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RE SRA Tie NS mt rer emp er | PACE THRES THE = DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE MONDAY, JULY 26, 1948 a Lives Lost In Eastern Canada Mishaps & ° Food Gifts To U.K. To Be Made Easy Under New Plan By James McCook Canadian Press Staff Writer London, July 26 (CP)--Kenneth F. MacLaren of Toron- to, chairman of the: executive committee of the United Emergency Fund for Britain, today announced arrangements are completed with the food ministry here to facilitate the movement of Canadian gift supplies to the United Kingdom. "The food ministry has entered into arrangements with the U.E.F.B. to extend to it free ocean transportation and free inland freight in the United Kingdom along with exemp- tion from customs and excise duties on supplies so shipped," Runaway Car Kills Bride, Ends in Lake St. Thomas, July 26--(CP)--A runaway au obile Sunday killed a 19-year-old bride of three months, injured her father-in-law, missed her husband by inches and almost drowned a 60-year-old woman pas- senger. Dead is Mrs. Laverne Scott of R.R. 2, Southwold Township. Res- cued from drowning was Mrs. James Cousins of R.R. 1, Glanworth and injured slightly was George Scott. The car was parked at the edge of a plateau overlooking Pinafore Park Lake in southwest St. Thomas. Mrs. Cousins, mother 'of the owner, was sitting alone in the car in the back seat. Suddenly, the car started to move forward down a slight in- cline. Gaining momentum and out of control, it struck Mrs. Scott in - Beauty Queen Selected On Week-End 29 in Plane Crash 29 Other Deaths Included in Total By The Canadian Press Death of 29 persons in an airplane crash on a fog- shrouded Gaspe peninsula hill-top accounted for half of Eastern Canada's 58 week-end fatalities. A Canadian Press survey shows 29 violent deaths, aside from the air crash victims. Eleven persons were drowned, nine died in traffic accidents, three in falls, two each from accidental shootings and burns, one from electrocution and one on a railway track. Six week-end deaths were re-¢ ported today: Alexander Kent of Sudbury, Ont., In New Post MacLaren said. Free warehousing facilities also® are being provided. Maclaren was accompanied by Lady Eaton of Toronto, executive committee member, and Lt.-Col. P. L. Browne of Ottawa, executive director, in meeting with Food Minister John Strachey and other government representatives, and with welfare organization officers. The main purpose is to arrange for the bulk shipment of supplies to be distributed through welfare organizations, The London office in Alberta House will 'be in charge of Maj. Kenneth Grills, formerly of Belle- ville, Ont., who will be secretary to the advisory council, Any Canadians who wish to send individua] parcels will be able to use UEF.B, facilities in his province by sending it money and asking it to deliver the parcel to the United Kingdom. Such parcels will not qualify for free freight like ship- ments for organizations but bulk- buying by the UEF.B. will lower prices of the contents and increase the amount of food which can be sent. | Margarine Stock Stays In Canada As Freight Unpaid Montreal, July 26--(CP)--Eight hundred pounds of margarine was under customs guard here today because its British owners failed to pay the. freight charges for its re- turn to Britain. The bread spread was brought here last week for a party of touring British school boys whose sponsors were unaware that its importation into Canada is illegal. Customs officers said the mar- garine will be kept in bond for two months and then turned over to the crown -unless its owners claim it. It was to have gone back on the liner Empress of Britain Saturday but when the freight charges were not forthcoming it was left on a wharf. JETS IN GERMANY Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany, July 26 -- (CP) -- Sixteen United States jet fighter planes roared into Germany Sunday, completing a 5,060-mile flight from Selfridge, Mich, in only 12 hours, 10 minutes actual flying time. They were fully equipped. The last leg of the jour- ney, from Odiham, England, was a 600-mile jaunt negotiated in an hour and 20 minutes. ALSO A MARTYR La Salle, the great French ex- plorer of North America, wag mur- dered by his own men in 1678 while on an expedition. Marie's List For Cabinet Under Study By ROBERT EUNSON Paris, July 26 -- (AP) -- Social ist Deputies who wrecked the gov- ernment