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UBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. The Oshawa Daily Tines PROBS, Mostly Fair and Warmer. INAS VOL. 27--NO. 64 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1940 Single Copies 3c EIGHT PAGES' WIN-THE-WAR FUND CAMPAIGN LAUNCHE ed Oshawa Population Shows 83 Increase CITIZENS TOTAL 25,047 SECOND HIGHEST MARK SHOWN IN CITY HISTORY Assessment Shows Increase of $387,830 Over 1939 --Decrease Shown in As- sessments Liable Only for School and Relief Rates POPULATION HIGH REACHED IN 1929 Increase This Year Record- ed in Spite of Heavy En- listments in Active Ser- vice Forces Oshawa's population gained 83 during the past 12 months bringing the city's population to the second highest point in its history, in spite of heavy enlistments in the Cana- dian Active Service Force in the past year. The population as given in Assessment Commissioner C. G. Luke's report to City Council is placed - at 25,047 compared with 24,964 reported a year ago. The city reached its previous population peak in 1929 when 25,- 550 noses were counted by the as- sessment departmeni{. The popula~- tion slumped the next two years but has been gradually climbing ever since. The city's assessment shows a gain of. $387,830 in. the year, ac- cording to the assessthent figures contained in the same report. City property taxable for all purposes as an assessed value of $26,598,526 compared with $26,210,695 in 1939. 'In addition to this there is an assessment of $75,385 which is tax- able for school and relief rates only so that the total assessment for school purposes is $26,673,910, an increase of $210,390 over last Year. ' Oshawa's population as set forth in the annual assessment reports since 1914 are as follows: Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) UNAPPROVED SIGN MUST BE REMOVED Council Orders Bradley Bros. to Take Immedi- ate Action A "No Parking" sign which Brad. ley Broe. had erected on Athol street east, opposite g space which they allegedly want for parking their cars, without permission of City Council, according to statements made at last night's council meet- ing, must be removed forthwith the city aldermen decreed when details of the action had been outlined, * At the previous meeting of City Council g request was made that such g eign be erected but action was deferfed pending further in- vestigation. In the meantime. it was charged, Bradley Bros. placed an order with the Pedlar People, Limit. ed, for the sign which they then had erected without securing permission of City Council. When the request came up again for consideration last night and af- ter the subsequent development had been revealed, .a motion passed unanimously that the request be refused and that the sign be ordered removed forthwith. It was charged that City Engineer O. G. Miller telephoned Bradley Bros. on instruction to ascertain wha had erected the sign. The realtors, 80 it was claimed, stated that they did not know who had put it up. Bubsequently investigation through the Pedlar People, allegedly brought the information from that source that Bradley Bros. had ordered the sign and had it erected. ¢ (8%) BINGO OVER BURNS, WEDNES- day night, voucher prizes. 8:45. 15¢, (59, 64. 69) - Oshawa Soldier Dies in England PTE. ROBERT WATKINS Adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bye of Oshawa, whose death occurred in a hospital in England as a result of illness. He was serving with thé Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment. ASK GZECH GLASS INDUSTRIALISTS TO TELL PLANT PLANS Council Extends Invitation to Also Discuss Protested Tax Bill Messrs. Stein Czechoslovak promoters of a pro- posed new glass industry for Osh- City. | awa, were invited to meet Council within the next two weeks to discuss with council their protest against their current tax bill and | their plans for establishing their suggested glass industry at Oshawa This action resulted when a letter | from the two men was read in which | the industrialists protested agains: | an increase in their tax rate based | upon a full assessment. When negotiations for locating the factory on a 13-acre factory site south of Skinner's Limited 'were concluded, has occurred, it was stated, and as a result of this failure to fulfill their promises, an amended tax bill was sent them charging taxes on the full instead of partial assessment. The increase amounted to less than $50. The industrialists claimed various circumstances, based mainly on war and general world condi- tions had prevented them from pro- ceeding as planned. Ald. F. M. Dafoe favored insisting on payment of taxes In full, "They have not lived up to their agreement in any shape or form and we should (Continued on Page 8, Col. 2) and Schmolka, | the Czechoslovak glass | experts were granted a fixed assess- | ment provided a