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' Queen Lent Raincoat " For A Rainy Welcome Daily Average Circuladion for November, 19353 12,503, THE DAILY TIMES-GA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ETTE cloudy. Weather Forecast A cold Christmas Eve, maybe Low tonight 15, high to- morrow 25. Authorized Post es Second-Class Moh, Office Department, Ottawe OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1953 Price Not Over 8S Cents Per Copy THIRTY PAGES VOL. 12--No. 299 Missing Diplomat Sends Mail Home LONDON (AP -- A Christmas letter in the handwriting of Guy Burgess, British diplomat who van- ished 2% years ago, was delivered at his mother's home today. She said it was the first real evidence *that her son still is alive. Burgess and his fore office colleague, Donald Maclean, an American affairs expert, disap- May 25, 1951. There has id wide speculation that they fled to the East to help the Com- munist world in its cold war the West. e . Evelyn "gdhbsolutely certain' her son wrote the letter signed in his name. "It was a wonderful Christmas present," she said. "It is the first esl sign We have had that he is still alive." A friend of Mrs. Bassett told reporters it was Jue a happy ary - letter" Soptaining mas greetings. "There ee no ingication in it of where Guy may be," the friend dded. 5 Contents of the letter were not published. . The penned date of the message was 1p a rember. TF a tmar onday night, - ever and in the dockyard area of ndon. PERHAPS REPOSTED a The lapse of time between the pre 2 Be, Pi letter sugges poss il gg Fy it to a freind here to be reposted. 'Toronto Cracks Down 3 On Drunken Motorists TORONTO (CP) Police swooped down on an office party in an auto-wrecking firm early to- day, arresting the owner on a charge of permitting drunkenness and 13 other persons as found-ins. Officers said it was the start of a stiff police crackdown to en- force warnings by the Ontario liquor contro] board that drinking parties in offices are illegal, even at Christmas. Arrested for permitting drunk- enness was Mitchel Forbes, owner of the Greenwood Auto Parts. In addition 13 employees of the firm --all men--were taken into cus- today and police said they confis- « cated eight cases of beer and a uantity of liquor. yi A the raid _ followed the arrest of three men found staggering along the street near the scene, trying to make their way home from the party. 60 ARRESTS OVERNIGHT In all police said there were more than 60 arrests in connec- tion with liquor offences Tuesday night and early today. A total of 40 were held as common. drunks, five for driving while impaired and one for drunk driving. There were three raids on suspected boot- legging establishments and four were held as found-ins. Traffic officials said Toronto mot- orists seem to be ignoring the Christmas warning: If you drive, don't drink." '""We're not fooling," said Inspec- tor Robert Kerr. "There have been 21 arrests since Saturday for driv- ing ith impaired ability." ose convicted of impaired and drunken driving are in for harsh treatment in police court. Magis- trate J. L. Prentice announced Tuesday that starting immediately convicted drunken and impaired drivers will get the maximum fine of $500 and second offenders will get 14 days in jail with no option. - Convicts Caught Drawing Pistols RICHMOND, Ind. (AP)--Rich- mond police ov wered in a ho- tel room here early today the last two of 13 long-term convicts who escaped from Southern Michigan prison last Saturday. Captain John Rizio of the Rich- mond police said the two men ad- mitted they are Roman Usiondek, an, Deychopathie killer, and Robert Dowling, 33, a burglar. Rizio and three other policemen cornered the two men in a hotel room after discovering their es- eape automobile on a Richmond street ay night. They were taken to the Rich- Brad city jail for Shucstioning. - LEN CAR SPO D Capt. Rizio said the men arrived in Richmond Tuesday night. Their car, with Michigan licence plates, was noticed on a downtown street at 1:30 a. m. It was littered with cigaret butts and bread. A check with Michigan police showed it was stolen. three officers knocked on the door of their room. Dowling opened the door, then went to a bureau to get_what he said were his identi- pulled out a .32 revolver. Rizio grabbed his wrist and overpowered him. The three other officers grabbed Usiondek. SERVICE WITH OSHAWA ROTARIANS H Over 60 chjldren who are re- ceiving treatment and medical care through thé generosity of , the Rotary Club of Oshawa, were entertained at a Christmas dinner and party by the service club in Hotel Genosha Tuesday the happy gathering, at which members of the club sérved their guests, was the arrival of Santa Claus and the distribution of gifts OSTS AT CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S PARTY to each of the little folk. Here Santa is caught by the camera surrounded by his young admir- ers. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo night. One of the highlights of Wild Dances By PoWs As Allies End By FORREST EDWARDS PANMUNJOM (AP)-- American NOW INNEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND, N.Z. (CP)--Grass skirted Maori warriors danced a welcome today as the Queen and , the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in the royal liner Gothic for a 38-day visit to New Zealand. Despite a drizzling rain, half a million New Zealanders lined the streets and cheered themselves hoarse as the royal Rey drove from the docks through the city's main street to the town hall. The Queep was greeted by Gov- ernor-General Sir Willoughby Nor- rie and other officials as she step- fed from the Gothic"s gangplank to the drizzling rain wearing a light, chartreuse-colored dress. After inspecting a guard of honor, the monarch and the duke were rushed to the city hall where the Queen stood on an open-air balcony to receive the acclaim of the crowd. ACCEPTS RAINCOAT The Queen refused the loan of raincoat during the dockside cere- « mony but gratefully accepted an- other one. offered at city hall by Prime Minister Si Holland. The crowd roared as Holland took + the coat from his secretary and adjusted it over the Queen's shoul- ders. Lady Norrie hastily put her um- brella over her guest. Meanwhile the duke, wearing the riband and star of the Order of the Garter, sat in the downpour on the left of Auckland's mayor. The Queen took off her raincoat before she went to the microphone to make a thank-you speech for her warm welcome. The Maoris, descendants of the original inhabitants of New Zea- land, staged their spectacular we]- come ceremony in front of the hall. Thirty warriors, clad only in grass skirts, shouted and stamped through their dance and treated the royal party to a ferocious 'haka," a Maori war chant. FIRST TO VISIT The Queen, on a six - month, round - the - world Commonwealth tour, is first reigning monarch ever to visit New Zealand. Four New Zealand naval ships and 2,000 small craft swarmed around Auckland's island-studded gulf in welcoming the royal couple to this smallest and most remote of the dominions. x It was a grey morning with gusty winds and rain, but almost all of Auckland's yachts and launches lined up to salute the royal liner. As in London on Coronation day, tens of thousands of eager citizens elbowed each other for a glimpse of the Queen. Some people paid as much as £50 for 'a "room with a view" of the 10-mile procession through Auckland. From the hills overlooking the harbor a, great cheer went up as the packed thousands sighted the sleek white liner nosing into the harbor. As the Gothic nosed up to the central dock, New Zealanders, many of whom had camped all night for this big m t, waved . Commonwealth here at 9 p.m. (3] am. CST) Christmas Day. Sirens, ships' whistles. and bells set up a mighty roar of welcome as the Queen and the duke stepped | ashore, and the din was swelled | by a great chorus of auto horns | from New Zealanders sitting in | cars parked bumper to bumper in| all the roads around the harbor of this city of 350,000 persons. In her reply at city hall to Hol- land's address of welcome, the Queen spoke of her parents' visit to the dominion more than 25 years ago, before her father was called to the throne. He had planned to visit Australia and New Zealand in 1948, but the trip was postponed by illness and he died in 1952 before it could be planned again. The Queen said: 'There' is a measure of sadness in the circumstances which sur- round my visit. "My father would have come here in 1939 had it not been for the outbreak of war, and he was prevented again from coming by his illness in 1948. "I have inherited the duties and responsibilities which he bore with such courage and I am heartened by the fact that I have also in- herited the loyalty of his peoples all over the world. "I shall always endeavor to re- tain and deserve that loyalty." Wooing war prisoners who embraced com- munism chanted Red songs, shouted and linked arms with fel- low captives in a wild swirling dance today, drowning out last- minute broadcast appeals to re- turn home. The United Nations command said the broadcast a few hours before the midnight (10 a.m. EST) deadline for explanations to balky prisoners ended efforts to woo home 22 Americans, one Briton and | newspaper telegraph editors. Sec-| 327 South Koreans who stayed with the Reds. The Communists who have pressed repeatedly for an exten- sion of the explanation period, asked to interview more Chinese prisoners from the anti-Communist south camp Thursday. But the neu- tral nations repatriation commis- sion ruled that the explanations end tonight. TO MEET CORRESPONDENTS The commission, however, ap- proved a request from the pro- Communist Americans. and the Briton to meet Allied and Red news news correspondents Thursday in. side their compound. Loudspeakers outside the barbed- wire enclosure today broadcast 12 | Mal times--four appeals each to the 22 Americans, one Briton and 77 South Koreans who