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Daily Average - Circulation for March, 1953 12150 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZE' Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle E/; " Weather Forecast Watch the leaves burst -- sunny and warmer tomorrow. Low tonight and ---- _---- 4 high Wednesday, 40 and 55. VOL. 12--No. 99 Authorizsd as Second-Class Mat; Post Office Department, OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1953 TWENTY-TWO PAGES GLAD TO BE HOME? "@lad to be home? Now what do you think?" So said a young ots from Korea who return- ed to Oshawa last night, On hand to greet Private Donald McCul- of the 1st Battalion of the yal Canadian Regiment, were mother, Mrs. John Hess, of 202 Cadillac Avenue South, seen on the right, and "the girl he left behind," Miss Gloria Corby. Wearing and the United Nations blue and white ribbons, the soldier brought home a unique souvenir. It was an ornate Eastern walking stick with which he intends to play pool. Gay and without a care in the world, so he said. Pte. Mec- Culloch was one of 500 men of the Korea campaign: | ...SURE AM! the famed battalion who were given a hero's welcome in Ot- tawa yesterday and eulogised by | Prime Minister Louis St. Laur- | ent. Pte. McCulloch spent 13 months in Korea. He is a grand- | son of Mr, and Mrs. Daniel Nu- gent who lived in Oshawa for 30 years before moving to Fenelon Falls. --Photo by Dutton--Times Studio Invasion Columns Near Tiny Kingdom's Capital By LARRY ALLEN LUANGPRABANG, Laos (AP)-- ed Vietminh Sop the mountain post of Pal , 42 miles northeast of Luang- 5 3s invasion columns con- y to press upon Laos' Toyal oaptial from the north and e A French Army spokesman an- the fall of aodd he not know now w part of French sacaped"or whothe or, w| d e post in a sharp se. A ant were Teparied ea ein 2 aay bang on the east, icial report said advance units were within 1 the angpra- a was reported quiet Thanep in- 2 |little town of dicating the enemy may be await- ing fresh supplies before pushing closer to the town. The exact position of the Viet- minh north and northeast of Luang- prabang was difficult to determine. The invaders were filtering single file through dense jungle toward jhe ring of mountains Surfounding the town, which lies in a plam- fips valley along the. Medong eoiitipaied to rush men a ad mppies: into Luangpra- bang by airlift while bombers and fighters hit the enemy wherever troop concentrations were spotted. ' Pench and Laotian soldiers dug trenches and constructed barbed wire entanglements around the 6,000, hereditary home of aged, ailing King Sisa- vang Vong. The king's son, Crown Prince Cabbie Shot, Killed Seek 2 Assailants MONTREAL (CP) -- Montreal police today sought two men. for the fatal shooting of a taxi driver in a robbery that netted about $15. Andre Lorge, 44-year-old Mon- Areal cabbie, was shot through the head by two men who entered his car in the heart of the city and left his body at a waterfront street-corner. The pody was found on a side- walk at the downtown intersections gt McGill Hoy Wellington streets | Cap by a passin % cab driver. $ Police said that when Lorge was he was without hat and shoes there was a bullet hole above his left eye. It was believed made by =a .45-calibre revolver. Dressed in a wrinkled blue suit, Lorge was still wearing his glasses. The slain man's cab was found a few minutes later by another La Salle driver, Alonzo Blackburs, who said that the engine was still warm, indicating it had not been abandoned for long. In the cab were Lorge's cap and shoes but police said there were no signs of a struggle. Investigating dy headed by J. H. Bond, chief of the LI division, said Lorge was shot where the body was found. The cab was then driven to uptown Jubper street where it was aban- oned. PRESS TIME FLASHES Spy Stole War Plans From GM WASHINGTON (AP)--Thad Mason, a self-identified former Communist spy testified today that he stole secret U.S. plans for a military diesel engine during the Second World War. He said the thefis were from a General Motors plant in Cleveland, Peron Arrests Opposition Leaders BUENOS AIRES (AP)--At least 10 opposition party leaders were reporfed arrested today, pr bomb explosions that caused the deaths of six persons among a vast crowd listening to a speech by President Juan D. Peron. bly in with recent Volcano Erupts Again " 0) )=The + TOKYO (R Mount Aso In South Japan erupted again today, showering boulders and lava near rescue workers searching for the bodies of children killed there in Mon- day's eruption .A third eruption is expected soon. Savang, told correspondents his people are determined to defend are going to defeat the enemy if they attack Luangprabang." A French major reported that advance units of the invaders are within 12 miles of the town on the north, while on the east Jarget mie. had advanced to within 25 miles, . 