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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHO! NUMBERS Advertising ....3-3492 Other Calls .......... 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ------ Weather Forecast Snowflurries; not much change in temperature, Low tonight 30; tomorrow 32. ae 13 -- No. 295 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1954 Price Not Over 8 Cents Per Copy Phone 3-3472 TWENTY PAGES 9 FORGED FLIER oP BUSIEST PLACE IN TOWN being handled by Oshawa Post Office staff in the pre-Christmas rush days. This typical scene is is one picture that speaks itself. Hundreds of thousands pieces of mail #nd parcels are being repeated scores of times daily as Postmaster Norman Moran and his augmented staff try to keep up with the huge vol- they ume of mail. Fortunatel g In have a new, spacious buildn which to work this year. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Chou Invites Hammarskjold lo Attend Peiping Conference ED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP'--, Peiping radio announcement | Premier Chou En-lai has | to meet Secretary-General | g Hammarskjold of the United | Ei in Peiping to discuss the | prisoned American fliers caught | § UN by surprise this morning. arskjold was preparing to to Stockholm late in the day meet Red Chinese represeanta- es there when the Red China announced that the Peiping er was prepared to meet the secretary-general in the Red se capital in the interests peace." t UN hoabpuapiees, a spokes- said no cial message had received from Peiping, but the light of past experience it | 1d be expected later today. { e broadcast said Chou had | bled the secretary-general to lease decide for yourself the te of your visit." In a cable to ou last Friday, Hammarskjold d suggested they meet "soon Dec. 26." f AIT CABLE kesman at the UN said at Chou"s cable was in hand | re could be no announcement of | mmarskjold's plans. The Swed: | diplomat had sent a second | essage to Chow saying he would spies, | CHOU EN-LAI | like to see the Peiping ambassa- | dor to Sweden this weekend. marskjold's request of Dec. 10 for a meeting on the fate of the 11] American mirmen imprisoned as DAG HAMMARSKJOLD | personnel held since the Korean | lieved they were | War. But informants said Ham- | that their desire to. go home, "far | Chou till then had ignored Ham- | marskjold could easily arrange to | from being eiping early next week. go to P UN General Assembly, The on two Cold War items and three colonial issues. Delegates planned | to stay in 'session throughout the | day and perhap into the night in | order to wind up | Assembly debate was expected | to be brief on Russia's charges of | American aggression against Red | China, which failed to get com- mittee approval. The Cyprus, Mor- ofco a Tunisia Items--which have generated little heat so far | --also were expected to be dis-| sed of quickly. { INTS ENCOURAGE UN officials were encouraged by | {hints from Peiping radio that the | {Communists might be willing to | | exchange the airmen for 35 Chi-| nese students detained in the United States since Red China en- | tered the Korean War. State de- partment officials said the 35 have not been allowed to go home be- | cause they acquired skills in the | U.S. that might be useful to the | Communists. 1 re- | In Boston, four Chinese search students iss; a statement | Thursday night g they be-| ng the 35 and | 'Communist subter {fuge,' is, in fact, a very human |one, namely to be reunited with | meanwhile, prepared to close its |our families who are suffering by | and of other UN military ' 1954 session today with final action ' our absence." aufort Sea Research ay Speed Radar System OTTAWA (CP)--A study of con- |search in the tions in the Beaufort sea which | Americans had not already sent nada probably would not have | scientists into that field. rried out if the United States | Canadian and U.S. scientists did, ac. not started first may result, | however, study the distribution and expectedly in speedier comple: | movement of water masses and on of a new distant early warn-|jce and climate in the cold sea. far-north sea if | pord Council radar system. Informants said Thursday that nographic and hydrographic esearch in the sea that stretches forth of Alaska, the Ykon and | n Northwest Territories was ertaken five years ago when was not even any serious ught of a system across the of North America to warn of proaching enemy planes. ! With the swift developments of | atomic end jet age in mind | jen then, however, a few north- experts in the defence depart- nt anticipated that Canada and e U.S. would eventually consider ~ north more important. ENT SCIENTIST! Even at that, the informants id. it was uniikly that Oanada | ould have carried out any re-! With the work completed a few weeks ago, their research now | may find itself at work in north-| ern defence. It is understood that exact lo- | cation of the radar line between | Alaska, and Greenland has not been decided yet, but if it is placed near the Arctic coast, the | Beaufort sea research will be of | great value. | The scientists now can predict | fairly accurately, for instance, ice | movements in the sea. Planners of | the DEW line hence can know ac- | curately when ships may land | materials on the coast without be- | ing locked in the ice. | ork on the DEW line, which | Canada and the U.S. announced only a few weeks ago, is to begin | witha .the spring brea" up. { RESS CONFERENCE Publisher Tells Benefits Of NATO MA NICHOLSON A orrespondent To "The Times-Gazette) Paris -- The appalling ignorance the public about the economic vantages of the NATO alliance is tributable to the inaction 6f news- per publishers and editors, Roy omson told a press conference tonight. He pleaded for more fective integration of the Atlantic mmunity along the lines recently vocated by Prime Minister St. The pi blisher of pul er of newspapers in the States and Great Brit- which have themselves consist- security, ently supported this Canadian vis. ion in international ' co-operation was introduced by Lord Ismay as his guest at the press confer- ence. Mr, Thomson suggested that development of NATO in the econ- omic political and cultural fields hould be dramatically presented the public as the attractive pro- Ject which it is. Only thus he said would the public feel prompted to urge government to take the stens towards international co-op- eration which will bring to reality this vision of . lower taxes, more jobs, cheaper costs and military Ford Union Chiefs To Bring 'Members Up To Date On Situations WINDSOR (CP) -- Charles Mc | | Donald, president of the National of Canada, said Thursday night membership meet- ings have been arranged in Tor- onto, Hamilton, Oakyille and Brampton to. bring striking Ford of Canada workers up to date on recent company union talks. Union company discussions collapsed Monday over the question of prov- ince-wide bargaining. The meetings will be held next week. Mr. McDonald, answering charges from a striking Oakville worker of union executive dictator- ship, said the meetings have been | | planned for more than a week, { but could not be announced until | suitable space for them had been arranged. Vern Janeway, a member of the striking Local 707, United Automo- bile Workers (CIO-CCL) at Oak- ville, said Wednesday union lead- ers had refused to call a member- ship meeting to explain why "we are being forced to accept a blan- | ket policy we don't want." a He also charged a strike vote] held last September among the as- sembly workers was "rigged.'"" Un- fon officials denied this. Press Photographer Irks Vancouver Police Of VANCOUVER (CP)--The case of a newspaper photographer, de- tained by Police for taking a pic- | ture against orders, was in the hands of Mayor Fred Hume today. The mayor, who declined direct comment, said he had asked po- lice chief Walter Mulligan for a full report on the incident which occurred when Vancouver Prov- ince photographer Bob Olsen was taken to 'police headquarters Wed- nesday night. Olsen was detained. for shooting a picture of a holdup suspect after police had ordered him not to. Meanwhile, press and police lined up on opposite sides in the argument, FIRST TIME Chief Mulligan said he would recommend charges be laid against Olsen. Province publisher A. W. Moscarella said 'so far as the Province knows, this is the first time in the history of Van- couver that a news phétographer has been arrested in the course of his routine duties." Olsen slipped his film to an ac- companying reporter. The picture icers was published by both Vancouver afternoon newspapers, with the suspect's face blanked out. Mr. Moscarella, who asked po-| lice for an apology for his em- ployee and his paper, said 'the charge that the taking of such a picture interferes with or obstructs police in any way is, in our opin- ion, absurd, the interference, en- tirely unjustified, was on the part of the police officer." TTACH LESSON Superintendent