THE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising . RA 3-3492 All other calls TIMES RA 38-3474 The Oshawa Times WEATHER REPORT Clear tonight. Mainly sunny and milder Friday. Light winds. VOL. 87--NO. 261 Price Not Over Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1958 Authorized As Sec Post Office Depa ond Class Mall rtment, Ottawa THIRTY-SIX PAGES TRAPPED DIE IN BLAZ 12 Men Charged | CANADA'S LONGEST TRIAL With Murder 'Woman's Death i | i EDMONTON (CP)--Police have charged two men with murder in ; [the slaying Tuesday of Mrs. Rose |Feschuk, - 30, whose body was found in a gutter near her north- west home. Wiliiam Feschuk, her husband, was charged Wednesday with murder. He originally was held on a charge of criminal negli- gence. | Feschuk's older brother, John, |44, an unemployed bushworker, | was charged with murder after {being discovered unconscious be- {hind a debris-piled sofa in a gar- |age. He was treated for head injur- |ies and possible effects of poison. | William is a railroad employee and John has been living for two years at William's home. Police found a two-foot, biood- stained club in the Ferchuk yard. The woman's husband was HAROLD BRINE, Bonnie | after being trapped for 62 days | take new job with a rug com- in the Springhill, N.S. mine | pany. With him is his wife rescued | disasterd, arrives in Toronto to | Joan and daughter Lee, 2. --CP Wirephoto 3 Bodies Remain Stranded Duo In Disaster Mine | 103 Helped By JOE DUPUIS To Canada hod . ' ay TORONTO (CP) -- A widowed SPRINGHILL, N. 8, (CP)--|lsn't far away. ' Hike mother and her small daughter, Three bodies remain in the] Last Wednesday all hope was now stranded in the Blan will crushed No. 2 colliery and they abandoned for 93 men still he helped to come to Canada by may be recovered today. | have large families and winter - Sommer s Up For Sentence By H.L. JONES MOTHER, TOT ING Explosion Rips Palermo House PALERMO, Ont. (CP) -- Four|plosion caught him. men had to abandon a young Fire chief Al Peacock sald he legal tangles and other complica- mother and her child to fiery believed the blast originated with death Wednesday night when they leaking gas. The gas main on the, were unable to free them from other side of the street was also VANCOUVER (CP) -- Robert |tions and one that could have po- Sommers, 47 - year - old former | litical repercussions in Social lands and forests minister of Brit-| Credit British Columbia. Political ish Columbia, and timber firm ex-| opponents are calling for the res- |ecutive H. Wilson Gray today |ignation of Premier W. A. C. Ben- | awaited sentence for conspiracy|Rett's government. {and bribery. | But it is not to be the last of | Also up for sentence before Mr.|the case. Appeals are expected. Justice J. O. Wilson was Gray's|For Charles D. Schultz, 54, his irms, Pacific Coast Services|timber engineering firm of , the | Limited and Evergreen Lumber|same name, and for John Gray, | Sales, also convicted on the same brother of Wilson and a Pacific |charges. |official, there will be new trials. | For the firms it probably will The jury was not able to agree mean a fine and for the men jail|in some cases. | terms--just how much is subject] The jury of nine men and three| to legal interpretation between|women who pondered millions of the old and the new criminal|words of testimony and a mount-| |codes of Canada. The indictment|ain of documentary evidence, | which brought their conviction brought in its final 57 verdicts shattered home. Mrs. Roy Skinner, 24, two- months-old Gregory died as they lay trapped under a chesterfield held down by the weight of the smashed roof. The men couidn't budge the section of roof and were forced outside by flames. Firemen blamed a gas line for the explosion which tore apart the Skinner home just outside this RR community midway between Tor- onto and Hamilton. Fire followed swiftly. Arrest Girl, 18 [BLOWN THROUGH ROOF On Murder Try jon ue vase me ot sairvay ROBERT SOMMERS {from the basement stairway through the roof. He was in crit- the' wreckage of an explosion-| blown out. PALERMO, Ont. (CP)--Work- men today found gas leaking | a defective valve across |road from a house wrecked Wed- |nesday night by an explosion |which took the lives of a young {mother and her infant son, A. R. Crozier, chairman of the Ontario Fuel Board, sald work- men found a break in the shutoff valve on the main supply line north of highyay No. 5 and oppo site the building destroyed. He said "we believe gas es- caping from this break found its way across the road, possibly along casing in which the pipe- line was placed, and followed the tile line into the