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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 69 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1948 Price 4 Cents . SIXTEEN PAGES CITY MUST PROVIDE OWN HOME ad Switch Pulling Is Ended In Ontario Cities Scouts Enjoy Bronze Arrowhead Training Course Compulsory Cuts No Longer Needed; Restrictions Stay Toronto, March 22 (CP)--Power 'blackouts imposed on Ontario cities to conserve power no longer are compulsory, although lighting restrictions imposed last November remain in force, Hydro Chairman Robert Saunders announced to- day. The Hydro-Electric Power Com-®-- mission of Ontario had pulled switches at different periods during the day in Ontario cities since mid- February in an effort to save power lost because of low water condi- tions at plants of Quebec suppliers. One typical centre was Toronto, where two half-hour periods began thie cut. This was later cut down to one 40-minute period a day and finally to 20 minutes' duration. Mr, Saunders said improved water condlitions and assurance from Que- bec power companies 'that power supply will be restored to the amounts called for in contracts were the reasons for removing blackouts. The order had imposed a 10 per cent curtailment on use of power. It was left to each municipality to decide how to conserve the 10 per cent. Many used periodic blackouts of power on week days. While announcing lift of the 10 per cent order, Mr. Saunders said it does not mean there is plenty of power. He tempered the statement by asking voluntary conservation to be continued. Further, he warned that if water conditions become worse or an em- ergency arises the restrictions will oe reimposed. Two Guards Said Stabbed At Kingston Kingston, March 22 (CP).--Two guards were stabbed by a knife- wielding convict who went suddenly berserk at Kingston Penitentiary on Saturday afternoon. The injured men are E. F. Fuller, a senior guard, and George Wilson, both of Kingston. Fullef was stab- bed below the right shoulder, the blady of the knife penetrating to the bone. Wilson suffered a deep gash in his left thigh. Name. of the convict was wiih- held by penitentiary officiais. {ow- ever it is understood the man is 2 mental case having rec:ntly been trarisferred here from Bordeau Jail, Montreal. It is understood 14 convicts were working in the shoe manufacturing shop inside the penitentiary when the attacks occurred. The other inmates took no part in the affair. Earlier it hac been reported all of them had attacked the two guards. The convict approached Fuller from behind. Suddenly he whipped out the knife, rlunged it into Ful- ler's back and then snarled: "That's for reporting me." Fuller tsrned slight!v a fraction cf .a second before the convict struck at him, with the result the knife b.ade cut intn the right, side of his back. The convict worked his way along the wall of the shop until he came behind Mr. Wilson. He siashed hm viciously on the thigh. : Mr, Wilson rushed to the part of the shop where Mr. Fuller was sta tioned but found him lying on the floor, covered with blood By this time the convict had quieted down. THE WEATHER Cloudy clearing this after- noon. Tuesday overcast clearing in the afternoon. Rain com- - mencing Tuesday morning stopping in the afternoon. Cool- er today. Milder Tuesday. Winds light. Low tonight and high Tuesday 30 and 42. AT PENETANG MAD KILLERS BEING SOUGHT Penetanguishene, Ont, March 22 --/(CP) -- Two mad killers, fugitives from a mental hospital here, were believed hiding today in | the snow-covered countryside with- | in a few miles of this Georgian | Bay town, Melville Wilkie, #37, of Sound, who confessed to burning | | With 32 Scouters in attendance, the Owen | course at the Scout Headquarters, annual Bronze Arrowhead Training | Saturday, was most successful from every point of view. The course is Athol Street West, on Friday and designed for Patrol Leaders anxious to better their training program. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo his wife and baby daughter to| death, and Henry Leo Cada. 29, of River Rouge, Mich., adjudged unfit to stand trial in the knife slaying last June of his 21-year-old sister Ida, fled Saturday night after slug- ging a 'guard and lifting his keys. The escape was Wilkie's fourth since he was committed to the Mental Hospital in 1933. He was ruled insane after he said in a statement that he sprinkled coal oil around a bedroom in which his wife and child were sleeping and set fire to it. Wilkie, a dark-haired, slightly bow-legged man of medium height and weight, hid 12 days on the hos- pital grounds after his first break August 1, 1946, but a coughing fit gave him away. The following No- vember he beat his way to Winni- peg, took pneumonia and was rec- ognized by a hospital doctor. He scaled a 16-foot wall last August but was captured at Wasaga Beach by police who pursued him in a motorboat after he waded out into the bay. Cada, six feet two inches and weighing about 220 pounds, was accused of knifing his sister in a barn near Chatham. Three psychi- atrists testified at his trial that he suffered from delusions of persecu- tion, Wearing hospital garb of brown sweater coats, dark trousers and ox- fords but no hats, coats or over- shoes, the men used a home-made key to pass through two doors which held them in a ward. They slugged guard Howard Cadeau, took his keys and let themselves out. Heavy fog which hung over the area until Sunday noon helped them in their flight. So did a mild spell which made tracks hazy and baffled police who sought to estab- lish the direction the fugitives had taken. By noon, when the fog lift- ed, the men apparently had vanish- ed without a trace, However, police expressed belief they had not gone far and the chase settled down to a tedious yard-by-yard beating of the bush » drive out and corner the fugi- ves. FIND JUDGE'S AUTO Stolen Saturday from its parking place on Centre Street, a car be- longing to Judge J. A. McGibbon of Lindsay, was found upside down in a ditch two and a half miles south of Port Perry on the Oshawa-Port Perry Road. Chief of Police George Holmes of Port Perry and Corporal Gordon Campbell of the Provincial Police, Whitby office recovered th vehicle yesterday afternoon. Jewish Jewish arms is expected to be pro- claimed in Palestine today or to- IMOrrow. Scouts Hold Course Of Training There is a saving that goes something like this--"A good Lead- er is a trained leader". On last Fri. day and Saturday local Scouts fol- lowed this moral by holding their Annual ing Course at the Boy Scout Head- quarters, Bronze Arrowhead Train. Athol Street West, With 32 boys present, eager to learn how to become better lead- ers, the course swung after the welcoming address given by District Commissioner J. Harold Bateman. Such topics as hiking, knotting, patrol organization, map reading, and estimations were probed into thoroughly under the direction of Course Ted Daniels and Jim Hare. Nor was the course confined entirely to the. ory, other topics actual practice was in. volved. into action compass points, lashings, Scoutmasters Jim Carey, as in estimation work and Each section of the course was run similar to a regular Scout meet- ing, with the above course Scout. masters acting as regular leaders. Assisting them were District Com. missioner J. Assistant Charles K. Anderson, District Scout- master Edward Alker, Harold Bateman, District Commissioner Executive SCOUTS (Continued on Page 2) Expect Jews To Establish Armed State By JAMES M. LONG Tel Aviv, March 22--(AP) -- A state to be defended by A reliable ntormdnt said a for- mal order proclaiming the existance of such a state will be made by Vaad Leumi--the Jewish National Council. No official announcement has yet been made by the council itself. David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, said Saturday a Jewish state al. ready has come into being -- pre- pared to defend itself. Such a proclamation by the Nat. ional Council would repudiate in advance any United Nations trus. teeship, defy Arab arms and be a step towards appeal for internat. | ional reccgnition. Tel Aviv -- only all. Jewish city in the world -- is the administra- tive centre of the new state. 