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CLOSE CALL FOR AJAX DRIVER THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET TE Unhurt V Unhurt When Car OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY | Rolls 1,000 F eet VOL. 8--NO. 216 SIXTEEN PAGES | Into Rouge Valley Bandits Steal $4,000 From Montreal Bank Rouge Hill, Ont., Sept. 16--(CP)--William Main, 28, nearby Ajax landscape gardener, escaped injury Thursday i night when his automobile plunged 1,000 feet intd the Rouge ¢ : oy ; * o The steering gear failed as he was negotiating the T ell er A SS ault e d Times-Gazette Exhibit At The Fair Attracts Much Attention oi I fi, | transport and the steering wheel By Tr ed Ti Se | did not respond when ne tried to A m ug 9 | "I recall sceing the headlights : In Ottawa | shine on a fence," he said. "The Customers | J eld I | p H ] Fi {car hit the wires and looped. There 'A ote ire | seemed an eternity before there Eng --_-- | was utter silence." Jertigaiion oa BA Wid the car he heard the driver of the that swept through the two top| floors of the downtown Belmont there?" He switched his lights on | Hill Valley. : 4 Main said he cut out to pass a Two Perish | 0 eris | cut back. was more crashing and banging. It Ottawa, Sept. 16--(CP)--An in-| When he managed to get out of | transport yelling "anybody down Hotel Thursday night, claiming the | and off to show that he was all OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1949 Price 4 Cents Montreal, Sept. 16--(CP)--Two armed bandits today | robbed a west-end branch of the Roval Bank of Canada of $4,000 and escaped after beating a clerk with the butt end of a gun. It was the second Montreal bank®-- holdup in three days. Wednesday a pair of gunmen took $4,000 from a Banque Canadienne Nationale branch 'in the north-end of the city. The two entered the Royal' Bank branch at the corner of Monkland Boulevard and Harvard Avenue shortly before 11 A.M. and threat- ened the staff and customers with their guns. The 'injured man struck across the back of the neck with the butt of a revolver, was Leonard Kon- ings, a clerk who joined the bank staff five days ago. A dozen customers were trans- acting business when one of the men walked into the office of the manager, William Hill, who was dictating to a stenographer, Miss Mildrid Stryleski. The man told Hill to go into the bank proper and both gunmen then ordered the 10 bank employ- ees and customers to line up against the wall. May Discuss Stalin-Tito Situation Lake Success, N.Y., Sept. 16 (CP). --The Chinese and Stalin-Tito situatians loomed today as the in- ternational problems which might | provoke . the noisiest and longest debates at the fourth general assembly. here were - reports that both questions would be brought before the 59-country meeting opening next Tuesday at Flushing Meadow, N.Y.. but no delegation made a formal move to do so. Observers saw these possibilities on the China front: 1. The Chinese might charge Russia with interfer- ing in the internal affairs of China by aiding the Chinese Communists, 2. The Chinese Communists might seek representation at the United Nations. U.N. officials said the question of Chinese representation would have to be faced some time. But they expressed hope the question could be postponed until east-west ten- sion eases. The rift between Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and the cominform, was viewed as a part of the tender Balkan situation, The assembly would 'not be surprised if these events were brought to its atten- ton: Massing of Russian troops on 'Yugoslavia's border and Greece's implied threat to invade Albania if Greek Communist attacks are renewed. These were the problems which officials feared might throw a monkey wrench into the assembly machinery which was scheduled to run for 10 or 11 weeks. The biggest jor definitely sched- uled for the session was to wind up old business{ Chances of clean- ing up some of\ th oblems were believed good. Damage Action Goes To Jury A damage action being heard by Mr. Justice J. K. Mackay in Whit- by Court went to the jury this af- ternoon following addresses by counsel. George Harvey Baird, Reach Township farmer, is asking assess- ment of damages for injuries re- ceived on October 13, 1947, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Fred Brown, Ridgeville, while crossing highway No. 11 at Thornhill. A. W. S. Greer, K.C, is acting for Mr. Baird and M. J. Haffey, is representing Mr. Brown. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue August, 19419 9,702 United Nations | Nationalists Provincial 'Heads Favor Conference Ottawa, Sept. 16 (CP)--Canada | prepares today to. take the last steps | along the road to full constitution- al autonomy. Government intention of cutting the last bonds that tie Canada's control over her sovereignty to the | United Kingdom Parliament was | expressed in the speech from the Throne, read by Viscount Alexander, | Governor-General, at opening of the 21st Parliament yesterday. | The government will ask Parlia- | ment to petition the U.K. Parlia- | ment for the right for Canada to amend her own constitution in pure- | ly federal matters. In respect of matters under pro- | | vincial jurisdiction the government | will consult with the provinces in hope of arriving at agreement on methods of amending the constitu= tion. Later, after members had return- ed from the Senate to the Com- mons chamber, Prime Minister St. | Laurent tabled. copies of letters he has sent to "prémiers of the 10 provinces asking them to meet the federal government on the matter. "Our aim," the letters -said, "is to FAVOR CONFERENCE (Continued on Page 2) Ontario Premier Holds Conference With St. Laurent Ottawa, Sept. 16--(CP)--Premier Frost of Ontario today came out of a 60-minute huddle with Recon- | struction Minister Winters on On- tario's housing needs and imme- | diately went into another one with | Prime, Minister St. Laurent. | While no announcement was | made, it was believed the Frost-St. | Laurent conference dealt with the | to | | hold a conference with the prov- | | federal government's proposal inces on constitutional amendment | agreement. : Premier Frost said in an inter- | view earlier that he would "study" { the federal proposal at his home- | town at Lindsay during the week- {end and make known his views | "some time next week." | He said he had been visiting var- | icus Ontario municipalities during | the last few days and had little | time to go over the federal propo- | sition, contained in a letter sent to | all provincial premiers Thursday. On the question of housing, he said the situation in Ontario still was serious but that he was get- ting "excellent co-operation" from | the reconstruction minister. Robert Saunders, chairman of mission, and Chester Walters, On- tario treasury official, accompan- ied Mr. Frost. | Foul Play Feared In Tillsonburg Tillsonburg, Sept. 16--(CP)--Po- lice said today they feared foul play in the disappearance of Mrs. Margaret Robinson, "31, who had not been seen since last Saturday. Mrs. Robinson and her husband Fred, are both employed at a res- taurant in this community, 30 miles southeast of London, Ont. Robin- son said he gave his house key to his wife when she told him last Saturday she had to go home to get some clean restaurant uniforms. She did not return and police said | they believed she never reached | the house. The couple came here 14 months | ago from Leamington, Ont, Rela- | tives in Leamington and Chatham {said they knew nothing of whereabouts. the Ontario Hydro-Electric Com- | her J) The Summa | Business and markets .. | Whitby news Ajax news ........\... . | Editorials | Women's news | Sports | Comics i } Radio, theatre program i Classified , -- y Attracting much interest in the Commercial Exhibits Building at the | staff. The teletype, which was set up through the co-operation of The south end of Alexandra Park is the teletype machine which is part of ' Canadian Press, is connected to the New York wire and carries the hides the machine as they gather round to watch it operate. The Times-Gazette exhibit. Here a crowd of children and adults almost | Associated Press and Reuters despatches being transmitted from New | Explaining | York to the Toronto office of The Canadian Press. Also included in its function is Douglas Mills, a member of the Circulation Department | the exhibit is a demonstration of how a mewspaper is produced. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Kinsmen Club 'Honors Three With Gifts Three popular former members |of the Kinsmen Club of Oshawa were honored guests at a special farewell party tendered by fellow members of the club and their "Kinettes" and other friends at | Oshawa Fair Ground Is Realm Of Wonder As Kid 'King For Day' | 'He .was. a tousled-haired kid of ten, and yesterday 'he was king for | | a day. | | To begin with. his teacher in | Grade Five at Mary Street School | | had presented him with a ers, a long' line that was beating ahead with a definite objective in sight. This proved to be the rows of khaki-colored tents and the noisy contraptions which hurtled ticket | forward and backward and some- | Club Bayview last night. A special | which shaved by half the admission | times sideways, or shot around in a floor show and dancing was en- | price to the Oshawa Fair Grounds circle of graduated height with the plane roared down Carswell joyed by some 80 couples who at- at Alexandra Park. The big men speed of a rocket. tended, The gay event was staged tribute. to Phil Holloway, President of the club; Jack Jack- son and George Snyder, all whom are leaving Oshawa to take up positions in other centres where they have been their respective companies. One of the highlights as a of | gifts to he departing members. | This task was first taken over by | Ross Rowlands, Manager of CKDO |through the turnstile--a privileged | bed it off its paper cone with his| vivors from the