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'THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 79 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1951 Price J Cents SIXTEEN PAGES EVICTIONS WORRYING Deputation Objects To Re-Zoning Land Werner Company Says Assurances Being Violated At the regular meeting of the City Council held last night, a strong objection was voiced to the action of the Council in recently changing the zoning restrictions for in- dustries in the South Oshawa industrial area, in order to al- low the establishment of a tannery in that area. Objections came in the form of a strong letter from the R. D. Werner Company, Limited, and also from a deputation representing the residents of the Simcoe, Sandra and Thomas Street area. Leader of the deputation stated that the verbal objection would be backed up by a Sup to the council. Norville Sweet was spokes- man for a group of four per- sons from the neighborhood of Thomas and Sandra Streets. He said that the residents in his district were very much against the change in the re- strictions which allowed the W. and J. Sagar (Canada) Limited to build a leather processing plant in the district. "It is a poor thing to put that sort of an industry there," Sweet told" members of City Council. "Once you let a tannery establish | there you are going to see the whole area built up like the water- | front in Toronto. Every kind of in- dustry will come in. Besides who | In the name of heaven wants a smell, or rather a stink from a tan- nery across his property. I pay RE-ZONING (Continued on Page 2) Netherlands To Go Limit In Defence The Hague, April 4--(Reuters)-- Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker to- day pledged the Netherlands to go to the limits of the country's capaci- | ty to accomplish our duty in the | actual formation of the North At- | lantic Defence Forces." Stikker, who is also chairman of the organization for European Economic Co-operation, was broad- casting over the Dutch world radio | on the second anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, which he called "a bold and far-reaching measure to unite in a common bond for the defence of freedom." He paid tribute te the great help given by the United States and Canada, declaring that the building up of Europe's defence system could never be realized, or even have been started, without it. GALE DELAYS LINER Southampton, England, April 4-- (Reuters) -- The 33,000-ton United States liner America, battling through a gale, today reached Southampton 14 hours late, Con- ditions were so bad in Sputhamp- ton water during the night that Commodore Harry Manning had to radio for more tugs. will Oppose Annexation To Sudbury | Township, a municipality | about 12,000 population, plans to | fight annexation to Sudbury, a city [of about 50,000, | The township council at a special | meeting last night with Gordon Watson of Toronto, legal consult- ant, decided to oppose Sudbury's application to the Ontario Muni- cipal Board here May 16 for per- mission to annex the 15305 acres of land. . Sudbury at present has an as- sessed population of 47,054 and the addition of McKim residents would make the city large enough to have a board of control and cocktail bars. U.S. Buying War Metals In Germany | (AP) -- American officials disclosed today that the United States has started buying critical materials in Western Germany for its stategic stockpile. The United States also has start- ed pumping money into .the de- velopment of new mines and fac- tories to increase West Germany's output of strategic materials need- ed for Western defence, the offi- cials said. Some 10,000 tons of German fluorspar, which is used in steel, aluminum and glass production, and 4,500 tons of lead already have moved to the United States. Ameri- can officials said they plan future purchases of German zinc, graphite, aluminum, lead and fluorspar. The "Windigos" were a mythical tribe of cannibals said by the Chip- pewa and Ottawa Indians to inhabit a Hudson Bay Island. IDEBT BURDEN Sudbury, april te 4--(CP)--McKim with | Frankfurt, Germany, April 4 -- | Canadian Nuns Charged By Chinese Communists With Spreading Epidemic Hong Kong, April 4--(Reuters)-- Five Canadian Roman Catholic nuns arrested ir Canton now have been accused of causing a cholera epidemic in the city in 1938, accord- ing to press reports from South China city of Canton. The reports said the charge had been made by 180 members of a peasants association in Shaho, a suburp of Canton who attended a "public accusaticn meeting." The peasants, who accused the nuns of "murdering" or- phans, said the infection had spread from the bodies of "baby NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for MARCH 10,558 victims" which the nuns left in the open air. A considerable number of persons in Shaho later died of cholera, the peasants said. The convent of the Tamacilite | Conception, to which the Buns be- | long, is in Shaho. do lic accusation meetin s later in a 'People's Court.' The nuns were arrested about two | | months ago on charges of heglect-| | ing children at the convent orphan- age. Chinese authorities who later took over the convent alleged that | more than 2,000 Chinese children | {had died there. (Canada's External Affairs Min- | ister, L. B. Pearson, has described | the charges as "grotesque and un- | founded. " The British dipicmauc | | service has been asked to do every- | | thing possible to help the nuns.) At the time of the arrests Chinese | | authorities. gave the names of the [nuns