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A Growing Newspaper in a Growing ik =| The Oshawa A Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer il iy Times PROBS. Cloudy and Colder To- night and Friday with Snowflurries. 1 | VOL. 10--NO. 76 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1932 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy TEN PAGES CITIZEN QUESTIONS RELIEF METHODS Arrangements are Made for Opening of Harbor Season NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM TO BE INSTALLED AT HARBOR THIS SPRING ---- w Navigation Lights Request- ed for Oshawa Harbor Will Be in Operation Be- fore Opening of Season on April 8 CAPTAIN OF SHIP " TO RECEIVE HAT Steamer Coalhaven, Under the Command of Captain P. Beatty, Will Be First to Arrive in Local Har- bor This Year Definite information has now been received by the Government Wharfinger, Col, B. J. McCor- mick, from the Department of Marine, Ottawa, to the effect that the new navigation lights requested for the Oshawa Har- bour will be installed prior to the opening of navigation here on April 8, by which time the other lighting system will also be placed in operation. The Department has informed Col. McCormick that the new apparatus is ready for installa- tion, and that arrangements are being made for it to be placed in position immediately. It will be re-called that the masters of vessels using the lo- cal harbour were practically un- animous regarding the necessity for the installation of further beacon lights in order to elimin- ate the necessity of ships lying off during the night. As the re- sult of this expression of opinion from practical navigators the Department of Marine is taking, action as outlined: To Receive Hat In connection with the har. bor opening, Captain P. Beatty, master of the steamer Coal- haven, of the Canada Steamship Lines coal-carrying fleet, is prac- tically assured of at least one mew hat this year. Captain Beatty is to bring his vessel in to Oshawa on April 8, with a cargo of coal for the Pitts- burgh Coal Co., and will, there- fore, officially open the 1932 season of navigation so far as this city is concerned, the Coal- haven being the first vessel to enter the harbour. Following the traditional mar- ine custom on such occasions the master of the vessel first enter- ing the harbour has been pre- sented with a hat from the port of entry, this custom being fol- Jowed in previous years in Osh- awa by Mayor T. B. Mitchell and Mayor Ernie Marks, and ar- rangements are already on foot for a similar ceremony on April 8, when Mayor Peter Macdonald will formally present a similar gift to Capt. Beatty. AMENDMENT T0 RELIEF MEASURE WAS DEFEATED Government at Last Makes Progress With Its Relief Bill Ottawa, March 31.--Another division, on second reading, with the Liberal Party beaten this time 100 to 64, and hours of skir- mishing in Committee of the Whole House, marked the slow and bumpy progress of the Ben- nett Government's 'blank cheq- ue bill" in the Commons yester- day. Still sleepy-eyed from their near-all-pight vigil -- the Com- mons adjourned at 4.30 yesterday morning with the relief bill pro- perly finally introduced--the Lib- erals returned to the fray in the afternoon with an amendment to propose on second reading--an amendment obviously calculated to summarize their position be- {fore the country. i Independents Split This amendment, which ex- pressed anew the Opposition's views about "despotic powers," was moved by Hon, Jan Mackenzie | (Liberal, Vancouver), and sec- onded by Hon. James L. Ralston, | former Minister of National De- 1ense. It went down to defeat with three Progressives, Milton N. Campbell (Mackenzie), A. M. sarmichael (Kindersley), and Don ald M. Kennedy (Peace River), continuing their allegiance to the Government, and the remaining nine Progressives and Labor . members voting with the Opposi- ' tion Automobile Industry in Great Drive New York, Mar. 31.