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Daily Average Circulation for May, 1953 > 1224 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Pleasant and sunny again to- Morrow. High Wednesday, 75. Very low tonight, 50. OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1953 ii Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES VOL. 12--No. 146 CRA STAFF PREPARES FO Twenty - four smiling summer staff members and four CRA staffers are seem as they pre- pared to start a week's recrea- tion training course on Sunday at Camp Quin - Mo - Lac on Moira | Lake south of Madoc. Along with | some 30 other young people | | from recreation centres at Co- | bourg, Belleville and Peterboro, R SUMMER SEAS they are preparing programs | suitable for the Oshawa parks which they will supervise this | summer. In the back row may | be seen E. R. Higgins, president ON of CRA, who helped transport | staff to camp, and on the right, Wendell Brewster, recreation di- rector, who is giving several of the courses. --Staff Photo. $100,000 JOB Woollen Mills To Become Terminal Realty and™ Invest- ments Corporation which has been incorporated to establish a large bonded: sufferance warehouse in Oshawa, has begun work on the old plant of the Schofield Woollen Company on Centre Street, to com- ovation job will be practically from | the ground up. Only the good walls will be left standing and even they was structurally weak. So the ren- -- Threat PLANETARY EXPLORERS JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CP)--A society to promote the development of inter-planetary ex- ploration and communication has been formed here. Prof. E. H. Bleksley, teacher of applied math- ematics at Rand University, was | nominated president of the group! gains of the past year. At the same {manned to capacity," Bond Warehouse For Trucks to study rocket engineering and associated sciences. The north pole is in the Arctic ocean, but the south pole is within a lofty continent. . CITY QUERIES CPR ON RAIL CROSSING Truck Lay-offs Spur Line To GM Will Bridge 401 The Canadian Pacific Railway wants permission to "| Oshawa plant of General Motors Is Temporary Discontinuance of the night shift | ment, it is estimated that some | on the truck assembly line at the 500 employees will be affected by the layoff, scheduled for June 30. i i ps |All of them, the statement adds, of Canada, Limtted, will be only are recent additions to the work- | temporary, it was announced today ling force and averag less than| from the company's head office three month's service. Some are here. It added that if truck de- | students doing summer work or arc | mand continued at the present short-term transient workers. rate, which is at an all-time high| The company said its domestic | level, it might be necessary to re-|truck sales were running at an all- | vive the two-truck-shift operation | time high and that if demand con- | when additional plant facilities be- |tinued at the present rate it might | come available. be necessary to revive the tw o-| The night shift on the truck as-|truck-shift operation when addition- | sembly line, which was started at|al plant facilities become available. | General Motors plant just about a |The truck schedule adjustment, it | year ago, was made necessary to|said, comes at a time when the | meet an unprecedented backlog of plant is over-taxed to supply the |orders. The return to anormal demands of the Canadian market | | truck building schedule has been |for new passenger car units. |made possible by the production | "The passenger car lines are] said the | time, a lessening of demand for | company's statement, "And the | trucks from the export market has | quotas of materials from suppliers made possible the diversion of ad- {cannot be increased. As a result, | ditional units into the home {men who have been displaced can- | | market. {not be absorbed for the time be- | * According to the company state- ing." {ed its mind and decided to make | city's reluct run a spur line across Stephenson's Read and into the industrial area in the southwestern section of the city which will be occupied by the new General Motors of Canada Limited assembly plant. City council wants the railway to cross Stephenson's Road with an underpass or an overpass. If it will not do so there may well be an impasse. * COMMITTEE SET UP s ings in Oshawa at the present After a protracted discussion last | time, said Alderman Victor. night with senior railway officials, | Well, retorted Mr. Koehn, that council appointed a special com-| ag the penalty you paid for be- mittee, consisting of Aldermen Her- | coming a large industrial centre. bert Robinson, R. D. Humphreys | In any event, he said, he