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"THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 83 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1951 Price § Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES Arson Alphonse Martin Arrested Today At Toronto Home Weeks of intensive investigation into the fire which destroyed the plant of the General Mills and Lumber Com- | pany, at Port Whitby on February 8, resulted in the arrest in Toronto this morning of Alphonse J. Martin, vice-president and manager of the company, on a charge of arson. Mr. Martin was arrested at his home, 1065 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, by Whitby's Chief of Police, Ronald J. Love, and | was charged under section 511, sub-section 1 of the Criminal | Code, which governs prosecutions for arson. He was brought to Whitby and at the time of going to press was still in custody, with bail fixed at $5,000. Immediately following the fire ong February 8, officials of the Ontario Fire Marshal's Department began | Marshall their investigation. They were as- sisted later on by Crown Attorney. 0f Tension " Alex C. Hall, K.C., who has spent Washington, April 9--(AP)--De- | many hours on the case. Martin is expected to appear fence Secretary George C. Marshall | | spoke out today against what he morrow. Bail has been set at $5,000. It could not be learned shortly after Chief Love return- ed from Toronto with Martin this afternoon whether the ac- cused man has been able to pro- which was first seen by Harold of a deteriorating world situation. | Mace, Brock Street South, Whitby, | "Every indication we have from at 10.25 on the night of February 8, | abroad is of increasing buildup," | was approximately $300,000. Marshall' said. "It has been no- Within a few minutes the fire |ticeable particularly in the satel- was so advanced and had made so | lite countries. The situation not before Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs in police court in Whitby to- vide the money, or will con- tinue to be held in custody. called a letdown in public support The estimated loss in the fire, | of the defence program in the face much progress in the frame build- ings of the plant that it was almost entirely out of control. The fire was believed to have started in the! south end of the main building measuring about 50 by 200 feet. Following the fire Martin made the following statement: "My son Bob and I were sitting in the front office. "We heard the fire sirens only hasn't changed in the matter | | of being less tense, it is really more tense than before." | The best the United States can | hope for, Marshall said, is a period {of tension rather than an all-out | | world war. He added: "What we | | are thinking about is possibly a | | 10-year tension--but the tension | | has been relaxed here in six | | weeks." | Will Expand Barriefield Camp Area Kingston, April 9--(CP)--Expan-~ sion of the Barrifield Military Camp area is being con.idered. Farm lands totalling about 600 acres are coming. I looked out into the plant and saw smoke and fire. We lost all our clothing and some furniture from our apartment which was in the front of the building." { Insurance coverage on the build- | ing and contents was said to be! comparatively low following the fire. | 'Ane ugure was set as $40,100. Investigating officers are reported to have found themselves immersed | in a very complicated financial | structure when they began to delve | into the affairs of the company. It| is expected that evidence will be produced in court to straighten out all these details. being considered in the expansion Railway Woshed Out ' | program. all Mataped:a Valley Ligh! farmers have been ap- Quebec, April 9 (CP) -- The proached by agents for the Depart- : ment of National Defence who have C.N.R. rail link between Matapedia | . y and Gaspe, near the New Bruns- | suggested the department would like HR - 5 ; to buy their farms, ice hordes, Jas Yepuried Wuny Yi | It is understood the plan calls for mile wre A IDe L iq | [armers to vacate the land and floods in the apis Valley | buildings which will be taken over Transportation to Gaspe was suit | 2) tne 2/my in ihe immediate Possible by roads. . | . Chinese Open Dam, Loose Flood Water On U.N.