Daily Times-Gazette, 18 Apr 1955, p. 1

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FINAL EDITION HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle rov: 65. Weather Forecast. Thundershowers tonight. Little temp, change. Low tonight 50. High tomor- Authorized as Second-Class Mail, Post Office Department, Ottawe VOL. 14--No. 90 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1955 Price $ Cents Per Copy Not Over Phone 3-3474 FOURTEEN PAGES MANGLED WING LANDS SEVERAL FEET FROM ENGINE BY-STANDERS VIEW WRECK OF US. WITNESSED CRASH -- ANNIE ZAMOLINSKY AND |? 500.000 tons annually BILL KOTYNSKY LATE NEWS FLASHES Evatt Wins Test Of Strength CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters)--Former prime minister Herbert Evatt resigned the leadership of the Australian Labor party today and was promptly re-elected to it in a show-down struggle against a re- bellious right wing section. Child, 9, Dies In Hospital BROCKVILLE (CP) pital today of injuries she received Sunday when was knocked from her bicycle by a car on a high- way one mile north of here. Sandra Hill, 9, died in hos- she Hearst Woman Is Remanded HEARST (CP) -- Held on three charges of extor- tion said to several thousand dollars, Mrs. Collette Vandette, of Hearst today was remanded for two weeks. Bail was set at $10,000, involve 29 Navigation Season Opens At Lachine » MONTREAL (CP) -- The navigation season of the Great Lakes got underway today with the opening of the Lachine canal. The Canada Steamship freighter Selkirk was the first ship to enter the canal passing through the locks at 8 a.m. It stopped at the St. Gabriel sheds in Mont- real to load cargo, | plane, Area Crash Kills Flier From U.S. NEWCASTL™ A young Am- erican naval reserve officer from Illinois was killed instantly Satur- day afternoon when his rented Cessna 140 aircraft developed en- gine trouble and crashed into a farmer's field 1%2 miles east of Newcastle, 'near Highway 2. | He has been identified as Thom- | as Robert Baynes, 22, of 1933 Cen- tral Avenue, Wilmette, Cook Coun- ty, Illinois. He had been visiting friends in Montreal, and had taken | off from Mountainview airport near Belleville, at 2 o'clock, en route | to Malton for custom clearance. The crash, which occurred at 2.30 p.m. was witnessed by Bill Kotynsky, who was cutting brush along a fence adjoining the proper- ty of Joe Grant into which the plane crashed, leaving a four-foot crater. The plane, he said, seemed to come toward the earth at a slop- | ing angle, from the east, then, as | it was about 30 or 40 feet from | the ground, it suddenly turned raight down. It exploded into | bieces when it hit the | Can se Pi - hd [RWNVED APRIL "11° 1 Baynes arrived in Canada April | 11, and was due to return to Il-| linois on April 18. He was single. | Parts "of the 1946 model air- | craft, a small, yellow private| were scattered for hun-| | dreds of yards around the main | Cape Breton | Mine To Close | SYDNEY, N.S. (CP)--The Do- | minion Steel and Coal Corp. said Saturday it is closing one of its biggest Cape Breton mines, an un- | derground giant whose submarine | seams annually vielded enough | coal to heat a 10-room house for 20,000 years The announcement said colliery 1-B at Glace Bay would be taken permanently out of service May 31 because oil and other domestic fuels have erased the market for its '400,000 tons of coal a year. Its| 725 miners will almost certainly have to fall back on unemploy- | ment benefits and are expected to begin filing claims June 1 The action will boost the jobless among Cape Breton's 165,000 in-| habitants to more than 6,000. | Shrinking markets and the sus- pension of coal-shipments to St. Lawrence river ports during the early spring has put many collier- | | ies on a part-time basis. This sit- | {uation was relieved only partly | when the St. Lawrence reopened | The industry already has lost sales UK. Cabinet Holds ' Budget Meet | LONDON (AP)--Prime Minister | | Eden summoned his cabinet to a | | special session today to hear one | | of the Conservative government's best kept secrets, the size and | shape of Chancellor of the Ex- chequer Richard A. Butler's 1955- 56 budget | The rest of the country will get | the news when Butler makes his | budget speech in the House of | Commons Tuesday Many Britons meanwhile guessed | -and hoped---that Butler would trim the income tax. They based their hope mainly on a belief that the Conservatives want to do all they ean to woo votes before the national election May 26 | from | approachiig "in Bowmanville. portions, as were maps and glass | from the cockpit. The mangled | wreckage was scarcely identifi-| able as an airplane. A hole be- tween three and four feet deep a short distance from the four argest portions of wreckage in- dicated where the plane had hit the earth. The crash occured 2:30 in the afternoon, about a quarter-mile south of Number 2 highway, in a grainfield owned by Joe Grant. Grand and his wife, Jenny, witnessed the crash from their home, and went with their neighbor, Mrs. Annie Zamolinsky, to the scene as soon as possible. They called police who arrived on the scene shortly, Chief Randall of Newcastle police, and members of the Bowmanville de- tachment of the Ontario Provin- cial Police investigated. Officials from the Department of Transport of Ontario sifted through the! wreckage yesterday to try and determine the exact cause of the fatal accident, | Wm. Kotynsky, who was the first person at the scene, said the crash happened in a matter of| split-seconds, too fast to really| know what was happening. When the plane hit the ground, he said, | it exploded, but there was no fire or smoke. Kotynsky was cutting brush to clear a strip of land which adjoins the field where the crash occurred, about 30 yards the actual scene of the crash. Kotysnky works during the| week in a steel factory in To-| ronto, and works the farm on] weekends. lis sister, Mrs. Annie| Zamolinsky, who also saw the | crash from the window of her home, keeps house for her broth-| er. Her husband was killed in a; level crossing accident in Alberta | at precisely | about four years ago. Police and reporters waded through mud a foot deep in places. | A provincial Police guard at the scene prevented spectators from the wreckage Satur- day and Sunday, after the pilet's body had been removed to the Northcutt and Smith funeral home RED BUILD-U ALARMS DULLE PRINCETON, N. J World-famous scientist stein died at 1:15 a. m Princeton Hospital Einstein, who was had been admitted to the hospital at noon Friday. The hospital said the cause of death was inflammation of the gall bladder Einstein, who had self from public con years, had 2 | Institute for Advance The quiet, unpre ¥ ard of mathematics and physics spent his lifetime se: g for a unified mathemat pt of the laws that gover verse Born in (AP) Albert Ein- EST today 76 rmany, March 14, 1879, of middle class Jewish parents, he was swept to interna- tional fame by the theory of rela- tivity which he devised at the age | of 26 SPECTACULAR PROOF A revolutionary idea, it added a fourth dimension, time, to the trio length, breadth and width--which had formed man's basic knowledge of the measurement of matter It| also astounded scientists by disput- ing Newton's law of gravitation. It was Einstein's disclosure, | many years ago, that a small quan- tity of matter could produce astro- | nomical quantities of energy, which was so spectacularly proved when the first atomic bomb exploded. Albert Einstein Dies At Age 76 But the famous, white-haired sci- entist looked upon the A-bomb with misgivings. He saw one hope, however, that "it may intimidate the human race to bring order into its international affairs, which, without pressure of fear, it undoubtedly would not do." A theoretical physicist, the tools of his trade were a fountain pen and a pad of paper. Though few people understood Einstein's complex theories, his work is one of the important bases of today's electronic and television industries, and the great industrial developments which rely partly on | the laws of atomic mass and en- | ergy. KISS IKE' ON BOTH CHEEKS, SOME DEMS IRK MR. TRUMAN NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times quotes FEARS BLACK MARKET Mr Oveta Culp Hobby, U.S secretary of healthy education and welfare, ad h voice the senate labor-welfare com mittee which urged President to call an immedi- conference to per- agaist any the new to market" Salk polio also testif pects disorders of stitute "the most problem facing day." Hobby many mind con health nation to- n res- the urgent the --Central Press Canadian Pay Demands Top Decreases Building Costs TORONTO (CP) mands for higher wages have offset and, in some cases, exceeded de- creases in other building costs, the president of the Canadian Construe- tion Association said today. W. G. Malcom, Winnipeg con- tractor said there has been a ten- dency among construction workers to expect wage increases each year as automatic, He told the Toronto builders' change that a 10-cents-an-hour crease adds