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Daily Bverage Circulation for November, 1953 12588 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Mostly Weather Forecast cloudy, rain likely. Low to- night 85, high Saturday 40. VOL. 12--No. 289 8 Authorized es Second-Class Mall, Post Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1953 Price Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES HOSPITAL TO SEEK St MEASURE UP ACCIDENT SCENE Sergeant Ernie Barker of the Oshawa police force and May- nard Nelson, 87, 162 Burk Street, driver of a car that struck and seriously injured Leonard Black- ler, 57, 237 Bloor Street West, shortly after 9 p.m., yesterday, are seen here taking measure- ments at the scene of the acci- dent on Simcoe Street South near the CPR underpass. According to Mr. Nelson, Mr. Blackler, stand- ing on the east curb, stepped without warning in front of his south-bound car. Mr. Blackler is reported in "'only fair" condition in hospital this morning. He has multiple fractures of both his right arm and leg. : [in Western Ontario. | |advancement. Here he supervised { [the loss of a man who took an { |active part in civic activities. In G. Charron, NES Manager Promoted To London Post Manager of the National Em- ployment Service office here since September, 1951, George E. Char- ron is spending his last day on the job today. On Monday he takes over the important London office For Mr. Charron the move is an a staff of 42; in London he will be in charge of a staff of 78. For Oshawa, the move means the two years he has been here Mr. Charron was a director of the Merchants Senior Intercounty base- ball club and last year was chair- man of the Sunday Sports Com- mittee. Firmly believing in the rule "conquer the office duties first be- fore undertaking extra activities," Mr. Charron's future worth to the city might be judged better by considering his work in Timmins where he was stationed for 10 years. 0 In Timmins, Mr. Charron was chairman of the City Planning Board, a member of the Ontario SUITOR THEORY REJECTED Now Believe Abductor Was A Sex Criminal TORONTO (CP) A reward poster is to be circulated through out Canada and the United States in the continuing hunt for kid- mapped Marion McDowell, 17. will offer $2,000 for informa- tion leading to the arrest and con- viction of masked gunman re- potted to have spiri away the by-faced blonde in a car trunk last Sunday. The girl, a junior typist with a yen for roller skating and motor- cycles, is said to have been slug- unconscious along with 19-year- old James Wilson as they sat in Wilson's parked car on a lovers' lane in suburban Scarboro town- ship. Wilson told ou, the assailant was a tall dark man with a Balaclava masking his face. At first, police expressed belief the attacker might have been a jealous suitor. Afte questioning some 200 of the girl's friends and acquaintances, they announced they had swung to the theory the man probably was a sex criminal, an institution. EXTENSIVE SEARCH Scarboro's 70-man police force, assisted by members of other su- burban departments and by town- ship residents, continued to check tips and to direct a vast hunt along lonely roads, through farm- ers' fields and into ravines and woodlands. : The girl's father, Ross McDow- ell, accompanied by a group of friends, helped search barns and outbuildings, culverts, railway bridges, thickets and woodlots. Mc- Dowell appealed to farmers in the buildings to look around their prop- erty for some trace of his vivaci possibly one recently released from mediary between any informants and the police. "If anyone with helpful informa- tion is afraid to go to the police, they can come to me," she said. 4 would be happy to help in this way. RE-ENACT SCENE In early-morning darkness Thurs- day, police took Wilson to the kid- napping scene to see how well he might have seenghis attacker. They parked two cars 50 feet apart. In the darkness, police found that while standing beside one car they could easily see the trunk of the other. Wilson's story was that he and the girl were slugged unconscious, then driven in his car about half a mile to a point where another car was parked. He said he re- gained i in time to daughter. : sister-in-law, Mrs. William McDowell, offered to act as inter- in see the gunman stuff the apparently unconscious girl into the trunk of the other ear and drive away. Pl i Division, a past presi- dent of the Juvenile Hockey League and an executive with the "North- ern Ontario Hockey Association. Temporarily replacing Mr. Char- ron here will be A. B. Collins, a travelling supervisor who will act as manager for a few weeks until | Fialka Case; | Hearing Set Wednesday; January 6, has been set for hearing of two charges against John Fialka," 308 Ritson Road South, He was represented in police court this morning by Peter Slaght, QC, of Toronto who requested a remand. - Fialka was charged on Novem- ber 28 with selling liquor and on August $8 with having liquor in a ublic place (his home, which had n declared a public place). The earlier charge was held over pending disposition of a county court appeal which was heard last week. Mr. Slaght intimated that he will object to the earlier charge being proceeded with at all in view of the disposition of another charge which was by the county court judge. French Troops Retreat F rom Hill-Ringed City y LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indo-China AP) -- The French announced today that they have pulled their oops out of Vietminh-threatened Lai Chau, cap- ital of the Thai tribal country in northwest Indo-China, without fir- ing a shot. Announcement of the . evacuation came after repeated French assertions that Lai Chau would be staunchlye defended against the Communist-led rebels. Brig.