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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday, PPP PON A A ji, The Oshawa Naily Times PROBS, Mostly Cloudy; # Showers. VoL. 27--NO. 8 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1940 : : Single Copies 3c | TWELVE PAGES - CONANT INSISTS CIVIL GUAR + 5 NE UNSKILLED WORKERS ONLY MEN REMAINING ON CITY RELIEF LIST All Craftsmen Have Sects ed Employment -- Only 44 Per Cent of Remain: ing Family Heads Rated as Employable Men _ ROLL LESS THAN HALF 1939 TOTAL Effect of Latest Provincial Move Cutting Employ- - able Men With One De- pendent off Relief Not Known The list of Oshawa reliefees does include one skilled workman tradesman of any kind, only laborers remain on the se Retort J.-C. McGill "'shnounced today. Every man with ' in any craft or trade who been receiving relief and is cap- ge of working has secured em- joyment a has become self-sup- ire pRining Sa Of those remaining on the wel- fare roll only 44 per cent of the heads of families are classed as fully employable. The other 56 per cent are capable of only light work or are entirely fit to earn their own livelihood. Actually only B.4 per cent of all the persons on gelief in Oshawa today are capable of earning their living on a full- time employment basis. Rolls Closely Purged That Oshawa's relief rolls have been closely combed for employable men is shown by these figures, es- when the record of having t of the family heads with Toronto's org . ? the newly announc- ed relief cho which will cut off (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) JOB INSURANCE PLAN LEGALIZED British House Approves B.N.A, Act Amendment ¢=Laglelation | Prepared Ottawa, Home 11--The action taken in the British House of Lords yes- terday giving Royal assent to an amendment to the British North America Act clears the way for the Dominion Government to proceed with its unemployment insurance tion. A draft unemployment insurance ~ pill is being prepared by a commit- tee of the Labor Department head- ed by Gerald Brown, Assistant De- puty Minister, which will be sub- mitted to the Cabinet. It will pgob- ably be next week before the bill ° The amendment passed by the British Parliament transferred the Jurisdiction -over unemployment in- surance from the Provinces to the Dominion., All the Provinces agreed to the change and the action by Westminster was in compliance with a request sent in the form of an address from the Canadian Parlia- ment. In 1935 the Government of Prime | Minister Bennett undertook to pass * unemployment insurance legislation under the powers which the BN.A. Act gave the Dominion to enact legislation if required to fulfil treaty obligations. It was contend- ed Canada was obligated to pass such legislation under the Versailles Treaty. The Privy Council of Great Brit- (Continued on Page 12, Col. 2) BINGO, LEGION-HALL, MONDAY, July 15, 8:30 pm. Three Jack Pot prizes. (1352) ZNO, FORESTERS HALL, FRI- . day night. Special prize for six- " teenth game. x1) Sco EVERY THURSDAY, 8:30 ,' over Burns. Good prizes. iW BG, ORANGE TEMPLE, MON- day, 2:30. 10c. L. Thompson. i (13562) SPECIAL BINGO, MONDAY AF- ternoon, Sons of England Hall. (135a) 'BINGO, '©ORANGE TEMPLE, WED- nesday, July 17. 2:45. MN. White. (1353) RE-ECHO LODGE MEMBERS Special meeting, Joongay, July 15. 8:30, , (1350) Two Men Arrested As Belonging To Banned Witnesses (Special to The Times) Whitby, July 11.--G. Bottomley, 36, and A. Moore, 32, were arrested last Friday on the second conces- sion of Brock Township and lodged in the Whitby jail. They are charg- ed under the Defence of Canada Regulations with distributing liter- ature. Both are alleged to be mem- bers of the sect known as Jehovah's Witnesses, which was outlawed last week. County Constable Yuile made the arrest and also an automobile, two portable gramophones, records of speeches of Mr. Rutherford, and a large quantity of literature and pamphlets. The two men were re- leased on bail this morning in sub- stantial amounts and are to appear at Beaverton on July 22. The court will dispose of the seiz- ed articles, Crown Attorney Allin F. Annis, stated today. READY T0 AGGEPT 40,000 MORE MEN INCANADIAN ARMY Hon. J. L. Ralston Reveals Plans for Increasing C.A. S.F. and Home Forces Ottawa, July 11.