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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTEJ} OSHAWA - Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle kJ WHITBY VOL... 7--NO. 127 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MAY 3l, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES' | U.S.CITY WIPED OUT; CRISIS IN B.C. ~ Spectacular A ir Show Thrills Huge Crow Fast Jet Fighters Hit of Exhibition; Girl Pilots Score More than 5,000 residents of Oshawa and district took advantage of the half holiday and the good weather to see a bigger and better third annual air show on Saturday at the © <€ Ontario County Flying Club. This year's edition of the plane parade, sponsored by the Flying Club and the Oshawa Junior Chamber of Commerce, featured, among other. things, parachute jumps, formation flying, aerobatics, and of course, the trophy awards that mean the happy conclusion of an | exciting day. lly ® to fit the weather, which was clear, bright, and warm -- perfect for fly- To Get Degree : 3 # many of the younger fry from the planes to the retreshnment booth, tailed pop and hot dogs, with but was hard. in heavy demand, was too the protective fence around the flying area, to get glimpses of their heroes, the pilots, and their mach- ines. The equaitly of se sexes was de- monstrated In no uncertain fash- ion when the first event of the day --the Spot Landing ' Competition, open to any pilot in Canada -- was won by Miss Norma Lowe. Norma was not the only good woman pilot in the show, for the Women's Spot Landing Competition was won by Miss Mona Salter. Both these girls are members of the local flying , club. ii . The big thrill' of the day, of MISS I. G. BOES The crowd was in a holiday mood | i ing. The heat was enough to tempt | where Air Cadets and "JayCees" re- | onc hitch -- the ice cream, which | These same younger fry were al- | so the ones who pressed closest to | The presentation of prizes late in the afterneon wound up a MEAT PLANT WORKERS ASK 15 CENT HIKE | Calgary, May 31--(CP)--The 10,- '000 packinghouse workers employed Head of the Children's Department at the Oshawa Public Library who has completed her course and qual- ified for the Bachelor of Library Science degree at the University of Toronto. course, was the appearance of two (4, 'e r ing. jet-propelled Vampire fighters of |" oSnada's 1hree Baler pack hg the RCAF, piloted by Fit. Lis. | louse companies wi as or a "Stocky" Edwards and "Irish" Ire- | Wage increase of 15 cents an hour land. They travelled so fast that effective Aug. 1, officials of the the sound of their passage sgemed | United Packinghouse Workers of to be trying to catch up to them, | America announced Sunday night. and never quite making it. The | The 5 t ~ follow planes would dart over the field, | annolincemens - follows 4 and a good second later, the whis-| Wage and policy conference by the tle and roar that they made would be heard. Despite the thrill provided by the Vampires, a certain amount of scene-stealing was done by the "400" Auxiliary Squadron of Harv- ards from Toronto. This squadron is made up of civilians who served i~ the R.C.AAF. reserve and fly on weekends. They staged two dis- plays, one of massed formation fly- Six Oshawa Students To Get Degrees Six University of Toronto stu- dents residing in Oshawa have been successful in passing their ex- aminations, it was announced to- day, and will receive their degrees this week. Topping the list was Miss J. Catherine Annis, daughter of A. F. Annis, K.C., and Mrs. Annis, 455 Simcoe Street North, who stood first in the fourth year class in arts and archaeology. Miss Annis, a brilliant student, was offered scholarships at Bryn Mawr, Colum- bia University and Radcliffe Col- lege to take a post-graduate course. She has decided to accept the Rad- cliffe 'College scholarship and will 80 to Massachusetts in September. She hopes to finish her post-grad- uate course in a year. Another student who was suc- cessful in her examinations in arts and archaeology was Miss Dorothy F. Mills, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. O. G. Mills of North Oshawa. Miss Mills obtained agrotat standing. R. V. Sheffield, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Sheffield, 231 Mary Street, stood first in the fourth- AIR SHOW 3 (Continued on Page 2) Six Candidates Seek Votes In Two Riding Elections Six candidates, representing the three major parties, have filed their nomination papers, three in the federal by-election and three in the provincial general election, As was expect- ed, no other parties or inde- pendent candidates will run. In the by-election the candi- dates are: Liberal, Lyman Gif- ford, East Whitby farmer; Pro- gressive Conservative, Mayor Frank N. McCallum of Oshawa, and C.C.F., Arthur Williams, union