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Daily Average Circulation , for April, 1953 2278 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle / Weather Forecast Cloudy with a few showers on Saturday as cool air comes in. Low tonight, 60; high tomorrow, 70. OL. 12--No. 131 ° A Te Bed OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1953 Price Net Over 8S Cents Per Copy JVENTYFOUR PAGER SARNIA TORNADO VICTIMS NEED HELP The Sarnia tornado is no long- er front page news, but many victims of the big blow will have reason to remember it for many M. Smith above is tpical. She sits half-dazed outside her home shortly after it was crumbled to bits by the storm. She was trap- ped for more than 45 minutes before rescurers found her in the debris of bricks and wood. She Jost ber home and all belongings inside. - Then there is the story of Ray Kent, a ua. 85-year ol theatre door- man who broke his arm when the suction of the storm drew him in- to Christina Street. Doctors set his arm by candlelight in make- shift quarters. The storm de- stroyed the theatre (Imperial) where he was employed. The Sarnia Tornado Relief Fund needs your help. The effects of the big Swister will be felt for months to com Comatibutions. yA the fund are being gratefully Tooeived Mt at Ye office of The Times - Dubious {CO SEOUL (AP)--Reaction among Canadian troops of the Common- wealth division to reports a Kor- ean truce is near ranged from skepticism to joy. Here's what some of the Cana- dians said; Maj. W. H. Pope of Ottawa: "It. has been close before. I am skeptical. It is to the Chinese ad- vantage to prolong the talks from the moral point of view." WO. R. D. McIlroy of Montreal: "I am and I have been betting on it along but we have been ready for celebrations be- fore." oi: Marcell Veilloux of yan couver: *"Hooray, let's go home, 1 hope it's true. NEW YORK STATE MAY BE LICENSED WASHINGTON (AP)--The fed- eral power commission decided Thursday to hear arguments June 15 on a proposal that New York state be licensed to join with the Ontario hydro-electric power com- mission in constructing the power phase of the St. Lawrence river project One of the commission's exam- iners, Glen R. Law, recommended on May 12, after a hearing, that the state be licensed to be a part- ner in the project. May Be 2nd Everest Try NEW DELHI (AP)-- climbing enthusiasts here specu-!publicain Populaire. lated today that Col. John Hunt's 15-man British expedition to Mt. Everest may be attempting a sec- ond 08 of the world's tallest peak Ottawa To New York Lr Min. Hop For Jet OTTAWA (CP)--The RCAF. gave the press and radio a round to New York Thursday in its new $1,200,000 Comet jet transport which clipped off the 900 miles in less than three hours. The white-enamelled giant, with its cargo of 40 newspaper and radio men including aviation re- porters from leading United States publications, took off from Ot- tawa's Uplands airport and banked trip |above the stone towers of Man- hattan eactly. 57 "minutes later. Then, sweeping north and west, LIVING GOST SHOWS SIXTH "Sell Out" Moans Rhee SEOUL (Reuters) -- President Syngman Rhee, still protesting against draft terms of a Korean truce, said tonight that South Korea would accept them nonethe- less because of its friendship for the United States. "But signing the truce is selling out not only my country but the United States as well," said the president after a 45-minute confer- ence with Gen. Mark Clark, United Nations supreme commander. In a interview, Rhee said South Korea would sign the armis- tice because it was 'forced" by the United States. The Guests To Go Home Today the Queen said goodbye to more 200 dignitaries from 60 foreign lands who came to see her crowned. Official visits, by the foreion representatives end Satur- The Queen, hatless and in a dress of lemon silk, moved slowly down the line of envoys assembled in the state apartments of Buck- ingham Palace. She spoke to each in turn, including the leader of the senior Commonwealth country: Psiine Minister St. Laurent of Ca- ne ehind her walked the Duke of Edinburgh. Lake Damage Claims Hearing SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)--Cana- dian government Feprocentatives will meet Wednesday in with lawyers for 3,500 claimants in suits toatiling $60,000,000 for high water ol inage to property Perry Raich, oo counsel for a large nuniber perty owners; said Thursday that because of the meeting, a test case motion returnable in federal district court here Monday would be postponed until