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{ | THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940 PAGE FOUR The Oshawa Daily Times THE OSHAWA DAILY REFORMER (Established 1871) SUBSCRIFTION RATES Delivered carrier in Oshawa, Whitby and suburbe eo wisi $3.35 for six months, or $6.50 per year if paid in advance, anywhere in Cansda (outside Oshawa nyo. delivery limits) $135 for three months, $2.25 for six months, or $4.00 per year it paid in advance. By mall to subscribers, $6.00 per year. payable Us. strictly 18 od WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940 Police Drive on Gaming Week-end raids of Provincial and Tor- pnto police on alleged gambling joints in or pear that city took ranking position in Province of Ontario news on Monday. Once more some of the symptoms of what appears to be a disease in body of Ontario citizenship have been dealt with while the thing which causes those symp- toms--public indifference to laws against gambling and the undisciplined urge to get *something for nothing" which is part of human nature--is not touched. Staff work on the part of Provincial and Toronto City Police in the week-end raids peem to have. been excellent. Apparently there were no "tip-offs". through leakage of information or otherwise, and the haul of some 500 found-ins at the alleged gambl- Ing centres raided speaks very highly in eommendation of the efficiency of police squads concerned. But the tolerance for gambling created by non-enforcement of laws and regula- tions governing any form of lottery or awarding prizes by chance is perhaps the goil in which big time gambling grows. Churchmen and economists find common ground in condemning gambling, but so many of "hem have different definitions of what really constitutes a game of chance. Until the moral conscience of Ontario ean define gambling, the present situation will probably continue and, perhaps, tend fo grow worse instead of better. Legion Mourns First President In the death of Sir Percy Lake, former gommander - in - chief of Mesopotamian Forces in the war of 1914-18, who died at Victoria, B.C., Saturday night, the Cana- dian Legion loses the man who took office "fn 1926 as its first president and who, at his passing, held the post of Grand Presi- dent of that organization. Sir Percy Lake was stricken on the Sun- day before the 22nd anniversary of the armistice which ended hostilities in the First World War. Many of his life's 86 gears had been devoted to the military service of the British Empire in the far east. Veteran of the Afghan war when a mere youth, then a subaltern of the East Lancashire Regiment. he succeeded Sir Douglas Haig, later Earl Haig of Bemer- gyde, as Chief of the General Staff in India in 1912. Sir Percy Lake's service to the Canadian Legion at the time of its formation was of the first importance. The ideal of veteran unity in Canada only became possible when officers of sll ranks began to realize that they owed a duty to the men they had led, and when veterans in general showed that they wanted leadership which carried them to victory to help guide their fraternal re- lations in peace. At the close of this war, the Canadian Legion will, in a sense, have its youth re- stored; and if the necessary adjustments can be wisely made, the contribution of the organization in coming years :fiould be fully as important as it has been during the past 14 years. "The Glory That is Greece' Armies of the Kingdom of Greece have apparently driven the last remnant of the Italian invaders beyond her sacred borders and have triumphantly pushed their vie. torious divisions into Albania in swift but well-controlled pursuit. This victory, so likely to further shake Italian morale to something approaching panic, 1s of the highest importance even if, as is probable, German forces are sent south to try to save a little of the: Rome- Berlin Axis' prestige. The fury with which Germany has in- tensified its air raids on Great Britain tells more plainly than any press despatch can bow seriously the disastrous failure of Mussolini's Fascist brigades in Greece is regarded in Berlin, This war has perhaps entered a stage when Hitler will seek to win fortunes favor again by desperate throws on the dice board of fate. But desperation never wins. That is why Germany, before Sep- tember, 1989, as before August, 1914, had tried to provide for every possible future move. German efficiency is an expression of its people's sentimentality, their super- stition, not their common sense. Ancient Athenians, when they invaded Sicily, were defeated by an eclipse of the moon, Yet it was a campaign they should have won. In common with most of the ancient world, the Greeks