Daily Times-Gazette (Oshawa Edition), 24 Aug 1957, p. 1

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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 3-3492 All other calls ...... RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Weather Renort Clear, a little cooler tonight. Sunny Sunday with light winds. VOL. 86--NO. 198 Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1957 SIXTEEN PAGES Price Not Over $5 Cents Per Copy 4 Ld GET ME OUT OF THIS Carl Melanese, three, with tear dripping from nose. waits for hacksaw removal of iron hub from old wagon wheel | from his neck n | aged to slide the hub over his | head couldn't slide it off. | Nobody else could either. A Carl had man- | ci ty fireman surgeon. (AP Wirephoto) Hoffa Heads For Detroit After Abrupt Dismissal -- James y a United WASHINGTON (AP) R. Hoffa, denounced © States Senate investigator as a "disgrace to trade unionism,' has returned to his Detroit home presumably to resume work on his bid to become president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. After spending four days on the witness stand, Hoffa vas abruptly dismissed Friday by the Senate rackets committee. The dismissal, by chairman John Mc Clellan (Dem. Ark.) came after Hoffa had said he could not re member whether he joined with New York racketeer Johnny Dio to enhance his own position in the union and give Dio a foot- hold there. : ; The teamsters Yice » president dozens of questions pended ris with Dio by 'My best remember Before halting the committee McClellan served a new Hoffa, saying the inion boss may be called back more questioning later. The chairman also read, in scathing tones, a statement citing specific instances of alleged misdeeds about which he said Hoffa had equivocated in his testimony Hoffa is regardec as the most likely candidate to succeed Dave Beck as head of the 500,000 member teamster organization, largest union in the U.S Under questioning, Hoffa ac- knowledged that he was wrong in associating with New York "pums amd criminals" like Dio. He said that if he is elected as union president he will take ac- sessior subpoena or for recollection, is I can't mittee teamster ned ar 1 10ng nied any Dio hid recording eavesdrop jury 1953 either listen political incredible voted on the spot that it was use- less to try further to get infor- mation agreed, however, com- later. have moved into fairs in New York Committee counsel Robert Ken- ibed that testimony a and said Hoffa knew al the racketeers Hoffa de to whether descr about missa! memory as supplied him 3efore his d devices on which nve recall used them tc labor and He said he. col not he rious mee Ss McClellan called these answers and the committee whether on in from Hoffa now. | to try again ROOKIE OFFICER SHOT IN CAR THEFT BATTLE | Bodies Of 3 Sisters Are Found DIXON, Ill. (AP)--The bodies of three little sisters were found early today buried beneath a tree and tons of dirt in a big quarry. The finding of the bodies came r+ 1,000 volunteers had searched for hours in a quagmire of mud and sand although hopes of the girls being found alive had ared slim, Three pairs of identified as belonging to irls, had been found Friday t in the quarry. three of Mr. Gurnsey's eight disappeared from their home a few miles west of Dixon Wednesday afternoon. The area is surrounded by rough terrain and woods and by a miles-square series of quarries vhicl ve been dug by a cement Rain May Bid Fire Fighters ST. HILAIRE. Que. (CP) -- A ecast of showers today offered of help to volunteers bat- g a deep - burning forest fire t of control on the slopes of AT Mount St Hilaire I began Thursday in the dr; subsided under the at- tack of almost 100 army, air) force and civilian fire - fighters, | then flared to life anew Friday | with a shift of wind. | All we can do is try to con- tain the fire until a heavy rain puts it out for good," said Group Capt. Alex Jardine, commanding ap th he and chil- giris Jo i It| Cificer of the RCAF base at St.| | Hubert, Que. He said it is *'just ibla to get water up the 800-foot-) : OA DETROIT (AP) -- A labor dis- pute which started eight days ago and elosed Detroit's three major daily newspapers ended early to- da; The Detroit News and Detroit Times started preparing Satur day afternoon editions. The Free Press will publish Sunday A meeting was scheduled today to discuss grievances. A dispute over refusal of mail ars to work beyond a 15 - hour double shift at The News | Saturday resulted in picketing and refusal of the teamsters un jon to cross picket lines. The Times and Free Press closed, saying a strike against one mem ber of the Detroit Newspaper Publishers' Association a strike against all three ; The International Mailers Un- jon. which claimed to represent the news mailers, termed the ac- tion a lockout Moday"s settlement followed James R. Hoffa's joining of ne gotiations. Hoffa, midwest Team sters boss, flew here from Wash- ington where he had been a wit ness before the Senate rackets committee. The publishers association