official of Oshawa. The provincial candidates are: T. Kelso Creighton, K.C. of Oshawa, the sitting member; Elmo Dunn of Oshawa, con- nected with a stock feed firm and C.C.F., Reeve T. D. Thomas of East Whitby. OSHAWA STUDENTS (Continued on Page 2) | Canadian sectoin of the UP.W.A. {which ended here Saturday. | The union also will request a re- duction in the work week from the | present, 44 to 46 hours a week to 40 | hours, -It is asking improvement in | supplementary benefits such as va- | cation and the furnishing of tools and special clothing. | Companies concerned are Canada | Packers, Swift Canadian and Burns land Company. At present there are some 5,000 employees of Canada Packers, 3,000 of Swift Canadian and 2500 of Burns. Starting and basic wages are {3 cents an hour in most of Canada, 87)2 in Toronto and 89 in Van- couver. A union official said the present average for all employees is between 95 cents "and $1. Last year all the . "big three" plants in Canada were closed by a lengthy strike, A few days ago some 80,000 United States members of the U.P. W.A. went back to work after a 69-day strike, accepting the nine- cent hourly wage increase they had refused when they went out on strike. At final convention sessions Sat- urday, delegates passed a resolution recommending that the next con- vention of the Canadian Congress of Labor consider ways and means of forming a umified labor front with the Trades and Labor Con- gress of Canada. The UP.W.A. is affiliated with the C.CL. in Can- ada and the C.I.O. in the Uaited States. + day for the members of the Ontario County Flying Club and a large num- Honors for events held during the third annual air show sponsored by the Flying Club and Junior Chamber of Commerce were, left to right: Milt McDougall, Clint Birchard and Darcy Helmer for | formation flying. Ladies' trophies went lo Norma Lowe (left) for the open | competition and Mona Salter (right) for ladies' spot landing, ber of spectators. Prize Winners at Ontario County Flying Club Air Show at a i Call Emergency In B.C. District By ERWIN FRICKE Canadian Press Staff Writer Vancouver, May 31 -- (CP) -- A | ew crisis today confronted thou- |sands of exhausted workers fight- | |ing against the worst floods in | British Columbia's 77-year history. One thousand persons in the Pitt | Meadows district, 30 miles south- | | east, were being moved from the | path of the wild-running Alouette | River. Reeves of the municipalities |in the district declared a state of | emergency. | Late Sunday night the dike was | reported to have been breached at | one point and 15,000 acres flooded. Navy officials, however, early today said the dike was still holding, Meanwhile, the flood situation over the whole province, which gov- ernment officials described as a "national disaster" and of "fantas- peak. A plane survey by air force, army and navy officers reported an un- seasonal amount of snow on all mountains,. Normally only high peaks would be snow-capped at this time. Continued warm weather hle® able® --Times-Gazette Staff Photo | | By MAX BOYD i Cairo, May 31° -- (AP) -- Arab | armies were reported today: to be (grouping for a three-pronged as- !sault on Tel Aviv, military head- quarters of Israel. | Associated Press correspondent Joseph C. Goodwin, with the Arab forces in Central Palestine, said Iraqi forces were striking out from {the north, Egyptians from the {south and the Trans-Jordan Arab |tiegion from the west in what ap- peared to be opening manoeuvres for the battle of Tel Aviv, In Jerusalem itself, the Jews charged that the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion planned to use gas in its attack on the new city, now largely in Jewish hands. There was no word from the Holy City early today that such an attack had oc- curred. Arab sources reported that Jewish troops had withdrawn from Latrun after a two-day fight. The Arabs claimed the Jews had been mauled in the battle for Latrun, key point on the vital Jerusalem-Tel Aviv convoy route. The Arabs said the Jews had withdrawn to the Hagana staging area at Hulda. Amid the military reports there were these political developments: 1. Irgun Zvai Leumi, anti-British Jewish underground group, appeal- ed to Russia for help. 2. Count Folkg Bernadotte, Unitéd Nations mediator, planned to fly to Haifa, then drive to Tel Aviv for talks with Jewish officials on the latest truce effort: That Arabs and Jews agree by 6 p.m. EDT Tuesday to a four-week cease fire order. Bernadotte talked with Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary- General of the Arab League in Cairo Sunday night. After the con- ference Azzam Pasha said: "The Zionists who started this war 'in Palestine must be left alone Jews Ask Russian Aid As Arabs Near Tel Aviv |to take the punishment they de- I serve." There