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THE DAILY TIMESGAZETTE | OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle . WHITBY ' OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1951 Price § Cents EIGHTEEN PAGES VOL. 10--No. 130 Old Wood-Burning Engine Passes Through Oshawa A rea] relic of bygone railroading days, an old wood-burning engine built away back in 1872, made a brief halt at the Oshawa CNR railway station on Saturday afternoon. The engine No. 40, shown above was on its 'way to Chicago to be displayed at an exhibition there. It was not, however, runnig under its own power, but was hooked into a d freight train, --Times-Gazette Staff Photo, +h U.N. Troops Drive Back Reds | In Fierce Fighting Near Their Main Defence Line dered over the sound of hand grenades as United Nations I forces threw back the thrusts. Reds attacked all threaten- | ing U.N. spearheads. They fought stubbornly everywhere | against the allied advance. U.N. officers said the offensive appeared to be reaching the main Red defence line. On the eastern front, Chinese Tokyo (AP)--Allied troops fighting through driving rain toward the main Communist redoubt in North Korea beat off Communist counter-attacks today. Artillery thun- MAY BUILDING FIGURES MAKE ALL-TIME REGORD & > General Motors Workers Receive Wage Increases 8 Cents An Hour Totalling fought from heavily-constructed ¥ fortifications built by North Ko- 25th BRIGADE Edmonton (CP) -- The first re- Russia Agrees To Conference In Washington 'Paris AP -- Russia agreed to- day to meet with the western Powers in a foreign ministers' conference at Washington July 23 on condition they discuss the North Atlantic Pact, and United States bases overseas. FULL TALKS ARE OFFERED IN IRAN CRISIS Tehran, Iran (AP) -- The Anglo- Iranian Oil Company has offered to send representatives to Tehran for "full and frank' discussions of the explosive oil crisis with the Iranian government. The United States ambassador, Henry F. Grady, who led concilia- tion efforts, hailed the move. "I am more hopeful than I have been for some time that a solution e and satisfactory to both General Motors of Canada today announced an upward revision in its cost of living allowance to approximately 10,500 hourly-rated and salaried employees to compensate for the rise in the cost of living index since March 1. This | increase in earnings for General Motors employees is in ac- cordance with the contract signed between the company and Local 222, UAW-CID a year ago, when the agreement now in force was made. Under the GM wage adjustment ® formula, approximately 8,500 hour- | ly-rate employees ' will receive an | additional five cents per hour cest | y y A D Army Depot of living allowance effective with the first pay period following June | 12th. These employees have been receiving eight cents hourly cost-of- living allowance during the current quarter and this is raised to 13 cents hourly as the Dominion Bur- eau of Statistics index is published at 182 points. The unit of quarterly | adjustment upward or downward is | one cent per hour for each 1.3 points | ond Jargest ordnance depot in east- fluctuation of the index. lern Canada suffered damage esti- ADDITIONAL THREE CENTS | mated unofficially in excess of $1 In addition, all eligible hourly- ! million in an explosion - punctuated rate employees will have three cents | week-end fire. per hour added to their straight| It was the third fire in the huge ment factor" effective June 12. This pot in Ottawa's west end in the was also provided for in the 1950 last two years. The Army said an contract. {investigation of its cause, includ- Approximately 2,000 eligible em- |ing possible sabotage, is under ployees on salary will receive an way. additional $25 making a total of| Col. W, G. Denney, depot com- | $65 cost-of-living allowance for the mandant, convened a court: of - | period between June 16 and Sep- inquiry at the scene early Sunday. | Ottawa (CP) -- The army's sec- | time rate 'as an annual '"improve- | Plouffe Park central ordnance de-| tember 15 of this year. Forty firemen and a consid rable Nearly Million In New Permits Issued In Month | The value of building permits applied for during the month of May was higher than for any single month in the city's history.