Daily Times-Gazette, 17 Jun 1955, p. 1

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TIMES-CAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising .... 3-3492 All Other Calls .......... 3-3474 THE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle JAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Forecast Hot and sunny today and Saturday. Low tonight 65, high Saturday 90.. VOL. 14--No, 141 i Doormat Ottawa. OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1955 Price Mot Over § Cents Pes. Copy *k Phone RA. 3-344 EIGHTEEN PAGE CHARGE TWO GONSTABLE MUMMY, IT'S "COLD" FEEL EXTRA WARM AND sticky today? If so, take a look at Linda White, and Waren Aston two Oshawa youngsters, who are shown playing today in some real D GRAHAM BAGG, an employee of a local dairy, has one of the most envianie jobs in Oshawa today, Graham stores ice-cream snow and ice, The 'cold stuff" was provided by a 3ton vertic- al pack feer owned by a local dairy and the children had a merry time frolicking around in cartons at a local dairy, shown in action as sales near a record for this trict, He is lee cream dis The chances are Graham scene will help warm spell it at 10 am, it, Perhaps the you forget the was 80 degrees here today, o 4 " and his associates will be kept busy tomorrow also as the weath- erman promises no let up in the warm weather Salvage Ships Try Raising Sub With 13 Bodies Inside PORTLAND, England (Reuters) L The steady beat of compressed-air | umps echoed hollowly over the arbor here today as salvage ships began pumping air into the sealed hull of the sunken submarine Sidon | The submarine went down Thurs day in 35 feet of water after an explosion of a practice torpedo, taking 13 men with her to the bot. | tom, Including a Navy man from Stratford, Divers rushed to the scene of the disaster by helicopter worked all through the night in to seal hatches and vents hull Shortly after dawn f{"rog men" went down and bored a dozen holes in the hull, 'then connected up pipes from air pumps on the ships on the surface With the order to start pumping a gteady stream of bubbles began to rise round the orange marker buoy at the Sidon's bow where air was escaping from the -torn for ward torpec yartment Fifty were aboard Sidon | rew, passengers pe k blast oc morning Petty Officer of Dartmouth He was ona ining 'with the in the ) comy the Royal Canadian | relays | P/0 L, D. McLEOD Died In Sub Blast 40. minutes after the men . struggled through to sister submarines For sion water with the Sidon ed some men off tower as the stricken to sink In the minutés before the ' marine plunged out of sight, the explo the which had been preparing to put to sea Rescue craft help conning ship began sub were gallant bids to rescue trapped | and wounded men, | HERO! 'S DEATH A 27.year.old navy doctor, | Charles Rhodes, rescued one man, asked for breathing apparatus and { hurried back inside the gutted ves. | sel, He went to his death Later, when divers tapped Morse | code signals on the submarine's hull, they heard no sign of life. A midshipman who had been on {the bridge of the submarine when the explosion rocked the ship told {a graphic story of thé minutes be- { fore she sank "A short column of greenish water shot up from the bows. Then a blast of hot air shot up from the conning tower hatch. There were | | cries and shouts of help from be: low | Men up the conning {tower hateh, their clothes torn a) | their faces and bodies bleeding. [IGNORED FUMES Rhode vent down the hateh, ame back choking, but returned | to the smoke-filled submarine's in: terion nd helped s jured up the ladder to safety He was a brave man," said midshipman "The last of him een when he supporting ed man streamed the vas \ nit by the een overcome there fumes," R.C. Prelates fod hough, mn {|dian UAW Times-Gazette, several of the in.) nel swim which she will 'he at-| We think he must, Pope Meets Expelled VATICAN CITY (APY -- Pope Pius today received in a quickly arrranged private audience the two prelates of the Roman Catholic | Church expelled by Argentine au. thorities, Auxiliary Bishop Manul Tato of | Buenos Alres and his assistant, | Msgr, Ramon Pablo Novoa, were | rushed here by Vatican automobile from the pontifical Latin American College in Rome, They were ushered immediately | into the presence of the 79.year- | old leader of the Roman Catholic Church to give a first-hand account of developments in Argentina that led to their own expulsion and the excommunication of President Juan Peron and his government, Elsewhere In the Vatican today, mass was celebrated for Argen tina's Roman Catholics and Giu. seppe Cardinal Siri, archbishop of Genoa, asked during the service that the more than 60,000,000 mem bers of Catholic Action groups over | the world pray that "the light of liberty will return for the per. | secuted in Argentina,' | Cardinal 8irl, ecclesiastical head | of Italian Catholic Action, de- scribed Peron's treatment of the| Roman Catholics as 'a new thorn | in the crown of thorns for which | the Sacred Heart of Jesus bleeds," | Today is the Roman Catholic feast day of the Most Sacred | Heart of