of Robert Schuman a week ago were harassing the government of Premier Andre Marie today be- fore it had a chance to be born. Unwilling to take responsibility for the six ministerial posts Marie offered them, the Socialists have asked Marie to include only two of their party in his cabinet--Leon Blum as Vice-Premier and Paul R®madier as Minister of State. Both Ramadier and Blum are for- mer Premiers. Marie is reported also to have of- fered the Socialists the portfolios of Interior, Social Affairs, Public Works and Commerce and Indus- try. The Socialist deputies approved the proposed Marie cabinet by a vote of 33 to 31 today with eight abstentions. The caucus then decided that, in view of the narrow margin, they would send another delegation see Marie, . The cabinet list that Marie is re- ported to have handed over to the parties he wants in his government: Premier: Andre Marie, Radical Socialist. Vice-Premier: Leon Blum, 8o- cialist. Ministers of State: Henri Queuil- le, Radical Socialist, and Paul Ram- adier, Socialist. Finance: Paul Reynaud, Inde- pendent. Republican. Foreign Affairs: Robert Schu- man, Popular Republican. Defence: Rene Mayer, Socialist. Interior: Jules Moch, ialist. Labor: Daniel Mayer, Socialist. Commerce and Industry: Robert LaCoste, Socialist. Education: Yvon LeCourt, Popu- lar Republican. Agriculture: Pierre'Pflimlin, Pop- ular Republican. Reconstruction: Rene Coty, dependent. Colonies: Paul Cost-Floret, Popu- lar Republican. Public Health: Pierre Scheiter, Popular Republican, Veterans: Andre Maroselli, Radi- cal Socialist. Works and Transport: Christian Pineau, Socialist. Radical In- FAMOUS WATERWAY the back and glanced off her father-in-law. Mrs. Scott was drag- ged over a 30-foot embankment to the lake below. As the car plunged into the lake, a group of swimmers led by Mur- ray Griffin, former . Ottawa and Toronto football player, pulled Mrs. Cousins from the sinking car. She suffered a bruised face, a severe shaking up and shock. At the same time, Mrs. Scott's body was released as the car was rolled over 18 feet down at the bottom of the. lake. Almost an hour's artificial respiration by local firemen failed to revive her. The car was later pulled from the lake. Dr. J. W. Snell, attending the woman, said it appeared she suf- fered a fractured skull and he did not think death was due to drown- ing. Picked From 50, Winsome Dancer Is 'Miss Toronto' Toronto, July 26--(CP)=Dreams and "quite a few prayers" came true for the only red-head in the show Saturday when 20-year-old Florence (Diddy) Ferriman, a pro- fessional dancer, became. "Miss To- ronto 1948." Out of a line-up of 52 finalists, the freckle-faced daughter of an Irish-born railway express mes- senger was the 12th beauty to win the annual contest, held in con- junction with the annual Teronio |, police filed day. She said the luck of the Irish was with her last Thursday when she took first place .in a heauty competition held in Toronto Ward two. She previously had won ano- ther district contest and came third in two others. The $500 cheque she won as first prize in the Miss Toronto contest will go towards furthering her mu- sical career. She is five feet, four inches tall and weighs 119 pounds, described by herself as "too pudgy for a bathing suit." Her waist is 26 ineh- es, bust 3¢ and hips 34 inches. A brunette, Jean Rigby, 20-year- old Toronto stenographer, won sec- ond prize in this year's Toronto competition. Blonde Phyllis Willi- ams, a nurse, placed third. $125,000 FIRE Belleville, July 26--(CP)--A land- mark in Hastings County, the Shan- nonville Hotel, one of the oldest in the province, was destroyed. by fire Saturday. The loss of the puild- ing, nine miles east of here, is "Miss Toronto of 1948," 20-year-old Florence (Diddy) Ferriman, was just crowned and is being robed by Mayor Hiram McCallum when this picture was taken. At left John Cobb, president of the Toronto Police Amateur Athletic Association holds a $500 cheque and a bouquet of roses for the Mayor to present to Miss Ferriman, Three Major Parties Call Conventions By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, July 26--(CP)--This is Canada's year of the Big conven- tion, i There are three of them being held | this year by Canada's three major | political parties--the Liberals meet | in Ottawa, Aug 5, 6 and 7, the CCF. | gathers in Winnipeg Aug. 19, 20 | and 21, and the Progressive Con- | servatives get together sometime | during September in a city yet to] be chosen. t All three of the conventions will be concerned with the vital task of re-shaping party policies and plat- forms. These are of paramount im- portance becausz of the approach of a general election year. The present Liberal Government's mandate ex- pires in 1950 and an election likely | will be called in 1949. { Two pf the conventions, those of | the Liberal and the Progressive | Conservative parties, will have one | other important function--that of | selecting a new party leader. This | is dictated by the impending retire- ment of the two party (eads, Rt. Six Top U.S. Reds in Toils of Law In the greatest crackdown in history on the Communist party in the U.S. estimated at more than $25,000. A wiring defect is believed to have caused the fire in the 75-year-old structure. The Volga is the longest river and one of the chief waterways of Europe. New Trans-Pacific Route he 2. Routes of the Canadian Pacific Airlines to the Orient and 'Australia and New Zealand re ently announced by Minister Lionel Chevrier are illustrated here. Distance from Vancouver to H ng Kong is 6,555 miles and to Australia is 7,865 miles. New Zealand will be served by a branch service from to connect with the main Vancouver Sydney flights, = - ? ris wv |day and pleaded guilty Hon, William Lyon Mackenzie King and John Bracken. Ranking third in importance on the agenda of all three conventions is that of party organizations. This too, witta an election in the offing, becomes of major importance. The Liberal and Progressive Con- servative conventions are unusual in that they are the first in some years. For those two parties, such get-togethers are not automatic; they are held only for some major question, such as the selection of a new leader. The Liberals, for example, held their last national convention in 1919, 'when Mr, King was chosen leader. The Progressive Conserva- tives last got together in abig way in 1942 at Wininpeg, where Mr. Bracken won selection as party head. The C. C. F. national conventions are held every two years under the party constitution, At this meeting, as at others in the past, the leader, M. J. Coldwell, must be confirmed. Tuis is a formality. The Liberal and Progressive Con- servative conventions will draw the greatest number of delegates. Their systems of selecting delegates from thie Federal and Provincial fields are similar. The Progressive Conserva- tives will have lightly more than 1,300 delegates whiel the Liberals will have just under that figure. The C.CF. which operates on a different delegate-selecting method, expects to have 300 at its turnout, Allowed Drinking, Man Is Fined $25 Robert McKenna, 190 Oshawa on-the-Lake, appeared in court to- to the charge of permitting drunkenness. Magistrate F. 8. Ebbs fined the ac- Yuasa $25 and costs or one month, nd declared his residence a pub- lic place for the period of one year. Detective Alex Alexander told the court that there were 61 empty beer bottles found in the dwelling as well as several full . bottles. Two drunken men were apprehended .as well, the officer. said. federal agents arrested seven party leaders on charges of conspiring and agitating to overthrow the United States government and of being mem- bers of a party which threaten overthrow cf the government. Six of the ! men, picked up in New York, include William Z. Foster, America's No, 1 Communist; Eugene Dennis, Communist party secretary and Benjamin Davis, Jr.,, a, New York City councilman, The seventh man, identified as Carl Winter, was picked up in Detroit. He is said to be in charge of Communist activities in that area. Pictured are the six picked up in New York. Top row, left to right: Harry Winston, organizing secretary of Communist party; John Williamson, party trade-union secretary, and Jack Stachel, party educational secretary. Bottom row, left to right: and his 2% -year-old daughter San- dra, were drowned while fishing from a bridge over the Vermilion River about 30 miles west of Sud- bury, Jack Bocking, 27, of St. Thomas, was drowned Sunday while swimming at Torrance near Graven- hurst. Raymond Laurens, 19, a vis- itor from England, was drowned Sunday while swimming at Lake of Two Mountains, near Montreal. Norman McTavish, 55, of Arthur, was fatally injured Saturday night when crushed beneath a heavy trac- tor engine which toppled on him when an automobile he was driving overturned near Guelph. John Cahill, 69, dled