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HE DAILY TIMES GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 101 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 30 ,1951 Price § Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES AJAX WOMAN DIES IN ENGLAND ° Complete Dial Phone Change In 91 Seconds First Call On Dial Phone From One Mayor to Another New System Put Into Operation Saturday Night Oshawa's new dial telephone system went into operation at one second after 11.50 p.m. on Saturday night. It took ex- actly 91 seconds to make the cutover from the old manual system to the dial system. But that 91-second period of making the change marked the culmination of over two years of work in erecting the splendid new dial exchange building: and installing the great mass of equipment by which Osh- awa's telephone system is now operated. Immediately the cutover was completed, service was moving smoothly over the lines of the Béll Telephone Com- pany as citizens began using the dials on their telephones. And in the long distance operating room, the new and en- larged long distance switchboard was fully manned by op- erators and was working like clockwork. E the start," A. A. Gillespie, Bell | mergency Telephone manager here, said we memes thane ve | Colle Came subscribers here, the conversion . In Quickly of Oshawa's telephones has been highly successful." Local telephone operators had hardly seated themselves at their "Ochawa's dial telep Sys- tem, inaugurated ten minutes before midnight on Saturday, has functioned smoothly from | | The conversion of some 13,000 lo- cal telephones to dial operation was accomplished without a hitch. Climax of over two years of plan- Split Second Timing ning and preparation, the actual |D€W SWitchboards Saturday night cut-over operation was an affair of split-second time and precision. There was virtually no interruption of service. The cnt-over began at 11.48.30 p.m. Ninety-one seconds la- ter, Oshawa's new telephone sys- tem was in service. First Call Made Official inauguration of the new exchange took place immediately siter the cut-over, when Mayor DIAL PHONE (Continued on Page 5) New Budget Readies For | World War Washington, April 30--(AP) President Truman today sent Con- gress a $60,679,414,600 defence bud- get and said Russia's rulers have pushed the world "to the brink of a general war." The huge requested appropriation is for the United States' own mili- tary costs and to help arm its Al- lies. The message broke down in more detail the military estimates in- cluded in Truman's general budget, sent to Congress in January, for | the fiscal year beginning July 1. In a letter to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, accompanying today's es- timates, Truman said: "If the Soviet Union chooses to unleash a general war, the free world must be in a position to stop the attack and strike back decisive- ly and at once at the seats of So- viet power. "We believe that the best path to peace is through building com- bined defences for the free world sufficiently powerful to ensure dis- aster for the aggressors if they launch a new world war." on-Shattered Vogeler Pris .| sistance, Six of these calls occurred after the cutover of Oshawa's tele- phone' system to dial operation when the first in a series of emer- gency calls came in. Within the space of an hour no less than eight people dialed "Op- erator" with urgent requests for as- within a period of five minutes shortly before 12.30 o'clock. Thoroughly trained to handle such emergency calls, the operators quickly transferred them to the poper civic department. Nearly all of them were for poice, and there was one request for an ambulance. Commenting on these calls today, A. A. Gillespie, Bell Telephone man- ager here, said that operators are always available and willing to give assistance under such emergency circumstances. He pointed out that | it is quicker to dial the number of the police or other agency yourself, but if people do not know the num- ber and have not time to look it up | lin the directory, the operator will | complete the call as fast as possible. | Era of Penny Press Comes to End In UK London, April 30 (AP)--The era of the penny press ends in Britain next week. London newspapers announced today that they will increase their prices from one penny (1 1/6 cents) to a penny and a half. It was the first general increase since 