--The automobile industry this week is plunging into a venture with millions of dollars at stake which its leaders believe may turn the whole tide of the in- dustry. The significant develop- ments of this week, the formal presentation of new models rand the inauguration of sales drives, are commanding near- ly as much interest in Wall Street as in the automobile manufacturing centres, and Street as in Washington. Many executives are hopeful that the concerted push the motor industry is trying to give to general business will pull the country out of its dol- drums. In the past, they point out, almost every depression has had its back broken by a concentrated campaign of some one industry or group to get things started agaip. A number express the conviction that the present is an ideal time for a similar demonstra. tion. BELIEVE BYLAW WILL BE PASSED THIS EVENING Aldermen Apparently Re- signed to Granting Board ¢ : Education Demc rds There appears to be little doubt in the minds of the ma- jority of the members of City Council that the necessary rat- ing by-law, increasing the finan- cial allotment to the Board of Education by $12,000, will be formally passed at the special meeting of Council called for to- night, The majority of the aldermen are still firmly convinced that the attitude they adopted in the controversy which arose with the Board of Education was fully Justified from every point of view, but on the other hand it is realized that in the legal pro- ceedings which have been in- stituted the Council would un- doubtedly have judgment render- ed against it. There will, it is felt, be no ser- fous opposition to the passage of the necessary rating by-law to- night, and probably little argu- ment against its passing, al- though there is a likelihood that severe criticism may be voiced regarding what many al- dermen term 'the autocratic at- titude" of _of the Board. . Board. GYPSIES CAUSE OF DISTURBANCE Proprietor of Cafe Claimed They Tried to Pick His Pocket Quite a crowd assembléd out- side the police station at noon to- day when three gypsies, two of whom were women in picturesque costumes, were brought to the sta- tion for questioning. Attention was first drawn to them by a disturbance in the On- tario Cafe at the corner of Bond and Ontario Streets, where the proprietor claimed that they had tried to pick his pocket. This charge could not be definitely es- tablished, and after being ques- tioned, the trio were allowed to go with a warning from Chief of Po- lice Friend to leave the city at once. ; The gypsies gave their address as Queen Street West, Toronto. King George hag acquired a new pet dog, which has been with him 'since his return to Bucking- ham Palace from Sandringham. fully as much interest in Main | MRS. M'LAUGHLIN IS RE-ELECTED AS FEDERATION HEAD Interesting and Important Discussions at Meeting Yesterday Toronto, Mar. 31.--Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin was elected by accla- mation as president of the On- tario Federation of Home and School Councils, at the elections held in its sectional meeting at the O.E.A., at Emmanuel College yesterday. Other officers are: Vice-presi- dents, Mrs. J F. Calvert, Lon- don; Mrs. W. H. Cudmore, Bronte; Mrs. G. H. Lightfoot, Stratford; Mrs, H. W. Price, To- ronto; Mrs. E. E. Reece, Birch Cliff; Mrs. W. Burt Scott, Wood- stwck; Mrs. W. R. W'{'teside, Windsor. Recording secretary, Mrs. J. Lockhart, Woodstock. Recreation and the Wise Use of Leisure was the subject of an afternoon discussion led by Mrs. H. W. Price, Toronto. Showing that education for leisure was as 'mportant as education for work. Mrs. Price suggested that moth- ers should look to the improve- ment of their own leisure time before trying it on the children or others, In speaking on 'Means to Fur- ther Parent Education," Mrs. Gil- bert C. Storey, of Riverside, showed that in such groups wo- men with children whose ages are about the same should be combined. Mrs. A. B. Silcox presented suggestions from the conference of council presidents, which were adopted and referred to the executive. These included the pos- sibility of a Federal department of education, and other matters pertinent to the internal organ- fzation in the federation, in- cluding endorsation of the St. George's School for Child Study. Mrs. D. A. McArthur of London reported on the conference of as- sociation presidents, warning against allowing Home and School groups to become merely social, CHARGED WITH RIDING FREIGHT Toronto Youth Appeared Before Magistrate in Court This Morning Wiltred Suddes, aged 17, of To- ronto. appeared before Magis- trate T. K. Creighton this morn- ing on a charge of trespassing on a freight car, the property of the Cpnadian National Railways, The accused pleaded gullty to the charge and was remanded for sen- tence sine die. When asked if he had anything to say in regard to the charge Suddes stated that in company with several other young boys he was on his way to Port Credit and that they were just out for the day and had taken a ride on the freight train. His Worship com- mented that if they intended to go to the place named