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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA i 'WHITBY VQL. 7--NO. 153 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES School's Out and Fishing's Fine Readin', writin' and 'rithmetic are over for the sum mer and it's time for fishin', foolin' and havin' fun and this happy group of Oshawa youngsters yesterday wasted no time in getting to the country and away from school. Getting the sunshine and an odd mudcat are, from left to right, "Gerry" Burrows, "Jimmy" Prescott, "Fred" Short, "Runt" Bowman and "Al" Hamilton, --Times-Gazette Staff Photos Will Meet Trespassers With Guns, CSL Warns After 5 Me Toronto, June 30--(CP) -- A re- ward of $1,000 has been posted for information leading to the convic- tion of men who boarded the Can- ada Steamship!Lines freighter Mar- tian at Port Arthur and - injured five members of her crew. The steamship company, one of four involved in a dispute with the Canadian Seamen's Union (TL.C. over contracts announced posting of the reward yesterday. At the same time CSL. spokes- men at the lakehead said shotguns would be issued to all its vessels and crew members would be ordered to shoot "unauthoriezd persons" who attempt to go aboard. Martian crew members said 10 men armed with baseball bats and rubber-encased steel rods swarmed aboard the Martian at dawn yester. day. They set upon the sleeping crew members, smashed the galley and dishes and fled before police arrived. The companies in the dispute-- the .CS.L., Northwest Steamships, Sarnia Steamships and Colonial Steamships--have: announced their refusal to deal with the CSU. on grounds it has Communist leader- ship, The linés have manned their ships with members of Pat Sulli- van's rival Canadian Lake Seamen's Union (Ind.) with which they say they have signed contracts. These were other developments: n Assaulted Labor Minister Mitchell told the House of Commons that, so far as he is concerned, controller wil} be appointed for the companies involved in the dispute. The CS.U. announced signing of a 1948 contract with Canadian Na- tional Stéamships, operators of the Dalhousie City and the Northumb- erland, Lake Ontario excursion ships plying between Toronto and Port Dalhousie. TRESPASSERS (Continuxd on Page 2) Dominion Day Postal Service Postmaster Norman J. Moran announced this morning that ' there will not be any letter car- rier delivery in the city or rural mail delivery in the rural dis- trict tomorrow, Dominion Day. Mails will be received and despatched as usual and there will be one collection from the street letter boxes in the city at approximately 5 p.m. The public lobby at the Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m, but the wicket will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. only, for the transaction of all kinds of postal business. Electrical Workers Employed by P.U.C. Say Strike Possible Threat of a .strike of electrical employees of the Public Utilities Commission was voiced last night at -a meeting of the commission in the PUC building on Simcoe Street South, The strike threat was made by Cleve Fox, president of Local 804 of the International Brother- hood of Electrical Workers, AFL. when the commission demurred at signing the agreement offered by the union and already signed by its officers. Commission members maintained that the commission was carrying out all the terms of agreement and therefore it was not necessary for them to sign it until they received a legal opinion from the City Soli- citor to ascertain if any future comfnissions would be bound to ne- Efiaie with the union at any futre ate. "I accept the fact that the agree- ment has been fulfilled except for a few minor points," Mr. Fox told the commission, "but if the agreement is not signed this year we cannot, by law, bargain next year. We are looking to the future and the se- curity of the future." Commission Signed Last Year Mr. Fox pointed out that the com- mission had signed the agreement with the union last year and he could not understand why the agreement was not signed this year. Commissioners William Boddy and R., D. Mills assured the union de- legation that the commission had every intention of carrying out the terms of the unsigned agreement, but they felt that legal opinion STRIKE POSSIBLE (Continued on Page 2) no government' PUC Budget $153,471 For This Year The operating budgets of the wat- er and electric departments of the for 1948 total %153471.15, it was { shown last night. in the budgets brought down by Manager George ! Shreve. The water department is plan- ning to' spend $80,026.67 and the electric department $73,444.48. Esti- mated revenue for the electric de- partment is $830,905.45 and for the water department, $198,247.11, Actual expenditures of the elec- trical department in 1947 amounted to $66,846.13 and the proposed bud- get shows an increase of $6,598.35 or 99 per cent. Most of the in- creases will be taken up by labor, where a boost of $3,206.98 over the 1947 figure is anticipated and in salaries where the rises are expect- ed to be $2389.87. While the 1947 budget for this department was es- timated at $54,187.28, the sum of $66,846.13 was actually spent. The big increase was for labor which was $7,201.89 over the estimated $24,876.87 and salaries which were $2,308.01 more than the estimate of $11,590.64. Revenue in the electric department in 1947 was $830,905.45, a decrease of $12,894.55 rfom the estimated $843,800. In the water department the ac- tual expenditure in 1947 was $87,- 749.52, an increase of $26,627.47 ov- er the estimate of $61,122.05. The big item here was also labor which was $8,673.04 over the $24,477.81 es- timate. Estimated revenue for the year. was $201,800 but only $198, 247.11 was taken in, a decrease of $3,652.89. In the water department it is proposed to spend $36,466.05 on wages in 1948, an increase of $3,- 315.10 over the 1947 figure. Salaries also will be upped a total of $1,500 for ar estimate of $10,636.67. THE WEATHER Cloudy with showers clearing' late this afternoon. Becoming cooler this afternoon. Thurs- day clear and cool. Winds southwest 15 shifting to north- west 15 late this evenfig. Low tonight and high Thursday 55 and 66. Summary for Thursday: Clear and cool. Oshawa Public Utilities Commission | .| officials announced today. Haifa, June 30--(CP)--T craft. US. MAY PAY $30 MILLION 70 TITO GOV'T By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER | Washington, June 30--(AP)--Toe | United States and Yugoslavia were | reported near final agreement today ! on a financial deal which would net | Marshal Tito's government about | $30,000,000. The extended negotiations over this money accord may have been one of the issues that set off the Cominform attack Monday against | the Belgrade chief, For several months the United | States government has been seeking payment of about $20,000,000 in claims for American property na- tionalized in Yugoslavia. Tito, on | the other hand, has been laying | claim to some $50,000,000 in Yugo- | slav assets which the United States | froze in 1941 to keep it out of axis hands. About a month ago, however, the Yugoslavs appeared anxious to reach a reasonable settlement on the na- tionalized property. They are re- ported to have proposed. a figure scenewhere near thé $20,000,000 ask- ed by the United States. The American government, in turn, appeared ready to unfreeze the $50,000,000 in Yygoslav funds as its part of the two-way srrshEement. | | | NO PAPER Thursday JULY 1 The Times-Gazette will not be published on Dominion Day, July 1. Advertising and news copy for Friday, July 2, should be in The Times-Gazette office as soon as possible to ensure publication. Leave Holy Land To Make History he last British troops left the soil of troubled Palestine today, ending 31 years of British military occupation of'the Holy Land. In strict military order, the few remaining soldiers with- drew behind barbed wire barricades to troopships and landing Lt.-Gen. Gordon H. A. MacMillan, Britain's last Military Commander in Palestine, was the last British soldier to leave Palestine, in the evacuation which began May 15. ----------4 He stepped aboard the ship's boat at 1:41 p.m, local time, just a few moments after the Union Jack was pulled down from the harbor office. About 2,500 trocps in all were in the last group to be evacuated, leaving Haifa, last British control point in the Holy Land, in Jewish hands under supervision of United Nations truce observers. Jewish port authority police took over control of Haifa port as the last British troops left. "The British went out of their way to hand over the port in good order," the Jewish port manager said. MacMillan shook hands with the | port authorities before leaving. "It is a rather historic moment," he sald. Original plans called for final evacuation Aug. 1. (In Cairo, Jamil Mardam Bey, Syrian Prime Minister, told report- ers Tuesday that the Arab govern- ments have protested to Britain against withdrawal of her troops from Haifa ahead of schedule. Mar- dam Bey said Arabs consider this a violation of the Palestinian truce.) As British troops were brought in from their army camps to the dock area, tanks took up positions around the harbor district and a strict cur- few was imposed on all civilians. Col, Joseph Hoffman, a U.N. truce observer, said the U.N. would super- vise administration of the port by Jewish authorities. He said 25,000 Jewish refugees in- terned by British authorities at Cyprus would be shipped to Pales- tine immediately. Men of military age among the refugees will be in- terned in Palestine for the duration of the U.N. truce period. Bitterness between Briton and | Jew persisted to the end. Jewish | officials invited MacMillan to a farewell luncheon Tuesday, but the | British Commander cancelled his acceptance when he heard three British tanks had been stolen. One | was recovered. In Cairo, an Arab source said | Tuesday night that Count Folke | Bernadotte's proposals for a Pales- tine settlement "imply the existence of. a Jewish State which the Arabs could never accept." A high Arab official in Cairo in- dicated the Arab states will not react favorably to a request of an extension of the Palestine truce to continue peace talks, Union O Representatives of the G. M. Div- ision of Local 222, U.AW.