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PHONE 3-2233 ~r\Y 1 - FOR WANT AD RESULTS TY) nr DA Al LY TIM A A AVA AS ES-GAZE" We?" Mn JS Sea Sm Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Sunny intervals, scattered snowflure ries today and tomorrow. Low tos night and high Thursday, 10 and 25. TWENTY PAGES. uthorized as Second-Class Mail, OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1953 OPEN NEW PORT PERRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL TODAY A Post Office Department, Ottowe IN THE PROCESS of plan- ning for several years the new Memorial Community Hospital at Port Perry was officially op- ened this afternoon by Premier | Leslie M, Frost. Th: building used as a dormitory at Ajax during the Second World War ® and was secured by village au- thorities and moved in sections to its new location north of the Lake Scugog community, SEEN ON THE LEFT, below, is Miss Margaret Stewart, Reg. N., Port Perry, the first member of the hospital staff. Photos courtesy Port Perry Star. of '0CVI Student Man Charged For Thefts In City Churches City police believe that with the arrest yesterday of Herbert Spragg, 70 Celina Street, some of the thefts from Iccal churches in recent weeks have been solved. Spragg appeared before Magis- trate R. P. Locke, QC, this morn- ing, facing two charges of theft. He was charged specifically with the theft of a violin from Calvary Baptist Church on Sunday and the theft of a movie projector from the First Baptist Church the same day. The case was laid over to Janu- ary 15, by the magistrate. Cash . bail of $500 was asiced. Sunday night was one of the busiest nights Oshawa police have experienced in recent weeks as four local churches reported arti- cles missing. At St. Andrew's United Church an overcoat was missing, A movie projector was taken from Centre Street United Church last week, Oshawa was completely covered by police shortly after the first re- ports of missing articles came in on Sunday. Church caretakers were warned to be on the alert for unauthorized persons entering choir rooms and other sections of churches while services were in progress. RAIN BREAKS DROUGHT DARWIN, Australia (Reuters)-- Rain was falling Tuesday in many parts of the drought-parched Nor- thern Territory of Australia, which last week had its first heavy rain for 20 months. The drought was said to be the worst in 50 years. HOW TO LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED If you'd live to be a hundred, scientists say, keep your sense of humor alive. Among cen- tenarians the experts rounded up there were no sourpusses. By making a regular habit of reading The Times-Gazette Classified ads, you'll help your sense of humor stay young. # | right leg during a physical educa- Breaks Leg In Gym Class Roberta Bint, 15-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bint, 118 Gladstone Avenue, broke her tion period at OCVI yesterday. The Grade 9 pupil was attending a class which was under the super- vision of Miss Phyllis Ferguson, the collegiate physical education | instructress. A group of girl placed a sm | mat at the foot of the stairs leading | into the gymnasium and took turns | leaving from the steps. When Miss Bint landed her right leg was twisted beneath her body and snapped. She was taken to the general hospital and treated by Dr. Roy W. Graham. A cast was put on her leg and she was ad- mitted as a patient pending exam- ination of X-rays which will be taken later this week. Formerly a pupil of Centre St. school, Roberta {s the daughter of a GM employee. Her mother, Mrs, Edna Bint, has been unwell lately and has been undergoing treat- ment at the hospital. Walks Nude Wife Into Restaurant At Knife Point PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP)--A 180-pond butcher Tuesday was arraigned on a charge of stripping his 110-pound bride with a butcher knife and forcing her to walk nude into a swank restaurant. Police. reported John Bowman, 25, beat his bride of four months, slashed off her clothes during a quarrel in their parked car, then forced her to walk into a cafe. Officers said that when the em- barrassed proprietor offered the 25- year-old wife an overcoat, Bowman snatched it away, saying: "She came in here naked and she's leaving naked." Bowman was ordered held in lieu of bond on charges of assault with a deadly weapon gnd wife beating. Cellar Fire 'nearby windows. Legault, who lived STARS OF BE-BOP TAKE TO DE HOP SALT LAKE CITY (AP)--A federal grand jury has indict- ed three members of Woody Herman's dance band on nar- cotics charges. Louis Michael