believed in gods, but they also believed they could control or, at least, placate them. Hitler and his lieu- tenants will have no deity of any sort, but they, also, have endeavored to control destiny. Hitler is finding that he can't control events. The Kaiser Wilhelm II, made that discovery more than 22 years ago. Britain's lack of preparation against the threat of totalitarianism and the war that its adherents made inevitable, may have been more a sublime though subconscious act of faith in God than anything else. Coventry's dead and dreadfully wounded, its burned Cathedral and shattered grace of historic architecture, may be a witness to the fact that Britain would not enter into a mad re-armament race until forced to do so. But the spirit of Coventry welcoming Their Majesties, the day following that city's subjection to a disastrous enemy air raid, was witness to the faith that guards this Empire more surely than navies, air fleets and mustered armies. Help In Crusade Against Lawbreakers The decision of the Attorney General, Hon. G. D. Conant, to bring the Ontario Provincial Police up to full strength by the acceptance of recruits of military age will be generally commended. It will help in the crusade against reckless drivers, hit- and-run motorists and other offenders. In the past, so as not to conflict with military requirements, the policy has been to fill vacancies by the appointment of special constables between the ages of 42 and 55. Mr. Conant now feels that the action of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in en- gaging men of military age relieves the province of a precedent that was working a hardship. Enlistment, deaths and other causes have depleted the ranks of the Ontario Provin- cial Police at a time when a strong and aggressive force for the maintenance of law and order is more urgently needed and Mr. Conant proposes to fill up the ranks at once. Do your Christmas shopping early, and buy British Empire goods. Editorial Notes Empty stores are not good for any town, and increasing the transient trader's license fee will not fill them up. Aviation officials claim that the new American Airacobra plane is 'faster than a bullet." That's the kind they should aim at Hitler's hang-out in Germany. The itinerant salesman, with a plausible story and a 'plausible' article still con- tinues the rounds. Some are necessary and some are less than necessary. Investigate before you invest is still a good slogan for the unwary. The unprecedented number of auction sales of farm stock in Ontario districts during the past few weeks is reported to be due to a shortage of food. Owing to heavy rains in harvest time, much hay and grain was rendered practically value- less. ds hat A Bit of Verse Circus Trainer With whip and cartridge, short, clipped word He keeps the jungle beasts at bay, While from the benches, feathered, furred, A horde of savages at play Shriek their pleasure in a roar That echoes from the sawdust floor, --E. A. CHAFFEE. A Bible Thought for Today RETURN UNTO THE LORD: Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. --Hosea 6:13. IN GAMBLING DEN DISTRICT "MOLOTOV BREAD BASKET" CONANT PLANS CONFERENCE |PREFERS BOMBING 'ON ENFORCEMENT OF LAW Toronto, Nov. 20--No decision has yet been made, Attorney-General | Gordon Conant sald yesterday as to | ship, whether he will direct an investiga- tion into policing of Etobicoke Town- site of the Combine Club gambling den raided by provincial police Saturday. Mr. Conant said he would discuss the matter with provincial police officers concerned in the raid and law enforcement officers of the de- | partment before a decision is made. matter very fully," said Mr. Conant. | "1 want to consider the whole | "Officers concerned are not avall- able at the moment, but I intend discussing the whole question with | them later this week." | As to the fine of $25 levied in |"County Ccurt on those found in, Mr Conant said the amount was "ua | matter for the magistrate." | | "I have said repeatedly that such | matters are entirely for the magis- trate," sald Mr. Conant. City Fine Only $5 For a city police court Monday was $5. The section under which the charges | were laid, provides fines of $5 to | $25. In the case of the club the magistrate exercised his right in levying the maximum penalty. Mr. Conant denied any personal knowledge of this club. He said he had no knowledge on the report | that Provincial Department of High- | way trucks had carried earth used in constructing the parking area | behind the club, or that highway trucks had helped to build the ramp or side road into the club. Has No Charter He did nct know when or how t he club was built or by whom it was constructed, said