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Daily Average Circulation for March, 1953 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle 2150 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Mostly ger of Price Not Over Weather Forecast cloudy and cooler but no dan- prairie blizzards. Low tonight and high Friday, 85 and 45. VOL. 12--No. 89 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1953 3 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES THE ARMY IS A FAMILY AFFAIR FOR THE WEBERS Believed to be the only father, wive and son combination in the Canadian army, the Weber fa- mily of Ottawa, is serving with two reserve units a capital. The father, Capt. M. C. "Tiny' Weber, chief 9. officer with 8rd Signals Regiment, was re- cently named to the Canadian coronation contingent. His son, Richard, serves in the same unit as a signalman. Mrs. Weber, Miss Canada of 1935, serves as & corporal with 113 Manning ,de- pot. Capt. Weber is seen here as he proudly displays to wife and son a trophy won in Dominion- wide competition b; a Doms of- ficers apd NCOs of his unit for being the most efficient WOs and NCOs in reserve force signals. IT'S YOUR MONEY o Hush- Hush Whole Year ® City Hall Is $600,000 Job EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of three articles fn which Dick Brimmell, staff writer for The Times-Gazette, re- ports on the unnecessary secrecy which has surrounded the erection of Oshawa's new city hall. By DICK BRIMMELL In a secret ceremony in May last year Michael Starr, MP, who was then Oshawa's mayor, pushed a spade into the ground and turned over a piece of sod. That was the start of the city's new city hall which is going to cost. the taxpayers $600,000. Reporters and photographers were not allowed to write or take pictures of that historic occasion. And since then, newsmen have been steered off quietly in their at- 'to-tell the people what progress is be- ing what will beOshawa' (] most' important building. | se A GOOD REASON fh AON. montis. Where]. Sefintis. reason for the re- a a Te ue 'There was behind the scenes city sent official delega- Ottawa to plead for ma- lor the construction of of- PECULIAR COINCIDEN The delegations didn't get very . But by a peculiar coincidence that was ordered for another city project, the sewer treat- Sant plant, was found to be just the right size and strength for in- on into the new city hall. the steel, which wasn't virtu- needed for the sewage plant, quietly transferred to the city site in downtown Oshawa. ying along with the official re- quests The Times-Gazette kept the city hall out of the news pages. At the end of last year the gov- ernment relaxed its controls on materials and at the be g of this year the steel restricti were removed entirely. The iron curtain of secrecy was still maintained. Week after week the building committee, headed by Ald. Herb. Robinson, said a story could be promised "within a week or so" e excuse was handed to A inquiring aldermen. Ald. Robinson got involved in a violent controversy over the width of Street West and, while arguing the case for a narrowed street at meetings which went on night after night, he "couldn't hall. They heard that it was going to cost them an extra 2.72 mills on their tax rate this year. In a wise piece of financing the city's budget committee decided to levy during 1953 for an extra $100,- 000 to meet the cost of the city hall. It was considered false econ- omy to put the money out in de- bentures as that would cost the city, over the years of repayment, an additional $57,000. On the brigh- ter side 2.11 mills of the 2.72 mills will not be lumped on to next year's rate. Then rumors started to fly around town about background trouble over the new building. Re- rts were current last week that contracts: had been called fhe job leaving the structure GLOOMY FORECAST Because they have been umable to get at the true facts, local busi- ness men have been openly predict To that the city hall will not be finished for several years to come as the city has run out of funds. Yet while Mr. and Mrs, Oshawa have remained completely in the dark about a building going up only a few hundred fee A pom four corners, the rest of Canada has read plenty about the civic administration ing (the offi- cial name for a city hall) Newspapers in Vancouver have run stories praising the Motor City for having one of Canada's most outstanding modern