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THE DAILY TIMESGAZET OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TE | WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 119 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1951 Price § Cents TWENTY PAGES MYSTERY BLAZE DESTROYS MILL 13 Hurt In Five Oshawa District Accidents Weekend Traffic Takes Heavy Toll; | One Man Arrested Thirteen persons were injured in five traffic accidents in the Oshawa district during the weekend as favorable weather brought heavy traffic on the highways and city streets. Most serious accident was a three-car collision just north of Greenbank in which seven persons were injured. Others were hurt in accidents near Newtonville, Whitby, on the Brock Road and on King Street East in Oshawa. Numerous other minor traffic ac- Pe ecidents in which only property damage was involved occurred on Oshawa city streets over the week- end. Three ambulances, the Osh- awa Ambulance, W. C. Town's ambulance from Whitby and Robinson's ambulance from Brookli were d to the scene of the three-car col- lision which occurred one mile north of Greenbank on Number Hon. Degrees Conferred Upon Local Residents Two prominent Oshawa resi- dents -- Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin 12 Highway, last night. All seven injured persons were brought to Oshawa General Hos- | pital where they were treated by | Dr. M. .B. Dymond, Port Perry, who | also attended at the scene of the accident. Two Badly Hurt Most seriously injured was Mrs. Isabel Byers, Toronto, who suffer- ed a deep scalp laceration extend- ing from just above her eyebrow to the crown of her head. Also seri- ously injured was Mrs. Russell Gay, of Toronto, who suffered extensive lacerations' #bout her neck and wrists. Others injured in the accident were: Russell Gay, minor concus- and Rev. George Telford -- re- ceived honorary degrees at the annual convocation of Queen's University at Kingston on Sat- urday. The honorary degree of Doc- tor of Laws was conferred upon Mrs. McLaughlin who already holds a similar degree from Mount ison University, Sack- ville, New Brunswick. An honorary degree of Doc- tor of Divinity was conférred upon Mr. Telford, who is min- ister of St. Andrew's United Church here. Place Stress On Anti-Sub Operations rn | Ottawa, May 21--(CP)--More Ca- ! nadians are being trained and more | M i | ships are being constructed for anti- | n e a submarine operations, a spokesman for the Royal 'Canadian Navy said | ------ today. | Ottawa, May 21--(CP)--Produc- He was commenting on a New tion Minister Howe today announ- | York Daily News report which said ced that rationing of aluminum, |the United States Navy has for copper and brass will come under months 'on a wartime basis" a compulsory government control be- | round-the-clock anti-sub watch in ginning June 1. the Atlantic that is increasing stea- Previously, these items were ra- |dily in scope and intensity. tioned informally and on a volun- | tary basis by the producing com- | physically impossible for the Cana- panies to manufacturers. dian Navy, with the ships and men Under the compulsory control [available, to maintain a 24-hour scheme, rationing from mills to |submarine watch on the Atlantic. manufacturers will be on the basis| "Our first concern is to train men of 100 per cent of 1950 purchases. | and to bring forth the ships needed That will mean that if a manufac- | for anti-sub operations," he said. turer used 100,000 tons of copper in | "We are getting more men and more 1950, he will continue to get month- | ships." 13 HURT (Continued on Page 2) Government Puts Control The spokesman said it would be # IER AA Four Die In $500,000 Peterborough Fire |A $500,000 fire -- the seventh blaze of mysterious origin in district surroundings, Peterboro, Ont., in past | | week -- Saturday, brought death to three firemen and a civilian volunteer who were trapped in flames when |a floor collapsed in a four-storey building in downtown area. All city ambulances were rushed to the scene as the floors and walls began falling on the firemen who had been battling the blaze, which they had under control. Investigators from the Ontario fire marshal's department are probing cause of fire, believed | set by an arsonist. --Central Press Canadian. Communist Forces Retreat After Losing Nearly 60,000 Tokyo, May 21-- (CP) --Communists began withdrawing from half of the Korean offensive. | central front today after losing nearly 60,000 men, by Allied. estimates, in their five-day Lt.