factory was erect- | ed within a specified time. No ac- | tion t6 carry out their undertaking that | CUSTOMS FIGURES GREATEST SINCE 1929 BOOM DAYS | Collections Total $693,665 With Import Duty Yield- ing $561,237 Collections by the Oshawa Cus- | toms port continue to reflect the | current industrial upsurge and | figures for September at the same | time pressage even greater indus- | trial activity in months to come. | Collections in September were the | highest since the 1929 boom days, | totalling $603,665.29, almost four [times as much as in September, | 1939. | The important factor in Septem- { ber collections was the fact that | import duty on imported materials | accounted for $56123742 of the | total. This figure is seven times greater than in the same month a | year ago and means that industrial output will be greatly increased in | | coming months compared with 1939 operations. | Excise duty collections amounted to $132,036.11, the lowest collections | in this department since last No- | vember, but at that materially | ahead of September, 1939. 'SHOW NEW CARS 0 PRESS GROUP: | General Motors Giving Journalists Annual Pre- view of New Models Approximately 35 representatives of advertising and editorial depart- ments of daily and weekly newspap- | ers, trade papers and other maga- ! zines in the Toronto district of On- tario are attending the annual press preview of General Motors' new cars at the plant here this after- noon. Their hosts will be R.. 8. Mc- | Laughlin, president of General | i Motors of Canada. Limited, E. J. | Umphrey, assistant director of sales, | and Claude B. Watt, advertising manager. | The program for the afternoon | snd evening begins with inspection of 1941 models at the staff garage | at 2:30. At 3:30 the party will be | conducted on a tour of the plant, | followed at 5:00 pm. with a visit to Parkwood. A reception and dinner at the Genosha Hotel will conclude the day's program. New models of Chevrciet, Pontiac, | | 'Oldsmobile and Buick will be shown | to the press party. | WANTS PLAY AREA UNDER PARK BOARD City Council will give considera- tion at its next meeting to providing the city with two new recreation | areas suggested by Ald. E. E. Bathe. | One would turn over the city-owned | | area known as Bathe Park to the Parks Commission for operation. The other seeks to have a recreation spot established in the northeast | ward in the vicinity of Jarvis street. The Bathe Park lot measures 414 | by 400 fect and comprises 5!4 acres. It has been in use for the past two | years for softhall and other sport | activities, having been levelled and | put into present, condition to a large forest by district residents with some help from the city. U.S. Tanks For Men, to Be Cussed Ottawa, Oct. 1. -- Within a few days some 200 average tanks from the United States Army will be rolling across the international boundary, headed for Camp Bor- den, where 3,000 young Canadians will be traihed in the first Cana- dian Armored Corps. . "The public is going to ask why in hell we bought a lot of junk," the Commander of the. Armored Corps, Col. P. PF. Worthington, growled in an interview here. But the tanks aren't junk to him-- - 4 Will Provide Best Possible Tank Experience How- ever, Declares Col. F. F. Worthington -- Expects Headaches Chief Warns they're the forerunners of a great mechanized force which will rank second only to the air force. And the 3,000 officers and men are just a nucleus. The armored corps will grow until many, many thousand men are trained and equipped and until the corps is one of the most modern mobile armies in the world: Efficiency, training and equipment. Over and over, the colonel stressed their im- portance, To an easy-going, undisciplined newspaperman, Colonel Worthing= ton is a disturbingly intense, fiery, capable, efficient officer. We start- ed the interview in the back seat of a taxi as we bounced toward the Munitions Supply Buildings, contin- ued it 4s he swept past police bar- riers and through a maze of corri- (Continued on Page 7, Col. 5) } } J I advertising, $23.40, Here Two London boys look at the debris piled ruined home after a German air raid. wall, large sections of the roof are blown away. are taking an optimistic attitude | at the coyrfty jail pending hearing | tion. up in front of thelr There are gaping hoies in the Children like adults | toward the orgy of destruction and often prefer to watch the planes with their fateful loads, rather than seek the safety of bomb shelters. Red Cross is assisting. It is such as these civilians that the Plan Operation of F wiles 4 Group of War Classes at Date and Courses Available Will Be Announced in Near Future -- Summer | Classes Cost Oshawa Board $234.40 -- School Enrolments Down War Emergency Classes, to pro- vide training in crafts connected with war industries, will be started in the Oshawa