about $200 in labor costs on the average house and about $400 by the time thé mort- gage is paid - The remarks, were contained in a press release issued in advance | of delivery OTHER COSTS DOWN Mr. Malcom said wage rates are the only upward cost factor among | the main items that make up con- | struction cost Material prices he declined in the last three ve : competition in the industry had re- duced profit margins to a mini- mum, and new techniques and equipment. had increased effi- ciency Labor's de-| ex- mn- Attlee Shortens Canada Tour | To Lead Party In Election VANCOUVER (CP Clement Attlee will make his past speech in Canada tonight, then head back to England lead his party's election campaign | The leader of the party, whose CCF-sponsored of Canada savas cut short by the sudden calling of the May 26 election, will address an expected audience of 6,500 in Victoria be- fore returning by air England He is scheduled to take off from he at 9 am. Tuesday and be back England 48 hours later \ \ ttle his election mile from home an audience to British Labor tour to tarted campaign 6,000 when 3,000 here Saturday, he talked to of The former prime minister dealt with foreign affairs. He called for United recognition of China, warned against 2 third world war which would destroy civilization, and said although the West does not like Communist governments it must accept them Mr. Attlee was interrupted only once, when a member of the audience called out, 'Is that why you let Imperial veterans starve in Canada?" The smiling Mr that the question was "silly." Outside the convention leftists and Communists distributed peace | literature, Nations Attlee replied Mr, Attlee described the Nation alis vernment of Formosa as "discredited and Corrupt." He said it could not be put back inte power "You can't put Humpty back on the wall again varned 0 that change the ina would result f China into the Dumpty he said the of government in the driv- arms of l use to in ( iid while the present Red jovernment is not ideal, a lot of good in health, ther way d ming of We G necessary. planned re rmany, but said Jit was | ring on his left hand to avoid the | pain of moving his right arm. | former president Truman as saying "I have got tired a {long time ago of some mealy-mouthed Democratic senators | who kiss Ike on both cheeks.' ' Truman did not name these senators, a Washington dispatch by Williams 8. White to The Times says; adding: "The impleatiéh seemed inescapable, however, the was far from. satisfied with the restrained partisan activity of the present Democratic leadership of the Sen- {ate headed by Lyndon Johnson of Texas." Senile Arthrosis Attects Pontiff VATICAN CITY (Reuters)--The Pope is suffering from senile arth- rosis in his right arm and will probably never be able to use it freely again, according to a doc- | tor's diagnosis today. | The diagnosis was made by four | doctors after x-ray pictures were | taken of the 79-year-old Pope's | right arm and shoulder Sunday night. The x-ray plates were made after various ray treatments had failed to relieve sharp pain in the arm which the pontiff uses for the act of blessing and proffering the papal ring for people to kiss. Several times during the last three years the Pope had put this Apart from this painful ailment, which the Pope's doctors believe will have no bad effects on his general health, he has made what was described as a marvellous re- covery from a grave internal dis- order he suffered last December. Siberia Slave 2 Labor Revolts MAIZURU, Japan (AP) -- More than 150,000 slave laborers revolted against their Russian guards in Si- berian forced labor camps last May, a Japanese repatriate said today. The Russians restored order "only after machine-gunning many of the protesting laborers," the newspaper Tokyo Shimbun quotes | Minoru Okada, 43. i Okada was one of 88 Japanese | who returned today aboard the re- | patriation ship Koan Maru from | Soviet ports. Okada said the rebellion started | simultaneously in scores of com- | pounds in the huge Nalinsk forced | labor camp, in north central Si- beria "The workers threw down their | tools, raised black flags to protest brutal treatment by Russian guards | and refused to work," Okada said. | He reported the refusal to work | lasted almost a month at Nalinsk. | Kyodo news service said other | repatriates reported at least 200 slave laborers were killed and 180 injured at Karaganda. The repatriates said most of the | | laborers were Russians and central Europeans from natiohs now