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~A Growing Newspaper in a Growing City + The Oshawa Dail) ( p rE § Succeeding The Oshawa Reformer y VOL. 11--NO. 70 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932 \ in PRICE THREE CENTS 3110597 PROBS, | Fair Tonight and on Sat. | wrday; Quite Cool Tonight EIGHT PAGES CITY AGAIN WINS FIRE WASTE SHIELD Hydrant Rentals Cause Dispute Between Two Bodies COUNCIL SENDS BILL BACK TO COMMISSION AND DISPUTES CHARGE Letter From Fire Chief Elliott to Public Utilities Commission Objects to Double Charge for Some Hydrants ASKS THAT OTHERS BE DISCONTINUED Commission Frakes View That Charges Are Cor- rect and Instructs That Manager Press for Pay- ment The Property Committee of the City Counci] quwstions the ren- tal account for hydrants covering the months of July and August as submitted to the city hy the Public Utilities Commission and advocates the removal of certain fire hydrants altogether. The Utilities Commission last night was in receipt of a com- munication from Fire Chier W R, Elliott which read as follows: "These hydrant rental] accounts I was unable to certify as correct and T have taken the matter up with the City Property Commit- tee of the City Counci] who in turn, have advised me to write you accordingly. 'e are agreed that there are 249 hydrants which the city is willing to pay for at the rate of $50.00 p:r hydrant as per agrec- ment with the Public Utilities Commission. The matter of double rating for four-way hyd- rants is disputed as we have never received any memorandums - UNKNOWN MAN 13 HELD BY POLICE Tells Various Stories, But Cannot Establish His Identity A man, giving the name of '"'George Jones', has been in the custody of the Oshawa Police for ihe last few days, and is at pres- ent confined to the Whitby Jail nominally awaiting trial on a charge of vagrancy, but actually awaiting definite identification =o that he may Le returned to his friends. This man was reported to have gone to the plant of General Mo- tors and asked that he be given a new Pontiac coupe for a firm of dealers in Niagara Falls. He had n> papers whatsoever to back up his request and the police were notified, Some days later he 'ried the same trick and was tak- en into custody. He first told the police that he had come to Oshawa to obtain a car on delivery and drive it back to Niagara Falls. The second story was that he had just drop- ped off in Oshawa while travelling west from Montreal where he owns a string of race horses. Questioned macre closely he switched first from one story to another, He told the pdlice of having ben a patient In Rock- wood Hospital, Kingston, "with a sprained ankle." The only name for one of his gtring of horses in Montreal that he could remem- ber was "Monkey Wrench." He is described as a man of about 47 years of age; 5 ft. 7 ins. NEW FILTRATION PLANT GEREMONY T0 BE HELD OCT. 7 Public Invited to Inspect the Plant and Attend Ceremony Oshawa's new Filtration Plant will be formally opened on Fri- day, October 7, the Public Utili- ties Commission having decided on this date as most convenient at its regular meeting held last night. The engineer in charge of con- struction, F. A. Dallyn, reported the plant as "ready for the official opening at any time now" and the members of the Commission left many of the arrangements for the proposed ceremonies in his hands. Representatives of the Ontario and Dominion Governments, the Provincial Health Department, the Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission, together with engi- neers and executives who are in- terested in such matters will be invited to take some part in the proceedings while the Mayor and members of the City Council, Board of Education, Board of Health, and other public bodies will be the guests of the Osha- wa Commission. The plant will be thrown open for the inspec'ion of the general public on the opening day, when a small army of engineers will be on hand to explain the intricate details of the process through which the water passes before it enters the mains which serve the ultimate consumer, while the whole population of Oshawa will be welcome at the opening cere- mony. Train Schedule Changes Made FAVORS BACK-T0- LAND SCHEME TO END DEPRESSION Gordon D. Conant Was the' Speaker at Open Forum Last Night Stressing the vale of a back- to 1 the-land policy as a means of end- | ing the present era of depression | so far as Canada is concerned, Gor- | MEN WHO INVESTIGAT ED CANADA'S RAILWAY PROBLEM & > DOMINION HONORS ARE AGAIN GIVEN OSHAWA IN CONTEST FOR 1932 t t t | | AUTECR CF REPORT "ove are the rizn who investigat- Legion Not t Satisfied With ed Canada's rciiway prob'ems, an whose repo.t has just been made public. op row, left to right: -- | Lord Ashfield, Professor W. C. Murray, L. F. Lores. Second row: Beaudry Leman, Rt. Hon, L. P. Duff, Sir Joseph Flavelle, at the bottom Dr, J, C, Webster. WILL PRESS FOR Canadian Tegion will continue to that a direct t REPRESENTATION Council Attitude on Welfare Board The Oshawa Branch t of the tha city counci) its months azn, 3). upon made t¥u veprosentetive press request, PROCEDURE OF Council Was Not Consulted last night Ly