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flashes Kirkland Lake Mine Fire Under Control KIRKLAND LAKE--Fire which raged during the nig! at the 8,600-foot level at the Teck-Hughes Gold mine here w | |. 'brought under control today by specially trained under- | ))iground fire fighters by three Kirkland Lake Mines. All #/ workmen who fought the blaze are safe on the surface but will 'not return underground until the ventilation system clears the workings of dangerous fumes, officials of the Teck-Hughes Gold Mine and the adjoining Kirkland Lake late news and Chronicle { Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette OSHAWA - WHITBY, THURSDAY, JULY. 4, 1946 VOL. 5--No. 78 : Price 4 Cents 2 'Gold Mine said. The fire is reported to have started when a spark from a welding torch ignited a dry timber. Hint Steel Strike At TORONTO--Hints that a steel strike might be called at any time in the Hamilton Works plant of the Steel Company of Canada today stimulated the campaign of the United Steelworkers of America (C.I1.0.) for a minimum wage of $33.60 a week and a 40-hour work week. The union has been negotiating with three Canadian basic steel producers, Steel of Canada; at Hamilton, Algoma Steel at Sault Ste. Marie, and Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation at Sydney, N.S. for anew master agreement embodying its demands. Mr, Justice W. D. Roach was named federal conciliator of the dispute and held meetings at Toronto last week. These meeting: were halted when the union asserted that the steel producers were unwilling to bargain as a unit. Mr-Justice Roach last night left for Sault Ste. Marie to take up the question of negotia- tions with Algoma Steel. & Hamilton Imminent * ALLEGE PETITIONS | Gets New Job : & NORMAN 1. DANIEL Who_served as Manager of the General Motors Army Liaison Di- the war, "to. direet the new Diesel Di of the Sales De- parfment of 'the company. Age jill it i 2 3 g : 3 ] i Eee iis os Eq 11 8 | { § y i i : £53 jd 4 " 4 / L Ely i d's g bs - 3 ? i } i 3 : i i 5 i ns b hen " 100 CHILDREN AT SCHOOL . 'Over 100 children were present i rday at the 'daily Vacation School opened Tuesday Church. The 2D. W. Quick, son of Mr, and Mrs. W. F. Quick, Elgin Street, Bow- 'me file, has Uéen awaided the A. i scholarship, was ans by the senate of the Uni- of Toronto. He has suc- completed his first year in Languages at Victoria Col- 7 " ° who has | 9 SHIM CLASSES {OPEN ON JULY 9 DISTRIBUTED HAMILTON--The possibility of an immediate strike. at Hamilton arose suddenly when the union charged that the 1 Company of Canada sponsored butions of petitions i¥ the plant promising a 12% cents hou wage Increase in return for a nd-strike pledge. The executive committee of Local 1005 if the petitions are ulated ay the strike may be "at any time." Previously the p¥isory Committ Toronto had dedid; July<-12, 4 companies wou be notified on that date that a strike would be called shortly afterward. C. H. Millard, Canadian Director of the union, last night wired the Hamil- ton Local-that he had reported the pany of Canada to the Federal La- bour Department and to Mr. Jus- tice Roach as "a move to circum- vent collective bargaining with our union and contempt of the com- mission now dealing with the steel ispute." PLAN PUBLIC MEETINGS , Montreal--Officials of the Uni ted Textile Workers of America AF, of L. announced here last night that a series of public meetings ar- Union of Mine, Mill and Emelter workers, C.1.0.-C.CL., will go out 'immediately as soon'as he receives the text of the order-in-council au thorizing his . appointment, the Chief Justice -sald. The' strike - be- NEWS FLASHES (Continued On Page 2) Six Instructors" Appointed otary'and Ritson At R Pools A to teach swimming to the boys and girls who wish to come to the two pools each morning. Regular classes will be held from 9 to 12 under competent supervision. Com- mencement of this program is de- layed until next Tuesday so that the instructors may cial course in Methods and Water Safety being conducted by the Red Cross Society of Canada, Both the arranged by Recreation Association and are sponsored by the Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society. Staff have been carefully .selected and it is hoped that parents will encourage their children to attend. Chikiren should attend the same pool each morning and should plan to arrive at the same hour each day. ' This will énable the instruc- tors to arrange definite classes. not part of the forénoon program. The moming period will be used for non-swimmers' classes. HAS BROKEN BACK Dr. James Rundle, dttending physician for Milton McDougall, who was injured in a ne crash at the air show at the Oshawa Air- port: on Monday, stated early this afternoon that his patient had suf- fered a broken back and a, fractured left elbow. He said Mr. McDougall's condition is reasonably satisfactory. THE WEATHER Clear and slightly warmer to} day and Friday. 