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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle TE WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 186 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES G.M. MAPS BIG EXPANSION HERE Koreans | Capture Strategic U.S. Port a4 Pohang Falls In Surprise Attack; Airport Menaced By RUSSEL BRINES Tokyo, Aug. 12, (Saturday) (AP).--Red troops last night seized the important port of Pohang on the east coast and fought virtually to the edge of the U.S. airbase to the southeast. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters mean- while announced that all Communist bridgeheads but one across the Taktong River on the western front had been erased by American units. But this one is important. It is a big one in the Changnyong area, 29 miles southwest of the front- line supply base of Taegu. ARMY ANNOUNCES FALL The Eighth Army, announcing the fall of Pohang, said the city was in flames as Americans withdrew after a savage night battle. Pohang is 65 air miles north of the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. : Small U.S. forces battled-in the early morning darkness to save the air field, which is on a split about six miles south- east of Pohang. 3 U.S. tanks and more infantry were rushing up to the rescue of the airfield. Pohang, second only to Pusan itself as a supply port, fell to a surprise Red drive through undefended mountains while the Americans were rolling back the enemy on the ex- treme southern end of the Korean front. Reuters News Agency re- ported that U.S, tank columns had smashed through Com- munist forces to reach Pohang airstrip. The Americans im- mediately' took up defence tions. The Reds held a ridge only 3% miles from the runway when the Mustangs had to give up the battle because of darkness. The planes went to other airfields in Korea ® L Navy Planes Rack Up Big for the night. Inside the flaming port a bloody street battle raged. A tough moun- tain-climbling North Korean force KOREA (Continued on page 2) Tradesmen Sought For G.M. Building At the beginning of next week . when, it is anticipated, work on the new G.M. parts warehouse in the south-western end of the city will really get under way, there will be a call for carpenters and other tradesmen of the building indus- . try. Officials of the National Em- ployment Service here are confident they will be able to fill the require- ments of the Piggott Construction Company. It is anticipated that 60 or Damage Toll Tokyo, Aug. 11--(AP)-- The Un- ited States Seventh Fleet reported today that Navy and Marine planes racked up impressive damage tolls against North Korean communica- tions, troops and military installa- tions in two days of hard-hitting attacks, A summary of operations, re- leased by Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, said factories and wareh in the Inch (Se- oul's port) area of South Korea on the' Yellow- Sea bore the brunt of the strikes. Metal works factories, warehouses and trans- portation assembly plants there were hit with 500 and 1,000- pound bombs. .... ...... .. .. .. Other Navy planes ranged north- ward to the Waegwan area of the central front on ground troops sup- port missions. Near the town of PLANES (Continued on page 2) Thanksgiving Oct. 9 Ottawa, Aug. 11--(CP)--The d Mond more carpenters will be ded 0. § Hobbs, of the Builders' Ex- change here, said today that he understands the company TRADESMEN (Continued on page 2) y in Octobcr-- Oct. 9--has been set as the date for Thanksgiving Day this year. Thanksgiving Day is one of the statutory holidays which is fixed each year by order-in- council. 4 U.N. Still In Wordy Tangle As Malik Renews Attacks By A. I. GOLDBERG Lake Success; Aug. 11 --(AP)-- Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb was scheduled to pick up the oratorical ball today in Western attempts to counter the Russian-imposed stale- mate on Security Council considera- tion of the Korean question. With the West unable to persuade NET: PAID CIZCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for JULY 110,711 Russian President Jakob A. Malik in-both-private and public- meetings yesterday to lift his blockade, the Council went into the second meet- ing (at 3 pm, EDT) of a campaign to out-talk Malik. The word war was opened yesterday by United States Dele- gate Warren Austin with a 3,000-word, gloves-off attack. It called the Russian-backed North Korean government a "sombie government" and blam- ed the Soviet Union for the North Koreans' attack on the U.N. - sponsored South Korean regime. 'Malik said he would answer Aus- tin's charges at length. He was expected to wind up today's meeting with his speech, to give it wide circulation--without an immediate answer--during the week-end recess. Austin charged the North Koreans UNITED NATIONS Tourist Injured When Transport Truck Upsets Going out of control when the front sprigs broke while crossing the railway crossing, just west of Pickering on No. 2A Highway, the truck, shown in the top photo crossed from the south to the north lane of the highway, jack-knifed, and spilled its load on a car owned by an American tourist. Driver of the truck, Albert Savage of Toronto (bottom left) is shown leaning on the wrecked truck after being treated for lacer- ations and injuries to his left arm. uncle, Charles Case of Toledo, Ohio of their car. hospital for treatment. (See Story ol Mrs. A. B. Vail, also of New Glasgow, suffered shock and minor injuries and was taken to Driver of the car, Marshall Vail, of New Glasgow, N.S. (left) and his (right) in photo at bottom right, look at the gaping hole torn in the side n Page Three). --Times-Gozette Staff Photos. Pup Much Too Slim To Be Middle-Aged | Memphis, Tenn. Aug. 11 -- (AP)--Lack of a "middle-aged spread" decided the ownership of a dog when two women went to court to