-Gen. Rene Cogny, com- mander of French forces in North Indo-China," proclaimed Dien Bien Phu, 180 es west of Hanoi and 50 miles south of Lai Chau, as the "new capital" of the Thai country. French paratroopers seized Dien Bien Phu from the Vietminh in a daring drop Nov. 21. DIVISION 316 ATTACKING Some 3,500 civilian residents of Lai Chau already had been eva- cuated to Hanoi and Dien Bien Phu in anticipation of an attack by the crack Vietminh Division 316, which had been reported marching on Lai Chau: The Reds were expected to lose no time in entering the abandoned Thai capital. Cogny said the military evacua- tion of Lai Chau had been ap- proved by Deo Van Long, presi- of the confederation of the 300,000 Thai peoples. The French commander termed 'Lai Chau a "mousetrap." It is wedged between high mountains at the junction of three rivers flowing from Communist China. Dien Bien Phu, on the other lages on a broad plain and has an airstrip through which the French have been building up their forces. The Vietminh radio, heard in Hong Kong, claimed the rebel forces had already engaged the French in heavy fighting in the Lai Chau area and that 715 French Union troops had been killed. The advance along a road in the re- gion 'has been slow due to heavy enemy troop concentrations," the Vietminh radio said.) TORONTO CP) -- Norman L. Mathews, 52, prominent Toronto lawyer and former president of the Ontario Liberal Association, has been granted a divorce from his wife, Naomi Mathews, on the grounds of adultery. They were married in 1928 and have one daughter, Kathleen Frances. Costs of the four-day trial which ended Thiisday were assessed against C.' M. Helmer, 78-year-old ST. LOUIS (AP)--The St. Louis police board plans to file formal charges accusing former Lieut. Louis Shoulders and patrolman Elmer Dolan of violating regula- tions in their handling of the arrest of Carl Austin Hall, kidnap-killer of Bobby Greenlease, awaiting ex- ecution. I. A. Long, board president, said Thursday Dolan has been sus- pended pending hearings for him and Shoulders. Shoulders earlier resigned from the force but the board has not officially accepted the resignation. The police board president said the charges will be filed under police regulations and that hear- ings, which will be scheduled later, hand, consists of a series of vil-will not be eriminal proceedings. To Charge 2 Men Who Caught Hall Long declined to reveal the na- ture of the cnarges except that they would deal with the officers' Jetions in handling the kidnap case ere. Shoulders, in commenting on the development, said that he had not been a policeman since Oct. 24. Reminded that his resignation had not been acted upon, he said: "They stopped my pay and that's enough for me." Dolan's enly comment was: "I don't know what it's all about." The board's action came during a long inquiry into the missing $300,720, more than half the rap- som paid to Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady by Robert C. Green- {lease Sr., of Kansas City, father lof the six-year-old victim, Jenner, Morris Named To Question Gouzenko NEW YORK (CP) United States Senate investigators pre- | pared today for their forthcoming meeting in Canada with Igor Gouzenko, and a top-ranking Dem- ocrat declared he regards the former Soviet code clerk in Ottawa as "important to the internal se- curity of the United States and Canada." Senator Pat McCarran (Dem. Nev.) made the statement in Washington after the Canadian government had announced that Gouzenko, who fled from the Soviet embassy in the Canadian' capital in 1945 and exposed a Soviet spy ring, has agreed to answer ques- tions of the U.S. Senate internal security sub-committee. McCarran is the leading opposition 'member of the sub-committee. The meeting will be secret, since Gouzenko has been living under cover since his testimony in 1946 brought about the convictions in .the spy ring. He has been living under RCMP protection under an Ontario town. Caadian authorities were reluc- name an | Canadian authorities were reluc- tant to allow Gouzenko to be ques- | tioned by the U.S. group for rea- | sons for safety and also because {all information already provided { by Gouzenko had been made avail- {able to U.S. officials. [MAY HAVE ADVICE | Gouzenko has been quoted as i saying he has no new information {but perhaps some useful advice. | In New York, Robert Morris, | counsel for the sub-committee, said | Thursday night that the meeting {may be