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A Growing oe GE SR LE dhe Osh ana Dail Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer y Times | PROBS, Fair and Mild To-day and Saturday VOL. 10--NO. 48 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1932 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy EIGHT PAGES $50,000 REBATE FOR ELECTRIC USERS | Japanese Will Starve Out Garrison at Kiangwan ALL ATTACKS FAILED AS CHINESE SURROUNDED IN LAST BIG OFFENSIVE "If We Cannot Bomb Them Out Then We Will Starve. Them Out," Said Japanese Spokesman CHINESE CLAIM VICTORY TODAY Big Powers Ask Japanese Government' to Protect International Settlement During Military Opera tions (By Canadian Press) Shanghai, Feb. 26.--Japanese troops, advancing against mach- ine gun fire, surrounded the town of Kiangwan again a few minutes before midnight tonight, 'If we can't bomb them out we'll starve them out," sald a spokesman at Japanese Headquarters, The Chinese resistance was so stub- born that starvation appeared to be the only weapon which could succeed against them, The spokesman said the Japan- ese losses in the past 24 hours were 120 killed and wounded. Ask For Protection Tokio, Feb. 26, -- British, United States, French and Italian Ambassadors to Japan visited the Foreign Office today and com- municated to Foreign Minister Yosbizaw the desire of their Gov- ernments that Japan do {its ut- most to keep the military opera- tions at Shanghal outside the borders of the International Set- tlement, Chinese Claim Victory Shanghai, Feb, 26.--The Chin- ese forces at 2 o'clock this morn- fog (Friday) claimed a victory over the Japanese near Misoshin, where a four-hour artillery bat- tle was followed by a Chinese in- fantry charge which drove the Japanese back at Hsiaotsangmiao. It was the severest night struggle in the present campaign. Artillery punished firs: one side, then the other as the battle went on today in the Kiangwan sector and around Chapel, Steadied by their success in recovering from a rout and gain- ing back much of the ground that had been lost when the Japanese smashed the line north of Kiang- wan, the Chinese turned artillery bombardment on the Japanese strongholds in Hongkew Park. Japanese guns answered shell for shell. - At dawn they were doing most of the firing, for Chinese ammunition was running low and gunners had orders to use it sparingly. Stories Are Conflicting Each side said its fire was in- flicting heavy casualties upon the enemy, while it was suffering slightly, The Japanese sald they had suffered less than 100 cas- casualties, but "inflicted thous- ands upon the Chinese." The Chinese sald their losses were negligible and the Japanese were "trying to hide their casualties", estimated by the Chinese at 700 dead and wounded. As the hostilities slackened the Japanese appeared to have achieved an advance northwest of Kiangwan, but they had failed to rout the Chinese, Christian General To Command Nanking, Feb, 26.--Chiang Kal-Shek, China's principal mlili- tary commander, soon will be as- signed to conduct a campaign to recover Manchuria, it is under- stood. Meanwhile General Feng Yu- Heiang, formerly known as the Christian General, will be given command of the troops 'resisting Japanese aggression at Shang- hal." General Chiang's military forces are looked upon as the best trained in China. Two of his: divisions already have been reported in the line at the Shang- hal front, * Japs Driven Back: Shanghal, Feb, 26. -- Chinese forces drove the Japanese out of Misochung Chan sector near Kiangwan early this morning and held on to the ground gained in the face of Japanese machine-gun fire, COE I BE BE BE RE EE BBE RE BRB BE A GROSBEAKS HERE Two grosbeaks, with "their soft downy feathers of pale yellow, were seen at noon today preening their feathers in a tree on the corner of Mary and El- gin Streets, a busy down town interesction, The presence of these birds is taken ag a certain sign of an early spring, CELE BURL BN RN A \ ¢ . . . . . . * . * . ¥ NM . ° 2 0 88 TS 0BPE CED RUSSIA FEARING * GZARIST ATTACK cl . That "White" Army Being Gathered in Manchuria Moscow, Feb, 26.--The Soviet press to-day publishes a despatch from Peiping charging that a White Russian (Czarist) army is being formed in Manchuria, un- der the direction of the Japanese to attack the Russian maritime provinces, including. Viadivostock. The Soviet maritime region, in Siberia, is chiefly the Province of Primorskaya, bordering on Man- churia and on the Japan Sea. Vladivostock, at the terminus of the Trans-Siberian railroad, Is a short distance from the Manchur- fan frontier, at Possiet Bay. The despatch purports to de- scribe the White Russian activi- ties, under official Japanese direc- tion, in detail and the official So- viet news agency, declares that it has complele confidence in the source from which the Informa- tion was obtained. The despatch says that Japa- nese instructed the White Rus- sian General Kosmin, one of the emigree foes of the Bolshevik re- FOR SETTLEMENT gime in Moscow, to organize ge- cretly a regiment, In mid-Janu- ary the organization