be- hind the Iron Curtain, | One repatriate; who refused to | be quoted by name, said 3,000] slave laborers--"mostly Lithuanian | Estonian and Latvian PoWs--are being forced to mine uranium for Russia's atomic weapons program | in the - Kolyma river valley," in| east Siberia. H., W. MOLSON DIES MONTREAL CP)--Herbert W. Molson, former president of Mol-| son's Brewery, died early today in| hosp Fe i 72. Mr. Molson, | who years ago as head of th rewery, | last week, | Grain Men Ignore Plea Of Mediator PORT ARTHUR (CP)--A sug- gestion Sunday night by govern- ment mediator Eric Taylor that 1,200 striking grain handlers at the Lakehead go back to work until talks can be held with company officials was disregarded today. Mr. Taylor said talks Sunday with representatives of the Broth- erhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks (AFL-TLC) were explora- tory and that he was "trying to find out what they really want." He emphasized that the official date set for the opening of mediation proceedings is Tuesday and that this cannot be changed. The mediator said he came to the Lakehead immediately after hearing that the union had called a strike in a surprise move. He had not been scheduled to arrive until today. Mr. Taylor said today he has not been able to talk as yet to com- pany officials, who are expected from Winnipeg, or Frank Hall, Ca- nadian vice-president of the union who is also expected. Meanwhile, the union today set up several bases for operation in both Port Arthur and Fort Will- am. At lesat 25 grain vessels have arrived for cargoes, a few coming into docks while the main fleet is anchored several miles off shore. DOCTORS NAME OFFICERS TORONTO (CP)--Dr. D. S. Wigle of Windsor, Friday was elected president of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons for 1955. Dr. Malcom Brown of Kingston was elected vice-president. that ALBERT EINSTEIN Picket Line Is Guarded By Police Police officers were called into action this morning at the plant of General Printers, Limited, when the normal the ng, many 3 bers of other unions in the ¢ There was some aggressive as pickets sought to prevent work- ers from entering the building. There was a semblance of vio- lence in at least one instance, when three girl pickets manhandl- ed a girl employee seeking to enter the building. There was quite a scuffle at the doorway on Simcoe Street until a male employee went to the rescue and broke up the scramble. Police were on duty be- fore eight o'clock, to see that the picketing was peaceful. At the rear of the building, pick- | ets sought to prevent a company | truck from leaving | area. They paraded in front of the truck ip a solid line, until the pol- ice ordered them to move on and | the truck left. | The only new development in the | strike since it began a week ago | was the serving of a notice on the striking employees by the company | that those who did not return to work by Monday, April 25, would | no longer be considered employees, | and would be replaced. | 'Belgian Catholics Protest Cut In School Aid ANTWERP,Bel gi um (AP)-- Some 30,000 Roman Catholics dem- onstrated here Sunday against the government's prop osed cut school subsidies. Their leaders an- nounced plans to seek King Baud- ouin's support. The issue came to a head March 26 when an estimated 60,000 Roman Catholics defied government warn- ings and staged a turbulent dem- onstration in Brussels. Catholic leaders have accused the government of declaring war on the Catholic schools. A majorit of Belgium's 1,600,000 children af- tend parochial schools. The gov- ernment says the previous Catholic iregime gave undue financial sup- port to the church schools. the parking | Rirpower Formidable At Formosa AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP)--President Eisenhower has received intelli- gence information that the Chinese C ists are d in "an extensive buildup" of Red airpower opposite Formosa, which the U.S, is committed to defend. Announcing this at Augusta Sun- day after a conference with the president, State Secretary Dulles told reporters the buildup has 'grave implications. He described it as: . 