Mr, Conant. He could not say whether such facts might be disclosed in the mooted investigation. According to Provincial Secretary Harry Nixon, the club does not hold a provincial charter. Some clubs held such charters, Mr. Nixon said, but it would not assure them per- missica to carry on illegal opera- tions. "I know nothing of this club," said Mr. Nixon. Answer to Clerics R. M. Smith, deputy minister of highways, after an investigation con- ducted by his department, denied a report that departmental trucks had been used in any way in construc- tion or work on this club. Ministerial accusations are that Highway De- partment trucks had been used. The Highway Department, he pointed out, has no dump trucks that could be used for this purpose, the majority of work being done for the department by contractors who own the trucks. As to the club's former site ci the Lake Shore Road; west of the Hum- per, Mr. Smith explained that this land was then owned by the Hydro and leased to those then occupying it. When the Highways Department commenced its development west of the Humber for the entrance of the Queen Flizabeth Way, those holding the land on lease were notified' to move. ] No compensation or arrangement was made as to their moving, leases being held on a monthly basis, The present site, Mr. Smith said, stands back beyond the .150 feet limit from the highway as ordered by provincial law. Consequently no authority over the premises is held by the Departmesl. The contrac- tor had done the work for the club using earth from the site to puild similar offenze a fine in| the embankment surrounding the parking space "We know nothing of the club as it now stands, nor did any of our trucks do any work in its construc- tion," said Mr. Smith. Yesterday Mr. Conarit said he was considering an investigation to de- termine the knowledge of Etobicoke authorities regarding the gambling resort and the reason for the failure of York Coun'y police to act, despite agitation to close the club. For Etobicoke to deny knowledge of the resort, Mr. | Conant regarded as laughable, add- ing "I think it is pure comedy for a person living in that muaicipality to that he did not know the place there." was FAST CAMOUFLAGE BRITAIN'S NEED More Disguise For Forts, Industrial Plants Urged London, Nov. 20 -- (CP). -- lJMore cifective and speedier camouflage of important industrial properties |and fortified points in Britain must |be carried out, a sub-committee of |the select committee on National | Expenditure urged in its report. The sub-committez was not sat- | isfied with the rate at which vital industrial points are being cam- ouflaged or that arrangements for Icontrolling design of the camou- |flage of fortified posts proved sat- | isfactory. | The testimony of the (govern- 'ment) departmental witness with {the longest experience of camou- Iflage of all kinds was emphatic that certain specimens of camou- {lage of this kind of building were absurd and could not be regarded |es camouflage at 2l1!, the commit- |tee held. It blamed any errors on | the hitherto-insufficient number of | efticers specially qualified for the {work. That number hes now been {increased. Cases were brought to the com- mittee's notice where private prac- |tioners had camouflaged industrial | premises. Some of their attempts were futile and might be danger- ous, The committee learned such firms now had gone out of exist- ence, The committee called for a single camouflage organization--instead of four as at present--with its own research staff and administered .by the ministry of home security, | | Nancy Pyper Recalls Well Known People Bowmanville, Nov. 20--- Nancy | Pyper, producer of many Hart House plays, told of "Famous People T Have Me" to members of the Wom- en's Canadian Club here on Mon- day. Bernard Shaw, Christopher Mor- ley, "AE." W. W. Jacobs, Mrs. Lloyd George, Houseman, and other fig- ures in the literary and dramatic realms she had met passed in re- view as Mrs. Pyper relived certain incidents in her meetings with them Of Shaw she refuted the belief that he spoke and wrote with his tongue in his cheek. G.B.S. wrote in deadly earnest, Mrs. Pyper said, and all his cynicism was carefully planned to enforce some point about which he was in deadly earnest. tcwnship officials | 10 GERMAN BOAST Man Who Escaped From | Jersey Tells His Experi- | ences London, Nov. 20 -- (CP). --George Turner is one fellow who would {rather stay in bomb-blasted Lon- don than return home. He escaped Lere from German-occupied Jersey in the Channel Islands, Turner, 58-year-old bachelor, who made his living growing tomatoes land potatoes, decided to remain | when the Germans came but got so ("fed up" with their. boasting and {appropriation of private property {that he escaped with seven other {men and a girl in an Irish ship. "About. 