was no reaction from Israel's government on the truce plan, In a radio broadcast from Tel Aviv, Irgun said it was appealing to Russia as a country which rec- ognized the new state of Israel and agreed to exchange diplomatic rep- resentatives. Irgun charged that Britain, aid- ed by the United States State De- partment, had put through the U.N. Security Council a proposal which would ban arms to the Jews but leave the door open for Arabs to get military equipment. Holy Land dispatches indicated the Arabs may be planning to make a major thrust at Tel Aviv, the seat of Palestine Jewry, Goodwin, with the Arab forces in the field, said Arab tactics were shaping up this way: Trans-Jordan Arabs advanced from the southeast and sent pa- trols as far as Hartov, less than 20 miles from Tel Aviv. Egyptian troops hammered at Is- dud, Jewish settlement near the seacoast 23 miles south of Tel Aviv. It is just outside the boundaries of Israel. Iraqi troops moved south from the Arab town of Tulkarm, 25 miles north of the vital Jewish seaport city. Egyptian forces threw back a Jewish counter-attack near Isdud, a defence ministry communique re- ported Sunday night in Cairo. It said also that Egyptian bombers made aerial attacks on Rehovot, 11 miles southwest of Tel Aviv, THE WEATHER Clear today and Tuesday. Warm. Winds light. Low to- night and high Tuesday 48 and 72. Summary for 'Tuesday: Clear and warm. Oshawa Students to Receive Degrees From University of Toronto # : - ' MISS R. M. WADSWORTH CN R. V. SHEFFIELD MISS CATHERINE ANNIS MISS DOROTHY MILLS W. J. STAFFORD" means increased disaster. Cmdr. Owen Robertson directed "Operation . Overflow' "from HM. C.S. Antigonish at New 'Westmin- ster. All of the active army and most reserve units were engaged in diking operations. The air force were dropping sandbags, food and medical supplies to 'isolated com- munities. The list of flooded "ghost" towns continued to grow. Agassiz, Dewdney, Harrison Mills, Deroche, Hatzic, Usk, Pacific, Glen | valley, Glenvowell and Nicomen fre---------- {Island were uninhabited, Sarnia, May 31 -- (CP) -- T two-| About 1,000 homeless had already day hunt by police, soldiers and |arrived in Vancouver, Others were HOLD 2 MEN tic proportions" has yet to reach its farmers ended late Saturday with the capture of two men who have | been charged with the $3,400 arm- ed robbery of a bank at Thedford. | The men, identified as William Thomas Short, 39, formerly of Parkhill and James Shane, 40, no given address, appeared in court here today, and were remanded. Their capture ended an intensive at Missioh. The Fraser claimed B.C.s third flood victim Sunday. Edward Simp- EMERGENCY (Continued on Page 2) Fire Menaces | great. hunt which started after two arm- | ed bandits looted the Canadian Bank of Commerce branch at Thedford, some 30 miles north of | here, last Thursday and roared away in a stolen automecbile. The car was later recovered in a wood- ed section near Parkhill, about 25] miles northwest of London. | The hunt swung to the Kerrwood section of Middlesex County after | a fariner saw two strangers plunge | off a country road and vanish in| the bush. He notified police, who | called on reserve army members of | the Canadian Fusiliers (City of! London Regment) and farm work- ers to help close in on the area where the suspects had been seen. C.S.M. Richard Hunt spotted the fugitives lying half asleep about 200 yards in the bush. They offer- Village of 150 Brownsville, Ont.,, May 31 -- (CP) -- Fire which threatened this Oxford County hamlet of 150 persans at noon today was almost under control at 1.30 p.m. Brownsville is six miles west of Tillsonburg. Already destryed were a grist mill, the library and one house. Roof of the Baptist Church was also reported on fire. Loss has not been estimated. Eight district _fire brigade were called to fight the plaze as smoke billowed over the hamlet. Several fire trucks re- sponded to bring the fire un- der control. Fire was believed to have started in the large grist mill owned by Leo Watts, HOLD TWO No one was reported injured. (Continued on Page 2) d Thousands Battle Rampaging Fraser, Oregon Is Hit Hard 'Flood Destroys War-Built City . | By JAMES H. FERGUSON | Portland, Ore, May 31--(AP) == Lhe waterlogged debris of the near=- by war-built city of Vanport was probed today for possible vietims of | a flocd that destroyed the town of | 18,700 within minutes. | Officially, there are no known | dead 12 hours after a wall of wa- | ter burst upon the dyke guarded | community on the south bank of the flooding Columbia River late Sunday. The search fer victims went on under floodlights Sunday night and the probe of submerged automo= biles and dwellings went into full pace at dawn. Hundreds are injur- ed and in hospitals. Vanport--once the second