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4 PAGE FOUR THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 ' The Oshawa Daily Times ~ THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) y ependent newspaper published every week- ag nd except Saturday at Oshawa, Can- ada, by The Times Publishing Co. of Oshawa, ¢ Limited. Chas. M. Mundy, Pres; A. R. Alloway. 5 Managing Director. nl Oshaws Dally Times is a member of the Vig Daily Newspapers Association the On- ". tario Provincial Dailies and the Audit Bureau of © circulations. g- SUBSCRIFTION RATES livered by carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbs 25¢ for two weeks; $3.25 for six months, or $6.50 «» per year if pald in advance. t mail where in Canada (outside Oshawa a p's Iuka limits) $1.25 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year it paid in _ advance. _By mail to U.S. subscribers, $6.00 per year, payable "strictly 10 advance oo ¥ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1940 Youth Menace Denounced Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs of Oshawa city police court, rendered public service on Wednesday in scoring persons who, as re- ceivers of stolen goods, tempt mere boys into the road which leads to the peniten- .tiary or worse. His Worship's remarks "were made when sentencing a local junk dealer to the Ontario Reformatory. That man figured in a recent case in which Osh- "awa young men, who had volunteered for military service, committed burglaries in Whitby and Bowmanville for which, on conviction, they were sentenced to serve three years in the Kingston penitentiary. . Plea for suspended sentence in the con- victed receiver's behalf was denied after Crown Attorney Annis, pithily stated that "If there were no receivers, there would be few thieves." : Magistrate Ebbs concurred and declared that the Oshawa youths, previously sen- tenced, had known where to go with their loot. His Worship also pointed to the fact that the part played by receivers comes to "light, more frequently than many may imagine, in actions involving mere boys. In 1937, the Rev. G. A. Leichliter, M.A, i pastor of College Street Baptist Church, "Toronto, made a sponsored visit to Mont- ' real to get facts for a report he made, ! which was widely circulated, on Montreal's * crime situation. While in the Canadian metropolis, high- ly placed officials of city courts told the Toronto pastor, in the writer's hearing, about the stolen goods industry which cen- "tefs in Montreal and draws much of its raw ' material from Toronto, chiefly, and other Ontario centers. Morality Censorship What is perhaps the only regrettable feature in the announced effort of the On- tario attorney general's department to stop publication of a certain type of magazine, catering to immature or depraved minds, is that it was necessary. Freedom of the press is so precious to lovers of liberty that official censorship of books or magazines can, even at the worst, be tolerated only as a choice between two evils. What seems to be needed are laws which can bring those responsible for seeking profits from published obscenity to the bar of justice, and under legislation that would have the full legal complement of teeth. " Furthermore, the censorship should not end with one or a few isolated cases. It should be continuous and should cover the whole range of questionable literature of- fered for sale by newsdealers, Life Began In 1440 A.D. Many in Oshawa visited the exhibition at the Genosha Hotel on Monday which was set up by local printing plants to mark the 500th anniversary of the invention of printing. Without the invention of move- able type and its being put to use in West- ern Europe half a millenium ago, the world as we know it today would have would have been impossible. Printing, like most other major inven- tions, has conferred evil as well as good upon humanity. Abuse of the new art be- gan in the same years that Caxton and Guttenburg began their work, and con- tinues until now. But the good attributable to the in- vention and development of printing far outweighs the evil. The only way by which one can estimate printing's part in educa- tion, science, liberalism, or democracy is to say that these all, as we know them, would have been impossible without the in- vention of moveable type. It would be neither irreverent nor im- pious to attribute much of the spread of . Christianity to the printed word. It cannot be denied that in making God's Word avail. able to men over the whole earth, printing has served revealed religion as no other human agency ¢ould have done, The exhibits at the Genosha Hotel by local printing plants were very interesting, excellently arranged, and