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December, 1953 - Is Daily Average Ciruclation fo* 12603 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Cloudy with light snowflurries, Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 25; high tomorrow 88, a VOL. 13--Ne. 28 Post Office Deportment, Authorized on Second-Closs Mell, OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1954 A Prise Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy EIGHTEEN PAGES its walls. Caught in the doorway YOUNG ARCHITECTS HAVE DAY fall of evolved by youthful minds. Built on Warren Avenue from? blocks of snow and liberally sprinkled with water, the igloo wi permit its builders to sit around a small table and stand upright within | are the builders, John Partridge, John Lindsay, Bob Dingman and Wayne Murray. Times-Gazette Staff Photo. Airlifts Provide Food marooned ssh fi} | and absen- thick ice. Helicopters are flying in relief supplies. Germany's m'~-'- Rhine river is frozen for many miles. and 'jupper stretches of the Thames in England are ice-blocked. Thirteen policeman battled through icy winds and chesthigh snow drifts for hours Tuesday night and early today to reach an old peoples' home at Otterden : southeast England, snowbound from the outs world since last Big Three Meet, Plan Ni BAEERAE E PP li Couple Hacked By Ax-wielder OE (CP)--Mr. and Mrs, Bruce Beatty, a 65-year-old couple, were in eritical con in hos- pital today from injuries suffered Tuesday night when they were at- Indo-|¢acked by an ax-wielding robber. extremely cold ather the Rg A Mii Wo | 0 : fee i i ha Ef B= gids fi The attacker robbed their ser- vice station at Renton, four miles east of here. The couple was discovered hy Ray Chambers, a Simcoe district truck-driver who stopped at the service station this morning and found Mr.- Beatty lying in a down- stairs room in a pool of blood and Mrs. Beatty upstairs on the floor. A blood- ax was on a near- by couch. Police believe the tion's normal closing time at 10:30 p. m. There was no estimate of the amount of money taken. said. Official sources said Allahabad declined - to comment on any as- pect of the tragedy and would give nol official casualty figures. NEHRU PLANNED VISIT Prime Minister Nehru intended to visit the Kumbh Mela today and President Rajendra Prasad also had been scheduled to join the bathers. But there were no indi- cations where Nehru and Prasad were when the stampede occurred. The vast horde of pilgrims had gathered at the rivers' éonfluence in eastern India in observance of th orthodox Hindu belief that bathing there during the Kumbh Mela spares them the pangs of rebirth into a new incarnation. The festival, from Jan. 14 to March 4, is held only every 12 years. It commemorates a battle on the in which the gods defeated a horde of demonis. The pilgrims had waited all ht Myon river banks amid cold rains, They ho to bathe during the first three hours after the day- light exclipaed the new moon, con- by the Hindus the most auspicious time for the ceremony. HOLY MEN BATHE FIRST In the early a procession 20,000 holy men--astride is ale Slephanis going down to Then the streams of Dhgrims began to push toward the bank, Stesting a crushing, human jugger- naut, Indian Red Cross and local med- ical authorities were rted rush- ing the dead, dying injured to emergency tent hospitals in the makeshift pilgrim cities, which have been set up on river banks. The reposts said the confusion was heightened when the desper- ate sadhus sought to beat back the onrushing crowds with spears and the long, steel-pointed wooden staffs they use in their forest her- mit life for protection against wild beasts. The rush also frightened the elephants carrying sadhu chiefs and Hindu temple officials, and the huge beasts added to the melee. Alarmed at growing unemploy- ment in the foun industry, a special meeting of Fittings Limit- ed employees last night instructed officers of Local 1817, United Steel- workers of America, to share union's Jiopleins with the oderal government. The meeting cided to acquaint Michael MP, with the situation. Packing the basement auditor- ium of the UAW Hall, the em- 80 Starr, ployees overwhelmingly approved the Union's policy of Sharing aval able work rather than ving td \] 2 : | LATE NEWS FLASH A . O'Grady director of 's division of labor rela- announced the t~~ather | 4 'aw | ROYAL SCOT IN COLLISION : WATFORD JUNCTION, England (AP)--The Royal Scot collided here tonight with another passenger train. ¢|There was no immediate report of casualties. EISENHOWER SEES "ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT" WASHINGTON (AP)--President Eisenhower 'today said he believes the United States is going through a period of economic adjustment but he is confident every- thing will turn out all right. PRELIMINARY HEARING OPENS : BARRIE (CP)--The preliminary hearing begun here oday for two Toronto youths, Ian Robertson, 21, and Wil- iam Stephen Kingsley, 19, accused of murder in the fatal hooting October 29 of Fred "Scotty" Cameron, 57-year- old Toronto bond messenger. {ANDMASTER, COMPOSER DIES S WATERLOO (CP)--Charles F. Thiele, 70, founder f the Waterloo band festival, died here' today. A band- aaster, composer, music publisher and industrialist, Mr. Thiele i 4 1ded the festival in 1932. UCILLe. TURNS DETECTIVE HOLLYWOOD (AP)--Police report that a bit of de- ective work by actress Lucille Ball led to the arrest of a WASHINGTON (AP)--The House | nan who has admitted he made about $16,000 a year by todey 2 ne vorks | \osing as a writer and sobbing studio dressing rooms. 1 "= Fittings Ltd. Union Asks Ottawa Investigate Slump enough employees laid off to as- swe the remainder of a five-day week. "The foundry division in Fi has had to F division Bb Fung the |week," explained M. J. Fenwick, Oshawa and district representa- de- [tive."" It was necessary for the union to decide whether or not our poney of sharing the work was to pressed to the utmost. I am Pleased to report the meeting gave ts overwhelming approval." The federal government will be asked to study the unemployment situation in the foundry industry prrtieuarly since some people feel oreign imports of iron castings are causing domestic producers loss of orders, Fenwick said. "We really don't know the whole story of why the iron castings in- dustry is in a slump but we cer- tainly intend to find out," he add- ed. "We are also writing Michael Starr, Ontario Riding's member of parliament to do some scouting for us on thi§ subject." Eyewitness accounts said 200 square yards along the sandy banks of the Ganges were strewn with bodies after the police cleared away the panie-stricken throngs of bathers at the Kumb Mela festival. * Rumors sweeping through New Delhi placed the death toll as high as 1,000. But there was no confirmation. site in Hindu mythology in dawn they watched of "R00" -Sahae Denies U.K. Specialist Treats Pope By FRANK BRUTTO VATICAN CITY (AP)--The Vat- ican newspaper L'Osservatore Ro- mano, in an evident effort to allay growing concern over the health of Pope Pius, said today that "the state the supreme pontiff, thanks to God, continues to im- prove." : The newspaper also described as "absolutely unfounded" reports the Italian press that a British specialist who attended the late King George VI had been called for consultation. This report. printed in both I Messaggero and I1 Tempo of Rome, Conservative news; rs, had heightened worry that the pontiff might be suffi from cancer. King George of a throm- Jouy in 1952 several months after he had been operated upon for cancer of the"hmyg. i GASTRIC AILMENT An official Vatican, press office bulletin said Tuesday that medical examinations had 'happily nega- tive results" and had established that the disturbance from which the Pope suffers is of a 'gastric nature provoked by mnon-adequate function of the neuro-digestive system." Messaggero and II Tempo both said the pontiff has been placed on liquid diet and that he suffers stomach Jains that require fre- quent applications of ice packs. Five Escape RCAF Crash FINALE LIGURE, Italy (AP)-- A Royal Canadian Air Force plane crash-landed in the Mediterranean today 150 yards off the Italian Riviera coast. All five members of its crew escaped in rubber boats and were picked up by a fishing bark before they could paddle to shore. e pilot of the craft, which was flying from Gibraltar to Marseilles, was identified only as "Capt. Annis." Two unidentified officers and two non-commissioned officers also were aboard. Cause of the crash was not im- mediately determined. Authorities said the plane is lying in only about eight feet of water and can be recovered. PILOT FROM N. B. At Ottawa, RCAF headquarters identified the pilot as FO. Ralph Hamilton Annis, 28, of McAdam, N. B. Headquarters had no immediate report on the accident itself. n Rome, the Canadian military attache, Col. A. G. Cherrier said the plane was a Beechcraft trans- en route from Gibraltar to ts base in France via Marseille. He said the plane went off course because of a faulty radio and ran out of fuel. \ POLIO VIRUS The virus of poliomyelitis is one of the smallest infectious agents yet discovered. FIRST IN QUEBEC Calls Duplessis 'Coward' Liberal Member Expelled QUEBEC (CP)--A Liberal