Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 13 Aug 1957, p. 1

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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA All other calls ...... RA 3-3492 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle + Weather Report Sunny and a little warmer today. Increasing cloudiness and warm Wed- nesday. VOL. 86--NO. 188 Authorized As Second Class Mail P OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957 SIXTEEN PAGES Prise Not Over 5 Cents Per Copy Oshawa is shown A delegation of building trade unions in the picture leaving a meel- ing of the Oshawa Board of Education where, they protest- ost Office Department, Ottawa TRADE DELEGATION PROTESTS ed against the use of non- union labor at the construction of the Gertrude Colpus School. Shown in the picture 'are left to right: Cliff Pilkey, president Unrest Grips Polish City LODZ, Poland (AP) -- Labor unrest gripped this big Polish in- dustrial city today following the walkout of 10,000 mun ge ipal rt workers against a gov- or move to link pay boosts with vodka consumption. Police tear gas sent five per- sons to hospitals as the strikers stood their ground against de- mands by Communist authorities that they go back to work. Armed guards stood at every corner. Strige leaders called on their colleagues to stay off the streets. : Violence flared in at least one spot, however. Police used tear gas ] strikers and non-strikers at 'the ia main city depot. to break up a clash of Workers were told by the gov- ernment Sunday that they would A shower of government leaf- get a 50.per-cent pay raise Oct. lets branding the strike illegal] "But they were told at the same par ty of strikers took s city's five car barns to prevent strikebreaking. Streetcars are the 700,000. Hundreds ently had little effect in this time that their only hope of pay prick of | hoosts would come through extra tations inside the state revenue expected from a 15- r-cent increase in vodka prices. he strike came in answer to the only means of public transport yoqia price-wage boost tie. Lodz--Peland's second largest eity. jh a swift counter-move, thorities moved in 1,000 truck peady to operate an emergency D onts Even the official Polish press au- doused cold water on the vodka swage stimulus possibility. One rice rise antici- said the sales would Us. Nickel Needs Not As Dependent On Canada ago to climb peak. of the Oshawa. and District Labor Council. Ken McDougall, president of th» General Truck Drivers Union, E. R. Elliott, business agent for the inter- 8 Trapped 'On French | Mountain CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) Rescue teams today were held up by strong winds and cloudy skies from starting a search for at least eight climbers missing around 15,767-foot Mount Blanc, Europe's highest peak. The search could be the second rge alpine rescue drama in a week, following the rescue Sun- day of one of a four-man party trapped on Eiger peak in Switzer- land. The other three are pre- sumed dead. Three groups of climbers have since been reported in trouble in the Mount Blanc area. One party of a hut Sunday to climb the 13,451 foot Aiguille peak adjoining Mount Blanc. A violent storm broke. They have not been seen since. Two young Hugoslavs Jed by a Polish guide disappeared after leaving Chamonix: last Wednes- : climb on Mount Blanc. be 8 Aiguille da' | | | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attor- was the result of reactivating the -General Herbert Brownell to-| American-owned nickel plant in| y said a United States govern-|Nicaro, Cuba, and because of the ment program to promote expan- entry of additional ¥.S. produc- sion and diversification of nickel|ing companies into the field un- uction has reduced American der special grants from the gov- pendence on a Canadian firm. ernment. The concern he mentioned is The Cuban plant is being oper- International Nickel Co. of Can-|ated hy a combination of Na- ada, Ltd, which he described as {ional Lead Co., and Cuban inter- the long - dominant supplier of ests under the name of Cuban American needs, and civilian Brownell said that when the both military Nickel Co. Brownell said other American interests are preparing to enter the field with indications Korean War started In 1950 the|of