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' Red Resistance Stiffens Along | Korea War Front By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, March 29 -- (AP) -- Communist China today spurned Gen. MacArthur's offer to talk peace in Korea. * Her troops backed up the rejection with stiff defensive stands in the low hills and passes just south of the North Korean border along the Western and Central fronts. Canad Signs mounted that the Chinese are massing for a spring offensive timed to strike when seasonal rains have mired Allied heavy weapons. A Chinese broadcast heard in Tokyo called MacArthur's " peace talk bid of last Saturday impertinent, insulting and "worth only a single laugh." It said "The entire Chinese people will . . . fight unre- ) lentingly until the aggressor is completely driven from Korea," The Chinese Thursday fought their stiffest action in weeks north of Munsan on the western front. Firing from dug-in positions about four miles south of the border, they all but stopped the Allied ad- vance in the west. Driven Off Hill Grenade-tossing Reds drove Am- erican infantrymen off a 1,000,-foot crest north of Uijongbu during the night. But they withdrew myster- iously to another hill and the Am- ericans reoccupied the crest at dawn without a fight. ! In Central Korea, a strong Red stand repulsed American patrols on a seven-mile-wide front. The Com- munists were fighting half way be- tween the border and Chunchon, | which is eight miles south of 38. There was no word early today of the Canadian troops, who- went back into action in the Western : sector yesterday after a rest period. On the Eastern front, South Kor- ans roamed six miles into Com- nist-held territory, But that sec- Or was regarded as relatively un- important militarily since the bulk of the Communist forces were on the Western and Central fronts. McArthur's Thursday commun- ique said "The pattern of vehicular movement in enemy areas indicates a continued effort to support a strong concentration behind the central front." This could be the ® >-- [ build-up for a spring drive or 8 | border stand. Big Deal Rumors But rumors of a "big deal" spread | quickly along the front when it | became known that Lt.-Gen. Mat- | thew B. Ridgway, commander of | the U.S. Eighth Army, had confer- | red separately and secretly Wed- | nesday with his corps commanders | and with U.S. Ambassador John J. | Muccio. ) | Eighth Army sources said, how- | ever, that the meetings were not | related and had no political signi- | ficance. Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, ccmmeander of the United Nations sea blockade and escort force, told a press conference that allied war- ships had blasted three Red com- munications centres on the 'east coast into ghost towns. They were | the ports of Wonsan, Songjin and | Chongjin, Wonsan was shelled for | 41 straight days and Songjin for 21. | U.S. B-29S for the second con- | secutive day bombed airfields near | Pyongyang, Red Korean capital, |and Hamhung, east coast supply | base. A single B-29 bombed a 2,300- | foot, 28-span railroad bridge at | Sinuiju in Northwest Korea. The | B-29 crew reported excellent re- | sults. Enemy fighters made a light | attack on the plane. jan Woman Gives 'New Leads to Grand Jury In US. Espionage Probe San Francisco, March 20--(CP)-- | New leads that may help investiga- | tors of subversive activities in the United States were laid before a federal grand jury here yesterday by Mrs, Freda Linton Alexander, who was cleared of spy charges in Canada two years ago. Tom DeWolfe, Assistant U.S. At- torney-General, said the informa- tion was contained in testimony by Mrs. Alexander, who with her 21- month-old daughter, Deborah, leave for Canada today. Mrs. Alexander, former National Film Board Secretary, and her ughter have been held in deten- on for 3'4 months at immigration | offices here. Following yesterday's Barber said they would leave hy plane today for New York and Mon- treal. Mrs. Alexander emerged from the grand jury hearing pale and shaken. She was reluctant to comment either on the line of questioning or upon the conditions of her deten- tion. . DeWolfe telephoned the Depart- ment of Justice in Washington with & report of what Mrs. Alexander told the jury. He said he was told by Assistant Attorney-General James McInerney to release her to the immigration 'department for deportation to Canada. DeWolfe said: | "There is no doubt she has made false representation of citizenship to get a job in Nevada--she admits it." FJ | But he said she would not be prosecuted on