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Daily Average _ Circulation for July, 1953 1208 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Conibining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Thunderstorms tonight, and humid Thursday, with high of 92, and low of 70 tonight. then hot VOL. 12--No. 205 uthcrized es Second-Class Mail, post Office Department, Otiawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1953 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES FIRST CON In keeping with a tradition established some years ago The Oshawa Chapter of The Society for the Prevention of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America Inc. has made the first donation to the Oshawa Commu- | nity Chest Campaign for 1953. General Simonds Springs To Defence Of Canadian'Brigade OTTAWA (CP)--Canada's top soldier, Lt.-Gen. Guy Simonds, Tuesday sprang angrily to the de- fence of the army he commands. After listening to reporters ques- tion Field Marshal Sir John Hard- ing, chief of the imperial general staff, about a Maclean's Magazine article criticising the Canadian 27th brigade in Germany, Gen. Sim- onds stood up. "We. in what You call the top militagy brass are used to criti- cism. But this article is an attack on the rank and file of the Cana- dian Army. It is absclutely deplor- able." The army chief of staff was re- fering to a story by Lionel Sha- pire in a recent issue of the na- tional : ¥ article com- - mented unfavorably on the mili ION This donation is the more inter- esting because by far the greater part of the talents of the SPEBS- QSA are used to raise funds for | other non - profit organizations and any dues collected by the Oshawa Chapter are turned over to the furnishing of a ward in | tary efficiency and general behav- {ior of the 27th brigade. { In the future, Gen. Simonds | said, it would be better if all such criticism were directed at the high | command rather than at the army | as a whole. 1 | Field Marshal Harding, mean- | while, had high praise for the bri- |gade. He said he was surprised {to hear of any criticism of it, | adding: | *4f IT were going to war, I'd be happy to have the brigade in any | group which I might have the priv- |ilege to command." Here for a 13-day tour of mili. | tary installations across the coun- | try. Sir John recalled that about | |a year ago the brigade took part | in manoeuvres under his command. | At that time, he said *'they came | through with flying colors. Their OMMUNITY CHEST 41 DEAD, 21 MISSING IN PLANE DISASTERS thes Oshawa General Hospital. Pictured above is William Samp- son, right, presenting a cheque to W. C. Paynter, Chairman of the Publicity Committee of this vear's Oshawa Community Chest Campaign. --1imes-Gazette Staff Photo. | military efficiency was of a very | high order." And what about their alleged | misconduct? Sir John said that if there had been anything of a serious nature in this regard, he would have heard US. Military Plane Missing Noted Violinist In Hills Near Portland, Ore. SEATTLE (AP)--A non-sched- uled airliner flying under military charter disappeared over the cloud- covered Pacific Northwest Tues- day night with 21 persons aboard. THe plane, owned by Regina Airlines, was an hour late on a flight from Monterey, Calif., to McChord air, force base, Tacoma, when it last was heard from over Portland, Ore., at 10:28 p. m. EDT. Portland is about 125 miles south of McChord. It failed to make radio contact of Portland, and is believed down kin the heavily wooded, hilly coun- | planes normall; y carry a crew of | three. ' 'One Of Victims NICE, France (AP)--An Orient-bound French airliner try between these two points. . Early hopes that the craft merely Airline officials in Seattle said was lost and flying about in the the twin-engined plane's pilot gave | overcast were dimmed when the no indication of trouble when he |company reported it would have reported in at Portland. They could run out of gas about 8:20 p. m. crashed in flames late Tuesday night on the side of a 100-foot Alpine peak, killing France's most famous violinist, Jacques Thibaud, and 41 other persons. not explain why the ship was over the Oregon city eight minutes after it had been. scheduled to land at McChord. The passengers all were military personnel, Regina said, but it would not say how many were in- at Toledo, Wash, 65 miles north cluded in the civilian crew. Such Heat To Continue Despite