The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

° HERN MURDER SUSPECT CHARGED "THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES Harvey Southerby Lodged In Jail After Questioning Toronto, July 30 (CP)--Harvey E. Southerby, 21 faces a murder charge in the bludgeon-siaying Tuesday night of Leslie William (Jack) Hern, 38-year-old railway dining car steward, whose body was found under a boardwalk at Toron- OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1949 VOL. 8--NO. 177 \ Flying Club Exonerated In Reid Fatality Suggest Helmets, Proper Equipment For All 'Chutists' The Ontario County Flyin g Club was exonerated of any! blame in connection with the death of a student parachutist, 18-year-old Royal E. Reid, 171 Broadview Ave., Toronto, by colo.) a coroner's inquest jury last ni ght. Reid died in the Oshawa! U.S. Can Supply Own Uranium Washington, July 30--(AP)--Col- orado's uranium deposits are ample | to supply the vast atomic energy program of the United States, Se-! nator Eugene Millikin (Rep. Colo.) ! said today. | Similar assurance came from Se- nator Edwin C. Johnson (Dem. | who said there is a '"tre-| mendous amount of uranium" in| the Colorado plateau country. | General Hospital from injuries he received in a parachute Both Senators are members of the jump at the Oshawa airport July 17. He landed on one of Senate-House of Representatives | the airport runways. The six-man jury decided to ask® vestigate the use of crash helmets, parachute jumpers' boots, and all | other proper equipment for jump- | ing. They said the accident was caused by unfavorable weather con- ditions. Reid was wearing a light weight summer helmet when he jumped from a big plane at 2,000 feet. Cam Warren, pilot of the plane, stated 'not every parachutist wears a helmet. There are no regulations | laid down by the Department of, Transport that jumpers have to wear helmets. I believe all para- chutists should wear proper head gear", Warren, who has logged over 400 | air hours, told the jury he had | spoken to Department of Transport | officials since the accident regard- | ing the wearing of helmets and was assured action is planned. i "There is a chance that had Reid | been wearing a heavier helmet ne | may be alive today. He might also | have been saved had he opened his | the Department of . Transport to in- | | ed. Warren pointed out that para- iroepers have special helmets "but they are not made available to us". He said it was Reid's second para- chute jump. "The weather was slightly over- Weather Overcast cast with the wind between five and seven miles an hour," he said. "We took off between 7.15 and'8 p.m. He was wearing his normal clothes and helmet which covered the whole of his skull. Tae youth Jjumped from tne plane at 2,000 feet which is the standard height for Jumpers in training. I gave him Anstructions to leave the plane and he lett in a satistactory manner. . Reid was about 1,700 feet from the ground when his chute opened", The pilot said he circled around the airport and watched Reid land. When he neared the ground tue chute started to swing from one side to the other. "I couldn ¢ tell whether or not he was manipulating the 'risers'. He still had «is helmet on when I saw him lying on the run- day. I would say the swaying of the chute was due to atmospheric con- ditions", he said. Ronald Poulter, a pilot who was standing only 50 feet away from the spot wuere Reid landed, told the Jury he had seen the jumper before he took to the air. "I saw him leave the plane. The | top brass of the United States' Wave. High winds, reaching 65 miles week by the Europe-bound | an hour in gusts, buffeted the dis- | made "utterly mal until he was abou. 200 feet from | today to seek more information for | trict for 20 minutes, followed by an | es." He added: the ground. Then the chute started | 8 congressional committee still not |hecur's rain. descent seemed to be pertectly nor- awinging," he said. "The swinging was not terribly violent. I thought | Program to arm friendly countries. | he was going to land on the grass. There was a slight breeze at the time. I saw him working the front 'risers' of the chute.' His heels hit the ground first. back and his head hit the runway. Tae force was quite violent, Reid never said a word. The helmet was still strapped on his head'. 