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PUBLISHED 1 Every Week Day Except Saturday. dhe Oshawa Daily Tunes PROES, Mostly Cloudy; Showers. VOL. 27--NO. 39 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1940 Single Copies 3c EIGHT PAGES OSHAWA DAIRYMAN AUTO GRASH VICTIM he ed 99 Ontario Regiment Men Go To Camp Detachment U Under Capt. R. R. Insole Leaves for Camp Niagara by Train and Boat Early Today THOSE REMAINING TO CONTINUE DRILL Group Present Smart Ap- pearance in New Battle- dress Uniforms and Com- plete Equipment -- Orga- nizing Bugle Band Ninety-nine officers and men of | the Second Battalion, Ontario Regi- ment, N.P.AM., made personal con=- | tact with the cold - gray light of | dawn today as they prepared for | entrainment on their way to Camp | Niagara at Niagara-on-the-Lake as the first detachment of the Battal- jon to enter camp for a two-week period of intensive military train- ing. The group which consists en- tirely of men who were unable to get away from business and em- ployment ties for the regular camp period for the Battalion, Sept. 9 to 21, was under the command of Capt. R. R, Insole with Lieut. W. H. Gifford as second in command, Prior to entrainment at the CPR. Station at 6:53 am, the de- tachment "fell in" at the Armouries at 5:30 following which they were inspected by Lieut-Col. R. B. Smith as they lined up: in their newly issued battle dress uniforms and equipment including summer hats and rifles. Following inspection the troops marched to the C.P.R, station presenting an exceptionally smart apvearance as they stepped along Simcoe Street. Train and Boat From Oshawa the detachment travelled to Toronto in two special coaches and at Toronto they trans. ferred to a steamer, crossing Lake Ontario by boat. The group were accompanied to camp by Lieut.-Col. R. B. Smith and Adjutant W. G. Gifford who are returning to Osh- awa tonight. When they left here there was no information as to which Toron- to regiment they will join for the duration of their two-week camp period. They will undergo training in conjunction with a Toronto unit to which they will be assigned. In addressing the men, the command- ing officer urged them to carry out (Continued on Pzze 8, Col. 6) HALF OF ONTARIO TOBAGCD 18 LOST Frost Does. | $5,000,000 Damage in Western On- tario Counties Brantford, Aug, 26.--First official estimate of the damage by frost to | tobacco Saturday morning in Nor- folk, Middlesex, South Oxford and Brant Counties placed the loss at 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 pounds, or about $5,000,000. The estimate was meade by J. K. Perrett, secretary of the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Marketing Board. "In these counties," Mr. Perrett | said, "about 50 per cent of the en- tire crop is lost. The frost did not touch the crop in Essex County." The board's estimate of the total Top this year was 45,000,000 pounds. (With almost half '@f this gone, a new situation will develop in the obacco market, which has been staggering under a surplus of about 28,000,000 pounds carried over from last, year. The frost loss is not covered by | insurance. Hundreds of growers will | be hard hit. While individuals will suffer, the industry itself may be 'jacked up" by the heavy frost jdamage, one tobacco company offi- fal said. Most of the growers have pome tobacco from fast season still nsold. Field after field, right through he tobacco belt, is showing brown- sh red leaves that have heen 'frost burned." There can be. no palvage. In an area about fifty fles square, with Tillsonburg and Delhi as the centre, heaviest dam- pge has been done. In many other ases, though growers have lost eavily, they find some compensa- fon in the fact. that their tobazeo hat has heen processed, but still nsold will now bring a higher price, (211,000 People | theatre. Parmer Officer Gets His Platoon Stopped In Time Officers and men of the Second Battalion, Ontario Regiment, have been making splendid 'progress in their training since the battalion's | organization a month ago. Some of that progress has been the result of trial and error experience both among the officers and men. Com- mands to "left wheel" have been | given when 'right wheel' has been | intended and similar errors but the | prize mistake is credited to an offi- cer whose civilian life has been largely spent on a farm. Putting his platoon through marching drill, the officer finally | had the men marching directly into the Armouries wall. Nonplussed | he partially lost his head but re- | covered in time to shout "Whoa," | and avert a collision between the | wall and his platoon. | | GE, ATTENDANCE RECORD IS MADE WARRIORS DAY Throng Grounds, 4,000 More Than Previous Record CNE. ATTENDANCE 1940 44,000 211,000 1939 3 53,000 Saturday 207,000 Totals 255,000 230.000 Increase on day, 4,000. Decrease on year, 5,000, Toronto, Aug. 26. -- Aided by a bright sky, ideal autumn tempera- | ture