'Low tonight alleged 'action of the Steel Com-Ty attend a spe-|g5 Free swimming and splashing ' {57 Be, The Motorcycle Meet held, under the Club and the Rambler Motorcycle Club of Osh Ki dra Park of the Osh 2, at Al on Dominion Day atirgcted one of the largest and mést enthusiastic crowds in the history of the city. The jammed grandsand, which was only a:small part of those who watched Many. of interest shown by the public. he meet, is evidence of the hose who attended remained on the grounds and in their seats fromy/ the noon hour until the last event was run off shorttly before darkngss{¢ll. photo by Campbell's Studio MILLIONDOLLAR MARK NEARED IN CITY'S BUILDING 36 Permits Representing $75,306 Expenditure Issued In June Hy pty iiding permits vtec | senting an estima expenditure of $75 were issued during June at the City Engineer's office. This raised the total estimated value of building in the city to $962,431 for the first six months of the year. In June of last year a total of 62 permits representing affestimated expenditure, of $80,590 were issued ary while the total for the six month period of last year was $478,810. In May of this year what is considered a record was oreated when 107 per- mits were issued, representing an estima expenditure of $402,690. Pointing out that recent months have not seen the issuance of per- mits for unusually large construc- tion 'projects, City Engineer O. G. Miller voices the opinion that the volume.. of general building in the city this year is something of a record, The break-down of the peRmits issued last month togéther with the total estimated value in each in- stance is as follows: 9 dwellings, $52,450; 15 alterations, $4,006; three garages, $700; one factory, $12,000; five business permits, $5900; one wrecking job and two other permits, $250. Nine Dwellin; Permits Z : =2w dwellings for which per- mits were issued are as follows: Thomas A. Bryant, $5,650, four- room, one-storey, brick veneer, at 141 Yonge Street; Peter Johansen, $5,000, six rooms, one and a half storey, brick veneer, at 557 Grierson Avenue; Harry Sutgliffe, $4,500, four rooms, one storey, frame, at 90 Cad- illac Avenue North; Arthur Luson, $3,500, four rooms, one storey, stucco, at 743 Albert Street; Edward Arm- strong, $12,000, nine rooms, stone and clapboard, two storey, at 126 Alexandra Street; Willlam Badour, $4,000, four rooms, frame at 159 Annis Street; James Arych, $6,000, five rooms, brick veneer, two storey, at 155 Yonge Street; Ralph Cooper, ,000, six rooms, brick veneer, at 651 Sommerville Avenue; L. Coul- son, $6800, frace covered with as- bestos 'shingles, six r sms, at 80 Lauder Road. » The largest permit issued during the month, '1 point of estimated expenditure, was that taken out by Fiberglas Canada, Limited for a one storey, 76 foot by 111 foot six inch extension to its plant. The build- ing will be on a concrete foundation with exterior walls of wooden trusses and posts and interior walls covered with metal. The' building will have 4 metal roof and concrete floors. - The contract 'for its erec- tion has been awarded to the N. O. Hipel Co., of Preston. Business construction includes a 40 by 65 foot addition to the Bishop Radiator Repair Shop on' Bond Street West. The addition, of cem- t blocks, will cost $2,500. It will be stogey and have two rooms. Pickwi leaners, 434 Simcoe Str South; are building a 5 by 21 foot addition with a brick front and cement block sides. The cost is listed as $300. A permit has.been issued to Sam Jackson for the erec- tion of a.brick veneer office at 84 Athol Street East. The -addition, which will be 17 by 26 feet, will cost $800. William Kastashuk has taken out a. permit for a cement block CITY BUILDING #1. High tomorrow 81. (Continued on e 8), 5 : Bilton Committed For Trial On Two Charges Daughter of Deceased Tells Of Mother and Sister Leaving Home With Ac- cused on June 13--Seen By Highway Worker Near Cy oust 'George Bilton, accused of the boulder slaying of Mrs. Teresa (Alex) Laurie and her