5 Government of the state would be in the hands of a provisional committee of 32 already appointed under authority of the Jewish Agen. cy of Vaad Leumi. . The United States' reversal on partition caught the potential Jew. ish state still in the formative stage Reds Make Czechs Work All Sunday For Nothing Prague, March 22 -- (AP) -- More than 4,000,000 Czechs worked for nothing yesterday, the govern- ment announced today. They worked in the country's factories and mines and on build- ing projects. Their gratis labor was the first of a series of government "victory shifts." The money they would have earned will go to an international children's relief fund and to the guerrilla cause in Greece. The government did not say which will get the biggest share. More than 250,000 hours were put in at the Bata Shoes and allied industry works alone, an announce- ment said. Actors from the National Theatre helped on a house building project. Children helped clean rubbish from homes and office buildings. The Czech parliament worked yesterday, too. It voted to confiscate land hold- ings .in excess of 125 acres. Land- less peasants will get a chance to acquire this excess land at favor- able term. : Some of the land will be taken from the church under the meas- ure. It was announced that the | church will be compensated. EXPECT JEWS (Continued on Page 2) Flood Toll Is 4 Dead Losses Up In Millions In Ontario And Quebec By The Canadian Press A trail of destruction with dam. age that may reach millions of dol. lars was left teday by preceding streams in Southern Ontario and Quebec as heavy rains and contin- ued mild temperatures caused other streams to continue heavy flooding Swollen rivers dislocated business by flooding towns and isolated com- munities by cutting off rail and road communications. Four deaths could be attributed to flood condi. tions. At Chatham the Thames River reached its highest level of the year, 14 feet, nine in®hes, while at some points the GrandsRiver reached its highest levels since 1883» Deaths included three.year-cld Betty Irene Byer, drowned in a swollen creek near her Stouffville, Ont.,, home and Andy Ernest La. Rese, seven, who lost his life in a field at Lindsay, Ont. A spectacular flood and ice jam which surged up from the St. Francis river ripped through Bromptonville, Que., a town of 2,000 population five miles north of Sherbrooke. It caused damage es. timated at more than $500,000 in damaged houses sdone, ripped up a half mile of Canadian National Railways' track and demolished the railway station. The sight of giant ice floes creep- ing down the main street and knocking buildings aside like bowl. ing pins gave Wilfrid Martin, 50, a fatal heart seizude. ; The other death was at Port Hope, Ont., where the roaring Gan- araska River swept away Jimmy Lindsay, 5. Dragging operations were started. A sudden rise of the St. Lawrence River at Montreal gave residents of St. Lambert suburb a scare. With. in an hour, the water receded and People who had evacuated their homes moved back. Thundershowers in some regions added to flood difficulties. After flood waters pouring through the town caused damage timated at more than $1,000,000, the Maitland River last night isol- ated Wingham, Ont, Railway offi. cials condemned the battered C.N. R. bridge which formed Wingham's last link with outside points. Civic officials said the town of about 2,500 persons might be cut off for days, Even pedestrians were warned away from the bridge as FLOOD TOLL (Continued on Page 2) Floods Block Ontario Roads " Toronto, March 22--(CP)--Eight. een points on 16 Ontario highways are blocked by floods, the Ontario Department of Highways reported today, with a serious break in No. 2 highway. Detours of more than 25 miles are necessary on this main route to Windsor because of flood- ing between Thamesville and Lam. beth. Other highways closed: No. 54, Cayuga to Cainsville; No. 4, Han. over to Walkerton and also south from Wingham; No, 6, from the junction of No. 21 to Hepworth; No, 24, Singhampton to Duntroan; No. 104, from junction of No. 9 to Grand Valley; No. 79, Bothwell to Waterford; No. 24 at Galt; No. 73, south from Aylmer; No. 81, from Parkhill to Mount Bridges; No. 35, Lindsay to the junction of TA; No. TA, from Port Perry; No. 45, Baltimore to Norwood; No. 83, Exeter to Dash. wood; No. 86, between Wingham and Whitechurch and also at Blue. vale; No. 87, blocked at Wroxeter, De Gasperi And Bidault Confer On Trieste Issue Rome, March 22 -- (AP) --Ital- ian Premier Alcide De Gasperi and | French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault conferred today in an Italy excited over the Trieste issue and its effect on the April 18 parlia- mentary election. _ They got together for a private talk in a Franclscan sanctuary in the Piedmont village of Crea, about '| 50 miles from Turin, The two Anti-Communist lead- ers met on the steps leading to the hill-top sanctuary and went inside for devotions. A priest blessed "this visit in the face of the ancient heresies." A small crowd of villagers cried, "Viva Bidault--Viva Trieste Viva France." 