as: Antoinette Couvrette, head | | of the Orphanage; Germaine Gravel Assistant head; Elizabeth Lemire, | Genmaine Tanguay 'and Hilda La- | perriere, Though accusations made at pub- | not | | amount to formal charges they of-| ter. form the basis for prosecution | IS CAUSE OF CNR. DEFICIT Ottawa, April 4--(CP) The Canadian National Railways' over- all 1950 deficit of $3,261,000 probably will be the government line's last red-ink entry in a high-revenue year. The government is taking steps to clear away the clutter of an- cient debts that has dragged the C.N.R. into the red steadily, even in times of buoyant operating re- turns such as last year's record high. Plans are to do this at the cur- rent session of parliament through for the $2,500,000,000 company. The new set-up recommended by the Royal Commission on Transporta- C.N.R. DEFICIT (Continued on Page 2) Chinese Red Leader Goes To Moscow Paris, April 4--(Reuters) --In- formed French quarters said today that Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Com- munist leader, met Marshal Stalin in Moscow last month to discuss the Korean War, He was believed to have asked Stalin for military help or political intervention to bring the fighting to ap end, they said. The Chinese, it was added, were planning big defence works round Shanghai and Canton following re- ports of a possible Chinese Nation- alist landing from Formosa, U.S. Frontier Is On Rhine, Says Zeeland Brussels, April 4 -- (Reuters) -- Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland of Belgium, chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said today the saying that "the frontier of the United States is on the Rhine and Elbe" now is a reality. The presence of American troops in Europe will increase the feeling of security which will steadily re- place the feeling of anxiety by which the North Atlantic Treaty was dictated, he said in a broad- cast on the first anniversary of the signature of the 12-power At- lantic Defence Pact. Van Zeeland said the U.S. and Canada, by their adequate contri- bution to the Atlantic Defence Force, will save Europe from "the fate which seemed to threaten us." He mentioned specially Canada's grant of military equipment to arm three "Atlantic" divisions, in- cluding one Belgian. Crippled Children Removed to Saftey From School Fire Teronto, April 4--(CP)--Sev- enty crippled children at Wel- lesley Public School here were | led to safety today when fire broke out in the basement. Damage in one corner of the building was not extensive. Nearly 500 pupils are regis- tered at the school and a fire drill system with the older non-handicapped children aid- ing the others enabled the building to be cleared in 67 seconds. Civil Servants Head 'Blood! Bank Campaign | | Toronto, april 4 (CP)--The Civil Service Association of Ontario an- nounced today it will spearhead a public campaign to enlist support for the Red Cross Blood Bank, to be -established in connection with | civil defence plans. Don G. McMaster, executive sec- retary of the Association, said that the association through its 55 branches in the province would en- setting up a new capital structure | : list the support of Ontario's 14,000 | eivit servants and their families. To Receive Honorary Degrees REV. GEORGE TELFORD On whom honorary degrees will be conferred by Queen's University, King- ston, at the convocation on May 19. honorary Doctor of Laws degree while Mr, Telford will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. MRS. R. S. McLAUGHLIN Mrs. McLaughlin will receive an Reuther Given Fourth Term By Acclamation As U.AW. President Cleveland, April 4--(AP) fourth term as president of the C.I.0. United Auto Workers today without even token opposition. The U.A.W. convention re- retary-Treasurer Emil Mazey by acclamation. Though a five-way contest developed for the two union vice-presidencies, incumbents Richard T. Gosser and John W. Livingston were certain of A roll-call vote of the vice Election of 19 regional directors o -presidencies, requiring sever- al hours, was necessitated because of the contests. --Walter Reuther won his -elected both Reuther and Sec- re-election, too. was scheduled for later in the day. There was no other business on the day's program. ? The anti-Reuther faction has been able to muster only about 10 per cent of the votes on most convention issues so far. It was doubtful that it could do any better on the elections. Reuther's opponent was James Cleveland, secretary of Chevrolet- Forge Local 262 in Detroit. The convention has allocated 10 cents of the new membership dues rates -- boosted from $1.50 monthly to $2.50 -- to help elect candidates it likes in the U.S. Leaders said the U.A.W. contributed only $120,000 last year to the C.I.O. Political Ac- tion Committee in voluntary giving. The constitution also provides that 30 cents of each dues dollar go into a strike fund. Mazey said this will provide a $15,000,000 fund by 1955 when most auto industry con- tracts run out. DRUGGIST WINS £328 Port Stanley, Ont., April 4--(CP) --W. C. Wheaton, Port Stanley druggist, won. £328 in the Irish sweepstake draw for the Grand Na- tional which will be run in Eng- land this weekend. Mr. Wheaton's horse was "Raymond." Re-Elected By UAW WALTER P. REUTHER who was today, at the U.A.WA. Convention at Cleveland, re-el as president of the organization of Automobile Workers for the fourth successive year. Huge Investment Program Is Indicated for 1951 ---- * Ottawa, April 4--(CP)--Canada's business men, governments and in- stitutions are planning to