impressive. Many on seeing them, realized for the first time that printing is one of Oshawa's major in- dustries. Of all the exhibits, that of the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute's print- ing classes was perhaps the most signifi- cant. It emphasized the part printing has played in the cause of universal education since its invention 500 years ago. Windsor Strike Vote Fairness to labor demands that officials of organizations taking strike votes make the ground of their action ehtirely clear to the public. The news that workers at the Chrysler plant in Windsor had taken a strike vote and that 87 per cent. of the votes were for a strike, will cause a thirst for further de- tails. If workers have justifiable cause for complaints, even in war time, their fellow workers in Ontario, unionized or non- unionized, will want to see that they have justice. Labor's job in this war is of vital import- ance. Indeed, one of the important things for which the war is being fought is the rights of labor. Frankness on the part of organized workers will get them far more sympathy and support, if their cause is just, than secrecy about their differences with their employers. Political Egg Hurlers Indignation at the outbreak of egg and vegetable hurlers in the current presiden- tial campaign in the United States must be restrained, due to the knowledge that the vicious art of propaganda, as developed in. Germany, could easily convict the vie- tim of the egg barrages, Wendell Willkie, either with planning the thing himself or having it planned by that mysterious young New York lawyer, Oren Root, Jr., who per- haps had more to do with "Selling" Willkie to the Republican Party in the United States than anyone else. His technique, which proved highly effective, was to start chain petitions in behalf of Willkie's candi- dacy among graduates of Harvard, Yale and Princeton Universities. It got amaz- ing results. However, the picture of Mr. Willkie taken after he received an egg during an address at Chicago recently, seems to clear him of any such suspicion. He is shown reaching for a handkerchief, but the eyes and distinctly unsmiling face were those of a man reaching for a gun. Picture of the Chicago egg-hurler, which came out with the usual fringe of admir- ing police and publicity-hungry by-stand- ers, is the sort of face that invites retallia- tion in kind, His selfsatisfied smirk should have broken the camera, but it didn't. En- largements could be used by Mr. Roosevelt, if re-elected, to invite better marksmanship from the United States' new armies. Not to make a bulls-eye in that horrible inanity of a countenance would be next to impos- sible for any recruit knowing the bare rudiments of musketry fire, Editorial Notes oo be Nazi troops are reported sailing down the Blue Danube. And that would make any river blue. We have a sneaking idea that the war has done more for the marriagable girls than did Leap Year. Three Australian airmen who arrived in Canada recently revealed they have a great ambition to see Niagara Falls. They should come to the Motor City and see the largest motor car plant in Canada, also, One thing we should be thankful for in Canada is the lack of controlled press and controlled radio. We get all the world news, truthfully told. This is in sharp contrast to Germany, where the population is unaware of the new war in the Balkans, Investors in the New York World's Fair will receive only 38 cents on the dollar, as the big show went into the red to the ex- tent of $26,862,800. Oh, well, a good time was had by all. A Bible Thought for Today WALKING WITH GOD: The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord; and he delighteth in his way, Though he fall, he shall not he utterly cast down; for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.-- Psalm 37: 23, 24. ie: . | | Publisher's Actress Wife And Dorothy Thompson Pull Hair in Presidential Race Provide Lighter Touch to U.S. Campaign Which is Generating Considerable Heat -- N.Y. State Chief Prize By R. J. ANDERSON, Canadian Press Staff Writer. New York, Nov. 1, (CP)--A verbal hair-pulling match between acid- witted Clare Boothe, author of the satirical comedy "The Women," and columnist Dorothy Thompson today enlivened a United States presiden- tial campaign that really didn't need those doughty feminists to give it fireworks. While the political big guns open- ed up for the final week of a cam- paign that has proved one of the most heated in a country noted for its political warmth, the two fem- inine antagonists supplied a lighter touch. Miss Thompson is energeti- cally pro-Roosevelt; Miss Boothe supports Wendell L. Willkie, the Republican nominee, Miss Boothe started