and, perhaps, a desire to es- | cape was headlines, a record "Warriors' Day" crowd of 211,000 | jammed its way into the Canadian | National Exhibition on Saturday. | This was 4,000 more than attend- ed last year and away and above the best figure of the gay and boist- | | | | erous 1920's. Exhibition officials felt they had real justification for smiles. Sat- | urday provided the final bit' of | procf to end all arguments as to | whether the big show should be held in wartime. Some idea of the immensity of | the milling horde, of what 211,000 | people packed into the 350 acres of Exhibition space (about equal to two Ontario farms) means may be | gathered from the fact that the roadway north of the grandstand | and on through the midway was | | jammed to capacity with fun-seek- ers at the height of the warriors' parade, when 24,000 persons sat in the grandstand and another 5,000 watched from the paddock. The presence of that vast attend- ance was made known in no uncer- tain way again in the evening when an estimated 10,000 saw the drama of a people at war, in the film, | "Not Peace, But a Sword," which is being presented nightly by The Globe and Mail at the open-air The crowd, packed stand- ing, pressed back beyond the flanks of the building. A day-long dense (Continued on Page 8, Col. 6) SOLDIERS WHO CANNOT WIDEN AUTHORITY ACCOMPANY UNIT NEXT MONTH COMPRISE PARTY home 'defense. | ber of Provincial | ficlals warn that in no case should | circumstances | Worship Machine, Do. Not | the FOR CALLING OUT FEDERAL MILITIA Crown Attys. and Prov. Po- lice Inspectors Empowered Under Conant Program Toronto, Aug. 26.--Crown attor- neys, district, Ontario Provincial Police inspectors and Deputy Attor. ney-General Cecil Snyder have been given authority to call out the ac- tive militia in aid of civil powers in the event of disturbances in the Province, Attorney-General Gordon Conant announced last night. This action was taken under an Order-in-Council passed Aug, 7 as a result of 3 conference of Provin- cial attorneys-generals at Ottawa last month. It is designed to bolster "While I have designated a num- officials, suffi cient and necessary safeguards have, I believe, been set up to pre- vent unwarranted exercise of the power consistent with the practical working of the new regulations," Mr. Conant said. Instructions sent out to these of- the militia be requisitioned unless and conditions are exceptional and emergent. Officials should make sure such action "is necessary to protect life and prop- ery and that all available police and civil organizations are unable to meet or control the sitpation" Before action is taken by the specified officials they should ob- tain approval of the Attorney-Gen- eral, his denuty; William Stringer, Commissioner of Provincial Police; Deputy Commissioner Herbert Mc- Cready, or Staff Inspector Killing, in that order of availability. If none of these can be reached the Crown Attorney and district police inspector should confer be- tore either calls out the militia. FORD, LINDBERGH HITLER ADMIRERS, PLAYWRIGHT SAYS Express Views of U.S. People, Canadians Told New York, Aug. 26.--Henry Ford | and Charles A. Lindbergh are ex- | ponents of a "traitorous point of | view", Robert Emmett Sherwood, the American playwright, said last | night. Speaking at the invitation of the | Canadian Director of Public In- formation over a national network | of the Canadian Broadcasting Cor- poration in the series, '"Let's Face | the Facts," Mr. Sherwood said, "We | wish to tell the world that the voice | | of our country is not expressed oy Lindbergh or any other bootlickers of Hitler." Mr. Sherwood said constructive help by the United States for Can- | ada and Britain must be increased. | Germany was "doped up withthe | cocaine of a world revolution and | dream of world domination," but the tradition of freedom and | the way of life of the British and American peoples would triumph. From time to time freedom and equality had been threatened from within, he said. "In my own country today there are important men who have suc- cumbed to the demoralizing degen- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) John Ballantyne Gets 2 Muskies In An Hour Activities in General Motors Pur- [ chasing Department hit a new low | for half an hour this morning while | within an hour. John Ballantyne, departmental Izaak Walton, regaled co- workers | with his Saturday piscatorial ad- | ventures. As proof of his prowess | with the rod and reel he displayed | a swollen jaw which was caused by an uppercut of the two bellicose muskies which he subdued. Anyway that's Ballan- tyne's story. blame the jaw peated recantantion of his experi- | was used-for bait. ences. administered by one Skeptical condition confreres on re- | Regardless of 'incredulity over the jaw condition, the office gang are convinced was 'an eye-witness) tyne's story of angling luck is cor- | rect. (one