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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZ OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chrogicle VOL. 10---No. 26 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNE! SDAY, JANUARY, 31, , 1951 TE WHITBY ET Price 4 Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES 8 FEARED DEAD IN BRIDGE CRASH -- ° onarch Co. Will Build In Ajax| Million Dollar Spinning Plant Will Employ 150 Establishment of a spinning mill at Ajax by the Mon- arch Knitting Company, Limited, at a cost of close to $1,- 000,000, will be the latest addition to the industrial area of this rapidly-growing community, eight miles west of Oshawa. Announcement that property of a minimum of ten acres had been acquired at Ajax and that erection of the mill would be started immediately, was made today by the Right Hon- orable Lord Barnby, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.V.O., President of | the Monarch Knitting Company. Limited, who stated that | this represented an expansion of the operations of the com- | pany, which already operates four mills in Ontario. Tiina Mh Baimginnigilg over ten acres acquired at Ajax Brooklin Man Heads Jersey Cattle Club will be used for the installation of a model plant devoted to the spin- ning of cotton blend yarns. The building, which will be of the most modern construction and design | and will be fully aitsconditioned, will provide 50000 square feet of ideal working space for approxi- | mately 150 employees, of whom about one-third will be female and | two-thirds male. It will house the | very lastest in spinning machinery for the production of cotton blend | yarns. | a To Start at Once Construction of the plant, the statement says, will be started immediately, and it is hoped to have it in production before the end of 1951. A spokesman for the company gave the information that the cost of construction and equip- Tent of the plant would" run very close to the million dol- lar mark. Arrangements are now under way for the provision of homes for those who will be taken on the staff of the company's Ajax plant when it is completed. The pro- vision' of housing, it is understood, . was a major consideration in in- fluencing the company to erect its plant in Ajax. Four Other Mills STRIKE PERILS The Monarch Knitting Company, Limited, is' an old-established con- cern, having been in operation for over fifty years. Its head office is in Toronto, and it operates four | mills, two in Toronto, one in Dunnville and one in St. Catha- rines. The Joseph Simpson Division in Toronto manufacturers woollen yarns. The plant in Dungyille is known MONARCH (Continued on Page 2) W. DOUGLAS THOMSON Toronto, Jan. 30 -- (CP) -- W. D. Thomson of Brooklin, Ont, today was elected president of the Cana- dian Jersey Cattle Club. J. Hayes Woodley of Alberton, Ont, was chosen president of the Ontario Jersey Club. PF. M. Chapman, Pickering, Ont., is first vice-president. egislature Faces Big Job Tomorrow Toronto, Jan. 831--(CP)--The curtain rises tomorrow on the 1951 session of the Ontario Legislature with indica- tions that the political action will be the sharpest in years. The Progressive Conservative Party Frost stands in little danger of defeat. It holds 53 of the 90 seats in a Legislature whose makeup is unchanged from last winter's session. However, the 21-man C.C. F > opposition, led by E. B. Jolliffe, has served notice that it plans to carry the attack to the Gov- ernment on several issues, And the 13 Liberal members have gained a mew and active lead- er, Walter Thomson, who has promised to lead his party "out of the wilderness." Mr. Thomson represents the Fed- 'eral Riding of Ontario at Ottawa. His party's Legislature House lead- er will be its former provincial lead- er, Farquhar Oliver. The government's strength is still such that the seating arrangement puts eight Progressive Conservatives on the opposition side of the House. The two Labor-Progressive Party LEGISLATURE (Continued on ) Page 2) under Premier Sorel Hotel Gutted, Two Are Missing Sorel, Que., Jan. 31--(CP)-- Fire which broke out in the Verdon Hotel in this St. Law- rence River port and shipbuild- ing centre was brought under . control early today after burn- ing for a little more than an hour. Some 30 guests were in the hotel when the three-storey brick building took fire around 2 am. Two guests were listed NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gagette Average Per Issue for DECEM.BER 11,120 MPS EFL A NNOR-I0N0 as missing but police made it plain they were--=not believed to have been killed in the fire; they are thought to have been visiting or to have taken re- fuge in nearby homes. The, three-storey brick building was gutted in an hour. There was no immediate es- timate of damage. THE WEATHER Intermittent snow today and Thursday. A little milder. Winds light. Low tonight and high To Conscript The New British Meat Ration On the right is seen a steak ration plus corned