build- IT'S YOUR MONEY (Continued on Page 2) spare the time' for a statement on the city hall. He said that at a meeting of city council. Allegations were also made at a council meeting that City Solicitor John Hare was spending too much time dealing with the city hall. Ald. Wes Powers told Mr. Hare "you have spent too much time on the new city hall and that is one reason that council has not heard too much about the new building." EXTRA $100,000 A few weeks after that charge was made the citizens did hear something about their new city @CCF Pick Candidate At May 22 Meeting The CCF will nominate its feder- vention on May 22. The date was set last night by the executve of the party's Ontario Riding Associa- Hon, according to James M, Lown- sident. The meeting will be|T. od in the UAWA hall, Oshawa. The nomination was made ne- cessary by the withdrawal of Roy Scott, who was. chosen the party's candidate last fall. He resigned re- certly on the grounds that his farm work would not allow him to devote the required time to a campaign. He was the party's standard-bear- er in the spring by-election last Ye he executive last night formally ac Mr. Scott's resignation and expressed regret that he was unable to continue as the party's gandidate: In the meantime, the CCF has asked the Oshawa and District Lab- or Council and its affiliates to sub- mit names of prospective candi- dates. The Council at its meeting Tuesday night decided to ask a group of nine if they would allow their names to be presented to They: the nominating conventionn. are: Ald. Wes. Powers, M_ J. Fen- wick, Malcolm Smith, "Harry Ben- Son "John G. Brady, T, D. Green, D. Thomas, A. E. O'Neill and Mayor W. J. Naylor, Local 222, UAWA is asking Harry Benson, Ald. Wes. Powers and A. G. Shultz if they would be will- ing to stand for the nomination. None of these named have so far indicated their decision but specu- lation centres around the name of Ald. Wes. Powers. He is said to have told friends that he is willing to throw his hat in the ring. Another name prominently men- tioned is that of A. G. Shultz, form- er financial secretary of Local 222, UAWA, and now the union's Politi- cal Action Committee (PAC) de- rectors. There is also a possibility that a woman candidate may be avail- able. Mrs. Chris. Thomas, wife of T. D. Thomas, MLA has been men- tioned as a prospective nominee. St. Lawrence Tides Reach 17 Feet, Flood Out Dozens of Gaspe Towns STE. ANNE DES MONTS, Que. CP)--Residents of dozens of little pe peninsula villages and lower . Lawrence river south shore towns today cleaned up damage estimated at "hundreds" of thous- ands of dollars' left by wind-lashed spring tides peak of 17 The tides, re Jeacting a feet--about 12 feet above normal-- were back to a regular swell today. The damage was spread alon more than 150 miles of Rimousl to the Atlantic coast of Gaspe pen- insula during the 24-hour night- mare which ended late Wednesday At Rimouski, a small dredge was turned on its side and the wall of a Quebec hydro-electric commis- sion building was battered in by raging waters which damaged sev- eral wharves. A number of river ships were forced to leave and steam across the St. Lawrence river to Forest- ville, on the north shore. "I've never seen anything like it in 45 years," a Rimouski resi- dent said. The tides, pushed by a strong northeast wind, damaged sea walls and river shore roads at various pouis down-stream Rim- ous! Drew Agrees NATO Forces Do Good Job OTTAWA (CP) -- The Commons has entered the third day of battle on the question of the moment: is Canada defended or isn't she? Defence Minister Claxton's ver- sion is that "we are on the way to getting there" and should reach the desired level next year or 'per- haps the following year." He says the three-year $5,000,000,000 rearm- ament program announced in Feb- ruary, 1951, will largely finish by June 30, 1054, ¢ and will cost an extra $600,000 George Sig Progressive Con- servative leader, on the other hand says Canada is not ready to defend herself in the air, on the ground or at sea. He calls this a "shock- ing failure" by the entire govern- ment after the expenditure of $5,000,000,000 on defence since 1945. On the question of Canadian par- ticipation in European defence, there was no argument. Mr. Drew said he would accept the govern- ment's word that Canada is doing what she set out to do there. Mr. Claxton welcomed this as the first off |are