Desanto, 25, a comedian with the band; John Richard Hafer, 25, and Sam Staff, 23, were charged with illegal possession of marijuana and dexadrine. Damages Home-To-Be Christmas presents and clothes belonging to a young married couple were badly dian By this morning when fire swi the basement of a are building, Mr. and Mrs. J. Setter, of |' Guelph Street, are living in a ga- rage and have a permit to erect a house a few feet away. Shortly before 11 a.m. they saw smoke pouring out of the basement of the unfinished home, The concrete - block basement was used as a storeroom and the couple kept it heated by a small stove to prevent frost damage. Oil cloth on the floor was ignited by the stove and the fire quickly spread to wooden joists and the temporary tarpaulin roof put over the basement. The building and its contents were not insured and Mr. Shetler worked with firemen in thick smoke trying to salvage clothes. Quickly extinguished, the fire will not interfere greatly with the couple's housing plans, according to Mr. Shetler, DYNAMITE BLAST FATAL HAWKESBURY, Ont. (CP)-- Henri Legault, 51-year-old laborer, was killed Tuesday when a stick of dynamite exploded in his one- room shack. The blast tore open a wall of the shack and rattled alone, had been employed occasion- ally by the town. Hawkesbury is about 55 miles east of Ottawa. Churchill Attitude Bars Congress Bid WASHINGTON (AP) -- Winston Churchill's remarks about the Ker- ean war seemed likely today to Block a move to invite him to ad- dress Congress. Senator Styles Bridges (Rep.- N.H.), acting president of the Senate, told reporters he will dis- cuss' with other Republican lead- ers a proposal made Tuesday by Senator George Smathers (Dem.- Fla.), that the British prime min- ister be asked to talk to a joint Senate-House of Representatives session on his forthcoming visit to Washington. But Bridges added: "Americans are always glad to see and pay tribute to a great leader of another nation, but many Americans--including myself are disturbed about the prime min- ister's statements about the Kor- ean war." Churchill told a préss conference on his arrival in New York for conversations with President-elect Eisenhower that there could worse things than a stalemate in Korea and that Britain was against any "indefinite extension' of the conflict there. Province-Wide Quebec Strike Hinges On Duplessis Decision QUEBEC (CP)--The Canadian Catholic Confederation of Labor decides tonight at a mass rally whether to call a province-wide general work stoppage inh sympathy with striking Louiseville, Que., tex- tile workers. A special CCCL committee will meet immediately to work out de- tails and fix a date if representa- tives of the 90,000-member body decide to stage the walkout. Premier Duplessis is expected to | O-Prov- season. RoI & regular meeting of incial cabinet today and labor offi- cials here feel that any decisions taken in connection with the textile strike Will infiuence the CCCL CCCL officials threatened the general work stoppage during- =i gotiations Labor Minister Barrette held with union and Associated Textiles representatives: The labor organization said the work stop-| page would go on if the mediation | talks failed and if provincial police officers at Louiseville were not withdrawn. f When the talks broke down Dec. | 23 last the stoppage was not! carried on 'because of the holiday | Mr. Barrette called for the talks after a conference between Pre- mier D plessis and Bishop Georges Pelleji€r-of Three Rivers, in whose di Louisevir is located. The CCCL said it would wait until Mr. Barrette reported to Mr. Duplessis and Bishop Pelletier be- fore considering further action. | However, no announcements were made following the premier's New Year's Day visit with Msgr. Pel- letier. The Louiseville strike, which began March 10 last, flared into | violence Dec. 11 when strikers and 'provincial police clashed. The Riot Act wag read, but its restrictions were lifted eight days later. Negotiations -to-end. the dispute broke down when the company refused to agree to certain con- 5 PASSEN CAR HIT GO ER A HURT L TRUC BETTER DAYS By WILLIAM than it did when the industry A. WECKER President, General Motors of Canada, Ltd. The production outlook for Canada's steadily growing | automotive industry in the New Year appears much brighter entered 1952, Gone today are the production curbs imposed by curtail- ed supplies of components--particularly steel--which caus- ed a lag in the output of vehicles during the early months of the past year. Gone, too, are the credit restrictions which prevailed at