and the for this purpose the secretary re." riday morning a small "nobular said that the fluid removed at ired was found under the micro- for the May 4 that he would not leadership run He resigned contemplated," the announce- Lg after Mr. Frost was elected baker - Packard 212 (172); 1,066 lesas: hv 2 marty convention. 5 tral African Airway officials wg ay | | | | provincial leader was chosen and 844) Fidel C Cuban Premier HAVANA (AP) -- Fidel Castro vaulted to Cuba's premiership to- Mg day with wide powers to speed keep pace with the revolution" up the social revolution born of|will be dropped. CW | the rebels' victory. The 32-year-old military com- | mander assumes the administra- astro he planned to retain the present ministers but any' who 'do not Pressure had been mounting for Castro to take over the pro- visional government when the By Two KINGSTON (CP)--An oil stove knocked over by two men during a fight burst into flames early today and sent fire racing Some of the injured were in serious condition, A reporter who arrived at the west-end hall min- utes after the blaze started said "there were people writhing in The confusion at two city hos- were jammed made it impossible to get an exact total of the in- jured. A policeman said at least one 'person was in critical condi- About 150 people, mostly teen-| were in the: frame, one- storey Circle dance hall when the fire erupted. Dancers were blazing oil. Many were forced to dive through windows when the doorways almost jammed with the escaping crowd. Vern Jackson, 29, of Toronto, who was at the dance, said the oil space heater was toppled by two men during a scuffle. Police declined comment, saying they were still investigating. "The heat was tremendous," Jackson said. "Everybody rushed for the coors. The crowd pushed turned into human torches by the|- Oil Stove Upset ing hall, Others were trying to drag them out, ; Jackson said oil began to on to the floor when the stove over, "There was a little bit of a blaze but nobody appeared. te be worried, It didn't look too sée rious." Pat] Then the fire became "bigger and bigger," he said, and ther& was a burst of flame without any noise. Everyone ran. > Hysteria gripped the dancing couples and girls began screame- ing for their escorts. Some of the first girls to get out collapsed om a small veranda. Dave Smith, an ambu driver, said he took a young to hospital who appeared to been burned over her body. He, said one girl at Hotel Dieu Hospital lay on the flog sobbing: 'They're still in there . . they're still in there." == Robin Murphy. 16, of Oak fs- land, said the flames seemed"ls get worse as he neared the deer, "People were crying moaning with the clothing ing right on thelr backs," "he said. ov Police called passing cars taxis to take the injured to pital. A bus was taken fo Hall on Princéss Sreet, parked nearby as an emer, treatment station. One man his hair burned off and his was blackened. me through a window." He said he went around to a still lying on the foor of the plaz- Both the Hotel Dieu and Kiligs {ston General hospitals reported door and saw about 20 persons, they each received more than'J8 emergency cases. OTTAWA (CP) -- The United States - apparently plans to ask Canada for the use of bases in this country for a new American jet interceptor now under devel- opment. U.S. - Air. Secretary James H. Douglas and Gen. Thomas White, chief of the U.S. Air Force, have said in testimony before the U.S. Senate armed services committee that the new 2,000-miles-pe-hour interceptor, the F-108, will *'po- lice" the Distant Early Warning radar line in the Canadian Arctic. At present there are no inter cepter squadrons based in the tion of the country. His. first task|surprise cabinet shakeup was an-Canadian Arctic or rub-Arctic. is to curb threatening strikes -- especially in the vital sugar in- dustry--and find jobs for the 500, 000 unemployed in a work force of 2,204,000. nounced Friday night. URGE PRESIDENCY The Havana newspaper Prensa {Libre this week had urged the | rebel military leader to assume Another vital issue is the fate|the presidency--held by his hand- of Cubans who took asylum in picked choice, Manuel Urrutia. various foreign embassies in Ha-| Cuba's provisional constitution! vana after dictator Fulgencio Ba- was changed four days ago low- tisia fled. \ .__|ering the minimum age for presi- Cuba's revolutionary regime dents from 35 to 30, making Cas- has branded Batista supportersitro eligible for the job. But Cas- as ordinary criminals. Refusal to|tro said he v:asn't sure he wanted approve safeconduct out of the/to be president. Douglas and White also said-- a transcript of their testimony has just become available here-- that the F-108 will be able "'to go out and obtain intelligence on, an enemy attack and to begin de- struction of attacking aircraft long before they reach our bor- ders or the population centres of Canada." The secretary and chief of staff said there is a *'clear and pressing military requirement' for the twin-engine, two - man | Mr. Douglas said the Canadian government plans to locate two Bomare squadrons in the Ottawa area. So far, the Canadian gov. ernment has identified the loess tion only as Ontario and Quebec. It is understood, however, that the Bomare sites will be in the neighborhood of Mont Laurier, Que., and North Bay, Ont. Gun Collector Killed In Russ Roulette- LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- AS year-old gun collector started spur-of-the-moment game of Rus sian roulette in a service station Friday night. The second timé he pulled the trigger a .32-calibre bullet went through his head End killed him. tay The slug then narrowly mi {one of three onlookers, who refused to join the game. | The victim, Harry Scoyne" of London, had gone to the service country has led to disputes with| several gn - American govern: ments, in®luding Argentina, Mex- ico and Chile. GIVEN FREE HAND Castro had the assurances of retiring premier Jose Moro Car. dona, 56, that he would have "the opportunity to select his collab- While Urrutia remains chief of state the power in the govern: ment now appeared resting [targely in Castro's hands. THOUGHT FOR TODAY It may take all kinds of F-108. The F-108 and the Bomac station of Clarence Terry to pay antl - aircraft missile would|a bill. With him was James Pat- 'complement each other." {ton. They left a friend, Stamey : . Nelson, outside in a car. Their statement added: The shooting was witnessed "Forward defence insures thal patton, Charles Holmes, an ate the initial attack on enemy forces tendant, and Robert Sho is made as soon as possible after who was visiting the garage. detection. The enemy must bel After Ripon By he pros orators freely." people to make a world, but is many of them mess it up In moving up to the political from his targets--he must be at- wacked in remate areas. , . ."" attacked as far as possible away Shortridge said, the victim fe gested a game of Russian rou- 'lette. ay considerably in the making. front, Castro took a step that| -- many felt was leading toward the presidency. N Interior Minister Luis Orlando } Rodriguez said Castro told the & cabinet that for the time being GM Produces 4183 Cars This Week TORONTO (CP) Canadian & motor - vahicle production this ¥ wegk is estimated a 9.626 vehi-| cles compared with 9,281 last| week, says the Canadian Auto-|} mobile Chamber of Commerce. i Production consisted of 8,208 cars compared with 7.901 and| 1.423 trucks compared with 1,380. Production to date this year is| estimated at 53,697 vehicles com: vared with 48.264 in the corres-( ponding period las year one] up of 45.871 cars compared with 41.149 and 7,826 trucks compared with 7.115. Production of cars by compan: jes this week and for the year to date, with figures for last|} week and the corresponding period last year in brackets, was: Chrysler 1.204 (1,198: 5,042 (7,- Ford 2694 (2,205): 12412 General Motors © 4,183 27.361 (23,115), Stude a NA These four boys joined hund- reds of. volunteers in an effort to hold back the rising waters | of the Wabash River which A 9.805) 4.326) YOUNG VOLUNTEERS TO threatens residents of West Terre Haute, Indiana. The boys | (from left) are John Robson, ' Eddie Price, Timmy Hooper - DAM FLOODS | and Carl Smith, Jr., all in the threatened area. 2 Vout 'US. Jets May Get | Canadian Bases -- a, a a