the Public Utilities Commission on tion received by the general man- 'of the learned this Times that there is that the question referred to in been before the city council as a whole for consideration, Commission by Chief Elliott, in this paper, was authorized by city council and the chief on the instructions of ed by many members of the coun- cil ag to why the usual proced- ure was not adopted, and some recommendation council as a whole regarding the removal of certain fire hydrants f by the property committe. short there is likely to be a lively debate in the near future as to whether or not the city property committee has dea! direct with the Public Utili- or whether the proper channel of communication should not be city council and the city elerk, clerk. COMMITTEE MAY BE CRITICIZED, on Letter Regarding Fire Hydrants Regarding the action taken the communica- ger of utilities from the chief fire department, it fis morning by Tho no record ever he fire chief's letter has the : the ext of which appears elsewhere The letter addressed to he property committee of the forwarded by hat committee. The question is now being ask- made to city In the authority to fes Commission on such matters, Troops Clear Award for Annual Com- petition of Canadian «Chamber of Commerce Comes to Oshawa for Second Consecutive Year TRIBUTE TO FIRE PREVENTION WORK Fire Chief Gives Credit to Property-owners of City for Co-operation Which Brought Shield to Osh- awa The City of Oshawa has been declared winner of the annual Dominion-wide, inter-city '"Fire Waste Contest" for the year end- ing May 31, 1932, according to official information now received by the Oshawa Chamber of Com- merce from the Canadian Cham- ber of Commerce under whose ar- rangements the annual contest is conducted. It will be recalled that in Class 2, comprised of cities be- tween fifteen and fifty thousand population, Oshawa was declared the winner in 1931, the first year that the contest was in ex- istence, so that this city has the honor of winning this coveted trophy for the first two successive years of the contest. The award is made by three members of the Canadian Fire Waste Council sitting as a board of judges which examines the def- inite record of achievement ac- complished by each city entered. The basis of the award is the re- duction in fire loss during the year; the amount of educational activity along the lines of fire prevention; the most permanent structural! fire improvements and preventive improvements made during the year. i The coveted trophy, a silver Way for Miners (By Canadian Press) Taylorville Ill, Sept. 28.--Tear and gas smoke bombs of the mil- itia burst in ' the streets oi in height; fair hair turning grey, and a very pale complexion, It is thought that he may pos- sibly have wandered away from a hospital or some other institu- tion for those who are mentally deficient, Th'orough enquiry from due or opommunication from the afore-mentioned Commission that they could, or would charge * $100.00 for hydrants; and at this late date we find that we have Ludgeted only on a budget uf $50.00 per single hydrant. shield, has hung in the office of the Oshawa Fire Chief for the last year but must now be taken down to have a second shield placed In position bearing the words "Oshawa, 1931. ~along- side the first shield which is in- the war vetera:s of Oshawa le appointed as a member of the Public Welfare Board, This wag decided at the monthly in et- ing of the hranch held last nizht, when there was a lengthy debate New Hours of Departure for Trains Effective on Sunday don D, Conant delivered an inter esting address to an audience of | py P d * sons at the mecting of the Jo-lear ro uction . Down in August about two hundicd interested per- Forum in the Centre Street School Auditorfum last night, Citing fig ures to show the decline in the of clearing the Discontinue HyUrants "Further, the City Property Committee would ask for the dis- continuance of four hydrants which I shall list, with their lo- catibn, for you. They have very little or no value to the city for fire fighting and we can find no authority given by the City Coun- cil for their placement: "The first is situated on Grier- son Street; the second in Alexan- dra Park; the third on Simcoe Street North directly in front 'of the home of Charles Robson, and the fourth on Me'ca!fe Street in the middle of the block." Engineer Explains Asked for information regard- ing these four-way hydrants the waterworks enginger, E. A. ()l- vin, stated: "We have seven dou- ble hydrants, and the recent sur- vey of the whole system brought to light the fact that in the past the city hag only been charged double rental for two out of the seven, They have paid for two + right along. "The double hydrants are plac- ed as follows: corner of King and Simcoe Streets; corner of Rich- mond and Simcoe; one near the Collegiate Institute; corner of Prince and Richmond Streets: corner of Mary and Richmond (Continued on page 3) police officials the province bring no information whatsoever regarding him and Chief of Po- lice Friend is anxious to identify him as quickly as possible, Change in Time Tomorrow Night Tomorrow