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Ae AU mal MAN KILLED, 3 INJURED IN CRASH Death' Toll May Reach 118 in U.S. Mine Explosion' Rescu kers are bringing out bodies from Orient No. 2 coal mine in West Frankfort, Ill, where an ex- ed bi fire trapped a shift of miners 500 feet underground. It is feared that the death toll may reach 118. The rescue workers had to wear masks and asbestos suits as they searched for bodies in the deep pit. ~--Central Press Canadian, Fatal Accidents Darkened Christmas Day Celebration In Five Canadian Provinces FIVE LIVES LOST IN FIRE NEAR KENORA Kenora, Ont (CP) -- The Chasred mothers an e is dn nn lay in a fun home northwestern "town today, riers of a Christmas morning fire that trapped ; ] in their two-story log and 1 house, : i 1 Dead are: Mrs. Louis Pero, 22, formerly of Fort William, and her son Jackie, 3%, and her daughter Linda, 17 months; Mrs. Delia Haller, 39, and her three-year-old * daughter Catharine. Caesar Caron and his two young grandsons, Peter and George Caron, sleeping on the ground floor when the fire broke out, escaped. Peter helped his grandfather from the building while George made a valiant attempt to reach those trapped upstairs. He was driven back by smoke and heat. Steve Konoby, a neighbor, placed a ladder against the wall and tried to enter the burning home through a window, but the flames also drove him back. Red Ships Anchor [111 Gibralter Port Gibralter (Reuters) -- A fleet of 32 Soviet trawlers ranging from 65 to 85 tons and the tanker Irtish anchored yesterday in the commer- cial anchorage off the Spanish coast at La Linea. They will stay a few days to take on stores and fuel. A senior Soviet naval officer on board said the ships were bound from Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) in the Baltic for Vladivostok, through the Suez Canal. Boxing Day---originally BY THE CANADIAN PRESS the day when firms gave Christmas boxes to their employees--saw many employees not at work to receive them today. A patchwork celebration of the traditional after-Christmas day off across Canada resulted in some firms working after observing Monday as a holiday and others having theirs today, The Canadian celebration of _ churches was brightened by snow on the ground and clear skies in most provinces. Only Now Sootia without snow for the h liday. FATAL ACCIDENTS ; .,'& number of fatal accidents, fires ahd, a.shooting darkened the Christ- mas picture. At Shawinigan Falls, Que., a young man went beserk, shot a policeman to death and killed him- self. At Kenora in northwestern Ontario, two young mothers and their three children were burned to death in their frame house. Three persons were killed in traf- fic accidents in British Columbia and one at Midnapore, Alta. In Nova Scotia two men were drowned when their car ran off a bridge near Pictou. A two - year - old girl was scal- ded to death at Pitzpatrick's Moun- tain, N. S. OVER 100 IN JAIL Several provinces showed no major accidents during the holiday. In Toronto, police credited the good record to a get - tough - with - drunk-drivers policy. More than a hundred persons werd in jail for Christmas as a result. 60 Pigs Destroyed As Farm Barn Bums St. Ann's, Ont. (CP) -- About 60 igs were burned to death early y when fire of undetermined origin destroyed a barn on Arthur Snyder's farm near here. Also lost in the blaze were 80 tons of hay, about 12 tons of straw, 300 bushels of wheat and farm equipment. The Smithville fire department saved two other buildings near the barn, Communists Claim That Hundreds of Prisoners 'Died or Have Escaped Munsan, Korea (AP) -- The ~Allies announced the Communists made..the 'shocking disclosure" today that 726 missing American and other United Nations soldiers were Red prisoners "at one time" but are dead, have escaped or been released. The Reds said they still are checking to see what happened to 332 others. This was the first Communist reply to a United Nations demand for an accounting of 1058 missing non-Korean troops. : It was contained in a note han- NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per issue for NOVEMBER 11,225 ded over at a unproductive armis- tice session Wednesday as nego- tiators argued through the closing hours of their 30-day Korean truce trial period. The Communist note also: 1. Rejected an Allied "demand for an accounting of 50,000 South Korean troops missing in action. 2. Asked the Allies what hap- pened to 44,205 Reds the Commun- ists say were captured. 