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US AN YED BY RUSSIAN THREAT THE DAILY TIMES-GAZ Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle J OSHAWA ET WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 264 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1948: Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGES City Pauses To : Honor Her Fallen Heroes Padre of Legion Explains Meaning Of Annual Service The 314 Oshawa men who gave their lives for freedom | $50,000 fire Wednesday night raged in the two world wars were pi aid tribute this morning at a Remembrance Day service held in Memorial Park before the cenotaph. Exactly 30 years after the World War I armistice several hundred people gathered at the "Garden of the Unforgotten" to make their obeisance to the dead. & 2 4 "These men paid the great price RAE HALLIDAY WILL CONTEST MAYORALTY The municipal election ball started rolling today with the an- nouncement by Alderman Rae Hal- liday that he would be a candidate for mayor in the December 6 voting. "I will definitely be a candidate that you and I might live and retain our freedom," ,said A. J. Graves, Padre of Oshawa branch No. 43 of the Canadian Legion. Recalls First Armistice Recalling that it was exactly 30 years since armistice following the first war, Mr, Graves said that on this day, ever since, service was held throughout the countries of the British Empire to commemorate the day. Up until the outbreak of the sec- ond world war, Mr. Graves said, the | | spectators from this Oxford County | town 20 miles south of Woodstock | service was known as "Armistice Day Service". Following the out- break His Majesty the King solved the rather perplexing problem by decreeing that henceforth the day would be known as "Remembrance | Day"'--a day when we remembered those who died and to whom we owed so much. The day was also one of dedica- tion. It was a day when we who TE ot # FIRE SWEEPS TILLSONBURE SEED PLANT Tillsonburg, Nov. 11--(CP) -- A | through two sections of the Sam | G. Vance Co. Ltd. seed drying plant {and elevators and destroyed a large | quantity of seed corn before 25 lo- | cal firemen controlled the flames. For a time the blaze threatened the Canadian National Railways | station and other nearby buildings | but firefighters confined the out- | break to the immediate area. | During early stages of the fire, it | was reported that a freight car | loaded with seed corn was destroy- ed. But workmen with a truck towed | the freight car to safety. The fire, third in the Vance fac- | tory within 10 years, was blamed on | | spontaneous combustion in | corn-drying kiln. A blaze struck the plant in 1939 while another fire caused $100,000 damage Christmas | eve, 1941. The flames attracted hundreds of {and from the surrounding district. | It was reported that the fire could | be seen for miles. Firefighters held the blaze to the | front part of two buildings. Public | Utilities Commission employees cut | all hydro wires leading to the fac- | tory to reduce danger of firemen | being electrocuted. the | Where Oshawa Honored War Dead This Morning | sn memory of the men from the city who gave their lives in the defense of . freedom a simple yet solemn | by members of the Oshawa Church, presided and the a Remkembrance Day We bow our heads in solemn thought, In reverence to our brave men slain. d'reedom has been so dearly bought, "INATIVE OF Remembrance Service was held this morning, at the Garden of t"e Unforgotten in Memorial Park, conducted infsterial Association. Rev. H. D. Cleverdon, rector of Christ Memorial Anglican | ress was Celivered by A. J. Graves, padre of Post 43, Canadian Legion. { WHITBY DIES t Clay Promises To Keep Them Flying On Berlin Route By Wes Gallagher Berlin, Nov. 11 (AP)--British and United States planes | flew the supply route to Berlin today in the face of a Russian | threat to force down planes straying from the 20-mile wide | air corridors to the former German capital. The American answer to the Rus-# | sians' threat, made Wednesday night, was a terse promise from | Gen. Lucius D. Clay, United States military governor that "we will keep them flying." Both British and American au- thorities said publicly the Russians | would be held responsible for any action they take. | The Russians, citing a long list | of alleged violation of their terri- tory, also said they would force down "all aircraft without identifi- | cation marks of nationality" flying | over the Soviet zone, including the three air corridors. The second threat presumably re- | fers to non-military planes, which | do not carry nationality markers. The Russians posted anothen warning at the Berlin air safely centre that they will hold three hours of air-to-air (probably plane to target) firing practice today over a field in the British Bueckeburg air corridor. At other points in the | corridors, they said, they will hold "local flying manoeuvres." Although both Britain and the United States have said in the past they would use fighter escorts if necessary to keep the air lift going, American pilots said they had standing orders to obey any Soviet U. S. ANNOYED (Continued on Page 2) Kiwanians Entertain Junior Fair Winners At Party Seventy-five Junior Farmers and | boys and girls club members of the | Oshawa district, exhibitors inthe Junior Section of the 1949 Oshawa Fair, were guests of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club at a banquet and play party held in the recreation bujld- ing of the Ontario County . Flying Ciub last evening, and received the rewards for their skill and industry | With them at the banquet, along with a large number of the Ki- wanians, were officers of the South and At Airport , the Junior section of the Fair, who thanked the Kiwanis Club for its keen interest in this phase of acti=- | vity for young farm people. | Present Trophies and Prizes Highlight of the evening was the presentation of trophies and prizes to the winning juniors. Kiwanian | W. Brownlee presented the Robert | Simpson trophy, a beautiful silver | tray to little Marilyn Downey, | Myrtle Station, a 10-yr-old girl, | diminutive in size, who had the | honor of amassing the highest | ints score in the Junior classes survived should dedicate our lives | at Oshawa Fair. The T. Eaton. Ca, to the task of making this nation The fearless on life's altar lain. rize of a silver tray for the bes re a -- ALD, RAE HALLIDAY for the mayoralty," Mr. Halliday tol The Times-Gazette this morn- ing. "I have no cut and dried plat- form--I am not going to review the past or predict the future--but I am offering my services to the citi- zens of Oshawa." Mr. Halliday has had four years' experience on City Council. During the first two years of his service he was assistant chairman of the Fire Protection and City Property Com- mittee and last year he was chair- mn of the General Purpose Com- mittee. This year he is chairman of the Committe of the Whole. Alderman Halliday, who operates a grocery business here, came to Oshawa in 1933 from Ottawa. Dur- ing the First World War he served at Military Headquarters in Ottawa for four years. When he came to Oshawa he was with the Provincial Employment Service for a time and then was employed 2s an inspector at General Motors before starting RAE HALLIDAY (Continued on Page 2) and world and our immediate sur- roundings better places in which to | live. If we did not do this the sa- | crifice made by the dead was futile. | The false armistice which pre- | ceded the genuine cessation of hos- | tilities following the first war was recalled by Mr. Gravés. There was | rejoicing on November 7 when the | st and false report came through | but it did not approach the joy of | the final end to fighting. | Chairman of the service, Rev. H. D. Cleverdon opened the service | with the hymn "O God, Our Help in | Ages Past" after which there was | a scripture reading by Rev. J. V. McNeely and a prayer by Rev. H. F. | Davidson. | Scores of Wreaths Scores of wreaths were placed at | the foot of the cenotaph. Industry, labouf, commerce and dozens of private individuals were represented along with clubs and organizations of all kinds. Among the wreaths were many sorrowful tributes of Oshawa parents to their sons who fell. Following the placing of the wreaths there were two minutes of silence during which whistles and bells could be heard in the distance. Mr. Graves made his address and there was another hymn "Abide With Me". . The familiar and still heart- rending notes of "The Last Post" pealed out over the frosty autumn air followed by the hopeful "Re- veille". The National Anthem was follow- ed by the benediction delivered by. Mr. Cleverdon, Represented at the service were th local Legion branch, Eleventh Armoured (Ontario) Regiment, General Motors Veterans' Club, Polish Veterans' Club, Police Force, Fire Department and the various Oshawa Service clubs. . Labor's Position