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I" A Growing | Newspaper in a The Osh ata Dail Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer y Times PROBS, Partly Cloudy and Cold Tonight and on Wednesday | Growing City VOL. 10--NO. 86 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1932 12 Cents a Week; 3 Cents a Copy EIGHT PAGES MAYOR MACDONALD WILL RESIGN Oshawa's Vimy Dinner Last Night Brilliant Affair REV. CANON TORONTO WAS SPEAKER AT LEGION FUNCTION Says Spirit and Courage Shown at Vimy Ridge Are Characteristics Need- ed to Meet Difficulties of Present Year STATEMENT MADE ABOUT PENSIONS Plea Made to Government to Appoint House Com- mittee to Consider Pro- posals on Pensions Ad- ministration Memories of Vimy, some sad, some tragic, and some in lighter vein, were recalled last night at the annual Vimy anniversary dinner of the Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Legion, held in Rotary Hall, where over two hundred veterans and la- dies assembled for the occasion. A program of excellent speeches and music followed the sumptuous din- ner served in splendid style by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Legion, most of the addresses being of an exceptionally high order, and the high light being reached with that of Captain the Rev. Canon Hedley, past president of the Christie Street Branch of the Legion, of Toronto. In his address, brimful with remin- iscences of Vimy and the victory there, Canon Hedley touched some of the more serious aspects of life, and declared that the courage and sporting instincts, the determination and the co-operation of that day of 1917 were needed to pull Canada through its present difficulties, Harry Stafford and Clifford {enry, as entertainers, added much to the enjoyment of the occasion, while at the close of the program of after-dinner speeches dancing was enjoyed for an hour or two to splen- did music furnished by Bernard Tierney and hig Orchestra. The hall and tables were beautifully decorated for the occasion, while the charming aprons and caps of the Legion members who waited on the tables, in red, white and blue, added a delightful touch of color to the scene, Pensions Situation In opening the after-dinner pro- ceedings, M. McIntyre Hood, who acted as toastmaster, speaking as provincial first vice-president of the Legion, referred to the situation which had developed in regard to pensions administration and legis- lation. Reiterating the demanu : ade a day or two ago for a sub- committee of the house of commons to consider the proposals made py the Canadian Legion, Mr. Hood replied to the suggestion from Ot- tawa that it was too late to do any- thing along this line during the present session. "It is not necessary," he said, "that we should have a long drawn- out investigation such as we had in 1930, The pensions act, in itself is all right, and .amendments re- garding the requirements for pen- sion fare not necessary. It is our considered opinion that if a com- mittee were appointed, our propos- als could be submitted to that com- mittee and remedies produced within three days. Surely, even if the session of parliament is going to close at the end of May, there is plenty of time to give us the oppor- tunity of presenting our case and our suggested remedies to a body representative of all parties in par- liament, . Round Table Conference "Failing the appointment of a committee," said Mr. Hood, "we ask for a round table conference be- HEDLEY OF GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH ELECTS NEW OFFICERS Meeting Votes to Retain Father Chrustawka as Priest In an effort to straighten out the differences existing in the Greek Orthodox Church of this city, a meeting of the members, with sev- enty in attendance, was held in the church hall last night. At this meet- ing, it was decided, by a vote of 56 to 14, to retain the Ukrainian priest, Rev. Father Chrustawka, as priest in charge of the church, In the course of the meeting, new as follows: President, Sam Pavlenchuk, Vice-President, D, Artym. Recording Secretary, Alex Lazar. Financial Secretary, Hnat Gelech. Treasurer, Anton Zaitz, Trustees: John Waselek, John Puchalsky, D. Zivareck, George Ro- manchuk, Ewhen Kavtsenick, Dme- tra Warvaruk, Andro Hretsay. Controllers: George Semenchuk, Felez Matkaliuk, and Dmetro Gadek. The affairs of the church were keenly discussed at the meeting, which resulted in the Russian fac- tion opposed to Father Chrustawka being shown as very much in the minority. . HOSTEL TO STAY OPEN TO MAY | 'Still Serving Meals About 120 Regular Boarders Daily to The hostel for single men op- erated by a sub-committee of the City Council appointed for this purpose is to remain open until May 1 on which date, according to present plans, #t will be final- ly closed for the summer. At the present time the Hostel ig serving two meals a day to nearly 120 regular boarders while a large number of trans- fents are also provided . with meals as occasion requires, HON. E. A. DUNLOP. SUFFERS COLLAPSE Toronto, April 13.