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y THE ) OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle AILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 74 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951 Price § Cents TWENTY-TWO PAGES .RUSSI anadian atricias Make izable (rains ver Soggy Hills Tokyo, March 20-- (Cp) -- The Princess Patricia's Can- | adian Light Infantry and Australian diggers forded rushing | streams and scrambled over hills soggy with three days of rain to roll up sizable gains on the muddy Central Korean | front today. The Commonwealth forces racked up their | gains in rugged country northwest of Kapyong which is 12 miles south of the 38th Parallel and 12 miles southwest of | Chunchon on the road to Seoul. « AP Correspondent Nate Pol- owetzky reported the advances were significant, but the dis- . tance could not be disclosed. ' He added: "Only the difficul- "ties of the going determined the speed of their advance." Reuters news agency earlier re- ported that American and British troops scored fast gains of three miles to move within five miles of | the 38th Parallel in a new offen- sive launched northeast of Seoul. Stiff Defence » The determined allied push forced freshly thrown-in Chi- nese Reds to withdraw to the north, Reuters said. But else- where in the Central and West- ern sectors, the Communists fought their stiffest defensive action of weeks. They were dug in about four miles south of the Red Korean border in both areas. Field dispatches said the Chi- pese were moving south of the border in the Chunchon area, They PATRICIAS (Continued on page 2) Jap Treaty Draft Sent Out By U.S. Washington, March 29 -- (AP) -- The U.S. State Department is dis tributing to 15 countries this week a completed American draft of a Japanese peace treaty. These pow- ers are being invited to state their reaction and propose, as soon as possible, any changes they may want. State Department officials hope that within about three months an agreed treaty draft may result from formal negotiations getting under way now. Some difficulties are foreseen, however, since Australia and New Zealand are worried about possible future Japanese rearming, the Philippines have insisted on rep- arations and Britain would like to curtail the Japanese shipping in- | dustry. Russia 1s one of the countries re- ceiving a copy of the. treaty draft but is not expected to accept it as a basis for negotiation: Boys Find $33,736 In Vacant Building "= Yonkers, N.Y.,, March 29--(AP)-- Two grade-school boys poking shrough the attic of a vacant house ¥esterday found a can containing $33,736.25, more than $900 of it in gt coins. The money was claimed by a bank as trustee of the estate of the late owner of the house, Mrs. ranklin D. Bigelow, who died Aug. 16. Pe l = ( | | Seven Persons Feared Lost In Blizzard Denver, March 29 -- (AP)-- Seven persons -- including two children -- were feared trap- ped today by snow which swept over a mountain area where they went for a picnic. A rescue unit of six men with a truck and two 'snow weasels" left the air force base here early today to search along a forest road where the missing party is believed to have driven, A blizzard whipped over the area Tuesday night and early yesterday. Seventeen inches of snow were dumped on Pike's Peak at Colorado Springs. Net Profit At Fittings Up $63,146 An increase of $63,146 in net profit was reported for last year by Fittings, Limited, manufacturers of pipe fittings, valves, unions, etc. The changes and additions refer- {red to in the annual report for 1949 have worked out well and are | reflected in the addition to capital assets of $217,855. In the malleable {iron division, the duplex melting | system has been completed and three moulding units are now in | | | | operation. The program of im= | provement which has been under | consideration for some time will be | continued; therefore, directors have decided to leave the ggneral reserve account at $550,000. | 1950 $ 402,459 165,875 236,584 29,534 489,127 280,743 . 