held "tomorrow or next week." He said Senator William |E. Jenner (Rep. Ind), the sub- committee chairman, had told him he planned to get in touch with the state department today to work out a meeting date. The date, like the . location of the meeting, will remain secret under 'the Canadian government stipulation. And after the inter- view Canada will decide what, if any, of the information, will be made public. '""We've scheduled no hearings of the sub-committee for this coijing week," said Morris. |standing by, ready to go." The state department "We're just! bas desig- | since nated Jenner and Morris as U.S. representatives to question Gou- zenko at the meeting. McCarran said he suggested to Jenner that he (McCarran) go along to represent the Democrats on the sub-committee. He said Jen- ner was agreeable but "the state | department, as far as I can deter- mine, is not inclined to acquiesce." TIMES INTERVIEW The New York Times meanwhile carried a long interview which its Ottawa correspondent, Tania Long, said she had with Gouzenko Sun- day 'in an Ottawa suburb. Miss Long quoted Gouzenko as saying he plans to tell the U. S. investigators that '"'unorthodox methods" are needed to break up Seviet spy rings which he is "certain" still operate in North America. He said that at the time of his defection from the embassy there were five espionage networks oper- ating in Canada. However, he stid he had only been attached to one of them and thus could disclose to Canadian authorities only the names of those in his own ring. Thus, the other four presumably could have continued to operate then, Lawyer Mathews Gets His Divorce widower of Endicott, N. Y., named the action as co-respondent. Mr. Justice F. H. Barlow 'said that, while there was no direct evidence of adultery, 'inference may be drawn from all. the ev- idence that appears before the court." Gordon Ford, Mrs. Mathews' counsel, said a separate action is pending, @ $100,000 suit by Mrs. Mathews against Miss Beatrice Lyons, a law partner of Mr. Math- ews, for alienation of affections and criminal conversation adul- tery. Grit Caucus Is At Work TORONTO CP)--Ontario' Liber- als meet here behind closed doors today and Saturday to work out a party platform. he platform is to be submitted to the party's leadership conven- tion next April 8 and 9. Colin Campbell, Ontario public works minister in the Hepburn ad- ministration of the 1930s, heads the policy committee. He said Thurs- day night: "Our job is to devise the broad principles of a party platform. I expect all decisions reached at this conference will be submitted to the April convention for endorsa- tion." The April convention wiil choose a leader to succeed Walter Thom- son, who resigned after the party's defeat in the 1951 provincial gen- eral election. Blue Bombers Coach Is Fired WINNIPEG (CP)--Fiery George Trafton said today he has been fired as coach of the Winnipe Blue Bombers, 1953 Grey Oup final- sts. Karl Slocomb, Bomber president, said he had no comment to make, but a meeting of the Wiunipeg Rugby Football Club would be hel tonight. Trafton made no secret of his dismissal. He said he was called into Slocomb's office Thursday and informed of the club's decision. The former Chicago Bear centre, who still had one year to go in a three-year contrdct, said he had refused to resign when asked to do so. It is assumed he will receive a full-year's salary, estimated at around $12,000. BUSY COLLECTOR ALTOFTS, England (CP)--Jef- frey Dinsdale, 74, has a collection of 750,000 tinfoil milk bottle caps and hopes to reach .the 1,000,000 mark by Easter. Dinsdale, who a full time incumbent is appolnged, Mr. Collins, who works from fhe Regional Headquarters in Toronto, has been a supervisor for 11 years. Mr. Carron has sincere regrets about leaving Oshawa. "The staff has been wonderful," he says. "And the people have been very co-operative." The staff in particular are ex- perts on mass lay-offs, he said. Time was well-known across Can- ada. Also, owing to only four days' notice, he was unable to say good- bye to many of his friends here and he was sorry about that. A native of Ironsides, Quebec, Mr. Charron acquired his school ing at Notre Dame College in Hull and at Ottawa University. After leaving school be went to Iroquois Falls -- primarily to play league. That district was a haven for imports in all sports then, he re- called. As a second baseman, the present day employment manager recgived $50 a week, a good sum in 1917. He stayed in Iroquois Falls for 23 years, with time out for a stint in the army in 1918. While there he worked for the Abitibi Power and Paper Company. In 1941 he opened the employment office in Timmins and his present career began. Mr. and Mrs. Charron, who have ball in the fast Northern Ontario | # ered to hear the story of the « | the hospital addition. been living at 109 Sherwood Av- enue, have three daughters and one son. Mrs. J. McGilvray (Lois) is in Peterboro; Mrs. E. Cross (Phyllis) is in St. Catharines, Frances works in the General Motors office here and Jack lives in Belleville. MILLION 1954 Campaign To Raise Balance For Additions In the early part of 1954, The Oshawa General Hos- | pital will launch its campaign for funds to be raised by voluntary subscriptions to complete the financing of the .