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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RE 3-3492 All Other Calls . .uuu. « RA 3-3474 Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Weather Report Clear today. Cloudy with showers Thursday evening. VoL. ss--No. 36 Authorized As Second Class Mell Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1957 Price Not Over § Cents Per Copy TWENTY-TWO. PAGES Ross At C By HENRY PRYSKY Cy ters the ign Tod a blast from the labor Soup at their monthly mee last night. a told that they should "resign now and we will replace 4 (Wl justified to criticize and look after 4 the welfare of our citizens than 3 Council," he added ogee, KEITH ROSS them," by Keith W. Ross, secre- tary - treasurer of the ODLC. "I'm sick and tired of hearing certain aldermen talk through the/movement in Oshawa is strong sides of their mouths instead of coming straight forward with what they have to say," Mr. Ross told the labor group represent- every union local in this area. e sald that the Oshawa and District Labor Council "will not operate in a straight-jacket." "What we have to say, and if it is of benefit to the welfare of the citizens of Oshawa, we will Ross empha- NO STRAIGHT-JACKET "This labor body," he added,|should resign and 'we will be - Big about 20,000 most happy to have shawa, has the right placed." "which le in what it wants and how it that is detri-(Labor Council does mot look after| good of our city. I will not operate in ot. oe Hits ; i { A commenting on a report submitted to the council last night by Mrs. Alice Reardon, chairman 6f the ODCL municipal committee, who said that it was brought to her attention that "certain council members are|- whispering - that the local labor council is sticking its nose in matters which do not concern them." Mrs. Reardon said she had oc- casion to sit in at several coun- cil meetings, and when certain labor council objections were Jrougnt up, even if they were logical, a "whispering cam- paign" got underway criticizing the actions of the labor group. She added 'it was embarrassing at times." "This is not the first report reaching me on this matter," Mr. Ross told the meeting. 'There is no other body in this city more the Oshawa and District Labor "I come out openly," Mr. Ross said. "If certain aldermen are annoyed about what the labor council does, they should make their accusations straight-forward and in public and not through the sides of their mouths." | SHOULD RESIGN | Mr. Ross added: "We are striv-| ing to make Oshawa a better city| in which to live -- and we are oing to continue doing so matter what any member of the| ity council thinks." | "If any member of the city| Jeouncil is not happy about this," | Mr. Ross repeated, "then again| |T say they should resign and we| {will be happy to replace them." | He explained that the labor enough to make 'certain alder- men" realize that they are the |servants of the people, and "not |the dictators to the people." |REPRESENTS 20,000 "The Oshawa labor council is a body which represents about 20,- {000 people in Oshawa," Mr. Ross {pointed out," and we will not operate in a straight-jacket." | "Again I repeat," he. added, "that if certain aldermen do not like the labor council iringing on municipal matters, then they ~ "HONOR Or. Claude Vipond, a men- | ber of the board of education, enters into the spirit of frivol- | ity, with some of the contes- them re- | | "If the Oshawa and District| YOUR Oshawa Central Collegiate In- stitute Tuesday night. The col- orful festival concludes tonight. The inter - school competition is open to pupils from Grades tants as Oshawa public schools open their mammoth "square dance festival -- entitled "Hon- or Your Partner" -- at the PARTNER" FESTIVAL ROLLS INTO ACTION 5 to 8, More than 320 contes- tants participated last night to the accompaniment of recorded hillbilly music. Shown with Dr. Vipond, left to right, are Doug Lemon, Robert Osborne, Arlene Sargant, Gail Millar and Steve Marian. bile bb Job be -~P y Joe Serge, TimescGazetic the welfare of the people of Osh- awa, then who will?" Mr, Ross asked. U.K. Budget the tax on es. Presenting the budget to the House of Commons Tuesday, Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter 't described it as a pro- of "opportunity, expansion incentive." His outline was with cheers from the Con- servatives and boos from the La- bor opposition. "It means more for those with ** declares a front-page head. of the Labor party. The paper im- plies that the