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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Adve. tising. RA 3-3492 All Other Calls RAR 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Cloudy and rain. winds. Low Continuing cool. Weather Forecast dismal with drizzling Moderate tonight 45, high tonight ' VOL. 84--NO. 241 Authorized es Second-Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1955 TWENTY PAGES UAW WORKERS ASSIST WHYTE FAMILY Charge Moroccans| Fired Over Border RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- An official charge that Morccans in Spanish Morocco fired across the border on French troops has fanned an increasingly bitter international A in this strategic corner of North Africa. gl French - Spanish disagree- d today as sd out over the newly appointed four-man regency council even be- fore it could begin functioning. French Premier Edgar Faure's to an end of two Fears & of terror-| ism' popular le "af a fight it was is aa solians The charge that French trodps| had been fired upon from Spanish| al Morocco was in response . to Spanish complaint that France was threatening peace. Spain threat- ened to take United Nations if the French did not quit talking about alleged Span- Spain| FEES is not a UN member, but presum- ish aid to Moroccan rebels. ably she could get some of her friends to push any action she de- sired. Resident-General said the troops were fired upon Oct. 14 but did not shoot back across the border: Since Oct. 1 French troops have in-a good - sized cS Al 15 SR Eo A ss = AM Ewer a Against LONDON (CP)--Clouds loomed today over Princess Margaret and Group Capt. Townsend as reports] of opposition to their marriage--| Meg. Peter Match Townsend was the innocent party in a divorce after the war. His ex- wife has since remarried. | PRESS PURSUED HIM Townsend emerged alone from regarded by many Britons early in| ye 'house this morning and went the weekend as a foregone con-| clusion--mounted - with the end of their weekend meeting at a man-| sion in Windsor forest. i The Associated Press reported! that the Duke of Edinburgh is advising strongly against a union between his 25-yearw-ld sister-in-| law and the divorced war hero who will be 41 next month. One London newspaper quotes 83 year-old Princess Marie Louise a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, | as saying such a marriage would be unthinkable. "Her friends in the court circle . . . say that the meetings of the last few days are nothing more than a royal way of enabling her to| say goodbye to an old friend of| the family," the weekly asserted. | The AP said there were uncon: | firmed reports that the Archbishop | of rele ded would voice his dis-| approval publicly if the supposed engagement were made official. | The Church of England, of which) the Queen is head, opposes the re- marriage of divorced persons/ whose former mates are still alive. Rains Help Water Supply Steady soaking rains, which have! fallen throughout Ontario county during the past four days, have been described as "disagreeable, but seasonal" by Mr. L. Fair, Agri- cultural Representative for the county. Mr. Fair said today' that the rains would cause no damage and help out many farmers who were short of water. "The rain is holding up some outside work on farms, but most of the silage is in from most of the fields", he said. "There is still some husking corn- coming in, but it is usual to har- vest it at this time of the year!" TO GUELPH Mr. Fair said that heavier falls of rain had heen registered both east and west of the county. On Thursday members of 4H clubs throughout the county will travel to Guelph for the Ontario Agxicutural College competi Provincial winners of the com- petitions will take part in Canada- wide competitions at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. The Guelph competitions this week will include practical tests in judging cattle, poultry and swine, and practical| work with tractors and in forestry.' i pleasant one," for a horseback ride--pursued by a fleet of some 60 press cars. To Teporters' questions, he re- | plied sharply: 'Leave it, will you?' Later, when he returned from the ride, he answered "Yes a very when asked about the weekend. '"Have you changed your plans?" | another reporter asked. "No," Townsend replied, after some hesitation, added: "No. cause I haven't any. complaint to the Pierre Boyer| #8 government fi set up the coun- de Latour in a press statement Ea tne. hope that it wou lead | | THIRTY MEMBERS OF LO- | Mrs. Robert W. "Bert" Whyte, on the Maple Grove -sideroad, just north of Highway No. 401, near Bowmanville. The Whytes care for 28 homeless children | and they need laborers to move 1 :| (CP)--A highballing Toronto 4 | into a stalled car at a level cross] |ing here Sunday night and sent |nine cars spewing crazily off the) Crack Train Derailed After Smashing Auto BILL RICE Fr Press Staff Writer Montreal p train RIVIERE BEAUDETTE, Que. to hed .jand five football players returning from the Saturday game against Toronto Varsity. They said the accident came as "a series of jolts. Then, we looked out and saw nine cars derailed." } | track. | a large dormitory which houses | CAL 222 UAW-CIO responded Sat- | I urday to help In moving a dor- | mitory at the farm of Mr, and | some of the children at the rear of their home. Despite the assistance of the UAW men, there is still much to be done before the dormitory is usable as Saturday's rain slowed down the work