10 Feet Off Grass Manager of the Ontario County Flying Club, George Slocombe, said be was called to the airport im- mediately following the' accident. "When I arrived the doctor and am- | bulance attendants were present. | Reid was lying on the runway. Taere was. a pillow under his head and blood' was rushing from his ear. He was only 10 feet from the grass." Slocombe testified he did not see any helmet. It had been taken off before I arrived", Flying instructor, Ronald Drink- water, who was in charge of the airfield at the time, said the para- chute. tollapsed immediately when _ CLUB EXONERATED (Continued on Page 2) i NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue June, 1949 10,027 emergency chute", the pilot assert- | Then. he went | Motor Vessel Destroyed Canso, N.S. July 30 (CP)--The 126-ton motor vessel Laverniere was run down in dense fog Friday by the 5,600-ton American freighter Colabee nine miles south of this Eastern Nova Scotia port. The six-sman crew escaped in a lifeboat and was brought to Canso by the Yarmouth, N.S, swordfisher | Edward L. The Laverniere was fired as a menace to navigation and slid beneath a smooth Atlantic half an hour after the collision. The Colabee, out of Wilmington, Del, was bound for Baie Comeau, Quebec, and the Laverniere, out of | Grindstone, Magdalen Islands, was en route from Port Hawkesbury, N.S, to Halifax with a cargo of herring. ' Capt. George Lake of Montague, P.EI, skipper of the motor vessel, | said: "We didn't have a chance. We | | were sounding our siren regularly | but we heard only two blasts from | another ship nearby. | "We weren't able to tell where | the sound was coming from. We didn't see the freighter until she | was about 100 yards off starboard. We swung around to try to avoid the | collision but it was too late." The Colabee hit the Laverniere | amidships, slicing off her stern. She | started under and the crew took to the lifeboats. { The freighter lowered her boats. | Capt. Lake climbed into one of them | and went aboard the Colabee to | talk with her captain. | ~ The swordfisher Edward L. reach- ed the scene and Capt. Lake and | his crew went abord her, None of | them was injured. The Colabee is owned by Illinois Atlantic Corporation, She was not believed badly damaged. The La- | verniere was owned by a Grindstone | co-operative. 'Will Gather 'More Facts armed forces was |sold on President Truman's big left after | The joint chiefs of staff | Washington Friday night testifying behind the closed doors ed {of the House of Representatives' | foreign affairs committee on the | | $1,450,000,000 arms proposal. | On their return in about 10 days, | the military heads of the Army, | Navy and Air Force are expected to meet with the committee again for "more extended" discussions. If they gave the House group any | startling secret testimony yesterday | it was not disclosed. Committee members said the meeting could as well have been public. | "They gave us some figures on Russian military strength which we {have seen published already," a ! Republican member told reporters. | "But they did not tell us anything to clear up some of the doubts !many of us have about the pro- gram." All three witnesses who have testified in public session stressed | | the importance of the program to | the defence of the United States. They said it is needed to 'make | friendly foreign countries strong enough to resist military aggres- | sion, -- the three witnesses were State Secretary Dean Acheson, Defence Secretary Louis Johnson, and Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Army Chief-of- Staff. The other joint chiefs are Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg for the Air Force and Admiral Louis 'E. Den- | feld for the Navy. Many committee members are | advocating an interim program about half as big as the president 'wants. They said they want time to find out just how much it is going to cost and how long the program will last. atomic energy committee. J They spoke out séparately as the | LY United States prepared to enter into : | "exploratory conversations" with | Britain and Canada on a long-! range program of caellaboration in | | raw materials supplies and exchange | | of atomic information, | "I have .no fear that we cannot | | secure uranium to operate our atomic energy plants," Millikin told ! a reporter, H | "Given proper price incentives | and under efficient organization, our domestic supplies available from | | the Colorado plateau, the surface of which has hardly been touched, | |' will supply a very amount of our needs. And there are other reassuring factors which I am not at liberty to discuss." PL At EE Sqbstapial) chinese checkers and other games, Recreation For Old Folks at Simcoe Hall One of the few clubs that is continuing during the summer, the Golden Age Club, is offering an enjoyable | time to its members even during the hot weather. 