June 20, if the court con- sented. Rauch said the Ottawa meeting proposal came in a request for postponement of the motion hear- ing. He said the request did not disclose the purpose of the meet- it headed back to Uplands via Mon: |ing treal. Speed on the flight to New York averaged 473 miles an hour. It was about 50 miles better than on the 57-ton giant's delivery flight to Up- lands May 29. Immigrant Influx Is Slowing Down OTTAWA (CP)--The movement of immigrants to Canada this year | is running behind last year's fig- | ures, the immigration department | disclosed today. A total of 39,055 immigrants en- tered the country in the first four months: of the year, a drop of 37 per cent'from last year's total of 62,240 for the same period, the department said. In April, however, the decrease was only 17 per cent with 16,118 immigrants this year compared to 19,497 in April, 1952. Immigration from the British Isles increased in April, up 16 per cent to 5,849 from April last year, Twice Premier Is Asked Again PARIS (CP)--President Vincent Auriol today asked Foreign Min- |ister Georges Bidault to try to {form a new French cabinet. Bidault is a member of the Mountain | Roman Catholic, Mouvement Re- He has al- ready been premier of two cab- inets, for five months in 1946 and eight months in 1949-50. The 53-year-old former teacher, {youth leader and editorial writer, The speculation was based on |came out of the last war as one continued good weather in the of France's top leaders of the Himalayas because of the delayed [resistance against the Germans. monsoon season. He and a fellow MRP deputy, he Robert Schuman, have shared the job of foreign minister almost ex- clusively since the war. Bidault told Auriol he would answer Saturday as to whether he thought he could get a new cabinet together. Bidault is the fifth candidate Auriol has asked to form a govern- ment. No. 4, Pierre Mendes-France, failed Thursday night when the National Assembly refused him a vote of confidence. The count was 301, just 13 short of the majority he needed. B.C. Election Sparks Two Libel Actions VANCOUVER (CP)--The launch- ing of two legal actions involving | d alleged libel has been announced in British Columbia's bitter pro- vincial election campaign. And . Premier Bennett told an election meeting Thursday night he believes there will be criminal libel suits "conducted by the at- torney-general himself" in connec- tion with statements made by the independent candidate involved in . the other two actions. The independent candidate is Or. 'W. N. Kemp, running in Vancou ver- Point Grey riding in the June 9 election. He is being sued by John Perdue, president of the B. C. So- cial Credit League, and, in turn, | writ, as announced he will sue Mr. Per- The hectic series of charges and counter-charges began a week ago when Mr. Kemp said at an elec- tion meeting that Mr. Perdue "has been convicted on more than one occasion of obtaining money under false pretences and similar r crimes in Vancouver." Mr. Perdue has obtalied a writ in the B. C. Supreme Court seeking unstated damages from Dr. Kemp for alleged slander and libel. The doctor followed up at a meeting Thursday night by announcing he is suing Mr. Perdue for "defama- tion of character and libel.'> Mr. Kemp said he, too, has obtained a Eden In US. For Operation LONDON (CP)---Ailing Foreign Secretary Eden left by plane to- day. for Boston to Jiqerso a third operation for a gall bladder ail- ment. Eden's 32-year-old wife .accom- panied him. Her uncle, Prime Min- ister Churchill, and Lady Church- ill saw the couple off on an RCAF plane. Eden, 55, has undergone .two operations in the last two months. The third is aimed at improving the condition of the main bile duct which has not healed since the original operation for removal of gall stones. The foreign secretary's son, Nich- olas, is expected to meet his 'father in Boston. Young Eden is aide to Vincent Massey, governor-general of Canada. "ABOUT $100,000" School Addition Contract Is Let A contract has been let to Bathe and McLellan of Oshawa for the construction of a four-room addi- tion to Holy Cross Roman Catholic School on Simcoe Street South. The same firm has the contract for demolishing the large old resid- ence, known formerly as the F. W. Cowan property, which has been used for classroom purposes. The A work has been under way for the past 11 days. The new addition will be built on the front of the present four-room school so that a unified eight-room building with offices for principal, teachers