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THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 78 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1951 Price § Cents FOURTEEN PAGES SAY SKINNER CASE N Dial Change-Over At Midnight to Take Only Two Minutes D-Day in Oshawa will be Saturday, April 28. At mid- night on that date, the new dial telephone service for the city will be put into operation, A. A. Gillespie, Bell Telephone Company manager for Oshawa said today. All of the proj- ects involved in the change-over to the dial system, he said, were proceeding on schedule, the definite date and hour. so it had been possible to fix The actual cutover to the dial system will likely take less than two minutes, and will cause virtually no interruption.in the telephone service, Mr. Gilles- pie said. Survey All Subscribers One of the projects which got underway recently is a tele- phone survey of all Oshawa subscribers. This survey is de- signed to give subscribers per- sonal instruction in the use of the dial telephone, thus ensur- ing that telephone users will know how to make use of their new telephone system when it is inaugurated here. In addition to answering any questions subscribers may have about the new system, the employ- ees conducting the survey allow subscribers to listen to the various DIAL SYSTEM (Continued on Page 2) Hundreds Executed In China Purge Hong Kong, March 3-- (Reuters) --Fresh executions in Communist China's purge of "counter-revolu- tionaries" were reported in pro- Communist newspapers here today. Thirty people were executed in Chungking March 11 by order of a people's court, the reports said. An undisclosed number were shot in Tientsin. These reports followed the offi- cial admission of 91 executions in 8hanghai and 18 in Canton. A count of Communist reports puts the total executions now at several hundred. But most non- Communist sources here believe the figure runs into many thou- sands. Australia to Build Larger Armed Forces Melbourne, Australia, April 3 -- (Reuters)--Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies said today Australia must have a mobilized strength of 178,100 men for the armed forces by the end of 1953, In an election statement of the policies of his Liberal Party- Country Party coalition, he said the army must have 24,000 men, the air force 30,000 and the navy 124,100 in an emergency. WELLAND CANAL OPENED Port Colborne, April 3--(CP) -- Navigation on the Welland Canal officially opened Monday, with a rush of traffic, mostly oil boats, and some coal. First ship to pass down- bound was the Imperial Kingston. She was closely followed by five other Imperial tankers, Declares No Shortage Of Automobiles Toronto, April 3-- (CP) --There is no shortage of automobiles in Canada but there js a gap be- tween supply and demand, Howard B. Moore, managing director of the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations of Canada, told the Board of Trade Monday. Prodution of automobiles has passed the 400,000 mark in 1950, four times the prodution of pre- war years, Mr. Moore said. The industry in Canada was on the way to a new high in produc- tion in 1951 unless the Korean War caused curtailment of sup- plies. Russia And China Offer New Delhi, April 3--(Reuters)-- | The Indian government is consider- ing offers tottalling 1,500,000 tons of food grains from Russia and Communist China--enough to sup- ply one-quarter of her entire food deficit this year, it was authorita- tively learned today. The Soviet Union has offered 500,000 tons of food grains in addi- tion to the Chinese offer of 1,000,- 000 tons reported yesterday. The two offers came while ac- tion was still pending in the Unit- ed States congress on a proposal to grant 2,000,000 tons of Ameri- can food grain to India. The Russians are understood to have asked in return for iron ore, raw jute, manganese and other commodities of whieh India is in short supply, or for which com- mitments have already been made to other countries. : In case of the Chinese offer ship- ping is likely to prove a major difficulty. TO INVESTIGATE GAMBLING Albany, N.Y., April 3 -- (AP) -- Governor Thomas E. Dewey today ordered a special grand jury to convene April 30 to investigate any connections between gamblers, rack- eteers and public officials in Sara- toga County. MacArthur Wants More Canadians In Says Brigade Vancouver, April 3--(CP)--Gen. MacArthur wants "more Canadian soldiers in the Korean front lines as soon as they can get there," the commander of Canada's United Na- tions Brigade said last night. Brig. John Rockingham had just NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for MARCH 10,558 Front Line Commander returned by plane from Tokyo, where he had a 75-minute confer- ence with the U.N. Commander. The Brigadier made a 10-day tour of the Korean war theatre. He plans to lead his 6,000 men from Fort Lewis, Wash.,, to Korea later this month. "Gen. MacArthur told me he wanted us in the line just as quickly as we can make it," Brig. Rocking- ham told reporters. He said his tour of the U.N.s front line convinced him that "they could do with a few thousand more troops right now." He reported that Gen. Mac- Arthur had praised the "fine work" of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, who have been in action for several weeks. Lt.-Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Eight Army com- MacARTHUR Moontinued on Page a Lg Food to India Specialized Training for Long Distance Operators 1p TAX RATE » Though local operators will no longer be stationed here following the cutover of Oshawa's telephone system to dial operation on April 28, long distance operators will remain at their switchboards here. | distance operators are undergoing a specialized training eourse in the use of Oshawa's new long distance | and information switchboards located in the new dial exchange building on Victoria Street. tors is seen receiving this essential training. Currently long A group of opera- --Bell Telephone Photo. DARK PICTURE PAINTED FOR UK. PEOPLE London, April 3 -- (AP) -- The govetnment warned the British péo- ple today that life will be "harsh and unpleasant" this year, with wages buying less goods. It blamed | Russia. i This picture of more austerity | was drawn in the fifth annual | economic survey by Hugh Gaitskell, | Chancellor of the Exchequer. The survey pointed up the new task of large-scale rearmament. "Not until the Communist leaders have been convinced that the Western Powers are impregnable may we hope to be able to concentrate once more on peaceful development," the survey said. Gaitskell, who took over last year from ailing Sir Stafford Cripps, must present his 1951-52 budget to parliament a week from today. In general, he followed the pay- as-you-go path that Cripps marked out. The survey predicted a four-per- cent increase in industrial produc- tion in 1951, compared with nine per cent last year but added "we DARK PICTURE (Continued on Page 2) Bans Lifted On German Production Bonn, Germany, April 3-- (AP) -- The Western Allies today removed all restrictions on the size and speed of German merchant ships and lifted their bans on production of synthetic oil and rubber. They also permitted the Germans to 'resume production of synthetic ammonia, chlorine and styrene, and removed controls over production of machine :-ols and primary alumi- num. This sweeping revision of post- war controls on Germany's poten- tial war industries leaves aircraft, naval craft and military weapons as about the only things the Germans are forbidden to make. Even with these arms bans re- maining, however, the new author- ity "will facilitate the production in Germany of items and materials for the common defence of the west" Allied Officials said. W. German Police Remove 15 Reds From Heligoland Hamburg, Germany, April 3 -- (Reuters) -- West German water police today removed from Heligo- land 15 youpg Communists, includ- ing four girls, who landed there Saturday as a protest against the Allies using the island for bombing practice. The police, who landed on the is- land yesterday, arrested the demon- strators after using oxyacetylene cutters to burn through barricades which the Communist youths had erected in the island's former air raid shelter, American Division Crosses Border In Aggressive Move By OLEN CLEMENTS ; Tokyo, April SAD): Blementsi of an American division today cross- ed the 38th Parallel in force on the | Western Korean Front. Field dispatches said the cross- ing was "aggressive but cautious" | along a 10-mile front. | The Allied force met only light | Cemmunist resistance. In the air, American jet fighters | shot down three Russian type MIG-15 jets and damaged three | others over Northwest Korea. | They were out along with Allied | bombers. and F-51 Mustang fighters | lashing the Communist rail and road network -- the "Achilles Heel" --which the Communists have jam- | med with vehicles supplying their | biggest offensive build-up of the | Korean war. Gen. Douglas MacArthur Tuesday visited South Korean. troops ten AMERICAN (Continued on Page 2) Woman Killed Four Others | In Hospital Owen Sound, April 3--(CP)--MTrs. Joseph Scarrow, of nearby el was killed and her mother, "Mrs. William Baux, also of Tara, Wo seriously injured early today when | their car crashed into a roadside tree near here. In hospital here but not badly hurt are three other occupants of the car: Lorne Baux, of Chippawa Hill, brother of Mrs. Scarrow; Miss Ada Baux, 16, her sister, and Har- vey Scarrow, 15, Mrs. Scarrow's son. The group were returning from | a hockey game at Barrie. Police said the car, driven by Mrs. | Scarrow, left the road and travel- led 97 feet before striking the large tree. Drowning Vitim WALTER ALFRED FRY three miles west of Hastings on Sunday when he fell from a boat | while trying out a new outboard motor. The body has not been re | covered, Youth Charged With Slaying Stepfather "Toronto, April 5 3--(CP)--Richard | Cosentino, 18, Monday father, 46-year-old Richard Shep- herd died in hospital with a bullet | in his heart. Police said Shepherd had apparently been having an argument with his wife, Cosentino's mother. Shepherd was shot with a bullet from a .22-calibre rifle. He! died 25 minutes later. U.A.W. Convention Boosts $15,000,000 Strike Fund Cleveland, April 3--(AP)-- The C.I.O. United Automobile Workers Union voted itself a - $15,000,000 strike fund and a multi-million