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Week-End: 28 From Dro wning ° v hi t "DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, JUNE 30, 1947 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES, FRENCH DICTATORSHIP PLOT Kinsmen Band Wins At Waterloo Festival Members of Band Very Successful In Their Classes The Oshawa Kinsmen Club Brass Band travelled to the 'Waterloo Music Festival last Saturday and covered them- : selves with glory in all classes of the competition. : Under the leadership of George Hood, the members of : the band turned in a truly great performance to place first in the Brass Band Class Number ¢ 1A. In gaining a total of 89% ts foy their performance the won a great ovation from .the audience, for their marvellous ormance. Win Individual Prizes "The Band not only won honor as a group, but when the time for the nners of individual work was an- pounced the Oshawa lads came fhrough in a way that made some _of the older members of their party ~beam with justifiable pride. In the group that accompanied band were A. J. Graves, Joe , and Kinsman Earl Fielding. - Daly had seen the band per- ; last year and stated then, that hops wold take top honors this A , Graves and Mr, Fielding ire equally enthusiastic over the of the prizes. "The individual winners were also J honor men, with-Lorne Seeley, Bob Burr, and Jiuiny Jamon _competing and winning the Open Cornet Trio contest. , "Ronald and Raymond Walker who are also Cornet players, made ; KINSMEN BAND (Continued on Page 2° Return Mines To Owners As Taken , June 30--(AP)--The United States government gives back 2,500 soft coal mines to their owners today in the same condition it found them 13 months ago-empty of workers. Forced to step out of the pits at noon with final expiration of the Smith-Connally war Labor Disputes Act, one federal agency thus gets rid of the coal headache but an- other is ready to tackle tte still-un- settled contract war between John L. Lewis and the operators. 'The coal mines administration folds up with the end of govern- ment operation, leaving Labor Se- cretary Schwellenbach and his con- ciliation service the only official connection with the dispute. Sch- wellenbach will try to mediate a new contract to avert the threat of a full-bown strike eight days hence. The mines were seized May 22, 1046, after futile efforts to settle a strike which had been in profress pce April 1. A week later, Lewis igned a. contract with Interior Se- gretary Krug, ended that walkout nd sending the 400,000 soft coal back to work for the govern- The pit currently are closed down for a 10-day vacation which start-® d Saturday under terms of the [Krug-Lewis contract, Each miner ot $100 and 10 days off, The 75,000 vania anthracite miners ho made a contract with their op- jors without seizure a year ago, D Are on a similar vacation. ie Oshawa Man Invents New Theatre Seat In recent years moving picture theatres have made much progress toward providing their patrons with better entertainment and improved conditions through the introduc- tion of three-dimensional films, technicolor and air conditioning. However, little has been done about improving the lot of the patron in so far as seating is concerned other than to improve the comfort of the seats. Y A. Victor Berry, 223 Burk Street, has applied for patents in Canada and the United States for an in- vention which he says will elimi- nate the need for rising to allow other movie-goers to get to or leave their seats, and 'at the same time remove the possibility of squeezed toes and frayed tempers. His invention is on the same principle as the hydraulic lift so common in service stations. He would build theatres with two floors. One a sub-floor and the other a viewing floor. To reach their seats patrons would make their way to the sub-floor where they would seat themselves in a seat, push a lever and rise gently through a trap door to the upper floor where the movie is being shown. When they ish to leave all they have to do push the jlever and the seat sinks to the sub-floor below. Mexican Letters To 6 in Toronto Toronto, June 30--(CP)--Shed a tear if you will for the Mexican banker who can't get at his fortune because he is in jail, but don't dish out any money to help him along. Mounted police last night disclos- ed that six Toronto residents had received letters from the "banker" asking help in recovering the for- tune he said had been seized by United States border officials, He promised contributors a one-third share of his funds. The six Toronto recipients, all known to be wealthy, turned their letters over to the R.C.M.P. who