things. Hus- band of Henry R. Luce, publisher of Time, Life and Fortune maga- zines, which are supporting Willkie, she took the air to assert that Miss Thompson was showing "silly signs of hysteria" at the possibility of Willkie's election. Miss Thompson countered by terming Miss Boothe the campaign's "snob-appeal", the "Brenda Frazier of the great crusade (for Willkie)."" She had "torn herself loose from the Stork Club to serve her coun- try." . Miss Thompson hit a high note when she describad the pub- | lisher's wife as "The body of Fisher in this campaign." But the columnist was only warm- ing up. She went on: "Miss Boothe has everything to pull in the orders, the Powers model face, the recom- mendations of Lady Whoosis who, whether from her lovely apartment in the super Ritz or from the ex- quisite little yacht that was a gift from Lord Peevish, says to you: 'I use only Willkie,' "I've met you before, Clare--in various costumes and under various hats. I met your type in the Clive- den set . .. and the last time I saw you, the eternally repeating type of you, the Lady Kingmaker, was in the apartment of the last prime minister of France." However, the by-play between the ruffled feminine campaigners was only one of the lighter touches of the week as the campaign reached new heights of intensity preparatory to the Nov. 5 voting. The main barrage was laid down by the can- didates as President Roosevelt took personal issu: with the Republican nominee, Nearing the end of his swing around the country, Willkie yester- day campaigned in the factory towns of New Jersey and Delaware with the assertion that "when a man becomes too absolute in power, he always takes the people to the shambles of war." At Camden, N.J,, last night he maintained that the United States "is sick of the type of government that treats our con- stitution like a scrap of paper." Mr. Roosevelt will have an op- portunity to reply tonight when he speaks in Brooklyn in the third of the five major speeches he has scheduled for the closing days of the election fight. The president returried to Wash- ington yesterday from a speech- making excursion to Boston where, among other things, he denied he is leading the country into war and sald he had urged "sympathetic consideration" for a British request for 12,000 additional airplanes. Willkie, who has maintained he would be able to give more aid to Great Britain than could Mr. Roosevelt, commented on this dur- ing one of his talks yesterday. He Where Greeks and Italians Fight Vikan i YUGOSLAVIA BULGARIA Italian troops claim to have pierced the Grepk border (1) on the line to Salonika and in the Epirus region (2). The Greek high commaad have acknowledged that the Italian forces were firiking hard in the Epirus region but did not confirm Italian claims of advances, Reports from Greece indicate that British forces have not seized Corfu (3), as reported several times, ang are unlikely to occupy fhe island because of its vulnerability from Italian afr attacks, {* TURKEY HOSTILE VON PAPEN GOFS German Diplomat Fails in Plot To Keep Turkey From Joining Britain en, crafty diplomat of two wars, left Turkey unexpectedly for Germany. Presumably van Papen will report to Hitler on Turkey's position and her intentions in the war which has entered south-eastern Furope through Italy's invasion of Greece. It was 25 years ago this coming December that von Papen was sent back to Germany from the United States on the State Department's discovery" that he had indulged in "improper activities in military and naval matters." Hitler named him ambassador to Turkey in April of 1939, but he fail- ed to prevent Turkey from entering into a mutual assistance pact with -Britain. Von Papen's call to Berlin comes at & time when the Turkish press is declaring that "we are wholeheart- edly with the Greek nation," and suggesting that this country tender all possible aid to Greece. sald that if he were elected a re- quest for such a number of planes would be "insignificant" because American production would be geared to a new high. As the campaign entered its last keeping a close watch on these 11 | states: New York, Pennsylvania, | Minos, Ohio, Texas, California, | Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jer- | sey, Missouri and Indiana. For if either candidate wins these states and any other single state, he will have enough electoral votes to give him victory. lated, industrial New York. New York's 47 electoral college votes have gone to the winning candidate in every election except three since the civil war. Audley Audley, Oot. 28.