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Bo GR fn Sg sy r TIMES-GRZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS ified Advertising ,...3-3492 Other Calis. .......... 3-3474 Weather Forecast Some snow and sun Sunday, Come tinuing cold. Low tonight 25. High tomorrow 30. ' TWENTY PAGES JAILY TIMES.GAZETTE OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1955 THE as Second-Class Mail, Deportment, Ottewe OL. 14--No, 72 thorizea Phone 3-3474 ARMY READY 10 BLA OL' MAN RIVER (NIAGARA) JUST CRUNCHES AND CRUNCHES HIS WAY ALONG Towns Ask For Help NIAGARA FALLS. N.Y. (AP) -- The United States Army planned today to take over the job of -trying to | break up the glacier-like wall of ice which has roughtly | shouldered its way down the lower Niagara river, smash» ing everything in its path. Lad Col. Loren Olmstead, U.S. Army district engineer. made the announcement after a meeting Friday night of engineer officers and the mayors of Lewiston and Youngs. town, the two towns on the American side hardest hit by the ice. Mayors Ashton McEvoy of Lewiston and Henry Yale of Youngstown had appealed to the engineérs to do some- thing about the ice mass which has been in the lower river since wind storms Tuesday swept Lake Erie ice into the upper river and then over the falls, 4 bs SABE U.S. Army engineers were ready today to attempt to blast the ice-clogged lower Niagara river which has been causing heavy destruction on both the Canadian and U.S. shores fo small homes and boathouses. the the Reds Seen Ready ice-clog in the lower river is most serious since 1987 when Palle "and 'shows: this " D noite Commi naior 8s {on F | J bor i To " ; YC nist Ohi ? n 3 ih ater. ita | EVES "and there has heen | one bie pn ener tron ioe | Coa hy A mimber of American military | specitlation "that an attack might | par East. have by passed to enc n say the Reds give ini-| be Seiaved Devond that date. = |highest authorities in Washington. ification that they intend to make| The wo | and Bit are Major | They are likely to 'become the| LONDON (AP) -- Fleet street the aftack on the Nationalist is- yo Bo Cuiang =isle s Na-| 15uuksfvg exetnsive discussion | London's bustling newspaper row. off the Chinese mainland, | tionalist forces based on Formosa. | when President Eisenhower talks was stilled today as a wage strike " over foreign policy with Congress | by electricians and maint 1 t Le 1sl t re members of both parties at the | men forced suspension of dice White House next Wednesday and | nine main dailies Thursday. | T! gr i | he Manchester Guardian was TORONTO (CP) -- The Ontario Opposition Leader Farquhar Oli- jislature has completed the sev-|yer (L--Grey South) said supple- | ported urging a strong defence of | the capital as a result of the stop- Matsu, both to save that outpost | page, which also shut the financial and to discourage an even larger | and sporting papers and the Com- effort against Quemoy. | munist daily worker, REDS ARE BUSY | One union official : : y lier | The Reds have made a number | mass meeting that Ligh 1 to the govern-| mentary grants announced earlier |of preparations which would be | probably would la int sources Cc ose g {in the week by Premier Frost| useful in an attack on Matsu. |week. Blo. vgat at say prorogation will come by wd Fagin ' 4 J 3 day. | should have contained some provi- They have built a road from the| Sports enthusiasts were without The budget debate and vote is| sion for direct relief to unemployed | Port of Foochow to the tip of alate word from their favorite only major business facing the | employables | peninsula within heavy artillery | columnists on two of Britain's big- D-seat House and it is pb, well | "en | range of Matsu. And a number of | gest sporting events, the Grand inder way, A total of 126 bills] Mr. Oliver's comments followed | fast motor torpedo boats are|National and the Oxford « Cam- ave been introduced and there are | a statement by Premier Frost that | known to be secreted between | bridge boat race, both scheduled no notices of any more. the grants, totalling $7,250,000, | Foochow and Matsu. | for today. he curent session, the fifth of |W ere completely unconditional. And the Chinese Communists RUN ON MAGAZINES h legislature, enters its 35th | The premier said the grants were |have been improving a Second| yondon's 8,000,000 inhabit Monday. Last year the House | made to municipalities to be used| World War Japanese air base at|perded on the Brit hag abitants de- t 37 days. | as municipal authorities wished. | Kienning, only about 100 miles vg toe Fits Broadcasting What could be the final full week | The leader of the Opposition said | from the threatened island. For-| J Te al Se ere was a run of the session wound up Friday | the province would have been in|mosa is about the same distance | wk is jor magazines. vith criticism of the government's|a much better-position for future from