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THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 159 v OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1950° . Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES REDS PUSHING AHEAD IN KOREA ad 16-Year Old G.M. Employee Dros ------------------ Garrett Emmons Victim Of Fatality In Nonquon Creek A Dunnville youth, 16-year-old Garrett Emmons, who re- cently started working with the General Motors of Canada, Limited, here, was drowned Saturday evening in Nonquon Creek, two miles south of Seagrave, when he was only ten feet from shore. Perry on Lake Scugog. Seagrave is seven miles north of Port His body was recovered 'at 10.40 a.m. yesterday in 15 feet of water close to the spot where he is thought to have gone down. Victor Mason, 17, of Toronto, a$ chum of Emmons, was swimming al little upstream when Mr. and Mrs. | Jack Gibson, of Port Perry, who were fishing from their boat ap- proached him and asked.if Emmons was all right as he was acting quecr- ly in the water. When Mason went down to see if Emmons was all right he had disappeared. Mason and Mr. and Mrs. Gibson spread the alarm. Mason summoned Provincial Police, and both the Whitby and Lindsay detachments sent cruisers. Emmons went down at approximately 7.30 p.m. Satur- day. Dragged All Night O.PP. Gordon Keast went to Osh- awa in his cruiser for grappling equipment and dragging operations began. All night long over a hun- dred volunteers assisted Provincial police, with light provided by cruis- er headlights and four portable spotlights in the search for Em- mons. Two Lindsay provincials snagged Emmons body yesterday morning. A net had been set up downstream as a precaution against the body drifting away, The creek at the point where Emmons was drowned passes through the farm of Neil McMillan who said it was about 60 feet wide. "The sides are very muddy but it has a firm clay bottom mid- stream." Mr. McMillan told a Times-Gazette reporter. "It is very dirty and weedy in many spots," he said. Nonguon Creek enters into Lake Scugog. Garrett's father, Thomas Emmons, is a school teacher .at the public school in Seagrave and he assisted his son in getting the job in Gen- eral Motors. An older brother and sister Douglas and Shirley, on holi- days at 'present, attend university. He has a 14-year-old sister Betty Ruth, ' Was Strong Swimmer Apparently Emmons had swimming without trouble until just before he went down. Mason said he never heard Garrett shout for help or anything. Mr. McMillan said, "I think he just got a sudden cramp. But nobody knows for sure." Emmons was reputed to be a fairly strong swimmer, The Emmons home is in Dunn- ville, but Mr. Emmons and Garrett board in Seagrave. Killed When Auto Crashes Into Bridge Arnprior, July 10 (CP)--Adam - Prince, 26, of Barry's Bay, Ont, 'was killed and Raymond Biernaskie, also of Barry's Bay, suffered minor injuries yesterday when their auto- mobile crashed into the Mississippi bridge on Highway 17, six miles east of here. Prince died in hospital here. Biernaskie was the 'driver, been police said. Troops. Stand By In Case 0f 'Truck Strike London, July 10 (Reuters)--Labor Minister George Isaacs today brief- ed the cabinet on a threatened un- official strike by 30,000 London truck drivers. Work was said to be continuing "almost normally." The drivers had been told to "stop work" today by unofficial leaders and "stay at work" by their union. The Road Transport Executive said that although 80 per cent of its London drivers were working normally, 1,415 men had not report- ed for duty. Their strike is in sympathy with a 16-day stoppage by drivers at Londons main meat-distributing centre, Smithfield Market. Two thousand troops mgved into the city during the week-end, ready to run essential transport should the unofficial leaders' appeal suc- ceed. Another 2,000 troops are ready to join them. Meanwhile 3,000 soldiers and air- men with a fleet of 700 trucks con- tinued distributing London's meat and grocery rations from the Smithfield Market area, where 1,400 meat transport drivers stopped work June 24 in protest against delays over their. claim for a wage in- crease of 19 shillings ($2.95) a week. Committee To Study Fixing Of Resale Prices Ottawa, July 10--(CP)--The prac- tice of resale price maintenance will be among the points investiga- ted by the Federal Committee studying combines legislation, the Committee disclosed today. Resale price maintenance is the procedure by which manufacturers of