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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA. WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 111 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1951 Price § Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES 40 WITNESSES FOR ARSON CASE Ask Long Adjournment To Sift Evidence Hear Statements Of 23 Witnesses In Skinner Case Interlocking evidence of 23 witnesses made up the case for the Crown in the preliminary hearing currently being held at Whitby into charges against five Toronto metal deal- ers. The charges arose out of an attempted theft from the plant of the Skinner Company Limited, Oshawa, in the early morning hours of April 1 during which, it is alleged, a num- ber of men tried to make off with ingots worth close to $12,- 000 after holding up and tinding the watchman. Two full days have been spent hearing the evidence of Crown witnesses. At five o'clock yester- | day afternoon the evidence was | completed but no one of the four | defence counsel or Crown Attorney Alex Hall, KC, had time to pre- sent an argument to Presiding Magistrate Frank 8S. Ebbs. It was, | therefore, necessary to set another | date to bring the case to a conclu- | sion. It was decided that counsel will present their arguments on May 31. The reason for the long adjournment is that each of the counsel appearing in the case wishes a transcription eof the evidence for study before arguing the position of their clients. All five of the accused face two charges of conspiracy, one of steal- ing anodes from the Skinner Com- | pany and the other of receiving | nickel knowing it to be stolen. The five are Harry, Swartz, Joseph Levy, Sidney Stern, Sam Fruitman ' and Morris H. Baker. In addition, Swarts and Levy face a charge of SKINNER CASE (Continued on Page 2) (ndonesians Won't Stop China Trade Jakarta, May 11--(AP)--Indone- sia said flatly today that she in- tends to continue selling rubber to any country--including Communist China--that can send her goods she needs. % The stand of this major rubber producer was expressed by a for- eign office spokesman, Zirim Zaino. He added, however, that Britain's decision yesterday to ban rubber exports to Communist China prob- ably will be discussed soongby the Indonesian cabinet. Last Monday, Foreign Minister Achmad Soebardjo said Indonesia would "sell to the devil if this would serve the people's interests." In Singapore there were reports today that the Singapore and Mal- ayan governments likely will follow Britain's banning action. Dr. Zain said Indonesia does not want to anger the western world, but sorely needs food and capital o0ods, "Those who can supply us with what our people need can get our products, including rubber, in re- turn," he said, Gen. MacArthur Forgot 'Nothing' Londen, May 11-- (CP) --The House. of Commons was told yesterday that Gen, MacArthur was partially right when he talked about petroleum products being listed on a British report of exports to Communist China. But MacArthur neglected to add, the Commons was told, that the word after each item was "nil"'--none, MacArth"r, testifying in Washington last week, read a list of strategic materials being shipped to Communist China out of Hong Kong. Sir Hartley Shawcross said: "I don't want to reduce this thing to an absurdity. From the list . . . General 'MacArthur se- lected cameras. "The list showed one camera exported to China over that period." i Daughter Stricken, Stone Flies Home With the Canadians in Korea, May 11--(CP)--Smitten by a per- sonal tragedy, Lt.-Col, J. R. Stone left his troops today and flew to Canada in what may be a race against death, Col. Stone, commander of the 2nd battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, in Kor- ea, learned by cable last night that his two-year-old daughter, Moira, has undergone an operation for | the removal of an eye afflicted by | cancer, and that the other is af- fected by a tumor, The Stones have one other child, a three-year-old daughter, Shel- | ley, July. The cable to Col. Stone was the first ° intimation he had had of Moira's illness. It also ordered him home on compassionate leave and instructed him to leave the front immediately. Netherlands Unit Gets U.S. Citation Eighth Army Headquarters, Ko- rea; May 11--(Reuters)--The Neth- erlands Battalion in Korea today |} received a United States presiden- tial unit citation for "exceptionally- outstanding performance of duty and extraordinary heroism" in helping to stem the Chinese win- ter