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' THE OSHAWA 2 DA . Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle of ILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 87 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES R ED RAVAGED BOGOTA-U.S. VIEW a d "onvicts Beat Child Beater, Kingston Reports Pe Prisoners Attack [JEWISH STATE Man Serving Term For Maiming Boy Toronto, April 13 (CP)--The Telegram says today in a dispatch from Kingston that prisoners at Kingston Peniten- tiary are reported to have beaten up Edward McCoy, sentenced recently to a three-year term for brutal treatment of a four-year-old boy. The dispatch said it was report-® ed that McCoy was removed to the prison hospital in a semi-conscious condition after he was set upon by fellow-prisoners, said to have been angered by the unmerciful beating given the youngster, The warden refused to make any statement and referred all inquiries to the Commissioner of Prisons at Ottawa. McCoy was sentenced at Napanee by Judge W. S. Lane who remarked that the child, son of a woman with whom McCoy was living, had been "living in hell" for months. Medical evidence at the trial was that the boy's eyes had been black- ened, his left hand burned to the wrist and had burns on his right hand. Burns on tke right hand had ap- parently been caused by direct heat and on the left hand by chemicals. Four fingers on his left hand haye since been amputated. The boy's mother, Mrs, Dorothy _ Wheeler, was sentenced to two years, less one day, in reformatory. The judge criticized McCoy and the woman for ir cruelty" and said treatment of the boy had been calculated, Ottawa, April 13--(CP)--Edward , & prisoner at. ton Pen- itentiary, has been treated for nose injuries following d4n altercation with fellow prisoners, Maj.-Gen. R. B. Gibson, Commissioner of Peni- tentiaries, said today. Gen. Gibson said he received a report on the incident from the warden at Kingston Penitentiary and that it was 'one of those things which occasionally happen." He reported there had been "no organized attack" on the prisoner, who was sentenced recently to a three-year term for brutal treat- ment of a four-year-old. "There was an argument and one of the prisoners punched McCoy in the nose," he stated. Plan Meeting On North Oshawa Sidewalk Issue East Whitby Township Councillor Norman Down attended a meeting of the North Oshawa Ratepayers' Association last night and recom- mended that the associations' re- quest for a sidewalk on the west side of the Oshawa-Port Perry highway to accommodate North Oshawa school children be brought to the attention of the county en. gineer, suburban roads commission and the East Whitby township coun- cil. Mr. Down agreed to make ar. rangements for a meeting between these groups and the ratepayers as- - sociation in the near future. At the same meeting the assocl- ation decided to hold an auction sale on or about May 29. The sale will consist of all kinds of donated articles and the receipts from the sale will be used for the further de- velopment of the association. DIES ON TRAIN Toronto, April 13 (CP).--Mrs. Liabel Roberts, 47, collapsed and died last night from a heart attack while en route by train from Pen- ticton, B.C, to Belleville. Her body: was taken from the train at Toronto and removed to thé morgue. A three-year-old adopted daughter travelling with the woman was given shelter at the Children's Ald Society. "inhuman | Russia Seeks German Help To Beat ERP By RICHARD KASISCHKE Bertin, April 13--(AP)--A high Russian official told a German youth meeting today that the "Marshall Plan means war." The speaker, Col. Sergei Tulpan- ov, political and information chief of the Soviet Military Administra- tion in Germany, also likened Pre- sident Truman to the late Herman Goering. "This is the epoch of the col- lapse of capitalism," Tulpanov told the young workers. The Marshall Plan was the off- shoot of "greedy attempts of Am- erican monopolists to exploit war- Pe aened Europe for their own ofit. "The Marshall Plan means the division of Germany, the division of --it me BE e Russian officidl told Ger- mans their hdpe for the reconstruc~| tion of their country lay with tne Soviet Union and its "new demoo- racy." "In the eastern zone you are in truth working. for the people and not for a Goering or Truman," he asserted. He referred evidently to Goering's four-year plans