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Daily Average Circulation for August, 1953 549 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Frost day 56. Weather Forecast tonight, otherwise mostly sunny. Low tonight 85, high Thurs- VOL. 12--No. 234 Post Authorized es Second-Class Mail, Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1953 Price Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy TWENTY PAGES GM CUTS WORK WEEK BY 4 HOURS RATHER THAN LAY OFF 2,000 MEN § ° Kidnappers Murder Child After Collecting $600,000 Takes Tragic Turn KANSAS CITY (AP)--The FBI notified the wealthy parents of Bobby Greenlease at 10 a.m. CST today that the six-year-old boy is dead. Robert Ledterman of Tulsa, a spokesman for t family, said: "We have just had a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that the body was found at St. Joseph, Mo.' In Washington, FBI director J. ¢- Edgar Hoover said that Carl Aus- tin Hall, 37, one of the alleged abductors now in custody has ad- mitted that he shot the boy. The body of the child was lo- cated in a shallow grave in St. Hoover said. The announce- said the greater portion of ransom. paid by Bobby's pasts for 'his return has peen Hoover said two arrests have been made. : A woman in custody is Mrs. Bon- nie Brown Heady, 41. Hoover said these two, arrested by St. Louis police, implicated Thomas John Marsh, 37, who was released from the Missouri state prison Oct. 2, 1951, from a two- year terms when he started serv- school '10 days ago by a woman 4 senger from his mother. ® &- Kidnapping Case | he lng 3 ; of molesting a minor. souri state penitentiary April 24, 1953, from a tive-year sentence for robbery which he started serving on Jan. 29, 1952. Mrs. heady also has a record of numerous arrests. The FBI said the $600,000 ran- som turned over to the kidnappers by the father, 71-year-old lkooert C. Greenlease, was paid last Sun- day night. 'the rl announcement said the child's baaly-decomposed body was found bemnd the premises ot Bon- nie Brown Heady at 1201 South 38th Street, St. Joseph. 'the FBI did not immediately say whether these circumstances indi- cated that the child was dead when the money was collected. Bobby was taken away from his io represented herself as a mes- She told Abe ago! that Bobby's mother was The FBI said it has been defin- itely established that Hall handled the letters demanding the $600,000 ransom payment. Hall was reported to have had $300,000 ransom money in his pos- | session when he was arrested Tuesday night at the Congress Hotel in St. Louis, Mo. Hall told police there he had known the Greenlease family for several years. He said he had at- tended military school with Paul Greenlease, stepbrother of the kid- napped boy. He knew the. Green- lease family to be wealthy. Police in St. Louis would not say whether the Heady woman was the red-haired woman who kidnapped the child from the school. They were not able to say immediately just when the child was slain. Fall From Scaffold Kills Young Man 108 ely-yearold Albert Spies of on Division Street and collected n Street, Oshawa, 'injur- ed in a 14foot fall at the new General Motors Plant, Park Road South, Monday afternoon, died in Toronto Western Hospital yester- day at 2.45 p.m. Spies, an employee of Eastern Electric Company fell to the con- crete below after a truck reported- ly brushed the scaffold on which he was working. The injured man was examined by Dr. J. E. Rundle here and then rushed to Toronto where he was admitted to the Wes- tern Hospital at 2.30 am, Yesterday, hospital authorities said Spies' condition was tco crit- ical for an operation. Dr. William Keih was in charge of the patient. . The parents of the deceased man came to Oshawa yesterday morn- ing from their home in Brockville. They called at his rooming house on June 29, 1950, on a charge » Hall was paroled from the Mis-|4 Se HOST TO PLOWMEN, Changing his grocer's apron for | overalls and jacket, Mayor John Burnet of Cobourg is a busy man these days as his municipality plays host to contestants and vis- tors at the International Plowing Match. He took time out to com- pete in the special mayor's COBOURG MA L | ments, Her Majesty's i |felt it necessary to sen YOR THIRD match. Mayor Allan Lamport, of Toronto, placed first; Mayor Bernadette Smith, of Woodstock, second, and Mayor Burnet, third. # |ported considering the dismissal of #4: | some of his-wing ministers. '|movement in British Guiana is run Crack Troops Go To Guiana By NATE POLOWETZKY LONDON (AP) -- Tough, sea- soned Scottish troops were ordered today to British Guiana to help smash an alleged Communist plot to seize power in the South Amer- ican British colony. The war office