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I J ®, Pictures And Story Of Oshawa TAKEN FROM thet op of a neighboring building, this picture shows the scene at the Oshawa Arena after the roof had collap- SPECTATORS, hunderds of them who had watched thrilling hockey games and other events sed, leaving only the red brick | through the shattered windows walls, with the interior raging mass of flames and smoke. The glare of the flames 2 | js clearly discernible while a group of firemen on top of the in the Arena, flocked to the scene of this morning's fire. From the Bond Street «bridge USED FOR the first time since # was added to city's firefighting pressed inte service to fight this morning's fire at the Oshawa equipment the aerial ladder was ma. The ladder made it pos- ARENA TURNED INTO INFERNO (Continued from Page 1) 8 no wind anit the flames did not menace t any time. this plant Four pumper units were engaged in the fight against he flames and many lines of hose were laid from hydrants Bond and King Streets. A large trailer unit, owned by the City Pure Ice Pompany, parked beside the west wall of the Arena, uffered some damage when part of the wall fell on it. was removed and doused by one of the lines of hose. So rapid was the spread of the &------r----- ames that within minutes after he alarm was given the fire had roken through the windows of the Iréssing rooms and worked their ay up into the seats. It was only short time later that it broke hrough the roof and the pudding as doomed. A pillar of blac moke hundreds of feet high drew sidents of the city who lined ond Street West and the ap- roaches of the building. AGER SHOCKED Albert Hambly manager of the na was So Lyewotie by the hock of the catastrophe he was ost unable to talk. He stood ith his wife gazing at the flames hd then turned away with bowed ad. Officials of the company buld not say how much insurance as carried but believed it would adequate. Jerry Brown coach of the Osh- a Generals was also deeply oved. The club yesterday morn- g started holding try-outs for ayers under 18 years of age ] from all sections of Canada for the Boston Bruins. KIT LOST He said that 55 sets of uniforms skates, sticks and pads some of it moved into the dressing rooms yes- terday were lost in the fire. In- Suraie was carried on the equip- ment. The Oshawa Truckman senior OHA entry also lost heavily. The club had approximately $4,000 in equipment stored in the "building. The club did not carry. insurance. *"For a club that is running ¢lose to the line this will just about ut us out of business," said Wren lair club manager. FUTURE IS PROBLEM Plans for the coming season for both clubs are uncertain. They will have to wait for the holding of an emergency meeting of the OHA in the near future. The junior "A" club may have to play its home games at Bowmanville or on the road. Another possibility is said to new arena opened in Scar- [sible that ice will be put in the above and from other points of vantage they watched the de- struction of this centre of Osh- sible for the firemen to pour water over the top of the walls on to the fire raging inside them. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. boro last year but this will no doubt depend upon the attitude of the Jorouto Maple Leaf manage- ment. Tom Cotie, secretary of the Osh- awa Minor Hockey Association, which operates about 20 teams dur- ing the winter months, stated that the association lost 10 sets of sweaters, sticks, pads, etc. valued at about $3,000. He said that the association last year passed a resolution prohibit- ing the use of school and park rinks due to weather conditions and the expense of their operation. He thought something should be done at once to ensure hockey for the players of the league. CLUB FACES LOSS Officials of the Oshawa Skating Club, which has a membership' of over 300 children and adults, said that while their equipment was covered by insurance t' : loss and Hconveuience would be consider- able. The club lost its costly sound equipment as well as all its carni- val costuming. The furnishings of its lounge at the . .rth west corner of the building, were all destroyed. Durwin E. Steckley, a club of- ficial, said no time would be lost in making arrangements with an- other ice arenato accommodate the clhib during the coming winter. The club has a contract with Mr. and Mrs. Diestelmeyer, who opera- ted a summer school at Goderich during the summer. Mr. Steckley said the club has already been in touch with the management of the Community Memorial Arena at Bowmanville and that a meeting of that board is planned today. It may be pos- emergency exit stairway pour water into the blazing wreckage. --Times - Gazette Staff Photo. awa sports activity as the fire- men poured