those charges in Ne- | vada, but would be sent directly to | Canada. DeWolfe said: "The probe was not should be useful to the Federal Bu- 'reau of Investigation in its in the United States shortly after | the Second World War." | He said the testimony by Mrs. Alexander had nothing to do with the atom bcenb, DeWolfe said that in the Cana- | dian Soviet spy ring Mrs, Alexander | was a friend of convicted spy Fred | Rose. She slipped into the United States at that time. Subseguently | she returned to Canada and the | charges against her were dropped. Royal Family At Maundy Service & = Ed ¥ || surrendered, destroyed the roof and | * Kia George VI and Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by Princess Mar- garet Rose (behird the King), carry bouquets as they leave Westminster Abbey in London, Eng. after attending the Maundy Thursday service. Others are not identified. ~--Canada Wide Picture, | Communist China Rejects MacArthur's Peace Talk Bid fruitless. It provided new leads that | in- | hearing, Immigration Director Bruce | vestigation of subversive activities | the Hotel Bristol, where, during || war .he provoked which are all too || Restoration of the roof was com- ,| five years before work on the in- OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle T THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 74 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 PAGE THIRTEEN 3 Viennas Span One Generation In one generation there have been three Viennas, writes a London Times correspondent. With the dis- ruption of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the First World War, Imperial Vienna ceased to exist. In 1938 the Nazis brought the second -- Republican -- Vienna to just as abrupt a conclusion. The third Vienna -- Vienna of the Occu- pation -- is still dragging out an uninspired existence. But even Soviet, intransigence must come to an end some day, and then there will be a fourth Vienna which, unless the gods unexpected- ly change their minds, will be the Vienna of the Second Republic. Imperial Vienna The Vienna of Franz Josef was one of spaciousness and romance. A citizen of Imperial Austria could go from Lake Constance almost to the Aegean, from the Vistula to the Adriatic, without a passport. There was an emperor who daily gave audience to any of his sub- jects who requested it. There were uniforms that dazzled. There were riches that poured in from the out- lying provinces. There were pal- aces in which beautifully dressed men and women courted, flirted, drank the rather heady Austrian wine, waltzed, and gave no thought | to the possibility that their days | were coming to an end. In terms of stone, bricks, and | mortar, much of the Imperial Vien- | na survives. The princely palaces | are nearly all intact but put to {other uses. The parliament, the | | university, the government build- | ings, and the churches are, with | some exceptions still intact. The | first republic added little of note | to Vienna's outward appearance | except the great blocks of workers' | flats which, though hideous, are a | tribute to the laudable enthusiasm | of their Socialist creators. l Changed Status Casualties to Viennese buildings | occurred mostly during the Second | World War. But the heart of old Vienna had already begun to falter | when the city suddenly changed | from being the hub of an empire | into the overpopulated capital of | a small state which had to fend for itself instead of being waited upon by its subjects. While politics became steadily more embittered, social life soon recaptured something of the former lightheartedness, although society itself was composed almost wholly of new elements. But the famous Frau Sacher, who had barred and bolted the doors of her hotel to mere commoners during the days of the monarchy, was now forced to accept them--if they were rich enough. Today Frau Sacher is a | memory. Her glory has departed, but the exclusiveness in which she prospered returned five and a half years ago when Sacher's became a British officers' hotel which only the privileged might enter. In the interests of Austrian tourist econ- omy, it has now been decided to hand the hotel back to the Austrian authorities on April 1. Hotel Bristol A stone's throw from Sacher's is | the first republic, currency specu- | lators and other mushroom million- | | aires spent profusely while the country slid unconcernedly into bankruptcy. Today, Viennese mil- lionaires are not so numerous and the Bristol is occupied by the Americans. Across the other side of the Kartner Ring, the Russians 