for the arming of Nazi Germany. Allied intelligence reports said yesterday the Russians were in- creasing occupation forces in their zone, which surrounds Berlin. The increases were said to be mostly M.V.D. tsecret police) units, con- cerned with executing new Russian border and traffic controls. German newspaper reports have spoken of new: infantry units mov- ed into the Soviet zone. Western authorities are agreed that the military position of the United States, Britain and France in Berlin would be indefensible under a Russian attack. There is no reliable estimate of Russian military strength in Ger- many. Several months ago Rus- sian troops strength in the Soviet zone was placed at more than 200,- 000, about three times the size of forces in the U.S. zone. Resume Work At Willow Run Detroit, April 13--(CP)--Kais- er-Frazer workers resumed produc- tion today at the Willow Run plant as union and management met to decide the dispute which made idle 4,800 men yesterday for the sec- ond time in four days. The stoppage was caused by a strike of 14 door-handlers who ob- jected to a three-week suspension of a shop steward. OPERATION AT 103 Toronto, April 13 -- (CP) -- Doc- tors here 'described Mrs. Emma Brock, 103, as the "wonder woman." She is In "very good condition" to- day after undergoing an operation to mend a broken hip, Medical au- thorities say it is unusual for a woman her age to respond to this treatment. U.K. Police Hunt Killer Who Beat Boy To Death Farnworth, Lancs, Eng., April 13 --A tall, thin man in a "zig-zag pattern suit" described by police as a "dangerous killer" was hunted to~ day for murdér of a 11-year-old schoolboy and wounding of another, Two hundred policemen joined the hunt bringing bloodhounds, walkie - talkie radios, searchlights and mine detectors into play after the battered body of Quentin Smith was found near the Bolton-Man- chester railway tracks last night. Nearby, authorities found Quen- tin's playmate, nine-year-old Da- vid Lee. who had been stabbed in the stomach, From a hospital bed David whispered to police a des- cription of his assailant. The boy is expected to recover, Today, mothers' of the district, recalled previous attack on school children in the same area and were escorting their children to. and from school. Police authorities calling on re- sidents to supply any possible clues said "it is possible we have to deal with a maniac killer. "We fear for the safety of other children." The two boys were the latest victims in a-serfes of attacks on stay the same. children which- date back to 1944. / SET FOR DATE BRITONS QUIT Jerusalem, April 13 -- (AP) -- The Zionist General Council in- tends to proclaim an independent Jewish State in the Holy Land May 16, the day after the British man- date ends. RS The decision was made yesterday after an all-night session of the council at Tel Aviv. An internal authority may be set up which eventually would become the provi- sional government of the Jewish State. Consideration of this plan continued. Members also approved the long proposed military accord between Hagana, the Jewish militia, and Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish under- | ground group. The alliance was a military ac- cord only and the two differing political programs of the groups Under {t, Irgun Zvai Leumi keeps its military make-up, but is under command of Hagana, and will take na independent military - action. This could mean that Irgun Zvai Leumi will not make any more in- dependent attacks on British forces. The Jews will oppose any plan to prevent or postpone setting up a Jewish State, have rejected flatly any proposal to set up a trustee- ship, and have agreed recognition of the Jewish provisional council of government by the United Na- tions Committee is necessary. The provisional government will start to work immediately after the ending of the British mandate. As leaders tried to work out a government program, Jewish 'and Arab forces continued fighting which has gone on since last fall. Jewish forces appeared to be in conttol of a 20-mile stretch of high- way in the Judean Hills. It is along this Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road that Arabs have blasted Jewish food convoys bound for hungry Jerusa- lem. (Reuters News Agency said a Jewish convoy of 10 vehicles at- tempting to reach the Hebrew Uni- versity and Hdassah Hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem today was heavily attacked by Arabs, and a' number of casualties were re- ported. (The leading vehicle was blown up by a mine and two others im mobilized by Arab fire. The remain. ing seven retreated back to Jerusa- lem. (However, the biggest Jewish con- voy yet to run the gauntlet of the Arab blockade of the Holy City-- 200 vehicles carrying an estimated 600 tons of food, including special supplies for the Jewish holy fes- tival of Passover--reached Jerusa- lem today, a Jewish source re- ported.) Big Increase V.0.N. Visits Is Reported Miss E. Hicks, Reg.N., in her monthly statement to the Board of Directors for the Oshawa Branch of the Victoria Order of Nurses, yesterday: reported an increase of 80 visits last month over the same period in 1947. Nurse Hicks' total calls in March were 527 and included 104 to obstetrics cases. and for advice; 100 for the care of newborn and supervision; 13 to pneumonia cases; 14 to cancer cases; 68 to the chronically ill; 165 to medicine and surgery patients. There were no confinements during the month of March, Nurse Hicks said. N. 8S. McFadyen, treasurer de- livered the financial report stating the receipts for February stood at $122 and disbursements totalled $486.93. Mr. McFadyen's figures for March set receipts at $132 and disbursements at $427.19. The Board appointed Mrs. B. A. Brown as the official delegate of the Oshawa Branch of the V.O.N. on the occasion of the 50th anni- versary of the founding of tie Victoria Order of Nurses in Canada. The anniversary will take Place in Ottawa on April 27. No Gas Rationing This Year--Howe Ottawa, April 13 -- (CP) -- Trade Minister Howe told the Commons | yesterday he sees no prospect of gasoline rationing in Canada this | year. | While he conceded there "always" | he knows of no situation which made it any more necessary 'this | year than last year when there Won) was a shortage. ; Not 'a Candidate DR. W. H. GIFFORD Who announced to The Times- Gazette this morning that, in view of the impending nomination to- morrow night at Whitby of the Lib- eral Association of the Riding of South Ontario, he definitely will | mines, however, ! job. not be a candidate in the forth- | coming by-election, Dr. Gifford is | a popular Oshawa citizen, having served in many municipal capa- cities, among which were terms as mayor of the city. 150 Appeal Tax Levy In East Whitby First sitting of the East Whitby Township Court of Revision will be held in Westmount School this evening starting at 7 o'clock, Town- ship Clerk Fred Wilson announced today. About 150 tax appeals have been filed and will be heard by the five- man court. It is expected that five sittings will be required to clear up all the appeals. . The Court of Revision will be composed of Reeve T. D. Thomas, Douglas Redpath, E. E. Graham, E. C, Warne, and Thomas Flett, 34 In 'Jail' Break Flee On 136 Legs Olney, Ill, April 13--(AP)-- Caroline Stroud's plan to free her pet dog from the city pound was a howling success. The 13-year-old girl went to the pound after she discovered her dog was missing. She could not find the dog-catcher--so she went in to the pound to get her pet. The 34 other dogs locked up in the pound spotted the open gate. They yipped and barked as they ran to freedom. !gun a week ago in sympathy with three | 75 PER CENT MINERS BACK IN MANY PITS Pittsburgh, April 13--(AP)--Soft coal production spurted today with | operations éstimated as high as 75 per cent of normal in some areas. | As diggers, at work again after their 29-day pension walkout, re- turned \to the pits, the Western | Pennsylvania Coal Operators As- sociation said at. Pittsburgh that at least 26 mines were back in pro- duction. The association said the mines, which normally employ about 10,000 | men, were operating with 75 per cent of personnel. Most Southern Illinois mines were reported in operation. Extent of operations was put at from 75 per cent of normal to normal. Some were still closed but others had full crews on the | | In Eastern Pennsylvania, = more than 30,000 anthracite miners came back to work, ending a walkout be- the soft coal diggers. Coal diggers at three H. C. Frick Coke Company mines did not an- swer the summons to morning shifts. These mines included the huge Robena pit, world's largest soft ,coal mine. The mines, operated as a United States Steel subsidiary, employ nearly 2,000 