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NO FOOT AND MOUTH IN ONTARIO THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT OSHAWA "Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Yuey VOL. 11--No, 66 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa. OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1952, Price 5 Cents FOURTEEN PAGE See Hope Of Awverting National Steel Strike InTests E Result Negative _Shelburne Case Ottawa (CP) -- The government's chief veterinarian | said today there is no indication of foot-and-mouth disease | in a farm animal under observation near Shelburne, Ont. Dr. CHARGE YOUTH WITH MURDER OF CaRTVaonT FARMER Sunday Midnight Set As Deadline If No Agreement Washington (AP) -- Most of the steel industry appear- | ed today to be betting that a steel strike in the United States | threatened for midnight Sunday will be postponed. U.S. Steel Corp., the largest producer, had expressed intention of start- ing to shut down its ferro-manganese operations today. But the corporation apparently reversed that stand and held off a formal shutdown announcement, saying a decision has not been reached. ----lp Of all the large steel companies Wm.E. Clarke Succumbs In Montreal A director of Pedlar People Lim- ited and manager for the company | in the Montreal area, William E. | WILLIAM E. CLARKE Olarke passed away suddenly this morning in the Quebec metropolis. An employee of the firm for 49 years, the deceased was sales manager for the company at Oshawa for some years before be- ing appointed manager at Montreal in 1926, He was appointed a direc- tor last year. One of Oshawa's most and prominent citizens during his residence here, Mr. Clarke was ac- tive in many community projects. He was a member of the Oshawa ) Rotary Clpb and served as a direc- | tor of the club in 1926-26. He was | also prominent in sports being a | member of the Oshawa Curling Club. Also prominent in masonic circles | he was ruling master of Lebanon | © only Jones and Laughlin had any general | [definite close down plans. Its | headquarters at Pittsburgh said it would start closing tomorrow. | | Steel makers must empty - their | furnaces of molten metal and let them cool well in advance of any walkout to avoid costly damage. The Wage Stabilization Board is expected to make public its recom" gore pyrham County farm, 36- [photo taken at the | mendations Thursday for settling | the steel labof dispute. | It is also the day fixed by the | United Steel Workers (C.I.O.) for replying to a government request for a strike postponement at least | until April 8. The union has asked for an 18%- | cent hourly pay boost, plus a batch | of other demands involving more than a hundred separate issues. The steelworkers now earn nearly | $2 an hour. | POWER FIRMS REPRESENTED ON NEW BOARD Ottawa (CP)--The government | | today named nine directors for the | {new Crown company that will] | direct Canada's atomic program | and significantly included four | representatives of firms interested | in the production of power. This was seen as a sign that | outside interests are to be kept in | [contact with and to have a say about the drive to harness the atom for power purposes in Canada. The | fous directors from power firms | represent the Ontario and Quebec Hydro Commissions, Calgary Power Limited and the Shawinigan Water and Power Co. The new company, Atomic Energy of Canada, Limited, will | be headed by Dr. C. J. MacKenzie, | president of the atomic energy | control board, the advisory body | which maps atomic policy for the | | government. Dr. MacKenzie relinquishes the | Lodge, AF. and AM, in 1916 and | | presidency of the National Re-| was subsequently elected a life | search Council to take over the| member of the lodge. | presidency of the new company. | He is survived by his wife, the | The company will take over Can. | former Winnifred Palmer of Brant- | 4qa'g big atomic energy plant at ford, and one daughter, Mrs. Jos- lyn W. Rogers of Toronto. A funeral service will be held at] Montreal on Thursday. The remains will arrive in Oshawa on Friday. Following a funeral service inter- ment will be made locally. CANALS OPEN APRIL 21 Cornwall, Ont. (CP) -- Naviga- tion on the Ontario-St. Lawrence canals will open April 21, announced today 'Workmen's , Compensation' it was | Chalk River, Ont, | operated by N. R. GAS WELL BLOWS UP at present | Dunnville (CP)--Peter Englis of Dunnville is reported out of dan-| ger after a gas well which he was | testing for leaks blew up in his face yesterday. He is suffering from concussion and a possible skull fracture. He was lifted eight | feet into the air by the blast. Windsor Lawyer Is Named To Handle Hospital Prohe Toronto (CP) -- A probe into alleged irregularities at the East Windsor Hospital for incurables is expected to begin soon following yesterday's Order - in - Council appointment of Gordon Fraser, prominent Windsor lawyer, as Royal Commissioner, Attorney - General Porter an- NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per issue for FEBRUARY 