didn't and Wesley Powers, to try and ar- | feel that the situation on Stephen- rive at some sort of a deal with|son's Road warranted the ext ra the CPR. | expenditure. He intimated that W. F. Koehn, General Superin- | council's refusal might jeopardize |tendent of the Ontario District of |the whole scheme. the CPR, was spokesman for the CAN'T STOP CPR railroad delegation which appear-| It was latgr explained that the {ed before members of council. He |city had no "actual power to stop {said that the CPR had been ask-|the CPR from crossing the roa {ed to put in the spur at once by |should the Board of Railway Com- G.M. which had apparently chang- | missioners give permission. The i ce to give permis- the new plant part of the passeng- | sion freely m¥ght act as a deter- er assembly line rather than arent on the baord -- that was all. truck plant. | At this point in the discussion The railroad cleared with the | Alderman Robinson moved that the will be necessarily strengthened. | Numerous windows are being fill- | ed in so that more wall space for "BUBBLE MAY BURST" pletely alter and renovate the pre- | be obtained. mises, The work, which Will| The oman hice are Jott The windows which are left, are To Freight amount to approximately $100,000, y if not more, will give Oshawa its first and only bonded truck ter- minal facilities. Although Smith Transport, as the largest motor carriers, are major shareholders in the Corporation, it will be available to any motor carriers for the purpose of bonded being filled in with glass bricks. Is Ende Front of the building will be on | Royal Street at the north where | WINDSOR, Ont. (CP)--A threat a new one - storey offices building, | of a tie-up of all southwestern 24 by 84 feet will adjoin the pres- | Ontario , freight trucking ended ent structure. The west wing is|Monday when some 600 '"'wildcat' similarly being completely reno- |Striking Windsor transport truck vated. ADD A CENTRE SECTION imports. Rental space at establish- ed rates is available to all firms. For Smiths', it will replace the present warehousing facilities at the corner of Bloor and Simeoe Streets. George' Tonks, Oshawa and Ajax architect, is in charge of the work. There is no general contractor but local firms are tendering on much of the trades work. TO BE WHITE STUCCO The Project is a sort of "rags- to - riches" affair. When finished the entire plant will be a huge, gleaming white stucco building with pew. office section facing north on Royal Street. When work early this month the build- Agan ih Vite Just about as dilapidated buildings can be and still stand. Thefe is about 300 feet frontage on Centre Street. The south section of this wing was badly gutted by §re some years ago. In addition, it In between the east and west sections is a large open centre section 180 feet wide. Trusses will be thrown across this area and it | will be roofed in forming one of | the two large bonded warehouses. | Although a tremendous amount | of work is involved, it is hoped to have the job completed in early August. re re ean Vf SYSTEM OF BONDING ferance warehousing opened here on October 15 last year. The De- | partment . of National Revenue | maintains staff here to look after | this aspect of the import busi- ness. The bonded warehouse is a valuable asset to an industrial | community and a development of | importance 'to companies which import goods and materials from | the United States. It simply means that a shipment | drivers returned to their jobs. Today highway transport trips | | were running on schedule. All day | crews are reported to have re- turned to work this morning. 4 The return to work started Mon- | ay heads and the drivers. L. M. Dodds, | president of Local 880, Interna- tional Brotherhood of Teamsters, | called on the men to return to their jobs. The men left work Friday for receiver without the necessity of customs border examination. The result is quicker shipments with- out any necessity for unloading and reloading for border examinations. This examination is made by fed- | eral officers at the terminal. Because of the new system of |import, the Terminal Realty and | Investment Corporation acquired | the former Schofield Woollen Com- |pany plant last fall. may be made by the sender to the FireDoes$1,000Damage ToNew Thomas St. House Fire destroyed a chesterfield and did smoke and property damage to the tune of an estimated $1,000 this morning at the home of Mr. and Mis. Harry Staples at 57 Thomas Street around 10.30. the recently built seven - room, two - storey stucco house. Firemen had to break a hole in the picture window at the front to jet out the billowing smoke. | The house was one of several {new ones built and