some-products indicate the prices below which their articles are not to be sold to the public. Comment on this problem specifi- cally and on combines legislation generally has been invited from various organizations in a letter from the Committee made public today. MYSTERY PLANE CRASHES Copenhagen, July 10--(Reuters)-- A mystery plane, said to be a pilot-- less glider, crashed into the North Sea today. . Danish air officials said no Dan- ish machines were in the vicinity at the time. Expectations Of British London, July 10--(Reuters) -- If | Labor's ™ m-majority government comes through some ticklish par- liamentary debates in the next few days, it is likely to be in the clear for nearly four months, Expectations of a general elec- tion in the autumn have reced- NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazgtte Average Per Issue | June, 1950 11,038 ed in recent weeks. After this week, there are few is- sues on which the Opposition will challenge the government's exist- ence before Parliament shuts down at the end of July for the long summer recess. Labor holds a five- seat edge in the Commons. But today the Government must get its Finance Bill through third reading. And to- morrow the Opposition will challenge War Minister John Strachey's "plot against social- ist" speech--held by. critics to be an attack on the Schuman Plan, If angered, Winston Churchill's Opposition may press its threatened motion of censure against the gov- ernment. Parliament will not reassemble until October -- unless the Korean war or other international develop- ments demand an emergency ses- sion. & v In Canada 15 Days, Wins New Automobile Arriving in Canada from Malta only 15 days ago, Claud io Schembri, 105 Colborne Street, Oshawa, attended the carnival sponsored by the Building Committee of St. John's Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church on Saturday night and heard the number of a ticket he bought announced as the winner of a new a nobi major prize at the event, Left to right are John Stezik, chairman of building committee and' Steve Osmok, treasurer of the committee, congratulating Mr. Schembri-on his good fortune, utomobile given as the --Times-Gazette Stotf .Photo. U.S. MOBILE UNIT GOING T0 FAR EAST Washington, July 10--(AP)--The United States Army has started dip- ping into the small, five-division mobile force stationed in the United States to hasten help for American forces: rocked by an cnrushing North Korean army. The decision to order the 2nd Infantry Division and an un- specified number of smaller units from other organizations to the Far East came less than two weeks after the United States had stepped in to assist South Korea in repelling the in- vaders from the North. Military chiefs had nothing to say about how much help Gen. Mac- Arthur may have requested or how much the strateg'-making joint Chiefs of Staff here believes he should get. MacArthur started out the Korean campaign with elements of one division. That and whatever he 'has committed to battle since is drawn from the four divisians of his Far East command. Egypt Declines To Support Red China Cairo, July 10--(AP)-- Informed sources said today Egypt has decid- ed not to vote for United Nations recognition of Red China. Her bal- lot in the Security Council might have been decisive. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India had intervened personally in an effort to swing Egypt's vote to Red China, hoping this would end the deadlock and bring Russia back to U.N. meetings she has been boycotting since January over the China issue. Egypt still recognizes Nationalist China. ' Fully Prepared For Falls Barrel Trip Niagara Falls, Ont., July 10-- (CP) --Major Lloyd Hill said today he is fully prepared for any eventuality which may occur when he makes his ride over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel next Sunday. As a trial he sent two oil drums over the 160- foot cataracts Saturday. He expects next Sunday's trip will be over within an hour, ' Hold Toronto Man For Beaverton Break Beaverton, July 10--(CP) -- With drawn gun, Chief Constable Hector Reid chased by car and on foot two men suspected of attempting to blow a safe at the Beaverton Dis- trict Co-operative store here dur- ing the week-end. Both men escaped on foot after their car hit a curbstone on a sharp turn and went out of con- trol. Police later picked up a man identified as Stanley Edwards, 28, of Toronto. : Beaverton is about 45 miles ngrth 'of Oshawa. . Michigan Governor Is Seized