In Power Shortage Crisis In a statement isued this morn- ing by M. J. Fenwick, Secretary of the Oshawa District Trades and Labour Council, on behalf of that body, the position of organized la- bor on' the question of staggered hours to deal with the present elec. tric power emergency is set forth. In his statement Mr. Fenwick also outlines the proposals which were made by the labour representatives to deal with the power situatior. from a long-term viewpoint, as wel as in the present crisis. The state- ment is as follows: "Newspaper comment would place the onus for solving the pres- ent power shortage on 'he work- ingmen and women of this city. The Oshawa and District Labor Council - considers this view unfair to its affiliated unions in the city's plants. They have, therefore, vig- orously opposed any attempt at walving 'union agreement clauses providing for overtime payment for Saturday and Sunday wo:k. "The suggestion made in the press that in refusing to waive the over- time clauses, the bargaining com- mittees of the various urions are not championing the interests of their members, is malicious and is an attempt to discredit the labor ne- gotiators. In refusing to violgte their A] agreements, Labor's spokesman did so after careful consultation with their respective members. "Labor is interested in the wel- fare of this community more than any other group since the majority of the people are working people. What they have done is done in the interests of the people. "Because labor's proposals on easing the present electric power shortage seems to receive scant at- tention in the press, the Oshawa and District Labor Council feels obliged to repeat them: "1. That the Ontario government be pressed to call an immediate session of the Legislature to devise ways and means of overcoming the crisis. "2. That the Ontario Government be asked to recommend to the legis- lature that enactment of a 40-hour working week without loss of pres- ent take home pay as one way of improving the present situation. "3. That "the Public Utilities Commission revise plant quotas on the basis of current production needs instead of 1947 consumption. 4. If switches are pulled they 'be pulled in all plants. "5. That employers be encouraged to Iustall auxiliary power units at teastfpartially to offset the short- Will Appoint Board To Fix Milk Price Toronto, Nov. 11--(CP)--A board | of arbitration will be appointed to decide what price Ontario farmers will get for their milk next year, Ontario Premier Kennedy announ- ced Wednesday. He said the Whole Milk Produ- | cers' League, and the Distributors Association were unable to agree on a new contract to replace one which expired Oct. 31. Producers already have nomina- ted Roy Lick of Oshawa, secretary of the league, as their representa- tive and the Distributors are'ex- pected to appoint a representative this week. The two groups have been nego- tiating for several weeks but it is not known what price the farmers {are seeking. They receive $4.05 a { hundredweight in Toronto and $3.90 in other markets for whole milk. Secondary milk, used for processing now brings $2.90 a hundredweight. Riveter Plunges From High Beam Hamilton, Nov. 11 -- (CP) -- Hiram General, 44, of Ohsweken, a riveter with the Hamilton Bridge Company, suffered head and leg injuries shortly before noon today when he fell 30 feet from a steel beam in a new addition to the west end Westinghouse plant. General was one of a crew rivet- ing the mew girders in place and is believed to have lost his balance. At St. Joseph's Hospital, where the full extent of his injuries were not immediately known, his condition was given as fair, Named Arbitrator ROY F. LICK of Oshawa, secretary of the Whole Milk Producers' League, who has been nominated as the League's rep- resentative on the hoard of abritra- tion which will decide what price Ontario farmers will get for their milk next year, Their deeds shall last as years pass by, To inspire our hearts to keep the faith That freedom's [cause shall never die, That truth and Mght shall yet be safe. To speak and worship Lest we forget a ¥ old TT May we thank God that we are free, as we choose, careless be, n ® And we this trees yet might lose. W. J. Brown. Auto Workers Strike Closes Chrysler Plant Detroit, Nov. 11--(AP)--A dispute | | over production standards kept ap- | proximately 12,500 Chrysler Cor- | | poration workers idle today. | The disciplining of two men for failing to