dollar political-action kitty Mon- day night by approving a hotly-"| contested §l-a-month dues boost from $1.50 to $2.50. U.A.W. President Walter Reu- ther and Secretary-Treasurer Emil Mazey spearheaded the debate for passage of the dues increase. The anti-dues boost arguments centred around charges that Un- fon "pork-choppers" would benefit most from the extra money. This term is applied, union slang, to any unionists holding non-elective jobs. The opposition also charged the U.AW, funds had been used to raid the membership of farm- equipmen$ workers, one of left-wing unions kicked out of the C.I.O. U.AW. leaders have said that, barring a major strike in . the meantime, the dues boost would enable the union to build a $15,- 000,000 strike fund by 1955. That's when all the 'big auto industry contracts expire. Thirty cents of the $2.50 was earmarked for In- ternational Union and local strike | funds. . Big Business Operating a union today is a big | business, and an expensive one, top union leaders pointed out. In addition to organizing activi- ties and those related to collective | bargaining, a union as large as the | UAW. must also think and work | in terms of political action and CONVENTION (Continued on Page 2 - night was | charged with murder after his step- | IN WHITBY TOWNSHIP Ratepayers of of Whitby Tomrdiip increased rates on school sections. The general rate which includes the county rate, high school rate, township general rate and township road and bridge rate, has been in- creased by Seven mills . last year to 26.3 mills this year. The 26.3 mill rate will provide the sum of $67,066.25 for the Gen- era] Purposes of the township dur- ing 1951. This is a substantial in- crease over the $50,558.38 required last year for general purposes. Education Costs Down The costs of public school educa- tion have been reduced somewhat with the sum of $23,150.87 being provided this year as with 826,558.38 last year. Some in- dividual school sections have a sub- TAX RATE (Continuea on Page 2) Floods Block Highway To Quebec City Montreal, April 3--(CP)--Road north shore was a round-about busi- ing a flood at Berthierville, miles northeast of here. Water from the Chicot river, a small stream emptying into the St. Lawrence, overflowed to a depth of three feet, cutting the Montreal- | Quebec highway. Rail lines several miles north of the highway are un- affected. 40 | The roads department closed the | | highway to Quebec: to traffic. The | south shore route was the only ene left for motorists who have to cross the St. Lawrence by ferry from Ste. Angele de Laval to reach Three Rivers and the road north to Shawi- nigan Falls, Road travel to Quebec City meant crossing by ferry from Levis. 'Republicans ; Win Triumph In Michigan 287 Mothersill Drive, Oshawa, who was drowned in the Trent River, | Detroit, April 3--(AP)--Republi- {ans marked up a sweeping triumph today in Michigan's spring elections. Republicans won eight state offi- ces in yesterday's light-vote and received concessions on all contests from the Democrats as early as 3 AM. EST. For 18 years the Repub- lican party has been Michigan's spring victor. The voters approved two consti- tutigpal amendments. One pro- vides for annual sessions of the | legislature. It now meets biennially. | The other gives a $500 grant to survivors of men killed in the Korean War. Firebug Confesses 'To Michigan Police | Greenville, T"ich., TTieh, April 3--(AP) | --Police said today that Vernon | Mevis, 21, confessed today thaf he set a series of fires that brought near-martial law to this central Michigan city last night. One church was destroyed and another church and two downtown buildings damaged. Total loss was estimated at $300,000. No injuries were reoprted. Mevis' only explanation, police said, was: | "Something would come over me |and that was what I'd do." DESTROYER RE-COMMISSIONED Victoria, B.C., April 3--(CP)--The destroyer Crusader was recommis- sioned into the active Navy Monday lat a flag-raising ceremony here. | Cmdr. Harold V. W. Groos of Vic- | toria, captain of the warship, said | the Crusader will be used primarily as a training ship. irre pmpr-- THE WEATHER Cloudy" with occasional sunny intervals today, mostly sunny Wednesday. Not mu¢h change in temperature. Winds west 15. Low tonight and high Wednes- day, 35 and 45. Summary for Wednesday: Mostly sunny, mills from 19.3 | compared | travel on the St. Lawrence River's | ness east of Montreal today follow- | attempted theft of a quantity Toronto. servatively to be worth $10,000. | ranted it police were confident that they could still pick up the two men who were arrested near the factory grounds by Constables Ferguson and Smith, and a third man arrested in T CLOSED ad Telephone Service Starts April 28 Release of Three Suspects Brings Strong Criticism Release of two men sap ghended early on Sunday morn= ing near the scene of an attempted robbery from the Simcoe Will pay a substantially higher gen- | Street South plant of the Skinner Co. Ltd. does not mean eral tax rate this year as well as | | that the case is closed said Chief of Police Owen D. Friend this morning. Police were, he said, still investigating the of nickel ingots estimated con- If their