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Daily Average Circulation for April, 1953 12278 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Showers will introduce cooler weath. er tonight. Cloudy tomorrow. Low tonight 50, high Friday 70. VOL. 12--No. 118 Authorized es Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Oftowa Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1953 ! |] | i { | | i | | IG THREE WILL MEE IN BERMUDA | JUNE By F. GLENN ENGLE DETROIT (AP) -- Layoffs en- 4 150,000 U.S. Autoworkers Threatened By Layoffs Budd Company car body stamping {plant here in Detroit. This was the situation: gulfed or threatened 150,000 Or Ford laid off an unannounced | more auto workers today as half number of employees at its big a dozen major manufacturers re- Rouge plant in neighboring Dear- ported their flow of parts choked [born Wednesday and said that was off by supplier strikes. ! Ford, Chrysler, Studebaker, Wil- lys, Nash and International Har- vester all figured in the mush- rooming production cuts. They attributed their moves three supplier strikes: at Ford's Canton, O., forge plant, a Borg- Warner's Warner gear division plant at Muncie, Ind., and at the to | cut off its only source of for the start of layoffs which will make | idle 85,000 employees across the | country within the next five days. the company said a month-long tie-up at its key Canton plant had | { gings {for cars and trucks. i Chrysler sent 27,000 | LAYOFFS | (Continued on Page 2) employees | + FIREMEN REMOVE TRAGIC R Firemen were unable to enter the basement apartment of Mrs. Clarence MacDonald, on the Taunton Rd., in time to save her 21-month-old daughter, Pamela May, who perished in a fire yes- erday afternoon. The two Mac- Donald children had been put to | bed for their afternoon nap and it is believed that they were playing with matches or a cig- aret lighter. Two Oshawa fire fighters are shown as they re- | moved a fire-blackened set of bed springs from the rooms. Photo by Dutton--Times Studio CCF Group Presses Ontario County MLA To Run As MP The Ontario Riding CCF Asso- ciation will choose its federal can- didate at a nominating on tomorrow night. The meeting was made necessary when Roy Scott, the party's candidate, withdrew from the race due to pressure of farm work. Scott, who was the CCF candidate in last year's by- election was re-nominated last fall when it. was thought an early spring election would be held this year. Ald. J. WW. pro. t laborite who ha clared himself a contender for the nomination. However, there may be several nominations from the floor to provide a contest. There is a group in party and local union circles which is press- ing T. D. Thomas, MLA, to resign his seat in the Ontario Legisla- ture and seek election to the House of Commons. Mr. Thomas has not declared himself but is Powers is the Re 2 | leader of the CCF, will give the | keynote speech. He will share speaking honors with George Burt, regignal director of the UAWA. The ladies' group is holding a tea party at the Thomas residence to- morrow afternoon. Mr. Coldwell wi be present to address the la- ies. tion Committee met to name vari- ous committee chairmen combined party - labor election machine can start rolling. James Lownie, CCF Ontario Riding Association president, was named chairman of the election commit- tee and Russ Disney was chosen secretary, Other committee chair- men are: M. J. Fenwick, publicity; Roy J. Fleming, meetings: Mrs. T. D. Thomas, finance; T. D. Green, scrutineers Fred Johns, | siens and posters; Mrs. R. S. Election Committee consists of Last night the CCF-Labor Elec- | so the! | - 'Now in Hog Ban OTTAWA (CP)--The agriculture department ¢day imposed a ban on the outward movement of all hogs in southwestern Ontario be- cause of hog cholera. The embargo, which covers 29 counties stretching east and north from the Niagara peninsula, was imposed in an attempt to keep | the disease from spreading, The area covers about one-third | of the province, and embraces all of the area west and south of | Muskoka, Haliburton, Peterbor- {ough and Northumberland, includ- | ing these four counties. As the ban was announced, the | department also reported a case ) 5 3 | of the virus infection has been un- covered in Simcoe county. This { makes nine cases confirmed in seven counties since the original | outbreak was spotted last Friday. All confirmed cases have been traced back to the sales barns | were purchased, the department Ends In Pamela May MacDonald, 21- month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence MacDonald, was asphyxated when fire swept the cellar at the home of her grand- parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Clarey, on