Daily Times-Gazette, 12 Dec 1950, p. 1

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*® THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Daily Times-Gazette and Whitby Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY; VOL. 9--No. 289 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950 Price § Cente SIXTEEN PAGES ALLIES AGREE TO U.N. CEASE-FIRE Would B Build 300 New Homes In Cedardale| Toronto Company Oshawa-Made Chevrolets On Display i in London | Would Purchase City-Owned Land City Council, at its regular statutory meeting last night, was asked to consider the sale of 63 acres of city-owned land on the south side of Thomas Street and the west side of Sim- coe upon which would be constructed between 300 and 350 homes by a Toronto firm, Active Subdivisions Limited. This close to $3,000,000 project would be completed within a year, a spokesman for the firm told the aldermen. The quartet which appeared for the Bay Street firm includ- ed the spokesman, S. C. Craggs, James Walsh and Dr. E. G. Faludi, a planning consultant. Mayor Michael Starr appointed a committee to outline the city's price for the land, the agreement under which the houses would be built and the requirements which would be demanded by the. Planning RUSSIA GETS VITAL GOODS Truman Ready To Proclaim U.S. Emergency Washington, Dec. 12 (AP) -- President Truman is arranging to address the .«merican people by radio Friday or Saturday night on the world situation and the home front steps he believes are necessary as a result of the threat of war, Truman will consult at 10 a.m. tomorrow with a group of sena- tors and representatives on plans for, the proclamation of a national emergency -- a step expected to be preliminary to a rapid series of moves placing the United States on virtually a war footing. |ATTLEE SEES $ HOPE FOR UN. 'Munich' Fears Voiced In U.S. At Part of Plan Lake Success, N.Y., Dec. 12--(AP)--Britain and the Bia States today threw their support behind a Middle East-Asian proposal to seek a basis for a Korean cease-fire, J | The U.S. insisted, however, that other Asian problems cane not be discussed until the Korean fighting ends. The two big western powers spoke immediately after {India's Sir Benegal N. Rau laid before the General Assem- | bly's political committee the plan of the Asian and Middle This plan called both for a special group to | East countries. | seek a basis for a cease-fire and for another group to seek a settlement of all outstanding issues in the Far East. In presenting the plan in two resolutions, for a group of Asian and Middle East countries, Rau said he was convinced from his talks with Chinese Communist Envoy Wu Hsiu- | Chuan that the Peiping government wants peace. He warned, however, that the Chinese people seem to be moving toward a sort of hands-off doctrine for the Far East. Rau proposed in his second resolution, that the Chinese Board, They then will be sub- mitted to. the company for its KOREA STAND Reds be given a direct voice in settling outstanding Asian problems after the basis for a cease-fire in Korea is worked HES £3 BY TRICKERY It was the intention of the com- | pany, Mr. Craggs said, to purchase | 300 NEW HOMES (Continued on page 2! London, Dec. 12 '(Reuters) -- | out. Prime Minister Attlee told the | An American spokesman said House of Commons today he has| he United States delegation had "good hopes that the forces of the | yo¢ read the text of the second United Nations wil maintain them- | resolution and he could not say Frankfurt, Dec. 12--(AP)--High- ly-strategic war materals are flow- ing behind the Soviet Iron Curtain from West Germany, and the West- ern allies are powerless to stop ® A 4 Chevrolets from Oshawa had an exhibit 'all to themselves at the International Motor Exhibition at Earl's Marine Losses Scaled Down In Washington Washington, Dec. 11 (AP) -- Marine headquarters today scal« ed down its estimhles of the casualties suffered by the 1st Marine Division in breaking out of the Chinese Communist trap in the Changjin reservoir area of Korea. The Marines put the figure at 3,000 to 3,300 and said the number includes those disabled by sickness and exposure to winter weather. Actual battle losses--in killed, wounded and missing -- were estimated at about half the total. Earlier casualty estimates ranged up to 6,500. Vatican to Extend Holy Year Jubilee Vatican City, Dec. 12 (AP)--The them. Articles such as machine tools, ball bearings, optical supplies, steel tubing and raw steel are being mov- ed secretly into the Russian satel- lite bloc. Allied officials believe that much -- or most -- of this ma- terial finds its way directly to Russia. It is believed also that quan- | Court in London a few weeks ago. drive jobs, Oshawa's engineering department can take credit. CEASE-FIRE IS PEARSON'S tities of rolling stock purchas- ed from United States Army surplus has