they were travelling in the wrong direction. Chief of Police Friend stated to the court that there were nine juveniles between the ages of twelve and fourteen years on the freight along with Suddes, and that the others were being taken care of by the juvenile court, He also said that there were too many young boys travelling about the country on trains and on the roads and that it was just a be- ginning of a criminal career as they associated with the older men who travelled in the same manner, and would only start them on the way to being hoboes, SHANGHAI TRUCE NEARING CRISIS Both Sides Far Apart on Time for Japanese Withdrawal Shanghai, March 31,--Peace negotiations here approached a crisig last night after a skirmish between Japanese and Chinese forces at Chlawangmiao earlier in the day. Chinese and Japanese military leaders still were far apart on truce terms. A Chinese spokes- man sald the parleys might reach a critical stage today, when they are to be resumed without defin- ite recommendations. for either side to be discussed. The Japanese said the Chinese were driven to the south side of Soochow Creek in the skirmish at (Continued on page 3), Prices of New Ford Models Aim at Inspiring Return to Large Scale Buying by Canadian People East Windsor, Ont, March 31.-- Prices of the new Ford V-8 and 4-cylinder cars which are established deliberately to inspire a return of large volume automobile buying and thus to "start eémployment"--were announced today by Wallace R. Campbell, president of the Ford Motor Co. of Canada, Limited. The price range of the new V.-8 cars is from $575 to $815, the range of the new 4-cylinder cars from $515 to $755. The differential in price between the V.-8's and the 4's is $60. The list prices, fo.b. East- Windsor of the fourteen body types, as compared with the last list prices of the model "A" are: Motel Model yl "A" Raadster $515 Deluxe Roadster' 570 Phaeton 520 Deluxe Phaeton.. Tudor ..o. rave Deluxe Tudor avy Coupe Deluxe Coupe ... 685 69% 615 720 600 705 755 610 680 750 09% 705 Sport Coupe .... 670 Fordor 740 Deluxe Fordor ... 810 Victoria ......... 750 Cabriolet .. . 765 Convertible Sedan 815 Station Wagon . . 815 Chassis Pick-up Open Cab ... Pick-up Closed Cab Chassis--1311% inch, Wheelebase Chassis--157 inch Wheclebase "The announcement of the prices of the new Ford cars gives us the greatest satisfaction," said Mr. Campbell, "because the entire Ford organization beliéves that their pre- sentation to the public will give a definite stimulus to business activ- ity in Canada. The new Ford car has been developed with the de- liberate intention of doing cvery- thing in our power to start employ- (Continued on Page 7) General Motors Truck Business Includes Fleet Purchases Which Amount to Nearly Million Dollars Bpring orders received by Gen- eral Motors Products of Canada Limited, from Commercial organiza- tions operating flects of automobiles amount to almost a million dollars according to a report issued at the head officc here. Because of the benefit to scattered dealers through whom the cars are supplied, and the impetus to employment both in car factories and primary Canadian industries represented by production of these units the volume of fleet sales since the first of the year has had a stimulating effect on business generally. Fleets of General Motors cars, sold for use in many lines of in- dustry, included: 20 Chevrolets to Gutta Percha and Rubber, Limited; 50 units, including McLaughlin- Buick and Chevrolets to Imperial Tobacco Company; 50 Chevrolets to Neilson's, Limited; 25 Chevrolets to Salada Tea Company ; 20 Chev- rolets to Oliver Plow Company; 20 Chevrolets to Swift Canadian Com- pany; 20 Chevrolets to Canadian General Electric Company; 9 Pon- tiacs and 3 McLaughlin-Buicks for Canadian National Carbon Com- pany; 9 Chevrolets and 3 McLaugh- lin-Buicks to William Wrigley Jun- ior Company, Limited; and 10 Chevrolets to Robert Simpson Com- pany, Limited. In addition there are fleet own- ers who replace their equipment at regular intervals in single unit or- ders. These fleets include the Post Office Department, Canadian Pa- cific Express: Bell Telephone Com- pany; Canadian National Expr and other trucking and hauling op- crators in cvery city in Canada. Actual delivery and sales is made through the dealers in the territory to be covered by the automobile sold. This system of sales and ser- vice distributes the total amount in- volved in this fleet business over the Dominion, with benefits to the local territory involved in the