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Oshawa Printing Executive Takes Charge U.S. Plant THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY OL. 5--NO. '124 OSHAWA-WHITBY,. YEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1946 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES DIE, 79 HURT IN ROME RIOTING Swears Dau ghter | Knew Dick Dead & C.G. Maracle Had Start As Newsboy On Oshawa Streets : More than two hundred employees and community friends,a ssembled in the pressrooms. of The Signs of the Times Publishing Association, Kingston Road East, Sunday evening, October 6, to honor Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Maracle on the eve of their departure for J ashington, D.C. Mr. Maracle erald Publishing Association at Ta- iy Park, Washington, D.C. This is the oldest Seventh-day Adventist Publishing House, of which there are now sixty-three in various parts of the world, Mr. Maracle has served as Man- ager of the Signs of the Times Pub. Association and the Maracle Company in Oshawa for ii she 8 § i 'A PRINTER - . (Continued on Continued on Page 2 2) NOT DOMINATED BY COMMUNISTS COUNCIL SAYS A strong denial that the Oshawa and District Labor Council was dominated by Communists, was made last night by the Council's executive secretary, M. J. Fenwick, at the Oshawa District '. Labor Council meeting last night. "This Council is not dominated by any movement, Communist, CCF, or what have you," said Mr. Fen- wick, "It is run entirely by its dele- gates." He was speaking in protest to ar- ticles run in the Financial Post of 'Toronto by Ronald Williams, son of the recent member of Provincial Parliament for Ontario Riding, At- thur Williams. In one of these ar- ticles, Ronald Williams had said "the Oshawa and District Labor Sone is dominated by Commun- Mr. Fenwick said the executive council had decided to ask the dele- gates that a protest be sent to the | Financial Post for publishing such hearsay statements. He said that Mr. Willams had never attended a Labor Council meeting and did not know whereof he spoke. ' It was all part of a present campaign in which "all the Tory papers across Canada were blasting labor." URANIAM SOUGHT INS. AUSTRALIA Adelaide, South Au: Australia, Oct, 9 --(OP)--New deposits of uranium in South Australia are sought by scientific expeditions recently orga- "nized by the South Australia gov- | ernment for a three-year survey of ~ the state's mineral resources. The expeditions will make detail- ed surveys of existing deposits, the largest of which is near Mount Painter, in a treeless, waterless hill range, 400 miles north of Adelaide. Long Known The Mount Painter deposits were first located about 40 years ago by scentists prospecting for radium. he uranium was not developed 1 two years ago when the fed- 4 government secretly organized preduction at Mount Painter at a as 4 of moze than $700,000. A road was built into the out- skirts of the field from the nearest township, Copley, 75 miles away, | 80! 'across desert country, Water was . brought in by camel train and an airport was established on the near- est level ground, . about "30 miles from the uranium field. Production continued until just after the war, and after an inter. ruption wag resumed recently. Mother Told 'Keep Your Mouth Shut' Hamilton, Oct. 9--~(CP) -- "Yes, John Dick is dead, keep your mouth shut." These were the words Mrs, Alex- andra MacLean today attributed to her daughter Mrs. Evelyn Dick last March 8, two after the disappear- ance of John Dick for whose murder Mrs. Dick is on trial. Mrs. MacLean, speaking 'firmly under examination by Harvey Mc- _Cullough, Crown Attorney said she 'last spoke to John Dick, on March 5--"the day before he disappeared." On March 8 she had occasion to note that John Dick was not driving his customary - Hamilton Street Railway car, "Won't Bother Me" 8he mentioned it that night fo Evelyn from whom Dick was es- tranged. Evelyn said: "It's not likely he'll bother me again and they'll not see Rin on the car," hte mother testi- ed, "I asked, 'there's nothing hap- pened, he's not been killed?" nt on Mrs. MacLean, She said her daughter replied: "Yes John Dick's dead and you keep your mouth shut." Testimony of the Srey haired mother of the widow accused of the torso: of her husband came as.a : 9 ment near the end of stion- packed morning of testimony about the torso found on Hamilton Moun- tain last March 16, later identified as shat of John Dick, Earlier the Crown had produced various blood stained exhibits which DICK TRIAL (Continued on Page 2) Unusual Tree Py: Local Y.W.C.A. a very interesting split, fan-shaped leaf. Italian Labor Class Rebels: Insist on Food and Security: Bullets, Bombs Fly in Streets y 28, Adelaide House are justly proud grounds. A native of China, the grounds of the Ontario broad leaved evergreen that sheds its =--Photo by Campbell's Studio Expect Russian Claim On Strategic Islands; US. To Oppose Move 'Washington, ou. 9 9.