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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except 4 Saturday. AAA, ) LL i" A ' NE Che Oshawa Daily Times Partly Cloudy and Cool. VOL. 27--NO. 61 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940 Single Copies 3¢ TEN PAGES BOMBERS GIVE BERLIN NIGHT OF TERROR rN --y LARGE, REPRESENTATIVE COMMITTEE ANNOUNCED FOR WIN-THE-WAR DRIVE George W. McLaughlin is General Chairman, With Harry J. Carmichael Chairman of Executive INCLUDE ALL PHASES COMMUNITY LIFE Strong Executive Giving Leadership to Campaign --All Workers to Meet at "Dutch Treat" Dinner Monday Night The personnel of the Oshawa Win-the-War and Community Fund committee was announced to- day. The list, which is published herewith, is intended to represent! a cross-section of the entire com- munity, including the heads of all organizations co-operating in the | representatives of public | bodies, schools, churches, labor, in- drive, dustry, business and professional men, press, etc. As previously announced, the general chairman is George W. Mc- Laughlin and the executive commit- tee consists of Harry J. Carmichael (chairman), Mayor J. C. Anderson J. H. Beaton, George Hart, W. E. N. Sinclair, K.C.,, and Major Watkin (Salvation Army). The secretary is J. J. English and the (treasurer, George W. Finley. General Committee The membership of the general committee is as follows: O. M. Alger, S. R. Alger, A. R. Alloway, A. F. Annis, KC, C. E. Appleyard. Dr. G. L. Bird, H.M. Black, P. A. Blackburn, G. K. Brown, R. H. Brown. Duncan ~ Campbell, J. F." Cam- with, E. Cay, George S. Chow, W. E. Clarke, S. B: Cullis, Hon. G. D. Conant, K.C., Dr. H. M. Cooke, C. L. Cotton, A. E. Coulter, Mrs. F. W, Cowan, T. K. Creighton, KC., L. W. Currell. N. H. Daniel. F. 8. Ebbs, W. R. Elliott, EP. Eveleigh, S. F. Everson. R. B. Faith, Rev, Theodore For- osty, O. D. Friend. K. D. Gahan, A. J. Gay, W. R. Geikie, Dr. W. H. Gifford. Hugh Hall, F. E. Hare, Clifford Harman, Maurice Hart, James Hax- ton J. B. Highfield, O. S. Hobbs, John Holik, Miss A. M. Holmes, A A, Hutchinson, Louis Hyman. William Igel. A, W. Jacklin, J. E. Johnson. A. Kenny. C. Lancaster, Mrs. E. V. Lander, (Continued cn Page 10, Col, 7) ANNUAL MEETING LADIES SEC- tion Oshawa Golf Club, Friday, | September 27, 2 o'clock. (60b) | DONT FORGET BINGO OVER Burns, Tuesday evening, vouchers as usual. (61a) BINGO ORANGE TEMPLE, MON- day, 2:30, 10c. L. Thompson. (61a) BINGO ORANGE TEMPLE, MON- day night, 8:30. 15c. (61a) BINGO EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT over Burns. 14 prizes, 15¢c. (6la) BRASS BAND, MUSICIANS wanted, Tuesday 8 p.m. Albert Street United Church, (6la) BINGO C.CF. HALL, FRIDAY AT 2:45. M. White. (61a) ATTENTION: COLLEGIATE IN- stitute, Home and School, Mon- . day, September 30, 8 o'clock, Staff night, speaker--Mr. A. E. O'Neill. All parents welcome, (61a) RUMMAGE SALE, WEDNESDAY, October 2, Holy Trinity Basement at 1:30. (61a) BINGO ORANGE TEMPLE, FRI- day, 2:30. 10c. E. Youds. (6la) LYCEUM CLUB OPENING, MON- day, October 7, Dr. Currelly, speaker. (61a) BINGO, SATURDAY NIGHT, over Burns, Army and Navy Vet- erans. Voucher prizes. 15 games for 25c. 8:45. (61a) WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF HEALTH fl and Beauty. There will be an informal opening demonstration with a free class following at Masonic Temple, Monday, Sep- tember 30, 8:30. (61a) RUMMAGE SALE, KNOX Church, Friday, 2 p.m. (6la) BINGO, FORESTERS' HALL, FRI- day night. Special prize for six- teenth game. tn UsUaA;, BINGO, THURSDAY night, over Burns, 8:45. Good prizes and vouchers. (th) CRANGE TEMPLE BINGO, every Saturday night, 8:30. 