were not in- terviewed individually. All of the 250 South Koreans interviewed earlier elected to stay with the Communists. * The broadcasts were greeted by wild demonstrations as the pris- oners danced, sang, shouted and cheered in unison. GM PARTY HOSTS Members of the public relations department and officials of 'Gener- al Motors of Canada Limited were hosts to the press and radio folk of Oshawa at a delightful Christ- mas party in Hotel Genosha on Tuesday night. Death Of By THE CANADIAN PRESS Stalin's death was the outstand- ing world event of 1953, in the opinion of Canadian newspaper men, And the Canadian-United States exchange over questioning of Igor flags and blew whistles and shouted their welcome to the couple who chose New Zealand for their Christ- mas celebration. The Queen will deliver the tra- ditional royal broadcast to the Get Little Tommy Stout ~ LATE NEWS FLASHES ALLIANCE WITH TITO Greece and Turkey are reported to have made an im- portant military goslavia. ; ANOTHER CANDIDATE understanding with neighboring Yu- Conservative independent Louis Jacquinot dropped out of the French presidential campaign today. That leaves Rene Cote and Marcel-Edmont Naegelen in the 12th ballot. fallen through. BURNED MAN NAMED Plans to renominate Vincent Auriol have The man burned to death last night in a Toronto rooming house fire has been identified as Vernon Cleogh, 37, He died because he couldn't find the crutches he had to use. CARLSBAD, N. M. (AP)--Bol- stered by a multitude of sugges- tions, Fire Chief Ira Stockwell took his turn today at trying to rescue a two-month-old pup from the bot- | tom of a dry well, Ideas by the dozen have been offered by newspaper readers and radio listeners in New Mexico. It all began nine days ago.when five-year-old Teresa Curtis pushed |to two pups into a hole in her back yard. It's about 10 inches wide at the top and 38 feet deep. er cousins, Dan Hardin, 15, and Poe Hardin, 12, rescued one of the pups. They lowered a burlap, sack and the pup walked into it. But the other little mongrel shied off. KEPT ALIVE The Hardin boys have been keep- ing the trapped pup alive by low- ering bowls of milk and cereal. Tuesday a couple of Boy Scouts He'll Get Him Out! seiged with suggestions for rescue. One of the plans came from a woman who said: "Send the other puppy down in a basket. The trapped puppy may {be so glad to see him he'll climb in the basket too." A fisherman: "Drop a piece of net the size of the bottom of the hole to the bottom with ropes tied the four corners. en he reaches for the piece of meat in the centre, jerk him out like a catfish." CONTRAST In contrast to the hearted suggestions, one man asked: "Why all the fuss? Kick the hole in on top of him." Another offered, "fill the well to a depth of two or three feet with corks. Do it slowly so the pup can crawl on top. Then fill the well with water so he'll float to the usual soft- tried unsuccessfully to drop a repe loop over the pup and haul him to safety. Newspaper and wire service of- fices in this area have been be- top." "Lower a little boy -in a stout | pair of coveralls on a rope,' sug- {gested a woman, '"'and let him "bring the puppy nl Gouzenko was the top news story |of the year at home. | These stories headed the list in {a Canadian Press poll of daily {ond among world news events they | placed ,the Coronation; second in | Canadian news, the Morrisburg bus crash which took 20 lives July 31. TOP SIX Editors were asked to pick the six top world and six top Cana- dian stories. Their selections: World: 1. Stalin' death; 2. the Coronation; 3, conquest of Ever- est; 4, Korean truce; 5, Green- lease kidnapping; 6, Rosenbergs executed. Canadian: 1, Gouzenko case; 2, Morrisburg 'bus crash; 3, Gaspe murders; 4, federal election; 5, Sarnia tornado; 6, Quebec fliers' rescue. Stalin's death March 5, with enkov's succession and its un- known implications for Soviet pol- icy, barely edged out thé pageantry and color of the Coronation for top spot. The drama of Mount Everest was a comfortable third. L. B. Pearson Is Newsiest By THE CANADIAN PRESS For the fourth year in a row L. B. Pearson was the newsiest Canadian on the pages of his country's newspapers. Bow-tied Mike held first place easily over Igor Gouzenko who finished second in a Canadian Press poll of newspaper telegraph editors. As minister of External Affairs, Mr. Pearson was a central figure in the controversy that blew up over the efforts of U.S. Senate committees to question Mr. Gou- zenko. On the world scene the newsiest figure was the Queen, with Sir Winston Churchill second. Others mentioned were Eisenhower, Me- Carthy and Malenkov. SUGGESTIONS TO THE SLEEPLESS Empty stomachs, some doc- tors believe, promote better sleep. And good sleep, of course, promotes good health. But if insomnia is your trouble, a glass of warm milk before bedtime may relax you. But if your sleeplessness. is caused by everyday problems, Classified Ads are the remedy for you! Through Want Ads you