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2 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, June 'Waitress Alters | Beating Testimony | TORONTO (CP)--One of four men charged with beating gam- bler Max Bluestein at the Town Tavern March 21 was carrying a rubber hose when he entered the tavern, according to the al- tered testimony of a waitress Tuesday. Elizabeth Tergsteegen, a wait- ress at the tavern for 214 years, told the court she saw Frank Marchildon, 40, of Toronto hold- ing a 10-inch piece of rubber hose behind his back on the night of the alleged assault. She testified earlier that she could not see whether Marchil- don was holding anything, but changed her story after Crown coun#éi Herbert Lang- don showed her a transcript of a statement she made under oath before a justice of the peace in April. Marchildon, Jack Weaver, 32, Fred Gabourie, 35, both of Tor- onto, and John Papalia, 37, of saulting Bluestein. ing his hat and coat from the hat-check booth when he was) struck from behind. He said he did not know who hit him but from the tavern floor saw some- one swinging a rope with what appeared to be an iron bar at- tached to it who single-handed took 2,000 German prisoners during a Sec- ond World War battle at the Fa- laise Gap. The major, known as Susie to his men of the Galt-Kitchener Unit of the 9th (Highland) In- |fantry Brigade in Northwestern Was Hero | 70 Of Falaise im ve, ied toon sic KITCHENER (CP) -- Veter-|. The identity of the Canadian AE 7 is being sought by Abbe Lau- ans of the Higniand Light Infan- nay, parish priest of the French try of Canada said Tuesday the|Norman village of Tournai-sur- late Major Gordon Sim was "al-|Dive. It was Abbe Launay who most certainly" the Canadian!persuaded the German major to Sure Sim surrender and who accompa nied the German soldiers to the Canadian lines. His story is told in an edition of Paris Match, which went on sale in Canada today. C. D. Campbell of Kitchener, who was the brigade's adjutant at the time, said the unit had tried to turn away long lines of surendering Germans at Fa- laise. He said at one point Ca- nadian artillery opened fire on them thinking the Germans were attacking. Sgt. Harvey Knipfel said Ma- jor Sim won cheers from the Rouyn townspeople by address- ing them in French-after the Highland Light Infantry cap. tured the town. Major Sim taught at Hopewell and Kent Schools in Ottawa be- fore joining the HLI in 1940. YOUNGSTERS CHARGED WARSAW (AP)--Seven teen- agers were arrested on sus- picion of breaking into 22 shops in the past three months. One of them is an 18-year-old girl. Dr. Frederick Meade, an in- tern at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, said a wound in Blue- stein's head required more than 20 stitches to close. The beating, before about 100 customers in the tavern, touched off a police investiga- tion into feuding between gam- blers in the city. The hearing continues. SAVE 22¢ CASH | Toronto Strike Peace I Hamilton are charged with as-| PET MILK hackuarnt barb Whether your plans cell for or © delighif! fun-fesat at the beach -- DOMINION is your best happy Holiday weekend! bet for bargain buys in ell the foods 'n' supplies you'll need for a truly Yes, we've picnic volues galore . . . to Tt te Hope Fades Miss Tergsteegen, who now | make your savings soar] Come pick yourself e basketful of your favorites . . . and, while you're here, stock-up with fine foods for HARD TIMES AHEAD lives in Peterborough, said TORONTO (CP) -- Brighten- Bluestein was talking to Papalia jpg hopes for an end to the| |a few Minutes before she heard| mammoth construction strike | Footy Fallon on eo Shs angling Wetropaltan Torento| |said she. could see nothing of Red Bes ii ol. despite! [the fight because patrons were e oopes dimime spre I stand : |plans for settlement by union standing up and blocking her leaders, a back-to-work appeal view. : | Joseph Sedgwick, counsel for PY, Premier Frost and the ap. | Marchildon, and to a sug-| pointment of a commission of |gestion by Mr. Langdon that| awry. Miss Tergsteegen read her pre-| Even as those developments vious testimony 'to refresh her brought optimism to builders memory." land workers the shutdown This prize steer will prob- ably be on somebody's plate before he has a chance to drought-stricken prairies. As | herdsman Norman Bartley | groomed the Hereford for the worry about it, but there are tough times ahead for meaty members of his clan on the | Red River Exhibition in Win- | nipeg, emergency plans were | being made to feed herds in | the prairie areas where pas- tures have been scorched by | | hot weather and | killed, haylands --(CP Wirephoto) mend spread even farther and strike He called the April inquiry Al 1leaders shelved one of the most |promising prospects advanced since the walkouts began. The leaders declined to dis- star chamber