wings, fucelage|ed for six days; Kinsmen | Character in on a very special re- | fingers. It melted in his mouth and .and the water as the multi-mfllion | Thursday after the company call- was somewhat sticky, but wonder- | dollar six-engined air monster stay- | ed upon all its employees to return' {and a director of the Club, who with much ceremony | called Mr. Holloway to the ros- {trum. . Mr. Holloway, connected | with the Canada Bread Company, | was presented with one of Tod's | best baked cakes. Jack Jackson, .connected with General Motors, was the recipient of a shiny new hubcap for a Ford car. George Snyder, now a. Domin- ion Bank Manager, was presented with a small piggy bank complete with ribbon, but no pennies, | Later, "George Russell, President {of the Club, softened the humor {up a bit with presentations of a { brief case to Mr. Jackson, who is leaving for Guelph; and desk sets to Mr. Holloway, leaving for To- ronto, and for Mr. Snyder, whq is going to Mount Albert, Mrs. J. B. Cooke, President of the Kinettes, presented the wives of the honored guests with fancy cake plates 'on behalf of the Kin- ettes. The ladies were also presen- ted with corsages. Just before the conclusion of the party Kinsmen dressed as news~ boys rushed into the party to dis- tribute copies of The Times-Gaz- ette. Members and especially the honored guests were surprised to see 'mat page one of the special edition of the paper, included pic- tures and stories of the departing members, including a "scandal" | disclosure concerning the three guests of honor. | | | Peterborough Gang | Gets Jail Term Peterborough. Sept. 16.--(CP) -- | Robert Blackwood, 22, Harold | Blackwood, 26, and George Black- { wood, 21, three brothers, and Ken- neth Gynane, 23, all of Peterbor- { ough, were sente iced to a total of | 30 'months in the reformatory when | they pleaded guilty today of robbing | Gordon Girvin, 22. : | The charge arose out of assault | committed on Girven Aug. 26. He | was set upon by four young men | and robbed of $6. 3 AJ behind the scenes of the school sys- | tem, those gentlemen of the Board | holiday, and his dad had given him | | added up to two dollars. So here he was, this tousled-hair- | Candy and Hot Dogs There it was in all its magnific- things--and edibies. There was a of | quarters, dimes and nickels which | nice smell to it, too. The boy could smell candied apples and floss candy and hot dogs and chocolates. transferred by | €d boy, footloose in a land of won-|And he could sce lemonade sparkl- Giant Plane Crashes At lives of two men and sending a third to hospital. Dead are James Williams, 57, and Herman Adams both permanent residents of the hotel situated at the cormer of Lyon and Sparks streets, five blocks west of the Par- liament buildings. Recovering in hospital is 76-year- old Ruggles Orr, also a permanent resident at the hotel. He is suffer- ing from minor burns and shock. | About 55 other persons in the [hotel when the two-alarm blaze | broke out at 7:15 p.m. EDT, fled ifrom the burning three-storey { building, Majority were in a crowd- led cocktail bar and make their way | to the safety of adjoining rooftops | through a window. They were as- | sisted from the rooftops by fire- men using extension ladders, Cause | of the fire was not known imme- diately. | Roomers said they first noticed | the flames coming from a guests' | storage closet on the second floor land near the hotel's cocktail | lounge. | The two dead men and Mr, Orr {apparently were cut off by the | flames as they attempted to run from their rooms to reach safety. They were found lying in the 'cor- |vidor only a few feet from their | rooms. williams, native of Almonte, ont, and an inspector with the Ontario Highway Department, was burned to death in the fire, Adams died in hospital about- four hours ye -- | later from severe burns and shock. Fort Worth | Fort Worth, Tex., Sept. 16-- (AP) | --A giant B-36 bomber hurtled into | Lake. Worth Wednesday "night at | 100 miles an hour, killing at least, cne of its crew of 13, Four were missing' and eight injured. | Air | | Force base's long runway was blam- {ed for the accident, first major led flying a year and a half 'ago. Sgt. William G. Seymour of Fort! Worth was fatally injured. Lt. Richard L. English, the flight A 'mysterious power failure as the! . | full Bus Service Restored In Quebec City Quebec, Sept. 16--(CP)--Bus ser- vice in this ancient capital was re- sumed today although 122 garage employees of the Quebec Railway, 1948 | of Education, had decreed a half- | ence, this land of stage people and | mishap since the big bombers start- | light and Power Company contin- { ued their strike for higher wages. | Services was not yet operating in but all parts of the city were being served. Meanwhile officers of | the Catholic Syndicate (C.C.C.L. | ders which had been taken over for | ing in giant glass containers. Lem- | engineer, said he stood on the fuse- | of garage employees were expected