| building of a new wing and additional service buildings to meet the rapidly-growing needs of the community for hospital services. The objective Brie campaign will be || in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. This Was announced last night at a dinner meeting at which representatives of the industrial and commercial interests of the city gath- needs of the hospital, and of the plans to raise the amount necessary for completion of of the general chairman for the ?| campaign, E. J. Umphrey, vice- resident and director of sales of eneral Motors of Canada, who {provided an excellent dinner, for { which several of those who spoke expressed their thanks. Mr. Um- | phrey, unfortunately, was out of the city and could not be present, so Ernest Marks, president of the hospital board, presided over the gathering. Mr. Marks briefly outlined the plans of the board, indicating that it was intended to call for tenders for the hospital addition in April of 1954. T. K. Creighton, one of the hos- pital directors, gave a clear cut Hospitals The Ontario County Council has taken its first step towards making grants for hospital construction. On Thursday, the special commit- tee on capital grants to hospitals presented its second report. After considerable debate, the report was accepted in its entirety. e report rovided for immediate grants of $10,000 to the Port Perry Hospital and $12,500 to the Ajax- Pickering General Hospital. The main bone of contention in the report was a recommendation that future councils consider the advisa- bility of paying Zrams totalling $185,000 to six hospitals which serve residents of the county. od The report was presented in five clauses, which were intended to be dealt with separately. The debate following the motion to accept the first clause and following this vote, the other four clauses were ac- cepted 'without: comment. Clause 1 of the report provided that future councils consider the advisability of paying the following grants for capit construction to hospitals serving the residents of the County of Ontario, Oshawa, $90,000; Orillia $20,000;' Lindsay, $10,000; Port Perry, $20,000; Ajax - Pickering $25,000; Uxbridge, $20,000. A RECOMMENDATION The report was read by Claire . This Year's Grant $22,500 Baldson, Deputy-reeve of Pickering Township and Reeve W, H. Peel, Port Perry, chairman of the special committee, moved its adoption. Deputy-reeve Stuart Ball, Ux- bridge Township, asked how bind- ing such a clause would be on future councils. Reeve Peel replied that the clause actually was just a recommendation and went on to explain that the committee had arrived at the figures presented by considering the percentage of the Joplatjon which used these six ospitals. Reeve Garnet Wilson of the vil- lage of Cannington, was the first member of the council to speak against the clause. "I am not op- posed to hospital grants as far as hospitals within the county are con- cerned," said Reeve Wilson here, "but I am opposed to issuing grants under such terms as this. It is un- fair that Picke! Township should be asked to supply a grant to the hospital at Orillia and also unfair that the Townships of Rama, Mara and Thorah, at the south end of the county should be asked to make rants to the Oshawa General ospital. We have started on the wrong foot. I. think the hospitals outside the county should be hand- HOSPITAL (Continued on Page 14) LATE NEWS FLASHES RUSH MAN TO HOSPITAL ance. DENY ANY FRICTION sis "an absurdity." for Halifax. HOMECOMING DELAYED The homecoming of 350 troops of the 27th Brigade and 80 soldier's wives and children was delayed by rough seas. The liner Atlantic was held up en route One man was injured and three automobiles were bad- ly wrecked in a collision, shortly after 1 p.m. today, at the intersection of Athol and Drew Streets. injured man was rushed to hospital in a city ambul- Bystanders reported two autos were passing, east and west on Athol Street, when a third auto, coming from' the south, -into them. No names were available at press time. The failed to stop and crashed Premier Laniel returned today from the Bermuda conference and ridiculed talk of any French-British friction at the conference. He termed talk of a cri- stat t of the hospital needs of the community, and of hos- pals history. It had been es- ablished in 1910 with 16 beds, and had grown by progressive stages and additions until it now has 227 beds and 51 bassinettes. In spite of this growth, hospital conditions in recent years had become such that the accommodation and facil- ities fell far short of the demands made upon them, and of the needs of the growing city and district. EXPERT ADVICE Mr. Creighton said that the hos- pital board had called in experts, and had a survey made by Dr. Harvey Agnew, an outstanding authority on hospitals, and on the basis of his report it had been decided to undertake the building of an addition to the hospital. The estimate of the costs for