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for April, 1953 © 3 . Daily Average Circulation a i i 228 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast A few showers likely, but warm, humid day tomorrow. Low tonight 45, high Saturday 70. '/OL, 12--No. 125 Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES ja r " Shown_.above is the home at | 211 Coe Street South in which "Mfrs. Jack Harding died during a fire early this morning. Mr. TWO JUMPED FROM WINDOW Harding and his 16-year-old son, | Donald, escaped through the up- | stairs window (arrow) onto the | porch roof. Mr. Hardy ~ut his | Hoa foot on the window glass and was taken to hospital for treat- ment. "UNTIDY OFFICE" In 45 liquor and beer confisca- tions 'made by Pickering Town- ship Police since 1951 some thous- ands of bottles of beer have been seized. Just what happened to them is what the Pickering Township Police Commission is trying to find out today. A court of enquiry con- vened this morning under the chairmanship of Judge F, J. Mac- Rae Sergeant Fred White, a member of the Pickering force since 1946, told the court that in all that time he had never been instructed to fill out forms regarding the stor- age and disposition of seized liquor and beer. He said that beer had Photo by Dutton--Times Studio been stored in offices, on veran- Court Trying To Find WOMAN SUFFOCATED IN APARTMENT FIRE Husband And Son Leap To Safety A fire which swept through the rear of an Oshawa Police-Held Beer, Liquor dahs and admitted that he found® Ok Sos Sa age. early in me| SOMEONE SAYS "J'ACCEPTE" enquiry that the routine procedure for the disposition of beer and liquor which is followed by police forces all over the province was PARIS (Reuters) Radical | not followed in Pickering. Asked what had happened to the liquor and beer confiscated in 45 seizures, White told the court that some of it might still be in the police offices and scme might still not be. NO IRREGULARITY At the same time Sergeant White denied that there had ever been any irregularity on his part in the handling of the drink, He said that COUNT (Continued on Page 2) Leader Pierre Mendes-France tfo- day accepted the task of trying to form France's 19th post-war government. Mendes-France a' former min- ister, visited President Vincent Auriol to accept the offer. He is the fourth candidate for the premiership in the political crisis which has left the country Without a government for eight ays. Ambassador Denies British Ship Charges WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The British ambassador in Washington, 8ir Roger Makins, says there is no evidence that any ship sailing un- der the British flag and subject to British law has transported Chinese Communist troops in the Far East. Makins made a last-minute addi- tion to a speech he had prepared for delivery Thursday to a health and welfare conference, He refer- red to the statement by Senator Karl Mamet ARP: SD Na ing state department had confirme rts that two - British-owned ships 'had carried Communist along the China coast in 1951 d 1952, Makins said he had decided to mention a matter "which threa-\ tens to stir up further Anglo-Am- erican discord." "In the first place, on all the evidence available, no British ship, that is to say no ship under the British flag and subject to British Jaw, has done any such thing. " 'The question turns on two ships of Panamanian registry and flying the Panamian flag, in which Brit- an interest. i Spies Have | 2 Weeks Left NEW YORK (AP)---Condemned atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosen- berg were sentenced today to die i the Sing Sing prison eleciric the week of June 15. BIG GAME CALGARY (CP)--Chester Burns and Harry Simpson, big game hunt- ers from Calgary, left by air for Kodiak Island in the Aleutians, Their objective is to bag a Kodiak bear, among the biggest game in the world. Comet Comes To Canada REYKJAVIK, Iceland (CP)--A Comet jetliner winged over the Atlantic today on the first jet air- linér flight to North America. The four-jet Comet, first of two purchased by the RCAF, touched down at Keflavik air field here 45 minutes behind schedule after battling headwinds on the first leg of the crossing. Landing time here was 4:35 a. m, EDT, four hours and 12 minutes from London. It was due at Ottawa at 3 p.m. today after a scheduled stop at Goose Bay, Labrador. Estimated flying time for the 3,545 miles is 10 hours, Nehru Says Egypt Solution Is "Possible" CAIRO (AP)--Prime Minister Nehru of India, after a 90-minute conference with Egypt's Premier Mohammed Naguib, said today there was a '"'way of settlement" for the bitter Anglo-Egyptian dis- pute over military control of the Suez canal. Nehru, who stopped off briefly in Cairo en route by air to the Coronation, did not specify what it was. Nehru said he believed in the possibility of a solution despite the recent breakoff of talks between | Britain and Egypt on the issue. Ike And Still At Odds WASHINGTON (AP)--President Eisenhower and Senator, Robert Taft (Rep. O.) today avoided any party-splitting break in their re- lations despite some fundamental differences over United States pol- icies in Korea and the Far East. The White House took the initia- tive only a few hours after Eisen- hower had said at a press confer- ence that "no," he did not agree Taft ference the White House granted newspaper men permission to |quote directly from Eisenhower's {comments on the Taft speech. Nor- mally, the president's remarks at press conferences may not be jaudied directly. Taft was publicly silent about Ohio Republican's proposal that the U. S. withdraw "from all fur- om president's disavowal of the [ther peace negotiations in Korea' with Taft's assertion that the U. S.