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™ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1948 | Reuther Fires Wren, Rowe, Eldon A THE DAILY TIMES-GAZEJTE PAGE THRER nd Steeve From U & > 4 | Cream and Milk Sales Increased Here in October Despite an increase in price as compared with the same month a year ago, sales of fluid cream by the dairies in the Oshawa-East Whitby area in October last showed an in- crease of 1,.80 quarts over those in October, 1946, it is reported by the Statistics Branch of the Ontario Department { of Agriculture, A total of 11,011 quarts of fluid cream were sold in October last as compared with 9,181 quarts in Oc- tober, 1946. The sales value of the product in October, 1947, was $7,785 as compared with $5780 in October, 1946. The average e per quart in 1946 was 63.1 cents while in 1047 it was 70.7 cents. Sales of fluid nfflk also showed an increase. A total of 433,100 quarts were sold in October last, an in- crease of 3,619 quarts over October of the previous year. The sales value of the product was $65,088 as compared with $63,676 in the previ- ous year, Chocolate dairy drink sales show- ed a decline. Sales in October last totalled 17,656 quarts as compared with 21,123 quarts in October, 1946. However, sales of cultured milk in- sreased. The figure for October last was 2967 quarts as compared with 2581 in the same month of the previous year. The Branch reports a total of 1,164,908 pounds of milk were pur- chased by local dairies in October last for finid sales. This represented an expenditure of $38,937.61, or an average price of $3.3¢ per hundred- weight. A total of 4931 pounds of butter fat were also purchased. This represented an expenditure of $3,501, or an average cost of 71 cents per pound. Army Probes Scot Soldier In U.S. Force Philadelphia, Jan. T--(AP)--Alis- .tair Nicholson, 23-year-cld native of Glascow, Scotland who the New York Daily News said was "hust- led" in the United States Army, "suffered court-martial and impris- onment, yet collected $2,500 in bene- fits," in his guise as an American soldier, was placed under technical arrest yesterday 'by immigration Commissioner Watson Miller. An Immigration Service spokes- man said Nicholson was released after he said he would appear at Ellis Island today for a hearing. He will be charged with entering the United States illegally. The spokes- man added that after-the investiga- tion, Nicholson may apply for par- ole. Army officials In 'Washington withheld comment on the story of the former British seaman. However, Army spokesmen reveal- ed that the Army Department has sent to St. Louis for discharge pa- pers of a "Fred Bast," the name re- ported used by Nicholson. Reuther Promises U.A.W.WageHike Detroit, Jan, T--(AP)--The Unit- ed fo Workers Union (CIO) will «demand and win" wage increases this year for its more than 900,000 members, President Walter Reuther said last night. . Reuther announced the union's objective in broad terms, without stating a particular sum, after a "wage policy" meeting of the UA. W.'s top officers. Already however, several locals of the U.AW. in Michigan have de- manded that the International Un- fon press foria 25-cents-an-hour in- crease. 4+ C.P.R. Official G. ALLAN MacNAMARA Newly appointed vice-president of traffic for the Canadian Pacific Railway who will direct the world- wide organization which obtains freight and passenger traffic for the company's trains in Canada and the United States and ps -- ocean, coastal and inland, Church Case Said 'Scandal' St. Catharines, Ont, Jan. 7 -- (CP)--Termed by Rev. C. L. Cow- an of Hamilton "the worst scandal in the Presbyterian Church in 20 years," the case of Rev. A. D. Suth- erland, Pastor of St. Andrew's Church in Welland, Ont., was dis- cussed yesterday behind closed doors by the Hamilton Presbytery of his denomination. Barred from a hearing that dealt with the requested resignation of the minister was a delegation' of 50 members of St. Andrew's, along with newspaper men. A Presbytery official said after the meeting that the Presb®iery would meet with members of the congregation Jan. 20 at St. And- rew's to decide a proper course of action. One of the barred delegates, Miss G. M. Fortner, a St. Andrew's mem- ber for more than 50 years, com- mented: "If the meeting is to be held behind closed doors, then the Presbytery must be afraid of some. thing and they are not the ones to preach to us." 4 But the nature of the "scandal" remained a mystery as reporters, from snatches of conversation with church elders and clergymen enter- ing and leaving the day-long meeting, attempted to piece togeth- er the story. A meeting of the church session last Friday drafted a petition for Mr. Sutherland's resignation, sign- ed by all members of the session except one. The action followed criticism by members of the ess- sion over the way in which the elec- tion of six new elders was carried out. SHOCK-ABSORBING TIRES Airplane tires that start rotat- ing before the plane hits the ground thus absorbing much of the landing shock, are used on many airliners. ~~ Cheese Expor Drop As Canadians' By R. K. CARNEGIE Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Jan. 7--(CP)--Canada Is steadily passing out of the picture of an exporter