3. Charged the Allied list of Red captives submitted last week was 1456 short of the announced total of 134,472. The letter said the Reds were trying to account for 1058 erican and other non-Korean troops. The UN said they were listed in Red broadcasts, publications and other sources, but not included in an official compilation of 11,559 men in six North Korean prison camps. The letter said: "'Our investigations revealed that 726 of the prisoners of war were either killed by air" attacks and artillery fire during escort from the front to the camps or escaped or were already released by our side or died of diseases. . . . "Continuous investigation of the remaining 322 is. under way." at home and in the¥ Accident Every Hour Is Toronto's Record Toronto (CP) -- A traffic acci- dent an hour was Toronto's record during the long Christmas holiday weekend. In the 116-hour period from noon Friday to 8 a. m. today, police reported, 23 persons were injured in 116 accidents. Forty- one otor-cars were impounded with "their drivers charged with various offences such as driving when their ability to do so was impaired by alcohol, , 175 "common drunks" were picked up. Fighting May Flare Up By End of Week Seoul, Korea (AP) -- Fresh snow and a lashing wind bogged action on the Korean war front today. Heavy overcast held air action to a minimum. Ground fighting, relatively light for a month, may flare in renewed fury after Thursday when a 30-day provisional cease-fire line -- the present front -- is due to expire unless truce negotiators at Pan- munjom come to terms on an ar- mistice. There appears little like- lihood they will do that. Battlefront changes made after the Dec. 27 deadline must be taken into consideration in any newly - proposed cease - fire line. Thus, troops will be fighting again for keeps after Thursday. Only one sharp brief action mar- ked Christmas day along the 145- mile shooting line. In that fight, a Chinese battal- ion crashed against an Allied ad- vance position on the eastern front as darkness fell. But the United Nations troops, standing on snow- covered ground, stood fast against the assault. A . Demonstrations In Cairo and Alexandria Cairo (AP) -- Anti-palace and anti-western demonstrations broke out in Cairo and Alexandria today in protest against the appointment of a pro-Western banker as chief of the royal cabinet. Unconfirmed reports said police opened fire to disperse demonstra- tors in Alexandria. In Cairo, students at Fouad Uni- versity held a mass meeting and shouted slogans against the king's new cabinet chief, Dr. Hafez Afafi Pasha. THE WEATHER Sunny with a few cloudy in- tervals today, becoming cloudy this evening. Occasional light snow beginning early Thurs- day evening. Colder Thursday afternoon. Winds northwest 15. Low tonight and high Thurs- day, 20 and 20. Summary for Thursday: Light snow, colder, _ OSHAWA THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Daily Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 10--No. 301 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1951 Price § Cents FOURTEEN PAGES 10 ACCIDENTS FOUR OF THEM HIT-AND-RUN Slippery streets and snow flur- ries accounted for ten traffic acci- dents in Oshawa over the holiday seven of which occurred the day before Christmas. Police reported property damage was only moder- ate,, and there were no injuries. Four of the accidents were hit- and-run affairs, an incidence which seems to increase during the holiday season. The first such accident involved Emil A. Baumgartner of 377 Col- borne Street East, who was driving south on Celina Street about 3.45 on Monday afternoon. His car was sideswiped by a northbound car, which «failed to stop. He reported the car's license number to police, along with his own damage, which included a bent left rear fender and bumper, Another hit-and-run accident oc- curred about 5.30 pon. on Monday, when A. T. Wilkins of 140 Nassau |. Street reported his car, parked on Hillside Avenue, had been side- swiped by a westbound car which did not stop. The parked auto sustained damage to the left front fender and door. Half-an-hour later, Ed. Jones, who works at Tudor's garage on Richmond Street, reported to police that a truck belonging to Turner General Contracting Company backed into his parked car, damag- ing the grille. The truck proceed- ed without stopping. The fourth hit-and-run accident occurred about 7 o'clock Monday evening, when D. Killen, RR. 1, 10 ACCIDENTS (Continued on Page 2) Policeman Shot Dead In Quebec Town Shawinigan Falls, Que. (CP) -- A man who went beserk over celebrating a lonesome Christmas, murdered a policeman, wounded another and then committed sui- cide Christmas morning. Jean-Marie Trottier, 24, whose hobby was collecting firearms and swords, shot and killed Constable Louis (children's policeman) Lan- gevin, 58, and sent Sergeant Mat- hias Lachance to hospital with a bullet wound on the left temple. The shooting occurred around 2 a. m., just as the city's French- speaking population gaily celebra- ted Christmas at traditional 're- veillons" after attending midnight mass. The whole city police force was alerted by the wounded Lachance's radio call for help. Orders were issued to shoot to kill. It wasn't until five hours later that Trottier's body was found in a snow drift behind a house. He had propped the .303-calibre rifle between his knees and blown his head off after cutting down the policeman. Verdicts of murder and suicide while of unsound mind were re- turned at a coroner's inquest. Soldier In Korea Given 7-Year Term Seoul (CP)--Gnr. Robert Walter Stirling of Vancouver today was convicted of attempted murder of a Korean civilian and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. A court martial also pronounced him guilty of molesting Korean civil- ians but acquitted him of a charge of assault: nsel for Stirling, of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, indi - cated that the finding would be appealed. Stirling was