oppo- sition member Tuesday night was expelled from the legislative as- sembly for 15 days when he called Premier Duplessis a "coward." Emilien Lafrance, 43-year - old member for Richmond expelled twice during the 1952-53 session, flung the word from his backrow desk as Liberals pressed the gov- ernment for information about "'ru- mors of a scandal" in struction of the 1,200,000 horse- wer hydro-electric project on the rsimis river. Georges Lapalme, Liberal leader and George ler (L--Westmount St. George) called "'excessive' the nalty proposed in a motion b; Sir. au and asked that % 5 be withdrawn, Mr. Duplessis called for a vote and his "motion was adopted 47 to 19. It is generally believed the 15- day expulsion is. unprecedented in Quebec's parliamentary history. Last year Mr. Lafrance was ex- lled for one sitting during a de- te on the Quebec Election Act. Later he was expelled from three days for accusing th Union Na- tionale government of tolerating liquor law wiolations. The incident Tuesday occurred while the assembly sat in com- mittee discussing estimates of the deparunient of hydraulic resources. . Lapalme said all sorts of reports were circulating among the public about the project which in- volves expenditure of $225,000,000. BLACKLISTED Don Hudson, producer of CBC television show, has been black- listed by the Association of Cana- dian Radio and Television Artists (AFL), which has sent letters to its members forbidding them to appear in any Hudson-produced presentations. Hudson is super- visor of several shows of station CBLT, Toronto. Million Greet Queen, Duke SYDNEY, Australia (CP)--More than 1,000,000 cheering, flag-wav- ing Australians turned out today to t the Queen and the Duke of Edin inburgh as they arrived for the Australian portion of their six- month Commonwealth tour. Australians were more than or- dinarily overjoyed as this visit came after two others had been cancelled. King George VI was to have visited Australia after the war but the trip was called off A 1. health. Then the een, Ww en was Princess gu io weve---en-vich Rastovorow,. due to his ill route here when they were called back to England from Africa when the king died almost two years ago. Today's welcoming cheers varied from the restrained greeting of over-awed Aussies at the landing place in lovely, tree-lined farm cove in Sydney harbor to an un- fettered roar as people 'standing 10 deep saw the Queen pass through Sydney's streets in an open car. CHURCH BELLS SIGNAL Church bells signalled to the happy crowds that the royal liner Gothic had anchored. Then the Queen and the duke travelled a mile from the Gothic in a royal barge to the shore, passing through a lane of nearly 400 yachts and small boats. ' The Queen was welcomed b; Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Australia's governor-general, and Prime Minister Menzies, along with Lieutenant Governor Sir John Northcott of New South Wales and Premier J. Cahill of New South Wales. DIES IN CELL TORONTO (CP)--John Scikz, 45, died Monday night in his cell at the Don jail. A post mortom and an inquest have been ordered. Seikz was taken to jail after being sentenced to $50 or two months on a drunk charge. He was examined by the jail doctor, found to be un- dernourished, and put up in a sec- tion of the jail where he would get special attention. room, police said today. Most seriously hurt was wound. BRITTON LOVED GUNS James Gillespie, principal of the school, said the class was doing a work assignment under a re- placement teacher when the shoot- ing occurred. both wounded stu- dents were first cared for by the school nurse. Miss E. M. de St. Remy before being taken to hos- pital. Principal Gillespie said Britton was 'fascinated by guns." Lewis Gyorffy, father of the other wounded youth, said: "Only because my son was bent over his desk, drawing, is he alive today. Had he been seated upright 2 STUDENTS SHOT IN TORONTO SCHOOL Fear 1,000 Dead AsHindusPanic NEW DELHI (AP) -- An estimated 200 Hindu pil- grims were crushed to death and at least 1,000 were in- jured early today at Allahabad, India, when a crowd of 3,000,000 stampeded into the holy waters at the joining of the Ganges and Jumna rivers, reports reaching here Fully-Loaded Revolver Discharges In Classroom TORONTO (CP) -- Two Pupils in a Central Tech nical School grade 10 class were wounded Tuesday whes a fully-loaded .22 revolver was discharged in the class- Norman Britton, 15, in hos- pital where an emergency operation was performed to remove bone fragments from his left hand. Zollie Gyorffy, 16, needed treatment for a shoulder flesh woud have been killed or crip- Pp! Pri