1 flew to Luangprabang Monday from his headquarters at Hanoi, 275 miles to the northeast. He as- sured the crown prince the French would fight it .out before the town. The Vietminh radio broadcast that a 'resistance government" is following the Red army into Laos. The radio said it was headed by Souphanou Yong, who formed a fugitive Laotian government Vietminh territory in 1950. e Red command was reported the Plaine des Jarres, 70 miles southeast of Luangprabang, where French and Laotian forces have thrown up strong defences in the a showdown battle on ground on their own choosing. But the Vietminh, by-passing the plain, has aimed three powerful eolumns from the northwest, north- east and east directly at Luang- prabang. Its capture would repre- sent an enormous political victory. Fittings Staft Strike Vote On Thursday Close to 1,000 employees of the Fittings Division, Local 1817, Unit- ed, Steelworkers of America, will take a strike vote in the UAW hall Thursday. The union's agree- ment with the company expires that day. If a strike is authorized the bar- gaining committee will be empow- ered to decide on the time and circumstances. Night shift employees will meet in the UAW hall Thursday at two in the afternoon. Day shift em- ployees will meet at seven in the eve! v The union is asking a wage boost which would establish a basic labor rate of $1.50 an hour. Pres- '|ent hiring rates are $1.22 for the machining division and $1.28 for foundry workers. Two weeks holi- day after one year of service is also asked and three weeks holiday with pay after 10 years of employ- ment. A pension plan is sought and the company is asked to pay full cost of Blue Cross and PSL medical services. Hint Reds Know Some PoWs May Refuse Any Repatriation By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP)--A faint, fresh glimmer of hope that the Communists may actually be mov- toward a truce in Korea has en found by officials here in the test Red proposals for dealing with Ri Biisohers of war, This feeling was not substantially changed by the United Nations threat to suspend the talks once again unless the Communists pro- duce a constructive solution, In the latest Red proposals, pre- sented to the UN command Mon- day, the Communists appeared for the first time to recognize officially | that some prisoners held by the may never be willing to {home to Red China or North Korea. If this interpretation is correct, and if the Reds are willing to act on it, no matter how warily, in further negotiations, it may be a key to the future of the truce talks. In any event it was regarded here as good reason for going on with the meetings despite wide differ- ences. References to the existence, or pssible existence of PoWs in UN hands who will never voluntarily accept repatriation, appear at least by implication in two sections of the Red proposals. In one it is suggested that after {prisoners who initially refuse re- 80 patriation have been turned over'be to a neutral state all those "who request repatriation" shall be sent home within a period of six recognize some prisoners will not request repatriation. Again, the Red proposals say that if after the six-month riod 'there are still prisoners of in the custody of the neutral state," their fate should be decided at a proposed political conference on the future of Korea. The essence of the. PoW deadlock is that the UN command insists ino prisoners should be forcibly |sent home. The Reds up to now jjave contender all prisoners should returned. their country and "we know we day also building up its forces circling | I months, This implies that the Reds |. LONDON (Reuters)--Diplomatic circles of Western Europe today saw little chance of fruitful results | from Russia's latest peace offen- sive tactic--an announcement of power peace pact. Commenting on Russia's note fo an international 'Peace Congress," government sources in London and Paris said there was nothing new or costructive in Russia's agreement to bring Communist China in on a top-level pact. London diplomats regarded the move as taking a step backward from the recent Russian trend of willingness to negotiate a five-| issues, since such negotiations face the United States government with the . question of recognizing the | A French spokesman described | |the Russian reply as "a classic theme of Communist propaganda." The problem of China's interma- tional position 1s considered in London to be one of the most difficult and delicate in the whole field of international relations. Asked to comment on the pea ce pact proposal, conveyed