evening was the "presentations" of | of ten and eleven and twelve. His | stuff down! | eyes sparkled and his face was | flushed with excitement as he strode | | duced price ticket of his own. Tour of Inspection He bought candy floss and. grab- ! call. He said every man answered. Crash boats picked up eight sur-| And he was wealthy. His fingers | ful. He pushed forward and gazed eq partially. afloat. | held tight to the heavy little pile of | upward at a long line of canvas { A fisherman said he saw flames | | silver stuffed deep down in his right | signs, each of which showed a pret- shooting from one of the engines. | | hand trouser pocket. His fingers | ty girl. Over the entrance of this "I watched it coming down the | | identifield the pieces; the quarters) big tent: where the. girls' pictures runway," he said. "The middle en- | and the dimes, and once his fing-| | ers played him tricks and he with- | [ if it was a quarter or one of this big | | nickels. He fell in with the line of march- were, it said something about "Paris After Midnight." But girls! gee KING FOR A DAY (Continued on Page 2) Four Escape From Soviet | Prison Cell Berlin, Sept. 16-- (AP) One | American and three British sol- diers made a daring escape last midnight from a Russian prison in East Berlin, the United States Army announced today. The American, Private John J. Sinkiewrcz, 26, told officers he and his companions burrowed through a thick wall with a blunt knife and managed to reach through and open their cell door, Sinkiewrcz was taken to an ar- | my hospital where he was repor- ited in a "generally weakened phy- sical condition but/not unduly un- dernourished." He had keen held by the Rus- sians since last Nov. 5 when he rode a streétear into the Soviet | sector by mistake. He said he was questioned 16 days and nights and "beaten when they said I was ly- 6,388 Visit Fair On Opening Session Attendance at the Oshawa Fair yesterday, which was de- signated as "Youth Day" was 6,388. as compared with 8,809 on opening day fast vear, it was announced by fair officials to- day. The official figures showed that 3,836 children went through the turnstile Thursday while 4,461 were counted on opening day in 1948. Adult attendance yesterday totalled 2,552 as compared with an adult attendance on open- ing day last year of 4,348. Fair officials said an early threat of rain that kept clouds in the offing up to official op- ening time yesterday probably had something te do with the decrease in attendance. They hoped that the good weather of today would help to raise the total up to compare favorably with last year's attendance. ing." Sinkiewrcz told Army officers he and the three British prisoners used an iron bar from one of their beds to pry open their cell. block door and then fled over a wall topped by jagged glass. They reached . the "street by sneaking through a bombed-out building and then separated to | make their way to the western sector. Sinkiewrcz managed to get to a German Police station in the French sector and telephoned Am- erican authorities. He said he was taken to™"Orani- enburg prison in the Russian zone for exhaustive questioning "by high Russian officers," and later was returned to jail in the Soviet sector of Berl, gine on the left side was on fire. "The pilot tried to stop, it look- drew a coin' from his pocket to see whiz! who wanted to see a bunch of | eq like, saw he was too close and ) A ; | then gunned it. He jumped right! into the lake." The plane was carrying a light load of gasoline. It is capable of holding 21,116 gallons of fuel-- enough for a non-siop flight of at least 9,600 miles. That's the dis- tance Air Force officials announc- ed one B-36 travelled in a mock | bombing mission. Found Guilty Of Manslaughter Sarnia, Sept. 16 (CP)--A Supreme Court jury Thursday night returned a verdict of manslaughter in the case of 23-year-old Ralph Howlett, charged with murder in the blud- geon death of Harr; Brown, 63, in the Town Hall furnace room last March. a. s The jury was out $wo hours and 20 minutes. It came back to the courtroom once to ask the definition of "culpable homicide." Mr. Justice F. H. Barlow said jhe had "no argument" with the jury's finding, and would deliver sentence Sept. 22. In argument at the end of the three-day - trial Thursday, Crown Prosecutor E. D. Wilkins of Sudbury, submitted that Howlett slugged Brown over the head with an-empty wine bottle to steal the $21 he knew was in Brown's wallet. THE WEATHER Briefly cloudy this afternoon, otherwise clear. Slightly warm+ er. Winds southwest 15 this afternoon and Saturday after- noon, otherwise light. Low to- the | the afternoon by hosts of other kids onade to wash all that wonderful | lage of the cigar-shaped ship after| to come to a definite agreement {the plane hit and took a hasty roll | With the transport company at a | meeting this morning, The transport service, interrupt- was resumed late to work immediately. Two Men Hurt As Dynamite Explodes North Bay, Sept. 16.