|if present truce talks fail. Aides "might as well forget the United |said Taft would not comment for Naions as far as the Korean war is concerned." Several hours after the press con- {several days, if at all. He is in jLiospital with an undiagnosed hip pain. ; Legion Brdnch Honors Officers Nine past presidents of Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Legion, and eight members who had 25 years of Legion membership to their credit, were presented with badges in recognition of their sery- ice at last night's meeting of the Branch, which was past presidents' night. G. J. Fitzgerald, immediate past president of the Ontario Provincial Command of the Legion made a presentation to M. McIntyre Hood of two past provincial officers badges, one signifying service as a zone commander, and the other bearing two bars for service as second vice - president and first vice-president of the Ontario Pro- Vincial Command. The branch president, William Beaton, presid- ed. PAST PRESIDENT BADGES The past presidents, still active branch members to whom past presidents' badees were presented, Irn4 | were George Walsh. M. McIntyre Hood, Ben Jacklin, Arthur Tiern- ey, Sid Brooks, Willism J. Lock, W. R. Elliott, James Lovell and Frank Grant. Arthur Gladman, a tenth past president is now in Sunnybrook Hospital and will re- ceive a special presentation of his badge there. Past President Jack Burch was absent on account of illness, These badges were preented by Provincial Vice-Chairman Frank Threadgold of Whitby, who econ- gratulated the branch on still hav- ing the loyal service of these past officers. 25-YEAR BADGES The 25-year badges were present- ed to A. J. Graves, M. McIntyre | Hood, E, C. Maidman, Joseph Wil- | son, William Cooper, E. C. Brooks, | Tom Jeyes and Paul Swartz, In| BADGES {Continued on Pare 2) UNITED NATIONS (AP)--Cas- ish companies had ownership or ualties in Korea have reached a total of 2,303,542 for both sides, 4 survey of official and estimated figures showed today. The Korean war will reach the end of its third year next June 25 unless truce talks halt the feline. Official figures of UN 10sses furnished by the UN delegation | Korea Victims Total 2,000,000 | sources, and estimates of the Com- munist losses made by UN com- {mand sources provide the total in {the periodic Associated Press cas- ualty .survey. Many UN casualty figures over the fighting through April and | early May. Some are six months or more old. Estimates of Com- | munist losses cover fighting | through April 20. Second Everest Try May Be Attempted DELHI (AP) --The British 1953 Mount Everest expedition has failed in its bid to be first to conquer the world's highest peak. Seasoned Himaiayan climbers here were reluctant to accept the sketchy Katmandu report of fail- ure, hoping that this 11th attempt in 32 years to conquer the 29,000- foot peak would still succeed, The radio continued its weather broadcasts to the expedition, re- porting generally clear conditions around Everest for the next 24 hours. It had been expected that the climber, led by Col. John Hunt, 42, would continue in teams of two to try to plant the Union Jack on the giant's unconquered crest until the approaching June-October mon- soon drove them back. The experts here speculated that if the team had given up, it was because of illness in the party or because the zero cold and blinding ice in that rarified atmosphere had sapped the strength needed for thai last dash for the top. In New Nato Job PARIS (Reuters)--Robert Alan Farquharson, 53, veteran Canadian newspaper man, has been ap- pointed director of the information {service of the North Atlantic | Treaty Organization, it wag an- Inounced here Thursday. Crisis In A Crisis Over Armistice by JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP)--South Kor- |ea's resistance to an armistice on terms favored by the United States confronted the Eisenhower admin- istration today with a crisis within a crisis. Some officials believe firm measures may be required to resolve the situation. The South Korean -government announced it would continue to boycott the truce talks unless the Allies withdraw or change their latest proposals. Indications are that an exchange of messages is in progress be- tween President Eisenhower and President Syngman Rhee, although officials declined to confirm that. This is why it is a double crisis: A decisive answer is due from {the Communists this week-end to | proposals put forward last week- {end by the United Nations com- |mand, directed by the United | States. Thus the government here iis primarily concerned with the |elimactic stage of the prolonged truce negotiations. | Yet at this stage it is compelled {to devote considerable time and [attention to the threat of resistance | to' a truce raised by Rhee's gov- ernment. | | England