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Large Auto uys Rink Pr TIMES-GRTZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS * Classified Advertising .... 3-3492 Be rusts 3174 All Other Calls .......... THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Forecast Wednesday sunny, clouding over by noon; then scattered showers. Low tonight 60; high tomorrow 80. VOL. 13--No. 156 Authorized as Secdnd-Clgss Mil, Post Department, Ottawe Office OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1954 Phone 3-3474 Price Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy SIXTEEN PAGES CITY M VES TO BUY COAL YARD P rmal announcement was made by J. Norval Willson, pres:- of the Ontario Motor Sales, Limited, of the purchase -of the former Oshawa Arena property an dthe adjoining ice plant, to be show rooms for the company. The company is now located at the cor- Arena which was destroyed by fire last October, and extends to the east of the edge of the Oshawa Creek. Plans of Ontario Motor Sales for roperty have § been completed, and it is expected } that construction work will start} utilization of its new in about a week's time. It is pro- posed to recondition the former walls which were left standing when the Arena buined down, and to cover the whole area with a roof to provide a huge one-storey garage. This, said Mr. Willson, in making the announcement, will give Ontario Motor Sales abundant space which is lacking in the pres- ent premises. The ice plant building nearby will be reconstructed, with glass walls to be built into it, and it will be utilized as a showroom for new automobiles. . The new location will relieve the congestion from which the company has been suffering, said Mr. mn. It will be easy of access, with plenty of room for customers' cars. A uest from the Ontario Mo- tor Sales for a smell piece of J. N. WILLSON President property owned 'by the city in the northeast corner of the land which has been purchased came before the city council at its meeting last night. In his letter to the city council, Mr. Willson said it was the intention of his company to raise the level of the property by two feet. For this purpose he ask- ed for permission to take fill from the west side of the municipal stadium, which needs to be level- | led off for parking space. No action was taken by the council on Mr. Willson's request, rm... operty T L. M. SOUCH Secretary-Treasurer other than refer it to the city prop- erty committee and city officials for study and a report. The present Ontario Motor Sales premises at the corner of King and Mary Streets has been the lo- cation of the company for the past 25 years. It is understood that this property and the buildings on it will be sold when the new garage and show rooms on the Arena. site are completed, with all of the garage and sales departments of the company moving to the new location, Fishermen Rescued From Reef Above Niagara Falls NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (AP)-- Three fishermen were rescued from a reef about a mile above Niagara Falls Monday after their boat capsized in the rushing cur- One of them, Martin Bell, 28, estimated the fishermen had been swept t 200 yards downstream before he 'kicked bottom' and = realized they were over the reef. The men, all from Niagara Falls, were taken to hospital. Bell and Edward M. Pernesky, also 28, struck bottom at a point where the water was about waist deep. Bernard W. Irish, 27, who was submerged up to his shoulders, managed to hook his foot around a rock to keep from being carried downstream to the falls. Bluewater Village May Be All Moved Bawator want the community moved wholesale from the indus- trial south end of Sarnia into the residential east side it can be done, ($1 planning director J Legate told cpmmunity leaders onday night. The Village is located in the middle of Sarnia's "chemical val- ley" and its inhabitants claim the the area is unsuitable for residen- tial use. Mr. Legate estimated the com- munity could be moved for about $1,700,000 of which he said about ,000,000 could be optained through direct grants from provin- cial and federal governments. Trapped In Boat Six Are Rescued LONDON, Ont. (CP) -- Two London families -- in- oluding a babe in arms and trapped asleep under the deck of an overturned boat -- are alive today though they scarcely know why. The six were dragged from Lake Huron Sunday by three boats off Ipperwash after they spent "an eternity" battling the choppy waters to save the grandchildren. Mrs. William McCoy said: "My arms were getting so tired holding the baby on the bottom of that boat, I didn't think I could hang on any longer." Their boat suddenly flipped over, dumping Mr. and Mrs. McCoy, their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Harry and the children Bonnie, five, and Dennis, 15 months, into deep water three quarters of a mile offshore. "GET THE BABY" "When I came out from under the boat I heard my husband yell- ing 'get the baby' "', Mrs. William McCoy said. "The baby was about a foot under the water floating away from the boat. Our son got to him first and got him in his arms, but he was still going un- der every little wave. Finally we got him to the bottom of the boat." a six-year-old girl who was lives of their children and When Mr. McCoy, Jr., 26, discov- ered hig daughter