-Held Area By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, April 9--(AP)--Chinese Communists opened the floodgates of the massive Hwachon reservoir dam in Cen- tral Korea today and sent thousands of tons of water rush- | ing down on Allied-held ground. But the Pukhan River rose | no more than 414 feet. By Monday night the water level was receding-and there was no danger to United Nations forces. | The Hwachon reservoir, about | seven miles north of the 38th Pa-* | rallel, is the main point of the! Monday the Reds slowed or sto ! ci ) s stopped stoutest Red resistance in North Ko- | Allied advances at several points. | rea in several weeks. In bitter | The dam is 275 feet high. fighting south of the reservoir | U.N. troops résumed 'their ad-| | Yanece ward He reservoir Mon- | {day as the flood waters slowly re- NET PAID CIRCULATION | ceded. The Times-Gazette An Allied task force moved to- ward the dam in an effort to seize Average Per Issue for MARCH it before the Reds could attempt | any further damage. The task force | met rifle, machine-gun and mortar | fire. Elements of an American. division had two fire fights with Commu- | nist platoons, A French patrol clos- [ed in on the reservoir without op- | position | The Reds were believed to be! CHINESE (Continued on Page 3) | The S.S. Coal Haven set a record for the early spring opening of navigation at Oshawa Harbor on Saturday when it brought a large cargo of coal from Oswego, N.Y., consigned to McLaughlin Coal and Supplies Limited. | To mark the occasion Harbormaster Lloyd Gifford presented the traditional silk hat to Captain E. Gow of | MacARTHUR WARNED TO KEEP SILENT A general tax rate of 35 Pace United States Army Secretary, | has given to Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur a message from President | Truman ordering him to abstain from further political pronounce- | ments on Korea, usually-reliable | sources said today. | Truman was said to have warned MacArthur that his (MacArthur's) position had be- come "precarious" as result of his statement proposing full- scale war against China unless China agreed to Ko.ea settle- ment. He did not threaten the general | with recall, it is understood. Sources reporting Truman's mes- the Coal Haven. Caught by the camera at the presentation are, left to right: Mr. Gifford, Capt. Gow, R. | S28e delivered orally by pace, term. Tunstall, dock supervisor for Cargo Dockers, and R. Blair, dock supervisor for McLaughlin Coal and Supplies Limited. ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Patricias Over '38th Parallel By BILL BOSS Canadian Press Staff Writer West Central Sector, Korea, April 9 (CP)--Canadian troops --rrossed the 38th parallel' Sun- day--unopposed. The Patricias filed through an opening in barbed wire across a mountain valley trail northeast of Seoul--and that's all there was to it. By nightfall rifle companies were north of the boundary and were patrolling forward. | FINDS ARSON CAUSED FIRE ON STEAMER Ottawa, April 9--(CP)--A fire | that took seven lives aboard the] St. Lawrence River cruise liner Quebec Aug. 14 last was deliberately set, t..e commons was told today. | Mr. Justice Fernand Choquet- te of the Quebec Superior Court, | whose 20,000-werd report on a | formal investigation was tabled | in the House by Transport Min- ister Chevrier, found also that the .4,000-ton ship's aero-elec- | tric fire-alarm system had been | deliberately put out of order. | He could not identify the person or persons who started flames] sweeping through the vessel as she | neared Tadoussac, at the mouth of the Saguenay river, with 426 pas- | STEAMER FIRE (Continued on Page 2) Spark Causes $300 Damage To Home Roof A fire which started from a spark in 'the dry cedar shingles of the roof caused an estimated $300 | damage to the house owned by Fred C. White at 241 Nassau Street on Saturday afternoon. The house is behind a grocery store op- erated by Fred White. The blaze was first noticed by a neighbor, Art Drinkle, who was just driving into his driveway on Gibbs Street when he saw smoke curling up from the roof of the White house. He turned in the alarm. Firemen from ' the Richmond | Street station under Assistant | Chief Ray Hobbs answered the | alarm. A second alarm was turned in when ilt was feared that the fire might spread to other parts of the house: Firemen from the Cedardale Sta- | tion were summoned to headquar- | ters to fill in while both trucks were out. It was the second time during the day that this action was | needed as seven grass fires