Police said Britton told them he had gotten the gun fro! Thomas Hazlett. The boy said did not know it was loaded, al- though the cartridge, police said, was clearly visible in the open- en cl h Police said the bullet passed through Britton's hand and then embedded itself in the youth's shoulder. The other 20 pils panicked briefly as both youths fell moaning to the floor. tary source said today that 4 )y ring in Japan to United Okinawa. spy ring, The diplomat, Yuri dro- apparedy in terror from the defunct Russian mission in T , the source said, after helping "set up a spy net work that has already penetrated some of the highest levels of the Japanese government.' "Rastovorov left out of fear for his life," the source said. '""The claim of the Russian mission that he was ¥idtiapped by the Ameri- cans is ridiculous." After -Rastovorov = dis: Jan. 24, the Soviet mission first reported to Japanese police that he was: missing, then 'accused the U.S. of kidnapping him. ORDERED HOME However, the American source said Rastovorov fled after being ordered back to Moscow because he apparently was found 'soften ing" toward Americans. e source said a Russian intel- ligence agent accompanying a Rus- sian skating team here in Jan- uary brought orders for Rastovorov to return. He said Rastovorov knew he was\to be sent home, and iplomat Helps Crack Spy Ring By ROBERT PROSSER TOKYO (AP)--A trustworthy United States mili-: a Russian diplomat-spy re- ported missing last week is revealing secrets of a Red States intelligence agents in The source, who ¢annot be identified, said secrete from the "highly efficient ag. " are helping erack the decided to ask the Americans for lum, "Fie source also said two Russian ents in Tokyo, friends of stovorov, wanted to give themselves over #0 the Am- ericans, but are being sent home guarded by five other Russians, Rastovorov is believed to have been a lieutenant-colonel in the MVD (Secret Police). Such a rank ° would make him a key man. There has been no official U.S. comment on the case other than denials that Rastovorov"s where- abouts is known. WATCHED BY U.S. However, the source said Rast. ovorov has been under U.S. sur veillance more than a year. Winning Rastovorov away from the Soviet Union could be one of the greatest U.S. intelligence ex- lots since the end of the Second orld War. It could compare in importance with the defection im Ottawa in 1946 of Igor Gouzenko, Soviet embassy c clerk who later cracked the Canadian spy ring. NEW YORK (AP)--Singer Dick Haymes and his actress wife Rita Hayworth had a clear! path from their hotel suite today after being besieged for 24 hours by sheriff's An 1i-ton sand-laden dump truck, back wheels in shallow water noses up through broken timbers of Credit River bridge at Cheltenham, 10 miles north- BRIDGE COLLAPSES west of Brampton, Ont. 'The truck was almost across the bridge when . the structure col- Japsed. The driver escaped safe- CP Photo) "his ( Besieged For Full Day, Rita. Dick Win Freedom deputies carrying a civil arrest order for Haymes. The deputies arrived at the Ho- tel Madison suite Monday night at p. m. with the order. They de- parted at about the same hour Tuesday night when a compromise was reached between counsel for Haymes and his former wife, a tress Joanne Dru, who obtained the arrest qrder. 3 Miss Dru, now the wife of actor John Ireland, claims Haymes owes her $33,323. In Hollywood Tuesday night a spokesman quoted her as saying: "I took this action against Dick Haymes very reluctantly, after he had repeatedly failed to live 3p to promises to help support ee) children (by her) and also to repay thousands of dollars in tax money that I was compelled to pay to the government on in- come he had earned during our marriage. "When a grown man drastically mored his obligations, he makes astic action the only possible answer." TLRMS SECRET Bartley Crum, counsel for Haymes and Miss Hayworth, told reporters: ; "We have reached an under- standing but the terms will remain private at this time." Miss Hayworth beamed at the agreement. "It's going to be awfully nice to see a clear, unobstructed corri- dor," she said. However the couple apparently did not leave the suit Tuesday night. It was reported that they had dinner sent up. DIES AFTER FRIGHT ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- Mrs, Walter H. Arthur, 50, died Tuesday of a heart attack after a man tried to force his way into her home. Police summoned by Mrs.. Arthur who became hysterical while talking to them on ihc phone and giving them a description of him, found her collapsed on the floor. She died in an ambulance on the way to