budget will spur de- mands for wage increases such as gram and 903 Sd {represents "something for every- -/body but not much for anybody." S| The Daily Telegraph, also Con- servative, says that "to call the Protest LONDON (AP)--Russia has pro- tested to the United States that Soviet ships going through the Panama Canal are bei bjected PROTEST "CHILD LABOR" USE | IN DELIVERY. rich Santer Tire 17 he Dibary ans DORE Lato: Ca: il at their meeting Tuesday night. The members gave support to a resolution protesting against using *'child labor" in the distribution of the news- paper om Sunday. Charles Jennings, a vice-president of the ODLC, told the il bers that he had questioned a young girl deliver- to long "discriminatory" inspec- tions. \ Moscow radio Tuesday night said the U.S. state department was handed a note Monday stating that since Jan, 1 American armed guards have stopped three Soviet vessels for many hours while in-| spectors combed through their| cargos and photographed "'all| technical equipment." A state department k an budget a rich man's budget will be only too easy." The paper con- cedes that "the reliefs to surtax payers will please government supporters as much as they upset the opposition," but "they are to be welcomed, not for this reason but b they are ded." "To the rich, Mr. Thorneycroft has been lavish. On £5,000 a year ing the Sunday newspaper about how she felt about working on Sunday. "She sald that she did mot like it," Mr. Jennings reported. ¥ A resolution protesting against what was termed as "child labor" in the delivery of the Sunday Telegram was introduced and support given by the 'members, George Weston and Charles Jennings were elected dele« gates to the Workers' Education Association convention to be held on May 5 at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Gun A, TORONTO (CP) Thirteen high-ranking military officers from the military committee of NATO watched Tuesday as the Canadian Army unveiled a new anti-tank weapon and a new type anti-personnel mine now being developed in Canada, The officers are here on part of a four-day briefing on Canadian military planning and develop- ment sponsored by the defence department and private organiza. tions. The antitank weapon was not fired but the anti-personnel mines a married man gets tax cuts that|in Washington said he knew of no give him £5 a week. On £10,000 such protest being delivered. He| a year, a man gets £10 a week-- added that the Russians had "tried| which is an increase of his present|to make propaganda in the canal! net income of 12 per cent." {area before about such things as The rail men and the shipyard not being able to buy hydrographic and industrial strikers originally maps there." those which recently pulled 1,700, 000 shipyard and industrial work-| ers out on strikes. Thorneycroft told the Commons | that Britons earning more than £2,000 a year will pay less sur-| tax, a move apparently aimed at slowing the rate of emigration| among highly skilled and execu- demanded 10-per-cent raises. Waterfront sources in Panama said the Russian ships got much| the same treatment as that given| Ask Put Mid-East Before Council Family Released By Hungarians STRATFORD (CP) -- Lawyer James C. Neilson said Tuesday the tive 5. {wife and two children of a Hun- er the new budget there will| be no surtax until annual income garian national who fled to Can-| ada eight years ago would join fotals £2,100. Previously Britons i yor soday following their re- paid surtax on income exceeding £2025 a year. Two-ninths of the first £4,000 of a man's income will be exempt from income tax, in- £2,000. PRESS COMMENT {lease by the Communist Hungar-| ian government. | Joseph Udvari was arrested and 4 oe J pone eg fo inspected it for seven hours. It Parents will get bigger tax al- or | fowances for children over 12.|failing to report his wheat stocks|following day, when it sailed with |'¢T Mahmoud Fawzi in a resump- Purchase, gasoline and entertain-| accurately. Hea escaped fromthe guards men! |p t 1axes also were cut. territory and found his way to | Canada. rison, swam a river to Yugoslav The intervening years The Conservative paper Daily have been spent in trying to ob- Mail declares that the new budget tain exit visas for his family. H h : WASHINGTON (AP)--Britain is American ships calling at Soviet | eported to be advising the United : {States to throw back into the CLAIM VIOLATION |United Nations Security Council The Moscow broadcast called|the dispute with Egypt over fu- {the inspections "a flagrant viola-|ture operation of the Suez Canal. |tion of the principle of complete| Britain and several other Allied {equality in the use of canals un-|countries are said to feel Amer- {der international importance to|ican negotiations are making no {all countries proclaimed in the|progress toward getting any ma- Panama Canal Treaty of 1901. jor concessions in Egypt's mew The note said 18 armed canal operating plan. {guards boarded the motorship N.