island settlers. HAMILTON (CP)--Mrs. Roy Nield, 38, today was charged with murder in the strangling of her six-month-old' daughter, Audrey Ann, whose body was found late Wednes- day in a trunk in the basement of her home. The child's body was found by police who hunted for her for five hours in the belief she had been kidnapped. The child's body was found by police who hunted for her for five hours in the belief she had been kidnapped. The Chubby, red-haired child was reported missing by her mother about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday. Mrs. Nield said the baby disappeared from her carriage a few feet from the back door of the Nields' east- end home. In the course of the hunt, Det.- Sgt. John Freeborn made a search of the home Sigel. He found the body inthe trunk rs. Nield was taken to police headquarters still in a hysterical condition and questioned for three hours. Later she was held in hos- pital under police guard, Mr. Nield, a salesman, was in Montreal during the day but flew home Wednesday night. Detective Freeborn said he found the gmall 11 trunk which held the = fant's us up agains others on a shelf in the cellar of the tidy brick house. "I thought it was a doll when I ned the trunk," he said. The child was 'still dressed in the blue suit and gaily-colored mittens she wore when put out in the back Jo I by her mother shorly after Walter Hagan, inspector of de- tectives, said the infant had been strangled and stuffed into the trunk. The cloth tightly wrapped about the child's neck was de- scribed as "just a piece of cloth" by the inspector. The five-hour search sent police up and down the steep footpaths and gulleys on the incline of the limestone escarpment. Abandoned houses were searched and officers groped' their way through a new trunk sewer connecting new hous- ing gevslopi ments on top of the big hill with disposal plants on Ham- ilton bay An wie of the strangled child, Fred Howard, said Audrey Ann had suffered a throat injury re- cently, Investigating officers at that tim esaid they believed older children had tried to strangle the baby as she lay in her carriage. The Nield's other daughter, Su- san, 8, was placed in the care of relatives. MAHE, Seychelles Islands (CP) --Two "living skeletons" who watched their eight companions die as they drifted in an open boat the Indian ocean were on their way to safety today aboard the Italian tanker Montallegro. They are Selby Corgat, 15, who saw his father perish on the 600- mile cruise of death, and Antoine Vidot, 20, ship's mechanic. Both descendants of French picked. up Wednes- aA. survivors of the Selon motor launch Marie Jeanne, which vanished in a storm Feb. i 1 Be channel between Praslin and in the British Seychelles The skipper of the 10,000-ton oil tanker which picked the youths up radioed that both looked like "liv- ing skeletons." He is treating them e, the | with drugs and a Hquid diet, under for 74 days beneath blazing sun of | 22 Living Skeletons Reach Safety After 74 Days Adrift At Sea instructions received from the in- ternational medical radio centre at e. The ship is expected to reach Kuwait, in the Persian gulf, The captain said the point where he discovered the Marie Jeanne was 600 miles west of the Seychelles Islands, off Mauritius. Two of the eight who perished in the ordeal were women. Young Corgat said the engine of the Marie Jeanne broke down with- 10 Silt Of the Lights Of their Bolte . Currentg-eaught os the anchor chain broke. The food aboard was finished afte three days. No pins or hooks were available on the boat so no fish were caught. On several days they caught birds which came within reach and ate them, The first of the eight died on the 45th day. The others died in rapi succession. By BRACK CURRY BONN (AP)--Western Allied of- ficials say that despite the new Soviet campaign for a four-power conference to reunify Germany, the Russians are pushing as hard as ever for a fully communized East Germany with its own power- ful Red army. ist, deputy premier and party secretary-general Walter Ulbricht, made big headlines in the R press Wednesday with his state- ment that Moscow wants to talk reunification with Britain, the United States and France. Allied officials said today, how- ever, that there is not the slightest sign in East Germany that the Russians expect an early agree- ment with the West on Germany or intend to relax their grip on the 18,000,000 East