charged with wound- ing a Korean in the village of San San, southwest of Yonchon, Sept. Fire Destroys Kingston Block When a $250,000 fire destroyed a whole block of business buildings in Kingston, many persons were on hand to cheer the blaze intead of the firemen when it was found that a finance company office--and its records--were going up in smoke. But the manager of the office assured them that duplicate records of amounts owed and the persons owing were safely stored elsewhere, Here firemen fight a losing battle with the flames, ~--Central Press Canadian. KING'S VOICE WAS WEAK AND HOARSE IN ANNUAL BROADCAST TO DOMINIONS London. (AP) -- The King, in a voice 'still 'weak and hoarse, made his customary Christmas Day broadcast to the British Commonwealth yesterday and thanked God for his recovery and the many blessings conferred a "hard and cruel" age. FORD PLANT WORKERS G0 BACK TO JOBS Windsor (CP) -- For the first time since the 12-day strike which began Dec. 3, production lines at Ford of Canada began to roll today. Company officials said that "practically all" the 9000 produc- tion men at work when the strike began are back on the job. As the Ford workers filed in to work, plant security officers made an unusually careful scrutiny of their badges. It was reported that not all of the recently fired Ford workers -- 26 were fired Dec. 3, six Dec. 21 -- have turned in their identification. Tried to Swim Home, Fisherman Drowned Hull, England (AP) -- A young fisherman who tried to swim home for Christmas after weeks at sea was given up for lost today. He was Richard Hatch, 18, of the trawler Borella, just in from the North Sea. The boat arrived here last night, but had to anchor to await a favorable tide for docking. Informed of the prospgctive six- hour delay, Hatch -- who radioed his parents he would be home for Christmas -- jumped overboard and started swimming. He failed to reach the shore several hundred yards away. on hig people in ' The five - minute broadcast was "from a recording made Friday and was the 14th Christmas mes- age of his reign. At times the King seemed almost out of breath and his voice dropped to a whisper. It was his first attempt to broad- cast since he underwent an opera- tion Sept. 23 for removal of all or part of one lung. y The King was at Sandringham Palace, 100 miles northwest of London, where the royal family gathering was the largest since the war. Only the Duke of Windsor among the immediate relatives was absent. Early in the day he walked to the castle from the village church KING'S SPEECH Continued on Page 2) Barking Dog Saves Woman In Snowbank Gracefield, Que. (CP) -- The barking of a farm dog prevented a Christmas Eve tragedy in this western Quebec community. Mrs. Marcel Duval, 24, carrying her five - month - old child and Christmas parcels, got off a train at a stop two miles before her proper destination. A recent arrival here, she was returning from a shopping trip in Hull, Que., 50 miles south. Trying to walk through deep snow and in Zero weather the two miles from Perras -- where she got off by mistake -- to Gracefield, Mrs. Duval became exhausted and succumbed ina snow bank. A hired man on a hearby farm found her at 8:30 p.m. when he investigated the dog's barking. The young mother was treated for exposure but the infant suffered no ill effects. New York (AP) -- Strike fear turned the steel market into a turmoil this week, the Irop Age, metalworking trade weekly said y. It reported "telephone calls, tele- grams and visits to see if needed metal could be squeezed out before a Jan. 1 strike," 'as well as re- newed interest in premium-priced metal. ' Discussing possible effects of "even a short steel shutdown," the publication noted that furnaces would have to be banked in ad - vance of any strike deadline, and it would take ta least three days to get back into full production after workers returned. The Iron Age added: "But con- sumers who had seen it happen before knew ' that strike = losses would set off a chain reaction. yetion, fabricating and ship- pin 3 schedules would be disrup - Main hope for steel peace is based on urgent national need said the trade weekly. '"'Barly this week some mills had exhausted their -own stocks and get Strike Fears Tarn Steel Market Into Turmoil in United States were operating with borrowed scrap," it said. "They had prom- ised to repay the loan in thg first quarter of 1952." Steelmaking operations this week were placed tentatively at 101 per cent of rated capacity. The pub- lication tommented that "most mls Yee paying extra wages to -maximum output through the holidays." , The t authorities 'in the United Steelworkers of America (CIO), meet at New York tomor- row to decide whether they will go through with the strike, Fatal Accident Near Welcome Christmas Day : One man was killed and three others were seriously in- jured in a Christmas Day accident about three miles west of Welcome on No. 2 Highway. Dead was John Trotter of Madoc, who was driving west along Highway 2, accompanied by his wife and son, Carl, about 11.30 a.m. yesterday, when an eastbound car driven by Gordon Farkasch of Montreal, crashed head-on into his automobile. Both cars were demolished, and police and other motorists had