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AD IW Indonesia, ® OSHAWA ES- GAZET Combining The Oshawa: "Times and Whitby: Gazette: and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 301 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 24, 1948 Zi d Cents FORTY-FOUR PAGES Netherlands Seek Removal At Once Of Army Observers Batavia, Java, Dec. 24-- (AP) --Differences developed today between the Netherlands and the United Nations over the maintenance of U.N. military observers in the field in The U.N. Good Offices Commit- tee cabled the Security Council it had rejected a Netherlands request that it call in the six-power obser- ver teams, but that most of the ob- servers are returning to Batavia anyway by order of the Dutch Ar- my's territorial commanders. 'The teams are made up of Brit- ish, American, Australian, Chinese, French and Belgian officers. Dutch authorities notified the committee that the Netherlands is "unable to accept any responsibility" for ob- servers, whether they move with Dutch units or by themselves. "The committee feels," the G. OC. told the Security Council, "that this action, taken by the Netherlands military command without reference to the commit- tee, will 'deprive the committee, and . consequently the Security Council, of the services of military observers in the field." Dutch authorities meanwhile jan- nounced further gains in the op- eration which they call a police action to suppress terrorism. A communique said Dutch casu- alties since the invasion of Reépub- |. licgn territories started Sunday were | 19 soldiers killed and 43 wounded. No figures were given for civilians or Republican troops. > (Dutch censorship is applied: to all dispatches from Batavia. Frag- mentary reports of the war from the Republican side have come from radio broadcasts and neutral observers.) The Indonesian radio at Madioen went silent last night, raising the possibility it had been knocked out by air attack or that Dutch forces were close upon the city. The sta- tion announced Thursday that Dutch planes had bombed and strafed Madioen, third largest city in. the Republic. 'The Dutch said they had occu- pied Blora, in central Java, and two Republican cities at the west- ern tip of the island. Permit Sales Means Loss To Public Ottawa, Dec, 24--(CP) -- William Wilson, an officer in the govern- ment's Emergency Import Control Division, testified yesterday that alleged illegal sales of import per- mits to Canadian companies has resulted "in a definite loss to the general Canadian public." He gave evidence in the -pre- liminary hearing of Charles R. Roe, 42-year-old former official in the EICD, charged with violating his trust as a public officer and accept- ing bribes. Deputy Magistrate J. Sauve of the Ottawa police court ruled there was sufficient evidence to commit Roe for trial by a higher court. Formal committal will be made Dec. 28. Tnder questioning by special prosecutors, Mr. Wilson said the alleged selling of the permits "and gynthetic and hardship quotas" has resulted in a definite loss as "far as the general public is concerned. '"The formula on which quotas are based is very complicated," Mr. Wil- son said. "Unauthorized quotas in the hands of certain importers PERMIT SALE (Continued on Page 2) NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Por issue Nevember 1948 9,138 *- This morning, at the Zeller store on Simcoe Street South, representative storekeepers from the Osh b ti gathered to join in the carol service from 8.30 to 9.00 o'clock, and to be ts of the at coffee at the close of the carol singing. The carols this morning were led by the employees of the Zeller store, who are here seen assembled Noel! Noel! on the stairway leading to the second floor, with Charles Jolli%e, of the O0.C.V.L. staff, as leader. For the last two weeks, carols have been sung by various choirs each morning at the Zeller store, and this has added much to the brightness of the Christmas shopping season in Oshawa. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo. UN. COUNCIL ORDERS END T0 FIGHTING Paris, Dec. 24.--(AP)--The U.N. Security Council today ordered an immediate end to the fighting in Indonesia and prompt release of Indonesian leaders captured by Netherlands forces. The council's vote on the two is- sues was seven for and none op- posed. Four members abstained. The council turned down the joint United States-Colombian-Sy- rian demand for withdrawal of Dutch forces from areas seized since The Netherlands attack on the In- donesian Republic started Sunday. Five countries voted for it and none against but six abstained. Sev- en votes are needed for passage in the council. Russia asked that The Nether- lands he condemned as an aggres- sor. The council order was based on the American - Colombian - Syrian proposal as amended. Delegates maed their decisions in a series of ballots on separate para- graphs of the three-power project and two Australian-Syrian amend- ments. Canada, France, Argentine, Bel- gium, Russia and