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OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Ti S- LY Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 243 QSHAWA-WHIT, DAY, OCTOBER 18, 1948 SIXTEEN PAGES FRENCH ¥ Search For E mma Pohl Centres In Swamp -------------------------- Police Convinced @ Missing Wife Dead, 'Now Seeking Body Kitchener, Oct. 18 (CP)--The search for 37-year-old Mrs. Emma Pohl, missing from her home at suburban Sun- nyside since Sept. 13, has centred on two square miles of swamp and quicksand eight miles northwest of here. A search party of 50 men combed the area Sunday without finding the woman, and police said they were look- Ying for a "body, not a living woman." Sunday's search was made when ®- police remembered a report made by Fred Kissner, of Kitchener, that he had seen a man pull a heavy sack from the tfunk of a car and drag it into the gwamp on Sept. 17. Only a cursory inspection of the swamp was made by police at the time, for they had not been noti- fied of Mrs. Pohl's death. Elijah Holtzhauer, father of the missing woman, and Alex and Cam- eron Holtzhauer, her twin brothers, led Sunday's search. Mrs. Stuart Returning Meanwhile, from London, Eng: land, came the news that Mrs. John Stuart, who was reported missing from her Galt home since Sept. 15, plans to return here to stand by her son, William, 30. He has been charged with public mischief . in connection with Mrs. Pohl's dis- appearance, and is expected to ap- pear in court here on Wednesday. Police have released Mrs, Mar- garet Misener, 28, on bail. A friend of William Stuart, she was charged with vagrancy and questioned by police 'a Mrs. Pohl's disap- pearance. She has said that Stuart is the father of her month-old child, and her parents stated that Stuart had promised to rharry her. In an interview in London Sun- day, Mrs. Stuart said she could throw no light on the mystery. She said she knew Mrs. Pohl as Mrs. Pati, a divorced mother of two children who used to visit William at the Stuarts' Galt home .after his discharge from the British Army. "As far as I know, she was still in Galt when I left to come here in September, though I hadn't seen her for some time." Police looked for Mrs. Stuart, herself, after relatives reported that the 58-year-old woman had not been seen at her Galt home since Sept. 15--two days after Mrs. Pohl disappeared. But Mrs. Stuart said Sunday that there was no "mys- tery" to her disappearance. She told the Canadian Press in THINK WOMAN DEAD (Continued on Page 2) Tank Regiment Spent Week End At Meaford Camp Membe's of the 11th Armoured (Ontario) Regiment spent the past week-end at Meaford, where they were given training in tank war- fare under simulated battle condi- tions, according to a report received from Major A. G. Coulter. Officers and men of the regiment were all given the opportunity to fire 75 'MM. tank cannon and ma- chine guns, on the Meaford Tank Gunnery Ranges. This exercise was part of the regular fall training program of the régiment. Special gunnery instructors, with actual battle experience, were pro- vided by the Armoured Corps School at Camp Borden. Four Fires In City At Weekend Firemen expect a rash of minor calls about ' this time every year when householders are lighting up their stoves and oil burners in pre- paration for the oncoming winter. This week-end was no 'exception and firemen were called out four times, W. PF. Peters, who operates a barber shop at 44 Simcoe Street North, a few doors away from the Fire Hall, had a little trouble when. his oil stove flared up on Satur- day. Fireman T. Pollit was des- : patched to bring the matter under control. On Sunday Captain C. Pol- lock and men took care of another oil stove flare-up, this time at the home of F. P. Foley, 204 Church Street. : There was a smoke scare at the home of J. Nichols, 209 Annis Street on Saturday afternoon and, on Sunday, firemen under Captain C. Pollock quickly brought a fire mnder contro! at the Billiiore The= sire Jo was in 3 coal pile and was caused apparently, by spon combustion, Y SPoptafeons 5 EN. AB SA CA ALBA AGT North, West Ontario Hit By Snowfalls Toronto, Oct, 18--(CP)--An un- prepared Western and Northern Ontario received its first taste of winter Sunday night as thermo- meters took a sudden drop and heavy, wet snow greeted shivering citizens today. The London area found itself in the worst trouble. An unofficial six inches fell at the London airport and less than three inches in the city, 'breaking branches and service wires. Hydro service to London township wps cut. The forecaster at Toronto's Mal- ton airport, where scattered snow , 88id that areas south of h 1. east of Lake ; V . sprinkling of snow Sunday night. = * . Wiarton, Gore Bay, Parry Sound, Sault Ste Marie all had a taste of the stuff. The Soo area received four inches of snow, bringing four minor traffic accidents and forcing a speed-up in the preparation of snow removal equipment. At Timmins, two men escaped when their plane ran out of fuel, crashed and sank in. Porcupine Lake during a snow squall. White River, in Northern Ontario, kept up with its record of low tem- peratures, registering nine degrees above zero--Canada's coldest, It was cold too in Southern On- tario. Fort Erie had a 26-degree temperature, along with a few snow flurries; Stratford's temperature was 26 degrees. Warmer weather is expected to- morrow, but more snow is expected in scattered points throughout Western Ontario late this afternoon. 