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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE Attlee May Quit Post On Advice Of Doctors--UK Report Find 134 Bodies; Cadiz Death Toll May Reach 1,000 Cadiz, Spain, Aug. 20 (AP)--With 134 bodies already recovered rescue workers dug today through the wreckage left by Monday night's naval torpedo and mine factory blast two miles from the centre of Cadiz in a search for additional victims. Mayor Francisco Sanchez Cossio and acting Civil Governor Antonio Fernandez Pernla estimated the death toll probably would reach 200, _ approximately half the earlier esti- mates. The figure was scaled down when it developed that only about 830 men were working in the plant when the explosion occurred, in- stead of 300, as first feared. (Reuters News Agency predicted , last night, however, that the death toll might reach 1,000, The Reut- ers report sald scores of bodies already had been removed). The city morgue early this morn- d 99 bodies and an additional were counted in hospitals and in around this city of 80,000. Unofficial estimates said 5,000 persons had been injured. Unofficial damage estimates ran as high as $10,000,000. Electric light service was restored in the city last night and some water conduits also were repaired. Five more government planes -ar- rived with medical equipment and ment banned publication of any ' casualty figures in the Spanish press and there was no official explana- tion as to the cause of the blast, which wrecked a hospital, an orph- anage and a small factory. * One explanation, attributed to the fire chief of nearby Sevilla, said a gas engine in a shipyard near the arms plant had exploded and ee the lant an Oy! mines in fui big blowoff which shook the city so that residents thought an earthquake had struck. { Two shipyards and many ships were destroyed, Electrical Club Holds Picnic At Geneva Park | The Wlectrical Maintenance Club P district held its an- Fi i 58 ¢ president, drew out rs for the lucky draws. went to Zulton baskets were don. Ll Galt, Aug. 20--(CP)--Milford Shepherd 30, of Preston, Grand River railway brakeman, was kil. Jed instantly early today when he was pinned between two cars in switching operations, in the Can- adian Pacific Railway yards here. . Shepherd was riding a baggage car when it went through an op- en switch and piled into a coal ear of a freight train on the ad- ining track. There will be an inquest, Ontario S, f / t 'Woodstock, Aug. 20--(CP)-- There is a definite shortage here of skilled and unskilled labor in all kinds of work, R. E. Poste, man- ager of the National Employment. Service Office, said yesterday. And it is unlikely that the situation can be remedied until the housing shortage in Woodstock improves to attract outside workers he added. * Fort Erle, Aug. 20--(CP)--To handle the anticipated heavy flow of tourists in September and October, a request has been forwarded by council here to Buffalo-Fort Erie ferry lines for a two-month extension of the summer ferry service which is usually suspended early in Sep- tember ' * ® *» Toronto, Aug. 20--(CP)--Trans- Canada Air Lines planes have car- ried many odd cargoes, but today for perhaps the first time one of the big "birds" will play mother to a batch of 15 hatching leghorn eggs, The eggs, which came from Waterloo, will be blown by T.CA. to Vancouver, where an Australian National Airways plane will pick them up for delivery to an Auck- land dealer. * ® * Niagara Falls, Aug. 20--(CP) --C. Ellison Kaumeyer, general manager of the Rainbow Bridge . Commission, said yesterday he hopes the Carillon under. con- struction in the tower at the Canadian end of the bridge will be in operation by fall. Unex- . pected delays have prevented : completion by mid-summer, * : Toronto, Aug.. 20--(CP)--With electric power cut off by a storm early yesterday, parents of 20 in- fants at "Winston Hall--emergency shelter accommodation at nearby Malton--used five open fires out- side last night to heat bottles for their children, Winston Hall hou- ses 83 families with about 300 chil- dren, 167 of them of pre-school age. * * Toronto, ue 20-- (CP) --De- lveries of bottled beer to hotels having facilities to serve draught beer has been temporarily dis- continued in the Toronto area, it was learned here today. The suspension, attributed to heav- ily increased demands of pri- vate consumers in /the last few days, is expected to continue until the week-end. Youthful Teacher 'Saves 5 Children Toronto, Aug. 20 (CP)--Ruth Pullen, 19-year-old swimming in- structress of the Lakeshore Swim- ming Club at nearby Long Branch, saved five children from possible drowning yesterday when she swam 500 yards out into Lake Ontario and helped them get their rowboat ashore during a violent electrical- rain storm. Janice Pope, 14, one of those in the boat, jumped into the water and began pushing the boat ashore when wind-shipped waves frustrat- ed attempts to row the craft. Miss Pullen sighted the youngsters in the boat and swam out to help them. , In the boat at the time were two other 14-year-old girls, both non- swimmers, and a five-year-old and Miss Pope said "they were sure scared for a while." Shell-Scarred Dieppe Recalls Canadian Raid Dieppe, France, Arg. 20.