117, when several London pa- pers came up from their halfpenny price to the penny level, A joint announcement by the pa- | pers said the price rise was made | necessary by new increases in news- print costs of £14 ($41.30) a ton. This makes the new rate £60 a ton, nearly double last year's figire. Nottingham, Eng. -- (CP) -- A man arrested by police on a charge dating from two years ago, was liv- ing right next door to the police station. Urges Reds' Destruction, Says Confession Forced Vienna, Austria, April 30--(AP)-- Still tortured by the mental an- guish of his 17 months in a Com- | munist jail, Robert A, Vogeler broke down before a television camera Sun- day as he warned that his impris- NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue for MARCH 10,558 L 2 onment was "just one of a series of | planned attacks on democracy." Friends tried to persuade Vogeler to call off the TV ap- pearance but the 39-year-old New Yorker insisted he had "a very important" message to get across. He continued before the camera after a brief rest. "The American people must be made aware of what can happen," Vogeler said. Leaves For U.S. Vogeler left by air today for the | United States. He was accompanied by his wife and two sons and his wife's sister. The TV film will be carried on National Broadcasting Company's United States network tomorrow. It was Vogeler's second day of VOGELER (Continued on Page 2) 4 Mrs. Walker Had | Day In Bristol Before Passing Mrs. Douglas Walker, 25-year-old. Ajax mother of three children, who left for England on the liner Empress of France a week ago Saturday, aided by a public fund of over $5,000 raised on her behalf, spent less than a day with her parents in Bristol, England, before dying of cancer. She died on Sune day afternoon in a Bristol Hospital. It had been Mrs. Walke er's last wish that she should see her parents in Bristol be= fore dying of the cancer from which she was suffering, and that wish was granted, but only by the margin of one day. er evoked widespread sympathy Acting Head {Mayor Michael Starr is seen talking by long distance telephone with was put into service Saturday night. He spoke from a special telephone Toronto's Mayor Hiram McCallum during the course of an historic tele- | in the new exchange building, while a large group of Oshawa civic and | phone call marking the inauguration of dial service here. Mayor Starr | business leaders and Bell Telephone officials attending the official opening placed the call by dialing "Operator" immediately after the dial equipment division manager, Toronto, ! looked om, --Times-Gazette ond Daily Star Photos. | Mayor Michael Starr has some interested listeners as he talks with Toronto's Mayor Hiram McCallum in the first official telephone call ver Oshawa's new telephone system Saturday night. Standing from left to right | are J. G. Geikie, president, Chamber of Commerce, one of the many guests at the cutover ceremonies; A. A.| ("Andy") Gillespie, local Bell Telephone manager; J. E. Hayne, district manager, Toronto; and H. B. Bleeker, --Timés-Gazette Staff Photo. Scouts Plant 21,000 Trees On Weekend Camp Samac, Oshawa's beautiful | Scout' camping area to the north from Oshawa, Port Perry and To- | ronto planted over 21,000 trees of various types in an effort to beau- tify the grounds and to prevent soil erosion. The plantings took place beside evergreens planted five years ago in the northwest sections of the camp. These trees, the first ever planted at Samac, now stand over 10 feet high. Other plantings took place in the whole north area, at the main gateway to the camp and | along the creek. The Scouts and their leaders were assisted by representatives of the Forestry Department of Ontario. y ER a the | Commander, that Seoul would tal as a May Day prize. SCOUTS {Continued on Page 5) Stabbing Victim's from the north for a mass assault. Airmen spotted more than 3,000 Red vehicles moving along the western front. A force of 20,000 Commun- se ists were reported gathered as shock Condition Better troops for the a. sault. | Only probing aitacks were report- ! ee ed in the early hours Monday. Toronto, April 30--(CP)--Hospi- Van Fleet planned a defence | tal attendants today reported the north of the city, not house-to- | condition of Mrs. Teresa SGambel- | house street "fighting. | luri, 30, as "slightly improved." The | Gen. MacArthur and Lt.