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I ' THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 9--No. 285 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950 Price 4 Cente TWENTY-FOUR PAGES (OBJECTION FILED ON ANNEXATION "Allies Brace To Fight Million Chinese Reds Wins "Miss Darlington" Title New Hill 1 Defence On 70-Mile Front Set by 8th Army Tokyo, Dec. 7-- (AP)--Allied troops braced on a new hill defence line 25 miles south of fallen Pyongyang today for a stand against steadily advancing vanguards of a 1,000,000- man Chinese Communist expeditionary force. The line stretched inland 70 miles in northwest Korea from the Yellow Sea. It was a defence in depth on com- manding heights and not a solid line. The U.S. Eighth Army, with its.long and bitter retreat at a halt, was greatly outnumbered and hard hit but still was a unified fighting force. The Chinese Armies in front of it. were estimated at 100,000 men with up to 80,000 combat reserves behind those Reds and hundreds of thousands more in Korea or moving up from Manchuria. The Eighth Army force on the® defence line is something less than the 110,000 men Le.-Gen. Walton H. Walker had when he was forced to retreat late in November. Northeast of the new line, U.S. forces battled in a blizzard in a dogged effort to break out of Red traps south of the Chang- U.K. Leaders Confer On Asian Situation Singapore, Dec. 7 -- (AP) -- Britain's top military, govern- ment and diplomatic leaders in jin reservoir... They broke out of one and have to fight through another. Underscoring the critical situation of the United Nations forces near the reservoir and elsewhere in the Southeast Asia started talks here taday on what their gov- ernment should do to streng- then its position in this troubled area, Malcolm MacDonald, British commissioner general for Southeast Asis, is presiding. KOREA (Continued on page 5) U.S. Marines Fight Out of Red Trap To Safe Koto Sector By JACK MACBETH Koto, Korea, Dec. 7--(AP)--Someone poked his head into the tent from the icy darkness and announced "they're coming in." Those inside the tent who were awake roused the oth- | ers. Down the road voices and the noise of vehicles moving in out of the darkness made it plain that the first elements of the Marine column had arrived. Cut off and chopped up by hordes of Chinese for 10 days, Enfield Girl | The attractive girl with the twinkling eyes Has a right to Rid | Enniskillen, recently crowned "Miss Darlington 1950" 3 to her at the Football Dance sponsored by Rey Nichols & | Miss Smith, who is employed by Theo. Slemon and Son, Enniskillen, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hoskin | the race was between the. 43-year- | Objections may be filed within a | | | | | Thomas R. Brophey, UA. W. Chief Would Speed Mobilization Washington, Dec. 7--(AP)-- Labor Leader Walter Reuther today accused the United States Government of bungling con- version to defence production and of trying futilely to control "runaway inflation" through a meat-ax approach." Reuther, president of the Un- ited Automobile Workers (C.I 0.), called for all-out home- front. mobilization immediate- ly, including provision for "genuine" price control. In a statement prepared for a congressional committees, the union chief said nothing about wage controls, which the law says must be imposed simultaneously with any price restrictions. BROPHEY WINS BY 171 VOTES IN WINDSOR Windsor, Ont,, Dec. T7T--(CP) 43-year-old left his newspaper reported who | job two years ago to study law, i a winning smile. She is Margaret Smith of | didly caught exhibiting the silverware presented | 'held in the Newcastle Commpnity Hall, Dee. 1./ n, Miss Ruth Reynolds of Hampton. er for the Bowmanville district who | Sponsor of the dance, Mr. 'Nichol Smith, Enfield. She received her 'crown from retiring 'Bea General Motors d is the |} on Monday was elected Reeve of Darlington "Township Co cil by a large majority. --LCut Courtesy The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville. SEAWAY GIVEN GOOD CHANGE IN CONGRESS Ottawa, Dec. T--(CP)--The Fed- | eral' Government is reported more {hopeful that the long-delayed St. Lawrence seaway and power de- velopment may win adoption in the United States Congress in 1951. Authoritiative sources indi- cate that the government now believes the project has at the Marines had fought through all the way from Yudam, on the northwest of Changjin reservoir, to Koto, a distance of 22 road miles, linked | Russie Rail Strike Is Near Settlement Dec. . 