By Convicts In Marquette Jail Outbreak Marquette, Mich., July 10 (AP)-- A jail-break. attempt with the Gov- ernor of Michigan as hostage was foiled 'Saturday after 'a near-riot, The daring try, a plot by three hardened men held in Marquette State Prison, was thwarted after fast. action by guards and police. The governor, G. Mennen Wil- liams, was caught in the middle of the uprising as he entered the kit- chen to inspect food prepared for some 700 prisoners in the big din- ing room. He was unhurt. But the Governor's bodyguard, George Kerr, was stabbed twice in the back and a prison guard suf- fered a broken arm. Warden Emory Jacques said be- fore the disturbance was quelled, more than 20 prisoners crowded around the kitchen door, threaten- ing to start a major riot. "I kept talking and managed to quiet them down," he said. The ring-leaders, who subsequent- ly were placed in solitary confine- ment, were identified by prison au- thorities as Ralph Stearns, 50, of Detroit; John Halstead, 56, of Jack- son, and. "Crazy Jack" Hyatt, about 35, of Detroit, Jacques gave this account: Williams entered the dining hall just as the convicts were, starting supper. With him were Kerr, the pilot of his plane and several other officials. "We were standing at the .back of the hall by a glass door which goes into the kitchen," Jacques said. "Suddenly Hyatt, who was in the | kitchen, opened the door and came out swinging a mop handle. Then Stearns grabbed the governor by the JAIL OUTBREAK (Continued on Page 2) Start Work New Oshawa Polish Hall Mayor Michael Starr this morn- will be an excavation for a new ing turned the first sod for what assembly hall to be erected by the Oshawa Branch-of the Polish Na- tional Union of Canada at Eldon Avenue and James Street. The new building will be begun at once and finished, it is hoped, before fall. It will have a frontage of 40 feet and will be 100 feet deep. Construction will be of cement block covered with stucco. The front of the edifice will be faced with brick and flashed with alu- minum. The auditorium, which will have a stage at one end, will, of course, bé the principal room in the "build- ing although there will be cloak rooms, offices and wash rooms on the main floor. In the basement there will be two howling alleys and a kitchen. FARMHOUSE BURNS Cornwall, July 10 (CP)--Fire of unknown origin destroyed a 16- room farmhouse on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River five miles east of Cornwall Saturday. Loss 'Was estimated at $10,000. No Epidemic Of Polio This Year Toonto, July 10 -- (CP) -- So far this summer, Ontario has escaped a serious poliomyelitis outbreak. Health department officials said today 16 cases have been reported, compared with 60 at July 10 last year. Dr. J. T. Phair, Deputy Health Minister, saig, this year's total is "hos much over the level of norm- aley." Chateau Laurier Employees Vote To Go On Strike Hull, Que., July 10 (CP) -- Five hundred employees of the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa voted here last night to strike in support of their claims for a 40-hour week, a 10-cent hourly wages hoost and a union check-off system. The employees are members of the Ottawa Local of the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees and other transport workers, which a union official said has been nego- tiating with the railways since June of last year, . A conciliation board appoinied by the government suggested a 44-hour week but this was turned down by the Union. Three Drownings In Sudbury Lake Sudbury, Ont., July 10 (CP) -- Lake Ramsay, on the outskirts of Sudbury, claimed three lives in sep- arate drowning mishaps this week- end, Aime Laberge, 34, of Sudbury, was drowned Sunday when the canoe in which he and Albert Dault, also of Sudbury, were travelling, cap- sized. Dault escaped. ? Alex Boyko, 19, of Alvena, Sask, was drowned Saturday while swim- ming 25 yards from shore. Police are still dragging for the body of a third victim, unidentified, who was drowned Saturday when a canoe turned over. Federal Grant For Hospital At Windsor Windsor, Ont., July 10 -- (CP)-- The Federal Government announce- ment of a $124,333 grant to the East Windsor hospital has cleared the way for construction of a 106-bed addition to the hospital. The an- nouncement* was made here today My Federal Health Minister Martin. THE WEATHER Cloudy today and Tuesday. Intermittent rain tonight. A little cooler. Winds light today, northeast 15 Tuesday. Low to- night and high Tuesday, 60 and 