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DE GAU THE DAILY TIMES-GAZ Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA TTE WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 261 MONDAY, NOVEMBER" 8, 1948 / Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES MEMORIAL PLAQUE UNV AS GITY HONORS WAR DEAD Responsibility To Fallen Heroes Today's Challenge About a thousand people gathered yesterday at the Oshawa War Memorial, the new plaques inset in the m ILED ® 4 "The Garden of the Unforgotten", where Major-General C, C. Mann, C.B.E.,, D.S.0., unveiled emorial and bearing the names of one hundred and seventy-seven men who lost their lives in the second war and one hundred gad thirty-seven who died in the first. Principal speaker at the ceremony was Hon. G. A. Welsh, D.S.0., Ontario Minister of Planning and Development. "The dead are so much at the® mercy of the living". Such was the theme of Mr. Welsh's address. They gave their lives that we might have the freedom and the way of life we now enjoy. The manner in which we handled the heritage they perished to pass to us was a great responsi- bility, Mr. Welsh said, and put the dead at our mercy. Finest Men Died Prior to 1914 war was something that we read about in history books. No one would have believed that we would experience one. Since then, however, moré than 65,000 of our finest men have been buried in foreign fields. After the first war, Mr. Welsh said, people said; "This can never happen again". We became smug and cocksure, and when 1939 came we were shocked and stunned and unprepared for war. However, we rallied our resources and achieved victory. The victory we gained was not entirely satisfactory and the dead would not perhaps be satisfied. It was, perhaps, time that we stopped and took stock. If we were successful in business or in any other enterprise it might be well if we remembered that had it not been for the dead who gave their lives to maintain our way of life, we would not be-able to enjoy our success. We each had a respon- sibility to the dead and it was up to us to see that we carried out that responsibility. Mr, Welsh was introduced by Mr. T. K. Creighton, K.C., who recalled that it was thirty years almost to the day since the first armistice. Must Maintain Fredom Major-General Mann was intro- duced by Mayor Frank McCallum. Two wars had been fought, said General Mann to ensure that we maintained our freedom and way ef life. War was tragic to be sure but it was not the worst tragedy which UNVEIL PLAQUE (Continued on Page 2) Dominion To Share Cost Of Training Ottawa, Nov. 8 (CP)--Health Minister Martin announced today the Dominion will contribute $65,000 for the advanced training of 55 doc- tors and nurses for public health work and nursing in Ontario. The contribution will be made un- der the new national health pro- gram and will represent more than one-third of Ontario's share of the professional training grant. The grant is to assist persons anxious to enter public health work and to aid those already in it to take further training. In each instance, persons to be trained have been nominated by the Ontario Health Department. Mr. Martin said notification of the federal government's concur- rence has been forwarded to Pro- vingial Health Minister Kelley. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue October 1948 9,135 INES CORRADO STILL DOCKED AT GAP BLANC Quebec, Nov, 8 -- (CP) -- Quebec harbor officials said Absier of the cargo of the po 6 4 Ines Corrado 'whose presence at Cap Blanc has alarmed water-front residents awaits the arrival of an- other ship from Montreal. In the meantime the Portuguese freighter which must make the transfer because it was damaged in a St, Lawrence River collision re- mains tied up at Wolfe's Cove docks right in front of the little Cap Blanc settlement. Reason for the destress among the households along narrow Champlain Street is that the 3,000- ton freighter is laden with nitrate of potassium, a chemical used chiefly for fertilizer. The people of Cap Blanc recalled it was a ship laden with ingredients for chemical fertilizer that touched off the disastrous Texas City explo- sions of 1946. 