the Taunton Road, just east of the city limits, shortly after 2 pm. on Wednesday. Mrs. MacDonald's husband has been serving in Korea since February. After lunch Pamela and her two- year-old brother, Claude, were put to bed for their afternoon sleep by their mother who occupies two rooms in the basement of her parents' home. The children were placed in a two-deck bed. Some time later, Mrs. Clarey told The Times-Gazette, they noticed smoke seeping up from the 'cellar. She thought she also heard the small boy scream. Mrs. Clarey made a valiant effor{ to reach the children but was driven back by the dense smoke. Members of the Oshawa Fire Department rushed to the scene and found the cellar a raging in- ferno of flames. After bringing the fire under control a member of the department entered the |cellar in a smoke mask and Luke, literature, The CCF-Labor | where the swine originally infected | brought the girl out. In some manner, as yet unex- expected to do so tomorrow night. [representatives of local unions and | said. So far, there has been no! plained, Claude is believed to have M. J. Coldwell, MP, national the party's constituency executive.' farm-to-farm spread. Top Rank Man Sent To Egypt LONDON (AP)--Britain today | suddenly switched a trouble-shoot- Is Educational Those high schools which are able to offer the widest vaxiety of op- tions are the schools with fewest | educational "frills", Dr. John Long, ropolitan School Board yesterday chairman oi Toronto Met- | j More Fads--Less Options Poser | doing their best to meet a crisis in school construction." | Dr. Long explained that it is not a question of what things in educa- | tion are essentials but rather which most important. No one likes to |be encumbered with fads and frills inadvertently started the fire. He | escaped from the burning cellar and was, uninjured, , Coroner Dr. was called to the scene by firemen. The mother had to be treated for shock. LONDON (Reuters) -- A thief broke into the home of the Marquis of Carisbrooke, cousin of the | Queen, early today and helped him- | self to family heirlooms while the { family slept -undisturbed. Afternoon Nap H. M. MacDonald | Death Political Tyro 'PEI's Premier CHARLOTTETOWN (CP)--Alex Matheson, 2 comparative new- | comer to politics, has been chosen; the new leader of Prince Edward Island Liberals and premier of the province. A towering 50-year-old lawyer and former school teacher, Mr. Matheson Wednesday was named to succeed Premier J. Walter Jones at a Liberal caucus Wednes- day. Mr, Jones has been appointed | to .the Senate. Mr, Matheson, who is health min- | ister, edged Attorney-General Wal- | ter E. Darby 13-11 on the second | ballot. Four other nominees were eliminated on the first. | Six-feet, six inches with a shock | of unruly blond hair, the premier- elect was born in June, 1903, at | Bellevue, P. E. I., and has been in the legislature three terms. | ® L 4 Local Girl Is Missing Telling her parents that she was going to an Oshawa movie house Rosie Stackaruk; aged 17, left her ROSIE STACKARUK Raglan home on Tuesday night and has not been seen since, A general police search has fail- ed to locate the girl who has been missing on previous occasions. Her father, Steve Stackaruk says the family recently moved to a farm and his daughter had told him that she did not like the farm life. She wanted to get a job in the city. When she left home at 5p.m. 'on Tuesday the girl was wearing a light colored tweed coat. Dark- haired she is 5 feet two inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She went to school in Oshawa at the Base line west school. : Russia Has 1,000 Bombers Capable of Hitting America WASHINGTON (AP) -- Russia |now has between 900 and 000 planes "in operating units of its | long-range bombing force, accord- {ing to a new estimate of Soviet | war power. | These are described as TU-4| four-engined bombers, an impro- ved version of the U. S. Air Force's | {B-29. They. represent only those | aircraft in organized, ready-to-op- {erate squadrons. The 900-to-1,000 figure does not include bombers in production or in reserve. The TU-4s are considered cap- able of reaching virtually any large industrial city in the U. S. with atomic bombs. +The calculations of Soviet war- making capabilities place the num- ber of Red interceptor planes in operationally-ready units at sev- eral thousand. Actually, these fig- ures. are fairly definite, but the exact numbers used in official estimates may not be disclosed. President Invites i | | Premier And Mayer WASHINGTON (CP)--Prime Minister Churchill, Presi- dent Eisenhower and Premier Mayer of France will meet in { Berumuda in June to discuss world problems, it was | announced today: i In Paris, Mayer