further diversion of business U.S. had to look to Inco for moreifrom Inco. than 95 per cent of all the pri-| mary nickel used in the country. He added that Inco has estab- lished the market price of nickel since the end of the First: World this year, he reported, lence upon Inco has difficulty was, and indeed.still is, anc reduced that the U.S, the unavailability of Inco's busi-| now relies o any for .S. necds. NICKEL FROM CUBA the Canadian com- ut 66 per cent of In a report to the White House abled it "to be the controlling Employes 2 and Congress, Brownell said that He said Inco, controlled by American capital, is out of the reach of U.S. anti-trust investiga- tion because it is incorporated in Canada. 'The most important anti-trust ness records." He described the company as (having pursued in the past "'ag- been called off gressive and sometimes anti- competitive" policies which en- factor in nickel production.' THAT'S NOT TAN JUST PLAIN RUST PENTICTON, B.C, (CP)-- A passenger at the bus sta- tion here was waiting to re- turn to his home. As he stood waiting he complained bitterly about the wet Okanagan summer, His listener. from Pentic- ton, said, "What are you complaining about, look ta the tan you have." replied ""That's buddy, that's rust." The not tan CBC Technicians Okay Strike Action MONTREAL (CP)--Some 200 €BC stage employes and movie camera operators voted Monday night in favor of strike action to back demands for pay increases i other benefits 1ad been sched- nadian centres tood many had use of an in Interna- | Stage Picture vot other Similar uled in but it was unde ternal dispute tional Alli 'Machine Operators (CLC) Murky Water Hampers Plane Crash Probe By GUY RONDEAU Canadian Press Staff Writer ISSOUDUN, Que. (CP - Mud and murky water today con- cealed the bodies of 79 victims of Canada's worst air disaster and hampered investigators trying to find out what caused their DC-4 to plummet suddenly out of the sky Sunday : Crews of provincial policemen plodded through ankle-deep mud Monday collecting bits of cloth- ing and personal effects and parts of the bodies of the 73 pas- sengers and six crew members Only a few hands and feet were feit above-the surface of the sod- den swamp alter the Maritime Central Airways plane, bound from London to Toronto, crashed near this community 15 miles southwest of Que bec. Police placed these in cardboard boxes to be transported to Quebec mor- gues. TO PUMP OUT CRATER Most of the bodies are believed buried in mud and police were awaiting the arrival of a ump to drain the crater dredged the plane in its crash Wefore continuing their search i Investigators said no definite reason for the crash can be de- termined until the shattered rem- nants of the plane are thoroughly ehecked A local was struck by counted. by Vv the theory that the plane ightning was dis- eteran airline offi cials. One pointed. out that there is no conclusive evidence that * lightning has evel caused a plane #0 crash, The DC-4 was last seen thunderstorm that struck the area about the time of the crash. Gordon Rayner of Moncton, N.B., chief inspector for MCA, inspected the wreckage Mond and said "there must have b a terrific explosion when th plane hit the ground." Both Ra) ner and company managing di- rector C. F. Kurke of Charlotte- town said they had no idea what caused the crash. An army snowmobile that was being used to transport persons to the crash scene broke down on the muddy road leading to the plane's wreckage late Monday and delayed arrival of a pump borrowed. from a nearby munici- pality to drain the water from the swamp. Msgr. Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec, donped long rubber boots and made his way to the wreckage to pray for the dead DIARY FOUND Among the personal effects found by police was the diary of Barbara Brebner of Islington, who died in the wreck. In it she had recorded the first days of her holiday trip to Britain. Searchers also found a wrist watch with the hands stopped at 2:15. The plane had last reported in by radio to the Quebec City control tower at 2:07 p.m. EDT Many residents of this area saw it flying low and "making a lot of noise" just before the crash Seventy-one of the 73 passen- gers aboard the plane were from Ontario, many from the Hamil. ton-Toronto