the Soviet Uk- raine defeated the withdrawal pro- posal of the resolution by abstain- ing. All other council members vot- ed for it. The Ukrainian delegate was not present and the Ukraine ac- cordingly was r-arked as abstaining on all ballots. France, Belgium, Argentina and the Ukraine abstained on the pro- posal to issue the cease-fire order. France, Belgium, Russia and the Ukraine abstained on the proposal to order the release of captured Indonesian leaders, though a Rus- sian recolution had proposed the same thing. - CAROL BROADCAST The Oshawa Civic and Regimental Band recently made a record of a number of Christmas carols. The recording will be played over CKDO at 9.15 p.m. today and again at 7 p.m. tomorrow. P.U.C. Seeks Improved Location For Poles On Ritson Road South With the Bell Telephone Com- pany and the Canadian Pacific Telegraph Company holding the choice pole locations on Ritson Road, it is impossible for the Public Utilities Commission to provide adequate lighting as the situation now stands, P.U.C. Manager George F. Shreve declared last night at a meeting of the Commission. The subject was brought up when the' Commission received a letter from the Oshawa and District La- bor Council urging that new light- ing be installed immediately on Rit- son Road and Simcoe Street North. "The two private companies hold the choice pole positions while our pole line is set well back," . Mr, Shreve said. "We cannot provide good lighting unless we have better pole positions." The private companies, POLE LOCATION (Continued on Page 2) through Royal Family Prepares For Christmas Party London, Dec. 24--(CP)--The King and Queen will have their whole family around them at Buekingham Palace -tomorrow--the first Christ- mas they have spent in London since their coronation in 1937. The usual Christmas at the Royal Lodge at Sandringham,, in Norfolk, had to be abandoned when doctors advised the King not, to travel. Around the friendly fireside at the palace will be the usual ex- change of gifts and a Christmas tree for the children. Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip, and their infant son, Prince Charles, will be there, with Princess Margaret, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Kent and their children. The fact that four generations of her family will be represented at the palace party will make it a particularly joyous occasion for sil- ver-haired Queen Mary who has been active these last two weeks procuring suitable gifts. for her grandchildren and her newly-arriv- ed great grandson--the six-week-old Prince,' She will drive from her home at Marlborough House--farther' down the tree-lined mall--in time for special morning service in the lofty music room 'at the palace. This is / the room .in which Prince Charles was christened. After a light lunch the King will go. to his study which has been specially wired for the broadcast he usually makes from Sandringham. Then back to the family fireside where .the presents will be opened. Many of the gifts will be home made--true tokens of affection. Last year Princess Margaret knitted her father a pullover and Princess Eliz- abeth gave him a pair of hand- made socks. Both the Queen and Queen Mary have always encour- aged home gifts. Christmas dinner will be a homely meal served by candlelight. There will be turkeys, specially fat- tened on the Sandringham estate, fine old wines and liqueurs laid down by Edward VII and George V and steaming plum puddings sea- soned with brandy. After dinner the King and Queen always visit the servants hall to exchange greetings with their staff. The King probably will retire early as he is under doctors' orders to get as much rest as possible. The rest of the family = probably will attend the servants revel downstairs and, without rank or precedent, join in the fun and games: till mid- night, EXPECT 400 NEW CARS BY END JANUARY Malcolm Smith, chairman of the Bargaining Committee of Local 222, U.AW.-CIO., stated this morning that the recall picture as regards senior employees of General Mo- tors of Canada, Limited, has im- proved materially and indications are that production.of new models will be under way sooner than was at first expected. Work on the 'new models has already started in the stamping plant. The company, he said, has decid- ed to import 60 bodies "in white" from the United States to start pro- duction. They will be put over the assembly lines to break in the new production. Senior men will be recalled to the body shop as it has been the experience in the past that this type of body is damaged in transit. Some men are also ex- 400 NEW CARS (Continued on Page 2) Praises P.U.C. For Handling Of Power Shortage The Oshawa Public Utilities Com- mission and Manager George F. Shreve, target for the ire of many a power consumer during the recent power shortage, were pleasantly surprised last night when they re- Suiyea.a letter from D. H. Christian the Christian Home Equipment Stores, 'congratulating them on the manner «on their "level-headed" handling of the shortage. "In some districts in Ontario, the board and management scared the public so badly with regards to the power situation that electrical ap- pliance dealers found it required months of re-selling -of 'the -use-of hydro. to-the public to-resume 'their normal business in this line," the letter read in part. | It went on to congratulate the P.U.C. and 'the 'manager for their handling 'of the shortage. WHEEL CHAIR FUND TOTAL NOW $216 Although the fund to provide a paraplegic wheel chair for a crip- pled Oshawa citizen was closed at noon yesterday, several donations have been received since then from citizens who had started them on their way before the fund was closed. These additional gifts have brought the total of the fund up to $216.50, and the balance which is left after the chair has been purchased will be used by the Osh- awa Welfare Department for the benefit of the man's family, Arrangements 'are now being made by J. C. McGill, Welfare Ad- "ministrator, to secure the exact type of chair which the man re- '| guires, in view of his disabilities. It is expected that it will be avail- @ble within two weeks, but in the meantime, everything possible has been done to ensure a Merry Christ- mas for the crippled citizen and his wife and three children, The great- est joy 'of the family, however, is found in the fact that at last he is going to have a chair with which he will be able to go outdoors. On Sunday afternoon, Santa | Claus will again be at the Salvation Army Citadel to take part in the Happy Wind-Up Children's Broad- cast, along with the daughter. of the crippled man, to announce that in response to her appeal her father is to have a wheel chair, and to express thanks to the citizens of Oshawa for their splendid response to the appeal made by The Times- Gazette and the Welfare Depart- ment. This programme will be on Station CKDO at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The following is the additional list of contributions: Already acknowledged Mrs. Fraser John and Joan Aker .. Miss Kay Cuddahee .. Mrs. Florence Eagle .. Diane . E. Stubbins ... H. S. Myers ... Anonymous Albert St. C.G.IT. Fred Garrard C. Johnston, through Maier $195.50 1.00 $216.50 Fire Destroys Tractor Plant Toronto, Dec. 24--(CP)-- A fire of undetermined origin broke out today in the one-storey brick plant of Truck and Tractor Equipment Company Ltd. on the outskirts of suburban Mimico. 'The blaze, first noticed about 7 a.m, was brought under control an hour later by fire crews from Mi- mico and nearby Islington. Dense black smoke, rising 300 feet in the aiv obscured the ::cene but the blaze appeared to have gutted the interior. Firemen soaked a nearby frame house occupied by William Cun- ningham. All furniture was re- moved as the flames threatened to spread. Damage to the building, built less than a year ago, could not be esti- mated immediately. THE WEATHER Mostly clear today and to- night. Saturday increasing cloudiness becoming overcast in the afternoon. Snow Satur- day evening. Not much ch Canada Declares It Has Complied i] With Conditions Ottawa, Dec. 24-- (CP) --The Canadian government ane nounced today that it is recognizing de facto the State of Isreal in Palestine. It also is recognizing de facto the authe ority of the provisional government of Israel. Longer Term Big Issue In Toronto Toronto, Dec. 24--(CP)--For the fourth time in eight years the ques- tion of a two-year term for City Council faces Toronto voters. They'll decide it Jan. 1--traditional civil election day in the Dominion's second-largest city. Toronto voted down a two-year term for council and the Board of Education in 1940, 1941 and 1947. If it's approved this time, there won't be another election until 1951. The issue is providing the biggest fight in a campaign marked also by Mayor Hiram E. McCallum's first attempt to get elected mayor. He led the poll for Board of Control last year and was appointed mayor by" City Council when Mayor Rob- ert Saunders resigned to become chairman of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. His sole opponent is Ross Dow- son, a member of the Revolutionary Workers party, a Trotskyite organ- ization, He polled 15,423 votes last year when he was snowed under by Mr. Saunders. Nearly 400,000 persons are éligible to vote for the four-man Board of Control and the 18 aldermen--two from each of the nine wards. Nine men have been nominated for board of control while 45 persons seek the aldermanic seats and the $1,200 a year that goes with the job. The mayor gets $11,600 a year, the con- trollers $5,000 each. Seeking re-election to the. Board of Control are the four present con- trollers--John Innes, David A. Balfour, Kenneth B. McKellar and E. C. Roelofson. They're opposed by three aldermen--Allan A. Lamport, Leonard Reilly and Leslie H. Saun- ders. Communist Stewart Smith, a former controller, is seeking elec- tion. Harry Bradley is running for the 21st consecutive. time. He has never been elected. Tangled