Showers TORONTO (CP) -- The lower Great Lakes region has sweltered for seven days in a scorching late- ; In contrast, much of the west is | experiencing cloudy and cool | weather. Tuesday's highs were 78 some two hours or more befdre a plane was heard in the vicinity of McChord. The plane heard by McChord ground-cgntrol approach men disappeared in the direction of Seattle and officials were in- clined to doubt it was the Regina liner. Oshawa Youth The giant four France plane was on a regularly- scheduled flight to Siagon and Hong Kong when it smash®d near the towering summit of Mont -Cemet, in southeast France 100 miles north of this Riviera resort. Rescue workers who reached the scene after toiling more than five hours up the steep mountain slopes reported there were no survivors Drives At 100 'Miles An Hour | TORONTO (CP) -- An Oshawa summer heat wave that keeps|at Winnipeg, 76 at Regina, 64 at Youth who police said drove 100 pushing the mercury to highs in the upper 80s or the mid-90s, and more of the same is predicted. A top today of 95 degrees is fore- cast for Windsor, St. Thomas, Lon- don, St. Catharines and Hamilton, with a probably maximum of 90 at Wingham and Trenton. Showers late this afternoon and tonight may bring temporary relief. Cooler air has moved into north- westesi and northern sections of the province, where highs today are forecast as 75 at White River, Kapuskasing and Moosonee and 80 at North Bay, Sudbury and Earl-| ton. The hot spell that moved into about it. { But he said no reports of bad | breaches of discipline in the 27th | brigade had come to him. | Gen. Simonds, obviously irked at the line of questioning, said | nothing until after a lengthy lull. Then, with obvious feeling, he launched his attack on the maga- | | zine article. | Reminded that at least two other | correspondents had criticized the | | 27th brigade, the chief of staff said | , both of them also had some words | | of praise for the unit. | Board May liitervene To Prevent Milk Strike TORONTO. (CP)--The Ontario milk control board is to decide today whether to take a hand in _staving off a threatened milk strike that could hit Toronto homes at a moment's notice. ' The wage dispute between the Toronte Milk Distributors' Associ- ation and the Milk Drivers' Union (AFL) hinges on the 13 dairies' insistence that they 'cannot put up wages without advancing the retail price of milk, now 22 cents a quart delivered, or eliminating Wednes- day deliveries. The 1,700-member union opposes milkless Wednes- days. Union members have voted in Plants Work Despite Heat | With 95-degrees of heat predict- {ed for this aftermoon there is no indication that many Oshawa favor of a strike and asked per-|plants would be closing down. A mission from the union's interna- |check of six major plants at noon tional headquarters in Washington (today revealed that only one -- to call one. Negotiations between |and that a foundry -- was closing |the union and the dairies broke | off Tuesday. |" The milk control board, whose representatives attended talks be- tween the disputants last week, day week. W. German's Policies At Stake In Election By BRACK CURRY . BONN, Germany (AP)--Chancel- Jor Konrad Adenauer and 4,039 other - West German candidates ro: into the political home stretch today as the government readied top secret plans against Red terror attacks on next Sun- day's crucial elections. th Adenauer and his chief opponent, Socialist Erich Ollen- hauer, headed their campaigns for the key Ruhr ifidustrial section. Its vote. could decide whether the West - allied Chancellor's three- party government coalition beats back the strong threat of the isolationist Socialists to control Parliament's new lower House. The huge field of candidates is campaigning for 484 legislative seats. The others must decide whether the majority will be filled by persons pledged to Adenauer's program' to rearm Germany in alliance with the West or §o the Socialist platform of going it alone between East and West. | Resigned to the certain voting | defeat their relatively few cohorts in West Germany face, the Krem- lin's East German satellites have poured thousands of Red agents across the winding 600-mile east- west frontier. After nabbing some 4,000 of the Red agents, Adenauer's govern- ment said they were pledged to a terror campaign of political kill- ings and attacks on voting booths. Sebastian Dudeiak and his wife Anne hold a note which