Monday in a note signed by the Russian for- Plans for the Oshawa celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Coronation on June 2 have bogged down in ty stalemate, according to Ald. R, Humphreys, QC. Chairman of the committee set up to organize special events, Ald Humphreys called a meeting last night to discuss the recent decision of General Motors not to take a holiday on June 2 "We wanted to find out if the union members could in any way make up the lost time that would be caused by the holding of & holi- "Union officials said the men were not prepared to work over- time. Nothing came of the dis- Coronation Bogged By Day Work Plan cussions and things are now at a stalemate." Ald. Humphreys said it appeared .|certain that all the plans would have to be based on the assump- tion that June 2 would not be a holiday in Oshawa. Local feeder plants announced that their plans for June 2 would be the same as GM's. With less than 40 days to go to the Coronation Oshawa hasn't got one commemorative event organ- ized. All the schemes were held up pending the GM announce- ment. City council has authorized an expenditure of up to $5,000 by the Coronation committee. OLTAwWA | (CP) One of the North's most famous figures, 41- year-old Tom Manning, heads back to the Aretic next Sunday to pick up where he left off last fall when an early freeze-up caught him hun- s of miles from nowhere. g and an English compan- Mannin in | jon, Capt. Tan Sparrow of the Royal Engineers, will be flown to Sachs Harbor on the south coast of Banks sland--the most westerly island of the Arctic archipelago. . Then they will hike north some 200 miles across the island to the canoe which Manning left late last hope of bringing the Vietminh to |fa]l all. Manning, rated by northern ex-| perts in Oftawa as the greatest! present-day Arctic traveller, is! | making the trip for the defence re- search board. Last summer he and a 19-year-old Ottawa College student, Andrew MacPherson, cruised by canoe around the west half of the island before winter caught up with them and forced them to travel hundreds of miles on foot and by Eskimo boat to reach the mainland. This summer Manning and Capt. Sparrow hope to cover the east half of the island 1,300 miles no: of Edmonton. Their canoe will al- Lure of North Is Too Much. |Explorer Returns To Arctic low them search for possible harbor a Po can be used for small boats canrying future Arctic study groups But first they will tramp across the island, pulling a sled since the snow won't be gone until about the beginning of June. The snow will fly again about the time they in- tend to leave at the beginning of October In the interior of Banks Island they expect to add to information now available on the terrain and in- crease the already huge amount of knowledge of Arctic geology, {plant and animal life which Man- | ning has amassed since he arrived a Canada from his native England n Capt. Sparrow has never before | been in Canada or Canada's Arc-| tic, although he has had exper- ience in northern Norway. Manning, born in Northampton, England, has a record of Arctic travel almost unmatched among white men. He was on Southampton Island from 1933 to 1935, came out for a year and then returned for a five-year stint from 1936 to 1941, during which time he married an English-born girl on Baffin Island. He has returned to the Arctic sev- eral times since the end of the war. And who wouldn't! Flying Offi- cer J. H. Cooper, MBE, of Otta- wa, the man who is grooming the RCAF regular force contingent for its 13-mile Coronation route "le mhérch in London in June, won't be in the parade himself. He has watch it from the curb. FO HE'S GOT REASON TO SQUAWK | Cooper, 41 - year - 81d 190 - pound drill and physical training instructor, is six foot, one tall -- one inch over the height limit set for the RCAF Coronation squad. His assignment is to train and | condition 88 officers, NCOs, air- | women and airmen for the his- + toric march, Communist government in China. | | 'Western Europe Doubts | Sincerity Of Red Talk dealing with simple, uncomplicated , eign minister, Vyacheslav Molo- | a foreign office spokesman | 'The Soviet government has | tov, said: made such a proposal on many | other occasions since the war. Prospects of its acceptance by | | the West, in present circumstances, than the prospects of agreement | to attend talks on a four-power | basis, he said. French diplomatic quarters said Molotov"s statement only reiter- ated the Russian view that there was no controversial or unsolved problem that could not be settled by peaceful means. They added that the Soviet gov- ernment's real intentions still re- mained to be tested on such an issue as the Austrian peace treaty. Molotov's