district. The only two from outside Ontario were Charlottetown man and his son. al' $ying low into the thick clouds ofl In Ottawa it was reported that will be ransport th depart- e crash per, Alta. Ottawa office a public inquiry likely held into the crash. Minister Hees talked v mental officials abou by telephone from Je He is due at I Thursday. While he was in the Opposition, Mr. Hees spoke strongly in favor of public investigations MANY VETERANS The plane had been chartered by an Ontario veterans' associa- tion, primarily to take former 3ritish servicemen now living in Ontario back to visit Britain for a month. However, others were permitted to travel aboard the plane, one of three DC-4s MCA operated on the overseas charter runs, The plane was man Ramsay of had been year Ra well-t cials board Nor He piloted by Montreal described as 'a good, ned pilot" by MCA offi had been blamed by a of inquiry for poor air- manship" in making a belly anding in December, 1954, at Brampton, near Toronto's Malton airport Ramsay the t reg licence pended after in August Co-pilot Monireal w flight pr TCA mer vas flying for TCA at He joined MCA after ¢ his commercial pilot's atl y sus ) 1955 Paul R( 1erre a ited the crash aid Paul had strange feeling some premoni \J ( and tear rt of scene ome Sc about flight tion, I think." the three Poles left - CITY LABOR H ADS BLAST NEW 'UNION | national brotherhood of carpen- ters: and joiner , and Cleve Fox, busin agent for the in- | ternational brotherhood of elec- trical workers. Oman Rebels 1 May Join Russ CAIRO (AP)--A spokesman for the Omani rebels said Monday the rebels will make an alliance with Russia if necessary to drive the British out of Muscat and Oman. Omani presidentative Moham- med el Harsy said rebel forces have fallen back into the moun- tains surrounding Nizwa and Firq and fighting is continuing. Harsy said the rebels intend to wage guerilla warfare from the desert hills. "If necessary we will make an alliance with the Soviet Union in order to drive out the British," Harsy said. "We will even accept Soviet colonization if necessary but we must get rid of the Brit- ish." LIBEL TRIAL LOS Francesca de she had an affair with Clark Gable in order to get inform tion for an article, says a wit- ness at the Confidential magazine libel trial, but Gable denies even knowing the actress, On the Hawaiian | Maul, Gable said |about testimony Purported affair: that, but to my knowledge I never met the lady in my life." Howard Rushmore, former Con- fidential editor, testified Monday that Miss de Scaffa, former wife of actor Bruce Cabot, told him he had the affair with Gable. At the time, Rushmore said, she londay night cerning the was gathering information for alten stories about Marilyn Mon- held him prisoner in a shed on| {story on Josephine Dillon, a {drama coach to whom Gable was married from 1924 to 1930. CHIEF INFORMANT Rushmore had testified earlier that Miss de Scaffa was Con- fidential"s chief source of infor- mation in Hollywood Rushmore said he had no Order Rutops LATE CITY NEWS Supermarket To Be Built One of eight new supermarkets to be built for Loblaw Grocet- erias Co. Ltd, by Foundation Co. of Canada will be located in Osh- awa. Announcement of contracts for the supermarkets was made in Toronto by Foundation Co. The other supermarkets will be built in Hamilton, London, Tor- »nto and Ottawa. They are all expected to be open by Christmas this year. Oshawa General Hospital will soon have a cafeteria added to its facilities, At a special meet- ing of the board of directors to- day, the contract for the new cafeteria was awarded to Bathe and McLellan Ltd, Oshawa, at a price not to exceed $104,241. This was the lowest of nine tenders. 