10,902 {nounced the appointment in the Legislature minutes after Lieuten- ant-Governor Louis Breithaupt gave Royal assent to a bill permitting | the inquiry. The bill, which passed through | the Legislature in four days, pro- vides for investigations of hospitals or any organization receiving pro- vincial grants. Mr. Porter gave no indication | | yesterday of the reason for the probe, beyond his statement of Tast Wednesday that certain irregular- ities had been reported by Frank Brobst, chairman of the hospital's board of governors. The Legislature foday continues the Throne-Speech debate, which | concludes tomorrow with speeches by Opposition Leader Farquhar Oliver and the Attorney-General. This will clear the way for the HOSPITAL PROBE (Continued on Page 2) | Murdered in the barn of his. 100- | year-old Sidney Goff ae' (extreme left) was found covered by straw Goff, mother of the slain man) his | sister, Mrs, Doris Redstone of Hali- fax, and her husband; the victim's | grandmother, Mrs. Underhill, and his brother, Frank of Toronto. | late Sunday by his father. In family wedding of left to right, Sr., Mrs. | Gott's young sister, are Sidney Jr., Sidney Steelworkers Ask Conciliation For New Contract | Unable to reach a settlement in contract renewal negotia- tions with the Ontario Malle- able Iron Company in Oshawa, Local 1817 of the United Steel- workers of America this momn- ing applied to the Ontario De- partment of Labor for the serv. ices of a conciliation officer. Last night a membership meeting of the Union decided against accepting 'the com- pany's offer on the grounds that it was inadequate. The union's agreement with Ontario Malleable expires on April 30. MINERS VOTE STRIKE ACTION TO WIN POINT | Timmins (CP) -- For the second | time in a year, employees of the | rich Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines have given their union exe- | cutive the power to call a strike. The men--members of Local 4305 jof the United Steelworkers of | America CIO. -- decided Sunday |to stop work If necessary to force | the company to carry out terms of an agreement which settled a 52-day strike last year. The 1951 strike was settled Aug. | 30 by a memorandum which grant- | ed pay increases of 16 cents an The present disputes hinges | | on whether or not the memorandum hour. is a collective agreement enforce- |ablée under the Ontario Labor Re- | lations Act. The = Ontario Labor but has not yet given a decision. C. H. Millard, Canadian Director of the Steelworkers, said the situ-| ation at the mine is "explosive." Under the agreement union and company negotiators were to work | out a job-evaluation plan. When joint talks failed to produce agree- | ment, the company put its own | plan into effect. The union sought permission from the Labor Board to prosecute ! |the company on the grounds that | the | settlement memorandum. The com- | | pany said the memorandum was not | company plan violated the a collective bargaining agreement | under Ontario labor law. Several weeks ago Labor Minister Daley assured members of the On- | tario Federation of Labor C.CL.| that all strike settlements made by | his office would be regarded as! binding on all parties and that he would act to make them binding. | Guns Turn Back Chinese Reds Seoul, Korea (AP)--Allied guns routed 1,000 Chinese Reds who tried to punch through U. N. lines on the western front before dawn today. A U. 8. Eighth Army staff officer said the scattered attacks along a four-mile sector north west of Kor- | angpo failed to dent the Allied line. Allied planes prowled North Kor- ean skies but heavy clouds shel- tered many Comununist ground tar- gets. Pighter-bombers blasted 57 new holes in the wobbly Red rail system before noon, Relations | Board heard the question Feb. 13 | sidney Goff Sr. uses hammer from | mer, believed to be the murder | {the tool shed to point to a spot|weapon, would normally be. | where the larger tinsmith's ham- --Canada Wide Pictures | Steelworkers To Ask Ray Scott ToBe CCF Nominee Roy Scott, a well-known Seagrave farmer, is to be in- | vited by Local 1817, of the United Steelworkers of America, | to let the union submit his name to the CCF nominating con- | | vention as a possible candidate in the coming federal by- election in Ontario Riding. The decision to issue the invitation was made by the | local union last night in response to a request from the On- tario Riding Association of the CCF asking unions for names of prospective candidates. Another section of Oshawa steel- workers, Local 2784 recently invit- ed Ald. W. J. "Jack" Naylor to be' | their CCF nominee. . Jack Naylor! | declined but Oshawa and District | | labor, with its backing of thousands | ° Automobile lof trade union members, went ahead land asked him to reconsider. At last night's meeting Local 1817 {Stanley Rospond to serve on the CCF-Labor election committee | which is being esfablished by the Ottawa (CP)--Douglas Harkness | | party to direct the campaign in the (PC -- Calgary East) last night federal by-election. renewed his Commons campaign | ee (for a lower protective tariff on motorcars. 