of cheese and other : nile products which for years were mon g her principal contributions { to world trade and the main rea- | %on 1s imply that Canadians them- selves are eating them up. Economists here would not be surprised if within a few years fa- mous Canadian cheese were entire- ly off the London market where it has been acclaimed for almost a century. Ti country has undertaken to provide. the United Kingdom with 50,000,000 pounds of cheese in the year beginning April 1. The lowest figure in 65 years. In the export year now ending she will have ship- ped. a total cf 55,750,000 pounds to Britain. London Likes It For 83 years Canadian cheese has ruled the roost in London's import market, bringing the highest prices of any but the domestic product. The first Canadian cheese to be sold in London was in 1865 and it made # hit from the start. By 1001 Canada's annual produc- tion of cheese for Britain had pas- sed the 200,000,000 mark and held for several years. The top year was 1904 when 334,000,000 pounds were exported. From. then until now the trend has been downward with fluctations from yes' to year, In 1936 it drop- t More ped to 58,500,000 pounds when ef- forts were made to revive the pro- duction by bonuses and brought it back to around 80,000,000 a year un- til the war. To the pleading from Britain for more cheese Canada was able to export 141,500,000 in 1942 by, bon- uses, rationing butter and taking cheese practically off the domestic market. But it was only temporary and the export figures have slipped back steadily since. Meanwhile, Canada has the lar- gest d cattle population in her history. estimated at 4,500,000 head. : ; Heavy Consumption The chief reason Canadian cheese is slipping out of the export mark- et is the great domestic consum- tion of milk products. Canada is be- coming an industrialized country and it takes more milk to supply the big and smaller centres of po- pulation. Canadians are consuming more butter than ever before and the domestic per capita consump- tion of chéese has moved up from 2% pounds a year in 1921 to four pounds last year. They ate 50,000, 000 pounds in 1947. - Indications are that the indus. trialization will go on at an accen. tuated pace that will. continue to outstrip the increase in the dairy herds. : The future of the dairy industry is to supply the domestic market and if the forecasts of the econom- ists are correct, the industrys will have its hands full doing it. CANADIANSHIP IS BOYCOTTED AT SINGAPORE " Singapore,, Jan. 7--(AP)--The Singapore Federation of Trade Un- ions announced against the Can- adian vessel Oceanside, which it said "is cartylpg arms and ammun- ition to the Nanking government" in China. the Oceanside is lying in the rords waiting to discharge local.cargo for Singapore before procecuumig Ww China. A trade union spokesman said all Chinese, Indian and Malay workmen voted yesterday to refuse Ching. He said the amount of arms aboard the Oceanside was unknown but "considerable", . Patterson, Simons and Company, the ships local agents, denied the Oceanside was carrying arms. They said the 7,158-ton Oceanside was owned by the Andros Shipping company of Montreal and sailed from Montreal. Peter McRitchie, former city edi- tor of the Montreal Gazette who is a passenger aboard the ship, termed the trade unions charges "absolute nonsense." He sald stevedores had already discharged a local cargo of onions and potash despite the un- fon's announcement that the ship was being boycotted and would not be unloaded. "There is no explosive of any kind aboard," McRitchie told re- porters, It was the second boycott by har- bor workers here since Christmas. They refused to handle the Cana- dian ship Cliffside, which arrived in Singapore on Christmas Day, carrying 2,500 tons of ammunition, four Mosquito bombers and an un- assembled small arms plant destin- ed for the Nanking government. Government sources in Ottawa sald ntly the arms shipments from ada were part of a $10,- 500,000 Mosquito plant deal nego- tiated between Canada and China some time ago, under which Canada is to ship 170 surplus planes, equip- ped with guns and ammunition and ground maintenance equipment. The officials said the ammunition being shipped was exclusively for the guns mounted on the planes. Food Lures 'Em Hamburg, Jan. 7-- (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old Hamburg woman, who advertised for a husband in the Hamburger Allgemeine Zeitung, added that she receiv ed food parcels from the United States each month. She got 2,437 offers. Paper At Geneva Reports Michael Ordered To Quit Geneva, Jan. T--(Reuters)--For- mer King Michael of Romania had prisoner," the Journal De Geneve declared today quoting a "sure source" for a dramatic account of the methods said to have been used to secure Michael's abdication. The newspaper said that on Dec. 30, on an urgent and unexpected summons from the Romanian Prime Minister Gros:, Michael drove to Bucharest with a secretary from his palace at Sinaia, where he was spending the Christmas holidays. In Bucharest, at the palace of his aunt, Princess Elizabetlt of Roman- ia, he found awaiting him Dr. Gro- za and the Communist Vice-Pre- mier. The newspaper report said the ministers presented him with