--Hon. E, A. Dunlop, Provincial Treasurer, {is confined to his bed with illness and will be forced to remain there for at least a few days more, it was learned yesterday. Mr. Dun- lop was to have delivered the pringipal address last night at the annual dinner of the Cana- dia Socfety of Cost Accountants and Industrial Engineers, On- tario Chapter, but was unable to attend. Mr. Dunlop collapsed at his home on Sunday, and on the or- ders of his physicians would be confined to his bed "for some time", it was reported by Kris A. Mapp, president of the branch, in regretfully announcing Mr, Dunlop's inability to be' present at the dinner. . EE ------------------ a. Many a weather forecaster has been badly weatherbeaten. Courtesy opens many doors and lack of courtesy leaves them (Continued on page 4) open. officers were elected by the church 1] One of Lindbergh Offered in Connecticut Store Greenwich, Conn., April 13.-- A middle-aged woman fled from a bakery here last night after a $20 note which she had offered was {identified positively by the proprietress as one of the Lind- bergh ransom notes. Police said the note hore the number KB 03387539A. The woman, who had come to the store in a green sedan driven by a chauffeur, grabbed the note and ran when the proprietress, described by police as a Mrs. Decornille, exclaimed: "Why, that's one of the Lind- bergh bills." : The bill number was originally announced at police headquarts ers as KB 03387529A, a number which did not appear on the of- 's Ransom Notes ficial list of ransome notes, Of- ficlals announced, later, however, that a recheck had shown the next to the last digit was a "3" instead of a "2", Mrs. Decornille, who has re- sided in Greenwich less than two weeks, had a newspaper list of the ransom bills posted beside the counter. She told police the woman, well dressed and attrac- tive, entered the shop at 5 p.m. and tendered 'thé pote after or- dering a strawberry ple and a loaf of bread. The bakery is located on the Boston Port Road in the centre of Greenwich, Greenwich police broadcast = descripton of the automobile and the woman on the automatic AT OPENING SESSION OF i SCENE AT OSHAWA GAS COOKING SCHOOL SCHOOL OF GAS COOKING Above is a photograph taken yesterday afternoon at the Oshawa School of Gas Cooking in the Luke | Furniture Store. The school, which is being conduc ted by Mrs. Florence Gray, is being held under the auspices of the Ontario Shore Gas Company .and six of Oshawa's leading gas stove dealers. OSHAWA CADETS DID SPLENDIDLY IN COMPETITION Stood 24th in Roll of Honor for Whole of British Empire The Oshawa Sea Cadet Corps, sponsored by the Oshawa Kiwanis Club, won 24th plaee in the whole British Empire in the 1931 Imperial Challenge Shields Competition con- ducted. by the National Rifle Asso- ciation' of Great Britain, This in- formation has just been received by J. W. Worrall, commander of the cadets. The local corps was not only placed 24th in the honors list of the best 100 uhits of the empire, but also.stood twelfth in the Do- minion, of Canada with an average of 92.3 points in the competition. Over 36,000 cadets from all parts of the British Empire participated in the competitions, and Canada had the honor of winning all the Im- perial Trophies, the senior and jun- ior shields and the two swords, and, with one exception, provided all the runners-up. The announcement of this success by the Oshawa Sea Cadets, made at today's luncheon of the Kiwanis Club, was reegived with hearty ap- plause, NOTED OFFICER T0 VISIT CITY Lt.-Col J. S. Bladin of Sal- vation Army Has Served in Many Countries Lt.-Col. John S. Bladin, who is to lecture in the Salvation Army Cit- adel on Thursday evening, is a high- ly placed officer of the Salvation Army, and has had a great variety of experiences in many different countries. An Australian by birth, he has done Salvation Army work in his own country, in New Zealand at the front in France with the New Zealand troops, in Ceylon, and in many other countries. On Thurs- day evening, he is to give an illus- trated lecture, "The Pearl of the Orient," dealing with the life, cus- toms and manners of the people of Ceylon. Col. Bladin is now engag- ed in. touring Canada in the in- terests of Salvation Army work, and hig visit to Oshawa is being await- ed with, much interest. EXPENDITURES TO ..BE INVESTIGATED (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, April 12, -- Expense accounts of the Canadian Nation- al Rallways officials,' the pur- chase by the railway directorate of a house for Sir Henry Thorn- ton, issuing of free passes by the rallway, and the renovation of the Prime Ministers' apartments in the Chateau Laurier are all matters: which have been delegat- ed