beef for one person. At left the steak ration for two persons plus corned beef. The new ration is compared with an ordinary sized match box. The new ration will come into effect on Feb, 4. It will consist of eight-pence worth of fresh meat a week per person, plus two-pence worth of | | corned beef, as compared with the present ten-pence worth of fresh meat plus the two-pence worth of corned | bezf, eight-pence will buy about six ounces of lamb chops, ] ounces of steak or nine ounces of roasting lamb. This ration has to last the ration book holder seven days. The new ration is just over half of the one-shilling and two-pence worth available during the darkest days of the | war. The ration means that a family can have a good meat meal one day a week; h at incr prices, must fill sausages and such fresh meat eight 'ounces of roasting beef, four-and-a-half the gap. The food minister blamed ihe situation on Argentina's refusal to ship meat at what the government would regard as a reasonable price. --Canada Wide Picture. NEW RAILWAY U3. INDUSTRY 31 -- (AP) -- strike Chicago, Jan. fast-spreading wildcat Bayonet Fighters Rout Chin Tokyo, Jan. 31-- (AP) --Advancing Allied forces attack- | {ed with bayonets and grenades today after a thunderous ot. | artillery and air strikes failed to smash Chinese Commu- railroad switchmen, the second in | pjgt pegistance on the Korean warfront, This was seven miles northeast of Suwon, on the east six weeks over an old wage-hour | dispute, threatened today to disrupt | rai] transportation in the United States. The unauthorized walkout, which started in Chicago and | Detroit yesterday morming, | spread to eight key cities in less than 24 hours.' The strike directly affected 18 carriers, but many other railroads were in- directly affected because of the tie-up of switching lines. There were indications, a rail union spokesman said, the strike | would start in other cities. An Army spokesman said the | | | | | NEW RAILWAY (Continued on Page 2) Sees No Need Manpower Ottawa, Jan. 31 (CP)--The world outlook does not call for compul- sory direction of manpower in Can- ada, Labor Minister Gregg said Tuesday night. He made it clear this is the Gov- ernment view both for civilian labor and recruiting for the armed ser- vices, in the light of current world prospects. But he warned that the manpow- er situation would be changed if the world situation "became much more dangerous." In that case, Canadians should be ready for "more drastic "defence require ments." Barring that eventuality, Mr. Gregg said, "the sources of labor that can be drawn upon should be ample to meet our over-all man- power requirements for 1951." PEI Fire Loss Is $100,000 Charlottetown, PEI, Jan. 31 -- (CP) -- Fire early today destroyed the Science Service laboratory at the Charlottetown experimental station. Included in the loss were records, some of them covering work in 35 years. R. C. Parent, station superinten- dent, said $100,000 will not cover the loss. The fire broke out in 13-below- zero weather. Firemen fought the Thursday 15 and 25. Summary, for Thursday: iniermittent light snow, A little milder. | outbreak in, the two-storey wooden structure for an hour and a half | "i'before it became apparent the | ' building was doomed, HAE | flank of the bloody western front just south of Seoul. (though the well-dug-in enemy - failed to break under bom- | bardment, a front-line officer said Wednesday's artillery fire "must have killed thousands of Chinese." One Allied patrol was reported only sev of Seoul. en miles south | ached | Sl | *r-- On the east coast, the US. battleship Misouri, other naval units and carrier planes pound- ed Kosang, 45 miles north of the 38th Parallel. Kosang is 20 miles north of Kansong, blight- ed Tuesday in a similar attack by warships and planes of Task | Force 77. | In western Korea, stiffening en- emy opposition held the Allies to minor gains. Allied planes sighted 15,000 to 20,000 Communist troops near Konjian, a village nine miles | northeast of Kumyangjang. | East of Kumyangjang a N.N. pa- trol ran into an unknown number of Reds three miles northwest of Sinchen Wednesday morning and routed them. Sinchon is about eight miles northeast of Yoju. At 5:45 pm. (3:45 am, EST) the enemy launched a 200-man KOREA (Continued on Page 2) Chinese Reds And Guerrillas Fight for Isle Taipei, Formosa, Jan. 31 -- (CP) -- Nationalist China's de- fence ministry today reported that Chinese Communist troops Sunday attacked Tasiyang, a tiny island off the mainland port of Foochow, The ministry said the Reds engaged in serious fighting with the Nationalist . guerrillas hold- ing the island but the outcome of the fight was not known. Tasiyang, also known as At- lantic Island, first was attacked 'by the Reds last August. They withdrew after remaining in possession only a few days. PUP ROUSES FAMILY, DIES Burlinkton, Jan. 31 --(CP)--Peggy | a Boston Bull pup, barke oud | enough to arouse Willia nd | his family today, then