Jesus, Church sources generally agree that the church's nl catn | has in effect, if not formally, at least temporarily broken or "| pended diplomatic relations be- tween the Vatican and Peron's government, Some sources here fear that Thursday's uprising In Buenos | Aires might be only the first of a| | | weries of such outbursts, There are also fears that Peron may | take even stricter measures against Roman Catholics and their church, now ers and re- preseatatives of four General Mot- ors plants in Ontario have been broken off, bargaining talks for the 10,000 employees of the firm's Osh. awa plant were continued Thurs- day and today, An official of the union stated this morning that the compuny is presenting its replies to the union briefs and the rebuttals to the! union demands, He said the taiks| had not reached the negotiation | stage as yet, f The twd' parties met in' Oshawa | yesterday. George Burt, Cana: director, said the! Oshawa talks has not reached the point which caused the break up Tuesday of negotiations on the| General Motors national agree-| ment,' The so-called national pact cov ers GM workers in Toronto, Wind- sor, London and St. Catharines, but the Oshawa factory is under | a separate contract, | Negotiations for the agreement broke up in Toronto when union bargainers led hy UAW assistant director Thomas' McLean, object. | ed to the lengthy written briefs | being presented by the company Mr, Burt said it had not beer decided if the talks resumed on Monday, previously been the meeting day. The groups will meet decision, he said The union: already has applied | for Ontario ' Government concilia tion services in an attempt to me. | would which ho] regular two union | to. make the | diate the more than 100 demands | waiting to be settled Squaw Valley Site Of Games | PARIS (AP)---The skiing resort | of Squaw Valley, Calif, today w selected by the internationat | Olympic Committee to stage the | 1960 winter games, | It will be the second time the | winter games have gone to the United States. In 1932 when the summer Olympics were held in Los Angeles, the winter games were held at Lake Placid, N. Y The vote came during the final| session of the 50th 10C meeting. | Squaw Valley and Innsbruck, Aus- tria, had a hard, close fight for the honor, 'Marilyn Bell 'At Folkestone Report from London, England, ole Advised that youthful swim mer Marilyn Bell of Toronto starts training at Folkestone today | or tomorrow for the English chan-| tempting in about six weeks, Coac h| Gus Ryder and Joan Cooke, anoth- | er Toronto swimmer, are with the Lake Ontario conqueror. Marilyn, who has many friends in this area, | has 'completed a sightseeing tour (of London. | were blacked out following Peron's {for airliner space were passengers the 19,930 | of Britain's maritime trade--in six Road Accidents | with CHIEF LESTER HUL 'Peron Claims Revolt Ended MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP)--- Fleeing Argentine air and naval {officers took refuge in neighboring | Uruguay today radio repeated over and over Pres- ident Juan Peron's claim that the bloody attempt against his govern- ment had been put down, Communications with Argentina declaration Thursday night that the fight, which erupted at noen Thursday, was over, The govern- meént-controlled radio kept repeat- {ing the president's victory speech through the night The revolt erupted a few hours after the Vatican excommunicated Peron and his aides as a result of his expulsion from the country of | Bishop Manuel Tato, one of Pe- ron's chief adversaries in the pres- ident's running fight with the Ro- man Catholic Church, URGED MARTIAL LAW After two waves of bombers and fighter planes had, attacked Cas- ada Rosada, the pipk-colored Gov- haart + fines fren as Buenos Alres | a So and (Reuters news agency reported Thursday night that Maj.-Gen, L. R. La Fleche, Canadian ambas- sador to Argentina, had been in Government House when the first bombing occurred, Later communi. cations difficulties prevented any immediate word from him, (In Ottawa, an external affairs spokesman said late Thursday that no word had been received from the Ambassador at that time, but that the Canadian embassy would make every effort to ensure the safety of its staff and other Cana- dians 'in Buenos Aires.) One of the alr raids caught hun. dreds of workers who had gath- ered to demonstrate their support of Peron in his fight with the church, The government-sponsored General Confederation of Labor called a 24 hour mourning strike to honor the "memory of the de- fenders of Peron's doctrine." Montevideo radio broadcast an unattributed report Thursday n ons and ha Ga Ar li ov Rirlift Helping Travellers Stranded By Liner Strike LONDON Atlantic airlift went into full swing today as passengers from strike. bound British liners packed every available aircraft bound for the United States and Canada, Most of the: passengers came from the 81,273-ton Cunarder Queen Mary, which was unable to leave Southampton for New York Thurs- |day because of the wildcat stew- ards' walkout, Close behind them in the lineup from another Cunarder, ton Scythia, whose