owned by Dr. |Bryce A. Brown of 1110 Simcoe Jill, 15, at 8.30 this morning, neigh- bors told The Times - Gazette re- porter, but had left the front door open so that 16 - year - old Peter, who works at Pedlar People Lim- ited, and Bruce, 12, who attends Cedar Dale School, could get in| for lunch. | Council Steers Clear Of Sewer Completion An abortive effort on the part of | why this work should not be done a city council faction, led by Alder- | this year. It would have the effect including Alderman Norman Down, thought the council had taken on {man R. D. Humphreys, to induce | of opening up vast areas of land | council to complete the whole trunk | for sub-division and thus relieving | sewer program this year, was nip- | the housing shortage. It would save ped last night. He failed to find issue alive. A meeting was held recently dur- ing which theprogress of the whole city sewer program was discussed. Alderman Hayward Murdoch and Alderman Humphreys, amofig a tricts particularly. AREAS OPEN UP Last meeting of council Alder- man Humphreys took up the mat- | people money -- people who were following a meeting of union |support for a motion to keep the'|now having to instal septic tanks | to serve their new homes in the | knowledge that they would have to !be taken out in a few years and | sewer connections put in. g | In addition, said Aldérman. Hum- | phreys, the city might well save {what has been termed a delay in |few others, were dissatisfied with | money by doing the work now. If { filing a conciliation board report on [the progress of the trunk sewer |it could be done during the win- The new system of bonded suf- |driver's'wage scale adjustments. installation on each side of the |ter, when contracting firms were | city. They had both been approach- | at their slackest it might be done ed by numbers of people who were | more cheaply. Furthermore, | anxious to see the trunks brought | costs continued to rise, it would | up to Harmony and Westmount dis- | be better to get the work done if |now. The taxpayer was going to {have to foot the bill some time -- why not now? TOO MUCH BURDEN enough at the present time. The taxpayer was being asked to shoul- der an enormous load and more right now might be just enough to break the camel's back. Chairman of the Board of Works Alderman Wesley Powers thought enough was being done at the pre- sent time. It would cost another million dollars to do the work at the present time. By fall of next year the trunk would be extended to the heavily settled areas and by th following summer laterals would be installed. break at any time and then where would we be with this huge finan- { cial load," Alderman Powers said. Ontario Department of Highways and had received permission to put four arches across Highway Num- | ber 401 and the adjoining service | road. It now sought permission from the city to cross Stephenson's Road on the level. MOVE ROAD Why, asked Alderman Joseph Victor, not move the road itself over or under the railway tracks. "I can't see that overpassing the road," said Mr. Koehn. He added that permission it warrants | | railway be allowed to cross the {road provided it provided an over- pass or underpass for vehicular traffic. The motion, as it turned out, was never put to the question. Council decided instead to appoipt the special committee. MILLMAN HESITANT Chairman of the Plarhing Board Norman C. Millman was present but he hesitated to give an opin: | ion. It was certain, he said, that a grade separation was not need- ed at the present time. However, he suggested that the opposing par- {ties think in terms of providing would be received from the Board ; proper levels so that it might be "This bubble of prosperity might | of Railway Commissioners to cross the CNR tracks in that district. The project would cost $1,000,000 as it was and he could not see the necessity for spending more money on an overpass when it was not necessary. HEAVY TRAFFIC "I can forsee the time when, |in view of almost certain GM ex- pansion, the traffic on Stephenson's | Road will be tremendous. The land use plan shows that there had | been space allotted down there for {a general automobile marshalling { yard. What you are liable to have done in the future. There was a good deal of dis- cussion about the number of times and when during the day there would be train movements over the level crossing. Mr. Koehn as- 'sured members of council that there would only be about three | train movements a day and that {all the marshalling and switching could be done east of Stephenson's |Road. He was certain' that he could regulate train movements so that they would not occur at rush | traffic hours. | ROBINSON'S VIEW | "I think