meet the rates was in- | volved and three plants of the big | automobile company were affected. Two operators of a milling ma- | chine at the Jefferson Avenue plant | were sent home Tuesday night. * As a consequence, the company said, 1,900 machine-shop employees quit. | This mushroomed into a series of | plant closing and strikes of other | workers, A pile-up of bodies at the | Kercheval plant also figured in the | curtailment. The new milling machine at the | Jefferson plant was installed about | a month ago. A representative of | Chrysler Local 7 of the United Au- | tomobile Workers (C.I.O. said the | company and union have disagreed over the machine's proper quota. | City Exceeds Quota By 6,080 K.W.H. Despite yesterday's overcast skies, Oshawa managed to keep close to its hydro quota al- though it still exceeded it. Public Utilities Commission figures showed yesterday's pow- er conumption was 208,480 kilo- watt hours, 6,080 K.W.H. over or an excess of three per cent. One of the four domestic and commercial cut-offs was length- ened yesterday to keep the con- sumption close to quota. The rural area served by the Oshawa P.U.C. consumed 39,- 960 K.W.H., 9,760 K.W.H. over for an excess of 32.32 per cent. New York, Nov. 11 -- (AP) -- A major part of American shipping was crippled today by -longshore- men's strikes on the east and west coasts. The port of New York, foremost in the world's commerce, was al- most paralyzed as thousands of men stood idle. The blitz also hit the important harbors of Philadelphia and Bos- ton, where other thousands joined a rank-and-file protest against a wage settlement negotiated by A FL. union leaders. The S.S. America, queen of the United States Merchant Marine, was due to steam into the New York strike area today with nearly 1,000 passengers from Europe. They faced the possibility of toting their own luggage--as passengers did on several ships sailing and arriving Wednesday. The British liner Mauretania, which had been due here tomorrow with more than 1,000 passengers from Southampton, has been di- verted to Halifax. Special trains will carry passengers from there to New York and other major United States cities. Shipping 'operations: in: the east | and gulf-coast ports depended upon'| fhree-day voting on the wage pact | by 65,000 members of IL.A. locals | Strike Cripples Shipping In. United States Ports in ports from Maine to Virginia. | The voting ends tonight. Final tabulation of the voting was looked on as the determining fac- tor in whether the walkout would be short or long. The New York port tieup, which affects several piers on the New Jersey side also, came after locals in Manhattan and Brooklyn re- jected the tentative settlement with the New York Shipping Association. The pact, announced early Tues- day, would raise the day-shift straight-time pay from $1.75 to $1.85 an hour and the night and week-end overtime rate from $2.62'2 to $2.77'%. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue October 1948 9,135 | Whitby's Remembrance Day Serv- | ice, in memory of those who zave | their lives in the two great wars, | was marred this morning when { John Bateman, 86, one of the town's best known and most highly respect- |ed citizens, collapsed and died while taking part in the parade to the Cenotaph. A devoted member of the Whitby Baptist Church, Mr. Bateman had been asked by his. pastor, Rev. F. | T. Darnell, to lay a wreath on the | memorial for the church. Mr. Dar- ¢ § | of JOHN W. BATEMAN | | Ontario Agricultural Society, 3 | IN PARADE | the directors in charge of the jun- | Po | ior section. | | | . There were no speeches, save | brief messages from Evan Reynolds, | Kiwanis Club president, who wel- | comed the guests and expressed the | pleasure which it gave to Kiwanians | to work with the Junior Farmers, |and from Bob Flett, chairman for | Expert Cracksmen Rob p dairy calf exhibited at the fair, won by Maurice Jebson, R.R. 2, Oshawa, was presented by Gordon Rae of | the Kiwanis Club. { JUNIOR WINNERS | (Continued on Page 2) Maxville Bank Vault Maxville, Nov. 11 (CP).