proceeding where Mr. Langdon put words in the witnesses' mouths through lead- ing questions. When asked by Mr. Sedgwick cuss settlement terms for brick- why she changed her story| layers and laborers because ad- Liberal Claims Tories Lack Any Direction Said the CCF's Harold Winch,, Said Liberal H. J. Robichaud, |Gloucester: OTTAWA (CP) -- The Com- mons is playing a game of pin- member for Vancouver East, in the-tail-on-the-donkey in budget the third day of a possible six-| "I guggest we have here a debate. day debate on the budget pre-/government of confusion which Opposition speakers charged|sented June 20 by Finance Min- has refused for two or three Tuesday that the Conservative ister Fleming: |years to admit that there was government has been groping *. . It is conclusively ap-/a recession; a government blindly through ow years in parent that the Tory govern Which felued, 10 admit that ower with no idea of where it : : . there was in this country un- wants to go or why. ment, since it took office SOme|, cal and abnormal unemploy- Government supporters re.|[OUF Years ago, has been slip-| ment; this government which plied that if the opposition|Ping and drifting along with no refused to recognize the reces- groups have any concrete alter- more knowledge of its destina-|sion but which told us two years native ideas on governing the|tion than a blind man on a raft|later that the recession was country, they are keeping them! floating somewhere between the over and that we were emerg- covered in a fog of wild and coast of British Columbia and ing from it. hysterical charges. Ithe coast of Honolulu." An exchange between Mr, labout the rubber hose, Miss| vance information on the peace Tergsteegen said she decided |Plan was leaked to the press. during the noon recess to tell] Union leader Bruno Zanini {what she knew. {told more than 1,000 workers] i n |stunned by the last - minute HIT FROM BEHIND _ |manoeuvre: '"We regard the] Bluestein, the first Crown wit- disclosures as an act of bad ness, testified he was retriev-/faith, We are not going to dis- SE cuss the agreement because the 'Fire Raze papers are full of what we are. {going to do." S | 'WILL TELL YOU' [ i BM He added: "When it's settled Tl 1d a YS it will be for all the trades.| {Only our committee, our of- ORILLIA (CP) -- Fire broke ficers, will tell you--no one else. out on the main street of Oril.| 'It could be any hour." lia early today, destroying one| But Zanini said the campaign of the areas best known restau- would still be waged against] rants. {non-union contractors after set- | Carters' Restaurant, on Mis-|telement is reached with the |sissaga Street, was destroyed) others. | and officials estimated loss will "We are going to spend thou- lexceed $100,000. " | Although 'the fire was stili{5ands to beat them," he prom- | burning three hours after it was|ised. {discovered, firemen said they| Zanini told the meeting if expected to keep it confined to|Premier Frost officially as- WEATHER FORECAST Clear And Warm Thunder Later Fleming and Romuald Bourque the restaurant building. Ad- (L. -- Montreal Outremont - St.|jacent stores were protected by Jean) gave the minister an op-|fire walls. Cause of the blaze portunity to put forward the|Was not known. SoyerNent's contention of § grave weakness in opposition attacks. | LIGHTER SIDE The Liberal MP called for Ca-| nadian action to curb imports from Japan, and said there is an urgent need for the establish- ment of "some positive form" of Canadian control--which he Forecasts issued by the Tor-|20, becoming northwest 15 Thursday afternoon. : Algoma, White River regions, Synopsis: Warm weather has|Sault Ste. Marie: Sunny, returned to Ontario and for the coming cloudy with scattered next few days we should be able|showers and a few thunder- to look forward to more sumer|storms this afternoon and to- like weather than we have been|night. Sunny with cloudy inter- experiencing. H ow ever, two|vals Thursday. Southwest winds weak storm centres in North-|{10 to 15, becoming northwest to- onto weather office at 5 a.m.| DT: e-| did not specify. Mr. Fleming, after unsuccess- {fully seeking details: "I thank| {the honorable member for his, answer. It is quite clear he has no solution." Mr. Bourque: '"May I say to the minister that I have a lot of solutions that I will be glad to give him if, as and when he! LONDON (AP)--Fists are flying and fenders are getting bent in London's war of the taxi men. In one corner -- London's regular cabbies in their square-rigged old taxis. In the other--the uniformed drivers {sured unions the workers would {be protected against exploita- tion, the unions would instruct a return to work. | War Of The Cabs Rages In London ket so the council can put in | parking meters. | "They said I'm causing a | bloomin' obstruction," said Davies in an interview. "But | I've been 'ere 