--A large body of troops will be proceeding overseas shortly, Hon. J. L. Ralston, Minis- ter of National Defense, told the House of Commons yesterday. Every man in Canada wishing to enlist can be sure of obtaining at least four weeks' intensive training in the basic principles of soldiering, even without waiting for their classes to be called up under the general mobilization scheme, Colonel Ralston also assured the House. . Colonel Ralston, who took over his new department last Saturday, made the statements in the course 'of a thorough review of the Cana- dian military situation, while reply- ing to a question asked by 'Opposi- tion Leader R. B. Hanson. He ex- plained the difficulty of revealing all the information that members might wish but while carefully guarding his remarks, he painted a comprehensive picture of the na- tlon's present defense position. Enlisting 1,000 a Day The Minister informed the House that there was now room in the Canadian Active . Service Force for an additional 40,000 men; that there are 76,000 men on active service in or near Canada and that enlistment is going on at the rate of 1,000 a day. If men wished to see some service but did not desire to enlist in the C.ASF., and to spend their 'full time-soldiering, he said, they would have an opportunity of enlisting in the non-permanent active militia and putting in two week's training at headquarters and two in camp, or all in headquarters or, in camp. "If they dc not wish to enlist in either the Active Service Force or the Militia," he added, "in six weeks' time the first quotas will be called out for training in con- nection with the general mobiliza- tion." Regarding the despatch of troops overseas, Colonel Ralston reminded the House that details could not be made puble, but he revealed that (Continued on Page 12, Col. 3) Famed Parkwood Sire Still Very Much Alive f 3 2 R. 8S. McLaughlin, one of Canada's outstanding owners and breeders of thoroughbred race horses, is shown with the popular sire, Osiris II, at the Parkwood Farms Wednesday afternoon. that a report from Fort Erie of the death of the imported stallion is 'grossly exaggerated". stated Osiris II and Donosiris had been "humanely destroyed." It is ample evidence The report At 14 Osiris IT is still one of the liveliest members of Mr. McLaughlin's establishment. Osiris II, one of Canada's leading sires, has produced such well- known race track campaigners as Curwen, Ring Wise, Heydona, Skyrunner, Mona Bell, Tommy Rose, Colonel Bud, Green Iris, Vicereine, Skyros, Cyrus, Eileen O, and Osirian. OSHAWA HOGKEY PLAYER WINNER OF PRIZE DOLL Has $25 Pinned to Dress-- Danny Daniels Lucky at Bowmanville (Special to The Times) Bowmanville, Daniels, well-known Oshawa hockey player, collected a secondary jack- pot at the Frolic when his number was drawn as winner of a large doll with $25 in bills pinned to her dress. The capital prize of a 'new Chevrolet went to Leonard Dunford, RR. 1, Lakefield, Ont., thus continuing the jinx on local ticket buyers which has pursued Oshawa and district frolic patrons. The Bowmanville Club'sgrolic was a complete success with even the weath®rman co-operating. Heavy rain fell all around Bowmanville at Hampton, Newtonville and Courtice | but the Rotary frolic escaped dry and untouched. Net proceeds of the function are expected to be nearly double last year's total. Oshawa organizations had a part in rhaking the event a success, the Oshawa Rotary Club sending over its Empire float while the Oshawa Sea Cadets and Girls Flute Band also participated. The Whitby Le- gion and Rotary Club sent their band to add their share to the pro- cession. The draw for prizes were made under the direction of President Fred C. Hoar, club president, with little Helen Terry of Bowmanville, one of the children benefited by the Rotary Club's ministrations, draw- ing out the lucky tickets. A third winner was Miss Eileen Couch who received a home made quilt. 6,700 Nazi Prisoners Have Not All Arrived, Says| Ottawa -- Most Danger- ous .Internees Included, British House Told . Ottawa, July 11.--Officials of the internment - operations branch of the Secretary of State Department said last night that Canada had undertaken to imprison for the duration of the war 6,700 prisoners of war and internees from the United Kingdom. Some of them already had arriv- ed in Canada and have been placed in internment camps at widespread points. These camps had been- specially prepared for their arrival, a. department spokesman = sid. Consigned To Canada Other prisoners are still to come to the Dominion. He would give no figure on the number already in Canada, and made no comment on the statement in the British House of Commons yesterday by the Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs that the most dangerous class of internees had been sent to Canada. The British Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Osbert Peake, said the 6,700 prisoners of war and internees had already ar- rived in Canada, but here it was said only a portion of them were in the Dominion. They arrived some ten days ago and were taken by train from their debarkation ports of Quebec and (Continued on Page & Col 4 July 10.