15 prizes, 25c, (tr) Speaking at Rotary Meeting This Evening | DR. ROBERT McCLURE Who has spent the past twenty years in China, is to be the guest speaker at the Rotary Club Inter- city meeting this evening at the Genosha Hotel. His talk will centre around the life of the Canadians in the Far East, JAMES HAXTON'S MOTHER GERTAIN From Scotland -- Reap Fine Crops "Hitler is at the end of his tether now. He needn't think he can take this country and don't think we are starving or anything like that." The foregoing is the inspiring let- ter received by James Haxton, for- mer Oshawa alderman, from mother, in Scotland this week. The letter which is fairly brimming with determination and enthusiasm de- clares that good crops have been harvested. The area in which Mr, air raids but no damage has been caused. The letter is as follows except for personal references which have been deleted: WESTFIELD, 4-9-40 Dear Jim: Andrew was home on holiday a fortnight ago. He was looking well and has grown a bit since he was here at Easter. He is liking it all right. | New Year. | yesterday, air raids down there but they have not managed to hit the aerodrome yet. We have had bombs dropped Had a letter from him and did no damage. Well, that's a year of war already and much has happened but Hitler is at the end of his tether now. needn't think hé can take this {| country, and don't think we are starving or anything like it. Tha harvest has all been got in here in grand order and good crops. It's been lovely harvest weather so we are not down-hearted in this coun- try and everybody is doing what | they can for victory whenever 1% comes. Our airmen have done splendid, so has the navy. Well, we have been having lovely weather here since the harvest started. They have got it all in but (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) Least But Most' to Civili- zation's Course Toronto, Sept. 26.--Already more | than 500 graduates, undergraduates and former students of the Univer- sity of Toronto are in active service, President H. J, Cody stated yester=- | day in his opening address to the | student body. No doubt the de- mand for men would become great- er, he said. He announced that the Board of Governors had agreed with the Universities' Conference SOLDIERS SENT -GIGARETS FROM LOCAL PEOPLE Citizens Committee Intends Sending Christmas Pack- ages Overseas Packages of cigarettes have been sent to the following Oshawa. sold- fers on active duty by different groups and persons in Oshawa un- der the auspices of the Citizens Committee for Troops in Training. Replies have been received from sev- eral thanking the donors for their gifts. It is the intention of the Citizens Committee to forward cigarettes about November 1 to all Oshawa men serving in the overseas forces and the committee would like to have all names and correct addres- ses of those whose names have not mittee, so that they may be included | in the Christmas list. | oyle, Pte. Writes Encouraging Letter BOWMANVILLE his | Haxton's mother lives has had its! He 'won't be back until the | They are having plenty near us too, but they fell in a field | He | who were sent cigarettes recently: Sgt. W. D. Locke, St. Sgt. A. J. Frank, Pte. Jas. Balantine, Lance Cpl. J. H. Jonassen, Pte. A. E. Bellis, Cpl. G. Ford, Pte. L. R. Annis, Pte. H. 8. Boyd, Pte. R. Callison, Pte. Robt. Watkins, Sgt. R. Spiers, Pte. Wm. Doidge, Pte. K. Pritchard, Pte. | Alfred Parish, Pte. E. Ogden, Pte. A. E. Watts, Signaller B. G. Stiles, Pte. J. L. Stiles, Pte, Wm, J. Geall, Cpl. Wm. C. Waddington, Staff QM. Geo. Gibson, Pte. Thos. E. Geall, Pte | Jos. Harold Welsh, Pte. Jas. R.'Hor- ton, Signaller Nick Lakas, Pte, Nel- son Vaillancourt, N. A. Hurst, Forrester, Driver, R. G. Allen, Lance Sparks. Pte. B. O Cpl. W. H HITLER FINISHED LODGE OFFICER WELCOMED AT Large Class of Candidates | Initiated Into Mysteries of Foresters Bowmanville, Sept. 26. C.R. Bro. H. B: McCabe, of Court Oshawa No. 501, Canadian Order | of Foresters was heartily welcomed at Court Bowmanville lodge meet- ing on Tuesday evening. Pte. Nor- -- DDH | ty's forces, | invitation of Bro, Herb. Chief Ranger who presided, 'was in- | vited to a seat upon the dias. The degree team under the su- | pervision of Marshal Bro. Ted Clark, initiated 'a large class of | candidates into the mysteries and privileges of rorestry. These new members were welcomed by D.D.H. C.R. Bro. McCabe. who impressed | upon them the necessity of express- ling in there