'De .Gasperi waved his handy and shouted some "Vivas" 00, \ Both men head Roman Catholic parties, De Gasperi's Itali'n Chris- tian Democrats are comparable to Bidault"s French Popular Republi- cans, Italians were deprived of news- paper accounts today of Trieste and the Italian political campaign. More than 1,000 dailies throughout the country were shut down last midnight by a 24-hour printers' strike for higher pay. Upward of 100,000 men were called out by their Communist-led union. The Frenchman disclosed in Tur- in Saturday that the United States, Britain and France propose to give the Adriatic seaport of Trieste back to Italy. A three-power an- TRIESTE (Continued on Page 2) east. Court Action May Be Used To Open Pits Washington, March 22 (AP)-- Court action to end the soft coal shut-down was promised by feder- al officials today unless: 1. John L. Lewis sends his United { Mine Workers back to the pits vol- untarily to end the week-old pen- sion "vacation." 2. A meeting of miners and soft coal operators, called today by con- ciliation director Cyrus S. Ching, produces some progress toward a settlement. Neither of these possibilities was regarded as likely. One staunch Lewis lieutenant said in the field: "The miners won't go back to work until theyre or- dered -- not until this dispute 'is settled." However, some industry represen- tatives, thought Lewis might sud- denly call off the pension demon- stration today or next Monday to avert a direct showdown under the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. The legal club which officials say the government has poised for use is provided by the Taft-Hartley Act. It permits a court injunction after a fact-finding board has re- ported the issues to President Tru- man. That procedure, however, would require at least 10 days. Should the court grant an in- junction, and should Lewis refuse to comply, he would face another court fine like that imposed by Justice T. Alan Goldsborough in the strike of November-December, 1946. the fines on Lewis and the union at $710,000. Goldsborough had pro- posed $3,510,000. The current dis- pute is over Lewis' demand for a $100 monthly pension for miners over 60 with 20 years service. The operators say Lewis wants to include so many U.M.W. members they do not consider eligible that the present fund of $30,000,000 would be quickly exhausted. County Declines Pay Examining County Pupils The Ontario County Council at its session, in Whitby on Saturday, turned down a request from the Oshawa Board of Education that the county supply medical exami- nations, or assist in the cost of having medical examinations made of county pupils attending the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute. The text of the recommendation by the Standing Committee on Education was as follows: "We, your Committee, recommend cerning the providing of the Oshawa Schools COUNTY (Continued on Page 2) The Supreme Court finally fixed presented to the County Council that no action be taken on the request of the Board of Educa- tion of the City of Oshawa con- medical examinations for pupils attending from the County of Ontario. As this matter concerns the local municipalities, County, City Fail To Agree On Terms For Joint Building As the result of failure to come to terms with Ontario County Council Saturday on the erection of a joint county home, the City of Oshawa is faced today with the problem of providing its own house of refuge accommodation after the end of this year. Saturday's meeting between the® two councils in Whitby brought to ¢ a head negotiations which had been carried on since overcrowding at the present county home had be. come so acute as to require the boarding out of a number of in. mates. Refusing to agree to Oshawa's demand for a 50 per cent interest in the present county home assets in the event of each party paying | an equal share of the capital cost of a new building, County Council voled unanimously to terminate its | present agreement with Oshawa | and request the city to remove its residents from the building at that time. The present county home agreement between the county