is- sued a cross-country warning against the swindle, a 1947 version of the Spanish nobleman swindle, THE WEATHER Monday clear and cooler with light winds. Tuesday clear during the daytime, showers toward eve. ning, Winds light. Low tonight and high Tuesday 65 and 80. Summary for Cuear and cooler. BM Mississippi Floods, Quake Cause Damage at St. Louis St. Louis, June 30--(AP)--After to its highest peak here in years the Mississippi dropped today but United States engineers warned that the battle for three critical levees in he area was "far from over" with nother crest pouring down from the mouth of the Missouri river. Fresh appeals for volunteers were nade by the engineers in their ef- orts to save dikes north and south St. Louis and, 100 miles hp at Chester, Ill, while hun- ds of persons were evacuated pm their homes ahead of the An earthquake last night added the tenseness of the situation al- limbin lightly thoukh it apparently had no con- nection with the flood. The tremor was felt as far away as 20 miles but no heavy damage was reported. The earthquake was felt for five seconds at 11:25 CST. Startled citi- zens flooded police and newspaper switchboards with calls, Some told of chithneys toppling, of dishes rattling and sidewalks cracking. Downtown buildings, homes and apartment buildings alike were shaken. About 1,000 have had to evacuate the omey in St. Louis and district e Red Cross sought to meét 'calls for assis- tance. Flood damage in this area alone has seached an estimated $8,- 27 FATALITIES ARE RECORDED IN ONTARIO By The Canadian Press - A heavy loss of 44 lives in week- end fatalities: throughout Eastérn Canada was recorded hy The Can- adian Press today. As thousands sought relief from a heat wave over an extended holiday, 28 drownings were listed, four of them in one ac- cident in Quebec and three in an- other accident in Ontario. The heat and the fact many Can- adians were travelling in prepara- tion for the Dominion Day holiday tomorrow contributed to the long fatality list. Ontari had 27 deaths, Quetec 15 and Nova Scotia two. The worst single case occurred at Chicoutimi, Quebec., when three men and a girl were drown- ed after a small craft sank in the Valin River, 1 Three persons were drowned when the fishing craft on which To Carry Greetings to Belleville a party of six set out for a pleas-| § ure cruise on Lake Erie early Sa- turday exploded, apparently from gasoline fumes and the bodies of Charles Cruickshank, 20, . and Gordon Swart, 40, were fo N The body of the third Evelyn McLeod, 37, f of Winnipeg, was recovered late Sun- | | / day. Three others were rescued shortly after the craft was set afire. Other Ontario Drownings Other Ontario drownings were those of Gerald Warwick, 17, at Sarnia; Ho Lin, 63, whose body was found in Toronto Harbor; Roger Staats, 10, of Detroit, drowned swimming in the Grand River near Brantford; Henry Hearns, 22, of Kingsville; Herb- ert Leclair, nine, in the Etobicoke near Toronto; Harold Winnecki, 20, who got out of his depth at a WEEK-END DEATHS (Continued on Page 10) Service Held At Band Shell fhe McLaughlin Band Shell was the scene of an outdoor ser- vice on Sunday evening when Major H. G, Roberts, Officer Commanding the Oshawa Branch of the Salvation Army was the |, speaker. Participating were: Rev. D. M, Rose, Rector of St. George's Ang- lican Church, who read the Scripture; Rev, T. H. P, Ander- son, Pastor of Centre\Street Uni- ted Church; who led in Prayer and Rev, H, F, Davidson, Pastor of Knox Presbyterian Church, who pronounced the Benediction. Rev. J. V. McNeely, Pastor of King Street United Church was in charge of the Service with the music supplied by the choir of the Kirst Baptist Church. Major Roberts' subject was ba- sed on the 103rd Psalm and he en- titled it "Christ the Healer." JA Northway, 72, Ppa at Toronto onto, June 30 (CP)--John Alexander Northway, 72, prominent in industrial, insurance and mining circles, died yesterday at his home here. He was president and chair man of the board of John North- way and, Sons Ltd, the business founded by his father with which he had been connected since 1896. Native of Tillsonburg, Ont., Mr. Northway was educated there and at Orillia. He was a trustee of the Canadian School of Missions and a member of the board of gover- nors of McMaster University, Ham- ilton. John D. Stewart, Toronto Dies in Plane Crash Belleville, June 30--(CP)--Jrhn D. Stewart, 29, of Toronto, died in hospital here early today 'shortly after his monoplane - crashed in marshy ground east of the city. His head snapped against a tank " taining insect powder when the plane came