--(AP) -- Ay Russian plan to stake claim to the highly important Ryukyu chain of islands between Japan and Form- osa--among them Okinawa -- is frankly anticipated in American diplomatic quarters, Highly-placed officials told a re- porter privately today that the Uni- ted States will oppose the expected Soviet move on the ground that the islands--if they are tobe transferred from Japanese ownerthip at all-- should go to China. As an alternative to Chinese sov- reignty the United States would be agreeable to placing the islands un. der a United Nations trusteeship 'solely administered by China. These views stem from the fact that the United States has a Battle- won interest in the islands parti- cularly Okinawa as the scene of |! some of the toughest fighting if the Pacific War. : There is said to be a = '"'general agreement" among the Pacific pow- ers for the return to China of For- mosa itself, fabulous territory of headhunters, gold and sugar. For- mosa wag wrested from China at the turn of the century by terms of the Sino-Japanese peace treaty. Statement Raises Hope of Rubber Strike Settlement Hamilton, Oct. 9--(CP)--Any set- tlement negotiated by the Dominion Rubber Company at Kitchener "would have a bearing" on the dengthy strike at the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company here Com- pany Vice-President J. H. Forman sald today. Hope for a settlement of the local strike was brightened by the state- ment. Meanwhile in Toronto ne- tiations resumed in the 107-day- old Kitchener strike, Mr. Forman said his Company still offered to give plant workers a 10-cent-an-hour 'wage boost at once, together with further adjust- ments on the basis of the pattern set by settlement of other rubber strikes, UN. SPLIT SEEN OVER DANUBE Lake Success, N.Y. Oct. 9--(AP) -- The United Nations secretariat has called upon seven governments to state whether they would parti cipate in a Danubian shipping con- ference proposed by the United States and sanctioned by the-econ- omic and social council over Rus- sian-led opposition. The question was put to Czecho- slovakia, France, Greece, Russia, Britain, the United States and Yu- goslavia by secretary-general Tryg- ve Lie, Soviet Objects Soviet delegate Nickolai Feonov the opposition, which was join- by Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Ukraine and Cuba but the American resolution was carried by a vote of 8 to 5. Mr. Feonov warned in advauce DOSCO RESUMES OPERATIONS TODAY Montreal, Oct. 9 (CP)--Ar- thur Cross, president o* Do- minion Steel and Coal Corpora- tion, said here today that work preliminary to resumption of operations at the company's big Sydney, N.S. plant is expected to begin this afternoon. Labor Backs Chest Drive Support for community efforts such as the Community Chest drive, and a grant of $100 to the strike fund of the Canadian Congress of Labor were given in resolutions passed at the meeting of the Osha- wa and District Labor Council last night, A membership fee for the Com- | munity Recreation Association was to be remitted, while members were asked to support the Community Chest drive, starting October 21, and to invest in Canada Savings Bond when that campaign begins. Nominees for election to a com- mittee of seven that would enquire into the cost of using station CKDO that the conference was foredoom- | {for broadcasting were named. All ed, declaring the Danubian coun- tries would not attend. the Locals approved the idea of purchasing some broadcasting time Discussion of the whole Danubian | on the local station for the use of question on a broad basis was ad- | vocated by the United Slates after | Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia had | appealed to the council for return of river vessels taken away by the Germans and now held in the Am- erican occupation zone in Germany and Austria. Road Engineer Lost in Bush New Liskeard, Oct. 8 -- (CP) -- Peter Nelson, assistant chief en- gineer of the Ontario Department of Highways, is lost in the heavy bush in the Martin River area south of Temagami. Though he has been missing since Sunday afternoon, the alarm was raised only this morning and search parties have been sent out from New Liskeard, Earlton and North Bay. It is understood that Mr. Nelson, whose office is in the Parliament: Buildings in Toronto walked out of his camp in search of game and has not been seen' since. | the council and the committee juhen elected will follow up the mat- First Fire Alarms In Prevention Week Firemen reported today the first two small fires occurring so far in Oshawa's Fire Prevention week. Last night a small grass fire was started by some boys on vacant land at the foot of Elliott street, but was quickly put out. The other fire began this morning in Ted's Bread bakery. It caused no dam- age and was started, fire officials said, by hot grease used for dough- nuts igniting in a gas stove. A car- bon dioxide extinguisher smothered it in less than 10 minutes. ATTENDANCE PRIZE WINNERS Winners of the weekly attendance prizes at the Kiwanis Club lunch- eon meeting on Tuesdsy were Ki- waniang Cliff Cousins and Len Coulson. This weeks' prizes were do nated respectively by Kiwanians Harry Johnson and Dave Jamieson. PRESS READIES FOR NAZI DEATHS Nuernberg, Oct. 9--(AP)--Corres- pondents who will attend the exe- cutions of the 11 condemned Naz! leaders today set up tentative plans to pool for world-wide distribution their eye-witness accounts, which may total 50,000 words, British, United States, and French newspapermen, represented