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THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 114 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951 Price § Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES PEACE RUMORS GAIN CREDENCE Council Refuses Women's Poll Tax Proposal Rap Bateman Plan; 6 Dead, Say Levies Recall | | | | Days of Feudalism i City Council last night, at a special meeting, defeated a | | | gloomy tundra of Labrador today, searching for an R.C.AF. Dakota missing since yesterday with four aboard. ' The plane -- due at this naviga- tional training base early last night on a hop from Goose Bay, Labrador --vanished without a trace. An all- night search by 12 aircraft was fruitless. Air force officials said the morn- ing part of the search was confined mostly from Goose Bay to the Lab- rador shoreline and was gradually being extended to the sea. The air force withheld the names of those missing -- all members of the R.CAF. -- pending notification of next of kin, At daybreak today, 11 aircraft took off from the big base here to continue the search. Cansos and Dakotas from 103 rescue unit at Greenwood, N.S., were to join the search later. United States Coast Guard and Navy planes were also expected to take part. 19 Hurt On Ships Norfolk, Va., May 15--(CP)--The U.S. Navy today announced that | the toll of yesterday's collision be- | tween the seaplane tender Valcour | and the collier Thomas Tracy stands | at one known dead, five missing | and presumed dead and 19 in hos- | pital. The list was revised down- ward from last night's an- nouncement of 11 known dead because that was based on "an estimate" that nine bodies were in the engine-room of the fire- ravaged Valcour. { A total of 190 men were account- | ed for. One body has been recover- ed. The Navy today postponed at- tempts to enter four compartments of the Valcour because of high oc- tane gasoline fumes. | The Valcour had 70,000 gallons of gasoline aboard when she col- lided with the collier some five miles east of Cape Henry. A gaping hole in the bow an evidence of severe fire damage was found aboard the Tracy when she docked late yesterday under her own power at Newport News, Va. But there were no serious injuries to crew members. The Navy said the two ships were headed in the same direction and the Valcour had passed the collier when a steering and power failure jammed the rudder. The tender cut across in front of the Tracy and was rammed. ) Child, 3, Had 100 Bruises, 19 Fractures Victoria, B.C., May 15 (CP) -- A New G.M. "Hard-Top" Models BRITISH GET 11S. OPINION ON IRAN ISSUE London, May 15 (Reuters) Early Move Seen By Chinese Reds On Negotiations Washington, May 15-- (A P)--Unconfirmed talk of pos. sible enemy peace feelers in Korea spread among Congress- | Above are the first 1951 Buick Custom Riviera and the first 1951 Olds- | 4 | mobile Super 88 Holiday Coupe to be produced at the Oshawa plant. | They came off the line Friday night. Other lines of the "hard top con- | vertible" type--Chevrolet Bel Air, and Pontia¢ Catalina--have been in | production here for several months, --Times-Gazette Staff Photos. Pollution Stopped By Plant Repairs, Dempsey Claims | Toronto, May 15--(CP)--A motion by two Oshawa | | | farmers and a flower gardener for an injunction to stop the | | City of Oshawa from polluting a stream running through | their land was adjourned in court Monday without a date | being set. son today put the final touches to a | tration's military reply to Gen. strongly-worded note to Iran on! the oil crisis. Ti is unlikely to be delivered in. into MacArthur's ouster, Sena quarters said. The text is being dis- : ' cussed with the United States of. | that the Chinese Communists ficials in Washington before being | willingness to negotiate. sent to Sir Francis Shepherd, Brit- | Before Bradley's appearance in 'the Senate Foreign Secretary Herbert Morri-| men today as Gen. Omar N. Bradley carried on the adminis. Douglas MacArthur. inquiry tor John J. Sparkman (Dem. Tehran before Thursday, diplomatic | Ala.) told a reporter the feeling is growing among: Senators may give some early sign of Defence Secretary George C, ish ambassador in Iran, who had a| meeting today with Foreign Minis- T E rights in nationalizing the Anglo- @® ness to negotiate, sources said. ef Bene iis ers, the 16th Independent Airborne Ottawa, May 15 (CP) -- Veterans | ter Bajher Kazami "on questions of mutual in'erest." The note will adhere to the Brit- | ish view that Iran is not within its | All V i Iranian Oil Company in which the e erans British government is chief share- holder| But it will repeat a willing The war office and defence min- | istry meanwhile declined comment | on why Britain's crack paratroop- | Brigade, have been put on the alert. Minister Lapointe said last night | Diplomatic circles suggested that the government intends to ensure | Britain has discussed with Wash- | that veterans of the special force | ington the latent danger to British | lives and property in Iran and pre- | pared the parachute men as a pre- | cautionary measure. | Oficials deny reports of an "im- pending decision" to send them to| Iran and say the question does not at present arise. | 5 District Students Win Degrees At least four Ontario County | scholars, three from Oshawa and a | fourth from - Whitby, have been | successful in gaining their Bachelor | of Arts Degrees at Queen's Univers- | ity. this year while a Pickering | scholar has gained his. Bachelor of Commerce, it was announced today. | The successful | gained their B.A.'s are: | get the same benefits as those of | the Second World War, He told the Commcns a depart- mental committee now is studying the veterans charter of the Second World War to determine which sec- tions of that charter, particularly those dealing with rehabilitation, should apply to special force vet- erans. He introduced legislation, later given first reading, to grant at this time the benefits of the pensions Marshall, who completed yester- day about 28 hours of testimony spread over seven days, declined to discuss peace probabilities. But other Senators who heard his testimony have indicated they think Marshall must have some reason for what they re- gard as relative optimism on his part, Sparkman said he thinks Mar- shal made it clear there isn't too wide an area of differences between MacArthur and the administration, but that the difference is vital. Kremlin Bossing China "MacArthur is proceeding on the theory that Red China is a govern- ment in its own right and can make its own decisions," the Ala bama Senator said. "Gen. Marshall and the administration leaders bee PEACE RUMORS (Continued from Page 1) Bradley Hits act, post-discharge medical treat- ment, out-of-work payments and assurance of re-establishment in pre-service employment. Some sections required special | study, he said. For example, there was the ques- tion of whether a veteran of the Second World War who re-enlisted in the special force should be able to get additional benefits under the Veterans Land Act, assuming he already had taken advantage of | a | should not risk world conflict by veterans land privileges. That also | applied to other rehabilitation sec- students - tions of the charter. Howard Green (PC--Vancouver- MacArthur Proposals © Washington, May 15--(AP)--Gen Omar N. Bradley testified today the United States is not ready for "showdown" with Russia and adopting Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Korean war proposals. Making plain he considers Russia pathologist testified yesterday that | post-mortem examination of a 3- | said many men already |to be the United States' real foe, The had been discharged from the spe- plaintiffs, Lyman A. Gifford, Hiram Gifford and | ~ ponald Leighton Souch, 32, son of | Quadra) Mr. and Mrs.' L. M. Souch, 330 move to make single women between the ages of 21 and 60 | eligible for poll tax, and to increase the tax in Oshawa up- | wards from the present $7.50. Most members of Council in- | dicated that if they were in favor of any change at all in the poll-tax set-up it would be for abolition entirely. "I know that after I introduce this motion I had better get out of town," said Alderman Evelyn Bate- | | man "However I think that the | Finance Commiitee should approach | the Ontario Municipal Board to get | i permission to extend the tax. I feel | that there are many girls and wom- | en working in this city--people who | are using the facilities of the city | A 'y and are not helping to pay for them. Wants Burden Shared "Why," asked Alderman Bate- | man, "should the full burden be! borne by the property owner. He is Ag at the stage now where he is crying | Summerside, P.EI, May 15 -- for relief." (CP) -- At least 25 aircraft from | In rural areas, said Alderman | Atlantic coast bases swept over the Finley Dafoe, the single man, if he was unable to pay the tax, was ex-- pected to put a day on the county or township roads. It was hardly likely that the Department of Lab- or would look with favor on a pro- ject to make women do a day's roadwork. He was in favor of exploring all sources of taxation but not in the matter of poll tax said Alderman William Noble. It was, in his opin: jon, "a hang-over to the bad old days of feudalism," and was, in the final analysis, taxation without | representation and therefore a bad thing. : "I have had two or three people at me in the past few weeks in this matter of poll tax," said Alderman Jack Naylor. 'Racketeers' Toronto, May 15 -- (CP) -- Al- vin Cadeau, executive vice-president of the Ontario Libé " Association, last night called oy 'a Ontario Legislature's Crime" -- (®+igation Committee to probe © \ "stock racketeers." 3 (e) M In a half hour "Prov _, Affairs" speech over a cBC ' Sitario net- work, he said: "There has .-en set up by the government a select. committee to investigate 'law and order. May I suggest that the attorney-general, who is chairman of the committee, bypass the cigar-store bookie for a few days, and go after the fellows who live, not on the $2 bets, but on the $20,000 nest eggs of the un- suspecting investor." He urged that the committee "in- vestigate the weakness of the On- tario Securities Commission." "If something is not done at once then the people of Ontario are left to conclude that the government is submitting to pressure of an un- wholesome kind, that the power and wealth of the stock racketeers is tending to subvert the Ontario gov- ernment . . Application for Bail For Martin Refused A second application for bail for | Alphonse Martin, alias Ivan Sop- | chuk, charged with arson in connec- | tion with a fire which destroyed | a large quantity of lumber on the por Whitby property of General | Mills and Lumber, Limited, was re- fused in Whitby Magistrate's Court here today. Bail has becn set at $5,000. However, Crown Attorney Alex C. Hall, K.C.,, told the applicant, Mrs. J. Blahut, Roncesvalles Avenue, To- ronto: "If you can get a certification of | valuation from a reputable appraiser we will consider accepting the house you own as bail security." Mrs. Blahut told' the court there was a $5900 mortgage on her 10- room rooming house in Toronto. She admitted she did not. know what the assessment was but explained that in 1946 it was valued at $10,500. Martin was remanded one week. It is not immediately known what day the preliminary hearing, part of which was heard last week, will be continued. Spot Large Commie Units Massing On Central Front; Expecting All-Out Attack Tokyo, 'May 1 (AP) Rain- drenched Chinese troops plodded south through central Korean mud today in their buildup for a new offensive. Spearheads of a growing Com- munist force facing the centre of the 100-mile United Nations line were reported 12 miles south of the 38th parallel. Uni Nations patrols spot- ted Communists in units of 500 or 600 slogging through the hills east of Kapyong. The U.S. Eighth Army did not indicate how close they were to U.N. lines. Clashes elsewhere on the rain- | NET PAID CIRCULATION . The Times-Gazetle . Average Per Issue for APRIL 10,091 swept battle line were between | groups of 100 or 200. | An allied officer said well-pro- ! tected U.N. positions and restless | patrols probably would ensure about | 24 hours warning before the Chin- | ese hit in strepgth. Weather Aids Reds | A central front briefing officer | said the weather probably would | speed up the éxpected Red offen- sive about two days. The strike gen- erally is expected next week. B-29S, out Tuesday despite heavy REDS MASSING (Continued from Page 1) year-old girt disclosed 15 broken bones, evidence of scurvy and near- ly 100 abrasions, contusions and bruises. The testimony was given at the trial of Mrs. Rose Filen Hill of Port | E ested ¢ i causing grievous bodily harm to oo The adjournment. wis. Sugg daughter, June Elizabeth Hill Renfrew, B.C., on three charges of Dr. D. B. Roxburgh said pneu- monia was the cause of the child's death March 6, but that the brok- en bones were "fractures usually produced by direct violence." The girl suffered 11 broken ribs and fractures to both arms and collarbones. R.C.M.P. Constable W. G. Lam- bert testified previously that Mas. Hill had admitted to him that she lost her temper, picked up a piece of wood in the kitchen and beat " the child. He said he was told by William Hill, the woman's cofimon-law hus- band, that the child had died fol- lowing a fall from her crib. ------------------------ Yanks Loan 100 Planes To Canada Ottawa, May 15--(CP)--The Uni- ted States has come through with an assist to make possible Canada's goal of turning out 3,000 Canadian | and Allied fliers a year. An air force spokesman said last night the US. Air Force has loan- ed the R.C.AF. "roughly 100" Har- vard training planes for use in Canada's new $64,500,000 air train- | James Wannop, are asking cattle. ' $60,000 damages. In their claim | they stated that a city sewer was constructed in 1949 running into the stream and has made the water unfit for their by Mr. Justice J. L. Wilson after hearing an affidavit from Wesley T. Dempsey, Oshawa city engineer, | stating that repairs had been made ! this. week to a sewage disposal plant and that no further pollution would take place. Lyman A. Gifford, who owns 125 | acres; Hiram Lloyd Gifford, owner | of 210 acres; and James Wannop, gardener who owns 26 acres, sought | the injunction. They are claiming | $60,000 damages. Construction of a sewage disposal plant on the south portion of Hiram Gifford's farm was delayed because of annexation of the Township of East Whitby, which has a popula- tion of 8,000, and by delay in re- ceiving approval of the Department of Health, Mr. Dempsey said in his affidavit. Some 250 new houses were erect- ed in an area north of the CPR tracks and west of Wilson Road after the City of Oshawa had prom- | ised to install proper sanitation | | POLLUTION { (Continued from Page 1) | To Let Victoria Day Stand As May 24 Ottawa, May 14--(CP) -- Victoria Day 'will be celebrated Thursday, May 24. The government does not plan to interfere with celebration of the holiday on its customary date. There were unofficial reports that it would: pass an. order-in-council fixing Monday, May 28, as the holi- day. The Commons still has on its or- der paper a bill that would have May 24 and July 1--Dominion Day --celebrated on Mondays. THE WEATHER Sunny and very warm today and Wednesday. Winds south 20 becoming light tonight and south 20 again Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednes- day 55 and 85. Summary for © Wednesday: Sunny and very warm, Athol Street, East. He gained his Bachelor of Commerce from the same university last year and is at present working for a Chartered Ac- countant Degree with the Toronto Chartered, Accountant firm of Price Waterhouse and Company. He at- | tended both the Oshawa Collegiate Vocational Institute and King Street Public School here. Gerald Edward Blake Daniel, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Daniel, 