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TIMES-GAZETTE TELEPHONE NUMBERS Classified Advertising RA 38-2492 All other calls . .. RA 3-3474 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle . WEATHER REPORT Thlindershowers, ending to- _ night. Cloudy, sunny intervals Sunday. VOL. 87--NO. 156 Price Not Over 7 Cents Per Copy OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1958 Authorized As Second Class Mail Post Office Department, Ottawa EIGHTEEN PAGES me 43 HURT AS TRAINS empty passenger train, pulled by a steam locomotive, right, Forty-three persons were in- jured when these two trains crashed head-on in a southeast ONE ENGINE FAILS TCA PLANE Traffic Deaths Mystery Pilot Ein Dea US. Weekend Tracked Down on. [fee teno | LONDON (AP)--A farmer who|letter to the British foreign office fic deaths zoomed upward along was discharged from the RAF for|and the press. . |United States highways today. mental instability nas admitted] The letter as made public The. National Safety Council, |writing a letter saying a United|seemed to come from a U.S. air-(fearing a toll of record propor- | States pilot would drop an atomic/man who planned to drop anitions, issued a fresh appeal to bomb off the coast of England. |atomic bomb in the Nore Sea drivers to slam on the brakes Soviet Em-|near Britain and then fly on to|during the remainder of the 1 a Jetter hi Be vie and Russia to seek asylum. Maybe al three-day Independence Day ob- | propaganda wheels spinning from few people would be killed but|servance. Washington to Moscow even Russia's peace campaign would| The NSC has forecast a record [though it had been labelled a|8et some support, the published high of 410 deaths during the 78- : Inoax. |letter said. {hour period. But as the half-way 3 ib imghig godin DR ugg a amet | A small-town British reporter BRITISH UNEASINESS MErk Erproached, the weekend CRASH NEAR LONDON | and an oncoming suburban | last December's big Lewisham SHOT THROUGH HEAD | Police Seek Clues ~ In Chief's Death TORONTO (CP)--Police today still sought clues to the shooting death of Chief Constable John (Jock) Chisholm, 62, head of Metropolitan Toronto police, Chief Chisholm was found at noon Friday, slumped behind the wheel of a police car in west-end High Park, He had been shot through the head with his own .38-calibre revolver. Dr. Smirle Lawson, Ontario's chief supervi- sory coroner, termed the incident "most certainly suicide." Senior police officials searched through Chief Chisholm's effects and his office Friday without a note or any reason for . the suicide. They said he had mailed a registered letter to his sister but it had not yet been de- Hvered Meanwhile, Magistrate C. ©. Bick, chairman of the metropoli- tan police commission, said a special commission meeting will be called, possibly today. Four deputy police chiefs would carry| CHIEF JOHN CHISHOLM on Chief Chisholm's duties. 'B. B "Tove, said he advised HAD BEEN IN PAIN {Chief Chisholm six weeks ago to Dr. Lawson said the chief had |either retire or take an extended been suffering from bursitis--an|leave of absence because of his inflammation of the joints--and nerves but denied the chief had had been in severe pain for about any physical illness. six months. Colleagues said the| Constable Cecil Cooper, the chief had referred frequently to chief's receptionist, said he was _ day morning. | IS SAFE 71 Passengers Aboard Airliner LONDON (CP)--A TransCan- | dren's zoos, amusement parks ada Air es Super Constellation and picnic grounds. made a perfect landing today at| Merritt said he was running out London Airport after being es-|of gas Thursday on a return corted on the last leg of a flight |flight from Homestead, Fla. when from Montreal with one of its he spotted the concrete strip. He four engines out. leh Tore. thay got his Figen The airliner, with 71 persons|gined plane down when he was aboard, reported it had feathered surrounded by soldiers, one engine while about 600 miles| 'The army men pulled me from London. {from my plane," * Merritt said. "They were very excited and told The RAF sent out an escort | 1 had landed on some mis- plane -- routine procedure when giles which were underground. airliners near Britain's coast re-| hey said I could have blown my- port trouble--and foilowed the self and the whole island out of et ania | Oy Tor so dos «| erfitt was question a A TCA spokesman here sffid|length by army security officers the RAF escort was 'perfectly but finally released. normal precaution." | At first officers said he would There never was any indication |have to wait until Monday before that the plane was in danger, he he could get the plane off the Isaid. launching area. They said it {would be a ticklish job and re- z DETROM ak : Soigiers quite a crane to lift the craft to uarding the e missile base a safe spot. where Henry Merritt made an LET HIM FLY OFF emergency