offertsive on the central front. President Dragged to Juil After Three -Hour Battle In Panama's 'White House' . Panama, Panama, May 11--(AP) --Panama's police army and pub- lic opinion gave the country a new president last night, after four days of riots and revolution in which at least 12 persons were killed and hundreds wounded. After a three-hour battle inside and around the hand- some_ little presidential palace, the Nafional Police--the coun- ve only. armed force--hauled deposed President Arnulfo Arias off to jail. Nine persons died NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette . Average Per Issue for APRIL 10,5691 | | in the fighting and 80 or more were wounded. Arias' successor, Alcibiades Aros- emena, was expected to move to- day into the palace which yester- day's fighting left in shambles. He was vice-president until the Na- tional Assembly Wednesday night impeached Arias and swore him in, Still in the saddle as Panama's "strong man" is the police chief, Col. Jose Antonio Remon. Remon put Arias in the president's chair in 1949, then took him out of it yesterday after public clamor sup- ported the impeachment. Arosemena said. his government will include representatives of all political groups except the outlaw- ed Communists. He said co-operate fully with the United States, which controls the Panama | Canal Zone territory through the middle of the republic. Arias touched off the wave of violence Monday night with a de- cree outlawing the 1946 constitu- tion, reinstating the 1941 charter ,and dissolving the National As- | sembly. He said he acted against {an Oppositionist-Communist plot which threatened the country. and are expecting a baby in| it will | Prominent Masons Take Part in 90th Anniversary Commemorating the 90th anniversary of Lebanon Lodge, AF. and AM, No. 139, over 200 members ¢f the various Masonic Lodges in Oshawa and Ontario District gathered at the Masonic Temple last night. distinguished guest was Most Worshipful Bro, James Patterson Maher, Grand Master, Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario (third from left), who delivered an eloquent address. Among those taking part in vhe evening's program were, left to right--Wor. Bro. Stanley F. Everson, Ruling Master of Lebanon Lodge; Rt. Wor. Bro. W. Gordon Bunker, District Deputy Grand Master, Ontario District; Most Wor. Bro. Maher, | and Very Wor. Bro. Byron S. Edmondson, Grand Stewart and member of the Board of General Purposes of Grand Lodge, and a past master of Cedar Lodge, A.F. and A.M. No. 270. The | (See Story on Page Three). ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Allied Troops Advancing, Reds Build Up Near Seoul Korean front today. ar position. Local Pastor | Is Elected As F.R.G.S. Rev. R. W. Wighton, pastor of | | calvary Baptist Church, was elected | [a Fellow of the Royal Geographical | | Society at. the Society's council | REV. R. W. WIGHTON meeting in London, England, April 16. It was awarded Mr. Wighton in recognition of his wide travels, an account of which was given the So- clety sometime last year, and which was authenticated by Rev. J. Charles Stern, of High Park Baptist Church, who 1s also a Fellow of the Society. It is believed Mr. Wighton is the only person in Oshawa to gain such high recognition. E northeast of Chunchon. ' officers expressed: belief Reds might The Society mcludes as Fellows the most outstanding explorers, leading men of science in the world | today and men of world renown in the field of research. | The Royal Geographical Society of London was founded July, 16, 1830 for the promotion and diffusion | of geographical knowledge and has | and Her Majesty Queen Mary. Her Royal Highness the Duchess | of Kent, GBE, CI, is Honorary | President. The present president of the So- | |ciety is Rt, Hon. Lord Rennell of Rodd, K.BE., CB. ; | Prior to coming to Oshawa, Mr. Wighton, a native of Scotland, had been for three years pastor of Buf- falo Street Baptist Church, East London, South Africa. Before going to East London he was pastor of Springs Baptist Church, Transvaal, LOCAL PASTOR (Continued on Page 2) as patrons His Majesty The King Tokyo, May 11--(AP)--United Nations troops advanced three miles on the East In the west they dug in to meet an expected Communist offensive. South' Koreans "made the eastétn advance north of Parallel 38 against light op- One infantry company marched into Inje without firing a shot.. Elsewhere the front was quiet except for restless, probing patrols. continual movement back of Communist