by two correspondents each, agreed on machinery to distribute simul. taneously stories describing details of the hangings in the Nuernberg Jalil, as soon as they are permitted to go from the enclosure to their typewriters. The Russians have not announce ed who their two representatives will be. No spokesman has been available in recent days to sign up the Russians within the four-power pool. It is assumed the Russians will make their copy available, the same as the others, Correspondents base their plane ning on the assumption that the hangings will take place in the early morning of Oct. 16, with one scaffold, This possibility will mean a five-hour task, although suth de- tails still are secret. Adjourn Charges U.A.W. Leaders Windsor, Oct. 9--(CP)--Trial of three United Automob!le Workers Union (C.I.O.) officials on charges of conspiring to commit [gal pic- keting were adjourned today until October 24. . 'Charges involve George Burt, Re- gional Director; Thomas Maclean, Assistant Director and Harry Roo- ney, chairman of the bargaining committee of the Chrysler Unit of the union, whose 3,000 workers are on strike seeking a wage increase, Soldier's Hip Bruised In Street Accident Pte. G. F. White, Longford Mills, is in hospital here today following an accident last night when he was struck by a car at the intersection of King and Simcoe Streets. He received a cut over his right eye and bruises about his hip, but hos- pital 'authorities said his condition was not serious. Police sald that Pte, White, a member of the Irish Regiment, was crossing Simcoe Street against the light when he was hit by a car driven by Jack Dewell, 319 Kings- dale Avenue. .started the ball rolling by saying $25,000 DAMAGE HAMILTONPAINT SHOP FIRE Hamilton, Oct. 9 --(CP)= A spectacular fire late this morn- ing swept through a paint shop owned by the Hamilton Cub Aircraft Corporation, and did damage that may exceed $25,000 Cause of the outbreak is at present unknown. It is the second disaster that the Com- pany has suffered within the last six months, ' Last April a similar paint shop was destroyed by fire, with a loss of close to $50,000. Of- cials of the firm say that they are inclined to believe that spontaneous combustion was re- sponsible for this morning's blaze, Search for Abductor Of Listowel Children Listowel, Oct, 9--(OP)--Police to- day pressed a search of this Perth County district, some 27 miles north of Stratford,~for a man who took two children for a horse and buggy ride and then left them in the bush some six miles from this town, after saying he would be back. Search Jatles jound the shor hag General been missing for more than on Manerer of hours. They are the children of Mr, and Mrs, etme McKechnie-- Arlene, 4% and Robert, 2%. Rome, Oct. 9 (AP)--Police and troops using tanks and armored cars fought for three hours today with demonstra- tors led by workmen protesting their dismissal from a public project. A government communique sald one person died of injuries and 79 others were wounded, Police announced earlier that Bank Appointment A. G. ASHFORTH The Dominion Bank announces the re se mrar of A C, Adtorts 4 as Manager, Toronto, Mr, porn has' The Dominion Bank's Main Office at King and Yonge Sts, Toronto, for the past twelve years, Local Labor Group Favors Province- Wide Milk Strike A proposal to inaugurate a pro- vinclal-wide milk strike in protest against the recent increased price of milk was voiced last night at the monthly meeting of the Oshawa and District Labor Council, In support of this proposal a motion that "the question of a milk strike be put on the agenda of the On- tario Federation of Labor" at its Bex meeting in Toronto was pass- ed. The question of the milk strike came up during the discussion on the executive board's report sug- gesting that the Oshawa City Coun- cil be requested to protest the re- moval of the federal subsidy on milk. The board also suggested that the City Counc!l be asked urge the government to replace the subsidy so as "to provide milk to people at reasonable prices." Protests to Government Executive secretary M. J. Fenwick that his Local 1817 of the United Steelworkers of America ; (C.1.0.) had protested not only to Gov- ernment but also to the City Council, and had suggested a public- ly-owned dairy for Oshawa, He thought the labor council should do likewise. He cited the case of one family of six which used to take eight quarts of milk a day, and now takes only four. "Who is it that suf- fers there?" he exclaimed, "It is the children of course." Mrs, Mabel Mayne, of the wo- men's auxiliary, supported by Rob- ert Townsley of Local 222, United Automobile Workers, held the floor in support of more vigorous action regarding the milk situation, They said the only way to get action was for all consumer groups to join in such action as a milk strike on a province-wide bas's. A motion to put such a suggestion on the agenda of the next Ontario Federation of Labor meeting was "As a labor group petitioning the City Council we will get nowhere," sald Mrs, Mayne, "I think all the delegates should report back to their own Locals and get a greater voice behind this, They should get all groups busy---not just Labor alone--but all consumers. We should call a mass