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MILK STRIKE STILL UNSETTLED * THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 141 OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1951 Price § Cents TWENTY PAGES Montreal Old Peoples' Home Where 32 Persons Lost Their Lives In Fire FORD PLANT SHUTDOWN Both Sides Are Standing Firm; No Break Seen Forty-five employees of the Oshawa Dairy, Limited, ine cluding milk salesmen and truckers, who went on strike on the issues of union security and a five-day, 40-hour week at six-thirty yesterday morning, are still on strike. Up to noon today, there had been no renewal of negotiations between Windsor, Ont. (CP) -- Federal | the company and the representatives of the Retail, Whole- intervention has brought about sale and Pepartment Stores Employees' Union, Local 561, Posi ponent Rk Con. | the bargaining agency for the workers. Picket lines are pany of Canada plant here. { functioning in front of the company's store and plant on firm's | Simcoe Street South, trying to persuade customers not to Nine thousand of the | 11,000 production workers who had i di bia Thirty-two persons are reported to have los their lives in | It is believed that several of the Grey Nuns, who operated | trapped by smoke and flames, and died in their beds. The a disastrous fire which yesterday swept through the Hos- | the home perished in the fire, including the Mother Su- | fire started by a blow-torch which was accidentally dropped pice Ste. Cunegonde, Montreal religious home for the aged. | perior, Sister Rita Gervais. Many of the patients were | into an old elevator shaft. ~Central Press Canadian, ~ Known Toll at Least 32 ~ Many More Still Missing In Montreal Fire Disaster » Montreal (CP)--With 32 bodies recovered, there were Earlier, Assistant Police Inspector ~ Herve Guimond reported the toll at 30. During the night, however, .several more bodies were found, firemen said. ; WOMAN SLAIN {fears today the death- toll in the fire which burned the Ro- | {man Catholic Hospice of Ste. Cunegonde yesterday might | |reach 50. Firemen and members of the Grey Nuns, the | | Order which operated the home for the aged and poor chil- | | dren on the fringe of Montreal's poor St. Henri district, said {some 12 persons are missing. . Firemen said they expected | to recover more bodies from the ruined interior of the five- | storey greystone building on Atwater Street near St. An- | Brantford (CP) -- A 27-year-old Ome. woman was stabbed to death early | today in Brantford's second slay-| . ing in a week. | 2k B The body of Mrs. Violet Thomp- | | 1Ze son was found at 2:30 am. in a light delivery truck outside the home of her estranged husband, Charles Thompson. Police held the owner of the truck, 27-year-old Donald Dever- eaux for questioning. They said he had been living with the woman. A phone call from the truck owner's brother, Jack Devereaux of the nearby Cainsville district, brought police to the scene. They found that the woman had been stabbed in the lower ribs. Provincial police probing the shooting of restaurant owner Ed- ward Barbarian earlier in the week were called out in the case, Inspector R. H. Wannell of the Ships Found Riding Reds | Ottawa (CP) -- The government | came under brisk Progressive.Con- | servative fire in the Commons yes- {terday for' allowing 'five' Chinese- | owned ships to fly the Canadian | flag on possibly-illicit trading runs into Communist-held ports. In a day-long battle, Progressive Conservative front - bénchers de- manded that the government with- | Grey Nuns, who operated the home criminal investigation branch of draw the use of the Canadian en- the provincial force had just gon sign from the vessels, which op- to bed when he got word. He was erate between Hong Kong and Red joined by local officers in a five-| China, and either seize or sink hour investigation. » Police said that Donald Dever- eaux, father of three children, was the only person found near the scene. Jack Devereaux phoned police from his farm home three miles east of the Thompson home. Pol- ice said he declined to say whether his brother had called him first. Donald Devereaux is an ice de- livery man. NET PAID CIRCULATION . The Times-Gazetle . Average Per Issue for MAY 10,585 them. ; | 'Three cabinet ministers 'came under attack as the official opposi- tion learned that the operators of | the vessels, the Ming Sung Co., trades. "throughout Communist {China" and, in the words of op- { position leader George Drew, "for | {all practical purposes is a com-| | pany acceptable to the Communist | | government." | | External Affairs Minister Pear- | son promised that the government | would seize the ships, formerly {under the Chinese Nationalist flag, lif it found that they are breaking {Canadian law by carrying strategic war materials to the Reds. Incomplete reports from the Canadian trade commissioner in Hong Kong, and from the owners, who have offices in Montreal; 'in- | dicate the vessels are not carry- ing war materials, he said. . POTTERY CENTRE | Burslem in Stafford shire, Eng- land, birthplace of Josiah Wedg- | wood in 1730, is known as the | | "mother of the potteries." | This morning this much was sure: the city morgue held 25 bodies. The for the aged and orphaned or poor children, had with them the bodies of two sisters who died. * The mother house of the order, during the night, said "about 40 persons" are not accounted for. This statement included the number of bodies already located and could not be taken as bearing on the ultimate death toll. Those saved were so scattered in temporary shelters and private homes they could pot all be traced. : Normally, the home contained about 200 aged persons, men and women, and some 200 children, either orphaned or with only one parent. : Guimond, 'when he gave news- paper men the figure of 30 dead was counting bodies he said he knew to have been' taken to the morgue and those located in the. smoulder- | ing ruins of the charitable home | in the working-class district of St. | Henri. | The fire, which started just before noon yesterday, destroyed all rec- | ords of those who were in the home. It appeared a complete check of the ruins would be necessary before any definite toll could be estimated. Overnight the identified dead numbered only six, including the Mother Superior, Sister Rita Ger- vais, 52, of whom a sister said, "I saw her last holding a fire exting- uisker, walking away from me into the smoke and flame . . , then she disappeared." All the known dead are women. The children all made their way to safety. The aged men of the 32 KNOWN (Continued on page 5) Contract Unsigned All Major Ports Are Stri ke-Bound TWO INJURED IN COLLISION OF TRUCKS Two Toronto men were injured, cne seriously, when a large trans- port collided head-on with a 2-ton pickup truck three miles 'east of Newcastle on Highway number two last night. Authorities at Western Hospital, Toronto, this morning described the condition of William Beattie, age 29, 2°" Harvie Avenue, Toronto, a pass- enger in the pickup truck, as "only fair", He suffered severe head in- juries, a broken arm, and cuts and bruises in the accident. Taken to Bowmanville Mercy Hospital in the | back of a truck, he was taken to Toronto Western Hospital by the Morris Ambulance of Bowmanville. Jo: Baker, age 23, 18 Glen Lake Avenue, Toroto, driver of the pick- up truck, suffered a fractured knee- cap, cuts and abrasions. He was taken to the Bowmanville Mercy Hospital for treatment. \ The collision occurred in the ditch |; on the north side of the highway. The Toronto-Peterboro transport, driven by Davié@ Livingstone, 339 Amherst Street, Peterboro, took to the ditch to avoid a collision when he saw the little pickup truck com- ing directly toward him. The pickup truck apparently also swerved to the ditch to avoid a col- lision. The pickup truck was a total wreck. Extensive damage was done to the front of the transport. "You couldn't tell whether it was a truck or a car which had collided with the transport," a motorist who passed soon after the accident stat- ed. ' Provincial police stated that charges were pending. The accident as investigated by Provincial Con- stable C. A. Hardy of the Bowman- ville detachment. THE WEATHER Sunny today. Cloudy with a few sunny intervals Sunday. Thundershowers Sunday eve-' ning. Continuing warm. Winds light today, south-west 15 Sunday, Low tonight and high Sunday, 60 and 80. Summary for Sunday: Warm,- Evening thundershowers, é v New York (AP)-- Labor disputes | tied up shipping in every major i seaport area in the United States today. The seamen in the Atlantic and gulf coast ports did not talk about a "strike,"" but shippers wondered if any would sail without a con- tract. In San Francisco, the American Radia Association (CIO) did not quibble about words. It called a west coast maritime strike as soon as negotiations broke down early today. A few hours earlier, federal me- ditors announced their failure to bring the union and shippers to- gether, Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union (CIO) immediately said: "I expect our men will not sail ships, because they have no con- tract. I know I wouldn't."" The con- tract expired at midnight last night, Curran and other union officials refused to use the words "strike,"' "tie-up" or '"'stoppage." The ARA and the National Ma- rine Engineers Beneficial Associa- tion (CIO) were expected to go along with the NMU in the east and gulf coast disputes. Their con- tracts also expired at midnight. - President Truman has declined to intervene. Unions have promised that sea- men would continue to man vessels DOCK STRIKE (Continued oi. page 5) Knight Heads 'East Ontario Army Area | oOttawa--(CP)--Col. A. F. B. Knight, 41-year-old director of mil- itary intelligence at Army Head- quarters, is going to be promoted to brigadier and appointed com- mander of the Eastern Ontario area on Aug. 1 it was announced Friday. His headquarters will be at Kings- ton. Col. Knight, veteran of Second World War campaigns in North Africa, Italy and Northwest Europe is a native of Winnipeg. He succeeds Brig. Geoffrey Walsh, recently appointed commander of the 27th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group, recruited primarily for