--(CP)-- Dieppe sought yesterday with flags and bunting to hide thz scars of the Canadian raid which took place five years ago yesterday. But the dazzling decorations can- Bot hide completely the damage caused when seven Canadian regi- ments supported by two British commando units carried out the Allies' first major combined opera- tions raid in daylight, This prelude to the North Afric- an campaign later in 1942 left the _ dusty French town a battered remnant of its former self and, de- spite recent improvements, Dieppe is largely as the Canadians left it a Few hours after their first shells ked the coast along an 11-mile front. The docks, although in operation, have not been fully restored due to Jack of minerals , Nor have the 'houses and other buildings knocked down in the fighting been rebuilt. i! Today it is hard to realize that iso much hell was once unleashed on s quiet, lazy holiday region. But 'the memory of the dead is perpetu- ated by a monument standing be- hind the seawall which Prime Min- ister Mackenzie King unveiled a year ago. At Pourville, a neighboring vil- lage to the south where the South Saskatchewan Regiment and the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg made their assault, wrecked buildings have been pick- ed clean of debris. At a nearby road bend there is a plate from the village honoring the Canadians. It is fixed to a rough stone slab under which villagers have laid bunches of flowers. The bridge connecting Pourville with the main part of Dieppe -- across which Lt.-Col. C. C. Merritt of New Westminster, B.C., walked helmet in hand while German mor- tar shells fell around him -- has been repaired. Merritt, who was taken prisoner along with many hundreds of Canadian troops, was awardéd the Victoria Cross for his action that day. Puits, north of Dieppe, where thet Royal Regiment, from: Toronto, male its landing, now is a holiday reso' One hundred Canadian veterans who were demobilized in Britain participated in yesterday's cere- monies, Last. night there was a torchlight parade at the Canadian military cemetery of De Vertu where victims of the historic raid | are buried. Police Comb Sarnia Area For Convicts Sarnia, Aug. 20 (CP)--Reports that the long-term convicts who escaped from Kingston Penitenti- ary during the week-end were be- ing sought in this area were dissi- pated last night when police said they had made a special check of the nearby Alvinston area, East Lambton, without finding any trace of the men. Three Ontario provincial police- men, two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and rep- resentatives of the Sarnia police force visited the village. One of the trio, Ulysses Lauzon, convicted Windsor bank robber, is Lambton area. Police however, de- clined to comment on their concen- trations at the East Lambion vil- lage and would not say if t! were seeking Lauzon and Donald (Mick- ey) McDonald, noforious Toronto gangster, and Nicholas Minnelli, convicted Ottawa robber, who es- caped with him after sawing through the bars of their cells at Kingston, Canadian Scouts Happy to Leave ~ London, Aug. 20 (CP)--Weary after a full day of travelling, Cana- dian scouts bedded down last night in the famous Antartic expedition ship Discovery, moored in the Thames Victory Embankment. Al- though reluctant to go home, they were happy to get out of France, where food and sanitary conditions were described as "terrible". The scouts, who attended an in- ternational scout gathering in Jamboree City, France, will tour Lontion Wednesday, leaving at night for Glasgow where they will board HM.CS. Warrior with Cana- dian sea cadets for the journey home, probably Friday. Garth Doel, 16, of Brantford, Ont., commented that he "was glad to get away from France", and his sentiments were echoed McGregor, 16, Toronto; Dietrich Gehmlich, 16, of Raymond, Alta. and others. "We do not feel homesick but we are glad to be in London," said Doel. "As a matter of fact every- body .in the Canadian contingent was happy