pight, at midnight, Oshawa will go back to 'standa time, after having been on davlight saving time since the end of Aoril, While the official regulations pro vide that all c'ocks will be turned back one hour at midni~hi, it 1s likely that most citizens of Oshawa will turn them back before retiring tor the night. This will give then the! advantage of an extra hour of rest, to make up for the hour thev lost when the clocks were pushed ahead in April, Toronto, Whithy and Bowmanville, and other com- munities along the jakeshors which set their time by Toronto, will ail revert back to standard time tomor- row night. The change in ths eve- nings will be very noticeable next week, but earlv ris-~° will have the benefit of the earlier daylight in the morning. Oshawa Legion Branch Pressing for Greater Unity Between Bodies of War Veteran: A resolution aiming at more complete unity among the war veteran bodies now in existence in Canada was passed by the Oshawa branch of the Canadian " Legion at its meeting last night, to be submitted to the provincial and dominion commands fr consideration. Regret was volc- ed at the coming into being of small bodies of veterans, some Dominion charters, and the feel- ing of the meeting was that every effort should be made to secure unity. Adjustment Report The pension adjustment offi: cer of the branch, James Hotit, presented a very satisfactory re- port on the last month's work The report showed that medical examination boards for pension of which had becn applying for (Continued on page 3) INFANTILE PARALYSIS CASE IS REPORTED TO CITY AUTHORITIES A case of Poliomyelitis, gener- ally known as infantile paralysis, has becn reported to the Medical Officer of Health as occurring in this city. The patient is the four- year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. W, Charlton, 264 Centre Street, E This case Ig considered as one of the isolated cases which occurs from time t5 time in the major- lity of cities and towns, the origin dof which it is almost impossible ito trace, and no epidemic is anti- i cipated. ls Ii is understood that ofie or [ftwo cases have als) been report- £d from Sx Rboring townships and Dr. T. W. G. McKay infers, fn an expression of opinion given to The Timeg this morning, that weather conditions have much to do with these occurrences of this dread disease. "In the old days when the gen- eral practitioner depended on diptheria and typhoid for his in- come in the summer, and on the grace of God in the winter, this type of weather in the fall was always looked upon as a breeder of typhoid. One may be justified. therefore, in considering whether or not the unseasonable weather conditions of the last week or go may not be partly responsible for the development of poliomye- 8," said the Medical Offic f Health, iis he With the coming into effect on Sunday of Standard Time, there will be a number of changes in the train schedules of the Cana- dian National Rallways for Osh- awa, Nearly al] the westbound traing will be running on new schedules, while three of the im- portant eastbound trains will also be changed. A summary of the new train service, which will be effective on Sunday, is .as fo. lows: Westbound Trains Train now leaving at 4.50 a.m. will leave at 4.59 a.m, Train now jeaving at 5.10 a.m will be ehanged to 6.05 a.m, Train now leaving at 5.57 a.m will leave in future-at 6.40 a.m. Train jeaving at 4.06 p.m. wii! leave at 4.12 p.m, Train leaving at 7.01 p.m, wili be changed to 6.58 p.m., daily ex- cept Sundays, Train leaving at 9.17 p.m. will remain at the same time, there being no change. Eastbound The trains changed on the eastbound service are as follows Train leaving at 12.02 a.m, this being a flag train which stops only to pick up passenger for Montreal and east, will leave at 1.01 am, Train leaving at 12.12 a.m daily will leave at 12.32 a.m. The train now leaving at 10.10 p.m., daily, has been changed 'o 10.22 p.m, and will run dail, except Sunday. The night train which runs Sundays only, will continue to (Continued on page 3) WRITES THANKS FOR FAIR PRIZE Mrs. F. F. Morris, Bow- manville, Proud of Clock A very pleasing communica- tion was read at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Re. tail Merchants' Association this morning in which Mrs, F. PF. Morris, of Bowmanville, winner of the grandfather clock at the Oshawa Falr, expresses her thanks to the retail merchants of Oshawa. Mrs. Morris' letter read as fol- lows: "1 would like to take this opportunity of conveying to your Association, my sin- cere thanks for the .wonder Grandfather Clock which you so generously presented to the "Lucky Lady" at Osha- wa Fair. I was fortunate enough to be that lucky lady, and IT am proud, indeed, to have such a beautiful clock in my home." farm population of Canada, and ihe falling-off in the ratio of agricultue- | al to manufactured products, Mr, Conant asscreed that the whole or- | der of development in Cancda would have to be reversed in order to produce a practical method of ending depression, F. W, Watkin- occupied the chair, and after Mr. Conant had spoke: G. Car-] nell also spoke, large claborating on Mr. Conant's these of a back- to-the-laind