down shortly after the take-off, Stewart was about to spray insect powder over a pea field from the air, Crown Attorney B. C. Donnan sajd no inquest would be held. The plane was not seriously damaged * A modern version of Paul Revere -- a rootin' tootin' western cowboy on horseback -- will ride 115 miles from Toronto's Mayor Robert Saunders to Belleville's Mayor Frank S. Follwell. The journey which starts July 3 at 12.15 from the city hall steps in Toronto Is for the purpose of bringing greetings to Belleville on the occasion of its Old Home Week, July 13-19, and for the purpose of spreading the good word en route. The horse- man is Tex Bloye, a real singing cowboy with a record unequalled in Canada. Tex who is an overseas veteran of the Canadian Army Show, punched cattle in Western Canada and at the same time developed his talent and a repertoire of 400 authentic cowboy songs. He will appear in the show during Old Home Week in Belleville. En route from Toronto he will call on the Mayors or Reeves of Oshawa, Whitby, Bowmanville, Port Hope, Cobourg, Brighton and Trenton, to pick up greetings from these communities for the citizens of Belleville, NO DELIVERY OF MAIL TOMORROW Tomorrow being Dominion Day, there will be no letter car- rier or rural mail delivery by the Oshawa Post Office, it was announced this morning by Postmaster Norman J. Moran. Mails will be received and des- patched as usual. The public lobby will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. but the wickets will be open for the tr tion of busi only be- tween the hours of 8 a, m. to 10 a. m, One collection about 5 p. m~wi'l be made from the street letter boxes. SATURDAY NIGHT CRASH . KILLS FATHER AND SON Lindsay, June 30--(CP)--A Sat- urday night collision of a truck and a car at the intersection of high- ways 7 and 47, just north of here, brought fatal injuries to Donald Mc- Lean and his 23-year-old son Lorne, and scalp lacerations, bruises and possible internal injurie to John Vancock and Harold Lenford, of To- fois, driver and passenger of the Take 10-Day Instruction At Meaford Eight officers and 10 N.C.O.'s from the 11th Armored (Ontar- io) Regiment proceeded to the Royal Canadian Armored Corps school at Meaford Ranges for a period of 10 days instruction over the week-end, Members of the Regiment training staff are also acting as instructors at the school, The object of the courses is to familiarize the old members of the armored corps and instruc- tional staff who have been re- cently transferred to the armoyr- ed sérvice in the new methods of teaching and instruction coinci- dental with the new equipment being used. The newest development in ra- dio for armored vehicles as well as 75,76 and 106 m.m., cannon will be used, Speeial instruction will be given in connection with the operation and maintenance of diesel motors. Ford Retirement Plan Offer For Workers After 30 Years Detroit, June 30--(AP)--Richard T. Leonard of the United Automo- bile Workers (CIO), estimated Sat- urday that the Ford Motor Com- pany pension plan would enable a $200-month production worker to retire at half pay after 30 years. Leonard, vice-president of the UAW-CIO and director of its Ford department, revealed major details of the pension plan, first of its kind in a major automotive produ- cing plant. , The tentative pension agreement, announced "Friday, supplements a seven-cent hourly wage boost granted 110,000 Ford production workers. Leonard estimated that 95 per cent of these employees are eligible to participate in the pension plan from its outset, The "remainder would become eligible after an un- specified number of months with the firm. He said retirement age had not been agreed 'upon, but probably would be set between 55 and 65. "A Ford worker earning $200 a month would contribute about $1,- 800 in 30 years and would receive $100 a month at retirement," Leon- ard said. "If the same worker were to purchase an individual annuity to pay him $55 a month for life it would cost him about $9,000." The average Ford worker, with the seven-cent increase, would make about $1.46% an "hour, or about $234 a month on the basis of a full 40-hour week. Federal Social Security was taken into account by Leonard in figuring the eventual payments. Four-Page Paper Back In Britain London, June 30 (Reuters)--Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in the House of Com- mons today that Britain would go back to four-page newspapers to economize on dollar imports of newsprint, and that there would be cuts in tobacco and gasoline im- ports. . In a statement on Britain's im- port program for the 12 months starting