the Act of Abdication, in the terms in which it was later published, and asked him to sign it at once. Extremely surprised, said the pa- per, Michael asked for time to study the document, but, looking out of a window, he saw that the palace had been surrounded by a regiment loyal to the government; and that some empty cars were waiting outside. . The paper continued: "Michael either had to bow to force or be taken prisoner at the risk of dis- turbances in the country, and of repressive measures of which his subjects have been the victims. "The King did not wish to bring fresh tragedies upon his country. He signed." The newspaper added that this dramatic scene had scarcely ended when placards bearing the words "People's Republic of Romania" ap- peared in- the streets. VET HOMES IN COBOURG Cobourg, Jan. 6--Twenty new houses are to be built here for vet- erans under the Central Mortgage Corp., council has decided. Mayor Joseph Smith told the 1948 town council at its inaugural meeting in commenting on the recent an- nouncement- relative to government bonds that the days of low interest financing are past, and warned that major expenditures should be care- fully considered. LINDSAY RINK TO GET ICE Lindsay, Jan. 6--Artificial ice will be installed in the community-own- ed arena before next winter, it was learned 'today. Lindsay's. property owners last night voted two to one in favor of the plan. The local curling rink is also installing arti- ficial ice and for this reason, both the club and the town will get their plants at a reduced figure. . NAPANEE TO GET BRIDGE Napanee, Jan. 6--Plans for a new highway traffic oridge crossing the river at the east end of Napanee have been received by the town council from the department of The Singapore Harbor Board said ! to unload the Oceanside or any fu- | ture ships carrying ammunition to | either "to bow to force or be taken | Oshawa Kiwanis Club Officers For 1948 NEIL C. FRASER, K.C. First Vice President FRED MOSS Treasurer R. D. HUMPHREYS, K.C, Director DONALD STORIE Director °° DOUGLAS M. COOMBS Director E. W. REYNOLDS Presidents DAVID 8. JAMIESON Past President REV, B. 8. MORWOOD Director R. B. REED Director A. E, "TED" JOHNSTON Past Secretary highways. It will have a traffic width. of 30 feet and will be con- structed to the west of the present bridge! Both approaches will ne- cessitate a slight change in the line of the 'present roadway. NOT HIS STATEMENT The Times-Gazette extends its apologies to Douglas D. Layton, 217 Gibbs. Street, for erroneously re- porting that he 'made a certain sta' ;ment read in police court on Monday. The statement has been attributed to another of the four- some arrested December 28 and charged with breaking and entering W. F. Essery's storehouse and Well- man's 'garage in North Oshawa. eae, | | Personal Service " Goering, Neb., Jan, 7--(AP)-- Deputy Sherifi Steve Warrick received his 1948 Nebraska au- tomobile Licence Plates yesier- day, No. 21-3333, the same ones he has carried on his car for several years. Inside the En- velope with the plates was a note which read: "Hi, Steve, I'm pretty sure you'll get this." The message was from a. pri- soner at the Nebraska State Penitentiary, who was arrested . by Warrick last spring on char- ge of breaking and entering. The phisoner had made the plates, EVERETT DISNEY Second Vice President JACK FRY ' Secretary WILLIAM DUNCAN Director HARRY GAY Director FRED KITCHEN Director ' Butt Burns Hole In Chesterfield A small hole in a chesterfield cushion today at the residence of B. Fisher, 225 Nassau Street, is the only sign of what might have been a disastrous fire last night. Fire- men were summoned at 8.04 p.m. to extinguish smouldering stuffing which had heen ignited by a drop- ped cigarette. Just after midnight, a passerby saw heavy smoke or steam around the Supertest Service Station at 102 Simcoe Street' North. On arrival, firemen discovered no signs of a conflagration, & AW Canadian Region Ordered To Drop Burt Followers Toronto, Jan. 7 (CP)--The Globe and Mail said in 8 newspage story today that a "housecleaning of the interna= tional staff of the Canadian region of the: United Auto Work« ers Union (CIO) had been . International President of the union. ordered by Walter Reuther, The newspaper said that staff Ontario STRENGTHEN ARMOURIES London, Ont, Jan. 7 (CP) Army engineers 'plan to replace the old wooden floor at the arm- ouries here with a concrete floor. They found the wooden floor was not strong enough to bear the weight of modern fighting ve- hicles. > WB DOG 'PHONES' FOR AID London, Ont., Jan. 7 (CP). --A lonely little dog, left by itself in a south-end apart- ment, apparently decided to call some friends on the tele- phone but a switchboard oper. ator couldn't understand him. The operator phoned police when she heard peculiar noises on the phone. Police found that the dog had knocked the receiver off the hook. LB SNOW SAVES LIFE Toronto, Jan. 7 (CP).