kept the equipment at headquarters in operation most of the time in the | late morning and early in the af- | ternoon. Grass fire alarms were turned in From Alexandra Street, Wilson Road North, Frank Street, High. | way 2A, Oshawa Laundry on Mill | Street, Albert Road West Stevenson's Road Nocth. Northern Ontario Town Threatened By Flood Waters Chelmsford, Ont., April 9--(CP)--Water Rose three feet in 36 hours in a creek flowing through this farming com- munity of about 1,000 persons 16 miles northwest of Sud- | bury at the week-end and drove 20-families from their homes. It came within an inch of forcing a cutoff of the town's water supply -- stopping just short of the level at which it would have flooded the pumphouse. Plans were made | for the cutoff last night. A boat carrying three councillors | ed it a "stern but tactful" instruc- | tion. Pace was met at the airport by MacArthur when he arrived in Tokyo today by alr. By JACK BELL Washington, April 9 -- (AP) President Truman talked today with Democratic Congressional leaders about the hot potato hand- MACARTHUR (Continued on Page 2) Chinese Halt Invasion 0f Indo-China Hanoi, Indo-China, April 9--(AP) | --A French army source said today that a Chinese invader battalion is HITBY TAX RATE 35 MILLS Charge In Whitby Lumber Collier Sets Record for Navigation Opening Mill Fire Increase of 12.5 Mills Over Rate Imposed In 1950 mills on the dollar was passed Tokyo, April 9-- (Reuters)--Frank | by the Township Council of East Whitby for the year 1951 at its April meeting. This represents an increase of 12.5 mills over the 22.5 mill tax rate which was effective last year. This mill rate, it was announced by William E. Noble, township clerk, means that the levy on the taxpayers of the | township for this year will be $55,421.62, which, it is antie | cipated, will leave a small surplus at the end of the year. Total estimated expenditures amount to $71,036.16 and reve enues are estimated at $55,036.16, leaving a balance of $55,- was almost swamped in the 20-mile current as they rowed to the pump house to give orders At midnight, they told the attendant to wait until the wa- ter rose two more inches -- the level at which it would have started to flood the building-- and then cut off the moters. At that time the water was still rising and rain was forecast. It went up another inch and then began receding. By 7 a.m., the level was down eight inches from the cutoff point and was . still falling. Officials said a cutoff is still a possibility but they thought the creek reached its peak last night. Residents Warned At a meetng in the town theatre last night, residents were told to prepare for a cutoff to last as long as the creek stayed 12 feet above normal. If it rained, they were told, that might last for three or four days. The flood is in Whitson Creek, which rises around Capreol, 23 miles north of Sudbury, and follows a winding course to Vermillion Lake, 20 miles west of the city. A sudden warm snap caused the flood, worst since 1934. The pumphouse is stranded near the swiftest current of the creek. Water last night was 10 feet up its walls, but water-tight windows pre- vented the two-year-old building from flooding. The top section of the door, however, is not water- tight and when the decision to cut the water was made, the creek was FLOODS (Continued on Page 2) to stop the water pumps. Two Offices Ransacked By Thieves Two downtown Oshawa 'business ® Lg sacked and a quantity taken, police reported today. Michael Fenwick, United Steel- sentative, reported that $125 in union money was stolen from the Union's headquarters, 104 King Street, East. He discovered the theft shortly before 7 p.m. He said everything in the office was in good order when women cleaned the premises in the morning. The money was in a drawer.. It is believed the same thieves were responsible for a break-in at the Kelly Collection Agency, 15'z King Street, East. The break-in oc- curred sometime between 2.45 and 445 p.m. The office cash box was broken into and $4 in silver and a valuable pair of spectacles taken. Desk drawers and filing cabinets were ransacked and contents thrown .on the floors. The door lock of the of- fice was forced open to gain entry. Mrs. Edith Kelly, owner of the busi- ness, reported the robbery. Albania Protests Alleged Violation of Territory By Italians and Greeks London, April (AP) -- Jittery Albania