7--(Reuters)-- Melh irne, At Hagaru they up with other Marine elements as well as some soldiers from the U.S. 7th Division who were hard hit on the other side of the lake. At daybreak Wednesday the for- ces began to assume battle forma- tion and shortly afterwards started to file out of Hagaru. They immedi- ately ran into their first heavily- defended enemy position. For the next 12 hours it was a Locomotive engineers today decid- ed to end Victoria States's railway strike which began 53 days ago. It is expected that the brake- men's section of the Australian Railways Union will make a sim- ilar decision tomorrow, and that trains will be running by Sunday. The engineers' decision was taken following the Government's decision yesterday to delay until Friday an application for the "de- registration" of the two railway unions whose brakemen and engin- eer * members demanded higher wages. ' Appraisal Shows U.S. War Potential Washington, Dec. 7-- (AP)--Nine years ago today the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and catapulted the United States into the Second World War. Dec. 7, 1941 . . . in the words of Franklin D. Rossevelt, it marked "a day that will live in infamy." On the anniversary of that grim day, the parallel between then and now stands forth in the light of a grave new crisis question of smashing one enemy MARINES (Continued on page 5) arising from the assault of a Chinese Communist army in Korea and the threat of Soviet armies massed half across -the world. | Is the United States prepared for | |a Third World War, | come? | Carefully weighing both sides of | | the question, military and diplo- | | matic experts say the country's] | readiness for war today is vastly | greater, in many respects, than in| Average Per Issue for NOVEMBER . | the alarm-filled days just before | | Pearl Harbor. 11 066 | But--and this they emphasize-- | 9 there are tremendous handicaps | | APPRAISAL . (Continued on page 2) --tes i Mn. di mre: NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette if it should | least an even change in Con- gress, which has repeatedly cold-shouldered it in the past. This belief is based on re- cent developments which indi- cate a changing sentiment to- wards the project. Two recent such indications: 1. A declaration by Senator Rob- ert Taft of Ohio, leading Repub- lican and long-time opponent of the project, that he now is pre- pared to give it conditional con- sideration. 2. A speech by Stanley Wood- ward, U.S. ambassador to Can- ada, in which he stressed that President Truman had told him that he feels the project has a new sense of urgency, and that he is prepared to press it in Congress. Tibet Sends Second Plea New Delhi, Dec. 7--(AP)--Tibet has sent a second appeal to the United Nations asking help against the, Chinese Communist invasion, informed sources in this Indian capital said today. These sources reported that the néw pela by the Tibetan cabinet at the mountain coun- trys' capital of Lhasa express- ed distress that the U.N. post- poned action on Tibet's original appeal dispatched some time ago. At the same time, the new peti- tion re-emphasized Tibet's peril in the face of Chinese. Communist aggression. It was said to observe |also that while the invasion fit- | self apparently has slowed down, small bands of armed Reds are (active in widespread areas of ibet, THE WEATHER Cloudy today and Friday. Rain today, 'changing over to occasional light snow Friday morning. Mild today and to- night, turning much colder Friday. Winds east 25 today, shifting to southwest 20 Fri- day morning. Low tonight and high Friday 30. and 32. Summary for Friday -- colder Peace at Any Price Out as Truman And Attlee Talks Go On By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Washington, Dec. 7T--(AP)--President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee appeared ready to consider any reas- onable proposal for a Korean settlement if it does not call | for "appeasement" of the Chinese Communists. At the same time, officials here disavowed any real | optimism over the prospects for acceptance by Communist |* China of an appeal by 13 peace-seeking Asian countries for | the Communists to cease fire and negotiate a settlement. | 10 Centres Vote Down As the Anglo-American talks entered their fourth day the President and Prime Minister were concentrating on plans f~- a speed-up in Western European rearmament with the prospect that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower could be named as supreme commander in a week & * emerged today as the victor in Windsor's see-saw mayoralty -elec- tion after hours of hectic uncer- tainty. Official figures gave him slender margin of 171 in 35,889 votes. Four men were in the field, but | old Brophy and dapper Mayor | BROPHEY (Coptinved of on page 5) Six Women Voted Down In Hamilton Hamilton, Dec. 6--(CP)--For the first time in 20 years, this industrial ciry in 1951 will have no women on | its council. . Six women candidates, including a Communist seeking the mayoralty, went down to defeat in civic elec- tions yesterday. Mayor Lloyd D. Jackson re. turned to office with an over- whelming majority in a two- Costs For Local Improvements Objection Basis Within one day of expiry of the time limit for the filing of objections to the Ontario Municipal Board order annex- ing part of