an addition of 132 beds, and of expansion of the kitchen laundry, heating system, emergency facili- ties, X-ray department, operation room and laboratory, had been placed at $2,225,000. Towards this the ratepayers had"generously vot- ed in favor of a debenture issue |S of $850,000. Grants from federal and provincial governments' would amount to $275,000, and the county council had agreed to make a con- tribution of ,000, which left a balance of $1,010,000 which had to The industrial and commercial ® ' | representatives present were guests be met through the campaign for voluntary contributions. From information received from other centres which had conduct- ed successful campaigns recently, to ensure success at least 60 per cent of the funds required should be obtained from corporations and employees of labor. §mployers of labor were especially interested in providing adequate hospital facili- ties, because of the fact that the great majority of them now had hospitalization plans for their em- ployees, and the value of these was dependent upon hospital ac- commodation being available. He urged that the heads of industries and commercial and business es- tablishments give their serious thought to their responsibilities in supporting the hospital fund. BACKED BY MAYOR Mayor W. John Naylor spoke briefly, and gave hi= unequivocal support to the for raisir $1,000,000 for the hospital addition, which he realized was an urgent necessity for Oshawa. Dr. D. E. Sturgess, representin the medical staff of the hospital, said the members of the staff were wholly behind the project, indeed, they had for some years been pressing the hospital board to pro- vide additional accommodation. They knew how great was the need for the proposed mew wing and the additional services. He pleaded with those present to sup- port the campaign. "Give till it hurts" he said, "and we will take care of the hurts." Lew McConkey, campaign organ- izer, assured the meeting that he would give of his very best to organize a successful campaign, and announced that Alex G. Storie and Fred Skinner had agreed to head up the industrial contribu- tions committee. ! UPPORT BY GM' W. A. Wecker, president and gen- eral manager of General Motors of Canada, gave assurance of the support of his company in the pros CAMPAIGN (Continued on Page 2) Ghostly BLUE POINT, N. Y. {CP)---A television set that has terrorized children because of a ghostly wo- man's face on the screen--even when the set is turned off--was turned to the wall today in a home in this Long island community. Thursday the new set occupied a place of honor in the living room of Jerry Travers' home. But dur- ng a children's program six-year- ol to her mother saying: "We can't see it (the program). A face is in the way." Mrs. Travers investigated. One look and she turned pale. There was the face, staring out of the screen as -the program went on behind, or through, it. The children whimpered. Mrs. Travers, a little nervous herself, turned off the set. The face re- mained. Then she turned the screen side of the set to the wall. When her husband returned home from work, they swung the set around. The face was still there. "CAN'T HAPPEN" Radio and TV experts were con- sulted. One expert said "it can't happen. Network officials, given a des- Caroline Travers ran crying | Face Peers From TV | cription of the face of the w | could not identify her. But Ray Clurman, chief engincer at the telechrone color television laboratory in nearby Amityville, had an explanation. The face is probably an image from a previous program which became engraved on the picture tube as a result of faulty equip- | ment, he said. Meanwhile, for the salke of the children, the screen side is still turned to the wall. EXERCISE EXPLAINER Moderation is the key word in exercise, physicians warn. If your daily workout does not leave you feéling good, it may be wrong for you. See a doctor. But no need for moderation in use of Classified ads! They get hundreds of workouts daily, and never stop until You feel good about the results you've received! In the library at Adelaide House last night the Oshawa Ad- visory Board of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind draws his supplies from neighbors, the caps for salvage and the money to charity. held its annual dinner and busi- schools and hospitals, plans to sell | ness meeting. Distinguished guest donate | speaker was R. W. , seat . LOCAL CNIB ADVISORY BOARD HOLDS MEE ed second from the left, Chief Librarian, Director of Research and' Director of Recreation at the Institute Headquarters in To- ronto.. With him are the newly- elected members of the 1954 ex- ecutive. Standing, left to right: P. W. Kennedy, social convener; Lambert; 8. J.P, Mangan; Miss Gertrude Tucker; Mrs. A. J. Parkhill, welfare con- vener; Mrs. D. C. Worden; H. Armstrong, Kiwanis representa- tive; J. Motley, Lions Club re- TING Se ; presentative. Seated, Mrs. B. C. Colpus, vice-chairman; Robert W. Beath, speaker; The Rev. Dr. George Telford, chairman; E. G. Brown, district field sec- retary;. Mrs, H. Armstrong, sec- retary. Times-Gazeite Staff Photo.