'On the porch at Simcoe Hall, they play cards, checkers, Radium, N.W.T.; Whitehorse, Yu- read, or just sit and talk. Shown enjoying a quiet evening are (left to | right) Mrs. Margaret Arkle, Mrs. Elizabeth Kemp, Mrs. William Gale and Mr. William Gale. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. At present the United States gets the great bulk of its uranium--the | basic material for atomic weapons-- | from Canada and the Belgian Con- go. v In contrast to the rich deposits of these two mines, uranium is scattered throughout the carnotite ore of the region. It Attlee Replies To wee Winston Churchill Boy Stricken With Polio is both difficult and expensive to | extract, | London, July 30.--(CU) -- Prime | Minister Attlee today accused Win In Oshawa Three in its fortunes and ruined by the Labor Government you would have days ago six-year-old to's east-end Kew Beach. U.K. Officers Coming Here On August 9 A party of 15 United Kingdom It is expected that Southerby will appear in court today. Detectives arrested ihe dark, curly-haired Southerby late Frie day in a tavern on downtown Bay Street, He offered no resistance. Police said the man had been employed in an automotive plant in Windsor, before coming to Tor- onto a month ago, but he had not worked lately. : Investigators questioned South- erby for three hours before lodging him in a police station on the mu ~ | military officers and civil servants |der charge. They said that at first | will visit Oshawa on Tuesday, | Southerby denied ever meeting August 9, while on a tour of in. | Hern, but later sald he met Hern dustrial plants iin a downtown beverage room and strial plants and defence instal- | spent, some time drinking with lations in Canada. They are!him. {members of the student body and! the directing staff of the Imperial Defence College, formed in 1927 to train a body of senior officers and civil servants for key jobs in war. | Its Canadian counterpart is the National Defence College in Kings- | | ton. While in Oshawa, it is ex- | pected that the British party will | make a tour of the plant of General | Motors of Canada, Limited. | The party is due to arrive in | Canada on Monday and will spend | 27 days making a tour of Canada, | visiting Ottawa, Sudbury, Toronto, | Oshawa, Niagara and Welland, | Hamilton, Port Arthur, Winnipeg, | Churchill, Sawmill Bay and Port | kon; Vancouver and Victoria, Leth- bridge, Alta.;' Suffield, Alta. and | Edmonton. It will then spend a | week in the United States, and visit | points in Quebec and the Maritime | Provinces. The Imperial College annually | send students on summer study | tours but this is the first to Can- | ada. It will take them to "such | places as the chemical warfare base in Suffield, Alta., the winter experi- mental base at Churchill, Man., air- craft plants, defense headquarters, | a Toronto baseball game and three A police statement said robbery is believed to have been the motive for the slaying. Hern, unmarried, wore flashy clothes and an expen- sive watch and drove a big auto- mobile--relatives described him as "a little guy who looked and acted like a millionaire"--but, at the time he was. slain, was carrying only about $50. Hern's mother, Mrs. Llewellyn Hern, and a cousin, Lulu MacMil- lan, both said that relatives had warned Hern that his friendliness and generosity might lead him in- to danger, especially if his appear- ance suggested to some criminal that he was wealthy. They said he often formed friendships with men he had met casually ardund town, took them for drives in his sleek sedan, brought them to his parents' home for a night or a week-end and then, after a few days, usually saw them no more. Mrs, Hern said that, to her, some of the men looked like undesirable companions for her son, When found on the beach early Wednesday, Hern's body was clad only in a shirt. An autopsy showed the cause of death as a blow on the head from a blunt instrument. There were indications that Hern, 'Gale Batters Ottawa Area Ottawa, July 29--(CP)--A roar- ing, smashing gale pounded the | capital Friday, felling trees, power lines and buildings and jumbling communications. R Damase was still being counted | | today. But it was expected it will | reach at least $100,000. [ Seven miles from Ottawa $50,- 000 damage was caused to the Holy Rosary novitiate and scholasticate when the wind ripped the roof from | the main building and. flattened a | barn on the novitiate grounds. Street car service was disrupted fo: several] hours when falling trees knocked down power lings. | All four radio stations in the dis- | trict were put off the air briefly | | when power failed at the transmit- | | ters. | | 'Telephone and power companies | rushed out extra crews of repair- | | men to put lines back in order. | Some telephone lines still were out] early today. N Heralded by low-hanging black clouds, the storm whipped up' sud- | due to Socialist mismanagement." might have fallen into utter chaos, The prime minister said the pub-| Washington, July 30 (AP).