lines. The Reds were building up four * sizable pockets for a possible two- pronged drive on Seoul. They ap- peared to be massing in an arc north and northwest of the old South Korean capital. North Koreans slipping through the hills were concentrating about 20 miles north of Seoul between Munsan and Uijongbu, Communists fired mortar shells at a U.N. tank patrol rumbling into Chunchon, 45 miles northeast of Seoul. For the five preceding days allied patrols had clanked ' through the city unopposed. Reds were building up their forces American launch a diversionary attack in this area, Far to the north, smoke pots screened the countryside. Troops presumably were moving under the smudge. Reds Told to Hold Loudspeakers blared ' across the : mountaintops urging the Commun- ists to hold their positions, telling them reinforcements were on the way. But allied officers said there was evidence of a general Red with- drawal] between Yanggu and Inje, It was in this eastern sector that the U.N. line moved up. The Eighth Army revised its estimate of Red casualties Thurs- day to 2,565. An American F-80 jet was shot down over the front Thursday. B-29s bombed air strips at Sar- iwon and Sinmak Friday on the Red supply line to the western front from Pyongyang, North Ko- rean capital. It was the seventh consecutive 'day of raids designed Yo thwart a possible Red air offen- sive, North Korean airfields have been blasted by more than 1,000 tons of bombs since this aerial campaign opened 20 days ago. Biggest strike of this campaign, by 312 planes Wednesday at Sinui- ju in Northwestern Korea, destroy- - ALLIES ADVANCE (Continued on Page 2) But there was GAS BLISTERS 70 WORKERS AT HAMILTON Hamilton, May 11--(CP)--Burned and blistered by wind-driven sul- phur. fumes from a nearby indus- trial plant, workmen building the new Dofasco coke ovens here have appc led for action to halt the menace, Seventy have been affected this week, 30 of them in the last 24 hours. R. E. Peers, an engineering offi- cial of the By-Product Coke Com- pany which is 'building the Domi- nion Foundries coke ovens, said to- day four of the eight men affected Thursday night had to be taken to hospital for treatment, One of the men said the pain was so intense when their eyes were be- ing swabbed out, that they had to be strapped to operating tables. Many of the men have been burned so badly that their burns have blis- tered. Mr. Peers said the fumes smelled like sulphur, but the whole content of the gas was not known. Dr. L. A. Clarke, medical officer of health, said he was in touch with the works manager of a nearby plant after a physician communi- cated a complaint to him, FIRE MARSHALS TO MEET Windsor, May 11--(CP)--The 13th annual conference of the Associa- tion of Canadian Fire Marshals be- gan Thursday. Fire marshals from Canada's 10 provinces are on hand as well as prominent Canadian and American experts .in most of the fire, civil defence, insurance and other fields concerned with fire and its control. Says He Stopped Snore But Spouse Still Sore Chicago, May 11--(AP)--Richard Michalak, the man whose snore wrecked health and home, is cured --too late, The 25-yéar-old egg inspector came jubilantly into Superior Court Thursday to reclaim the affections of his wife, Florence, 20, an attrac- tive blonde who agreed a month ago to hold up her suit for separate maintenance while he sought a cure for his big snore. Richard's night noises, she maintained, had wrecked her health. Richard fought his-affliction with gusto, He moved into a small hotel room. He pored over more than 500 suggested cures submitted by | snore-wise folk in many cities who had learned of his plight. Richard enlisted "snore listeners" in adjacent rooms to listen while he slept. With a hopeful sidewise glance at his pretty wife, the young man in- formed Judge Rudolph F. Desort that his snoring days were over. But before he could elaborate, his wife's lawyer intervened. He told the court that Mrs, Mich- alak felt she could not live up to her agreement and return to Rich- | to approximately $469,000 as pay- 1,475 TAKEN, 3,604 WAIT ARMY'S NOD days of recruiting, a total ofa. 1475 | officers and men have been elisted | for service in the 27th Infantry Brigade, destined for service in Eu- rope, the army announced today. Another 3,654 applications are be- ing dealt with. Goal in the hation-wide recruit- ing drive is between 5,500 and 6,500 men, and an army spokesman described results of the campaign | Which opened Monday as "'excel- | lent." In the fourth