'in the Hotel Imperial have pre- sumably done their best to erase the memory of the days when Hitler stayed there. But the pave- ment has a barrier across, and there is an armed sentry to see that "capitalist renegades" of what- ever nationality do not come toe | near. : | Fortunately, perhaps, for Vienna, Hitler had no love for the capital city of the country of his birth, and the marks left by 'his occupation are few except for the scars of the Incendiary shells from the many. after Vienna had officially | S.8., much of the interior of the lovely Gothic Cathedral of St. Stephen. pleted in December, but it will be terior is finished. Bomb Damage American bombs wrecked the Opera and the Burg theatre, and several other misdirected missiles from the same source wrecked a wing of the Palace of Schonbrunn to which Emperor Franz Josef had retired in disgust when he saw the walls of Vienna's first block of modern flats desecrating the view he had known all his life in the Hofburg. The British High Com- missioner established himself in Schonbrunn after the war, but the palace was de-requisitioned two years ago. The Russians ensconced themselves in part of the Hofburg and they are still there. PLAN MOCK WARFARE Anchorage, Alaska, March 29-- (AP)--Full scale mock warfare will be waged in Alaska for 24 days be- ginning April 2, with ground, air and sea forces being used jointly for the first time in territory-wide manoeuvres, the Alaskan Military Command announced = Wednesday. They will test Alaskan ground and air defences against a theoretical Bank Robbers Leave Souvenir A score of persons in the bank at Colborne, Ont., were ordered at gun- point by three thugs to lie on the floor while they emptied cash drawers of $6,800. Rougher tactics were used on Haldimand Township Clerk Mackenzie Rutherford, who was slugged over the head with a pistol butt when he tried to leave the bank. His daughter, here, applies bandages to the cut in his scaip caused by the blow. The bandits escaped in a stolen car, --Central Press Canadian. Crusade Against Crime In United States Shows Uprising of Momentum Ge GR New, York, March Joop) Te bers of the senate crime probe com- Crusade against rime, spearhendod pile' yore working to: extend th |i y en other agencies, gained momentum | {1% a omiviee Which today as a National Protestant group | In New York City Carmine de EY as Baan ? ne Duited Sapio, leader of Tammany Hall, States | Matmaden Democratic Organiza- a ik | tion, asked the New York City Bar woe be Sfficlal cragk-Gowi | Association to investigate Line 4 one land all Tammany district leaders game u OTs ches of Christ in|," connection with Frank Costello's Ye = h 2% 5 Teng iid oy. | alleged influence in Tammany and where to help ha e "mora -| politics. Provincial Rent Control Act Approved Toronto, March 29--(CP, -- |A C.C.F. membe; i tario Legislature a single home was vince last year un providing for provincia. development. Eamon P:rk (C.C.F. -- Toronto- Dovercourt) aid the government was all "pious claims and boasting utterances" last year in introduc- ing the legislation. Premier Frost replied that 33,000 houses were built last year in On- tario -- a record number. The Pro- vince was prepared to enter low- cost housing agreements with mu- Wisipaliies; but none had asked for homesite The Legislature also gave second reading to the proposed new Rent Control Bill, which will assume federal controls when they expire April 30. There was no strong opposition, although C.C.F. members criticiz- ed the measure of decontrol already permitted under federal laws. Wil- liam Dennison (C.C.F.--Toronto St. David) asked that the government use its powers under the new bill to reduce excessive rents, and ad- mitted that some rents might have to be rated. Campbell Calder (L -- London) said the government would have to use tact because antagonism be- tween landlord and tenant was "nearer class warfare than any other thing in civil life." Attorney-General Porter said the government would have power to order any corrections in the rent be advised by two committees to be set up under the bill -- a Select Committee of the Legislature and a three-member committee with a judge and representatives of land- lords and tenants as members. The bill's method in taking over federal controls unchanged at the outset was "the only practicable way under present conditions," Mr. Porter said. A bill to remove a highways de- partment regulation requiring ap- proval of all signalling devices on automobiles was introduced. High- ways Minister Doucett said he un- derstood within