inform- ed them that their son, Joseph, 20, was @ead and buried by hos- pital authorities at the mental hospital at Whitby, Ont. Joseph had been picked up by Toronto police while acting abnormally at a baseball game. Taken to jail, | he was listed as a vagrant, then on being examined by. psycholo- | Tuesday night. gists was committed to Whitby. His parents, both of Toronto were notified that he had been come mitted, but on their first visit to see him at the hospital they found he had been buried after dying of pneumonia. He had heen admitted to hospital as '"'un- known," in spite of the fact that | his parents had been notified of I his arrest on a vagrancy charge. has the power to order a price ad-| vance or introduction of the five- | 1 rent post-armistice exchange which 7 | began Aug. 5--will. be 30. At the for the entire afternoon. Manage- ment of the Ontario Malleable Iron Company Limited said they would not require employees to work in | the terrific heat of the plant. However, if the mercury con- tinues to soar, other firms may | decide to shut down early. { A spokesman for General Mo- | tors said: '"'Operations normal." {The union has not requested any | shutdown for the heat. . Other years, when similar hot | weather came in July, many local {plants 'closed. Presumably, em- | ployees were not conditioned to | "take it". Now that the tempera- {ture has soared to over 90 daily for almost two weeks, many peo- |ple are becoming accustomed to | it. Duplate Canada Limited, which operates a number of furnaces in its plant, has lost some time in isolated spots when a section of the plant has been closed down to ease the general heat situation. Six Canadians To Be Released This Evening PANMUNJOM (CP)--Six Cana- dians will be among 300 Allied prisoners released tonight by the Communists in the 30th day of the current Korean prisoner-of-war ex- change, the Communists announced With their return, the total number of Canadians repatriated in Operation Big Switch--the cur- start of the operation, the Com- munists promised to return only 14 Canadians. the Great Lakes area from the still-sizzling United States midwest is spreading into Quebec. The Atlantic provinces also are perspiring. Halifax Tuesday re- ported a high of 83 degrees, Char- lottetown 75, Moncton 78 and Saint John, N. B., 77. However, St. John's Nfld., had a relatively cool Saskatoon, 60 at Edmonton and 66 at Vancouver. Farther north, Daw- son had a high of 51, Yellowknife 58 and Churchill 49. Gamekeepers in. Gatineau Park northwest of Ottawa have been knocking holes in beaver dams in tributary streams to free some water to ease the forest fire threat and raise lake levels during the hot spell. However, busy little beavers, working at night, plug the holes up again. As the heat wave continued over southern Quebec and Ontario and over most of the interior U. S. east | of the Rockies, it parched many farm crops already suffering from lack of summer rain. Farmers say the heat and drought have almost burned out the tobacco crops in many areas of Norfolk county north of Lake Erie. The blazing sun also is binging about the too-hasty ripening 'of peaches in parts of the Niagara district and of tomatoes in south- western Ontario. Polio Dea Mounting In West WINNIPEG (CP)--Death of a 28-year-old Portage La Prairie wo- man has raised Manitoba's 1953 polio fatality count to 36. Health officials Tuesday reported the death of Alberta Webster in a Winnipeg hospital and also listed 32 new cases, bringing the case- total to 1,262. Dr. M. R. Elliott, deputy health minister, said that in discussions with hospital authorities and Dr. J. D Adamson, chairman of the polio advisory committee, '"we be- lieve the trend is downwards in spite of the daily reported figures.' EDMONTON (CP) -- Alberta's official polio death toll stood at 20 th. Toll officially. Health authorities here said they were still awaiting -con- firmation of the death of a two- year-old girl reported Monday night at Calgary. There have been 373 cases of the disease reported in Alberta so far this 'year compared to 329 cases and 33 deaths reported at the cor- responding date last year. REGINA (CP)--Six polio deaths were reported in Saskatchewan last week, boosting to 28 the total number of deaths due to the dis- ease reported up to Aug. 31, health authorities said Tuesday. Total number of cases so far this year was set at 453, an increase of 108 today, with 21 deaths reported