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DAILY TIMESG Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ZETTE WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 71 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1951 Price 5 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES FREIGHT WRECK TIES U C.P.R. Former Oshawa Boy Is Kidnapping Victim Ottawa Man Held | » In Fantastic Plot; YouthlIs Uninjured Kingston, Ont, March 26--(CP)--Owen C. Dulmage, - 29, of Ottawa, has admitted kidnapping 13-year-old Teddy Wainwright and holding him captive for 36 hours, police said today. ; An employee of the Department of Transport, Dulmage is in hospital under police guard after being injured early Sunday when an automobile carrying him and his young cap- tive plumetted into a culvert on Highway 15, about 20 miles north of this Eastern Ontario city. The Wainwright family have lived in Kingston for about two years and prior to that lived in Oshawa where Ted's father was an employee of General Motors of Canada, Lim- ited. Ted has a wide circle of friends in the Motor City hav- ing attended school there. At home with his widowed mother, Teddy, uninjured in the crash, told a bizarre siory of being bludgeoned on a Kingston street Friday night. The. lad, apparently none the worse for his experience, said he was blindfolded, gagged and bound, taken by car to a farmhouse, forced to don a bathing suit, then tied in various positions and strung for a time by his ankles from a beam in the cel- lar Died Last Night . | Police at first refused to believe the story. "The policeman bet me all the money 1 had on me that I was telling a cock-and-bull story," | said Teddy. "When a check was | made he gave me 30 cents -- all I | had with me." | Police said Dulmage is subject to dizzy spells. They added that he KIDNAPPING (Continued on page 2) One Dead, 4 Hurt In Big Sarnia Fire Sarnia, March 26--(CP) -- One man was killed and four others in- jured Saturday in a -seven-hour blaze which raged through six build- ings. Damage estimates ranged be- yond $100,000. Firemen from three departments fought the flames. Rumors that three others, includ- ing two children, were missing, in- duced a search of the ruins. The one body found was that of 58- | - year-old George Forst, 58, of Tor- | onto, a dishwasher. He came here ---- | Two Weeks 880. Amos Crist| BY THE CANADIAN PRESS | ns Se ne ae restaurant | Thirteen = persons died violent employees, and two firemen, As. | deaths in Eastern Canada during sistant Fire Chief George Esson and | the long Easter weekend. Five Richard Smith. ed in Onan, five in. Quebec an Crist and Keravodos were treated | thi¢¢ in Nova Scotia. : at hospital for cuts to the head, Automobile accidents resulted in face and hands suffered when they | four deaths, three persons perished broke a window in their apartment | in fires and two died after drinking #0 escape, oisoned beverages. Six died from The firemen were given' first aid other causes. : : at the scene for cuts suffered when | _ Near Sault Ste. Marie, they broke a window to insert a, Mrs. Charles Smith, 40, died hose line. | Sunday of exposure beside a rhe fire broke out shortly after| month old son was found 8 P.M. and was brought under con-| drowned. Another baby, Andre trol around 3 AM. It left in its Lascelle, six-weeks, suffocated wake two gutted buildings in the | Friday in Toronto after becom- row of old, two-storey brick struc-| ing entangled in his blankets. tures on Front Street. The others | George Sorrbes, 58, of Toronto i was burned to cd:ath Saturday at in. | had their top floors caved in Sarnia, Ont., and nine-year old Edith Dew of Kingston, Ont. was drowned in Kingston Bay Sunday. A car accident near Hull, Que, Friday, took the life of Herbert W.! Well known in Oshawa and a mem- ber of many fraternal organizations, Robert Keel, died after being ad- mitted to Oshawa General Hospital. He is survived by his wife, two | sons and a daughter. ' 13 KILLED ON LONG. HOLIDAY Ont. -~ Reds Claim U.S. Tries Blackmail of India Moscow, March 26--(AP)--Pravda charged today that the United States is trying to blackmail India into permitting export of atomic energy raw materials by withholding wheat India has asked to prevent famine. The Communist Party newspaper said the raw materials in question include beryllium and monazite. Monazite is ore containing thorium. It said these materials are used not only in producing atomic en- ergy but also in the manufacture of jet engines and other war equipment. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for FEBRUARY 10,842 Fitzpatrick, 50, of Burlington, Ont.; | James Cody, 51, of St. Eustache Sur Le Lac, about 25 miles north of Montreal, also lost. his life when struck by a car. Bodies. of Roland Joannette, 32, land Robert Hamel, 25, were found | among ruins of three houses - de- stroyed by fire in Montreal Sun- day. Also in Montreal Sunday, 12- year-old James Miles accidentally hanged himself, | Clifford Sampson, 50, and Harold States, 50, died Sunday in Windsor, | N.S, poisoned from drinking what police believed to be a home-made | beverage. An employee of Dominion Steel Co. of Canada, Thomas Dool- an, 30, of Sydney, N.S. died in hospital there Sunday from injuries suffered when crushed at work Fri- day. French | Strike Wave Seems to Be On Wane Paris, March 26--(AP)--France"s latest wave of strikes appeared to be near an end today. Negotiations for settlement of the 11-day bus and subway walkout in Paris were relumed with hope of successs. , The Paris transport strike touch- Ski Lift Drop Freight Wreck Blocks C.P.R. Line Seven Hours Fi ® ® Believed to have been caused by a broken arch-bar, 14 cars of a westbound Canadian Pacific Railway, freight train jumped the tracks just west of Wilson Road at about 10.30 a.m. yesterday completely blocking the main line and the two siding lines. afternoon and by 5 p.m. cleared one of the passing tracks so that pass normally shortly after midnight. would not be completed until about 6 p.m. today. out over the 20-foot embankment on the south side of the line. enger traffic to Montreal Auxiliaries from Trenton and Toronto arrived on the scene early in the moved Company officials said this. morning that the job of clearing the lines The upper picture, looking east, shows the tangle of cars, | while the lower picture shows fwo of the cars crossways on the right-of-way with the gondola car projecting ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photos. Argentina Editor Safe In Uruguay Montevideo, Uruguay, March 26-- (AP)--Dr. Alberto Gainza fugitive editor-publisher of Argen- | tina's muzzled newspaper La Prensa, | MacArthur's Stand Irks Truman Group Washington, March 26--(AP)--The dispute that rages Paz, between Gen. Douglas MacArthur and the Truman adminis- tration over how to win the Korean war has reached fever | today was planning to stay in tem- | heat again. The administration may shortly ask the general porary exile at his mother's Uru guay ranch, 150 miles west o Montevideo. | foreign policy issues. ¢ | to clear with Washington anything he says involving broad Gainza Paz has been declared a This may or may not prove ac- fugitive, from justice by the €OM= | ceptable to MacArthur, but State] mittee gt the Argentine Congres | Department officials privately say | which last week took Over us N= something must be done to prevent | dependent NEWSDADer. la repetition of last week's exchange | He was cited for contempt of |,¢ shocks and harsh words between Congress because he called Rongles. Tokyo and Washingron, | sional seizure of La Prensa a viola- | . | tion of Argentina's constitutional ghreddent Trumdh Shediac) guarantee of freedom of the press.| = Btri a es 1] When federal police sought to ar- | en lo ten on Tao rest him to serve a 15-day jail sent- a any an en ence, the publisher had disappeared. ih - uy Picimllioe Siggh speech, article or other public ° . | utterance, should be cleared 25 Inj ured In with the State Depar nnt. In- formants said that order was called to MacArthur's attention at the time. ! Friday night MacArthur left | Tokyo for the 38th Parallel area of | | Korea to order United Nations | forces to cross into North Korea as | tactical requirements made nec- | | essary, ; | Before leaving he issued a state-| reaches of .nearby Grouse Moun- | ant making e bid for peace talks | tain, ; {with the Communist, said the About 28 persons were listed as chinese Reds were licked and in-| injured after the $100,000 chair lft | capable of wagifig modern war and | swayed ominously and then dropped | warned that if the United Nations | them as much as 35 feet to the |jaunched attacks on Chinese bases | snow-cushioned mountainside on [ang costal areas, China would prob- | the north shore of Burrard Inlet. | ,p] suffer military collapse. R.CM.P. said the lift's 1ls-inch | This statement caught the State cable jumped off its bull wheel af- | Department * completely unawares. | ter