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Daily Bverage Circuladion for October, 1953 2626 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle nesday. i Weather Forecast Cloudy and a little cooler on Wed- Low tonight 38, high to- morrow 45. VOL. 12--No. 262 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953 Price Not Over 8S Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES PLEBISCITE ON NEW ICE ARENA THE WEEKLY PARADE of the 11th Armored (Ontario) Reg- iment, Monday night, was a memorable occasion. Five mem- bers of the regiment received their Coronation Medals from Col. Frank Chappell, VD, a for- mer commanding officer. In the upper picture, left to night, are RQSM H. W. Turner, SSM R. CORONATION MEDALS PRESENTED "CORONATION" AT DEATHBED Desert Folk In Mourning BEHREIN, Persian Gulf (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's new king, Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz, has decreed 14 days of official mourning for his father, the late King Ibn Saud. : A report of the decree reaching this Persian gulf island today said the body of the world's richest and most powerful absolute mon- arch was flown from his summer palace at Taif to one of the desert kingdom's capitals at Riyadh within two hours after his death Monday morning. It was buried the same day. The report said the 73-year-old, one-eyed Moslem ruler died sur- rounded by the male members of his family and tribal heads. They followed the traditional Arabian rite of acknowledging the mon- arch's eldest son the new king and pledging their loyalty by hand- clasps around the deathbed. The chiefs also pledtaimed their ac- ceptance of 1 Faisal, as heir to the throne and prime minister of this land of oil riches. RESEMBLES FATHER The new king, reported variously as being between and 55 years old, closely resembles his fabulous father. He is well over six feet, wears spectacles and a dark beard. Presumably he inherits the esti- mated $200,000,000-a-year income his fathr built up through shrewd bargaining with his country's vast underground store of petroleum. Throughout the country and in most neighboring Arab states, flags flew at half-staff in mournin, for the monarch whose toug Wahabi tribesmen guard the Mos- lem. world's most precious shrine at Mecca. Bazaars in every oasis, city and village were closed and non tial work was ordered Clapp, §/Ost. A. A. Hurst and Sgt. R. W. Martyn having the medals pinned on their tunic by Col. Chappel. At the extreme right is Lieut. D. B. Harnden, who acted as. Col. Chappel's aide. In the lower picture Lt.- Col. Graham Coulter; the unit's commanding officer, receives his medal. --Times-Gazette Staff Photos. | DENY NEWSPAPER FIGURES Robinson Stakes Post Over City Hall Costs "We are going to be close to that ECONOMY EXERCISED $450,000 e:.imate of cost on the new city hall. I am prepared to relinquish the chairmanship of the Building Committee if that is not the fact," said Ald. Herbert Robin- son at city council meeting last night in reply to the statement by Ald. Clifford Harmon that recent statements in The Times-Gazette quoted erroneous figures on build- ing costs. Total expenditures to date have been $453,682. These do not include furnishings or equipment. A Times- Gazette story printed a week ago today, indicted that costs to date were $597,000. a Alderman Orville Eagle insisted that final costs will prove to be around the $600,000 mark. Mayor John Naylor: "The news- paper story and an editorial caus- ed quite a disturbance." Ald. Joseph Victor: "It assumed Ald. Murdoch: "Well, Ald. Rob- inson has worked extraordinarily hard on the project and given a great deal of his personal time. Every opportunity there hcs been to keep costs down has been exer- cised. No money has been thrown away." Ald. Russell Humphreys: "Is there a building contract?" City solicitor John Hare: "No. A tender was accepted. It contains clauses that allow more, or less payments, according to the current cost of materials. The difficulty is that we never had an over-all con- tract. But the absurdities on the cost published in the pape. were so far off, they are just a joke. In the financial statemnt council had, the cost of property on Queen Street is included. it was dist pir= chased solely for the city hall but for the whole plan of that area." Ald. Rae Halliday wanted coun- cil to pass a motion of confidence in Building Chairman Herb Robin- son but council agreed such an act was superfluous. The treasurer's statement on city hall costs is republished, as follows: Purchase of property &.d other costs, $124,030.19; less credits of $3,225; expenditures to contractor, architect, etc., $463,432.60; less purchase of city hall block from current funds in 1949, $9,750.16. Giving total expenditures to date including cost of land, of $453, 82.64. FUNDS AVAILABLE Proceeds of debenture issue, $378,977.57; transferred from re- serve fund, $111,300.00; levy in 1953 tax