serv- | ice in Europe. | A new director of military intel- ligence is expected to be. named s00n. been notified that the shutdown would go into effect last midnight were asked to report for work as usual Monday. However, Ford president Rhys M. Sale, announcing the postpone- ment, said last night in a statement that he was no likelihood of avoid- ing an eventual shutdown to enable the plant to adjust to conditions facing the automobile industry as a result on recent credit restric- tions. . Mr. Sale said the company was up against many problems because of the credit curbs and had in- formed the government this week that a shutdown would have to be ordered. He said a quick reply from Ottawa asked the firm to con- tinue normal operations until furth- er discussions could be held with federal officials. The company's statement in- dicated that, even after adjustment to the new situation, there will FORD PLANT (Continued on Page 2) Take House For Own Use Toronto (CP) -- The Ontario legislature's rent committe favors making it easier for a landlord to regain possession of a dwelling for his own use. But it is against letting an un- scrupulous landlord evict a tenant for the sake of renting to someone else at an increased rate. It made public Friday, a recom- mendation, still subject to cabinet approval, that persons who owned dwellings on or before June 14 be permitted ' to take over the pre- mises for their own use or that of their families. But they must give six months' notice before doing so and they cannot rent the premises to anyone else for a year. The landlord will no longer be required. to prove that he needs the accommodation, a requirement un- der federal rent regulations. The committee, which has visit- ed several Ontario cities to hear recommendations from landlord and tenant groups, next Monday will return to its task of trying to find a formula for setting rent ceilings. Attorney-General Porter, a mem- ber of the committee, suggested that landlords be given three choices. He proposed they be allow- ed to charge either: | 1. The top rental allowed under |the former federal controls. 2. In Toronto, 1 2 per cent of the assessed value a month, with a higher percentage in municipal- ities are less than 100 per cent. 3. A rent set by government ap- praisers. Missing Jets Are Down In Czech Zone London (AP) -- The Czechoslo- vak government confirmed today that two missing United States Air Force jet fighters landed in Czech- oslovekis, dispatches from Prague said. The government said the pilots --an American and a Norwegian-- were "well and happy." The planes, based in Germany, have been missing since June 8. The Prague reports said Czech foreign minister - Viliam Siroky gave the first official news of the missing planes to American Am- bassador Ellis Briggs yesterday. The pilots were listed as Lieut. Luther G. Rohland, an American, Norway. Norwegian authorities said Johansen was training with the U.S. Air Force in Germany, The planes -- F-84 Thunderjets-- were attached to the 86th fighter- bomber wing at Giebelstadt, Bay- aria. Seafarer's Union Named Bargainer Montreal (CP) -- The Seafarers' International Union (TLC), has been named bargaining agent for unlicenced personnel of the Quebec and Ontario Transportation Com- pany fleet of freighters, it was announced Friday. night. The announcement was made by Hal C. Banks, international vice- president of the union, who said the vote -- a majority of 98-2--was conducted aboard the ships in sev- eral ports under the supervision of |the National Labor Relations Landlord May enter the store to purchase m ilk. o NO CHANGE. IN SITUATION Britain Gets 2 Extra Days In Iran Talk Tehran, Iran(AP)-- Premier Mo- hammed Mossadegh today promis- | ed Britain an additional 48 hours | in which to reply to Iranian de- | mands that all British oil profits | here be turned over to Iran. | The promise came as somewhat | {of a surprise, since Iranian nego- | | tiators had been insisting on a de-| finite yes or no answer by Sunday | morning. American Ambassador Henry F. Grady had described the situation as ial, befor )8= | sadegh acted. | The extension -- until Tuesday | Mossadegh not to wreck the con. ference by holding to the Sunday ultimatum. The premier sent back word that | he appreciated Grady's neutral po- sition in the critical dispute and would accept his recommendation. Up to then it had appeared the conferences on the future of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company might collapse before they got started. Kazem Hassibi, undersecretary of the finance ministry and a mem- tee, told reporters last night 'we demand a definite answer, yes or no, on Sunday morning to our re- quirement that the AIOC (Anglo- Iranian Oil Company) negotiating team instruct the company to pay us its profits from its oil sale." Hassibi said that unless Britain agrees to the conditions, there will be no further talks and the nego- tiators "might as well go home." He added that the delay in the talks from last Thursday until. to- morrow is giving the Britons '""'enough time" and that the Iran- ian delegation cannot wait any longer. Say