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Daily Average Circulation M for August, 1953 1,549 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Crisp Weather Forecast fall day, sunny, warmer on Wednesday. Low tonight, 40; high tomorrow, 60. VOL. 12--No. 221 as Second-Closs Mail, Authorized Post Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1953 , Price Not Over 3 Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES CADI COMMITS EX-GITY GROGER FOR TRIAL IN POISON CA These members of Oshawa Sea Rangers, will go to Toronto Sat- urday to compete with other TO COMPETE IN TORONTO SATURDAY Mcintyre, Pat Duquette, Beryl | Cardinal, Mary Levesque, Lor- teams at the "Haida" barracks. Shown in action are: Cox'n-Lil- lian Beamish; Top row -- Gloria raine Dean. Lower row -- Jean Smith, Mary Reader, Joan Nes- bitt, Ann Jones, Pat Shaw. 'MAY BE RUSSIAN Mystery Flyer In US. Jail CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP)--Deputy Sheriff Robert Martin of Cham- paign county announced today a man who claims to e a Russian flier is in custody in the county jail. The deputy declined to discuss ' [the prisoner further. The jail ad- mission list showed the entry of a "mental case." "I can't say anything," Martin declared. "Anything that is said will have to come from the mili- tary." Reporters and photographers were barred from the jail. Capt. Robert J. Trimble, provost marshal at nearby Chanute air basz, Rantou), came to the jail to talk with the man. State police headquarters in Springfield said the man was car- rying identification as a Russian flier. Harry E. Trautsch, assistant state police chief, said the man spoke a foreign language and was wearing a uniform whict could not be identified immediately. Trautsch said the man either was picked up by 'ate police at Ur- bana, near Champaign, or walked into headquarters there early to- day. He was moved to the county jail for questioning. Trimble told a reporter the man who claimed to be a Russian flier is '"'not legitimate." Asked if the incident could be part of a civil defence stunt, the captain replied it was "something similar." A spokesman for the Illinois civil defence organization said in Chi- cago: "It appears to be a local exercise of some kind. We are try- ing to' find ouf the details." LOOK WHO FLUNKED TEST OAKVILLE (CP)--Six vehicles flunked a safety test held by police Wednesday in connection with the Oakville Safety Council's safety week. Among the offenders was the department's brand-new safety cruiser, docked for faulty head- Times-Gazette Staff Photo. lights. 'Dawn Walkout Starts | Awaited McIntyre Strike | TIMMINS (CP)--The giant Mc- +dntyre gold mines, one of the coun- ps Aa producers which turns | out more than §7.50000 Bin add every year, was shut when miners struck for a new wages-hours contract. The United Steelworkers of -- America (CIO-CCL) ordered the wi t, expected in the strife- ridden Porcupine camp for weeks, at 5 a. m. and said it was protest- ing a "conspiracy among the mine operators to destroy the union.' "About 1,500" mitiers are affected. The strike brings to at least 2,500 the number of men "who have struck in the area to back up de- mands for higher wages and shorter working hours. The Mcintyre strike order went out two hours before the day shift McINTYRE (Continued on Page 2) Robinson Defies City Evict Order There is a chance -- just a bare, outside chance -- that some day city officials will become so angry with Alfred H. Robinson, they will round up a crew of men and bull- dozer to clear his old building off city property at 81 Athol Street West, once and for all. To make a very long story short: the city acquired this land last year, along with some other lots south of it along Queen Street. Robinson was to have moved his used auto parts business not later than April 1. On July 13, council passed a resolution giving him 30 more days to get out. Last night, September 21, members of council 'ound themselves in a state of irustrated indignation. The only saving feature of the whole thing Is that Robinson has been slowly moving. Latest development was that he sought a permit to move a building to another location. This was re- fused by the city engineer's de- partment -- not because the build- ing could not be moved, but be- cause that type of old building is not allowed to be erected on any new site in Oshawa. "Pretty frail excuse for not al- lowing him to move the house," commented one alderman. What began as a lively argument in council, petered out. Meanwhile, the city holds the right, to take its bulldozer and its crew of men.... The site in question will be filled with excess earth from the