'While they wait for the fertilizer to be transferred from the damaged ship, the people of Cap Blanc are going about their normal business. They will be glad when the second vessel, due sometime today, takes on the nitrate and sails for South America where the cargo is destined. It is hard for Cap Blanc to ignore the Ines Corrado kecause it sits in the water a bare 200 yards from their homes as big as life. Two firemen and policemen have been especially assigned to make certain there is no smoking near the ship. Abbe Maurice Tessier, Cap Blanc parish priest to whom residents complained, said: "We love all our neighbors, but not this one." / War In China To Last Years Nanking, Nov. 8--(AP)--Chiang Kai-Shek, far from down and out, warned China today to get ready for eight more years of war on the Communists. & China's president said he will not make peace with the Communists. China's only chance for peace, he said, is to exterminate the Commu- nists on the field of battle. The statement was made to 1,000 Kuomintang" (party) members and legislators. | Current peace rumors are Com- munist-inspired, said Chiang. He apologized for the failure of economic and currency reforms and said new measures to bolster the sit- | uation are being drawn. Likewise, | He declared, new life is being put into the country's armies. Spot Wreck Of Russian Plane Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 8-- | (AP)--The newspaper Berlingske | Tidende says today that a Russian | military plane has crashed in Nor- i thern Greenland. The newspaper, in a London dis- patch, quotes unidentified United States sources as saying the crew of a United States reconnaissance | plane sighted the wreckage last | Wednesday while on a routine flight {frm a base on the west coast of | Greenland, Dedication Service At Cen otaph Largely Attended Ottawa River Death May Be Murder | Montreal, Nov. 8 (CP).--Police | said today they suspected foul play | in the death of Leo B. McLellan, 52, whose body was found Sunday. in a boarding house at St. Joachim Rapids, site of a power project on the Ottawa River. Provincial Police headquarters here said Detective J. E. Morgan had telephoned a report from St. Joachim saying the 52-year-old man's body had been found in his room. He had apparently been struck on both sides of the head. Detective Paul Coulombe was sent immediately from headquarters here to investigate the death and it was expected that Dr, Jean-Marie Roussel, provincial = medico-legal expert, would follow. : St. Joachim is about 100 miles west of Ottawa, Auto Leaves Road Driver Sustains Fractured Ribs Jack Whitehead, 25, 97 Athol Street East, suffered fractured ribs and bruises about the head Satur- day evening when his automobile went out. of control on Highway 2A near Ajax and crashed on the boulevard. The car was completely wrecked. According to Provincial Constable Jack Scott of Scarboro, Whitehead was driving east on the new high- way, coming to Oshawa from To- ronto at 5:30 p.m, when in some unexplained manner, he lost control of the automobile. The vehicle swerved onto the boulevard and overturned. Passing motorists extricated the driver, who was alone in the auto and took him to Oshawa General Hospital. His condition is not seri- ous. New, Italian Ambassador Ottawa, Nov. 8 v. 8 (CP)--Marlo di Stefano presented his letter of cre- dence to the Governor-General to- day as the new Italian Ambassador to Canada. He was accompanied at the Gov- ernment House ceremony by Mario Majoli, first secretary of the Italian embassy, and Pietro Migone, com- mercial attache, ~ Mr. di Stefano, who arrived in Ottawa last week, formerly was Italian minister to the United States, A large crowd was in attendance at the unveiling of the new . memorial plaques at the "Garden of the | Yesterday Unforgotten" in Memorial Park yésterday afternoon. Major-General (. C. Mann, C.B.B,, D. S, 0O., unveiled the plague dedicated to those who gave their lives in the war from 1939 to 1945. The top photo shows a general view of the large crowd that gathered to attend the service. In the lower photo, Major-General Mann is shown talking with Hon. G. Arthur Welsh, D.S.0., Ontario Minister of Planning and Development, who delivered the commemorative address, --Times- Gazette Staft Photos Local Beauty Parlors Hard Hit By Cut-offs Oshawa housewives had their first taste of extra power cuts today and some of them did not like it. With Oshawa's quota reduced from 211,000 kilowatt hours to 196,200 KW.H., the Public Utilities Commission was forced to add an extra hour cut- off to domestic and commercial hydro users and the new schedule went into effect today. The cuts now are from 8:45 to 9:30 a.m.; 10:30 to 11:15 am; 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and 3:30 to 4 p.m. "We received some complaints from housewives who. claim they cannot ook roasts for dinner under the new' schedule," P.U.C. Manager George F. Shreve said today. "But when we explained the situation to them they took it in good grace." Beauty - parlors throughout the city were especially hard hit by the extra cuts since most