< Officials of the City Engineer's Department (said today that their expectations for an all-time highest month were fulfilled in May and that the final figure was close to a million dollars--$963,424 to be exact. : An admittedly grave housing situation in this city will be alleviated to some extent by the erection of 107 single dwellings, permits for which were taken out in the past month. ,* The monthly value of permits Vapplied for is taken by many | authorities as a barometer of the | city's economic well being. If such |is the case Oshawa is on a solid i RB | financial basis and the future looks bright. e fact th ie majority of the homes will be built, not by | construction firms, but by the in- | dividuals who eventually will live in | them indicates that the trend toe | wards owner-occupied homes which | has become so prevalent in this city, | continues. At the present time more | than eighty-five per cent of the | homes in this city are owned by | Washington (AP) -- State S8e- the people who are occupying them. | eretary Dean Acheson said today | VALUES INCREASING {the United States 'did not know | Value of the homes being sce | whether we had an atomic bomb |range from $6,000 to a $20,000 | oS . structure being built by E. G. Storis for: not" when it signed the 1945 on podlboen | Crescent. Average | Yalta agreement to bring Russia |ya)ye would seem to be in the neigh | borhood of $7,500 or $8,000. It is equi All eligible salary employees will, number of volunteers were. over-| into the war against Japan. inforcements - for Canada's 25th reans in pre-war days. Foliage had grown over them in natural cams ouflage. Chinese waited until ad- vancing Americans came unknow- ingly withing a few yards. Then they opened up. Infantrymien burned them out with 'flame throwers. 'ENEMY DUG IN "You con't call this a delaying action' any more," one high of- ficer said, "the way the enemy is 'set and dug in and shooting from BOY BROWNS AT MOUTH OF ROUGE RIVER nd the de-| Pickering and Scarboro township well-prepared bunkers and police were still dragging the mouth lsfminalion of his defences SHoy Ho | of the Rouge River early this after- Small but sharp battles flared Poon for the body of Bill Dobson, ail along the saw-tooth front from |12, of Apt. 3, 500 Kingston Road, newly-captured Yonchon in the Toronto, who was drowned at 10.30 west to Kansong in the east where [this morning when a canoe over- Reds attacked the allies' deepest | turned. penetration of North Korea. His companion Gordon Grattan, Brigade in Korea passed through Edmonton yesterday on their way to an 'embarkation point on the United States west coast. The troops -- 15 officers and 285 men-today are en route to Van- couver. They are expected in the coast city tonight and will stay there for about two hours before leaving for Seattle, The reinforcements are the first sent from Canada since the brigade went to Korea about twé months ago. Their troop ship will also {transport some 1800 American | troops across the Pacific. | The men are replacements for the 2nd Battalion of Princess Pa- |tricid's Canadian Light Infantry {from Calgary, the Royal 22nd Re- | giment from Val Cartier, Que., and the Royal Canadian Regiment | Tank - led U. N. forces hacked nine, of 592 Kingston Road, clung | from Petawawa, Ont. out gains of one to three miles -- to the canoe and Was rescued by | in sports. In other places they Bill Sherman, 16, of 215 Kingston stood still. | Road and Tom Gillespie, also 18, of Allied gains were chipped out |207 Golfview Avenue. wg slowly in tough, often hand-to-hand |. An inquest into the fatality is| fighting. | anticipated. | Infantrymen and armor pushed!. Witnesses say the boys hitch- | north trying to reach the break hiked this morning for a day in the | the Reds' "iron triangle," ripped | country. They are said to have by Chorwon, Kumhwa and Pyong- rented a canoe from a Rouge River | gang. They were thrusting up from | Jivery, | Yonchon, 13 miles below Chorwon; | Young Grattan told Pickering from Yongpyong and Yongong near Township Chief of Police, L. W.