the Board of Works is |is a situation similar"to that where | Reviewing, Alderman Robinson {doing a good enough job right now. I live in an area where there are | South," said Alderman Herber t| |the CPR crosses Ritson Road ter in earnest. He wanted to knqw | Mayor W. John Naylor and other, |nb sewers and I am not kicking." | Robinson. S. Korea May Go It 'Alone SEOUL (AP) -- South Korea's Army will be withdrawn from con- trol of the UN command and go it alone if a truce is signed on pres- There are too many level eross- said that he imagined the C P R was bearing the whole cost of CPR | i (Continued on Page 2) Put Russia Down On Vacation List By THOMAS P. WHITNEY | | (The order gave no indication | MOSCOW (AP)--The Soviet gov- [that Russia's tight policy on ad-| ernment has opened wide areas of | mission of foreign visitors was be- European and Asiatic Russia to un- [ing relaxed. In recent years only | restricted travel by foreigners. The | carefully - screened--and usually | first visitor to benefit from the |sympathetic--travellers have new freedom will be Mrs. Perle given entry visas. Mesta, President Truman's party-| The new order apparently clears been |slum-area 'house of murder" in| { addition Count Against Christie Now Is 7 Playgirl Kills LONDON (CP)--Lean-jawed ex- He. pleaded not guilty of murder cop Reginald John Christie com-| When the hearing opened 'Monday mitted three sex' killings in his before a jury of oe men and His lawyer then entered a plea already | of insanity. Timothy Evans, 25, a truck to the four charged against him, an Old Bailey ent terms, President Syngman giving minister to Luxembourg. |the way for foreign residents to | jury was told tod ay. | driver, was hanged in 1950 for the Firemen from both Headquart- : . | Street South, and was insured. It ers and Cedar Dale stations were | was thought by the Chief that the quickly on hand after the alarm |fire ut have started from a had been turned in by Mrs. R. J. |Smoldering cigarette which had Skelton, of 62 Thomas Street. They |8°¢ lodged in the chesterfield. : | Mr. Staples is production man- dragged out the burning chester- [ager of R. D. Werner (Canada) field and played water on the |Ltd. flames that ran along the hard-| Mr. and Mrs. Staples had left wood floor in the living room of [for Toronto with their daughter, So Cedar Dale firemen, under | Captain P. M. Ostler, first on the scene, had easy access to the { house. When the headquarters en- !gine arrived, with Chief W. R. El- liott, it was a matter of mopping up, and assessing smoke damage. The Chief estimated damage 'to the building at $500, and property dam- age at an equal sum. Hungry Is Seething "By TOM REEDY BERLIN (AP)--Hunger in Ger- many's' Communist eastern zone threatened today to re-fire the powderkeg that exploded last week into a world's rebellion against Russian depression. =~ Refugees to West Berlin reported that East Germans, undaunted by Soviet tanks and firing squads, have defied martial law with pro- test marches demanding bread through the streets of Leipzig, Dresden, Demnitz and Eisenach. The tottering puppet government of Premier Otto Grotewohl admit- Reich feeding the 18,000,000 restive East Germans. Its news agency and | broadcasts announced state food | handling agencies had pledged to | make up the losses "caused by the fascist Western agents" in the Strike and riot wave launched June | Jarmers were urged to co-oper- ate. East Berlin was better off than | most areas, but with two policing | Russian armored divisions living | off what was available, the city was short of bread and potatoes. | Refugees described conditions in {many Soviet zones cities as cata- TRUE OR FALSE? All nations rise to show respect-- » False. Tonga tribesmen sit down to show theirs. And when they really want to show defer- elice, they take their clothes off! But Oshawans show respect to Times-Gazette Classified ads by placing them in large num- bers! And the Want Ads, like people, bend over backwards to bring the wanted results! For an ad-writer call 3-2233. Rhee said today in an interview with the Columbia Broadcasting | System. There was-no other reference in the interview to the possibility of South Korea's pulling out of the UN command. Rhee also listed terms he said must be included in an acceptable armistice agreement. They were identical with the points of a com- promise proposal reported earlier today. Sources close to the U. S. em- bassy here said Rhee's terms were wholly unacceptable to the UN command. His proposal calls for: 1. Simultaneous withdrawal of both UN and Chinese forces from Korea. 2. A mutual defence pact with the United States. 