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PUBLISHED Every Week Day Except Saturday. The Oshawa Daily Times PROBS Mostly Cloudy; Moderate Winds, With Some Snow or Part Rain. $ ) VOL. 27--NO. 114 OSHAWA, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940 Single copies 3c "TWENTY PAGES | CAPTURE 6,000 ITALIANS IN EGYP Chrysler Gives Bonus, Raise oa - Employees Will Get $40 Bonus this Year, 2-Cent an Hour Raise Action Follows. Nego- tiations Between Com- pany and U.A.W.A. Officials at Detroit Pay Increase and Bonus Will Mean $6,- 744,000 Per Year -- Chrysler Workers Now Best Paid, Union Says Detroit, Dec. 11 (CP) -- Approximately 60,000 em- ployees of the Chrysler Corp- | oration will share in the pre- | Christmas bonus of more than $2.500,000 and will receive a flat pay raise of two cents an | hour, officials of the corpora- tion and the United Automo- bile Workers (C.1.O.) an- Italian Rail Link, Seaport in East Africa Damaged London, Dec. 11--(CP)--Reuters News Agency, in a dispatch from Aden today said the Addis Ababa- Jibouti railway was believed dam- aged badly in a Royal Air Force raid on a station near the French Somaliland-Ethiopian frontier. A communique said: damage is believed to have done to the Addis Ababa-Jibouti railway when the Royal Air Force from Aden bombed Duanle station | near the French Somaliland fron- | tier on Sunday. "The station buildings as well as the track were seen to have been hit. "Bombs were also dropped on the Red Sea port of Assab which, ac- BRITISH BOMBERS HIT NAZ) PORTS, LONDON ESCAPES Britain's Respite From Nazi Bombs Continues -- Longest Since Last Fall | | im London, Dec. 11--(CP)--Railway | junctions, airdromes, a power sta- tion and docks in Germany and | German-occupied territory were | attacked by British bombers last night, the air ministry announced today. The German invasion ports along the English Channel were also raid- | ed, the ministry said, after noting | that the weather generally was un- | favorable for operations from the "Serious | been | cording to the evidence of photo- nounced today. A union spokesman said each of the corporation's em- ployees in the 11 plants where | U.A.W.-C.1.O. contract are in effect will receive a bonus of $40 to be paid before Christ- mas. : 4 Announcement of distribu- tion of the bonus and the wage increase came after a night of | negotiations between union and | company representatives. The general raise in pay for hourly-wage employees plus | the bonus will total approxi- mately $6,744,000 for a year, according to union estimates. U.A.W. officials said that with this increase Chrysler em- ployees will be receiving the highest average wage of any industrial workers in the wotld. Welcome Airman Has D.F.C. Listed Thrice London, Dec. 11 (CP) --Pilot Of- ficer W. J. Lewis from Welcome, Ont., near Port Hope, is probably the only man in the Royal Air Force who has had his award ofa Distinguished Flying Cross men- tioned three times in the London Gazette. Pilot Officer Lewis--his friends call him Mike--won the award for great gallantry in a daring bomb- ing attack on Antwerp docks. The announcement duly appear- ed in the London Gazette in Sep- tember. It was repeated in error In the issue of Oct. 22. The third mention, published Nov, 1 was worded thus: "Erratum: In no- tificaticn of Oct. 22, 1940, page 6136, column 2, delete Pil. Offr, Wilfred John Lewis (41188)." | But "Mike" Lewis still has his . DFC. MILK TAKES DROP When the king pin in one of the Oshawa Dairy delivery trucks broke yesterday on Conant | street, the truck and its load of milk took a drop to the street. The horse walk- ed away with the shafts and front wheels, but being a well behaved animal did not become frightened or attempt to run away. Damage was slight, it is understood. graphs, was severely damaged in last month's heavy pounding." LLAMA REACHES AGREEWENT WITH HUDSON WOTOR C0. Union Shop Contract and Vacation Bonus in New Agreement Washington, Dec. 11 (CP)--The United States conciliation service said today that the Hudson Motor | Car Company in Detroit and Con- gress of Industrial Organization's United Auto Workers Union had reached an agreement on a union shop contract and a one per cent vacation bonus. Dr. John R. Steelman, concilia- tion service chief, sald the union shop agreement, believed the first of its kind in the motor car in- dustry, had been reported to him by Conciliator James F. Dewey, who took part in the Detroit negotia- tions. Steelman said he had been ad- vised that the agreement has not | yet been signed, but that its com- pletion had definitely averted a | involving Hud- | threatened strike son's 12,000 employees, The one per cent vacation bonus will become effective March 15. An additional one per cent bonus, it was said, had been agreed upon but the date of its effectiveness was not fixed. Children-Hating, Dog- Loving Judge Is Dead London, Dec. 11 (CP).