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Daily Average Circulation for June, 1953 12300 THE DAILY TIMES. AZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Cloudy, 80. - Weather Forecam clearing by ngon Saturday. Low tonight, 65; high tomorrow, VOL. 12--No. 183 'Authorized as Second-Cless Mell, Post Office Deportment, ONewe OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1953 Price Not Over $ Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES 7 ARMED MEN PLANNED HOLDUP & 2 4 OF OSHAWA BANK TO GET GM PAY Police Thwart Scheme GiveUp To Quit Chance Korea By JIM BECKER FREEDOM VILLAGE, Korea (AP) -- Liberated Americans "today disclosed for the first time that some United States prisoners of war, and at least one Briton, have swapped freedom for life under Communist rule. Many South Koreans also were ¢ of the prisoner exchange except for |H said to have chosen to remain under Communist rule as a result of intense Red propaganda. Two U.S. soldiers just released from the same North Korean stock- ade said they knew of about seven Americans who had refused repat- riation, apparently the victims of Red propaganda lectures. Four other repatriates said at least three Americans they knew probably will remain behind of their free will.' Cpl. James Davis, Bradshaw, Md., said the three got special treatment. "If you hit one of them you'd be going down the road, two to five years in prison," Davis said. "We called them G.I. Chinks or Chink lovers." : Three returning privates con- curred with Davis that the three, all Negroes, would not return. The four were liberated from a Red prison camp at Pyoktong near the Manchurian border. Another Ameyicay hom he stockade, Pte. Steve Glo- Prokomg Brooklyn said the camp was emptied during the first days one Briton and seven Americans. He said the eight stayed behind voluntarily. "They were having a party when we left," Glowacki said. "I didn't associate with them." Under the armistice terms, pris- oners, both Allied and Red, who refuse repatriation are to be turned (# over to a five-nation commission, |# during which time agents from their homelands will have a chance to convince them to return. FREE IN 6 MO If they continue to refuse repat- |§ riation they will be freed within six months after the armistice was | sighed. : : he Communists, in a Peiping (H radio broadcast today, said they have never screened prisoners to determine whether they want to return home. The broadcast said the Reds will | tell the UN command "as soon as possible" the number of captives |™¥ they hold who refuse repatriation. Other Americans returned in to- PoWS STAY (Continued on Page 2) Local Company Financing Campaigns, Says Powers AJAX -- (Times-Gazette Staff Reporter) -- In optimistic mood TT, D. Thomas MLA speaking at a victory in the coming elec- if the CCF receives good sup- port from votes in Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa. Wesley Powers said that the program for housing would it possible for workers to es for a $1000 down pay- per month extended ars with an interest r cent. Mr. Powers there would be mortgage com- interest rate, but used build all the houses needed. EiE £8 ot ij f 1 i; i 1] i g i g 'We know the insurance com- panies and vested interests are fi- nancing the campaign for the old line parties, 1 NE eek one company donate: to eac party, #honey which was taken from workers id the first place," decl Mr. Powers. Answering a question from the audience regarding federal aid for education Mr, Thomas said that question was. near to his heart. Responsibility for education should not be placed on real estate but should be paid by the Provincial and Federal governments. The 1952 Abbott budget gave the big corporations 90 millions of dol- lars rebate. In 1952 the Provincial government gave the same cor- porations 150 millions rebate. "That is where the CCF would get the money for education," commented Mr. Thomas. THIS WAS SCENE OF PLAN inc Gunmen planned to turn the Royal Bank of Canada branch in Oshawa, pictured above, into a gun-cowed scene of an audacious hold-up last Friday, according to Toronto police. One of, Oshawa's biggest banks, the Royal had been reconnoitered by the gun- men who, again according to po- lice, made plans for the hold-up while staying at an Oshawa hotel. Jt is seldom that the Royal is Kinsey's Latest Sex Study Book Gets Advance CHICAGO (AP)--Dr. Alfred A. Kinsey, the Indiana University sex researcher, says 85 per cent of American women violate sex laws during their lifetime and would go to jail if they were caught and prosecuted. The percentage of male violators is even greater--95 per cent, Kin- sey said. Kinsey told a press conference Thursday that y a small frac- tion of sex offences are prosecuted because "the laws are so com- pletely at variance with people's actual behavior." Dog Found Lost Climber Who Kept On Shaving JASPER, . (CP)--Mountain climber Alex McCoubrey of Winni- pee is recovering in hospital after ing lost for nine days in the Rocky Mountains near the Al- berta-British Columbia boundary 200 miles west of Edmonton. ¥ The 32-year-old veteran moun- tain climber told his rescuers that a dog found him. "I guess I owe my life to Laddie," he said. The collie dog is owned by park