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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE | OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle Ww WHITBY VOL, 5--NO, 120 3 OSHAWA-WHITBY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946 Price 4 C onts FOURTEEN PAGES "OPEN PALESTINE NOW." TRUMAN All Buildings May Go To Housing Enterprises Mayor McCallum Says Creation of Housing at Airport Would be Last Resort -- Unsatisfac- tory in Other Centres Indications today are that all the 'Wo, 20 BY.TS, buildings at the lo- eal airport will be turned over to Housing Enterprises Ltd, the con- corn h is now engaged in ERAS 8 2 0% i foe s on the ormer school, A representative of Enterprises Ltd, is expec ted in the city this afternoon to ponfer with civic officials, Pointing out that the city would not be: allowed to sell the remain. ing four buildings to a private con~ tractor for demolition, Mayor F. N. McCallum declared today that crea- Ung housing at the airport would be "a last resort," He explained that ting the buildings in shape for would involve a consider- sable expenditure for plumbing in. stallations alone and pointed out that in Toronto, for instance, such housing schemes, had proved un. satisfactory, His Worship expressed the vigw that the large number of new houses nearing completition in the should relieve the housing situ- # large extent, He pointed the City Engineer's Office has applications for well sewer connections to new the city, This work is on- "being delayed through difficulty pipe. These house: should provide accommoda= some 500 persons and in a proportion at least of would vacate other FEELING RUNS HIGH £2 | STELCO PLANT, D0 IN BRAWL Hamilton, Oct, 4 (OP)--Strife and 7 DEAD, 140 HURT AS BLAST ROCKS AS REFINERY Sixty-Nine in Critical Condition At Hospitals Marcus Hook, Pa, Oct, 4 (AP)-- Seven persons were killed and up- wards of 140 others injured by fire and thunderous explosions which roared through a unit of Sun Oil Company's $13,000,000 aviation gaso- line refinéry seven hours before sub. siding early today, Many of the injured were volun- teer firemen, The heaviest casual« ty toll occurred when flames, race ins out of a room, reached a 126-foot fractionating tower, It went up with a roar, the shock rocking the countryside for miles, All of the deaths occurred in hos- pitals here and in nearby Chester, Pa, Many others of the 60 admit ted to hospitals were reported in critical condition, Arthur BE, Pew, Jr, vice-president. in-charge of the company's refiner ies, estimated the damage at $300,- 000, The company said the first explosion in the world's largest alkylation plant ocowrred at 6:10 yesterday when a "packing gland which failed, caused gas to escape and flash, touching off the explosions, The blaze raged out of control until 10:16 pm. A fourth man, Leland Bailey, 40- year-old ships cook, died during the blaze but a any esman sald investigation discl he slipped the Deleware River while boarding a ship and drowned. The an discounted first reports that Bille) bad been blown over- board by blast which ocourred ARNG IS of he fire wictima Ware reported in critical condition and hospital authorities said several were not expected to live, In addition a Matvia Sook policeman, was reported in ¢ condition after he was struck by an T= | sutomobile while directing traffic th | lying qu to be pald 13 cents an an when they went on d=July for more pay, a and union security, , 'works manager, normal operations "as fast oan Hi E55 ois i ompary, which last night a ion she A000 { par pro= Ds the strike g 2 E 2 g at a gate on a railway t Stelco, Men were oavey ww plant in soattered groups when others, tyms= pathetic with the strike, eh and two policemen sought to break the crowd, In the course of it oy Swed the 2 Bb a third man AWAY en the crowd stormed the policemen who held cat of a6 loyees and company employees an: firemen injured in the blase were Josue at nearby hospitals and re. Meanwhile, tankers loading and unload gasoline at the com- pars wharves along the Delaware ver quickly pulled away to escape arks that threatened to touch off their © v The blasts which shook this Dela- ware River industrial community of 4,000 shook homes in Wilmington, Del, 15 miles south of here. Flames fed by the high-octane gasoline spread to the base of a 135- foot fractionating tower causing it to