--(CP)--Two powder-men - were seriously injur- ed Thursday when they were caught in the full force of a premature dynamite explosion" at the site of the French River sluiceway pro- ject. The men, Pat Smith and Angus MacMillan, are in hospital . at Sturgeon Falls where their condi- tion today was described as '"crit- ical." Details of the mishap are vague but it is known that the men were placing dynamite sticks in drill- holes to blast a rock face. They were "tamping" the dynamite in- to place when the explosives blew up. Pages of the blast victims and their home addresses were not avail- able. Smith is the most seriously hurt. He lost several fingers and has se- vere injuries about the face and arms. MacMillan is believed to have lost an eye. He also suffered facial wounds. Both are employed by the Ca-« nadian Dock and Bridge Company which is handling the sluiceway project. Guards Protest Stool Removal Toronto, Sept. 16.--(CP) -- The Telegram said today trouble broke out among some of the Don Jail guards Thursday when an order was given to remoye the guard stools from all jail corridors. A number of the guards signified their intention of protesting in a mass body to 'Sheriff Conover un- less ths chair ¢placed. There 5 a strike night and high Saturday 50, 70. Summary for Saturday: Sunny. rca v the Telegram story | right. He started up the ravine and met the transport driver about half- way up. Police arrived as he reached the highway. Police had to light flares in the valley before they could find the car. . A veteran of 5'2 years with the R.CAF., Main was taken to To- | ronto's St. Michael's Hospital, where | he was found to be uninjured. | Did Not Want to Turn "All I remember is trying to get the car back on the road after pass- ing a transport. It just didn't 'seem to want to turn," Main said. "I wasn't going very fast. I re= member it was pretty dark," he sald. The car bounced onto the shoulder and then I knew what was | going to happen. I know that dis- | trict pretty well." | Shutting his eyes he tried vainly to put on the brakes. | "I had my foot right to the floor land it wouldn't stop. I did my best | to steer, but I thought it was my | last ride. I still don't know how I | got out of it alive. I opened my eyes oncé on the way down and {all I saw was trees whizzing by." | At the bottom the steering wheel | caught him in the chest. The car | remained upright until hitting a | wire fence near the base of the | eliff. Then, shooting straight into the air for nearly 20 feet, it rolled over. "The car was rolling in all direc tions. It seemed to turn over seve eral times, I couldn't do anything to stop it. I think I still had my foot on the brake." Climbed From Wreckage Crawling from the wreckage, he | managed to climb half-way up the | hill before being aided by a pass- ing transport driver. He rode into Toronto with him and reported the accident befbre going to hospi- tal. Damage to the car will prob= ably only run to about $600. Fen- ders were pushed in, the top dam aged and the windshield cracked. Wheel marks could be traced down the embankment. It came to rest in the dense underbush and could hardly be sighted from the | posts not unlike tank-traps buffet- | ed the car on its way down. | "I don't know why I'm not hurt more than I am," Main said. "I just. feel something sharp in my ribs and my stomach feels kind of funny." Hospital authorities said he walk- ed into the emergency ward last night and told them what had happened. Plan Ahead | | Battle Creek, Mich. Sept. 16-- | (AP)--Paul G. Hoffman, Marshall plan administrator, foresees a self- | supporting Western Europe as a "definite possibility" by June 30, 1952. , In his first major speech since returning two weeks ago from a tour of seven European' countries, Hoffman said that the plan now is ahead of schedule. However, he cautioned that ful- filling the target date "is going to take a lot of doing, on the part of both Europeans and Americans." As a further means of advancing World prosperity, Hoffman advised the United States to take a "slight- ly higher percentage" of European imports. He said this would be bal- anced by "our own high volume of American exports." Skunk Fails To Disrupt Classes A member of the Mephitis family got into.the region of the ventilator at Holy 'Cross School this morning and how he smelled up the joint. Phew! It appears that this Mephitis night or early this morning, and after he got into the building a number of -children went after him. Whether they killed him or not was not known but in any' event Lloyd Fowler, S.P.CA. spector, could find no trace of him 'when he arrived. There was no doubt in anyone's mind, howeve:, that he had been there--bottlcs of deodorant in every room gave evie | dence of th? strong impression he made on #11 concerned. Mephiids by the way, is the g«aus | of the common skunk. character came into the school last | highway. Partially hidden fence- In-r f | ) | | {