| ~the 38th parallel; and from HWa- Trinnel! that neither -Boy gould | chon, 18. miles from Kumhwa. |swim or paddle properly. | TRIANGLE IMPORTANT When they were going around in | Capt. Alan Harbord - Harbord of Vancouver heads the replacements group. "We want to get into this fight as soon as possible." the six-foot- two professional soldier said as the troops left their training ground at the huge Wainwrigh camp, 135 miles southeast of Edmonton. "We joined up to fight," he said, a lot of my boys have been wait- ing quite a while for this chance to join their buddies in Korea." All the reinforcements said they TROOPS LEAVE (Continued on Page 2) The Eighth Army was willing to circles a sudden gust of wind over- | ---------- of cities because: . "We were camping here over- 1." The triangle dominates an night," Sherman and Gillespie re- important network of highways. | lated, "About 10.15 we heard a cry 2. If masses of allied tanks could |of help but right after we thought reach Chorwon, they would find We heard somebody laughing and flat country, excellent for their |didn't pay much attention to it. A type of fighting. In the flat triangle, | few minutes afterwards we went allied artillery would be more ef- down to the river to fish. A red ficient than ever. \ I'cance was tipped over in the centre Lt-Gen. James A. Van Fleet, of the river and a young. boy was U. N. ground commander, made clinging to it. We stripped off our | pay the cost of taking the triangle [= ned the canoe. { BOY DROWNS (Continued on Page 2) U.N. TROOPS (Continued on Page 2) Will Extend Embargoes On China If Necessary Syracuse, N. Y. (AP) -- Warren (at commencement exercises at Austin, chief United States dele- | Syracuse University, Austin said gate to the United Nations, said|'"'many considerations had to be today that further embargoes balanced' before the U. N. last against Communist China would be | month asked its member to ban voted by the U. N. "If necessary.' shipment of strategic materials to In a speech prepared for delivery the Chinese Reds. . Such international collective ac- tion requires extensive consulta- NET PAID CIRCULATION tion, "time-consuming but wise," | Austin said, adding, "we must ap- . The Times-Gazelle . Average Per Issue | proach the problem of strengtitems for MAY {in the United Nations with the disci pline of a skilled watch-maker {dealing with a fine chronometer." { Austin firmly rejected General | MacArthur's "go - it - alone" po- licy for the Far East. He asserted: | "We know that the United States cannot stand alone, We know that { !if our country is to act jointly with |ing and improving collective action 10,585 | curity must be considered in world | perspective." i Price War Continues In New York New York (AP) -- Throngs of bargain hunters stampeded New York City's department stores to- day as the big town's first all-out price war in more.than 14 years entered its second week. At one uptown store, two shop- pers were pushed through a plate glass window by a shoving, milling crowd of 2000. They suffered arm and shoulder cuts. Bargain-hungry customers queu- ed up in front of department stores as early as 6 a.m. . In the big Manhattan stores, the fifth day of the jamboree saw chandise slashed as much as 50 prices of some fair - tradea mer- per cent. Some favorites were out of stock. Store X X picking up second para day lead. Store executives appeared un- concerned by a- state legislature investigation into the price cutting. The public inquiry was ordered yes- terday by Irwin Steingut, chairman of the legislature's joint commit- tee on unfair trade practices. Even Sunday failed to bring a complete lull in the price war. Two | stores, Gimbel's and Namm"s in| Brooklyn, took telephone orders at rates that exceeded Christmas rush records. The price war has brought re- B | ductions 'of more than 30 per cent |)" " e other nations, then our own se-|on.some items. Men's cotton cord Was found buried in the basement suits, regularly $20.75, closed Sa- turday at $12.63. ; sides will be found," he said. The company made its offer yes- terday just 24 hours before expira- tion of the five-day period it had been given by the government to submit proposals on nationaliza- tion of the vast oil properties. { Deputy Premier Hussein Fatemi | said Iran considered the company's offer as "an acceptance of Iran's taking over" of the company's holding. The company, on the other hand, said it was 'reserving its legal rights" and did not specify the matters it was willing to nego- tiate. (Diplomatic informants in Lon- don said the offer did not change the British government's bid two weeks ago for high-level negotia- tions with the Iranian government. They also said that Britain's ap- peal to the International Court of Justice to appoint an arbitrator still stood. The British government owns nearly 53 per cent of the