of the regi- ment was well under way, the despatch says. Enlistments were covered by statements that unemployed per- sons were being registered with Russian newspapers (which are anti-Soviet) at Harbin, chiefly the: Harbin Times, the despatch says. The extent of registration was uncertain but in mid-Janu- ary 'several groups of from 50 to 100 proceeded from Harbin to Mukden, It was considered by Soviet. of- fictals that the despatch substan- tiated recent charges by Commissar Kiementi Voroshiloy that the White Russians are plot. ting to attack the Communis State in the Far East. It was re- called that Voroshlov last Sun- day, issued a call to the Red Army to be prepared to defend Soviet territory, and sald that there were plots underway to launch an attack on Russia from the Far East. The White Russians, many thousands of whom are in Man- churia, fled there after the Bol. shevik revolution, The Govern- ment recently has regrouped its garrisons on the Manchurian bor- der to guard against possible Czarist activities. The despatch charged that the White Russian attack on the Maritime provinces was scheduled to coincide with a Japanese mili- tary movement in the direction of the Russian province of Trans- Baikal, on the western border of Manchuria, thereby opening "concerted 'aggression' at two points, 10 FORM LOCAL "BIG BROTHERS" Juvenile Court Judge Is Seeking Support in Organization Capt.' (Rev,) S. C. Jarrett, Judge of the Oshawa Juvenile Court, is in- teresting himself in the formation of a "Big Brother and Sister move- ment" in Oshawa, and has already approached the Kiwanis and Kins- men Clubs by whom the idea has been approved. Capt. Jarrett, speaking to The Times this morning, states that he hopes to obtain the interest of the Rotary Club in this local. movement together with the assistance of all the churches in the city. "The idea behind the local organ- ization will be the pooling of exper- iences for those who feed guidance" said 'Capt. Jarrett, "and my own hope is that the Oshawa Movement will become affiliated with the or- ganization known as the Catholic, Jewish and Protestant Bix Broth- ers and Big Sisters' which is doing such splendid work in Toronto." Arrangements are now bein, made by Capt. Jarrett for Frank T. Sharpe, general secretary of the Toronto organization, to visit this city in the near future and address a public meeting on the whole mat- ter when, it isvhoped, local organi« zations who are interested in the welfare of young people will take an active part in supporting the movement, War | OF CONTROVERSY | Meeting Between School Board and Council Prov- ed Advantageous NOTHING DEFINITE Officials of Both Bodies Feel Litigation Can Following the conference held last night between the members of the Board of Education and the members of the City Counell, a meeting which is deseribed as "purely informal" by Mayor Peter A. Macdonald, the members of both bodies express more confidence that the present unfortunate controversy can be settled without litigation or expense, and to the satisfaction of both bodies. * Can Reach Com Mayor Macdonald, speaking to The Times this morning, stated "there is every hope now, I believe, this this difficult question can be settled and some compromise reach. ed which will be acceptable to both the Board of Education and the City Council. "The City Council does not want to go to law, and I do not think the Board of Education does either, and {t seems as if a loop-hole for escape is offering itself" said the Mayor, Board is Hopeful Dr. B. A. Brown, chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of Education, interviewed by The Times this morning relative to the meeting of the Council committee and a committes of the Board last night, stated that he had high hopes of the controversy being settled by a compromise between the two bodies, this having been made possible by the willingness of the teachers to accept a salary re- duction during the present contract term. He trusted that the services of the special counsel can be disposed with and further stated that he has always been a firm believer that the matter should be settled without the adoption of unpleasant legal procedures, . Trustee Brown felt that the municipality is carrying a heavy financial burden which demands the fullest co-operation of all the ing bodies and that the phil anthrople spirit of the teachers will A great sense of satisfaction to 'the general public, Nothing Definite Yet 'While nothing definite was set- tled at lagt night's conference it was very apparent that a better spirit of * co-operation exists be- tween Council and the Board, and also that there is a real effort by both municipal bodies to reach an amicable agreement. MOTION DEFEATED . (By Canadian Press) Berlin, Feb, 26.--~A Commun- ist combined non<confidence mo- tion against the Bruening Gov- ernment was defeated in the Reichstag today by a vote of 289 to 264. it---- A British company is reported as eager to import from Russia vist consignments of timber; and still there are forests in Canada, with idle men anxious to swing an axe, v ARE HIGH HOPES THE TJMES COOKING SCHOOL suditorium. 