--Sir Hen- ry Trelawney Eve, 84, who retired in 1937 after 30 years as chancery court judge, died today. Sir Henry once said he hated music -- particularly jazz -- and at another time he said, "I prefer dogs to children because they don't ask embarrassing questions." He liked to tour Britain in a horse-drawn caravan and travel cn inland waterways in a converted coal barge. air. | Two British planes failed to re- | turn from the attacks. Some German planes, apparently mestly on scouting missions, were reported over England early today and London had a brief pre-dawn | alarm--the first in more than 46 hours. The lull of two days and nights, | London's longest respite from bombings since early Jast fall, still was unexplained except by the pos- sibility of bad weather over Nazi | air bases on the continent, Some bombs were dropped by a ! lone raider which circled over a | northeast coast district during the early morning There were no im- mediate remorts offklamage or cas- ualties, however. Today's communique sald there was "very little enemy activity dur- ing the night and no reports of | (Continued on Page 7, Col. 3) | | | | Britains Food | Qutlook as Grim } | | | London, Dec. 11 (CP)--R. S. Hud- son, minister of agriculture, declar- | ed today that Britain's food situa- tion is "just as grim" as it was dur- ing the difficult days of 1917. He told a farmer's club in London that the Royal Navy's task of de- feating the German counter-block- ade of submarines and long dist- | ance bombers is "now doubly or trebly as difficult as then. Urging the farmers to increase home production, Mr. Hudson said | "the situation today is just as grim | as when Mr. Lloyd George (then | prime minister) started his intensi- fied food production campaign in | 1917." The government, he added, "is | trying to adjust production so. as to produce foodstuffs that will keep the people healthy as well as alive." Air Plan Graduates Quickly See Action Somewhere in England, Dec. 11 (CP Cable) --Some members of the first class of Canadian graduated in the Empire Air Training scheme who arrived in Britain a couple cf weeks ago, already have been in combat and have flown over Ger- man-held territory. Pilot Officer Arthur Snell of Calgary, who qualified as naviga- tor, bomb aimer, wireless operater and gunner, was the first of the new Canadian airmen to go into action and within 48 hours of his arrival in England he helped bomb Boulogne, cne of the Nazi inva- sion bases on the French coast. Nazis Ban Dumping of Garbage From Windows as Troops Passing Letter Smuggled From Brittany Gives Insight Into French Attitude. Toward Germans -- Protect Italians London, Dec, 11 The Daily Telegraph, ; The newspaper described {CP).--A reas- suring light upon the recovery of the French spirit §8.thrown by a private letter smuggled into Eng- land from Bitrany and printed by the let- LARS NE ter as of unquestioned authenticity and written by a Frenchman of great experience, More than this could not be said, except that the unwitting complicity of a German sergeant helped speed its arrival. Brittany, one of the largest French provinces, is completely occupied by the Germans, who promised it #utonomy shertly after they marched in. This pro= mise has not been kept, the writ- er said, as the Nazis soon learned the Bretons are pro-British and | Canada | canada, Limited, announced this Greek Drive Twice as Far Into Albania as Fascists Ever Penetrated Into Greece Italians Continue to Fall Back--May Stand Around Chimara, Half Way From Porto Edda to Valona Athens, Dec. 11 (AP)--Italian troops who once hoped to overrun | Greece were reported falling back steadily today for a possible new stand in the heights around Chim- ara--almest half way up the Alban- ian coast from Porto Edda to Val- ona. : The Greek spokesman said the Italians were withdrawing rapidly along the coast road and north of fallen Argirocastro and added that heavy blows also hastened the Ital- jan retreat through the tangle of | snow covered mountains between | Pogradetz and Elbasani-in-Mid-Al- bania. Although exact Greek advance positions were not disclosed, they apparently were almost twice as deep into Albania the battlefront as the maximum Italian thrusts into Greece before the Fascist invasion forces were thrown into reverse. at both flanks of The Greek high command aeclar- | ed "our offénsive activities contin- | ued all over fhe entire front," and | added: "Strong enemy positions were oc- cupied at bayonet point. The enemy suffered heavy losses, Three 100- (Continued on Page 7, Col.'2) SUBMARINE