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% Oshawa Railwaymen Get 10 Cent Hourly Increase THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE "OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 5--NO. 131 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1946 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES | BEACHWEAR FIRM LOCATES . Kiwanians' T.B. Survey Plans Completed Suspect Canadian In Windsor Theft; Reports Irk Duke London, Oct. 18 (CP)--Ace investigators from Scotland Yard stretched a dragnet across England and into Europe today in search for thieves wh o stole part of the Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, even as a military car, tentatively identi- fied ag Canadian, was described as the most important clue in the case. oe Several ' persons living near Ed- nam Lodge in Sunningdale, Berk- Ajax Feeders Goto H.E.P.C. For $28,200 Montreal, Oct. 18.--(CP)--Feeder lines serving the Defence Industries Limited plant at Ajax have been to the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario for $28,200, it was announced by War Assets today. The original cost lines was $46,500, JS of the rari 2 Si "p] 37 £3 Eg At International Four Ontario County ploughmen are listed among those winning rat- ing in the second day's competitions at International Ploughing Match 'at Port Albert. Lloyd Ball of Uxbridge stood fourth in the class for ploughing with horses by boys under 18, while Ronald Marquis of Sunderland came fourth in the n competi- tion for ploughing with horses, T. Eaton Oo. class, Ross Miller of Sunderland came eighth in the horses class to those who had Rood Senih i} Jn the open to prev! non- prize winners and boys under 18. Others from the district to gain tion were A. Featherston, Milliken, , Carl Timbers, Aurora, Floyd Stickley, Stouffville, David Ratcliff, Stouffville, Fred Timbers, e, Ed. Timbers, Pshire, scene of the theft, reported to police that a large military-ty| car was seen in the vicinity of the lodge three times during the last week. Police said the vehicle was de- scribed as a Canadian Army staff car, but that the description given was not detailed enough to make Ja identification as cer- Ednam Lodge, an hour's drive from London, is owned by the Earl of Dudley, banker and international industrial and a close associate of the Duke of Windsor before the war. The tweed-clad duke, who had come to England for a private, quiet visit, himself valued the loot at not more than £20,000 ($80,000). Speak- ing from his temporary home at Phin Wo d Floor Space At Armouries ls Obtained Final arrangements for the Ki- wanis Club tuberculosis survey for Ontario County were announced to- day following a meeting of the Club | last night when a committee under the chairmanship of president-elect Dave Jamieson put the finishing touches to their plan, Lieutenant-~Colonel Lloyd wW, Cur- rell, in collaboration with Lieuten- ant-Colone] Murray P. Johnston, secured permission to use the Arm- ouries during the period of the sur- vey. In order to facilitate passage of the people coming in for the X- rays, certain alterations will be made to the floor space of the Ar- mouries. These include putting up partitions permitting privacy, di- rection signs, ete. areas will be enclosed to insure a free flow of the appointees at the time t. A large cent of the clinic help has already been arranged for. , Kiwanian BE. 'W. Reynolds, 2nd vice-president-elect, stated that a Columbus Day Speaker > Calls For Active, Vocal Canadian Citizenship Addressing the annual Columbus Day dinner of St. Gregory's Council, Knights of Columbus, Judge Frank G. J. McDonagh, of York County Court, last night called for "a strong, active and vocal Canadian citizenship in Canada." "Citizenship," he declared, "does not mean merely a passive obedience to law, but rather an active and intelligent participa- tion in government -- municipal, provincial and federal." While claiming that in the past "to a great extent our thinking and our outlook in matters national has been warped--we have had a divid- ed alleglance, a divided patriotism and loyalty," Judge McDonagh said it was his considered opinion that "as a result of the experiences of our men in uniform from 1914-18 and the experiences of our men and women in uniform in the t war, there are more people in Can- ada today who are Canadian in the sense and intention of the Fathers of Confederation than ever before." He quoted Thomas D'Arcy McGee, One of the Fathers of Confedera- on: "A Canadian nationality--not French Canadian, nor British Can- adlan, nor Irish Canadian--patrio= COLUMBUS DAY (Continued on Page 2) Ontario's Labor Troubles Lessening, Outlook Bright Toronto, Oct. 18--(CP)--Ontario's troubled labor front brightened to- as conclusion of three more left only a dozen to be set- in the wave of 20 major strikes some branches ol industry since last sum- mer, Last night's settlements at the Chatham and Windsor plants of the Chrysler Corporation, Dominion Rubber Company at Kitchener, and Anaconda American Brass Com- at New Toronto, followed much the same pattern--concession «and compromise agreements, There 'were indications that the remaining 12 strikes were headed in the same direction. The Anaconda Strike, called five months ago today by Local 811, In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (C.1.0.) to obtain , ended on the basis of a 12! -cents-an-hour increase and provision for re-open- ing negotiations should the cost-cf- living index rise four points over its figure for September, 1046. Num- ber of employees idle in this strike was 1,400. Though the Anaconda strike was of the longest duration, the Chrys- ler lasted 121 days and the Domin- ion Rubber strike lasted 115 