new city hall job across the street. In time, there will be a southward extension of McMillan Drive on the west side of the Robinson property. + LONDON (AP)--QGales up to 80; giles ah hour kept the eastern Atlantic boiling today and spread a trail of damage across the British Isles. Home-bound North American tourists aboard the liner Ile de France saw a thrill-packed rescue of 24 seamen from the stricken 6,323-ton Liberian freighter Green- ville. One man was lost and the body of another was left aboard the sinking ship. In British waters, a lifeboat plucked seven men to safety from a sinking lightship. And a one- legged yachtsman swam four miles to safety, pushing his artificial leg before him on a mattress. The Ile de France, bound for New York, reported she had to issue an "abandon ship or we leave SPARKLING IDEA ON GLASS WARE To make your glass oven- ware sparkle, boil it in a solu- tion of two tablespoons vinegar to one quart water. It'll shine like new in minutes! And to brighten your finan- cial picture Classified ads are the thing! Through Want Ads you make money selling things, renting vacancies, finding a good job. Why, it's so quick and easy everybody does it! Phone 3-2233 for an ad-writer. the rian ir + 700 miles po the west coast of England, The Greenville, the French ship reported, appeared certain to sin within hours. Still lashed to her wheel was the body of an officer killed Sunday in trying to repair the steering gear. The liner reported she expected to arrive in New York late Friday, a day late. Also sinking was the water- logged lightship off St. Gowans head, in southern Wales at the en- trance to the Bristol channel. Her light, warning against a sand bank still glared into the night as a life boat rescued her seven exhausted crew members, The oddest survivor story came from 31-year-old Douglas Presland, whose 18-foot sloop Sweet Witch capsized in the Thames estuary. Presland lost a leg as a wartime bomber pilot. This was his tale "I take the leg off when I'm sailing because it gets in the way. When the boat went over, I got an air mattress from the locker and Big And Little Ships Run From Giant Storm : the leg. to. it. Then I -started fed he for shore. "It took three hours. Next I had to drag the mattress over a mile of mud flats. After the mud was another mile of saltings (tide- flooded lands). I tried putting the leg on but it kept coming off. So I just kept crawling." The big blow troubled big and little ships alike. The giant liner United States, due in Le Havre today, reported one seaman with a broken leg and many bruise cases among her 1,500 passengers. The Queen Elizabeth spent the night at anchor off the Isle of Wight. The 99-ton French trawler Anne Gaston was reported aground off the Irish coast. She reported one man washed overboard. Inland, the winds tore away hundreds of roofs and blew a five- ton truck off a south Wales moun- tainside, killing the driver. Weather men said the storms had started out as hurricane Edna, which hit Bermuda late last week. Union Boss Warns Strikes May Spread TORONTO (CP)--C. H. Millard, national director of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO- CCL), said today that wage strikes in northern Ontario's gold mines "will spread" unless more ground wis made in contract talks with the MINIATURE BATTLE AMAZES A miniature battle complete with blazing guns and a thick pall of smoke raged on this mock: up landscape at the Oshawa Ar- mories last night. A demonstra- tion group from Camp Borden staged the tank battle by remote 2.1 ifN4 | | control and with a broadcast commentary of the necessary or ders as part of an instruction course for the 11th Armored (On- tario) Regiment. Two officers of the crack team, which is touring Canada, are seen explaining the * mysteries of the table, chris- tened "Puff Range" by the sol- diers, to Lt.-Col. Graham Coulter, officer commanding the regi ment. The two visiting officers are Capt. Shackleton (right) and Lieut. Lane. --Times - Gazette Stalp Photo. companies. His statement came shortly after the large McIntyre gold mines in Timmins was hit by a walkout of nearly 1,200 miners. He said he has received assurances that Quebec's Canadian and Catholic Confedera- Hon of Labor will support his un- on. Local Man Paralyzed After Crash Gordon Dodd, 44, 300 Park Road South, a local used car dealer, was taken to Toronto General Hospital yesterday and underwent brain surgery there. He was suffer- ing paralysis to the entire left side of his body due to injuries sustain- ed in an accident on the morning of September 15. His car was struck by a transport and carried into a ditch. Unconscious in Oshawa General for