collapse, playing flam gaso= line over fire fighters, The fire was visible for a distance of 30 miles. SUSPEND SENTENCE : FORGERY CHARGE Accused Admits Cashing Cheque in Oshawa Drug Store Pleading guilty before Magistrate F. 8 Ebbs this morning to charges of forgery and uttering, Stuart H. Maodonald of Bowmanville was pla. led on suspended sentence for two years and was assessed the costs of the court, Evidence revealed that in a state- ment given to Inspector Wilbur Dawn on September 6, the accused admitted that a cheque made out to Mrs. Eleanor Mason was given to him by his brother Richard, "I forged her name and cashed thrown | the cheque which was for $20 in an Oshawa drugstore. I bought a bot. tle of medicine for $1.00 and spent the rest of the money," the state- J since then," stated Mr. Ruddy. "You will recall that his brother was give en a suspended sentence on a simi- lar charge a week ago and I think the ends of justice will be met in this case with a suspended sentence, The Crown Attorney A, C. Hall sald he did not t t0 a suspend. ed sentence. - Given 18 Months For Auto Theft ng 1 18 erich, Seaforth, Clinton and Wing- bam, . Welland Oct, 4--(CP) -- Arthur Priddle of Niagara Fal re- centy pleaded guilty to a an automobile at Crystal Beach on Aug. 18, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment by Welland County Court Judge H. E, Fuller, Capture Pair Jailbreakers Near Apsley Bancroft, Ont, Oct, 4=(CP) ~Two men who escaped from il in this North Hutings vile yesterday after bludgeone ing an aged guard, were recap~ tured today at Apsley, 23 miles south of here, where they were arrested two weeks ago on car theft charges, They were pick ed up at 2 am. The bush-versed pair, accused of stealing $60 from the guard after striking him with a birch- wood billet, are 23-year-old Royce Seymour of Toronto and Kenneth Jackson, alias Holland, 26, of Brantford, Ont, A truck driver saw them at Apsliy and drove 30 miles to Lakefield, where a police search was concentrated, to provide the tip that led to their arrest, The lice drove to Apsley where the pair walked out from behind a service station with thelr hands up, They were brought here and then taken to Belleville, some 70 miles south of here, It was the second game of hide-and-seek with police offi- cers for the two men, They kept ahead of police for three days before their previous ar- rest, They were difficult to trail, They knew the country well and had a six hours head start through an area where in some sections travel Is almost im- possible, In this remote section, well off the beaten track for most travellers, the appearance of strange men on the roads leads to suspicion and questions, Pol ice counted on residents for clues to the progress of thelr quarry, They were not disap- Inflation Means ww Chinese dollars touched an all-time low «= 4,700 to §1 U.S, -- today in a cataclysmic jump of 600 points, then slumped back to 4,000 to $1. The convulsion was attributed to such unconfirmable rumors as: the govern- ment intends to revise the official exchange rate of 3,350 Chinese dollars to 81; the government plans to check black market dealings in United States currency altogether, and that a new Chinese currency may be introduced, AIR CRASH PROBE EXPECTED SOON 8 nville, Nfld, Oct, &-(OP Cable)--Ciovernment and airline of- ficlals were expected today to begin an investigation into Newfound. land's second air tragedy within a month as the cause of the worst disaster in the history of American commercial aviation remained un- explained, None of the 30 occupants of the American Overseas Airlines Sky- master could be identified when rescue parties reached the charred Wisclafe yesterday at the summit of a hill 10 miles from the western Newfoundland village. The plane, bound for Shannon, Eire, from New York, landed at nearby Harmon Field early Thurs- day to refuel because the huge Gander Airport 235 miles east of here was closed in by weather, Ten minutes after the take-off in the pre-dawn darkness, the plane smashed into the hillside, Rescue planes set out after the news of the accident was flashed and their observers reported the wreckage still burning, Later In the day ground parties tolled through marshland and forest tw reach the scene, They found twisted wreckage and charred bodies in the shattered plane, It was considered that matters pertaining to the crash would