considerable. The UAW men are shown on the job. (See story on page three). Times-Ga- zette Photos . Board Will Review Liquor Advertisiug TORONTO (CP) -- The Ontario liquor control board will start Oct. | 24 to review liquor advertising reg-| In then, ulations. announcing the | sider briefs from the newspapers, (radio and television interests, {liquor firms and temperance groups. He said the board will also take up the CBC's ban on beer and liquor advertising in Ontario. hearings, | United States TV stations carry- I havent changed my plans be-!board chairman William Collings'ing beer advertisements can be Provincial police estimated a The students were seated in two of the six cars that remained up| ! |left *Toronto at 4 p.m. " | number of injured at 40 but only about half of these required hos- pital treament. Eight were de- | tained in hospital at Valleyfield, | Que., and another two at Cornwall, nt. | Passengers who hacked their way out of overturned coaches with axes agreed it was "a miracle" | that no one was killed. One car overturned completely and came to| rest on its roof. Another crashed on its side while the other seven teetered at weird angles beside the, track, Gilles Bourbonnais, s2year-old police constable of this village) three miles east of the Ontario through a window. STUDENTS ABOARD The train . . . pool No. six , «. and was due at Montreal at 10.15 p.m. : were Strike In US. . PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The CIO International Union of Electrical Workers today called 'a strike of 44,000 members at 20 American plants of Westinghouse RElectric Corp. for the second time in little more than a month, The strike call went out at mid night after the deadline rolled around with no contract settlement. Some 30-odd other cempany opera- tions were not affected. Placard-carrying pickets took up posts at the company's big Fast Pittsburgh works, where a di border, pulled six persons out oi the wreckage after smashing; two parlor cars and one derailed coaches nearest bruat of the impact 2s the ears) Were flipped over. right after the crash. The engine also held to the track, grinding to a stop more than a half-mile away from the crash, The three occupants of the car jumped clear before the train struck. Gerard Sincennes, 25, of East- view, Ont.,, a suburb of Ottawa, told police he was driving from Montreal. He drove sliwvly as he neared the track and his car stalled just as it reached the crest of the small incline, He looked out and saw the train approaching about a mile away. Sincennes and the other two oc- cupants of the car--Fernand Par- ent, 26, and Jacqueline Carriere, 24, his fiancee, both of Ottawa-- tried to push the vehicle across the track but were unable to budge it. The impact was so great that part of the car remained pasted to the front of the locomotive when it came to a stop. Some 300 yards of track were uprooted as the cars wavered and then plunged off. Five coacHes, a baggage car, . Passe) er were ers in the two front bore the 'wo 0: In CNR Crash Two Oshawa residents were in- jured when an engine and nine cars of a CNR passenger {train jumped the tracks after colliding with a stalled vehicle last night, at Riviere Beaudette, Que. Early reports claimed that twol assengars had been killed ang injured. Among the injured are Miss | over job studies touched off a three day national walkout last month. Pickets also began appearing at other plants, rules for time studies' of non-incen- tive workers and length of con- tract. Louise , 19, and Miss Beverley Sargant, 18, both Osh- awa bank employees. The two girls were admitted to Valleytield ospital and their con- Disputed issues include wages, [dition this morning was described as satisfactory. Results of x-rays were not available this morning. Miss B hemin is the d Y Antique cars were the order of the day when this Oshawa couple went to the altar Satur. | Mrs, day at The bride and groom |said Saturday the board will con- received on many sets in Ontario. JUST LIKE IN DAD'S DAY Church. Centre Street Robert Pittman - Mr, and are shown in their early model Ford following the ceremony. Several other cars of ancient vintage took part in the wedding | the slickest robberies in the city's | fight. | parade. The antique models | created unusual interest as they | rolled across the city. Times-Gezette Photo of Mr. and Mrs. H. Beauchemin of 224 Roxborough street, and Miss | Sargant is the daughter of Mr. | and Mrs. W. T. Sargant of 552 Mas-| son street. The two girls are employees of| the Canadian Bank of Commerce and were on their way to Mont-| real for a holiday when the acci-| dent occurred. $30,000 Jewelry Stolen From Safe BELLEVILLE (CP) -- Jewelry | valued at more than $30,000 was| stolen from the safe of Mercier' S| jewelry store here early Sunday in| | what police described as "one of | history."' | . Police inspector J. C. Hayes said | the thieves removed a barrel lock | from the store's front door and in- | serted a new one. They opened the new lock and removed the safe from the front of the store to a side room. The one-ton safe was forced with a crowbar. Girls Hurt Olmstead, 30, today was charged with murder in the death of his 27-year-old wife, Simone, body was found Friday with those of the couple's three children in the smouldering ruins of a three roomed dwelling near Sturgeon Falls, Olmstead, arrested Sunday after a posse used tear gas to flush him from a tiny shack, appeared in court a few minutes after pro- was remanded to Oct. 25 for pre- liminary hearing. The solidly - built mechanic at first was believed to have died with his family in the fire. How- ever, district mesidents said Satur- day they saw him after the blaze. Sunday police and a shotgun-carry- ing 'posse surrounded a shack at Crystal Falls, 25 miles northwest of here, and captured Olmstead as he tried to climb through = rear window after the tear gas bomb exploded. after police were unable to find any trace of his body in the ruins of Be family cabin at Sturgeon Falls. 