announced that the 1st Battalion--about 600 men-- of the famed Argyll and Sutherland highlanders, who served nearly eight months in Korea, will sail for British Guiana Saturday aboard the 33,000-ton carrier Im- placable. Three other warships--the 8,000- ton cruiser Super and the 1,600 ton frigates Bigbury Bay and Burg- head Bay--already are steaming at full speed carrying troops to the troubled colony on the northeast shoulder of South America. The 9,- 100-ton cruiser Sheffield sailed from Scotland Tuesday. The display of military and naval might was announced officially Tuesday night and the colonial of- fice'said a Red plot possibly aimed at setting up a Communist-domin- ated states is afoot in the colony. The colonial office warned in a statement: "In view of the latest develop- overnment naval and military forces to Georgetown (the colony's capital) with the utmost gishaicn in order to preserve peace and the safety of all classes." The statement broke a fiyeqay official silence on events in Britis| Guiana, where the majority Peo- ple's Progressive party is pressing for greater independence. British Governor Sir Alfred Savage is re- A colonial office spokesman told reporters that the Communist by the American-born wife of Prime Minister Cheddi Jagan, the former Janet Rosenberg. She is the executive secretary of the PPP. Both Jagan and his wife, how- ever, have denied that they are Communists. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Charged After BOWMANVILLE Bernard | "Bud" Glen Storey, 23, of Farewell Ave., Oshawa; was committed for trial by Magistrate R. B. Baxter, | here yesterday after a prelimin-| onto the highway from the parking ary hearing which lasted hours. Storey was the driver of two | the | motorcycle which went out of con- | opposite ditch, hurling trol near Trull's i Groceteria the evening of June 25,| only 40 minutes after being ad- and fatally injured James Peters, who had been riding on the pillion seat of the machine. charged with under the Criminal Code. West Courtice | Storey is dangerous driving The accident occurred at approx- Oshawa Motorcyclist Pal Dies imately 9.30 the evening of June 25 when Storey swerved: his bike to avoid collision with another car driven by Mrs. Irene Keyhoe of Courtice, who was about to pull area of the stgre. The motorcycle then went out of control, screeched across the Peter's body onto a side road. He died mitted to Oshawa General Hospi- al. Arthur C. Fair of Peterborough is council for the defence. It is expected the trial will continue in Cobourg during November. some of his clothing and personal belongings there. Besides his aprents, the 20-year- old man is survived by one broth- er aged 16. The Spies family came to Canada from Holland just a litle over two years ago. Crown Attorney A. C. Hall said this morning that no decision had been reached regarding a possible inquest. An investigation of the cir- Sumstanges of the fatality is being made, NEW BRIDGE VANCOUVER (CP) -- A steel bridge will replace the ferry over the Fraser river between Agassiz and Rosedale. Works Minister Cag- liardi said work on the bridge will begin after provincial engineers have approved a design for the MASCULINE MOLAR SWEET TOOTH Whatever you've heard to the contrary notwithstanding, it's the men who lead in sweets- eating, observers claim. Even if you see women buying sweet tooth-temptations its mostly menfolk who sink their teeth into them. But if you're eager to sink your hands into some well stuffed pockets, you'll find a Times-Gazette Classified ad a sweetheart of a helper. Through Classified ads you turn into dollars un-needed belongings, unused living space and idled- away bours. To place an ad that makes you sweet shekels, phone 3-2233 structure. 3 OFFICIAL BUYS LOT Man Put Land In City Sale To Get Deed--Gets Outbid Road, South Side (Rear Land) part of Lot 8, Concession 3, 100 by 1,140 Lively bidding was heard at a municipal tax sale this morning as four Oshawa properties went on the block for arrears of taxes and and the price began to soar: The costs owing against them over the audience asked Mr. Tripp to ex- past three vears. A total of $1,035 | plain the situation again. Then two was realized as against a total of of the early bidders acknowledged $242.97 owing. . Major interest at the sale cen- fred aroun .of Gibbons Street, Block R, Lot 6, Plan 76, against which there was erty and now I've got to take this $72.75 owing. ', City Treasurer plained to the audience of some 25 persons that Mr. Bonnell has|$60 and sold to Eldon Kerr, . 