7 A PORTION OF THE AUDIENCE Above is seen a part of the large crowd of women in attendance iring the last three days for the domonstrations in the Masonic Temple Commission Reviews Situation in Oshawa . "hief Engineer of Hydro Points Out That Rebate Policy Suggested by Local Commission ls Not Equitable to | Consumers----Can Be No Rebate for Street Lighting The full test pf the Tetter v | cd by the Pubdc Utilities ( | from the Chief Engi Hydro, relative to th. mné lisbursing the electrical financia | surplug that has accrued in this cit 1s as follows: "We have you letter of Februar | 13th, from which we note that yo | Board have decided to make ar | bate to the customers. in the cot | poration, totalling approximately $52,000.00, which procedure this | Commission hag already advised you it is agreeable to, "However, we note that you pro- pose to give back to your hight cus- | tomers the last two months billing | and to power gustomerg only 'one month's billing as well as return to | the Corporation: for street lighting | of $831.50 and $470.85 to the Water- | works Department for power sup- | plied. | Not Equitable | "We would point out ta you that the Commission has never dealt with the rebate in this manner and we also would emphasize that such a method of rebating is not equit- able to your customers. The only basis on which the Commission has approved of rebates up to the pre- sent ig on a percentage of the total revenue paid by cach customer throughout the year, in as much, as the November and December bills of some customers might deviate considerably from a percentage of the total yearly payments it is quite obvious that rebating the last two months bills is not a fair method of distributing the surplus that has ac- | fact that it does involve some ated from the proceeds of the year's revenue tter of rebates to cus- n first adopted had con- thought on the ssion and it wis conclud- | | that the m yd chosen was the ly practical way of returning sur- to the individual customers adopted in spite of the work in computing the amounts that each customer should obtain, It was thought, however, that this was jus- tified in view of the discrimination which would raisc if other methods were adopted, "We would recommend, therefore, that you should adopt the approved method of rebating, Derived From Power Customers "We note that your Commission approved rebating only two months bill to your power custom- you ire rebating two months bill to you lighting custom- ers. Our analysis thus far indicate that a very considerable proportion of your surplus attributable to revenue received from your power customers and will justify you mak- ing an equally proportionate rebate to your power customers as to your lighting customers, We cannot un- derstand, therefore, why you should not have suggested that two months bills should be rebated as well as to months lighting bills, No Rebate to Corporation "In connection with the rebates to the Street lighting and water- works Department, you, of course, (Continued on page 3) 1 uses and it wis of whereas, 1s rg Will Not Discriminate quest of ization Two letters were received by the Public Utilities. Commission at last night's meeting from Dr. T. W, G, McKay, medical officer of health for the city, asking that the com- sion take action to provide facil ities for families which were in des- titute circumstances whereby they would be better 'able to carry on. Dr. McKay drew the attention of the commission to a family living on Brassie Street, where three chil- dren were sick with mcasles and there was no water in the home due to the fact that the water had been turned off by the commission through 'the non-payment of ae- counts. The commission was informed that the owner of the property had signed the application for service and the water could not be turned on without his permission, The sec- retary was instructed 'to get in touch ith him in an effort to have the necessary permission secured. In the second case, a family of nine, living on Arlington 'Avenue, were stated to be without means to in Making Collections Utilities' Commission Refuses to Create a Precedent by Renewing Electric Service to Destitute Family on Re- M.0.H.--Would Become a Relief Organ- buy fuel for stove or furnace with the 'husband on relief. Their only means of cooking it was stated was with an electric stove which they were unable to use due to the fact that the electric supply had been turned off by the commission through arrears in payments. Dr. McKay asked that the commission turn on the power for the sake of the health of the family. It wag learned by the commission that whereas the amount in arrears was stated in the communication to be $11 the amount owing was over $25. After considerable discussion, it was the opinion of the members that it would be establishing a dan- gerous precident if the commission were to become a relief organiza- tion, and 'one that woud: have to be carried out in other cases, Tt was finally decided that when the account outstanding ig paid that the current will be turned on, It was