East Whitby Township to the City of Oshawa a petition of objection was presented to the Board in Toronto yesterday by Allin F. Annis, K.C. on behalf of some 375 ratepayers from the area to be annexed. The objection does not protest annexation as a whole but only to one phase of the order, that which deals with the charges for local ime provements made against property frontages. The fact that the petitioners claim the Oshawa City Council took no action to give the owners of agricultural lands assurances that they | would not be penalized unduly in the matter of local im- provement charges was cited by Mr. Annis as the reason for the filing of objection. : The statutory time limit for the filing of objections ex- pires today as the order was signed on November 9, and the Municipal Act allows a period of 28 days for objections to be filed. Suspends Order While the filing of an objection | to the annexation order need not necessarily affect the evenjual | coming into effect of annexation {as of January 1, 1950, as it refers | to only one section of the order | {and not to annexation in itself, this action will have the affect of complicating the arrangements | made in connection with it. It means that for the time being the annexation order stands suspended. This is seen by reference to the | sections of the Municipal Act pro- | viding for the filing of objections. | The Municipal Act provides that pe A No Withdrawal From Korea Is Shinwell Defy London, Dec. 7--(AP)--De- fence Minister Emanuel Shin- well said today in the House of Commons that "there is no thought in our minds or in that of the American author- ities of withdrawal from Kor- ea." He said there may be "still harder tidings" form the crit- ical front, however. "No one knows what the outcome will be, It would be foolish to underestimate the size of de- termination of the Chinese in- period of 28 days from the signing | of the annexation order, and must | bear the signatures of at least ten per cent of the electors of that area to be annexed who are eligible to vote on money by-laws. After | an objection is filed, the annexa- | tion order cannot come into force | until the objection is withdrawn, tervention." | which can be done by a withdraw- He told the House U.N. -_ forces already face 270,000 Red OBJECTION FILED Chinese soldiers, with 500,000 | (Continued on page 2) more in reserve. | 1 | PROTEST PETITION MAY MEAN COUNCIL ACTIONS HAMPERED --rd + The objection to the order for i \ | ] < less withdrawn, ,might mean that | annexation of parts of East Whitby validation would not follow until a | Township by the City of Oshawa, |, uate pill we passed by the One | which has been filed. with the On- o | money by-laws, way fight with Mrs. Helen And- erson Coulson, a former con- troller and member of the naf- | tario Municipal Board by 4 group {of farmers and which is dealt with |elsewhere in this issue of The ional executive .of the Labor- | Times- Gazette, could place the city Progressive Party. lin a highly difficult position. The Voters also turned down com-|order for annexation was the whole mercialized Sunday sports, the two- | basis and foundation for the recent | year term for council and two | municipal election, and until such | times. as the order is validated the An unusually heavy vote slowed election is illegal. {down the count to such an extent| .The objection to the order, un- | that the complete tally was not | available at an early hour today. 'SIX WOMEN (Continued on Zoniinuen or' page. 2) with snow flurries. By The Canadian Press The industrial city of Hamilton yesterday joined nine other On- tario communities which have turn- ed down commercialized Sunday sport in civic voting this year. But the small town of Tecumseh, near the border city' of Windsor, went for it in a big way, following the lead of other Essex County municipalities. The tally there was 785 for Sunday sport, and 70 against. Tecumseh , thus joined five other municipalities which ap- proved the question--Fort Wil- liam, Essex, Caperol, . Sand- wich West and Wolfe Island. At Hamilton, incomplete returns showed the vote went about three- to-two against it. With 146 of 501 polling - subdivisions reported, the tally was 9,173 for an 14,365 against, Other centres who rejected Sun- day sport are: Sudbury, Sault Ste. Marie, 'Guelph, Kitchener, Water- loo, Brockville, New Liskeard, Co- bourg and Whitby. CAR KILLS AGED MAN Niagara Falls, Onht., Dec. 7--(CP) --Vincent Mazzei, 82, died in hos- pital Wednesday night, an hour after he was struck by an auto- mobile as he crossed the Queen Elizabeth Way near his home. His son, Peter, 55, was treated for shock and cuts to the head. Po- lice said the driver of the car was Walter Jekielek, 31, of Niagara Falls, N.Y. ' or 10 days. | Differences with France over in- | cluding German units in a Western | European defence force were evi- | dently resolved. France Bipouresd | last "night that she