20 been paying taxes on the land for | Westmoreland Avenue. Mr. Kerr, years but now let it be put in the|the Assessment Commissioner, did tax sale in order to obtain a clear not begin bidding until Mr. Bon- | Street School auditorium, that pur- | d a block of land 60|bidder persisted in running the by 116 feet owned by Edgar Bon-|price up. The bids got higher than n-ll. It is located on the east side! Mr. Bonnell could match. H. E. Tripp ex-| abandoned bidding. the customary holding period of one year. Bidding began on this property that "it hardly seems fair to bid against him'. However, another | "I have paid a lot into the prop- chance and lose it," he said as he The price was finally run up-to title. It had been left to him by! nell stopped. | his late mother but the deed is still in her name. If Mr. Bonnell cessful bidder on another property could purchase it back, he could at the sale. He have obtained a clear title after property of John However, Mr. Bonnell was a suc- | aid $285 for a ussell, Taunton | & feet, and a lane to give access 12 feet by 448 feet, eight inches. Cost | against this land stood at $49.92. | The other two adjoining lots be-| longed to Alexander Lizon sold sep- arately -- a fact which discourag- ed bidding, because neither lot 5 alone was big enough to build a house on. Together, they have a|: ; |years = |month-old son of the noted flier. frontage of 50 feet on Bloor Street: East, north side. Stanley Woods, 563 Montrave Avenue, purchased them for $90 each. He had bidding competition only on the first lot. Costs against them totalled $120.30. Mr. Tripp explained at the open- ing of the sale, held in Centre chase monies at the auction were to be paid in cash. One year must elapse to give the owner or mort-| gagee an opportunity to redeem | his property. PHOTOGRAPH? The young ==n above was ~aapped by The Times-Gazette candid camera man. He can se- cure an 8 by 10 inci print of the above photograph by calling at the office of The Times-Gazette and identifying himself. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. McCaughey, seven- year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George McCaughey, 233 Oshawa Beverle - {home was spotless; the father was continuously employed at General 8 | Motors, and there was no evidence Boulevard, who was made a ward |of the Children's Aid Society of |Oshawa and Ontario County By Ju- venile Court Judge F. S. Ebbs, on |June 8 last, was yeserday order- led returned to her parents. The | Ontario Court of Appeal announc- ed it found no evidence of neglect. Evidence adduced in the appeal, which was heard by Chief Justice Pickup and Appeal Court Judges Hope and MacKay, disclosed the that the home was unfit for the child. A. W. S. Greer, QC, of Oshawa, and Charles L. Dubin, QC, of To- ronto, appeared for the father in the appeal; while Neil C. Fraser, QC, of Oshawa, appeared 'for the Children's Aid Society and John Hare on behalf of the municipality. MADE TEMPORARY WARD Following a hearing in juven- ile court on June 8, Judge Ebbs made an order directing that the child become a temporary ward of the sociey because of one isolated instance of a severe spanking by her father. The City of Oshawa was directed to support the child and the father was ordered to. re- imburse the corporation. The order by the court of ap- peal has the effect of reversing the order made by Judge Ebbs, who at that time commented he was convinced the child needed a '"'complete change of environ- ment", NO NEGLECT "She should not have been tak- en from her home," Chief Justice Court Orders CAS To Return Child To Parents Pickup said yesterday after hear- ing argument by C. L. Dubin counsel for the parents. The chiel justice said the appeal court found there was no evidence that the child had been neglected. The spanking -- so severe that the father was later convicted of assault occasioning bodily harm-- took place last Jan. 26 after the father had been told by the little girl's step-mother that the child hed persisted in a bad habit. Two weeks later, the parents, on their own initiative because they were worried by this bad habit, took the child to see Dr. J. R. Bayne. The doctor, alarmed by bruises he saw on the child's body, reported the case to the Children's Aid Society. PARENTS INTERVIEWED Miss N. M. Hancock, Oshawa sup- perintendent of the society, inter- viewed the parents for two hours and reported that the parents did not get along very well so that the home was "anything but a happy place." "Outside of this severe thrashing, there is no evidence of any cruelty, neglect or depravity in this home," commented Mr. Justice Hope. In announcing the appeal court's decision, Chief Justice Pickup said he did not wish to criticize the Children's Aid Society -- in fact, he commended the society for carrying out an investigation after