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| Daily Average Circulation for July, 1953 1208 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle / Sunny warmer. Weather Forecast after tonight, skies Low rain, getting 60; high Tuesday, 80. VOL. 12--No. 183 At 10.45 this morning, only two ballots had been dropped into the box at Centre Street School in sub-division No. 16. However it was much too early in the Authorized os Second-Class Mail, Post Office Bepartment, Ottewe OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 Price Ni S Cents Over ot Per Copy PAGES Harding, poll clerk; standing, Miss E. Wesson, scrutineer and placing her own ballot in the box is Mrs. Norman McEvers, the deputy-returning officer. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. day to predict whether or not a "normal" percentage of votes will be recorded. Pictured here is the staff at this location: seat- ed (left to right) Mrs. James Reid, scrutineer; Mrs. Verna CASE SOLVED? Police Find Pistol Owned By Hunters QUEBEC (CP) -- Solicitor-Gen- eral Rivard said today there are "important and serious develop- ments" in the gruesome murder of three Americans in Gaspe pen- insula. Mr. Rivard, who cancelled plans to hold a press conference amid growing unofficial reports that the Sage may have been solved. ad- "The ends of justice would be obstructed if det: bn éurrent po- lice work were revealed." QUEBEC (CP)--Reliabie but un- official reports indicated today murder of three United States bear hunters may have been solved. Although not revealed until now, police know the murders took place on or about June 10. Eugene H. Lindsay, 45, his 17- year-old son Richard and Fred Claar, 20, all of Hollidaysburg, Pa., were the victims. Ending of the bizarre case was expected within a matter of hours as police activity suddenly was stepped up and a tight lid clamped down on information at provincial police headquarters. These reports hinged on the dis- World's Happiest Ship Full PANMUNJOM (CP) -- Seventeen disabled but happy Americans left Tokyo tonight by plane for the United States, leaving behind grim months in North Korean prison camps. The first Canadian will be flown home Wednesday. Another 328 Americans boarded a navy transport in Inchon harbor, and will sail for home Tuesday. About 1,800 U.S. Marines return- ing home on regular rotation also are aboard the ship, the Gen. Nel- son M. Walker. The big air force plane carrying the vanguard of more than 3,000 Americans scheduled to be lib- erated in the massive prisoner ex- change took off from Tokyo's Han- eda airport at 7:07 p.m. (6:07 a.m. EDT today). Cpl. Joseph Pelletier, 26, of Chat- ham, Ont., the first Canadian pris- oner released under the armistice Aug. 5, will be flown from Camp Britannia to Tokyo and then to Vancouver aboard a Canadian Pac- _ific Air Lines plane. . Today 389 more Allied soldiers returned from North Korean stock- 'ades. The second Canadian was freed Sunday. He is Gunner Orval J. Jenkins, son of Arthur Jenkins, Toronto, formerly of Hamilton. Death Claims 32 Canadians By THE CANADIAN PRESS Thirty-two persons died in acci- |dents in Eastern Canada during | the week-end, including 15 highway | fatalities and 10 drownings. covery in Montreal of an automatic | --TAKING 1,000,000 TO 1 CHANCE Pushed Foot Through Boat Local Electrician Drowns Trying to jam his foot on a flopping bass, John Oshawa, rammed his foot through the bottom of his pistol and other articles identified as belonging to' the three men whose-knawed bones were found in the bear-infested Gaspe bush. ~ been the murder weapon. Quebec Solicitor-General Rivard declined to confirm or deny that a suspect is either under arrest or about to be arrested. He said he would confer with police authorities today, then pro- bably make a statement. The pistol is believed to have A Canadian Press compilation early Monday showed that 14 | deaths were reported in Ontario, {11 in Quebec, four in Nova Scotia | and three in New Brunswick. There were two triple fatalities |in Quebec. Roger Mathieu, 31, of | Montreal, and two children were | killed when Mathieu's car collided with a bus on Jacques Cartier | Bridge. Police said the children have not been identified, but they were between the ages of three and five. McDiarmid accompanied by his brother, Leonard of Oshawa, and his father-in-law, Leslie Ma- gee of Oshawa, was on