warden Clarence Wilkins of the Whirlpool river area where McCoubrey was found. The search was just about to be abandoned Wednesday when Mec- Coubrey was found "well but weak." He was taken to Seton hospital in Jasper. Earlier reports said he was found Thursday. McCoubrey, son of a f r president of the Alpine Club of Ca- nada, became separated from his party July 28. One story said he turned back on the slope of Browne peak after the party completed 6,000 feet of the climb. The second said he disappeared during the descent. ' Suffering no a nt ill effect from his ordeal, McCoubrey never- theless was ordered by hospital officials to refrain from seeing any visitors. They said he was apparently quite tired and was sleeping, but that his general condition was "quite fine."' When McCoubrey and the rescue party reached the Jasper-Colum- bia * Icefields highway about six miles from Jasper Park Lodge late Wednesday, the Winnipeg man looked fit although his clothing was -worn and tattered. "I feel pretty good," he said. McCoubrey said he had shaved every day since being lost eight days ago. . "My razor is rather dull now," he added. He told RCMP Cpl. E. Kelsbery of the Jasper detachment, who headed the party that reached Mec- Coubrey in the woods, that he had two sandwiches in his pocket when lost. He ate one the second day of his wandering and consumed the second for his "Sunday dinner." Second LotofPoW's In Healthier Shape PANMUNJOM (AP)--A health- jer group of 394 allied war pris- oners came out of Communist cap- tivity today and added to mush- rooming reports that the Reds are holding back some PoWs--includ- ing perhaps 2,000 tp 3,000 Ameri- cans. Eighty-one Americans were among the group released today under a brilliant sun at this way- side vilage in the third day of the Korean war prisoner exchange-- "Operation" Big Switch." Although the Red had promised 400, an unofficial count showed six South Koreans missing from the scheduled 250. There was no im- mediate explanation. The Reds also sent back 25 Britons, 25 Turks, 12 Filipinos and seven Colombians. They said the next group, sched- uled Saturday morning, would in- clude 90 American®), 250 South 35 Turks 25 Bri Britons, five That will bring the total of Americans released to 311, a frac- tion of the 3,313 the Reds have promised to return. In all, the Alies are handing over 74,000 Reds for 12,863 Allied | PoWs. The UN command sent back 2,753 Communists today, a quieter and bttter-behaved group than those of the first two days, who ranted wildly .in last-minute shows of defiance. They still sang and chanted, but they were more re- strained and did not attack UN personnel as they did earlier. The allied repatriates, wearing faded blue Chinese uniforms, ap- peared in much better condition mentally and physically than the sick and weary men released the first two days. Even so, some were ill and needed medical care. The Reds, showing eagerness for the first time, started the exchange minutes ahead of time. ¢ Then he subsisted on berries and water. McCoubrey was found in the Iro- quois creek section over the divide. He was located largely through the efforts of Laddie who picked up his trail 12 miles from the search- er's camp. McCoubrey told the searchers he had decided that if he hadn't been found Wednesday he would 'have to give in by nightfall." After food and a night's rest the party started on the 28-mile horse- back ride to Jasper early Thurs- day. The only explanation McCoubrey gave as to why he had lost con- tact with his original group was that he became confused in the appearance of two ridges and chose the wrong one. "They both looked alike," he said. SPEAKING HERE Hon. George Drew, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, who wil pay a visit to Oshawa at 10 am. tomorrow morning. He will speak to the workers in the committee room at 11 Celina Street and remain in the riding for about an hour. Mr. Drew will be returning to Ottawa following a tour of the western part of the psowince, This was fart of the crush of people that would have greeted any gunmen who tried to hold up the Royal bank in Oshawa last Friday. A photographer from The Times-Gazette was in the as peaceful as the picture shows and how seven armed men -- one carrying a Sten gun, could have got through the traffic jams and swarms of people in the bank last Friday has not yet been explain- ed. bank at the - time when the raia was plafined! This was the peaceful scene he photographed. It could have been a sight of blazing guns, according to To- ronto men, who bust up the gang. Myrtle Station Farm to Become Breeding Centre Extensive building and recon- struction work is now under way on the farm, near Myrtle Station, formerly owned by the late James Duff and recently by R. W. Upham who has now moved to Nova Scot- ia. The large acreage has been purchased by James Franceschini of the Dufferin Construction Com- pany, Toronto, who intends to make it a stock farm, especially for his harness horses and the hackney ponies in which he is particularly interested. The property recently changed hands for ,000. At the same time, Mr. Fran- FREAK DEATH LONDON, Ont. (CP)--John A. Burdett, 46-year-old Point Edward man critically hurt in a freak ac- cident