and nurse, will result. Work will be rushed because it is | abou desired, if possible, to have the new building ready for occupancy in the early fall. Architect is James Haffa. The amount of the building contract is "approximately $100,000."" The addition will be of red brick and the usual type of standard school construction which is being done today with "no Ire as ordered by the Department of Education. In the basement of the school, there will be an auditorium which can be used for classroom purposes when the need arises. by one-fifth of a point during reported today. INDEX | oP But New Climb May Be On Way OTTAWA (CP)--The consumer price index declined April to 114.4, as living costs eased for the sixth month in a row, the bureau of statistics The index, based on 1940 prices ® equalling 100, made the second consecutive drop of a fifth of a point, under the impetus of lower priceg for a number of food items, gasoline, and seasonal price drops for coal in Ontario and Quebec. OLD ONE DOWN The old cost -of - living index, based on 1935-39 prices equalling 100, made its third consecutive drop, easing three-tenths of a point The Cowan property was acquir- board | to, 183.6. od bY Ie oparale te school years ago. A Forger In Rut Thought $58 Enough A man who believes that $38 is the average pay cheque in this country was today sentenced by Magistrate F. 8. Ebbs to two years | tence concurrent in the penitentiary on each of eight charges, five of false pretences and of forgery. Slender, grey - haired Gordon alias Donald Gibbons of Hamilton ad nothing to say in his own defence after convicted on the eight charges, to all of which eration the fact that Fenske-Gib- bons had already been sentenced to four years in pen Jeutientiny oi 14 of which Sharges dl io jorgery., lL tted on the same day in Belioyilio, His Oshawa sen- will be concurrent with the eh "Well, that's about the _ logical pay cheque of today," repli "It's nice to see TRUE OR FALSE? TRUE OR FALSE Moths are noisy eaters True. When a moth chews on 8 Dai or tix Coat 1 soins "8 person ge... if thé sound i... ently magnified. But moths won't be sating Jour wearables or ou'll put them into a rate, 2 able cold-storage. Look in the Times-Gazette Classified section for one to suit your needs. Or phone 3-2233 and ask an ad-writer to help you chose one. See the Want Ads Now. For First Time By DAVE MCINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP)--More than 20,- 000 watched the Canadians take over the guard at Buckingham Palace today. Several Sons fainted in the crush and e pol- ice had to be rushed in, Young Prince Charles stood at a front window of the palace and saluted as the precise, 54-man Canadian guard replaced the Gren- adier Guards for 24 hours. Both Charles and Princess Anne appeared together at one top-floor window. Charles tried to push his sister from the window, gave up and took over another window by himself. children clapped in time to the Grenadiers' band. MATCH GUARDS The Canadians, wearing their dress blues and scarlet or maroon berets, matched the Guards move- ment for movement throughout the exacting, 40-minute change-over ceremony. They were commanded by Maj. R. D. Medland of Toronto, who for one day is captain of the Queen's guard. The Canadian guard was drawn from three permanent force reg- iments, the Royal Canadian, Prin- cess Paiicla's Canadian Light In- fantry and the Royal 22nd. All are veterans of the Korean war. SHORT DRILL They trained 16 hours for the job. British guards do not take Canadians Guard Palace In 13 Years over such a task until they have been trained for 17 weeks. It was the first time since 1940 the Canadians had mounted guard at the palace. Many Canadians in the crowd were invited to the palace itself, including Gen. H. D. G. Crerar, alde-de-camp general to the Queen, Maj.-Gen. J. D. B. Smith, chairman of the Canadian joint staff in Lon- don, Rear-Admiral Roger Bidwell, commander of Canada's Corona- tion squadron, and Air Commodore Martin Costello, RCAF represent- ative on the joint staff. In the palace forecourt were some 150 Canadian school children. SENTRIES INSIDE Normally, two sentry boxes are just outside the palace gates. Coro- nation crowds have been so dense that policemen had to clear a path for the sentries to march up and down. So now the hoxes have been moved inside the high railing. A crowd of about 200 followed the Canadians as they marched from Wellington barracks to the palace, preceded by the Grena- diers' band. The band played '"The Maple Leaf