Germans. They said the Russians are act- ing as if long-range Soviet policy in Germany is unc] ed--to nail down a Communist satellite re- gime in East Germany and thus keep Soviet power entrenched in Europe as far west as the Elbe river. The state-directed rural revolu- tion, the purging of anti-Commun- ists from political and cultural groups, the terror campaign against the church, the expansion of the Communist "people", 's army"' --all these are moving ahead in East Germany, these officials said. The Kremlin's propaganda or- sign in six years that Mr. Drew is willing to acknowledge the defence department is playing its part. ganization still is pouring out "hate ithe West" broadcasts and news- The top East German Commun-| E. German Activities Belie Unity Moves paper stories to the East German population. Officials manning the West's front-line diplomatic posts said Military construction for both the Soviet occupation forces and the new East Germany army is being rushed. The young army now ex- ceeds 100,000 men and is growing. The Russians are reliably reported planning to enlarge this force to around 300,000 men. Large and small farms are being ed herded into "production co-opera- tives," another name for the Soviet-type collective farm. Al- prone collectivization measures helped cause a serious food poi By the Soviets consider the land-owning peasant as one of the main obstacles toward communiz- ing East Germany. They are not relaxing collectivization. In the war against the church, the Communist government is re- ported planning to outlaw Protes- tant youth activjties and to seize church welfare and cultural prop- erties not being used for religious services. Three pastors already have been sent to prison for al- leged anti-state "agitation'" and nine others are being held on similar charges. STORK WORKS OVERTIME NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)-- The stork has just staged a terrific attack on the badly-crowded mater- nity ward in the Greater Niagara General Hospital. The busy bird brought in 10 babies within the HITCH-HIKERS AS CRIMINALS Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion records show that two out of every five hitchhikers have a criminal record. * But with the many good auto buys listed in the Clas- sified section, therd's no need for YOU. to bum rides! Or, if you have a car you'd like to sell, a For Sale ad finds Jor 8 a cash buyer fast! SUBply dial 3-2233 for an ad-writer, Snow, Gales = Hit Manitoba, Headed East WINNIPEG (CP)--Blizzard con- ditions hit southern Manitoba over- d (night with up to six inches of snow falling during wild wind gusts that reached 80 miles an hour. The temperature dropped to 17 degrees below freezing. Old man winter's parting ch was accompanied by intensifying blasts that early today averaged nearly 50 miles an hour, During the night gusts of more than 80 miles an hour were re- ported at Macdonald airport, about 60 miles west of Winnipeg. The Portage la Prairie-Macdon- ald area also received the atest snowfall--six inches. Winnipeg re- ceived about two inches. Win- nipeg's low temperature was 15. Blizzard conditions with near- zero visibility are expected to con- tinue over the Portage plains and the Red River valley until noon at least. The storm area ranged as far west as MacGregor, about 85 miles west of Winnipeg. Fires Kill 14 In High Wind CHICAGO (AP)---Fires raced through two north side buildings today and a deputy coroner said at least 14 persons were killed and 30 injured. The fires, two miles apart, spread through a five-storey fac- tory building and a three-storey apartment house. Firemen battled the blazes in winds near 30 miles an hour. Deputy coroner Harry Gloss said he saw at least 12 bodies on an upper floor of the factory building, which was rocked by an explosion. Two children were killed in the apartment house fire. At least 26 persons were injured at the factory, the Haber Screw 15-hour period ending at dawn Wed- | Machine Co. Four others were hurt nesday. the apartment house. Hot, Cold Red Censorship Calms Down Since Stalin Death, Reuters Chief Notes TORONTO (CP)--Moscow has eased its censorship on news since the death of Stalin, Sir Christopher Chancellor, general manager of Reuters, world-wide British news agency, sald Wednesday night. Addressing the annual meeting dinner of The Canadian Press, at- tended by newspaper men from coast to coast, Sir Christopher said "no wise man would make any ar-reaching deductions" as yet, but there were dramatic signs of a more civilized approach which have been interpreted as a prob- ing towards some sort of entente with the West. He added: "For my part I cannot help feel- ing a little + AR by the speed with which in certain quarters a few merely normal acts by Mos- cow seem to efface the memory of | all that has gone before. jour cables from Moscow have come through without any signs of censorship; and telephone calls, for the first time almost since we can | remember, have been free from in- terfernce. J "My chief news editor finds him- self asking leading and 'Significant questions over the telephone which a month or two ago would im- mediately have resulted in the line being cut. These conversations pro- ceed for the present unhindered. They grow bolder each day. "It is all very interesting; but we do not yet know what it signi- fies or where it will lead. The re- cent visit to Russia of American newspaper editors and the facili- ties given them left us all gasping astonished--that is, all of us| past 10. years with the problem of covering Russia." Describing Moscow censorship as it has operated up to recently, Sir Christopher said it blew hot and cold. Sometimes it was so rigid that messages, seemingly inno cent, even timid, failed to arrive in London. At other times--and for months on end--everything would come through. "All of us here believe in press freedom and are prepared at all times to fight for it. We all believe in truth in news. "We all believe moreover--and with experience I become increas- ingly convinced of this--that the system of co-operative newspaper ownership (of news-gathering or- |8anizations) is the best and safest |system so far discovered for the and "However. sinre Stalin died. aN! wha have had th hottle Auvin~ theca handling of newe. "To my everlasting pride, the or- ganization which I serve, Reuters, (co-operative news service owned by the newspapers of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zea- land), has applied and extended the system of co-operative owner- ship by carrying it across the boundaries of a single country." Speaking of censorship in coun- tries other than Russia, Sir Chris- topher said that what has applied to Mosco¥% in the past, applied also to Peking. Other countries with censorship included Eeypt, Jordan, Syria, Iran and Bu "And Rg has been loose talk, too much of it, by members of the South African government, threatening to introduce censor- ship. I think these threats will not , but we have to take nnta of tham * A | Driver Free 0 After Simcoe CAR KILLS NEWSBOY, POLICE LAY GHARGES Mother Faces Murder Charge After Baby Is Found Strangled n $1.000 Bail St. N. Fatality A young lad of exceptional ability and promise, Thomas Richard Jackson, 14-year-old son of Mrs. Lillian Jackson and the late W. H. Jackson, 225 Kendal Avenue, died almost instantly early last evening w hen his bicycle was struck by an auto, driven by David Lorne Solomon, 22, of 65 Burk Street, on Simcoe Street Nort h. Solomon has been charged with careless and dangerous driving and following his arraignment in magistrate's court this morning was remanded on $1,000 property bail for hear- ing on April 23. pe SKIDDED ACROSS ROAD A carrier boy for the Times- Gazette, the boy had just Somplet- ed the delivery of papers on a, Alexandra, Golf and Louisa Streets and was returning to his home shortly before 7 p.m. when the fatality occurred. Constable Cyril Smith and Ser- geant James Taylor who invesigat- ed the accident reported that the 1950 sedan, driven by Solomon was south bound on Simcoe Street, about a block south of the Oshawa General Hospital when the vehicle struck the bicycle. The auto skid- ded across the street and ended up facing southeast, with the front left wheel resting against the east curb. The bicycle was on the boule- vard 10 feet in front of the auto. Chief Constable Owen D. Friend this morning appealed to any wit- nesses of the accident to contact him to give information. The lad was tossed off the bi- cycle to the pavement and suffer- ed severe head injuries and shock. He was attended at the scene by Dr. Kozac, an interne at the Osh- awa General Hospital and was pro- nounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Coroner Dr H. M. Mao- Donald also investigated. A Grade 9 pupil at the Oshawa |Soul Collegiate and Vocational Institute