statement was in reply to an open letter addressed to the Soviet prime minister, Georgi Mal- enkov, President Eisenhower, Sir Winston Churchill, Chou En-lai, the Chinese Communist prime minis- ter, and Premier Rene Mayer of France. Ex-POW's Fly Home TOKYO (AP)--Thirty-five Am- erican soldiers, freed from Commu- nist prison camps in Korea last week, boarded a big hospital plane here today and headed eastward across the Pacific toward home. The plane will land in Honolulu this afternoon. After resting about 24 hours the men will leave for | paper men talk with the former |can be hooked to a machine to {| said today. . range' of Canadian manufactured California on the last leg of their homeward flight. The plane probably will land at | Travis" air force base, 'mean San | Francisco, early Thursday. The army refused to let news- prisoners at the airport. FRENCH ROYALTY REALLY DOGGY King Henry IIT of France owned 2,000 lap dogs. They slept on velvet cushions near his bedroom, and had the per- sonal attention of 350 servants. But if you'd like to employ a servant, (or sell a dog!) The Times-Gazette Classified ads are what you need. Through Want Ads you solve problems in a hurry, and at low cost too. Dial 3-2233 for an ad-writer. RAGE AGAINST TIME TO DIG OUT MINERS | Rockburst Traps 2 Men 4,900 Feet Below Surface KIRKLAND LAKE (CP)--A rockburst exploded at the ber. | 4,900-foot level of the Wright-Hargreaves gold mine Mon- | day night and sealed off two men in an underground chame Rescue workers digging frantically through tons of | rock said there is "little hope the two miners are alive. " The rockburst was felt all through this Northern On- are considered to be infinitely less | tario mining centre and by noon today rescue crews had to dig through 25 feet of rock to reach the men, still Leo Murray, 25, and Leon Wojcechowski, 39, both of Kirkland Lake. Alex Harris, the company, said "there is little hope the miners are alive." He said rescue may come within an hour or not until the end of the day. It depends on how much rock is piled between the rescue workers and the trapped men, he said. However, rescue workers pressed to clear away the tons of rock in the hope that the two men have SHotigh air in the chamber to sur- vive. Two hundred miners were under- ground when the explosion rumbled through the tunnels and startled hundreds of residents here. Mur- ray and Wojcechowski were the only two men near thhe rockbumst. No other miners were hurt. The Wright-Hargreaves mine is one of many in this afea and is located in the centre of Kirkland Lake. It is only a from the community's main street and near the big Lake Shore gold mine, Reports from the pithead are meagre. Scores of miners hurried to the scene when the explofion rocked the area at 7:55 p. m . Rescue work started within min- vies. Harris said rescue workers Hed they could not reach the trapped men until early this after- noon. If so, the two miners have been trapped for nearly 19 hours (285s operations were being Bod Deron y Larry Walkom, an inspector for the Ontario depart- hou! ment of mines. He said the work was "quite dangerous and we're timbering as we go.' Up until noon today, workers had cleared pri 25 feet of huge chunks of rock. They still had 25 feet to go to reach the two men. Rescuers fried to communicate with Murray and -Wojcechowski during the night but 'their yells went unanswered. 'Mine officials said the chamber in which they are trapped gives 'little protection." Some workers considered blast- ing their way to the chamber but officials considered that too dan- gerous. Meagre details of the explosion were not made known by the com- pany spokesman until this morn- réscue NEW ORLEANS (AP)--Human brains are being wired inside to produce tiny shocks to banish ter- rible pain or to treat mental ill- ness. Two to eight electric wires are planted as deep as three inches inside the brain. Any pair of wires carry a slight electric current through chosen parts of the brain. The currents seem to dynamite hormones into action. The wires have brought one bed- ridden woman freedom from the incessant pain of hopeless cancer, Dr. Robert G. Heath, professor of psychiatry and neurosurgery at Tulane University Medical School, She has not needed morphine for six weeks, is up and about. Thirty mental patients have had the brain wiring in the last three years, but Dr. Heath declined to discuss those results now. He described this significant new attack upon pain to science writers ending a tour sponsored by the American Cancer Society. He stres- sed that the work still is prelim- inary, Electric Shocks Jolt Brain, Cut Pain In New Scheme The wires are implanted through two little holes made in the front, top part of the skull. A