Collegiate and Voca- tional Institute almost immediate- ly, according to a communication received from the Department of Education by the Board of Educa- tion at its regular meeting last night. Details will probably be an- nounced within the next week, Ad- ministrator G. W. Bunker advised The Times this morning. Advertising of the class and get- ting it started have been left with a Special Committee consisting of Trustees Colpus and Cooke, Repre- sentative - Coulter ~ and Principal O'Neill, with power to act. Just what subjects will he taught in the War Emergency Classes will not be known until further word has been received from the ment. It is believed officially the demand for these classes special summer classes, but this, too, it is impossible to ascertain just yet. Total cost to the board of oper- ating the special summer cgurses was given in the report of the Ad- | visory.. Vocational Committee as $234.40, and was mace up as fol- lows: light and power, $80; water, $20; gas, $5; janitor's service, $105; and stationery, janitor's service $1. The $105 for was made up of three amounts of | $35, which the property committee recommended be paid to the three Collegiate janitors, L. Yelland, J Bell, and M, Sharpe, to reinburse them for the extra work involved by the operation of the special summer classes. Plan Medical Checkup Representatives of the Board of Education, O.C.V.I. Home & School Association, City Council, and Board of Health will shortly confer on the advisanility of givinz each year a medical inspection to the 'O. C. Vv. I. students before these students take part in the ac- tivities of the school. The decision | was made by the Board of Educa- tion last night at its regular meet- | ing, when communications favoring the plan were received from the O.C.V.I. Home and School Associa- tion and the City Council. The idea of a medical inspection is also ap proved by the Board of Health, ac- cording to Mrs. Colpus, who dis- closed that the Collegi te health check-up would be "nc. as elabor- (Continued on Page 8, Col. 6) Depart- | that | will | 'not be quite as great" as for the | all | Industry Trade Oshawa Collegiate Rent Controller Not Needed Here A proposal by Ald. E. E. Bathe at the City Council meeting last night | the Rent Controller recently | pointed by the Dominion Govern- | ment be. asked the rent situation in Oshawa, brought the tatement from Ald. F. M. Dafoe hat rents have not advanced un- duly in Oshawa, Howeve gested that rents might advance in the city when work of erecting the No. .26 Elementary Air Training | School is speeded up and when the | actual air school is established. { It was agreed by City Council that | the appointment of 3 Rent Cantrol- er by Ott: p >s machinery for quickly 3 any sud- | den and undue increase in rents in | Oshawa, | to survey he sug- INFLUX OF | similar wares will be operated by | a LABOR who has been blind for nine years SEEN AS POSSIBLE | WELFARE PROBYLEM Mayor to 'Write Industries | Urging That Local Help | Be Hired | Letters will be sent immediately by the Mayor to Oshawa industries urging that every effort be made lo provide Oshawa residents with employment opportunities before | workers from outside Oshawa are { engaged as a result of action taken by City Council last night. The [move follows a letter from the Wel« Aare Board to Council In the suggestion the Welfare Board points out that hiring of outsiders in preference to Oshawa workmen had a tendency to keep | Oshawa's relief costs up with the | strong possibility of more 'serious | relief problems-in the future. Out- siders coming to Oshawa and se- curing work which enable' them to maintain become themselves for one year the city's responsibility | should subsequent employment con- | ditions decline throwing them out of work and. on relief. phasize this condition and will go | | forward over the Mayor's signature. | | A letter from A.W.S. Greer re- signing his appointment as member | of the Oshawa Welfare Board was | accompanied by one from that or- ganization stating that the Board {could function for the balance of | the year without a successor being | appointed to Mr. Greer's position. | 'and | on ap- | | sion to erect a news stand booth on heated and can be moved quickly if The letter to industry is to em- | TECHNICAL POINT FREES 2WEMBERS OFILLEGAL GROUP Appeal Against Conviction of Jehovah's Witnesses Quashed With Regret (Special to The Times) Whitby, Oct. 1 -- The appeal of Alfred Moore and George H. Bot- tomley, Toronto members of the outlawed sect Jehovah's Witnesses, against a conviction for member- ship in an illegal organization, was allowed by Judge D. B. Coleman in county criminal court today. In granting the appeal Judge Coleman stated that he did so with "the | greatest regret". | The two men had been convicted | sentenced to fines of $50 or three months imprisonment