holidays. He was staying with his wife and two small daughters at a cottage at the north end of Sturgeon Lake, about nine miles from Fenelon Falls, and 70 miles northeast of Oshawa. BOAT WENT OVER With the hole in its bottom, the boat soon filled and turned over. The men tried to cling to it but somehow in the scramble McDiar- mid went under and was not seen again. The cries of the two men were heard by Jack Aston and Charles Knapp who rowed out and brought the two men to safety on shore. After treatment by Dr. Thomas, of Bobcaygeon, they were taken to Ross Memorial Hospital iin Lindsay. Dragging operations were car- ried on until 1.30 a.m. Saturday without result. It was not until late Saturday that the body 'was recovered. y Born at Keewatin, Ontario, on Stage Set For Beria's Mock Trial LONDON (AP)--The Soviet Parl- iament rubber-stamped its appro- val today of the purging of Lav- renty P. Beria and ordered the case against the Kremlin's No. 2 man to the Soviet Supreme Court. The decree of the Supreme Coun- cil. (Parliament), broadcast by Moscow radio, indicated that the stage iS being set for the trial of Prime Minister Malenkov's one time top deputy who rose to power as the head of Stalin's secret police. a son of Robert McDjarmid of Oshawa and the late Sadie Me- Diarmid. He was married in Osh- awa on March 25, 1944. He came to Oshawa from Carleton Place 18 years ago. He wa. in the armed forces during the last war. An employee of Hill-Cornish EI- ectric, the deceased was an elec- trician and engaged in construction work. He was a member of King Street United Church. Besides his father he leaves to morn his passing his wife, the former Doris Laura Magee and two daughters, Margapet Ann and Dianne Louise. 12 IN FAMILY Also surviving are three sisters, Miss Vera Evelyn McDiarmid of Ottawa, Mrs. Edgar Drummond (Muriel) of Carleton Place and Mrs: Blair Simpson (Doreen) of Ashton, Ontario, and nine brothers. William Gordon of Oshawa, Harold Clifton (Cliff) McDiarmid, 41, of 19 Whiting Avenue; | plywood boat and caused his own death by drowning in| Sturgeon Lake at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday. Point | March 23, 1912, the deceased was | CLIFF McDIARMID | of Oshawa, Ross of Toronto, Elmer 1 | ton Place, Williard and Orville of Hamilton and Douglas of London, Ont. The funeral service will be held from the Armstrong Funeral Home | | at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 11, | | followed by interment in Mount | Lawn Cemetery. Rev. R. E. |gan of the Free Methodist Church will conduct the services. City On Vacation Poses Poll Problem Although light voting is being predicted across the country, there are some indications that it may not fall far below normal in Osh- awa. A check between 11 and 12 o'clock this morning showed that voters were beginning to come to the booths in fairly good numbers. Few customarily cast ballots be- fore noon at any time. Morning rain was a factor in keeping some voters at home but clearing skies at noon and the fore- cast of a sunny afternoon will make it a good day for a stroll to the poll- ign booth. At the home of A. T. McGlashan, 362 Athol Street East, in sub-divi- sion 57A, 19 out of 182 had v oted by 11.10. In the "B" section of the same district, 12 persons out of 184 | had come to the pool. At the home | S. Koreans Training PERT MISS A little girl stands upright in a big pipe which will eventually boost Oshawa"s supply of drink- ing water. Elaine Vaillancourt is three years old and she lives at Oshawa harbor. Nearby are IN A PIPELINE 77 pieces of pipe which will run |into Lake Ontario as part of the | new intake system. And what | could be more natural than that | a small girl should want to try out a piece for size? Times-Gazette" Staff Photo CHICAGO (AP)~The AFL exe- cutive council held an ouster threat over its crime-laden East Coast - waterfront - workers union TLC To Fight On For Health Plan OTTAWA (CP)--Percy R. Ben- Sgough, 70-year-old Trades and Labor Congress president, served notice today that no matter what government is elected at the polls. 