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\ \ HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 11--No. 102 _ OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1952 SEI NEW HOSPITAL PLANS ARE BEING PREPARED 24 Authorized es Second-Class Mail, Php Na Over Post Office WDepartment, Ottawe. TWENTY PAGES ' Lieut-Col. Graham Coulter, Com- manding Officer of the 11th Arm- ored Ontario Regiment is shown as he talked with a member of The assembly of automatic weap- ons was part of the work demon- strated by members of No. 1913 Ontario Regiment Cadet Corps at the Ontario Regiment Cadet Corps No. 1913, during the annual in- spection of the corps last night. Shown behind Col. Coujter are their annual inspection last night. Cadets Ray Buzminski and Richard Broadbent are shown as they pre- pare a Browning gun for 'action. Photo By Dutton--Times Studio. Missing Airliner RIO DE JANEIRO (CP)--Search planes today combed the dense, unexplored jungles of Brazil and its desert-like; plateau for a giant Pan-American Stratocruiser, the last word in air travel, which disappeared with 50 persons aboard. Among the 41 passengers were the sister of a Canadian govern- ment official and the president of the Willys-Overland Auto HBxport Company of Canada, Ltd. Another passenger was a German citizen living in Montreal. The passenger list included sev- eral United States and Latin Amer- jcan officials and business men. Ten passengers and the crew of nine were Americans. . One search plane droned through the night over the wilderness between Rio de Janeiro and'Belem, hoping to spot a light or a fire if anyone survived in the thinly- populated wilds where the plane was believed down. °° Many more searchers, after giv- SEARCH JUNGLE (Continued on page 2) Hamilton Bottle Neck Main Highway Is Blocked As Ship Strikes Canal Bridge HAMILTON (CP)--A heavy lft bridge spanning the entrance to Hamilton Harbor was wrecked yes- terday when it could not be raised in time to admit a Great Lakes sand carrier. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per issue for MARCH 10,914 The north half. of the two-section bridge collapsed into the channel when struck by the W. E. Fitz gerald, operated by the Gartland Steamship Company of Chicago. The ship was not seriously dam- aged, but the bridge is believed a total loss. MECHANICAL FAILURE Bert Hockridge, operator of the bridge, said the section ever the north half of the two-channel en- trance to the landlocked harbor could not be raised because of mechanical difficulties. Capt. Albert La Blanc of Green Bay, Wis., said he ordered the anchor out and his ship was al- (as hospitals,. schools and manu- | hit the [facturing plants, which now most stopped when it bridge. Capt. J. W, Kaine and Capt, L. R. Burge. Photo By Dutton--Times Studio. OIL OUTPUT CUT IN HALF BY U.S. STRIKE DENVER (AP) -- More than 90,000 unionized refinery and pipe- line workers are on strike across the United States today as negotia- tions with the oil industry continue. The , union . demands a 25-cent hourly wage increase and higher night differential pay. The present average wage ranges from $2 to $2.10 an hour. Negotiations in some localities were progressing on a note of optimism especially in San Fran- cisco where about 25,000 union- affiliated industry workers were represented in talks--none of them on strike. WON'T AFFECT WAR EFFORT The Oil Workers International Union (C.I.0.) in Denver requested 10,000 members in California to remain on the job so as not to hinder operations for the Korean war effort. Motorists are expected to be hit hardest by a prolonged strike. Long lines of cars were reported at filling stations in Detroit and other cities last night before the midnight strike deadline. . Some shortages of natural gas are anticipated through the idling of pipeline crews. The east coast is in for a short age of natural gas piped from the Midwest and Southwest. Cities Service officials said supply to the Chicago area could be affected if its daily intake from Kansas fields is curtailed. , - O. A. Knight, president of the O.W.I.U.,, said slightly less than half the country's production of refined oil products will be cut off. Union officials would not dis- close exactly' how many plants had been closed or their locations. Prolonged Strike Will Hurt Canada OTTAWA (CP)--Steel adminis- trator Kenneth Harris said today the longer the United States steel work-stoppage continues, the tougher it will be for Canada-- particularly the Canadian construc- tion industry. He was commenting on the strike set in motion by a court slapdown of President Truman's seizure of the steel industry. Canada obtains about one-third of her steel supplies from the U.S. Mr. Harris said if production in the U.S. is halted for only a few days it will have no effect on Canadian supplies, but if there is no production for several weeks a "squeeze" will develop on Cana- dian supplies. Allocations would be trimmed to the construction industry, the country's biggest steel users. The flow of steel for such construction as office buildings and grocery stores now is restricted. It would be even more restricted if supplies from the U.S. are shut off. More essential construction, such is | |allowed some steel also would be Destruction of the bridge, part { hit. High-priority construction, such SHIP RAMS BRMIGE (Continued on Page 14) {as armament and military estab- {lishments, would be the only type: assured of adequate steel supplies. 