Forever' as the Cana- diang moved yard and drew up opposite the off-going guard. There wasn't a hitch in thé cere- mony. While sentries were changed at far corners of the palace, ihe band played tunes fr a Pacific." CROPS RUINED streams across a thousand miles of the Prairies are running high or bursting their banks today with the run-off of a tI ay storm that loosed up to five inches of rain in some areas and has forced evacuation of hundreds of resi- dents. At least two persons are dead. Hundreds of thousands of acres of rich prairie farmland have turned soggy mush delaying seeding and necessitating re-seed- ing in many areas. Officials expect a reduction in the seeded wheat acreage as farmers convert to coarse grains. Manitoba appears to have been hit the hardest. It was still Prairies Ravaged By Wild Weather EDMONTON (CP)--Rivers and |in some parts of the province Wo 8 vig although the wea~ ther ofice here said the 'worst is over." Clearing weather was predicted today as the disturbance--now lo- cated about 150 miles south of Winnipeg--was expected to move off slowly eastward, towards the Great : Lakes. The storm broke Monday night in southern Alberta and moved eastward. Some areas reported as much as five inches of rainfall, hail and 40-mile-an-hour winds, A 21-year-old rancher died of shock after: falling into a stream near Calgary and a Lethbridge farmer was drowned when he tried raining [40 cross the St; Mary river by COPENHAGEN (AP) i King Frederik IX today signed a new Danish constitution which makes it possible for his 13-year-old daught- er, Princess Margrethe, to inherit the throne. By allowing female succession, the ara fg, te the princess heir apparent _in Place of the king's aches, Prince Kn on Wy ay was mar) a na- tional half-day holiday and an am- The April battle on the price front shaped up as a fight between declining food prices and rising Reul-With lower food prices win- n Prices went down for butter, po- tatoes, tomatoes, onions, beef and veal to outweight increases for cof- fee, eggs, grapefruit, lettuce and fresh and Shed pork. RENTS R Rents iy to a new high. also were theatre A br oko and barbers' fees. The drop to 1144 in the con- sumer price index compared with a peak of 118.2 in December, 1951. In six months the yardstick has been sliced by 1.7 points and now is back to where it was in the May- June period of 1951. Biggest plunge was in the food sub-index eh four-fifths of a point to This compared [with a record 122.5 in November, The shelter column, which ine cludes rents and home ownership césts, rose to a new high of 122.9 from 122.7, mostly because of higher rents, The clothing column also rose to 110.1 from 109.7, still well below the record of 115.2 in November, 1951. HIGH HAIR CUTS The cost of household operations eased to 116.6 from the record-of 116.9. The column "other commod- ities and services" edged up to 115.1 from' 115-as higher theatre ticket prices and barbers' fees oute weighed lower costs for gasoline, This compared with the record 116.7 last January. In the old TY. the new drop to 183.6 compared with an all-time high of 191.5 in December, 1951. In April the food column dropped to 222.8 from 223.5; fuel and light to 153.2 from 155.5; home furnishings and services to 196.2 from 196.8. Rents rose to 151 from 150.9; clothe ing to 206.3. from 205.5; and the gliscelaneous column to 149 from MAY BE END While many retafl prices showed declines in Avril, wholesale prices (Continued on Page 2) were oxpeting to have oiled of your So a a Oh or I you the road house during be id and don't blame the Board of Works, Blame Nature instead. The city road oiling program is three to four weeks behind sched- ule and the staff of the city en- gineer's department maintains stoutly that it is not its fault, recall rains have been the past month or so twice a week. It is imposible Wo oil roads while it is raining and, if the nesty for 25 convicts se up to ite terms in ng rain has been hard, for a day or so after, . at regular jnlervals ove Oyer J City Oiling Program Is Delayed By Rain By ROBERT B. TUCKMAN SEOUL (AP)--The end of Korean fighting appeared close rd day. A fateful truce meeting Satur- day morning in Panmunjom could almost write an end to three years of ar and death. e Communists were reported to have submitted terms so close to those of the United Nations com- mand that an armistice might be signed by June 25, third anniver- say of this war that already taken an awesome toll. Minor details must be ironed out, but "peace fever' was