co psed | and died of smoke and heat as fire | seriously damaged the Reid house. Reid, his wife and four children,' the eldest aged ninc years, escaped | | without 'injury. Canada Huge Icebox; Cold To Continue By The Canadian Press Except for Floriua ang a. few southwestern states, North Amer- ica today will spend another day being a mammoth ice-box, one icy blast from top to bottom with a few extra shivers for Canada. From the Maritimes to British Columbia, frigid temperatures were general. Although no immediate change was in prospect, fore- casters in British Columbia said the cold snap had ended in the province's northern coas- tal areas, but it would be an- other 36 to 43 hours before the warm air reached the southern coast and interior B.C. The last day of January was gen- erally expected to produce the same sub-zero temperatures which yes- terday sent the mercury slithering to 58 below zero in Matheson, Ont. On the prairies, however, where mercury thermometers froze ear- lier this week, a small hint of res- pite was in the books. The predict- ed low for Regina overnight was 20 below compared to 42 below Sun- day night. Winnipeg reported a break in the cold yesterday when the tempera- ture rose from an early-morning low of 26 below to seven below. Southern Ontario was to have its | bitterest taste of winter overnight | with temperatures dropping from | five below in Toronto to 10 below in London, St. Thomas and Wind- sor, 3 Held In Jewelry Smash-and-Grab Sarnia, Jan. 31--(CP)--Three young men suspected of staging a lightning smash ~ and - grab robbery of $3,990 worth of dia- mond rings from the display window of a jewellery store here last night. were arrested early today as they fled the city four hours after the theft. for the rest of the week | Al-| Four Three Rivers Spans In Roaring Collapse; ars Plunged In River = 20 Pensioners Die As Flames Sweep Home Hoquiam, Wash. Jan, 31 -- (AP) -- Twenty old-age pen- sioners perished in a fire that roared through a rambling frame rest home = yesterday ncon, and two more were: near death early today. The blaze appa:ently leaped from a basement clothes-dry- ing room to the second floor while the 30 aged residents of the home, many too ill and | feeble to move, lay in their beds awaiting lunch. Fourteen were trapped in the flames and smoke that licked and billowed up stairways and air vents fo encompass the rear of the building and its second floor, and leave it a charred shell, Firemen and volunteers help- ed 16 others escape the build- ing. Six of those rescued died later, five from burns and one from a heart attack, KRUPP FREED, 21 GERMANS DODGE NOOSE Frankfurt, Germany, Jan, 31 -- (AP)--American authorities today spared 21 German war slutinals | from the gallows, freed German | steel magnate Alfred Krupp and | restored his property rights in the | multi-million-dollar Krupp indus- | trial empire. is Those saved from death in- cluded six former Nazi S.S. troopers convicted of murder- ing U.S. soldiers in the infam- ous "Malmedy massacre.' | Eight of the highest A ochiives [of the Krupp industrial empire also | were freed in a sweeping review of | | all remaining U.S.-Tried war-crimes | cases. But High Commissioner John | a. McCloy and U.S. Military Com- | | mander Gen. Thomas T. Handy | confirmed seven death sentences, | including four men convicted of | | slaughtering more than 1,000,000 Jews and gypsies, and of former | S.8. Major-General, Oswald Pohl, { who bossed Hitler's concentration- camp system. Presbytery Of Oshawa In Second Place The Oshawa Presbytery of the | United Church of Canada with 10,065 units, places second among the presbyteries "in the Bay of Quinte Conference, it was announc- ed at a meeting of the Oshawa Presbytery in Albert Street United Church this morning. The figure is brought about by adding the number of families which is 7,633 and the number of resident mem- = bers which is 12,498 and dividing | by two. The Belleville Presbytery is first | with 13,761 units, Oshawa Presby- tery, 10.065; Kingston Presbytery, 9,513; Renfrew Presbytery, 8,303; Peterborough Presbytery, 6,928; Lindsay Presbytery, 6,021 and Co- bourg Presbtyery, 5,790. During the meeting," which is continuing this afternoon, the Presbytery approved participation in a group life insurance plan but | voted that membership in the plan | be not compulsory. The plan is open to ministers under 60 years of | age. | Big Houston Blaze Still Out of Control Houston, Tex., Jan. 31 -- (A) | Houston's worst downtown fire in| | 20 years burned eut seven stores] | early today. Scores of firemen and 23 pieces of fire fighting equipment fought | the blaze. Hours later it still was] not under control, | The fire came shortly after an | explosion and fire rocked Houston's | rswank Broadmore district and de- | £200,000 ne Cus | | | | | { | mansion of | siroyed | | | Wottham, president of the Ameri-| can Insurance Company. Three Rivers, Jan. 31-- (CPY--Police raised the possi- | bility today that