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TIMES-GAZE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising. All Other Calls TTE THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT .RA 3-3492 ' Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle RA 3-3474 Weather Forecast Freezing rain, milder. Medium winds. Low tonight 32, high tomorrow 40. E VOL. 85--NO. 46 Authorized Second-Class Mail Price Not Over Post Office Department, Ottawa $S Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1956 EIGHTEEN PAGES MAN, 35 y BL WN 10 ITS FIRST 1956 MODELS ROLL OFF GM TODAY THE FIRST 1956 AU- TOMOBILE was produced at | Oshawa by General Motors of | Canada Limited. The first 1956 truck (left) rolled off the assem- | | pleted today. Behind the wheel | 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air i | Ignites Gas With Match On Lock Job ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- A maintenance man was blown to bits early today in an explosion at lock seven on the Welland ship ca- nal at nearby Thorold. He was identified as Alec Wulli- kanow, 35, of Hamilton. Canal officials said he had just descended into the interior of one of the lock gates to do some repair work 'and apparently lit a match which ignited propane gas. He was blown 40 feet straight up through the manhole through which he had descended. Charred bits of his body were found several hundred feet away. Heavy steel covers on other man- holes on the gate were found 100 feet from the locks. Wullikanow, a native of Stalin- grad, Russia, ' immigrated three years ago. He survived three brushes with death during the Sec- ond World War. A fighter pilot in the Red air force, he was shot down three times. It was not be- lieved he had any relatives in Can- ada. The explosion, deseribed by workmen as "terrific", eould be heard for miles around. One ob- server said it 'shook the whole town of Thorold" It was not heard in St. Catharines, four miles north of Thorold. LINE SlowThaw Adds Danger To Shivering Europeans LONDON (AP)--A slow thaw low for the second half of Febru-| The known death toll by coun- spread fearsome landslides and|ary. Engineers blew up ice blocks|tries: France 228, Italy 104, Turkey flood threats over parts of southern|on the Seine and Marne rivers to 72, Yugoslavia 70, Holland 58, Brit- Europe today. The rest of the con-|avoid damage to bridges. ain 58, Denmark 40, Germany 39, tinent shivered, with little sign of| Berlin's overnight temperature Greece 30, Austria 22, Spain .21, a break in the worst winter of the was four below zero--the century. |for Feb. 24 in 125 years, No deaths were reported imme-| Communist East Germany, with Poland 4. being congratulated by his | eral Motors of Canada Limited, team-mate, Ross Plazek- In the | attended the gala official cere- | picture (right) Dawn Abramoff | mony as the first passenger car opens the door of a brand new | left the workshops to face a sedan. | barrage of press and movie ca- bly line yesterday, and the first automobile of the year, a Chev- rolet Bel Air sedan, was com- lowest | Sweden 21, Belgium 18, Portugal| 17, Norway 15, Switzerland 14 and| It was not immediately deter- mined whether the lock was dam- aged. The explosion ripped the over- alls off one workman standing near the manhole through which Wulli- kanow was blown, His rubber boots were melted, but the man, not identified, was mot harmed. Wullikanow was leading a gang of maintenance men who were re- pairing the interior of the three- foot-wide lock as part of a general deepening and repair project to the canal. BULLETIN LONDON (Reuters) -- The Royal Navy today called off a search for the submarine Acheron which had been feared missing when its regular morn- ing check signal was not re- | ceived here. The navy as a precaution had put into opera- tion its 'sub sunk" procedure. | The Associated Press report- cd a British minesweeper had sighted the Acheron near Ice- Canal officials said the gate is land. divided into levels inside by steel | bulkheads. Wullikanow had gone of the truck is Robert Malley, | W. A. Wecker, president of Gen- | meras. BUS BOYCOTT CONTINUES earth in Italy and Yugoslavia, but|ages, has called off all public| it is feared that they will add to|events to save coal. | the toll of 831 known dead in the| North German hunters spotted al agora freeze-up, mow in its 25th fare sight--wolf tracks. They said ih oc, diately from the slides of snow and factories closed down by fuel short-| Find Beaten Phantom Montgomery Negroes Plan "Walk To Work' workmen a : i i been struck down dead with single a 3 ta HbR corridor of a downtown rooming|fought to divert the vast mass of L (AP) -- week-old boycott against Montgom- month, said the boycott is "bigger , © = rumbling soil and snow from other Ie ac e | bullets, MONTGOMERY, Ala Pledged to a massive campaign of firm but peaceful resistance, Mont- gomery Negroes planned a 24-hour "walk to work" pilgrimage today in renewed protest against segre- gation on city buses. The 100 or so among them who were indicted by a grand jury on anti-boycott charges were called into court to face arraignment to- day. A date will be fixed for their trials, perhaps starting the week of March 19. Shouts of "amen" greeted a min- ister's suggestion at a mass prayer meeting Thursday night that "not a race-loving Negro' in this south- ern city would use any form of transportation throughout today. It was the Negroes' way of dem- onstrating that they can walk if] necessary to carry on their 11- Speculation Rises ToProbe U.S. Train Crash | On Future Of Ike |After5 Passengers