and mailers local of the International Typographical .Union issued this brief statement for last was Void In City Routine tion geainst racketeers the "The publishers and TT} mail- ers will meet at 2 p.m. to process grievances according to the con- tract. Publication of all three pa- pers will be resumed today." The settlement followed a day- long meeting between representa- tives of the publishers and a 10- committee of editorial and t unions at the three papers were ned late in the eve- by Hoffa PROTEST FIRINGS The mailérs union set up picket lines around The News last Sat- irday in protest of what it called the firing of 87 mailers. The News called an illegal strik 1 that its con- or room workers was with t and that it had no contract with IMT The two unions are locked in a jurisdictional, battle, The IMU claims that all but 10 of The News' 170 mailing room employ- es are members of the IMU, The case is before the labor relations board. The mailers who bundle the pa- pers for delivery. after they come off the presses were fired for re- fusing to work during a normal six-hour rest period between fwo 15-hour shifts. The News said 67 were fired ndec Left By Newspaper Strike DETROIT (AP) -- Newspaper mailers are 2 link in the chain of production which begins with a reporter on a beat and ends with a finished newspaper on a newsstand or at the subscriber's front door. Their job is to take the papers that roll off the presses and bale sort and head them into their proper distribution channels went on strike in Boston, Mass. on Aug. 17. in an entirely unre- lated action, about 160 printers walked off their jobs in Detroit Since then an estimated 8,000,- 000 persons in the circulation areas of the two cities have been without their daily newspapers Now the Detroit strike is settled What does it mean to lack daily $7 i iH and television stations 9 Killed, 1 Hurt In Car Crash BELLEVILLE (CP) Two men were killed today when their car went off Highway 2 near here and overturned. A third man was injured Dead are driver Jame Hurst, 53, and Harry Robert Can ning, 47, both of Belleville ; Thomas McAvella, 33, of Belle Donald ville is in hospital with undeter-, mined injuries. Police said the men were fng employes of Reid's Da members of a group of 75 dair) workers who walked off their fobs 2 month ago. Last Aug. 9 about 300 mailers I tried to take up some of the slack by increasing news programs. For e thing, 'they broadcast movie schedules that normally run in the newspapers AT A PREMIUM Suburban and out-of-town pap- ers were al @ premium on news- stands ip Boston and Detroit However, . the se emergency roves softened only slightly the impact of theistrikes Merchants had products to sell but only limited means of adver- tising them The wesult, in the case of one Detroit firm, was a 20-per-cent drop in sales this week The varied services the aver- age newspaper performs are sel. | dom fully appreciated unless they | are abruptly withdrawn. For ex-| ample, in Detroit, there was no| ww dog owners to place classified advertisements for lost| dogs. The result 'was an increase; of calls to the dog pound and the spectacle of doe owners roaming the ng missing pets CANADIAN SALE Across the river from Detroit, the Windsor Star increased its press run by 4.500 and supplied! extra paners five downtown newsstands in Detroit. Said cir ulation Charles Trau to manage ] 30.000 papers a we don't want to » of the situation." | WWJ, owned bys ews. is broadcasting that normally the news if newssstands I take Radio the Det r notices vould appear ir Downtown De also are land 'Ne e v York papers i Grocers' Friday sent' four duplicate tele- grams to Ontario government of ficials prosecute the of light sent Commissioner William Co the Liquor Control Be tario, and bar. after 1 light beer would go on sale here again at and possibly lets. plans no the RGA despite the telegrams.itold how those clinging to the|with our 25-horsepower hoat." of Toronto, G Lome membe ffroit Paper RGA Invites Strike Settled" 'LCBO Stop Beer Sale TORONTO Retail Ontaric (CP) The Association of inviting the province to RGA for 'he sale beer The association also sent a tele- in grocery stores gram to Prime Minister Diefen- baker protesting the ban on portation of province im light beer into the The duplicate tele to Premier rams were Frost, Chief llings of of On- Roberts Dun- Attorney-Gen Provincial hours that The telegrams the RGA came announced single grocery later at other store out- a The association withdrew the light beer from the market after the LCBO announced that outside the LCBO was illl ts sale gal LCBO against Mr. Collings said the further action One tH n Mot im a {story sides of v acre mound a "CRA ENDS 9-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM AT CEREMONY in | ground achievements won competitions during the play- ground days. In this picture, the two top swimming awarus Park. Awards were | are presented to the senior made for swimming and play- | girls The Community Recreation of Oshawa