Peter Lamont | said Olsen was detained 'to teach | the press a lesson." [ "When we ask the press not to take a picture, we expect them not to," he said. : The chief said "regardless of the warning, the photographer took the picture. To my mind tais was definitely an obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty and it is my opinion that a charge should be laid against this particular photographer. . , ."" He said he had asked the city prose- cutor be consulted on this poiat. R. J. Moore, president of the Newsmen's Club of B. C., termed the police action 'unwarranted n- terference with a newspaper man MYSTERY BLACK-OUT Power Cut Puts City in T VANCOUVER (CP --The ques- tion of what blacked out a metro- politan area of 500,000 persons re- mained unanswered today. A transformer blew Thursday night, apparently without reason, and turned into an area of silence and darkness the cities of Van- couver and New Westminster and adjoining Burnaby, North Van- couver and West Vancouver. Power was off for nearly three hours. | The break came just after 5 p.m. | and lasted until 7:40 p.m. It caught Christmas shopping srowds | in large downtown department | stores, It caught the rush-hour| traffic in electrically « powered trolley buses. | PATIENT ESCAPES In New Westminster a six-foot- urmoil on emergency power a short time later, but no one but battery-set owners could listen, | Citizens acted as traffic cops to| unsnarl jams which, in one bridge! sector, reached back two miles. Power to activate telegraph equipment was lost and the B.C. Telephone's radio-telephone com- munication network went dead, isolating many coastal points, HOSPITAL BLACKOUT Vancouver General Hospital switched immediately to auxiliary power. However, at St. Paul's Hospital here, the auxiliary unit failed and nurses walked the wards with candles and flashlights. | Hospital officials reported there | were luckily no patients in iron | lungs, which would have had to be pumped by hand. Fire-alarm equipment went on one, 250-pound mental patient, de- | battery stand-by, but there were scribed as violent, seized his|no calls, In some stores, where chance and wrenched free from |elevators quit between floors, shop- two police officers. He was still at| pers were helped out through the large. | escape hatches. Early theatre £IoWds Kept their | Fraser valley towns as far away seats as ushers patrolle e aisles | as ope, B.C., P, e| with flashlights. Radio Hope 3 niles 10 She went off the dir. They returned' sputter, then keep going. | Striker's Mone y Used Up, doing his job of keepin i informed." Ping the Pike) Wite Inherits Fortune WINDSOR (CP)--How would you | feel if you learned you were going | to share in a $2,000,000 estate" Mrs. Etta Mae Stricktr, 45, an- swered that Thursday night. 'I| don't feel any different," she said | "Of course, I haven't got the money in my hands yet, so I guess I don't really appreciate my good fortune, Mrs. Etta Mae Stricker, 45, an- late Robert Scott, millionaire De- troit-Florida real estate man who died Aug. 2, aged 84. Mr. Scott died without leaving a will, and Mrs, Stricker is one of three relatives who will share his fortune, She has received no offi- cial indication as yet as to what her share will be. The other two relatives are nephews: Clarence Scott, of Flor- ida, and Robert Scott, of Detroit Mrs. Stricker's 49-year-old hus- | band, Douglas, also took the news | of his wife's sudden fortune] calmly. He works at the Ford | Motor Company of Canada, but has been on strike for the last i0 wtek. *'I guess I'm still the same as 1 was before I heard of it," | people do with theirs. It will be| against the slavery .of commun- |1. h 01d Man Winter Blankets Farms TORONTO (CP)~--Snow, cover- ing most of Ontario this week, settled farmers down for winter, A drop in egg and poultry prices was a major development. It forced many farmers to slaughter or sell laying flocks. Wellington county, in western Ontario found e sald. birds marketed without the neces- sary weight. : In Grey county, mink pelting semson arrived, Peel county re- ports more people looking for farm jobs than usual. Southern Ontario, which hasn't had much snow, reported plowing in progress. Bush work began in eastern On- | tario with Renfrew farmers clear- ing trees damaged in hurricane Hazel. In the eastern urea, 25 per cent of the fall plowing remains undone. Cadi Horrified CGE Union Rejects Offer TORONTO (CP) -- The United Electrical Workers of America (Ind.) said Thursday