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Daily Average Circulation for April, 1953 2278 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Frost night Weather Forecast Cloudy and cool today and Thursday, in low rural areas. Low to- and high tomorrow 35 and 50. VOL. 12--No. 112 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Bact Office Penartment, Otowao OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1953 Price Not Over 3 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES Labor Body Opposes Initial St Rent Control Vote | f City council is just passing the |buck as one alderman admitted," buck, tossing in turn a 'hot potato', said secretary Michael Fenwick. OSHAWA (CHADBURN) AIR CADET SQUADRON INSPECTED The officers and cadets of the Oshawa (Chadburn) Air Cadet Squadron, No. 151, won high praise from Wing Commander A. V. Johnston, AFC, of Trenton at their annual inspection 'last night at the Oshawa Airport. Caught by the camera as the official party passed through the ranks are, left to right, Squa- dron Leader A. Beal, command- ing officer of the squadron; Squa- dron Leader A. J. Ireland of CommandoF orceLeaves Malt Trenton and Wing Commander Johnston. In the background is Nick Jenkin, chairman of the air cadet committee of the Osh- awa Rotary Club, which spon- sors the local cadet group. Photo by Dutton Times Studio a For Disputed Suez Canal Zone LONDON AP)--Three landing craft loaded with Royal Marine Commandos sailed under secret or- ders from the Mediterranean fort- ress island of Malta Tuesday night as the tense Anglo-Egyptian dispute | proved as a precautionary meas- | after tain movements of the Royal Mar-, ine Commandos have been ap- ure." His announcement came shortly Minister of State Selwyn over the vital Suez Canal Zone | Lloyd told the House of Commons worsened. There was no official announce- ment of their destination, but spec- ulation immediately arose that they would reinforce Britain's Suez gar- rison. Egypt's premier, Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Nasuio, has threatened to oust British forces from the Ste admiralty reported that the B,000-ton light cruiser Bermuda now is at Port Said, in the canal zone, but: declined to comment on & na reports that four Ro; Nav destroyers -- Chieftain, Chev Chequers and Chevron--had been ryshed to the area, : An army spokesman, announcing the shift of the marines, said '*eer- Drew and M OTTAWA 3 Commons passed from gracious compliments to hot personal feud-|vised the King or Queen in the ing Tuesday as members moved through the waning hours of this 21st Parliament. The end of its sittings niay come today or Thurs-| day. The compliments went to George Prew, the 59-year-old leader of the , official Opposition, and to Speaker Ross Macdonald, * 61, with an- nouncement that they and two other members of the official Coronation delegation have been made mem- bers of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. The others are Rt. Hon. Thibau- | deaj Rinfret, 73, chief justice of Canada, and Senator Elie Beau- regard, 68, Speaker of the Senate. The appointments entitle them to use the term honorable with their names for life and to sit with a body which rarely sits. The | that British soldiers in Egypt have been "ambushed, shot and as- | saulted'" in some 30 attacks since | the beginning of April. | Declaring that many of the at- tacks apparently were carried out | with '"'at least the connivance' of | | rope with Egyptian blood if neces-| members of the Egyptian armed Reports from Port Said, at the nal's northern end, said British ps were digging trenches at t up tank - supported military guards at certain crossroads. A British Army spokesman in Cairo commented that it was the acdonald Are Named Privy Councillors (CP)--The House of Privy Council, is a relic of the) British past when such a body ad- days before political parties in- | vented cabinets and usurped virt- 'ually all its powers. ¢ The Canadian Privy Coun sists of 43 men, including all mem- bers of the present cabinet, living members of former cabinets and a few outstanding outsiders such as the Duke of Windsor and Earl Alexander, former governor-gen- eral. Mr. Drew becomes the first leader of the official Opposition in Canada to be an adviser of the, {Queert in this honorary capacity while holding the position he now holds. Prime Minister St. Laurent told the House in announcing the -ap- pointments that it was felt they would be fitting in view of the DREW (Continued on Page 2) Explosion Causes Secret Plane To Drop Into Lake forces, Lloyd added that "our sol-| | diers have no option but to defend | themselves." I Navy | fot, | several points in the zone and have | se cil con- | 'normal responsibility of com- { manders to ensure at all times | the security of troops and installa- | tions," = Anglo - Egyptian talks over Egypt's demand for the withdrawal ot the 80,000 British troops in the | canal zone. came to a halt last Wednesday when British negotiat- ors demanded