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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising .. RA 3-3492 All other calls ......... RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Saturday. Sunny today. Fog tonight, cloudy A As Second Class Mell rig Mgr Bi gy Rion OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1957 Price Net Over § Cents Por Copy TWENTY-FOUR PAGES VOL. 86--NO. 255 ' Probe Into Bribe Charges Is Ordered . VICTORIA (CP)--A royal com- # j mission investigation into charges of bribery made against a former British Columbia for- ests minister was ordered by the provincial government Thurday. © Chief Justice Gordon Sloan was instructed by Premier Bennett to | inquire into charges of corruption © against Robert E. Sommers, member of the Social Credit cab- inet unfil February, 1956. The chief justice said in an in- terview his terms of refuience | restrict him from making any recommendation to the govern- ment, "This is just a fact - finding commission and the government will have to decide what the next steps are." His powers allow him fo sub- poena any witness he wishes. Chief Jutice Sloan is asked to find out whether a number of lumber companiés paid or trans-| ferred 'money or other prop- erty" to Mr. Sommers as consid- eration for leing issued "forest management licences. F ores t management licences are granted in perpetuity to log- ging companies on the condition they replant the land to assure a sustained timber fie'd. Appointment of the commis. tha A KISS AFTER 31 YEARS OF SEPARATION After 31 years of separation, | Greek Catholic priest for 10 | at Malton airport. Mrs. Mazur, Nicholas Mazur, 746 Albert | years and two granddaughters, | however, had difficulty recog- street," was re-united with his | Beata 9, and Mariana, 8, Mr. | nizing her husband. Mr. Mazur wife Maria in Oshawa. Mrs. | Mazur attempted to bring his | came to Canada in 1927, He has Mazur arrived in Oshawa this | wife to Canada for 11 years. | been employed at !luplate of week from Komloska, Zemp- | Mrs. Mazur could not obtain an | Canada, Ltd. for 30 years. He Hungary. Other members' | exit Seri from Hungary. | saw his wife for the last time Here Mr. Mazur greets his wife, when leaving Hungary. whom he recognized instantly | --Daily Times Photo dismissal of a slander suit w Mr. Sommers Vancouver 'awyer David Sturdy in December, 1955. Mutilates Negro (Gets 20 Years BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)--A 131-year-old construction worker was convicted Thursday of may- hem in the Ku Klux Klan castra- tion of 'a Ne; man and was {sentenced £0.20 years. on len, of the family to arrive soon are | Mr. Mazur's son Bela, 39, a Mi | LY Miss Supertest ma. sia Breaks | BOSTON (AP) -- If you'd like to know in three words what next winter's weather will be, the 166th consecutive annual edition of The O Th racer from Oxtongue on they tri; : ecord SR King gave him the maximum | prison sentence provided by Ala- bama law. Pritchett was one of six de- |fendants charged in the mutila- tion of Judge Aaron, 38, last |Sept. 2. The six were indicted. Say Police Head 'Not Church-Goer i] Recognizing possible confu- sion on the part of the reader, the almanac explains the | winter will be "a real hum- dinger." or. | Ct he' measured Kilometre {for kelocking the boat was located, Taking advantage of almost|2t about the middle--was a little perfect 'weather conditions, the (00 Calm.on the approach and a| Canadian-owned craft "skimmed| Pit Tough on the finish. the meAsuIES Ho uitietie FIRST YEAR wice Ting the ol A flight lieutenant in the Sec- of hse ot ford Miss Bu. ond World War, Asbury has been 0 abou riving, speedbodis professionally m.p.h. and at' about a. mph | since 1948. He did not start han- on the retyrn run ag a lig (dling Miss Supertest until this The boat. is owned by James G.! Thompson' of London, Ont. She 1950 at Seattle by Slo-Mo-Shun was driven by Arthur C. Asbury, /IV, ewned by the late Stanley year. The previous mark was set in | | up | structive Hallowe'ens in recent | Tariffs sioner came three days after ; hich | £75 launched against' © fo wrecked by pranksters. Police say that Hepburn's car was pushed out of its.parking place n his yard, shoved. along Gor- don street to Vicioria street where it was Tamed against a telephone pole. Then, not satis- WHITBY TODAY is cleaning after one of