un- over the week previous. Tops Speed Record But Not Official TANGMERE, England (Reuters) British test pilot Neville Duke smashed the world air speed rec- ord Monday on warm-up runs, but it may mot count as an official mark, the Royai Aero Club said Tuesday night. The club said that subject to confirmation, Duke averaged 722 miles an hour on the four required runs compared with the 715.69 MPH official record established Sabre jet over California's Lake Muroc course. Under international rules, how- ever, a plane must average at least one per cent faster than the existing mark to qualify for a rec- ord. In this case, it would take a speed of 723 MPH to break Barnes' record officially. uke, 31-year-old Second World War flying hero and Britain's chief supersonic test pilot, had no idea during the trial runs Monday that July 17 by Lt.-Col. William Barnes of the U.S. Air Force in an F-86D he was breaking a record in his swept-wing Hawker Hunter jet. BACK FROM HOLIDAYS Want Paper Restarted ? Telephone To No. 3-2233 Times-Gazette readers back from vacation welcome a return to '"'at your door" delivery service, This is the most convenient way of getting the very latest in local, national and world-wide news and pictures. Subscribers who were not homecoming and thus unable quite sure of the date of their to notify their carriers as to when to resume delivery, may, by simply telephoning The Times at 3-2233, have the matter given immediate attention. An inquest was ordered today by the Ontario 'Attorney-General"s De- partment into the death of Joseph Dudziac, 20, of Toronto who died in the Ontario Hospital at Whitby last Wedpesday -- about 36 hours after he had been. comfhitted for treatment. Newspaper stories in- dicated that through lack of iden- tification, the man was dead and buried before his parents wére no- tified. Tentative date for the in- | quest is next Tuesday at Whitby. | The inquiry will be held as soon | las - witnesses can be lined -up. | ing by Dr. D. R. Fletcher, Super- intendent of the Ontario Hospital at Whitby, to criticisms voiced in a Toronto paper yesterday by a Toronto man who said his son was committed to the Whitby Hospital, died and was buried in the indi- gent plot at Groveside cemetery before the father knew anything about it. "Joseph Dudziac was admitted here on Tuesday, August 25," said Dr. Fletcher, "We didn't know his name or address at the time. He Claim Whitby Patient Buried Before Family Was Notified Explanation was given this morn- | died the following night close to midnight. An autopsy was ordéred by the Crown Attorney. This was performed and the cause of death was found to be acute myocardial failure secondary to lobar pneu- monia."" CAUSE OF DEATH Information on the burial certi- ficate issued by Dr. F. A. Cuddy of Whitby and signed by town CLAIM PATIENT (Continued - on - Page 2) Clerk J. R. Frost lists the cause | | miles an hour in east-end Toronto | where the speed limit is 30 was | sentenced Tuesday to 15 days in jail on a charge of dangerous driving. In addition, the youth, Laurie Leger, 23; was fined $100 and costs or an additional 30 days. Constable Van Winkle said in court: "At 3 a.m today we stopped a car travelling east on Kingston road at 60 miles an hour. We warned the driver about his speed but soon afterwards we noticed this car passing us at 80 miles an hour. The auto actually got up to 100 miles an hour." PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT ST. CATHARINES (CP)--Jonah Elliott, 18, of Cape Crocker Indian reserve near Owen Sound, pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $575 worth of goods from cars that | stopped at a tourist centre. He was | remanded in custody. TOO MUCH BUSINESS NORWALK, Conn. -- Police were unprepared for the amount of busi- ness they got when they put new parking meters in some seetions of the city. Before noon the first day the traffic department reported it had run out of tickets tagging over- time parkers, among the 33 passengers and nine crew members. Wreckage was scattered over 1,500 feet. Air France officials could give {no cause for the crash, which oc- | curred an hour and a half after the big plane left Paris. They said messages from the pilot had re- ported all was well and weather good. Rescue crews reported the temp- erature on the mountainside K was below freezing, but the weather otherwise was perfect. Airline officials said the passen- gers included four Indo-Chinese, one