settle whether he was "Duke" or "Flash", Mrs. Evelyn Quinn said she'd had Duke since 1944. Miss Elizabeth Yarbrough said Flash was given to her as a pup last spring. The judge decided the mon- grel was too slim and alert to be six years old and awarded custody to Miss Yarbrough. Bus Drivers May Strike Rugust | 22 Nearly 40,000 residents of Osh- awa and district will be without a bus service commencing August 22 if the demands of some 84 city bus drivers and maintenance em- ployees, for contract changes are not met, ee jana Windover, presi- dent of the lgamated Associa- tion of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America, Division 1255, said today. The employees of the Oshawa Railway Company, -a Canadian National Railway's subsidiary, vot- ed 100 per cent in favor of strike action ingMay but-'the date of the BUS DRIVERS (Continued on page 2) 629-POUND SWORDFISH Glace Bay, N.S. Aug. 11--(CP)-- A 629-pound swordfish was landed here yesterday by the Lunenburg schooner Ican M.R. skippered by Capt, A. Conrad. It was the biggest broadbill brought in here for many years. Fish over 600 pounds are rare. THE WEATHER Cloudy with a few sunny in- tervals, clearing late this after- noon. Clear tonight and Satur- day. Continuing cool. Winds north 15 today, light tonight and Saturday. Low tonight and high Saturday 50 and 75. Sum- wi. y for Saturday--Sunny and (Continued on page 2) cool, Dominion Railways Gird For Strike As Peace Plan Fails Montreal, Aug. 11-- (CP)--A Dominion-wide strike set for Aug. 22 against Canada's major railways threatened omi- nously today following union rejection yesterday of 'final proposals" by the carriers. Meanwhile, the railways requested.a further meeting today to reach understanding on maintenance of "essential services" and protection of railway property in event of a strike by the 124,000 non-operating employees. The strike would be one for increased wages and better working hours. & aA Tram Strike Announcement of union re- jection was made in a state-' ment authorized by the railway presidents following a Ilate- afternoon meeting yesterday. The statement said: "We have been informed by lead- ers of the two union groups involved in the current labor dispute that the final proposal of the railways put before them . . . are unac- ceptable to the negotiating com- mittees. "The union representatives gave no indication that they were pre- pared to recede in any degree from the full demands of a 40-hour week and an additional wage increase of seven and 10 cents per hour. "In these circumstances the rail- ways have' no alternative but to RAILWAYS (Continued' on page 2) Pe -- Time Runs Against Formosan Invasion Taipei, Formosa, Aug. 11 -- (AP) --Every day that passes lessens the danger of a Chinese Communist invasion of Formosa this year, in- formed sources contend. However, preparations are in- creasing to meet any assault on this island citadel of Chiang Kai- Shek's Nationalists. Defence works are being con- structed along the west coast facing the Red mainland. New air fields are being built and old ones ex- panded. Nationalist troops are re- ceiving intensive 'training. By ELTON C. FAY Washington, Aug. 11 (AP)-- United States military leaders ex- pect that even with the new re- armament. program the "take" of steel for arms production will be no more than five or six per cent of the country's total output. The military's slice of steel production now is about four per cent. A munitions board efficizl used this figure today te un- U.S. Arms Program Won't Cut Civilian Needs Is Claim derline his expressed belief it will be possible to produce the war weapons asked for in Presi- dent Truman's $10,500,000,000 supplementary military request to Congress without any seri- ous blow to the civilian ecom- omy, The estimate on steel require- ARMS (Continued on page 2) J Stolen Data Found, Man Is Detained ' Folkestone, England, Aug. 11 - (Reuters) -- Secret papers on atomic research, stolen from a train Wednesday, have been re- covered here. A man was de- tained. Scotland Yard detectives and American intelligence officers co-operated in a 48-hour coun- try-wide hunt for the papers lost by Frank Greenlees, a Sup- ply Ministry official, on his way to a research establishment in the North of England. He left the papers in a case in his railroad compartment while he walked along the corrider of the train. When he returned three minutes later the papers were gone, Police said espionage was not suspected, Churchill Asks Unified West Army Strasbourg, France, Aug. 11 (AP) --Winston Churchill today urged the immediate creation of a uni- fied European army to shield the West against Russia. Britain's wartime prime minister formally introduced a motion on the floor of the European Consul- tative Assembly asking for such an army "subject to proper democratic control." Churchill's motion said such a European force should act in full co-operation with the United States and Canada in support of the United Nations Security Council, Churchill demanded the prompt creation of "a real of- fensive front in Europe." "The United States and Britain must send large forces to the con- tinent, and France must revive its CHURCHILL (Continued on page 2) St. Louis Is Crippled By 14 St. Louis, Aug. 11 (AP) -- Some street car and bus operators defied state seizure of the St. Louis Transit System and disrupted public trans- portation here early today. Groups waited in vain for buses at some corners, Fifty-six of the city's street car and bus lines were operating and 11 bus lines were out of service. Service during the early morning hourf was "only about 50 per cent of normal," the St. Louis Public Service Company reported. Union leaders were trying to get all the men back to work. ' There was no violence, but union leaders reported "some of our men are being intimidated by a wildcat element." The transit system was seized last night by Governor Forrest Smith five minutes before a midnight deadline set for a shutdown by the Electrical Street Railway and Mo- tor Coach Employees' Division 788 (AFL). 