been deviously ship- ped to Russian satellites for relay to Russia. The Western Allies find them- selves helpless. They have export licensing power by the West Ger- man government, which hasn't the | power or means to police the ulti- | | mate destination of purchased pro- | | way | to make a substantial contribution | Holy Year jubilee which ends here | Christmas Eve will be extended ducts. Allied sources say they have no | of determining the exact | | amount of contraband that has | | gone to the Russians. But 'we feel, it was and is of sufficient quantity | PEACE STEP Lake Suceess, NY N.Y. Dec. to the Co unist bloc's war_po- | that a cease-fire in Korea must be tential," one source added. Allied sources who "eclined to be identified explained how | the East -- at a time when | Canada's external affairs minis- United Nations forces are sorely | ters, in a broadcast over the CBC beset in Korea--acquires vital | network, made the statement in materials from the West. | answering questions of various for- A Ruhr firm, for example, ex-|eign correspondents at.the United the Korean and other Asiatic prob- | lems, + through all of 1951 to the entire ( ports steel to West Berlin buyers | Nations. world. who ostensibly are legitimate deal- | He said, However, that Canada's | 12-- | (CF)--L. B. Pearson said last night | | the first step in the settlement of | | withdrawn to Parallel Millions of Roman Catholics who ers. But after the steel reaches Ber- | support of any future U.N. resolu- | were unable to make a pilgrimage | lin, it disappears. The Allies believe | tj, calling for a cease-fire would to Rome in the 1950 Holy Year | | it is quietly taken to East Berlin | depend on what "strings" were at- will therfby be given the oppor- tunity to gain the spiritual bene- fits in their own cities. |and from there shipped giler Ji | tached to it. Pech Russia, or. to one; of «ner | Asked by Henryk Gall of the Pol- satelliles, . | ish Press Agency of Canada's sup- | fon. of possible future negotia--\ Red China Rushes To Arms With Huge, Forces In Making | tions in Korea would stop short at | | the problem of admitting Red Chi- PEARSON (Continued on page 2) Reich Balks On Military Mongolian Cavalry Units Leading Vast It was the first time that there had been an opportunity to show G.M.'s Canadian-built cars in London, England, since World War II began. interest and may do much to re-open an export market which formerly meant a great deal, and to develop again an overseas trade which can be important in supplementing employment in plants here. right-hand drive yet they had underseat heaters and radios perfectly adapted, an achievement for which | Right®hand drive Chevrolets so equipped cannot be ob- tained from U.S.A. and the Canadian jobs, therefore, have established a valuable measure of leadership in the | right-hand drive market, It will be possible also to adapt the new automatic transmission for right-hand The cars created a great deal of The cars were | Armies of Chinese Tokyo, Dec. 12-- (AP) --Almost all North Korea today | | was abandoned by United Nations troops to the massive Communist forces of China and North Korea's army. remnant In the west, the bulk of the Allied Eighth Army had and South Korea. 38, the old boundary between North In the northeast, most of the United States 10th Corps | was huddled on the Hamhung coastal plain. This force was 130 air miles deep in North Korea, but it was surrounded by i Communist forces and the road south was blocked. At the nearby port of Hungnm, a U.N. fleet was standing by i readiness to evacuate the encircled corps. An American Army regiment, ------t Price Board Offices 'Are Ordered Closed Kitchener, Dec. 12 (CP)--An order closing Kitchener's prices board office Jan. 31 has been received here, it was learned to- day. It was also said the Lon- don office will close on the the 7th Division's 17th that once stood on the Manchurian border, was somewhere in the frozen wasteland and presum- ably withdrawing toward Hung- nam. Its movements were shrouded for security reasons. So, too, were the positions of two | South Korean divisions, the 3rd | and Capital. At full strength wel would total about 20,000 men. They had struck along the north- | selves in Korea." Members of the Commons cheered the announcement, made as a report on the Prime Minister's world crisis talks with President Truman in Washington and Canadian lead- ers in Ottawa. Attlee returned by plane from his North American trip to- day, immediately reported to the king and held a conference with his cabinet, Outlining to the House the re- i sults of the trip, Attlee said: "On Korea and the Far East we ATTLEE (Continued on page 2) 2 Killed, 3 Hurt When Freight Goes off Track McAdam, N.B., Dec. 12 (CP). --Two train crew members were killed and three others injured today when a Canadian Pacific Railway doubleheader freight train plunged off a washed-out stretch of rail 12 miles from here. Killed were Engineer Joseph H. Doiron and Fireman C. M. McKay. Injured were D. W. McDermott, engineer of the other locomotive on the 36-car train, Fireman Creighton White and George Madire, trainman. The accident occurred at Lambert Lake, west of this town near the United States border. Mayor Houde Wins In Montreal Montreal, Dec. 12 (CP).