-Gen. Edward M. Almond announced his 10th Corps killed or wounded 48,341 Reds -on the east-central front. day total of the war. Sunday's total alone was 24,700, he said, the biggest one- Allied officers estimated 10,220 other casualties were inflicted on the west-central front, AP Correspondent George A. McArthur reported. In this sector, Reds retreated through a driving rain. Front-line = dispatches Monday night told of Communist withdrawals before ad- vancing allies across more than 20 miles of the front. Reds were reported abandoning | their bridgeheads below the Puk- | han and Hongchon Rivers, and | pulling back toward Chunchon in the centre. Most of the Red casualties Set Up Benefit Fund For Families of Four Killed In Peterborough were inflicted by the U.S. 2nd Division, which the Commu- nists set out to destroy. The Eighth Army said the 2nd Di- vision killed or wounded 37,750 Reds in five days. "We've taken the starch put of the offensive," Almond said. "And Peterborough, Ont, May 21 (CP)--Peterborough citizens today organized a fund-raising campaign to aid families of four firefighters who died Saturday in a $500,000 fire which destroyed a downtown busi- ness block and damaged adjoining ly allotments on that basis. The R.C.N. tries to combine train- ing cruises with anti-sub watches. Regular look-outs for subs are kept during the cruises. About a year ago there were sev- eral reports of submarines having been sighted in east coast waters, especially in the Bay of Fundy. The Navy believes that one or more Russian subs did visit those waters. "That," said the spokesman," has increased the vigilance." However, officials said the Cana- dian defence effort will be getting first call on these items and with- ing a matter of months it appeared likely that certain non-essential manufacturing using these items will be cut. The order embraces primary and wrought aluminum, primary copper, brass mill products, copper wire rod and copper wire. Felled, Kicked, Scratched Man Weighted With Rock, I feel certain that if they come at us in even greater numbers we can handle them again." 125,000 Reds in Attack The Reds threw 125,000 men at his sector in their second spring offensive, Almond said. The first Red all-out smash began April 22 and bogged down at the end of 10 days. In their new drive, the Reds fell before the tremendous fire power of U.N. artillery, planes and auto- matic weapons . . . were trapped on barbed wire entanglements and blown up by miners. ' The enemy "may be getting ready to strike again," Almond said, "and if he does we are prepared to meet him. "We have a line across the pen- insula and we are holding jt. We have a line of fire that operates buildings. At a civic meeting called by May- or Max Swanston, representatives of business, professional and reli- gious groups joined an overflow crowd meeting in city council chambers in planning projects to raite money for the fund. No ob- jective was set. Within a few hours of the launching of the campaign more than $4,000 had been subscribed. Last pf the four bodies bur- ied under tons of wreckage was found early Sunday morning after hundreds 'of men worked by search light probing the ruins, Location of the body of Earl Spenceley, a florist who volunteer- ed to fight the fire, at 3:15 am. ended the search. The others who lost their lives in the blaze which Left In Swamp But Saved North Bay, May 21 -- (CP) -- |nition Saturday, face down in a Condition of 31-year-old William [swamp with a rock tied to his shoe- Lellava of Chalk River, today was laces, reported as "slightly improved seri-| In cour{ today Lellava's wite, ous" by hospital officials after an Stella, 32, and Albert Rante, 23, and attack which police described as the Jakko Ranta, 36, were charged with most vicious beating they had ever |assault occasioning bodily harm and seen. |remanded to May 29 without plea. Lellava was found beaten and! Three boys, Edmond Amond, 13, beaten and battered beyond recog- David Brooks, 12, and Alvin Tei- ford, 12, who said they witnessed |the brutal beating, were responsible day and night, rain or shine." Much of Sunday's record cas- ualty toll, he said, was compiled | when artillery caught the Chi- | 'nese