rate, $100,000.00; total, Pan expenditures to date, 1682.64; balance available, $136- 594.937 original' estimated..cost 'of building, $450,000.00; -architects' fee $22,500.00; gota), $472,500.00; Pay- ments to date, $338,813.87; balance payable, $133,686.13. too much." HEALTHIER NATION Public health education is help- ing Canada to be a much health-- jer nation. In our grandparents time, very little was known about nutrition while today the science of wise eating is fairly common knowledge, thanks to the dissemi- nation of such information through publications; films and filmstrips and through the public services of radio and press. Council Plans To Furnish City Hall-By Tender A battery of motions by Ald. Gordon Attersley last night got council moving toward purchase of furnishings for Oshawa's 'Glass Wall"'--the city's United Nations- like municipal building, to be opened early in 1954. In the first place, tenders will be called for window coverings and quotations will be sought on furni- ture for the lobby and council chambers. Other office furniture now in use will "make do" as far as possible. Ald. Wesley Powers thought it would be better to get an overall survey of all the furniture needed and get a total estimated cost. He thought the public should be kept fully informed on what this large item in the city hall cost is going to be. Ald. Russell Humphreys said the committee would do well to have a large firm quote a contract price on all furnishings and Ald. Rae Halliday recalled that thousands of dollars had thus been saved when outfitt Fairview Lodge. Ald. Murdoch reminded aldermen of their obligations to deal with local taxpayers. a: » At the same time, council will advertise for a caretaker for the building; a man who holds fourth grade engineer's papers. Salary will be probably $3,000 to start. Mr. Attersley came up with an- other motion: to secure prices for washroom equipment not supplied under the building contract--soap dispensers, etc. A discussion was also held on whose responsibility it will be to clean the huge window space of the hall, scrape mortar and so forth off, so that it may be presented in good shape to the municipality for official opening. A meeting to be held within a few days will finalize plans for an official opening and dedication of the city hall. J Fires Probe Kept Secret KENTVILLE, N.S. (CP) -- Po- lice and military authorities today clamped a secrecy lid on their in- vestigation of Saturday's fires at nearby Aldershot army camp. Col. H. E. T. Doucette of Hali- fax, the army's Atlantic Command chief of staff, said only that every clue to the cause of the fires is being followed. The fires, only 14 hours apart, destroyed the Aldershot officers' mess and camp theatre buildings with damage estimated at $200,000. Arson or sabotage has been hinted. Plans to accommodate 27th Bri- gade troops due here next month on rotation leave from German will not be altered by the fires, it was learned. Bank Supply Is Stolen KAPUSKASING (CP) -- An ex- press shipment of $11,000 in small- denomination bills was stolen Sat- urday night while on its way from the Bank of Canada in Ottawa to the Kapuskasing branch of the Im- perial Bank. The theft became known Mon- day night with the arrival of spe- cial investigators of the 'Canadian National Express. . It was learned that the money, in $5 and $10 bills, was missed after the train which brought it] from Ottawa pulled out for Hearst, 60 miles to the west. A phone | check with Hearst showed the package of money did mot peach | there. Bermuda Meeting Is Now Official WASHINGTON (AP)--- President Eisenhower, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Laniel of France, will discuss the world situafion at Bermuda in the period between Dec. 4 and Dec. 8, the White House " announced today. (The French foreign office and 10 Downing St., Churchill's official residence, made similar official announcements at the same time as the Washington statement. In London, authoritative sourees said Churchill would go to the meeting by warship.) The White House announcement said the Big Three leaders will be joined in the talks by State Secretary Dulles for the United States, Foreign Minister Bidault for France, and Foreign Sc 'retary Eden for Great Britain. The statement said it was de- cided "to hold the three-power conference at Bermuda which was planned for. the beginning of July but had to be put off. . . be ic, 4 to Dec. 8 and various matters of common concern to the three powers will be discussed." SCAN RUSSIAN POLICY The apparent toughening of Rus- sia's anti-Western policies presum- ably will rank high among the top- CS. Informed U. S. officials said the Bermuda sessions will be held primarily to decide what course the West should take in view of Russia's latest note rejecting the Allies' bid to a Big Four foreign ministers' conference in Switzer- land. That scssion was to have be- gun Monday. At his pres conference