six days, Mr. Dodd only recent- ly recovered .consciousness. His physician Dr. C. D. Russell had him taken to Toronto for treatment by a brain specialist. ; Grant Dodd, brother to the injur- ed man, said today that at the last report, Gordon had recovered some feeling and movement in his 'eft eg. MACKENZIE JOINS CELLULOSE MONTREAL (CP)--Dr. C. J. Mackenzie, retiring president of Atomic Energy of Canada, Ltd., and past president of the national research council, will join Cana- dian Chemical and Cellulose Com- Polish Bishop Given 12 Years LONDON (Reuters)--Msgr. Cze- slaw Kaczmarke, 58, Roman Cath- olic Bishop of Kielce in central Poland, today was sentenced to 12 years impii on espionage charges by a military tribunal, Warsaw radio announced. The bishop had been charged with three other priests and a nun. The tropical coconut tree will produce four or five crops each year for 70 or 80 years. COMMENTATOR DIES HALIFAX (CP)--Dr. Herbert L. Stewart, 71, emeritus professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University and radio commentator on world affairs, died Saturday night. NDY GASE 'Sickly Defendant Nervously Shaved During Arrest In Bowmanville at noon today, Magistrate R. B. Baxter ruled that there was at a preliminary hearing to Tyrone farmer, on for trial sufficient evidence disclosed send Stanley Cowling, 39, on a charge of attempted murder. The former Oshawa grocer is accused of*having sent poisoned chocolates through the mail to his step- daughter, 19-year-old Yvonne Saunders, Oshawa steno- grapher. today that on July 25, Mrs. Provincial Constable Arthur Watson testified Cowling had called him and acting on information she provided, he went to the farm the next day and took a statement from the accused. The. Crown alleges that last Jan- uary 9, while Miss Cowling was employed as a stenographer at Bowmanville hospital, her step- father sent her a box of chocolates, later found to contain arsenic. For- tunately, none of the poisoned can- dies were consumed. The matter was reported to police and remain- ed under investigation until July 25 when Mrs. Cowling again com- municated with officers. On the following day, a Sunday, Constables Watson and Chittim went to the Cowling farm. Cowling was working at the barn. They asked him to join them in the farm kitchen. Mrs. Cowling was not present when a statement was given to police. Information con tained in the statement was not revealed in court today nor was there argument as to its possible admissibility. Before making the statement, Cowling said he would like to shave and dress. He was nervous and cut himself several times with the razor. After the statement was given, he was taken to jail. Defence Counsel A. W. S. Greer told the court that his client is in poor physical condition at the present time. Crown Attorney Har- ry Deyman is prosecuting. Since September 1, the Oshawa bus service -- Canadian National Transportation Limited -- has been operated as a separate entity of Road Transport Department which was organized last summer to look after all CNR bus and truck oper- ations in Canadian cities. When the electric railway first came to Oshawa before the close of the last century, it operated un- 1953 Revised Commandments For Unionists BOGNOR REGIS, England (Reuters)--A Sussex vicar was under fire today from trade unions in his county for revising the fourth commandment "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" to express his opinion of modern working - and religious habits in Britain." In a recent sermon Rev. W. G. Sinclair Snow said the command- ment nowadays might read: "Re- member that thou go easy in the evil necessity of work. "Five days thou may'st labor with very possible rest for tea. On the sixth day, or the seventh, thou may'st do overtime at double rates, for this is the law of the unions. 'On the seventh day thou canst please thyself about bed or sport and read the Sunday newspapers.' By 14 votes to three the Sussex Federation of Trades Councils re- solved to ask the Bishop of Chi- chester, Dr. G. K. A. Bell, to re- buke the vicar and instruct him to "refrain from damaging and un- Christian-like conduct in the fu- ture." A Man Like Beri Is Free: McCarthy WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several U. S. government investigative agencies were described as trying to run down today the truth -or falsity of a story that Lavrenty Beria, former police boss of the USSR, has escaped from Russia and is seeking asylum in the U. S. Vice - president Richard Nixon said in New York Monday that such a report had come to his attention about 30 days ago" and is in the hands of the proper in- vestigative or