basement of the taken into custody after state-|was switched from the new to the| Wednesday and won discharge ments were taken from thelold code halfway through the| from the case it took May 1. rested a girl clerk in a shop onpody burns, A sister of the dead | Last Saturday it convicted Som-|Spadina Avenue Wednesday and| woman, Evelyn Agnew, 16, was mers, Wilson Gray, 46-year-old identified her as an 18-year-old|found by neighbors wandering the father of six children, and his|sought in Granby, Que., on an at-llawn crying hysterically. She suf- firms of conspiracy, acquitting/tempted murder charge. fered severe leg burns. [the giant west coast timber con-| Lucienne Menard was held for| Neighbor Delbert Dixon cern of B.C. Forest Products Lim-|/Quebec provincial police, She was| ~ ' TORONTO (CP) -- Police ar-ljca] condition 'with extensive eng TRUCK CAUSED BREAK W. L. Dutton, operations di rector for the United Suburban Gas Company, said he believed the leak may have been caused by a heavily-loaded truck. |and dirty but surprisingly|tion of Toronto. | , : The mother was widowed Tues-| couple's four child -- twinsltrial. M ti t Milled in the tremendous under-|13,000 feet down after 6% days. jay when Espinela Webber da aged seven and mb Tong pi Jue Ne Justiee oon wa - ground upheaval in the coal mine| Three days later, seven more|Silva, 26-year-old Portugese im-|anq 13, on. Oct. 23. One hundred were res-|\'°'S discovered alive. Only bod-| migrant, was killed on a construc-| The children told of hearing ie question Ae |les have come up since. tion job in Toronto. ph i : MAY HIT SC REGIME cued, 19 after long days and screams in the yard during the ' . Thic was the 80th day Canada's trapped. Then 12 miners, black the Portugese Canadian Associa- Seventy - four miners were healthy, were located in a pocket 47, Meanwhile in Toronto, Mayor, Mrs."Demari Dalug Da Silva |pjght ; nights trapped underground, in yo night and looking out to see their the worst Canadian coal mining Ralph Gilroy of Springhill was|and her: daughter, Demari, left|,,ther heing beaten and kicked scheduled to address a $100-a-| Portugal last week to join Mr. da by a man, longest criminal trial, one that has seen a record number of disaster since 88 men died at|plate dinner tonight sponsored by/Siva who had sent a cheque| i | Toronto businessmen to aid vic-{COVering their iares. ; Btellarton, N.S., in the 1920s. ims o% the disaster. the socond| A letter he never read arrived Heroic bare-faced miners have|in the town in two years. | Tuesday explaining that his fam- ited, but reaching no agrement in was working in his barn when he they card the explosion. He said he wanted in connection with shooting of her boy friend's He said the gas leak may have been caused when a loaded gravel the case of Schultz and his firm | or John Gray. BRIBERY PHASES Dealing Wednesday with the mother Oct. 26. Detectives who had been searching the city for two days in the belief the girs was hiding : ; oer. hur INE lily was unable to enter Canada been crawling on their bellies| An explosion in No. 4 mine| "30 ied roof he was em- for the last five days seeking|killed 39 men in 1956. Last Box-| loved. bodies. The work crews dug pain- ng Day the lous Shslnecs bl Gores Menezes, president of the fully on the 13,000 and 13,400-foot (ogg fire oo 0 ® $170 Portugese Canadian Association, walls worl in spaces tight as| A a said the association will pay full - 0 py hoe $100,000 donation from the passage Writer D | | 'Anti-Russ Views AP) enies | his firm [Sis Sis mn pe the woman and her Most of the last 24 bodies re- Relief Fund over the $700,000 take full re- expenses here if Canadian immigration author-|winn . fue Ll oa alle- ernak, the Russian Nobel prize-|c today that|gations,'" Pasternak said, "At the and will moved were located at the point | mark. ities allow her into the country. ing author, denied he ded to anti where the force of the bump was eoncentrated. Progress was slow. Relatives gave up waiting at the pithead. Dosco Coal Chief Harold Gordon returned to the Jews, Arabs Clash Communist views in his contro- versial novel Doctor Zhivago. | Writing to the Soviet Commun- |ist ~ party newspaper Pravda, | Pasternak expressed regret at pits Monday after a two-day rest $0 review conditions. He emerged #0 announce there was no life, As the last chapters of the dis- sster were being written, the town's 900 jobless miners ac- cepted relief aid and wondered army headquarters . announced where the next pay cheque is|/that an armed clash broke out Near Galilee Sea TEL AVIV (Reuters) -- Israeli west corner of the reclaimed expulsion from Russia by