the boy was born in Oshawa on December 20, 1938. He was active in many phses of the life of the collegiate, being a page in the student congress, a member of the Radio club and played the trumpet in the Grade 9 band. He was a member of the 7th Oshawa Boy Scout Troop and a A 4 DIES IN ACCIDENT member of St. George's Anglican Church. Active in the boys' groups of the church, he spent several summers at the church camp at Lake Couchiching. Tommy was also a member of th Ontario Radio io Ciub and was an ardent radio Besides his an he » survive ed by a ther, Allan, The remains will be at oe Luke Mointosh Funeral Home for serv- ice in St. George's Anglican Chuch at 3 pm. on Saturday, April 18, conducted by Rev. Canon David M. Rose. Interment will be in Mount Lawn Cemetery. Peron Rally Bombs Start Riot, BUENOS AIRES (AP)--Rioting pro-Peron mobs stormed unres- | trained through the Argentine cap- | ital Wednesday night and early today, burning and sacking opposi- tion centres in a violent aftermath to a bombing at a rally addressed by President Juan D. Peron The government announced that six persons were killed and 92 in- jured in the two bomb explosions that stampeded the crowd gathered Wednesday in the city's central Plaza de Mayo. Peron was not urt. Headquarters of all Argentine opposition parties -- except the Communists--went up in flames before the ragin g mobs that chanted 'viva Peron" as they looted and burned. The fashionable Jockey Club, centre of Argentine high society, was also put to the torch. Scores of persons suffered minor | injuries during the rioting but no | serious casualties were reported, 6 Killed a North American citizen was among several persons arrested for questioning in connection with the bombing. It identified him as Estes ban Jacyna of Herkimer, N.Y. a trainer with a touring circus. In addition to destroying the Jockey Club, the rioters fired the headquarters of the Radical, Social- ist and Democratic-Conservative parties and wrecked restaurants and bars before some semblance of quiet was restored to the centre of the city Violence and looting continued early today, however, in nearby residential areas. Police halted motor traffic in the streets before the burning build- ings, bt no organized effort was made to stop the sacking or put {out the fires. A band of reinforced | [oerst police stood precautionary guard over the independent news- | paper La Nacion, only five blocks {from the Jockey Club, but no at- f tacks were made against the build- The government announced that !ing Malan Racial Policy Well Ahead In Vote PRETORIA (CP)--Dr. Daniel | Malan's Nationalists were virtually | assured today of five more years | in office, with their policy of racial segregation triumphantly endorsed in the all-white South African gen- eral election. The Nationalists, with more than half the number of contested sca's | counted, have won 16 out of 19 key seats needed for a majority in | the 159-member lower chamber. Among these were eight divisions captured from the opposition with loss of bue one to the United party of J. G N. Strauss. Official returns gave this position | for the parties at 4:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST): | Nationalists 40; United party 47; | Labor party %; undecided 65. With the trend in the marginal constituencies so far all to the gov- ernment, the Nationalists had high hopes of picking up at least half of the doubtfuls still out. This would give them a majority lof 19 in the new lower chamber, |as compared with a 13-seat margin {in the Union's last assembly. Of the seats already won, 18 United party candidates and two Nationalists -- including Malan -- 'had been returned by acclamation. United party leader J. G. | Strauss easily retained his seat Ie in the Johannesburg area. PRESS TIME FLASHES Malan Doubles Majority PRETORIA (AP)--Prime Minister Daniel Malan has won the South African elections with possibly a doubled majority for hi party in Parliament, Ministerial Pay Increased TORONTO (CP)--The minimum salaries of 700 ministers of the United Church of Canada in aid-receiving charges today were increased to $2,700 from $2,600 fo: a married man, Car allow- ances for the ministers were increased from a $125-$500 range to $203-$930 range. Transport Plane Crash Kills 27 HANOJ, Indo-China (AP)--A two-engine transport plane crashed and burned on the bank of the Red river near here today, killing 27 persons.