day of the drive, | 543 men were attested and another | 1,362 applications were received The enrolment total did not in- | clude a figure from Quebec com- mand for the day, since these fig- | |ures were not reported by 4 pm. | ED.T. yesterday, when the latest | }| compilation was made. was made. $l, 000,000 Indian Suit To Be Heard Ohsweken, Ont.,, May 11 (CP)-- The Six Nations Indians $1,000.00: suit against the Canadian govern- ment will be .heard June 18 by the Exchequer Court of Canada, it was learned at a meeting of the Indian Council here Thursday. The case, to come before Mr. Jus- tice J. C. A. Cameron, is the cul- | mination of a 100-year attempt by the Indians to get settlement of their "Grand River Navigation Company claim." Last November the Council agreed ment in full of the claim, However their solicitor, August Lemieux, in- dicated the Indians' offer was too high for the federal government to consider. The claim includes restitution of Indian trust funds which were in- vested by the government of Upper Canada without the Indians' con- sent in the now defunct Grand River Navigation Company. It also demands payment for lands per- manently flooded. by the' Grand River because of the building of the Dunnville dam more than 100 | years ago. In addition it includes | payment for Indian lands granted | by the government jn 1932 to the | navigation company, plus interest | at five per cent across 109 to 119 | years, 0'Dwyer Associate Gets 5-Year Term New York, May 11 (AP)--James J. Moran, close associate of former Mayor William O'Dwyer, was sen- tenced today to a maximum five years in prison and fined $2,000 on a charge of giving perjured testi- mony before the United States Senate Crime Committee. Moran, a former deputy fire commissioner, told the crime com- mittee he met Louis: Weber, Brooklyn numbers racketeer, about a half dozen times over a period of several years. But witnesses at Moran's trial in federal court testified that We- ber had visited Moran at least 111 times at his fire department office. Give Gypsy 10 Years For Manslaughter Toronto, 'May 11--(CP)--Archie Margkovitch, 40-year-old gypsy, to- day was given 10 years for man- slaughter in the knife-slaying of his nephew, Lawrence Markovitch, 20. Markovitch was charged with murder after the rooming-house stabbing Feb. 19. An Ontario Su- preme Court jury May 2 convicted him of manslaughter, DEFENCE COSTS HIGH London, May 11--(AP)--The de- fence budgets of the 12 North At- | lantic Pact countries total $57,960,- 000,000, it. was announced Thursday by Charles M. Spofford, American chairman of the pact council deputies, in a speech to the Royal Empire Society. THE WEATHER ; Cloudy today. Intermittent rain ending early tonight. Sun- ny and a little milder Saturday. Winds northeast 15 today, north- west 15 Saturday. Low tonight ard whom she married two years ago, He said she intended to file suit for divorce. and high Saturday 40 and 60. Summary for Saturday: Sunny, New Service Fire Broke Out As First Blaze Almost Stopped Alphonse Martin, alias Ivan Sopchuk, was arraigned in fire to buildings on the Port Ottawa, May iG 11--(CP)--In four | Police court at Whitby this morning on a charge of setting Whitby property of General | Mills and Lumber, Limited, of which he was manager. The conflagration, which swept through the plant on the night of February 8, was said to have caused damage to the amount of close to $100,000. The combined effort of the Whitby and Oshawa Fire Departments were required to bring the flames under control Times to Get On CP Wire Toronto, May 11 ay 11 (CP) -- The | Canadian Press will start delivery | of its news report by teletypesetter | circuit on Monday to a group of | newspapers in Ontario. Transmit- | ting point for the new circuit is | Toronto. Teletypesetter is an automatic typesetting device. Through the | medium of code punched in a tape, | an operator in one central location actually operates the typesettting | machines in 'distant newspaper of- | fices. Teletypesetter equipment has been in use in individual newspa- per plants for many years. The new circuit extends to news- paper members of CP af Welland, | | | Ontario papers will join the circuit | shortly, including Times-Gazette. The first teletypesetter circuit | ever operated directly by any news | service was started April 23 by the | Associated Press in North Carolina. | G.M. Profits Drop Despite Higher Sales New York--Tnerensed taxes and | higher costs of materials and labor | have finally interrupted the