a lift chair "swung out of con- | 1 apparently also caught President | trol." Truman without advance notice, | Most of the injuries were minor. | After several hours of parleying, | Five persons were hurt seriously | including a talk between State Sec | while most of the others. were re- |retary Dean Acheson and President leased from hospital after treat- ment or stayed at the ski village to nurse their bruises. : Vancouver, March 26 (CP) -- A ski lift cable jumped like a whip- lash yesterday and sprinkled doz- ens of passengers along the lower MACARTHUR (Continued on page 2) Leprosy Case Is Uncovered In Windsor Windsor, March 26--(CP)-- The first known case of Han- sen's disease (leprosy) in Wind- sor and one of the small num- ber ever reported in Canada was uncovered last week by Windsor ' heaith authorities. The victim, a 25-year-old un- married new Canadian, came to Canada in May, 1950. The man has been isolated and preliminar, treatment begun. All persons who have had con- tact with the man in Windsor have been checked and show no symptoms of the disease. U.S. Easter Holiday Toll Is 224 Dead Chicago, March 26 Traffic and a variety (AP) of oth er accidents caused 224 deaths in the United States the East week-end. during er Between 6 p.m. Friday and last from miscellaneous causes to 65, Youth, Moiher Save Children From Flames Niagara Falls, Ont., March 26 --(CP)--A fearless 13-year-old youth and young mother dash- ed through dense smoke and flames today to rescue two children trapped in a fire, With Joseph Vigh at her side, Mrs. Jack Sloggett ran into her flaming three-room cottage in an outlying area of Stamford Township to bring James Slog- gett, one, and his sister, Ma- deline, four, to safety. Mrs, Sloggett noticed her house on fire while visiting a next-door neighbor. Her screams as she ran toward the fire at- tracted Vigh. RED DEFENCES FADE, ALLIES AT PARALLEL Tokyo, March 26--(AP) -- United Nations troops solidified their lines [on the western front in Korea to- day and drove rapidly north toward | the 38th Parallel. Allied forces moved east from | Munsan and linked up with an American division north of Uijongbu, The town is about 10 miles south of the pre-war boundary between North and South Korea. Field dispatches said Red re- sistance melted. The Americans advanced rapidly despite soupy Korean mud. The entire U.N. line drew closer to Parallel 38. It appeared the Allies could cross in force whenever they chose. On the central front an American division was reported within two miles of North Korea. On the east coast South Korean patrols. punc- | tured the imaginary line, crossing | and recrossing at will, | Far East naval headquarters said South Korean troops staged a com- mando raid 50 miles north of the Parallel Saturday. They landed on the Wolsa peninsula and killed 100 Reds while capturing 69. Then they withdrew, Hamilton Robbers Get 'Safe and $1,612 | | -- Hamilton, March 26--(CP)-- | Cracksmen carried off a safe | contai $1,612, unemploy- ment / insurance books and | cheques from the office of Christie's Bread Limited dur- | ing the week-end. | Shipper Joseph Moran dis- covered the break-in when he reported for work last night, He | found the office ransacked and | + tHe safe torn from its founda- tion. The break-in had a profes- sional touch, police said. A chair for a look-out was found near one of the warehouse doors. Immense forests of rich timber ana on the North Atlantic Coast of South America, 14 Boxcars Are Derailed, Much Track Ripped Up Rail traffic was tied up for seven hours and 1,000 feet of track and road bed were ripped up yesterday morning at about 10.30 o'clock when a broken arch bar in the middle of the Trenton-Toronto C.P.R. freight train caused a derailment in which 14 cars were hurled off the track and property worth thousands of dollars was damaged or ruined. During a sunny Easter afternoon thousands of Oshawa people took the opportunity of 'inspecting the damage. : When. it finally had been determined that neither engi» | neer Vincent Pillo nor his fireman, Eugene McGee, were in. in fact, never even felt a jar as the heavy steel and wood cars ripped up track, ties and bed, equipment was called in order to take care of what then was the most im- portant contingency, clearing the line, During the seven hours that the twisted equipment blocked all three C.P.R. lines through Oshawa. traffic was re-routed and the Peterborough division from Agincourt through Myrtle, At 5 p.m. yesterday