wound up its nine- week summer program Friday night with a ceremony in Me- 3,000- Al SSR AIS. OH ENEWS FLASHES Plan Bureau Two Killed In Head-On Crash ST. THOMAS (CP) -- Two others. were injured early today in a head-on collision be- tween twa cars 15 miles east of here on Highway 3. r Die In Plane Crash Fou | PENTICTON, B.C. (CP) bridge, Alta., family died in the flaming wreckage of their plane, sighted today at the 4000-foot level of a mount- RCMP said there were no survivors: light ain near here, Mother Swims For 4 Hours To Get Aid, Son Drowns SCARBOROUGH, Me. (AP)-- Sobbing, gasping, Martha Cole, 24, stumbled onto a beach here Friday and told of a four-hour battle with tides, winds and waves to get aid for her boat- wrecked family. The lifejacket-clad woman told of how they were washed from a frail 15 foot outboard boat In heavy seas Hours later the young Jenkin- ton housewife heard that her son, 22-months-old Jeffery,| had died in the mishap Her grief stricken Thomas fought >a a., husband, tears as het 25 lifejackets A uninhabited Stratton Island when the boat was of open Atlantic. She fought her be recognized as valuable, how-| at Friday for about 45 minutes way point between Stratton and Eagle islands off Old Orchard Beach a powerful swimmer," guardsman said. 'We had enough To Curb persons were killed and three TORONTO (CP) Metropoli- tan Toronto's police force is planning a Youth Bureau in an effort to prevent juvenile delin- quency from developing here into major crime, it was announced Friday. Magistrate C. O. Bick, chair- man of the Metro board of police commissioners, said the bureau will. comprise specially-trained policemen, sympathetic but not soft, stationed in each. of six Metro police districts, It was ex- pected to be formed next year The bureau would handle the Four members of a Leth- to-17 age group. Mr, Bick said there is no evi- dence of an existing juvenile-de- linquency problem or that one is developing, PREVENTION VALUABLE Preventative measures should All, the child, had swam to tiny including They sank. Mrs. Cole's battle with the sea across a three-mile stretch al ever, and the creation of a Youth Bureau might result in the re- duction of the future adult crime rate, The first contact a youth has| with policemen in uniform can well determine whether he will{ become anti social or develop linto a good citizen, he said. to the mainland from ""'She certainly must have been i one coast rouble getting out to 'he island BEAD the band off by bus for National Exhibi- n the annual | nin ga Warrior's Day parade Oshawa and district are also in Toronto the annual march. Many | veterans | today for | one of tha | highlights of the program. The GM Pipe Band has won many awards in Canada and the United States during the wast shamyion and to the sep- | Melinquency Slug Enters Just Below Man's Heart MORRISBURG (CP)--A rookie police constable was shot down and critically wounded early to- day in an exchange of shots with two car thieves. Constable Ronald Pitt, 35-year- old native of Scotland who egme to Canada a few months ago, was felled in a pre-dawn gun bat. tle by a .38-calibre slug that {lodged in his spine. The bullet missed his heart by a fraction of an inch. | Plans were made to remove the. officer by helicopter to the Montreal Neurological Institute in an effort to save his life Pitt was taken to nearby Corn- wall General Hospital but authori- ties decided that an operation would be dangerous and called for a helicopter for the Montreal trip. HUNT GUNMEN Meanwhile, police searched three counties in attempts to track down the two unidentified men believed to have shot the constable. One report said a lead was un- covered and that officers were moving towards Montreal. There was no confirmation of this re. port, The gun battle aroused the western residential area of this St. - Lawrence River town 40 miles south of Ottawa. Police said Pitt had blocked |attempts of two men from steal- ing a car belonging to Robert Merkley of Morrisburg. As the two men made a get- away in their English- car, Fred Ellegett. The |aWi gl type agement, t chased them in his cruiser, jor boys' champion. The girl is . CRA supervises two swimmin; 14-year-old June Fleming and | Dols in the €ity. A swimming they boy is Denny Humphries. | (eae under supervision of CRA | er The two young people received, | directorate, supervises |pRCNEC Are. UH, Feiurnec he their trophies from #he chair- | the pool's activities. caped in-his cruiser man of Beard of Parks Man- | Times-Gazette Fhoto ' ----p - i IN POOL OF BLOOD Residents found Pitt at 4:50 VIEWS am. in a pool of blood on fhe -{lawn of Parker Locke, He appar- ently had rolled several times on the lawn in efforts to rise. His wallet and empty revolver was found nearby. Neighbors said they heard a faint ery for help after the bar rage of shots. Silence followed and then there was the roar of the police cruiser as the men es- President out apparent - tension today. caped. The vehicle ripped up part Claude Jodoin of the Canadian| Thursday evening a group of of Locke's lawn. Labor Congress hopes to see/non-sirikers nearly filled to cap Earl Crober, a neighbor, said Prime Minister Diefenbaker| 2City Murdochville's 600 - seat Pitt was trying to stand up when Tuesday about the labor troubles theatre there as a dozen speakers he arrived, at Murdochvile, Que ated thel opinions 20d griev- SHOUTS ALARM Mr, Jodoin-was expected to em- 3 R 5 of ae pas Jodie He rolled over thre times and phasize union claims that non-| oper. Bedard, sya spokes- his wallet and keys fell from his Canadians have been involved in maz, declined fo comment on the ket," he- said. 