--Thieves broke into the Bank of Nova Scotia | here Wednesday night, rifled safety | deposit boxes in the vault and | escaped with undetermined loot in {a duplicate of an unsolved bank | robbery at Carp last year, Bank officials said they did not | know how many deposit boxes had | been smashed open and had no idea the value of the bonds and securities they presumably contain- ed. The bank's own funds, con- {tained in a separate safe in the { vault and amounting to more than | $15,000, were not touched. | Inspector S. Hunter of the Ontario Provincial Police said the raid on | the bank "looks like a duplicate of | the Carp robbery." | Thieves who have never been | traced broke into the Bank of Nova | Scotia's branch at Carp, July 29, i 1947, and looted safety deposit boxes | of $229,000 in bonds and securities, The loss at Carp was not finally | established until months later and it has never been known whether it the rear and then cut their way into the vault with an an acetylene torch. They gut a small hole straight through a 2':-ton door to | the main locking bar behind, with |out touching the combination, Destruction of the heavy locking bar enabled them to enter the vault. T. J. Bourke, manager of the bank, said no estimate even of the | number of safety deposit boxes rifled could be made until finger-print | experts from the Provincial Police Criminal Investigation Branch in | Toronto arrived to examine the vault, "We aren't touching anything un- {til the finger print expert gets here," he said. "We don't know how | many boxes have been broken into --we're trying to make up a list but |e don't know whether it's com- | plete." | It was believed three or four men | must have been involved. After the | thieves entered the vault they lifted [down to the floor complete "nests" of 18 deposit boxes at a time. Using {nell had, however, cautioned him |represents the total taken by the | the acetylene torch and wedges they | against taking part in the parade. A lifelong resigent of Whitby, Mr. Bateman took a very active part in church, civic and fraternal affairs in the community. Recently when he and Mrs. Bateman were the guests of Mayor William Davidson at a civic dinner, tribute was paid to his long service to the commun- ity. He operated a farm in the eastern section of the town for many years until his retirement, One of the oldest members of the Whitby Baptist Church, he was church clerk for over™a quarter of a century performing his duties WHITBY NATIVE (Continued on Pags 2) Man Questioned In Pohl/Death ., Nov. 11 -- (CP) -- Provincial Pglice . 'Inspector R., J. ii today in a telephone view from Woodstock that he was in London Wednesday night and questioned one man in con- nection with the recent strangula- tion death of Mrs. Emma Pohl of Kitchener, Ont. ; He disclosed no visit here and declined whether any new leads shad been found in the mystery. THE WEATHER Cloudy today. Occasional showers this evening. Friday clear becoming cloudy in the evening. Continuing cool today and Friday. Winds southwest 15 today, light tonight and Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 30 and 36. Summary for Fri- day: clear and cool. i [4 details of his | to say | | thieves. In the Maxville robbery expert | cracksmen entered the bank by | smashing a washroom window at | then smashed the backs of the en- tire nest of boxes. Mr. Burke said | he thought each nest must weight { more than 200 pounds. i | | | Sault Ste. Marie, | { safety. | abolished today. x LATE NEWS BRIEFS x OPERATOR INSTANTLY KILLED Ont., | Pigeau, 38, was instantly killed today when the hoist he Nov. 11 (CP)--Victor | was operating on the Algoma Steel Corporation slag dump overbalanced and upset. The huge hoist pinned Pigeau underneath when he made an attempt to leap to It was his first shift as a hoist operator. BECOMES CIVILIAN ROAD ! Jerusalem, Nov. 11 (AP)--The road between Jeru- salem and Tel Aviv became a "civilian" road again to- day. Ever since the first Palestine truce last June it has been considered a military route'and civilians have needed special permits to use it. The permit system was YUGOSLAV TROOPS MOVE Trieste, Nov. 11 (AP)--Unconfirmed reports have been received here that Yugoslavia has shifted her mili- tary strength from the Trieste border positions to mostly by travellers from of Ottawa. defence positions deep inside Yugoslavia. These reports, Yugoslavia, say seasoned Yugoslav troops which have faced British and American forces across the Trieste free territor to move back into Yugoslavia early in BUS STRIKES TREE Rockland, Nov. 11 (CP)--Twenty persons were shaken up today when a Rockland-Ottawa bus careened into a ditch and struck a tree one mile west of here. Emile Dore, 26, of Wrightville, Que., driver of the bus, sufffered cuts about the hands. Rockland is 20 miles east borders started ctober.