-C.IO., will meet with Ontario Labor Min- ister Charles Daley in Toronto on Monday, July 5, to discuss the tak- ing of a Rand formula strike vote at the General Motors plant, union It was also revealed that the company had asked Queen's Park for a Rand vote and it is believed that the ballot- will be taken next week. Company Co-operating Company officials stressed that the company and the union were working in accord to bring about the Rand vote. The union had in- formed the company that they had applied for a vote under this form- yla and suggested that the comp- any do the same. The company complied with this suggestion. Since the company had also asked for a Rand formula vote, it is be- lievec that the balloting will take place within the plant. Union of- ficial said that the voting could not take more than a day. Last week-end union employees voted more than 80 per cent to strike. The union vote was taken under the union: constitution which: requires more than two-thirds of the mem- bership to approve of a strike before they can go out. Under the Rand icials Will Meet Labor Minister On Taking Strike Vote formula both union and non-union employees are entitled to vote. "Since the strike vote was taken last week-end among the union members there has been a great deal of unrest in the plant due to the lack of any further action being taken", the union statement said. Meanwhile local union officials have been in constant contact with George Burt, regional director of the union, who is attending an international board meeting in New York. "We have also tried to contact Labor Minister Charles Daley. Word has now been received through the regional director that the Minister of Labor is prepared to meet us at 11 am. on July 5. This may seem to be a further delay on the Department of Labor's part as far as taking the Rand formula vote is concerned but the fact that the holiday week-end intervenes is a factor. > Full Explanation Required "There is no doubt that the Min- ister of Labor will require a full explanation of negotiations to date as well 4. theta] otter of the company and the stafid taken UNION OFFICIALS (Continued on Page 3) * BRITAIN ASKS AID AT BERLIN FROM CANADA London, June 30--(CP) -- The | Foreign Office today confirmed that Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have been asked to lend Britain all available trans- port aircraft to help break the "Russian blockade" of Berlin. A spokesman said Foreign Secre- tary Bevin called a conference of dominions High Commissioners in London Monday and askéd them to make the request to their govern- ments. . "The High Commissioners readi- ly agre to this request," the spokesman said. "We now are awaiting replies from the domin- ions." The R.A.F. Transport Command and the United States Air Force are at present flying food to Berlin to aid the situation caused by the Russian action in cutting ground communications. Decision on .the question rests | with the respective dominion gov- | ernments. Consultations with the dominions was seen by observers here as a perfectly normal measure and was not regarded as representing a | | "toughening" of British policy. At Ottawa, External Affairs De- partment spokesmen said they had "no comment" on the London dis- patch. Induct Pastor On Friday At Centre Street The Induction service for Rev. Frank J. Whiteley, B.A.,, BD. of Coe Hill as successor to the late Rev. T, H. P. Anderson in the pas- torate of Centre Street United Church, will be held in the church at 8 pm. on Friday of this week. Rev. I. E. Kennedy of Clare- mont, chairman of Oshawa Presby- tery, will preside and induct the Vv. F. J. WHITELEY, B.A, B.D. new minister. Rev. W. P. Fletcher, D.D., who has been ministeri to the congregation since the dejth of Mr. Anderson, will conduct the worship service. Rev. G. W, Gardner of Columbus, secretary of the presbytery, will deliver the sermon and Rev. George Telford, minister of St." Andrew's United Church, will deliver the charge to the minister and the congregation. Born in England in 1914, Mr. Whiteley came to Canada when five years of age. He received his early education at Dryden, Ontario, where he graduated from high school. He enrolled in Queen's University, Kingston, in 1939 and was certified as a candidate for the ministry by Trinity United Church, INDUCT PASTOR (Continued on~Pag 2) Paper Says Autos To Be Built Here Toronto, June 30--(CP)--The To- ronto Daily Star said Tuesday it has learned arrangements have been made in England for several branch plants of steel products firms to be established in Canada. The report said that, included in the factories which will be located | here within the next two or three | years, will be branch English auto- mobile factories. wR RUSSIA HINTS TRAINS TO BE RUNNING SOON Last U.K. Troops Traffic To Move Ere Supplies Gone, British Informed London, June 30-- (AP said today the western alli )--Foreign Secretary Bevin es