5 The transportation dispute arose over the company's rejection of a retroactive wage recommendation of a public panel hearing. The panel said the compa should grant a seven-cent hourly increase, retro- active to last Jan. 1. UK. Cabinet Meets To Hike Soldiers Pay London, Aug. 11 (Reuters)--Prime Minister 'Attlee today called a cabi- net meeting at short notice -- two weeks earlier than he planned -- to discuss pay increases for the armed forces, Attlee, it was understood, called the meeting after reading a private report by Defence Minister Emanuel Shinwell, who has said that service pay must be increased to 'attract more recruits, Will Get Six Idings; Buick 'Again In Production London, Ont., Aug. 11 (CP).--General Motors Corporation, opening a $13,000,000 diesel locomotive industry here today, announced three other major expansions by subsidiaries in Canada. They are: Six new buildings, some now under construe. tion, and others expected to be started soon, by General Motors of Canada Limited, at Oshawa. These will permit resumption of production of Buick cars in Canada about next January. Buicks have not been produced in Canada for 10 years. A new 500,000 square foot plant by Frigidaire Products of Canada Ltd. on a 70-acre tract in Scarboro township, in addition to the present plant at Leaside. Both locations are Toronto suburbs. A new plant providing approximately 135,000 square feet of floor space by McKinnon Industries, Ltd., St. Cathar- ines. It will provide for an increase of some 30 per cent in the company's output of automotive parts and accessories. Automatic transmissions will probably be made at this plant in about a year's time. The announcements were made by C. E. Wilson, presi- dent of General Motors, Detroit, at a press conference pre- ceding today's official opening of the diesel plant. The expanded plants are expected to provide employ ment for 4,000 to 5,000 more people. / Big Diesel Plant Opens By FORBES RHUDE Canadian Press Business Editor London, Ont., Aug. 11-- (CP) -- This city and Canada got a new $13,000,000 industry today. It is General Motors Diesel, Ltd., which will make loco- motives for Canadian railways, and the figure $13,000,000 gives only a faint idea of it. For very shortly it will be producing one diesel unit every two days, worth from $100,000 to $200,000 each, and later on it aims at one every day. That adds up to probably a minimum of $20,000,000 each year. The materials needed are not all available in London, and so the industry offers a chance to any Canadian manufacturer or com- munity to get in its bids on orders; with Western Ontario towns and cities in a favored spot. The siie, just outside London, was farmland 11 months ago. It has some 200,000 square feet of working space on a 210-acre site and wiil employ about 1,000 persons. General Motors executives chose London because, with about 100,- 000 people, it is neither too large nor too small. The new plant, already at work, but officially opened to- day, will go to work on orders from the Canadian Pacific sailway., In October it will start on a $2,500,000 order for the Canadian National Rail- ways, The London Free Press today published a 60-page edition, half of it devoted 'to the new plant, and last night Arthur Ford, editor-in- chief, entertained at dinner com- pany executives, representative citi- zens and visiting newspapermen, The diesel locomotive comes in everything from stubby switchers to streamlined jobs for passenger trains, and consists of a diesel en- gine, an electric generator, control apparatus, traction motors, loco- motive body, and trucks. Prince Takes Over Belgium Royal Duties Brussels, Aug. 11--(AP)--Crown Prince Baudouin today became ruler of all the Belgians in the place of his father, King Leopold III. He took the oath as Prince Royal in Parliament, where several hours earlier the Senate and Chamber of Deputies in joint session had given final approval to the bill trans- ferring' Leopold's royal powers to his 19-year-old son. The final vote was 349 in favor with eight ab- stentions, This was the final act in a royal drama that began with Leopold's banishment in 1945 for his action in surrendering to the invading German armies in the Second World War. His supporters, the Social Chris tians, waged a five-year struggle and brught him back last month. The anti-Leopold Socialists une leashed a series of strikes and demonstrations which brought Bel= gium to the brink of civil war, An uneasy calm was restored Aug. 1 when Leopold agreed to a slow-motion abdictin. under terms of which Baudouin would take over the actual powers today and be-. come king in name also on his 21st birthday, Sept. 7, 1951. Korean Situation at a Glance By THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS EASTERN FRONT: American fighter planes abandon Pohang airstrip, at least temporarily, as Reds drive within 31% miles of field, battle into half port city. Red Fifth Di- vision attacks South Koreans south of Yongdok, less than 35 miles north of Pohang battle. CENTRAL FRONT: Reds mass great strength--possi- bly 40,000 men -- on west bank of Naktong River before Taegu for expected new blow at key U.S. base. U.S. and South Koreans battle Red forces in bridgeheads across Nake tong as Communists send new troops across. SOUTHERN FRONT: Eighth Army says Communists are abandoning their Chinju base but other reports say they dig in west of city ahead of slow American advance. AIR WAR: U.S. Marine and installations in south, exacting heavy casualties, pilots report heavy damage in raids ranging all way from Seoul to south coast, : planes batter enemy infantry Navy