550,000-member labor body will wcontinue its fight for a national health insurance "plan. The veteran labor leader. who begins within four weeks his 11th presidential term, told the TLC convention at its open- « ing that the country's biggest labor body also will continue its drive for other social benefits. "We want to see the age limits for old-age pensions reduced," he said in a prepared address. "We want, the monthly payments in- creased. We want the coverage and provisions of the Unemploy- ment Insurance Act extended. There are immediate and neces- sary godls of our congress today." The congress will continue to help Canada keep up its guard against the inroads of communism, Mr. Bengough said. Labor mus* constantly be aware, he said, that despite the current | thaw in the cold war and the Kor- ean truce, "international commun- ism through its enslaving dictator- ship in Moscow is the outright foe of democracy and all free trade unions." A AFL Showdown On Dock Crime (today at a showdown hearing on | clean-up demands. Joseph P. Ryan, lifetime presi- |dent of the AFL's International Longshoremen's Association, was expected to defend his 65,000-mem- ber organization from charges of | harboring criminal elements and to claim the ILA already has launched its own purge. | The AFL council, all-powerful ruling. agency of the 10,000,000- | member AFL, was reported luke- | warm about the embattled union's | purity plans and about to kick the {ILA out of the AFL. The ILA has been pleading for a chance to hold a series of trials to determine whether ILA leaders | with criminal or racketeer back- {grounds should continue at their | jobs, but the AFL was reported skeptical of the plan as long as as the 69-year-old Ryan, himself under indictment for stealing union { funds, is kept at the union's helm. This is the first 'case of union | corruption within the AFL since George Meany won the AFL presi- dency succeeding the late William i! SHOWDOWN (Continued on Page 2) SEOUL (AP)--President man Rhee said today South Korea's army will use the armistice period to train "for an offensive whenever necessary." The statesman also said in a statement that if the post-war po- litical conference fails to unify Korea in 90 days "the 16 United Nations, including the U.S., will join us in an effort to achieve our unification by other means." United Nations headquarters in New York announced Friday that the 16 countries with troops in Korea had agreed to take up arms again if Red forces break the truce and attack South Korea again. The announcement made no mention of renewing the war to unite Korea or of a time limit on the political conference. Rhee told his people 'there is no definite commitment that they will resume warfare."" But he said the countries involved "certainly For Any Offensive Syng- | recognized our right to pursue our | The Leaders Take Day Easy objective by our own means and, in such a case, we firmly believe we will have the more effective aid from the United ' Nations Allies." U.S. State Secretary Dulles, en route home after negotiating a mutual security pact with Rhee, told newspaper men in Honolulu Thursday that he had "categoric assurance' from Rhee that South Korea would not upset the armis- tice. Dulles said that as far as con- |' tinued peace in Korea is concerned "we have a formal signed agree-|: ment." In his statement today Rhee said: "We are particularly glad to see || our soMiers, who have been sub- ject to continued fighting, now can have time to rest . . . Our soldiers | will use this" 'period of rest for |: training, physically and mentally, | . for an offensive whenever neces- |: sary." WIESBADEN. Germany (AP)-- The U. S. Air Force today rescued 24 American airmen who para- chuted into the Libyan desert late Saturday night, minutes before their disabled C-119 "flying box- car" crashed into the sands. Three of the airmen were found much later than the first 21. The crash area was 60 miles south of the big U. S. base at Wheelus Field, Tripoli. The survivors, none seriously in- jured, were taken by helicopter and ground rescue teams to 'the air force hospital at Wheelus. Some had suffered cuts and bruises and ankle injuries in the jump. The plane, carrying a crew of six and 18 passengers, was on a flight across the Mediterranean from Udine, Italy, to Wheel 24 Rirmen Parachute From Plane Into Desert off the North African coast. British and American and Italian planes from Naples, Wheelus and Malta had searched all day Sunday and resumed the hunt again today. Brigade C.0. Sick With Flu' IN KOREA (CP)--Brig. Jean Al- lard, commander of the Canadian 25th brigade, is ill with influenza in the Commonwealth general hos- pital