Shocked -- It May Rain On Tuesday ially predicted for Coronation Day in London. The air ministry today issued its special long-range forecast: '"Weather is likely to be change- able, with occasional rain or show- ers at times, particularly in the east and north. But there will also be some bright periods." Thus the weatherman held out Korean War Flares Up SEQUL (AP)--Britons, Ameri- cans, Turks and South Koreans to-| day were locked in .combat with some 15,000 Chinese in Western and central Korea as both armies poured reinforcements into the mounting battle. AP correspondent Forrest Ed- wards reported "one big cloud of dust, smoke and exploding shells" along a. five-mile front 30 miles north of Seoul. The 8th army said the Reds may have committed a division, about 8,500 men, in the western assault. U.S. and Turkish troops swarmed up the slopes of Outpost Carson Friday in a drive to oust Red point Thursday night in the initial MNN.mnn pesanlt, a Part Of Truce Plan Rejected By Reds é Special Coronation Supplement Tomorrow, The TimegGaz~ ette will publish its spec' Cor- onation edition, with # "great volume of interesting feature stories and pictures of Queen Elisabeth. the Royal Family, past coronation, and relative to the pomp and ceremony which surround this great event. There will be special full page pictures of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Ed- inburgh. Extra copies of this special Coronation Edition can be secured at The Times-Gaz- ette office or from news-deal- ers. On Tuesday, June 2, Cor- onation Day, The Times-Gaz- ette will be published as us- ual, and will carry the fully gabled story of the corona- on. > MUNSAN (AP)--The Commun- ists rejected outright at least part of an Allied truce plan submitted in a secret meeting at Panmunjom Monday, it' was disclosed today. The plan had been called a '"'now-or-never" offer by many sources. There was no indication whether the Reds would change their minds at next Monday's meeting, the first after a week-long recess. The Reds object to release of any Red prisoners as civilians in South Korea, or leaving to the United Nations general assembly the ultimate disposition of prison. ers unwilling to return to commun. | 1 m These "can not be agreed to by our side," North Korean Gen. Nam' 11 told the Allies. His reply was re- leased in excerpts from the record of Monday's meeting. Nam said it is 'inconceivable' that the Allies propose turning over any Red prisoners to the UN which he labelled "a belligerent it- self." The Allied plan, still under of- ficial secrecy, has rankled Sou Koreans. Government official have threatened to boycott the truce talks and possibly fight on alone unless the plan ig killed or revised. Canada's auto Industry was ask- ed today by UAW Director George Burt to make Cornation Day a paid holiday in its plants. The auto workers' chief in Can- ada spoke from:a conference in Port Hope, announcing that a tele- gram had been sent to presidents of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors in Canada asking them to reverse their decision to work next Tuesday. The telegram reads: "Reports from plants indicate inereasing in- credulity and restlessness among workers in Canada's 'Big Three' automobile companies over deci- Burt Asks Big Auto " Plants To Close June 2 sion to penalize employes day's pay if they insist on honoring Her Majesty on the occasion of her Coronation by participating in church, civic or other ceremonies marking the event, rather than con. Sdering it just another working ay. ""The 'Big Three' decision looks even more crass and disrespect- ful in view of Massey Harris and agriculture implement industry gen erally, Fruehauf and other truck industry, managements, conda, etc., to make the day available to their workers, without penalty, to apartment house at 4 a.m. today took the life of Mrs. Doris Harding, .37, who was trapped only two feet away from a window which led to safety. Eight people managed to escape from 211 Simcoe Street South. Jack Harding, 39, husband of the burned woman, wear- ing enly an undershirt, leaped from an upstairs window to a shed roof. An artery in his left foot was gashed open and he was taken by police cruiser to hospital for treat- ment. Their one son, Donald, 16, was awakened by his window. | NINE IN HOME The others in the two-storey Mr. and Mrs. George Jack- Bill, 10, who occupied the down- stairs front suite, and Mr. and Mrs. Werner Cohn, who occupied the upstairs front apartment. Mrs. Jackson, who is an office employee of General Printers Lim- ited, was awakened by cries of see smoke and flame raging past her window, and straightway put in calls to both fire and pol departments, The upstairs dwellers, Mr. and Mrs, Cohn, who have been in Can- ada but a year-and-a-half from Germany, reacted automatically to in numerous Berlin air raids. They got most of their belongings out Suring the first 10 minutes of the re. 90-MINUTE FIGHT Firemen from both headquarters and Cedar Dale stations were quickly on the spot after the first alarm, and fought hi Wd for an hour and a half e direc- on Deputy Fire Chief Ray Hobbs. Smashing their way into the kitchen through a wall of flame and smoke, they discovered the nightgown-clad body of Mrs. Hard- ing at the foot of the staircase, within