de- livery. With Chevrolet's entry into the two-ton trucking field with a new unit of that capacity, additional fleet business from trucking and hauling operators is being obtained. ' Oshawa Anglers Seek to Re-stock Streams of this District with Fish The next meeting of the Osh- awa Anglers' Assoclation, to be held in the Genosha Hotel on Monday, April 4, at eight o'clock, promises to be of exceptional in- terest, in addition t. the fact that it is the last regular meeting of the season, One of the items of interest will be the presentation of reports from the members who undertook to see a number of farmers in this district in order to secure permission to restock their streams with fish. At the present rate of depletion of fish in this district, according to the association, there will be practically no fish left in any wa- ters within a radius of twenty- five.miles of Oshawa in from one to five years. The only alterna- tive, it is believed is that of re-stocking the streams with fish, and the support of all anglers is requested for the Oshawa Ang- lers' Association, to help bring the sport of fishing in this district back to its former status. The Oshawa Anglers' Assocla- tion is a member of and has a member of the executive of On- tario Federation of Anglers, made up of some 45 anglers' clubs and associations, reaching from Kingston to Fort William. The membership of the Federa- tion runs into many thousands, and it is growing each year as anglers and fishermen from ail over the province are beginning to realize" that this is the only way in which game fish can be saved from extinction, The On- tario Federation is the only or- ganization with which the de- partment of game and fisheries co-operates actively, because the department also realizes that its sole aim is to conserve game fish- ing in Ontario, The Oshawa Anglers' Assocla- tion has succeeded in securing application forms for fish for the purpose of re-stocking the waters of the district with the species of fish best suited for them and the support of the anglers and fisher- men of the city is requested in order to make this work possible. T0 EXTEND DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL Premier Henry Made An- nouncement Regarding School at Belleville (By The Canadian Press) Toronto, March 31.--Plans for the extension of the Ontario School for the Deaf and Dumb at Belleville are progressing, and will be gompleleq soon, Premier George 8 enry today told the elementary department of the On- tario Educational Association in convention here. It is the intention of the de- partment of education to erect an addition to the present buildings. to segregate the younger children, he sald. In this way it is expected deaf pupils will learn the lip- reading method, before they learn the sign method. Numerous chil- dren throughout the province had been unable to attend school ow- ing to lack of accomodation, the premier declared, " W. J. CHRISTIE NAMED DIRECTOR OF C.N.R. Ottawa, March 31.--Hon. R. J. Manion, Minister of Railways and Canals, yesterday announced the sppointment of William J. Chris- tie, of Winnipeg, as a director of the Canadian National Railways. Mr. Christie is one of the most prominent business men in Wine nipeg. He is head of W. J. CHiristie & Co., financial brokers, and a director of many other companies, Mr. Christie goes on the board of the Canadian National Rail- ways in' place of 8. E. Richards, who was recently elevated to the Lench. LONGER SKIRTS ARE COSTLY Chicago, Ills.--~When Milady de- cided to wear her skirts longer and in wider variety, she added a million dollars to the expense of North American hotels, At any rate that's what A. G. Pul- ver, hotel manager, told a group of hotel managers here. The money, he said, is to be spent to enlarge and otherwise remodel the closet space of the hoteis to make room for, the modern clothes. NOTHING DONE AT JOINT MEETING HELD YESTERDAY Visit of H. L. Cummings Made No Change in School Funds Situation Mayor Peter A. Macdonald, Ald, William Boddy, chairman of the Finance Committee of the City Council, City Treasurer P. E. Blackburn, Dr. F. J. Donevan, chairman of the Board of Edu- cation, Trustee J. C. Anderson, and C. H. Fuller, business ad- ministrator of the Board, met H. L. Cummings, of the Ontario Municipal Board, yesterday af- ternoon for an informal discus- sion of the situation existing between Council and the Board. No definite results were ob- tained at this meeting, enquir- fes made by The Times as to the outcome being met on every