WHICH BLASTED SAGUENAY 5 BELIEVED HI Newsman on Companion Boat Tells of Gunfire | In Atlantic London, Dec. 11--(CP Cable)-- The submarine that torpedoed the Canadian destroyer Saguenay Is believed to have been hit by a salvo fired by the destroyer in its battle with the U-boat, according to A. J. McWhinnie, the Daily Herald's nav- al correspondent. | McWhinnie was aboard another | destroyer to which 81 men from | the Saguenay, 18 of them wounded, | were transferred after the torpedo- ing. "For days the Saguenay had been calling in company with us escort- ing the convoy," he wrote. "In the pitch black darkness of the Atlantic night a torpedo hit her. One of the Saguenay's guns apat out and there is reason to be- lieve 'the U-boat was hit." The first job of the warship in which he was sailing was to smash at the submarine, McWhinnie's ac- count continued. "For hours in the night the seas were searched. With dawn we were racing back to the Canadian de- stroyer." McWhinnie's ship flashed "well done" to Cmdr. George Miles and the Saguenay's commander, reply- ing, sald he was determined to reach port under his own steam. Before undertaking the hazard- ous trip he asked the other warship to take on the wounded, the ship's code and papers. The men were transferred in a whaler while the uninjured sailors sang hillbilly songs and twanged guitars to cheer their wounded companions. 300 EMPLOYEES OF GLASS FIRMS TO GET BONUSES Col. W. E. Phillips; president of the -Duplate Safety Glass Co. of Limited, and Fiberblas. morning to the employees of these two cempanjes a Very generous schedule of Christmas bonuses, as follows: All employees on the staff of either company for over five years to receive $25 each; all over cne year $20; and those under one year $10, All employees of these companies, numbering about 300 will particpiate in the bonus distri- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 1) ) bution. Chief Albanian Port Again Hit Athens, Dec. 11. (CP) -- British bombers again have raided Valona, Italy's supply port on the Albanian coast, hitting a ship in the harbor, a munitions dump and some build- ings despite the presence of Italian fighter planes, a Royal Air Force | communique said today. Valona, an ancient coastal town, is one of the principal ports of de- barkation for Italians and has been frequently raided by the R.C.AF. { WORKERS LAUDER BY AIR DEPUTY British Campaign in Egypt Progressing Satisfactorily, Official Communique Says Successes In Egypt Acclaimed by British Press With Great En- thusiasm Seen as Lessening Of More Wreckage From Missing Plane Found On Port Bruce Beach ALUMINUM PLANT | Port Bruce, Dec. 11 (CP)--Search for the missing Fairey bomber of the Royal Canadian Air Force con- centrated here today, after wreck- age believed to be from the plane was washed ashore. Search officials said they believ- ed the wreckage of the plane, { which was carrying a crew of three liant success against Rome's legions hen on Bape mo oll ini in the Western desert warmed Brit- would be found off this point 8 ish hearts on this grey wintry day. | They based their belief on. the In tall bannedlines, the London | : > . | finding of part of a seat from a press told a public long thirsting plane to which was attached a piece for a British offensive that part of metal which they said Plate of two Italian divisions were sur- | have prevented the 'seat fro rounded by armored units which | floating very far At ooh on | smashed through Marshal Rodolfo | ar aidman's cap wo loves a | Graziani's lines between Sidi Bar- | ¢obrie an ir cushion gloves. P t rani and -Bugbuq. ig 3 part of | | a seat had been found on the | Threat to Suez and Wrecking Il Duce's Prestige in Middle East By SAM ROBERTSON, Canadian Press Staff Writer, London, Dec. 11. (CP Cable)-- The Army of the Niles initial bril- British Troops Dealing With "Pockets" of Italian Resistance -- Offensive May Be Widened Possible Head-On Col- lision With Main Italian Army Foreseen --Two Divisions Trap- ped ; Cairo, Dec. 11 (CP) -- The British Command announced today that 'more than 6,000 Italian prisoners have been taken in the Western desert, to- gether with "'quantities of war material." A communique said operations in the Western desert were "progressing satis- factorily."' forces which had held the The lightning stroke against the west tip of Egypt for three months seemed to have two objectives, first, to shatter Mussolini's plans to north- beach here. e "huge quantities" of The plane carried Flying Officer | war material seized have ndt [a A Do, native of St. Josephs, | yet been sorted out, the com- | Mo, 5. W. Bourne, of Oshawa | munique said. strike toward the Nile in an attempt Vital Link in Chain Leading to Victory-- . Industry Essential 11 (CP).