daily lives the prin- | ciples of fraternalism He also congratulated the members of Court Bowmanville in the splendid way they rallied to the assistance of Bro. Len Barton, who is now | recovering from a very serious acci- | dent. | The Athletic Association, under the chairmanship of Bro. Strath- dee and working with the Bowman- ville committee will hold a big par- ade, banquet and dance in Bow- manville on Tuesday, Oct. 22nd, [ when High Court Officers will offi- | | ciate, it was reported. The rookie school conducted by Bros. Jerry Bird and Braun, is | proving very successful and a good | report of the Satugday night dances was also made, Arrangements were made to hold | card parties and dances both at | Court! Bowmanville and Court Osh- {awa each month and a Foresters | orchestra conducted by Bro. Al | (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) U. of T. Students Advised Military Drill Liable *- HER President H. J. Cody Urges that all male students 18 years and Students to Give 'Not| over who . are British subjects should be liable for military train- | ing. He offered all students who were not British subjects the privil- ege 'of taking military training "Those alone are entitled to free- dom who have the courage to de- fend it," he reminded, in the words of Pericles "Give not the to the common. cause," he urged the. students. "We are living in a | great time. TI trust you will have | the greatness of soul to meet. it." And again he said: "When there are great issues at stake there can (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) Following are the names of those | : Pte. R. G. Norm- | Thos. Comber, Pte man Thompson, now in His Majes- | was a guest and at the | Richards, | least but -the most | Vichy government. DeGaulle Gives Up Attempt to Take Dakar Here is a view of Dakar, which was reported stormed by units of the British fleet after the French West . African colony rejected an ultimatum of surrender. in co-operation with the British, has given up attempts to take the port. previbusly been reported to the com- | reported to have strained relations between the French and British. Dakar remains under control of the Before withdrawing British naval vessels exchanged shells with Dakar's shore batteries, | Late reports state that Gen. Charles DeGaulle, The result of the expendition is | hits were scored and both sides suffered casualties. Two of three French submarines which put to sea were sunk although the crew of one of them was saved. | LONDON'S NEW DEFENCE PLANS FORCE BOMBERS | Twenty-Six German Raid- ers Downed in Search- light and Anti-Aircraft Barrage; Less Activity in Centre London Than for Some Nights ondon, Sept. 26.--A heavy anti- alrcraft 'barrage, combined with a new searchlight 'technique, forced Nazi raiders early today to adopt new tactics to reach the heart of London in the nineteenth consecu- tive all-night assault on this air- | besieged capital. | The Nazi Air | were forced to fly higher and fast- | er. They darted about the outskirts | seeking their opportunity to pene. | trate the defenses. | Counter New Tactics | These new tactics were quickly countered, however, by an even | greater concentration. of gunfire, the rumble of which throbbed through the city on all sides. and Londoners emerged from their shelters to.find a crescent moon in a clear, innocent-looking sky that Force emissaries' TO FIND FRESH TACTICS LJ To Address Phone Employees Tonight . At dawn the raiders went home | | ALEX P. ROSS Assistant Vice-President of the | | shortly before had been roofed with | Bell Telephone Co. of Canada, who | | searchlights and filled with explod- | is to address the local and district | | ing shells. In Central London there was less activity than for some nights past. The sound of bombs could be heard falling on the city's outskirts from time to time as the enemy, thwart- ed in an approach to the main tar- get, jettisoned his cargo and pre- pared to run the gauntlet toward the coast The searchlight activity; restrict. ed in recent raids, was extensive during