said the confer- ¢ lence would discuss the feasibility {of a later conference at which | | Russia would be represented. | The meeting will be held at the invitation of President Eisenhower. Churchill suggested Bermuda as the meeting place. (In London, Reuters reported the date would be June 17.) However, the Washington an- nouncement did not mention any specific date. It said merely that the meeting would be held the latter part of June, Announcement of the agreement | Western and Communist leaders to discuss world problems. Mayer seemed to agree with this viewpoint, He said the big three meeting could create a unity of | views which would permit a re- | union with Russia and contacts b2- tween East and West. | However, Eisenhower has said he doesn't favor holding a meeting with Russian leaders until they give concrete evidence of a change in policy. The White House issued this | statement by Eisenhower: "The governments of the United ing diplomat from behind the Iron told delegates toethe Associated Curtain to take charge of her mis- High School. Boards' convention sion in Egypt as Anglo-Egyptian now in session at Hotel Genosha. relations worsened. Dr. Long was one of three speakers The foreign office announced -in a panel discussion on 'Essentials that Robert Hankey, minister to and Non-Essentials in Secondary Hungary, has been ordered to fly Schools". | but there is little agreement about | what constitutes frills in education. | A frill for one student can easily | be an essential for another person. SMALL SCHOOLS LIMITED "I define a 'frill' as any study {from which a pupil gets so little Fist Fights In City Quick Decision Sends Aged Woman 'To Coronation to Cairo next week to take over "I am not a bitter critic of the | good that he would be better spend- Increasing CadiTold from Ambassador Sir Ralph Stev- Department of Edcation over its enson, returning to Britain on sick policy of withdrawing grants on leave. | certain items of construction which Stevenson, along with Gen. |it terms fads and frills,' said Dr. Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, com- Long, "but I do regret it, as I mander-in-chief of British land [think the officials in the depart- forces in the Middle East, headed ment regret it. But those officials | Britain's negotiating team at talks are consciencious public servants {ing his time at something else," 3 {said Dr. Long. 'Therefore those _ Facing two charges, this morn- {schools whigh have a wide variety ing, namely of causing disturb- of options are the schools with the ance and of disorderly conduct, {fewest frills. In. the smallest | Wilbert Butler, 327 Leslie Street, schools, pupils find it hardest to pleaded guilty to the second and FADS {heard the first one withdrawn. (Continued on Page 2 | Magistrate F. S. Ebbs registered --m | a, conviction on the disorderly con- | with Egyptian leaders on the fut-| ure status of the British garrison Ike Nominates US. Ambassador Canadian Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON (CP)--President; NORTH LUFFENHAM, Eng. Eisenhower today nominated R.!(CP)--The Duke of Douglas Stuart, treasurer of the wearing the uniform of a marshal Republican national committee, to of the RAF, today paid his first ye ambassador to Canada. visit to this RCAF fighter base. Death Of Twins Surprises Doctors By DAVE McINTOSH aemia, a poisoning condition found Duke of Edinburgh 'Visits Canadian Base duct count and fined Butler and costs or 10 days. A charge of | obstructing an officer, to which | Norman Guse of 292 Arthur Street | pleaded not guilty, brought Guse |a conviction and fine of $50 and : | costs or one. month. With * characteristic zest, the! Both cases arose out of a fracas | Duke "did" the station thoroughly. in front of a King Street West [He inspected a guard of honor, | restaurant shortly after midnight 1 Edinburgh, iwatched a flypast of Sabre jets,|on May 15, when Butler slapped arises as to the authority of the {fired five bursts on a practice the face of Tom Fairhart, 10 jrange, talked to airmen; their [Queen Street, for calling him an wives and children and spent about | insulting name. When Constable eight minutes in the cockpit of a|Harry Partridge tried to break up Sabre. the altercation, Guse took the offi- $10 | jcer's arm and allegedly pushed him into the street. | Detective Ted Ferguson testified | that when he arrived in the police | cruiser after being called by Con-! |stable Partridge there were be-| |tween 75 and 80 people milling around the spot, and it was assum- ing the proportions of "a small |riot". He had recognized several {out-of-town characters who had Eisen similar trouble before, he | said. . | Crown Attorney Alex C. Hall, QC, observed