the most de- years. Listed among the mali- cious damage was this car, owned by Jack Hepburn, Gor- don street, which was totally USE HOSE, DRIVE 0 MOB OF TEEN-AG Hurl Pumpkins At Firemen Hallowe'en was an orderly affair in Oshawa. Thursday night, but 'hooli gan mobs held sway in' other parts of Ontario County for brief periods as windows were smashed, signs torn down and priv- = ies dragged to the main streets. : A teen-age mob of 30 Perry volunteer firemen and turned on fire hy== tossed pumpkins at Port. 1 drants before being dispersed by tons of water from fire hose. Another teen-age mob beat up a night watch man at a new bridge in Ajax. The watchman was" taken to hospital but later released. FH A dynamite blast was set off behind the Gor= don House in Pickering Vi no reported injuries. llage, but. there were (Please turn to Page Two for other district Hallowe'en stories.) : HALLOWE'EN HI-JINKS Hoodlum s Hurt Night Watchman AJAX (Times - Gazette, Staff Reporter) -- A night watchman employed by Bailey Construction Ltd. "on the new bridge in Ajax was roughed up by a gang of Hallowe'en h ums at 10 p.m. Thursday night. (Please turn to pages two and three for reports on Hal lowe'en activities in Oshawa and district | fied with this damage, 'nearly every window in vehicle was smashed out with 'rocks. PC Jim Barter, of the hithy Police Department is investi complaints poured in. Most com plaints. were minor. ® A car window was smashed at Kingscourt and an. other pushed into the side of a | gating, : | "Photo by Robertson, Whitby. # Po extile PETERBOROUGH (CP)-City SEIGNIORY CLUB, Que. (CP) council Thursday voted unani- Textile manufacturers here today were told that swift- moving events are calculated to bring about a reappraisal of the whole position of the primary textile industry of Canada. G. H. Dobbie of Galt, president of the Canadian Woollen and Knit Goods Manufacturers Asso- General Roberts to take action on the disagreement within the police commission regarding the royal commission. report on the city police force. John A. Dewart and the two other members of the police com- VANCOUVER (CP) -- With a batge "except it be upon extra. Vancouver baseball team fined ordinary ion," on 1ty for playing on Sunday and a New a five-shilling fine, and forbids Westminster police commissioner hunting. charged for failing. to 80 10] (City counsel Russ Baker says church, British Columbians are this ancient act is the ry asking exactly what is permitted | stumbling block in moves to give on the Sabbath. more freedom on Sundays. Its Lawyers say it depends#®here| prohibitions cover all forms of Teamsters Defy Cleanup Order you live. Residents of Vancouver |"wordly labor, business or Island are governed only by i 36-year-old professional speed-!Sayres. by the textile industry and three iation, said "the situation faced mission, Judge John de N. Ken- 'nedy and Magistrate W. R. Philp, were €limaxed Tuesday when the mayor walked out of a meeting. Before walking out the mayor \tabled several resolutions includ- ing recommendations that events that have taken place within the last year will have the most profound effect on our fu- ture." Mr. Dobbie spoke at the closing hi of the iation's .con- ference. Text of his address was|duty as deputy police chief and | d to the press in advance|that WASHINGTON (AP)--~The In-do amy good in averting the|federal Lord's Day Act, but those| 1; cannot be r led by the r of delivery. OROUGH PROBE, lice Inquiry Appeal Planned mously to appeal to Attorney- i The differencés between Mayor § 1, W. A. Clarke be relieved of § The commission consider the " . i PORT PERRY (staff) -- A teenage mob of approximately 30 raided the Port Perry fire hall at 11 p.m. Thursday night. Fire Chief Guy" Raines said that the mob turned on 12 fire hydrants. "It .was like a river running down Queen sireet," he said, Firemen H ar vey Mahaffey, Howdrd "Gibson, Merv Denure and Len Leahy were called to turn off the hydrants. At the fire hall the youths let Turn On Hydrants At Port Perry wth oat a chun, 2 The Bremen the mob and the trou mf TT w id released, | PoC, " 8 ly warded a ternational Brotherhood of Team-|threatened ouster of his union|living on the mainland are €ov-\pigyincial legislature because au- has. decided to disregard a from the federation. lered by a !625 English Sunday | thority in all matters of Sunday| The three events he singled out p order from the AFL-CIO| Beck met with reporters after Observance Act as well. {observances now is vested .in|were: executive Suhel. and instead the teamsters executive board de-| The old Euglish statute, paste) Partiament. |" Publication of the pr v! will appeal fhe matter to the cided unanimously against doingjin the reign of Charles N01 The act does not apply to Van- i -- AFL-CIO convention next month.