great difficulty extracting the badly injured motorist from the wreck. The four injured people were taken to Port Hope Hos- pital, and Trotter was later removed to Peterborou pital where he died of his injuries. gh Hos- The accident was investigated by Constable Jack Mec- Kendry of Bowmanville Provincial Police, among others. King Farouk Anxious For Settlement Cairo (AP) -- A clear indication from King Farouk that he wants a settlement with the West touched off violent anti - palace and anti- Western demonstrations today. The king appears to be worried about growing Communist activity and to want alignment with the West in the cold war with Russia. In Alexandria, police used tear gas to break up a dent mob of 5000 demonstrating against the appointment by the king of Dr, Hafez Afifi Pasha, strong pro - Westerner, as chief of the royal cabinet and adviser to Farouk on foreign and domestic affairs. Seven police were reported injured there by missiles thrown by dem- onstrators. Two students were hurt. Earlier reports that police opened fire were denied. In Cairo police dispersed a shout- ing crowd of students and were ordered on a state of alert against further outbursts. The press said a state of emergency already was in effect. The leftist and Communist - section of the press stepped up its clamor for firmer government action against Britain, using the term '"'traftor"" to describe any Egyptian advocating a settlement. The appointment of Afifi and another pro - Westerner to places in the royal cabinet is interpreted to mean the king wants a settle- ment with the West based upon KING FAROUK (Continued on Page 2) Earthquake Shock Felt In California Los Angeles (AP) -- The serenity and calm of Christmas in southern California was rent by a late after- noon earthquake that was felt in six .counties. No damage was caused. Its epicentre was in the Pacific Ocean, south of San Clemente Island. Ocean depths there range up to 6600 feet. Dr. Charles Rich- ter, California Institute of Tech - nology seismologist, said the quake, which lasted between 20 and 30 seconds, was sufficiently strong to cause considerable damage if it had originated in a populous area. RAISE FUNDS T0 FREE FOUR 1S. AIRMEN Washington (AP) -- While the government pondered what to: do about Hungary's offer to free four U. 8. airmen in exchange for $120,000, private citizens in scate tered areas promised to raise the money. Robert Vogeler, an American who was a prisoner of the Hun- garian Communist regime for two years; said in New York he will seek to co-ordinate private efforts to raise the $120,000 in fines levied against the four fliers. There was no indication as to how the state department would react to efforts by private citizens to raise the money and thus save the fliers imprisoned. by Hungary from serving three months each in jail. The airmen got Jost over Hun- gary Nov. 19 while flying supplies from Germany to the U. 8. embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Soviet fighters forced them to land their unarmed C47 on Hun- garian soil. On Sunday the Hungarian gove ernment announced a military court had convicted the fliers of violating the Hungarian border and had fined them 360,000 florins (about $30,000) each, with the alternative of spending three months in jail. Czechs Only Bidders For Iranian Oil Tehran, Iran (AP) -- Commum- ist Czechoslovakia stepped up today as the first iron curtain customer to dicker for Iran's state-owned oil. Iran needs the money badly. The government disclosed last night it is so broke it has called home 26 diplomats to save expenses abroad, They include ambassadors to Bri- tain, Italy and India, the minister in Belgium, and 22 lesser officials. Britain, ousted owner and opera- tor of the Anglo - Iranian Oil com- pany which Iran nationalized last spring, already has served firm notice in a diplomatic note she will IRANIAN OIL dg (Continued on Page 2) Ruined Heligoland To Be Returned To Inhabitants In Big Reconstruction Jobs Bonn, Germany (AP) -- The people of Heligoland, the 130-acre North Sea island that was Hitler's Gibraltar, will start returhing to their bomb -. battered and gale- swept homes in 1952. They have waited seven years on the German mainland to take up again their trades of fishing and boarding summer visitors. About 2500 Halluner Moats, as they call themselves, want to go back. Their return will be spread ures 1ive years because they have the biggest mess in Europe to clear up first. Hitler turned the island into a fortress just before the Second World War. Miles of underground ammunition stores were bored into the steep sandstone cliffs. A vast concrete U-boat pen was built into the harbor. Coastal and antl « aircraft guns were set up on the cliffs. This made the island a wartime target for a British 1000-bomber raid, After the war British engin- eers blew up 6700 tons of old ammunition and explosives. This destroyed the fortifications and submarine hideout. : Since the war, the ruins have been used as a practice heavy - bombing target by British and American bombers based in Bri- tain; : Finally the British government promised to give the island back by next March. Reconstruction will cost an esti- mated 47 million marks (about $11 million),