1f the cafeteria is completed at less than this cost, provision has been made for 80 per cent of the saving to go to the hospital. To be built immediately to the east of the Sykes wing, the cafe- teria will be of modern design, and of a very high standard of construction, It will be equipped with the very latest in food serv- ing equipment, and is expected to have a seating capacity to serve 225 persons at once. Hospital officials described the cafeteria as a "much needed ad- dition'. Tells Of Affan or air h Gable of she had told him. {indictment in this case, Mexico. Names prominent not only in} international island of affairs dropped like leaves at the| {movie circles but itrial Monday, and indications {were that this was only the start. Rushmore testified that he quit think I would remember his job as editor of Confidential that he had never before seen the {in the late summer of 1955 {cause of "increasingly repulsiv {material" being published. He cited a story about actress Kim Novak as being "pornography." WROTE OF MARILYN He said he personally had writ- Winston scientist J. roe, John Garfield, Churchill and atomic Robert Oppenheimer. Rushmore said that he had wanted to write a story about Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, but was overruled by publisher Ro- bert Harrison because if wouldn't be "politically wise" to publish it. y In Shooting Believed Murder-Suicide HUNTSVILLE (CP) -- Autop- sies were ordered Monday night n the bodies" of two men shot during the weekend in what po- lice have described as a case of murder and suicide. ! Dead are John Halonen, 37, shot Sunday while digging a well on his father-in-law's farm; and Everett Korby, 65, the father-in- law, whose body was found Mon- day in a creek two miles distant. He is believed to have taken his when he said Sunday he was|$50.000. None of the livestock on own life Sunday. The shootings occurred in the vicinity of the Korby farm, near Sprucedale, 15 miles northwest of this community and 95 miles north of Toronto. Halonen's 11-year-old son, Al- lan, heard two shots Sunday evening as he was crossing the barnyard. . He rushed out to the well, dug to a depth of about five feet, and found his father dead. land , Fhe man was killed by a 12- |gauge shotgun, but police have not found the weapon | Police said Korby shot himse!! {through the temple with a .22. {calibre rifle. He was found in two {feet of water. IMOTIVE UNKNOWN Professing inability to find a motive, police said Korby may thave referred to his son-in-law going to shoot a "hawk." Known as a courteous, pleas- ant-mannered man, Korby set- tled in Sprucedale about 30 years {ago. The family was of Finnish extraction, Halonen had lived in St. Cath- arines until five weeks ago, then {moved with his wife, Anne, and three children, Allan, Gloria, 15 | Sylvia, 12, to his wife's {father's farm. Mrs, Halonen was Korby's only child. LATE NEWS FLASHES TORONTO today, two Commission Victoria Park rush hour, (CP) in bus Ave collided wi and Eglint Cornwall Mayor Dies CORNWALL (CP) -- May or Emile D wall died in hospital Monday, night the company two 10 Injured In Bus-Car Crash - Ten persons were taken fo hospital serious. condition, a Toronto Transit th a dump iruck at on Ave. E. during the morning after loaded Menard of Corn- He was 47 and death was believed caused by a heart attack Announcement of his death v cil meeting vas made today at a eity coun- Man Charged With Murder HALIFAX (CP) -- AB Fre was arraigned today on a ch with the stabBing of a shipme ed Hind, 19, of Windsor, Ont., arge of murder in connection ate aboard the frigate Lauzon docked here. He was remanded without plea until Aug. 20, H GaN 4 Miss de Scaffa, who is undey is ig ®- man who shot him nor could he|plumbing € think of any reason why anybody p ang ling. g' Education Board Hears Complaint the carpenters' unios, ; ; t night|ber for A battle fared up last sig "It could turn to that between Oshawa's building trade|replied: unions and an unofficial union|but it is not yet at that stage." whose members say they arel 11. McIntyre Hood, another guided by the Bible Scriptures in/poard trustee, said: "'We were their approach to unionism. lunder the impression that Fidel- | The trouble is over the Ger-jity was a union outfit when the trude Colpus School in Wilson contract was given out. The {road south which has been pick-|board has tried to turn over leted by the Oshawa unions for backwards to make sure we em- some weeks. ployed union labor Shioughiout. : i "We do not want this dispute Last night a seven-man delega- Apr tion of the city's building trade lo, Jolg, ge Be of the unions bitterly protested to a School . meeting of the Oshawa Board of AT UNION MERCY Education about the unofficial] ier Pilkey then asked the union called the Christian Loe board what its feelings vould be | Association of Canada, bi