movement, A question period which followed was doeidely interesting, and the neeting was one of the most interesting and en thusiastic of the ser.es, Mr. Conant's Address "We have heen flying in the fac of nature and providence," said Ar Conant, in orening his address' Statistics indicate the enorme: agriculture possibilities of Canta We have only occupied forty per cent of our aEFieujne 1 lands, Of our total producti 44 per cent is manufactured its and enly 36 per cent agricultural, Something is wrong with this scheme of things, or rather the direction we have civ- en to our national heritage and destiny. It would be futile to cn- deavour to determine the relative importance of manufactures and agriculture. Both are of the ut- most importance, Fach provides a market for the other, but with such a vast heritage and unlimited pos- sibilities of agricultural develop- ment, one may well question wheth- er we have done all we can to pro mote agricultural development. Tariffs Useless "Granted that our manufacturers have shown consunmate energy and zenius in the development of manu- facturing, it must also be conceded that they have had the material us sistance of benizn governments and friendly tariffs, Not so, however, the agricultural interests, for tms very simple reason that tariffs are powerless to assist them. Two-thirds (Codtifue] on 7 on page 3) Last of Dinghy Races Tomorrow Tomorrow afternoon, the Osh- awa Yacht Club wil have its las! race of the 1932 season. This wil] be In the " of a con- solation race, with eight boats entered, Suitable handicaps ave being arranged, calculated to give the boats which have not won any of the previous contes"s a fair chance at a prize in this race. The dinghy which won the Conant trophy, No. 14, was sailed by William and Harold Hart, will be the scratch wvudr, with the others securing time a!- lowances to even it up. This should make for a highly intes- esting race, and the dinghy sail- ors are looking forward to a fine son S afternoon's sport to close their season, on the whole question of the sta- tus of war veterans, | Exports of Automobiles, | However, Rzached High- | est Point for 1932 3 Produc- | Ottawa, Sept. 223. tion of 4.067 motor cars and | trucks in Canada during August | was with the c¢xeeption of Jan- nary, the lowest figure reported for any month the year date." The nm of ears made was 46 per cent under the 7,477 ears in the previons month and 10 per eent less than the 4,544 cars in August of a year ago, Compared by types of cars the August figures show that trucks advanced to 901 from 699 fin July, but this gain was not suf- ficient to offeet the decline 0 passenger cars to 3,166 from 6,- TT Customs records show that the number of cars Imported into Canada during August dropped to 86 from 114, while during the same period exports advance! to 1,566 from 1,540. The ex- port figure for August was the highest for any month of this year to date, Of this month's output 2,312 cars were made for sale in Canr- ada, lJeaving a balance of 1,75» cars intended for export. The apparent consumption of cars during the month as determined by adding the 2,312 cars made for sale in Canada to the 86 im ported, amounted to 2,398 cara. During the next preceding mon'h the apparent consumption, thus computed, was 4,887 cars and in August 1931, it totalled 4,140 cars. of Lr her To Halt Evictions of War Veterans "No evictions for war vet- erans," vias a policy laid down at last night's meeting of the Osh- awa Branch of the Canadian Le- gion, when details of attempted evictions were laid before the meeting hy a number of members who had been served with 1» tices. Ther: was much criticism of the city counci) for its delay in dealing with the problem of shelter, and while no definite plan of action was decided upon, other than that of direct applica- tion to the city relief depart- men, assurance was given that, should an actual eviction of a war veteran be attempted, ine Legion members .would take whatever steps nccessary to pre- vent it, "Goodbye," said Sandy Mac- Donald, "and don't forget to take little Donald's glasscs off when he isn't looking at anything." | was passed MERCHANTS CALL and partie- pensiovers, with relation relief, and a reson instruetine .uat the be taken up with the eity council, and a resolution instructing that the be taken up with the city eouncil, which, has the responsibility for the appoint- ment of tho Public Welfare Board. Reply to Ald. Boddy The debate centred very large- ly on the discussron of last Mion- day's council meeting, when a letter from the Legion, pro'est- ing against the request for rep- resentation being ignored, was read. Replying to Ald. Boddy's assertion that if the veterans were given representation, other bodies would ask for the san:e privilege, the Central Ratepayers' Council being named, one spe.k- er pointed out that the ratepay- ers were represented in the board by the mayor and two aldermen. and that the Property Owners Association was represented hy John Stacey. The war velerans, it was asserted, were the only citizens of Oshawa who had been placed in a special class, and barred from receiving city . re. lief