be under jurisdiction of United States authorities who operate Harmon Feld, which was involved in the 1040 British-American destroyer for-bases deal, Swift and Union Agree on Terms Strike Avoided Winnipeg, Oct, 4--(CP)--Threat of a packinghouse workers strike set for today was finally removed late last night when the United Packinghouse Workers of America (CIO) and the Swift Canadian Company signed a Tage agreement, Settlement between the union and the Swift Canadian Comtany was announced late last night, along the same basis as an agreement reach- ed Tuesday night between the un ion and the two other big Canadian phasing chains, Canada Packers 4 and Burns and Company. The new contract, a master agreement covering all plants, called for a general wage increase of 10 cents an hour, Fred W. Dowling of Toronto, na- tional director of the packinghouse union, estimatéd the employees' to tal gain at 18 cents an hour since last November when an agreement was reached providing raises of somewhat over six cents. Find Large Tooth * 2 Embedded in Lung Hamillon, Oot, &(OP)--Seven= year-old Keith Sutherland of Sim 0oe, is in oritical condition in hos- pital with a large tooth embedded in his lung. Attendants said the boy was brought here after he did not respond to treatment for pneu- monia. X-rays showed the tooth in the lung. Red Feather Is Symbol Community Chest Drive A 4 Plans For October 21-26 Campaign Outlined To Employees and Repre- sentatives of Organiza- tions Benefiting Hayden Macdonald Campaign Manager The red feather, deriving its his torical significance from Robin Hood and his foresters who chose it as the mark of a good deed, will be the symbol for the coming Oshawa Community Chest drive while the slogan for the drive will be "Every- body benefits, everybody gives", This was announced last night as support for the drive, to be held October 21-26, was solicited at a dinner meeting of employers and personnel managers and later at a general meeting of representatives' of the 16 organizations benefiting, The campaign, which is a sequel to the Oshawa Win-the~War and Community Fund drives of the wat years, has for its objective the sum of $55,000, J. C, Anderson K.(. is continuing as general chairman while Hayden Macdonald has been named campaign manager, succeed ing Cyril Schofield in this capacity. At both meetings last night the significance of this drive was ems phasized in that it is the first pure- ly local campaign of its kind i: the city. As Publicity Chairman Cyril Souch put it: "The future of the spirit of co- operation engendered in the city during the past year or so will de pend to a considerable extent on the spirit shown In this drive." "We are now in a test," George A. Fletcher added, "to see if as a community we can share together, pull together and work together." Plan Payroll Canvass At the dinner meeting at which COMMUNITY CHEST (Continued on Page 2) Ask Restoration Of Price Controls Kingston, Oct, 4--(CP)--The Am- algamated Civil Servants of Canada in convention yesterday passed a resolution ask! the Dominion Government to restore reasonable price controls over essential com- modities to check the upward swing in the cost of living. The convention also pledged sup- rt of the government's plan for ational Health Insurance and proposed a scheme for contributary Old Age Pensions starting at age 65 instead of 70. Patient Dies in Oxygen Tent Fire Niagara Falls, Oct. 4--(CP,-- Aubrey Johnson, 83-year-old paint or died in an oxygen tent in hospi- tal today when an oxygen tank caught fire igniting his bed. The fire was extinguished before it could get out of the room. HULL REMAINS GRAVELY ILL Washington, Oct, 4 (AP)= Cordell Hull, former United States State Secretary, ill at Bethesda Naval Hospital, spent a more restful night last night but his condition continues grave. A 9 am, report from the hos pital today sald: "Mr, Hull spent a more reste ful night than usual, His cone dition is still grave." ' SODA ASH STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS ON Windsor, Oct, 4--(OP)--Mainten= ance men entered the Brunner Mond plant at nearby Amherstburg today to recondition the kilns as union and company prepared to open negotiations this afternoon in an effort to end the B84-day-old strike which cut off Canadian pro duction of vital soda ash and brought on a flood of shortages in many manufacturing