that such disturbanc- ies had been on the increase of {late and stated: 'If any doubt | police force. in this town we want |it resolved right now." The bench | (agreed that if further cases oc- |curred, jail terms might have a | salutary effect. Department Taking Stock 'Rubber Workers Out on Wildcat By DON MacKENZIE Canadian Press Correspondent | INVERNESS, N. S. (CP)--A young woodworker who hurriedly | put together an incubator for Siam- ese twin boys born Tuesday, today in pregnant women, ; | Dr. Frank MacLeod, chief sur-| If the assessment procedures of geon at Inverness County Memor-| Ontario municipalities were stand- ial Hospital, said in a statement |ardized the structure of the school following the death that "there was | grant system could be much simp- 0f Education Expansion HAMILTON (CP)--A wildcat | strike at the Firestone rubber plant here today forced an almost com- |plete shutdown, affecting more than 1,000 workers. { which are used to determine the degree of the need. . "It is a complicated structure and you weculd be quite right if began preparing a- casket for their Perfect formation of all organs." ler, S. D. Randall, assistant super- burial. The twins, first born of 19-year- old Mrs. Max Wyrwas, wife of a garage mechanic, lived 33 hours following their birth by caesarean section. They appeared in good condition until within 45 minutes of their death at 6:45 p. m. ADT Wednesday. Edwin MacLean, husband of one of the nurses present at the deliv- ery of the twins, was asked to ashion the casket because the local undertaker hadn't a coffin of the right size. Death came as a surprise to doctors, who had found the babies gaining in strength following a| prief relapse by the smaller one! arly in the day, They said the | lack-haired boys died from tox- "There was one liver and each baby had only one kidney, larger than normal. They were joined by the rib cartilages. In all ways the were identical to the original Siamese twins." Examination showed the twins' hearts were en- cased in a single heart sac. Death was almost simultaneous. The larger of the two boys began to slip first, forcing a heavy bur- den upon the delicate smaller one, who required four to five minutes of artificial respiration at birth. Doctors worked for 30 minutes in | an unsuccessful attempt to revive! the two face-to-face figures, who weighed a total of 13 pounds. Mrs. Wyrwas was told of the|Mr. Randall said that the grants- ing accommodation for staff in or-| n the evening by Rev. |in-aid are not paid because they { have been 'earned' but as assis- death late i Carmen Riggs Church. of the United intendent of secondary education for Ontario said this morning, speaking to delegates to the As- sociated High School Boards con- vention meeting in the Hotel Gen- osha, 'As the municipalities face their assessment problems -- and they are -- our grant structure can be improved," said Mr. Randall. Speaking to representatives of 60 Boards from all parts of Ontario, he emphasized that the province's children are its greatest asset and one should never feel that the point | has been reached where their ed- | uation is a liability. Of the 10-year-old grant scheme, tance based on last year's costs vou were critical of it,' said Mr. Randall, *but I think simplifica- tion will come in time." A. E. Stacey, chief accountant, enlarged on the same subject say- ing that he sees no change com- ing in the grant plan for next year. The grant plan is not perfect but it is endeavouring to provide equal- ity of educational opportunity for The strike occurred in the plant's | tire-moulding section where an- {other new machine was recently, |installed. Complaining that extra | work was required of them, the {400 workers in the tire section walked off the job. Harry Yeomans, president of | Local 113, United Rubber Workers, |said the new machinery meant that every child. Since 1946, legisiative |the men involved were expected to grants have more than doubled, | Produce 160 tires in an eight-hour indeed they now exceed the entire ! shift. 