water into the - burn- building. . - --Photo by Dutton. Studio. "Loaded" Plan Hits Employees WINDSOR Ont. IOP) "Employ: ees and former employees of East Windsor Hospital have received de- mands ranging from $25 to $900 from the income tax department because a pension plan adopted in 1949 by the deposed board of di- rectors never was approved by the department. The pension plan was criticized during a royal commission inquiry in the hospital's affairs last sum- mer as being very much un- balanced" in favor of former su- perintendent J. P. G. Morgan. Some 30 persons 13 of them still on the staff of the institute for the chronically ill have received the demands, from the tax depart- ment. 2 One nurse biled for almost $800 said she found local department officials sympathetic but firm. A spokesman said the old hos- pital board dissolved following the inquiry, volunteered to take over the employees' share of the contri- butions to the pension fund in 1950. Several witnesses said during the probe that the board's unusual ac- tion in offering to pay the employ- ees' share "loaded" it in Dr. Mor- gan's favor. * Dr. Morgan who has returned to private practice after being dis- missed as superintendent hasap- pealed 'to the income tax appeal board but no date has yet been set for the hearing. The present hospital board ap- pointed by Attorney-General Dana Porter after he dissolved the old board is studying the possibility of revamping the plan so it will meet with department approval. Meanwhile the board has com- plied with income tax regulations and is deducting from the payroll the tax due on contributions to the pension fund. Missing Barrel Located NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. (CP)--, Frank Candler still doesn't know whether his cushioned barrel was good enough to ride over Niagara Falls without smashing its cargo of eggs. / Candler set the barrel adrift several weeks ago in the upper )Niagara River. Dennis Mooney found it Sunday--still in the river above the falls. Candler offered $100 reward for the recovery of the barrel after: it disappeared. Mooney, a 40-year-old carpenter who came out from Ire- land in June, says the money will be a big help to himself and his five children back home. rink there a month earlier than normal. Fortunately for the skating club, all its trophies were taken home by the winners when the club clos- ed ifs activities last spring. Some OSHAWA"S FULL FIRE fight- ing strength was called out to fight the blaze which completely SS, , AA ARENA (Continued from Page 1) It was at the victory banquet for the Oshawa General Motors Mann | Cup champions, after they return- ed from the West, held in the lo- cal armouries, in October of late September of 1929, that "Mr. Sam" announced that Oshawa would' have a new artificial hocke;" arena | before the winter was over -- and | destroyed the Oshawa Arena this morning. The fire had secured so great a hold on the inflam- four months Jater, the opening was | £8 held { At 'the banquet- held at Hotel Genosha following "the Oshawa Arena opening, 'Mr. Sam' an- nounced that Oshawa's next need | was an outdoor sports stadiim and since that date' Oshawa"s No. 1 sportsman, sports fan and sports booster has helped make the | dream of a stadium come true. MANY MEMORABLE EVENTS Twenty-three seasons of hockey | activity have produced many me- morable events, outstanding inci- | dents, glorious victories, heart- | breaking defeats and a wealth of | stories that will live forever. | We can make no attempt here to | even scratch the surface of such a | stery but looking back there are many things that stand out in our | memory. ' That, 1930 season saw Oshawa |f i Juniors beaten out by West Toronto | § "Junction'" Juniors who went to| the Memorial Cup finals against Regina Pats. They won- the first | game 10-0 and the second one in|} Oshawa 7-1 with Eddie Drinkle | etting the lone goal. AD PRO TEAM The winter of 1931 saw the On- | tario Pro League re-organized and Oshawa Pats were an entry with "Butch" Forler as the manager and such players on the roster as! goalie Freddie Faught, Gerry Green, Arch Davey, Herbie Stan- hope, "Greg". Rice, Bill Joyce, Harry Lott and 'Hap' Hamel. Murray Johnston, C. E. McTav- ish the late Joe Walsh, the late Harold Drew, Sammy Lowe were some of the men who were keenly interested and active in Oshawa's hockey interests in the late, 20's and early 30's. GALLAXY OF GREATS A galazy of former hockey greats of local and province-wide fame served as coaches and managers here. Many of the early holders of such positions as coach or manag- er have since passed on but we can recall "Mac" McFayden, George Munroe, Walter Fair, Matt Leyden, Ken Randall, Stan Bur- goyne, Bill Duncan, Jess, Spring, Bill