four-year- old daughter Patricia near Ajax on June 13, last, will go on trial for his life at the next sesslon of the Su- preme Court at Whitby, in Septem- T. The 25-year-old former Oshawa laborer was committed for trial by Magistrate F. S; Ebbs at the Whitby police court, Tuesday afternoon, fol- lowing the preliminary hearing of the Crown evidence against him. Looking considerably paler th: at the time of his arrest, Sunday, June 16, last, Bilton nevertheless managed to assume an air of almost total unconcern during the entire two hours the hearing lasted. Seated in the prisoner's docket with his arms spread out along the shoulder high railings at his back he seemed oblivious to the spec- Ftators who packed the court room behind him. But if he was oblivious to them they were not--oblivious to him. Seated in a hushed expectant, sil- ence that at times became so un- natural that ticking of the court room clock sounded like loud, slow- ly dripping liquid they watched his every move, Apparently a superb actor with a highly developed dramatic instinct Bilton held everyone's attention by the terse and sometimes Seemingly irrelevent questions he fired at the witnesses, ; No Lawyer Yet sat alternating between gazing out of the window at the clear summer sky or staring intently at the wit- ness who happened to be in the stand. When Crown Attorney A. C. Hall had completed his questioning of the witness Bilton would rise to his feet asked one or sometimes two questions. and then -sit down. Asked whether he wanted to ques~ tion one of the witnesses he shook his head and said, "I don't want to talk to that fellow again." The last time he had spoken to the wit- ness in question was on the day the murders were alleged to have taken place. Nine crown witnesses were called. Bilton called no one in rebuttal. "I haven't anyone," he said simply. Committal for tril climaxed Bil- ton's arrest at approximately 1.30 a.m., Sunday, June 16, last, just 11 hours after Lloyd Horner, 116 Rose~ hill Blvd., Oshawa, found the bod- ies of the 34-year-old mother of 6 and her. four-year-old. daughter lying side by side on the north shoulder of the new double lane highway approximately 1% miles east of Ajax. Bilton was arrested by Sergeant Ronald Love and Con- stable John Thomas of the Whitby Pol epartment. i Dr. E. Fielden, pathologist at St. Michael Hospital, Toronto, cor- oner who performed the autopsies attributed death to the/ctushing of the brains and hya large 45- pound, bloo ined boulder found lying beside the bodies. "M daughter-were lying close ther, clumps pf green grass clutched © in their = tightly TO STAND TRIAL , {Continued on Page 10) / a Not represented by a lawyer he. Times-Gazette Has London Times, July 1st Through the courtesy 'of Walter 8. Thompson, Director . of * Public Relations, Trans-Canada Air Lines, ceived a copy of the Air Edition of The Times dated July 1st, 1046. The remarkable achiévement of distrib- uting this paper overseas in such a short time is made possible by the operation of the Trans-Atlantic air service which is now providing six flights weekly in each direction be- tween Montrea) and Britain. The Air Edition.of the London Times is printed on thin paper which reduces its weight to a mini- mum. It consists of 10 pages and has all the departments of a com- plete newspaper. 62 Per Cent. Of Local Members Vote Reject Offer Officials of Local 222, UAW-CIO announced following a meeting of the executive of the Local on Tues day night that 62 per cent of the membership had voted in favor of rejecting the wage proposals ad- vanced by General Motors of Can=- ada, Limited, 38 per cent. of the members voted in favor of accept- ing the offer. No indication could be secured by The Times-Gazette as to the num- ber of the members of the local who voted, nor the number of ballots cast for and. against the company's proj e : Balloting by the membership of Local 222 commenced following a genera bership meeting at the .C.V.I, auditorium on Wednesday night of last week, When balloting closed on Saturday it was decid not to reveal the result until the meeting of the executive on Tues- day night. Commander of Camp "X" O.B.E. Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin de Foret Bayly, who has been OC. of the British Experimental Camp known locally as "Camp X," located between Oshawa and Whitby, is among those included in the King's Honors' List" announced Dominion Day. Lt.