for, investigation to a sub- committee of the House of Com- mons committee on rallways and 1 typewriter system. ; shipping. This emerged from 'a No amount of talk about "unfair" ompetition and no amount of dis- criminatory . legislation directed against the use of motor vehicles will solve Canada's railway problem Such was the view expressed by W. A. Irwin, Associate Editor of MacLean's Magazine, speaking to the Kiwanis Club at its luncheon today. "Were every private motor car in the Dominion put under lock and key and all commercial motor vehicles, both freight and passenger, legislated off the highway, the rail- ways of the country would still be in serious difficulties. In fact, so important has the motor vehicle be- come to the efficient working of the general transportation scheme, that the dislocation resulting from its abolition, might easily leave the railways in a worse position than that in which they now find them- selves." Motors are Minor Competition Those whe blamed the steam rail- ways' troubles on the private motor vehicle, on the motor bus or on the motor truck, continued the speaker, were merely beclouding an issue whose successful solution depended Kiwanis Speaker Gives Outspoken Address on Transportation Problem on clear thinking and not on ap- peals to sectional interests, All these agencies, the truck, the bus and the private car had contributed in some measure to the decline in rail way earnings but in the aggregate the drain so imposed was probably not more than a sixth of the loss in revenue experienced by the steam roads during the past three years. Railway revenue had dropped $200,000,000 between 1928 and 1931 whereas the total loss in rail re- ceipts attributable to motor vehicle competition had been probably not more than $32,000,000. The remaind- er of the loss could be attributed only to business conditions Analyzing the relation between the operation of various types of motor vehicles and steam road op- erations, the speaker pointed out that since 1920 the private motor car had heen the primary cause of the decline in railway passenger earnings. Today the steam roads actually were carrying fewer pass- engers than they were in 1910; and at least seventy-five per cent. of the decline had been due to the private car. In the aggregate the nropor- (Continued on page 4) BOY SCOUTS TO HOLD APPLE DAY Will Adopt Novel Plan of Raising Money for Their Work The Boy Scouts of Oshawa are to hold their first 'Apple Day" on Saturday of this week, when apples will be offered for sale on the elty's streets in aid of the funds which make the Scout ac- tivities possible. Three thousand No. 1 spy ap- ples, all grown locally, and of the splendid quality which usual- ly retalls in the stores for about five cents each, have been ob- tained and will be offered for sale by the boys to Oshawa citi- eens, the occasion taking the place of the usual tag day. Citizens may pay as much or as little as they like for the fruit on Saturday, and in buying tliese apples will be helping in a movement which does a splen- did work among the boys of the city. : DIES ON TRAIN Stratford, April 12--W, E. Weeg- er, superintendent of transportation, Stratford division, Canadian Na- tional Railways, died suddenly this morning on train enroute from Ow- en Sound. and followed a prolonged discus- slon on . railways expenditures generally. - Dr, . Peter McGibbon, Cons, Muskoka; F. R. MacMillan, Cons., Saskatoon and W,.D, Eu- lor, Lihéral, North Waterloo, will session of the committes today comprise the: sub-committee, MAY DO DREDGING AT THE HARBOR Recent Grounding of Coal Steamer Results in In- vestigation The recent grounding of the steamer Coalhaven at the en- trance to the Oshawa Harbour has been called to the attention of the proper authorities by the government wharfinger, Col. B. J. McCormick with the result that soundings are being taken this week and dredging will be commenced if found necessary. In a letter addressed to Col. McCormick the district engineer of the Department of Public Works, J. M. Wilson, says as fol- lows-- "I expect to have soundings taken during the present week and if dredging is found neces- sary, a recommendation to that effect will be made at Ottawa." PENITENTIARY TERM . FOR FIRING JAIL Cobourg, April 12, -- Plead- ing guilty to setting fire to the town jail, Willlam Roberts, alias Paul Lalonde and Edward Pot- ter, alias Paddy O'Connor, were sentenced to two years in. the Portsmouth Penitentiary here today. The two were arrested on vagrancy charges on March 19, and according to evidence at the trial today, had proceeded to set fire to the building. They as- saulted Provincial Constable W. Carey and Constable L. Barker in a wild melee and wera sentenced to the penitentiary at the time for this offence. The sentences are concurrent, PRIZES WON BY LOCAL WOMEN AT COOKING SCHOOL Interesting