Bonnie was still under the boat, he dived under and dragged her to the surface. Bonnie had been asleep under the decking over the bow of the boat. "When I woke up I could just see the water' and it was white," Bonnie said. "I wasnt afraid, I knew my daddy would come and get me." For the grandparents it brought back tragic memories of another son, Ronnie, drowned at Ipperwash nine years ago, the day before his ninth birthday. About 15 minutes later three other Londoners, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Rice and their son Doug- las, noticed the red bottom 'of the boat about a quarter of a mile away and went to investigate. Citizens Launch Attack On Police NEW YORK (AP)--Three men objected Monday when a police- man stopped three boys from shooting off firecrackers, and a wild battle of bullets and beer bottles resulted. Fifteen shots were exchanged an eight-minute flurry. Walls were chipped and automo- biles were gashed. Some 2,000 per- sons were attracted to the scene, but only one was injured. Police said he was the man who started the shooting in the first place. While patrolman William Linder was questioning the youths about the firecrackers (illegal in the city) three men drove up in an automobile and one shouted: "Why don't you mind your business and leave these boys alone?" Linder said when he identified himself the spokesman emerged with a beer bottle, smashed it on the police car, and lunged at him with the jogged glass. OPEN FIR The officer ducked away and drew his revolver. The attacker also produced a pistol and the two started shooting at each other from behind automobiles. Another man in the automobile opened fire. Beer bottles were hurled at the officer from win- dows of nearby buildings. Linder said that when the man who had started the argument, later identified as Austin Alleyn, 20, made a dash for a nearby house, he fired and struck Alleyn in the groin. Police reinforcements arrived and all three wete arrested. Alleyn and his companions, identified as Oliver Swindell, 30, and James Eckston, 20, were charged with felonious assault and illegal p sion of weap to hear them warned by the magis- "| Russie Supports 500,000,000 people on the mainland. Asian alliance is extremely urgent, much depends." CALLED BY DEATH Mrs. William Alchin, 120 Elgin Street West, who died in the Osh- awa General Hospital this morn- ing in her 99th year. She had been in failing health for the past three years. Teen-Agers "Do" Ends In Court WINDSOR (CP) -- Two Windsor youths Monday were fined $15 and costs in connection with a wild teen age party at Emery's beach June 19. They were charged with having liquor in a public place. A third youth was charged with assaulting a police officer and re- manded for sentence. All three pleaded guilty. . Charges were laid after police raided two beach parties celebrat- ing the end 'of the school term. Liquor was found and some girls dnd youths were drunk. One boy scratched, bit and fought all the way to police station. Fined were Robert Brown, 17, New- Protestant Youth Forms Organization TORONTO (CP)--A new church organization for boys 12-14 formed thro co-operation of four Cana- testant denominations will be introduced next fall, the United Church of Canada announced to- day . e up is to be known as Sigma-C. It results from three years study and research by the Baptist Federation of Canada, the Churches of Christ (Disciples), the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the United Church. The program will combine in- dividual initiative and responsibil- ity with the experience of working together with other boys in' their own group, the United Church said. France Places More Ont Duty PARIS (Reuters) -- The French government has ordered military commanders throughout France and Germany to "comb out" all regular soldiers on non-essential duty for service in Indo-China, it was reported here. Army officers estimate that 30,- 000 to 40,000 reinforcements are needed to bolster the shrinkin French lines in Indo-China, parti- cularly in Hanoi and the surround- ng Red river delta. eliable sources saich that, if the new "comb out' does not produce sufficient reinforcements, the gov- ernment will consider fresh mea- sures. Regulars might be sent from North Africa and replaced with conscripts. The government is also reported to be considering a re- quest to parliament to drop the present ban on the dispatch of draftees to Indo-China. 'Oakalla Inmate Jumps To Death BURNABY, B.C. (CP) -- Elmer Ranta, 46-year-old Toronto man, jumped to his death from a guard tower at Oakalla prison farm here Christie said of . prisoners and officers crawled out on the two-foot ledge and tried to reason with the pris- oner before he plunged 50 feet to his death. As he leaped, four other guards were rushing to the steps with a Diane in an attempt to break his all. SPIES WELL PAID 'Sized Up' Guests Mrs. Petrov Says MELBOURNE, Australia (Reut- ers)--Mrs. Evdokia Petrov, 40, wife of fugitive Russian diplomat Vladimir Petrov, said today she earned £72 Australian ($168) a week as a veteran Soviet spy in Australia, She told the government com- mission on espionage that she worked as an MVD secret police captain under her husband, who was former third secretary and MVD chief at the Soviet embassy in Canberra. One' of her jobs was to size up guests at