while watching stock car races at Warwick track, Sarnia, July 25, died last night in Victoria Hospital here. Unconscious since the accident, Burdett was brought here Thurs- day to be examined by brain spe- cialists, though little hope was Held for his recovery. He suffered fractured left shoul- der and internal head injuries when struck on the head by a wheel which flew loose from a stock car out of control. ceschini disposed of a stock farm which he has operated on North Yonge Street. Indications are that the new property at Myrtle will become a real show place and a credit to the district. General 'PARIS (AP)--France's. 2,000,000 civil servants slapped Premier Jos- eph Laniel with a crippling 24-to 48-hour country-wide general strike today. They demanded he cut de- fence costs instead of raising their 'retirement age and trimming their ranks. The protest against the premier's rumored plans for government economies was France's worst * | strike since the 1936 days of Social- ist Leon Blum's Popular-Front gov- ernment. Trains ground to a halt through the country. Telephones were dead. Gas flickered feebly. Garbage piled up in the streets. Non-government mine workers also joined in. The one "bright" spot was in Paris--the subway and bus sys- tems were operating. Taxis also were available there. Otherwise business and commer- cial life f#apidly approached paral- ysis. It'looked as' if much of it would stay that way until Monday. Unlike most French strikes, this one was not called by the Com- tmunists but by the Socialist Labor Strike Cripples France Force and the Christian Labor Federation. The Red General Con- federation of Labor, however, hap- pily joined in. The walkout was ordered to pro- test reports that Laniel's six-week- old government planned to up the retirement age for government workers from 57 to 62 and lop many employees off the public pay- roll. Tuberculosis Treatment Originated in England Pneumothorax, the method of collapsing a lung of a tubercular patient to promote healing, was originated in Liverpool, England in 1884. But if your bank-balance has collapsed, Classified ads in The Times-Gazette are the invention for you! You quickly cure -dollar-osis by selling things you're not us- ing, renting spare living space or taking a good job. All done through Want Ads! Call 3-2233. The robbery, according The Times-Gazette showed plans. They revealed that Oshawa to take statements. small." to take place last Friday when the bank was jammed to the doors with people drawing their pay. A picture in Local police didn't say much this morning about the Arrest of 11 men by Toronto police last week thwart- ed the audacious plans which, one Kingston penitentiary ex-inmate boasted, would have made "Boyd's gang look By Arresting 13 Of Gang Police have broken up the plans of an armed Toronto ¢ gang which intended, it is alleged, to hold up the Royal Bank in Oshawa, and steal part of the $1,312,000 vacation pay put out by General Motors last week. to the police, was scheduled the crush, Toronto police had been in police said, during two trips the gang made to an Oshawa hotel in recent weeks. The hotel's name was not disclosed. A member of the staff of the Royal Bank said that he had heard nothing from the police about the planned hold-up. LOCAL HIDE-OUT Some of the men in custody have been charged with other hold-ups which the police think were staged to raise money to provide the rob- bers with guns, two cars and the rent of an Oshawa home -- again the location was not revealed -- as a hide-out. Two more persons were arrested Thursday night by the newly- formed police holdup squad under Sgt. Jim Morgan, Police said they found a fully-loaded Sten gun in the trunk of a car parked on a vacant lot and a loaded revolver hidden behind a radio in the Pop- lar Plains road home where the arrests were made. SOLDIER CHARGED Jointly charged with the theft of the Sten gun, receiving and poss- essing a deadly weapon are Pte. Preston Nix of the army ordnance depot here and Theresa McKenzie, 28, alias Lalonde, alias Nix. Police said the payroll gang, composed mainly of Kingston Pen- Plans for the robbery were made, ¢ in prison. Four of them were car- ried out but members of the gang told police they were 'just warm- ups" for two big holdups. OSHAWA AND SCARBORO Police information was that with- in two weeks, beginning last Fri- day, the mob planned to rob the Royal Bank at the main intersec- tion in Oshawa of the General Motors payroll and then another bank in suburban Scarborough. Detectives said Nix, arrested Thursday night, was an armorer at the army depot, teaching cadets how to handle machine guns, Sten guns and other small arms. They charge he stole the gun in pieces last month. WORSE THAN BOYD One of the gang was reported to have told police: "It's a good thing you caught us when you did. In another two weeks we would have made the Boyd gang look sick." (The gang headed by bank Rob- ber Alonzo Boyd left a trail of big holdups across . Southern Ontario before being rounded up and sen- tenced.) Several of those now in custody are charged with the holdups of the Skene Brothers Transport Com- pany and the Orchard Park tavern in Toronto, along with two other robberies in the Hamilton