products, John B, Aylesworth, company soll= cltor, announced that officials of the company and local 89 of the United Auto Workers (0.1.0) would begin negotiations at 2 p.m, Details of the plan to admit main- tenance men to the plank, strike- bound since July 13 a wages» hours-union security dispute, were worked out at a union meeting Wed- nesday night after the company re- fused to continue negotiations un= less workers entered the plant to recondition the kilns, The union claimed it had advanced a for admittance of maintenance men last July 30. Some foremen are also to fo into the plant on condition that they will not do work ordinarily perform- | thi ed by others, : The strike has brought shortages all across the country, Glass mak- ing plants closed because they could not operate without supplies of soda ash, A shortage of bottles brought & reduction in the Ontario liquor ration--down to 26 ounces a month from 208 ounces. It cut the supply of men's shirts and textiles and other industrial products, The plant is the only major pro- ducer of soda ash in Canada. Be- cause of a scarcity in the United States, it was not possible to import supplies from there, ' e union went on strike for a 25-cent hourly increase, a 40-hour week and the Rand formulae of union seourity under which the company deducts union dues from the wages of all employees whether they are union members or not, The company offered a 10-cent increase but refused the shorter week and union security, Union sources have sald that union security is the chief issue at stake, -------------------- THE WEATHER Clear and continuing warm. Light winds increasing to south- west 20 mph, from late mone ing until evening, British Zone Forbidden 3 Free Nazis Nuern!| United Sta! sald today had declined to permit Hjalmar Schacht and Hans Fritsche, ac quitted of war crimes hi international military tribunal, to enter the British occupation zone of Germany, Lt.-Gen, Lucius Clay, deputy American military governor, announced that the French had rejected the plea of Nazi aiplo. mat Frans von Papen, the third of the acquitted German war leaders, to settle In the French ' zone, The three acquitted men still were in the Nuernberg Palace of Justice jail, await safe conduct out of thy American sone, They told lawyers and army officers they feared the treatment they might receive at the hands of the Bavarians around Nuernberg, who want to try them under denazification laws, \ Col, B, O. Andrus, security officer, sald he was anxious to get rid of his "star boarders," but would keep them in his cus tody pending a decision at a higher level, Meanwhile, lawyers for three additonal Nazi war leaders and for the 8.8, (Elite Guard) filed appeals from their convictions with the Allied Control Council, Appeals on behalf of six of the 10 men convicted Tuesday now were before the Council, Appeals were filed for Hitler's erratio deputy, Rudolph Hess, who was sentenced to life im- risonment; for Hans Frank, itler's Gauleiter in Poland, and Jew baiter Julius Streicher, both condemned to hang, KEEP U.S, OUT OF U.K. AFFAIRS TORIES DEMAND Blackpool, Lancs, England, Oct, 4--(OP)--Demands that the United States keep out of British Imperial affairs were voiced today as the Conservative party conference voted unanimously and with cheers that "the principle of Imperial prefer. ence must be maintained." Prominent speakers voiced fears that the Labor government would abandon Imperial preference--tar- iff protection of Empire products against competition from outside the Empire--in return for the Ame erican loan, "There is nothing more caluclated to injure or embitter our relations with the United States than any interference by that nation in our Imperial relations," declared Lords D'Isle and Dudley adding: "It may seem surprising that that great nation, which really owes so much in terms of security and free- dom from fear to the existence and conduct of the British Empire, should seek so many, many oppor= tunities of harassing and embarra- sing us and our Empire." "What the United States wants," sald I, 8, Amery, former Dominions secretary, "it a veto on economic preference, with the - Dominions eventually becom! economic tri- butaries of the United ffates that is an unwarranted deifand and should be rejected unhestitatingly." Mr, Amery sald no Dominion had played a more marvelous part on the munitions side of the war than Canada, "I know from my own experience that India's great army could not have taken the fleld without tena of thousands of lorries and chassis Canada supplied it," he sald, This contribution had been pos- sible because of Canada's great automobile industry which had been built up through .the preference Canadian cars enjoyed throughout oe Empire, Brig.