rally in Oshawa to get action mow on this problem." Cites Windsor Action Mrs. Mayne went on to describe action taken in a Windsor plant LOCAL LABOR (Continued on Page 2) Condition of Cordell Hull Still Serious Washington, Oct. 9--(AP)--The condition of former State Secretary Cordell Hull, who suffered a slight | & relapse yesterday, was reported un- changed and serious today at Beth- esda Naval Hospital, Mr, Hull's condition has ranged from serious to critical since he suffered a stroke nine days ago, SAYS COMPANION = THEN SUICIDES ' Winnipeg, Oct. 9--(CP) -- Jerome Allan Morrison, 33, bludgeoned Constant Borg, 66, a fellow-worker, to death Saturday and then climbed to the top of a 176-foot incinerator chimney where he placed a noose about his neck and leaped into the chimney, hanging himself, police Tepored today. org's ak decapitated body lay in a pile of blood-soaked cement sacks at the base of the incinerator where it was discovered late Tues- day. Police said the fatal blow was dealt with a 10-pound, sledge- hammer, Earlier in the day Morrison's corpse had been cut down from the chimney it swung from a nine-foot rope. At first it had been thought the body was a dummy placed there by jokers. Blood was found on Morrison's shoes. Police sald a possible motive for the murder was that Borg had tried to halt a suicide attempt by Mor- rison, Morrison's widow, Barbara, told police he. had been "threatening to commit suicide for some time." They had separated a week previ- ously. SEEK TO FORESTALL LUMBER STRIKE Port Arthur, Oct, 9 --(OP)-- A 8] for timber operators of the Thunder Bay district sald yes- terday he was hopeful regarding a settlement between operators and officials of the Lumber and Saw- mill Workers Union (AFL) in time to avert a strike of approximately 6,000 bush workers called for Oct. 12. The Union asks union recogni= tion, a wage increase and improved camp conditions. . three had been killed and leaders of the 20,000 to 30,000 demontrators amt that at least eight were ain, Scores of bullet marks pocked the Viminale Palace, seat of govern= ment, near where the dispute flared, Government officials and the head of the Italian Communist par- ty, Palmiro Togliatti, retreated from a palace balcony when pistol shots were fired in the air, Bruise Socialist Pletro Nenni, Socialist leader and Minister, suffered minor bruises when the crawd shoved him around as he walked among the demonstra- tors trying to pacify them, The workers' ranks were swelled by homeless war veterans and refu- gees from a camp on the edge of the city. A government communique said 50 of the demonstrators and 20 policemen were injured, It sald post ers announcing the termination of the works project for Saturday "had been erroneously" put up during the morning. Actually, the come munique sald, authorities were working on' a plan for a new proe ject which would absorb the une crowd was in an ugly mood ROME RIOT (Continued on Page 2) WOMAN CUSTOMER FOILS HOLDUP Toronto, Oct, §--(CP)----A woman customer seeking entry to the Rose mount Jewelry Store on Bloor Street in West Toronto today folled a holdup attempt by two men, one of them armed. The holdup pair had taken a wale let containing $35 and personal property from the manager and were 'about to clean out the cash box when the woman appeared, She first tried the front door and then the back door. Both were locked. She came again to the front door and the palr fled out the back door, The manager, Allan Rosenberg and a clerk, Mrs, R, A, Pratt, were fixing the showcases when the pair entered. On stayed at the door as a lookout and the other, carrying & gun, ordered thé two employees to the back of the store, Bidding For Home Brisk With spirited bidding for the one house up for sale, the City treasur- er's tax sale, held this morning in Centre Street School auditorium, lasted less than 15 minutes and no adjourned sale will be necessary, There was an attendance of 11 when the sale commenced but dwindled after the one chance to secure housing accommodation was over. The property in question was the house at 99 Burk Street with tax arrears amounting to $201.93, While bidding opened at this fig ure, the offers mounted rapidly-- $250, $500 and from there on to $1,» 100 where the other three bidders retired from the field and the prop- rty was declared sold to Mrs. Jean Marchant, 280 Nassau Street. The two vacant properties for sale each went to the first bidder for the arrears figure, An irregularly shaped lot 45 feet Wi 130 feet 10% inches, on the north side of Annis Street, Lot 46, Push 243, wert to Mr, and Mrs, Al- bert Eagleson, 215 Hing Sitotk ue Wek, for the sum of $54.73, ta Deing in arrears from 1042 to 1948, 1 The lot wag on the south side of Eldon Avenue, Lot 464, Plan 145, 30 by 170 feet in dimension, with taxes in arrears for the same od. This property was sold to lla Igle, 326 Ritson Road South, for $27.67. Three other vacant properties had been listed, Sor quid but were ree deemed prior to the sale. These on College Avenue, Graburn and Ritson Road South. THE WEATHER Overcast today and tonight remaining eloudy most of ng Intermittent rain is evening by ending Thursday Contin were Avenue and during the Low tonight and high Thurs- day 45 and 58,