landing told him he | Friday the orders were changed wag fuck he Sant Blow Je area and Merritt was told he was free to bits en he plop, lown onto fly off. the concrete bedding above a| He got in the ship, gunned the missile storehouse. motor and started. But he no They said the 37-year-old pilot | more than got off the concrete Questioned Again TORONTO (CP)--Trans-Canada areas to give them the benefit of Pipe Line Limited was to be|the gas. questioned again today by the Charles S. Coates, of Toronto, Borden commission on energy on president of Trans-Canada, out- its plans to-export natural gas to|lined before the commission Fri- the United States. day his ideas on how the mush- aii , seeking "ooming Canadian natural gas in- _-- feline aL: Sesking dustry should be regulated. eral permission to export gas to the midwest U.S., is faced with! Mr. Coates suggested two the prospect of proving it can bodies--one to set policy and the supply Canadian as well as other to regulate prices and ex- American customers. |port. The *"policy-recommending The Borden commission, 0ard" would be similar to a na- headed by Toronto lawyer-indus- tional energy board suggested re- trialist Henry Borden, cannot is-| cently by Northern Affairs Minis- stie a permit but its recommenda- fer Fantiion, toad tipns will probably affect the gov-| _ ~ Ir. Coates indicated Trans- ment decision. Canada soon intends to buy the e ; 4 Northern Ontario section of the A. R. Crozier, chairman of the natural gas pipeline under con- Ontario fuel board, told the com- ¢ryction between Alberta and mission Friday Trans - Canada Eastern Canada. should no, be aliowed to pipe any: «penance Trans - Canada has of its present reserves to the U.S. n,,6 markets available than at unless it is "abundantly clear gpst anticipated, there will come that Canadian market require- , time soon when Trans-Canada ments are first met at the lowest (wil purchase from Northern On- possible price tario Pipe Line Crown Corpora- Mr. Crozier also said the fuel tion that section of the line," he board has been told by *'some said. Ontario distributors" that Trans The federal and Ontario gov- Canada will not enter into con- eraments formed the Crown cor- tracts "for additional supplies of poration to construct the 677-mile gas at vresent zone rates until section from the Manitoba the matter of export to the U.S. Ontario Lorder to Kapuskasing, is determined." |Ont. The area itself has produced 1 CREASE RATES Imore customers than at first esti- COULD INCREASE RATES ed: He said it seems "only reason- \ able to assume that the export of | could have blasted out of the De-|when he hit a hidden ditch and troit River the whole of Belle Is-|flipped over. land where the launching site is| The plane was a total loss. located, side-by-side with chil-l Merritt only skinned. his knee. Police Guard WINDSOR (CP)---Police today Chief guarded the wife of an escaped convict [ne wiki." s 02 ful 5 He saia he believes that unless Detectives kept a vigil through- Saunders is arrested he may at out the night, awaiting a phone tempt to murder his wife and her |rall, a knock at the door or other fiance. "The warden at Kingston evidence of the appearance of penitentiary called me on the tel Bruce Saunders, 34, of Windsor. ephone this morning and ine "He'll try and kill her," said|formed me that Saunders had Mrs. Elizabeth Couvillion, mother been in a highly frustrated con- of Saunders' wife, Helen, said on|dition since his wife and her boy learning her son-in-law had es- (friend visited him.' caped. Least worried = but obviously Saunders climbed through a|prepared was the man who last |skylight at Kingston penitentiary arrested him. | Thursday night and scaied a 30-| Sgt.- Doug Morris commented: foot wall with a rope and hook.|"If he comes here he takes his d ch, Fm on my guard." Police said Mrs. Saunders was asleep and not available for inter- views. Where she was was not indicated. Police were stationed Police believe 8 s will at- tempt to settle a love triangle| and possibly settle a score with] a policeman who captured him a vear ago. They were told by pen-| itentiary officials Saunders had at all key points where the es- heen brooding ever since his wife |capee might appear. They inter- and her prospective husband. had |viewed all questioners. |asked him on a visit to Kingston, Her boy friend was believed [to give his wife a. divorce. {with police, probably for identifi "He is a highly dangerous and cation purposes as well as pro- ennaon man," Windsor Police tection. Over St TORONTO (CP)--The third On- tario cabinet minister to quit over be [ownership of Northern Ontario [Natural Gas Company stock, |Lands and Forests Minister Clare |Mapledoram has resigned. | "As Premier Frost announced this Friday, Attorney - General Roberts simultaneously declared that charges will be laid against : [company officials