sailing to Que- | bec from Southampton today' has | also been prevented, The stewards, striking without union approval for better pay and conditions, have tied up nine liners at Liverpool and Southampton and cost Britain an estimated 32,000.0 000 (Reuters) -- A trans | already in lost revenue from North American visitors, Many Britain | bound tourists have had to make | § other arrangements on the North American side, MAY GO BACK Meantime, leaders of 20,000 dock' workers met today to decide whether to recommend that their | followers end their 26-day-old inter. | union stoppage. The dockers, striking for recog- | nition of their breakway union, | have stopped or slowed work on | more than 260 ships--almost half | major ports. Cunard has arranged air pass- ages for about 450 of the 1,176 assengers from the Queen Mary. he "airlift" of these people in planes chartered by the company, or on scheduled air routes, will continue until early next week, Hope To Slice (CP) A special safety campaign, timed to coincide the closing of schools, will attempt to reduce the summer's toll of child accident victims, the Ontario department of highways announced today, TORONTO In conjunction with the depart: ment of education, the department of highways will ensure that ap- proximately 500,000 Ontario chil dren receive a four-page safety pamphlet when they leave school, Teachers, and principals will give special safety lectures, designed to keep children off the streets. The pamphlet includes the main safety rules for children and urges adults to set a good example, It emphasizes that because children are outside more in summer than at other seasons and because traf- fic is heaviest, the accident toll mounts sharply. LATE NEWS FLASHES Charges Capitalists Started Revolt GENEVA, Switzerland (AP)--Eduardo Vuletich, Argentine labor delegate to the International Labor Conference, told the conference today the revolt in Argentina was engineered by capitalists and "a small part of the clergy." Find Woman Dead, Autopsy Ordered OWEN SOUND (CP) -- Mrs, Fred York of Kitchener was found dead at Sauble Beach, 20 miles autopsy was ordered. the results of the autopsy Report Russia Expels Three Attaches (AP) today to have expelled three American attaches who embassy WASHINGTON were part of the US Informed officials said declared them improper activities, t Police refused comment until "persona non grata" because of alleged early today at her home west of Owen Sound. An are learned, ~-- Russia was reported in Moscow, office staff he Soviet foreign CONSTABLE ROY MORDEN _| Ice Hinders gj m when David L, tawa, was found standin® on a -- sized sailboat 10 miles out in Lake Erie Thursday. recently had been wor Arctic on found standing on to foot yaw! in Long Point bay by al search plane. P. Shrigley, street awa police Magistrate F. charge of wilful damage, Herbert | had the charges against him dis. | A missed but Roy was fined $10 an d| costs or door | aged. The damages amounted to] § ' Police Chief Injured, Two Subordinates Face Chayel Two constables of the Pickering Townships Police Department were remanded today In police court here when they appeared on a| charge of assaulting Chief Con-| stable Lester Hill, They will ap- pear on June 27, The accused are Constables Roy Morden and Grant Thompson, Thompson was also charged | with retaining a police cruiser after 7 he was instructed by Chief Hill CONSTABLE GRANT THOMPSON Mercy Trip Near N. Pole EDMONTON (CP)~--Success or failure of an RCAF mercy flight to a weather station within 800 miles of the North Pole hinged today on the condition of the ice that met bear the weight of the mercy plane, The flight was ordered after a radio message from the Northwgst | Territories weather station Isachsen on the shores of the Arctic said transport department employee Edwin James Nashney was suffering from severe abdom- Inal pains and required hospital treatment, To snatch him from the Arctic, an RCAF Dakota piloted by Fit, Lt. Al Richards of Cloverdale, B. C,, and carrying a nursing sister pleked up along the way must try a wheel landing on the ice of the Arctic ocean's Prince Gustav Adolph sea. The round-trip mileage to be chaliked up is estimated at 3,900 the most epic Arctic rescue i 3 to return the vehicle to the police | P90 station last night, The charges followed a report ed fight between the three early today in which the chief was re- ported to have suffered injuries which necessitated medical treat- ment, When Crown Attorney Alex C Hall, QC, asked $500 ball for each of the two accused in police court this morning, Magistrate F, 8. Ebbs commented: "I would suggest a much high- er bail, at least $2,000 as this is a very serious case and the chief was badly beaten up." Constable Morden was held In Jail at Whitby while Constable Thompson was only taken into cus- tody Full detalls of the affair were not available at press time but it was learned that Chief Hill was doing patrol duty last night for Constable Dave Freeman who was off duty, Constable Hill, the father of two children, was able to appear in police court this morning. He joined the Pickering