Demonstration Was Given Yesterday by Mrs. Gray LARGE AUDIENCE Final Session of School of Gas Cooking Tomor- row Afternoon Yesterday afternoon, store formerly occupied by the Luke Furniture Company, the in the Ontario Shore Gas Company opened fits three-day cooking school, of which Mrs. Florence Gray a dietitian and Household Sclence graduate of Columbia University 1s in cnarge. Over | attended this opening session, | taking the advantage of the ex- | cellent demonstration of cooking | by gas, and the household sug- | gestions made by Mrs, Gray as well as the chances on the valu- able prizes that are being offer- ed each day, Mrs. H, Burgess of 102 Elgin Street West, Mrs, Ar- thur Lambert of Colborne Street West, and Mrs. Glenn Allin of Beverley Street were yesterday's winners. The prizes given yester- | day were an aluminum waterless cooker, a table lamp, and the cake that Mrs. Gray baked dur- ing the afternoon. Clever Speaker ' Mre. Gray is a very clever speaker as well as a good cook, and she succeeded in making her cooking lessons very entertain- ing, degressing now and then from a conversation on cooking, and kitchen hints, to tell a funny story. She will be here today and again tomorrow and it is certain that those who attended the first cooking demonstration, will re- turn for the other two days and have with them many of their friends, The building formerly used as a store provided ample accommodation for more than were present on Monday after- noon. Gaye Household Pointers In order to get acquainted with her audience, Mrs. Gray, did not do as much cooking yesterday as she will today and Wednesday, but spent most of the time talk- ing to them. However, she did show the ladies present how ex- tremely easy it is to make a suc- cessful cake in one of the gas stove ovens. All the time-she was baking the cake, Mrs. Gray was handing out bits of information that would be of value to oven to the most experienced house- keeper and cook, and she gave (Continued on page 3) COMMISSION T0 TRY TO COLLECT Solicitor Instructed to Start Proceedings Against Glass Company The Public Utilities Commission, by resolution passed at the special meeting held last night, will in- struct its solicitor to take the neces- sary legal steps to collect the ac- count which is outstanding for pow- er against, the old Feldspar Glass Company. It will be re-called that represen- tatives of those who are interested in this company's re-organization and future activities waited on thc Commission some months ago and o" tained an extension of the time in which payment had to be made but nothing has been heard since that time from these people. The account amounts to nearly TEXTILE PLANT STILL WORKING Possibility That It May Be Taken Over by English * Firm The pent of the Oriental Textile Company is still being kept active under the administration of the re- feree in bankruptcy and it is under- stood there is a possibility of one of the larger creditors, an English manufacturing firm of excellent re- putdtion, taking over the local fac- tory. While nothing definite can yet be announced in this connection indi- cations are that the future of this industry appears brighter at the present time than it has done for APPROVED LAST NIGHT AS NEW ACCOUNTANT OF UTILITIES Ld MAYOR RESIGNS [Maver Selected three hundred women of the city | MAYOR P. A. MACDONALD Nho today tendered his resigna- tion as mayor of Oshawa on being appointed to the position of accountant of the Oshawa Public Utilities Commission. TORONTO DRIVER PLEADS GUILTY TO RECKLESS DRIVING Robert Hayes Has Driving License Cancelled for Six Months Robert Hayes, of Toronto, who appeared before Magistrate Creighton in police court last week, pleaded guilty this morn- ing on Simcoe Street North the night of April 4, ship imposed a fine of $10 and corts and ordered the cancella- tion of the accused's driving li- cense for a period of six months. Hayes, who was represented by J. C. Anderson, stated that he was the owner of the car, and that he had had a driver's li- cense for six months, as he was sixteen years old. Telling of the accident in which he was involv- ed, he said that he was driving south on Simcoe street, when he taw a car ahead near the centre of the road. He tried to avoid it by applying his brakes and turning out but failed to miss the car, Dr. Roy Graham, the driver of the car struck, stated that he saw no car coming when he was a sirort distance up the street but coon after heard a horn and stop- ved and was struck with great force by a car coming from the rear. He stated that his car was shoved 45 feet with the em- errency brake applied. He said thot the car would require a new set of gears, drive shaft, and rear whee] as well as considerable paint. "Gladys celebrated her birth- day last week." "Did she take the day off?" "The day off? She took two years off!" ing to a charge of