receiving the doctor's report. In making the girl a temporary ward, Magistrate Ebbs had said he was "greatly concerned about the child's future" He found her to be "timid and frightened" She had been brought to the Oshawa court from her school in a police cruiser. Kidnap Killings Are Recalled KANSAS CITY (AP)--The case of six-year-old Bobby Greenlease is 'the sixth major kidnapping in the United States since 1900 in which the victim was killed. The most famous case in recent was the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., 19- The baby was seized March 1, 1932, and the body recovered May 12 after a ransom of $50,000 had been paid. Other major kid n ap-slayings since 1900: Marian Parker, 12, Los Ang- eles, seized Dec. 15, 1927, returned dead Dec. 17; ransom of $1,500 paid. Brooke Hart, Can Jose, Calif., seized Nov. 10, 1933; body recov- ered Nov. 26; ransom demand of $40,000 not paid. Charles Matson, 10, ' acoma, Wash., seized Dec. 27, 1936; body | $28,000 paid. Subsidies For Gold To Continue OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister St. Laurent today announced that the federal government's subsidies to Canada's gold mines will be con- tinued for nother year "in sub- stantially its present form." "However, opportunity will be taken to cor...' any anomalies that have arisen and to make such other adjustments as experience has shown to be desirable," the prime minister 'added in a state- ment. Peter Levine, 12, New York, seized Feb. 24, 1938; body discov- | ered May 29; no ransom paid. Charles Bailey Cash, 5, Prince- | ton Fla.,, seized May 28, 1938, |found Jan. 11, 1937; ransom of body recovered June 9; ransom of [sisted bus driver Chesebrough up $10,000 paid. Average Pay Loss Will Be $6 Weekly An unexpected material situation has reduced the working schedule at the Oshawa plants of General Motors of Canada, it was announced by the company today. "Material which would have kept the working force on full time has become unavailable and a plan for tempor- arily reducing the work week has been decided as the best of possible alternatives, " said the statement. The net effect of the arrange- ¢-- ment will be that working hours will be reduced from 41 a week to 3 until the end of the 1953 sched- ule. President William A. Wecker said both passenger car and commercial truck production would ' continue "practically at its current high hourly level for some weeks before tapering off prior to model change- over time." MORE EMPLOYEES He pointed out that factory em- ployees in Oshawa at the end of September this year were 9400 in number, or 500 more than on the same date in 1952. In detail, reduction in working hours is as follows: beginning Fri- day, October 9, Fridays will be worked by the day shift from 7 a.m. to 12 noon; by the night shift from 1 pm. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays the day shift will work from 7 to 4 p.m. and the night shift from 5 p.m. to 1.30 a.m, Although definitely not ha; b; the curtailment, Malcom Ta tnth, president of Local 222 UAW-CIO, agreed that the company was well within its rights. Under section four, clause five of the presen con- tract "the union . . . recognizes the right of the company to operate and manage its business in all respects; to maintain order and ef- ficiency in its plant... and to con- trol , the scheduling of production LAYOFF ALTERNATIVE The only alternative offered by the company, he said, was the dis- missal of 2,000 men. President Smith thought the great majority of the workers would decidedly pre- fer the four-hour weekly cut. For production workers the cur- tailment of working hours would mean ad ecrease of $13.00 every two weeks' pay. For material han- dlers, the largest group among the day workers, the four-hour cut means a decrease of about $11.50 per pay. Mr. Smith pointed out that the curtailment was not prescribed for the rest of the year, as was re- ported in a morning paper. The four-hour weekly cut would be in effect only until the model change period, that is until 'the end of October, he forecast. For the 'fast line' of Chevrolets and Pontiacs, the approximate date given for the model change was the October 29 and 30. For the 'slow line' of Buicks and Oldsmo- biles, the approximate date was one day earlier. The truck assem- bly line would stop this year's pro- duction October 19. FLUID SITUATION i During this two week model change period the plant would be shut down for inventory. Following that, President Smith said the sit- uation might have changed consid- erably. The current tool and die strike in Detroit which was giving the company concern might be settled by then. In regard to the starting dates for work on the new