of their humbers| that Ballan- | Motoring to Rice Lake Bal- | | as a prima donna with the level- | winding lantyne caught two fine muskel- | | lunge, each weighing 12 pounds, But the catching | of the Rice Lake tigers is the story. To begin with the Ballantyne tackle had seen better days. The | rod was slightly warped and only of 714-ounce weight, the line was 14 pounds test when new a year ago and the reel was as temperamental device non-functioning. All 'this added up to trouble when | Muskie No. 1 hit the wobbler which First the reel quit cold, and Mr. Muskie had to be pulled-in hand over hand. Get- ting him to the side of the boat, only a bass landing net was avail- able to bring him into the boat, But that was nothing compared to (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) 'over the week-end in which 13 cars saccidents. | ed him taken to the hospital for an | | pecially to. the legs. | owned by the Gordon McKay Com- | Street and Ritson Road with a passengers in the car suffered min- | Oshawa Boulevard, and was insur- King George Studies Britain's Defences | a $10 bill. Probably no one outside the army has a better working knowledge of every phase of Britain's defences | in touring army and air force centres throughout the nation. than the king, who is indefatigable Here he emerges from a dugout at an anti-aircraft post in Kent -- one of the | ground batteries which have brought in the past two weeks, down more than 50 German planes FIVE PERSONS INJURED SLIGHTLY IN ACCIDENTS Week-End "Accident Toll in| City Shows 13 Autos In-| volved in Seven Mishaps Local garages did lots of business were involved in seven automobile None of the accidents could be classed as really serious, although five people were injured. Steve Tuharsky suffered irfjuries | that necessitated him being taken to the hospital when he was knock- ed off his bicycle Friday. Tuhar- sky was about to turn into his driveway ct 503 Albert Street when he. collided with a car going south driven by John J. Galway, 324 Glen Road, Toronto. Dr. Millman at- tended the injured man and order- | examination. It was found that the man's injuries were "slight". There were no bones broken, considerable pruises and cuts were numerous, es- The car is | pany, Toronto. A car driven by Robert Ambrose, collided at the corner of William Wonder Bread truck driven by Jo- seph Patton 262 Bruce Street, on Friday evening. Both car and truck were badly smashed up, and two or leg injuries. Ambrose was going east on William Street and Patton north on Ritson Road when the col- lision occurred. The grill, right front wheel, fender and right rear wheel as well as the body of the car - ere damaged. Both left fend- ers and the grill of the truck were knocked in. y Another collision. in which two women suffered minor injuries oc- curred at the corner of King Street Fast and Oshawa Boulevard. Jack Atwell, 84 Woburn Avenue, Toronto, driving east on King Street East, was forced into a hydro pole at the corner of Oshawa Boulevard and King Street when the car he was | attempting to pass turned left up | Oshawa Boulevard. The latter car was driven by William Medland, 45 ed. Atwell"s car was the most seri- ously damaged and it was not cov- ered by insurance, Mrs. Annie At- well, a bump on the head, and Miss Winnifred Erz, 1607 Gerrard Street | Fast, Toronto, suffered a slight abrasion on the forehead and had her eyeglasses broken. An automobile owned by Alvin Teno, 371 Pine Avenue, was dam- aged to the extent of $10 Friday when struck in the rear by the car | belonging to Mr. 'Seleski, license number 3331.9. No damage was re- ported on the latter's car. Miss Sophie Edwards hit some- thing pretty solid Friday evening when she backed her car out of the driveway at 14 Ritson Road North, (Continued on Page 8, Col, 2) | bases on | Western Hemisphere might | for oid 'Y' Building Begins To Decay The old YMCA. apparently wants to follow the razed Oshawa [ Railway buildings into oblivion and | make way for the new post office | planned as a post-war edifice. Fire- | men had to erect long ladders on | the north side of the structure Fri- | day to push down insecure bricks which were menacing passers-by. When along strip of loose facure board was torn off many large birds' nests were discovered. Firemen responded to a call at the end of John Street at about | the same time in the afternoon. A fire was smouldering among some old automobile wrecks, the proper- ty of A. H. Robinson, 41 Queen | Street. It was soon extinguished | and no great damage was done. | Firemen think the blaze was start- | ed by mischievous boys. BERMUDA LEASES SOUND T0 STATES Will Be Used as Air or| Naval Base -- Statys in Empire Unchanged Hamilton, Bermuda, Aug. 26--The Great Sound of Bermuda will be made available to the United States for an air base, and possibly for a naval base, on a ninety-nine- year lease, Major-Gen. Sir Denis Bernard, Governor of Bermuda, in- formed a special session of the Legislative Assembly Saturday. The Legislature received assur- ances that the unprecedented step would have no effect on Bermuda's | status in the British Empire. specific in- States | in the | be es- tablished. Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons last Tuesday that Britain was discuss- ing such bases with the United States. It was intimated then that 'specific points on Bermuda, New- foundland and certain places in the West Indies all might become sites for United States bases for Western Kemisphere defense.) Status Not Prcjudiced A memorial sent to the Governor transmission to Lord Lloyd, Colonial Secretary in the Churchill | (This was the first dication of where United British territory Government, had declared that "the | people of Bermuda aie deeply dis- turbed lest some new conception of American hemispheric defense may affect the status of this ancient (Continued on Page 8, Col. 4) TANK SOLDIERS | were instantly killed Jest night when YOUTHS CONVICTED PASSING MEXIGAN 0-PES0 BANKNOTE Defraud Drug Store Mes- senger With Bill--Given Suspended Sentence Eighteen-year-old Thomas Rich- ardson, King Street East, and Hugh Miles, 36 Gibbons Street, leasee of a garage, pleaded guilty to defraud- ing Powell's Drug Store messenger boy by passing a ten-peso note on August 14th, and were placed on suspended sentence for two years, in police court this morning. "If you were the type of people who did this habitually, I would have no hesitation in imposing a | jail term," said His Worship Magis- trate F. S. Ebbs in passing sentence. | 'The pair had to pay the court costs, | and of course, make restitution to | the messenger boy. | "There's one of them at any | rate" commented Crown Attorney | Annis, after examining the ten- | peso note, (There had been reports lately of other ten-peso notes cir- | culating in the district) The bill was ordered confiscated. | In a written statement Miles and Richardson told their story. Some- time previous to the 14th Miles had himself accepted at his place of business a ten-peso note in place of One day he showed this to his friend Thomas Richardson, who said he would try to pass it. (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2) INJURED IN CRASH FATALTO 2 PALS | Truck Carrying Men From | Camp Borden Goes Into Ditch Near Churchill Toronto, Aug. 26 --Two soldiers were killed and five others injured Friday night when the laundry truck in which they had thumbed a ride pitched off No. 11 Highway near Churchill, plunged through a guard rail and crashed into the ditch below. (Two other soldiers, Privates Clive Johnson and Donald Reid, both of the 2nd Elgin Reg'ment, NP.AM, in which they were riding back of a wagon loaded with steel rails on No. 3 Highway, a mile east of Shedden.) The dead in the Orillia accident: J. McCabe end L. W. O'Connell, of the Royal Canadian Regiment at | Camp Borden. O'Cennell's home ad- dress was 62 Dagmer Avenue, Tor- onto. McCabe died of internal in- juries and O'Connell from a fractur- ed skull. The injured: Private Martin McKenzie, 18, of the R.C.R., Camp Borden. His home address is 814 College Street, | Toronto. Private J. Serecier Regiment (Tank), back injuries. Private Norval Shaw, 19, RCR,, Camp Borden. Home address, Letnb- ton Mills. Possible fracture of skull. Private William Jacobs, R.CR,, (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) the car crashed into the of the Ontario who received | Oshawa Furniture Co. Fined CUT-IN DRIVER BLAMED AS DEATH CAR STRIKES REAR OF GRAVEL TRUCK 3 » Commands Brigade LT.-COL. F. F. WORTHINGTON | An armored brigade has "been authorized for the C.A.S.F., Hon. J. L. Ralston, minister of national defence, announced in a press in- terview, Aug, 21. Lt.-Col. F. F. Worthington has beer promoted to colonel ana will command the brigade, which will be assembled at Camp Borden, CONVICT COMPANY OF EVADING TAX $25 and Costs for Violation The Oshawa Furniture Company were fined $25 and costs in police | court this morning for failing 'to pay the sales revenue tax for the month of June. "You were fully warned before, but it doesn't seem to do you much good," declared Magistrate F. S. Ebbs, adding that if the company came up on a similar charge again he would im- pose the maximum fine of $100 and costs. Morris Cohen, Oshawa, and A. Lutsky, Toronto, were both sum- moned to court but a document was produced to show that their part- nership was dissolved on June 4th, and that Cohen became owner of the company at that time. J. C. Anderson, K.C., prosecuting attor- ney, pointed out that when the partnership was broken up a new sales tax license should have been taken out, but added that this did not alter the charge. He pro- duced correspondence to show that the furniture firm had been re- peatedly asked to make their tax returns. Cohen pleaded guilty. The Oshawa Furniture Company was fined the minimum of $10 and costs in the local court on the same charge on May 6, 1940. { | Newmarket, Aug. 26.