of their equip- ment is operated electrically. "It's really drastic," Mrs. Jeanne McCabe of the Collette Beauty Sa- lon, King Street East, said. "These cuts practically cost us our morn- g's business. We are cut off from 8:45 to 9:30 in the morning and just get going again when the 10:30 cut hits us. It does not give «us chance to dry the hair of our 9:30 customers.", Mrs. McCabe said beauty parlors could not operaie in 'the evenings because of the 7 o'clock closing by- law. She also said it would not be fair to! ask operators to work every night and in any event she thought most of them would refuse night work. Bert Edwards of fdwards' Beauty | Parlor, Celina Street, echoed Mrs. | McCabe's sentiments. "It's really wicked," he said. "It has cut our business away down. To try 'and: salvage some of the busi- ness we are using gas lamps to pre- pare our customers during the blackouts so that we can work on them as soon as the power comes on again. Every beauty parlor oper- ator in the city is affected." Today also was the start of the system whereby if any industry reaches its quota, the switches are pulled on it to prevent it from ex- ceeding its ration. Up to press time no switches had been pulled. O'Brien Quits B.C. Federation Vancouver, Nov. 8--(CP)--Resig- nation of Daniel O'Brien of Van- couver as president of the British Columbia 'Federation of Labor (C. C.L.) was announced Sunday night. O'Brien objected to C.C.L. support of the International Woodworkers of America (C.I.O.). Local Woman Loses Brother By Drowning ing, 377 King Street West, Oshawa, William €hisholm, 56, of Sadowa, Ont.,, was drowned yesterday in a | hunting accident at Bear Lake, east of Gravenhurst, according to word received here this morning. Sadowa is near Orillia. j Only meagre details. have been received about the accident but it is believed that Mr, Chisholm and a companion, whose name is un- known, were drowned when their boat capsized. Their bodies have not been recovered and planes are searching the lake for them.*®Mr. Chisholm was with a hunting party from Toronto, Mr. Chisholm was a well known farmer in the Sadowa district and was a member of Sadowa United Church. He is 'survived by his mother and three sons, Thomas, Wallace and George at home, and two daughters, Mrs.. Charles Ham- mill, Seabrfght, and Mrs. Archie Gilchrist, Atherley. Several broth- ois and: lstess. alse suvvive: THE WEATHER Clear today. Cloudy Tuesday. Little change in temperature. Winds southwesterly 15.' Low tonight and high Tuesday 36, 55. Summary for Tuesday: Cloudy and mild, Brother of Mrs. Manford 'Flem- | Gen. Due Peuple Francais (R.P.F.) & LLE WINS FRENCH ELECTION As Returns Show Loss Of 68 Seats Paris, Nov. 8 (AP)--Almost complete returns today gave Charles De Gaulle's anti- Bottom Communist Reassemblement a sweeping victory in yester= day's elections to the Upper House of the French Parliament. G.M., Production Lines Halted Due to an interruption in sup- plies, production lines at the General Motors plant were closed down this morning re- sulting in the lay-off of some 2,000 workers. "It is only a temporary in- terruption and we will be back at full production tomorrow," an official of the company said this morning. "The feeder lines are still operating today but the production lines are closed. We hope that this will be the last interruption." CANTABS WIN ELECTION AT COLLEGIATE Surprise and happiness were the | dominant emotions today, as far as Margaret Parkhill was concerned. Margaret this morning received of- ficial notice that she had been elected President of the O.C.V.I. Students' Council. Miss Parkhill's party, the Cantabrigians, won seven of the ten council seats. Elected vice-president was Wil- mer Crawford of the Oxonian party. The new Secretary will be Barbara Plowright, Oxonian, and the Treas- urer is Alex Dobos, Cantanrigian. The complete results and stand- ings are as follows: President: Margaret Parkhill (C), 635; Phyllis Richardson (0), 513. Vice-president: Wilmer Crawford (0), 711; Walter Skochko (C), 440. Secretary of State: Barbara CANTABS WIN (Continued on Page 16) Agent General 'Is Impressed With Oshawa Major James S. P. Armstrong, Agent General, Province of Ontario, in London, England, and Mrs. Arm- strong were guests in Oshawa dur- |ing the week-end of Honorable G. | D. Conant and Mrs. Conant. While in Oshawa, Major Armstrong inter- viewed George W. Garner, Secretary- Manager of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce in connection with the locating of English industries in Oshawa and district. Major Armstrong made a careful survey of possible factory sites and was favorably