perhaps as many as eight persons died "when four spans of the broad concrete ahd steel Duplessis highway bridge here collapsed in the early morning darkness with a roar "like an earthquake." The spans on the Three Rivers side of the St. Maurice River crashed onto and through the ice at 2.55 a.m., and in 26-below-zero weather plunged at least four automobiles into the river. After daybreak police recovereil the body of Henri Paul Gendron, a taxi driver of Cap De La Madeleine, across the St. Maurice River from Three Rivers; and that of a Cap De La Madeleine man named Baumier. At first Baumier's body was identified as Noel Doucet, Cap De La Madeleine foundry worker whose car is known to be in the river and who is thought to be a victim. Another body taken from the St. Maurice was that of | P. Fiset of Montreal. Police said they were searching for the body of a Three Rivers man named Lemay and one officer, back from the bridge, said "there may be three or four more bodies that we don't know about for sure in the river." The four arches of the bridge --those nearest Three Rivers on the route over the St. Maurice to Cap De La Madeleine -- plunged to the ice below and crushed through into the water githout warning. The car drivers, right on the very spans that crumbled, had no chance to escape. The spans, part of the $3,000,000 bridge which last winter was closed to heavy traffic for a time after cracks were discovered in its con- Three Rivers Third Great Bridge Loss crete parts, crumbled and fell at 2.55 am. "Within a minute, Taxi Driver Maurice Roy, en route to Three Rivers from Cap De La Madeleine, had sent word over his taxi radio. "I was very nervous and scared," | he said. "I sent a message to my BRIDGE (Continued on Page 2) By The Canadian Press Today's collapse of the Duplessis | bridge at Three Rivers, Que., is i Quebec Province's third grea bridge { loss. The first two were diziig cone struction of the now-world-famous Quebec cantilever bridge, 100 miles down the St. Lawrence River from Three Rivers, and just above the City of Quebec. There, Aug. 29, 1907, more than. 60 workmen were killed in a collapse of the southern portion of the bridge. Some 4,200 feet of steel and masonry fell into a twisted mass virtu- ally instantaneously, Then, nine years later, Sept. 11, 1816, just as the great central span was almost into place. and the years-long project almost finished, | this span slipped and, 13 persons were killed. \ began 'U.S. Rail Stoppage Hits Windsor Yards Windsor, Jan. 31 -- (CP) -- The switchmen's work-stoppage on U.S. | railroads stalled Wabash Railway | activities on the Canadian side of the river today. "We're certainly not getting very | {much from the Wabash," a yard | | official in Windsor declared this | Finally, what people to | morning. "It's been slowing up feel must be a jinxed bridge was since yesterday." { completed without further mishap, Parliament Tone Forecasts Drastic Changes In Living Ottawa, Jan. 31-- (CP)--Parliament plunges today into a session which promises to bring profound changes in the day-to-day living of the people of Canada, It will bring, for example, a declaration that a national emergency exists, broad government powers to deal with deepening crises on the international and the home fronts, land higher taxes in perhaps a number of fields. All of this--and more--was indi- g cated yesterday in the speech from the throne, read by the Governor- General, Viscount Alexander, at the opening of this fourth session of | the 21st Parliament. The 1,200-word speech spoke of the "further deterioration" of the international situation, warned that the danger of a | general war has been "increas- ed" and said Parliament will be asked to approve these steps: 1. Give the Cabinet new powers to ensure adequate defence prepa- | rations to meet "the present emer- ! gency" to prevent "economic dis- location" resulting from those pre- parations. 2. Give early Canadian™~ participation Eisenhower's European forces. 3. Substantially increase defence | spending, This may run to $1,500, | 000,000 or more. 4. Create a new department of | defence production to act as a | procurement agency for defence | | needs of Canada and Atlantic-Pact | allies. | 5. Amendments to the citizenship Roy Trafford, 51-year-old Mark= dale farmer, was found dead late last night in his parked car on the main street of Chatsworth, Pilot Smashes All Records In Atlantic Hop London, Jan, 31--(AP) --Air- line Capt. Charles Blair, in a Mustang fighter plane, today smashed all records for a flight from New York to London, Blair, a 41 - year-old Pan American Airways pilot, streak- ed out of the darkness over Lon- don airport just seven-hours and 48 minutes after his dawn take- off on the ether side of the At- lantic. His average speed for the non- stop solo trip of some 3,500 miles was about 450 miles per hour. authorization for in Gen. | defence | FOUND DEAD IN CAR Owen Sound, Jan. 31¢+-- (CP) -- PARLIAMENT (Continued on Page 2)