3 Powers Merge German Economy Berlin, Oct. 18 (AP).--An almost complete economic merger of the three Western zones of Germany was announced today. An agreement fusing the foreign of the 'already merged British and American zones was signed by the three Western allied military gov- ernors, : This united the economies of all zones except the Russian zone of Germany, save for a few activities which will be Tegulated by consuls tation among British, French and American officials. A similar fusion of the three Western zones along political lines will be accomplished by the tri- zonal government for which a con- stitution is being drafted by Ger- mans at Bonn. 'When these steps are completed, a virtually complete 'new state of Western Germany will be created, leaving only the Russian zone out- side. British, American and French of- ficials have stressed that the West- ern state will be held open to make it an all-German state whenever agreement can be reached with the Soviets, Community Chest pd trade of the French zone with that, Sergeants' Mess Honors Retired Commanding Officer Ata "Change of Command" dinner on Friday night the Sergeants' Mess of the 11th Armoured (Ontario) Regiment paid tribute to the many sterl- ing qualities of Lt.-Col. Murray P. as commanding officer of the unit. Johnston, E.D., who recently retired | Following 'the dinner Lt.-Col. Johns- ton was presented with a handsome oil painting of himself and a life) Israel Agrees To Talk Peace With Egypt Tel Aviv, Oct. 18 -- (AP) --Israel accepted tenight a United Nations offer to arrange peace talks with Egypt on the fighting in the Negev. However, she rejected a cease-fire proposal. Th Foreign Office said no cease fire proposal would be .accepted until Israel is assured the Egyptians | will behave. In actions Sunday night, Jewish | captured the Palestine's troops stormed and heights dominating through .the Negev, southern desert. A dispatch from | Asociated Press Correspondent Car- | ter L. Davidson at the front said the Jews had succeeded in blasting open their supply route desert. (The Security United Nations Council has been called into special | session tomorrow morning in Paris to consider the new fighting in the Holy Land.) An Israeli Foreign Office spokes- man said the United Nations had | proposed a four-day truce in fight- | ing "to settle peacefully the: basic differences between the Egyptians and Isral in the Negev" and sug- gsted peace talks in Jerusalem. Israel, he said, is ready to meet the Egyptians any time, any place for peace .diseussions. A cease [ire is impossible, he added, unless the United Nations. can guarantee the Egyptians will not take advantage of such a truce to improve their positions. . Israel has thrown a top com- mander into the battle for conrol of the Negev Desert area where reports indicated heavy casualties as Jews and Egyptians struggled fiercely. Soviet A.A. Fire Misses U.S. Plane Berlin, Oct. 18--(Reuters) -- The Pilot of a United States C-54 plane, taking off from British-controlled Gatow Airport today, reported sheil bursts near "his plane at a height of 2,000 feet. "My plane was very nearly hit". he radioed to the control tower. The incident was reported to the | American chief controller at the Berlin Air Safety Centre who lodged a protest with the Russian control- ler, This is the second time in four days that gunfire has been report- ed in the vicinity of Gatow. On Friday last, gunfire and shell- burst were seen at a height of be- tween 100 and 200 feet between three and four miles due west of the air- port. They were in line with the run- way and burst directly underneath air lift planes taking off in a west. ern direction, THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness, becom- ing overcast this evening, and clearing early Tuesday morn- ing. Light showers or snowflur- ries beginning early this after- noon and ending early Tuesday morning, Warmer tonight and Tuesday, Winds southwest 15 to- dav, west 15 Tuesday, Light both nights. Low tonight and high Tuesday 36 and 50. Sum- mary for Tuesday: Clear. War- mer, road | to the | outburst of | members hip n F. Bastedo, new commanding officer R. Barker, MBE, who was chairman, Xx ove, Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant J. R. Holmes, president of the Mess presents the painting while Lt.