'Blazing Troop Plane | He suggested during the Throne- Speech debate thaj'there is no valid Crash Leaves 2 Dead reason why cary should cost so much more in Canada than they mrt is do in the United States. Dallas, Tex. (AP)--A nervy Ma- He proposed that the tariff be| rine pilot ordered 20 servicemen | reduced to the point where it would' out of a burning transport yester- | still protect the Canadian automo-| day, then stuck with the plane un- ive industry and yet bring about|til* it passed over a residential a reduction in prices. At the same | area in southeast Dallas. time, the government should re- | Two of the men were killed in duce taxes on cars. | parachute accidents. A third is J. J. Smith (L--Moose Mountain) | | missing 4 Fin suggested that the automobile in- | tered injuries. dustry had been 'nursed' and | Juri "'coddled" long enough. It should| The blazing two-engine be able to stand on its own feet|crashed and exploded in a field with other industries without pro- about a quarter of a mile from a tection. residential area. | He did not believe that the exist- | Capt 'R. C. Wesley, ing ban on importation of motor-| Fla., the pilot, parachuted to | cars from the United States should | I safety from about 500 feet w hile | continue. the plane was in a dive. T. Childs, veterinary director-general in the Agriculture De- | partment, said the animal, a bull, has been under -observa- | mouth disease. tion five days after coming down with an undiagnosed dis- ease, with some symptoms similar to those of foot-and- "But so far as we can tell, it is --® not foot-and-mouth," he said. "If it were, other animals in the herd ot = would have been infected " EGYPT JAILS TWO WAFDIST i * Childs said the farm has been quarantined, adding that "We always do that as a precautiofiary measure when we cannot make a | detutie Jegnosis his case," he said, "it may be ne Wh commonly MINISTERS Harold Deneau, 16, is shown after arrest on murder charge, NEW CASES OF F-MPLAGUE' HIT BRITAIN London (Reuters)--The Agricul- | ture Ministry today reported sev-| eral new outbreaks of foot and | mouth disease during the week- | end, giving rise to fears that B: tain's worst epidemic in 10 ac! is still persisting. | Earlier this month, it was be-| lieved the worst of the epidemic was over, though il is still raging in some parts of Europe. | The new outbreaks are in the eastern counties of Essex and Suf- folk. Several cattle markets have | | been closed. The scourge has been concentra- | ted along the east coast, supporting | the theory of agriculture experts that the outbreaks are caused by the flight of migratory birds from Europe to Britain at the beginning of the cold weather. Since the epidemic began last November, 6,049 cattle, 3,036 sheep, 2,822 pigs and six goats have been slaughtered in an effort to control the disease. | Cairo (AP)--Fuad Serag el Din | Pasha and Abdel Fattah Hassan | Pasha, key men in the ousted | Wafdist party cabinet, were arres- | ted early today and whisked away | to villages in northern Egypt. Serag el Din, party strong man, | was interior and finance minister in the regime of Premier Mustapha | | el Nahas Pasha. Hassan was social | affairs minister. No charges were | filed against them immediately. Egypt's prosecutor-general, how- ever, recently accused Serag el Din--whose Interior Ministry con- trolled the police--of "administra- tive responsibility" for the disas- trous fire riots of Jan. 26 which took 67 lives and caused millions !of dollars worth of property dam- age. Hassan has been accused by anti- Wafdists of making a speech which 'excited the population' the day | of the riots. Political circles term the arrests | EGYPT JAILS (Contimuea on Page. » Move to Ease Restrictions On Livestock | Freer movement of meat and livestock engaged the attention of Federal and some provincial goy-! | ernments Tuesday, almost a month | after an emergency was declared due to foot-and-mouth disease in | southern Saskatchewan. In Ottawa, Agriculture Minister { Gardiner hinted at early relaxation of the embargoes, clamped on by four provincial governments to prevent spread of the disease. Premier Campbell of Manitoba said his government has "no desire ito rock the boat' but it would take lassurances from agricultural experts that the disease is at an end to bring about relaxation of |its embargo. Meanwhile, Fisheries Minister Mayhew was on his way to Victoria ji Sisousy sading British Colum- bia's barg The Dhawan government moved in the provincial Legislature TRUCK DRIVER » eal) for an end to the olhargoes. solution will go before Lesisiaure regretting the Federal | government's "failure" to take |over control of movement, market- | members named D. F. Bronton and | None of the others suf- C-46 | Pensacola, | 1S COMMITTE IN FATALITY Jai Holtby, of Maple Grove, | R.R. 3, Bowmanville, was this morn- | ing committed for trial on a charge of motor manslaughter. His trial will take place at the next court of | competent jurisdiction in