hand with the reply "Nothing". The situation, therefore, re- mains exactly as it was before the visit of Mr. Cummings with the application of the Board of Education for a mandamus against Council being heard in the courts tomorrow unless Coun- cil takes definite steps this even- ing, at the special meeting call- ed to discuss the matter, to comply with the estimates for school purposes and passes the necessary rz"ng by-law to amend the civic get accor: BOUND OVER ON REFUSED FOOD WHEN HE USED WAGES TO MEET BILLS FROM UTILITIES RE-ELECTED MRS. R. S. McLAUGHLIN Who was yesterday re-elected president of the Ontario Fed- eration of Home and School Councils at its annual conven- tion in Toronto. ASSAULT CHARGE. pysCrimiATION Woman Appears in Court as Result of Quarrel in Church Mrs. Helen Romanchuk was bound over to keep the peace on a bond of $200 by Magistrate T. K. Creighton in city police court this morning, when he found her guilty of assaulting Metro Keri- luk in the hall at the Greek Or- thodox Church on March 25. Louis Hyman appeared for the de- fendant, In the evidence adduced it was stated that the trustees of the hall were holding a meeting in the hall and that the accused came into the group of men who were talking and after being told that she had n> business there, struck Keriluk on the chin with her hand. It was stated that there was some trouble among the people of the church, there being several factions who could not get along together and that this was in some measure the cause of the quarrel. A large number of witnesses for both the defence and the plaintiff appeared who told their story of how the affair took place. The witnesses for the defense stated that abusive language had been used to the defendant. At the conclusion of the case His Worship delivered a lecturo to the witnesses for both sides and exhorted them to live in a har- monjous manner befitting mem- bers of a Christian church. DEFENCE CLOSED IN COBOURG TRIAL Toronto Alienist Gives Evi- dence as to Insanity of Accused Cobourg, Mar. 31.--The de- fence closed its case in the trial of Hugh Greenshields, Campbel!- ford war veteran oday. Charged with the murder of his five year old son Billy last No- vember, the defence pleaded in- sanity today. Dr. W. Herriman, superinten- dent of the Ontario Hospital for the Insane at Toronto, ated from his examination of tify ac- cused and the circumstances sur- rounding tragedy, he believed Greenshields had been the vic- tim of traumatic insanity with epileptic evident. The fact that the accused, according to evi- dence at trial, had suffered from appendicitis, influenza and con- cussion of brain in a closely link- ed sequence, would be very likely to produce . an abnormal mental condition, Dr. Herriman declared. FLIGHT TO ROME Ottawa, Mar. 81.---A solo flight from Capada to Rome is planned by Captain J. Erroll Boyd, Cana- dian flyer, according to word re- ceived here today. Captain Boyd, who flew the Atlantic two years ago, plans to attend the confer ence of Trans-Oceanic aviators opening in Rome on May 22, Boyd is at present in Florida. IN ADDED TRUCK FEES 15 CHARGED Secretary Makes Complaint Against Special Tax Toronto, Ont., March 31.-- "The special fees to be assessed against public commercial motor vehicles in Ontario are inequit~ able," said Donald R. MacQuar- rie, secretary of the Automotive Transport Association of Ontario today. "They discriminate against the hired truck in favor of the truck carrying the goods of its owner. Largely they are a dis- crimination against the shipper who has not enough business to justify his owning his own trucks and favor the larger shipper who can keep one or more trucks busy carrying his own goods. In one particular instance, they dis- criminate against a large chain- store organization which hires trucks in favor of another large chain-store organization which owns trucks." Favor Regulation "Our association is strongly in favor of regulation of public commercial vehicles in Ontario," continued Mr. MacQuartrie, "and since it is impossible for this regulation to be centred in a private body, it is necessary for the Highway Department to supervise the 'activities of com- mon-carrier trucks. It is fair, also, that the truck owners pay sufficient to the government in special fees to pay for the neces- sary supervision. But that super- vision will not require $150,000, which 1s the sum which the fees are calculated to yield. Big Increase From Last Year "Last year the fees for public commercial vehicles, over and above the usual registration fees, ranged from $2 for farmers, to $12. This may not have been enough, But to add 50 per cent. to the truck registration fees, which already had been raised, seems to us to be unfair to an industry which has done much to reduce the cost of distribution in Ontario." The Automotive Transport As- sociation of which Mr. MacQuar- rie is secretary has 85 members who own nearly 900 vehicles, or about 25 per cent. of all the pub- lic commercial vehicles register- ed in Ontario. IRISH CABINET CHANGES REPLY TO BRITISH NOTE (By The Canadian Press) Dublin, March 31.