| 17 Raymo Ostrovsky Jan. 2 at Balboa and|po. yr passador nd 4 I , 'Mini said the ship was held up until the| C3iro with Egypt's Foreign tion of the negotiations which had still aboard and a po-| fice cutter acting as escort. P% been reported deadlocked after The note also told of discrimina-|four sessions last week. tion against two other Soviet ships|,, Ine Egyptian plan proposed to --the 1. Babushkin and the Ad-|the U.S. and a number of other imiral Senyavin. | countries would keep canal oper- Says May Stop Secret Information To U.S. | (CP) -- External Af- OTTAWA fairs to Minister Pearson plans make a statement Commons, touching on arrange ments Canada and United States for exchange of se- curity information. Officials indicated Tuesday that | existing arrangements may i changed as a result of the suicide last week in Cairo of Herbert Norman, Canadian ambassador to Egypt. Mr. Norman's death oc- curred after the U.S. senate sub- committee on internal security re- cently revived charges of past One. authority. said' authority a e- ments for an exchange of pi 8 information now are under review by an inter-departmental commit. tee representing ail Canadian gov- ernment agen involved. PUBLICITY RISK At present there is close co-op-| as to whether therc today in the finformation exchanged confiden- be | pearson apparently has raised the question is risk that tially between the dNe. overn- fHients 2aY Decome publ i. Svailabiiity to US. congres- committees. In the Commons Tuesday, Mr, referred briefly to the Norman He descri as a "compli cated" and "'tragic" matter and said his statement "will 1 with a t experi- CNC with relations between the two Sovanmens in the field of secur- Meanwhile, Livingston T. Mer- | ation entirely under con- trol, with all tolls paid directly to that country. SEEK MORE GUARANTEES The U.S. has been negotiating for modifications of the Egyptian plan to give greater protection for the shipping companies of user | countries, | Among other things, the U.S. wants Egypt to include in its pro- posed declaration of canal policy a statement of six principles set Merchant's trip was several weeks ago. However, it was considered arranged Hare met for an hour Tuesday in|some forth by the Security Council last fall. A major purpose of the prin- Siples was to Hsulate ihe Savio workings of the canal aga Egyptian political manipulation, Egypt is reported to have coun- tered that the principles as stated are open to many interpretations. If the U.S.-Egyptian talks col- lapse, raising the problem anew in 'the Security Council would be one way of keeping the ent going in the hope that eventually protection for users of the waterway might be achieved. SHIPOWNERS WARNED The canal is open to ships of up to 20,000 tons. e U.S. Britain and France--apparently in order to en their bargaining po- sition Egypi--have cautioned their shippers against rushing in to use it on the ground negotia- tions on canal policy are still un- der way. But officials here privately con- cede that the pressures of com- petition are so great that the shipping companies probably will not long be abie io avoid moving their vessels through the canal in view of the much larger costs in- Yoived in sending vessels around ca. were, Newspaper men were kept at a distance. CAUGHT FISH CAN'T GET AWAY GERALDTON (CP)--Harry , Lee reported Tuesday that he caught a fish that wouldn't let him get away. The four-foot pike first bit his thumb, and when he shook it off, grabbed his sleeve. PRESS POLICE HUN eagher Still Free Police agencies continued their ticularly worried about round-the-clock 'search today for! sibility John Meagher, 25-year-old Osh-{his home. awa fugitive who escaped custody| In Toronto today, Metropolitan in Toronto Tuesday. commission Shatin C. - Although given to impulsive |Said the me used by the sher- acts, and now in a desperate posi-[iff's office to transport dangerous tion, Meagher is unlikely to re-|criminals from jail to court is "a turn to his old Oshawa haunts, i Yory strange and antiquated sy- least. Tor She lime being, In the S's