protested today against alleged violations by air, sea and land of its territories by Italy and Greece. Accounts of the protest published by the Russian News Agency, Tass, 9 | coincided with reports from various | neighboring countries that the | Soviet satellite government on the | | Adriatic had thwarted a planned | ministrp sent a note to Italy "reso- uprising by 3,000 anti-Communist Albanians, Turks, Greeks and Yugoslavs against ghe regime of Red Premier Enver" Hoxha. Tass, however, made no mention of any such plot. The Russian agency said Albania charging 18 violations betwoen March 1 and March 28. It accused Greek soldiers of fir- ing five machine-gun rounds at | Albanian frontier guards near Si- | vani March 1, said a Greek plane | ropped propaganda leaflets Albania March 25, and declared a Greek ship entered Albanian terri- | torial waters in the area of the | Khimara plain March 20. At the | | ately protesting" eight flights | across its frontier by Italian planes | between Feb. 22 and March 31. | Tass reported last night that Al- | bania, in a protest to the Yugoslav government, accused it of nine "frontier provocations," which the and | lodged its protest against Greece | Albanians charged were aimed at | with the United Nations secretariat, | touching off a third world war, / offices were entered Saturday, ran-' of money workers of America District Repre- | same time the foreign | believed to have halted its march | towards Lai Chau, provincial capi- | tal of the Thai tribal country, 170 | miles northwest of Hanoi. The source said French patrols, flown to Lai Chau, had made no | contact with the Chinese and air observers had not been able to spot them. French Army headquarters yes- terday said the Chinese battalion, | probably Communist irregulars, | crossed the frontier April 1 and [Tieaded toward the provincial capi- | tal after seizing the frontier vil- lages of Ban Nam Koung and Phong Tho. The Chinese, said the army source today, had had time to close in on Lai Chau if they had pursued their | southern movement after occupying | Phong Tho, about 50 miles to the northwest. Yugoslavia Seeks Arms F Allie Washington, April 9--(AP)--The | | anti-Moscow Communist govern- | | ment of Yugoslavia has informally | requested weapons and military | equipment from the United States, Britain and France. Informed officials who disclosed | this to a reporter Sunday said the | three western powers havé set up a joint committee to pass on the Yugoslav request, made about a month ago. | Marshall Tito is reported seek- | ing artillery, tanks, small arms, communications equipment and | spare parts to bolster his defences | against the threat of invasion by | Russian and satellite troops. | It is the first direct Yugoslav | approach for arms aid. Body Is Recovered From Mine Cave In | Eveleth, Minn., April § -- (AP) -- | The body of one of two iron miners | trapped since a cave-in Friday was | dug from hard-packed ore and de- | bris early today. Rescue efforts | labor 036.16 which has to be met by the tax levy. é Distribution of the total tax rate EXECUTIVES OF UAW GIVEN SALARY BOOST Cleveland, April 9.--Delegates to the 13th convention of the C.I.O.- United Automobile. Workers Union were in a particularly generous mood Saturday--they gave their executive officers and international | representatives a, raise Granting of the salary boosts to "pork choppers'--union parlance for paid officials--was a highlight of the wind-up session of the week-long convention. Under the new salary set-up each | elected officer from President Wal- ter P, Reuther down to executive board members which includes Canadian director George Burt of Windsor, will receive an increase of $1,250 annually. President Reuther's annual earn- ings will now be $11,250; secretary- treasurer's Emil Mazey's, $10,750; Canadian director Burt's, $7,750. Compared with salaries of other leaders Reuther's earnings are small. John L. Lewis, head of | United Mine Workers, gets $150,- 000; Philip Murray, president of United Steel Workers (CIO), gets $25,000. Toronto delegates came third in their bid to have the 1953 conven- tion assemble in the Queen City. New York received top spot, with California next. @is as follows: The County Rate of 10 mills raises $15,834.75. The Gen- Township Rate of 10 mills raises $15,834.75. Estimated expenditures amount to $31,150, revenue $15,575, | while $15,575 