to get out. The food was okay -- it was just the way they served it up to us -- but sanitary conditions were terrible. I guess they are bad all over France." McGregor expressed the wish to "stay here" but Gehmlich was non- committal. ' The Scouts spent Assumption Day visiting Paris. The only trouble was that the stores were closed for the Roman Catholic holiday and. they were afraid their friends wouldn't understand when they returned without gifts or souvenirs. Farmer Hurt While Harvesting F. E. SMITH Correspondent Prince Albert, Aug. 19--While engaged in harvesting operations a few days ago, Mr, Frank Vick- ery had the misfortune to have a whitfletree break, resulting in a broken bone in his right hand. This is very unfortunate at this busy time of year and we wish him a speedy recovery, Mrs, Fear Sr.,, and Miss Fear of Toronto, have been holidaying at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Bert Frear, Miss Gladys Midgley of Lon- don, has been spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Walter Webb and daughter Donna, of Norwood, are spending this week at the home of Mrs. Webb's parents, Mr, and Mrs, A. Hunter, Murray Luke took charge of the service on Sunday and spoke to the young people as well as the old, On Sunday next Mr. Charles Clark of Webbwood, will be in charge, «nd a large attendance is, hoped for. It is expected that the Women's Association meeting for this month will be held next Wednes- day at the home of Mrs, Henry Collins, The severe electric storm which seemed to come and go about four times during the late afternoon and night on Monday, did no apparent damage other than flatten corn on the neigh- boring farms. Dorohy - Thompson escaped with bruises. and minor injuries on Sunday, when a bull, that was in a pasture field in which che and other youngsters were play. ng, tossed her over a fence, -------------------- SEPARATE PEACE 'BLACKMAIL' Moscow, Aug. 20 (AP)--The New Times said today that talk in the United States by Herbert. Hoover and others concerning a separate peace with a "non-existing German government" represents an attempt to "blackmail" the Soviet Union in preparation for the November meet- ing of the Foreign Ministers' Coun- cil. N. Sergeeva, the writer, said CANADIAN APPLES TO U.S. Ottawa, Aug. 20. -- (CP) -- Ar- rangements have been made for the marketing of 3,500,000 bushels of Canadian apples in the United States during the 1947-48 season, the Agriculture Department has announced. The total includes 2,- 275000 bushels of packed apples and 1,225,000 'bushels for process- ing. N * Ai3d said to have relatives in the East Ravaged France | of long standing. of B William Edmond lived here for more than 60 years. Standing ville and the latter's grandfather, How- ard C. Edmondson, Royal Street, Oshawa. Seated on the right is Clarence Edmondson of Bowmanville, son of H.C. Edmondson, and he is holding his own two-months-old grandson, Howard John. Five Generations This unusual group shows five generations of Edmondsons, Oshawa family Seated on the left is John C. Edmondson, who has are his great grandson, --Photo by Campbell's Studio Montreal, Aug. 20--(CP)--J. A. (Pat) Sullivan, president of the Canadian Lake Seamen's Union, in a statement last night said he had received information of a meeting Aug. 12 between top officials of the Canadian Seamen's Union and the Labor-Progressive Party at which J. B. Salsberg, LP.P. member of the Ontario legislature, had advised the CS.U. against a strike now be- cause the union wasn't "strong enough." The information had come from a "waterfront friend" in New York, according to Sullivan. ." Sullivan, president of the C.8.U. until he resigned from it this sald it was the same person who GAIY | wrote him about a July meeting in Toronto which ' reportedly decided that the C.8.U. would strike. In the letter received yesterday it sald that Salsberg had advised that spring because he said it was Com- | munist-dominated, did not reveal | the name of the letter's author but | waflis by tying-up one boat in the canal. Commies Advise C.S.U. To Go Slow == Sullivan CS.U. Secretary T. G. McManus should go to Ottawa in an attempt to bring Trades and Labor Congress of Canada President . Percy Ben- gough "into line" in helping throw the onus of cettlement in the ship- ping dispute upon the federal gov- ernment. It also said that because the C.S. U. was the only national organiza- tion fully controlled by the Com- munists its prestige must be main- tained and "the entire membership in Canada should be mobilized to support the C8.U. in their coming struggle." 