| anything about the AFL-CIO cor: | adopted by B. C.'s colonial legis-| couyer i oe avy Ha a. | SOPOT of he TOY missin all over the four corners and in : 'Defiance of the mandate to| ruption charges against its lead-|lature 99 Years ago, fosvids on (part of the crown colony in 1858. [publication of the report on the | Tk ' Id ; change its upper echelons pointed ers. | wide ng ih Rowing forth UP TO PARLIAMENT textile industry by the Canadian ; es ea to almost certain expulsion of the| The AFL-CIO cil hy bear ne i ffice of the National Industrial|chief and deputy chief. . . . KELSO ROBERTS | teamsters by the full AF! L-CIO | pended the 1,500,000-member un. wares." which can result in for-| Mr. Baker said. permissive Gonterence jr gen Wodinion| The mayor sald he did not % { 900, {feiture of the goods. clauses in the federal Lord's Day | ¢" ot 0 0s oot to ask| question the legal position of the He added it would be the duty| Throws Peop 1) 1 Ia, | matter of hiring a replacement {for chief John Naples, The mayor said in a statement Thursday it was evident his opin- ion was not shared by the other | commissioners "who are appar- ently satisfied with the present the air out of the tires of the : firemen's privgte cars. Pumpkins turned over. ) taken from the e bins of [were thrown at the firemen. ~ [Fr SOI 0 Shonage: promt 14 1 {IMPORTANCE SHOWN cannot be telephone booths, conventio _ I0DE CABIN BURNS = used WHITBY -- The' Alanis hii cabin of the Whitby IODE sum- n which opens Dec. 5 in}j : i | City. ou until it ously officials a en It also bans travel by boat or Act, which , allow Sunday sport the tariff board to conduct a cam:| two other members who claim nt of the present police commission er a Samp was | an to the Retiring teamsters president/the federation was expected to| : [ing origin other activities i a, plete review of Canadian textile action can be taken hless a lo sit as a Judicial body Jo hear { of Ww k Thursday sight. All rters Thurs- i - | n ¥ 1 4 | Police Act charge is laid against{the charges and said he fe! is) hu ; Dave Beck told reporters become expulsion at the AFL-| Mf ackin ac Bridge |ecome_ operative Jil Paria and clothing tariffs. [either Clarke or Naples. would be useless. or at the if T thought" the appeal would, pected to_become Expulsion at| ned Officially [statute. sy L -- e AFL-CIO convention. | Ope a rep N (AP) (sioner A, W. Mark of New West- Gaillard | truckers ey Hh | Michigan today opens the newest Minster says he will fight a s {and costliest of the world's | Reshamt of thet oh I te 18 ers -- including president-elect : " altend church last Sund H It is the Mackinac Bridge, and 2% Sunday. He it Joins Michigan's two peninsulas, said is wife im ill that day. for the first time since the gla- e faces a 70-cent fine under 3 ru oestigating. commitiee. an d|cise himself in the duties of plet Premier. Federal district Judge F. Dick-|girofches five miles across the and true religion hen Bt inson Letts last week temporarily Straits of Mackinac which link privately." Lawyer 'Miles Not- Enjoined Hoffa from taking over|Lakes Michigan and Huron. It tingham said he will seek dis- PARIS (Reuters) -- Youthful the union's presidency, Letts de-|7,400-foot suspension span dwarfs missal because it Felix Gaillard, 37-year-old fi- cided the convention whichiany other and the towers {lial proved that Mr. Mark failed to nance minister in the outgoing | es-Maunoury, appeared to) have an outside chance today of g France's next premier ~24th since the war. pvernment since the National Assembly voted down | Bourges-Maunoury Sept. 30, he; won ises of tentative sup-| nt parties--the Social-| Conservatives and the| e-of-the-road Radical A mide b er. Gaillard now which the three bickering parties can agree. If he meets this test, nd, he will go before the Na- {equipment in the cabin was: : ' oT ought" the tre as | day "I'd certainly be an optimist CIO from the federation was ex- started ; | f Meanwhile, police Beck said that if necessary, the| ST. IGNACE, Mich. charge laid i Beck and other teamster lead. 21d COSC CF won- Char Aras by James Hoffa--have been accused) y e tof misconduct and misuse of un- : lion funds by the Senate rackets is} age. the, old act. for "failing to exer- $100,000,000 foremment of Premier Maurice The fourth man to attempt fof sday night from three] oe Popular Republicans. must put together a program on as he hopes fo during the week- - his 38th birthday, for a 'vote of tu cipal difficulty is that rincipal difficulty is tha Gaillard is the author of an aus- terity program which' angered the rerful farmers union and aulted in a "de facto" devalu- ation of the franc. He also is dentified with the Bourges-Maun- oury ernment's deeision - to give erin limited independ- enee--the issue which brought down the last government. tional Assembly next Tuesday. picked Hoffa was stacked in his favor. Istoreys--above the straits. support it reach up 552 feet--47 attend to his devotions at home. 8/to the total economy of a nation! Mr. Dobbie said the royal "i Starr Sa issi report pointed out that "our industry represents a con-| tribution of no small importance in which , . , manufacturing must! play an increasingly important: art." He said the NICB report, care-| ' | fully documerited and Wholly ime(ter Starr said Thursday that| partial, showed the industry, by within a few days Tilbury, Ont.,| any standards to be "efficient,| will be declared a surplus labor| forward looking and by no means area; Unemployed workers there, over-expanded in relation to the with job prespects elsewhere, market it should have the: priv- would be eligible for financial aid ilege of serving." in moving.: LATE NEWS FLASHES Politics Should Not Syria Won't Press For Action UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (CP) -- The Ulx General Assem- bly ended its Middle East debate today after Syria agreed jt will not press for action at this time. Negro Lawyer's Home Blasted BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) -- A dynamite blast early today damaged the home of a Negro lawyer who is attempting to open Bessemer's two public parks to Negroes. Windows of the home of David Hood, Jr., were shattered. Hood said some of the glass fell on him as he slept on a living room couch with a loaded rifle nearby. [Ex-Con Tavern Owner Killed CHICAGO (AP) -- An ex-convict tavern owner, who four months ago fatally shot one of three men who attempted to assassinate him, was slain in a burst of machine-gun and shotgun blasts early todav | | | OTTAWA (CP) -- Hon. James * | Sinclair says federal old age pen- {sions should Ybe removed from | "the . political Yarena" and in fu-| ture be adjusfed automatically, The former Liberal fisheries minister safd iA the Commons Thursday night that pension in- creases, instead of being used as "a bribe to the electorate" should be tied to rises in living costs. He suggested that if this were| members of other opposition par- done, the present upward trend in prices would mean an auto: matic annual increase of three! costs have reduced the purchas- per cent. Mr. Sinclair spoke on a resolu-| {tion preliminary to government {legislation to increase the federal {old age security pensions, paid to|pension for a couple--$90 from Valley) suggested that restric- all 70 and over, by $9 a month|their savings and $55 a month{tions on absences from Can It would be on top of alfor each in government pensions, should be to $55 $6 increase to $46 enactdd by the Enter In Pensions | fora the June 10 election. He spoke after Hon. Marler (L--Montreal St. Antoine- George for a couple, would be $6 a year. ing out what he said was their| month to. restore the purchasing election promise to gear future| power. they had when $40 a month| Pelisicn Increnses to living costs! was established in 1949. | and national productivity, | rm lo Mr. Sinclair's suggestion was! Soshal credit Youder Law Sug- echoed in varying degrees by|®°® abroad escalator ties. The debate continues today.