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Weather Forecast Cloudy and mild until Friday even ing. Low tonight 50, high tomorrow 60. Daily Average Circuladion for October, 1953 12626 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Price Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy A CELLAR Army Buddies On Murder Charge TORONTO (CP)--Two former army buddies were | charged today with the slaying of Mrs. Sadie Davidson, | 32, whose battered and slashed body was found Wednes- day night -- sprawled half-naked on the cellar steps of a downtown cleaning shop. Charged were John Houghton, 26, and John N. Beveridge, 44, both of Toronto. They were remanded to November 26 without bail. Authorized as Second-Clase Mell OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 1953 ont "Office Department, Ottawe TWENTY-FOUR PAGES | _VOL. 12--No. 270 "INHUMAN" KILLING IN '2 CRASHES IN 13 DAYS | SENTENCED Teen-Ager Drank Beer gs While Driving At 65 MPH | mi oe ed death in the gas chamber for the kidnap killers of little Bobby Greenlease. The all- male jury of western Mis- souri farmers and business men p d their r d tion. which will end the lives KIDNAPPERS Magistrate F. S. Ebbs this morn-| ed beer from a bootlegger while on Bond Street and hit the rear of a} ing "threw the book" at Vincent|the way home from a dance with | vehi€le stopped at the intersection. | | " " Gorman, 19, 105 Bonnie Brae Point. | four girls in his auto. J The tenel cal over Zhe Tt ahd vp Evidence previously showed he Jean Bryan, a passenger in the! Gorman finally stopped it. He could drank a bottle of beer, while speed-| car, told the court on November give no real reason for failing to ing at 65 miles an hour along High- | 12 that Gorman was drinking from | gtop 7S way 401. His auto left the highway, hit a railway crossing sign and tore o t three small trees, near Picker- ing on October 3. Vincent drew three months in jail for dangerous driving; a fine of $50 or one month, to run con- secutively, on an unrelated charge | of dangerous driving: a fine of $100 | and costs or three months consecu- {tive for having liquor in an illegal place and had his driver's license suspended for 'one year. Evidence, presented previously, showed that Gorman had purchas- |Reds Worked In Auto Plants DETROIT (AP) -Communist ac- tivities in the American automo- {bile industry during the 1930s were unfolded Wednesday in the con- spiracy trial of six Michigan Com- munist party leaders. Under questioning by govern- ment and defence counsel William O'Dell Nowell, 49-year-old ex-Com- munist, told of his work in the Ford Motor Co. department of the party. Nowell. now a governmenf em- loyee, was a Commupist from {1929 to 1936. He said he served {the Reds as director of the com- !mission on Negro problems, direc- tor of educational propaganda, and idirector of the Detroit workers {school. Quebec May Ban Red-Led Unions py UE rgd, with the purty QUEBEC (CP) --The Quebec the Communist doctrine or a'Com- first president of the United Auto overnment has tabled draft legis- | munist party or movement can- Workers Union (CIO) to drive fation outlawing as bargaining | not . . . be regarded as a bona fide Reds from the union. agent any ployer or ployee aetoeiation, : i laiss tha eam | erm mim------" to organization tolerating one or more provision stipulates that cer-| Camis officers. | tification may be refused or re. VETERAN AP MAN DIES The measure was one of 24 voked by the labor relations board. | NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)--Wil- tabled Wednesday as the second' In another labor measure, a bill [liam J. G. Myers, 85, former chief session of Quebec's 24th legisla- proposes that union cal |of the Connecticut bureau of The ; 'a strike in public services Ww Associated Press, died in hospital sed | Suto tically "lose the right to | Wednesday night. Myers, a native t its members. of England, retired Jan. 1, 1935 3 Yevision of the four-year mar- after 40 years with The AP. HOME FROM THE WARS Eleven months of war and Kor-' leave in Tokyo and a food supply ea behind him, 21-year-old Pte. that was good but cooks that Bob Bruyea of RR 4, Oshawa, were unpredictable. Left to right, is shown here back home at last. girl friend, Marilyn Wright, To- Bob's family met him at Union ronto: Bob himself; and his moth- Station in Toronto yesterday er and father, Mrs. and Mr. A. J. morning. Bob expressed particu- Bruyea. (Story on Page 3) lar memories of a seven - day --Times-Gazette Staff Photo | | a bottle when the car went off of Magistrate F. S. Ebbs reviewed the road. A railway crossing sigh | Gorman's situation saying: and three - trees were torn down side in a ditch. Marian Bryan, sitting in the front seat, suffered a broken pelvis. She is still invalided by the injury and did not appear in court. : On October 1 Gorman was I1n- volved in an accident on Dean Kelly, north on employer, failed to stop at Mary Street. He before the car came to rest on its | | takes it upon himself to drive these | Mary | Street in Oshawa, He was driving | |a pickup truck belonging to his | "I consider this a serious matter when a young boy like yourself young ladies home while drinking. There is no excuse for going to a bootlegger and even drinking the stuff while in charge of a car. You are lucky that you are not charged with manslaughtr in connection with that accident. On top of all that, you have been found guilty | of driving carelessly even after the l accident." 