-Col. Bayly has been made an Officer of the British Empire. The citation mentions that the award was given for "valuable ser- vices during the war to an organiz- ation working with the Foreign Of- fice, London, England." Lt.-Col. Bayly is a brother-in-law of Mr. John Harris, Oshawa barrister, Win Two Prizes At Horse Show | - 'Tuesday's results from the, St. Catharines Horse Show broughtitwo Oshawa owners awards. The toms day 16th Catharines show ended en Tuesday. More than 3,000 persons witnessed the final performance. Charles Robson came third in the Palomino stake with . his Pirate Chief and. M. Leggett and Sons were second 'in the pair of es event with Topsy and Goldie. DIESEL DIVISION OF SALES DEPT. FORMED ATG. Norman H. Daniel Will Head New Division Df Fim, Formation of a Diesel Division as part of the Sales Department of General Motors Products of Canada, Limited has been announc- ed by E. J. Umphrey, Director of Sales. Mr. Umphrey also announced that the new division will be under the direction of Norman H. Daniel. Much In Demand "Diesel powered units proved to oeb so useful for war purposes that there has been a tremendous civil- ian demand for them in Canada. The sale of these engfhe units by General Motors Products of Can- ada, Limited, and of\the parts re- quired for their maintenance 'and the maintenance of the many GM Diesel engines already in Canada, will be the responsibility of the new division," Mr. Umphrey ex- plained. Mr. Daniel said: "Although we are not now in a position to pro- duce Diesel equipment in the vol- ume demanded in the field, the situation is steadily improving and our Canadian business is already large enough to warrant close at- tention, Our plans for expansion include a much larger volume for 1947 and thereafter." "Packaged Power" The engil will be sold as "Packag Power" or in units basically complete to furnish the power for saw mills, feed mills, power cranes and shovels, quarries, mines, oil wells, irrigation pumps, fishing craft and pleasure Boats. New trucks with Diesel engines will be handled through the GM Truck retailing organization. During the war years, Mr. Daniel directed the activities of a group of General Motors service men based in London, England, who act- ed as advisors on mechanization to the armed forces. Mr, Daniel, a graduate in engineering of the Uni- versity of , Served overseas in the First World War with the Royal Canadian Field Artillery. He joined General Motors in 1920 and for the next zix years was engagsd in engineering designing. He served successively as Service engineer, as- sistant - assembly plant manager, general service manager, and war ucts engineer. In 1942, he be- came manager of GM's army liai- son division. Shortage of Pipe Is Serious Here . a The shortage of pipe is seriously holding up the making of sewer connections to newly erected houses in the. city, it was learned at the '| city engineer's office yesterda@. At [ed least 60 connections are-being held up: by lack of pipe. The serioisness of tHe situation and the difficulty in securing thi type of pipe is illustrated by the ex- perience of a local firm which wished to secure about 30 Jest 8 pipe to make a connection. A was despatched tp Toron and t the greater art day 4 g from supply house to supply house, in an effort to get enough for the job. rave Avenue, East Whitby Town- |€hree-burner coal-oil stove, | she told The Times-Gaszette she had ME AND CONTENTS BURN it 0) = Dominion Day Motorcycle Meet at Alexandra Park Drew Huge Crowd Three-Room Homé On Montrave Ave. Is Complete Loss Mrs. A\ Kellar Had Just Left ome to Visit Neighbor When Flames Broke Out -- Qil Stove She Had Been' Using Ex- tinguished 20 Minutes Before -- Loss Estimated At $1,500 A mysterious fire swept through the small, thrée.room frame home ' of Mr. and Mrs. A. Kellar, 224 Mont- ship, at approximately 32.30 p.m. yes- |. terday, completely destroying e house and all its contents, Dampge is estimated at $1,500, Fortunately no one was injuged. Four-year-old Susan, Mr. and Mrs. Keliar's little daughter, was out of the city at the ti Mr. Kellar was at work and , Kellar was visiting a neighbour, : Cause Is Mystery What started the fire is a com- plete mystery. The house stands in an undeveloped part of the town- ship and consequently had no elec tric wiring or water in it. A small, the only stove in'the house, had been out for more than 20 minutes when the flames broke out. Mrs. Kellar had been away from the house for about five minutes calling on Mrs. M, Stapely