1928 provincial budget. | "The men are claiming this is| During question period a dele- away over their heads," said Mr. gate from Kapuskasing asked what Yeomans, "and want an adjust. {is the attitude of the department ment on output. There are also |to the situation there where they other working conditions they want | {have to provide 'and own) hous- amended." {der to attract teachers. The Mun- STOCK (Continued on Page 2) dustry employed nearly 8,000 per- | sons in 1952. TORONTO (CP) -- Eighty-one- year-old Mrs. C. R. Cumberland of Toronto has lived under six British monarchs, but this gever seen one crowned. She decided the other day it was time she did. So she will fly to London today just 14 days after she made up her mind to take the trip. The idea started while she was having lunch with her son 12 days ago. "My son asked me what I was scheming and I told him I thought I'd go to the Coronation." to hold the Bermuda meeting was | States, Great Britain and France made at about the same time in|have been in consultation with the London, Washington and Paris. [view of holding an informal high- Churchill told the House of Com- | evel meeting. mons arrangements are being| "We have agreed that such a made for the meeting to be held | meeting is desirable at a date con- shortly after June 15 although the | venient to all of us. exact date had not yet been set-| "A primary purpose will be to tled. develop further common view- Churchill said he hoped the meet- | points with these friends on the ing would enable the big three to| many problems that must be sol "take a definite step forward to a|ved co-operatively so that the meeting of far graver import." |cause of world peace may be ad- This was presumably a reference | vanced." to a possible big four conference| Agreement on the meeting comes with Premier Malenkov of Russia al & time when there has been attending. Churchill had previously | increasing pressure in Britain for {indicated in his major foreign pol-|a& high-level conference with the icy speech in the Commons that he | BIG THREE favors a face-to-face meeting of ' (Continued on Page 2) U.S. Offered Deal Before Oatis Freed WASHINGTON (CP)--Commun- rest of his 10-year sentence on con- ist Czechoslovakia, in freeing Ap | viction of 4 Spying. 5 Wats ; 8 assador George Wads- correspondent William N. Oatis, orth and Czech Premier Siroky acted six weeks after President handled the exchange between the | Eisenhower offered to consider two chief executives. | easing trade and travel restrictions | The Czech government through aified at the Czechs igs controlled radio today called : {for the U. S. to terminate its econ- The White House Wednesday omic restrictions against the coun- night released copies of messages try now 'that Oatis is free. | exchanged between [Eisenhower Radio Prague, heard in Vienna, and new Czech President Antonin proadcast the text of the notes to Zapotocky. | Czech listeners and quoted an edi- Eisenhower's message, dated torial from the Czech Communist March 30, told Zapotocky that if party organ Rude Pravo, calling he would release Oatis, the U. S. on Eisenhower to lift the sanctions, would be willing to negotiate lift-| In his public announcement of ing of sanctions imposed against Oatis' freeing May 15, Zapotocky Czechoslovakia when the newspa-|had said he acted on a direct ap- | per man was jailed 25 months ago. peal for mercy from Mrs. Oatis. At Zapotocky's reply, dated May 15, that time the state department said informed Eisenhower that Oatis 'there wasn't any deal" between | was being pardoned on that day the U. S. and Czechoslovakia to | and would not have to complete the | free the newspaper man. Louisiana's Worst Floods Drive Hundreds From Homes LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) -- Charles air force base with this 000. The wildly - spreading Calcasieu | City of 50, i . oct | Weatherman Paul Cook said the river swirled toward this southwest | Calcasieu river, normally a tame Louisiana port city today withthe jjttle stream, would reach five feet' biggest flood threat in 40 years over flood stage today: beyond and drove 1,250 families fr that he would not predict. Flood op their | homes. . 7' High water elsewhere in Louisi- | ana caused two drownings. | Volunteers with bulldozers and trucks sweltered in warm, coastal | temperatures during the night to push up small dirt dikes to halt! slowly rising waters in residential | afeay in the eastern part of this city. | Fire trucks pumped at the river invasion which threatened the main | highway linking nearby Lake' stage is four feet. At Old Town Bay, a river gauge spot four miles north of Lake Charles, high waters surged to 14.85 feet, more than 10 feet abov§ flood stage. The sheriff's office said 1,000 families were driven from their homes. The air force said another 250 families ,were evacuated from trailer camps and that 50 soldier- family trailers were moved to th# air base. ¥ BISHOP Officials who took part inthe Canada's tobacco products in-| dedication and opening recital of | are (left to right) Mrs.' G. K the restored organ at Holy Trin- | ity Anglican Church last night | Healey Willan, who gave the re- DEDICATES CHURCH ORGAN 4 | shown in the above photograph | cital; Right Reverend @G. A. | Wells, Bishop; and Reverend R. | A. Irwin, rector of the parish: | Photo by Dutton--Times Studie Drynan, church organist; Dr.