men on day op- erations. Montour No. 10 mine of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Com- pany, world's largest commercial producer, also remained idle. This pit at nearby Library, Pa., employs 850 miners in highly-mechanized operations. Here and there, principally in Western Pennsylvania, a few locals of the United Mine Workers (Ind.) indicated they would wait and see what happens to their leader, John L. Lewis, before they return to work. Lewis, under a federal court contempt citation, is scheduled for a hearing Wednesday. The wait-and-see situation was summed briefly in the case of a 300-member local at Jamison, W, Va., which voted not to return to work before Wednesday. E. C. Bar- ton, president of the local, said the miners felt they would be "letting Lewis down" if they went back be- forq then. Operators and United Mine Workers officials gave estimates last night which indicated at least 100,000 men would be in the mines on- the various shifts today. West Virginia, giant of the soft coal producers with 120,000 of the country's 400,000 miners, reported a slow but general return to work. On the industrial side, Chesa- peake and Ohio railway officials at Huntington, W, Va., announced the recall of shop foremen laid off dur- ing the shutdown and said 1,600 other railroaders in Huntington will be called back later this week. Fate Of Two In Doubt As Hanging Date Nears Toronto, April 13 (CP).--The fate of two boys who face the gallows for the rifle murder of 57-year-old James Bell in Stam- ford Township last September, re- mained in doubt today after the Ontario Court of Appeal reserved judgment yesterday. J. J. Robinette, counsel for Nor- man Kindy, 16, of Stamford Town- ship, told the court" that evidence on which his client was convicted in Welland was circumstantial and "based on pure guess work." Col. H. A. Rose of Welland appeared for 20-year-old Edwin Farrington of Glendale, R.I., convicted with Kindy last February. % ; Crown Counsel William Common admitted circumstantial nature of the evidence but said "there is no othet interpretation than that the accused were responsible for the death." The two youths were arrested early in October in Tulsa, Okla., and were charged jointly with the fatal shooting of Bell, an alleged bootlegger who was found shot through the head on the threshold of his home Sept. 24. Kindy and Farrington were convicted before Mr. Justice D. P. J. Kelly in Whl- land and were sentenced to be hanged April 28. |. At the appeal hearing Mr. Robi- nette said there was "grave sus- picion" the boys had committed 'is a possibility of rationing, he said | robbery, but the question of mur- der was "pure speculation." He stated that Kindy 'had lived with Bel] for 13 years and ro vio- lence had occurred until ghe ap- 2. pearance of Farrington, a stranger to both. Evidence submitted at the trial showed that Farrington had been on a motor trip in Canada when his automobile had broken down. He had no money so Bell gave him lodging on the night before the shooting. Neighbors testified they had seen Kindy and Farrington leave the house the next day about 3:20 p.m., 40 minutes before Bell's body was found. Police found the pockets of the dead man turned out and the contents removed. "You can't hang a man on sus- picion," said Mr. Robinette. He contended that all the evidencé submitted at the trial was circum- stantial and that the charge to the jury made no distinction between the cases of the youths. "Kindy <vas under the domina- tion of Farrington but it is difficult to realize that he.was sufficiently domihated to leaVe with the other man if he did not have some part in the guilt," said Mr. Common, Mr. Robinette referred to Kindy's "trial within a trial" to determine his sanity. He was found fit to stand trial but evidence: of school | teachers showed the 'boy to be "backward." i "THE WEATHER Overcast and cool today. Wednesday clear with little change in temperature, Winds northeast 20. Low tonight and high Wednesday 31 and 41. Summary for Wednesday: Clear and Cool Campaign Chairman MRS, OWEN D. FRIEND Announcement was = made this morning by Dr. Walter Bapty, Chairman of the Canadian Cancer Society (Ontario County), that Mrs. Owen D. Friend had been named Chairman of the Campaign Com- mittee for the City of Oshawa for the membership drive for the Can- adian Cancer Society which is now taking place throughout the Prov- ince of Ontario. Cedar Dale Graduates 'Receive Pins AJ Following a delay of some months owing to shortage of graduation pins, the 1947 graduating class of Cedar Dale Public School was en. tertained last night at a party given by the Home and School Associa- tion. The 26 Cedar Dale pupils who reached the . pinnacle of public school success last year, returned to that seat of learning last night to take part in the delayed gradua.