Matsu. Red planes thus | Some 300 provincial papers pub- andling of special grants to mu-| negotiations on unemployment re- | might be able to strike the island | lished outside London were not af- ipalities and consideration of | lief if it was able to state that it|and be safely on their way home | fected by the strike, but none were the estimates of the department of | had already made a substantial before defending planes could ar-| being distributed in the capital. municipal affairs. contribution. | Labor and management met with | government conciliation officials 3 Friday night. Later strikers' mass | | meetings were called, Some military leaders are re-|the only national daily on sale in week of the current session | ith rive from Formosa. { The unions want new pay raises {| to meet the increased cost of liv- ing, but they have not made pub- {lic what they are asking. However, a management repre- sentative said: "A wage increase identical to that made to all other unions in the London newspaper | printing industry--and accepted by . | a majority of them--has been re- | fused by the Amalgamated Engi- Ineering Union and the Electrical Trades Union." PIGEON GETS WELCOME TOKYO (AP) A pigeon flew # | into Japan's parliament buildings Thursday and got a warm welcome from Prime Minister Ichiro Hato- yama and his Democratic party. | The party symbol is a pigeon in 'or Matsu Siege |===s= bh Thatnes today, hanor. of Hatoyama, whose mame means 'pigeon mountain." Local demolition expert, 26-year- old Jack Howard of Elgin street, may attempt to dynamite section of the vast ice jam now clogging the Niagara Gorge. Howard, who recently directed blasting opera- tions on Duffin's Creek in. nearby Pickering Township, took off from Oshawa Airport this morning in a light plane. fter cireling the gorge, How- ard returned to Oshawa where he said he hoped his "'birdseyc view" may provide a solution to the pro- blem of breaking up the huge ice- pack. He was reported to have made the trip at invitation of dro Commission authorities. HOMES CRUSHED A demolitions expert would be lowered inh a special - harness the surface of the ice. It was that there would be holes in the ice deep enough tq allow the plants {ing of the dynamite well under the surface crust. oT Should the first attempt at ring loose the wall of ice others would be made further stream. . FLOODS FEARED The engineers had maintained that dyn: e have no effect on "the ice, the. soft slush - underneath only act as a cushion. An o dynamite the ail, up The ice has reached the 40- to! k and has race vi crew won an with Oxford on: the Riv 3 Cambridge led from the start and 'pulled away strongly in the last half of the 4%; -mile race to win the 101st Oxford - Cambridge race by a wide gmargin. The underdog Cambridge crew finished 16 lengthg ahead of the tired Oxford rowers, Cambridge's official time was 19:10, The record is 17:50 set by Cambridge in 1948. Oxford were 1-to-3 favorites to win the race. Asks Confessions Be Eliminated In Courtrooms TORONTO (CP) -- A suggestion that confessions by accused per- sons be eliminated in courtroom procedure so as to avoid any possi- bility of improper convictions was made Friday to lawyers attend- ing special lectures at Osgoode Hall. Norman Borins, former crown counsel, said this step would allow police investigators and law en- forcement officers to obtain what information they could from pris- oners and proceed from that point. "It would eliminate many short- cuts and undoubtedly create many detours for them (police officers), but it would also eliminate im- proper convictions based on doubt- ful confessions," Mr. Borins said. Vorld Affa HRC petra v #, disari "conference which Russia would be invited, He added that an.agreement for limitation of armaments under ins ternational control is "the only guarantee that , , , problems which now divide the world in two sides cam be settled." ister ent at the ter's official residefice, ad 7 his arrival in Qttaws, Prev er Scelba gave mo press f - view at the station but, spe into radio microphones, said the principal aim of his visit is to develop collaboration between Can- ada and Italy inside the Atlantic community, He will leave Sunday Today he meets the press again | for Washington, TEACHER STRAPS "TOO FREELY' 3 CHILDREN QUIT SCHOOL ORILLIA (CP) -- Mrs. Earl Winkworth with- drew her three children from the S. S. No. 5 Atherley school Friday because "the teather uses the strap too freely." Withdrawal of the Winkworth children brings the total to 23 pupils who have left the school during the year. Mrs. Winkworth said her son Everett, 8, told her the teacher, Mrs. Margaret Ferguson, had hit him on the head with the strap. The teacher, who appeared in Beaverton court Wednesday on an assault charge after allegedly strap ping a pupil on the legs, denied Mrs. Winkworth's ac» cusation, banks, crush- t hom AINTREE, England (AP)-- Quare Times won the 109th Grand National steeplechase today in the mud and rain at Aintree before a large crowd including the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Ridden by Pat Taaffe, the nine- year-old bay gelding, carrying 145 pounds, finished ahead oY Tudor Line with Carey's Cottage third in the field of 30 starters in the world's toughest horse race, a gruelling four-mile and 865-yard grind over 30 jumps. Wins Race Quare Times® vic tory gave trainer Vincent O'Brien his bi straight success in the Grand Na+ tional--a record. Copp, the post-time favorite at 7 to 1, fell the first time around: Quare Times, at 100 to 9, fin. ished '12 lengths of Tudor Line and collected £8,959. Tudor Line earned £1,086 and Carey's Cottage, which finished four Jeneths out of second, received Gigolo was fourth and won £271 and Gentle Moya finished fifth, Indian Urged For Senate Role OTTAWA (CP)--Appointment of a full-blooded Indian to ghe Senate was suggested in the Commons Friday by John Diefenbaker, Pro: gressive Conservative member for Prince Albert. Discussing supplementary esti- mates of the citizenship depart- ment, he said the Indians should have a tribesman as a mouthpiece in Parliament. Tribes in the West were very concerned over the activities of federal commissions set up within the last .two years to di qualifications for membership in tribal bands. . Citizenship Minister Pickersgill sald tiie 'commissions were: set up because of differences over are qualified members of hands, They were hot settling the' mere bership rights of individuals but, in receiving their reports, the de- partment hoped to be able to es! lish clear and simple stan membership, Pen Riots Do [7 $200,000 Damage | OTTAWA (CP)--Repair of dam- age to Kingston penitentiary i+ caused in a prisoner riot there last | fall may cost as much as $200,000, | Finance Minister Harris said Fri-| day night. | He explained to questioners in| the Commons that a $200,000 item in the government's 1954-55 supple- | mentary estimates is earmarked for repair of the big federal pen tentiary. | He said $170,000 of the money will definitely be spent and there. probably will be need for an addi-| tional '$30,000. LATE NEWS FLASHES 'Soviets Reject Army | | | | ¥ Torontonian Holds Ticket | TORONTO -- One Canadian, a Toronto held a tic- ket on Quare Times, which won the Grand National steeplechase today at Aintree, Eng. Six held tickets on Tudor Line. the second place horse, The first place ticket is worth $137,500 while the second-horse tic- kets are each worth, $55,000, ! | enue, were badly shaken up, but | otherwise uninjured. The front | end of the car was sheared off, and fragments were carried for | a quarter mile. The train crew | were unaware of the accident ! ~Photo by John Mills Albany Avenue, Toronto, told police that he did not see the crossing until he 'was 50 feet away. His brakes failed to hold | the car on the slippery road- | way. He and hfs companion | Rose Grogan, 18, of Pape Av- A young Toronto couple had a narrow escape when this car, in which they were riding, crash- ed head on into the side of a moving freight train at a level crossing at Cherrywood Station. The driver, Robert Carey, 20, of | Cut Proposal LONDON -- Thé Soviet Union turned down a Western proposal to cut the United States, Russian and Red Chinese armed forces to between 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 'each, Western representatives at 'the London. disarmament conference said today, On Quare Times Grudeff, had added =u seven = room addition that was within 10 days of completion. This part of + dwellipg A was panelled throughout, A modern kitchen and tiled bathroom suffered heavy smoke and water damage, and will have to be completely rebuilt. The total 'loss is esti- mated at $50,000. Lost in.the fire was a valuable collie dog that had been left to guard the prem- ises. The fire was first discover- ed by Ken Beer of Brougham at 2.10 a.m. The fire was break- ing through the roof when the Brougham Fire Brigade arriv- ed, indicating that it had been burning some time, West Picker. ing firemen were also called. Tons of water were used in the two-hour battle before the fire was put under control. Roy May, the farm manager, said it would be difficult to say what caused the fire. gave the opinion that the old part of the building | would have to be torn down-and © $50,000 BLAZE LEVELS HISTORIC PICKERING HOME : This historie landmark In Pick- | ering Township was destroyed | by fire early Friday. The old | stone house is nearly 150 years | old.: The owner, Judge John A. | rebuilt. Valuable furniture and books stored in the old stone house were completely. destroys ed, The Gruduff family had planned to move out to their new 'home early in April. This photo taken from the west shows the completely gutted old pores tion of the Gruduff home, In the rear the new addition can | be seen, .