--The hottest part of a three day heat jished policy statement issued last| heavy cost in party unsupported here) | denly in mid-afternoon, just at the | | On Confederation Square, | liament buildings, a street car was hit. by lightning. But there was lit- | tle damage and no one was injur- In the residential east-end Sandy | Hill district a huge maple tree was | split down the centre and fell across | Augusta Street, scant seconds after a passenger-laden taxi had pulled | away from the spot 'R.C.M.P. Boats Check Smuggling Toronto, July 30 (CP)--Five Roy- {al Canadian Mounted Police boats | glide through the Great Lakes all summer long, as Mounties keep keen eyes open for smugglers, enforcing the Canada Shipping Act, briefing pleasure craft and inspecting navi- gation licenses. ston Churchill of giving Britain a black eye abroad out of 'irresponsi- bility and party spite." Replying to the Conservative party leader's policy speech Wolverhampton a week ago, Attlee said Churchill's abuse of the Labor government "may be taken serious- |1ly in other countries," where he is remembered mainly as wartime prime minister. Attlee declared: "Any government which does not | contain him is always denounced as incompetent." Churchill told a party rally at Wolverhampton that the Labor | government had led Britain into "imminent peril" of Communism and national bankruptcy. "I have never been slow to ac- knowledge his war service," Attlee said in a prepared speech in his own election district, "but during these last four years he has had a irresponsibility bad relapse into and party spite." Attlee defended the Labor gov- ernment's nationalization program which Churchill had denounced as "cramping and disastrous." Attlee, "to try an make people be- lieve that all our difficulties are Conservative "Having hear Mr. Churchill's vio- t the | lent words about how this coun-|ment with our heart of the capital near the Pai-|try had been brought to a low ebb| Churchill have repudiated it? at] "How disgraceful it is," ople bs expected the Tories to propose cut- ting down expenditures, ter page of this document they de- mand increases . but not. af single practical sugges- | tion." | Attlee declared that 'no one out- side bedlam" ever suggested that, Britain's post-war position would | be economically secure. Attlee next took up Churchill's criticism of the Labor party for| borrowing dollars from the United States and Canada while simul-| taneously handing out money to aid other countries. This was in reference to the Ca-| nadian loan of $1,250,000,000 and | the United States loan of $3,750,- 000,000. Attlee commented: "We did give aid to other coun- tries to the tune of £900,900,000 ($3,600,000,000) . "The coalition government decid- ed to support UN.R.R.A. (the Unit- ed Nations Relief and Rehabilita- tion Administration) and rightly decided. Without, the aid of 'U.N. R.R.A. to which we were only sec- ond to the United States of Ameri- our contribution, Europe lca. in "We have been involved in a maintaining the | people of Germany, but the occupa- tion of Germany and Austria was | decided by the coalition govern- It was an honorable agree- allies. Would Mr. | ment, Hon. Leslie H. Frost, Premier of Ontario, has. accepted an invita- tion to be present at the Farm Im- provement and Soil Sonservation Field Day to be held on the farm of Heber Down at Brooklin on Sep- tember 8. He will speak briefly and will officially open the proceedings. Also present, to introduce the Pre- mier to the crowd, will be Co. the The 250 members of the Mounted Police's marine division are station- ed at Toronto, Kingston, Windsor, Sarnia and Sault Ste. Marie. The five territories interlock so that the whole of the lakes north of the in- ternational boundary is covered. Hon. T. L. Kennedy, Ontario Min- |ister of Agriculture. | Letters of acceptance from these wo distinguished guests were re- { ceived this morning by M. McIn- jure Hood, chairman