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DOG POISONER ACTIVE Protects Her Beloved Pet Little Bonny Hughes, 174 Fernhil 1 Boulevard, keeps her new puppy, THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazeite and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 10--No."209 . OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 Price 5 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES UNGOV MURDER TRIAL IN PETERBORD NEXT WEEK Peterboro (CP) -- The prelimin- "Boots" indoors so that it will not fall a victim to the poisoner who is | g,v hearing of a murder charge using strychnine to kill pets in the Madison Avenue area. Bonny and | against Mrs. Lillian Thompson, 35, " her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hughes, recently stood by helpless while their pet "Puddles" diet from poisoning. Two-and-a-half year- old Bonny still wants to know when her old pet is coming home. Twenty | the fatal shooting of her husband, similar tragedies have been enacted in the area following the wanton | Roy J. Thompson, was today re- destruction of pure-bred dogs. ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Police S Sadistic eeking Killer " Of 20 Animals ¢ The lives of 20 dogs, mo breds, have been taken in the st of them valugble thorough- Madison Avenue area of Osh- awa by an animal-hating criminal who is spreading deadly strychnine in the streets. Latest canine victim to die in agony was a spaniel which gnawed a bone yesterday only 2a few yards from its kennel. Sidkened by the wanton destruc-% sion, residents of Madison Avenue are terrified that a tiny child might pick up one of the poisoned bones. Most of the new houses are occupied by recently-married couples start- ing family life and the dogs that are being killed are their first pets. Although it has been established by analysis that the dogs have all been killed by strychnine, local police have been unable to take action. The neighborhood has no idea who the poisoner is for almost every house has lost a pet this year. The 'body of one of the first pure-bred dogs to die was examined in provincial police laboratories and was found to contain strychnine. "KNOWS HIS JOB" "Whoever is doing this deadly and filthy work certainly knows his or her job," was the opinion of offi- cials at the city pound. So far this year they have collected the cold and gtiffened bodies of 20 dogs from DOG POISONER (Continued on Page 5) Have Little Hope 0f Identifying Deserted Child Montreal (CP) Provincial Police said today there is little hope of identifying a little girl in their care since she was found wandering near the Indian settle- Monday. \ ment at nearby Caughnawaga, HOSPITAL FUND AT AJAX NOW $13,820 Ajax--The fund raising campaign for the establishment of the Ajax and Pickering Township General Hospital now totals $13,820.00, stat- ed, hospital treasurer George Law- rence yesterday. A canvass has been conducted in the Brougham area by the Wo- men's Institute headed by Mrs. Lloyd Johnston, The Cherrywood district has also been canvassed by the Women's Institute of that area with Mrs. Milne as its president. A campaign is presently. being waged in Rosebank and Rouge Hills by a group headed by Miss Violet Swan and the first returns are ex- pected this week. The Pickering canvass is being staged by the Women's Institute under the leadership of Mrs. Ken- wneth Clarke. The Pickering special names list is being canvassed by Robert Ruddy, Bill Gowdy and Frank Chapman: More complete returns are anticipated shortly from Pickering. Call backs are being made in the HOSPITAL FUND, (Continued on page 2) has been set for Sept. 12. Mrs. Thompson, charged with manded to that date. Crown At- torney John A, Bradshaw, K. C., said he understood the preliminary hearing would go on at that time. It is alleged Thompson was shot after he and his wife argued over the use of the Thompson car. At the time, Mrs. William Jamie- son, a neighbor, said that Mrs. Thompson had come to the Jamie- son house and had told Mrs. Jamie- son 'I've shot him." In court today Mrs. Thompson gasped as she heard the charge read to her. Her face reddened and she leaned on the shoulder of Mrs. Marjorie Shadgett, the police ma- tron. 14 MILLION GALLIONS OIL ARE ABLAZE Avonmouth (AP)--Troops today joined firemen In a grim battle against a raging blaze that al- ready had licked up 14,000,000 gal- lons of oil at the Regent Oil Com- pany's storage farm.. Two more tanks exploded with deafening roars early today, bring- | ing to 20 the number of containers destfoyed in what was described as Britain's worst peacetime oil blaze. Firemen fought desperately to keep the flames from exploding the remaining tanks. Two employers, who were on top of one of the tanks when the fire broke out yesterday afternoon, were reported missing. There still was no official explan- ation of the cause of the blaze or its probable cost. Some 250 soldiers and sailors from nearby service installations joined 200 firemen. in trying to check the blaxe. Fresh coastal winds whipped the flames toward a second compound of tanks 150 yards away. They con- tain highly-volatile aviation gaso- line. THE WEATHER Cloudy, clearing this after- noon, sunny and a little warmer Saturday. Winds northwest 20 + today, light tonight and Satur- day. Low tonight and high Saturday, 45 and 70. : Summary for Saturday--Sun- ny. ' "Prelude to Offensive Allied Ground Forces Drive Reds - 0ff Two Key Salients In Bitter Fight Tokyo (AP) -- Allied. troops| A front - line dispatch reported new aggressiveness in the west, drove Chinese Communists off two hills today on the Western Front where Reds earlier encircled two United Nations outposts. Both surrounded units fought free. One immediately counter-at- tacked. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazelle Average Per issue for AUGUST 10,019 {two companies of Reds fled from 'a hill without firing a shot after |the allies' artillery blasted them. | The recaptured knoll is northwest of Yonchon, which is seven miles north of the 38th Parallel. | Farther north U.N. infantrymen {won a second hill after three hours {of close infighting. | Reds fought and attacked all {along the western half of the front in actions that had the earmarks of a prelude to a new offensive. In the mountainous east, stiffen- ing Communist resistance checked two attacks by U.S. 2nd division [Infantrymen. Second division troops were en- | gaged in a pitched battle with reds |atop one ridge north of Yanggu:. A | 2nd division assault on another hill {was stalled by fiercely resisting reds. '" While the Reds were showing several groups of 300 to 800 were'! spotted moving away from the battle line. The Red movement encircled one American company Thursday and two other U.N. outposts Friday. Ensuing fights proved costly to the Reds. An allied divisional officer esti- mated the Communists suffered 2000 casualties, including 400 killed. Nurses apparently accompanied some of the attacking Communist outposts. The sound of women cry- ing on the battlefield was reported by one American soldier. The Reds .did not use tanks in their encircling attacks on allied outposts Friday, although they were rumored to have 50 to 100 behind the ines in his sector: Screaming Chinese infantrymen swarmed around the units in the Imjin River sector west and north- west of Yonchon before dawn. v Bone Evidence of ison Plot A strychnine covered meat bone which yesterday poisoned her pet spaniel is held by Mrs. Joan Simkin, 490 Madison Avenue. Her look of disgust at the bome is shared by her 10-months-old daughter, Susan. Their spaniel, "Dumbo," was the 20th canine victim of a poisoner who is spreading strychnine in the Madison Avenue area. "Dumbo" died in agony a few minutes after she found the bone, ~Times-Gazette Staff Photo, Labor Plugs For Support - For CCF Party | Toronto (CP) -- The Canadian | Congress of Labor Thursday night | launched an Ontario-wide campaign | to win support for <the CCF in the next provincial general elec-' tion. i Officials of unions affiliated with | the CCL in the Toronto area met | to hear Pat Conroy, CGL secre- | tary-treasurer, discuss the drive's | objectives. planned for other principal Ontario | centres. In addition, a four-page tabloid | at plants, v i asked to contribute $1 to the cam- i paign fund. | Red Walkout Probable As Blasts at Treaty Fail San Francisco (AP) -- E mbattled Andrei Gromyko and his Communist cohorts may walk out of the Japanese peace conference, The third and la the treaty was scheduled late the American delegation st of a series of Red blasts at today. There was speculation that afterward the Russian, | Polish and Czechoslovak delegations, badly out-numbered and out-talked here, might quit the meeting. , Predictions of a Russian walk- 50 British Girls Home From Canada Liverpool, England Fifty teen-age British girls, travel- ling companions for four weeks, aboard the Canadian Pacific Liner Empress of Canada. As guests of Garfield Weston, ner with Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, Not Chatty Delegate San Francisco (AP) Poker- faced Andrei Gromyko can say "no" more ways--and more fre- quently -- than a good - looking old maid with a million bucks. The dark-haired - 42 - year-old | Russian deputy foreign minister has been saying' nothing much but "no" since he arrived here for the | Japanese peace conference. | He is stiffly unbending, both in his actions and in his firm refusal to comment on anything -- includ- ing the weather and the scenery. If it were not for. the Russians' cloak - and - dagger behavior, chances are they would be regard- ed with no more curiosity than the Cambodians or the Viet Namese. Each day the Russians drive up to the opéra house in their sleek iitnousinies and stride inside-under the white glare of television lights. They silently take their places and assume an attitude of bored patience. Gromyko often 'doesn't No! No! No! Gromyko Needs Only Limited Vocabulary even put on the through which translations of the speeches are broadcast to the audience. After the session, the Russians are whisked to their rented man- sion at Hillsborough, 20 miles south of here. That temporary 'little Russia" is centred in a 12 - acre, park - like but unkempt grounds for which the Russians provide their own security. Evidently, Gromyko has nothing to say until he gets inside. He sel- dom speaks to the Soviet delegate at his elbow in the conference hall. Gromyko is reported to find re- laxation * in chess, Hollywood movies and in reading Mark Twain. Once in a while he goes fishing. At some social occasions he'll take-a--scoteh- and soda: In a sense, at 42, he's Russia's "boy wonder," although some wags call him "the oldest young man in the world." - head - set | Tout came both from Ambassador John Foster Dulles, second = rank- ing U. 8. delegate. Dulles said in a radio interview last nights he doubted that the Russians would sign the treaty "and they won't | want to be spectators to the sign- (Reuters) -- | 10& ing. | The treaty is scheduled to be | signed tomorrow. Late this after- {noon Poland's Stefan Wierblowski Similar meetings are |said goodbye to each other today is listed to speak. | There was no reason to believe |he would depart from