by Ma- | gistrate C. F. Bick at Orillia, 'Last | week the pair were convicted on | charges of distributing pamphlets likely to prejudice recruiting by His Majesty's armed forces and sen- | tenced to fines of $200 each with | the option of six months in jail. | Both men are still held in custody of .an appeal on the second convic- Admit Membership As court opened this morning de- fense counsel J. L. Cohen on be- half of his clients admitted they had been members of the sect and due to this admission, little evid- ence was presented by either side. Provincial Officer George Yuille Beaverton, told the court that he had placed the two men in custody the afternoon of July 5th at approximately 4.30 Daylight Saving Time. . "They said they sold some liter- ature and gave some tu people who wanted them," testified Officer Yuile, "Isn't it true that you asked each of them if they knew Jehovah's Witnesses was an illegal organiza- tion and they said 'no'?" asked de- | fense counsel. Officer Yuile said | that this had been the case. Building his defense around this | | point, defense counsel called R. Larochelle, principal clerk of the King's Printer, to the witness stand. f Larochelle stated that copies of the Canada Gazette amendment to the | Defense of Canada Regulations | making Jehovah's Witnesses an il- | legal organization had not been Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) | Blind Institute To Set Up Oshawa Man in Business The Canadian National Institute for the Blind was granted permis- the city's sidewalk in front of the Post Office by City Council last night. The news stand which will sell tobacco, candies, papers and Ernest Henry, an Oshawa resident It is only recently that Mr. Henry has completed training which will fit him for operating such a booth. The booth will be erected on King street immediately beside the steps leading up to the outside letter box at the east end of the post office's King street frontage. The stand will measure five feet square, will be necessary. Establishment of such stands for blind citizens is part of the work carried: out by the Canadian Na- | tional Institute for the Blind which shares in the Oshawa Win-the-War | and Community Fund Campaign now underway in the city. | night, heads the list, but other pro- Te SRvARAE NA 0 ANNOUNCE $15,000 GIFT BY GENERAL MOTORS AT PRE-CAMPAIGN MEETING - Nearly $18,000 Gives Boost To Fund First Day Early Contributors Send or Bring Their Gifts to Treasurer The number of voluntary sub- scriptions that have been sent or brought personally to the head- quarters of the Oshawa Win-the- War and Community Fund up to noon today has been most encourag- ing, as well as the individual amounts given. Of course, in point of size of con- tribution, the gift of General Motors of Canada Limited of $15,000, which was announced at the banquet last portionately generous contributions have been received, including onc for .$10 sent by a Times' subscriber in New York, and former Oshawa resident, Mrs. E. Ferguson. The con- tribution of the Oshawa school chil- dren amounting to $192.88 is also in- cluded in the list, which is publish- | ed herewith. Mrs. Joseph Craig ........$ J. 8hoychet ....... School Children of Oshawa General Motors of Canada Chas. Mundy Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Flint Kinsmen Club of Oshawa . J. H. Beaton R. Ray McLaughlin ..... Mrs. Wm. Rogerson Rev. D, M. and Mrs. Rose ,.. Mrs. E. Ferguson (N.Y. .. 8. J. Collacutt ........ GIVES HIS WATCH 70 RED CROSS AS MONEY LACKING Albert E. Brown Lauded for | Fine Deed -- Use for Watch Uncertain 50.00 500.00 192.88 15,000.00 50.00 25.00 500.00 300.00 300.00 1.00 15.00, 10.00 1,000.00 "I loet two brothers in the last war, and my son, Archie, is at Camp Borden now with the Hast- ings-Prince Edward Regiment--the least I can do is contribute all I can to this drive," Albert E Brown, 115 Barrie Avenue, who is now the only member of the Oshawa Win- dow Cleaners firm, told The Times today. Tuesday morning, Mr. Brown walked into the campaign office at 23% Simcoe Street North, pulled out his gold Waltham watch and handing it to George W. Finley, Oshawg Win-the-War and Com- munity Fund treasurer, declared, "Here, I can't give as much money as this would be worth, so take it and do the best you can with it." Mr. Brown preferred to have his watch go to the Red Cross fund, so Mr. Finley placed the watch in the custody of W. E. N. Sinclair, X.C., local president of the Red Cross. "We haven't decided exactly what we'll do with it," Mr. Sinclair said this afternoon. He added that he had heard suggestions of a raffle, a public auction and so forth. "We'll have to think it over for a few hours," he said. "Perhaps we'll get some more suggestions, All I want to say at the moment is that it's a pretty fine thing for any in- dividual to do." Questions on Methods A re