embassy parties, who would make likely agents. Attractive, blonde Mrs. Petrov --the daughter of a secret police official--had emerged from 11 weeks in hiding to help her hus- band expose a Soviet spy ring in Australia, Vladimir Petrov touched off the current probe when he broke from Russia and sought political asylum in this country April 2, His wife joined him in exile two weeks later. PREPARED FOR WAR Before she entered the witness box, he concluded five days of testimony with the information that MVD headquarters in Moscow had ordered him in June, 1952, to estab- lish a fifth column, ready to work in event of war. He was also ad- vised to prepare for an influx of "illegal workers," or espionage agents. Speaking confidefitly in a light, clear voice, she tgld the commis- sion that she was born in 1914. Her father was in the NKVD which preceded the MVD and before and after her marriage she had worked in the MVD under the code name of Tamara. She mar- ried Vladimir Petrov in 1940. Mrs, Petrov said Vladimir HH her second husband. Her firss ® ar- riage in 1936 was to a man nain~d Krivosh, an MVD worker who purged in 1937 and sent to a labor camp. Her brother was also sent to a labor camp in 1943, she said. She told the commission she holds the Order of the Red Star for wartime services and, apart from Russian, speaks Japanese, Swed- ish and English. SALARIES SURPRISING Her monthly salary; was £104 Australian pounds and this was paid to her in cash. But another 1,750 rubles (about $448) was 'cred- ited to her bank account in Mos- cow. She said she had about 30,000 rubles in her account when she exile. Petrov himself testified his sal- ary at the beginning of 1954 was more than 4,000 rubles ($1,080) a month, Justice Owen, the commis- sion chairman, pursed his lips and said: "I must say the salaries are surprising to me." Atfer relating tatistics about her income, Mrs. Petrov was asked by the chairman 'how much a nice handbag would cost in Mos- cow." "It is difficult to estimate be- cause I never had one there," she replied. Proposal Is Almost Full West German LONDON (AP) -- The United States and Britain pushed ahead today with plans to give West Ger- many almost full sovereignty--in- cluding rearmament powers--in their two occupation zones if France does not ratify the Euro- pean army plan. Political and legal experts of the two allied nations opened meetings at the foreign office to Seat or Jomt U8 Heit h action to be launched if the European defence community is not set up soon. PROPOSALS STUDIED The conferences here are ex- pected to conclude before the end of this week. Under study are pro- Seaway Parley Now In Session OTTAWA (CP)--Canada and the United States have opened pre- liminary negotiations for joint con- struction of the navigation works of the St. Lawrence seaway. After a 3%-hour session across the conference table Monday, offi- \cials said they hoped that by today an agenda will be completed for later and final negotiations on the big ¥ . 'We made excellent progress at this first meeting," Hon. Lionel Chevrier, who heads the agency in charge of Canada's part of the work, said after the conference broke off Monday night. Birth Certificate Cost Is Set At $5 TORONTO (CPJ -- Ontario-born persons who require a new birth certificate now must pay $5 for it instead of $1. The Ontario govern- ment has revised the Vital Statis- tics Act raising the cost of birth certificates. About 200 are handled each year by the registrar gen- eral's department. p to : 1. Give the West German gov- ernment almost complete indepen- dence in the American and British zones, including powers to raise a defence army. 2. Abandon th U.S. - British- French high commission. in Bonn Independence and set up American and British embassies. Such action would leave the French zone, in southwest Ger- many, the sole occupied territory in the federal republic and would put the French under acute Ger- man pressure to get out. ORDERED LAST WEEK The Sratting of plant, here was ordered by. President er and Prime Minister Chu hill at their meeting in Washington last week. They agreed then that West Germany should' be given 'its place as an equal partner in the community of Western nations.' The French were not invited to take part in the talks here, the first such omission of France from joint Allied planning on Germany since the war. A British foreign office spokesman said France has been informed in advance of the U.S.-British conference and 'no doubt" would be advised of its results. New French Plan May Halt Deadlock Over Indo-China GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) A new French plan designed to f Both the Communist Vietminh and Russian delegation have said break an East-West deadlock over international armistice supervision in Indo-China will be presented to- day at the nine-power peace talks. Differences over the composition and powers of a neutral armistice ission have plagued the Indo- China talks since soon after their start on May 8. TO VISIT US. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The He- roic French army nurse, Gene- vieve de Galard Teraube, has ac- cepted a congressional invitation to visit the United States later this month, it was announced Saturday. She won fame as the only woman in the Indo-China siege of Din LATE NEWS FLAS Bien Phu, A) and John Essex, 16. Th ton was remanded on the assault charge. A host of parents and friends of the youths were in co o! trate against rebelling against even minor laws. | Red China Claim AUCKLAND, N. Z. (AP) -- Ex- ternal Affairs Minister Clifton Webb today urged that Communist China be brouht into the United Nations. . Addressing a foreign affairs de- bate in the New Zealand House of Representatives, Webb said West- ern policy is driving Communist China closer to Russia and pre- venting a lessening of world ten- sion. Admitting China to the UN would be the first step in driving a "diplomatic wedge" between the two countries, he said. He said it could not be seriously argued that the Chinese National- ists on Formosa speak for the The formation of a South East he said. New Zealand and Au- stralia could help to bring this about and also reconcile differ- ences between Britain and Amer- ica "upon whom our Security so Fairport Farmer Pushed Lad Over Cliff WHITBY -- Stanley Burnett, 49, Fairport Beach farmer,, was fined $50 and costs or one month, this morning, after being found guilty on an assault charge heard before Magistrate Frank Ebbs. Evidence was that Burnett pushed a Toronto lad, Matti Poldvee, 18, over a 30-foot bank onto the lakeshore when he found Poldvee trespassing on his land. . Shelters Little Use Against A-Bomb LONDON -- Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe told the House of Commons that civil defence chiefs have not decided whether it is worthwhile to construct A-bomb and H-bomb shelters. Brandon Threatened By Assiniboine Flood BRANDON -- The Assiniboine river, swollen by a torrential downpour, burst through one dike today and threatened another, 12 hours before the river's flood crest was expected to reach Brandon. Court Finds Men Stole Equipment TOKYO -- Four 'Canadian soldiers serving # Japan have been court-martialed and given sentences ranging from severe reprimands to 12 months im- prisonment for stealing army clothing and equipment. the French proposals, still secret, have "some common ground' with earlier Soviet proposals. In the past, the Communists have insisted on representation in a neutral armistice commission and veto powers for members of joint military teams which would supervise a cease-fire in the field. estern delegates have rejected Co Jn munist representation on grofinds that no Communist coun- try can be really neutral and have said the joint military teams should be responsible to the main neutral body. They have oppose veto powers. . decided to join her husband in| Expropriation Motion Passed In Close Ballot By a one-vote majority, Oshawa city council last night passed a motion to initiate. proceedings for expropriation of part of the Lander Coal property. If it can be obtained, the 200 by 73 foot block facing on Centre street would be used for public parking, probably metered. Seven aldermen voted for the motion; Mayor John Naylor and five aldermen opposed it. Proponents of the expropriation see the move as preliminary to ousting the freight railway tracks from King Street. Only two firms other than Lander, would then have use for the tracks. The motion for expropriation was made by Alderman Hayward Murdoch who was verbally bom- barded for his proposal last week by Alderman Lyman Gifford. Lander frontage, on King street with a depth of 6( feet on Centre street is not included in the city's wishes for expropriation. RECORDED VOTE Alderman Vuodh: motion met considerable debate before it came to a recorded vote. Aldermen Murdoch, Walter Lane, Wesley Powers, Joseph Victor, Gordon At- rsley, Clifford Harman, and Rae alliday voted for expropriation, while the mayor and Aldermen Gifford, Finley Dafoe, John Dyer, Orville Eagle, and Norman Down, turned thumbs down. Protests against the manner in which financial proposals were made to the Lander company were issued by Alderman Dyer, who said he would like to see the entire council deal with the matter before a decision is reached. OFFERED $40,000 Alderman Murdoch, who met with the coal company officials and offered $40,000 for the piece of land, explained that he con- ferred with Assessment Commis- sioner W. E. Kerr before men- tioning the $40,000 figure to the Lander company. Ald. Murdoch said, "I don't like expropriation any more than any- one else." Alderman Murdoch said he felt the purchase of the Lander pro- perty is "a progressive outlook" fér the city's traffic congestion problem. It's up to us to do some- thing about it." Financing the purchase will be done with parking meter revenue, he said. From the city's 465 meters, a yearly net revenue of approximately $20,000 is obtained. Certain seetions of King and Simcoe streets, Alderman Mur- doch said, will have to be made clear for traffic and the need for more off - street parking is in- creasing steadily, "I'm not pushing anything down your throats," he added. "I'm not being dishonest." This was the reply to numerous questions by Alderman Dyer, who demanded to know whether or not the commit- tee in charge of negotiations with the Lander company agreed on the $40,000 offer, which was, of course, subject to council's approval or alteration. MAYOR PASSIVE Mayor Naylor did not at any time express his objection to the expropriation motion, but pointed out that there are times '"'when steps such as this are necessary." Alderman