- tion party. The pupils attended the regular meeting of the Home and School Association where they heard an address by Dr. A. F. Mackay, medical officer of"health, and en- tertained themselves with folk dancing under the direction of T. W. Cody, director of physical edu- cation for Oshawa public schools. Principal of the school, E. G. Higgins, presented pins to the gra- duates and offered words of ad- vice and encouragement for the young people. Following the pre- sentation, the children were usher. ed into another part of the build- ing where they were treated to specially prepared refreshments, in. cluding an attractively decorated graduation cake, served by mem- bers of the Home and School Asso- ciation. > Entertainment was supplied by soloists Miss V. Williams and Miss Elizabeth Warwick accompanied at the piano by Miss Lynda Peters. The graduation class. included: Barry Authors, Ronald Brown, Ken- neth Burke, Beatrice Byrns, Elean- or Carey, Mary Gangemi, Mary Glowaski, Delores Griffinham, Lana Herbacho, Margaret Hay, Anne Jacula, Harold Kryhal, Catherine Laidler, John Lenohak, Lorraine McDonald, Ronald Morris, Wasyl Olesuk, Denis Pallister, Tamra Redko, Robert Ross, Mary Smith, Jean Van De Walker, Evelyn Pilk- ey. The Home and School Associa- tion was grateful for generous con- tributions towards the cost of 'the pins from Dr. W.-H. Gifford and Lyman A. Gifford, who are former pugils of the school. To Boost Grants For Paraplegics Ottawa, April 13 (CP)~Veterans Minister Gregg announced today the government has agreed virtual- ly to double helplessness allowan- ces for pensioned veterans, such as paraplegics, who need the help of other people in their daily lives. He told the Commons Veterans Committee at the same time that the government could not agree 'to any further raise in basic pension rates from the 16 to 20 per cent it already has proposed. . Mr. Gregg announced that the helplessness allowances would be increased from $250 to $480 a year as a 'minimum and from $750 to $1,400 as a maximum. TWO GRASS FIRES Firemen from t Cedar station responded today to two grass fires during the noon hour. The first near 882 Simcoe Street Dale | South resulted in a call at exactly | 12 o'clock and the other, Lawrence Avenue, was 35 minute: later. No damage was reporied caused by either. on St. | ! State Secretary Claims Revolution Followed By Joseph Bogota, Colombia, April Pattern F. McEvoy 13 (AP)--State Secretary, Marshall of the United States last night blamed international Communism for the abortive revolution which ravaged Bogota and disrupted the Pan-American Conference, Marshall told reporters and conference delegates that the revolt followed the same pat-® tern as cutbreaks which have pro- voked labor troubles in France and pre-election unrest in Italy. Delegates are expected to ratify today their determination to con- tinue the conference here, despite the riots which have destroyed much of the city and killed 300 per. sons, There were no Canadian or American casualties. Marshall is the first conference delegate, outside the Colombian government, publicly to, attribute the revolution to world Communism and indirectly to Russia. The Colombian government an- nounced yesterday that it had sev- ered diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Two Russians, des- cribed as Communist agents, were among persons taken into custody on charges of having stirred the riots. (In San Francisco, Antonio J. Gaitan, brother of Jorge Eliecer Galitan, Liberal leader, whose slay- ing Friday touched off the revolt, said the assassination was the op- ening move in a plot intended to "reach" Marshall. (Communists in Panama City cir- culated flysheets last night saying that Marshall had fled Bogota and taken refuge in Panama. This was an obvious falsehood.) "This . situation, (the revolt)" Marshall told reporters, "must not be judged on a local basis, however tragic the immediate results to the Colombian people. The occurrence goes far beyond Colombia." Marshall made it plain without saying so that he thought Commu- nists deliberately planned the re- volution to disrupt the conference, which was considering adoption of an anti-Communist resolution," to embarrass the Western world and to influence next Sunday's Italian elections. Informants said the delegates' re- ported decision to remain in Bogota was based mainly on two considera« tions. 