--Camil- FRENCH TOLD BIG 4 MEET IS IMMINENT Paris, Dec. 12 (AP) -- Foreign Minister Schuman told the French National Assembly today that a meeting of the Big Four -- Russia, the United States, Britain and France--to discuss the German res armament problem is "imminent. His statement came as French official quarters privately ex pressed great disturbance over reports that the West German chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, would reject a French-approved plan for the use of German units in a West European Army, what it's exact attitude would be. It was learned, however, that abstracts of its contents im pressed the Americans as a form of appeasement and were com- pletely unacceptable. The Philippines, led by Foreign | UN. (Continued on.page 2) Quebec Jury Gets Bomb Case Today | Quebec, Dec. 12 (CP).--A little, middle-aged cripple will hear, per- | haps late today, a. Criminal Court | jury's decision on his innocence or guilt of murder in the time- bombing of an airliner in which 23 men, women and children were killed. The little man is 54-year-old Genereux Ruest, on trial since Nov. 27. The Crowns says he helped build an alarm clock, batteries and dynamite sticks into a time-bomb that wrecked a Canadian Pacific Airlines plane Sept. 9, 1949. | Today in Quebec Criminal Court, the 12th and last witness to appear in the defence of the lower town | { watchmaker is due®to be heard. | Seventy-six witnesses for the Crown | | told their stories in the trials first, | | two weeks, Monty Asks Draft Brussels, Dec. 12 (Reuters) --Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chairman of the Brussels Treaty | Powers defence committee, today urged that a period of two years | compulsory draft, service should be instituted in all North Atlantis | Pact countries. This was revealed here by a Bele {gian 'government spokesman who |added that Viscount Montgomery | said this period of draft service [should be brought in with "only a brief delay." Brussels, Dec. 12 (AP) -- Foreign Ministers of the 12 Atlantic Pact countries will meet in Brussels next | | Monday, 14 Dead, 140 Hurt In Malaya Rioting east coast within 40 miles of Soviet Siberia when masses of Communist Chinese turned the tide and the order was given to withdraw. 'The climatic point of collapse in ' lien Houde has done it again. The | perennial favorite yesterday was elected mayor of Canada's largest city for the seventh time. Mayor Houde, also independ- same date: Officials said this leaves To- ronto the only prices office in this part of Ontario and there is every likelihood it will be Over Child Bride By A. L. McINTYRE Aid Plans Bonn, Germany, Dec. 12--(AP)-- By FRED HAMPSON Hong Kong, Dec. 12 (AP)--Communist China, already armed to the teeth, seems to be rushing to convert itself into a militarist country for a long pull. Such a program, if carried to the limit, would mean that | An informed source said today (Tuesday) that the West German government will reject plans of the |. closed at the same time the Lond. and Kitch offices fold up. | v KOREA (Continued on page 2) ent member of the House of Commons for Montreal Papi- neau, practically doubled the votes received hy his lone op- Singapore, Dec. 12--(AP)--Police clamped a dusk-to- dawn curfew on riot-torn Singapore tonight, as the toll from two days of fighting over the fate of a Moslem-reared Dutch " : | North Atlantic Pact countries to Communism seeks to turn the world's most populous coun-| oe Fc Combat teams in a try into a feeder source for battle on a sustained basis. western defence force. ogg 1 1d t h : This source said Chancellor i 10S 0 oreans ee hkiithy Dian wou a oan #--- Konrad Adenauer disclosed his fect 8 Rad mene" Reds in Mass Migrations Ying, commander of the South | Adenauer was quoted as say- power--and probably no combina- government's position at a special China military government, | ing the plan did not meet Toe tion of western countries -- could Another report, from Peiping, an- | German requirements for abso- 2 2 ! With U.S. Forces in Korea, Dec. timate of the number on the move. equal. Two news items in the last few days provide the latest evi- nounced the opening of five mili-| lute equality. The Bonn gov- Ag n rd tary schools to train specialists and ernment objected on the iver )--Lilke locusts, € pitiful | ynited Nations relief officials say officers. The Communists have "re- | grounds that German troops | victims of this ravaged country are ., 1 