300 Germans were the first to arrive," he told a reporter. 'I went on working until two Ger- mans came and wanted to know 'whether my house was my pro- perty. They went in, opened draw- {ers and took £63 ($279) saying I {would get a receipt and be given {marks to that value. When IT went {to an office in the town I got noth- ing. "The Germans were quite nice and courteous and did not lay a finger on me but the next morning {three more arrived, picked all my {fruit and tomatoes and took them jaway. I asked them about the {money and they sald 'That will be right' T never received any- thing "They took all the flour in the island: and commandeered the (hotels, billeted themselves there and |emntied the cellars." Turner said the invaders took f food from boarding houses and | warehouses, removed all the wom- en's lingeries from the dry goods stores and helped themselves to | fewelrv. They told residents the all '| Islands would belong to Germany | for ever and Ribbentron "would be |the boss for Germany in England." | "The islanders are frightened," {ne added, "because th do not know what is ~oing on ds they are [not allowed to receive news or | possess a radio. If the Germans see {anyone henging about they nut 'them to work in the fields. The (banks are closed and there are no i cinemas." LONE SFRGEANT BEAT SQUADRON British Hussar in Armor- ed Car Drove off Italian Plane Somewhere in the Western Desert, Nov. 20 -- (CP) -- Attack- ed by 14 Italian fighters while on patrol in an armored car, a ser- geant in a famous hussar regiment shot one down and drove off the [remainder after a lone battle. Potrolling the borders of the [T.ibvan desert, he suddenly saw two Itadion fishters apvoear, dive low and' machine pun him. The ser- geent grabbed the car's Bren gun and sent a deadly hail of bullets at the atteckers, ; Twelve more Ttalian planes ap- peared. firing machine guns and drenning hombs. one of which fell 20 y~vds from the car. It tore off the hese oil oveflow tank and brought the vehicle to a standstill. The seroennt continued to blaze iawoy pnd saw one attacker crash. Tho othaps hed had enouch and disappesred, - Investigation showed the pilot of the downed plane had two bullets through his head. | | * Smits Says War Unites ' . British Empire Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov. 20 -- (CP). -- The Dominions will emerge from this war knit more closely together than ever before, Prime Minister Smuts forecast in a message to the Calcutta Statesman on the opening at New Delhi of the Eastern Group Conference on war supplies. "The economic co-ordination of will pave the way for mutual assist ance and trade development in days when our thoughts are able to turn to things other than the munitions of war," the message said. "It is my confident belief that when those days come, the Domin- fons will emerge more self-reliant. end knit together than ever before and ready to serve not only their own Interests and those of their fellows in arms but the economic welfare of the world as a whole" MAKE LONDON TUBES COSIER DURING WINTER Subway Stations Carpet- ed Nightly With Sleeping Men, Women and Chil dren London, Nov. 20--The London Passenger Transport Board, super- vising authority for all underground, bus and tram services in the metro politan area, faces a winter of probable bombing raids with num- ber of problems to be solved. Thrown unexpectedly and some- what reluctantly -into the role of hotelkeepers when nightly raids drove thousands of London residetits down into the tube stations for safe. ty, transport officials are asking, "What next?" Platforms and passages of 84 of London's tube statioms, about half the tctal number, are carpeted thick- ly each night with sleeping men, womez and children, accompanied by a varying amount of equipment such as blankets, pillows, water bot- ties and food. They lie tightly pack- ed, elbow to elbow, head to foot, a jumbled assortment of London's poorer citizens who prefer the dis- comforts of a hard bed and hot, vitiated air to the dangers of sur- face bombings. Many Without Homes Many of them have besn bombed out of their homes and seek shelter here until something else is provided. Others are workers who need a night's sleep uninterrupted by the noise of bombs and antimireraft fire. Thousands are parents who bring their chiidren deep below the surface to escape the indiscriminate death falling from the skies. The problems arose gradually af- ter the first bombings, as word got round that the tube stations, with hundreds of feet of earth and bullde ings over