a pass track had been cleared and it was used to accomodate freight traffic, eastbound passenger trains at midnight and west- bound passenger traffic this morning. It is expected that the two auxiliary tracks which still are plugged, will be free and ready for use by 6 p.m. to- day. One of the freight cars which was, derailed was of wooden con- struction and contained a quantity of peanuts among other merchan~ dise. About 10 or 15 pounds of the nuts were scattered over the ground and were pocketed yesterday by children. The wreck took place east of the | Ritson Road crossing and west of | the intersection at Wilson Road. I$ | was just west of the switch at the {east end of the railway shunting | yards. & * | | { Probing Death MRS. PEARL RIVERS Whose death in her Simcoe Street Arch-Bar Broken | North apartment on Thursday is A broken arch-bar was said to be being probed by Oshawa police. A | responsible for the derailment. The | former member of the CWAC she | 8reat weight of the train ripped the was the mother of two children, | cars along the right-of-way and Acting Crown Attorney R. D.| when finally they came to rest some | Humphreys, K.C., said this morn- | -- ing that there were no new develop- | WRECK ments in the case, (Continued on page 2) | Sabotage Hinted Ocean Crash In | | Shannon Airport, Ireland, March 26-- (CP)--Ships and planes swept the North Atlantic for the fourth day today | seeking a trace of the missing United States 'Air Force i Globemaster and its 53 American airmen. Speculation that | the giant plane had been sabotaged appeared in the British press. Officials, their hopes yirtual- ly dashed that any of the miss~ ing airmen would be found alive, remained silent concern- ing what might have. happen- ed to the big transport, But there has been speculation in British newspapers that it might have exploded in flight. The newspapers said they con- sidered it odd that so few clues have been found in the rela- tively well-travelled area of the Atlantic.. A reporter for the London Daily Express wrote that in his opinion | the plane probably was sabotaged. Filipinos Try to Bum Out Reds From Lair Manila, March 26--(AP)--Philip- | pine airmen used a unique kind of | fire-bombing today in an effort to | drive Communist Hukbalahap guer- | rillas from a swamp island in| central Luzon. Air force C-47 transport planes dropped hundreds of five-gallon | cans of kerosené and other petrol- into the +4 B, Smith 'said, eum products jungle- | covered island. Then ground troops | fired phosphorous rockets into the | air, igniting the fuel. | Results of the raid were not de- termined immediately. It was the | first attempt to burn the elusive | huks out of a lair. U.S. Launches Drive For Steel Scrap | RA | Washington, March 26--(AP)-- | Reports of a dangerous scarcity | of iron and steel scrap have led the United States National Production | Authority to launch a scrap col-| [ lection campaign. | | Iron and steel scrap are an essen- | tial ingredient in steel production. | Unless deliveries to steel mills are | increased before the normal sum- | mer upturn in scrap movement, offi- | cials fear the output of steel for de- i fence and civilian products will be | curtailed. | | VANDENBERG VERY ILL | Grand: Rapids, Mich. March 26 --(AP)--The condition of Michi-| gan's Senator "Arthur H. Vanden- | { midnight, the known traffic fatali- | cover the territory of French Gui- | berg, seriously ill at his home here, { ties had climbed to 159, and deaths l remained unchan ged today, Dr. A. | He wrote that unless the disaster had been instantaneous, the radio operator would have had time to switch over to his distress wave= length, A giant U.S. navy aircraft care rier and two destroyers were joine ing the air-sea hunt for the globe= master, Experienced men at this trans Atlantic airfield feared it was im=- possible for anyone to survive three days or more in mid-Atlantic, no matter how good the survival equipment. There are no islands anywhere r ar the disaster area which might have given "hem refuge, FIRE RAZES ANIMAL REFUGE Fort Erie, March 26 (CP) -- A borse and a dog were saved when the Bertie-Fort Erie Humane So= ciety refuge was destroyed last night in a $5,000 fire. Firemen said sparks from a nearby garage fire may have caused the blaze, WEATHER Cool but sunny today. Light cloudy intervals and milder be- coming overcast by evening. Winds south 15. Low tonight an high Tuesday 30 and 40. Summary for Tuesday: Sunny and -milder,