Swiss and a man believed engined Air ¢ to be a German. The rest appar- ently were French. Among the pas- sengers were a baby and four other children. With Thibaud were his daughter Suzanne and his accompanist, Rene Herbin. They were en route to Japan for concerts. Thibaud was the second great French violinist killed in recent years in an Air France crash. The brilliant young woman player, Gin- ette Neveu, died in 1949 when an- other French liner crashed into a mountain in the Azores while en route to the United States. The crash occurred at 11:30 p.m. (6:30 p. m. EDT), 20 minutes be- fore the Constellation was sched- uled to make its first stop here at Nice. Rescue workers set out immedi- ately from the winter sports town of Barcelonnette and other sur- rounding communities for the scene 41 DEAD (Continued on Page 2) Increases TORONTO (CP) -- Firefighters battling more than 100 fires across Northern Ontario's rich timber- lands faced a new menace Tues- day night when winds ranging up to 30 miles an hour threatened to fan many of them out of control. Although the situation took a serious turn along the 1,200-mile front from Manitoba to Quebec, Ontario Department of lands and | forests men are hopeful they can {bring the blazes to a standstill. | The 1,300 men fighting the blazes scattered showers were predicted for today. In Quebec, a fierce bush fire threatened the parish grounds and need rain to help them, but only Wind Fans Fires, Menace a new school in St. Pierre de Charlesbourg, four miles north of Quebec City, before it veered off and was brought under control. About two square miles of cut over spruce and fir timberlands were burned over north of St. Fer- |'Teol, 35 miles northeast of Quebec City, and more than 150 men fought the fire, which raged out of con- trol. Another forest fire at St. Donat, 90 miles north of Montreal, -|was partially contained. Some parts of Northern Ontario have' been rain for slmost a month and about 15 fires break out every day in the tinder-dry 60 NEW HOMES (Continued on Page 2) LONDON, (AP)--The Big Three allies called on Russia today to join an early four power confer- ence of foreign ministers on the future of Germany and Austria. Identical notes were sent by the United States, Britain and France suggesting the high level talks to Iwork out: 1. Arrangements for holding Free German-wide elections as an es- sential first step toward restoring German unity and agreeing on a final German peace seitlement. 2. Final agreement on the long promised Austrian treaty of inde- pendence on which Russia has been stalling, Informants said the Allied notes rejected Soviet Russia's proposal to set up a provisional all-German government which would partici- |pate in a German peace confer- lence to be held within six months. The Soviets suggested also that free German-wide elections should follow the peace conference. The American, British, and French notes made it clear that the Allies believe the Soviet pro- Allies Call For Four-Power Foreign Ministers' Parley posals for" holding elections after a peace settlement put the cart before the horse. The informants said the Allies proposed the ministers meet about mid-October in Switzerland. The lakeside town of Lugano near the Italian-Swiss frontier is understood to have been suggested as a meet- ing place. The Allies were answering a ser- ies of Soviet communications on Germany and Austria received dur- ing August. 'Heat Removes 'Mounties From Their Horses OTTAWA (CP) No more mounted mounties on Parliament Hill until the current heat wave ends, the RCMP said Tuesday. The force said it is bad enough for scarlet-coated constables to do duty on the hill on foot in 95-de- gree heat. But it is twice as bad for the mounted man--heat from the sun above, heat from the horse below. As for the horse, he's even worse off than the constable. 170 New Schools (Open Next Week TORONTO (CP)--Ontario schools {reopen next Tuesday after the | summer holidays. Education Min- Jister Dunlop said Tuesday no schools will be closed due to a shortage of teachers. There will be 900,000 pupils in Ontario elementary and secondary schools this year, 60,000 more than last year. Ready to teach them will be 2,300 new teachers, some of them prod- ucts of emergency teacher-training programs. About 170 new schools have been built during the last 12 months at a total cost of $47,500.000. 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