the line' | taken by Andrei Gromyko Wednes- dealing with election issues is to Canadian-born biscuit-manufactur- |day and by Dr. Gertrude Sekanin- be distributed to union members er, they had been on a tour 'of ova of Czechoslovakia yesterday. Every worker will be | Eastern Canada that included din- |Both insisted that Communist {China should take part in the [peace - making and that the | American - British - sponsored treaty, now publicly endorsed by WALKOUT (Continued on page 2) Police Tipped Off To Murder Try By White Russ San Francisco (AP)--A truck overturned today on Bayshore highway in the path of the automobile of Russia's Andrei Gromyko. Escorted by highway police "at 70 miles an hour, the Russian caravan wheeled in the oncoming lane of traffic and made it safely around the obstruction. o San Francisco (AP) -- Police 48 NEWSIES T0 VISIT CNE Tomorrow, 48 of the carrier boys and girls of The Times-Gazette, from Oshawa, Whitby and Ajax, will attend the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto as guests of the newspaper. These young busi- ness people are being given this trip in recognition of the splendid ser- vice they have rendered to their cus tomers, the readers of The Times- Gazette, for their efforts to main- tain their routes at the same level as at June 1, and to increase the number of their customers above 48 NEWSIES (Continued on page 32) Wins Scholarship said today they were told of a fan- tastic plot against the life of An drei Gromyko, Soviet deputy for- eign minister, Whether or not the information was true, extraordinary precau- tions were taken this morning to guard the chief Russian delegate to the Japanese peace treaty con. ference in session here. The supposed plot, the informa- tion said, hinged around a staged accident in which Grmyko's auto- mobile was to be rammed by a truck. Sgt. Otto Schramm was quoted as saying he was advised in a tele- phone call from the San Francisco office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Soviet delegation to the peace treaty conference is lodged in a mansion at Hillsborough, on the San Francisco peninsula. The delegates drive by limousine to and from San Francisco. The reported plotters planned to ram Gromyko's auto as it moved ASSASSINATION (Continued on page 2) FIVE KILLED AS CAR HITS CNR TRAIN McGiveney Junction, N. B. (CP) -- Five persons were killed today when a car crashed into the coal tender of a 41 - car Canadain Na- tional railways freight at a level crossing here. Four were killed in the crash and another, an unidentified woman, died en route to hospital at Fred- f | ericton. DESEDER G. SELES Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Seles, 313 Ritson Road South, who has been awarded the McBrady Scholarship for special proficiency in Greek by St. Michaels College, Toronto. The scholarship is valued at $125 with an allowance of $216 on the tuition fee for four years. The total value of the scholarship is $864. On 14 Upper School examinations writ- ten at the Central Collegiate In- stitute last June, Deseder secured nine first class honors, three second class honors, one third class honors and one credit. The dead: August Lapeigne, St. Simeon, N. B., driver of the car; Antoine Nowlan, Bathurst, N., B.: .Odecia Saulnier, 7, St. Simeon, and her mother, Melaine Saulnier. The five victims were the. only ocqupants of the car and there wer no witnesses. The front of the car was badly smashed but the train was moving slowly and the wreckage was not carried for any distance. TRAINS COLLIDE FOUR INJURED Tillsonburg (CP) -- Four per- sons were injured -- two severely FIVE KILLED (Continued on page 2) Teepee Newest Clue | | Kapuskasing, Ont. (CP) -- One of the twin - engined Dakotas hunt- ing for hockey player Bill Barilko and Dr, Henry Hudson crashed to- day. The pilot, Fo. Don Lewis of Tren- ton, Ont., suffered a broken ankle. The navigator, Fo. Johnny Atkin, also of Trenton, suffered cut face |and hands. Spotters aboard the aircraft were shaken up. Icing was blamed for the crash, which occurred betweem 7:30 A.M. |and 7:45 A.M. The plane, leading search air- {craft into the air, was barely six feet. off the ground when it plowed into the earth about 100 feet off the end of the concrete runway. The port engine was shattered, the right wing was pierced by a small tree and the nose and landing gear were damaged. . Alex Barilko, brother of the miss- ing hockey player, aiding the se- arch as a spotter, was scheduled to take off earlier than usual this morning but arrived at the airport late. It is thought that by doing so, he missed being aboard the crashed plane. Kapuskasing, Ont. (CP) A mystery teepee (Indian tent) near a canoe and a gasoline cache on a lonely morthern lake is to be checked by the RCAF in the hunt for hockey player Bill Barilko and Timmins, Ont., dentist Dr. Hem'y Hudson, missing on an aerial fish- ing trip to James Bay since Aug. Plane In Barilko Search Crashes Injured Two RCAF Crew Members With skies due to clear -- foul weather yesterday grounded searchers based at this outpost 80 miles northwest of Timmins -- plans called today for landing a float - equipped Norseman plane on Little Opinaka Lake, near the James Bay mission of Rupert's House, to enable men to go ashore to study the gas cache, the teepee and the canoe. : The crew of a searching Lanc- aster-spotted the gas cache, moun- ted on a stand and covered with canvas, several days ago. The canoe and teepee were 15 miles along the lake. Another plane flew over-them then. hut search BARILKO (Continue. on page 2) ER ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST GROMYKO