trying to carry off their dead all along a 2!;-mile val- ley. Eighth Army reports and .field dispatches had given .no hint of | Eleven other persons were injur- heavy Red assaults Sunday. ed in the fire, worst in this Cen- U.N. forces suffered "compara-|tral Ontario city of 40,000 since tively few casualties" from the | 1916 when 15 persons died in a Reds' human sea wave attacks, Al- | blaze which levelled the old Quaker mond reported. "And the 2nd Di- [Oats plant. began at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, were regular firefighters: Grover Deck, | Orville Rome and George Rey- nolds. | The four men were all married | and besides their widows, they leave 14 children. Deaths of the four men occurred | NET PAID | CIRCULATION . The Times-Gazette . | | | Average Per Issue for APRIL 10,591 for saving Lellava from a quick death, They told police they were return- ing from fishing in Mud Lake, two LEFT IN SWAMP (Continued or Page 2) THE WEATHER Mostly sunny today and Tues- day with little change in tem- perature. Winds west 15 today, northwest 15 Tuesday. Low to- night and high Fuesday 55 and 75. Summary for Tuesday: Mostly sunny. | vision is still in good shape." | A spokesman at Tokyo head- | quarters said the Indian head di- | vision apparently inflicted more | than 30 casualties for every one it | suffered. | Hit Back at Comnfies Meanwhile U.N. troops hit back 'hard at the Reds on the west- | central front to re-enter Munsan | and Uijongbu. x Reconnaisance forces pushed into | Munsan, 25 miles northwest of the | REDS RETREAT (Continuea on Page 2) about 10 a.m, Saturday, when four storeys of brick, steel and plaster tollapsed, burying them. Three other men in the building at the time of the collapse were rescued and taken to hospital. They are Adelard Binette, Peter Nicholson and Harold Black. Others injured were John Laplante, Robert Reynolds, Vic- tor Barry, Assistant Fire Chief Virgil Carr, William Bloom, John Masters, Hubert Kennedy and Robert Webb. The destroyed building housed 4 Tip Top Tailors, Pulvers' Ladies' Wear, Ed Riley's Men's Wear and the Agnew Surpass Shoe Store. Elliott's Drug Store, Dickson's Dry Goods and Deyell's Stationery Shop in the adjoining building were damaged by smoke and water. Ont. Censors Hit Violence On Screens Toronto, May 21 (CP)--Canadian censor boards have protested to Hollywood producers in an attempt to correct objectionablé scenes in films, the Ontario Film Censorship Board said in its annual report pre- sented to Premier Frost today. "There has been much recent dis- cussion arising from the incidence of undue violence in the content of many films and its relationship to | crims," the report said. "Many cen- sor boards, including the one in On- tario, have protested during the past year directly and indirectly to film producers in Hollywood in an at-| tempt to correct the condition." The board said films not meeting the taste or requirements of censor boards in Canada would be dealt 'with in a "uniformly severe man- ner." The report said 479 feature films from Hollywood, 56 from England, | and 28 from other countries had been. submitted for censorship in Ontario last year, a total of 305 eliminations were 'made for such reasons as coarse dialogue, torture of women, brutality, gruesomeness, suggestive dancing, knifing, nudity, hanging and lashing. Advertising was also carefully exs amined for misleading suggestions. Occasionally the advertising asso- ciated with a film was found to be entirely - false. { RL, SEE RUSSIA READY TO END United Nations, N.Y. May 21 | (CP)--Informed western sourc said Sunday Russla has indicat privately in western diplomatic c} cles that she is anxious now to e; the Korean war. } And the United States now wot! back peace terms which left Not. Korea and South Korea as thi were constituted before the Nortk Korean attack last June 25, thes; sources added. Diplomats 'seeking possibilities a negotiated end to the confli viewed these present attitudes * the U.S, and Russia against thle background of these developments: 1. The Indian delegation here was sounding out other missions on allel again. prominence at the week-end to Senator Edwin Johnson's proposed resolution in the U.S. Senate ask- along the 38th Parallel June 25. Western diplomats in Moscow won- dered if this indicated Russia might support such a proposal. in effect the