this time last year. Also} before mid-1952 a 10 percent reduction in excise tax brought partial relief from the heavy tax load which still, however, accounts for a too Record Car Output Likely With Credit, Steel Eased be |1and." substantial part of the new car ir price tag. 3,000,000 VEHICLES For the industiy, 1952 was high- lighted by the appearance late in the year on Canadian roads of the three-millionth motor vehicle. The year also brought a slight increase in exports; higher production; a continuation of the firm sales trend; and an upward turn in em- ployment and wage totals. During 1952, the auto industry maintained a steady delivery of defence orders, although these accounted for only a very small percentage of over- all production. A study of car and truck regis- tration figures over the years points up the fact that it ook some- thing over 18 years for Canada's automotive fleet to reach one mil- Pion, and another 15 years for the fleet to reach two million. But the third and latest million vehicles have been registered in the start- lingly short period of the four years since 1948. When civilian production was re- sumed at the end of World War II, it was the concensus of the indus- try that there would hardly be three million cars and trucks on Canada's streets and highways be- fore 1955. Yet that number has al- ready been reached. Today econo- mists suggest registrations might reach 4.5 million in 1960 -- an esti- mate which may well prove con- servative, The buoyancy of the Canadian | W. A. WECKER economy insures a continued high demand for every type of motor transportation, the essentiality of which is becoming more and more apparent. Indeed a recent survey shows that the number of miles RECORD CAR OUTP ' (Continued on Page 2) CHICAGO (AP) -- Raoginey Dee 'Brodie, the strongér of the separ- ated Siamese twins, appeared to- day to have survived another major plastic operation "fairly well," but his condition continued critical. Little: hope, however, was held by doctors for survival of his twin brother, Roger, who has been in a coma since the 15-month-old boys were separated in an operation Dec. 17. The twins were born joined at the top of their heads. Rodney was in the operating room for two hours Tuesday as plastic surgeons took a 3% by 12- inch strip of skin from his back and transferred it to the open wound on his forehead to start it healing. Last week skin from Rodney's forehead and the sides of his head was used to cover three-fourths of his exposed brain top. Further sur- | gery is planned to complete ibe | skin cover for Rodney's skull top Surgery On Twins ws Encourages Others DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) The father of 18-month-old Siamese twin daughters joined at the tops of their heads has given permission for an operation to separate them similar to that performed recently on the Brodie twins of Chicago. The father, George Knaath, said Dr. Peter Roettgen of the Bonn University clinic was preparing to perform the operation on the twins, Rosemarie and Lotte. Knaath said the surgeon had asked the University of Illinois medical school for films and data on the operation which separated | Rodney Dee and Roger Lee Brodie. | In Bonn, Dr, Roettgen said he would perform the operation but added that "the exact timewas uncertain." The surgeon, who is head of the clinic's nerve department, said he was anxious to learn more of the technique and methods used in the separation of the Brodie twins. WouldE pled a "God-speed" to his succ strength may force Soviet rul began." lives at one blow." Red Atomic War ngulfAll WASHINGTON (AP)--President Truman today cou- essor, General Dwight D. Eis- enhower, with a word of hope that growing Western ers to "become more realistic and less implacable, and recede from the cold war they If the effort fafls, he said, the resulting atomic war would be one in which man "could extinguish" millions of message to Congress, Truman warned Prime Minister Stalin that if such a war comes between East and West it can bring only 'ruin for your regime and its home- He gravely told those at home: "War today between the Soviet empire and the free nations might dig the grave not only of our Stal- inist opponents, but of our own so- ciety, our world as well as theirs." Truman drew a pictire of swelling might in the West and said that as it continues, "then inevit- ably there will come a time of change within the Communist world." Saying he did not know how such a change will come about, Truman continued: "But if we frustrate their at- tempts to win by subversion, it is