--Temperance ed- ucational work was the subject of the address at the church on Sun- day. The evil of the beverage room will soon be recognized as worse than the old bar room. A masquerade and dance will be held in the Audley school on this Thursday evening. Contestants are askd to remain masked until lunch is provided. Dancing will follow at 8:30 standard time, Prizes and fun are for everyone. Admission for those in costume is ten cents and twenty-five for others. Ladies will provide the lunch. Some are attending the special meetings at Greenwood and Brough- am this week. Congratulations are due to Henry Westney upon his success in winning at the county plowing match. Farmers are finding the excessive- ly high wages being paid to Oshawa munitions workers are a distinct harm to agriculture, and it is felt that in the end it will react upon the country. It would be a sensible move for the Dominion Government to take over such war plants and op- erate them on the soldiers' pay basis. 3 The rulings of the game and fish. eries department, as to shooting li- censes, are being subjected to much crtilcism. If they do not want farm- ers who have trespass signs up, to shoot pheasants, let the government indemnify farmers for any losses sutained in killed animals and lost poultry. Dr. Thos. Armstrong of Toronto, called on his former college friend, F. M, Chapman, recently, _--. BACK T0 BERLIN Istanbul, Nov. 1--Franz von Pap- | four days, political observers were | The chief prize is densely-popu- FREIGHTER SLIGED MARGAREE IN HALF IN SEA COLLISION Survivors Landed at Ham. ilton, Bermuda--Court of Inquiry Planned Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 1.---The 34 men who clung to life when H.M.C.S. Margaree went down with 142 of their shipmates in an At- lantic convoy collision were safe in this British port today bound for Canada to rejoin the ranks or the Canadian and British navies, All uniformed despite the swift thrust of death in the night hours of Oct. 22, the six officers and 28 ratings came to Hamilton aboard the merchant ship that knifed into the destroyer while she was escort ing a convoy across the Atlantic after taking up service with the Royal Canadian Navy as replace- ment for the sunken destroyer | Fraser. With them came the disclosure that the Margaree, recently acquir- ed from the Royal Navy, was sliced {in two by the bow of the colliding freighter when they met in the darkness as they travelled without lights. Apparently the warcraft's halves plummetted under the At- lantic's combers like stones, giving most of hér trew no chance to es- cape, Inquiry To Be Held The rescued men --- thirty-two from the Canadian Navy and two from the Royal Navy -- were to be taken to Canada as soon as trans- portation could be arranged, it was announced. Meanwhile, a court of inquiry was to be held here. Belief was expressed here {it would be difficult to determine the exact cause of the collision, since all the survivors were said to have been asleep when it came and were awakened only by the death throes | of the trim Margaree. A Royal Canadian Naval Officer, |it was announced, was being | brought to Bermuda to help autn- | orities here in the investigation, He was not identified. Officials said 'the report on the inquiry | would not be made public, follow- | ing the usual custom. | The extent of damage suffered by the vessel 'that struck the Mar- | garee was not discolsed here. It was | assumed she had not been damag- [ed seriously, since she was able to pick up survivers and bring them to port. The destroyer, which joined the | Dominions Navy as the thirteenth ship of that type, was commanded | by Commander J. W, R. Roy of | Ottawa, who was last. Five of the surviving officers arriving here were {ef the Canadian Navy; the other was attached to the Royal Navy. | Some of the survivors hadl gone through the Fraser sinking off tne | French coast in June, when forty- | five men were lost as the vessel was sheared in two. One of these was Sub.-Lieut. Robert Timbrell oi | Hollyburn, B.C, who gained the | distinguished Service Cross for val- | or during the evacuation of Dun- | kirk. 'SPENT TEN DAYS IN SMALL BOAT ON TOSSING SEA | Survivors of St. Malo Mei Many Hardships; 2 Tor- onto Men Missing Toronto, Nov. 1.