the night. The beams flood- ed the sky, the lights operating in (Continued on 2 Page 10, C 10, Col, 5) 3 AUTO DRIVERS CONVICTED TODAY | All Three Assessed Fines or the Alternative of Jail Terms One conviction on a reckless | driving charge and two on careless | driving counts were registered in the local police court this morning Ly Magistrate F. S. Ebbs. Earl Butterworth, Camden, . Ontario, found guilty of recklessness, was assessed $50 and costs, or two months in jail. E. D. Graves of Belleville and a 17-year-old Osh- awa youth both pleaded guilty to careless driving and were given sentences of $5 and costs or five days, and $10 and costs or ten days, respectively. Magistrate Ebbs had reserved his judgment on the Butterworth case from last week until this morn- ing. Three separate hearings of evidence in the lengthy case were held. The accused was the driver of a large truck which became in- volved in an accident with three | motor cars on Highway No. 7 be- {tween Brougham and Greenwood, on June 28, ° "I believe that you were driving in a manner dangerous to the pub- lic, as set forth in Section 285-6 of the Highway Traffic Act," de- clared Magistrate Ebbs in giving his decision, His Worship found that (Continued on Page 10, Col. 1) 'Waterdown, employees of the Company at the | Masonic Temple tonight, BELL EMPLOYEES 10 HEAR OFFIGIAL HERE TO-NIGHT Assistant Vice-President to Speak at Masonic Temple Alexander P. Ross, Assistant Vice- President of The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, Toronto, will address the employees of the Com- pany this evening at 8 o'clock in the Masonic Temple, Centre Street. Through his long association with large employee groups in the tele- phone business, "Alec" Ross -- as he is familiarly known to a wide cir- cle of friends --has developed a gift for inspirational leadership which is, perhaps, the most outstanding of his many 'attributes. He began a! the bottom of the ladder and grew up with the telephone business, be- ing appointed to his present posi- tion a little over a year ago after having, devoted 40 years to the tele- phone business. For about half that time, he has been a member of Rotary. As in the business world, his qualifications as a leader of men were soon recogniz- ed, and after serving in various cap- acities in the Rotary Club .of To- ronto, he was elected to the board of directors and finally, in 1935, he was glven the highest honor which that club can accord to any member -- the presidency, Mr. Ross was unan- Imously chosen as governor of the 168th district at a meeting held in Hamilton last spring, + which: was attended by over 1,600 Rotarians from Ontario, Quebec, New York and Pennsylvania, Born. in Omemee, educated ia he obtained his first Job in a hardware store in Bobcay- {Continued on Page 10, Col. 4) Rotary Inter-City Meeting Today The annual inter-city meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club is being held today when members from the clubs in this Rotary district are par- ticipating in the golf and bowling events which open at 1:30 p.m. Ar- rangements for the meeting is in charge of chairman A. Hutchison and his committee. Rotarian Ernie Parsons is taking | care of the bowling activities and Rotarian Bruce Bradley is arrang- ing the details of the golfing. The meeting will conclude 'with a dinner at the Genosha Hotel at 6:30 this evening when Dr. Robert Mc- Clure, who has spent twenty years in China, will speak on the life of the Canadians in the Far East. It is likely that Dr. McClure will deal with interesting points that have been in the public mind lately such as the Burma Road and the Japan- ese invasion of China. ITALY DEMANDS SYRIAN BASES - BE GIVEN OVER Eleven Demands i in Report- | ed Italo-French Armistice Negotiations Cairo, Sept. 26.