not the palicy of the commis- sion to discriminate in accounts, it was pointed out. part of | "oOOKING SCHOOL AGAIN CROWDED THE AUDITORIUN ' Hundreds Turned Away on Last Afternoon for Demonstrations THE PRIZE WINNERS | Appreciation of Women Warmly Expressed to Miss Thompson Miss Eelanor McGahey, 193 Celina Street, was the winner of | the Canadian General Eleetrie Hotpoint Range which was given ray yesterday afternoon as the grand prize at the Oshawa School of Cooking and Home Economics, The coupon bearing Miss McGah- ey's name was drawn from the two thousand or more which had been handed in by the women at- tending the school during the three days, the coupon being drawn by A. manager of the Hotpoint Division of the Canadian General Electric Company, who was an interested visitor at the school. The second grand prize, a bri- dal set of Wear-Ever Aluminum, donated by the Aluminum' Com- pany of Canada, was won by Miss M. Stewart, 446 Centre Street, this ticket being drawn by C. M. Mundy, president of The Times Publishing Company. Yesterday saw the greatest crowd of the three days in ~at- tendance at The Times Cooking School, The women began to as« semble about 11.30, and within an hour there was a crowd which threatened to block the traffic on Centre Street. Two policemen came on the scene shortly after- wards, and made every effort to keep the crowd off the pavement, but the jam was so terrific that it was no easy task. The policemen, however, did splendid service in controlling the entrance of the crowd into the hall after ' the doors were opened. At 1,15 it was decided to open the doors, and immediately a great stream of hu- manity poured into the hail. 1t took exactly twenty minutes to fill the hall to the utmost limit of fits capacity, over seven hun. dred women being able to secure admission, while, when the doors were closed, hundreds more were waiting outside. Climbed Through Window The. Times regrets that these women had to be disappointed, but for lack of a larger auditor. fum it was impossible to take care of any more than were ac- comniodated, After the doors had been closed, a number of women secured admission by climbing through a window which ' had been opened for purposes of ven- tilation. Inside the hall, every available inch of space was occu- pied. Over one hundred women stood throughout the whole dem- AGAINST WOMEN SUFFRAGE (By Canadian Press) Paris, Feb. 26.--The Semate today rejected the Chamber of Deputies Electoral Reform Bill by a vote of 198 to 0 but decided to refer the women suffrage and compulgory = voting provisions back to the special committee, Japan's election appears to show that a Government may win at the polls even in these hard {times 1£7it goes to war to do it. R. Harper, genera! NIAGARA FALLS HEARS RUMOURS Reported That Oshawa Gives Free Light to Unemployed -- Among the communication receiv- ed by the Public Utilities Commis- sion was one from the City of Ni- agara Falls, where it was stated that a rumour was in circulation that the Commission in Oshawa was refunding the electric light accounts to unemployed families. The com- munication asked if this was the true state of affairs, In reply the commission instructed the secre- tary to communicate with Niagara Fails stating the facts of the re- bate being given in Oshawa. A letter was reccived from the 'Coulter Manufacturing Company stating that when they established a plant here they were given to un- derstand that they would be grant- ed concessions in their water rates, From information which they had received the manufacturing com- pany stated that the water rates here were three times those in Tor- onto. It was their intention, it was stated, to sink a well for their own water supply unless some adjust- ment were made. In reply the commission will in form the company that they are on the same rate as other industries in the city. A letter of inquiry was received from F, Shaw, of Westmount, who asked why the water rate had been raised on the west side of Park Road South. The secretary was instructed to communicate with Mr, Shaw to the effect that since the installation of water mains was made in North Oshawa that all rates in East Whitby Township were placed on the same basis, It was the opinion of Commissioner Stacev that the commission should sell water go the township at a fix- ed rate and allow the township to work out a scale of rates of their own to pay the charge imposed by the commission, COMMISSION «PAID TRIBUTE Regret Expressed at Death of General Manager in Resolution The meeting of the Public Util- ities Comimssion last night was tinged with, sorrow due to the loss through death of the 'manager, Charles T. Barnes, The regret of the members of the commission was expressed by Chairman F, L. Ma- son, who stated that the commis- sion was meeting under regretable circumstances through the loss of a very valuable employe. Consider ing the experiencé and disposition of the late Mr. Barnes, he felt that it would be a difficult task to re- place him and it was a question, he stated, which would require very serious thought on the part of the