are considering a direct approach to the Kremlin in an attempt to settle the Berlin crisis. + Berlin, June 30-- (AP) --Russia dangled hints of hope that the food blockade may el 1d soon. The Russian Commander, Marshal Vassily D. Sokolov sky, replying to a British demand that he lift the land block= ade or shoulder the blame for starving some 2,000,000 Berliners in the American, British and French sectors, said Tuesday night he had learned the city had enough food to last for "several weeks." "I Hope that in this time we can®- have the trains running as usual," | he said in a letter to the British | Commander, Gen. Sir Brian Rob- | | ertson, The letter was made public | by the Soviet-licensed news agency, ADN, only a few hours after the Berlin ¢ity council appealed to the United Nations to intervene in the city's crisis to forestall "urgent danger to world peace." At Lake Success; Trygve Lie, Sec- retary-General of the U.N. said he has decided against seeking Security | Council action concerning Berlin at this time. He made his decision after Britain, France and the Un- ited States indicated they did not think U.N. intervention proper at this time. Charges made later in the official Soviet newspaper in Germany against the allied emergency air freight service made some western- ers fear it might portend a Russian attempt to restrict use of the air corridor food lifeline. "Claims that this service is de- | signed to feed Berlin are a bluff to cloak the plundering of the city by | shipping out machinery and prod- | ucts on the return flight," the paper, | Taegliche Runschau, said. United States Air Force planes | landed at Berlin's American air- | RUSSIA HINTS (Continued on Page 2) Barrage Balloon On Berlin Route Excites Pilots | Berlin, June 30 (CP).--One tired | old barrage balloon raised a false | scare today that the Russians were putting up a new obstacle to the aerial food ferry route into Soviet blockaded Berlin. Excited United States Air Force officials, suspecting a threat to the air lifeline to Berlin, found a sup- posed mass of obstacles was just an old balloon that has flown a long time in the corridor between Berlin and the British zone. The false report, presumably based on information from pilots, first came from Frankfurt and was quickly questioned by American air authorities here. | Pilots already had been warned | to fly above the 5000 foot level of the supposed obstacles. The report on the balloons, used during the war to prevent low-level | attacks on cities, came after Mar=- shal Vassily D. Sokolovsky had cautioned against any air traffic | violations by the United States and Britain in their effort to feed Ber« lin with sky-borne supplies. CRA Summ er Program In Full Swing Monday The Community Recreation As- | sociation summer program will be | in full swing in ten Oshawa play- grounds and two swimming pools on Monday, Acting Director of Recrea- tion Ivan Richards announced to- day. Appointments to the summer staff have been made and children at the parks and pools will have ex- pert supervision. The two pools are the Ritson Road and Rotary pools. The latter is under repair and may not be in use on Monday but registration of all children who wish to learn swimming will be taken on that day. The Ritson pool is filled and ready for use. Registration will also take place there Monday. At each pool there will be four qualified Red Cross instructors on duty in the mornings and two at each in the afternoons and even- ings. The pools will be open six days a week but no instructions will be given on Saturdays. The instructors are: at Rotary-- Don Hambly, Joan Tunnicliffe, Sammy Rubenzehl, Ray Mozewsky C. R. A. PROGRAM (Continued on Page 2) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS + COMINFORM FORSAKES BELGRADE Belgrade, June 30--(C quarters is to be moved fro P)--The Cominform head= m Belgrade, it was learned" today. It was reliably reported that the new headquarters of the International Communist Information Bureau will be in Bucharest where the which expelled Yugoslavia recent Cominform meeting from the organization took place. Premier Tito, Alexander Rankovic, Minister of the Interior, and other Commun conference here today.~ SIX JAR-MIN ist leaders were reported in ERS KILLED 'Tokyo, June 30--(AP)--Kyodo News Agency re- ported today 12 miners were killed in an explosion at the Mitsubishi Bibai coal mine others were injured. at Sapporo, Hokkaido. Six 4 DIE IN U.S. PLANE CRASH Frankfurt, June 30--(AP)--The United States Air Force announced that a transport plane crashed near Munich today and killed four American crew members, The plane was on a training flight. BULGARIA SU PPORTS TITO Sofia, June 30--(AP)--The Bulgarian government said today "the sound foundations of our relations with Yugoslavia are unshaken" by the Cominform 'blast against Marshal Tito. There was no direct comment on the proposal today by the Yugoslav Communist Party for forming a Balkan bioc to unite the Albanian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav equality." - / peoples. "on - the principles of national