--Premier Benito | Mussolini was reported last night | to have demanded, in Italo-French armistice negotiations, that French | | | naval bases, airdromes and military | centres {fn Lebanon and Syria be | turned over to the Italian armed forces, The eleven reported demands of | is Italians were: . Demobilization of the French ova and Lebanon armed forces, particularly those known for their | opposition to the Petain regime at | Vichy, including the famous For=- | eign Legion, 2. Maintenance of an adequate .armed force to guard public secur=- ity and the Syrian-Lebanon and Palestine-Iraq-Turkish frontiers to prevent French officers and sol- diers from going over to the British or "Free French" forces of General de Gaulle, 3. Repatriation of the demobiliz- ed French forces, with g French guarantee that they will not escape while en route. 4. Delivery to Italy of all air- dromes and military and naval bases. 5. Repatriation to France of offi- cers known to be hostile toward Germany and Italy. 6. Acceptance of gn Italian com- . (Continued on Page 10, Col. 5) | a bay opening | armed merchant cruiser INDUSTRIAL SUBURBS SEVERELY POUNDED FOR MORE THAN FIVE HOURS b SOLDIERS DIE INMOTOR CRASH Only One Man Survives Car-Truck Collision Near Newmarket Newmarket, Sept. 26.--Six mem- bers of the Canadian Active Ser- vice Force were killed early today when the automobile in which they were riding 'smashed into a truck on the highway near this town 28 miles north of Toronto. The truck was stopped at a sig- ral light. Four of those killed were men- bers of the No. 1 Infantry Training Company at Camp Borden, and the other two were members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, whica was mobilized at Windsor, Ont. The (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) CANADIANS NAB NAZI CARGO SHIP IN PACIFIC WATER German Express Cargo Ship Captured off Manzanillo, Mexico Ottawa, Sept. 26.--The Canadian armed merchant cruiser, Prince Ro- bert, captured the German express cargo ship Weser off Manzanillo, Mexico, Navy Minister Macdonald announced last night, The captain and most of the crew have been transferred to the Prince Robert and the Weser is being es- corted to Esquimalt, B.C. The Prince Robert is commanded by Commander Charles Taschereaiu Beard, R.C.N, and has a crew of 20 officers and 200 men. Commissioned in July She is one of three merchant ships originally built for the passenger service of the Canadian National | steamships and acquired by tha navy early in the war. The vessel was converted into an at Nortn Vancouver and commissioned in the naval service in July of this year. Commander Beard"s message to | naval headquarters did not say whether the Weser was armed or whether the Germans offered any resistance. The German ship is reported to | have been tied up at various points | on the Mexican coast since the start of the war. Recently she was report- ed to have loaded a cargo of Diesel oil and to be preparing for sailing. Manzanillo is a port in Mexico on into the Pacific Ocean, Frequently in News The Weser has frequently figur- ed in the news since war broke out. In November, 1939, she put info Punto Arenas where it was report- ed she was interned. Last January there was a report she was being offered for sale to the Chilean Gov- ernment. In July she sailed for Manzanillo and reached that port after being stopped by a Mexican gun boat. Her name had been changed to the Hopeleram. Since then there were frequent reports she had been arm- ed and that she was loaded with 19,000 barrels of oil and was prepar- ing to escape to become a mother ship to a U-boat. The Weser is 478 feet long!with a speed of 17 knots. Declares "Our Punishment Will End When Nation is Ready to Return to the Laws of God" "The old Kaiser, the last of the 'czars,' was put in exile and he is still there waiting for Hitler to pape: his house or something," R. E. Wemp, field secretary of the Brit- ish-Israel- World Federation, declar- ed In a jovial moment during his well-delivered lecture on "Britain in Prophesy and History, Past-Present.