--Newmark- et fair grounds, which are as old as the corporation !iself, are rapidly being converted a military camp, where 1,000 young men called up under . the military training scheme, wil learn the rudiments of war. Guags of workmen are engaged in erecting the buildings necessary to housé the men during their 30-day training period. Although work be- gan only on Thursday, a total of 22 buildings have been put up in the two days. It was in January, 1828, when the present site of the fair grounds was granted by the Crown, for the erection of King's College, then con- sidered one of the finest schools in this section of ttie county. Tha college held the land for 25 years, finally selling it to private inter- into Ancient Fair Grounds To Be Military Camp activities, ests. But 12 years later it became the property of th2 municipality. It was then that it was decided to have a permanent fair grounds. The large tract was purchased at a nominal fee and turned over to the North 'York Agricultursl Society. Immediately the grounds became the centre of practically all social all fairs attracted huge crowds ove year. In 1897 the agricultural society, by agréement, reiurned the land to the town'but the fairs continued. Every Saturday was given over to baseball, which attracted teams from centres of the province. During the last war, when smedlpox epidemic hit Newmarket, those who suffered from the disease were quartered at the fair grounds auring quarantine, One of the largest buildings on « {Continued on Page 8, Col. 5), James Ray Ripley Dies in Hospital Shortly After Admission Early This Afi ternoon of Gross Skull Fracture 5 TONS OF GRAVEL UPSET IN ACCIDENT, Claim Cut-in Driver Caused Victim to Lose Control of His Car Which Then Hit Truck and Crashed Intg Guard Rail James Ray Ripley, clerk in the Beaton Dairy Products store, King Street West, was fatally injured early this afters noon in an automobile accident on Mountlawn Cemetery Hilly west of Thornton's Corners, Ripley received the injuries which caused his death shortly after admission to the Oshawa General Hospital when his light roadster struck the rear end of a gravel truck carrying over five tons of gravel. The collision allegedly was caused when another car "cut in" on Ripley after passing him. Upset Gravel Truck Ripley, driving a Willys Whippe# roadster, was trewvelling west, when another car, said tc have been driven by Frank B. Allan, 1100 Dune das street east, Whitby, passed him, The latter turned in sharply to avoid the gravel truck, owned by S. L. Murray, Toronto, and driven by Albert Fielding. This caused Ripe ley to lose controy cf his car. which then hit the rear of the gravel truck, upsetting the heavy vehicle and continuing on into the wire guard rail on the left sidc of the road. Tha light car broke the lower of the two strands of wire, smashed off a post but was kept from leaving the roade way by the upper wire which sheare ed against the upper part of the car, causing Ripley to strike his head violently against the frame work. Ripley was unconscious when | taken from the wreckage by Dr. F. J. Rundle. His head was terribly mangled with gaping wounds on the left side. He was in a dying condi« tion when taken into the hospital and passed away shortly after withe out regaining consciousness. A gross fracture of the skuil was the major (Continued on Page 8, Col. 7) JAIL PRISONER, HURT INESGAPE, FOUND IN AUTO Only Two Blocks Away, He Is Located 5 Hours, After Falling 25 Feet Belleville, Aug. 26.--A daring days light jailbreak netted Albert Ritchie prisoner in the Hastings County jail, only five hours of freedom and serious injuries to his right foot and elbow Sunday afternoon. The 'prisoner was found in the back seat '| of a car on Pinnacle Street, suffers ing from injuries he received when he fell twenty-five feet to the ground. The prisoner, who is awaiting transfer to the Ontario Reforma= tory, made his escape during the noon hour while few people were about. The other prisoners were having their meal and claim they did not notice his disappearance. City and Provincial police scoured the city for five hours in an effort to find - the fugitive. Detective Fred Isard recruited the aid of a large number of young boys to help the police in searching bushes and old buildings for blocks around the county jail, but no trace was found. Found ia Parked €ar Two Hydro workers retyrning to their automobile parked less than. two blocks from the' jail found the prisoner in the car, suffering ter- ribly from a fractured foot.: He was taken to hospital and the police were notified. According to Joe Samain, turns key, Ritchie escaped into the pris oners' yard while the attendant: was in an adjoining cell block: From the yard he climbed on to.a lean to and reached the barred wine (Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) . '