in connection with transactions in its shares. Mr. Roberts said charges will be laid against the company, its president and vice-president for violations of the Ontario Securi- ties Act and the Ontario Corpora- tions Act. C. F. H. Carson was named as Crown prosecutor. The president of the company, formed in 1954 to distribute West- ern Canada natural gas to North- ern Ontario communities, is Ralph K. Farris of Vancouver. Executive vice - president is C, Spencer Clark of Seattle. | OUT OF EVIDENCE | [Friday tracked down the mysteri-| This fitted in both with Soviet toll was running far ahead of es- u a : gl. TH t t 1 wa - 4 released by the embassy. He was British uneasiness over Wavingli Tie Woulting iol sls the Il 'YS gains William Stanley Whales, 34, an|American nuclear weapons based| x > period. wich who hadn't been near athe U.S. state departmment for" ..; mm : warplane for almost a year. [saying the letter appeared to be Unless there is a definite im In a written confession, Whales|a Soviet forgery. U.S. is headed for a new three- P ible accused the Russians of altering| The letter was postmarked last| 3.0" jiu 4th weekend record," sions. The Soviet Embassy had|northeast of London, ident. HAMILTON (CP) -- The possi-\no immediate comment. | Reporter Stuart Weston with The previous three-day week- Company of Canada has been|attention for his grievances| Ipswich cracked the mystery. Hel oc 407 deaths in 1955. A four- suggested by officials of thelagainst the RAF but the Soviet|figured the letter writer was day holiday period claimed a reec- yx " 2 |(CLC) after mediation efforts|ances before giving copies of the American. Gwyn Thomas of The Star and, bo 400 "in o contract dispute. said they received calls from the| . J. 1 L] * | PHANTOM SPOTS chief about 9:30. a.m. promising of a conciliation board dealing ring red 5 ut Chief Chisholm's body was diation efforts Friday after POLICE DUMMY found by a policeman patrolling [closed session with union and ° i i i i | State highway police had an recognize the chief in plain] The company refused to budge Cer i £ Of Beirut : y clothes and two detectives, pa-/from its hold - the - line position Ir idea for stretching manpower identification. Police immediately nal demands, stated when nego- out i : i 4 day. : iy SU { in the centre of Beirut early cussion was whether Lebanon . barricaded all roads to the area tiations began five months ago. |today around the government of-|again should try to take her case They put a mannequin in to pass until it was decided the. i | . parked it by the road and Ghiel was a suicide Victim. trict No. 6 director, said after the The gun battle ended a few In Cairo, a United Arab Re.| laid an imitation seed meas- meeting: hours' lu'l in heavy firing be- » public spokesman was quoted to- his Chief Chisholm was due to re-|that this company would take the| forces. Iki i retaliation for Lebanon's expul- Checking the spot later, tire in August, 1960, on a $5,000- kind of stand that would Juree Sniping from rebel fighters on sion of six DAR diplomats and ey found this : | y jeld: * are Born in Dundee, Scotland, he before they would even try to of the centre of the city mingled wincseld: | cops. are came to Canada in 1920 and |deal with us." The pro-Western Lebanese gov-| dummies like this one, As the morning gun battle ernment Friday ordered the| year. . | i In January, 1957, he became Ph 11 Cl k a special meeting in the palace|48 hours on charges of inciting . chief constable of the new Metro- Y 1S ar to discuss the report of the the Lebanese to revolt and pay- Po ice top {bracing the city and its 12 sub- in Lebanon. | It was the first such action - {urbs, Associates said he had not Pulled Out Of | The report dia s.iot back the against UAR diplomats although Iver, 3 new | government claim of massive in-|Lebanon has been accusing the uties. { Survivors include his wife and Republic in the long revolt. partially manning the eight-week 12-year-old boy who took his fath- 3 a A | Informed sources said the rebelion. er's car and drove it 200 miles i Kingston. Funeral services are to| Kingston (CP) -- Phyllis Clark, |-- | be held here Monday with burial 95. year - old Kingston stenogra.| stopped by a police patrol at Wardsville, near Chatham, and tario today less than nine hours] after she. attempted a 30-mile| Police said the boy's father, " whose identity they did not dis- the New York state mainland, to i Kingston. risoners the car missing early Friday " . |from this community, 20 miles around 7:15 a.m., a mile off | Horseshoe Island and about seven| HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- U.S.| U.S. Ambassador Earl E. T.| The boy left with $1 and a full | ; 4 k of gas. The car was undam- [ In Car Crash water and heavy waves kept her |day for another effort to win re-|tions were underway but refused Deo Bo {at a standstill for more than an|lease of 45 North Americans kid-|to give details or say what Wol- father and child were kill {into the channel between Wolfe| Wollam returned to the U.S.