- Future" at the Masonic Temple last night. "Hitler is a descendant of British-Israel Sec'y Says Prophecies True Sennacherib," the speaker declared at another point. "He is an Assyrien just as Hitler was." In resisting for three years the Assyrians led by Sennacherib, - the Israelites, fore- fathers of the British, displayed some of the same dogged courage that is evidenced by the British to- day, the audience was informed. The large crowd expressed a desire to hear Mr. Wemp again, and a for- tunate blank in his 'engagements will permit him to be back in Osh- awa next Wednesddy, to give an- other of his interesting and enlight~ ening lectures, After openi' 2 the meeting with (Continued on Page 10, Col, 4) said to have been a small one, Other Objectives of R.A.F. Successfully Bombed Ins clude Hambourg, Chere bourg and Ostend INVASION BAS BASES 'i HEAVILY DAMAGED: Large Power Station, a Cone voy of German Ships and Railway Communications Also Bombed Berlin, Sept. 26.--British bombers lashed at Berlin's outskirts last night and today for five hours in, the city's longest air raid, which started: before bedtime and forced | many a home-bound Berliner to spend the night in a strange, chilly cellar. Millions spent the long hours in shelters. Most of the raiders appeared te stay over Berlin's industrial sube urbs, but two waves of them passed over the city, and Central Berlin anti-aircraft cannon blazed away on both occasions. No bombs were heard bursting ing the centre of the city, and from that point no fires could be seen." Authorities issued a statemeng accusing the British with "aimless" bombing of residential sections, dee stroying ag number of houses. (As an example of the stringency of German air raid precautions, another story from the Berlin bure eau of The Associated Press was five hours and 54 minutes in transit to New York, as facilities 'were shu$ down tight. London communication facilities have been operating rege ularly throughout the continual raids on the British capital.) A Nazi communique on Wednese day morning stated: "In the past night British planes | again visited the capital and drop | ped bombs aimlessly at several places on 'residential sections and outlying districts. "A number of dwellings and gare den houses were destroyed and others damaged." Taste of Terror Royal Air Force long-distance bombers struck at Berlin for the fourth consecutive night and gave the Reich capital its longest raid of the war. It lasted for more than five hours and was the first time that Bere liners had a taste of night-long crouching in raid shelters such as" Londoners have now experienced for 19 consecutive nights. The RAF. attack followed 24 hours of widespread activity along an ever-widening aerial battle line that included the bombing of Gere man-held Calais and Le Havre for almost seven hours during Tuesday (Continued on Page 10, Col. 3) FRENGH BOMBERS RAID GIBRALTAR Waves of Planes From More occo Stage Two-Hour Assault Gibraltar, Sept. 25. -- Waves of French bombing planes sweeping across the Straits from Morocco today hammered this British forte ress in a second day of "reprisal™ attacks, blasting Government offie ces and homes an dsinking a small ship in the harbor, an official come munique said. At least 100 bombers, with few, if any, fighter planes to protect them, bombed the "Rock" for more than two hours in' what appeared to be another vengeance raid for the British naval assault on the French West African port of Dakar, At least 300 bombs fell 'during the attack, it was stated officially, and at least three and perhaps five of the French bombers were shok down by & heavy anti-aircraft bare rage from shore guns and warships, The attack appeared to have been considerably stronger than Tuese day's French aerial bombardment, in which 100 bombs were dropped, killing four persons and wounding twelve, but there was little damage to military works and personnel of the armed forces, it was stated. As in Tuesday's attack, however, there were casualties, including both dead and injured. Today's French attack, accorde ing to the anncuncement of British military officials, sent bombs crashe ing upon buildings, roads and obsoe lete defenses in Gibraltar, considers ebly damaging private property and Government offices. The ship sunk in the harbor was -4