last week, Eisenhower said the Soviet Union, in its reply, seemed to be trying to prevent a Big Four con- ference 'by injecting impossible conditions." The president added at that time that the Soviet reply "manifests no intention to get together, but an intention to create as many diffi- culties as possible." : "It is hoped to meet from 40. Years Ago Storm Hit Lake TORONTO (CP)--A storm 40 years ago this week wrecked two dozen ships along the Great Lakes and caused the death of more than 300 sailors, First reports of it were published Nov. 10, 1913. The 30-mile-an-hour gale fanned a fire that leaped from building to building in Nipigon and almost | destroyed the villag: The storm lasted four days. It was so furious that freighters had difficulty passing through the ship canals at Sault Ste. Marie and more than 100 vessels amchored near Whitefish point, west of the Sault, where some went aground and were broken up. Ghouls were reported to have robbed the bodies of sgilors washed ashore along the lakes. Wreckers combed the beaches to salvage cargo from shattered vessels. Fernando de Soto, the great Spanish explorer, discovered the sissippi wiver in 1541. Trieste Is Calm Again - TRIESTE (AP)--Italian sources today said border guards of the Trieste free territory have tight- ened their checks on Italian citi- zens entering the disputed zone in the wake of last week's bloody riots. i Disclosure of the new restric tions came shortly after Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden declared in London that Britain holds Ital- ian 'extremists' responsible" for the trouble in Trieste and for anti- Allied demonstrations in Italian cities. The sources said the guards now are following the letter of the law in passing would-be visitors to the territory's British-American- administered zone A. Such com- paratively minor infractions as ex- pired identity cards are enough to bar entry, they declared. GUARDS REMOVED Reuters news agency Feported today that American and British troops have been withdrawn from all guard duties over Allied build- ings in Trieste, and that today's withdrawal "completely restored Trieste to a normal appearance of calm." The American*and Brit- ish troops had been rushed into guard duty at the height: of last week's riots. More Pensions Is Legion's Aim OTTAWA (CP) -- The 250,000 member Canadian legion today asked the government to raise war veterans' allowances for some 40,000 recipients. : In a brief presented to Prime Minister St. Laurent and the cab- inet, the legion also proposed a plan for more veterans' housing under the Veterans' Land Act. stopped for the next five days. Thieves Enter Dance Pavilion Thieves broke open a lobby door at the Jubilee Pavilion, Lakeview Park, last night and got away with a quantity of cigarettes and a small radio. Constables Norm Smyth and Stev- enson found the door jimmied when they made a routine check early this morning. The bolt was left hanging on one screw. A cigarette-vending machine had been broken and emptied of three tiers of cigarettes and some cash. It is the property of Hayden Mac- donald Wholesale of Oshawa. An office door was also broken and a small radio taken. The opinion of workers at the pa- vilion was that the thieves might have been customers at their dances and had '"'cased the joint" before the robbery. Man And Wife . Shot In Bed HULL, Que. (CP)--A 61-year-old tavern kee today was charged with the attempted murder of his brother and sister-in-law. Police arrested Romeo Laroche early today after his brother Ernest, 59, and his wife, Berthe, 59, were both shot in the legs in their bedroom. They are reported in "fair" condition in hospital. 170 SEEK WORK H. Brown; Employment Officer at Lindsay, reports the recent layoffs at the General Motors plant in Osh- awa have caused about 170 men in Lindsay and district to contact his office about new jobs. n Saud's second soh, | ballots. put the question because it appears that no one is doing much to allevi- ate the situation caused by the des- truction by fire of the Hambly arena early in September 15. The motion to submit the question was made by Ald. Russell Humphreys. He said: "The situation is that no private parties are willing to undertake such a project. Most of the arenas being erected nowa- days are put up and owned by the municipality. It's something you have to do eventually. It has got to be done some way or another." Ald. Joseph Victor: "A rink is Likely Expense Said $700,000 Ratepayers themselves are going to answer at the municipal election on December 7, a question that is in everyone's mind. A plebiscite vote will be held with ap- proximately this wording: "Are you in favor of a civic ar- tificial ice arena at a cost of approximately $700,000?" Only persons qualified to vote on money by-laws may east City council last night decided to ¢- almost a public utility nowadays." Ald. Cephas Gay: "What is that $700,000 figure based on?" Ald. Humphreys: "It is an archi- tect's estimate. It could be lower." Ald. Rae Halliday: "Yes, the people are enquiring what is go- ing to happen about a rink. I agree that a problem like this should be left to the voters. If they turn it down, there is no harm done." Ald. Attersley: "A committee is planning for a $100,000 artificial ice rink at the rear of the CRA build- ing, I am told." All members agreed to the plebiscite. POPULATION 37,900 --r NOTIC The civic pride of countless residents of Oshawa has been sorely tried by the failure of the Department of Highways to give the city full credit for its pheno- menal growth in recent years. The highway sign (above) at the wi y~¢ity limits on - way No. 2 gives the city's population oan as 37,900. In reality Oshawa ex- ceeded that figure .as long ago as 1951 when the census gave Oshawa a population of 41,359, This fall the assessment depart- ment rep da total of 4.101 souls wi bounds 'municipality,' #5 --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Seaway Work Next Spring ? OTTAWA (CP)--Transport Min- ister Chevrier Monday night ex- pressed hope that construction of the St. Lawrence seaway might x start next spring. A start in early 1954 could come about if United States courts dis- pose expeditiously of -a- series of suits filed by American opponents of the project, the minister said in a speech to the Ottawa West Liberal Association. He termed "most gratifying' ae- tion of the American administra tion during the last week in desig- nating the New York state power authority as the agency to co-op- erate with Ontario in power de- velopment, and he welcomed ad- ministration representations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for a quick hearing. "If the representations made be- fore the courts are successful, it is quite possible that construction wil begin in the spring of 1954," he said. MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS Fifty different parliaments in the Commonwealth sent gifts to help furnish the new British House of Commons. Ram Gores Well-known District Farmer To Death Fatally gored by a ram during a three-hour 'battle in a pasture, Cecil Wilson, of Vroomanton, west of Sunderland, died in hospital at Lindsay on Saturday. : Wilson, who had been crippled in his arms and legs since boy- hood, went out into his fields to get his cows. For -the first time in months he neglected to take his dog with him. The ram, which Wilson had own- ed for two or three years, butted the farmer from behind. Ross Mc- Clennan, who was helping Wilson on the farm, first noticed the NEW YORK (AP) Police dragged one of Rome's wealthiest playboy globe trotters from the apartment of heiress Brenda Fraz- ier Kelly early today in a tussle which left two officers and the visitor injured. Pietro Francisco Mele, 30, fre- quently seen with Mrs. Kelly at Rome night clubs, was booked on a charge of felonious assault. He allegedly refused Mrs. Kelly's re- quest to leave the Park avenue apartment, 'and tried to lock him- self in a bedroom. CHAUFFEUR HELPED Mele, who told reporters he was Men "Milked" A Creamery BRANDON, Man. (CP) -- Two men were convicted Monday of working a smooth scheme with cream, Stanley Brandon and Orville Glazerman were given two-year suspended sentences for stealing 16 full eight-gallon cream cans from a Brandon creamery during September. Total value was $436. Glazerman, a creamery em- ployee, would place a full can on the loading platform. Brandon would take it home, pour the cream into his own ¢ w and sell it back to the creamery. 3 A short time ago, the creamery offered a prize for the farmer bringing in the best quality eream. hBrandon won. . Police Fight Playboy In Flat of Heiress a director of a few movies and an auto racer, was badly beaten as police finally subdued him on the street in front of the building. Mele was not subdued until Mrs. Relly's chauffeur assisted the po- ce. The assault charge against Mele was filed by patrolman Duncan Christie, who said Mele kicked him in the groin. Mrs. Kelly is the granddaughter of the late Sir Frederick Williams- Taylor, former president of the Bank of Montreal. Fifth PoW Shot In Escape Try PANMUNJOM (AP)--A North Korean war prisoner was shot to death by an Indian guard while trying to escape today, the neutral nations repatriation commission announced. He was the fifth prisoner killed by guards' gunfire since the In- dians on Sept. 25 took custody of PoWs who refused repatriation. The commission said the prisoner was scaling a wire fence around compound E-34 when spotted the guard. : Six er seven other prisoners, who apparently were accomplices, be- gan throwing stones and shouting at the Indian soldier, the commis- sion said. guard fired when rushed toward 'him The statement added that the prisoner man's absence and went out to search the pastures. Wilson was found, badly muti- lated and sprawled over a boulder. During his journey to hospital he told members of his family that the ram drove him to the ground and he.was unable to get up. "I hung on to him for half an hour, then my strength ran out," he is quoted as saying. 