sell merchandise and personal be- longings, hire workers, rent vacancies and recover lost | articles. To place a problem- | solver is easy! Dial 3-2233. Stalin 1953's Top Story The Korean armistice signed July |27, the Greenlease case which be- {gan with the kidnapping Sept. 28 {and ended with execution of the | killers Dec. 18, and the long-drawn- out Rosenberg atom spy case, {were well up in the voting. Other world stories which just | missed the top six included Mossa- |degh's overthrow in Iran, last | winter's North sea floods, and ous- ter of Lavrenty Beria as head of the Russian secret police. CANADIAN SCENE On the Canadian scene, editors had no hesitation in picking the effort of U.S. Senate investigators to question Gouzenko, and the in- ternational imbroglio that ensued, as top story. It outdrew the Mor- risburg crash by several votes. Mail Rush Slackening Even though the mail rush fis tapering off considerably. the Post Office continues to handle moun- tains of mail as Christmas Day approaches. Monday of this week 64,132 pieces of mail were receiv- ed; on Tuesday 42,214 pieces were received. Last year on December 21 (a Sunday) the number was 16,307; on Decémber 22 the number was 24,781. This year's total, a new record, has already reached 1,051,- 217, Postmaster N. J, Moran re- ported this morning. Extensive re-routing of dition of several new routes H. J. McIntyre. plication of service. Most important changes include the provision of a new route to be known as the Ritson-Park service. This will take the place of the former Oshawa Boulevard - Mill Street route, which has been chang- ed, and will give an improved bus service to the College Hill area and the General Motors south plants. There will be a 15-minute service all day on this new route up to 7 p.m., after which there will be a half-hour service. The former Jarvis and Lake ser- vices have been combined, with the buses operating on Jarvis Street running through to the Lake every 30 minutes, and there will be a service every 20 minutes in the Hillcroft-Grierson - Rossland area. vice on the various routes are as follows: RITSON-PARK' ROAD: 16 min- utes until 7 p.m., half-hour service | thereafter until midnight. Details of the frequency of ser- | OUTES BUS N OSHAWA New Schedule Brings - 15-Minute Trips To GM Oshawa bus service and ad- in the south-west and south- east portions of Oshawa is announced by Superintendent Some of the changes will eliminate du- Introduction of the new routes and schedule altera- tions take effect Monday morning, January 4. "A study of extra services for rush hours is still be- ing made," said Mr. McIntyre. "This is with a view to pro- viding service where necessary at busy times of day." KING STREET: 15 minute ser- vice from commencement until ap- proximately 6.30 p.m., then revert- ing to 20 minute service. SIMCOE: 10 minute service as at the present until approximately 7 p.m., thereafter 20 minute serv- ice. OSHAWA BLVD.: 20 minute ser- vice until 8 p.m., thereafter 30 minute service. JARVIS-LAKE: 625 am. to 8 am. and 1 p.m. unti 1m 30 minute service . with additional trips on the Lake route as at SIMCOE: As at present, except 20 minute service McLaughlin- Somerville loop all day and 20 minute service on Hilleroft-Grier- son-Rossland loop until approxim- ately 7 p.m. OSHAWA BLVD: As at present BUS SCHEDULE By ROBERT C. WILSON VERSAILLES (AP) -- Parlia- ment today went through its 11th to elect a president of the French republic after a week of fruitless voting. the more than 900 deputies and members of the upper house re- fused to give a winning majority to either of the two chief candi- dates--Socialist Marcel - Edmond Naegelen or Overseas Minister Louis Jacquinot of the conserva- tive Independent party. Naegelen got 372 votes, Jac- quinot 338. The required majority was 441. The rightists put up Jacquinot after Premier Laniel withdrew from the race Tuesday night. NO SOLUTION There was no solution in sight to the political deadlock, now in its seventh day. As fog and rain shrouded the ancient palace of Versailles, there was talk that the marathon voting might continue through the Christmas holidays. The warring political parties, split on such issues as religion, labor policy and the rearmament of West Germany, have been un- able to agree on a candidate neu- tral enough to win election, even by default. Laniel, who came within 22 votes of victory Sunday night and topped the poll on the last eight of the 10 ballots before today's, dropped out after it became apparant that he could not pick up support from middle-of-the-road factions. POLITICAL VETERAN Before voting began today, his independent party held a caucus and chose Jacquinot, a 55-year-old political veteran of many French cabinets, including Gen. Charles de Gaulle's wartime government- in-exile, Just before Laniel's withdrawal, the Socialists said they would con- tinue to back Naegelen because other non-Red parties had refused round of voting, and again failed Balloting