U.S. government-- re- port to the U.N. of Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, U.N. commander in Korea. In, the report he said his command is emphasizing constantly to soldiers and civilians in Korea the U.N.'s desire to arrange a peace- ful settlement of the war, Find 1 Body, Seek Other 3 In Labrador Halifax, May 21 -- (CP) -- A land party continued its search today | through Lakrador's untrodden bush- 1ana for three of the four airmen who disapeared Monday after their R.C.AF. Dakota crashed during a navigational training hop. The air force announced last night that a land party made its way to the crash scene and found the body of Flying Officer Owen Foster, 23, {of North Vancouver. Search and rescue officials declin- led to speculate on the fate of the | other three crew members. The twin-engined craft plummet- ed to earth about 130 miles south- west of Goose Bay. The wreckage, strewn over a wide area, was found Saturday after a large-scale air search by more than 40 planes, Announcement of finding F/O Foster's body was delayed pending confirmation of notice to his next of kin, Still missing are F/O Joseph Jean Rodier of Summerside and Mon- treal, 25, pilot; Flight Cadet Wil- fred Smith, 24, Shelburne, N.S, and Flight Cadet Gerald Higgins, 21, Hull, Que. PATS DISPLAY HIGH SPIRIT IN ADVANCE By BILL BOSS | Canadian Press Staff Writer West-Central Sector, Korea, May | 21--(CP) -- Pouring rains, perhaps | the onset of the long-anticipated | rainy season in Korea, failed to | dampen Canadian enthusiasm today | as troops who have been sitting in | defensive positions for three weeks | registered another move. |. (Boss reported last night that the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's | Canadian Light Infantry, had re- | gistered their first move in almost three weeks, leaving strong defen-' sive positions north of the Han Riv- er and moving into hills several thousand yards northwest.) Their spirits high, and with jokes flashing back and forth along the column, the battle-tested Canadians again moved forward unopposed. Bored with their defensive role, the Canadians are glad to be on the go again, Today's move represented a 5,000- yard advance, I" British and Commonwealth forces | also gained, but the Scottish and | Australian troops who scored it had HIGH SPIRITS (Continued on Page 3) CR - eo the possibility of getting both sides | to agree not to cross the 38th Par- | 2. Russian newspapers gave great | Brigade wibalge. of the fire which make the decision of the c¢ binding, No Action Moved Discussion revolved motion by Alderman Finley M foe and an amendment mad Michael Starr. The motion, that no action be taken regal tion building until such time ditions more stable. The am ment was that plans for the city hall as proposed by the ai Seated rm aled ambi ing the U.N. to call upon both sides | } to declare an effective armistice | 3. The U.N. unified command -- | | § leased Saturday the first regular re- | - ROBERT, G. McNAB Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert McNab, 149 Alexandra Street, has been suc- cessful in passing "his fourth year examinations in' the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of To- ronto, it was announced today. He attended North Simcoe = Public School and the Oshawa Collegiate and. Vocational Institute. It is re- ported he will join the Dental Corp» in the Canadian Army and, it is un- derstood, he will be stationed in the Eastern Command. ' Charges General With Deception Washington, May 31 -- (AP) -- Senate investigators - called Gen. {Omar Bradley back to the witness stand today while a fresh batch of differences kept the MacArthur dis- pute boiling. On one side, Senator William Pul- bright (Dem. Ark.) said part of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's recent testi mony to Senate committees investi- gating his dismissal was "almost equivalent to deception" and con- sisted of "some half-truths." On the other, Senator Robert Taft (Rep. Ohio) declared the Tru- man Administration has staged an "absolute reversal" and now has adopted practically all features of MacArthur's Far Eastern war pro- gram which most Republicans have urged. ' '| Tease and his sons, Beaten, Port Perry Fire KOREA WA .Uncontrollable swept through a large brick It was necessary to do thf Sunday morning immobilizing | industries and putting a large