-Col. E. | | "q of the unit (left), and R.S.M. M. J. look on, | 2 --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Britain, U.S. Support Canada Atom Proposal For Direet Negotiation Paris, Oct. 18-- (CP) --The\United States and Britain today supported a Canadian proposal that' the dead- locked atomic .energy problem be turned over to the five great powers and Canada for direct negotiation. Canada's Lionel Chevrier also | backed up the Dominion's resolu- tion and attacked the Russian pro- posal for international control of atomic power as "a program of | specious and . deceptive simplicity." The Berlin dispute comes up to- | morrow - in 'the United Nations | Security Council. A new compromise | | plan which would take the issue | out of the U.N. is reported under consideration by the six neutrals | of the Council including Canada. As the 58-member Political Com- mittee of the General Assembly | took up the atomic issue, Warren R. Austin, chief United States dele- gate, said the United Nations could go no farther in its efforts to con- trol the atom until the Soviet Union agreed to "participate in the world community on a co-operative basis." Sir Alexander Gadogan of Britain called on the Big Five and Canada to make "a supreme effort" to achieve agreement on fundamentals. Transport Minister Chevrier said "the only answer lies in a co- operative association which is uni- | versal and which the work of the atomic. energy commission has shown to be technically feasible and possible." The Soviet resolution which he attacked calls for the simultaneous banning of atomic bombs and es- tablishment of international - con- trols. Boat Capsized, Believe 4 Dead Silver Creek, N.Y., Oct, 18--(AP) --Police and coast guards resumed search today for four Buffalo men they believed were drowned in Lake Erie. A boat identified @sethat which the four rented for fishing nearly two days previous was found over- turned Sunday night about 200 yards off shore at Lotus Point near here. State police said their "only con- clusion" was that the men were drowned. Coast guggds said the men probably could nol have survived in 'the rough, cold water even if they had used life jackets. The search started Sunday when the wife of John Koniarczyk, 34, | told police her husband had not | returned from the trip. | Communists Trail In German Elections --n Duesseldorf, Germany, Oct. 18 (AP).--The. Christian Democrats held first place and the Commun- ists lost strength in Sunday's com- munal elections in the Rhineland and Ruhr. ! The Christian Democrats won 37.6 per cent of the vote; the Social | only seven per cent, a loss of about six per cent since the 1946 eléctions. The other votes were! scattered dmong six parties. | 'Youths Fined Thrée Whitby T.C. Jones: Wins Peanut | the wartime activities Day Watch While complete returns have not vet been checked, Kiwanian Reg. | Lancaster, chairman of the Kiwanis | Club's "Peanut Day Committee", | expressed keen pleasure at the suc- | cess enjoyed on' Saturday, despite | the inclement weather which | greatly decreased the traffic of | citizens ' on the downtown streets | hd Ld In Dance Riot Answering a call from the om prietor of the Blue Swallow Inn | just. west of Whitby on Highway | Number 2A, who believed that his | establishment was being laid 'siege | to by a Toronto gang, Provincial | Constable Harry Kift found a gen- | eral melee in progress when he ar- | rived. As the result of the arrests made three Whitby men paid fines | and costs totalling $120. | One of the trio, Charles Taylor, 24, R.R. 2, Whitby, was convicted in | court today on two charges, one of | assault and the other of disorderly | conduct. On the first count Magi- strate Ebbs inflicted a penalty of $25 or one month, and on the sec- ond, $10 or ten days. The other two members of the gang, William Adair, 23, 210 Pine. Street, Whitby and Robert Taylor, 23, 317 Green Street, also of Whitby, made similar settlements on charges of having liquor illegally and of disorderly conduct preferred against them. Provincial Constable Harry Kift, testifying in the hearing of the charge against Taylor in police court this morning before Magi- strate Frank Ebbs, said that in response to the call he made the trip to the Blue Swallow. Although in civilian clothing he was in the poiice cruiser. On arrival he found the men causing 'a disturbance. He collared two of them and put them in the cruiser but Taylor fled. He caught up with him finally and brought him back to the car. By that time the first two were on their way out. Again Taylor ran