two years mechani- cal signals to indicate turns would cars made. Another C.C.F. member, Robert Thornberry (C.C.F. Hamilton Centre) spoke in the housing de- bate. He said the houses referred to by the premier as built last year would have been erected with or without last year's law. He urged the government to help improve the supply of building materials. Mr. Park said the number was still 20,000 below what was needed to match the population increase. Some financial companies were anxious for the government to stay out of house building and "the gov- ernment is more anxious to please structure if felt necessary. It would | be standard equipment on all new | 0f Gamblers' 0f Ontario Di 4 Easter Visitors In Haydon Area MRS. HILDA CROSSMAN Correspondent Haydon, March 27--Miss Shirley Garrard, Toronto, spent Easter Sun- day with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Garrard. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fontaine, Master Doug. MacKenzie and Beth MacKenzie, Toronto, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. McNeil, Beth MacKenzie remain- ing for a holiday. Mrs. Frank Osmond and daugh- ters, Newcastle, spent Easter with Mr. and Mrs. Roland . Thompson and family. Jack Oleson, of the R.CAF., Trenton, is at his home for Easter. Mr. and Mrs, Bert Ashton, and | family, Toronto, spent the week- end with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ash- ton. | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Walker and | son, Stratford; Mr. and Mrs. E.| Walker and daughter, Toronto; | Mr. and Mrs, L. Walker, Dixie; Mr. | and Mrs. MacAlpine, Toronto, were | with Mr. A. J. Walker over the | holiday. | Bible Class Social Meeting will be | on Tuesday evening of this week | at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Frank Denby. There was a good turnout at the church service on Sunday after- | noon. Rev. Lute gave a fine Easter message, "The. Cross and the Tomb." Next Sunday the Com- munion of the Lord's Supper and the reception of new members. Miss June Anderson is spending | the Easter holidays at her home in | | New Toronto. Mrs. Roy Graham and Mrs, Hilda | Crossman attended the demonstra- | {tion of the plastic nylon at the | home of Mrs. Walter Rahm, Ty- | rone, on Monday night, i | Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Blackburn | and Wayne were at Mr. Mark Black- | burn's, Hampton, on Saturday, it | being Mr. Blackburn's eighty-fourth | birthday. Congratulations, Mr. | Blackburn. Ontario Dairies 'Returns Increase Toronto, March 29--(CP)--On- tario dairies showed an increase of $601,800 in January, 1951 over January 1950 in their gross returns on the sale of fluid milk, the On- tario Agriculture Department an- nounced today. In January, 1951, commercial | dairies sold 36,595,500 quarts of milk | for a total return of $7,033,000. | They sold 35,384,000 quarts for $6,- 1431,200 the previous January. FURIOUS RIDING Sunderland, England--(CP)--For | "riding a bicycle furiously with two | sacks of coal on -the crossbar," a {man here was fined five shillings. (75 cents.) | enemy attack. Major activity will be centred in the Kodiak, Anchorage | and Fairbanks areas. Natural gas is usually found with ' crude oil in underground "vaults" (zed vehicles which the | Army will adopt -- of stone, shale and sand, linquency in our society." [ty The council's interim policy-mak- | ing general board, representing 29 | denominations--nearly 70 per cent| of American Protestants -- con-| dgmned "so-called 'innocent forms'| of gambling" such as "legalized race-track wagers, lotteries, bingo and the like." | Swelling the national crime-bust- ing campaign was an order by Gov- | ernor Thomas E. Dewey of New: York calling for a grand jury investigation of gambling at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. a racetrack spa. | Dewey also said he would set up a state-Wide crime commission to| study responsibilities of the sfate | and local governments in law en- forcements. In Washington, Republican mem- Costello, alleged crime syndicate king pin, admitted before the senate committee that he put in "a good word" for the nomination of at least one judge. Across the country, local and state authorities blasted away at known gamblers and race-wire services. In Utah, the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company | said it will discontinue telephone. | service to any subscriber described | by police as conducting illegal busi- ness. ) The American Telephone and Telegraph Company said in New York it is standard practice to dis- continue service