'Ron was violence at the Quebec mining R00 strikers meeting but said he ardly able to talk. 1 saw three town and that this subjects them will await the results of an in-ipools" of blood. I stopped him o deportation by the federal gov- Jury repor $24 io have been, from moving and then: shouted ernment: ' {promised by Premier Duplessis.|an alarm." However Mr. Jodoin said the premier| A wave of anger swept through y ' promised "a full investigation" |the neighborhood when the story STARR'S Gaspe Strike Quebec Problem OTTAWA (CP) Minister Labor boat tried to keep the baby's problems of children in the 10. Michael Starr takes the view that hen the two men met in Quebec|was told, The town has a two- head above water. the Murdochville situation--a dis- puté between Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd., and the United Steel Workers of America (CLC)--is a matter for Quebec provincial authorities City Thursday. man police force. Film Scandal saad: Big Business or. doiefenbaker, possibly for 14s ANGELES (AP) -- Col- Walter Pidgeon, George Jesel, A lecting Hollywood scandal is a| Fredric March, Dane Clark and eae, the dows that as $100,000-a-year business, a defen-|Denise Darcel. rec Monday by two uglylqant in the criminal libel trial] Meade identified informer outbursts of Violence, was with: of Confidential and Whisper mag- Stella Shoeul as "one of the few azines has testified. ex-prostitutes 1 dealt with." He Fred Meade told the jury Fri-|identified two $500 cheques and day that the magazines paid Hol-|one for $550 paid to Mis Shoeul |lywood Research Incorporated|by Hollywood Research. 50,000 for checking and supply-| "She was ptolific," he said, [ing information for scandal stor- adding that her information con- lies from July, 1955, to February, cerned Dailey, Clark, March and | 1956. | Jessel, (dade and his ile, Min josie. | : Inquest Slated For Mine Victim {wood Research. Mrs. Meade is a Iniece of publisher Robert Har- TIMMINS (CP) -- Coroner Dr. J. B. McClinton says an inquest rison of Confidential and Whis/ into the death of Ronnie Blake- The minister and the head of the 1,000,000 - member congress the Murdochville situation Later Mr, Starr said he would on per. The final day of |third week brought developments: 1, Meade identified 1; inform- ers who were paid as much as the trial's these other few fine on OFF TO MARCH IN WARRIOR'S DAY PARADE years, and is st organizations of the continent ~Timas.(Asz1atta is the kind of Rhunta 1$1,000%y Hollywood Research for information, 2. Meade charged that {wood studios "ganged tried to frame us' INO OBSCENE MATTER 3. Writer Wiliam Bradford 'Huie testified that Harrison was |insistent upon deleting what he {considered obscene matter from {Huie's stories for Confidential. | Meade spent almost the entire day undergoing cross - examina- {tion and wil return to the stand {when the trial is resumed Mon- Holly- up and day a He testified that Hollywood Re- search went out of business last February because of newspaper| publicity about a state Senate in vestigation of Confidential this point. he said, Holywood moviemakers ied to frame us." elaborate. | {13 STARS | | Meade said the 10 informers proyided information about AVa| Gardner, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Edward G. Robinson, | John Jacob Astor, Donald O'Con Minkay Raonav. Dan Nailay | as nov and the coroner | vertical He did not | ¢ | imore, 15, one of two youths who fell into an abandoned mine shaft Thursday, will be held "as soon as I receive a copy of a mine inspection report." Officials said Friday the re- port, based on an investigation to be made by mines inspector Robert Lockhart, will be sent to {Mines Minister Kelly of Ontario within 10 days Ronnie was one of five youths who apparently crawled within a fenced area over a ,1400 - foot miné shaft Thursday. They were throwing stones down the shaft when a platform over the shaft"s opening gave way, sending Ronnie and Bonar Scholes, 16, lator rescued, tum- bling down the shaft W. A. Bawden, chief mines in spector with 'he Ontario depart ment of mines, said in Toronto hat 'the law requires that un- derground openings be fenced and kept fenced." FIND TWISTED BODY After 20 hours of perilous dig- ging, Blakemore's twisted body was hauled out of the shaft, on Hollinger Gold Mines Limited neanarty

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