--Ten days in an open boat on the Atlantic was the experience of Chief Engineer George A. Fiddler, 45, of Saint John, one of the survivors of the St. Malo, sunk by enemy action, He and other survivors tossed in the boat at the mercy of the ele- ments, suffering many hardships until picked up. He is now in hos- pital in England, receiving treat- ment for frozen feet. The first trip to sea proved the last for 17-year-old Frederick Han- son of Halifax. He is one of the twenty-eight crew members missing in the official reports. A few weeks ago his elder brother, Raymond, lost his life when the tanker Fred- erick S. Fales went down. Freder- ick loved the sea and left school this year to follow it, his father said. The list of survivors makes no Oshawa Air Gunner Graduated In Aug: At Dartmouth, N.S. "The Oshaws Daily Timi Dear Mr. Editor: In your issue of Tuesday, fhe 20th inst, you showed cut of Air Vice-Marshal Breadner pinning the wings on a graduate air gunner and you stated that "the first air gun- ner ever to be trained in Canada received their wings at Jarvis, Ontario." ; For your information, I would advise that this is incorrect, The Jarvis, Ontario graduates were no doubt the first class to graduate from said school, but were not the first air gunners to be trained ana to graduate in Canada. Our son, Air Gunner Bruce O. Cameron, re- ceived his "wing" and larel wreath encircling the letter "A.G." (the of- ficial insignia of a graduate air gunner) in August last upon his ar- rival at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia to enter active service convoying ships to and from Canadian harbors, etc. He trained with several others, in a special class at Rockliffe Airport, Ottawa, and at Trenton, and pass- ed all examinations and tests with honors. I feel, therefore, that he is entitled to this recognition in his home-town paper, and that you will agree with me in this connec- tion. : Might state, in conclusion, that my son visited us recently and stat- ed he was asked many times on the street, during a stop-over in Mon- treal and when visiting in Toronto, as to his rank in the RCAF, as the Air Gunners' wing was unfam- [liar to the public. Thanking you, I am, Yours very truly, A. C. CAMERON, mention of two Toronto men, ¥. H. Nixon, 22, messroom steward, and Harry J. Rees, wireless operator of the St. Malo. Rees was employea on Great Lakes ships for three years, including the Cayuga and Dalhousie City out of Toronto, and when war broke out he was assign- ed to ocean-going vessels, Last winter he was aboard the tanker H. H. Rogers of the Imperial Oil fleet, operating from Canadian and American ports to Le Havre and Southampton. Later he was trans- ferred to the New Northland, oper- ating between Quebec and the West Indies. Rees was Home on leave in August and shortly after- wards was assigned to the St. Malo. The widowed mother of the young wireless operator, Mrs. Mary Rees, 23 Corley avenue, still clung to a faint hope that her son was safe, although she knew that bee cause of his position he would ke one of the last to leave the sinking ship. The family of Capt. Charles E. Finlay of Thedford, Ont., feels that the master of the St, Malo will turn up alive. "We believe everything will turn out all right" said Mrs, Patrick Finlay, daughter-in-law of the missing captain. A veteran of the seas with thirty years deep-water experience, Oap- tain Finlay retired from the last war with the rank of commander. He was decorated for ensuring the safe passage from Norway to Eng- land of the Dowager Empress Marie of Russia, He served all through the Battle of Jutland and was in command of several ships at differ- ent times during the war. He caine to Canada in 1925 and lived a re- tired life, But the outbreak of the unteered a few days after war broke out. He is 60 years old. to have landed safely at a Unitea Kingdom port. They are P, H. Dine, St. Catharines, a marine en- gineer; Lindsay, and H. Pollie of Kingston. Two Halifax men, well known in boxing circles are believed to have perished. . John O. (Gunner) Dick- son and William (Tim) Davie, both served in the army before going to sea. Another feared lost is Fred McCart of Kamloops, B.C, a former OP.R. Engineer. served in the first Great War as a naval cadet and has been in the merchant marine for many years. He escaped previous ship sinkings when his ships were torpedeed. To keep household towels a good white, wash them in the usual way, but add a dessertspoon of vinegar to them when they are boiling. CUT Send your remittance, with number, rank and name, and unit of the soldier overseas to SWEET CAPS, P.O. Box 6000, Montreal, P.Q. to ensure delivery before Send the boys SMOKES For CHRISTMAS Packages should leave Canada early. ristmas. A greeting card showing sender's name is enclosed with each parcel. $1.00 sends 300 / SWEET CAPORAL or WINCHESTER | cigarettes or $1.00 will send either 11b. of OLD VIRGINIA pipe tobacco or 1 |b. of SWEET CAPORAL FINE (with Vogue papers) to Cane adiansservingin C.A,S.F.overseas only, $2.50 sends 1,000 cigarettes fo an individual or unit. present war saw 'him long for ac- | tive service once more and he val- Three Ontario men are reportea | Vernon Sedgewick, 20, of Third Officer George Graham, | Halifax, is one of the survivors. He |