1. 'Assurances by the Colombian government, that the delegates would be protected, fed and given communications and transportae RAVAGED (Continued on Page 2) New Gates In Prospect For Union Cemetery Plans for a general clean-up of the Union Cemetery were discussed last night at a meeting of the Board of Governors. Plans em- braced the erection of new gate and fences and filling in an un- sightly sump hole just north of the old railway right-of-way. H, O. Perry was delegated to ine quire into the possibility of having the sump hole filled by topsoil from a nearby gravel pit. All the governors agreed that the hole was an eyesore which needed cleaning up as soon as possible. Estimates on the erection of a new gate west of the main gate will obtained by Col. I. W. Cur- rell. |¥t* is planned eventually to instal four new gates leading inte the cemetery. The chairman, Dr. W. H. Gif ford, and Mr. Perry wil inspect tha new sevan-acre development as the north end of the cemetery. Some members expressed the hope that this section could be, lande scaped to provide selected plots. Also discussed was the possibility of heating the mausoleum so that services could be held in comfort there in the winter, Police Visit Door-To-Door Probing Death Clinic Case Toronto, April 13--(CP)--A door- to-door canvass of North Yonge Street was conducted by police to- day in an effort to locate an eye witness of Mrs. Jane Gordon en- tering a suspected "abortion clinic" in which she is believed to have died. Detectives believe an illegal oper- ation was performed on the pretty 29-year-old woman in the North Yonge Street district between noon and two o'clock last Thurgday af- ternoon. Her body was foufid on a roadside in suburban North York early last Friday morning. Last night police said they had learned the. licence number of an automobile which may have been used to transport Mrs. Gordon's body. The vehicle was seen some | two hours before the body of the, woman, believed the victim of a "murder clinic" specializing in $500 | abortions, was found.' Police have checked the licence | department of the Ontario Depart- iment of Highways but all registra« | tions for this year have not yet {found their way from sub licence depots to the head office. Police said it may be days before they can verify the number. : Earlier polcie sald they believed Earlier police said they believed last Thursday which resulted in her death. The pretty mother of a five-year-old daughter and es tranged wife of a Toronto doctor borrowed $500 from a friend that same day and her body was found some 12 hours later. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x PROBE BOMB THREAT London, April 13 (Reuters)--Police today searched the Houses of Parliament after a threat had been re- ceived that the building would be blown up. A man telephoned a London telephone exchang® and told the operator "We will blow up the Houses of at 6 o'clock." Parliament MOTHER KILLS 4 CHILDREN, SELF Pittsburgh, April 13 (AP)--Police reported today that Mrs. Margaret Louise Morcroft, 32, had shot and killed her four children and herself in their suburban Bellevue home last night. The coroner issued a prelim- inary verdict of murder and suicide in the revolver deaths of Mrs:-Morcroft, and her children Gilbert T. Jr., 10; Susan Toy, 7; Douglas Hughes, 8 months. Cunningham, 3; and Nancy DEATH SENTENCE STAYED Montreal, April 13 (CP)--The murder verdict and .zath sentence imposed 'last October on Dr. Charles ilolleur in connection with an abortion death were re- duced to manslaughter and life imprisonment today by the Court of Appeal. SNOW BLANKETS SASKATCHEWAN Regina, April 13 (CP)--Heavy snow lying over most of Saskatchewan's farmlands may. dangerously delay spring seeding operations and already has wor= sened a serious fodder shortage, it was learned today. Farm officials said spring seeding in Canada's greatest grain-growing province may be delayed another month. month, 3