com- | pany's stock.) Fatemi said, however, that the have to arrive here today and if they do not, "the government can- not delay its enforcement of the laws." Other sources said the Bri- tish representatives were not ex- pected here for four or five days. Tehran's largest newspaper, Ete- laat, reported rioting yesterday in Abadan, chief oil port and site of the huge Anglo - Iranian refinery. The newspaper, quoting a cabinet minister, said fighting occurred after a mob tried to loot a Chris- tian church. Burglars Get $99,000 Loot At Toronto Toronto (CP)-- Thieves escaped with $50,000 in jewelry and $9000 in cash in separate robberies here during the wcek-end. Practically the entire stock of rings and watches was cleared from Lord's jewelers in northeast Toronto by robbers who worked so quietly policeman on the beat didn't know what was happening. Rings worth $vkk.g5 e taken. Sam Shoot, owner of the shop, said the burglars cleaned out all the show-cases in the store but left the front windows undisturbed. At the Canadian International Trade Fair $9000 in cash was taken by burglars who smashed the safes in a frame storage building at the rear of the art gallery. Murder Suspect Sought In Toronto Toronto (CP)--Police said today they searched downtown streets and hotels after receiving information that a St. Catharines man wanted "ov the murder of his father had been seen in a telephone booth here. « shal 18 William Adams, 29, also known as Sanhorskil and he is said to have telephoned his wife C~th~rines. His fathér's body in addition have $5 monthly added | come by the choking, black smoke | Acheson made the statement in a marked fact that the average value to base salaries, effective June 16. BIGGEST RESERVOIR Largest artificial lake in the world is Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, stretching 115 miles. but only one fireman required hospital treatment. Thousands of persons flocked to | the scene. One - tenth of the 1500- | foot long structure stretching from | Somerset street to Gladstone aven- ue was destroyed. | Ontario Chief Turn Down Sweepstakes At Association Meeting ® 4 |a general discussion of American |of homes being built in this. eity [policy in the Orient for the last |has risen in the past few months by |five years. He was testifying for |$500 to $1,000. It is quite common, | the third day at Senate hearings at one time, to see permit applica- lon the dismissal of Gen. Douglas |ticns for homes in the $4,500 te MacArthur as Far Eastern com-|$3,500 class. These now are rare. mand, ADDITION TO FACTORY Acheson also said: | Largest single construction proe 1. Former Vice-President Henry | ject is the erection of a $100,000 ade A. Wallace won an agreement in dition to the Simcoe Street South 1944 from Chiang Kai-shek, head of the: Chinese Nationalists, not to oppose 'American military help to the Chinese Communists. 2. The U. 8. was not able to guarantee the survival of Chiang's government in the post-war revolu- tion which swept China. | Republicans have attacked the | | Yalta agreements, contending they | let Russia into Manchuria and gave BUILDING RECORD (Continued on Page 2) Quarry Killed In Gun Battle Owen Sound (CP)--A resolution asking that the federal government legalize hospital sweepstakes blew | up a small storm as the Associa-| tion of Ontario Mayors and Reeves | wound up their three-day confer-| ence Saturday. | "Don't touch this racket," said] Mayor Allen Rush of London. { Some disorder followed remarks | of Councillor C. P. Cashman of | York County. "I'm utterly opposed | to sweepstakes," he said, adding | -- "Although I do buy tickets." | The resolution was voted down. | A Fort William suggestion that E.L. Chapman Pickering, Died Today Prominent in 'church, fraternal, agricultural and political circles in the southern part of Ontario Coun- an elected member of councils be | ty for half a century, Ernest L. appointed to police commissions | v. .. small shoe repair shop ih June, 1949, - was passed. Under the present police act, a police commission in- cludes a mayor or reeve, a county judge and a magistrate. It was felt such a step would ONTARIO CHIEF (Continued on Page 2) U.S. Car Output Cut One Third Washington (AP)--The gov- ernment Saturday ordered a new cut in auto production July 1. It will limit output to about 1,200,000 cars during the July- September period. The National Production Au- thority said the order, com- pletely revising auto industry controls, will mean a reduction of about one-third or more from the nearly 1,900,000 cars produced during jhe same July- September quarterly period a year ago. . It will allow about 200,000 fewer cars than the estimated 1,400,000 units being produced 1,400,000 units being produced in the current April-June quarter. E. L. CHAPMAN Chapman passed: away this morn- ing in the Oshawa General Hospital in his 76th year. Not in good health for some time, Mr. Chapman spent. the winter in Florida and re- turned a short time ago. He enter- ed hospital .a few days ago. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Chapman, the deceased spent 'practically his entire life in the vicinity of the homestead at Audley. As a young man he spent some time in Winnipeg. Return- ing east, he entered business in Toronto before purchasing the Lin- ton farm near Ajax where he lived THE WEATHER Cloudy with occasional light rain this morning, clearing this evening. Tuesday sunny and continuing cool. Winds north- west 15 today, light tonight and Tuesday, Low tonight and high Tuesday, 50 and 70. Sum- mary for Tuesday: Sunny and E. L. CHAPMAN | her territory from which she now | ° ° | can threaten Japan. P | These critics said that there was | 1 ' 0 1Ce to obtain i no reason a Russian agreement to enter the Far East- ern war, which was ended after {two atomic bombs were dropped {on Japan. The Russians came into the war only a week before Japan's surrender. $15,000 Limousine May Not Be Practical But Worth All Of $685 Toronto (CP) -- A 19-year-old commercial artist who drives a motorcycle now is the owner of a $15,000 limousine. Richard Merrick Saturday paid $685 at public auction for a maroon and chrome job which sports a lady's vanity set in the back seat plus a microphone to speak to the chauffeur up front. The car formerly belonged to the late Ned Sparks, Canadian- born movie comedian, who left it here in 1940. A year ago it was auctioned to pay storage costs. The used car dealers who bought it then auctioned it again Saturday when Merrick bought it, New York (AP)-Fifty policemen, {using sub - machine guns, search | lights and tear gas, fought an hour long battle early today with « Bronx resident barricaded: in & rooming house. . When police finally broke into the building, they found 60-year-old | Rosario Virgadino sprawled dead on a first - floor landing. One bullet had pierced the back of his head, three more his should« ers. During the gun battle, a base. ment tenant crouched under a bed with her two terrified children. An- other couple took refuge in a third- floor closet. . Police said they were called to the rooming house after Virgadimo shot his landlord, Philip Figaro, 60. Tenants told police that Figaro had stopped to ask Virgadimo about complaints that he slammed doors and' windows loudly. Figaro suffered a shoulder wound. His con- dition was not serious. Virgadime, using a .38-calibre revolver, fired snd reloaded several times, police said. Wedding of Doomed Girl Postponed Indefinitely Norfolk, Va. (AP) -- A 19-year- old sailor -- his leave cancelled and his wedding to a cancer-doom- ed girl of 18 'postponed indefinite- ly' -- was due back at his station here today. Tom Amburn was granted a 30- day emergency leave last week from Norfolk naval air station to marry Betty Thompson of" Atlanta, Ga. He saw Betty. The story got in the papers. Then Amburn flew to see his parents in Sioux Falls, At Sioux - Falls, Tom's father, A. F. Amburn, protested the pub- licity the romance had been given, and said he planned to have a "long talk' with Tom. Sunday the Navy cancelled the sailor's leave. Sunday night at Om- cool. : _ (Continued on Page 2) aha, Neb., between planes as he | returned here, young Amburn told reporters he wanted a chance to be left alone, : "We want no more publicity," he said. "We'll work it out the best we can in the eyes of God. Betty's days are numbered and I would like to spend them happily." His wedding plans, he acknow- ledged, were "postponed indefin- itely." He said whatever he does would be '"'my own decision -- I am not being influenced by anys one else." v Betty has lost one of her legs to cancer. Now a lung has been at- tacked, and physicians say she may die this fall. y In Atlanta . Sunday night her mother said Betty was calm over developments. ; "'She's still got her chin up," her i mother said. a