1 y ' Lightning Strike Hits Whole U.S. Steel Industry As Seizure Ruled Invalid PITTSBURGH (AP)--Steelworkers who struck when] a judge said the United States government' could not be their boss throttled steel production today in the quickest steel- plant shut-down in history. A vital steel industry within hours seemed certain. 650,000 workers are idle.-- or soon will be. ° .Taxes Are Due Tomorrow Tomorrow thousands of the citizens of Oshawa, it is ex- pected will be either making their way to the municipal of- fice in the Public Utilites Build- ing, or will be making cheques to the city tax collector, to pay the first instalment of their taxes for 1952. Thursday, May 1, is the date for payment of the first tax instalment, and Tax Collector Clarence Cox and his staff are all ready to handle the big rush of taxpayers. Taxes can be paid between 9 am. and 5 p.m.,, and the office will also be open in the evening from 7 to 9 p.m. for the convenience of those who cannot go there during the day- time hours. But, in order to ease up on the rush, taxpayers are asked, if at all possible and conven- fent, €5 send in their tax pay- ments by mail, 85 Cadets Parade For Inspection There were 85 boys of the On- tario Regiment Cadet Corps, No. 1913, on parade at the Ontario Regi- ment Armories- last night for their annual inspection. Lt-Col. Graham Coulter, commanding officer of the 11th Armored Ontario Regiment took the salute at the ceremonial march-past, and inspected the fine body of cadets in company with Major Darton, GSO2 for Cadets, Central Command; Staff Capt. L. R. Boyd. Lieuts McFadden and Smith and six other assistant instructors, After the parade, the cadets in small groups went through various demonstrations of military techni- ques with brisk efficiency. With Cadet Sgt. J. Rennie giving orders, and Cadet Maj. J. Cross explaining the procedure over a PA system, a group stripped and assembled a Bren gun before the interested eyes of parents and friends, who were gathered in con- siderable number at the Armor- ies last night. A Browning gun demonstration was given under Cadet Lt. G. Pearn, assisted by a cadet serg- eant. A drill squad went through smartly timed manoeuvres in com- mand of Cadet Lt. Fleury, while a rifle demonstration, including strip- ping and assembly, was done by a group under Cadet Lt. R, White and Cadet Sgt. Wagner. Cadet Lt. Elliott and Cadet Sgt. Fields' troop gave a Sten gun demonstration, while First Aid techniques were shown by a group under Cadet Capt. Bob Fry and Cadet Sgt. George Valentine, A wireless scheme with a No. 19 Walkie-talkie was presented under Cadet Capt. Curl and Cadet Sgt.-Major Reading. A band demonstration was given under Band Master Ches Follest, and the uniformed musicians play- ed again before the final parade. Lt.-Col, Coulter and the inspecting officers expressed themselves as well pleased with the smart turn- out of the 85 Oshawa and District cadets, and their deportment in general. And there was a proud gleam in the eyes of many of the watching parents. Capt. J. W. Kaine is chief instructor of the corps. U.N. Fighters| complete halt in the defence- About Mill after mill went dark and silent as companies and union maintenance crews banked furnace after furnace following hours of confusion at the start of the walk- out last night. ORDERED BY MURRAY President Philip Murray of both | the C. I. O. and the United Steel- | workers' Union ordered the strike when a federal judge ruled that | President Truman acted illegally in | seizing the steel industry April 9 to avert a strike on that day. | Executives had feared the un-| precedented haste with which work- ers poured out of the plants would damage equipment. But their wor- ries appeared largely groundless. In many plants workers them- selves made sure standby crews remained to ccol off furnaces. At Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. reported its plants through- out the U. 8S. will be completely STEEL STRIKE (Continued on Page 14) THREE LIVE AS CAR CRASHES THROUGH RAIL A St. Catharines family had a miraculous escape from death this morning when the car in which they wére riding' crashed through the railing of the wooden over- head bridge at the west end of Bowmanville and dropped 20 feet to an embankment, Had it gone a few feet further it would have dropped 35 to 40 feet to the rail- way tracks. One man was rushed to Bowmanville Memorial Hospital