3. A three-month post-armistice peace conference with the war to resume if no agreement is reathed before the 90-day deadline. Canadian coal deposits are mated at between one-sixth one-seventh the entire world posits. esti- and de- ST. LAURENT SAYS Prosperity Risked The relaxation was disclosed Monday night in an official note delivered to all foreign diplomatic missions in Moscow. It was re- garded as a significant step since even foreign diplomats until now have been limited in their move- ments. McCarthy On Loose Once More Joseph McCarthy, whether some of the authors in-| volved were Communists. | The Wisconsin Republican said his Senate investigations sub-com- mittee will call 15 or 20 more authors whose books have been | used in U. S, information libraries | overseas for public questioning | about possible Communist affilia- | tions. He announced no date. | McCarthy had demanded that the | state' department take from the! shelves of the libraries, maintained | overseas to give native readers] access to U. S. literature, what he | termed 3,000 "Communist books." WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senator wading back | into the controversy over 'book burning," said today he plans more | public hearings designed to show! Nobody know | visit much of European Rusia and | { vast sections of Siberia, but it still [lists many restricted areas. | It also bans automobile journeys of more than 25 miles outside Mos- | cow, except to three places--the monastery town of Zagorsk, the Tchaikowsky museum at Klin and the Tolstoy museum at Yasnaya Polyanan, south of Tula. Even these cannot be visited by car without prior notice. The new regulations also specify 16-mile deep forbidden zones along the Soviet Union's borders with five neighboring countries -- Norway, Finland, Turkey, Iran and Afghan- |istan, There are no such zones, { however, along borders with such Soviet allies in eastern Europe as Poland, or along the Chinese-Rus- sian frontier in Asia. ADDINGTON, England (CP)-- $ who owns the village green in this old Kent community. Until it has been ascertained, the council will not issue orders to clean up rubbish. In a deathly-silent courtroom, a | death of his baby daughter in No= court clerk intoned statements at- | vember, 1949. His wife, Beryl, was {tributed to the defendant. In these, found dead at the same time. They | Christie admitted he gassed or lived in the same run-down tene- | strangled two London playgirls in | 1943 and a married woman several | years later. | Christie is on trial for slaying {his wife, Ethel, last Dec. 14. He |had originally been charged with the murder of three other women. Today the court heard confes- sions that he killed: 1. Mrs. Timothy Evans, 19, whose husband was hanged three years ago for the murder of their 14-month-old daughter, Geraldine. Christie's evidence sent Evans to the gallows. 2. Ruth Margaret Christine Fuerst, an Austrian, whose skele- ton was found in the backyard of the Christie "death house" at 10 | Rillington place, in Notting Hill Gate, a grimy London suburb. 3. Muriel Amelia Eady, whose bones were found in the same place. Christie's trial is to determine his part in the death of his wife. ment house where Christi had a | two-room apartment. | Christie was a key Crown wit. {ness at the Evans trial and later suffered a nervous breakdown. Ev- ans, who once confessed to slaying his wife, later withdrew the ad- mission and tried to implicate Christie in the erime. In the statement read to the court today Christie admitted kill ing Mrs. Evans, but prosecution, judge and defence lawyer stressed that he had no connection with the death of her daughter, Geraldine. The judge intervened at one point to state: "There is no sug- gestion that anybody else other than Evans killed the child." In a long, rambling statement which he made following his arrest last March, Christie admitted strangling Mrs. Evans with a stocking. He already had con- fessed to killing his wife the same way. City Denies Blackmail Charges that he was being black- mailed by city officials, made re- | city were null and void. He won- | dered why the city, stopped its ex- Of Vendor After Check westerly extension of Hillside Av- enue. ' strophic. { cently by Helge Neilson, were in-|propriation proceedings to fake the ACKNOWLEDGED POLICY ted it faced "grave problems" in Peace in Scotland For Elizabeth II EDINBURGH (AP)---The Queen| Squadrons eof clattering cavalry came to her Scottish capital today escorted her on the drive to her for a glittering round of state cere- | Holyrood House palace. Their scar- monies to mark her Coronation. [let and gold uniforms breught a Radiant in a light blue coat and | brilliant splash of color to the grey tiny, white close-fitting hat, the