swell the country's investment boom to the highest figure in history--$4,300,000,- 000. George Mcllraith, Parliamentary Assistant to Trade Minister Howe, yesterday tabled in the Commons a white paper on the Canadian in- vestment outlook for 1951. The report said that an invest- ment program of this magnitude, coming at a time when Canada is planning a huge defence program, map put "considerable strain" on available supplies of labor and ma- terials. The greatest detrimental factor is the lack of steel, particularly sheet, plate and heavy structural steel im- ported from the United States, it added. Some construction projects may be delayed. The 1951 investment intentions of $4,300,000,000 are a half-billion-dol- lar increase over the $3,791,000,00 in 1951 and more than three times the $1,265,00,000 of 1945, $10,000 PAINT FIRE Toronto, April 4--(CP)--A fire, said to have been caused by the explosion of a paint can, caused an | estimated. $10,000 .damage at the | Phillips Lacquer Company plant in | Suburban Lakeview yesterday. Se- | ven employees escaped injury. Says Krupps Will Never Make Arms Essen, Germany, April 4 -- (AP) --"Krupps will never make another gun -- not even if we are accused of sabotaging the European rearma- ment program." This assertion was made today by Dr. Friederich Wilhelm Hardach, director of the huge Krupp concern that helped arm Germany for two world wars. "After twice getting our fin- gers burned building arms for two wars, no one can justly complain if we say 'never more'," Hardach said in an in- terview, "We are so much op- posed to any more arms making that we are even refusing con- tracts to make trucks which might turn up some day in some army." Although Alfried Krupp, heir: to'| the big Krupp steel empire, was re- | leased from prison recently and had his property .rights restored, Har- dach actually runs the Krupp busi- ness. SEE TRUCE IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT London, April 4--(AP)--An un- expected full night's sleep for Parliament bolstered Labor govern- truce with Winston Churchill's filibustering Conservatives. Not, of course, that there was any indication the Tories no longer hoped to throw Prime Minister Attlee's cabinet out of office; just that they might change their tac- tics for something permitting more sleep. The House last night, back for its first session since the Easter holiday recess, wound up business at the comparatively early hour of 10:48 p.m. as the Conservatives suddenly eased the harassing cam- paign. There was no declared truce yet. But an exchange of letters between Government House Leader James Chuter Ede and Winston Churchill, and some backstage negotiations were reported under way. "If rumor has it right, peace and common sense may break out at any moment," Labor Member J. W. Snow told the Commons in a taunting reference to Conserva- tive tactics which have frayed So- cialist tempers for several weeks. Many Homes Evacuated In Floods Montreal, April 4--(CP)-- The St. Lawrence and its tributaries, pouring tons of run-off water to- wards the Atlantic Ocean, has in- vaded several Quebec communities, forcing mass evacuations today. Hardest hit were Pointe Aux Trembles, on the eastern tip of Montreal Island, and Beauceville, Que.;, 50 miles south of Quebec | city. One hundred families fled the | rolling St. Lawrence at Pointe Aux | Trembles. An ice jam 20-feet thick | in spots sent ice and water rushing | through the streets of the com- | munity of 7,500. Another 100 homes | were under water and three-quar- ters of the town suffered from at | least basement flooding. Damage | was estimated at $200,000. At Beauceville, the swollen Chaudiere River lived up to its threat of the last two days by overflowing into 100 riverside homes. Residents fled to higher ground in a heavy rainstorm that added to the flood tide. An ice jam three miles © downstream caused the flood. Railway communications be- tween Quebec and La Malbaie were cut about 69 miles east of Quebec by a combination landslide and flood. Heavy rains loosened tons of earth and rock and sent them thundering over the line. Then the St. Lawrence crept in and washed out the railway bed. Road travel between Montreal and Quebec on the north shore of the St. Lawrence remained closed today. Several feet of water cov- ered the highway for three miles half way between Montreal and Three Rivers. Windsor Council Rejects Police Head Pensions Windsor, Ont., April 4--(CP)--By a vote of seven to six, Windsor city council last night turned down spe- cial scaled-down pensions for for- mer Police Chief Claude Renaud and former Deputy Chief W. H. Neale. The pensions, passed by Board of Control March 21, would have pro- vided Renaud with $1,800 a year and Neale with $1,356. Previously the Board of Control had voted to pay Renaud $2,190 and Neale $1,792, but council on March 20 also turned that recommenda- tion down, After the vote was taken last night, council agreed to instruct the Board of Control to once more take up the question of pensions for the two former police officials. THE WEATHER Cloudy with occasional snow- flurries or light rain today. Cloudy with occasional sunny intervals Thursday. A little milder Thursday, winds west 15. Low tonight and high Thursday 35 and 50. Summary for Thurs- COUNCIL | Aldermen Deny Responsibility To Secure Homes Deluged with requests for help from families about a be evicted from their homes and in dire need of housing the Public Welfare Board transferred its problems to the wide ment hopes today for an early| Shoulders