Hancock, "Doc" Rowden, Tracey Shaw, Charlie Conacher, Tommy Anderson, Larry Aurie and currently Gerry Brown. Former club executives in the days when hockey was being "built up" at Oshawa Arena included Dr. 8. J. Phillips, C. F. Cannon, Chas. Lyons, Hugh Hall, J. L. Beaton, H. C. Lecky, S. E. Mec- Tavish, J. N. Willson, Neil K. Hez- zelwood and many others most of whom have since passed on. ALMOST UPSET DOPE In 1931-32 there was the great series with West Toronto when Jo-Jo Graboski was tagged "rub- ber legs" -- the year Oshawa al- 0st upset the dope bucket. The "Blue Imps' in 1933 lost in Néwmarket 4-0 but held the great Redmen to Hancock's Redmen went on to win the Memorial Cup -- with two Osh- awa players on their roster, Pep Kelly and Howard Peterson. In 1934 there was the big squabble when Oshawa imported Harry Frost and Barney Morris. St. Mike's went to the Memorial Cup that year without losing a single game all season -- but they only won once in four tries when they played on Oshawa ice. Gra- boski, Cliff Maundrell, Ab Barnes, Bill Morrison etc. tied them three times. WIN FIRST TITLE Then in 1935 the Oshawa Majors won the OHA Junior championship for the first time -- beating Kitch- ener who had Schmidt, Dumart, and. Bauer on their roster at the time in the finals. Oshawa lost out to Sudbury Cubs in a 90-minute game after Lex Chisholm had tied it up with seconds to go in the third period. That's the year the OHA kept Leo Lamoureux upstairs in the Gardens for most of the first period. Then after* the Memorial Cup play-off series with Sudbury Bill Bagnell was protested and Osh- awa lost the OHA title in the com- mittee rooms -- and refused to participate in the replay of the playoffs which Kitchener won over Toronto Lions. { There was the '"Jo-Jo" Graboski benefit night on January 19 1932 and that same month Harmony won the Sheriff Paxton Trophy -- then an annual competition around these parts. INTERMEDIATES WIN In 1936, Oshawa finally won the OHA championship, the Intermedi- ate title- and such homebrew fav- 3-3 tie here and Bill [2-1 a OSHAWA"s gallant fire-fighters had their hardest battle in many years when the Oshawa Arena was destroyed by fire this morn- er, Ab Barnes, along with Chis- holf, Clarridge, "Winkie" . Smith and Morrison, beat Waterloo in the finals. There were the Oshawa Tigers, Junior "B" team,.in 1934 too. We recall the night '"Moe" Breslin re- fereed in Cobourg and the late Stan Fraser dumped a pail of water on him, via the old "door trap" meth- od -- and the irate official nearly blew a gasket but never did find out who was responsible -- until now! . GENERALS BORN In the season of 1937, GM enter- ed the local Junior hockey picture and the Generals were born. Their great record is still fresh in the minds of most local hockey fans. They were beaten by Nationals of Toronto in 1937 but in 1938 Generals started their 7-year reign as OHA Junior "A'" champions -- an all- time record for all sports, that will likely never be equalled. Each of those hectic seasons has a wealth of stories all its own. We can recall special trips to Toronto, just to 'toss the coin" so that Oshawa would win the extra home game. We recall the night we ac- cused Bunny Morganson of trying to instruct the referees from the penalty box, the victory parade in Galt, the faraous night of March 9, 1938 when Oshawa beat Marlborgs Senior hockey also flourished in the late 30's and carly 40's with Oshawa GM-Men having many great battles with Goodyears, Do- minion Brewery, British Consols and later OHA teams such as Port Colborne, Hamilton Tigers, etc. HAD MANY STARS The list of personalities who star- red in Oshawa Arena ice and thrilled local- fans is too long to attempt. Such names as Jo-Jo Gra- boski, Nakina Smith, 'Winkie Smith, Billy Taylor, "Red" Tilson, these and many others will live in the memories ¢f Oshawa hockey fans for many years. We've had some great thrills, moments of drama and supreme excitement, in the press box at the Oshawa Arena. We wefe down there yesterday afternoon and saw that it had been freshly painted for the coming season. ° This morning we gazed with awe at glowing embers, huge steel girders twisted like pretzels and realized that within the shell of those four walls -- or what was left standing, lay the ashes of un- told hockey wealth in the form of equipment of all kinds. These the vicious flames ccmpletely' destroy- ed. But the memories that are associated with the Oshawa Arena, in hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, skat- ing shows, etc., will long remain fresh fresh enough we trust, to result in a speedy, whole-hearted movement by the sportsmen, citiz- ens and fans of this community, to build again -- a new and greater Oshawa Arena. Quebec province covers 594,000 