in the capitals A high US. official in Tokyo sald an agreement to exchange prison- ers likely will be signed Satur- sir here as well as.in other Allied d fay. However, a truce could not be signed before 1exS week, he|O. added. There was one \areing and bitter dissent to the optimism. President Syngman Rhee's South Korean |vi government stubbornly opposed the truce terms although Rhee has said he would co-operate "at any cost' with the U. 8S. Gen. Mark Clark, UN Far East commaiider, flew to Seoul from his Tokyo headquarters and conferred with Rhee, possibly in an 11th hour attempt to overcome the opposi- Hon of the aging, but fiery, presi- ent. They talked for an hour, but there was no announcement after the meeting. Pyun Yuang Tali, South Korea's acting foreign min- "Peace Fever" In Korea As Truce Comes Nearer stan, and U. 8. Ambassador Kills Briggs were also present. Clark flew back to Tokyo aftep the conference. at said angrily in an inten 4 have nevér come across more dishonorable--and more cowardly --plans. We are greatly disgusted with such an ignominous truce." He sald war prisoners who res fuse to return to communisny would 'commit suicide in disgust. Leaders of the South Korean govs ernment were represented as res signed to a truce soon on terms unaccepjable to them, They Were said to be taking the position they would not recog Tecopnig an armistice but that they wo not offer physical resistance. U.S. Insects On March By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Two of mankind's toughest insect opponents--army worms and tent caterpillars--are voraciously ram- paging in record hordes in several sections of the United States this year, A check of Associated Press bur- eaus brought such comments as "heaviest infestation in 20 years," A "worsening by the hour" .-. . "million dollar damage to crops," and comment by the U. 8. depart- 'ment of agriculture that prelimin- ary results of a survey now under way showed a "general outbreak' of army worms from the egst coast to the Mississipi At Watertown, , tent cater- pillars blanketed No tracks in such hordes that a freight train was delayed 35 minutes as wheels skidded on the pulpy mass. Min- nesota was ready to do battle, with the most complete pest control program in 30 years, against what experts have predicted will be the state's "worst tent caterpillar in- festation" in history. NEW AIR RECORD FAIRFORD AIR BASE, England (AP) -- Three U. S. B-47 stratojet bombers smashed the U. England speed record today by flashing across the Atlantic in slightly more than 5% hours. By JOHN M., HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (AP)--State and defence department officials today drafted fresh instructions for UN fidence that an agreement to end the Korean war will shortly be achieved, State department officials have |U. under consideration, meanwhile, the formulation of a basic decision on what the policy of the United States toward Red China should be --whether to try to encourage a truce negotiators in apparent con-|. U.S. China Policy Being Considered split between the Chinese Red leadership and the Kremlin or whether to eliminate this as ime probable and seek some other sole ution, Indications were that an ane nouncement will be made shortly. There appeared to be sharp dife forennes of opinion as to the best course. Some influential ofe flotats take the position that Chine ese Nationalist forces on Formosa must be maintained and made a rallying point for anti-Communist resistance throughout the-Far East, SEOUL (AP)--American Sabre jet pilots bagged eight Communist MiG jets, probably destroyed one {and damaged five in air battles high over North Korea today. Maj. Vermont Garrison became the war's 32nd jet ace by downing 0 his fifth MiG, the air force said. It was the second time this month that Sabres and MiGs have boat. The boat's engine failed, sending the craft crashing into a bridge N h tangled. One MiG was shot down and one damaged Tuesday. On the ground, South Korean in- antry fought with Now Fighting For Bits Of Truce Land grenades to win back Allied outs posts which the Reds may claim if an early armistice halts the threes year-old war. Truce negotiators agreed in Noe vember, 1951, that the cease-fire demarcation line would be along & line of contact across Korea. Since then the main battle line has changed little, but in recent weeks the Reds have grabbed important outposts in the west and a number of advance Allied positions in tha centre and on the eastern ej of bayonets and 'the line. {