30 Days For Father of 8 Who Drank. Drove, Crashed A father of eight children. Vin- cent Russell, 33, of Rouge Hills, formerly of Pickering Beach, was sentenced this morning to 30 days in the county jail, was fined $100 or an additional 30 days and his drivers' licence was suspended for three months. Russell was convict- ed of dangerous driving after a jury trial. The jury recommended | clemency. Russell was driver of a panel truck which last February 27 was in collision with a car driven by Stanley Bowden of Whitby, at the corner of No. 2 highway and the Pickering Beach sideroad. Mrs. Rodney Rogerson, 63, of Whitby, a passenger in Russell's truck, was thrown to the roadway and died instantly. Evidence showed that the party in Russell's truck had been drink | ing prior to the accident "You have been ably defended" (by J. A. Macdonald and T. C Kelly), said Judge F. J. MacRae. "I had thought at first of sentenc-- ing you to three months, before the jury recommended clemency, but in view of all the circumstances, it will 'be one-month; "along with a | garine ban would do away with | of current system of encouraging | under susemsion: |any person to. lodge complaints | - The proposed amendment to the | against violators. : IXon Labor Relations Act concerning | osecution would be in the Communists says: {hands of police and persons ap- "An association which tolerates | pointed among its organizers or officers, | culture. one or more persons adhering to the payment of fines. White Case Lull After Ike Talks By JACK BELL sue will be forgotten by next U.S. policy startied, tien Pleased --- |year's congressional campaign. some 700 Japanese leaders. ere PLL fe Seuators | Eisenhower said he was not sug- was quick praise from Japanese White case called a temporary lull gdsting that current congressional who have long insisted demilitar- today, but gave no sign of aband- probes be called off, however. | ization was a costly mistake. oning their efforts because of Pres- DECLINES COMMENT | "We misjudged the intentions of | H i nh . i : : Soviet leaders" at the end of the idem Tite powers suggestion Ba The president declined to_com-|geoonq World War, Nixon told the ment directly on the case of White, | % a 2 sown be 'esdod Who. Attormey + General Henbert | Mera JPSATECH hie I. i] YWhtiam N. Jpuner hep. Brownell says was promoted in Communist nations, with the threat By RUSSELL BRINES TOKYO (AP) --United States | vice-president Richard Nixon, in a bid for a rearmed Japan, said {today "the United States made a mistake in 1946" when it ordered destruction of the remnants of Japanese military might. Nixon's unexpected comment on Says It Was Error won 5.2% For U.S. To Disarm Japs "We felt disarmament was proper in 1946. We looked ahead, hoping against hope that it would be possible to attain a peaceful world. "Since that time, the Commu- nist threat has gained in power-- wars have begun. "If we want peace, we must be militarily stronger than the Com- munist nations." { BEGIN NEW LINE Informed quarters said Nixon's speech apparently inaugurated a new soft line of persuasion in deal- ing with Japan. The Japanese strongly resented recent statements by Senator Wil- liam F. Knowland (Rep. Calif.), CADW 1946 by former president Truman or how far the inquiry by the in- ternal security sub-committee he heads will lead. The group's next session is set for Monday. Jenner told reporters that "for the first time we have ben able to show" that FBI reports on sus- cted individuals 'reached the ands of top officials," and it was impossible to say now what de- velopments night follow. Some Republicans and most Democrats seconded Eisenhower's hope, expressed at his press con- ference Wednesday, that security firings may so completely solve the problem of alleged Red infil- tration of government that the is- in the face of FBI reports which, Brownell asserted, tagged White as a Soviet spy. While Jenner's sub - committee | planned to go ahead with its hear- ings. the House of Representatives un-American activities committee showed signs of stepping out of {the case. Representative Kit Clardy (Rep. | centred in Moscow' had prevented ithe Free World from living in| U.S. Senate majority leader, and | peace. | State Secretary, Dulles, which they "Jt is because we want peace | interpreted to mean Japan must | and believe in peace that we have rearm to obtain future aid. rearmed since 1946, and we be-| Both Knowland and Dulles urged (lieve that Japan and other na-|Japan to furnish more of its de- {tions should share the same res- | fence forces and to lean less | ponsibility. + heavily on the U.S. Mich.) said Wednesday he sees no | need now for a sub-committee to