-Gen, A. R, W, Low, member of Parliament, set the stage with a motion, unanimously adopted, call- ing for "closest laboration" be tween the United Kingdom and Commonwealth government, "I believe that Imperial security will breed world security," Gen, Low declared. Leg, Arm Broken Hit-Run Accident Victim of a hit and run driver, Fred Climpson, 56, of 804 Rowena Street, suffered a broken left leg, a broken right arm, cuts in the face and shock when he was struck by a motorist. about 8 pan, yesterday as he was Simcoe Stree South near Whiting Avenue, The motorist continued on, Climpson was rushed to Oshawa General Hospital where he was treated by Dr. H., M. MacDonald, Police Constable H, Fayle investiga. ted the accident last night and lo- cal police are continuing investi. Awaiting Solution To Problem Is Out; U.S. Would Assist o. v President Would Ask Finances of Congress BULLETIN London, Oct, 4 = (OP) ~~ An official spokesman for the For- eign Office sald tonight Britain "regretted" President Truman's new pronouncement on Pales- tine and felt it would prejudice further negotiations on the Holy Land's future, Washington, Oot, 4--(AP)--Presi~ dent Truman called today for an immediate "substantial immigra- Hon of displaced Jews into Pales- ne, In a Yom Kipper day statement, which he cabled to Prime Minister Attlee of Britain, the President out lined his own views as follows: "1, In view of the fact that winter will come on before the conference (Palestine conference in London) can be resumed, I belleve and urge that substantial immigration into Palestine cannot await a solution to the Palestine problem and that it should begin mt once, Preparations for this movement have already been made by this government and it is ready to lend its immediate assistance, "2, I state again, as I have stated on previous occasions, that the im« migration laws of other countries, including the United States, should be liberalized with a view to the admission of displaced persons. I am prepared to make such a recome mendation to the Congress and to continue as energetically as possible collaboration with other countries on the whole problem of displaced persons, "3. ermore, should & werk able on for Palestine be devis- ed, I would be willing to recommend to the Congress a plan for economic assistance for the development of that country." The President's statement, re- leased by press secretary Charles G, Ross with the announcement that its contents were cabled to Mr, Att- lee, expressed Mr, Truman's "deep regret" that the meetings of the London Palestine conference are not to be resumed until Deo, 16, The President sald that in the light of the "terrible ordeal which the Jewish people of Europe en- dured during the recent war" and the crisis now existing, "I cannot believe that a program of immedi- ate action along the lines suggested above could not be worked out with the co-operation of all people con- cerned." He added that "the Administra- tion will continue to do everything it Sn Jo ih ig om Kippur, starting at sundown today, is the Jewish sacred Day of Atonement, Its annual observance on the 10th day of the seventh month is marked by the custom of Jasting, and ceremonies of suppli= PAVING REPAIRS ARE COMPLETED Project Cost City Ap- proximately $10,000 -- 3 Miles Trea This year's surface treatment of pavements in various parts of the city, aproject costing approximate ly $10,000, was completed today by the A, B Jupp Construction Co, Ltd, In all, nearly three miles of pavement was treated, This work is done annually to as. asphalt pavement, City Engineer W, T. Dempsey explained that the method consists first of patching cracks and low spots to bring the road to & smooth contour and then spraying with bituminous material and applying a layer of stone chips, After the surface has been rolled it is sprayed a second time and sand is applied, Rolling and dispo- sal of the excess sand then com. pletes the process, While the application of sand sometimes creates an undesirable