tomorrow, Dalton said the serious rise in the world prices and "a severe shortage of dollars" had made import cuts from the dollar countries essential. "It is our clear duty to take fur- ther steps to close the gap between our necessary imports and exports." He said he was seeking power to levy import duty on films if neces. sary. There would be some restric- tion in imports of consumer goods, other than food. This would apply particularly to textiles. Dalton warned that the possibil- ity of some cuts in some foods in- cluding rationed commodities, could not be ruled out. "The situation is very serious both for Britain and many other coun- tries. Food and raw materials and machinery must have first place in our import program." Britain's line of credits under the Anglo_American loan agreement "is being drawn upon much more ra- pidly than we expected," he said. Two Accidents Hit-and-Run Type Reported Only two yminor accidepts-- both hit-and-run--were reported here over the busy pre-holiday week-end, Provincial police said that although traffic in the area was heavy motorists were exer- cising a notable amount of cau- tion. Donald R. Hunter, of Toronto, driving east on No. 2 Highway, reported that his car was side- swiped by a westbound truck about two miles west of Oshawa shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday. The truck proceeded without stopping, he said. Front left fen- der and tire, rear left fender and the steering mechanism of the Hunter ear were damaged. Leonard Dalby, 616 Sommer- ville Avenue, told police an auto backed into the front of his car, parked on the north side of the roadway at Lakeview Pavilion, about 10 o'clock Saturday night. The driver failed to heed a call from Mrs, Dalby and drove away. Left front fender of the car, own. ed by Norman J. Moran, 498 Sim- coe Street North, was damaged. Crime Wave Hits Toronto Toronto, June 30--(CP)--Police reported yesterday that jail cells were overflowing as the aftermath of one of the worst week-end waves of drunkenness, fighting, prowling and molesting of women they could remember. Four cars were reported stolen; three parked cars were smashed by hit-and-run drivers; Jack Robin- son, 42, Toronto, was in hospital af- ter being struck by another hit- and-run driver; one man was char- ged with indecent exposure on a street car; two women were as- saulted, scores of women reported men following them and asked for police protection and six policemen were needed to break up one down town fight. Police gave liquor as the cause of a series of fights that kept, them busy for four howr$ late Saturday and early Sunday. FIRST PRIZE COCKER SPANIEL "Sandman of Ayr," the two- year-old cocker spaniel belonging to Miss Grace Rig¢her, pro secretary of the local Y.W.C.A,, carried off first prize in Ais class --cocker spaniels ny other color than black--at the Interna- tional All-Breed Dog Show at Barrie last Saturday, Miss Richer bought her dog when two months old from John Devlin, a Torontd dog-breeder, Flint, Mich.: Grab Four Generals Of 'Black Maquis,' Friends of Petain Paris, June 30 (AP)--Interior Minister Edouard pb- preux announced today discovery of a "very widespread" plot by an organization known as the "Black Maquis" to overthrow the French Republic and set up a military dicta-~ torship. Three Billion Distributed; UNRRA Ends London, June 30 (AP)--Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks, director-general of UN.R.R.A,, closed the books to- day on distribution of nearly $3,000,000,000 worth of food and supplies to the peoples of 17 war- devastated countries as the world's greatest relief organization went out of business. Rooks said that while the vast organization had not achieved eco- nomic recovery "collapse has cer- tainly so far been avoided." The director warned, however, that in many cases starvation was averted by only the narrowest of margins, and asserted that more help would be needed "to prevent collapse in the European countries 'hardest hit by the war." Find Victims Of Explosion Port Rowan, Ont., June 30--(CP) The bodies of all three persons Irowned in Lake Erie early Satur- day when a gasoline explosion wrecked the cabin cruiser Sally B, have been recovered. Evelyn McLeod's body was found Sunday and the bodies of Charles Cruikshank, 28, of Turkey Point, owner of the ill-fated craft, and Gordon Stewart, 39, -dairy owner, were recovered today. Three saved after the fishing boat on which the party started for a pleasure cruise blew up were Jean Sturgeon and June Strome of Toronto and Howard Ferris, 28, of Turkey Point. An inquest has been set for 2 p.m. on