long | climb in net earnings of the Gener- | al Motors Corp. the company re- ports. For the first quarter of 1951, net income of General Motors fell to $141,520,651, equal to $1.58 per common share, compared to $212- 387,765, or $2.38 a share for the like period last year. The sales for the quarter, totall- ing close to $2,000,000,000, were well above the $1,642,000,000 reported for the first quarter last year, but they fell a little short of the records achieved in the second and third quarters of 1950. The company reported that net income if the company had not been able to use inventories acquir- ed last year when prices of raw ma- terials and parts were lower. President C. E. Wilson warned that if material restrictions contin- ue to tighten because of defense requirements, and a decline in commercial volume results, profits can be expected to be adversely af- fected. the . Oshawa | | | to after a night-long vigil. Crown Attorney Alex C. Hall, K.C,, who is conducting the case for the Crown on behalf of the !Ontario Fire Marshall's Department, said this morning that the evidence would be long and involved. The Crown, he said, would try to show that at the time of the fire Martin had acquired a large interest in the company and that he was in straightened financial cir- cumstances. Martin, who is represented by J, | L. Kimber, K.C., and C. L. Dubin, K.C, elected trial by a higher court | this morning and the preliminary hearing, during which the Crown case only will be heard, will be conducted by presiding Magistrate | Frank S. Ebbs. To Hear 40 Witnesses It is understood that, in order clear up, the very involved fi- nancial situation, the Crown will present the evidence of over 40 witnesses, Mr. Hall, in his preliminary re= | marks today, said that the Crown would" attempt to pin point the origin of the fire and show that Martin, his wife and his son were on the premises 'at the time, Evide | ence would show, he said, that the | Chatham and Sarnia.. Several other | company was incorporated in Nove | ember 1949. Later one Flora Simp- son' put up about $15,000 as a ree' sult of which. the company was | bought from the owner, The Prem. ier Trust Company. Originally Martin was not an' officer, Mr. Hall said. However, by. the time of the fire he was alleged' to have acquired, without payment, a substantial number of shares. 'A Ball of Fire' First to see the fire was Harold Mace, who lives at 171 Brock Street South, Port Whitby, about a quarter mile from the mill. He turned in the alarm at about 10.15 o'clock he said after which he saw fire burst through the roof of the , building--"as though a ball of fire [ Were driven through by pressure | trom inside". Mace said that he ARSON CASE (Continued on Page 2) U.S. Policies Said Planned To Win Unity. Washington, May 11. (AP)--Pre=" sident Truman fold Gen. Douglas MacArthur last Jan. 13 that Korean war policy must be designed to keep the support of allies whom "we would desperately need" in case of: war with Russia. This was contained in a message sent by Truman as a follow-up to a set of 16 possible courses of ace tion the joint chiefs of staff had dispatched to MacArthur the pree vious day. The text of Truman's message, U.S. POLICIES (Continued on Page 2) Total Embargo for China Included In Gov. Dewey's 'Get Tough' World Policy New York, May 11: (AP)--Gov- ernor Thomas E. Dewey last night urged an "absolute and total" em- bargo by the free world against | trade of any kind with Conmmunist | China. It was one of 1 planks in a global policy which he said is most urgently needed to stop Russia from taking the world "bit by bit." The speech--a major foreign pol- icy address by a two-time candi- date for president--was prepared fo: the third annual dinner -of the: New York State Republican. Com- mittee. . Dewey said: "While the pace will change from- time tp time, this war a little milder, will continue the rest of our lives or so long as Communism rules Russia." His 11 points included: No appeasement or retreat from Communism anywhere in the world; No: recognition of Red China and {use of the veto if needed to keep, her out of the U.N, i More aid for Chiang Kai-Shek"s Nationalists and releasing his troops for any use he wants to make of them against the Chinese maine land; A policy aimed at an eventual United States of Europe. Admittance of Turkey, Greece, Spain and Yugoslavia into the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. A speed-up in American produc~ tion of tanks and airplanes no matter what it costs,