fluoroscope machine guides the surgeon in put- ting each wire at selected spots. The brain end of each wire has a tiny bulb or electrode. The outside ends of the wires are soldered to sockets, which are incorporated into a big head ban- dage. There is no discomfort. The wires can be withdrawn anytime later. Any pair of wires can be used either to record brain waves elec- trically, or to send the currents from one electrode to another through part of the grey matter. Dr. Heah showed a dramatic movie of pain relief won by the woman whose cancer had spread through her pelvis. Shots of mor- hine brought relief for only two ours. But as soon as the current--two milliamperes or 2,000ths of an am- pere--was turned on, her pain was gone. The treatments kill her pain for | a week or 10 days, then she has| another. electric stimulation, short distance | cel a spokesman for® ing Mr. Harris, who channels the news from the company, was Toronto Monday night and arrivi here early today. It was first thought that the rockburst occurred at nearby Lake. Shore Gold Mines. Small rockbursts are frequeni here. However, many cause no losyp of life and little damage. The e = plosions often occur in unwork sections of a mine. However, some rescue workers held out hope that the trapped men have enough air to survive for many hours. Rescuers hurried to the sce shortly after the - explosion labored to clear huge chunks of rocks leading to the chamber, Others carried heavy timbers the mine to support the tunn as Rockbursts ocour when the of a mining excavation give under great pressure from rounding rock. Ivory Tinkler Sets Endurance Record LE HAVRE, France (AP) French pianist Robert Sergil claimed a world record of pian laying held by a Gi who - collapsed Ours. Sergil sald sould go on Plage ing until mi tg « » « In Healthier Days Ailing Eden Faces Second Operation LONDON (AP)--A foreign office spokesman said today that ailing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden will undergo a second operation "within the next day or two." The spokesman said the opera- tion was necessary "in view of the persistence of jaundice." Eden was operated on April 12 at the London clinic for the re- moval of gallstones. His recovery has been slow. Five days after the operation the foreign secretary developed tonsil. | itis with some fever. Then he had a recurrence of jaundice. Eden had | been ill off and on since the middle of the winter. OTTAWA (CP)--The Canadian Manufacturers' Association today accused the United States of clos- ing her doors against a "wide goods and suggested the govern- ment apply brakes on her post-war program of handing out tariff con- cessions. The association, representing about 6,700 manufacturers turning out 80 per cent of Canada's factory- made goods, outlined a 10-point trade-expanding plan to the Senate trade committee, but emphasized that countries other than Canada must take the initiative if world trade is to become freer.' In an 1l-page brief presented by president G. K. Sheils of Toronto, the association said that sterling- {area import restrictions have led {to the loss of overseas markets for /many Canadian manufacturers and these, in turn, have found the U.S. a poor substitute, '"'It is obvious that the U. S., while quite willing to admit Can-| {ada's raw materials to her mark- greater freedom ets, does not show the same wil- lingness to admit a wide range of | manufactured goods.' In another part of the brief, the association added: "In the U. 8., the tariff structure import quotas and prohibitions and | the involved administration of cus- toms have been designed and used to ensure, in that highly indus- trialized nation, that American in- dustry is not subjected to serious competition from Canada or from abroad. "The evidence of past years Would End 'Soft' Tariffs To Aid Manufacture Here itive measures by other countries | Instead we must look for more pos- {itive measures by other countires which will progressively result in in the interna~ tional exchange of goods." | But the association said it has [strong faith in Canada's industrial {future and the eventual restoration of peaceful and prosperous world Jot Des Other association suggest |ions included: { 1. A further relaxation in corpors ation taxes to encourage construc. tion of more plants and equip- ment. 2. Study of ways of keeping more of Canada's raw materials in Can- ada to be turned into finished goods leaves no doubt that further action |by home industry. by Canada to give a larger share of a relatively small, domestic | market to imports will be totally ineffective in changing these re- mi 3. A possible halt in Canada's post-war tariff-cutting program. Closer trade relations with the sh West Indies,