2,938,784 2,465,539 (net) 1,273,169 1,227,038 550,000 550, erve . ,00 nt assets 1,665,614 1,233,470 nt liabilities 660,764 395,902 | ing capital 1,004,850 837,568 | Current ratio 25 to 1 3.1 to (a) -- After deducting depreciation charges of $171,813 in 1950 end $159, 940 in 1949. Committed for Trial On Murder Charge Toronto, March 29 -- (CP) -- Mrs. 1949 $ 284,379 110,94) 173,438 29,534 Total income (a) | Income taxes Net profit Dividends . | Earned surplus . Total assets | Fixed as: G | Marie Lopees, 24, formerly of St. | Catharines, today was committed for trial for murder in the March | 3 knife-slaying of her 26-year-old | husband, John. The trial is ex- | pected to start April 27, | At the time of her arrest, police | said her husband was stabbed dur | ing an argument in the couple's two-room basement apartment in | suburban New Toronto. Teaching Temperance As School Subject Suggested » Ottawa, March 29--(CP)--Tem- perance in the use of alcoholic bev erages should be taught as part of the curriculum of public schools in the United States and Canada, NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per lssue tor FEBRUARY 10,842 ® A 4 | esi | Vashti Ishee of Jackson, Miss, to | day told the annual convention of the Ontario Temperance Federation. Miss Ishee, Supervisor of Narcot- | ic Education for the state of Mis- | sissippi, said in an address prepared for delivery that a program of al- cohol education should be launch- ed on an inelligent and dignified | basis." | '"Moralistic preachment, stereo- | typed approach, distorted and exag- | gerated statements will not suffice," | Miss Ishee said. It cannot be accomplished in year, not even in a lifetime, but | Resinning can be made, said Miss Ishee, after telling the delegates | that half the present adult popula- | tion in the U.S. drunk alcoholic | beverages in varying degrees, while 1 3.000.000 to 4,000,000 are "problem | drinkers." | { 1 | | At, a concert in Simcoe Street United Church last night Mrs. Frank Phelps, W.C.T.U. superintendent for Oshawa Sunday Schools presented books to the winners of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Essay | contest. The winners, left to right, are Bob Gilchrist, Carolyn Mann, Richard Morrow, Lorna Morrow, Bill | Burr and Joan Basinger. | Moffat, Catherine Black and Betty Ann Kellett. Sharp Drop In Butter Price Likely | Toronto, March 29--(CP)--An im- | mediate drop in the retail price of | butter was predicted Wednesday by wholesalers who reported the whole- sale price was off 8 to 10 cents a i pound. The retail price here Wed- nesday was 88 to 90 cents a pound. Drop In West | © Regina, March 29--(CP)--Whole- | sale and retail butter prices dropped | three cents a pound in Regina Wed- {nesday. Wednesday's drop was the second this week. On Monday the | retail price dropped to 78 cents a | pound from an all-til.e high of 80 | cents, | Lower In Winnipeg A similar three-cent price drop occurred in Winnipeg, where a further decline of three to four cents |a pcund is expccted by the end of | the week. Top-gade butter sold in | { Winnipeg at 78 cents, as compared | | with the previous 81 cent level, LITTLE DECREASE HERE There has been no substantial change in the price of butter during the past week, local retail mer- chants reported this morning. Prices | at present range from 74 to 77 cents per pound for First Grade butter. One store reported that second- grade butter was selling at 72 cents a pound, but stated that none was available at present, In two stores price reductions of ,one cent went into effect today. | Other stores reported no change. On Bail In 'Abortion Case | 'Toronto, March 29--(CP)--Mrs. | Alice Sarah Payne, 42, Gowan | Avenue, Toronto, was remanded to | April 12 on $2,000 bail in county | court today on a charge of man- slaughter arising out of the death of Mrs, Pearl Rivers, 26, of | Oshawa. | The mother of two children, Mrs. | Pear] Rivers, 26, died on the ches- | terfield of her Oshawa flat last | Thursday. Her mother, Mrs. Arthur Chumley, was told that her daugh- ter had died as the result of an abortion. Mrs. Rivers was the wife of Rus- sell Rivers of Cooper Ave., Toronto. Her children, Terry, 4, anu Nancy, 2, are being cared for by her mother. He | Mrs. Payne's arrest followed a three-day investigation into the death of Mrs. Rivers. Nations Join In Atomic Project The Hague, March 29---(Reuters) --The Netherlands and Norway have | decided jointly to build a uranium | atomic energy, the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf says today. | Some radioactive products will be | made, but the energy produced in the oven will be "a negligible quan- | tity" and too small for many im- | portant physical experiments. |" The oven will be built in Norway, which will supply the heavy water, | Holland will provide the uranium, | | stesive control of western Tibet, MOVEMENT OF Absent when the picture