--A heavy snow-storm may be a pain in the neck to most people but 37-year- old Roland Van Valkenburg has the recent snowfall to thank for saving his life. He was washin windows Yesterday at a local school when he slipped and fell two storeys into a snowbank. Hospital authorities report his in- juries "not serious." * op FACES CHEQUE CHARGE Toronto, Jan. 7 (C Michael Stark, 26, of Welland, surrendered to police here last night on a charge of forging his mother's name to a $100 cheque, drawn on the Bank of Toronto at Welland. He will be taken to Welland. County Butter Production Increased While the make of creamery but- tre in Ontario County in November was higher than in the same month a year ago, the reverse was the case as regards Durham County. The make of cheddar cheese in this county also showed a decline and as a result the make for. the 11 months of 1947 was well below that of the same period a year ago. The make of creamery butter in Ontario County in November was 50,933 pounds as compared with] 45012 pounds in November, 1946. The make for the 11 months of 1947 was 836,453 pounds as compar- ed with 759,212 pounds for the January-November period of the previous year, Durham County reported a make of 56,116 pounds of creamery but ter in November as compared with 56,933 pounds in November, 1946. The make for the 11 months of 1947 was 1,014,166 pounds as com- pared with 887,836 for the same period in 1946, The production of cheddar cheese in Ontario County during the 11 months. of last year totalled 11,2314 pounds as compared with 139,598 pounds for the same month of the previous year, MESSENGER LIONIZED Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia-- (CP)--A native carrying a message through the bush here encountered a lion but managed to-climb a tree in time. The lion settled down at the foot of the tree and .prepared to wait till pight. During the night the native doz- ed off and fell out of the tree on to the lion, which got such a fright that he dashed off into the bush, enabling the native to continue his ® members dismissed include Ray= mond Wren, Educational Director of the Union in Canada; Harry Rowe, Public Relations Director, and International Representatives John Eldon of Windsor and Fred Steeve of St. Catharines, "The shake-up in staff has ape parently been ordered by Reuther in an effort to balance the pro Reuther strength in the union against followers of Canadian Die rector George Burt, who hold most of the staff posts," said the Globe, "Previously two staff representa= tives were fired by Burt on orders of Reuther to reduce the Canadian staff, . "Delegation of Canadian heads of the union met with Reuther in De- troit Monday and was said to have been promised that their demand for full autonomy in the Canada- dian region of the U.A.W. would be considered. These developments are en oute growth of the landslide victory for Reuther at the UAW international convention in Atlantic City. Reuther spurred the anti-Burt delegates at the convention in their effort to unseat the Canadian di- rector. Burt won the distinction of being one of four regional directors who survived the Reuther sweep at the convention, Reuther-backed candidates won 14 of the 18 regional posts, Mr, Rowe, a former newspaper- man, joined the UAW as public re lations director about nine years ago. Mr. Wren has been director of education for the Canadian region of the UAW for several years. He has been associated with the Work- ers Educational Association for more than 10 years and conducted the UAW summer schools at Port Hope. -- Many Homeless As Oregon Valley Swept By Floods Eugene, Ore, Jan. 7 (AP). he flood crest of the Willamette River swirled northward today from this stricken upper valley area, leaving thousands of persons in the care of relief agencies. One child was drowned in =a rain-swollen ditch. Along a hundred-mile stretch of the rich farmlands in the middle and lower valley, where tributar- ies lave already burst their banks, communities braced for greater inundation of lowlands, highways and more evacuations. Six days of incessant rains have pounded Western Oregon and the weather bureau forecast was for continued rain today and tonight. Warm chinook winds off the Pacific have caused mountain snows to melt, adding to the flooding con- ditions in the valleys.. dozen families were made homeless when a creek overflowed, sweeping away a tent colony, In the lowlands the Red Cross has directed evacuation of some 1,400 persons to higher ground. They are being cared for in school auditoriums, fire halls and lodge rooms in the area. The United States Arm neers' Corps, which issued orders placing its major flood control plan into effect yesterday, has in= structed farmers in lowlands of the middle valley to remove live. stock from fields along the rivers, At Portland, the coast guard aux- iliary prepared motor boats for use in possible rescue activity. The principal north-south high. way route through the heart of the state was severed at several points. In scattered areas of the upper valley there were half a dozen vile lages isolated by broken communi. cations and power service. A few Engi. journey, | were cut off when roads were flooded. : Come 'to this FIRST -RALLY of 1948 and hear Ken HAYSTEAD director of Ottawa Youth for Christ --~-- Also -- The KING'S RADIO QUINTETTE of Toronto, featuring Fred GOULD with his tenor Banjo ~-- Local -- Organ Solo, Vocal Solo and Trios Bring a Chum and Come to ST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH Saturday Evening--7:30 Director: MAJOR H. ROBERTS