ote if union electricians refused to {members are working on | work on the school with the non- school. union men when it came time | Earlier in the gay a membet| for lighting installations to be {of the CLAC working on the sitel|carried out said that the union tried to bel" aryiivia Hood: "We shall be | guided by the Scriptures in its at your mercy. But I do not attitude towards gHiployers and think the board has the right to {the belief that they wou ac interfere in a jurisdictional dis- {honorably in their dealings with pute between two unions." employes. |" pi : : . | Pilkey replied that there was ma st he gon HL {the electricians, carpenters, la-|umion Was WOTKINg OIL18 SE00 . | Melntyre Hood: "I agree that | borers, truck drivers and plumb-| A | : _lonly when they get certification {ers unions, told the Oshawa Edu {ore they in the nmion."" {cation Board that the CLAC ap-| is {peared to be ine which had most| Asked what the unions' inten- lof its membership in Europe and|tions were, Pilkey replied: "We {not "one which the board would have got to take what action we heondone." {can jn a responsible way ne the | Cliff Pilkey, President of Osh.|responsible way in which we ® awa Labor Council, who headed | have acted up till now. the delegation, said: "They claim| Another trustee of the educa- to have 5,000,000 members but tion board, Dr. Claude Vipond, their membership seems to be suggested that Pilkey submit to {mainly in Europe and perhaps the board a clause which he con- |in Holland." {sidered adequately covered the | The delegation claimed tie emiplovment of union labor. | Fidelity Construction Co. of Osh-| After agreement by lawa was employing non-union members Pilkey said he labor in building the school de-| The board later Jap spite a clause in the board'simotion that it contract to the firm that "'union|with Fidelity Cons conditions and wages" were to pany whether the conta be observed. {on union wages and Pilkey told the ¢ was being fulfilled, 1 ' been rejected it had made appli- certification by the a ~new.application oard: scriptural principles in modera ing but it had not been approved union problems. vet the Labor Board, and! We are seeking to recapture therefore was still not a eerti-jSome of the values that have {fide union. been lost a' century ago." Mr. Aseltine said that his un- |WOULD NEGOTIATE {lon members were mostly .of | Pilkey went on: "On July 1 Duteh origin. we had a meeting with Harold| 'We have 50 locals in Canada, | Gascoigne and Miller Alloway of but only three of them, in Ham- Fidelity Construction and we/ilton, have collective bargaining wanted them to sign an agree- Power with employers." ment with the carpenters, brick-|- The union recognized the em- |layers and other unions. ployer's right to employ non- Mr. Campbell has, "We had another meeting and|union labor if he' wished and it lived on the farm 61 years. |they finally agreed they would/did not object to working with Edward stopped to go to a|Sit down and negotiate with us. 'non-union men. ; shed for supplies and was|/A Picket line which had been| But the CLAC hoped that the surprised by a man hidden in the near the site was then removed.| employer would realize there building. He was threatened with| 'On July 23 Gascoigne told me were many ways in which he a rifle and forced to enter the/they had received notice from| would be relieved of "headaches" shed. The stranger then closed|/the CLAC that it was going to by cooperating with unions. the sliding door. | apply for certification for men "Ye like 15 Begitiste with the . om working on the school." employerso that he will not go SHOT IN CHEST i "I did not meet Gascoigne out of his way to disturb a When Leonard walked to the again because I considered thattions with the union. After all our building to see what was delay- he had broken faith with us," whole modern = society exists ing his brother the stranger|added Pilkey. through the work of different or- opened the door and fired point] "The labor used on this site ganizations." blank at his chest. The wounded|is non-union. I understand there The union was not against man staggered a short distance,|are 17 men employed there but striking if it were really neces- then collapsed. when the CLAC made its appli-sary but the CLAC was not' as