impressed with the possibilities that Oshawa presented. He was particularly impressed with the possibilities afforded by the | Oshawa Harbor and he showed a | keen interest in the factory sites in | | that particular area. | id * {of his act in shooting Gandhi. The Communists, present majors ity party in the Council of the Re= public, lost more than four-fifths of their seats and will be a low-ranke ing party in the new Council. The elections were national in scope, but the ballotting was done by local electoral colleges instead of directly by the people. The returns showed that the R.P, F., taking part in a Legislative elec- tion for the first time, will have about 40 per cent of the 269 seats at stake yesterday. The colonies will elect another 51 members next Mons day, bringing the new Council to its full strength of 320. With only seven seats missing, In terior Ministry figures said this was the divisions of the Council seats: R.P.F. 99; Radical Socialists (Cone servatives) and affiliates 50; Social= ists 48; Independents 21; Commune ists 16; Popular Republicans (M.R. P.) 15; others 13. Of the R.P.F.'s 99 seats, 55 belong to the party outright and the others are from affiliated groups. The Communists now hold 84 seats. Their drop to 16 occurred largely because of a change in the voting system that permitted all non-Communist parties to form coali*ions against them. The smashing victory may prompt De Gaulle to hasten his campaign for return to power. De Gaulle wants the Assembly to dissolve itself and call for general elections which, he claims, will give him a mandate from the people to take over the government. His party has no explicit social program. Its chief plank is anti- Communism. Godse Collapses At Gandhi Trial New Delhi, Nov. 8--(CP)--Naray« an Vinayak Godse collapsed in court today as he read his lengthy explanation of the slaying of Mo handas K. Gandhi. After reading from his 93-page statement for an hour, Godse fal tered, dropped the manuscript and slumped to the floor. He revived quickly after he was lifted by guards. Godse, who said he shot the Hin« du leader last Jan. 30 "purely for the benefit of humanity," was ser= ious and tense as he invited the court to pass the maximum sen= tence of hanging. The special court for four months has been trying Godse, a 35-year= old Grahmin, and 11 others accused of aiding and abetting him. Godse's statement expressed cone fidence in the "moral justification" He appealed to posterity to "weigh my act and find the true value there= of." He said he respected Gandhi's saintliness and "before I fired the shots I actually wished him luck and bowed to him in reverence." The assassin said he opposed | Ghandi for his concessions to the | Moslems which "brought ruin to millions of Hindus." Washington, Nov. 8-- (AP) --J. Parnell Thomas (Rep. N.J.), chair- man of the House of Representa- | tives Committee on Un-American | Activities, today was indicted on 8 charge of conspiring to defraud the | government, | Three charges of false claims also | were contained in the Federal | Grand Jury indictment. He was ac- | cused also of 34 "overt acts." | Indicted with him on the conspi- Indict Parnell Thomas On Conspiracy Charge racy charge was Helen Campbell, his former secretary. This charge alleged a conspiracy "to defraud the United States of its money and property." Court officials said that, if cone viction were obtained, maximum sentence in the several charges against the member of Congress could be 32 years imprisonment or $40,000 fine, or both, Thomas was re-elected to the House in last week's election. Lawrence told him two days of the Canadian Seamen's U ships are the Mont Sandra, within the next day or two. day detained a 58-year-old questioning in connection Lennan of St. Andrew's shackle building three ocean-going ships over a contract dispute. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x MURDER HEARING OPENS Toronto, Nov. 8 (CP)--Detective-Sergeant William Mace testified today at the preliminary hearing of Vin- cent St. Lawrence, charged with murder in the race- track slaying of George (Cowboy) Parker, that St. after Parker's death: "Il hit Cowboy. | want to make a confession." THe hearing was adjourned until tomorrow at the request of the crown. SHIPS TIED UP Montreal, Nov. 8 (CP)--A group 'of 150 members nion (T.L.C.) today tied up The Mont Alta and Marchcape, owned by Montreal Shipping Co. They were due to sail 'DETAINED' ON SUSPICION y St. Joachim Rapids, Que., Nov. 8 (CP)--Police to bunkhouse proprietor for ith the death of Leo D, Mc- est, near Cornwall, whose body was found Sunday sprawled over a cot in the ram~