| The released Canadian is Ed- were killed early |; land and Simcoe Island, two big|Navy base on Guantanamo Bay|ward Cannon, 53, of Cornwall, when two cars with members of front, |ter reporting to the American Harold Kristjanson of Geraldton, a Detroit family bound for a fu-| The 120-pound swimmer was|Embassy here on his first ven- Ont., an engineer seized a week 4 a feat of Jim Edmunds, first per-/dom for rebel captives. {mine project they were working fall ang tumbled down a 200-foot son to swim the eastern end of| The diplomat brought back|on, and Richard Sargent, a sugar emban 27 hours. dian Wednesday after his first ne-| Meanwhile, rebel sources in Ha- The victims were George Miss Clark, a former Toronto|gotiations with rebel Raul Castro. |vana predicted that Fidel Castro Griggs, Sr.; 63, and his five-year- day night accompanied by her of rebels trying to overthrow forts to overthrow Batista. {old granddaughter Melodie Griggs coach Grant Rutherford, in a|President Fulgencio Batista, was| A new offensive might oH . : boat. The boat was to set a|release the other 43 Americans|fifth anniversary July 26 of Cas- Police said the first car appar- i -- i 7 . y i ri ently missed a sharp bend at the course to avoid treacherous cur-{and two Canadians he was hold-|tro's movement. His guerrilla top of the New Sarum Hill and open 1a: p 2 crashed through the guard rail open axe, ent wrong. years old, behind, also missed the turn and {tumbled down the embankment |first car. It took more than two hours to pry the two victims from " | ti . ous "W"" who signed the letter pan - the - bomb campaigns and| imates unemployed farm worker at Ips-|there. Moscow radio denounced three-day Memorial Day holiday Stelco Seen provement on traffic safety, the the meaning of his letter by omis-| Saturday at Ipswich, 68 miles oq Ned H. Dearborn, NSC pres- bility of a strike against the Steel] Whales said he wrote it to gain|the British Press Association at|onq toll for a July 4th observance Two reporters United Steelworkers of America|Embassy deleted those griev-|someone with a grievance, not*an| 4 491 in 1950. Harry Allen of The Telegram, ; Judge H. J. Donley, chairman a good story later in the day. [With the dispute, abandoned me-| a the rain-soaked park. He did not company representatives. | RALEIGH, N. C. (AP)-- trolling banks in the area, made after the union halved its origi| BEIRUT (CP) -- Firing broke main topic of today's cabinet dis.| 0" the crowded highways Fri- and reporters were not allow Larry Sefton, the union's dis-|fices and presidential palace. |before the Security Council, uniform in a patrol. gar, urement tape across the high- N TO RETIRE * secur 800! It is a pretty tragic situation|tween insurgents and ty day as saying there will be no J 7 5 " ied 8 ; nd iow they found this note on the a-year pension their people to a strike situation| rooftops which command a vie an E ian teacher. [with burst of machine-gun fire, i uo " joined the Toronto force the same 4 Jithi Signed, "The Phantom. raged, the cabinet was called to|seven out of the country within politan police department, em- |United Nations observer groups|ing money to foment revolution. been happy with these : A L k 0 t LJ] {terference by the United Arab republic of inciting, arming and! SMITHVILLE, Ont. (CP) -- A three sons, including Kenneth of d e n ario -- across southern Ontario, was ] her, was pulled out of Lake On-| F p: p of Lake On | Ties or Release returned to his parents, swim from Grenadier Island, off close, reported both the boy and She was taken from the water : southwest of St, Catharines. miles southeast of Kingston. Cold Consul Park Wollam p-epared to- Smith said delicate new negotia- ta aged in the escapade. ST. THOMAS (CP)--A grand-|hour after she attempted to get|napped by Cuban rebels. {lam had reported to him. |'oday and nine others injured islands off the Kingston water-|in eastern Cuba Friday night af-|Ont. The Canadians still held are neral crashed through a guard attempting to duplicate the 1956 ture into the jungles to seek free-|ago with Cannon from a copper kment of the Catfish Creek Lake Ontario. He did it in about|{four Americans and one Cana-|mill executive from Toronto. Valley, six miles east of here. telephone operator, started Fri-|Raul's brother Fidel, the leader might be about to launch new ef- | both of Detroit. |pace boat, and an official pilot reported to have ordered Raul to|launched in connection with the rents and choppy waters in the|ing, but apparently something warfare itself is less than two |The second car, following close and came to a stop on top of the the bottom car. | Hospital here, include Mr, Mrs. Maceo Griggs, parents o! Melodie, and their 11-year-old