'I man- aged to get to my hands and Khices and climb on a big boul- er." Suffering' from a broken -nose, broken ribs and a ruptured spleen the well - known district farmer died on Saturday. He was buried yesterday in the St. John Ceme- tery at West Brock. Son of the late Charles Wilson, and Mrs. Wil- son, he leaves his widow, the for- mer Marjorie Marks, of Ridgd Road, and three small children. $58,000 Worth Of Il Will TORONTO (CP)--Motorists owe Toronto more thn $58,000 in unpaid fines for parking and traffic viola- tions, it was reported Monday at a meeting of a special commit- tee surveying civic departments. Warrants outstanding total 5,150. His Own By DON SCHWIND TEHRAN (AP)--Screaming, sob- bing ex-premier Mohammed Mos- sadegh today attempted to w out of a court-martial trying him for his life after a wild, fist-swing- ing scene climaxed his attempts to disavow his cofirt-appointed law- yer. The 73-year-old cused of efying the shah, trying to overthrow monarchy and illegally dis solving parliament, shouted at his judges: "Give an order to cut off my head, but I must defend myself." It was the third straight day of emotional fireworks from Mossa- degh, virtua] dictator of Iran be- fore his ove w last August by Royalist supporters. He told the tribunal Monday he would commit suicide if released and would not appeal if convicted. e also threatened to boycott future court sessions, asserting that the court is not competent to try him. SWINGS AT LAWYER Today's outburst came suddenly after an all-out effort by the aged nationalist leader to get rid of Col. Jalil Bozorgmehr, his court-ap- pointed lawyer. . Bawling, ¢* Go away, damn you," Mossadegh rose from the bench and swung at Bozorgmehr, hitting politician, ac- him on the arm. Brushing the law- yer aside, Mossadegh staggered Mossadegh Hits Counsel past three dumbfounded court offf- cials and stumbled 20 feet down the aisle before officers caught up alk | with him. Throughout . the melee, Bozorg- mehr stood stiffly as at attention, but with his head bowed. Labor Council To Hear Ald. The city's municipal problems will get a thorough review at to- night's meeting of the Oshawa and District Labor Council (CCL) when Mayor W. J. Naylor and Ald- ermen J. Wesley Powers, C. B. Gay and C. Harman attend to re- port to the laborites on their cur- rent term in office. The four city fathers are members of Local 222, UAW-CIQ, and are invited annually by the Labor Council to acquaint the delegates on civic issues. "It should be a real civic night," announced M, J. Fenwick, secre- tary-treasurer. Changes made by the recently- appointed manager of the bus div- ision of Oshawa Railway Company are also due to be discussed. The Council expects to complete its plans for a Christmas party sponsored yearly for the children 'of the delegates. day sentenced Leonard Wattebled, former Montreal hotel proprietor, to 20 years' hard labor for shooting his wife in a crowded Paris res- taurant 16 years ago. The prosecutor had asked for the death sentence, and described Wattebled as "ope of the most revolting criminals" he had ever come across. Nearly all the witnesses of the crime are by now dead or missing. One vital witness, Cornelius Freund, a Hungarian diplomat with whom Mrs. Wattebled was dining when she was shot, was said to be in Hungary and unable to come to Paris to give evidence. Wattebled 'was originally sen- tenced to death in absentia in 1938. PARIS (Reuters)--A court Mon- He is alleged to have fled to Can- ada after killing his wife, Hén- riette, Nov. 19, 1937. PROSPERED IN MONTREAL He assumed the name of Lucien Lebrun and prospered during the Second World War, with his Mon- treal hotel. He was identified after his arrest by Canadian police when charged with a tax offence, and extradited at the request of the French au- thorities. The prosecutor retraced Watte- bled's career since his marriage to Henriette, a young dressmaker, in 1933. He was alleged to have beaten her and driven her onto the streets to earn money as a rostitute. The prosecutor said attebled was twice sen Law Catches Up With Man Who Killed 16 Years Ago procuring and once served 18 months in prison for ill-treating his wife. Wattebled"s wife made two at- tempts to escape from him and begged for a divorce, the pros- ecutor said. The second time she left him she met Freund, an at- tache of the Hungarian embassy, and fell in love. Henriette was dining with him the night Watfebled walked into the restaurant, fired one shot into her head, held back the startled diners with his gun as he backed towards the door and disappeared into the crowded boulevard. Wattebled denied the charge. He claimed that the Hungarian drew a revolver as he approached the table, and that it went off in a for | struggle. \ CRY £