Town- ship foree as chief two years ago, after moving there from Halley- bury, Chief Hill is a Second World War veteran and was com- Silationed after enlisting as a priv. ate, Constable Morden joined the Pickering Township force about one year ago, He came from Dis- trict 16, Kenora, of the Ontario Provincial Police. Constable Thompson joined the force two years ago. He had a Jolice constable in Sutton dis- le CHIEP SLUGGED The chiel was reported to h wy Bo 3 Merchant APPOINTED Canada's Defence Board now includes among its members Dr, H, G, Thode of Hamilton, who headed the chem- istry department at McMaster University in his home town, The new appointee brings to his job much experience, having held various important posts down through the years. Boat Overturns But Man Saved PORT ROWAN (CP)--A 20-hour search by boat and plane ended Jones, 31, of O Researcn ' | employer-financed The United States engineer, who ing in the secret projects, was of the 16. Jones said afterwards he thought | a strong soap detergent used to wash a sail may cause of the capsizing. The main. sail ripped down the middle and the weight of the wet sail. Fine Man $10 In Damage Case have been the boat overturned from the Shrigley, and Herbert both of 121 Elgin were arraigned in Osh. court Thursday before | S. Ebbs on a joint | Roy O east, 10 days . ¢ | The charges were laid by Steve Boshovich, of the Odeon Resturant, after the two men were involved incident during which the | in the restaurant was dam-| an of 208. US.A. Is Lar NEW YORK (AP)---A major seg- ment of the maritime strike on the United States east and gulf coasts has been settled by agreement on unemployment benefits for seamen, The National 'Aaritime Union, {| which represents mostly unlicensed seamen, came to terms Thursday night with the operators of Ameri. can passengers ships and freight. ers. It Is estimated that benefits paid by the employers to | ment state umemployment imsfir- ance benefits would give an idle seaman a total oY $40 a week for up to 26 weeks. Francis T, Greene, chairman of the bargaining committee for the passenger ship and freighter com- panies, sald he had "great hopes' that meetings would be held early today with. two other maritime unions and that Jestiemonts would be reached quick! He said "our ships will sail im- | help, | SECOND ARREST Chief Hill was trea fi broken nose and face i Poy 4 : Provincial Police pliers rested Morden a and the injured ehief a tS headauarters for provincial police 5 For Morden it was the arrest of the night. He was FA earlier in the day by provi ce officers rived it was reports | Ie refused to bring a cruiser back to the A otion, pi son balled him out. Police officers said started when Chief Hill _ officer arrived at the police Thursday night and were told the officer on duty that Mi who was on duty, had come taken the keys fo a cruiser pi} driven away in it, When the chief called the mists ing cruiser on the radio and told Morden to bring the ear Morden refused and the chief ed provincial police, officials said, FIRST IN MEMORY Morden was lopped in Scarbore and taken to Whithy i but was bailed out bygConstable Thompson, The two men left and a short time later - the chief was attacked. It, was the first case of officers being charged wil a saulting their own chief in memory of senior Toronto police officers, ; A Pickering porice commission meeting was called for 3 pm. oe day, a AT ATATION i that alt tis reported that after was released from the Whitby jah he jd Thom son ed 1 to the ickering police ne Morden's personal oni et was while the two officers ere there that the alleged assault ol Chief E, L. Hill, took place, Con stable Allan of the Pickering was at the station when the took place but. he was not a been | ness, Crown atiornas. Alt. Alex Hall he felt that had Teporting_for duty and iE HE had ve | cumstances, would "have lof du gely Settled ge. it the agreements a reached Despite the passengers Mp. freighter agreement, the NMU mains on strike against tanker operators. Contracts of four marie time unions expired at mi Wednesday, The NMU dis] "no contract, no work" instrues tions to 18 east and gulf coast ports, and many ships were tied ow Shursd oy, Almost 1,000 ships, ncluding transatlantic liners, and 33, are involved in the four-union yd pute with the operators, Foreign-flag ships are not af» fected, but Britain has its own maritime strike tying up transats lantic passenger service, The NMU has about 28,000 m bers and the other unions a of approximately 5,000 members on the east and gulf coasts. Sixty about half the American me two shipping rrp | fleet--are involved. w'y 4 TRAVELLING BY RAFT Three of four adventurers who hope to cross the Atlantic on a home-made raft enjoy & smoke in Quebec City where they ar- rived Mer being Monty leit to Ga 's t 0 n Vanackere, right 28, towed from | feet wide Bernard Sori®ul, 24, and Heel Beaudout, 28, skipper of the exs pedition, The amateur seamen were looking for a tug to their raft--26 feet long and - ~to Newfoundland 'and "from there we would be on our own, FRE LLB Vr W

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