of the pro- gram and publicity committee for Premier Frost Accepts Invitation To Speak At Farm Conservation Day |to the Maritime Provinces start- ing the first week in September, but that he has deferred it on ac- count of his desire to be present at this important conservation de- monstration, the first of its kind | George Woermke | beaches of Port Perry, toddy he played on the s i "But on the contrary, on page af-| fighting for his life in an Iron Lung in Toronto Hospital for Sick aT | [ | . there is a lot of | Children, Oshawa District's fifth | New Pumping talk about, 'reducing extravagance | poliomyelitis victim. He is the son | of Mr. and Mrs. 482 Albert Street. Wednesday, George complained of a sore throat and a painful neck. Mrs. Woermke took the child to Dr. J. A. Patterson. Later the boy was ordered to hospital. It is the same type of Poliomye- litis that struck four-year-old Bil- ly Corby a week ago. The two boys had met at a wed- ding of George Corby in North Oshawa two week$ ago. At the same wedding Mrs Joseph Foretsall the first Oshawa woman to die of the Poliomyetic, also attended. Mrs. Woermke is sister-in-law to the recently married Mr. Carby. Mrs. Edith Newman, mother of Mrs. Woermke said that the boy was in perfect health when he was up at the family cottage at Port Perry. "Today he was going to Haile- burton district," Mrs. Newman told The Times-Gazette. The Elmer Woermke, were to leave today for the holiday. | Mr. Woermke is a lineman with the C.N.R. Railways. George'sy younger brother Don- ald, four years old, has been per- | fectly free from any illness, and safe from catching the 'dread di- | sease. "The boy is very seriously ill", Dr. Patterson said today. Officials of the Isolation ward in the Toronto Hospital For Sick Chiidren said today that young Woermke was suffering from paralysis of the neck and throat. He will be in an iron lung to aid his breathing. Mrs. Woermke took young George to Toronto by taxi as soon as the case was diagnosed as poliomyeli- tis. Lightning Causes Fire Outbreak On Seagrave Farm MRS, A. FRANKLIN - Correspondent to be held in Canada. A. H. Martin, director of the partment of Agriculture, has also accepted an invitation to be pres- main address of the program will be delivered by Prof. G. N. Ruhnke, Director of Agricultural Research | for the province of Ontario, and | formerly head of the soils depart- Water Mounties have the right to | the field day. Col. Kennedy inti- ment of the Ontario Agricultural board any ship and inspect it for | mated that he had planned a trip | College. i suspected smuggling. They see that all passenger-carrying ships have adequate life-saving equipment, and that all craft over 10 tons are regis- tered. The Summary | Business and Markets Whitby News Radio Programs . |-Editorials : | Women's News .. Theatre Programs Sports. ,......... Building Page .. Churches Classified |:Comics P 10, PU P15 a EEL T TP NE ---- Youths Attack Toronto Man Toronto, July 30 (CP)--William Edwards, 30, told police that he was attacked, beaten up and robbed of $26 by a group of youths while walking on Sherbourne Street in east-central Toronto early today. Seven youths were arrested by police and charged with creating a | disturbance. Edwards was taken to | hospital with a cut eye. Train Hits Car At Stratford Stratford, July 30. (CP)--A 71- year-old motorist walked away shaken but uninjured Friday night after the front of his car was struck by a Canadian National Railways train at a Stratford level.crossing, Police report James Tomsett's car collided with southbound train in charge of engineer L, Graham, of London, Ont. } Crops Branch of the Ontario De- | Port Perry, July 30--During yes- | terday afternoon's severe thunder- storm, a bolt of lightning struck a i henhouse near the barn on the farm of Mrs. Maud Bolton, at Honeydale, lent as one of the speakers on this' near Seagrave. Fire which broke | occasion. It is expected that the? out completely destroyed the hen- | house, but the Port Perry Brigade, | which was called to the scene, as- ! sisted in bringing it under control, land saved the barn and other buildings. Fortunately, the poultry were out on the range at the time, and none were in the henhouse which was burned down. About midnight on Thursday, a 2,500-volt high tension wire on the hydro system running into Port Perry came down near the poultry farm of Ronald Peel, quite close to the new house whicti has just been completed. The electricity started a grass fire, which 'threatened to become serious, but prompt action