Young lands of Lake Huleh. r A tractor came under rifle and others. In a personal appeal to|count of failure of the Soviet sys- coming from. There is no work. this afternoon between troops of machine-gun fire at about 2 p.m. Premier Khrushchev five days|tem to produce th the interpretation placed on his| book and asked for a chance to 'restore my good name." The 68-year-old poet-novelist's {letter followed demands for his same time my work which has received the Nobel prize gave cause to this regrettable inter- pretation and this is the reason I finally gave up the prize." He added that he had tried to halt his book's public ation abroad, and had his request been |heeded, "it is likely I should | have been able at least in part to correct this." Communist League leaders and Officials have will not re-open. Many miners All-Out Probe Ottawa Gas Blast OTTAWA (CP) -- The Ontario fuel board Wednesday launched an exhaustive inspection to as- sure the safety of all natural gas installations in Ottawa A. R. Crozier, fuel board chair- man, in an announcement from Toronto said four inspectors are being assigned permanently to the city to carry out the inspec- tion of mains and of natural gas equipment in all 3,000 buildings served by Ottawa Gas Company This raised to four the .number i tions and inspections ¢ -sifice an explosion in a Slater Street building Oct. 25 caused muiti - million-dollar damage to a central Ottawa area. indicated No. 2{the United Arab Republic and Is-/1oca] time. An Israeli covering|ago the writer said exile "is to|sought by mankind. A bestseller raeli forces north of the Sea of party returned the fire. JOHN MILLS BRIDGE NAMED The largest bridge in On- tario County a 156-foot span that carries the Base Line across Duffin's Creek -- was officially named the John Mills Bridge to honor the name of the first reeve of the town of Ajax Wednesday The official opening cere- mony was conducted by the Hon. Fred Cass, minister of highways. The ribbon-cutting was done by the Hon. Matthew Dymond, minister of transport. (Please turn to pages eight and nine for stories and pic- tures.) Syria's border with Israel runs north of the Sea of Galilee. For several days Egyptian newspapers have carried stories alleging Israel is préparing to at- tack the west bank of the River| Jordan following the withdrawal of British troops from Jordan. The reports said U.A:R. armies were ready to go into action at a moment's notice. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurin last Monday denied Egyptian and Soviet reports of alleged military preparations as "hostile and baseless slanders." | Israeli army headquarters said its forces clashed with advance posts of the U.A.R.'s Syrian zone. A first communique said shots had been fired by the Syrian posts on Israeli farmers plowing with their tractors in the south- [ Nixon Takes Charge Party R By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (AP) President Richard Nixon is tak- ing charge of efforts to rejuve- nate the disorganized Republican party. He is likely to put the ac- cent on youth in doing so. Although Nixon won't bear any officia: designation as party com- mander, President Eisenhower obviously is. stepping out of the way to let his second man direct the drive. Its aim is to lift the party back into contention in the 1960 presidential contest, after its shattering defeat in Tuesday's congressional elections At his press conference Wednesday, Eisenhower endorsed Nixon's call on party members to start now to campaign for 1960. The action apparently gave hardly needed go-ahead to the vice-president take over the po- CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA 5-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 Vice- to ° 'baliots, | | | LJ t litical throttle. As a. presidential| Brooks victory would give the prospect, Nixon has a personal in- Democrats 34 state governorships terest there. to 14 for Republicans. Returns showed the Republi SEEKS YOUNG MEN cans lost 13 Senate seats while : . ui gaining none, were ousted from Looking toward 1960, Nixon is 48 House of Representative seats|expected to bear down in at- white overturning only one Demo-| tempts to get attractive, youthful crat and suffered a net loss of|aspirants into races for congres-| governorships, counting!sional and state offices as a one still open to upset means of helping the national The Democrats increased their ticket. He was privately less than margin of Senate control to 62 to enthusiastic about the calibre of 134 from 49 to 47 and that in the/some of the candidates-for whom [House to 283 to 151 from 235 to/he campaigned this year. |200. One