take testimony James F. Byrnes of South Caro- of state at the time of White's pro- #emi= Young Americans Told | a ne ta time. of White's DFO. | To Roll Northwards motion. Clardy had been named to head the a 2ND SUICIDE THREAT Mossadegh Says He Will Starve TEHRAN (AP) -- Mohammed Mossadegh today threatened a . hunger strike to the death as chief prosecutor Hossein Azemodeh asked a court-martial to send the former premier to the gallows. It was the 73-year-old ex-dicta- tor's second suicide -threat since the army court began trying him Nov. 8 on charges that he tried to overthrow Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, defied the royal decrees and dissolved the lower house of Parliament illegally. carlier in the trial 'Mossadegh asserted he would take his own life if the court released him. UTAH LEADS IN SWEET TEETH Folks in Utah have the sweetest teeth in the nation. Utahans average twenty pounds of candy a year per person. ' But if your weakness is sweet simoleons, make 'em fast through Classified ads! To dispose of belongings yu no 'longer enjoy use For Sale ads. Makes you = immediate money, clears your house of dust-catchers, too! Dial 3-2233 for am ad-writer. TNE HAS MANY COMPLAINTS He voiced his threat to quit eat- |ing today after Asemodeh threat- |ened to put him in solitary «con- finement if he continued to com- plain about his food, living con- ditions, and alleged attempts on his life. Mossadegh shouted to the court that his life was in danger in prison, that he had been threat- ened 'for the last two nights," and that the "army will kill me in the prison itself." "It will be no use your actipg after I'm dead." he asserted. "The army will protect you," Gen. Nasrollah Moghbeli, the chairman of the five-man tribunal, | disappearance of replied. 7 Men Found On A Liferaft | PEARL HARBOR (AP) -- |seven crew members | United States navy Catalina flying | around an open basement window. boat which ditched in the Pacific |the Wednesday have been picked up' the from a life raft by the transport town. Daniel 1. Sultan, {nounced today. the navy an- Navy officers said three of the |having no other possible meaning but none is im thap that she is dead. men were injured, All 'coat, glasses and shoes were left from a behind and there were Cog roe of men's | CINCINNATI (CP) -- Young, vestment has been greater than | Americans were urged Wednesday |that of the United States. Cana- | night to get their 'covered wagons da'a potential for the future is un- | to | limited. LARGE INVESTMENTS The United States had already invested vast amounts of money in and had | rolling again and come north" |cash in on big opportunities in | Canada. 3 | "F. J. Lyle, director of Ontario's | trade and industry branch, said in | Canadian development |an address to the Cincinnati Coun- icilo op World Affairs: | Canada presents greater oppor- | tunities for American investments, American industries and ambitious turig plants. "The next step in this friendly invasion will be a substantial flow of people our way. We could use young Americans than any other 'a couple of million in the next country in the world. 10 years and they will do all right, | "Canada's rate of growth since |too. | the war, measured by the accepted | "So, get the covered wagons | yardsticks of population, gross na- rolling again and come north, {tional production and capital in-'young man, come north!" Hope Abandoned That Girl Lives LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP)--Almost found "in the frantic search the four weeks have passed since the first week after the girl vanished, pretty young | when police and thousands of vol- | Evelyn Hartley, and with them | unteers combed the country and have gone nearly all hope that the | poked - into the tributaries and puzzle will be solved. sloughs of the Mississippi river. There is little doubt that Evelyn, 15-year-old daughter of Prof. and | tennis shoes, stained with blood, Mrs. Richard Hartley, forcibly with a sole pattern matching foot- was abducted the night of Oct. 24 {prints found outside the Rasmusen from the Viggo Rasmusen home, | asement window, where she was baby-sitting, Her SEVERAL QUESTIONED pair of other clues, but they cannot defin- be connected with the case. men . have been ques- lawn and a nearby home in | itely sparsely-settled section of Several tioned in the Her continued absence is inter- | 'been cleared. On week-énds a few preted, even by her parents, as | townsfolk still roam the country- side looking for clues, but all or- ganized searching has been aban- established hundreds of manufac- | The best clue is a pair of black girl's paoties and a trousers are the case, but all have fine of $100. Ore of the most dis- tressing things in this day and age is the large number of deaths on the highways and this is one of them. You have been tried fairly and I hope that there will never be | any recurrency of this sort of thing." R. D. Humphreys, QC, condueted the prosecution but Crown Attorney Alex Hall appeared this morning at the conclusion of the case. As to sentence, Mr. Hall