-Gen. | woman has been in hospital since] Matthew B. Ridgway had made no | Friday after having been stabbed | attempt to hold the city against the | 14 times in the stomach. Chinese offensive earlier in the year. | Her 35-year-old husband, Giusep- | They said it was of no military im- | pe SGambelluri, was charged Sat- | portance. urday with attempted murder. | But Van Fleet said Seoul has prestige as ziorea's historic capi- tal He described the Seoul area and the line of the Han River which flows south of the city as "vital and strategic." U.N. forces, he said, "welcome the THE WEATHER Sunny today and most of Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Winds east 15, be- | coming east 25 Tuesday. Low | tonight and high Tuesday 50 and 65. Summary for Tuesday: Mainly sunny but windy. WILL DEFEND (Continued on Page 2) * Chinese Communists poured down g | | W | of this city was a busy place this | . | weekend, as picked teams of Scouts | . By OLEN CLEMENTS Tokyo, April 30--(AP)--Allied artillery today laid an | explosive curtain of fire before Seoul in the path of a gath- ering Red Army intent on seizing the old South Korean capi- United Nations forces arrayed before the war-shatter- | ed city fired 45,709 rounds of artillery Sunday. The booming echo of massed artillery implemented the | announcement of Lt.-Gen. James A. Van Fleet, Allied ground be defended. Man Dies In Flames In Highway Crash Hawkesbury, Ont., April 30 (CP) | --One man was burned to death (and two R.C.M.P. officers injufed {when an automobile crashed and burned early today a few miles | Ottawa. Burned to death was Andrew Wallace MacDonell 27, 'of Green Valley, Ont., an employee of the Ensign Publishing Company and formerly a student at Ottawa's Carleton College. Injured were: R.C.M.P. Constables John Sydney Malkin, 19, of Mon- treal, and Joseph' Rheal Dubeau, driver, suffered a number of min- or injuries. Malkin suffered a frac- tured left shoulder. north of this town 60 miles east of | 21, of Lancaster, Ont. Dubeau, the | TEN DEIN RUNAWAYBUS, 46 INJURED fA' runaway bus pitched down a ed into a concrete wall, taking the lives of 10 persons. Just before the smash-up, the | driver, George Kraina, 35, 'cried to his church-bound passenzers: "Hang on everybody! We're go- ing to crash!" He was dead when pulled from | the twisted wreckage of the bus. | Of the 65 persons aboard, 46 were injured. At least three, including a child, were report- ed in critical condition. Police said there were no eye- witnesses and no indication of how fast the bus was running, but one of the uninjured passengers, 14- year-old George Stunda, said: "We must have been going 60 before we hit that wall." Crime Probe Directed At New Yorkers Washington, April 30 -- (AP) -- | Hints of sensational accusations |are piling up in advance of the | scheduled release tomorrow of the | Senate Crime Committee's report | on its investigation of racketeering in the United States. Senator Charles Tobey (Rep. N.H.) said yesterday he expects "several prominent men in New York" to be indicted as a result of the committee's revelations. "I hope and pray so, for they're guilty as hell!" he added. And the committee's chief coun- sel, Rudolph Halley, indicated that the report may carry some sharp criticism of former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer. Tobey and other committee mem- bers appeared on a television pro- gram which also produced the news that a printer's proof of the forthcoming report has been stolen. This disclosure, by Chairman Estes Kefauver + (Dem. Tenn.), brought a bitter retort from Robert S. Allen, Washington newspaper correspondent. Allen, author of a | series of stories based on the com- mittee report, said he told Kefauver after the broadcast that "any- body who made that statement is a liar." Ont. Cheese Surplus 'Will Go to Britain Ottawa, April 30--(CP)--Britain | has negotiated a cheese contract | with Ontario producers, agreeing to | take all of their unsold surplus in 11951, informed quarters disclosed today. ; Informants 'said 'details of the | | agreement likely will be disclosed { within a few days. The agreement | was concluded in Toronto lasé | Thursday. |'- The price involved is believed to {be slightly higher than the 28 | cents a pound floor establishment 'by the federal government, Weirton, W. Va., April 30 -- (AP) ! mile-long hill yesterday and crash- | ¢ The sad plight of the Ajax mothe N. Hodgson NES