of City Council. Last night at the regular statutory, meeting Council decided to publish a newspaper notice tha except in the cases of people receiving relief, housing diffie culties were not the city's responsibility. They were personal matters which had to be solved by the people affected in their own fashion. The desperate need for house OPP Aiding In Probe Of Skinner Case Assisted by the Ontario Provin- cial Police Criminal Investigation Branch, Oshawa police are con- tinuing their investigation into the recent attempted robbery of $10,000. in nickel ingots at the fac- tory of the Skinner Co., Ltd. Crown Attorney Alex C. Hall, K.C, said today that there are no further developments in the case aside from the fact that "the investiga- tion is continuing". Attorney-General Dana Porter, who has been looking into the mat- ter after three men suspected of being implicated in the robbery were released by Oshawa police at the suggestion of Crown Attorney Hall, said yesterday that there was not sufficient evidence to proceed with the prosecution. Just what trend the Provincial Police and Oshawa police investi- gation is taking was not known today but it was authoritatively in- timated that there would be early | developmens. Since the event, Mr. Porter said in Toronto, constant investigation had been taking place and 'there may be some possible clues. ing in this city was reflected in the discussion at last night's meeting. Aldermen said that they had people call them in the most desperate straits. Oft- en they were in tears and did not know where to turn to find dation for th and their families. Not City Responsibility Alderman Evelyn Bateman, a member of the Public Welfare Board, said that it was not the city's responsibility to look after people who were evicted from their homes. Many people, she said, just failed to forsee their own future and try to make some provision. In many cases they lived for years under controlled rents and never took any action to provide for the day when controls would be remov= ed and they would be required to move. In most cases, said Alderman Hayward Murdock, the requests for help were not coming from people who were charges of the city bu$ from people who were working. "What can you do if you are the father of a large family and are evicted from your home and you are in financial difficulties?" asked Alderman Wesley Powers. "It still is a personal matter and one in which the city has entirely no responsibility," said Alderman Bateman. "If every Tom, Dick and Harry who had ten or fifteen Ives EVICTIONS (Continued on Page » day -- Occasional sunshine, Red Resistance To Grossing Boundary Forces Withdrawal To Beautify Pope Pius X Vatican City, April 4--(Reuters)-- Pope Pius X, said to have died of a broken heart when he failed to avert the First World War, will be beatified June 3, the Vatican an- nounced today, The ceremony, first step to pro- clamation of full sainthood, will be performed in St. Peter's by Pope Pius XII. The congregation of rites has ac- cepted as authentic two miracles attributed to the late Pontiff, who died at 79 after an 1l-year reign. This is necessary to qualify him for beatification. Both miracles were cures of nuns suffering from malignant growths. One of them survived and is to at- tend the beatification service. Princess and Duke Plan Visit to Pope Rome, April 4--(Reuters)--Prin- cess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to pay a private visit to the Pope April 13. The British royal couple are due to arrive here by air April 11 on a private sight-seeling tour of Ita- lian cities. The Duke--a lieutenant com- mander with the British fleet based at Malta--will captain a British armed-services polo team in a series of games against Rome teams. Suspend Race Wires In Four Ohio Cities Columbus, O., April 4 -- (AP) -- Race-wire service in four Ohio cities Cleveland, Columbus, Springfield and Dayton -- was sus- pended today. By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, April 4--(AP)--An alied task force drove four miles north of the North Korean border today against heavy Communist resise tance. A field dispatch said the tas force met heavy Red mortar fire and some military fire near Tope yong, four miles north of the bope der on the Western front. But # drove ahead. (Reuters News Agency said front dispatches indicated the Communists were offering their stiffest resistance since the start of the current U.N. of- fensive, The Reds were make ing a serious effort to stem the allied push agross the 38th, Reuters added.) Another allied force nearby punched two miles into Red Korea in the Yongpong area. Earlier reports said an American patrol had crossed parallel 38 on the Central Front and routed Chi- RED RESISTANCE (Continued on Page 2) Canada Needs 50,600 New Schoo! Teachers Toronto, April 4--(CP) -- Canada needs 50,600 new school teachers in the next five years, the Canadian Education Association's newsletter said today, double the number in training. The estimate is based on one teacher for every 30 pupils. British Columbia expects the greatest ine crease in enrolment in the last five years -- 47 per cent -- while One tario and Newfoundland follow wi 29 per cent. is | BODY STILL IN RIVER Provincial Constables Jack Moe Kendry of Peterborough and Done «| ald W. Erskine of Campbellford are continuing dragging operations in the Trent River for Walter Alfred Fty, 22, of Oshawa, who drowned Sunday afternoon. Fry fell into the river near his family's summer cote tage, three miles west of Hastings. '