3 Sullivan revealed in a broadcast last night over a local radio sta- tion that 100 members of the C.L. SU. are in Cornwall "determined to keep the ships moving." He said the C.S.U. intends to block ship "The grain is going to move over- seas whether or not Moscow or anyone else dictates that it won't," he added. Ground. the Band. Shell This week's concert by the Osh- awa Civic and Regimental Band will be held Friday evening when the guest soloist will be Miss Ha- zel Rundle, contralto, of King Street United Church choir. She will be accompanied by Walter Jackson, King Street organist and choirmaster, and master-of- ceremonies will be Dr. W, H. Gif- ford, Featured numbers by the band will be "Sweethearts of Yesterday" and a selection based on the theme of the regimental march "John Peel." Newsprint Production Boosted in July Toronto, Aug. 20.--(CP) -- Cana- dian newsprint production in July, 1947, was 379,731 tons, or 6.4 per cent over July of last year, while Scientist Uproot IndianBurialRites Renfred, Ont.,, Aug. 20--(CP) -- Archaeologists from Ottawa and Toronto working on an old Algon- quin Indian burial ground on the shore of Mud Lake in Renfrew County, said they have uncovered strange, ghoulish burial customs. The excavations so far were said to have uncovered evidence of "multiple burials" and the practice of "red paint" burials in which corpses were sprinkled with a red- dish substance called hematite fer- rous oxide. Dr. F. L. Alcock of the National Museum at Ottawa is in charge of the work with Prof. J. N. Emerson of the University of Tortnto direct- ing the actual digging. Many single burials have been uncovered, those of Algonquins, "but the multiple burial uncovered was that of some group towards which the Algonquins were hostile. In the case of one multiple burial at least mutilation seems to have taken place." Arm Alaska ; As U.S. Base Is Demand Washington, Aug. 20--(AP)--Call- ing Alaska the potential first Amer ican line of defence in the event of another war, Representative Evan Howell (Rep.-Ill.) called today for its "intense" fortification, 'The head of a congressional mis- sion which surveyed aviation facili- ties in the northern territory, How- ell noted to reporters that Alaska Predict Ernie Bevin As His Successor In Labor Shuffle _ London, Aug. 20 (AP)--Because of "deteriorating™ health and "nervous exhaustion", the Daily Mail sald this morning, Prime Minister Attlee intends to resign his post ag soon as the British-American loan revision talks in Washe lies along the nearest route betw Russia and the United States, add- ing: "We should do everything to de- vel our military installations thi * is not a scare statement. I am not an alarmist. But this is a sober statement in the light of world conditions. Alaska now is a strategic location." Howell said the group of Con- gressmen, just returned, found the United States Army engaged in a broad program of training air force pilots to fly under Arctic conditions. This program "should be pushed to the utmost." During the war Russian airmen "had every opportunity to look at our bases in Alaska, but we had no opportunity to see theirs." When the United States and Russia weré battling Germany to- gether, Russian airmen journeyed to Alaska in great numbers to re- ceive delivery of American planes to be flown across Siberia to the fighting front. In this delivery system, Russia is reported to have built up a great line of airports across Siberia to make the North American contin- ent easily accessible by air, ington have passed their mos! Steady Rain Squelches N.S. Flames Halifax, Aug. 20 (CP)--In the Acadian village of Cheticamp, on Cape Breton's west coast, almost 400 refugees thought of returning to their former homes today after hearing that forest fires that put them to flight were beaten. The raging flames that laid waste 20 homes and 40 square miles of the island's northern forests came under 10 hours of steady downpour onl yesterday. Last night it was reported that only sub-surface fires were burning in roots and deadfalls and a fire ranger said: "It appears the danger is over." In the Army-operated colony at Cheticamp the residents of the razed villages of Pleasant Bay and Red River waited to hear how much Heat Wilts Ontario Crops Ottawa, Aug. 20--(CP)--{Too much rain on the Prairies and not enough in the central provinces is having an adverse effect on crops in both areas, the Domin- ion Bureau of Statistics reports. In the ninth of a series of 11 telegraphic reports on conditions throughout Canada, the bureau sald late crops in Ontario need rain badly. Pastures are drying and the flow of milk is beginning to