In a Mont- real hospital Saturday of injuries received Friday when struck by "a | street car, Montreal had a triple drowning involving three young children. Drowned when a rowboat overturned at the southern tip of Montreal Island were Louis Courtois, two; a brother, Michiel, five; and a sister, Monique, four. Four adults were rescued. \ A swamped motorboat carried Ca- mille Abass, 21, to his death in the Rideau Canal near Smiths Falls, Five other youtixs swam to safety. Other drownings victims were: Mrs, Betty Orde, 19, of Toronto, dragged down by a Georgian Bay undertow at Balm Beach, seven miles west of Midland. Adelard Dodge, 49, of Montreal, whose body was recovered from the Lachine Canal; and an unidentified woman of about 40 whose body was taken from the Niagara River before the falls at Niagara Falls, Ont. A runaway automobile killed 21- year-old Mrs. Kathleen Scott, a bride of three months, and carried her body into Lake Pinafore at St. 'Tucmas. It also injured her husband and plunged the cars occupant, Mrs. James Cousins, into the lake, from which she was rescued by swimmers. Victims of other traffic accidents were: Dalton Dash, 22, Oshawa, killed when his motorcycle collided with an autcmobile police said was driven by Fred Kotowych, of R. R. 1, Kingston; Mrs. James McGuig- an, 40, Charlottetown, killed when a car was sideswiped; Mrs, H. Houston, 60, Englehart, Ont, in-| jured when a car went out of con- | trol near North Bay; Ernest Mon-| geon, 28, Hull, Que., said to have | walked into the side of a truck in| Ottawa; Mrs. Jean H. Jordon, Burks | Falls," Ont, killed 'when a car| rammed a guard rail at North Bay; Jean-Paul Desrochers, 32, whose jeep overturned at Warwick, Que. A fall Jast Thursday wile picking cherries at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mimico proved fatal Sun- | day to Edward Cunningham, 86. Georges Guibault, 75, died in Montreal from injuries suffered in| a fall from a third-storey balcony. Mrs. Sarah Ormandy, 75, died at London, Ont, as a result of a fall down a fliglat of stairs in hier home, The accidental discharge of. a rifle in a companions hands killed Thomas Dutton, 17, of Allan Mills, near Campbellford. And a stray C. R. Vint, President of Colzate« Palmolive-Peet Co. Limited, an« nounces the promotion of Frank W, Hill to the position of Acting Gene eral Sales Manager, following the promotion of R. A. Hart to the for- eign division of the company. Mr, Hill is shown above. bullet took the life of Jean-Marie Desrochers, 12, at Warwick, Que. Lise Millard, two, was fatally burned at Quebec City when a can of gasoline in which her father was cleaning automobile parts exploded. The body of Albert E, Jchinson, 68, of Lansing, Mich., was found in the ruins of a summer cabin in whicia he had been living alone at Wor- thington Lake, about 75 miles east of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. A kerosena refrigerator was blamed for the fire, Robert Patton, 41, of no fixed ad dress, was killed by a train near Toronto. Police described him as a discouraged writer and sald he threw himself in front of the train, When a granite-polishing machine burst at Gap St. Martin, near Mont- real, Rosaire Lepage, 30, reached for a switch to shut it off. But he was drenched with water from the machine and the instant he touched the switch he was electrocuted, * FATALLY INJURED Guelph, Ont, July 26--/CP)-- Norman McTavish, 55, of nearby Arthur, was fatally injured Satur- day night when crushed beneath a heavy tractor engine on the Bele wood-Fergus road near here. Mc= Tavish suffered a skull fractura when an automobile which he was driving overturned and the tractor ! engine toppled over on top of him, CHIVALROUS BANDITS Nassau, Bahamas--(CP)--Armed and masked bandits here still be- lieve in chivalry. After tying their victim, Mrs. Donald Lawrence, to a tree, they opened her parasol and tied it above her to protect her from the sun. Flying Saucers in Again Foster, Davis and Denis, - G.B. Shaw Is 92 Today And Will Stick to Work Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England, July 26--(CP)--George Bernard Shaw is 92 today but no- body in his household dares men- tion the fact. As far as Britain's leading sage is concerned, birthdays are not to be celebrated. He hates them. No celebration was planned for the day. Even the playwright's closest friends shrank from visiting him, There was one, however, who todk a chance with