and his injuries had not been de- termined at noon today although he was not believed to be badly hurt. Aime LePage, 45, of St. Cathar- ines, afi employee of the Ontario Paper Mill there, was on his way back from a holiday in Montreal with his wife and family. He was following a small truck and when it made the turn on to the bridge he failed to do so and crashed through the railing at the side. Le Page, who was driving, com- plained of injuries to his elbow and arm when he was taken to the hospital, His wife, Clementine, 38, who was riding with him in the front seat, was not. hurt, Clau- dette, 9, a passenger in the back was suffering from shock and her 13 year old sister, Lillian, had cuts about the lips and face. The car was wrecked. "I LIKE IKE" IS MESSAGE AS MASS. VOTES BOSTON (AP)--Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower wrapped up his biggest campaign victory today, destroying all Republican opposition with nearly 200,000 popular votes in the Massachusetts primary, and taking an unsought second place among the Democrats. He also won 26 convention dele- gates in 13 out of 14 district elec- tions, and his backers were run- ning close in the other one. GAINS ON TAFT This near-sweep put Eisenhower virtually even with Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio in tabulations of their convention strength, The Associated Press delegate score-sheet, compiled before the Massachusetts delegate results were known, showed Taft leading Eisenhower, 265 to 237, . Down 6 MIG's SEOUL (AP)-- United Nations | planes today shot down six Com-| munist MIG-15 jet fighters and| damaged four in battles today over | North Morea, the U. 8. Fifth Air | Force announced. With 1410 precincts tabulated out of 1739, the popular-vote total showed: _ Republicans: Eisenhower-- 182,- | Presidential claim of MASS. PRIMARY (Continued on page 2) TRUMANSEEKS NEW METHOD TOEND STRIKE WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Tru- | man Administration sought with alarmed urgency today to halt a steel strike set in motion by an historic court slapdown of the President's seizing of a . private industry. In a blistering opinion, Pine called the steel seizure 'illegal' {and denied what he termed a '"'unlimited and unrestrained" power. With the President thus backed to the wall--for the moment, at least--in the Constitutional struggle over his 'inherent' powers to act in an emergency, government law- vers moved swiftly to: 1. Get Pine himself, or else the U.S. Court of Appeals, to postpone the effective date of a formal give- back-the-mills order which the judge planned to issue today; and 2. Bring the case as quickly as possible before the Supreme Court in "the hope of getting Pine's de- cision' reversed. With the vast steel industry shutting down overnight, the gov- ernment slapped an embargo on shipments of steel from warehouses to producers of civilian goods and to foregn countries. Outside of the courts, one fhrther course was open to Truman: to invoke the Taft-Hartley law. Philip Murray, president of the Steelworkers Union and the CIO, songht to nip such a move in ad- vance, saying the union already has complied with Taft-Hartley provisions, Murray delared the strike would continue until the workers get a contract along the lines recommended by the Wage Stablilization Board. Truman has refused so far to use the Taft-Hartley Act, on the ground that the union already--at his request--has postponed its strike: well over. 80 days. Prison Riot Ringleaders Are Removed JACKSON, Mich, (AP)--Riot lea- ders Earl Ward, Jack Hyatt of Leamington, Ont., and another mutineer were removed in secret today from the troubled state prison of Southern Michigan as a "precautionary measure." Warden Julian Frisbie said the three were removed shortly after midnight and taken to separate county jails. Frisbie said Ward and Hyatt had been trying to incite inmates of disciplinary cell block No. 15 to help in a new riot. Block No. 15 was the centre of the trouble last week. The third convict was identified as James W. Hudson, 44-year-old lifer sentenced for murder in 1932 and said by authorities to have a 'bad prison record." J Ward and Hyatt were leaders during the violent revolt causing one convict's death and $2,000,000 damage. Ward conducted most of the negotiations that led to the state's concessions to the prisoners' 11 demanded changes in prison routine. Hyatt has a Canadian prison record. ; Oshawa Man Held - - On Theft Charge SUDBURY (CP)--Leo Mulville, 21, of Oshawa, is held here on a charge of car theft. Police who arrested him near North Bay said he was f€riving 'a car reported stolen from a lot. THE WEATHER Sunny and continuing warm today and Thursday. Winds north 15. Low tonight and high mary for Thursday: Sunny and Thursday 50 and 70. Sum- mary for Thursday: Sunny and warm, * Board Informed Cost of Addition $1.5 to 2 Million Officials of Oshawa General Hospital are now working on plans