that some 5,000 Brit- ish technicians remain to keep the vast military installations in readi- ness. The Egyptians refused maintain- ing they could do the job them- selves with only 500 British tech- nicians. Fuad Galal, Egypt's minister of national guidance, told a press con- ferences in Cairo Tuesday night that the stalemated talks "can re- sume only on the basis of Egypt's stand which has not changed--un- conditional evacuation of the Suez base and full Egyptian control of bie Heavy Fines for 'Starting Fires FORT FRANCES (CP)--Three Rainy River district farmers re- ceived stiff fines Tuesday after being found guilty of starting fires which destroyed thousands of acres (of bushland and destroyed several | buildings. with the Crown attorney that the fires, which could have been dis- astrous but for week-end rain- storms, were the result of care- |lessness, He fined Peter Gruette, {North Branch $200, and Jonas Wid- | gren, 66, of Abor Vitae and Rufus Wood, 67, of Pindwood $100 each. The magistrate said all but Gru- ette had obtained fire permits, bdt should have known better than to start burning bush when the forest | Plane Wreckage Sighted In Lake | TRENTON, Ont. (CP) -- The RCAF reported here today that |wreckage and an oil slick were sighted in Lake Ontario near here in its proposal this week to put the issue of continuance of rental control to a plebiscite vote, mem- bers of Oshawa and District Labor Council said last night. The labor group will request city council to continue rent controls after March 2, 1954 and has registered its dis- approval of a plebiscite. i The view was expressed that {| many people the vote would most affect will not be entitled to cast a ballot. "It would be fust passing the "The federal government tossed a | hot potato to the provinces and | then it was tossed on to the mun-| icipalities who now want to get rid of it by making the people decide. | This city must have been terribly overcrowded because in spite of all the building, there are hun- dreds of people cannot find ac- commodation and many who can- not afford to buy houses at the prices being asked. The housing situation is not easing up in Osh- awa. Possibly it is getting worse. Russian Threat No Less, Says Ridgway | | PARIS (AP)--Gen. Matthew Ridgway, newly-appointed U. S.| | army chief of staff, declared today | {that "from a soldier's viewpoint | there is no information known to | me that indicates a lessening of the | threat' from Russia. The retiring NATO commander | in Europe, speaking at a press| side Paris, emphasized that he was | referring to "capabilities, not in-| tentions."" Later, in response to a, question, he added: | "I have heard of no indications of imminent hostilities.' | Ridgway was accompanied by | Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, who is | to succeed him as the NATO com- mander. | Gruenther indicated he was com- {pletely in accord with Ridgway's viewpoints. Ridgway leaves Saturday for the United States to testify before Con- gress in support of continued ap-| propriations for foreign defence | aid. He will return here for a fare- | well tour of the NATO countries. | To questioners Gruenther said he | had not seen anything which would | conference at his headquarters out- | change the point of view he shared to obje with his two predecessors, Gen. | Eisenhower and Ridgway, that] German troops are needed in West- | ern defence. | Both he and Ridgway said that | atomic defence weapons would be | brought into use in defence of the | West in event of attack. | Gruenther said NATO probably is | farther behind in air strength than | in any other field. Our second is! logistics. These two will have high! priorities for some time." | " | | { Alderman Wesley Powers will be | | the nominee of Oshawa and District | Labor Council to the CCF nominat- | Ald. Wesley Powers To Stand For CCF ling convention in two weeks. Mr. | Powers was the only one from nine | Magistrate F. G. Cornell agreed | 56. of | nominees who consented to let their | names stand. i Malcolm Smith, president of Lo- | ical 222 UAW-CIO, wrote: 'Please | be advised I am not a politician." | Mayor Jack Naylor said: 'As | newly-elected mayor my first con- | | sideration is that of the municipal- ity." | A. E. O'Neill said that he wishes to remain independent in political {thought and was doubtful if he could and would be physically able | to submit to the necessary disci- plite such a candidacy would en- tail." | The others who said "no" in| |varying ways were: Harry Ben-| |son, Tom Green, John G. Brady | |@nd: Michael Fenwick. Ty D. Thom- | as MLA, did not reply. | | ALD. WESLEY POWERS Big Steel Demand Seen Based On Fear NEW YORK (AP)--Overwhelm-| ing steel demand is based in large! part on consumers' desires to build | up inventories as a hedge against | | of Strike | sumers aren't betting there won't | be one." { The wage question is coming to a | head in a period of heavy demand | for steel, "and business prospects | NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. (AP)-- ify except to say he was a Bell | 27d said it may be the wreckage of a possible steel strike. The Iron are so bright that any inventory | Age, national metalworking weekly | accumulated as a strike hedge can | says today. undoubtedly be worked off later in An explosion forced the crew of a mothering bomber to jettison a | highly secret rocket plane Tues- day'night, and two airmen fell from 30,000 feet over Lake Ontario. The chief test pilot of the Bell Aircraft Corp. and another crew member were feared lost. The B-50 bomber was carrying the experi- mental Bell X-2, reported capable of flying at speeds well over 1,000 miles an hour. A widespread search was on to- day for the two men, but scant hope was held that they survived. employee, was reported to have parachuted from the bomber. A Bell spokesman said no one was in the X-2 when it was drop- ped into the lake about 15 miles from Rochester. It was indicated that both men dropped out of the four-engine mother plane, raged but landed safely here. The spokesman said the explos- which was dam-| a secret United States rocket plane | which crashed Tuesday night. However, air force officials said he wreckage could not be ident- ified because heavy fog had set in as rescue craft were approaching the scene. They said the oil slick was spotted about 30 miles south of this eastern Ontario town. Trenton is 95 miles east of Tor- onto. Consumers figure that if steel prices go up again--which the] weekly calls likély--the value of their inventories' will be raised | accordingly. ~ 'A steel strike this summer is | | unlikely because both union and ' management will try hard to avoid | it," The Iron Age says, 'but con-1slightly this week, the year--in addition to bringing a nice return on the investment if | steel prices are raised to cover a] wage increase." | Automobile manufacthrers are | giving steel demand its biggest] push: | Steelmaking operations climbed | | ER ES, (ion was aboard the mother ship. 4 But he explained that the X-2 was | FOXES MULTIPLY damaged and that the complicated] YORKTON, Sask. (CP)--Conser- mechanisms of carrying a "para-| vation officers report the red fox | site'"" plane made it difficult to be | population is increasing along a | Attlee Speech Arouses It was reported that the para- certain that the X-2 itself did not | belt extending southwest of Kam- chute of the test pilot, Jean L. (Skip) Ziegler, 32, did not open. The other crew member whom the aircraft firm declined to ident- | explode. He said the firm had been un-| (able to determine the cause of the | explosion. |sack through Yorkton to Melville. Few are being trapped because of ithe low price for pelts. 87 Bodies Are Recovered From Ruins In Wake Of Tornadoes WACO, Texas (AP) --Texas, As the death count steadily rose, (from 30 to 50 bodies would be weather-weary and tornado-torn, |the usually placid, muddy red Bra-|found. There was none there. today had counted 87 dead from Monday's giant tornadoes as flood- ing streams pose new dangers. Wild winds, rain, dust storms and [28 - foot crest at 7 a. m. CST Huntsville, snow added to the state's misery |(9 a, m. EDT) today. Flood stage and three on Jacksonville. while storm-ravaged Waco -- dig-|is 27 feet. The river's stage at the floods harried residents of all Tiree! ging from under a $25,000,000 torn- ado rubble and counting 78 dead-- found itself in the path of the flooding Braz river. The other Monday tornado, at the west Texas plains city of San Angelo, had a death toll of nine and a damage estimate in excess of $3,000,000. Nearly 300 injured were counted at Waco, close to 100 at San Angelo. v A134VS OQ¥Di zos inched higher and higher at Waco. Many persons already had {been evacuated Tuesday night and the river was expected to reach a |same time Tuesday was 3.9 feet, Tired, grimy workers, somef al most at the point of exhauslion, |still dug into heaps of rubble that had been modern store buildings ibefore Monday's big blow. Workers burst through the tang- led. twisted mass late Tuesday (night into the basement of the de- |stroyed five-storey R. T. Dennis ibuilding where it. had been feared W Iifrn4 Blinding rainstorms, spawned by |the same turbulence that sent the {deadly tornadoes 'across Texas, poured up to five inches of rain on four on Nacogdoches, Local | east Texas cities. Groggy Waco had more than six {inches of rain. The south section of ithe city was flooded and calls had | gone out for boats to hel uation. The weather bureau said the wild weather was caused by cold air p in evac-| WASHINGTON (AP)--Chairman Dewey Short of the House of Rep- resetatives: armed services com- mittee said today Congress is tired of taking "dictation from our so- called allies." The Missouri Republican made the remark in joining angry con- gressional reaction to statements in the British House of Commons Tuesday that some Americans do | not want to settle the Korean war. Clement Attlee, former prime minister and leader. of the Opposi- tion Labor party, also raised the | question whether President Eisen- | hower or Senator Joseph McCar- | | States foreign policy, | "That's almost an insult," Short said in an interview. SAFETY SIGNAL WINNIPEG (CP)--A traffic light to be installed near the institute for the blind here will have.a buz- signal will sound i zer attached. The thy (Rep.