pointed out that the offence carries a maxium pen- alty of two years in jail. In this particular case, the family of Rus- sell also suffer through the offence. Mr. Macdonald told 'the court that Russell should not be classed as a hardened criminal but he was largely a victim of misfortune, be- New Bus Schedule of Carl Austin Hzll, 34-year- - old playboy who took to crime and his 41-year-old alcoholic mistress, Mrs, Bonnie Brown Heady. Summing up for the jury be- fore handing over the case at 10.45 a.m. CST, U.S.. district judge Albert L. Reeves today called the confessed killers "cold-blooded murderers." The case for the jury, he said, was simple --it was just "should the two pay the supreme price | for their crime." | { i ing involved in an accident of this | type. The jury's recommendation of clemency might warrant sus- pended sentence, said Mr. Macdon- ald, In view of the family circum- stances. Russell should be allowed to be The trial consumed three and a half days in General Sessions court | at Whitby. Man Wh ALBANY. N.Y. (AP) -- Senator Arthur H. Wicks formally stepped down today as acting lieutenant governor of New York state after a bitter quarrel with Governor Thomas E. Dewey ending in vic- tory claims by both camps. he Republican row seems cer- By Month's End |" In reply to a Labor Council let- | ter urging extension of bus service | rather than the proposed curtail- ment, J. H. McIntyre, superintend- ent of the Oshawa Railway Com-- pay, revealed a new selection of runs would be posted effective No- | vember 30. | In a letter to M. J. Fenwick, sec- retary of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, Mr. McIntyre | pointed out that a few extensions {had been planned. He mentioned [the extension of the Cedar Dale | Route, south to Ritson. Also the | present Ritson bus, which is term- |inating at Howard Street, would | continue south on Ritson and turn at Wolfe Street. It was still necessary, however, service to the Lake. Re- BOAC to Run Fleet of Jets | | LONDON (Reuters) -- British Overseas Airways Corporation has | (ordered five super-jetliners for a | transatlantic fleet that will have the same long-term work capacity las the liner Queen Mary--97,000 | passengers a year. | The order; an initial one, was | { announced today by de Havillands, | makers of the Comet jet. The BOAC jetliners will be the | Comet Series III, also ordered by Pan American Airways. The planes will carry -passengers at | cruising speeds. of "better than | | h." and over non-stop {500 m. p. | stages of 2,500 miles. | venue is extremely low on that run, Mr. Mcintyre reported. However, | Lake service would be improved to handle the summer business. Secretary Fenwick in his letter authorized by the Labor Council | said it seemed as though the com- | | pany was trying to put itself out | of business as soon as possible by i increasing fares and reducing serv- lice. | He charged that the company was trying to run down its opera- [tion until it could be claimed so unprofitable that the company's ob- ligation could be suspended. Michigan will i Curb Drivers | KITCHENER (CP)--Judge John D. Watts of Detroit says accidents can be prevented by removing un- | from the road--and | safe drivers it won't cost anyone a cent. | He told the North®Waterloo Au- tomobile Club Wednesday night that Michigan proposes legislation to give each driver a lifetime li- cence« number. Traffic violations by each driver would be added up and when they reached the allow- able total, his licence would be cancelled. Judge Watts is noted for his "model" traffic court and concern with highway safety. He "said it is unfair to malign all | 'teen-aged drivers because of a Young persons were mentally physically the best drivers with his family, again, to | support them as soon as possible. | Police said Houghton was picked | up unconscious near the cleaning shop on Jarvis street. They also | found a hacksaw blade and a razor | blade stained with blood, three | emptly whisky bottles and three partly empty. * Police said Houghton was living with Mrs. Davidson, a former resi- dent of Dartmouth, N.S, Beveridge | roomed with them. | DRUNKEN BRAWL | Mrs. Davidson apparently died {ih a drunken brawl, police said. |She was beaten to death with a | pop bottle and slashed with the | razor and hacksaw. Her breasts were slashed. Blood was spattered | on the walls of the cellar and the first floor. A man who went into the store earlier in the evening said he heard Mrs. Davidson and a man | arguing about money. Police said Mrs. Davidson had PR SS EE) told friends she was divorced and | her three children were living with {her mother in Nova Scotia. Houghton and Beveridge had' been friends when they served with the 27th Canadian Brigade in Germany. INHUMANLY TREATED Inspector Albert Mace said Mrs. Davidson was '"'subjected to very | iniuman treatment." { On the cellar wall was a bloody palm mark, indicating the woman | may have crawled half-way up the cellar steps before she died. Mrs. Randell Smith, who lives in an apartment over the store, | said: : "1 didn't hear anything