largest city in Oregon in the war-time shipyard era here--is a total loss. Most of the victims are expected | to be children. The playgrounds of the town were crowded for Sunday | afternoon games when the flood | struck suddenly. | Parénts told of leaving children | in upper floors of the buildings-- | believed in safety--buildings that | later folded like tents when the flood impact struck the apartments, Others said children were torn from their grasp. : The disaster struck the cpmmun= ity in a flanking of flood waters from the swollen Columbia River. The backwater and lake it formed had weakened a railroad embank- ment on the fest edge of the city. The river level had risen to 15 feet above the Vanport . ground level yesterdas s a.ag. When the break came a prearrang- ed siren signal for the townsfolk was sounded. But within minutes the gap spread and a six-foot wall of water swept into the city. Hundreds heard the warning sig= nal, put thousands--lulled by ear- lier reports that they were in no imminent danger -- appeared to ignore the danger and scoffed as neighbors dashed for the high dikes surrounding the mile-square area, Survivors said the first 15 min- utes was a maddening rush of men, women and children striving to save their lives, frantically uncer- | tain where to turn and run except away from the water. An air plane pilot, Calbin Hula bert, was over the area when the dike broke. "There was no 'warning' trickle," he related. "There was suddenly a six-foot breach in the railroad em- bankment. Then it was 60 feet than 600 \- "A wall of water 10 feet high slid through the breach, striking down whole apartment buildings like a bulldozer knocks down a sapling. The buildings seemed to burst as the water hit them. . KB " The frame buildings--built hur- riedly to house some 40,000 ship- yard and gther war workers--near= est the break were snatched from their foundation. Some were broken open by the force of the flood. Others ground themselves to pieces against other buildings. Big Bush Fire Uncontrolled In Mississagi Blind River, Ont., May 31 (CP).-- One of the largest bush fires in the history of Northern Ontario raged uncontrolled Sunday night and] spread rapidly in the Mississagi area. The fire already forced some 450 firefighters to retreat after they appeared to have it in check. The fire covered 20,000 acres and | spread on three sides, Damage was | estimated at thousands of dollars as the fire is sweeping a path along the Misissagi River at the south end to Gravel River. Fire fighting camps 37, 38, 35 and 42, threatened by the blaze, were evacuated. Scores of new men were pushed into the fight. Rich timberland was destroyed but firefighters saved several lum- ber company homes from the flames. Aerial surveys of Algoma district fires were made Sunday by Tommy Woodside, of the Forestry Depart- ment. He reported fire hazard was and its tributaries. ther he is a member of the Mundt-Nixon Communist Port Arthur, May 31 (CP).-- Three new bush and timber fires in Thunder Bay district kept On- tario Forest Rangers busy Sunday. One in the Lake Helen area, 70 miles northeast of here, is des- cribed as a "jump fire" and a con- tinuation of the blaze that burned more than 6,000 acres of second growth last week. The fire was caused by sparks from the main blaze. alleyway, ROBESON LAUDS COMMUNISTS Washington, May 31 (AP)--Paul Robeson, Negro singer, refused today to tell a Senatorial committee whe- American Communist party. He said he is willing to go to jail rather than tell. Robeson appeared before the Senate Judiciary Commit- tee, along with several other witnesses, to oppose the Control Bill. He said he thinks members of the Communist party "have done a magnificent job in America." " PRISONER FLEES COURT North Bay, Ont, May 31 (CP)--A 15-foot drop didn't halt Paul Lachek today when he jumped through an open window in North Ba; Awaiting trial on a charge of possessing an unregistered revolver, Lachek, 30-year-old Sudbury miner, spran from his seat, bounded to an open window and Prd. the 15 feet to the roof of a one-storey building and jumped from there te main street, disappearing up an 's police court and escaped. # alla: Ty * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x ROYAL WEDDING ANNOUNCED Athens, May 31 (CP)--Premier Themistocles So- phoulis announced today that former King Michael of' Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma will be married in Athens Saturday. U.S. HAS 'DISASTER AREA' Washington, May 31 (AP)--President Truman to- day declared flood-swept sections in the United States northwest a "disaster area" and ordered use of surplus war property for relief and rehabilitation The disaster. order covers those parts of the states of Washington, Oregon 'and Idaho in the valley of the Columbia River : 3