-Wis.) is running United | I Ire of U.N. Legislators McCarthy himself said that when | he heard of Attlee making such | statements, he recalled 'the pie-! | ture of him in Spain reviewing] | the Communist troops and giving! the clenched fist salute." He had | an aide bring out a picture of a| | group standing with raised fists, | | and said it showed Attlee and Span-| ish Communist leaders at a review | during the civil war. { | lepresentative Lawrence H. ! Smith (Rep. Wis.) said in a sep-| arate jnterview he had returned from Europe convinced the Euro- | {peans "would not defend them-| selves" against a Russian attack. | | He said the entire American-sup-| ported military buildup is a "ques-| tionable venture." | i | i NEW FRUIT SOURCE BROCKVILLE, Ont. (CP)-Peach trees are difficult to grow in this part of eastern Ontario, so citizens watched with interest as blossoms appeared on the tree at the home lowing out of Canada and collid- when the lights turn green so blind [of former magistrate George | {ing with the Gulf of Mexico, ito cross. warm, moist air from [people will know when it is safe | Wright. The sturdy tree is five or six inches thick at the base. | ep May Speed Power Plan By JAMES C. MUNN LOCAL BUILDING AT ALL-TIME RECORD '53 Figures Already Higher Than All11952 Three pieces of yellow cardboard "worth" about $2,500,- 000 each were handed across a counter in Oshawa this morn- | ing. They were the building permits taken out by General Motors for the giant new plant expansion in the south end WASHINGTON (AP)--An initial | of the city. Total value of the permits which will cover the {decision by a federal power com- | mission examiner gave fresh lift today to New York state's hopes that it may soon join with Canada in construction of a huge St. Lawr- ence river power project. Examiner Glen R. sLaw, construction of the 42-acre n ew auto production plant was | $7,750,000. Of that total $6,000,000 was given as the cost | of the new Chevrolet plant, which will be Canada's largest. Effect of the GM application on | in a [the city's 1953 building figures has ve $ al |decision that is subject to review been tremendous. In the whole of | Park Road South. Various fi:ures > lopment to the west of Park by the commission, directed Tues-|1952 the total value of all the new | were mentioned as the cost in sev- New York be granted a 50-year licence to build the American half of the estimated $600,000,000 pro- ject, to share equally in the esti- mated $12.900,000,000 kilowatt hour annual output. The Canadian phase of the joint undertaking, in the river's Inter- national Rapids section would be carried out by the Ontario hydro- electric commission. But before actual construction begins, opponent-initiated obstac- les may have to be overcome. qk lcs in the case have 20 days i intermediate decision, then 10. days ct to an FPC ruling, which to file exceptions to Law's | |almost exactly ten million dollars. | PAST 1952 RECORD | By this morning the value of permits, issued so far this year had {reached $11,630,000 -- or one and {a half million dollars more than last year's unprecedented boom peak. Hundreds of new housds are going up and the first four months of the year saw the building per-| mits total. $3,880,008. That included | |the new post office and four net |schools and it was obvious that 1953 was going to be Oshawa's {year of huge expansion. At the end of last week William | Wecker, president of GM, announc- ed the corporation's plans for de- {day that the power authority of |buildings started in Oshawa was |eral provincial newspapers. | Yesterday afternoon consulting | engineers met with Fred Crome, |acting city engineer, and his offi- |cials and discussed the building plans and the permits required. PERMITS COST $2,550 Cost of the permits to GM was -$2,550 which is the largest single payment ever made to the engi- neer's department for building ap- proval. Figures given by GM. showed |that the addition to the parts and | accessories plant, which is the most northerly of the three new plants, would cost an estimated | $1,250,000. The company is to put BUILDING (Continued on Page 2) Allies Present New Points For Release Of Prisoners By GEORGE A. McARTHUR PANMUNJOM (AP)--The United Nations command today "handed {the Communists a new blueprint for an armistice in Korea, It was a sweeping 11-point plan for ex- changing prisoners of war, last big roadblock to a truce. The Allies would free 34,000 North Koresms who refuse to go| mented acidly, the truce delega- | home and--on certain cond@ions-- give temporary custody of 14,500 balky Chinese to a five-country commission made up of Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Czechoslo- vakia and India. The Communists called the pro- al a '"'step backward" and said the Allied attitude "threatens the | prospects of the whole armistice | negotiations." : The broad plane -- a counter- | proposal to one advanced by the | Communists--is based on the long- | standing AHied position that no | prisoner will be sent home against | his will. : After the lengthy document was read and the Communists com: {tions adjourmed until Thursday | morning. K. Harrison, Lt-Gen. William { Jr., senior Allied delegate, pres- ented the plan to his Communist | counterpart, North. Korean Gen. Nam II in a one-hour, 40-minute | session. | The Allies proposed: 1. Repatriation of prisoners im- mediately after an armistice, ex- cept those refusing to go home. | Releasing toscivilian status all | prisoners of Korean nationality une | willing to return to Red rule. Re- {leasing all non-Korean. prisoners iwho persist in refusing to return | to Communist control after 60 days | {in custody of a neufral commis~ on. ° 2. Conditional acceptance of the Communist nomination of India, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden {and Switzerland as members of the | custodial commission--but only if {India heads the body and provides any troops needed. 3. Rejection of the Reds' proposal that a political conference deter- {mine the fate of prisoners refusing {to go home after being in neu- 'tral custody. Slain In Quarrel SHILO, Man, (CP)--A 29-year-old paratrooper was fatally stabbed with a hunting knife Tuesday dur- ing a washroom quarrel which allegedly followed an argument over a missing wallet. He was L.Cpl. A. .W N. Smith of Toronto. RCMP are holding Pte. R. Finn, 24, formerly of Ireland and recently of Camp Petawawa, Ont. About 10 men were said to have been in the washroom when the quarrel started. After a violent argument, Smith was stabbed in the lower left abdomen. The knife allegedly used was not army issue. FEELS COURSE IN SILENCE NEEDED Dr. George Nuckells, of Western State College, feels that American colleges should add a course in silence. If we knew how to keep our mouths shut at the right time, says the professor, we'd spare the world lots of grief. One silent way to reach your goal is through Classified ads in The Times - Gazette. Quiet- ly, speedily, Want Ads do your renting, selling, buying -- sav- ing you lots of worry and trouble! For an ad-writer's friendly help dial 3-2233. | | SEOUL (AP)--Nearly 200 Allied Sabre jets and Thunderjet fighter- bmbers roared deep into north- west Korea today and smashed a Communist troop and supply centre {near Sinanju on the Yellow Sea. Earlier, Sabres destroyed two J. | MiGs and damaged a third in aer- ial battles over North Korea. | In a morning raid, Sabre dive | bombers blasted Red troop concen- {trations north of the western and {central fronts and slammed ex- Paratrooper Is 200 Allied Planes Make Attack On Supply Centre | plosives at an earth dam below {Sukchon on the west coast. | On the ground, counter-attacking {South Koreans won back three small hills in brief early morning | fights. About 160 Reds overran the South Korean positions in the sec- {ond pre-dawn attack in two days on the east-central front. | Action was limited to light squad ;and platoon-size probes elsewhere 'on the 155-mile front. British Scientists Ask LONDON (AP)--A group of hop- ping mad scientists today de- films, fiction and comic books about mad scientists. The Association of Scientific | manded a British ban on U. S.| Ban On U.S. Comic Books In addition to its beefs about {the treatment of scientists, the | associaion made three points {against WU. S. come books: 1. They present woman as 'an Workers declared such imports inferior being whose only weapons are giving the profession a bad|in the struegle for survival are (name. The public, it asserted, is {getting an entirely wrong impres- ision. "as to the true purposes of | science." | The association, a trade union (of 12,000 scientists and technicians, said all too often the Americans {depict its kind of people as 'insane and with the extraordinary ambit- ion to destroy the world." {her curves." | 2. Théy glorify violence and treat {murder as just doing what comes naturally. 3. They engender racial prejud- ice by portraying their herces as |square-jawed, handsome white imen and the villians as sinister persons of other races "fit only to 'be rubbed out by the hero." "RPPOINTED TO PRIVY COUNCIL a Pris : RT. HON, T. RINFRET Above are three , prominent Canadians who hdve, as a pre- Coronation award, been appoint- ed members of Her Majesty's FOR CANADA | F HON. GEORGE A. DREW Privy Council for Canada. Rt. Hon. T. Reniret is chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Hon. George 'A. Drew is leader | of the official opposition in the HON. W. ROSS MacDONALD House of Ccinmons and Hon, W, | Ross. Macdonald is speaker. of the House of Commecens. Also ap- | pointed was Hon. Elie Beauree gard, speaker of the Senate,