side or the other willl Nixon also may bring some in {gain still another seat after an fluence to bear toward reshaping official canvass in Illinois deter-!of some of the administration's mines whether Republican repre-| policies. | sentative Charles W. Vursell or| Staggering Republican josses in| Democrat George E. Shipley won. [the farm belt could contribute to The governor's race in Neb-/some change in farm policies, de- raska hinges on a count of mail|spite Eisenhower's prediction that which could upset the/ Agriculture Secretary Ezra Ben- {lead Democrat Ralph G. Brook:!'son's program of tapering off gov- {now holds over Republican Gov- ernment aid to farmers will go| ernor Victor E. Anderson. Alalong unchanged. : five state me equal to death." In his letter to Pravda, quoted by Mescow radio, Pasternak said he had been accused of giving vent in Doctor Zhivago to views that the Communist revolution was illegal and brought unhappi- ness to Russia. Builders Slip Into High Gear $150,000,000 construction industry was ready to rol in high| gear today after a 55-day strike) Cement Masons Union agd the Toronto Builders' Exg¢hange reached agreement WedAesday on a wage increase and shift miums. The cement masons had r mained on strike and picketed eight major construction sites after 24 other unions accepted a back-to-work invitation by the exchange Monday. A joint statement Wednesday night said contract terms call for wage increases totalling 45 cents an hour spread over a three-- year period and time and a half for work after 7 p.m. The Ma- sons' |i $2.17. previous | Pasternak's novel has been in-| terpreted in the West as an ac-| e freedom | | abroad, it has not been published |in the Soviet Uhion. Pasternak said he first agreed |to accept the $41,420 Nobel prize, |awarded him Oct. 18, because he | thought it was a literary distinc- | tion. "When I saw the scope of the political campaign around y novel," he continued, "I realized myself that this award was a po- litical * measure which now has| resulted in monstrous conse- quences, and on my own initia-| {tive without being compelled by | | |fusal." 21 Men Marooned xe And Await Rescue ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- | Twenty-one men, marooned when a violent storm broke their bleak |Arctic Ocean ice island in two, awaited rescue today as polar winds tore at their tiny, exposed floe. The Alaskan Air Command, ready to make its rescue move as soon as the storm abates, said the 21 men who made up the complement of the International | hourly * rate was| Geophysical Year station were in| no immediate danger. LATE NEWS FLASHES Fire Destroys Warehou SAINT JOHN, N.S. (CP) ripped through two fish trol in less than two hours. Order Strikers Back To warehouses John. One of the sheds was completely gutted. Firemen es- timated damage at $20,000. They had the flames under con- ses -- A three-alarm fire today in west central Saint Work CLEVELAND (AP)--Eastern Greyhound Lines and un- ion officials today ordered 3,400 striking workers who had disrupted service at points throughout a 20-siate area to go back to work. There was no of contract negotiations. official word on a settlement Terrorists Bum Fire Engines LONDONDERRY today in the Northern Ireland Dungiven near here. Two large fire engines were destroyed and the building damaged. (Reuters) -- Terrorists started a fire fire authority's station at | bribery phases of the case, it con- victed Sommers on five of seven counts, disagreeing in two; con- victed Wilson Gray on eight of 10, disagreeing in two; found agreeing on five; and acquitte John Gray on two of four counts, disagreeing on two. The verdicts in the case of the companies involved: Pacific here, said she calied herself Lu- cille Miller and was living in a rooming house on Beverley Street in the University of Toronto dis- trict. her 19-year-old son found 8 hiding under his bed. Granby po- lice said the incident resulted from: a quarrel between two young lovers. Coast, guilty on eight of nine bribery counts with a disagree- ment on one; Evergreen Lumber Sales, guilty on two of three counts with 'disagreement on the other; B.C. Forest Products not | guilty on five of six counts with disagreement on one, Mr. Justice Wilson commended the jury for a tremendous job he said probably would have stumped a third-year law student. | | Mrs. Lacoste is in critical con- dition. Woman Wounded Gun Discharged TORONTO (CP)--A police ser-| geant's wife was severely wounded Wednesday night when her hushand's revolver accident- ally discharged in their car. Sgt. Alex Johnston said he had {ran out to see the Skinner home |practicaliy fly to pieces. The {walls were blown out 30 feet. The roof "lifted about 20 feet in the |air, then crashed back on the ruined building. Dixon and two brothers-in-law, Cedric and Lloyd Dryden, found Skinner Picking himself up off the truck, taking a short cut, ran over the edge of the surface pipe bringing about heavy pressure underground. This could have happened an hour or so before the explosion. Gas service for 10 miles was turned off until the leak could be fixed. ir. Crozier way BIOune., 8 his wife and child. TOO HEAVY FOR FOUR Dixon said the debris-weighted chesterfield was too heavy to lift. "There just weren't enough of us to do it. All this time Mrs. Skinner pleaded with us to save i iste ae Third Cuban Plane Missing the baby. We stayed with her un- |til the flames drove us out of the |buiiding. We couldn't pull either] |of them out. "Mrs. Skinner kept crying: 'Save my baby, save my baby.' "' The men stood helpless on the lawn as flames engulfed the two- storey building. The child was in Rebels Feared HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- A Cu- ban airliner carrying 28 persons vanished in eastern Cuba Wed- nesday night and was presumed to have been seized in flight by rebel agents. Two other Cubana Airline planes have been diverted in |Mrs. Skinner's arms when the He criticized a $6-a-day jury duty reached to the back seat of his bodies were found. flight since Oct. 31 by rebel gun- payment as '"'almost disgracefully | inadequate" and in an unpre- | cented action announced: Stelco Roars Back To Life | HAMILTON (CP) -- Furnaces| roared back to life at Canada's biggest stell plant Wednesday night as key workers began re- viving production lines at the|__ TORONTO (CP) -- Toronto's anybody I sent my voluntary re-|{Steel Company of Canada after |an 86-day strike. Stelco officials said it wili be another week before full shifts |are called back and steel begins to roll from stamping presses. The formal end of the walkout] came when nearly 6,000 of the {8,077 union workers at Stelco |voted Wednesday to accept an |agreement drawn up Tuesday by negotiators after nearly two weeks of bargaining. Although some rank - and - file members hooted and jeered at union leaders urging acceptance car and picked up his service| revolver and holster, intending to| put them in the glove compart-| ment. The gun discharged. His wife, Mary, 44, sitting be- side him, suffered a bullet wiund near her ear. | THOUGHT FOR TODAY There's usually more sin- cerity expressed by a dog's tail-wagging than by a per- son's tongue-wagging. | | | | I men posing as passengers. One crashed, killing 17 of the 20 per- sons aboard. Among the 25 passengers |aboard the DC-3 that disappeared this time were 10 women and an American believed to be a sailor or marine flying to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. The plane carried a crew of three: Pilot Armando Piedra, skin - diving champion of Cuba} co-pilot Guido Kohly and steward Amado Cantillo, son of the mili- tary chief of Oriente Province. Miss Agnew was cooking sup- per in the lower part of the house, which she and her mother occupied, when the blast occar- red, It was not known how she got out of the wreckage. Her mother was visiting friends in Toronto. GAS LEAK SUSPECTED It was believed Mr. Skinner had been looking for the source of a gas odor in the basement and had come up the steps look- ing for a flashlight when the ex- of the terms, the vote was 81 per {cent in favor. Blame Gas Leak For Explosion | BRANTFORD (CP)--A gas pipe. leak has been blamed for the ex- plosion which shattered a down- town shoe store Tuesday and in- jured five persons including a 14- month-old girl. Investigators said Wednesday a repairman who struck a match | ignited the gas in the store base- ment. The explosion and fire caused damage unofficially esti- mated at $80,000 to the shoe] store and adjoining business places. A report on the investigation |was made after two days of ex- amination by officials of the| Brantford fire departmet' the| Ontario fire marshal's office, the Ontario fuel board and the Union Gas Company. | Investigation revealed a hole in . the service pipe from the street] Eartha Kitt and other perform- ! ers after Monday night's variety ' main to the store. Ct * Queen Elizabeth with singer | QUEEN ELIZABETH MEETS ENTERTAINERS show at the London. Coliseum. | were presented to 'the Queen Fourth from right is singer Pat | after 'the show. - Boone. Actors and actresses | =-AP Wirephoto COMMUNITY $30,000 $50,000 $70,000 $90,000 $110,000 $130,000 $150,000 $175,000 CHEST SCOREBOARD | $61,218 SUPPORT YOUR COMM UNITY CHEST