who lives about 30 yards from the Kellar home. Heartbroken and in tears gone to get some water, "Everything we own is there", she sald pointing" 'her. finger to the roaring inferno that a few minutes " roceties ith for the rest 'of the Nothing was saved from the house. Furniture, clothing and pa- pers; evervthina was lost. Was 'Well Afire Mrs. J. Turrell, another neighbor, was the first to discover the fire. "I had just stepped outside my home and was walking around the back of the house when I noticed the smoke. I had seen Mrs, Kellar go ing into Mrs. Stapely's and I rush- ed in to get her. By this time the Taine were shooting through : the roof." When The Times-Gagzette left the scene neighbors were doing their best to comfort the distraught Mrs. Kellar while other neighbors were trying frantically to get in touéh with Mr. Kellar, an odd-job man who' excavates wells and cellars a living. : Eye-witnesses had nothing but praise for the prompt response of the Oshawa Fire Department. "The flames were shooting out the roof before we noticed the fire and firemen did everything they could," Mrs. Turrell said. Asked how long it took the - de- partment to reach the scene with their truck she said it seemed like a matter of seconds. Truck Assembly Workers Back On Job This Morning Employees of the truck assembly line at the local plant of General Motors, who staged an unauthorized walk-out on Tuesday morning, re- turned to work this morning. The decision to return to work was made as the result of a vote yesterday following conferences with the executive of Local 222, UAW-CIO. About 250 men on the assembly line walked out. Employ- ees in fhe West Plant were laid off by the company due to the stop- page. They also were back at work this morning. | Paving Work To End Next Week 0, City Engineer G. Miller. yes- terday voiced opinion' that the paving job on oe Street South will be compmleted by -the end of next week. "This is an expensive undertak- ing. Concrete should cure about 14 days and there is no sense in rush- ing the job. To do so might result in bad after effects," he comment- MORE WATER USED Water consumption in. June this. year exceeded -that 'he same onth 'las: year by Some 13 mil- on gallons the Public . Utilities ommission. report to The Times . Last year's consumption for June was 93,803,000. gallons asf compared with . 107470,000 gallons which Oshawa citizens used in 'the |! past 'month. : : B | one wi Teachers' President REGINALD G. GEEN Organist and Chcirmaster of Sime coe Street United Church, who has been elected President of the Cane adian Federation of Music Teache ers' Association at its sixth annual' convention in Toronto, JOB COUNSEL IS STATIONED HERE Sd a ning 'on the job, one ¢ thet plans formulated by the Deartelt ment of Veterans Affairs to pryenii® the terrible waste of manpowes which took place after thelast Fp is the special problem of Harry Joyce of Canadian Vocational Training. Mr, Joyce plans to be in Oshawa for three months and is available at the National Employment Sere vice office, 51 Simcoe Streft South, Through him veterans who have to make use of their ree itation credits in the traine on the job scheme can have p in proper placement in, local 'Business or industry. Long Range View Mr. Joyce says that the type employer and of veteran in - he is parpicularly interested ; own "rehab" credits ® wage of a single ma week, and this scale i So, this scheme w glance looks as if it wi i only the veteran can be a real hew)- to the employer as well.- With the help of the D.V.A. in supplement ing beginners , they can get more highly q personnel who will be of immense value once they have worked jnto the business, Mr. Joyce plans to talk over the employment problems with loca} * employers and management to gain some knowledge of the needs yo possibilities of Oshawa in regard to the problem of training veterans! Then he will be able to place the veterans who want to start to wong immediately, rather than take ade vantage of the other educational plans which. the government has offered to returned men. Majority Successful ". In Toronto placements have beer 98 per .cent. su ul, Mr. Joyce claims. Frequently within threes months, and always by the end of a year, the veteran has become of such value to the employer thats the latter can afford. to e up the As himself. ~ : "Rehab" credits with an indi ual value depending on. the oi 4 eran's service be used over. & period: of 'fen years for educations a NS