decline, With the exception of local thunderstorms in Southwes- tern Ontario last week-end the weather for the last several weeks has been dry and hot. Late-sown fields of grain in Ontario are ripening too fast and are expected to yield poorly, al-. though haying is nearly comple- ted and cutting of oats and bar- ley is becoming general. Yields of flue-cured tobacco, now being harvested, are generally good, while prospects are promising for potatoes and early peaches are being marketed, : Dry weather in Quebec has re- sulted in similar conditions, On the Prairies, dry weather is urgently needed in Southern Manitoba, Elsewhere in the West the rain is benefitting late crops. The problem is not so pressing in Saskatchewan and Alberta but warm, dry weather is needed there also to start harvesting op- erations, Breton Labor Council appealed to the provincial govern- ment to take steps to provide for the more than 100 homeless from the stricken villages. they lost to the flames. Most fled from their homes, half of them burning, on Aug. 9 when the fire made its first sudden sweep down MacKenzie Mountain. For the refugees' future Red Cross officials contemplated a pro- vincial appeal for aid. The Cape last night On the Nova Scotia mainland and inthe Moncton area of New Bruns- wick, the rain also did its work and fires there were reported under control, Hold Two C.L.S.U. Men After Melee Cornwall, Aug. 20--(CP) -- Royal Canadian Mounted Police early today quelled a fight Central Park near the Cornwall Canal among a group of men said to be members of J. A, (Pat) Sul- livan's Canadian Lake Seamen's Union who had been brought by bus last night from Montreal, in The fight was said to have ori- ginated in a dispute in the bus en route from Montreal, A knife was wielded in the melee one man whose shirt was blood- spattered claimed he ducked in time to avoid being sfijuck by the weapon, and Police took four men into cus- It Former Scugog such "blackmail" would not succeed. | shipments of 379,065 tons showed a gain of 14,474 tons, or 4.0 per cent. Canadian mills in the second half of 1946 operated at 99 per cent ca- pacity, but in the opening month of the second half of 1947 they es- tablished an all-time output high of 103.8 per cent of installed ca- pacity. 'Elsie the Cow' Returns to CNE INVITE CLAXTON TO N.Z. Wellington, N.Z., Aug. 20.--(CP) --The New Zealand government has invited Brooke Claxton, Cana- dian defence minister, to visit New Zealand after the Commonweglth peace treaty conference opening Tuesday at Canberra, Accompanied by latest addition to her family -- a bull calf only a few weeks old and not yet named -- Elsie, the world's most famous cow, is back at the Canadian National Exhibition on behalf of the Toronto Hospital for Sick' Children and Christmas Cheer for British Children. In 1041, 278,000 people visited' Elsie at the "Ex." Here Elsie and her youngster get into the spirit of the big fair. CRM ar EL BE BE Girl Showered MRS. D. HOPE Correspondent Scugog Aug. 19--Dr. Denton's message was received by an extra large attendance at both churches on Sunday, He is giving a number of sermons on the beattitudes which are very interesting. The choir's message was "Till I Become Like Thee". : Note the change in the service for Sunday. The morning service will be at the head church at 11. The evening service will be in the basement at 7:30 with the Sunday School at 11. A bridal shower was held on Fri- day evening i nthe Town Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Hoaley a recent bride and groom who received many lovely gifts. Mrs. Laverne Martyn read a very suitable address. The bride was a Scugog girl before mov- | ing to Port Perry. A heavy electrical storm and a downpour of rain fell here on Mon- tody but later released two, was announced that the two be- ing held would appear in court today to answer charges which were not divulged. None of the names of the men was released. A number of the men annouun. ced at the park they wera here only as "hirelings at $12 a day" and said they would withdraw unless they were paid. A C.L.S.U. official paid the men in cash at the park, The men told reporters th-y joined the C.L.S.U. only a few minutes before bus .in Montreal, boarding a The developments came on the eve of a conference in Ottawa to- day between representatives Canada Steamship Lines, Sarnia and Colonial and _overnment officials in an effort to stave off a threatened jurisdictional strike of on the Great Lakes. of Steamship Lines seamen Shipping operators are report- ed adamant in their stand that representatives of the Canadian Seamen's Union will lowed aboard their vessels until they produce personal affidavits that they are not Communists.' not be al- t critical stage. 