Planned Election | Ald. E. E. Bathe Asks That Vote Be Taken on Terms of Aldermen -- Other Proposals May Be Tested Oshawa electors will be asked to express opinions through ballots at | the next municipal election as to how often such elections are to be held, when they are to be staged and what procedure is to govern clection of city aldermen, if propo- | sals advanced by Ald. E. E. Bathe in notices of motion are carried. | Decision as to what questions will be put to the voters is to be reach- | ed at the next meeting of council | in committee. At least one new voting qualifi- \ A cation will be demanded at Osha- wa's next municipal election if the city has the legal right to require such condition. That is, every voter will be required to produce his national registration certificate be- fore he will be given his municipal election ballots. The city solicitor is to ascertain the city's rights in this respect and if permissible, is to prepare a by-law enacting such legislation. Ald. Bathe's other election sug- gestions include the provision in the Ontario War-Time Elections Act which provides for holding a plebiscite as to whether civic elec- tions are to be held annually or every two years. If this plebiscite is not taken municipal election "this sum would be-o Continued on Page 8, Col. 3) General Campaign Man- ager, George W. Me Laughlin, Urges United Effort as Oshawa Share in Alleviating War Suffers MAYOR CONFIDENT GOAL ATTAINABLE General Confidence That $85,000 Objective Can Be Reached Expressed at Dinner Gathering Front line shock troops of Osh= awa's Win-the-War and Commun= ity Fund Campaign received final battle orders from their general issimo and his staff officers at & | dinner in the Hotel Genosha last | night and this morning they went over the top in their first attack. Encouragement was mixed with the battle orders in the form of an ans nouncement that a $15,000 advance had been consolidated before the opening guns were fired through the donation of this sum by Gener- al Motors of Canada, Limited. In addition other instances of generous unsolicited response to the appeal for support of war service and community charities were cited at the dinner, all serving to encoure age the workers and committee members in their drive toward the $85,000 objective. Confidence that | this goal would be reached was im evidence on every hand with ree ° peated predictions being voiced that Sounds Keynote _ George W. McLaughlin, general chairman of the campaign, sounded the keynote of the dinner gather- ing, in which each guest paid the cost of his own meal. "This came paign is an expression of the efe fort which we all must make to ale leviate the suffering which springs from the inhumanities of this cone flict and at the same time provide the mechanical means and defenses for winning the war on the battle field," Mr. McLaughlin declared. "Look forward, give of your best: effort in' the knowledge that 'the untrue, the unclean, the foul and despicable cannot triumph over honesty and purity. Go forth with a lighter heart for the dav cannot be too far distant when the gates of concentration camps will open and hospitals will be emptied of those who are suffering. Such & day will surely come if we are ti (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) = MIND AND HEART UNITE IN REPLY WIN-WAR APPEAL Rev. George Telford Makes Application of Fine Sere mon at St. Andrew's | In a sermon at the morning sere vice in St. Andrew's Church Rev, George Telford made timely refere ence to the great "Enlist for Hue manity" campaign which is this week engaging the interest of the citizens of Oshawa. His theme was the influence of mind and heart in human affairs. We like the ancient Greeks make a distinction between the thinking and reasoning activity which is seated in the brain, and the emotions and affections which we associate for convenience with the heart. It is an interesting gublecy of debate as to which of these ue ences, the rational or the emotional is more potent in deciding our ace tions. The speaker held that while it was the function of reason to ex= plore, to est, to plan, it remained for the heart to provide the emo= tion which would drive reason into action. The war situation provides an apt illustration. The British nation has been brought to see by the logic events that an- evil thing has risen in Europe, which it al- lowed to continue its mad sweep will eventually destroy all that we hold to be of highest value, It had become quite clear to some minds a long time ago. Now we all see if. But when the evil thing began to rain destruction on homes, church= es, ancient landmarks and on the peaceful inhabitants of Britain, a mighty emotion of indignation was stirred in the British heart. Now the world is aware of the steady determination of Britain, and (Continued on Page 8, Col Li » po yi &