Die By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH THOMASVILLE, Ga. (AP) - Five months ago today President Eisenhower suffered a heart at- tack. The world then started guess- ing whether he would run for re- election. The speculation still goes on It still went on--intensified--as the president today started the last full day of his south Georgia va- cation. Next week he may end all the guessing with an announce- ment of his plans. But there still! is nothing definite about the tim- ing. There has heen a big change in the trend of the speculation siuce Eisenhower was stricken Sept. 24 in Denver Then and during the seven weeks he was in hospital the predictions that he would rum again were few and far between. But nos ive months, most essing seems to be that driven have soared. Coal and other fuel | | DETROIT (AP) | month three men have left their |Detroit homes in , the pre-dawn gloom to go to work--and have | <2 hg i f | LONDON, Ont. (CP)--The bodys Tring shor mm EY of a man, who police said had been| At Vasto, in central Italy, a land-| 1 wo yyomen { "brutally" beaten about the head,|slide Thursday night crumpled 150 was found early today in the dim|homes. Hundreds of ery city lines buses and the segre-|than a Negro race revolting. gation required by city and state 'This is not a conflict between law, | the Negro race and the white race. LEADERS CHEERED {It is a conflict between justice and Chanting hymns, the throng|injustice." i hi cheered wildly when their leaders STRESSED NON-VIOLENCE i i t! Pastor Abernathy told the i, wat gon JEN crowd: "We have kept the struggle a narrow corridor leading from a(plow teams worked through the bedroom by a man who, she said, was a Negro, one a native De- pg ' | Christian and non-violent. We have washroom of the rooming house night to reach east coast villages had broken into the apartment two troiter and one a former German son. They housed agicoment ist non-violence. We do not on Clarence street. cut off by 10-foot drifts. Helicop- months earlier. She broke away|prisoner-of-war from the Russian] "compassion for those who hate participate and will have no part| Three men were taken into cus- ters stood by to act as ambulances and locked herself in the bathroom. army. lil | us." in violence." today for questioning. Two were|il needed. Mrs. Anne Karebela, 40, a hos-| In reviewing the cases today| Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, pastor| Shouts of 'yes, yes," rang|later released, but one was de-| Twelve thousand persons face a|pital worker was followed by a|Lieut, George Bloomfield, acting| of the Negro First Baptist church through the church when he vowed tained. |disastrous fuel shortage on Nor-|man. |head of the homicide where the meeting was held, esti-|that "nothing will change" in the ------------------------------ |way's border with Russia. The sup-| "He grabbed me by the shoulders quickly discounted the possibility| mated the crowd at 'around lengthefing bus boycott despite the, REALLY COLD |ply is down to three days--with|and said: "Come into the lane with|that a homicidal maniac is at| 5,000." Abernathy and 23 other grand jury's finding that it is il- . CHELTENHAM, England (CP)--|the temperature 22 below zero. |me," she told police. |large in this metropolis of 2,000, ! ministers were among those in-|/legal under an old Alabama law. Several merchants in the Cotswold| The temperature in Paris this| Her attacker fled when another|000. dicted by the grand jury Tuesday.| He described the boycott as a hills are had plenty of coal in|morning was nine above--a record|woman arrived on the scene. He was identified as George homes and a railroad. None was robbed. None had any Bedell, 44. | A temperature rise forecast for, TORONTO (CP) -- Two separate Police record. No arrests have Police said the walls and floor|Britain today failed to materialize, attacks were made against women/been made. of the corridor were smeared with|and new snows spread over thelearly today, police said. | blood. {eastern part of the island. More! Sheila Chernick, 17, was seized |ferent gun. Each killing was in a y : i wol estward f Poland and Body Of Man xmas o.s meetin 787 Puzzles Detroit 1 Each man was shot with a dif-{ bureau, his home. A month ago Gervious foot gate, Other workmen followed Soul to the 20-foot level. 'The pane gas a | for 48 hours. Canal officials said the lamp on the 40-foot level ap- parently had gone out during the Murders -- In .the last,ords show that a maniac -killer/night but the gas continued to seep usually uses the same weapon,"'|into the DulkKneaa area. Bloomfield said "The only link in| They said they think that when the three slayings is that each|Wullikanow entered the level he man was killed while on the way/lit a match to see where he was ito work, and for no apparent{going and the match ignited the reason." |gas : | The latest victim was Gurgen| It was not immediately known |Marik, 46, a factory worker, found|how many men were inside Flin |dead on the sidewalk a few doors| gate at the time. Wullikanow |from his home Thursday morning.|gone down soon after the 8 a.m | : | " i The man's body was sprawled in cold weather was forecast. Snow-|/about the throat in her apartment|different neighborhood. One victim| He had been shot in the back atfwosk start hous. lost his overalls |close : range, apparently with a] thi ' i was thought to have just descended high-powered rifle, the els when Lr explosion A week aco today Clement Cam-|pocyrred, He was shielded from peau, 48, a warehouse foreman foryqhe direct force of the explosion the Grand Trunk Railroad, wasihy the steel bulkhead on which he found dead beside the garage oMas standing. Smoke continued to pour from fhe T. Barker, 28, a Negro, was killed|gate through the manholes an hour on his way to work at a city ga-|after the explosion. Firemen said rage. they would have fo pump air into Bloomfield says detectives are|the gate to rid it of the gas before "Our experiences and our rec-working on each case separately. [they could go down. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., an-| 'show of Negroes all over Amer-| Britain's big cold snap but were! -- other defendant whose home was|ica . a show of all freedom- unable to deliver. Their coal bags| damaged by a dynamite bomb last! loving people all over the world." had frozen solid. COL CHAPPELL BURIED sot ald fl dt ei il 3 isin ian ahd pins ab i - a H The flag - draped casket of | tario Regiment and a veteran Colonel Frank Chappell is borne | of The First World War. His from St. George's Anglican | casket was draped with a Union Church as a guard of honor from | Jack, a relic of the Battle of The Ontario Regiment salutes: = Mons. (Please turn to page three Colonel Chappell was a former | for funeral story.) officer commanding of The On- Times-Gazette Photo the president will announce his bid| GPENTON, Md. (AP)--A Penn-, The worst-mangled car was the for re-election. {svlvania Railroad spokesman to-|giner, Apparently it tipped over The predictions that way got a day said an 'intensive investiga-| : ted t f big boost 10 days ago when Eisen-|tion" is being made into the cause | ust as it started to pass one o | hower's doctors gave him a new|of Thursday night's passenger tne heavy steel girders supporting | physical examination and reported train derailment which killed five the overhead electric cables which a good recovery. They said, for|persons and injured more than 100, prcvide power to the engines. that matter, that he appeared to The railroad said it was not cer-| mhe force of the impact literally be fit for 'another five to 10 years {tain whether seven cars of its sled back the roof of the "diner in a job such as the presidency.| Washington-to-New York train, the keeled back the e Eisenhower said in advance of| Embassy, jumped the track be- I've a sardine lid. The coach broke the examination that he probably|cause of faulty brakes or whether apart. Chairs were tossed 50 to 75 would rely more on how he felt|the brakes went on automatically |feet away. Scattered stacks of than what the doctors told him of|as the result of the accident. The linen napkins were blackened by | his condition. He said that before|engineer said the brakes grabbed the tramping back and forth of deciding to run again he would suddenly. _ Ireccue parties. ag have to be convinced he could han-| = dle the job efficiently. . . If he has reached a decision, ecelves 1 na S the world hasn't been let in on the secret. The White House won't say. | ° Eisenhower indicated before he left Washington that he would an- TO1 | 1 u 1 | 1arine nounce his plans around March 1, and probably would do it at a press conference. His next one is tenta- tively set for Wednesday, Feb 29. PITREAVIE, Scotland (Reuters) "sub sunk," which sent ships and The Royal Navy station here said Planes into action. su of tonight a signal had been received| Long-range radio activity GM Dealers' Plan S Canada's biggest automaker has shaken up its dealer policies. The effect could be far reachi among the n 6,000 dealers and its car and truck manufactur- | ers | Full details of the changes an- nounced by General Motors are yet to come, Until they are revealed ' and analyzed, the extent of their im-| pact will not be known The eventual effects could in clude; g | would | stating that the missing subi . throughout the world has been| stating that the missing submarine pampered for the last two days by Acheron had been heard transmit-| enormous sunspot activity. ting. | The Acheron, a standard "A" Signals from the Acheron also Slas Sbmarise vie of the 13Yy's v ; ati iggest -- launche n We were heard by the naval station] 0 1 iipped with snorkel 'breathing' at Rothesay, Scotland, and by a|apparatus which could allow it to British corvette in Iceland. | kecp submerged for weeks. The admiralty noted that the sig-| In May last year it limped into | i : nal might have been blocked by|fimonstown, South Africa, on one| Tore price shaving BY high, = "cosmic disturbances." | cngine 24 hours behind schedule on| volume, low-price ealers, This Pho - te: Yat 1 5 .la training cruise. | be based on the assump- hi Submarine 5, Jas} knows Po The. Acheron is 279 feet Jong and | 2° tion that the GM changes will King Chri tiz "IX Land southeast carries one four<inch gun and 10] make GM dealers even tougher or ng In i ian a Toa, tal' ¢ "| 21-inch torpedo tubes. It has a sur- | competitors than in the past. How- ne 60 1as a normal com-\g, 0 cnheed of 18 knots and sub- ever, any tendency for prices to|* Mert of 60. : merged speed of eight. sideslip could be matched by high-| An hour after the admiralty| 'Hor sister ship, the Affray, was | er wage, and other costs, to man- tailed to receive the check signal lest in the English channel in 1951! ufacturers. the precaution ary emergency mes- with a death toll of 75. -A general . trend to greater|sage "'sub-mi was flashed to| Three other sister submarines-- | dealer security, both in the hold-| warship |{ ¢ Alderney, the Ambush and the | GM DEALERS' An hour later the navy changed | Astute--were lent by Britain to (Continued on Page 2) this to the more urgent signal Canada. ! aan BE xo