misty morning. Queen stepped from the royal train| High spot of the week's visit will to receive the keys of the city|be a national service tomorrow in | from Lord Provost Sir James Mil-|St. Giles Cathedral, the high Kirk| er. of the Scottish church. Then she drove with her husband, | ° As the open royal carriage drove the Duke of Edinburgh, in an open through the mist enshrouded gate- | carriage through two miles of grey way of the palace, a salute of 21! Unless Grits Returned By Canadian Press Staff Writer Prime Minister St. Laurent, rais- ing the spectre of the depression- ridden thirties, Monday night launched the Liberal party's bid for re-election. He said Canadians risk their prosperity if his govern- ment is not returned Aug. 10. The. prime minister entered the pre-election fray with a speech in English and French over CBC net- works, repeating it with some elab- oration on a platform in Windsor, will cut taxes by $500,000,000 if elected. Mr. St. Laurent, seeking a second term since succeeding the late prime minister Mackenzie 'King in 1948, said the next government may hav3 to decide questions "which will , determine whether there is to be peace or war, con- tinued prosperity or anether de- pression." "This is surely not a time to take needless risks with our own future." - Canadians were going to think Ont. Meanwhile, Hon. George Drew, Progressive Conservative leader, in his first national radio address of the campaign repeated his party's 16-plank platform, an- stone streets, lined by crowds packed 12-deep, {guns was fired from Edinburgh, 1Castle. ¥ nounced last Friday at a meeting in Guelph, Ont. He said his party / {back to the terrible conditions of !the thirties and contrast them with today's conditions. Since. the Con- servativés' term in power, 1930- 135, Canada achieved econ mic strength, stature in the eyes ¢ the {world and sturdy unity at nome with the Liberals. Reds Accuse R.C. Priests Ot Spying | Communist police have arrested 20 | Catholic priests, including at least! Catholic campaign. | hai. The spokesman said the ar- rests indicated a change in the! party line. He explained that prev-| paratively free from int in many big Chinese cities. General Purpose ' Committee assigned to investigate. The com- mittee was "unable to discover ex- tortion, coercion or defamation of character" and considered such ac- cusations unjustifiable. The matter was better closed, it added. 000 an acre to the Board of Edu- cation the cheque for the sale official (unnamed) until Neilson ed adjacent to the land sold. DENIED AGREEMENT | dignantly denied last night by Ald. | land it needed for the right-of-way, | John Dyer, speaking on behalf of | | the | The report presented last night | by Alderman Dyer, told the story. | TWO YEARS AGO | Mr. Neilson was first contacted |by the Board regarding the pur- | has of 5.6 acres as a site for the | College Hill School about April 23, HONG KONG (Reuters) -- A|- Neilson appeared before council | 1951. The offer of purchase was spokesman for the Roman Catholic | recently and alleged that following | made on April 5, > Church said today that Chinese |the sale of 5.6 acres of land at $2,- [acres of land at $2,000 an acre. 1952, for 5.6 { The offer was accepted and the deed dated June 28, 1952, and reg- seven Americans, in a new anti-|was being held up by some city |istered August 15, 1952. The cheque |for the transaction, made payable Ten were reported arrested in| would agree to give a right-of-way | to Mrs. Neilson was cashed at the Tientsin and another 10 in Shang-|over another piece of land he owy- | Dominion Bank by her on August 952." - } The purchase offer described the Mr. Neilson signed a letter to John Hare (Solicitor for the Board of Education) under date of Aug- ust 15, 1952, (one day before the cheque was cashed), in which he, Mr. Neilson, acknowledged the pol- icy of the city regarding sub - divisions in that the person sub- dividing is responsible for the cost of grading, and gravelling the right-of-way. Ten months after closing the deal, the report continued, Mr. Neilson felt aggrieved and alleged that undue press was brought |to bear upon him when he signed . { the letter and that the cheque was | withheld from him pending™ such | signing. He felt that there should This, Neilson stated, was a forrz | area to be purchased in detail and [not have been any connection be- {cerned all agreements with iously missionaries had been com-|of blackmail. He refused to accede |the right - of - way running north {tween the sale of the property and interference to it and so far as he was con- from the service road along the | the | east side of the school 'site to the | DENIAL (Continued on Page 2)