Cobourg. | The charge of manslaughter was | {laid against Holtby following the (death in a motor accident on Jan- | juary 26 of George S. Oulds, 37, of | Bewdley. The accident took place | near Newtonville when Oulds, whe! was an employee of Charlton Tran port Ltd. Oshawa, was hitch- hik. | ing to his home. He got a lift in an auto driven by George James Smith, 20, of Cooksville, which was involved in a collision with a milk truck, operat- | ed by Holtby. Juliana fo Visit Canada in April Amsterdam, The Netherlands (AP)--Queen Juliana will visit Canada following her state visit to the.United States next month, the court announced today. On her Canadian tour she will not be accompanied by her hus- band, Prince Bernhard, who has a | lecture engagement in New York. WEATHER | Sunny, clouding over this evening. Rain beginning to- night and ending Wednesday afternoon. Continuing mild. Winds southeast 15. Low to- night and high Wednesday 40 and 45. Summary for Wed- nesday: Rain. | {ing and price of livestock. The motion also asks immediate | | action to lift the embargoes and | maintain price at levels prevailing | during the week ended Feb. 23. In the quarantine area around | | Regina, butchering of livestock for | {human consumption was started. This will provide farmers with a market and assure consumers in the area of fresh meat. known as 'lump jaw'--which has somewhat similar symptoms to foot-and-mouth.' Test specimens from the Shel- | burne animal have been brought to the department's laboratories at | nearby Hull, Que., for analysis. Dr. Childs said the tests so far have shown 'nothing positive" on foot-and-mouth disease. However, the final diagnosis has not been received from the analysts. Dr. Childs said that no foot-and- mouth cases have been diagnosed in Ontario, and, so far as is known, | the disease is still contained within the original quarantine area around Regina. No new cases had been reported in that district since early last week. 'Every day that passes makes it less likely that there will be further outbreaks," he said. 'It is possible that new contacts may develop, but it is not likely now.' GIVEN REMAND ON CHARGE OF MURDER A murder charge has been laid at Bowmanville against gangling | 16-year-old Harold Deneau, of On- | tario Boys Training School. He has 'heen formally charged before a Justice of the Peace with the slaying on Sunday of Sidney Goff, a 36-year-old farmer, at a farm at Burketon, about 14 miles north- east of Oshawa. The youth was remanded by the JP to be confined in custody until March 25. Deneau was arrested at gunpoint by provincial police from Bowman- ville on Sunday night in a vacant farmhouse seven-tenths of a mile {from the barn in which Goff's battered: body was found. Dazed 'and cold, the youth surrender- ed quietly to the police. Goff's body was found beneath a pile of straw in his father's barn on Sunday aftermoon. Deneau had been paroled to the care of Sam Goff, father of the victim, and neighbors stated that the murdered man was Deneau's best friend. Kitchener Tax Rate «| At 68 Mills New High Kitchener, Ont. (CP)--Kitchener and neighboring Waterloo last night set their tax rates at 68 mills, highest in the history of both cities. | The new rate is a 2%-mill in {crease for Kitchener and an in- crease of nine mills for Waterloo. The tax rate increase was caused in part by the construction of the hospital and new schools. In Kit- chener a new 1,200,000 memorial auditorium was built. | Earcical Trade-Ing Government Action Urged To Terminate Electrical Appliance Price Wars Ottawa (CP)--Government action | to prevent a spread of price wars | in electrical appliance and other | fields was suggested yesterday in | the Commons. Ross Thatcher, a retail hardware merchant from Moose Jaw, Sask., said 'fictitious' trade-in allow- ances offered on electrical applia-| ances and predatory price wars in some centres are driving hundreds of small retail merchants into bankruptcy. Mr. Thatcher, C.C.F member for | Moose Jaw, said the trade-in allow- ances offered by some stores are | making a farce of the government's | The consumer-credit restrictions. government should insist on a down payment of at least 20 per cent {in cash. Under existing regulations, the trade-in allowance is counted as | part of the one-third down payment | required under the credit restric-| tions. In some cases, the trade-in allowance offered means that the customer does not make any down payment. The government's action at the last session in prohibiting resale price maintenance--the fixing of | retail prices by manufacturers-- had set off a "series of predatory price wars, which no doubt tempor- arily benefit the consumer." But the abolition of competition would | mean that in the long run the con- sumer would not benefit. Mr. Thatcher called for govern- ment action to reduce taxes on | electrical appliances. They were largely responsible for unemploy- ment in the industry. In the opening minutes, i Resources Minister Winters an- nounced that a Commons commit- PRICE WARS (Continued on Page 3