--The Press Association reported today that a serious difference of opinion had developed in the Free State cdh- inet over the Irish reply to the British note regarding the oath to the crown and land annuities, As a result, it was said, Presi- dent Eamon De Valera's original draft of reply had been entirely remodelled, of Association | 1 Steve Bugye, Celina Street Resident, Asks for Guid- ance as to Whether He Should Pay Water and Electricity Bills From Re- lief Work Wages CITES EXPERIENCE IN SEEKING RELIEF Says City's Relief Workers Told Him He Should Not Have Paid Electric- ity and Water Bills, Al- though Threatened With Loss of Service Steve Bugye, 70 Celina Street, a returned soldier and a naturalized Canadian for the past twenty years, came to The Times t secking advice as to w must or must not pay his water ac- count as 'rendered by the Public Utilities Commission after having been told by the city's reliet' work- ers that he should not pay these bills out of wages received for three days' relief work. Mr. Bugye, an engineer by trade, and a resident of Oshawa for the last seven vears, together with many other excellent citizens, has recent- ly been compelled to accept relief work from the city in order to as- sist in maintaining his ailing wife and three small children, two of the children being four and three years old respectively and the third a tiny baby. As a member of what he calls "the relief gang" he received $9.60 in payment for three day's work on March 19. On receiving this money he paid, the sum of $4.59 to the Public Utilities Commission in, ors der to meet his accounts for water and electric light. He also had other small accounts to meet which in cludéd $2 for taking his wife to and from the Oshawa Hospital for | treatment. After his pay had been expended he found himself still without gro- ceries, two hether he Called for Assistance Following the gencral practice of those good citizens who have re- cently been compelled, through cir- cumstances over which they have no control, to "put their pride in their pocket", he applied for assist- ance to the City Relief Department, At the Relief Department, accord- ing to this man's own story as told to this paper,--"I was asked what I had done with the $9.60. I fold (Continued on page 3) INVESTIGATION OF BEAUHARNOIS MAY BE WIDENED Further Inquiry To Be Made If Necessary, Says Meighen Ottawa, March 31.--The scope of the Senate inquiry into' the Beauharnois affair will be widen- ed if necessary, the upper House was informed yesterday by Right Hon, Arthur Meighen, Govern- ment Leader in the Senate, on interrogation of Hon. A. C. Hardy, who had particular reference to Hon. G, Howard Ferguson's forth= coming appearance before the committee. Senator Hardy asked "whether the Senate will so enlarge the reference of the Special Commit tee of the Senate appointed to consider the report of the Spec- ial Committee of the House of Commbons of last session to in- vestigate the Beauharnois project, in so far as said report is related to any honorable members of the Senate, for the purpose of em- powering the Special Committee of the Senate to take and hear the, or any of the, evidence of the Hpn. Howard Ferguson in cons nection with or relating to a cers tain contract made between the Hydro-Electric Commission or tha Government of the Province of: Ontario with the Beauharnois' Committee." If Committee Advises Senator Meighen's reply was: "Yes, if the committee reports it necessary to a complete inguiry as to any Senators affected, or in Justice to any public man whose honor is impugned in the coursa of the evidence." Senator Hardy's second ques= tion was: '""And if the said refer- ence is so enlarged; will the said Special Committee of the, Senate be empowered to make further and also investigate the states ments of the said Hon. Howard Ferguson?" The answer to this was given as being answered by answered. investigations into said contract, the first -¢