reckless driv- | on | His Wor- | COMMISSION | as New Official Out of 27 Appli- cants, at Meeting of Commission, and Will Have to Vacate Office COUNCIL TO ELECT HiS SUCCESSOR Mayor Macdonald Voices ' Regret at Finding It Necessary to Give Up Office to Which He Was Elected in January | Mayor Peter A. Macdonald is re- signing from municipal office, hayv- ng been formally notified last night | of his appointment to the position accountant to the Public Utilities, mission. He will continue to | perform' the duties of mayor, it is | understood, for this week the office | not being formally declared vacant | until just prior to the regular meel- ing of the city Council on Monday | night. At a special meeting of the Pub-- lic Utilities Commission held last [ night twenty-seven applications for | this appointment were received and | considered, the chairman, Commis- | sioner F, I, Mason, and the Gen- | eral Manager, George F. Shreve, | being empowered by resolution to | make the appointment, ! To Commence April 16 | Following adjournment of this | meeting Mayor Macdonald met the | chairman and secretary of' the Com~ In on and accepted the appoint. | ment, his dutics to commence on April 16. Commissioner Mason, in announ- cing this action, staied that there lis no question of Mayor Macdon- ald"s qualifications for such an ap- pointment, and added "Peicr Mag- | donald's six years of splendid ser- vice to the city of OsMwa in pub- lic office fully entitles him to some | recognition. Personally this weigh- | ed with me very considerably." Has Long Experience Mayor Macdonald was an efiy- | plovee of The Pedlar People up | until a few months ago, serving this | firm for a period of twenty-two | years, over ten years holding the position of office manager and chief | accountant, | It will be re-called that he only | consented to become a candidate in | the mayoralty election after a great | deal of urging by his many friends | in the city, it being common knowl- edge even at that time that there was a possibility of his personal af- fairs making his resignation neces- sary before his term of office had been completed, Expresses Regret ; In announcing his resignation this morning the Mayor stated that he did so "with a great deal of re- gret. "During the last six years in which I have served as a member of the City Council I have made many friends and, although we have had some hard problems to face, the work has been most interesting and worth-while," said the Mayor. "To be Mayor of such a city is a great honour, not to be easily re- linquished, but my resignation is made absolutely necessary now that I am appointed to a position under the Public Utilities Commission, on which the mayor holds a seat as the representative of the City Council." Council Will Elect The question of filling the Maya (Continued on page 3) Argentine Towns Buenos Aires, April of rush the the night of oxygen for ment of cases tion from volcanic gas poured forth by erupting craters in the Andes, The calls for oxygen came from from Malargue and San Kafael, while a cavalry regiment in the southern part of the Prov- ince went to the aid of severely stricken villages, where the pop- ulace feared wholesale asphyxia- tion, A grey volcanic precipitate mantled the pampas of Argentina and obscured the sun in many areas, Mendoza reported two earth- quake shocks early in the day and the business houses of Tren- que la Quen, an mmportant town #00 miles west of the capital, cloged because of the ashes and daricness. The area covered was approx- imately 400 miles long, bounded on the north by the Brazillan- Paraguayan border, and on the south by the comjunction of the Salado and Atuel Rivers, 1 od last Ministry to some months, 3 { was sqme 700 miles wide, covers 12. ~--) ing Buenos Aires Towns in Mendoza Province ask- Interior drums treat- of asphyxia- are Threatened by Outburst of Volcanic Activity and Monte- video, Uruguay, on the east. Lights Are Needed Many towns in Argentina purned street lights throughout vesterday. a powdery blanket heretofore unknown, but the newspapers an- nounced in large headlines there was no danger to the populace. The snowy drift whitened clothing and stung the eyes, and its gritty substance filtered into: offices and homes, The fall increased during the afternoon, and automobiles left tracks in the streets. while chils dren played at making patterns with their fingers on the ground. Scores of towns reported simi lar or worse conditions westward: Railways reported most traing. coming from the west wera dee layed on account of poor visis bility. : While Argentina was mainly interested In the volcanic acti= vity, despatches from Corrientes sald the Parala Svat, syalien by rains gver the Chaco and Mat- to Grosso' regions, had flooded lands to a depth of twenty inches, interrupting railway and automo bile traffic. Buenos Aires was covered with