Dyer said he did not believe that expropriation should be approved without every effort for a deal being exhausted. "I wouldn't want to subject the citizens of Oshawa to pay $40,000 or up for property less than the area of the city hall," he warned. OTHER SUGGESTIONS Alderman Dafoe voiced objec- tions both to the purchase or ex: propriation of the property, and added that property south of the city hall should be filled in, level- led off, and used for parking. "There's no reason to spend tax. payers' money to get one block closer to the Four Corners," he asserted. After explaining that expropria- tion is not the "bogey" it has been assumed to be, Alderman Lane pointed out the move is the only present way to get railway tracks off King street. "Is that only the starting point?" asked Alderman Gifford, jumping to his feet, Alderman Lane, continuing, said the acquisition of land forthe pro- vincial highway and expropriation of land in Toronto are only ni procedures. "It's perfectly ob- vious," he concluded, 'that th€ owner (of the Lander property) LANDER (Continued on page 2) Three Russian Diplomats Are Expelled From States WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three Russian diplomats--one of them attached to the Soviet delegation at the United Nations--have been thrown out of the United Sates during the last six months on charges of spying. The Russian government, the state department claims, has now retaliated by making espionage charges against two members of the U.S. diplomatic mission at Mos- cow and forcing their withdrawal. The two Americans are military officers, as were the two Russians ousted from the embassy here. The state department Monday declined to disclose any of the evi- dence against the Soviets, but press officer Henry Suydam said "we got the goods on them and out they went." DECLARED UNWELCOME The two Americans whom the Russians accused are Lt.-Col. How- ard L. Felchlin, assistant military attache at the Moscow embassy, and Maj. Walter McKinney, the assistant air attache, The Soviets declared them "persona non grata™ or unwelcome on July 3. The United States rejected the charge as "baseless" in a note Monday, but it informed Russia they would be withdrawn. Maj. McKinney is on vacation outside Russia and will not return. Col. Felchlin will leave the Soviet capital Thursday. He will fly to Berlin with ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, who is going on a month's leave. The three Russians whose ouster. from the U. S. was disclosed were named by the state department as: Cmdr. Igor A. Amosov, assist- ant naval attache, Soviet embassy, who was declared personally un- jeceplable last Feb. 3 and left 'eb. Alexander P. Kovlyov, second secretary of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations, who was asked to leave on Feb. 3 and who departed Feb. 10. Lt. Col. Leonid E. Pivnev, as- sistant air attache, Soviet embassy Qidered to leave May 29, who left une 6. City council last night approved a railway spur line crossing on Thornton's road which will serve the proposed $1,500,000 Ralston- Purina Company plant. At the same time, Lew W. McConkey, Chamber of Commerce manager, who has been heading. negotia- tions between the city, and com- pany and railroad officials, was given the official title of "Indus- trial Commissioner' because of his devoted efforts in this respect on Oshawa's behalf. Approval of the spur line, to serve the plant which will be located on a 10-acre site, is seen as a major step towards the con- struction of the main plant, pro- cessing building and a large storage building. A deal for the purchase of a site for this plant and its auxiliary buildings was completed July 2, when officials of the company were in the city conferring with merce, the CPR, CNR and the property owners. The site is located immediately south of the CNR main line, and between Thornton's road and the new CPR spur lines which comes south near Stevenson's road. The Ralston-Purina Company, Limited, of St. Louis, Missouri, the Oshawa Chamber of Com- LEW McCONKEY manufactures feed products, and according to Mayor John Naylor, the new plant will provide the city with some needed diversification. Alderman Hayward Murdoch City Approves Line To'Serve New Firm made the motion to approve of the spur line crossing, and stated the Ralston-Purina company is "a favorable type of industry for our city." He also commended the efforts of Mr. McConkey, who worked for months to encourage the com- pany to locate here. Later, he moyed that the Chamber of Com- merce official be officially ap- pointed industrial commissioner for the city. (The title has never been officially given to Mr. McConkey, who has been acting in the cap- acity of an industrial commis sioner.) Coungillors were enthusiastic about "the new industry and Mr. McConkey's work. They approved both motions. Alderman Gorden Attersley com- memded Alderman Murdoch and - John Dyer, of the industrial com- mittee, for their efforts in con- ! 'nection with the Ralston-Purina company. The CNR, now with approval from the city for the spur line, will have to apply to the Board of Railway Commissioners of Canada for permission to build the line, This is considered a for- mality, as in such matters the permission as a rule is given au- tomatically once the municipality has approved.