them, were excellent places to be when bombs were exploding on the surface. What started as a trickle of refugees soon became a landslide. It was found necessary to close the doors of certain East End stations when platforms and corri- dors became crowded to capacity. Use Strictly Legal First discovery of the transport board was that such use of the sta- tions could Mot be denied from a strictly legal point view. A person with a ticket had a right to stay on the platform if he wished. On top of that came a request from the gov- ernment that every effort, short of disrupting the service, be made to accommodate people in the emer~ gency. The result was compromise, With the approval of the Ministry of Transport, tube stations in all parts of London were made available for sheltering purposes after 4 pm. From that hour until 7.30 p.m. refu- gees, paying three half-pence for a platform ticket, may occupy certain areas of the underground platforms, and corridors which are marked off by white lines. After 7.30 p.m. an additional strip is thrown open, leaiiing only a nar- row pathway at the platform's edge and through the corridors and stair ways for the travelling public. Shelt- erers que up at station entrances in the afternoon to get favored posi- tions. Traffic Not So Heavy Fortunately from the standpoint of convenience, traffic has declined considerably with the development 'of nightly raids. Shortly after mid. night, when the trains stop running, the shelterers are left in full posses- sion of the stations. They remain until the "raiders passed" signal is Sweepers and cleaners have barely time: to get the stations ready for the day's traffic. One 'central station with four platforrhs accommodates about 3,500 each night. A close count is made nightly at every shelter. REST FOR FIREMEN Bouriemputh, England (CP) -- Parties of) London firemen are "resting" I cre, relieving Bourne- mcuth firemen, who goito London for experignce in the Hazardous war time Gretfghiung of the capital, MUSIC HORNS OUTLAWED Oklahoma City, Nov. 20.--(AP)-- Those -ynsympathetic oldsters who mutter [there ought to be a law," upon being awakened at 3 a.m. by the too'tling strains of "How Dry I Am." Ste gleeful. The city council cutlawed so-calisd musical auto mobile horns by ordinance yester- day. re ~ { | our war effort at this critical stage | glen about 6.or 7 in the morning. |. CORFU CUT OFF PEOPLE HUDDLE DEEPINCAVES lish-woman of Terrors of Incessant Air Attack Athens, Greece, Nov, 20 -- King George gave an audierce Monday hight to Alma Godfrey, 28, pretty blonde English governess who had Just arrived from Corfu with g re- port that Italian bombers have driven the whele population of that exposed, Ionian sea island to thé caves. Bhe sald that most persons had fled from the city of Ccrfu, leaving food to rot in the stores, and had sought refuge in rural cuves after five days of ceas:less hombing and machine-gunning by Itzlian planes. Those who remained in the city hid in the deep vaults of the fortress, living 3 communial life and seldom daring -to venture out fof food or water, she said. Many dead still lay in wrecked homes and buildings, she said. A bomb hit the city electric plant in one of the first raids ieaving the people without lights o= power for their rad!o sets, hence they had had no news from the outside world since. FRENGH PARTY HAIL BRITAIN Socialists Commend Re- sistance to Hitler and Mussolini London, Nov. 20 -- (CP). -- From "somewhere in France" the French Socialist party has smuggled to the Committee of the Union of the French Socialists in Britain, the Jean Jaures group, a manifesto hailing British resistance to Hitler- ism. '"The Socialists of France are con- vinced that England fights alone to defend the freedom of the entire world against the monstrous at- tempt to enslave Europe made by Hitler and Mussolini,' the resolution sald. "They salute with admiration the resistance of the British people and feel sure that in this they are at one with almost the whole of the French population." The French Socialists urged Brit- ain should not confine her war aims merely to destruction of Hitler's Germany but should prepare for the coming "of a new: social order free from class distinction and from the exploitation of man by man." The manifesto said the French Socialist party "condemn .fully and utterly the deputies and senators who of July 10, in Vichy, handed over the destinies of France to the reactionary and Fascist Marshal Petain and to the shady and dis- honest Laval clique." BUCKET There is only one reason vmy everyone does not have auto- matic heat and now that reason is blasted out of the way. 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