1. "More intense and more broad in its scope' than the United States had been aware of until a few days ago. 2. A buildup which "indicates a higher degree of capability" on the part of the Communists to launch an attack "than we had been aware of a few wecks ago." Dulles' elaboration on the build- up came at a brief press confer- ence at a hotel after he had left the chief executive's vacation head- quarters at the Augusta National Golf Club. The secretary's remarks @md his prepared statement, which was ap- proved by Eisenhower, stirred new interest in a prediction attributed last month to Admiral Robert B. Carnes that the Red would be capable of launching an assault on the Chinese Nationalist Matsu is« by April 15. * 1 "the Soviet Ur Bs oe definitely Red forces of f occupation in Austria." But Dulle§ added "nothing should be taken for granted" on the basis of last week's negotiations between Russia and Austria on an Austrian independ- ence treaty, 2. Because of the developments looking toward an Austrian treaty, the prospects for a big four con- ference are "encouraging" if "the full facts (on the Moscow negoti- ations) do not disillusion us." Slain Man, 29, Said Canadian LOS TEHUACAN, Mexico (AP) The prosecuting attorney said to- day a young foreigner stoned to death near here was born in On- taris although previous reports had said he was an Irishman. Jose Maria Mendoza, the district attorney, said he is still investigat- ing the death of John Kealty, 29. Kealty, who was trying to walk overland: to Acapulco from Vera Cruz, was stoned by a group of Tnciah 5 miles from here Friday. jie dié&d in the Red Cross hospital ater. Mendoza said Healty's passport was issued in London, giving his place of birth as Ontario. He had traveled in the United States be- fore coming to Mexico. Friends of the young man have asked the au- thorities to release the body so it may be cremated in Puebla, the state capital. § WILL PRESENT PLAQUE KINGSTON (CP) Rameses temple* of the Ancient Arabie Or- der of the Nobles of the 'Mystic Shrine of Toronto will hold.a pil- grimage to Kingston in June;-Ed- win Watts, president of the Kings ton Shrine Club announced Thurs- day. The pilgrimage is to be held in connection: with the presentation of a plaque at Angada Children's Hospital to the Kingston Shrine Club for its generous contributions to the hospital. Hungary Purges N cry Negedus Is New Premier BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) Hungary's Communist party made public today its long - expected purge of Premier Imre Nagy. For- mer Deputy Premier 'Andras Neg- edus was elected to succeed hi as head of the government, The Hungarian Parliament elected Hegedus in a session today shortly after a party announcement said Nagy had been fired and stripped of all party posts for caus- ing "grave damage to the party, to the people's democracy and to our social building." Just before electing Hegedus the Parliament confirmed the ouster of Nagy. Istvan Dobi, president of the presidential council, announced he had failed to carry out his func- tions sufficiently. Nagy was not present at the Par- liament session Joseph Mekis, Hungarian trade of the council president union entered hospital | was elected deputy premier to suc- | five weeks ago for 'right ceed Negedus, |, The new premier, now 40, was {named agriculture minister and |one of two first deputy premiers | when Nagy replaced party chief | Matyas Rakosi as premier in 1953. Hegedus was released from the agriculture post last year but con- tinued as deputy premier. The "brief party announcement also said Mihaly Farkas had heen ousted from the party's five-man secretariat for supporting Nagy's ideas and expelled from the party's political committee . and central leadership of the central commit- tee. Farkas had been defence min- | ister in the previous Rakosi gov- | ernment, He lost that post when Nagy became premier but contin- | ued in his party posts. | Nagy's formal ouster has been | anticipated ever since the party's |eentral committee rebuked him | wing | leader had espoused the new look emphasis on consumer goods which the Communist countries quickly discarded when Georgi Malenkov was demoted from Russia's pre- miership. The party also ennounced the election of Istvan Kovacs, secre- tary of the party committee for Budapest, and Joseph Mekis, a lesser party official, to the political committee, and acting interior min- ister Laszlo Piros to be a deputy member of that committee. The "announcement said the wc- tion against both Nagy and Farkas was taken at a meeting of the party central committee April 14. It declared: "Imre Nagy represented ideas which were controversial to the interest of this people's democ- racy. His activities caused grave damage fo the party, to the people's democracy and to our so. I deviationism." The 58 - year - old | cial building,

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