will call meeting of the Western Ma iiod untries in Paris next month to | draw up plans for a European army. France agreed to immediate for- | mation of West German combat PEACE | (Continued on page 2) German Wants U.N. Action on Prisoners | Lake Success, N.Y. Dec. 7--(AP) | --A West German representa tive | said today that at least 62,792 Ger- | man war prisoners "are known to | be still alive in Soviet captivity." | The representative, Georg Feder- | ar, reported this "minimum figure" | as a United Nations committee | prepared to take up a joint United States - British - Australian de-! mand for U.N. action to shed light on the fate of thousands of Ger- man and Japanese prisoners taken ! by the Russians. The demand, placed on the agen- da of the General Assembly's so- | cial and humanitarian committee | over vigorous Russian objections, is expected 1: be debated by the committee today or tomorrow. While a cricket team has 11 men, 0 outs finish an innings because | there must always be two batsmen. | | here Sister Held. In Trial Of Watchmaker Quebec, Dec. 7--(CP)--Mrs. Ar- thur Pitre--who delivered a disguised | | bomb to an ill-fated airliner here-- was arrested last night on a per- jury charge arising from the murder | trial of her brother, watchmaker Genereux Ruest. Mrs, Pitre already awaits trial for allegedly intimidating a witness in another murder trial connected with the crash, which took 23 lives in September, 1949. She was also accused of a sui- cide a'tempt after the case broke with the arrest of J. Al- bert Guay, Quebec jeweller now . awaiting execution for the mur- der of his wife, Rita, a passen- ger aboard the plane. Ruest"is charged with helping to | msnufacture the time-bomb used ta wreck the plane at Sault Au Cochon, 20 minutes' flight from Yesterday, expert witnesses testified at Ruest's trial that evi- dence of a violent dynamite .ex- plosion was found after the crash. Mrs. Pitre was arrested last night, and a spokesman for the Crown Prosecutor said the charge arose | from her testimony Tuesday. He !shid she contradicted a statement she made at Ruest's preliminary hearing. TO TURN DOWN UN. REQUEST Lake Success, N.Y., Dec. 7T--(AP) --The United Nations Assembly political committee today was scheduled to begin its first full dis- cussion of the big western powers' quest for Cc nist China to withdraw its troops from Korea. Supporters foresaw quick ap- | proval possible by the end of the week. The Chinese Communist rep- resentatives here have frowned on proposals that the Red armies stop at the 38th par- allel. The Peiping radio ' has d a stat t that their troops will roll south "to aid Korea." The effect of a U.N. withdrawal demand was doubtful. One United States source, ad- mitting he was taking the most hopeful] attitude he could think of, explained his optimism this way: "If this resolution is adopted by the U.N, it will be the first time that the full membership of the U.N. will have asked the Chinese Communists to do anything. May- 'be the Chinese Communists are waiting for such a request from the whole U.N. If that is sD, this will give them the excuse to quit Korea. | "If not, then the will of the rest of the nations of the world will be CHINA (Continued on page 3) tario Legislature. Inasmuch as this body does not meet until February or March there is a possibility that from the end of 1950 when the present council ceases to hold office, until . validation. makes the 1951 council a legally elected body the city would be without a proper ade ministrative body. 1851 Council Could Act In the event that this took place, city authorities said today, the 1951 council would take over and "carry on with its duties, on the unders standing that its actions would be validated by the private bill which would be presented to the legisla= ture in February or March. Acs tually it would be acting in an ex= tra-legal capacity for the first two months or so but after the passage of the bill its actions would be made retroactively legal. It is highly unlikely, if not ime possible, that the farmers' objece tion would ivalidate the annexation order permanently. It might hold COUNCIL ACTION (Continued on page 2) 2,000 Flee Etna Lava Catania, Sicily, Dec. 7T--(AP) Mount Etna's latest eruption showe ed no sign of abatement today as the huge volcano spilled wide streams of molten lava down its flanks and forced evacuation of more than 2,000 persons from the villages of Renazzo and Milo. A fleet of trucks removed the villagers from their homes yes- terday and early today. Huge explosions from craters above shook the air and growled through deep valleys and. woods. Shortly after the 600 residents of Renazzo were moved to safety, the red-hot lava last night began crushing its path through the vil lage itself. Trees became flaming torches. A brickworks burst into flame and was smashed. Gradual= ly, other houses caught fire. Danger to nearby Milo increased hourly, -