g an izations." He added he does not know whether the storey is true. There was no comment from the state department or. the other groups Nixon named--the FBI and the central intelligence agency. Of- ficials in the executive branch of the government indicated great skepticism. The seemingly far-fetched story that Beria, who was denounced as a traitor in July, had escaped first leaked out during the week-end from a Senate source who declined to be named. Senator Joseph McCarthy (Rep. Wis.) confirmed publicly Monday that his investigations sub-commit- tee is looking into the matter. So did Senator Everett Dirksen (Rep. Ill.), a member. McCarthy said persons he did not name claim to have been in contact with the man in a European hideout. 'The man is a Rus§ian who looks pany Ltd, Nov. 1, it was an- nounced Monday. like Beria, who says 'I am Beria' and gives details of an alleged escape from Russia and is willing to talk," McCarthy :gid. "I am not claiming it is, bus it might well be that the mystery man is Beria." McCarthy said some of those who talked with the man "are firmly convinced that it is Beria." He de- clined to say where the man is. "Neither I nor any member of my committee is taking any credit for negotiations that have led to this alleged escape," McCarthy said. "Naturally, we 'are interested in this thing tremendously." Trunk Sewer Going North A new sanitary trunk sewer ex- tension was approved by city coun- cil last night following a report from the engineering department. The line will run from Thomas Street northward through the Rob- son Leather property for 2,846 feet. Total estimated cost is $104,211.07. It is hoped to call for tenders for this job before long. Also on the subject of sewers, council passed by-laws authorizing construction of sanitary sewers on certain streets, work which has been agreed upon earlier in the year. In one instance, the total by-law expenditure; will pe $618,- 195.40 and in the other, ,234.66, the CNR under the mewly-formed. der a charter which permitted it to carry both passengers and freight over electric lines on the city streets. With the advent of motor transpertation, the dual ~phase of its operations hecame more and more disparate until, in recent years, there has been criticism of the two operations being allowed to continue under one manage- ment. Superintendent R. B. Hardy con- tinues in charge of rail transport operations of Oshawa Railway while H. J. McIntyre is expected to arrive in Oshawa this week to be superintendent of the public bus service. | Early this year, when Oshawa ' Bus And Shunter Operations Become Separate CNR Units Railway applied to the Board of Transport Commissioners for an increase in bus fares (subsequent- ly granted) opponents of the increase: argued' that the railway operations, as a whole in Oshawa, were very profitable. At the same time, railway officials « pleaded that the buses were losing money. Also, this month, at another pub lic hearing on another matter, it was revealed that the shunting operations of Oshawa Railway, (te- rminal) carrier, hate shown sub- stantial profits of recent years. As far as service to the public is concerned, there will be no changes in the mode of operation of either railway or bus service. City council has abandoned any | idea of having a pedestrian under pass intersect the CNR in order to provide easier and safer egress for people living in the south-west sec- tion of the city. Board of Works Chairman Wesley Powers said that such a project would cost in excess of $60,000. Council agreed last night that city is not in financial posi- tion to undertake any such scheme at this time. Representative of the 250 families living in the area, Peter Chryk, will be notified of the decision and also told that council is still in- vestigating possibility of putting a City Has No Cash For Underpass footbridge across Oshawa Creek to Simcoe Street. Mr. Powers said that the metal underpass would cost $22,000 in- stalled but because the CNR requir- ed a minimum six foot top cover- age, it wouud have to go so deep that extensive and elaborate ap- proaches, with cement retaining walls, would be necessary. "It is not possible for us to spend so much money," Mr. Powers ex- plained. However the whole matter, an important one for residents in the area, will stay on council's agenda for further consideration. The young woman above was snapped by The Times-Gazette candid camera man. She can secure an 8 by 10 inch print of WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH IS THIS ? the above photograph by calling at the office of The Times-Gaz- sette and identifying herself, Times-Gazette Staff Photo 4 #