75. Summary for Tuesday-- Mostly cloudy. Lull In The Fight ing Ends As North Korea Army Nears City Of Taejon CLAIM SEVEN YANKS BOUND THEN SLAIN By 0. H. P. KING Advanced American Head- quarters in Korea, July 10 (AP) The bodies of seven American soldiers, their hands tied behind them, were found today by the roadside in territory recaptured from the Communist North Koreans. Each had been killed by a bullet in the face. A spokesman said the Americans had been assigned to move ammunition forward, ~ He said Americans and North Korean troops still were fight- ing over possession of the area where the atrocities occurred at the time he left to make his repor{ to mearby American headquarters. The bodies were found by Lieut. D. C. Gates after four of his men went to a front-line area this morn- ing. The area was subsequently lost and regained. "They turned a corner and ran| into two tanks," Gates said. One jeep turned around and made a dash for it, he said. The driver was killed but his companion escap- "An observation post saw two in each of two other jeeps sur- render," Gates said.. "When I arrived on the spot I found my four men and three mortar men, SEVEN SHOT (Continued on Page 2) Another Rail Strike Looms Chicago, July 10--(AP)--With one major rail walkout ended, the United States faced possibility of another today. Last Thursday, AF.L. switchmen cancelled a walkout against four roads after President Truman said the strike was stopping the flow of grains and cattle, and threatened national defence. The strike re- mained in effect against the Chi- cago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail- road because, the union said, paral- lel rail services were available. A federal court late Saturday night sent the last of 1,500 strik- ing switchmen back to work on the Rock Island. Today, three other rail unions met in Chicago to de- cide whether their 250,000 members will strike to back up their de- mands for a shorter work week and higher pay. They are the train- men, conductors and yardmasters. Three Men Die After Explosion In London, Ont. London, Ont, July 10--(CP)-- Three men who suffered serious burns in an electrical explosion in downtown London yesterday died in hospital today. John Hemingway, 23, died early this morning, Robert Gilbert, 56, shortly after 10 am. and Jack Sto- rey, 31, early in the afternoon. The three men were with a Public Utilities Commission crew replacing transformers in the vault. E. V. Buchanan, P.U.C. general manager, said that a defect in the high voltage switch of the new transformer probably caused the ex- plosion. 2.000 Striking Miners Go Back Edinburgh, July 10 (Reuters) -- More than 2,000 striking Scottish coal miners returned to work today. But most of the 13,000 men in- volved in the week-old stoppage waited the outcome of today's emergency meeting of union dele- gates here called to consider lower- paid workers wage claims. The dispute, which beggn last Monday when the National Coal Board rejected the claim has af- fected 46 collieries. About of 100,- 000 tons of coal production have been lost, Tokyo, July 11--(Tuesday) -- (CP) -- North Korean forces have battled their way southward to within 20 air- line miles of Taejon, provisional South Korean capital head- quariérs communique issued at midnight Monday night said. The invading forces appear to be preparing for an all- out attack on Taejon, said a Reuters dispatch. In other developments in the fast-moving fighting, Com. munist forces cut off a second battalion of United States troops and seven American soldiers were found dead, killed by bullet wounds in the face, backs. their hands tied behind their Battalion Hemmed In Gen. MacArthur's communique issued at 12:02 A.M. Tuesday (10:02 A.M. EDT Monday) told of the new North Korean push. He said it was made by the attacking 1st Dis vision, which had hemmed in an unidentified "lost" U.S. bat- talion in the Chonan area, 35 miles northwest of Taejon, for two days. .That battalion, which fought its way to safety, is not to be confused with the one reported cut off in Monday's dis- patches. The second isolated detachment, said Reuters, is reported to be equipped with tanks. (So far, Communiques have not confirmed that U.S. Armor has been thrown into t The idnight iq said the North Korean Ist di- vision has advanced southward from Chonan to Chongan, tiny village 18 miles by road south of Chonan and 25 air-line miles northeast of Taejon. Another Northern force, probably the 3rd Division, was in contact with United