two feet of the window she wag trying to reach. She had suf- jereq a quick death from suffoca- on. Firemen led some 800 feet of hose to the scene of the blake, and played high pressure streams also from the pumper, confining the worst destruction to the Harding apartment, although the tool shed frame building in which there |: were three apartments, were: |: son, their sons Donald, 13, and|: 'Help! Help me!" looked out to |g the training they had been through mother's screams and jumped from his upstairs bedroom ® bg MRS. HARDING at the rear seemed to escape any considerable damage. A police cons tingent wag on hand to keep back spectators and lend other assiste ance. $3,300 DAMAGE : Fire Chief W. R. Elliott estimat- ed property damage to the Harding apartment at $2,500 and. declar the. furnishings were a total loss. Smoke damage to the Jackson apartment he put at $500 and te the Cohn premises at approxi- mately $300. Fire burned a two fool hole in a kitchen cupboard of the latter apartment, which abutted oft the bedrooms of the Harding ane nex. All three apartment dwellers carried property insurance, START IN CLOSET Chief Elliott, examining the gute ted ruins this morning with Deputy Chief Hobbs, determined that the fire had originated in a closet un- der the kitchen stairway where cleaning implements were kept. He questioned 16 - year - old Donald Harding, who had come in at 2.30 FIRE (Continued on Page 2) 4 Agreement was reached today between the Houdaille-Hershey Company and Local 222, UAW- CIO, on the contract which will come. into effect on June 19, when Hie present agreement is terminat- ed. Increases of from four to 15 cents per hour will be paid to non- productive (day) workers. Further gains in the contract give the em- ployees two additional paid holi- days bringing the year's total to eight days. Increases in the night- shift premiums were also given. The company agreed to pay double time for Sunday work and granted the workers additional Agreement Reached On Plant Contract PSI. Employees will now contribs ute $2.75 each per month to the health schemes with the company: agreeing to pay the balance. The agreement, according to William Rutherford, 'brings the guaranteed wage at the plant, formerly known .as Skinner's, up to $1.55 per hour. About three hun. dred employees are covered in the new contract. Negotiating for the company dur- ing the contract discussions were Walter Christon, Harman Ferraro, F. V. Skinner, F. J. Skinner, J. Fairthorn and G. Mertens. Union representatives were W. Ruther- ford, John Turner, Len Flintoff, Tom Nesbet, M, Smith and H. Ben- son. \ CMA Manager Retires TORONTO (CP)--John T Stir- rett, for 41 years a member of the staff of the Canadian Manufactur- ers' Association, today announced his retirement as general manager. He will be succeeded by G. .K {Sheils, immediate past president. LONDON (AP)--Rain is offic- hope that Tuesday may have dry! Mr. Stirrett, who held the post | periods during the progress of the of general manager for 14 years, |! Queen's procession to and from announced his retirement on the show their regard for our Queen." benefits under the Blue Cross and Westminster Abbey. final day + --the Coronation--got under way in Westminster Abbey today. A crowd of thousandsi--many who now about royalty only from story ooks--gaped at a, strange con- trast of the old and the' new. At daybreak they began gather- ing--many well prepared with box lunches for a day-long vigil out- side the ancient abbey. The trial run of the show itself was behind closed doors, but this (didn't seem to dim any of the ex- |citement. | It was old England and the new {at its best. | A heavy police guard was on {hand as St. Edward's Coronaiton {Crown -- a priceless relic--was |} ought into the church in a velvet | ag. Those taking part were permitted to wear their medieval ceremonial | and troops which grabbed th& strong |robes over modern street clothes. [and territories, Queen, Head of the h The Queen appointed the Duch- res of Norfoall: ac her stand-in and Thousands Cram London For Full-dress Rehearsal LONDON (AP)--A full-dress re-|the Queen's husband, the Duke of hearsal of Britain's biggest show |mdinburgh, had Sir Eric Mieville pinch-hitting for him. It was reported the royal couple viewed the rehearsal from a box in the abbey along with the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret. The Privy Council, which advises the Queen in matters of high pol- icy, erased the word 'dominion' from the precise description of the sovereign's relationship to various elements of the British Common- wealth' of Nations and the Queen signed the proclamation Thursday. Although everyone has -known about the change for months, publi- cation of the order today made Hel Majesty officially: 'Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United King- dom of Great Britain and Northerr Mrs. Jack Harding died in the room shown in the above photo- graph while attempting to es- ¥ Ireland and of her other realms Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith." WOMAN DIED TWO FEET FROM SAFETY and Mr. Ha fin and his son salvaged pra i nothing from me. Printn bv Duttea--Timen Stridle/| y 4 J cape from an early morning fire in her Oshawa home. The fire completely gutied the apartment