commission, Letters expressing regret over the death of Mr. Barnes were receivd by the commission from the Stan- dard Cable Co, of Canada and from the Ontario Municipal Electric Commission. The Commission passed a resolu- tion expressing sympathy to Mrs, Barnes and moved that the salary of Mr. Barnes be continued for a period of three months from March 1 as a mark of appreciation of the vears of service devoted by Mr, Barnes to the business of the com. mission, WILL INSTALL MORE METERS The Public Utilities Commis sion at its meeting last night au- therized E. A, Colvin, superinten- dent of the water works depart- ment, to place an order for three hundred new water meters with the Neptune Meter Co., of Tor- onto, The number of meters au- thorized includes 5¢ installed in January, it was stated. The cost to the commission for the meters will be $11.18 each. It was stated that the majority of the meters will be installed in a section of the cit; where many ot the consumers aro on flat rate. In some of these cases it was stated water has been secured at these homes by persons not hav- ing a water service so that the commission was losing consider- able revenue which they might otherwise have had, if the supply had been metered. President Cosgrave seems de- lighted to allow Mr. De Valera to try his hand at government. Ex- perience is a stern teacher, UTILITIES COMMISSION TO RETURN 12 PER CENT OF LAST YEAR'S BILLS Disbursement of Surplus to be Made Shortly Follow ing Official Ratificatio by Hydro FILTRATION PLANT ' UNDER DISCUSSION Commission Will Ask City Council for a Further Allocation of Funds for Construction Work As a result of a resolution passed last night by the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission con- sumers of electric power in the city will benefit to the amount of approximately $50,000, This figure was arrived at by the set~ ting of the rebate at 12 per cent. of the total billing for the year 1931. The commission last night were in receipt of a letter from the Hydro, published ° elsewhere in this issue, suggesting that the rate he set at above figure in place of the suggestion of Oshawa Com- mission which asked that they be allowed to rebate the total of the last billing for 1931. It is under- stood that the approval of the Hydro will be received within a few days after which the com- mission will proceed with the disbursement of the rebate, Formal Resolution The resolution passed hy the commission was as follows: "That subject to the approval of the Hydro Electric Power Commis sion, that the commission rebate to the electric consumers of Osh- awa 12 per cent, of the total billing for the year 1931, less street' lightinr and municipal power charges." Filtration Plant Work The advisability of the com= pletion at this time of another . four sections of the filtration plant was fully discussed during the meeting in the presence off F. A. Dallyn, engineer in charge of the construction work, and it was finally decided that a letter be sent to the city. clerly asking" that application be made for the approval of a reallocation off funds for this purpose. It was pointed out that at the present time the city which is fin- aneing the work would be able to recover 50 per cent. ofthe construction cost from the gove ernment, whereas if the work were left until a later date it would be required to pay the whole cost, The additional work if carried out now would mean an expenditure of ahout $10,000 more than was originally plans ned, but in the opinion of Mr. Dallyn, while the four units now! under construction would tdke care of the needs of the city for a time at least, they would have to ba supplemented in the course of a couple of years, He ox« pressed it as his personal opins fon that the city should have more than the four units planned at present. Mr. Dallyn stated that all the material necessary for the work was fabricated in the province with the exception of sand which! could be brought in from the United States and sluice gates which had to be secured from England. He felt however that these gates could be secured In less than six weeks so that the work now under way would not be held up to any extent, Commissioner Stacey stated that if the work now under way were of the magnitude first planned that he would be op= posed to the installation of the four units but as the plans had been cut down considerably, he felt it might be reasonable to ° take advantage of the 50 pan cent, rebate, LX -------------------------------- INVESTIGATION HUST ADJOURN Mr. Justice Middleton Is Confined to Bed Through Sickness = (By Canadian Press) Toronto, Feb, 26 -- Mr. Justice Middleton, who under authority of a Royal Commission is investigating certain Hydro Electric Commission expenditures, was not able to res sume this morning owing to an at« tack of bronchitis. His doctor, it was announced, had ordered him to remain in bed for a few days, and the enquiry was accordingly ad« journed indefinitely. Tires for sport models this year are being turned out in 10 different shades, ranging from a delicate mauve to a flery red, Any flat colors? . '