States forces at Cho- chiwon, 15 miles southeast of Cho- nan, Enemy attacks launched the nignt of July 17, which led to the capture of Chonan by the invaders, "tem- porarily lost momentum" between Chonan and Chochiwon, about 20 miles north of Taejon, said the communique. Taejon has been identified as advanced American field headquarters. Reinforcements Stream The communique, however, added that enemy reconnais- sance elements were active and enemy reinforcements were streaming toward the battle area, with "all indications pointing to a renewal of large- scale attacks." At Chinchon, about 15 miles east of Chonan, the 2nd North Korean Division engaged elements of a South Korean corps on a front just south of the city, it continued. MacArthur said enemy pres- Sure gained some ground in the Umsong-Chungju area, some 70 miles northeast of Chonan. Units of the 15th North Korean division there forced back Southern Republican troops to high ground northwest of Um- song, he said. Just south of Chungju, major city in the Umsong fighting area, an enemy battalion with other for- ces opposed South Korean troops. The United Nations commander said increased activities on the east coast still indicated southward pres- sure with opposition from friendly forces (probably allied naval and air units). Morale Slipping MacArthur said there was evi- dence the morale of the North Kor- ean Communists is slipping under the heavy pressure applied by US. and Australian planes which Mon- KOREAN WAR (Continued on Page 2) he fighting). Naval Ships Leave August For Europe - Ottawa, July 10--(CP) -- Naval headquarters said today the Cana- dian aircraft earrier Magnificent and the destroyers Huron and Mic- mac will make a late-August cruise to European waters. Plans "are subject to alteration or cancellation should circumstances demand." The Facific-based destroyers Cayuga, Athabaskan and Sioux, or- iginally also scheduled to make the cruise, now are en route to Pearl Harbor They probably will proceed later to Korean waters as Canada's contribution to United Nations an- ti-Communist intervention forces there, ' The Magnificent, Micmac and Huron are due to leave Halifax in late August for Londonderry, North- ern Ireland. Arrangements have been made foy the Canadian ships and carrier-borne aircraft to carry out two weeks of intensive anti- submarine training at the joint anti-Submarine Training School operated at Londonderry by tthe Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, Later the Canadian haval units will visit Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Portugal as well as ports in the United Kingdom. Gibraltar is listed as the last Eu= ropean stop on the way home, Unidentified Body May Be Cobourg Man Kingston, July 10--(CF)--Provin= cial police are investigating a meport that the body of the unknown man found floating in Lake Ontario southeast of Cobourg last Friday and brought here may be Lloyd Henderson, 37, of Cobourg. Hendere son has'been missing since June 4. Death Toll In Colombia Earthquake Reaches 211 Bogota, Colombia, July 10-- (AP)--Unofficial reports today indicated 211 persons are dead and 17,000 injured or homeless in seven towns after five earth- quakes that rocked North *Cen- tral 'Colombia during the week- end. The presidential palace in a statement last night indicated the official death toll was at least 123. The new figures were given in the newspaper Fl Siglo. At least 123 persons perished in | week-end earthquakes which rock- ed North Central Colombia, destroy- ing towns and crippling communica- tions, Reports from the stricken area said the death toll may reach 200. There was no estimate of the number injured in the four quakes which struck North Santander province late Satu x day and early Sunday, but the figure was expected to run higt. The Colombian government has rushed doctors, nurses and medi cines in by plane, Food and supplies for the homeless, including tents are being flown in. Official sources sdid telegraph and telephone lines were - down while highways and roads were split by deep cleavages. The provincial governor re- ported Arboledas and Cucutilla as "almost destroyed" and said many houses were damaged in other towns. Unofficial report reaching Cali said the towns of Salazar, Durania nd Toledo had been destroyed. A dispatch to the Bogota news= paper El Tiempo said several shocks had been reportedsat Cu= cuta, the provincial capital, which was destroyed by an earthquake 65 years ago. No serious damage was reported, however, { '