like a struggle but a couple of times I thought 1 heard somebody pound- ing on the floor in the store." She described Mrs. Davidson MURDER { (Continued on Page 2) Visited Sing-Sing Resigns Lieut-Gov's Post tain to scar party unity and de: light the Democrats in nex year's election campaigns. Wicks submitted his resignation Wednesday as majority leader and temporary president of the state Senate, through which he held the office of acting lieutenant-gover- nor. The action was announced minutes after adjournment of a special session of the legislature. VISITED JAILED MAN Dewey and the state party ex- ecutive committee: had insisted that Wicks, because of visits to labor extortionist Joseph S. Fay in Sing Sing prison, resign his leadership - or be ousted" at the special session. Wicks maintained he had heard no word of censure from his fellow senators about his visits to Fay, and claimed complete vindication. He said he resigned because his conflict with Dewey would impair state business. But Dewey declared he had called for Wicks' resignation be- | cause of the Fay visits, and said "the resignation speaks for itself." WANTS VACATION, TOO The 65-year-old Wicks, a veteran of 27 years in the senate, as why he resigned, said "One reason is that I'm taking a much-needed vacation,"" and did not wante the responsibilities of the leadership "marring that vacation." He made it plain that he was not resigning his 'senate seat. He represents a Hudson river valley | district around Kingston, about 80 miles north of New York tity. | Senator Walter Mahoney. of Buf- falo, who once differed with Dewey but since has Yeturned to apty regularity, was chosen <M ty leader to succeed Wicks. ) |" The lieutenant-governorship be- came vacant Sept. 30 when Cana- dian-born Frank C. Moore Te- signed to become head of a pri- vate foundation. Huge Object LONDON (AP)--A huge glowing | object described by observers as | metallic has been tracked by ra-- dar high over England twice this month, the Wednesday night. Official reports of the sightings were made by members of two army radar crews who estimated the height of the object as 60,000 feet. The §irst report came from Sgt. Harry Waller and three other wit- nesses who were making a test of a radar set for the 256th heavy anti-aircraft regiment in southeast London Nov. 3 The report said the object was kept in sight for 40 minutes. Then | it moved out of range. "There was a strong echo on the screen, so 1 looked through the! telescope and there it was, just 'like a tennis ball," Waller told | reporters. "It was dead white and and lacked only experience. 'Hoaxer Holds His Office Job | CALGARY (CP) -- George Du- Pre, central figure in what has | been called the greatest hoax in | journalism, has been retained as branch manager | Chemicals Ltd., here, a company | official said. | {olds said DuPre served in France | | in the Second World War as a Brit- | | ish intelligence agent and survived | | Gestapo torture. The story later | | was exposed as a hoax--manufac- tured by DuPre. Announcement that DuPre will "| continue as branch manager of the' chemical firm was made here by | James C. Barr of Vancouver, vice-' president of Commercial Chemic-| als, a subsidiary of Standard Chemical Co. Ltd. of Montreal. Bikini Became 'Transparent | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Every- body looked when pretty Mrs, Pa- | tricia C. Muncy stepped out of a Santa 'Monica pool. They looked again. Then Mrs. Muncy looked 00. What she saw, she said in a| suit Wednesday asking $10,000 dam- ages, was that her bathing suit | "became transparent and pervious | to light" after contact with water. She has sued the garment manu- | facturer, claiming she was exposed to public gaze and ridicule, and {suffered extreme embarrassment A recent story by Quentin Reyn- | © of Commercial | _ war office disclosed | Seen Over UK completely circular. I couldn't see it with the naked eye. "The sky that day was very clear and blue with only a few: high clouds. The object was sta- tionary for about 15 minutes. Then it started moving off. NOT A BALLOON ! "It couldn't have been a bal- loon. To get the kind of signal we got it must have been metallic. It must have been huge, because the signal was three or four tims as large as that received from the biggest airliner." A similar report was made Nov, 3 by FO. T. S. Johnson and FO. C. H. Smythe of the RAF. They were at 20,000 feet in a jet plane, they said, when the object passed far overhead at "tremendous i speed." An air ministry spokesman said every such report is investigated "but we are not prepared to com-- ment on individual reports." MAYOR BUYS FIRST BATCH OF CHRISTMAS SEALS Mayor W. J. Naylor this week formally started off the Christ- mas seal campaign of the' South Ontario Tuberculosis Association | by making the first purchase of Christmas seals, proceeds of which are used in T.B. prevention and rehabilitation work in Ontar- io County, Here he is shown receiving his seals from Murray Sparks, chairman of the Christ-y mas Seal Campaign Commitfeq -- Tine Cavntte Saf Phot