Edward said the man escaped|cation to the Labor Relations|/ready to do this as some unions, through a window and disap-|Board they produced ten mem-|he said. peared into a nearby orchard. He|bership cards. | He said the men working on gave chase but lost sight of the, "Our unions have given some- the Gertrude Colpus School had man. {thing to the Canadian way of|organized 'hemselves into a sep- Edward described the assailant|life and we do not feel these/arate union recently and were as being between 28 and 30, dark-|people will do that." seeking certification by the La- haired, of pale complexion and| Pilkey added that he doubted bor Relations Board. about six feet in height. He was whether the men working on the! "The membership of the men wearing a sport shirt and black| school were being paid union working on the site up to a few trousers. rates and employed under union days ago was practically 100 per Charles Campbell, son of the conditions, cent, but I understand that sev farm owner, said he knows no| One of the Education Board's eral other men have since begun one answering the man's descrip-| trustees, A. E. O'Neill, asked: working at the school," Aseltine tion, nor had he or his father any|"The board specified that union/ went on. enemies, {labor should be used." "This is a very interesting sit- "We don't keep any money in| He added: "Are the board get: uation," he continued, "and it is the house, so I can't imagine|ting involved in a dispute be- something of a test case to find anyone waiting in the barn to/tween two unions?" out whether a separate union harm us," he said. E. R. Elliott, delegation mem-/will be able to exist." ot! nil iad § 4 ; A TRAGIC NEWS Arbuckle of Torontg, Malton Airport Albert Blacker here she awaited her sister's Mary in Toronte. | : sister of Mrs. | rowded meet- Man Shot, Unknow Murderer Escapes ST. CATHARINES (CP) -- Areach safety in the densely- dying man told police Monday] Wooded slopes of the Niagara es- |carpment. | The Canhams, | ) owners of a fin in Niagara Falls, h SO |were installing a water pumping would want to kill him. .' |system on the farm of Frank } Leonard Canham, 85, of Niag-|Campbell. None of the Campbells lara Falls died a few_hours aftet were home. |he was shot by a man who had captured his brother Edward and a fruit farm near St. David's, eight miles east of here. The brothers had been doing a plumbing installation on the farm. Police sz2i? they have no clues other than Edward's description of the slayer. They were trying to {determine a motive for the shoot- A posse of 15 provincial police- men from St. Catharines and Niagara Fal combed the sur- rounding fruit-growing areas for the gunman and the weapon, be- {lieved to be a high-powered rifle. They suspect he managed to $50,000 Loss In Area Fire PICKERING -- In early hours of this morning, the large barn and a number of outbuildings on the farm of Harry Arnold, north of Ajax, were completely destroy- ed by fire, Loss is estimated at the farm was in the barn at the time. The present season's hay crop, however, was destroyed. The fire broke out about 1 a.m, Pickering firemen, assisted by the Ajax and Whitby fire depart- ments, battled the blaze and prevented- the fire spreading to other buildings on the farm, Alarm was given by a passing ot t, who noticed flames on e burning barn Cause of the fire has not been determined (For further story and pictures see Page 5 Girl Rescues Father, Friend BEAVERTON (CP) Vicki Farrow, 15, of Weston, swam mile through waves five feel high to get help for her father and two companions clinging to a swamped boat on stormy Lake Simcoe Monday. Clad only in her underwear Vicki struck out for shore when a high wind started to blow the boat into the lake. She landed exhausted at Glen Mohr girls camp Camp manager Gordon Rowat borrowed a launch and within minutes Brock Far 36, Susan Rhodes, 15, of Etobicoke and Ralph Faeso, 19, of Toronto were me th vet CRASH VICTIMS Four victims of the crash of | ily just before their take-off on | Bannon, James Pinkney, Mrs. Maritime Central Airways | a trip to Britain from Toronto, | Violet Hanna and Mrs." James row 5 rescued. plane near Quebec wave happ- | July 10. Left to right: James Baanon, (CP Wirephoto)

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