4 The Mail's front-page story, firs§ flat report published in Britain that the Labor Party leader might quit, declared that "it was said in usually well-informed circles" thal Attlee would nominate Foreign Se~ cretary Bevin ag his successor. No Comment Neither the prime Minister's ofe fice nor Labor Party headquarters would comment on the report. Ate tlee was in Wales vacationing and a spokesman at 10 Downing Street, his official residence, said he was expected back in about a week. Asked about the Daily Mail ree port, the spokesman replied: "Im afraid there's no comment at all in regards to that." Labor Party headquarters said ly: "That has been going on for some time." This apparently referred to ree C reports, hitherto 'unpube lished, that Attlee intended to quit, Last week the party's official spokesman issued a flat denial that the Prime Minister's resignation impended. Attlee has been under heavy fire inside the Labor Party for his hand- ling of the British economic crisis, Winston Churchill, opposition lead- er, broadly suggested on the floor of the House of Commons Aug. 11 that Attlee might be "discarded as lacking color or for some other Special Cabinet Session The cabinet held an extraordine- ary session last Sunday, about which all cabinet ministers have been silent since. Some authorita- tive informants said it was called to discuss the Washington loan revie sion talks. "Mr, Attlee's health has been de- teriorating for some time. , ." said the Mail's story. "While delegating authority, Mr. Attlee has always in- sisted on doing a tremendous amount of work. This has led to nervous exhaustion. "Without doubt, the present une rest within the Iabor Party, and his inabiliey to placate the would- be rebels in the past three weeks, must have reinforced Mr. Attlee's decision to heed medical advice." Attlee, who has been Prime Mis- ister since July 27, 1945, left Lone don yesterday for a vacation in Wales, He is 64 years old. The Mail suggested that if Ate Hoe, Ses resign and choose Bevin successor, Hugh Dal Chancellor of the Bo on Foreign Secretary and be Succeeded in the Treasury post by Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade, * Expect Record CCL Convention Indications are that attendance records will be shattered at the seventh annual convention of the Canadian Congress of Labor to be held at the Royal York Hotel, Tor- onto, the week of October 6, With a large number of delegates already named it appears likely that well over 700 will take part in the ime portant Toronto meetings, General Congress policy and such vital matters as prices, wages and legislation will be on the agenda. A large number of resolutions have already reached Congress head quarters, Constitutional require- ments specify that resolutions must be in at least fifteen days prior to me convention. on, James Thorn, High Com-. missioner for New CRE will be among the guest speakers, Other guest speakers will include repre- sentatives of farm and co-operative organizations and of the, Federal and provincial Labour departments, The Executive Committee of the Congress is scheduled to meet in Toronto October 3 and the Execu- tive Council will meet October 4 to complete business for the year. The resolution committee will also meet prior to the convention to facili- tate the handling of resolutions. reason." day and broke limbs off of trees and put the corn over but no heavy damage has been reported. Master Ronald Hope of Roach Township accompanied his cousin, Donald Long to his home on Sun- day evening for this week. Mrs, Denton of Belleville spent a week-end with her son Harry at the parsonage then her brother, Mr. W. Scott of Cobourg arrived on Monday and both left on Tuesday for their homes. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Crozier and Mrs. J. L. Sweetman and Allene visited in Toronto on Monday: Mr. John Moore of Manchester, Mr. Donald Crozier -and Mr. Smith assisted Mr, E. H. Gerrow in siding up the house. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dowson and little Jimmie, Mrs. Hubert Long and Marie was in Oshawa on Friday. Sorry to hear that Mr. R. Burn- ham took a light stroke on Friday night and was in the hospital for a couple of days. All hope for Speedy recovery. A report just received that Mr. Hormon Midgley's barn was struck with lightning on Monday, but not fired. Mr. and Mrs. Orr Jeffrey, Clem and Lois, visited her sister, Mrs and Mr. Arthur Brunt at Enniskil- len on Sunday. Oshawa Air Show September 6th (2:30 PM)