for a substantial addition which would cost between $1,500,000 and $2,00,000. Municipal debentures for not less than $1,000,000 would be needed. Details of the expansion program were released last night by W. A. Holland, Business Manager, when he spoke at the annual hospital meeting held at McLaughlin Hall. "Work has been progressing of --® the planning of our proposed new FINANCES OF HOSPITAL IN GOOD SHAPE Working with a yearly operating turn-over of almost one million dollars Oshawa General Hospital is breaking practically even-- a unique situation among Ontario Hospitals. "That is a matter of pride and gratification to the Board of Direc- tors," reported the hospital treas- urer, E. Marks Jr., presenting the financial statement at the annual meeting of the hospital held at McLaughlin Hall last night. Placed on the record were tri- butes to the hospital chairman, C. HOSPITAL FINANCE (Continued on Page 14) Seek Reason For Attack On Airliner BERLIN (AP)--Officials ponder- ing reasons for yesterday's Russian fighter-plane attack on a French airliner agree on one thing: It opened the 1952 season of spring jitters in Europe. Four of the 17 persons aboard the Berlin-bound liner were woun- ded, one seriously. British, French and American high commissioners immediately protested the "un- warranted attack," demanding in- vestigation and compensation. RUSS COUNTER-PROTEST The Russians ignored the pro- tests and sent a counter-protest in- stead. They charged the plane was not flying in the corridor permit- ted over the Soviet zone of Ger- many. When the French plane failed to follow a signal to land, the Russians said, the Soviet jets fired across its bow. Officials are considering two pos- sible explanations: 1. That the Soviet deliberately staged the attack as a terror tac- SEEK REASON (Continued on page 2) wing," he told a large audience. "The demand for additional beds, and the enlargement of the many services which comprise modern hospital treatments, are problems of some urgency." SUBSTANTIAL ADDITION During the past two years plans and surveys have been made and it has appeared from them that a substantial addition should be built. Members of the audience heard of patients being accomodat- ed in beds in the corridors of the hospital. ' Officials are now working on the eighth set of plans, and, said Mr, Holland, '"'we 'feel that perhaps this last set may be a satisfactory answer to our expansion program.' However, the expansion was not simple, Every department in the hospital would have to be enlarged before' more patients could be look. ed after, There are 16 departments. At the same time as the building NEW WING (Continued on page 2) VOTE TO RAISE BURNED-0UT' VET'S PENSION OTTAWA (CP)-- A 25-per-cent increase in war veterans allow- ances, paid to 40,000 of Canada's aged and needy overseas veterans and t heir dependents, was pro- posed yesterday in a series of government bills introduced in the House of Commons. The bill, sponsored by Veterans Minister Lapointe, would boost to $50 a month from $40 the maximum allowance payable to a single veteran or widow; to $90 from $70 to the maximum for a married recipient. : The maximum monthly allow- ance for an orphan would be $40; for two orphans $70 and for three orphans $85. FLEXIBLE CEILING The ceiling on allowable outside income would be made more fléx- ible so that veterans would be able to earn more without having their allowance reduced. The allowances are paid to needy veterans, prematurely aged as a VOTE TO RAISE (Continuea on page 2) "Worst Yet" 900 Cattle in . Community Pasture Are Threatened By New Disease Outbreak REGINA (CP)-- A community | pasture northeast of Weyburn holding between 800 and 900 head of cattle has become a centre of investigation in southern Saskatch- ewan's epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease. Spread of the livestock malady to the Weyburn district, 75 miles southeast of Regina, was disclosed Monday with an announcement that a' herd of 41 head of cattle and eight hogs had become infected. A more serious aspect of the outbreak developed yesterday when it was learned that 24 head of cattle from the infected farm had been sent to the community pas- ture in the area a week before the disease broke out. The 24 dnimals now are under observation and' if they develop symptoms of the disease, cattle in the community pasture which had contact with them may have to be destroyed. It is 'not known how many of the 800 or 900 animals would be considered possible con- tacts, since the pasture is divided into sections. Community pasture on the Prairies are areas where farmers can grage their animals on pay- ment of a fee. They bring together cattle from many farms. It was perhaps with this situation in mind that Agriculture Minister Gardiner told the Commons 1a Ottawa yesterday that the Weyburn outbreak /was "the worst epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease we have yet bad."