|' Mgher costs of living. Mr. Sinclair said rising living| | ler asked Health Minister Mon- i . iong/teith to say Row the government ing power of current pensions| y governmen {been out of work since the Chateco| NAACP failed to file its report|y {Steel Products Co. went bank- | with the city clerk by Thursday's ansed years ago. {proposes to finance the higher pl ¢ He suggested a "modest" $200 pensions. # month as the basic minimum| 'A. B. Patterson (SC -- Fraser He suggested that dn automa for pensioners. vs Labor Surplus In Area {| OTTAWA (CP) -- Labor Minis-| Tilbury, between Windsor and (dustry went out of business. | 'surplus labor areas. | ployment insurance officers. ' ino interference with people wish {former Liberal government be-|tic cost-of-living increase, on the ing fo move about in search o {basis of a $200 monthly income work. it was CCF Leader Coldwell said fed-|that in any locality the supply of Westmount) accused the Progres- eral old age pensions should be Workers was going to remain fa |sive Conservatives of not carry- increased gradually to $75 a it excess of jobs available, | {would sooner have things open up clause here [to tie old age security legislation home" federal government' a, Both Mr. Sinclair and Mr, Mar-|labor area. {indication that many of the work- ada ers want to move away and "we removed: altogether haye | 7 ' | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Labor leader Walter Reuther has ac- cused President ' Eisenhower of advocating an attitude which would throw persons. out of work. Reuther, president of the Auto Workers Union and vice-presi- dent of the AFL - CIO, said Eisenhower suggested Wednes- day that the public buy less as a way to combat riges in the cost of living. The union leader said a don't Chatham, was a big steel fabri- cating town until ®its major in- Mr. Starr' said that Windsor, | Ont., Springhill and New Glasgow more unemployment. in Nova Scotia, and St. Ste, hen, Reuther told the. convention of N.B., have also been: declared|ihe AFL-CIO industrial union de- t George Hahn (SC--New West- partmen that og. have a minster) had asked him to com- shortage eof customers." Beri aes aeo ha nl io out dusted wot advised to stay in their Home ltr wil hare Pr he communities until directed eS ay sumetiig some other labor field by unem- purchasing . 'power and create more business is wrong Mr. Starr said there should be Arrest Of Naacp Official Ordered LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (AP)-- City council Thursday night or- dered the ariest of all officers of However, if apparent I hen transportation aid 'would be pro vided. Tilbury (CP) -- Mayor Philip Courey said Thursday night "We Advancement of Colored People and keep, our own boys|in the city. than receive aid from the] The council acted under pro- § a surplus| visions of a new ordinance which requires certain organizations to on demand their records. said about 300 of| make public Mayor Courey of 3,100] confidential the town's population |deadline said there is no| Mrs. L, C. Bates, state presi- dent, and Rev. J. C. Crenchaw, resident of .the Little Rock chap- hopes the plant will-bé re.|ter, are the only known officers nf the NAACP in Arkansas, rupt However, he opened." {buy campaign could only 'create the National® Association for the! by ran § An observer said that the ¢2 went. up in such a flash 13 kerosene must have been thrown on it, ' a The cabin which was on Arthur Holliday's farm in Whitby, i: been re:lined in the There was no insurance on cabin which is near Pickering. | STRATFORD (CP) -- Three loud explosions rocked residents of this city Thursday night. Po- lice believe . the Hallowe'en ex- plosions - were ' caused by home- made bombs. . The gasoline tank of a car was ripped open by the blast of one bomb, a lawn torn up with an- other, and the window of a house broken 150 feet from a third blast. The fire department was called out to investigate one explosion. Police. said today the bombs are dangerous and warned residents not to pick them up if any are uncovered. Two bombs were set off in nearby St. Mary's but no damage was done. . TORONTO (CP) -- Carl Millett, 118, of Lloydtown, 25 miles north of Toronto, was shot in the leg Thursday night in a Hallowe'en incident. Police said Aubrey Egan, 72, fired five or six warning shots to scare away a group of youths who were hurling rocks at his Lloydtown home. In another Lloydtown incident, an old partly-filled gasoline tank was placed in the middle of the illage's main street and ignited. The blast sent flames about 20 {feet in the air. | HALIFAX (CP) -- Police say {Thursday night's Hallowe'en fel. | ebration was 'te most destrdct- ive in years. |