area. SEVEN ON GM JOB itentiary "graduates,"" made elab- orate plans for six holdups while 'the arrangements for the General Sgt. Morgan, who helped uncover TOUGH TURK TOKYO (AP)--A returning Turk- ish soldier. said today a Chinese Communist tried to cut off his finger. with a bayonet to steal his wedding ring. "I was fatter then and he pulled !out his bayonet after he could not | tear it off with his fingers," said Turkish Pte. Cemal Balci at Tokyo Army Hospital. "First he tried to pry it off with a bayonet--then he made a ges- ture as if to cut off my finger. "I held' out my hand and told him in Turkish 'go ahead' but he didn't do it." Balci was captured near the Yalu river Oct. 28, 1950. Motors "job," said seven men, six armed with revolvers, the other with a Sten gun, were going to rob the bank. Each man had practised his duties. A policeman stationed af trance of the bank was to gun shoved in his ribs and then forced into the bank. The gang, police said, made two trips to an Oshawa hotel in recent weeks to make their plans. Arrested last week in three sep- arate raids were: William Lowe, 30; Andrew Peacock, 27; Joseph Renaud, 25; Jack Marshall, 18; Gorman Cassidy, 35; Leo Craig, 51; Leo Gauthier, 50, all of Tor- onto, and three women, Betty Cas- en-" {sidy, 26; Shirley Reynolds, 29 and 'Shirley Forrest, 21. WARRANTS OUT Police also have warrants out for the arrest of another man. Gauth- ier was originally charged with vagrancy but police said he will be charged with the Orchard Park armed robbery. kad They linked recent 'large scale" theft of guns from the army's small arms depot at nearby Long Branch to the plan for the Oshawa holdup. They refused to disclose details but said four revolvers were seized in a raid early today on a Cooks- ville house, about 20 miles west of here. | HERE IN 1955 SUDBURY -- (Special to The Times-Gazette) -- The next bien- nial convention of the Ontario Command of the Canadian Legion, to be held in 1955, will be staged in Oshawa. This was decided un- animously yesterday afternoon at the closing session of the 1953 con- vention here. Invitation to have the next con- vention in the Motor City was ex- tended to the delegates earlier in the week by M. McIntyre Hood on behalf of the Oshawa Branch and community. Petrborough and Win sor, which have had aspirations for the 1955 gathering, withdrew their bids in favor of Oshawa and made the decision unanimous. 900 DELEGATES The present convention was at- tended by approximately 900 ac- redited and fraternal delegatess re- presenting over 500 Legion branchs throughout the province. The Osh- awa Branch will have the respon- sibility of organizing all the local arrangements for the 1955 event and of arranging for hotel accom- modation and billets to house the delegates when they are in the city. The last Legion convention held in Oshawa was that of 1931. Osh- awa Branch delegates stated that an early start would be made on the organization of committees to Overloaded Yacht Sinks MONTREAL (CP)--A woman and two children were drowned and seven persons rescued late Thursday when a motor-driven vacht capsized after striking a floating log in the St. Lawrence river off Lanoraie, *35 miles down- stream from Montreal. The dead were identified as Mrs. Eugene Jobin, 41, and Bernard Desmarteaux, 5, both of Montreal, and Cecile Hervieux, 2, of Lan- oraie. , The yacht sank almost at once, and all 10 passengers were thrown into the water, Garard Dube and Jean Chaput, whe were in a boat nearby, drew alongside in their craft and, plunging repeatedly into the water, managed to haul sevcn of the struggling passengers to safety. Lieut. Gaston Vanier of Quehec provincial police said the ill-fated vacht, operated by Henri Cadieux, 64, of Montreal, was overloaded. take charge of the many details which are left to the local branch to arrange. The convention's heavy agenda included . resolutions calling for compulsory national service, - the extension of liquor privileges to ex-service Indians, the establish- ment of Nov. 11 as a statutory holiday and an increase in veter- ans' allowances and pensions. LEFT OVER BUSINESS More than 40 other resolutions awaited attention when the conven- tion closed Thursday. These wil be forwarded to the incoming ex- ecutive for consideration Ontario Command Of Legion To Stage Oshawa Convention Maj. G. H. Tolley of Sault Ste. Marie was inducted as the provin- cial president, succeeding T. A. M. Hulse of Toronto. Henry Harvey of Ottawa is the vice-president. A COBOURG OFFICER Regional vice-presidents elected were: Ray Mann of Brantford, J.C. Burnet of Cobourg, Leo Troy of North Bay and Jack Burrows of Windsor. E. K. Brunton of Sud- bury was re-elected honorary trea- srer. Leo Cnningham of St. Cathar- ines is chairman of the Ontario section and Chester Merriam of Toronto vice chairman. Me Fifteen-year old Albert' Nagey 551 Albert Street, pupil of Holy Cross Separate School, is shown proudly holding the trophy which he won at the Canadian Legion convention in Sudbury, as win- | PRIZES HIS PROVINCIAL TROPHY ner of the provincial elementary schools public, speaking contest. His address which won for him the championship trophy was bhroadra- by Radio Station CKLB last night. Times-Gazette Staff Phote