dust condition for a time, the engi- neer explained that the sand is "absolutely necessary" in that 'it blots up the bituminous material on the surface, it protects the surface until the binder materials hardens and it also protects the tires of mo- tor vehicles from the bituminous material, The project this year included 19 stretohes of pavement totalling Be were t, Athol Street Bast, Ar t (2 sections), Albert uckingham = Avenue, Bare Connaught Street, Drew Street, Gladstone Av- enue, iddon Avenue, Harold Street, Prince Street, Prospect Street, Rows Street, 'Stacey Avenue, t (050 feet in length, Alma thur Street, rie A Street, ihe driver of the hit. and run ayto, | gations in an effort to apprehend Westm Avenue and Yonge Pasay. » sist in preserving the life of the |W CKD0 TO START BROADCASTING SATURDAY NIGHT Mayor and Oshawa Sery- ice Club Representa- tives to Speak OKDO, "the voice of Ontario and Durham Counties," will take the alr offically at 6 pm. tomorrow, During the evening of special Interest will be broadcast with citizens prominent in the life of the city taking part, The station, which will broadcast at 1240 on your dint, will be on the alr from 6.30 am, to 11 pm, every day except Sunday when the broad- casting period will be 10 am, to 10 pm, The station will have a range of about 14 miles during the hours of daylight and cover a much grea- ter area after darkness falls, Mayor To Speak The opening program at 6 pm, tomorrow will be a hello to the lis: tening audience with members of the studio staff taking part, This will be followed at 6.30 by an ad» dress by His Worship Mayor F, N, McCallum, while at 6.45 Miss Louse ise Thompson will talk to the fe male audience, A special feature will be present ed at 7 pm, when representatives of the Kiwanis, Kinsman and Ro- tary Clubs of Oshawa and the Oshe awa Chamber of Commerce will present the alms and purposes of thelr organizations, A representa tive of the Oshawa Broadcasting ©o,, sponsors of the station will also speak outlining station policy, A salute to the people of Ontario and Durham Counties from the Ra- dio Recording Division of the Nae tional Broadcasting Co, will be aire ed at 7.30, Broadcast From Lake This will be followed by an hour's program of western and old time recordings, while between 9 and 10 a of popular dance music will be given, Between 10 and 10.30 pm, Boyd Valleau's orchestra will be broadcast from Jubllee Pavilion in Lakeview Park, Following a half hour of organ music there will be the regular broadcast of news at 10.45 pm. On Sunday moming service of King Street United Church will be broadcast while in the evening the first in a series of broadcasts from Albert Street United Church will be heard, Between 5 and 5.30 pm, each Sunday Pastor W, J, Hurdon, radio evangelist, will be GOUZENTOENTS CROWN TESTIMONY: Ottawa, Oct, 4 (OP)~The Crown today completed its examination of Igor Giousenko, former oipher clerk at the Russian Embassy, ne star Crown witness against H, 8, Gerson, former munitions department ofe ficial charged with cons to seni information to Rus. sla, . Gouzenko completed identifica. tion of the last of 26 documents which he took from the Embassy when he fled there September, 1045, All had been made public previous. No mention was made of Gray, allegedly Gerson's covername, in the parts of the 13 documents that were Dupree Court Jury. Eng. the 0) ur! L] morning session of the three-day- old trial, Most of them had to do with Dr, Allan Nunn May, British solentist how serving 10 years in a British prison for espionage active ities, ng giving oa of uranium, atomic bomb i nt, Mr, Justice Gi, F, McFarland ad« Journed the case until Monday after completion of the Crown's question» ing of Gousenko, Gousenko, 27.year-old former cle pher clerk at the Russian Embassy, began yesterday to unfold the story that by now has been told over and over in Canada's various espionage trials and particularly in the report of the royal commission on on= age. ,Crown Counsel J, R, Cart \] of Toronto guided him through the story of how he worked in the em= on fy a cipher clerk for Lt.~Ool, N Zabotin, former military ate tache and alleged head of a spy ring said to include Gerson, BARNEY OLDFIELD DEAD Beverly Hills, Calif, Oct, ¢--(AP) --Barney Oldfield, 68; former fam- ous automobile racing driver, di of a heart attack at his home. todas, 3 NG A E alii. ©