union em- ployees at the Canadian General Electric Guelph works have voted to reject a four-cent-hourly wage increase offered by the company for next year. The union said in a statement the offer, plus $20 retroactive pay. was made in settlement of the hourly wage increase. Present basic wage rate at the plant is $1.36 an hour. They said the dispute will now go before a conciliation board. A union statement after rejec- tion of the offer accused the com- pany of attempting to 'use the Christmas needs of its workers to try to put over a cheap settle- ment." Union officials said the Guelph workers are prepared to strike if necessary to secure an additional increase. $600 Too Much Board Rules TORONTO (CP) -- High school stations | east, had their power and lights | teachers in Toronto lost out Thurs- day in their move for a $600 across-the-board pay increase. The board of education's finance committee rejected the teachers' | request for the $600 increase next | MacKenzie admit he had landed | Weeks year and increased raises to a maximum $1,000, 10 LI ar oo MacKenzie's Will Broke : After Long Confinement OTTAWA (CP)--Sqdn. Ldr. Andy MacKenzie of Montreal was induced under pressure by the Chinese Communists to sign a statement saying he was shot down in the Korean war two years ago while invading Chinese territory. s This was disclosed in a joint statement issued today by the departments of national defence and external af= fairs, which contained a report of the Reds' treatment of the 34-year-old RCAF fighter ace from the time he | was shot down Dec. 5, 1952, to his release two years later. FIRST REFUSED The statement said MacKenzie first refused to make any admis- | sions. sought by his Chinese cap- | tors, and then: "In March, 1954, after one year {and four months under the pres- | sures of solitary confinement, in- | sistent questioning and direction, | he finally was induced to sign a | after MacKenzie told them he had spoken to other prisoners in North | Korean prisoner-of-war camps. | He was on his fourth mission | with the 51st Fighter Interceptor | Wing of the USAF on patrol over | North Korea south of the Yalu | river when "his aircraft was ride |dled by enemy fire and he was forced to bail out from 40,000 feet. - | statement saying he had been| The statement said he landed briefed to fly over China and had | by parachute on the side of a steep been shot down while invading | hill about five miles south of the Chinese air space, but had Yad {Sui Ho reservoir in North in North Korea." {and was immediately SUrro The statement, issued during a|and captured by Chinese Commus {press conference today, said the | StS: Canadian pilot, who was flying as| He was taken by truck across an exchange officer with the |the Yalu to Attung in Chinese ters | United States Air Force, "was not | ritory and held there for several briefed to fly over China and did | hours before being returned to & {not knowingly do so." | prisoner-of-war camp in North | It related how Chinese Jntersog- | Korea, 2 approsiniatly sevens ators origina sought to mak urin, Pp ate. : y g qe of solitary confinement | there he managed to communie: | in China after being shot down. TOLD OF TALKS with fellow prisoners who re MACKENZIE The request, made through the | | Ontario Secondary School Teach- " ers' Federation, was a compromise | . All Py) money has been used | suggestion. A previous request for | uP a we've run up a couple of | a $1,000 annual increase was re- | ills," Mrs. Stricker said. "'I guess | jacted by the finance committee the money will come in handy 10 | Tuesday. The committee has ap- | pay off those when we get It." | raved an offer of a $400 annual | The Strickers have three chil-| increase to all teachers but this | dren, Robert, 15, Beverley Aun, | was turned down. | 10, and Donna Jean, 8, They live | Minimum salary for high school | in a fiveroom white cottage in teachers in Toronto is $2200 a| Sandwich East, a Windsor suburb. | your Maximum is $6,000. The | When asked what her plans were | teachers' proposed increases, if | for making use of her inheritance, | accepted, would have made them | Mrs. Stricker became serious and | the highest paid in Canada. | positive, be "I'm Boing to use it to make . i sure my family is secure, and in the work of the Lord," she said All Will Remember | "I've never had much myself and | . | 1 look on this as a sort of wit Pontiff In Prayers from God. And if he can give me | i ; : | this fortune, the least I can do is| TORONTO (CP)--James Cardi-| spend it trying to bring happiness | nal McGuigan of Toronfo Thursday to other people | night called upon all Roman Cath- | "I'm going to send my son to 0lics and non-Catholics to remem- | Bible college, and if 1 buy any-| ber the Pope in their prayers. thing, it will be a car and a trailler| Cardinal McGuigan, interviewed so 1 can travel to spread the Word | on his arrival home from Rome, | of God. The money certainly won't | said the Pope is a symbol 'of the be put on a shelf, the way some| defence of liberty and peace| spent for a good cause." ism. | | pay the line employees, But they did not follow this up (Continued on Page 3) TTC Expects $3.000,000 Deficit On 1954 Operation TORONTO (CP)--The Toronto| gressive Conervative member Transit Commission may have a|the Ontario legislature for T. $3,000,000 deficit in operations for | St. Patrick, charged the TTC 1954, it was reported Thursday. |what he called "dishonest TTC general manager W. E. P.| keeping." The charge was in Duncan told the metropolitan | nection with deficits in op#ra transportation committee that 90 of the Toronto island ferry Sere per cent of suburban lines haven't | vice. met operational expenses. Many | He told the metro committee haven't collected enough fares to| TTC's failure to take into ace | streetcar fares paid by He said the only. prefitmaking | getting to or from the ferry routes are those using streetcars was responsible. i or trolley coaches. The Yonge| Mr. Roberts said increas street subway line was paying its | island fare is placing the way death on Toronto island and BLAMES POSTPONEMENT | occupants. . One TTC official said the ex-! But the TTC promised n pected 1954 loss was almost en-| Officials said the 10cent fare tirely due to: postponement of the|the island would increase zone system from Jan. 1 te July | deficit on island service to | above $220,000. Even the 30 However, A. Kelso Roberts, Pro-fare would not eliminate it. Sh i ci - dass "oY NOSLIM CY NOSLIY 'At Sunday Sport (CP)--A Toronto KITCHENER he was magistrate said Thursd "horrified" to hear evidence of teen-age boys and girls shooting | ! pool on Sundays. Magistrate F. W. Bartram said he did not know why the Lord's Day Alliance hadn't taken action. "However, I don't lay the charges," he said. He fined Sidney Kemp, a bowl- ing alley manager, $10 and costs or five days for a breach of a city by-law prohibiting 1 on Sunday. Kemp also was fined $25 and costs or 10 days for allowing juveniles to play pool in the com- bined bowling alley and pool room. TV Would | [nvade House OTTAWA (CP)--Prime Minister St. Laurent said Thursday night he will not do anything for cr against televising the Jan. 7 open- ing ceremonies for Parliament. he CBC is iterested in putting on the first televised show of a parliamentary opening, and re- porters asked Mr. St. Laurent for his attitude on the matter after a cabinet meeting. 'I have no views on it," he said. "It is not something that is done in the House to which I belong; that responsibility belong- to the honorable gentlemen of another " Council wl year has been div- ided in opinion on the design for the proposed layout of the inter- section at Simcoe street south and Ritson road. In the drawings place (members of the Senate, where the opening formalities are held). I am not.going to do any- thing about it." shown above, the diagram cn the left shows the design approv- ed by the planning board last year, and on which the city en- ERARIIEAT SERA ERS TWO INTERSECTION gineering department has al- ready begun work. A gravel road has been laid extending Ritson south of Simcoe. It was planned to construct two loop traffic lanes in the angles of the intersection. Traffic lights would have to be installed at the approximate cost of $2,500. Council this week ap- proved a motion by Ald, Finley a PLANS CONSIDERED Dafoe that a right-angle intersec- tion be constructed at this point, and the resulting land to the east of the portion of Ritson affected be sold to the purchasers of he commercial area. The road will now run parallel with, and to the east of the pole line. Diagram on the right shows the Dafoe plan. Cost of laying the present road was $1,500. Approximately 500 feet of Ritson is aifected. The new stretch will cost approxi mately the same, but will obviate : the necessity for building a per« manent service road for those residents west of Simeoe.. This would cost $1,000. A temporary service. road 'has . been eons structed for ° winter,