away and it was five hours later when the officer apprehended him at his home at R.R. 2, Whitby Township. - The police officer said that in the scuffle he had the pocket torn out of his trousers. Asked for an explanation of his conduct Taylor, who pleaded guilty to both counts,.said that he and his friends had had too much to drink. Crown Attorney Alex Hall offered | of peanuts on the huge float, dressed and business sections, Saturday af- | | ternoon and evening. | Thos. C. Jones, Sr. 91 Warren | Ave, was declared the winner of the "Bassett Watch", a gold wrist watch donated as premier prize for the guessing contest held in con- junction with the drive. The prize was donated by Kiwanian "Dick" Bassett and will be on display in the window of Bassett Jewellers this week. ' Despite the thousands of guesses droppegk in the ballot boxes, none were exactly correst. Total number by the Planter Company, which toured the downtown streets and residential districts on Saturday, was 133,804. Mr.. Jones won the wrist watch with the closest guess, 132,980. Kiwanian Reg. stated that a full statement of returns and proceeds would likely be made at the next meeting of the Kiwanis Club, at which time official thanks and ap- preciation would alsa be tendered to the numerous citizens who gave of their time and energy to assist the Kiwanis Club members and their "Kweens" in conducting the drive. High in the list of those who contributed outstanding assistance were the Oshawa Girl Guides. Special prize winners for the Guides who 'helped on Saturday, will also be announced shortly. Tentative reckoning sets the un- official total of proceeds of "Pea- nut Day" as over $1,500.00. Officials of the Planter Company, who co- operated with the Oshawa Kiwan- | ians in sponsoring the event, have expressed themselves as gratified with the splendid returns, consider- ing the handicap of bad weather. Blast Kills One And Injures Four Detroit, Oct. 18 (AP).--An explo- | sion in a compressor station of the! Michigan Consolidated Gas Com- | pany at suburban Melvindale early ! today cost one life and injured four | other employees. A company spokesman estimated ! damage at between $250,000 and the explanation that the young men were trying to crash a private party which was in-progress at the | inn. | NET PAID | CIRCULATION | The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue September 11948 8,592 $500,000. Windows in a two-mile area sur- | rounding the scene was shattered and the business section of Melvin- | dale was reported to be a shambles | of broken glass, | Prime Minister King 'Resting Quietly' Lohdon, Oct. 18--(CP) --- Prime | | Minister Mackenzie King of Canada | | "continues to rest quietly" and { spent a good night, his staff repor- | | ted today. | set Yacht | week because of illness, ere still | | is'nq indication when he will be al- | lowed from 'bed but it 'is expected | that it, will be at least another week. DEMAND RETURN OF FOUR Traitors Must Pay, (overnment Stand; 'CaseClosed'---Howe Paris, Oct. 18 (CP)--The French Government régards four alleged French collaborators now living in Quebec prov= ince as "traitors" and demands that they be returned to | France, high sources said today. . "In the eyes of the French Government these men are traitors and must be brought back to France to pay for their crimes," sources close to the French Interior Ministry said. "The. French Government wants these men," the sources added, say- ing France had asked Canada "sev- eral times" to start extradition pro- ceedings against the men, alleged to have collaborator with the Ger- mans during the war. They added that warrants still were in force against the four iden- tified as Georges Benoit Montel, Ju- lien Gaudens Labedan, Andrew Charles Emmanuel Boussat, and Jean Louis Hue. The same sources said that La- bedan, 35 who entered Canada as a "political refugee" under an as. sumed name in 1946, was under a death sentence in connection with alleged war crimes. The sentence was passed in his absence. The others were sentenced on lesser charges, The exact nature of the charges were not specified, but one infor- mant said it wg€ connected with of Milice, a force whose members fought { against the French Maquis, "We have asked Canada to return these men and we ares anxious to press action against them," the sources said. They declined to he quoted by name. "In the eyes of the French Gov- ernment these men are traitors and must be brought back to France to pay for their crimes," these sources added. "No Comment" Ottawa, Oct. 18--(CP)--External Affairs department spokesmen de- clined today to indicate whether the Frerich 'government has asked Can- ada to open extradition proceedings for the four alleged Vichy collabor- ators now living in this country. "We must say 