Shaw. She is his housekeeper, Mrs. Alice Laden, who tempted him with one of the four cakes sent by admirers. It is iced and has the letters GBS in- scribed on it. Shaw's day was no different from his usual routine. This goes as follows: : Up at 7 am.; breakfast 8-10 am.,, eating extremely slowly and read- ing all the while; writing until lunch at 1:15 p.m., then more read- ing and writing until dinner-time. He never has tea at a meal. After dinner comes more reading, per- haps listening to the radio and writing for a couple more hours be- fore going to bed about midnight. Tonight Shaw plans to dress for dinner but that is not by way of marking the birthday. He insists on this procedure every evening, whe- ther he has guests or not. Shaw's general health is said to be better than it was a year ago. He has fully recovered from a re- cent" chill caught. while strolling in the rain, Shaw gives credit for his goéod health to his vegetarian diet, the fact he is a teetotaler and to his extremely careful rules for living. His sight and hearing have failed a bit, but he still can read without glasses and hear ordinary conver- sations without strain. He describes his' récreation new : as "being ninety," and adds that he intends to enjoy it for a long while. In the last year he has completed a play, "Buoyant Billions," sub- titled by GS: started another comedy and has written a postscript to his cele- brated "Fabian Essays." Botany Expert Drowning Victims Gravenhurst, July 26 -- (CP) -- Jack Bocking, 27, of St. Thomas, was drowned Sunday while swim- ming at Torrance near here. A Gold Medallist in- botany and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario at London, Bock- ing was engaged in botanical re- search at Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, until his health be- came, poor. The. son of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Bocking of St. Thomas, he is sur- vived by a twin brother, Dr. Doug- las Bocking of Hawkesbury, and a sister, Mrs. Malcolm -Edwerthy of Kamloops, BC, "A Comedy of No: aby id 4 " Manners." It is to have its pre. | Said they encountered a wingless | simply said in effect, "don't blame miere in Zurich this fall. He has | With New Color Scheme Atlanta, July 26--(AP) -- The | Montgomery, Ala. flying saucer -- or something -- is| Clarence L. McKelvie of Colum back again. | bus, Ohio, lent credence to the pi- Reports from widely-separated | lots' report by declaring he had sertions of the country have des- seen "a flash of cherry-red fire" cribed "it" during the week-end as: ; while a passenger on the plane. 1. A wingless craft, spurting; "It" was an aluminum-covered flame "like a Buck Rogers rocket ; balloon to observers at Yakima, ship." | Wash., where the police station 2. An aluminum-covered balloon, | switchboard was jammed with exe 3. An unusually-bright light. | cited call and inquiries. 4, A ball of fire. - | It was this way last year when 5. A red and blue that | someone said he had seen a flying burst in mid-air. | saucer whizzing around. Right 6. A flash of cherry-red fire. | away dor2ns of persons said threy 7. A meteor, | had seen the same thing--or some= "It" first was reported by the! thing. astern Airlines pilots, each a| The United States Army, as usu= fizhter pilot during the war, who |al, denied any responsibility and flame mystery plane, spurting fire, near |us." Three Children Drown As Car Leaves Bridge Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., July 26-- ! stuck in loose boards of the woods !en bridge. The car swerved off the (CP)--Three children were drown- © ! h o. | brifze mio 12 feet of water. ed Saturday when an automobile, "I saw my wife free herself driven by their father, swerved off | through the side window, but I had a bridge at nearby Sugar Island. |a terrific job opening the door," The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gar- | he said. "I tried to get hold of Gare rett Halfaday of Munising, Mich, |ry but couldn't, are in hospital suffering exposure | "I finally managed to open ths and shock. The bodies of Garry, six, and Francis, two, were recover- ed while police are dragging for the body of Caroline Jean. i Halfaday said 12 lost control of the car when its wheels becaine door on my side and get close to my wife, who was swimming desperate« ly, trying ta locate the children, The current is" very swift at this spot. Before we knew what had happened they were out of sight."