and it was felt that to pro- tect their interests, and also to enable full advantage to he tak- (Continued on page 3) ularly to civie was passed matter again matter again ANNUAL MEETING New Board of Directors Will Be Elected at Meet- ing Next Friday A general meeting of all the retail merchants in the city is to be held in the Genosha H'tel on I'riday night, September 30, when the main business before the meeting will be the election of a new Board of Directors for the ensuing year, This was decided upon at 2 meeting of the present Board of Directors held in the Chamber of Commerce boardsroom this morn- ing following the adjournment for the summer months. At the general meeting the re- tiring directors will recommend to the retail merchants that the, numerical strength of the elected directorate be increased from sev- en to twelve, in order to permit of every particular line of retail business being represented on the Board. Every merchant conducting a retail business in the city will be notified by letter of this coming meeting, and\it is expected that over a hundred men and women will be in attendance. LETTER CARRIER cr, letter carrier, three years in the Potsmouth Peni- tentiar- ed of robbing the mail regular Times to Langleyville today, way for the union miners to go te work through the pickets or the new miners' union, who refuse to abide by the new $5 wage scale. Through a jeering, jio- ing crowd, the national guards- men pushed their way. Machire guns looked menacingly down the street from the end of the village. In platoons of six, bay- onets fixed, the guards march:d through the town, tossing gas bombs ahead to clear the way. The. roads into Langleyviile from @évery direction were pa- trolled by guardsmen to make the way safe for 200 miners to go back to the mines, SENTENCED Toronto, Sept. 23--Harold Bowsh- was sentenced to scribed 'Oshawa, 1930." Result of Co-operation Fire Chief Wesley Elliott, speaking to The Times this morn- ing regarding the success attain- ed in fire prevention work In Oshawa as compared with other cities of a similar population, stated '"'don't go pulting in the paper that the Fire Chief is to be congratulated, or anything like that. The Fire Chief bf this or any other city can do nothing, absolutely nothing, except en- force the by-laws of the city un- less he pronerty-owners as a whole are willing to accept his advice and suggestions, and act on both, "When I go to a propety-own- er in this city and suggest th's or that it is as good as done in the majority of cases. That is why Oshawa wing these contests, because of the co-operation that the Fire Chief enfioys from the pronerty-owners. The Fire Chief could 'holler his head off' but it today when h, was convict- (Continued on page 3) Oshawa Utilities Commission Reserves at Present Time Amount to Over ,000 Frank L. Mason, speaking from the chair of the Public Uti- lities Commission at last night's meeting, asked The "please correct the wrong impression conveyed in the article on Hydro matters ap- pearing in your paper to- -day. "The statement is made," said Commissioner Mason, "that 'Osh- awa, however, has no reserves.' The financial statement ag tabled here tonight shows the reserves this Commission to be over $27,- 00. "In addition to this reserve of liquid assets, actual cash, we have one sinking fund of $19,901.75; and an additional operating sur- plus of $108,285.65. These, how- ever, are fixed assets. "Our actual cash reserve as- sets, available at a moment's no. tice if necessary, are over $27.- 000," said the Chairman of the Commission. During the open regular meet- ing there was no discussion by the Commission of ways and means of meeting the extra charges for exchange being made by Hydro, but following the formal adjournment the members of the Commission re- mained to consider this matter. . Commissioner Mason, asked by the press regarding the matter, contented himselt with the brief statement 'the Commission will look after these charges. It may be difficult financing but it looks as if we will have to carry on as best we can." BEAUTIFUL VIOLIN IS PRESENTED TO FORMER OSHAWA GIRL VIOLINIST A fortunate little girl is Jose- phine Blake, 9-year-old violinist, now residing in Toronto, and for- merly of Oshawa. Josephine was this week pre- sented with a beautiful-toned vio- lin from a collection of over 200, owned by Mr. W. J. Saunders of Crawford St., Toronto. It happened through his hear- ing Josephine play at a concert last winter. Mr, Saunders was so impressed by her accomplished performance that an introduction was arranged, and her joy knew no bounds when he promised her a violin all her own. While Josephine hag played in some of the largest halls in Can- ada, she has had tb use borrowed instruments, as it was so difficult to obtain an instrument small enough, but with sufficient' tone for this diminutive prodigy. She stared on her first instru- ment at two and a half years, and has won many awards for violin playing--she has made a strong friendship with Mr. Saunders, whe is an old-time fiddler with many medals to his credit. Ha has one of the largest private collections of valuable violins in Canada.