15 years and I | ain't movin' if I don't 'ave | to." { ern Ontario may cause a few night. Mr. Fleming: "The honorable of the bright red new "mini- showers or thunderstorms. Marine forecasts valid until] member will not give his solu- Lake Erie, southern Lake Hu-| ron, Niagara regions, Windsor,| London, Hamilton: Sunny and warm today but with cloudy in- tervals this afternoon. Chance of a shower or thunderstorm briefly during the late after- noon or evening. Mostly cloudy,|tonight. warm and humid Thursday with] Souibeisn Huioh, Lake scattered showers and thunder-|Erie, Lake Ontario: Southwest storms. Winds wouthwest 15. winds 15 to 20 knots. A Fair Northern Lake Huron, Georg- ian Bay: Southwest winds 15 to 20 knots becoming westerly at 15 knots Thursday morning. Scattered showers and thunder- storms this morning and again LRG Lake Ontario, Haliburton re- weather but chance of a shower| 11 a.m. Thursday: | tions to the House. of Com- mons." DISCUSS CHICKEN A budget provision for a duty of five cents a pound on evis-| |cerated chickens imported from | {the U.S. was worked into the| barbs oi a nuiber of MDs from all parties. One chicken flavored ex- change began when Grant cabs." Two hundred minicabs small French Renaults plast- ered with advertisements took to London's bustling streets a week ago. In their quaint old cabs that can turn on a sixpence, the ny ahhie Te ¢- nentestad characteristic language that | the advent of the minicabs would ruin their livelihood. Britons, who are quick to | defend tradition and the un- | | derdog, rallied to Davies' aid.| Lady Hilda Salisbury-Jones, | wife of the marshal of the | diplomatic corps, wrote: | "This beautiful, well « run stall is a great feature in Shepherd's market and it in- terferes with nobody." the lelier was read at a | legal inquiry ordered by Home | Secretary R. A. Butler. A de- | cision is expected later this gions, Toronto: Cloudy with sunny intervals today. Scattered showers with chance of a thun- derstorm this afternoon but clearing in the evening. Increas- ing cloudiness, warmer and more humid Thursday, becom- ing overcast with showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon Winds southwest 15. {or thunderstorm this evening. | Forecast temperatures | Low tonight, high Thursday: | WindSOr +..oo0eeees 60 80 {St. Thomas ...sess 60 London ..... | Kitchener . | Wingham . {Hamilton ..... St. Catharines Campbell (PC -- Stormont) ac- |cused Lionel Chevrier, former| Liberal transport minister and former St. Lawrence Seaway| president, of putting up al smokescreen around the dam-| age he had done to Stormont] {riding by locating seaway locks on the U.S. side of the border Cornwall, in the constituency They weren't convinced when they were told that their small competitors could | not cruise for customers as the cabbies can, that they can only pick up fares who tele- phone in for them. { Michael Gotla, chief of the minicab firm, claimed Mon week. | Davies' lawyer, Gavin Free- man, told the inquiry his cli- ent's customers include peo- ple from all walks of life. "King Peter of Yugoslavia was one of his customers," he said, "and so is the but- | cher 50 feet from his bar- | row." Northern Lake Huron, Geor- Toronto gian Bay, Timagai, Cochrane| Peterborough . regions, Sudbury, North Bay:|Trenton Variable cloudiness today. A|Killaloe .. few showers this morning and Muskoka ... likely again late in the after-|North Bay noon and evening. Cloudy, warm Sudbury and humid Thursday with scat-|Earlton . tered showers and thunder-| Kapuskasing . storms but clearing in the|White River .. afternoon. Winds southwest 15 to! Moosonee day that in the first week of minicab operation the tradi- tional cab men had rammed two minicabs, assaulted three drivers, torn radios from the little vehicles, threatened a woman minicab driver with obscenities, and hauled one passenger out of a minicab and punched him He said there were also in- numerable incidents of squad- is Mr, Chevrier's birthplace, and Mr. Campbell said: "When I was a boy down on the farm, if a trusted dog killed | a chicken we tied it around his| neck until it rotted. The honor- able member for Laurier today has a chicken tied around his neck called Cornwall Seaway City." rons of regular cabs boxing in a lone minicab so it could | not move PEACOCKS PEEVE COLONIA, NJ. (AP) -- Two female peacocks are on the loose but one person who knows them well isn't too anxious to get them back. "I wouldn't want my hus- band to know this," Mrs. Walter Zirpolo said Tuesday "but I hope they stay lost." "They are beautiful but I hate them. They make funny noises all the time and sound like a woman screaming for help." By EDDY GILMORE LONDON (AP) -- A Cock- | ney pushcart pedlar Tuesday challenged the authority of Scotland Yard and an entire city council. 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