and Oshawa expires January 1, 1949. The meeting had been called by County Council after the latter had discussed at length recommenda. tions presented by a special com. mittee headed by Garnet Wilson, reeve of Cannington. The commit- tee had. recommended the construc. tion of a new home with the city of Oshawa with each party paying 50 | per cent of the capital cost and the county being credited with 871% per cent of the value of the home prop. erty, the proportion allotted when Oshawa separated from the county in 1924. Maintenance would be paid for on a per diem basis. Oshawa had offered to pay 50 per cent of the capital cost of a new building on condition that the city be credited with, 50 per cent of the present assets. Both Stand Firm Both parties remained firm on their respective stands Saturday COUNTY HOME (Continued on page 5 4 In Family Dead In Fire Port Huron, Mich., March 22 (AP) --Three-year-old George Meldrum alone survived a fire which swept a makeshift second floor apartment | home Sunday, taking the lives of | his parents and two small sisters. A stove explosion started the blaze. It was made fiercer, police and firemen said, when the father accidentally kicked over an oil can in desperate rescue attempts. { Burned fatally were Charles H.! Meldrum, 37; his wife Eliza, 34; | and two daughters, Mary Ellen, 2, | and Shirley, 4. Baby George was | rescued by a neighbor. When firemen arrived at the scene, they said they found Mrs. | Meldrum unconscious on the side- | walk and her husband on the porch, | muttering dazedly. fet Police said Meldrum was carry- in; his two daughters out of the burning kitchen when he knocked over an oil can, which burst into flames. With their parents, the girls died in hospital. Widely Mourned ORMA A GAMSBY Widely known and beloved Orono sportsman, who died in the Bow- manville General Hospital on Sate urday, in his 85th year, following a lengthy illness, 'Orm' Gamsby Orono Squire Dies At 84 One ¢f the most colorful charac. ters in this district, Orma A, Gams. by, affectionately known as "The Squire" or "The Mayor of Orono" died in Bowmanville Hospital on Saturday at the age of 84. Mr. Gamsby had been ailing for a year and 'had been in hospital for a month, Keenly interested in sports and the development of youth in fair play and clean living, Mr. Gamsby was the idol of he younger genera=- tion in Orono and Bowmanville, Having participated in or been con. nected with sports all his life, he gave the youngsters the benefit of his wide experience and would spend hours coaching them in the finer points of hockey and baseball, Indicative of his popularity with "the small fry" as he called them, was the gesture made by them when he was taken to hospital. The youngsters collected pennies and nickels and with the fund bought flowers for 'The Squire." Even in his illness, his interest in the boys did not wane and many times from his hospital bed he gave sage ad. vice to budding hockey players. Born in Orono, the son of Almer- ick and Martha Gamsby, he spent most of his life on the family farm ORMA GAMSBY (Continued on Page 2) | * LATE NEWS BRIEFS + BLAST KILLS 17 ARABS Jerusalem, March 22 (AP)--An explosion wrecked the thickly populated Iraq Street in the centre of the Arab section of Haifa today. Police said a Jewish truck loaded with explosives penetrated the Arab section and was blown up. First unconfirmed reports said 17 Arabs were known dead and 50 injured. At least eight houses were destroyed. MAN'S BODY FOUND Toronto, March 22 (CP)--Harry B. Simmonds, 42, Toronto life insurance clerk was found dead today on a downtown parking lot. A hunting rifle was found near the body, police said. No inquest will be held. 'BOY SERIOUSLY HURT Meaford, March 22 (CP)--Jack Quinton, 13-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Quinton of Euphrasia Township, was in serious condition in Owen Sound Hos- pital today, suffering from a fractured skull received when struck by heavy branches 'while logging on his father's farm. TWO BOYS MISSING Toronto, March 22 .(CP)--Police today searched Humber River area on the city's western fringe for two young boys missing from their homes since Sunday, noon. The boys, Eddie Blahut, 11, and Bruce Tomlinson, 13, were last seen playing together near their homes. Their parents fear the boys may have fallen into the | river, . Ni ---- ie i