models, Mr. Smith said the exact date for the begining of Buick and Oldsmobile production at the new plant was not settled yet. He expected it to be no more than a week behind the other production' line. One saving feature of the situa- tion this year he said was that since the closing date of the model change was earlier, the starting date would be earlier too. At that rate, the men would be caught up in their pay for the Christmas and New Year period. The army line, he said, was of course not affected by either model change or the curtailment. Don't Leave Hospitals To Charity. Says Doctor PICKERING (Times - Gazette Staff Reporter)--* 'Hospitals should bef inanced by our governments, and not left to charity," asserted Dr. M. B. Dymond, well known Port Perry physician at a joint meeting of the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital Auxiliary and the hospital Board of Directors at Pickering United Church on Tues- day evening. Dr. Dymond entitled his address, "A History of the Hospital Move- ment" and he traced the story of hospitals back to the ancient Egyp- tians 3,000 B.C. and on down through the ages to the present ime. Dr. Dymond opened his speech with the remark, "I understand you are in the throes of fund rais- ing. I can promise you that you always will be as long as you oper- ate a hospital. You will never be finished seeking more funds." HOSPITAL FINANCING Dr. Dymond said that people today did not go to hospital to die, but be cured and that the time had come for hospitals to be financed from the public purse and not left to charity. He said, "We would not finance our schools this way. Why leave our hospitals to struggle always in demand, it depended upon the generosity of the public." Ex-Oshawa Bus Driver Faces Manslaughter Count MORRISBURG (CP) Max | Roodman, a 40-year-old Toronto trucker, was committed Tuesday for trial on a charge of man- slaughter in connection with the | July 31 highway accident near here in which a bus plunged into the Williamsburg canal, drowning 20 passengers. : Roodman was charged specific- ally with the death of Ordinary Seaman John Fanya, 23, of Church- | ill, Man., one the 33 on the Colonial Coach Lines bus when it hurtled into the canal after hitting Roodman's truck on Highway No. 2, two miles west of here. Roodman's case -is scheduled to | begin Oct. 26 during Ontario Su- preme Court assizes at Cornwall. His bail of $1,000 cash was con-| tinued. | Preliminary hearing of a similar ! charge against Lorne Chesebrough | of Kingston, the 29-year-old driver of the bus, is to open today. Mervyn Burleigh of Smiths Falls, a transport driver, testified Tues- day that he had been forced to swerve off the highway early on the morning of July 31 to avoid Roodman's unlighted truck only minutes before the fatal crash. He said Roodman's vehicle was "neither stopped nor going' when he saw it. He said it just seemed to move "in fits and starts." He told the court how he parked nearby and lay down in his trans- port to sleep. A few minutes later he heard the bus go by and then heard a great crash. "I raised up in time to see the bus going down the embankment into the canal. It seemed to settle cornerwise and then turned over on its side and sank." Burleigh said he helped pull passengers from the water and as- the bank. Ray Eason, a garage mechanic from Newcastle, 12 miles east of Oshawa, testified he worked on Roodman's truck on the afternoon of July 80. He said the general condition of the vehicle was poor. Constable Ray McClure of the Brockville police department said he detained Roodman at Brock- ville on the night of July 30 be- cause the trucker could not give a satisfactory explanation: for dam- ago to the front of the vehicle. McClure said that as far as he was converned the lights on Rood- man's truck were working when he left the Brockville police station about 11:40 p. m. that night. Terrance Sumner of Toronto, a passenger on the bus, estimated its speed at "about 45 miles an hour' before the accident. He said he was seated on the aisle at the emergency door and was 0am when the bus hit the truck. SANTA PARADE OFF OTTAWA (CP) -- Inflation hit Santa Claus' local travel plans Tuesday. Lyn G. Jamison, mana- ger of the Ottawa Board of Trade, said the annual Santa Claus par- ade has been cancelled this year because it costs too much to bring him into town in the style to which he is accustomed. Floats and cos- tumes would cost $9,200 compared to last year's $8,000. GAME SHELTERS REGINA (CP)--Establishment of nine new game preserves for pro-.- tection of migratory waterfowl has been announced by the provincial game commissioner. This brings the number of Saskatchewan game preserves to 140.