-- | Nothing in Canada's wartime eco- nomy is more satisfactory and en- | couraging than the "reasonable, un- | derstanding. and patriotic attitude" | | of the nation's employers and em- | ployees, James 8. Duncan, acting | deputy air minister, said today, "Both recognize that they should | | not unduly profit by the sacrifices | which this eountry Is making to | preserve our lib@rties" he told em- | ployees of an aluminum plant | (Aluminum Company of Canada) | after an inspection tour of the fac- | tory. Mr. Duncan said that the plant | was classed as "AA" in the list] {of priority Industries, "meaning {that its product is considered as | | of first national importance to the | | | - JKingston, Ont., Dec. | | war effort. | "This implies that every,man in your organization .is pull his weight in the national bodt, and | is making his contribution to the country's welfare just as much as if he were serving in the armed forces. Bugle More Stirring "It may well be that the bugle call is more stirringsthan the fac- tory whistle, but in these days of highly mechanized warfare, men in plants such as these are serving thelr country just as truly and just as loyally as those who are in uniform." Mr. Duncan said the aluminum plant's employees were doing work "not dissimilar" to that done by the British Commcnwealth Afr Training Plan with which he was connected. "Our raw materials are the youth of this country, whom we are training and moulding into aire (Continued on Page 5, Col. 2) King Sends Message To Sister of Soldier Who Died Overseas Miss Martha Bye, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bye, 138: Simcoe street south, this morning received a message of condclence from Buckingham Palace, signed by His Majesty King George VI, expressing sympathy to her on the death of her adopted brother, Pte. Robert Watkins, who died in England in September. Pte, Watkins enlisted with the Hastings and Prince Edward Regi- ment in 1939 and went overseas at the end of December. He tcok ill and died in a military hospital, a report of which appeared in The Times following word received by his foster parents hers. | The message to Miss Martha Bye | reads as follows: ° "The Queen and I offer you our heartfelt sympathy in your great sorrow, we pray that your country's gratitude for a life so nobly given in its ser- vice may bring you some mea- sure of consolatioy wus GEORGE RL" For | foreign correspondent, 'Eire and Lough Swilly in the ex- to gain command of that lifeline, | and, second, to crack the dictator's prestige in the Middle East. Both objectives seem well on the way to fulfilment. Commenting on the latter factor the Daily Telegraph said in an edi- torial that "this setback to Italian pretensions in North Africa will have a redoubled effect on native | opinion and not only in Libya where the bulk of Grazianis troops | are recruited." | The Fascists maintain air com- munications with Bthiopia via Libya and the blackshirts policing that country could be isolated ir the Army of the Nile scored a deep penetration into Libya. Commenting on this angle in the Daily Mail, G. Ward Price, noted | said: "We may be sure that Gen. Sir Archi- | (Continued on Page.5, Col. 5) | PRESS COMMONS 10 ASK EIRE FOR TWO NAVAL BASES Would Give Britain Much Better Chance of Dealing With Nazi U-Boats Press St Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 11 (CP)--The Brit- | ish government is being urged from | all sections of the House of Com- | mons to use gea bases in Ireland in the war against the German U-boat. The two bases in mind are Bere- haven near the southwest tip of treme north, each commanding one of the two approaches to the west coast ports of Britain, It has been proposed that Brit- ain' lease the two ports for the duration of the war on something like: the same terms as the United States was permitted to use sea and air bases in Newfoundland and the West Indies. There would be no question of Eire's interven- tion in the war. The collapse of France and the conquest of Norway, Belgium and Holland gave Germany a great ad- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) and AC. J. H. McNally of Minaki, | MILITIA REGRUIT WINS ACTION TO AVOID POLL TAX Enlistment After Tax Due Date Valid Excuse --Unfairness Seen A case of more than usual inter- est was heard in Oshawa Police Court this morning when James Owens, 94 William Street East, won dismissal of a charge laid against him by the tax collector's office of failure to vay his 1940 poll tax. City Tax Collector Admiral Sharp stated that notice that the tax amounting to $7.50 to cover the | current vear was due was served on the accused June 7, 1940. These no- tices stipulate that the tax must be