--Danny" | Children's Aid Society has received | | the Ontario Regiment (Tank) Bowmanville Rotary | Over 1,000 Homes In Oshawa And Ontario County Ready To Care For British Child Guests Local Committee Arranging/ Oshawa Chaplain to Receive and Care of Quota of English Chil: dren When They Arrive { lains have been announced at Camp The Oshawa and Ontario County offers from over one thousand homes in the city and county to ac- | commodate children from England when they arrive, O. M. Alger, sup- | erintendent of the local society stat- ed this morning. The local committee under the direction of the Children's Aid So- clety is making all arrangements to receive the Ontario County: and Oshawa quota of boys and girls when they arrive, There is some work yet to be done in regards to | providing a clearing centre, if found necessary, arramging for transpor- tation in all its details and securing | a contingent of workers to carry cut all the work in connection with | receiving and taking the children to the homes, Mr. Alger attended 'the confer- ence of superintendents and officers of the Children's Ald Societies of the province hel he King Ed- | 16 province Tield ay the 1g | Order of Foresters, welcomed mem- ward Hotel the first of the week when further information and in- structions were given. They were told that the evacuation of children from Britain to Canada must be considered as a mass movement un- dertaken as a war job and not &; n | sympathetic gesture. It was also in- | dicated that such a mass movement. would result in a cross section of British social" conditions being re- presented in Canada. Should Indicate Preference Persons are asked to indicate their preference as to prospective child guests, taking into considera- tion sex, age, color of hair, eyes, size, etc, It is pointed out there is a great demand for certain types of child- ren, and it is not always possible to supply every person with a child measuring up to specifications. An undertaking has been made by the government that religious train- ing will not be interfered with, Pro- testant children being placed in (Continued on Page 12, Col. 6) Late Weather Reports As compiled at 11:00 a.m. Tonight--Wesather, cloudy, show- ers; Wind, northeast, moderate. Friday--Weather, cloudy, cooler; Wind, northerly, moderate. Barometer readings--7 a.m., 29.86; noon, 29.84, WATER TEMPERATURES Temperature of the water at the beach at the lakefront this after- noon at 2:30 o'clock was 58 degrees. Wind direction--northeast, 12 to 14 mph. (at 3 pm). Saurtesy Oshawa Yacht Club Is Given Transfer Toronto, July 11.- -Chamges in ap- pointments of two C.ASF. chap- Borden. Hon. Captain the Rev. S. C Jarrett has ceased to be attached to and now is attached to the Third Divis- ional Supply has been transferred from the Essex | Scottish Regiment to the Queen's Own Rifles of Canada FORESTER LODGE IN JOINT MEETING Bowmanville Members Visit Oshawa Court for Initiation Ceremony Court Oshawa No. 501, Canadian bers from Bowmanville at the regu- lar meeting on Monday evening, July 8. Herbert Richards, Chief Ranger of the visiting Court, was invited to a seat upon the dias. One candidate was initiated into the order for Court Bowmanville and received a warm welcome from the members. High Court representatives from Courts Oshawa and Bowmanville, Messrs. Turk and Axtel, gave a very interesting account of their trip to the High Court meeting held in Saskatoon, Sask. A special train carried over 500 delegates and their wives to the thriving city of the plains where they were royally en- tertained in true western fashion. Harry Vine, High Court representa- tive for Court Lennox No. 78, Na- panee, took over 45 feet of film on the trip and will show. pictures to members and friends at a joint meeting and banquet to be held in the fall. Plans for the Forester softball | tournament and basket picnic to be held at Orono on Saturday, July 27, were reported by Eddie Hender- son, chairman of social committee. Oshawa, Napanee and Brooklin will be represented at the tournament. Further information may be secur- ed from H., B. McCabe, DD HCR. Oshawa, or Cal. Braun, district or- ganizer, Bowmanville. The scheduled game at Oshawa was rained out, and the next game to be played in the Motor City will be on July 15, at Bathe Park, when Jerry Bird's fast stepping girls team, hook up with "Dusty" Claus' Blue' Birds, Column, R.CAS.C. | Hon. Captain the Rev. C, W. Cline [ experienced farm workers continue | is hard to find. | son. Single men are preferred and | the minimum wage is $30 a month | which is expected to go into war CONANT ENDORSES MOVIE INDUSTRY'S SPECIAL PROGRAM