ily out of business was still une aroumvyentory of wrecked machinery as stocks of raw wool damaged the motion in committee by MNthat total loss will be well bee nally estimated. It will, it was the erection of a civic adminitween $100,000 to $125,000. interest rates were lower and 4 Top floor of the 40 by 90 foot building located at the intersection of Mary and Perry Streets only one block away from the business district, was occupied by Lakeshore Knitting Mills, a firm which man- ufactured sports wear, specializing in athletic sweaters and crests. Owners of this firm were James Norman and Grant, all of Port Perry. Ground floor of the building was occupied by the Morrow Farm Im- plement Agency. Brothers Lloyd and Gordon Morrow and John Care roz were proprietors of this busi¥® ness. Port Perry citizens have been plagued recently by youths who have been driving around at night in automobiles throwing out fire crackers. These irres- ponsible young men were first blamed for the fire. It was thought that they might have thrown a lighted fire cracker through 3 window. However, in retrospect today, it was believ- ed that the fire may have got its start somewhere inside the building from an as yet une determined cause." Chief W. G. Raines, who leads the 12-man Port Perry Volunteer Fire Brigade, said that when he and his crew arrived with the town's one pumper truck the fire was raging inside the .brick shell of the building. That was at aboud one o'clock on Sunday marning. Couldn't Stop Flames Chief Raines said today that am immediate connection was. made to a hydrant less than a block away but the streams of water directed into the huilding were futile against the raging inferno. Firemen worked all night and when dawn broke they still were keeping 'a vigil, on the building which, by that time, was a mete blackened shell. The fire was a$ last brought under control; It was seen today that most of the delicate weaving machinery on the top floor of the building was wrecked beyond repair. A good deal of equipment on the ground floor was also made useless by the heat and the water. A brick wall, which divided a portion of the building on the north side, effectively acted a8 a deterrent to the flames, and stocks of machinery and raw materials in this portion of the structure were saved al- though somewhat damaged by smoke. It was possible, because of this wall, to save five trac- tors which were stored in thas section of the building. : By the time the fire was undefe way for an hour or so a large crowd of people had gathered $e 'MYSTERY FIRE' (Continuea on Page 3) By The Canadian Press Twenty-seven persons died vio- lently in. Eastern Canada during the weekend. { : A . Canadian 'Press survey shows all of the deaths were in Ontario and Quebec. Automobile accidents were responsible . for nine and drownings claimed. 11. Four per- sons died in a fire and the remain- ing three in other accidents, Heading the toll in Ontario was the death of four firefighters who lost their lives Saturday in a $300,- 000 'fire which destroyed a business block in Peterborough. The four men--Grover Deck, Orville Rome, George Reynolds and Ear] Spence- ley--were crushed by an avalanche of smouldering rubble when floors and ceilings of the burning build- ing caved in. Two persons were killed and seven others injured Sunday in a head-on collision between a car and a 'truck near Hailey- bury, Killed were Therese Violent Deaths Total 27: Ontario, Quebec Roads Take 9 Lives Over Weekend Ayotte, 19, and Donald Willars, 23, both of New Liskeard. Peter Nadorosney, 59, died Sature day in London, Ont. of 'injuries received Friday when 'he was caught in' the rising hopper of a giant cement mixer. Shirley June Gamble, six, daughe ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles BE. Gamble of Petrolia, died Saturday of injuries received when she was struck by a car. Jack Pelligrin, 51, died in Toron- to hospital Saturday four hours after his abdomen was slashed open when he walked through a plate glass window. Stephen Wortham, 35-year-old summer resort proprietor, died in hospital in Lindsay from injuries suffered in a car-truck collision, Leonard C. Meyer, 42, died Sate urday of Injuries suffered when he was struck by a passenger train at Guelph Friday. ; A 30-mile emergency trip from Exeter to London, Ont., failed to VIOLENT DEATHS (Continued on Page 3