by the Port Perry fire brigade brought it under control: Hydro officials were | off tae power until the break in the lines could be repaired. { scheduled cocktail parties in their I: d Hi !a slender, frail man, might have | four days in awa. | been beaten and that possibly his | head had been battered against a family | also quickly on the spot, and tuned ! Equipment Halts Fire | | Sudbury, July 30 (CP) -- New | pumping equipment received only | Friday morning by the Sudbury of- | fice of the Ontario Department of | Lands and Forests for use in areas | inaccessible to water, proved its worth Friday afternoon. Three 200-gallon truck-mounted tanks, plus a new, small pump brought a 100-acre bush fire under | control only a half mile from the | farming village of Hanmer, 17 miles | from here and saved one of the | districts most scenic pine groves along the Vermilion River. The fire, believed to have been | caused by blueberry pickers, broke | out about noon Friday on the sand plains north of Hanmer. Fanned by | a strong west wind, it raced through | the dry blueberry bush and small jack pine. With no water near enough to be handled by the or-| dinary forestry pumps, ithe three | new tanks and small portable pump | were pressed into use. | Mounted on trucks, the tanks were | rushed to the fire scene. As one was | emptied it was rushed to Hanmer | to be refilled from wells. The port- | able tanks and pump were assisted | by 60 men, a bulldozer and the Canadian National Railways tank | car from Capreol. | THE WEATHER Sunny today and Sunday. Seasonable temperatures. Winds northwest 15 today, light tonight and Sunday. Low to- night and high Sunday, 60 and 80. Summary for Sunday -- Sun- ny with pleasant temperatures. nail protruding from the boarde walk, Three Montrealers who had gone to the beach to find a sleep= ing place Tuesday night told po= lice they saw a man standing over Hern's inert form. They quoted the man as telling them: "Go away. This is my Tommy. He's drunk." When they returned later the beach appeared deserted. Almost hidden under the boardwalk they found Hern--dead. U.K, Railwaymen To End Slowdown Manchester, England, July 30 (AP)--A slowdown of operations by workers at Manchester freight de=- pots of Britain's government-owned railways is scheduled to end Mon=- day midnight. Union leaders voted Friday night to have their 2,500 workmen resume normal operations. 2 The slowdown, which began July 10, was in protest against alleged government delay in handling a claim of the National Union of Railwaymen for a raise of 10 shillings ($2) a week, Friday the Labor government completed arbitration machinery to deal with this claim. friend, Italy Approves Atlantic Pact Rome, July 30 (AP)--The Italian Senate approved ratification of the North Atlantic treaty Friday night by a vote of 175 to 81. There was one abstention. The Senate then com- pleted Italian parliamentary action on the pact by approving with a show of hands a law specifically authorizing the government to rati= fy the alliance with the western powers. The Chamber of Deputies approved ratification last week. Oshawa Police Seeking Hit-Run Cyclist After Boy Hit , Left | City police today are seeking a | teen-aged cyclist who knocked down |a seven-year-old boy, stopped 'and , looked -at him covered in blood, and | raced away at a fast rate of speed. | The victim, Kenneth Crowell, of 228 | McKim Street, suffered head in- | Juries and bruises and cuts to his | legs. | Kenneth, along with a number of | other children, was returning from | a variety concert at Memorial Park | shortly before. 10 p.m. last night when he was knocked heavily to the pavement, He was crossing Court Litreet at the time. Other boys who were with the Crowell boy ran after the fleeing cyclist but could not catch up to "iim. There was no license on the On Street A passing adult carried the injured boy home, Barbara Crowell, who was with Kenneth, said today she would re- cognize the cyclist if she saw him on the street. Police reperted two other accis dents last night. Harry Gibbard, 103 McLaughlin Blvd. told police he parked his 'motorcycle on Bond Street East. A car driven by Don= ald 'R.. Brooks, 283 Jarvis Street, backed up and knocked the motors cycle over. The third mishap occurred on King Street West. Abraham Harry Black, 21 Westmoreland Avenue, Oshawa, reported driving east on King Street West when a car ram med into the rear of his car. The second ' 'automobile "was driven by | sicycle, according to the children. Gordon Myles, 201 College Avenus,