son, Byron, At least two were re- ported in critical condition, The Griggs cars were bound cast along No. 3 highway for Buf- § falo to attend a funeral there [today of a re.ative. natural gas to the U.S. at this time quite conceivably couid re- gult in an increase in Trans- Canada's zone rates." LATE NEWS FLASHES Charges were not specified but ® Mr. Roberts indicated they arose out of evidence suggesting a number of shares in the com- The fue! board brief said that present capacity of Trans-Canada would be contracted for by 1963. The line would have to be "looped" or extended and the fue] board suggested that the ex- tensions take in the Sault Ste. Marie and Blind River mining CITY EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBERS POLICE RA %-1133 FIRE DEPT. RA 5-6574 HOSPITAL RA 3-2211 Althea Gibson Retains Mortimer of Britain 86, 6-2, nament. Quadruplet Girls Born MANKATO, Minn. early today to Mr. and Mrs. | isfactory. LONDON had received any letters from he wrote a letter to the Rus drop an atomic bomb off the | i A WIMBLEDON (AP)--Althea Gibson of 'New York today retained her women's singles crown (AP)--Quadruplet the condition of the four girls and their mother, 26, is sat- Soviet Denies Received Letter (CP)--The Soviet vany's development were sold from its treasury shares prior to any filing with the Ontario Secu-| rities Commission, required be-| fore selling securities to the pub-| lic. | The two previous Progressive] Conservative ministers to resign| were Col. William esinger, | May 6, former public works min-| ister, and Philip T. Kelly, last summer, former mines minister. The attorney-general, in his re- [port on an investigation into af- fairs of the company by repre- Crown by defeating Angela in the Wimbledon tennis tour- girls were born Gerald Hansen. Doctors said Two workmen were drowned | Lorain, Ohio. A 300-ton load of | | when this $1,631,050 barge, just | steel plates was being lifted on | built for gate-lifting duty on the | a boom which collapsed, "on- St. Lawrence Seaway, sank in | crete ballast at the stern of the the Black river shipyards, | vessel apparently caused that TWO DROWN AS TUG SINKS AT LORAIN, OHIO end to sink. Five men were |sentatives of his department and| sent to hospital with injuries {the commission, named five per-| and about 23 others escaped [sons in elected office as involved | without serious injury but were |in transfer of company shares. | thrown into the water. They were Ontario Liberal! Embassy today denied it an RAF veteran who claimed sian Embassy threatening to | English coast, <a | Leader John J. Wintermeyer, Mr. Mapledoram Resigns ock Ownership meeting at which the premier di- rected his ministers to sell any gas pipeline stock, He said his dealings with Mr. Kelly were on a friendly basis only. Mr. Mapledoram was first elected to the legislature for Fort William in 1951 and had 'been a minister since July, 1954. The attorney-general said al- though there were widespread sales and transfers of shares by various individuals, there had been no evidence of influence be- ing exerted affecting any deci- sions of provincial or municipal authorities in relation to the pro- ject. CALLS FOR PROBE MW Ontario CCF Leader Donald C. f MacDonald called for "a full, public investigation" into the sit- uation. He said Mr. Robert's report "is a devastating blow to the integ- rity of public administration in Ontario." Mr. Wintermeyer said there was no reason his name should be coupled with those of the cab- linet ministers. He said when he {bought his stock it was "in an {open and above-board way." He was a private member at the time and said after he became party leader he disposed of his stocks "and made not one cent CLARE MAPLEDORAM Griesinger, Mr. Mapledoram, and Francois Bordeleau and Thomas Moore Sr. of the im- provement district of Kindrey. Mr. Roberts said the last two are associates of Mr. Kelly. He said all five received shares from the Mortimer and Pollock account in a Calgary bank, a|f 5 nominee account for Mr. Kelly|in the bargain." and his nephew Gordon K. Mc-| Mr. Mapledoram, who said he Lean of Calgary who held 2001s considering a request by the of the original 2,000 shares. premier to retain his seat, said he had been guilty only of indis- WARNED MINISTERS cretion in buying and selling Premier Frost said he warned stock in the company. ministers late in 1956 or early| He said Mr. Kelly had obtained 1957 not to have any connectionja small quantity of the gas with Trans - Canada Pipe Line|shares for him because he had Company. This was expanded in|previously lost money on a stock March or April of last year totip from Mr. Kelly. He later sold include all gas pipeline or dis-{the stock at a profit. Later, he tributing systems. bought more shares on the open Mr, Mapledoram said he had|{market, again selling at a been absent from the cabinet pre -.p 4 3