where it is known that its wires are used for illegal purposes, Former Farm Worker Motor Car Authority Pa Ottawa, March 20--(CP) -- A" three-quarter-ton and 2%-ton mod- farm boy who ditched a pitchfork | for a bank clerk's job and then pin- ned his dreams on the Model T has turned to r. naw adventure--making life easier for Canada's footsore sol- diers, John M. (Mike) Cochrane, 48, has come a long way since the days he pitched hay on a little farm near Strathroy, Ont. A vice-president in charge of purchasing for Ford of Canada, he's the new director of mechanical transport in C. D. Howe's Defence Production Depart- ment. ' A slightly-built, smartly-attired vehicle authority, the new army- vehicle production chief is stepping into government harness for the first time. He's got a lot ahead of him, but as he says in an inter- view, he's "quite happy to tackle the job." His job is to develop the kind of army vehicle program the govern- ment wants for Canada, based prin- cipally on new vehicle patterns, standardized with those of the Uni- ted States. Mr. Cochrane doesn't elaborate too much on how the program is shaping up. He wants to take time to appraise the situation more fully before estimating what may lie ahead in the way of an army vehi- cle program for Canada, : But two things he's already cer- tain of--whole-hearted co-operation of the Canadian automotive indus- try and the United States govern- ment. Losing no time, he's already made | his presence known by a personal visit to Washington and discussed among other things; the standardi- Canadian | the guarter-ton,' els, designed along American lines. Mr. Cochrane is cautious about saying too much about what impact defence production will have on civilian supply. He emphasizes, however, that the United States has cut back the amount of steel avail- able for passenger car production. "It is quite probable that such a limit on steel in the United States will retiuce Canadian production in passenger cars because we rely on U.S. sources for body stampings and frames which are substantial steel- consuming- items." Mr. Cochrane, who also is a mem- ber of the Ford Board of Directors, comes well equipped for his new role. He was on the purchasing side of the Ford "ompany during the second world war when the plant turned out 400,000 vehicles for the Canadian defence program. North York Tax them than to please the people." | Porter Says Possibility Invasion minishing Toronto, March 28 -- (CP) Attorney-General Porter said yes= terday the possibility of an inva- sion of Ontario by United States gambling interests is diminishing. He commented in an interview on reports that the Ontario Gov- ernment's decision to empower a legislature committee to investi- gate the administration of justice in Ontario arose from discovery that United States "eperators" planned to establisn a gambling empire in the province, "The government has been con- scious for a long time of the dan- fer of gambling rackets moving into Ontario." he said. "Hosever, the danger of a large-scale invasion of that kind is diminishing® Asked about a rumer that U.S. gambler Frank Costello had been in Toronto early this month, Mr, Porter said: THINK IT' OVER | HEAR THOSE LOW PRESSURE SUPER CUSHIONS ARE BEARS AGE, JOE. a {YOU BET! AND THEY SURE GIVEA COMFORTABLE RIDE. SAFER TOO= MORE TREAD ON THE ROAD MEANS F-- = AND WHATS MORE THEY CUT DOWN °F IRS, BECAUS™ THEY SuAn UP VIBRATIOIx. I'M REALLY SOLD ON THEM. For a Safer, Smoother, Softer Ride. SS BARAGAR KING ST. E PHONE: 3939 EXPERT TIRE SERVICE TIRE REPAIRS & RECAPPING TOMATOES ca ns. 19: N. B. POTATOES 50-1b. Bag 99c California Navel ORANGES Large 176's 49c doz. CAULIFLOWER 2 Sizes 35¢ & 39c each Lettuce 2 for 29c Celery 2 for 25¢ A \ = ' 2 MH Q = (AY -- Meat Round, Wing & Porterhous Loin Pork Ends Butts Pork Fresh Shoulders Boneless Round Steak Roast STEAK or ROAST e Ih, SWIFTNING 11b. pkg. Toronto, March 29--North York Township property owners in school | area 1 may be faced with a tax' rate of 106.5 mills this year, an. in- crease of 20.1 mills over 1950. | This was * predicted yesterday | after couneil struck its mill rate for the school area at 56.5. Last Mon. day, the public school board set its | rate at 50 mills, not yet Taufint | by couneil. | Ontario covers an area of 412,582 square miles, but extends 1,000 miles | Junket Quick Fudge MIX ...... BYE ATKINSON'S Blue Bonnet DeLuxe MARGARINE Ib. 43¢ Ib. 43¢ 12 oz. 45¢ 2 pkgs. 39c FOOD MARKET -- Self -Serve fronomy. Prices -- - 42 KING ST. W. PHONE 1524 east to west and 1,050 miles Ror | and south. OSHAWA