with the two-year term to provide election issues is the re- assessment of all real property in the city. Reassessment is expected to boost assessments in most parts of the city, but has been completed in only two wards. Civic officials LONGER TERM (Continued on Page 2) 4 ' External Affairs Minister Pears said the State of Israel has, in tha opinion of the Canadian govern- ment, given satisfactory proof that it complies with the essential cone ditions of statehood. "These essential conditions are generally recognized as external ine dependence and effective internal government: within reasonably wells defined territory." The State of Israel was proclaime ed in May, 1948. Mr. Pearson added: "The provisional government of Israel has been informed that the recognition given by Canada is ace corded in the knowledge that the boundaries of the new state have not yet been precisely defined, and in the hope that it may be possible to settle these' and all other out- standing questions in the spirit .of the resolution adopted by the Gene eral Assembly of the United Nae tions on Dec. 11, 1948." Mr. Pearson sent the following message to Moshe Shertok, Foreign STATE OF ISRAEL (Continued on Page 2) Flag Train To Prevent Accident Blenheim, Ont., Dec. 24--(CP)-- An 80-mile-an-hour passenger train was flagged down Thursday night in time to keep it from ploughing into wreckage of a level-crossing smashup in which one Blenheim man was killed and another suffer« ed severe injuries. Kelcey Watson, a retired farmer, aged about 65, was killed and Roy Scoyne, a contractor, was injured when an automobile podlice said was driven by Watson crashed into a freight train which had pulled onta a passing track to let the flier go by. The automobile jammed under a boxcar and blocked the main tracks on which the crack passenger train was approaching. Trainmen leffs the victims pinned in the wreckagal while they ran a quarter-mile to flag the limited. Police said the crossing, fouw; miles north of this Kent County! community about 12 miles southe west of Chatham, was protected by signals but the signals do not oper<| ate on the passing track, yl! 15 Japanese Leaders { Leave Sugamo Prison Tokyo, Dec. 24--(AP)--A surprise amnesty order freed 15 high-rank- ing Japanese war-criminal suspects this Christmas Eve. Gen. MacArthur let them out of Sugamo Prison, where Hideki Tojo and six other top war criminals were hanged only a few hours ear- lier. The amnesty order cleared 19 names, leaving only two major war-crimes defendants, _ Who now are on trial. Three of those freed were mem- bers of Tojo's "Pearl Harbor" cab- inet. Shumei Okawa, who slapped To- jo on his bald head at the begin- ning of the war crimes trials, was included. The propagandist is in an insane asylum where he has been since charges against him were dropped in 1946. The amnesty order extended posthumously to Hayao Tada, for- mer commander-in-chief of the Japanese armies in China who died Dec. 16 and Kumataro Honda, for- mer ambassador to China, who died two days later. Most of the 15 who walked out of Sugamo had been imprisoned three years awaiting trial on war crimes charges. They were among a larde number of so-called major suspects arrested early in the occu- pation. Twenty-eight originally were accused of war crimes. The parade from Sugamo include ed these members of Tojo's Pear} Harbor cabinet---Nobusuke Kishin, commeyce minister; Michiyo Iwas mura, |justice minister, and Ken, TerasHima, communications minis«i ter. Alan C. Carpenter, head of Mac+ Arthur's legal section, in announce ing the dismissals said officials im the group occupied offiice at a time when they could not have been ree sponsible for atrocities, or were ine dustrialists who could not be charge ed with atrocities. Three among those released were well known as leaders during Jae pan"s sabre-rattling days. They are Yoshihisa Kuzu, who once was. president of the Black Dragon Society which was notore ious in Japan's plotting for cone quest; Gen. Toshizo Nishio, come mander-in-chief in China for a time and a close associate of Tojo, and Eiji Amau, a diplomat who wrote the well-known "Amau state ment" on Japan's plan for conquest, The two on trial are: Admiral Soemu Tyoda, former chief of the Japanese naval staff, accused of command responsibility for atrocities, and Gen. Hiroshi Tae mura, former head of the War Prisoner Information Bureau, who is charged with responsibility = for the mistreatment of war prisonera, in temperature. Winds light becoming east 15 Saturday af- ternoon. Low tonight and high Saturday, 10, 26. , Summary for Saturday: Snow in the evening. Cn All Our Beaders-A Merry Christmas irn4 % LATE NEWS BRIEFS * NEGEV BATTLE CONTINUES Tel Aviv, israel, Dec. 24 -- (AP) -- Israeli Army. headquarters said today "land and air activities on both sides (Israeli and Egyptian) continued during yesterday evening and this morning in the Western Negev." ave no further news about he ¢ fighting, laconic communique scope and results of the The