criticism followed Meage her's escape. The best guess is that Meagher, |". : ped from described as the ringleader in the pas, oan had estaps the $30,000 robbery and pistol- | ing him in a taxi, we'd he whipping of John Cragg, wealthy ¢ 0 ery : s gly criticized -- and rightly ne businessman last No- so," Magistrate Bick sald. vember, is hiding out around To- LEGAL TALENT ronto, Meagher with "ladylike""'| Meagher considers himself to hands -- slipped out of handcuffs|be a man with considerable "legal and leaped to freedom from a|talent", and not without reason. moving taxi Tuesday as he was| Meagher, without the aid of being. transported to County|legal counsel, last year wrote a Court from the Don jail to face |38-page letter to the Appeal Court an armed robbery charge. of Ontario regarding his convie. The fugitive is described as|tion and sentence of two years on being five feet, nine inches tall,|a charge of car theft at Oshawa in 125 pounds, with dark receding |1955. hair. | The appeal court quashed the John Cragg today criticized the two-year conviction and ordered sheriff's office in Toronto over|a new trial on the strength of this Meagher's escape. letter. Meagher was not repre- In a telephone conversation with| sented by counsel before the The Times-Gazette, Cragg said: court. "It seems a little ridiculous to At the time of his arrest last me that two suspects would be|November with two other Oshawa transported from the Don jail to/men for armed robbery in the court in a taxi. I thought they had Cragg case at Scarboro, Meagher black marias for that purpose." |was awaiting trial on the charge Cragg said that he and his 76- of car theft, for which he was year-old mother, Mrs. Fanny originally sentenced by Judge Cragg, have been under police/John E. Pritchard in ard. since Meagher's escape.|Court after being found = guilty ut Cragg added he was not par- by a jury. Arabs Protest the pos. TORONTO (CP). -- An RCMP corporal testified Tuesday he had watched Edwin McDonald make a throwing motion towards a where 50 capsules of a itlentified as morphine were later found. Cpl. James MacAuley, present- ing the main crown evidence in the second day of McDonald's trial on charges of conspiring to traffic .in narcotics, 'said he saw the accused drive to a spot in cen- tral Toronto Sept. 18, 1955, get out of his car and make a throwing motion towards a hydro-electric pole. . After McDonald left, he said, RCMP constable V. Yurkiw picked up a cigaret package which contained 50 capsules of a white powder later identified as mor- phine. McDonald is charged with con- spiring with Victor Jowett, Joseph Nicolucei, Harry Ross, and per- sons unknown, Singapore Gets Self-Gov't LONDON (Reuters) -- Britain and Singapore agreed Tuesday on a plan that ultimately will give Dairy Dispute To Arbitration WINDSOR (CP)--A be- tween Purity Dairy and com- pany's 200 workers will be arbi- trated April 17, Magistrate J. Arthur Hanrahan announced Tues- ay. The strike, which an March 30, was declared illegal Saturday and the workers returned to jobs Monday afternoon. their|jes which haven't obtained full Singapore internal self - govern- ment but leave external defence and diplomatic relations in Brit ish hands. A 40-page document released here establishes the framework for a new constitution worked out last month between the British gov- ernment and a five-man delega- tion from Singapore. Under the agreement, Singapore will control her own trade and cul- tural relations, and the Queen's representative will be a local man --a precedent in overseas territor- self-government. Aqaba with oil for Nowy Apr acial Middle um: ews. ICY says e -18rae feel the United States vie: ted Arab territory by permitting The Israelis interpreted move as proof the U.S. ing good on statements dent Eisenhower and Sta tary Dulles that the gulf s! of Meagher returning to _ the tanker Kern Hills to pass through the disputed Tiran Strait to the southern Israeli port of accessible to all ships, Ei Saudi Arabia claim the the Tiran Strait at its entrance Eilat, The U.S. state department de- their territorial waters, ; nied that it sent out the tanker to| Israel in the last two days demonstrate American belief in|ported minor flareups along all countries' right of free passage frontiers with Jordan and Syria. through the strait. But a depart-| An army spokesman in Tel Aviv ment spokesman acknowledged|said Syrians fired on Israell that the U.S. could have stopped borers Monday south of Lake Hula. the Kern Hills had it desired. [No casualties were repo | ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP)-- |The United Auto Workers were {ready to re-elect Walter P. Reu- ther {oday as president of the 1,- logical here that Mr. Merchant would discuss the Norman case 'with his superiors. Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Pearson, | Prime Minister St. Laurent and! 'LATE NEWS FLASHES 500, union, Any possibility of a challenger emerging to unseat the aggressive labor chief vanished Tuesday night in a smashing victory by Reuther forces over a minority faction that Trade Minister Howe attended, | with some 300 other persons, § memorial service for Mr, Norman | in Chalmers United Church, | PRESSES FOR REPLY i At Washington, meanwhile, Canadian Ambassador Arnold] Heeney called at the state depart. | ment to press for a reply to the| March 19 Canadian protest con | MONTREAL (CP) -- Police early foday is being questioned Officers said the man, whose ni closed, was ¢ ng $25,000 in Arrest Kingston Robbery Suspect said that a man arrested here in connection with Saturday's robbery of more than $25,000 from a supermarket ir Kingston. ame was not immediately dis- cash. chant, U.S. ambassador to Canada the U.S. sub-committee's| Pleads Guilty To Charges opposed a 50-cent monthly dues in- crease. Reuther's supporters put through the dues boos! after a three-hour battle at the UAW's 16th constitutional convention. The basic monthly dues of UAW mem- |bers will be $3 a month beginning {next June. | The opposition faction, led by [Carl Stellato, president of the 44,- |000-member Ford Rouge plant lo- Ready To Re-Elect Reuther Head {whelmingly in favor of the in- any segment of the united labor ovement could draw on it to fi- ance a strike. £41 3 ion The faded to less than 200 delegat: when it came to a showdown on a demand for a roll-call vote. The rules required 800 to support a roll call, The standing vote was over- crease. xR a speach to Ri delegates uesday, rge Meany, presi- dent of the AFL-CIO federation pledged U.S. labor to a head-on fight against corruption in its ranks. He said there will be "no evasion and no attempt to sweep it under the rug." American labor, he said, "will do more than its part in elimin- was to fly to Washington today to consult with U.S, government of- ficials on Canadian « American problems. ler Thompson, U.S. minister ~in Mr. Pearson's words--slan-| ders and unsupported insinua- tions" against Mr. Norman, At Winnipeg, Malcolm McNish, | former Canadian army captain| NEW YORK (AP) -- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Soble pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiring with Russia to obtain US. defence documents and other material. {eal in the Detroit area, claimed ating corruption" from its ranks. {the administration had enough| He added: "I hope the public {money for operating expenses and authorities display as much zeal! |salaries, and that any increase and that those who violate the should be earmarked entirely for laws are punished for them." eration between Canada and the|to Canada, said it is "pure specu- US. on security matters, es-/lation" to state Mr. Merchant pecially between the RCMP and |plans to place the Canadian point' World War, said he has returned | the U.S. Federal Bureau of In-|of view on the Norman suicide be-|to the president a parchment] vestigation. Mr. Norman's suicide fore U.S. officials, He said Mr. awarded to him for his services. who served on President Eisen-| hower's staff during the Second Say 200 Pilgrims Drowned MADRAS, India (AP) -- A press report received here said 200 Hindu pilgrims were drowned today in the Godavari River near Bhadrachalam, [the UAW's $23,000,000 strike fund. | Stellato urged the union leader- ship to work on a plan for a com- | bined AFL-CIO strike fund of from $100,000,000 to $300,000,000, so that In an obvious reference to Dave Beck, president of the teamsters union, Meany sald using the U.S, constitution's fifth amendment to VIMY MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD ~~ Mrs. Peter Simmons places a | chairman of the poppy coms wreath on the Cenotaph in | mittee, is also shown. Members of Oshawa Branch 43, The Ca- | nadian Legion, and of the La« | dies' Auxiliary of the Legion | participated. "Mrs, Simons is president of the auxiliary. Memorial Park to honor the dead and wounded of the First World War as the 40th anniver- sary of the Battle of Vimy is protect the innocent is legal, WV observed here. E, C. Halcombe, ~Times-Gazette Photo ede Ki ---- i ----