Commends Special Night's Entertainment to Oshawa Résidents Not only does Hon. G. D. Conant, Attorney-General of Toronto, give his unqualified endorsation to the motion - picture industry's Win the War program on Monday night, July 15, but today he promised Leon Osler, manager of the Regent Theatre, that he would be glad to assist in any way in the program which Mr. Osler is providing at his theatre. The Attorney-General': commen. dation of the plan generally and Mr. Osler's part in particular is contained in a telegram received today by the Regent's manager in response to an invitation extended to him earlier. Mr. Conant's telegram is as fol- lows: Toronto, Ont., Leon E. Osler; 7 Regent Theatre, Oshawa, Ont. Referring to your telegram and letter of the tenth instant would first commend the motion picture industries for their splendid gesture and contributions to our national effort in the prosecution of the war by their "Win the War" cam- paign. It should familiarize many thousands of our people with the Dominion Government's plan of War Savings Certificates and Stamps thus encouraging citizens to make available for the Govern- ment's war purposes much-needed funds in modest amounts but sub- slantial in the aggregate. I heartily commend the plan to the people of Oshawa and district and wish you every success in your efforts. Will be glad to render every possible as- sistance and will be present Mon- day evening next to help the good (Continued on Page 12, Col. 2) 108 CARPENTERS REGRUITED HERE FOR SPECIAL JOB Building Aviation Buildings --Pays 90 Cents Per Hour --Farm Hands Scarce The demand for skilled labor and July 11. to pour into the Employment Ser- vice Office here, Rae Halliday, local manager said today. The -greatest demand in the skilled labor bracket is for all-around machinists and tool and die makers. These requests come from all over the province but apparently this class of skilled labor The demand for experienced farm help comes from local and district farmers who want men for a month or two until after the harvest sea- with board. Those who may be en- gaged by the day receive higher pay but most of these come to their homes in the city at night. There was a demand for a quota of 100 carpenters to go out of town for erection of buildings at air training grounds. The local Employ- ment office was able to supply the government with 108 men. This is only temporary work but the rate of pay is understood to be 90 cents an hour, The employment office is lining up help for an industry in the city work before the end of the month. SEES OTTAWA PLANS AS, NOT ADEQUATE IN MANY BIG INDUSTRIAL CENTRES 5 "» 5\Brothers Serving : : Mrs. Hugh Cameron of Bowgnan- ville has five sons, and all are in the army. Her husband is a vet- eran of the last war. Hugh, the old- est; is in the 2-14th Field Battery; Alex. Bruce and Jack are at King- ston with the 32-34th Fief™Baitery and Donald, the youngest, is a first- class aircraftman with the R.C.AF. ORDERS PLAGED FOR §$146,863,000 OF WAR GOODS Requisitions Flood in on Department -- Include | Transport Units, Shells Ottawa, July 11. -- War orders totalling $146,863,000 have been placed and with the Department of Munitions and Supply in the last nine days. This is more than the total of all war orders placed in the Do- minion by the British, French and Canadian Governments .in the first three months of the war, and is five times greater than the total amount spent in rearming Canada in 1938. . While Parliament has been de- bating plans to tax Canadians harder, the Department of Muni- tions and Supply has been spending the taxes faster than Parliament approves them. The new flood of requisitions from the army, navy, air force and the British Government have not yet all been placed with Cana- dian industry, but they are being placed with a rapidity not visualiz- ed a few months ago. Actually, some of the contracts were placed before the orders ar- rived. In this class are the con- tracts for army trucks valued at $10,000,000. The requisition has just arrived from Britain, but it was placed with Canadian motor com- panies more than three weeks ago. Had Britain not needed the trucks. they would have been used by the Canadian forces. The largest shell order in Can- ada's history has just reached the department. In the last war, Can- ada made shrapnel, high-explosive and howitzer shells. Now inquiries from Britain include types of shells never before tackled here. Britain has provided $50,000,000 for thirty-five new factories or addi- (Continued on Page 12, Col. 1) British Mardition Men Working 84-hour Week London, July 11.--Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labor, yesterday re- vealed that "in the darkest hour," when the British Expeditionary Force was In great danger in Flanders, every member of the Government "solemnly resolved to see it through to the end and not to compromise with Hitler." "There has been no going back on that resoive, which applied to all the Ministers, and not merely to the War Cabinet, he said. "If saw any weakness, I would be the first to tell the country." Mr. Bevin, formerly general seg- retary of the Transport Workers! Union, denounced in his lunche address attacks on individual mem- pers of the Churchill Government. "1 don't know what happened about Munich," he said. "I don'i know what happened before I cui into office, and I have not had time to find out. But I know that there is a task on now." When he entered the Govern- ment he was resolved that there would be no settlement with the Nazi regime and that "they would have to beat us to smithereens and then we would not settle." That view was unanimous in the Gov- ernment. He said the Labor Department had "kept ahead of every service" in meeting demands "made upon us for manpower by the services." Munitions workers in their response to his request had stepped up work- ing hours to 84 a week and are pro- '| ducing "like hell." His plans called for the recruit- ing of women who would work ia factories two days a week, thus providing a rest for the overwork- | against the ed regulars. Answers U.A.W.A. Resor lution Which Asked Hep- burn to Dissolve Volun- teer Guards, Co-operate With Federal Defense Plans ADDRESS FOLLOWS | OSHAWA INSPECTION Arm Bands Presented to 200 Members of Local Unit -- Feels Present | Method of Getting Militia Assistance Not Expedi- " tious Enough Questioning whether the home defence plans being developed in- Ottewa were adequate, Hon. G. B, Conant, provincial attorney-general, affirmed his conviction that Volune teer Civil Guards can provide des finite protection in many centres which under present arrangements are not adequately safeguarded against fifth column groups and saboteurs, in addressing members of the Oshawa Volunteer Civil Guards. In his address which concluded an inspection of the Guard snd presens tation of arm bands to each meme ber, Hon. Mr. Conant spoke in ree sponse to a resolution recently passe ed by Local 222, U.AW.A,, in which the latter asked Premier Hepburn, to dissolve the Civil Guards and co- operate with the Federal suthorities in their home defence plans. The attorney-general did not refer to the UA W.A. directly but it was quite apparent that he referred to this organization as he quoted the resolution passed by them 'word for word. Plan Inadequate Mr. Conant insisted that the feds eral government's plan of utilizing the non-permanent active militia for home defence purposes was tot ally inadequate in many important mining and industrial centres of the province. He declared it was a very real question as to whether a militia unit at North Bay was sufficient protection for "all that vast and most important area lying between North Bay and James Bay." "Furthermore, it is a very grave question as to whether the presen$ law and procedure for invoking the assistance of the militia in aid of the civil power, is expeditious (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1) U3. WON'T SEND ARMY TO EUROPE, SAYS ROOSEVELT Will Repel Aggression Against Western Hemis- phere, Congress Told - July 11.--President' Roosevelt, declaring that the United States must prepare for "total des fense," yesterday ssked Congress for $4,848,171,957 additional for the army and navy and proclaimed this twofold policy. "We will not send our men to take part in European wars. "But we will repel aggression nited States or the Western Hemisphere." a The huge 'outlay, which would bring the session's appropriations' and contract authorizations for armed forces to $10,100,078,270, is" designed to give the United States a start on its "two-ocean" navy, ® combined army-navy-air force of about 36,000 planes and modern weapons and equipment for a land force of 2,000,000 men, A measure aubhorizing the "two= § ocean" navy was approved bythe Senate late today, after one hour's' | debate and without a single audible "No." This measure, which passed the House of Representatives some time ago, carries no funds, but pers' mits the navy to lay its plans im anticipation of later appropriations. Senator Tom Connally, Texas Democrat, said duriug debate on the bill a two-ocean navy is needed: "so that if we want to make faces' at Europe we can, or if we want to tell the Japs where to get off we can do it." The measure, 'authorizing a sevens year building program to add 200 warships to the fleet, POW ots be ; (Continued on Page 13, Ool. x Washington,