at Kure, Japan, The Canadian Press learned today. THe Canadian commander was stricken during a tour of Canadian army installations in Japan. field, the big air force base near Tripoli. Earlier reports said the craft crashed into the sea and five sur- vivors had been picked up, but the wreckage and the survivors were spotted in the desert today from the air by Col. Royal Anthis, commander of the Wheelus air base. One report said the passengers were members of a U.S. service baseball team and several officers on their way to Wheelus. The plane had been missing since Saturday midnight, when it re- ported that it was 30 to 50 miles FIRST EYE MAKE-UP ON CLEOPATRA Cleopatra--wouldi"t you know it--was the" first woman to use eye make-up, it's said. But Oshawa women, wouldn't ou know it, are the wise some- odie; who make up through Class'tCed ads the money spent on vacations and other summer- doings! Phone 3-2233 for an ad-writer and let her show you how to easily make a fast dollar. jof Frank Hoag, Rossland Road | West, 16 out of 136 possible voters {had marked ballots at the same | time. | Five minutes later, a call to Vi- | vian's Service Station revealed that in 86A, 21 out of 214 had voted; at 86B, 18 out of 182. At the home of J. M. O'Don- nell, 334 Ritson Road North, in sub-division No. 27A and B a total of only 28 out of 387 had been there so far. There was no doubt that speed up after lunch time. Centre Street School, sub-division No. 16, reported a very light vote at 11.30 as did sub-divisions 1A and 1B at the home of Norman Nichol- as, 608 Sommerville Street. In Whitby this morning a check revealed that more than 10 per cent of the electorate had voted { by 12.30 p.m. Best turnout was at { polling station number two where | 86 out of 500 registered had voted. | Over 440 people had cast their vote at 12 polling stations and were at- | tending in steady numbers. SIR WINSTON BETTER VER AGAIN si Defies Pessimists $ By Sending Deputy Off On Vacation Sprightly old Sir Winston Churchili is getting back into form after his illness. Completely defying the pessi- mists who were yesterday. expressing worry about his ondition and demanding bulletins, the veteran states- | Wellington of Carleton Place, Leon- | {ard of Oshawa, Warner of Carle- | Dar- | activity at the polls will greatly | man Sir Winston arranged for R. A Butler, who has been carrying out the day-to-day dutiés of prime minister as well as his own job as chancellor of the exchequer, to | take a holiday. OFF TO SCOTLAND "Rab" Butler will take off from London tomorrow to spend his vacation in Yorkshire and Scotland. Parliament 'is in recess and it is not known when he will be coming back. The prime minister's medical advisers have still to say when he will be fit to return to his office |'but authorative sources say he is | making good progress. Scare stories published in Brit- din's Sunday newspapers yesterday set the world worrying about Sir that it was in late June Churchill's doctors ordered him to take a complete rest. Since that time no announcement had been made of the nature of his ailment or how long he was going to be out of the driver's seat of UK affairs. + | NO DETAILS Sir Winston; in one of his more directive momos, refused to let the doctors release details of his | illness. He claimed that an an- nouncement would only start more rumors. And he just let it ride "Vinston's health. Writers recalled | that | he is 78 years old --today prepared to resume his full duties as prime minister of the United Kingdom. & -- -- Cadet And Gir assed In Car | VICTORIA (CP) A young woman and a naval cadet were | accidentally gassed to death in a | Victoria auto court Sunday. | Police are withholding details of | the accident until next-of-kin have been notified. The young woman is believed to be from the Okanagan valley in B. E- and the cadet from Windsor, nt. with the simple statement that he had "nervous fatigue'. Still master-minding the govern- ment from behind the scenes Sir Winston was living at his official country residence of Chequers. Later this week he will move back to his own home of Chartwell in Kent. During the last few days a steady stream of Britain's civil and military leaders has visited the prime minister. He is believed to have arranged for Mr. Butler's holiday during one of these trips. Tenders are now being call- | |ed by the engineering department | of Canadian National Railways for grading work to be done in connec- | tion with the building of a new sid- | ing to serve the new plant of | New CNR Storage Yard To Serve South Plants cars can be available in that sec- tion of the city "when we want em." Location is on the south side of the main line tracks immediately west of the Park Road bridge and east of Stevenson's Road. No. new General Motors and other industry | property was acquired by the rail- in the southern section of Oshawa. | way which had sufficient right-of- It wi Il consist of four tracks which | way in that area. will provide storage capacity for| Tenders will be for excavation, about 116 cars. | grading and disposal of cut mat- Today, Huffman, chief engineer | erial. It is anticpated that several for the CNR, said that this is not a | local firms will be interested. Bid- make-up yard but simply added | ding closes at 12.30 EST on August storage space so that a supply of 18. Wait For MR. DREW By ALAN DONNELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)--Hon. George Drew, 20,000 miles of campaign- ing for votes behind him, today awaits the voters' verdict on the Progressive Conservative party's appeal for their support. The 59-year-old party leader, looking healthy but weary after | seven weeks of travelling and talk- ing, casts his ballot today near his home in Ottawa East constituency. Residence qualifications keep {him from voting in Carleton con- stituency, where he is a candidate. He planned to work at his of- fice in the Parliament Buildings during the day and go to his party's national headquarters here this evening to watch the election returns come in. by His final speeches were made Saturday at Oshawa, Cobourg and Kingston, Ont. They followed the pattern set all across the contry with the emphasis on the first point in the Progressive Conservative 16- | point election platform--a promise |to cut taxes by at least $500,000.- 000 a year without reducing social services or impairing defence ef- ficiency. MR. ST. LAURENT By RICHARD DAIGNAULT Canadian Press Staff Writer QUEBEC (CP)--A dapper 71- year-old gentleman today awaited the results of Canada's general election with perhaps a little a. anxiety than most of his fellow! citizens. | Taking things easy in his three- | storey yellow-brick home--much | like other homes of well-to-do Que- | {bec business men who live on his- toric Grande Allice--Prime Min-| ister St. Laurent planned to cast | his vote in Quebec South riding | where his old friend C. G. (Chubby) | Power is running for re-election. | Sunday night he closed a gruel- | ling cross-country campaign in his | Quebec East constituency--a seat | formerly held by two other power- ful Quebec Liberals, Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Ernest Lapointe, whose death during the war led to Mr. St. Laurent's entry on the Canadian political theatre. Before an enthusiastic crowd in the Limoilou parish hall Mr. St. Laurent, -speaking in French, talked about Canadian unity, the country's growth as an adult na- tion, his government's social wel- fare measures, and Canada's dut- ies as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mr. St. Laurent told the voters he would promise them nothing, not even that there would not be a third world war Tonight's Big News MR. COLDWELL DAVIDSON, Sask. (CP)--CCF leader M. J. Coldwell wound up what could be his last federal elec- tion eampaign in his home con- stituency of Rosetown-Biggar Sat- | urday night, telling 140 persons at a party rally here that the CCF program is suited to the needs of all Canadians. Mr. Coldwell had opened his campaign in Saskatchewan last month and then travelled to the Maritimes, westward to British Columbia and back to the pro. vince he has represented in the House of Commons since 1935. During his campaign, the CCF leader said he might retire from politics if the next government of Canada institutes a national health plan. National health was the chief subject of Mr. Coldwell's addres- ses. In his Ist speech -here, Mr. Coldwell said the CCF party be- lieves in co-operative work for the good of all and placing humanity first. It can find solutions to pres- ent-day problems, he said. The CCF program was suited to the needs of all Canadians be- cause it was a product of a cross- section of the people with the sole purpose of promoting a. better life for all. .