investigations war- Strong Criticism MOSQUITOS COMING HERE FOR FITTING London, Ont., April '3 (CP)--Two | Mosquito bombers which never saw war action and have been stored | at London Airport for the last six week for a new peacetime role. The first is expected to leave here tomorrow for Oshawa, headquarters of Kenting Avia- tion. The second will be ready for delivery about Saturday, George Walker, Leavens' man- ager, said today, The fuselages, built to carry | bombs, will be modified in Osh- awa to carry cameras. They are the last of more than | 100 machines. stored here at war's end. During. the last few weeks the two planes have been put into shape by Leavens Brothers Air Ser- vice and will be used for high alti- tude photography. French Naval 'Workers Go On Strike Paris, April 3--(AP)--Communist and Roman Catholic Unions today called a 24-hour strike of some 30,000 workers in French naval ar- senals. The unions want more pay. A government spokesman said the stoppage beginning at midnight (6 P.M. EST Tuesday), would be "pure- ly symbolic." A leader of the So- cialist Union, Force Ouvriere, said his group had decided not to join the movement, flat 6,000:Framnc ($17) payment for last fall, and an 'hourly raise of 20 francs retroative to Dec. 1. At Marseilles; 'a' 24-hour walkout of officers:and men on port vessels halted tugboat service today. Two ships arrived docked under their own 'power. 56 MILL TAX RATE Sarnia, Ont., April 3--(CP)--Pub- lic school supporters in nearby Point Edward will pay a tax rate of 56 mills this year. This figure is six mills' higher than last year's and the highest on record. years will take to the air again this | + The strike unions are asking a| The release of the men who were arrested near the scene of the ate tempted robbery has aroused cone siderable comment and criticism in Oshawa, and also in Toronto. This morning's issue of The Globe and Mail carried a pointed editorial headed "The Oshawa Mystery," questioning very strongly the ace tion taken in releasing the men picked up as suspects. Crown Ate torney A. C. Hall, who ordered their releases contended that there was not sufficient evidence to warrant laying charges against them, and accepted full responsibility for the | decision to set them free. { Toronto Police Indignant Meanwhile, Toronto police are reported to be indignant that the two men were not held for further investigation. A third man, arrested in Toronto fol- lowing the. attempted robbery was also rel d, at the request of Oshawa police when instruc tions were given by Crown At- torney Hall, that no charge be: laid, Robbery Attempt Reviewed Early on Sunday morning Percy | Taylor, 60, night watchman at the plant was stopped on his rounds by three masked men, who of 'whom carried a gun. They assured the watchman that they did not ine tend to hurt him and then, with cord and adhesive tape, bound and gagged him. They laid him on a mattress in the first aid room ag the plant. Taylor said that he could hear CASE NOT CLOSED (Continued on Page 2) Protest U.S. Air Base On Old Common | London, April .3--(AP)--A peti« tion with 10,330 signatures proteste ing construction of a United States air base near Newbury was pre- sented to the House of Commons | te-ay. The air base, known as Green= ham Commons, is 1% miles from the centre of Newbury in Berke shire. An R.AF. field during the war, it now is being enlarged for use of U.S. bombers. The projeet includes diverti~¢ a main road and demolishing a score of houses. The US. Air Force has taken over 11 bases in England since July, 1948. : The petition contended: "This proposal would entail for the local people the loss forever of ancient common land and liberties which are an essential part of the peaceful way of life which the de= fence program is designed to pro= tect." # By STAFF REPORTER Brooklin, April 3 -- Severe re- strictions - were placed upon the operation of trailer camps and tourist camps in the Township of Whitby by a by-law "to designate areas to be used as tourist camps or trailer camps and to license, regulate and govern such camps" passed by the Whitby Township Council yesterday afternoon. De- signed to add teeth to the former building by-law, the new by-law will effectively prohibit -the estab- lishment of any new trailer or tourist camps and place those now lin operation under rigid super- | vision. The by-law is also designed to prevent the practise of liv- ing in trailers on private lots since a tra'le~ camp is d-fined as "any land on which a ve- Whitby Township By- Law Restricts Tourist Camps And Use of Trailers & * hicle designed to be drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle and used for living purposes is maintained notwithstand- ing the fact that this vehicle be jacked up or its running gear be removed." Fix License Fees The by-law will also add to the revenue of the township since lis censes of $10 for each cabin or parking spaces for trailers may be charged. This license only permits the operator of the camp to opers ate this camp between May 1 and October 1. A further license fee of $15 may be charged for each cabin operated between October 1 and May 1. The owner of a trailer camp is WHITBY TOWNSHIP (Continued on Page