individual equipment was believed | orites as "Doc" Rowden, Jeff Au- | square miles, or 15 per cent of stored in the club lounge. . | thors, Doug Maundrell, Jerry Coop- | all Canada. | THE DAILY TIMBS-GANNTTE, Tuselay, Seplomber 1, 1908 § Arena Fire mable woodwork inside the build- ing that there was no hope of saving it. Here firemen are seen | ing. From every possible van- tage point - they battled the flames which gutted the entire building. Here a group' of them Another Top Red Emerges LONDON (Reuters)--Antonin No- votny, 49, Monday emerged as Czechoslovakia's No. 1 "party man"--the Czech equivalent of Rusgia's party boss, Nikita S. Khrushchev. The official Czechoslovak news agency Ceteka reported that the central committee of the Czecho- slovak Communist party elected him first secretary of the party. On Saturday, Moscow radio an- nounced that Khrushchev now holds the title of first secretary of the Soviet Communist party. Comparatively little is known here about Novotny. He first en- tered the top leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist party at the end of 1951 as a member of the party's praesidium and of the party secretariat. 9 Sailors Rescued MICHIPICOTEN ISLAND, Ont. (CP)--Adrift on storm-swept Lake Superior for more than 24 hours, nine Canadian seamen from the dredge, Howard M., Jr., were towed into harbor here Monday, still safe aboard their vessel. The men were reported suffer- ing from exposure, but were other- wise unharmed as the Sault Ste. Marie tug, Favorite, towed them into port. i: The dredge, owned by the Me- Namara Construction Company, was being towed along with two scows by two tugs Saturday when a severe storm struck the convoy off Au Sable point, Mich. Huge waves snapped the tow. cable. One of the tugs, the George Purvis of Gore Bay, managed to get six men off the. dredge before 20-foot waves drove tle vessels apart. The nine others, including Capt. Ted Scott of Collingwood, stayed with the floundering dredge until the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw was able to put a line aboard her early Sunday. The Fa- vorite took over later in the day. Rescued crew members included William Lourie of Cobourg, Paul Beliveau and Charles O'Malley of Frankville, Planes in the meantime have sighted the two drifting scows, worth some $70,000 each and they will be towed to port. Reports indi- | cate the $200,000 dredge was not | damaged. / in action pouring a stream of water through the arena entrance on to the blazing debris inside. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo is seen pouring water through one of the doorways on the flam- ing wreckage inside. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Find Surplus Corpse Clad In Silk Gown FRONSAC, France (Reuters)-- The mystery of 'the 13th body in the tomb", : beautiful young wo- man dressed in an off-the-shoulder red silk evening gown, engrossed this little village in southeast France today. Her coffin was found in the fam- ily tomb of Francois Derneau when he opened it for renovations. It should have contained only 12 cof- fins, but there were 13. Townsfolk harked back to the mysterious disappearance of a young actress who appeared in a play here in 1943. They recalled a story that she .had been tortured by German occupation troops. Structure of the coffin indicates it was of wartime make, when materials were scarce. Photo- graphs are being taken of the body. Air Path Talks Fail - LONDON (Reuters)--Ru-sia has demanded a western ban on the flying of military planes in the three air corridors linking Berlin with West Germany in return for a Soviet assurance that planes straying from the corridors will not be fired on, it was authorita- tively learned Monday. As a result, the four-power Berlin air safety talks, once regarded as the most promising of Russias "peace doves," have brought no result after six months of negotia- tion. Russia first proposed the talks after two of her fighters shot down a Bri" h bomber in the Soviet zone of ~:~ any last March. Diplomatic quarters said the west...) powers agreed at the meetings that any of their planes straying out of the corridors should land if ordered to do so by Bussian patrols. ' In return an assurance that So- viet fighters would not open fire on straying planes was asked for. But Russia refused to give thi unless the western powers banned -mili- tary flights in the corridors. The three governments declined. 4 MORE POLIO DEATHS EDMONTON (CP)--Alberta's of- ficial 1957 polio toll Monday stood at 32 deaths and 547 cases. This was an increase of four deaths and 24 cases since the last official fig- ures were released Friday. An un- official tally shows three additional deaths which have not yet been tabulated by the health depart- ment,