406 Mary Street, Oshawa. He re- jJstven his Bachelor of Science De- |gree in Toronto in 1948. He also attended Ridley College, St. Cath- arines, and North Simcoe Public school here in Oshawa, Ro' rt Allen Joyce, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Joyce, 20 Yonge Street, Oshawa. He is at present taking a high school teacher's course at the Toronto School of Education. He was chosen the outstanding boy at the Oshawa Colegiate Vocational Instiute in 1945 and also attended King and Ritson Road Public Schools. Prior to moving to Osh- awa he resided with his parents in Regina. Janet Barbara Wells, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wells, 1032 Brock Street, South, Whitby. She has attended both the Whitby Public and High Schools. The successful Pickering student to gain his Bachelor of Commérce Degree was Walter James White. | | ing scheme. The planes, which began arriv- | ing at Trenton, Ont., last week, are | to be kept between a year and two | years and then returned to the Usd Air Force. By that time this coun- | try's production of Harvard train-| ers will have increased to meet its | : needs. Delence Minister Claxton announ- ced in the Commons .in March that to meet the need of the large num- | ber of additional aircraft for a plan | to boost air training six-fold it | would be neeessary probably to both | buy and borrow planes from the United States. 5G Canada has offered to train 1,100 | Atlantic Pact airmen a year in ad-' dition to the 150 and 200 now here. | The plan -- to ¢ost $64,500,000 in | the next 12 months -- means there | DONALD L. SOUCH | will be six times as many airmen K Who have been successful in their final examinations at Queen's University, Kingston, and will receive |in training in Canada as at present. ' their Bachelor of Aris Degrees at the annual convocation on May 19, ' ) Fl To Receive B.A. Degrees at Queen's University ROBERT A, JOYCE GERALD E. B. DANIEL cial force and had heen unable to obtain veterans charter benefits. Bush Fire Burns Over 1,600 Acres Toronto, May 15--(CP)--A 1,600- acre forest fire burned out of con- trol today in the Sudbury district, one of the two forest blazes in| Northern Ontario not yet checked. | The fire, on the north shore of | Lake Wanapitai, 24 miles northeast of Sudbury, had spread from 650 acres which it covered yesterday. The second fire out of control is also in the Sudbury area--covering 500 acres in Falconbridge Township, 12 miles north of Sudbury. A total of 33 other fires in On- tario, six of which were reported yesterday, are under control. Some 525 extra firefighters have been called out to deal with all the blazes. OSTRICH BOOM Cape Town -- (CP) -- Ostrich farmers have been caught by surprise by a sudden demand for ostrich feathers for hats and dusters. Trade sources say they cannot supply all the ostrich feath- ers required at present. Bradley said MacArthur's proposals for direct blows at Communist China "would involve us in the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy." Bradley, chairman of the joing chiefs of staff, told Senators he knows some critics are "impatient" with the U.S. government's plan to fight a limited war in Korea and are calling for a "showdown" with the Soviet Union. Bradley then added: "From a purely military views point, this is not desirable. We are not in the best military posi- tion to seek a showdown, even if it were the nation's desire to for= feit the chances for peace by precipitating a total war." Netherlands Classes Dean 'Undesirable' The Hague, May 15--(AP)--The Netherlands today classed Dr. Hews lett Johnson, the Dean of Canter bury, as an "undersirable alien" and barred him from entering the coune try. The dean, noted for his pro-Soviet views, had been scheduled to address a "peace committee' meeting here tonight. Anti-Russia Feeling Stirs As Reds Grill 1,500 Poles After Mob Kills 4 Police New York, May 15 (AP) -- The New York Times in a dispatch from Paris says today more than 1,500 Poles have been reported questioned by security police in Stettin in the last month as parti- cipants in a riot following the fatal shooting of five Poles April 9 by a Russian major. The dispatch says an eriraged mob, which gathered = after the shooting, was reported to have slain four Polish police because they made no attempt to capture the unidentified Russian officer. The Polish press has omitted any mention of the incident, which has fanned anti-Russiap sentiments in the Baltic port to the highest pitch since the Second World War, the dispatch says. The Times story gives this ac- count: The Russian major, arguing with ! two Polés on the street, suddenly pulled a pistol and shot both of them. He then ran wildly down the street, killing a doctor and a wome an, The major then hid in a cellar and later shot a Polish militiaman who appeared on the scene, A crowd of. Poles, attracted by the shots, demanded police go in and get the major, When the po- lice failed to do so, a riot flared and four police were killed. Finally, another Russian officer and squad men appeared on the scene and escorted the major away. The next day all the dead were buried without their next of kin being notified. The same day a Soviet inquiry board reportedly investigated the incident, and since then the secure ity police have been making their arrests,