of tr ulation in | OC and keeping. many would-be and return her to the Malay appeal to halt Maria Bertha's | swarming southward toward Unit- per cent of the population In| ,,ters at home--31.8 per cent of the| woman who for eight years rear- transfer 15 The Netherlands, the path of the Communist army | city's 283,654 eligible voters turned | ed her, and to the Moslem Troops and police drove off the dence of a trend toward furth- er militarization, quested" that everyone over 17 "vol- would have inferior status, unteer" for one of these schools. would be less well armed than |ed Nations lines in perhaps the | greatest mass migration of civilians in the north is flowing southward. | out. | school teacher she married last Moslems with bayonet charges summer, and tear-gas bombs, ponent, Sarto Fournier, who may still lose his $200 deposit. The complete count for the night | from 1,257 polls out of 1291 Fhe | mewihie, ruled today that the ® | Mayor Houde 60,025 votes and Mr. girl's Roman Catholic Dutch mother | wielding police and British troops Fournier, Montreal lawyer and may take 13-year-old Maria Bertha and armored cars. Member of Parliament for Mont- | Hertog back to the Netherlands| Elsewhere in the city violence real Maisonneuve-Rosemount, 30,070. | with her. was subsiding, but demonstrators In inclement weather--the rst | Thousands of fanatic Moslems mad¢ a new small-scale attempt [heavy snowfall of the season hit| im two days of bitter rioting today to rush the court building Montreal yesterday, disrupting traf- | have tried to kidnap the child as the tribunal denied a Malay . ' . . girl rose to 14 dead and more than 140 injured, The British colony's supreme court, ing a sixth field army, to be | meeting of parliamentary party BE betes | NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for NOVEMBER 11,066 A Canton dispatch to an in- dependent Hong Kong news- However, this conscription, train- divisions of other countriss and I uipping would | German officers would not |since the Korean war began. | | | ing, financing and equipping w x ! Whole villages are being evacuated. The dead included four Britons, | two Eurasians and one Indian. Three paper said the Reds were form- share in the higher command | Thousands are streaming | : boi toil of the joint force. | from Chinese occupied ter- | The Chinese began driving civil | ritory, Other thousands are |ians ahead of them when the Reds | ii wa Dec. c._12--(CP)--Agricul- | other bodies were unidentified. { pouring out of villages between | cracked the Allied Chongchon Ri- | ture Minister Gardiner today an- | | Among the injured were two Ameri- A a" Communist and Allied lines. - | ver line last month. Since then the | nounced that the Government's can correspondents, 36 Europeans, This chain reaction of men, | number of refugees has mounted | price support program for eggs will | and 52 Chinese. The rest were 3a 5 & 7 women and children secking |rapidly. Chinese occupation of he continued in 1951. The prices | Indians, Malays and Eurasians. - | 10 11 12 13 14 | Pyongyang, the North Korean cap- | | will remain the same as in 1950. | There were unconfirmed reports | 17 15 19 20 21 murdered by Moslem mobs in the | M25 26 27 28 29 30 safety extends to Seoul and on | ital, provided new impetus for the | {that seven Eurasians had been | eastern part of the island. | SHOPPING DAYS southward. is on | flight down the peninsula. London, Ont., Dec. 12-- (CP) Fighting, which began with a mob till CHRISTMAS SE EGG PRICES CONTINUE RED CHINA (Continued on page 2) DECEMBER 1950 ™u " 'Chinese Red Forces 'Near Indian Border New Delhi, Dec. 12--(AP)-- Foreign ministry sources today said Communist Chinese forces have been sighted within a few miles of the India-China bor- der near Northeastern Assam state. we wie THE WEATHER Cloudy with occasional sunny intervals today, A few snow flurries this afternoon and eveging. Cloudy with occasion- al light snow Wednesday. Not much change in temperature. v/inds north 15 today, light to- night and Wednesday. Low to- night and high Wednesday 25 and 30, Summary for Wednes- day--=Occasional light snow. ~ UNVERSITY BURGLARIZED | The longest column seen The Chinese are using civil- Two cash registers valued at $400 | attack yesterday on the Supreme | the road between Chaeryong and | Haeju, northwest of Seoul, Airmen ians as a protective screen in both northeast and northwest and $40 in cash were stolen from | Court building, continued in the] | the University of Western Ontario |cilv's two-mile-square Moslem quar- | describe it as tremendous--between Korea. The refugees clog the {and children. { ' No one can give an acgurate es- | | cafeteria last might. | ter. 300,000 and 500,000 'men, Women | Tortuous mountain roads, im- peding military traffic. It was cordoned off by bayonet- | Ne

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