Office and when a plea was made for Norman Hodgson haas been named | acting manager of the Oshawa | branch of the National Employ- | men? Service, it was announced here | today. He succeeds John V. Argyle who to-morrow will take up a position | with the Department of Defence | Production at Ottawa. Mr. Argyle | was named manager of the local] office of the N.E.S. earlier this month when Leonaard F. Coulson was elevated to a position as an administrative officer of employment | al Ottawa. | Mr. Argyle said today he felt. his | services would be more useful in the | MRS. DOUGLAS WALKER Pa | | funds to enable her to return te | her former home in England te | spend her last days with her par- ; | ents, the response was amazing. | Within a few days over $5,000 were : | contributed to help gratify hep | | wish. After a fruitless effort to ; : | secure transportation to Britain by | | | 1] | ; : | | 5 | ! | | | { | | | | ' | NORMAN HODGSON | Defence Production Department due | to his wide experience in the elec- tronic field. | During his brief stay in Oshawa, he said he was very impressed by the dynamic quality of the city and | the people and regretted leaving. | He described his successor, Mr. Hodgson as "most -capable in every | respect." Mr. Hodgson was first employed ! at the Oshawa branch of the N.E.S. a3 an insurance officer in 1942 and was appointed acting manager some five years ago. Prior to that time he was employed with the City Wel- fare Department for ten years and was manager of thhe Oshawa Wel- fare and 'Wartime Salvage Depart- ment. He also served as assistant welfare administrator at the some time, and is still secretary of the Board, Bracewell, Derbyshire, Eng.--(CP) Part-time volunteer firemen rushed to answer the fire alarm here and found the blaze was on the roof of the fire station. | cr | air, she, along with her husband and three children, finally sailed AJAX WOMAN (Con.inued on Page 2) Oshawa Man Wins Essay Competition Kingston, Ont., April 30--(CP) =e Winners of the Kingston Whige | | Standard essay prize and the Senae tor Davies poetry prize, each worth | 8500, were announced today, Winners in the essay contest were Robert G. Lindsay of Toronto and' Gerald B. Daniel of Oshawa, who will share the prize. Poetry prize winners were David A. Good of Lunenburg, N.S, and Graham B, Armstrong of Cornwall, Ont. Mr. Daniel is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman H. Daniel, 406 Mary Street. A graduate in engineering from the University of Toronto, he has been taking a post graduate course at Queen's University, Kinge ston, this year. The two prizes are given annually by Senator W. Rupert Davies, presi= dent of the Whig-Standard, and are open to all resident undergraduates in the Faculty of Arts at Queen's University. Topic of the essay this year is "Science: Servant or Master?" Subject for the poetry competition this year is a quotation from Rupert Brooke's "Letters from America," "There walk as yet no ghosts -- in Canadian lanes." competition Menzies Gains Strength In Australian Vote Count 8ydney, Australia, April 30--(CP) | --The victorious coalition govern- | ment of Prime Minister Robert G.| Menzies picked up strength today | in the. parliamentary election vote counting, There was a possibility it | might win a two-seat majority in the Senate. Latest returns from Saturday's balloting assured the Liberal- Country Party coalition of at least 66 seats in the House of Representa- tives and reduced the number that the opposition Labor Party seemed certain to win from 52 to 48. Latest standing in the house: New Government coalition ... 66 Old 4 47 " --- Total 121 | Yesterday's counting, reflecting a drift from Labor, increased the | number of doubtful seats from three to seven in the 121-member house, from which the government is formed. The government held a 74-47 majority in the outgoing house. In the 60-seat Senate, where the early trend had pointed to a 30-30 split, late returns gave the govern- ment a good chance for a 31-29 edge. A previous Labor majority in the Upper House had caused the government to demand the elect ® on grounds the Senate was blocking enactment of its program, The returns put the coalition in, position to take six of the 10 Sena seats from the State of Queensla and left in doubt the division of tf 10 in. Victoria. The i0 seats Rh each of Australia's other four s appeared likely to divide even) 3