'no comment,' " said an External Affairs official of a Paris dispatch which quoted inform- ed sources as saying France had made such-a request "several times." All queries were referred to acting Prime Minister Howe, who said in an interview Sunday night itwas his "strong" impression the French government had requested only the return of Count Jacques De Ber- nonville, now appealing a deporta- tion order in Montreal, Mr. Howe, who also said Sunday night the case was '"closed" so far as the cabinet was concerned, could not be reached for further comment. Tue CCF, party called on the government today to give the Cana- dian people a "full- explanation" of the case of four alleged Vichy col- laborators who have been granted permission to live in Canada, "The C.C.F. calls upon the govern- ment to publish the records of the four men and settle this question in the public mind," said a statement issued from party headquarters here, The statement was issued by Da- vid Lewis, national secretary, and Stanley Knowles, CC.F. Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North Centre an dC. C.F, Parliamentary whip, on behalf of the party's na- tional executive and the Parlia- mentary caucus. S-- Trans-Canada Road Planned Howe Reveals Ottawa, Oct. 18--(CP)--Construc« tion of a Trans-Canada Highway will be discussed at a Dominion- Provincial conference, Trade Min=- ister Howe said today. He did not indicate when the conference will be held. Addressing an opening session of a three-day Dominion-Provincial tourist conference, Mr. Howe said: "It is not my intention today to say anything specific about the Trans-Canada Highway. I note that it is to be discussed in a general way at your conference. All I can say to you now is that the Federal Government is seized with the econ= omic importance of a Trans-Can= ada Highway: "We are gathering together such data and information as is essential to present to a conference which will be held in Ottawa between Federal and Provincial authorities, when this wholé question of the Trans-Canada Highway will be dis« cussed. ; "Until we have discussed the whole question of grades, standards and. a dozen and one details with the provinces who will be partners with the Federal Government in any undertaking to construct an all-weather trans-continental high- way, any remarks of mine on those subjects would be out of place." Mr. Howe said Provincial Gov= ernments and transportation com=- pany representatives were invited to the conference to join with the Federal Government in a *"co-oper= ative and co-ordinated effort to improve our tourist facilities, both public and private, within this country." Breaks Leg, Bruised In Two-Car Crash Charles E. Hill, 50, of Oshawa, , received a broken right knee, bruised chest, and other bruises in a two-car accident on Highway No. 2 near Pickering on Sunday morn- ing. He was taken to the Toronto East General Hospital, wherg he was treated by Dr. L. W. Black of Toronto, Mr. Hill is an employee in the Sales Department of the General Motors Company. Also injured in the crash' were George Bower, 61, of Detroit, and Clifford Watson, 21, of Colridge. Bower received head injuries and bruises, and Watson, head cuts. The accident was investigated by Constable John Scott of the On- tario Provincial Police. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS ~% PROBE U.S. RAIL DISPUTE Washington, Oct. 18 (AP)--President Truman to- day created an emergency board to investigate the dispute between the railroads and 16 non-operating railroad unions in the United States. The unions now are taking a strike vote, and creation of the board is intended to head off possibility of a walkout. LOSS 'THOUSANDS' IN BREAKIN Kitchener, Oct. 18 (CP)--A downtown jewellery store was broken into over the week-end and thieves escaped with rings and watches valued at "thousands of dollars." Entrance into the store was gained through the roof from the first storey where thieves sawed an 8 by 16 inch hole in the wooden wall. Aimost the entire Christmas stock of rings and watches were taken from the showcases. $50,000 CAMP BURNS Narth Bay Oct. 18 (CP)--Camp White Bear, famous Temagami tourist resort 70 miles: northwest of here, burned to the ground Sunday it was learned today. The camp, a hideaway for Hollywood movie stars, was closed for the winter and ng person was injured. Damage to the frame resort giand ice house was estimated at $50,000. - Re ..NEHRU, VISHINSKY CONFER ¥ Paris, Oct. 18 (AP)--Indian Prime Minister Jawa« harlal Nehru conferred Sunday with Russia's Andrei Y. Vishinsky on the Dominion's present and future foreign policy. Few details were available from either Russian or Indian official sources about the' talk, which took Embassy. place at Nehru's request and was held in the Russian 1 -d