was taken were Helen Phair, Valerie Glendenning, Dick --Times-Gazette Staff Photo CANADIAN BRIGADE TO KOREA BEGINS AS ADVANCE PARTY SAILS _ Fort Lewis, Wash., March 29--(CP)--The movement of Canada's 25th Brigade to Korea has started. It was announced Wednesday that a sfall advance party 'has sailed from a west coast United States port bound for the war-wrecked peninsula where one Canadian battalion has just gong back into the line. (In Ottawa, defence head quarters said the bulk of the Brigade, about 5,000 men, is expected to sail in April. There have been difficulties in arranging shipping.) The advance party "will make ar- ls rangements for the arrival of com- bat elements of the brigade." It sailed aboard the United States troopship Joseph P. Martinez, the ship which carried the 2nd Batta- lion of the Princess Patricia's Can- | last year. The Brigade's commander, Brig. John M. Rockingham, now is in Korea on a reconnaissance tour but is expected to return here before the brigade leaves, | The brigade consists of the 2nd adian Light Infantry to Korea late | Battalions of the Royal Canadian Regiment and Royal 22nd Regi- ment as well as the P.P.C.L.I. unit already in Korea. They are backed by artillery,- anti-tank, engineer, medical and other units. To. Command New Brigade Victoria, March 29--(CP) -- Re- ports circulating in military circles here Wednesday indicate that Brig. | ADVANCE PARTY | (Continued on page 2) 'Toronto Bandits Escape After Shots Exchanged Woman Out In Chase By Constables Toronto, March 29 (CP)--Police exchanged shots with two holduj men and chased them with a cruis- er at 80 miles an hour early today, | but the bandits, who had stolen a {cash register containing $70 from | the Albany Grill in northwest To- | | ronto, escaped up a narrow west | end laneway, | The law officers fired through | the windshield of their own cruiser | after one bandit leaned out of the | window of a ear listed as stolen and opened fire, | Lee Jones, daughter of the pro- | ! prietor of the restaurant, said one of the thieves threatened to kill | her if {fie removed the cash register from | the counter. Red Chinese Now Control 'West Tibet L 4 | she did not remain still while | Provinces Must Ask For Commission On Problem of Alcohol Ottawa, March 29--(CP)--The Ontario Temperance Federation was told yesterday that Prime Minister St Laurent has promised to appoint a Royal Commission to study the alcohol problem in Canagla when a majority of the provinces request such a commission, ' | retary of the Canadian Temperance Federation, sajd in an address to the O.T.F.'S 60th Annual Conven- tion that thus far only Jaskatch- ewan has requested the' royal com- mission, KING COLE SAVES HOME Los Angeles, Nat (King) Cole, negro piu.nist and singer, yesterday saved his luxur- Kalimpong, Indla, March 29-- (AP)--Chinese Communists based in Sinkiang province have assumed forcing the Dalai Lama's viceroy to! flee to his winter capital at Gar- gunsa, it was reported here today. | Reliable from Yatung, sources arriving here | the Dalai Lama's provisional capital since he fled] southward from Lhasa, said that | all but one of Western Tibet's dis- | trict governors also have fled. | Reports from Yatung yesterday | said the Dalai Lama, the country's | young ruler, had named a new pro- |" Communist prime minister in would head a peace-seeking mission to Peiping. > - ' / ious home from forced sale by the government for non-payment of $146,000 in back income taxes. Cole paid in cash the amount which could get from the forced sale. 5 THE WEATHER Rain today ending about midnight. Extensive fog tonight, Friday cloudy with widely scat- tered showers. Continuing mild. Winds southeast 15 becoming light tonight and southwest 15 Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 40 and 45. Summary for Friday: Cloudy, Scattered show-. ers, Rev. John Linton of Toronto, sec- | FREIGHT RATE | | Ottawa, March 29--(CP) -- The | Board of Transport Commissioners | today denied a railway request that | higher express rates on fish be put | into effect immediately. | The board rejected a motion in | which the railways yesterday call- | ed for: dismissal of complaints | against the proposed new , rates, | which range up to 68 per cent over existing charges. The commissioners held the com- | plainants had made out a prima | facie case against the higher rates, {and the railways would have to | bring in evidence to show they | would be "reasonable" and not "un- | justly discriminatory" in relation | to other express rates. Annuity Plan For Alberta Introduced | -- | Edmonton, March 29--(CP) -- A provincial annuity plan--{first of its kind in Canada -- was introduced yesterday in the Alberta legisla- | ure by Premier O. Manning. Any Canadian citizen with at | least three years' residence in Al- berta can enter the plan with an | initia] deposit of not less than $10. Premiums will be payable at the age of 60 or any date after that fixed by the purchaser. The maxi- mum premium will $1,500 a year, The Alberta plan is more elastic than those available at present from insurance companies or the dominion. It provides that the purchaser may withdraw all or part of his deposits any time after five years from the date of the | first depesit. In this case, the interest of .3', percent would be | forfeited. The provincial plan compares with one which the federal govern- ment has sponsored since 1908. Federal government annuities the maximum is $1,200---carry three percent interest and are for | straight life or for any number of | years up to 20. be Strike Wave Is Spreading In France Paris, March 2¢ (Reuters) -- France's wave of strikes threaten- ed to spread today, with growing discontent among unions at the government's refusal to sanction higher wages. Tax collectors, post office men, civil servants, hospital staff, mor- ticians, garbage collectors, and other municipal employees were among the latest reported threat- ening action. Paris subway and bus employees have been out 14 days. More than 2,000 strikers, dispersed by helmeted security *guards two-hour demonstration the transport ministry shouted: "We'll come morrow." Arsenal workers in Brest, Brit- tany, and at Toulon, in the south, downed tools and other minor ! strikes continued to flare up. after a outside yesterday, back to- Attlee Leaves 'Hospital Bed To 'Make Broadcast London, March 29--(Reuters)-- March 29--(AP)-- Prime Minister Attlee, undergoing | hospital treatment for a duedenal ulcer, will step out Saturday night to make a political broadcast from 10 Downing Street. Then 1t's back to hospital for further treatment. A member of his | and not worrying." He is dieting and receiving medi- cinal treatment. DETECTIVE FACES TRIAL { Toronto, March 29--- (CP) --A | former Toronto private detective, Michael Manos, 27, Wednesday was ordered to face trial on a charge of theft of more than $38,000 from ya Toronto law firm. Elsie Teasdale, 33 - year - old bookkeeper, jointly charged with Manos, has already been sentenced to two years less one day in reformatory. X BOOST ONFISH Four Foreign Ministers today the afternoon's meeting. Troops Lead In Korean Advance New Proposals > W.C.1.U, Evsay Contest Winners Receive Prizes BOARD DENIES Raise He pes At Big 4 Meeting Paris, March 29-- (Reuters) -- The deputies of the Big decided to postpone for a day This session may well prove one of the most crucial of the prolonged conference. The west will have to make its ree [ply to a Russian compromise proposal on the agenda for the planned meeting of the deputies" chiefs. ; Andrei Gromyko yesterday drope ped his insistence that the Potsdam | agreement on the demilitarization of Germany become a topic of a new | for employment at National Em- steel- | T0 DISCUSS SUPPORT FOR DAIRY PRICES Ottawa, March | visers to 'Agriculture Minister Gar- | diner will meet with him here next | week to discuss new problems ap- pearing on tural scene Chief of these is the question of | a support policy for cheese and butter for 1951. In official quarters it is anticipated that both products will be supported at rates higher than in 1950. The floor. for butter in 1950 was | set ap 53 cents a pound wholesale. Pris is likely to be boosted to 60 cents. Cheese support last year was fixed at 28 cents a pound wholesale. This is likely to be increased to 30 cents. Both dairy items are receiving the attention of the agriculture depart- ment. The 1950 support price for butter runs to April 30; tha! for cheese was terminated last I 31. A final decision on both items is likely to be made by Mr. Gardi- ner and the cabinet some time within the next four weeks. Mr. Gardiner's Advisory Commit- tee is a permanent structure made up mostly of officials outside the federal circle. Included are mem- bers of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the 10 provincial Deputy - Agriculture Ministers, or their representatives. Discussions to be held here April 3-4 