Goodyear Refund Talk Settlement Toronto (CP) -- The United Rub- ber Workers (CIO) Friday accused the strikebound Goodyear tire and rubber company of making public offers to negotiate a wage dispute but of refusing to meet with union officials. However, R. C. Berkinghaw, Goodyear general manager, reaf- firmed that the company is ready to negotiate as soon as the men re- turn to work. A The firm's 2800 workers in sub- urban New Toronto and in Bow- manville walked off the job June 6 after rejecting a company offer a pay boost of 8.7 cents an hour. The union demanded a 25-cents-an- hour increase. .OLD SETTLEMENT Lunenberg county in Nova Scotia was first settled in 1751-53 by Ger- man emigrants from Hanover. ber of the oil negotiating commit- | This morning, a spokesman for the company said there was no change in the situation, and that the picket line was appar- ently not indulging in any ac- tive interference with customers entering the store. "We are delighted with the coe operation of the public in coming to the store for their milk supplies. Yesterday, in spite of the picket line, the sales at the store were equal to over one-third of a nor- mal day's sales." It was stated that M. J. Fenwick, secretary of the Oshawa District Labor Council, was at the plant this morning helping to organize the picket line, which included some workers from other Oshawa industries, according to a report. The dairy, said its spokeman, had sixty farmers as suppliers, and while there had been no milk pick- | up yesterday or this morning, they were accepting the situation philo- -- was granted upon Grady's per- | sophically. sonal intercession. He appealed to! In a prepared statement, the | company expressed its thanks to | the public for co-operation in call- ing at the store for milk supplies, and stated that the store would remain open until 9.00 p.m. until such time as the present milk supe ply is exhausted, MILD INCONVENIENCE Although their normal channel of supply was cut off the fifty per cent of Oshawa milk consumers who MILK STRIKE (Continued on Page 5) ALLIES EXPECT REDSTOSTART OFFENSIVE Tokyo (AP) -- Rearguard Com- munists and probing allied patrols clashed head-on today in scattered battles across the jagged mount ains of the east and central fronts in Korea. The Communists fought desper- ately to save their escape routes to the north as allied armored forces continued to fall back along the front ahead of heavy allied artillery fire. The U.S. Eighth Army command- er warned that another Red offen- sive is expected. In a front-line interview Lt.-Gen. James A. Van Fleet said 'the Com- munists' declared intention is still to throw us into the sea." "We do expect a third round of the Chinese spring offensive," he said. "The enemy has sufficient enemy reserve units that have not been in contact for some time." The bloodiest fighting Saturday was north of Inje on the eastern front, and in the wooded hills de fending the road to Kumsong. Kume song is 12 miles north of Kumhwa on the west central front. AP correspondent George Mec- Arthur said the Reds northwest of - {Inje launched two counter-attacks ! during the day. Both were thrown | back. Half Century of Disaster By The Canadian Press { Following is a list of some of Canada's greatest fires of the last] half-century: May 6,. 1950--Rimouski, Que, town burned, property damage greatest in Canada's fire history; loss, $20,000,000; 2,500 homeless, no deaths. March 2, 1950, Montreal, China- town fire; eight known dead, three missing; damage, $500,000. Sept. 17, 1949, Toronto, Noronic ship fire; 119 dead. Jan. 28, N.S. nine children and one adult die in house fire. May 24, 1944, Hamilton, Moose Hall dance fize: 10 dead. March 2, 1939, Halifax, Hotel fire, 28 dead, Oct. 10-11, 1938, Fort Frances for- est fires: 20 dead. Jan. 18, 1939, St. Hyacinth®, Que., Sacred Heart College; 46 pupils and teachers burned to death; damage, $500,000. -June 17, 1932, Montreal, explos- | fon followed by fire on oil tanker Cymbeline, being repaired in dry- dock; 30 dead. { Feb. 10, 1928, Timmins, Ont., Hol- |linger Mine fire; 39 dead. Queén's 1949, New Waterford, | Dec. 14, 1927, St. Charles, Ques, | convent fire; 33 children dead. Jan. 9, 1927, Montreal, Laurier | Palace Theatre fire; 77 children dead, mostly suffocated when jame {med in corridor trying to escape. | Nov. 25, 1922, St. Boniface, Man., | college destroyed; 10 dead. | October, 1922, Northern Ontario | forest fires -- towns of Haileybury, | Thornloe, Heaslip and Charlton de= | stroyed; 43 dead, 10,000 homeless; loss, estimated, $8,000,000. Aug. 15, 1922, Shawbridge, Que. Jewish Boys' Orphanage fire; 10 Jovite, dead. Feb. 28, 1919, St. Que., boarding house fire; 11 dead. Feb, 14, 1918, Montreal Grey Nuns Orphanage fire; 64 children dead. Dec. 6, 1917, 'Halifax fire- follow ing explosion of munitions ship; 2,500 lives lost, 20,000 destitute; loss, $25,000,000. July, 1911, Cochrane forest fires; | 100° dead. | June 13, 1910, Montreal, Daily | Herald Building; water tank on {roof caused collapse; 33 dead. | Feb. 26, 1907, Montreal Hochelage {School fire; 16 scholars and one | teacher dead.