23 miles west of here. wife, Simone, 27, EE was EER vincial police laid the charge. He! The hunt for Olmstead started ™ M2 in the eatly mosing fife|the be IN HUT ATH Sturgeon Fails Husband Arrested After 4 Die NORTH BAY (CP) -- Percy|ard, 8, Ronald, 5, and Gerald; three months. whose | mous phone calls te stead was still alive, tifle was missing from the As police were petwring stead here, the cruiser tiny Roman Cathoic church friends and neighbors. were ing prayers for his f: Inspector Thomas it of criminal investigation branch of Ontario Provincial Police said Xould ied a dent # e arrivi un n Imstead, tion Tracks leading from the house escaped from the burning an ne were called off eda however, after Olmstefi's fal lined the occupants up al Friday yi the two- Sabin.» in ashes by the time ad. "Her skull was split from to nearby Sturgeon river led po= lice to believe Olmstead [nay Bava have i m frantic attem ing clothes. at Crystal Falls repo; guteted his house with a a gin and st c fire broke out early One of the eo Olmstead had 'been forehead to the rear of her Reads Aawley Blows said, CORONER AND CONSTABLE PROBE FIRE RUINS 34 Die In US. Floods NEW YORK (AP) -- Three days of drenching rain have wreaked an- other flood disaster on wide areas of the northeastern United States still trying to recover from hurri- | cane Diane's punch two months ago. The toll from Friday through Sunday included 34 persons known or presumed dead in six states, and property losses in the millions. The floods have caused havoc to transportation of millions of per- sons. Much railroad service is halted. - Highways are closed and bridges knocked out. Heroic. rescues were achieved during the weekend as thousands of residents were ev d from flood areas by helicopter, boat, auto and the arms of men afoot. Relief operations were in high gear today, but new fears of floods and washouts spread through the affected states. Bast, | Sunday afternoon, forecast continging rain for today | | and Tuesday® and warned "rivers will continue to rise and all those in low areas should keep abreast of the latest reports and forecasts." The big chore ahead is cleaning up and getting snarled transporta- tion moving again. There is a threat too, to employment until flooded factories get out from blankets of mud. The weekend weather was freak- ish. A two-minute twister tore through the Red Bank, N.J., area Snow fell in| western Massachusetts, southern| Vermont and northern New York. | A new hurricane, Katie, bore|: down meanwhile on Haiti and the' Dominican Republic. She is not expected to bother the U.S. main- land, however. Katie's older 'sister, Diane, set the pattern for this weekend's un- The weather bureau in LATE NEWS FLASHES TORONTO (CP injuries policé said were s New Hurricane Roars Across Hisponiola MIAMI, Fla, (AP) -- poriola second largest of with winds of 115 miles a tropicdl storm of the season, roared today across His- Police Believe Tie-Up In Thefts A- Police said today they be- lieve the theft in Bellevillie Sunday of $30,000 worth of precious gems was carried out by the same gang that stole $70,000 in gems in Windsor three weeks ago. Charged With Murder After Fight .CHATHAM (CP)--Arthur Wright 29, was charg- ed with manslaughter today in connection with the death Sunday of William J. Portlock, 28, from head uffered in a street-corner Hurricane Katie, the 11th the West Indies islands 31 Are Dead In Weekend Accident Toll n hour. Thirty one persons died violent- ly in eastern Canada during the weekend. A Canadian Press syrvey shows that tropical named storm, which was not & hurricane. The toll ot Diane's floods two months ago was 19 dead 20 malssing and damage es- timated at $1,500,000,000. Connecticut again has been hard- est hit, both in life and property. Three big rubber plants were knocked out, and' more than 5,000 workers will be out of jobs tem- porarily. The state had 12 dead or sumed dead by Sunday night. York had 10, Pennsylvania seven, Rhode Island three and New Jer sey and Massachusetts one each. that from 6 pm. Friday to mid- night Sunday 19 persons died In traffic accidents, three were drowned and nine died from other| causes. Sixteen persons died in Quebes. There were nine. traffic deaths, three drownings, and deaths from' a double stabbing, a street fight and a rock fall. Ontario had eight deaths, seven from traffic accidents and one as the result of a street fight. There were six deaths in Nova Scotia, Three were in. traffic ac- cidents, two in hunting accidents) and one which occurred when a woman was struck by a train. A member of the Oshawa Pub- lic Library Board for a number of years, Cecil V. Purdy, died at: the homé of his sister in -Port Perry on Tuesday of last week:' Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. Purdy, the deceased was a resi« dent of Oshawa for many years: The fugeral service was held at Port Perry on Saturday, October 15, followed by interment in Pine Grove Cemetery, Prince Albert, '