will be private, and. no public announcements will follow. How- ever, it is understood that at the | discussions the representatives of the 400,000-member Federation of Agriculture will press the minister to advocate a 62-cent floor for but- ter. { 6,500 Fewer Unemployed On March 1 Ottawa, March 29--(CP)-- The number of registered unemployed in Canada dropped 6.500 in the two- week "period ended March 1, the Labor Department announced to- day. A total of 296,700 were registered ployment Service offices on March i 1, compared with 303,200 at Feb. 15. The number of unemployed at March 1 was 79,300 lower than at the corresponding date of 1950. The department said a gradual return to work by many persons | | seasonally unemployed during mid- winter has become apparent in re- cent weeks. | 29--(CP)--Ad- | the Oanadian agricul- | Big Four foreign ministers meeting, The Soviet deputy foreign minis= ter agreed for the first me to ine clusion of the question of the "level [of arms" of the United States, | Britain France and Russia on the proposed agenda. Abandons Stand He also abandoned his stand that | German disarmament must be dis= cussed as a separate 'topic. These developments in the 19th meeting of the four powers' western authorities to say guard- edly that the four powers at last may be making some progress toward arranging the work sheet for a foreign ministers conference. to 2ase world ten- sions, "The "proposal, at fi .t glance, seems to indicate that Russia has | BIG FOUR (Continued on page 2) Plan to Make 'Newsprint From Bagasse New York, March 29--(AP)--A $15,000,000 plant to make newsprint from sugar cane bagasse--the waste | material of the sugar industry-- ; will be built in Florida. The United Bagasse- Celluloss Corporation was formed recently to carry out the project. President is Joaquin J. de la Roza, Cuban en= gineer who developed a new and successful process of making paper from bagasse. 'De la Roza today said the process is less expensive, the raw material more abundant and the quality comparable with newsprint made from wood. The new plant, he said, will be vuilt adjacent to the United States Sugar Corporation mill at Clewis= ton, Fla. It will utilize the sugar mill's waste and its initial capacity will be 45,000 tons of newsprint ane nually. Plan Campaign On Undesirable Comic Magazines Toronto, March 29--(CP)-- The Roman Catholic 'Parent-Teachers' Association Wednesday accepted a committee report finding comic magazines sold and distributed in Ontario, "glorify divorce and. sex, display suggestive art and under- mine parental and civil authority." Mrs. Margaret O'Brien of Peter borough, head of a committee set up to study comic magazines said: "Our work will be continued until the comics are cleared up. We in= tend to expand to other magazines and books." In Atom Spy Trials * Hes Are Convicted | | New York, March 29--(AP)--Two | {men and a woman were gonvicted today of passing wartime atomic | secrets to Russia in the first atom | spy trial in the United States. The jury returned its verdict at 111 AM. EST., after seven hours and 18 minutes of deliberation. | The convicted defendants, who | | appraisers estimated the government staff says he is "looking very well | .ould receive the death penalty, are | | Julius Rosenberg, 34-year-old elec- | trical engineey; his wife, Ethel, 35, and radar expert Morton Sobell, 33. | The prosecutor did not ask for the death penalty, however, during | summation. The trio was accused of relaying atom secrets to an international Red spy ring headed by Klaus | Fuchs until his arrest in England | early last year, The secrets, the | government - contended, included drawings of the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945. The government's star witness in the case was David Greenglass, broe ther of Ethel Rosenberg. Greens glass, who pleaded guilty to the es=- pionage indictment, is awaiting sentence for his part in the plot. The espionage indictment also named a fifth defendant, Anatoli A, Yakovlev, whois now believed to have fled to Russia. Greenglass is a former army tech« nician who served at the atomic bomb centre at Los Alamos, New Mexico. He said the information he obtained there was turned over by him to the Rosenbergs for relay to the Russians. Only Mrs, Rosenberg showed any emotion as the verdicts were an- nounced. She shook her head slightly, then stared grimly at the floor of the courtroom. Scbell and | Rosenberg sat calmly in their chairs, ¢