paid within two days or arrange- ments be made whereby the tax may be worked out in statute la- bour. Admiral Sharp stated that to date the tax had not been paid either in the form of work or money. Accused produced a letter s*ned by his Commanding Officer certifying that James Owens is a | member in good standing of the 2nd Bn, Ont. Regiment (Tank), N.P.AM., and contended that the law exempts from poll tax those who have enlisted in the country's armed forces. City Solicitor T. K. Creighton maintained that the tax was legal- ly due two days after the notice was served and that the accused had admitted he enlisted some time sub- sequent to the time the notice was served. The city solicitor said he did not see why such an enlistment, should excuse any person from a debt which, he claimed, was then past due. He further pointed out that those young men in the city who had paid their tax when due and had since joined the local mili- tia unit were not being fairly dealt with. His Worshin, Magistrate Ebbs, re- ferred to the statute governing such cases and found that it ex- empteq from noll tax all members of His Majesty's -armed forces and decided that this case was coverepl by the statute. He then dismissed the case. Bomb-Blinded Girl Happy Till Drone of Plane S ets Her Crying By DREW MIDDLETON Associated Press Staff Writer. London, Dec. 11. (AP)--Ajong the walks of Long Meadow, beautiful estate of a blinded veteran of the Boer War, a shuffling, sometimes stumbling procession of men and women winds each day. They are a new class of blind created by a new war using the new methods of bombing large cities from the air. They are civi- lans suffering a disablement once almost exclusively the risk of a front line soldier in wartime. Britain's National Institute for they came to Long Meadow and under the tutelage of its owner, 76-year-old Capt. Towse, blinded himself by a bullet the Blind is training them to re- sume their places in society, places which they literally were "bombed out." Of 28 men and women at Long Meadow, at Goring on the placid Thames, all earned their living be- fore being blinded; all but three were married, had homes and a variety of interests. As soon as they left the hospitals Sir Beachcroft Dealing With Pockets London, Dec. 11. (CP) -- British troops in Egypt now are dealing with "pockets of Italian resistance" around the camps in the Sidi Bare rani zone which they stormed earli- er this week, military circles re- ported today. The British forays were describe ed by these sources as "highly sue- cessful," but they cautioned against over-optimism, Although British armored units have smashed through to reach the Mediterranean coast at Bugbuq, some 38 miles west of Sidi Barrani, there is nothing to confirm reports that two Italian divisions have been cut off, they said. "We've done lots of damage," an informant said, "ard demolition parties will do more to Italian com= munications such as the coastal road and to Italian bases, but it is too early to say whether a major offensive will be thrust home." Military circles admitted that the | wide field of activities. preliminary operations opened a "If our officers find the Italian morale bad and the troops not (Continued on Page 7, Col. 1) SLAVE PLANTATION SYSTEM OFFERED EUROPE BY NAZIS World Would Listen if Convincing Promise Could Be Given by Hitler London, Dec. 11--(OP)--Herbert Morrison, home secretary, said in a speech here today that "many peo- ple would be ready to listen" if Germany "could hold out a convinc= ing promise of a Eurcpe enriched by economic unity and pacified by the removal of national rivalries. He added, however, that "the cive ilized world gasps at each revelation of the cold ferocity with which the Nazis are prepared to treat peoples whom they dominate." "The new European military ore der is a vast military monopoly" Mr. Morrison declared. "The ore ganization which the Nazis offer Europe is that of a slave planta= tion." "Unless this war ends with a pre- ponderance of military striking power in the hands of the democra= cies," Mr. Morrison said, "Europe can look forward to no constructive period from war to a better and permanent peace. ! "I conceive us to be aiming at a co-operative imternational system guaranteed by international po- lice air force, er again shall it be possible for a thug with bomber force to terrorize a continent, to smash homes and cities and crush the innocent bodies &f women and children, to blast int® powder the fruits of man's toil ani ments of his greatne "Nations must be rea fice many of their rights and they must | moved to work togethes better life for their "It is not enough to. walls and competiti These things are ml of evil. We (Continued on Page 5, Col. 1)