not too much to expec. their world to change its character, moderate its aims, become more realistic and less implacable, and recede from the cold war they began." The President said the recent atomic tests at°Eniwetok made it clear that from now on 'man moves into a new era of destruct- ive power, capable of creating ex- plosions of a new order of mag- nitude, dwarfing the mushroom slouds of Hiroshima and Naga: saki." ditions concerning the rehiring of the strikers. - ! In his final "state-of-the-union' &-- PRESIDENT TRUM. language for the hydrogen bomb. Truman pledged his backing for his Repuhlican' successor in con- cluding his 10,000-word speech. His message to Congress today was of unprecedented gravity. The President submitted no Iegis- RED ATOMIC WAR He spoke of "thermonuclear vests, employing the scientists' Yeas (Continued on Page 2) Order Inquest InHeartDeath An inquest will be held next Tuesday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Ronald Crosson, who came to life for 12 hours after heart massage was ap- plied at thes general hospital last week. Crown Attorney Alex. Hall, QC, announced ing. N After several days of delibera- | this morn- cided to have a full investigation | as to how Crosson's heart stoppéd | beating the first time, when he | | was in the operating room. Cros- son was undergoing a routine op- | eration, Doctors at the hospital, using | deft fingers, brought life back to | Crosson's heart, but the .man died 12 hours later in the hospital. He was buried yesterday. Fire Guts Whitby Home WHITBY (Staff) -- Fire, believ- ed to have started in an oil space heater, caused $2,000 damage to a three-room frame house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bowden on the Storm farm, opposite Pick- ering Farms, on Dundas Street West, shortly before 9 a.m. today. Handicapped by a lack of water, the Whitby fire department fought the flames for an hour. All the fur- niture and clothing were removed. Most of the contents was undam- aged. Firemen laid a line of hose half a mile from the nearest hy- drant when the water supply in the pumper ran.low. "I was just getting up when I heard a crackling under the floor. The walls seemed to be on fire," commented Mrs. Bowden. She was taken to the home of Mrs. R. Sloan who lives on the rm farm. The walls of the house ere badly dam- aged. Mr. Bowden is an employee of Joseph Edwards of Pickering. tion, the crown attorney has ol Trip To School Ends Suddenly One woman is in critical condition and four others are suffering from lesser injuries following a. collision between an automobile and a loaded coal truck on Highway 2A at | the Fairport Beach intersection 13 miles west of Oshawa | this morning. Residents of the Dunbarton area, all are in the general hospital here. TOTAL - WRECK X-ray examinations have been Mrs. Agnes Duncan, school cros- | completed. sing guard, suffered critical head| The injured were rushed to hos- injuries and shock and has been pital by ambulance; from Whitby placed jin an oxygen tent. Billie|and Oshawa and are receiving Christo, 'a schoolboy, suffered se-|treatment from Dr. E. M. Mcl- vere head injuries and a fractur-|veen and Dr. M. L. Morris. ed left leg. Provincial Constable Stanley Ar Also! admitfed to hospitdl were iss, who conducted to investigation Roger and Ray McBride and John [said Hall's car was a total 'wreck, Hall, 3, of Fairport Beach, driver | The truck, driven by Charles Fras- of the par. The full extent of their [er of Toronto, was damaged only injuries will not be known until!slightly.. Fraser was uninjured. Laundry Staff Gains Pay Boost, Benefits Substantial pay increases and | year, one week's vacation with pay welfare benefits have been secured | Jor plovess in otis bia lve ee! r by 42 trade union employees of over five years and two weeks' va~ Eveleigh's Cleaners, cation with three weeks pay for "The agreement is a big step | these employees wita more than 10 forward in improving th> lot of the | years' service. laundry and dry cleaning workers | Paid statutory (olidays, rest in Oshawa," was the comment this | periods, seniority rights and other morning of officials of the Inter- | improvements in working condi national Fur and Leather Workers | tions are included in the. settle- Union, ment. One or two other questions Employees of Eveleigh's I'a st | are. still to be settled between night endorsed a recommendation | company and the union before of their negotiating committee to | final draft of the contract is pres accept a settlement in current ne-{ pared. gotiations, which have been going | E. P. Eveleigh, president of the on for a month. company and E. M. Dillon, a To A wage increase of eight to 10 | ronto lawyer, conducted the negotie cents an hour is provided for in ation$ on behalf of the firm. ° the agreement, Other awards'in the | Representing. the union were settlement include the payment by | Barbara Ellis, Dean Taylor, Vimy the company of 50 per cent of a |Newman, Margaret French and welfare plan which would provide | Rita Curran, Dewar Ferguson, dis & C. for sickness and accident insurance | trict organizer for the union, was and paid vacations on the ba Bis of la member of the employees' ne. | two per cent earnings for the first | gotiating committee. Waited For Sleep Then Stabbed Him | | TOKYO (AP) -- The prosecution | questioning 'of prosecution in the Dorothy Krueger Smith mur- | nesses indicated he would i |der trial rested today after the | to establish that the defendant was general's daughter was quoted. as ' emotionally upset. saying "I waited for my husband, | One of today's prosecution wit- to go to sleep and stabbed him." | nesses, Capt. Sophia Slovak, quoted The defence promptly moved for Mrs. Smith as saying: dismissal on grounds of insufficient! "I waited for my husband to go evidence. The motion was over-|to sleep and stabbed him, It calls ruled by the U. S. Army court me to think I' didn't do it on the martial board and the trial re-! other side." cessed until tomorrow. | Capt. Slovak, night supervisor of Mrs, Smith, 40, daughter of Gen. | an army hospital where Mrs. 8mith Walter Krueger of Second World | has been treated since the slaying, War fame, pleaded innocent of testified she talked with the de- fatally stabbing Col. Aubrey Smith fendant two hours after the colonel iin the bedroom of their Tokyo res- was stabbed on the right side. {idence of the night of Oct. 3. | She said Mrs. Smith told her: Lt.-Col. Howard S. Levie, chief There was an argument. Smith told defence counsel, will present de- his wife to prepare to leave for fence withesses tomorrow. His the United States, ES PRESS TIME FLAS Oil Blast Kills 3 SHERIDAN, Tex. (AP)--An explosion turned a huge Shell' Oil Co. recycling plant into an inferno today. Three persons were re- ported killed and four were missing.. The blast destroyed the lar- ger of two huge buildings. There was a threat of more explosions, and the whole area has been roped off. The force of the blast knocked people off their feet at Rock Island, 12 miles east of here and was felt 20 miles away. HUNTSVILLE, Tex. (CP)--A young convicted murderer who turned to God in the death house {had his prayers answered when he was granted a stay of execution only 25 minutes before he was scheduled to die in the electric chair. "Robert Ernest Miers, 22, had his' head shaved and was dressed in| his burial suit when the reprieve came Tuesday night. ary 'Church at San Antoinio prayed for more - than. 2,000 consecutive | hours that the youth's life' might be spared. Rev. Frank Stribling, | pastor, said: "We believe God will show him- | self greater than the affairs of | men.' Miers, who had refused food for two days and turned down his "last Nn Members of the Calvary Mission- | Turns To God In Death House Misses Chair By 25 Minutes meal," had been scheduled to die, Previously he had said he was just after midnight for the March | without hi 8, 1951, slaying of A. J. Sendemer, ope and then [uesday . "" a road employee who had sought night told 3 reporter: "J figured to stop a service station holdup in {someting would happen--that the which Miers took part. |prayers of 3,000 people would be The state board of pardons and | lanswered., " paroles ° granted a 72-hour stay When editor Don Reid of the 'after Miers 'lawyer telephoned |Huntsville Item appeared at the !board members he had found a state prison soon after receiving | hitherto unknown eyewitness to the news of Miers' execution stay, the slaying. Hurried telephone confer-|youth was changing from his bur- ences by the three members of ial suit. the board resulted in the action. "What did you do when you Miers had appeared stunned | heard the good news?" Reid dsked, when told Tuesday that the pardon |Still trembling, Miers answered: board had rejected his appeal Fr jumped up and kissed Father Francis Duffy!" "Father Duffy is a Roman Catho- lic prison chaplain, 'This is the answer to our pray: ers," Miers said: "I'm ie happiest man in the world." la commututicn | life imprisonment. "Pardon me a minute," he had | said.~-*'I. have ta sit down, You know, 1 thought 'I had at least a 50-50 chance with that board." his sentence to 4 LT Ry