Friday, July 11, and Dr. W. H. Reid of Port Rowan will conduct a post-mortem today. A coroner's Jury ras already viewed the body of Miss McLeod, who came from Win- nipeg to Ontario some time ago and had been chief waitress at a hotel at Turkey Point from where the party started the cruise. Ferris said that he and the two Toronot girls were sitting on the boat's rear seat when they were blown into the water by the explo- sion, apparenlty from gasoline fumes. The three drowned had been up front. While Ferris man- aged to save Miss Strome and Miss Sturgeon screams were heard on shore by John Kestrel who notified- police and firemen. A boat owned by fire chief Spen- cer Smith picked up the three sur- vivors while dragging operations started for the bodies of the three others, LAWN BOWLING TOURNEY The Oshawa Lawn Bowling Club is sponsoring a mixed rinks tourna- ment on its greens tomorrow. Over 30 rinks are expected to take part in the games which start at 1.30 pm, Depreux said General Guillaudot, oinspector-fieneral of the French Gendarmerie; Maj. Jean Lou- stauenau - Lachau, a Rightist resistance leader who before the war acknowledged that he was a member of the anti-Republican Cagoulards (Hooded Ones), and other officers and civilians had been arrested. General Implicated A usually reliable serni-official source said earlier that four French Generais and several civilians had been implicated. The government-operated Agence France-Presse said the "soul of the plot" was reported to be a former officer and friend of ex-Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, now con- fined for life at the Isle d'Yeu as a traitor. The Agency did not iden- tify this man by name. Army Units Depreux told a press conference that whole units of the French army might have been involved. He said first details of the clandestine organization of former Right Wing resistance leaders, monarchists and Vichy collabora- tionists became known to French Police forces late in 1946 from police ormers. y He said the "Black Maquis" drawn up a complete "blue plan" for first filling Frenchmen with a fear of a "Communist putsch" and then stepping in to set up a "provisional directorate" of mili- tary leaders, patterned along totali- tarian lines. The Maquis were French underground fighters dur- ing the war, Editor Agence France-Presse dispatches from Rennes, in Brittany, named M. de Vulpian, 47, editor of the weekly France Vivante and presi- dent of a veterans' organization, as among those arrested, together with Marc Jacquot, a wine merch~ ant at Montigny,, and the Rector of the abbey at Lamballe, in Brit- tany, identified only as Rault. From documents uncovered dur- ing a top secret investigation which has been going on since May, an In- terior Ministry official said, it was learned that the plotters planned to carry out their coup some time this month, De Gaulle Clear All sources agreed that there was no connection between the plotters and Gen. Charles de Gaulle's re- cently organized 'Rally of the French People (R.P.F.). Several caches of arms were re- ported to have been discovered, but the movement was said to have con- sisted of "isolated operations." The Agency said French security police had discovered 'documents proving the plotters had planned action some time this month against strategic points in Paris, including the post office and tele- graph central office as wel as against the prison of Fresnes. Fresnes prison, since France's Jiberation in the fall of 1044, has been used to confine persons ac- cused of collaboration with the Germans, ------ tet MAJORITY OF STORES CLOSED Abiding by the decision of the Oshawa Business Men's Associ- ation to remain closed today as well as Dominion Day, most of fhe retail stores in the business section were inactive, The chain groceries were busy, however, and the drug stores were also op- en, * LATE NEWS BRIEFS * (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) Fort Erie, Ont.: After failing to receive word of their arrival, a Buffalo man expressed concern today for the safety of his two sons, who departed by a chartered seaplane yesterday morning for a summer camp in Ontario. Toronto: Gerald Garvey, 26, of Peterborough, Ont, was burned to death early today by fire that swept through a rooming house. Lyndhurst, Ont.: Bloodhounds were brought into action here tqday after a night of fruitless search by 100 men for seven-year-old Murial McFadden of Brier Hill, Ont., + lost i 4.30 p.m. yesterday. lint started to ration water today after high temperatures boomed consumption above the rated capacity of the city's filter plant, ------ ------ b 4