with tired indifference, | (Continued on Page 2) No President After Vote 11 to join them in drafting Vineent Auriol for a second term. The 69- year-old president was widely men- tioned as an above-politics com- promise choice, though he had in- ited he wanted to leave political life. | Naegelen led the field on Ie | first two ballots and has been runner-up ever since, partially due to Communist votes. Newspapers, and, Frenchmen everywhere, continued today to chorus demands for an end to the deadlock. They termed parlia- ment's performance shameful and humiliating. MASS MEETING In Lille, a noisy mass meeting in the public square demanded that the section's deputies in the assem- {bly initiate constitutional reforms to prevent a recurrence. Labor troubles highlighted the need for an end to legislative in- decision. Post office workers went on strike in Paris and many other cities, perhaps foreshadowing .a new pA wi of the social strife which all but paralyzed France last August. Striking radar and navigation workers at France's airports still were out, halting plane service. 10 Canadians In Red Hands LONDON (Reuters) -- A foreign office spokesman said Tuesday that 10 Canadian, 30 American and four British civilians were impris oned in Communist China without convection for any crime. Britain is the protecting power in Communist China for Canada and the United States, who do not recognize the Peiping regime. She has repeatedly asked the Chinese government for her consul to be allowed to visit the prisoners, and for the release of those against whom there were no charges. TORONTO, (CP)--Settlement of a 12-week strike involving 1,500 employees of Hollinger Consoli- dated Gold Mines Limited at Tim- mins awaits only ratification of a union-company agreement. « Union officials announced in Timmis Tuesday night that the employees, members of the United Steelworkers of America (CIO- CCL), will consider the agree- ment Thursday night. But in Toronto C. H. Millard, pnational director, said the union likely will ask for a meeting with Hollinger officials here either to- day or Thursday to put the gen- eral terms of the agreement into contract language. The local mem- bership' in Timmins will then hold a meeting, probably Sunday, to vatify it, he said. : The agreement, reached here Tuesday, is seen as pattern for settlements which would start a back-towork ' movement for r,200 miners in northern Ontario and northwestern 'Quebec, REACTION MIXED Reactions to the agreement pro- viding a five-cent-an hour increase and an 18-month agreement from the day of signing, were mixed. The news' was cheered by Tim- | mins residents. | 'A Godsend to the community," | Masor Wilf Spooner of Timmins sai Premier Frost said it was "a fine Christmas present for the people of the area and the people of Ontario generally." The union said it dccepted the agreement "reluctantly." Jules Timmins, Hollinger president, said the terms "in the end may not be in the best interests of all part- ies concerned." Other terms of the agreement, reached in the offices of Labor Minister Daley, called for all con- ditions in the mine existing at present to remain in force; the men to be returned to work as quickly as they can be absorbed, without discrimination; in th event of a change in the price of gold or a discontinuance of Emer- gency Gold Mines Assistance Act during the contract period, the un- ion or company may review of wages; and the company to reserve the right to refuse the extension of its present practice of depositing pay cheques in the bank accounts of certain employ- ees at their request. WAGE BOOST By accepting the agreement the company approved a wage increase it rejected last week in a govern- ment-sponsored plan fo end the strike. A unjon official said then request asp, wages and working conditions Townsfolk Happy As Strike In Mines Near Settlement it was prepared to stay out until next summer if necessary. The former plan also called for a one-year contract. Mr. Timmins said then the management wanted a two-year agreement. The union also asked for continuance of the practice of depositing cheques in banks- because it might arrange for the banks to switch dues from the workers' to the union's ac- count. ACCEPTED RELUCTANTLY In a statement issued here and at Timmins the union said it was "unwillingly compelled" to accept the terms or face the alternative of hardship for its members and their families "because the prem- ier of Ontario and the government have allowed the mine operators to dictate to them." The statement said the union will 'take "full advantage" of the fact-finding committee to "expose existing in the mines where the men work longer hours than in any other industry in Canada and where average hourly rates are lower than in any heavy industry in the nation." Mr. Timmins, in his statement, termed the settlement a "com- promise and one that the com- pany had a great deal of hesitancy in accepting, imarily due to economic tments involved."