in taxes are required. | The General School Rate of 3.32 | mills raises $5,049.49 while estimated | expenditures amount to $5,000; The { Relief Charity and Welfare rate fof 9 mills raises $1,425.13, with ex- | penditures amounting to $1,800, and | revenue $425.00 while $1375 is re= | quired; The High School Board | Rate of 5 mills raises $7,917.37. Ex- penditures amount to $7,900. The | Public School Board rate of 5.9 mills raises $9,309.17. Expenditures |amount to $9,300. Separate School | Board rate is 9.1 mills for both schools, which raises $51.41. Rebate Last Year The clerk pointed out that the tax rate in the area last year was 1225 mills. He said, however, that the rate would have been 28.1 mills | had not the taxpayers been grant ed a 5.6 rebate. | Instalments fall due on June 1 and October 1. Township council has also passed a by-law granting $100 to the Fed~ eration of Agriculture of the Coun= ty of Ontario this year. | Grants Made | Other grants made by the towne ship are as follows: Crop Improvee { ment Association, $25.00; South On- i tario Plowmen, $50.00; Oshawa Fair, { $100.00; Brooklin Spring Fair, $25.00; Junior Farmers, $50.00 and | the East Whitby Recreation Asso- | ciation, $100.00. Council has also passed a new | by-law governing dog tax fees. The | new fees are as follows (old fees in | brackets). Male dog, $3.00 ($2.00); | For each additional male dog, $7.00 ($4.00); Female cog, $6.00 ($4.00); | For each additional female dog, | $12.00 ($6.00). | 44 Lives Weekend Lost In U.S. Military Plane Crash 16 Believed Dead In Plane Crash Near Hong Kong Hong Kong, April 9 (AP)-- A two-engined Siamese Air- lines plane crashed at sea in fog and rain about four miles off Cape D'Aguilar tonight and the best information available was that all 16 aboard per- ished. All five members of the crew were described as Siamese and the 11 passengers were Siamese or Chinese. Investigate Portsmouth Church. Fire continued for the other man. Oliver Iron Mining Company offi- | cials said the body was that of An- | ton Korcha, 53. Imprisoned with him at the 564-foot level of the | | Spruce Mine was Frank Putzel, 43. | Korcha's body was badly crushed. | There was no sign of Putzel, | THE WEATHER Cloudy today, cloudy with a few sunny - intervals Tuesday, Widely scattered showers today. Little change in temperature. Low tonight and high Tuesday 40 and 55. Summary for Tues~ day: Mostly cloudy. --~-- Kingston, April 9--(CP)--Assist- ance of a provincial Fire Marshal at Belleville will be requested in determining the cause of 'a fire which broke out Saturday night in basement of United Church in nearby Portsmouth Village, Fire Chief V.C. Brightman said today. Damage has not yet been estim- ated, but is likely to be consider- able in the basement Sunday School hall. The church proper, newly .decorated .last year, was damaged by dense smoke, The fire did mot stop the con- gregation from holding -a service yestergdor, Maurice McLeod, stu- + + 1 By The Associated Press Two American military planes crashed in flames Sunday at Chare les ton, W.Va, and Morningside, Md. killing at least 22 persons. The crashes brought to 44 the number killed in week-end air disasters. Nineteen -- all of them military personnel -- died in the Charleston crash. The other vicitms -- a man and two children -- perished when a crewless bomber crashed into & house near Morningside. Twenty-two persons, 12 of them military personnel, died Friday in the crash of an air- liner on the slopes of Santa Ynez Peak, near Santa Barbara, Calif. The bomber in the Maryland crash was abandoned by its crew, which took to parachutes, after its landing gear jammed. The plane was reported to have been put unde: control of an aytoe matic pilot to divert it from metro- 44 LIVES LOST (Continued on Page 2) FLOODS IN MANITOBA Brandon, Man,, April 9 -- (CP)-- The Assiniboine River here has risen eight feet in the last eight days and some low-lying ground | near the River banks has been flooded, it was reported last night. The ice on the river has started tg break up near the city pumping sta tion and an ice jam has built up the intake pipe. . The Assiniboine joins the Red River at Winnipeg, about 150 miles east of here, dent minister, conducted an even- ing service in the nearby parish hall of the Roman Catholic Church of 'the Good Thief, use of | which was offered by the parish | priest, 'Rev. M, J. Brady.