days. End of the Chrysler strike came with occeptance by the workers of the Rand Formula for union secur- ity and wage agreements guaran- teeing hourlygrated employees a 12- cents-an-hour increase, and addi- tional three-cents-an-hour increase for um-rated employees. Re- v vacation plans were also in- cluded. A total of 4,000 workers were af- fected by the strike, called by the United Automobile Workers (C10). Dominion Rubber Company em- ployees will receive total benefits of 16 cents a hour, including a flat wage increase of 13 cents an hour to all employees, retroactive to May 19, Their demands were for 20-cents-an<hour wage in- creases and a 40-hour week. The settlement covers a period of one year, This strike began June 23. Local 80, United Rubber Workers (CIO) was the union involved. Goodyear And Union Meet Today The bargaining committee of Lo- cal 189, United Rubberworkers of America, is meeting this afternoon with officials of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company at Bowman- ville, where 650-odd Goodyear em- ployees have been on strike since June 24, No indication as to the results of the talks have been forthcoming but it is understood that the meet- ing is at the request of the come pany. Headed by Norman Allison, president of the local, the five-man bargaining committee at Bowmane ville includes Ivan Hobbs, vice-pres- ident of the local, Frank Hooper, Cecil Woodward and Maurice Prout. 'Today also is the expiration date of Local 189's contract with the company and union officlals said that the draft of the proposed new agreement would be presented to the company this afternoon. With the members of the Domin- ion Rubber Company local at Kit- chener voting last night to accept terms of settlement, eight rubber plants in Ontario still are strike- bound. The workers are asking for a 40-hour week and a wage increase of 20 cents an hour. The terms ac- cepted by the Kitchener workers included a 16-cent an hour wage increase. TRIBUTE OF $4,000,000 GIVEN BRITAIN London, Oct. 18-- (CP) Prime Minister Smuts of South Africa today presented Britain cash gifts of more than £1,000,000 ($4,000,000) as a "National Tri- bute" from the South Afgican people, In a ceremony at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Attlee said the gifts were "a wonderful symbol" which demonstrated "the spirit in which we must go forward to a mew. and peaceful ora, of Commerce, who assisted the Williams Piano building. - Chamber of Commerce Official Greets Company Head W, B. McCullough, president of the Cole of California (Canada) Ltd, which is to open a plant in Oshawa within a few weeks, shakes hands with George W. Garner, (left) secretary-manager of the Oshawa Chamber The mew concern is a branch of Cole of securing y California Inc, manufacturers of 'quality beachwear, atid will be located on the third floor of the west wing of a location for the firm. ~ =-Photo by Campbell's Studio Labor Board Announces RR. Increases A National War Labor Board de- cision handed down at Ottawa to- day brings an increase of 10 cents an hour or the equivalent to 35 trainmen employed by the Oshawa Railway Company. The men, who work on the five shunters used by the, company, have been receiving from 73 to 80 cents per hour de- pending upon their classification. The increase is retroactive to June 1 of this year. The decision effects 17,000 C.N.R. and C.P.R. trainmen, It is pointed out by J. H. Mec- Dairmid, Superisiendelt of i Company t other n, "SUCH as Tiremen, oP oon tors and office workers received a similar increase about a month ago. In a second decision, the Board also authorized a similar wage in- crease for other employees of the Canadian Pacific ranging from en- gineers, telegraphers and Hotel em- LABOR BOARD (Continued on Page 2) GOERING HAD SUICIDE OPPORTUNITY Nuernberg, Oct. 18--(AP)--A theory that Hermann Goering slipped his poison vial into his mouth while seated on the toilet in a corner of his cell Wednes- day night was advanced by prison officials today. Col. B. C. Andrus, prison Commandant said the toilet was so located that the guard g con- stantly through the door could not possibly have seen the upper part of the prisoner's body. Rob- ert Ley, Nazi Labor-chief, man- aged to avoid detection in the same way when he hanged himself, LINDSAY EX-MAYOR DIES Lindsay, Oct. 18--(CP) -- James Begg, a former mayor of this East- ern Ontario town, died yesterday, aged 86. He operated the Lindsay Soda Works and had occupied al- most all town municipal offices. 'Traffic Infraction Brings $25 Fine Charged with careless driving fol- lowing an accident, near the Mount Lawn Cemetery Hill, on October 12, A. M. Mackenzie of Alymer, Ont, was fined $26 and costs or one month in jail by Magistrate F. 8. Ebbs today. Provincial Constable Gordon Keast testified that the accused had been driving east on the high- way, had crossed the centre line and strijck an auto driven by C. Simpson of Peterborough No one was injured, he said, but about $100 damage had been done to the Sifp- son car. The accused had been drinking, . Mr. Mackenzie pleaded guilty. BOND SALES INCREASING Ottawa, Oct. 18--(CP)--The cum- ulative national sales total of Can- ada Savings Bonds for the first two "days of the current campaign total- led $25,512,300, compared with $11,- 327,100 for the first day alone, Na- tional headquarters reported day. Of Nazi War Plans To Examine Brains Lords Vetoed By Allied Control Council Nuernberg, Oct. 18 (AP)--A high source disclosed today that the Allied Control Council had voted down, after a long and bitter debate, a proposal that the brains of the executed Nazi ringleaders be examined for possible scientific clues as to what makes a Fascist boss tick. the & The subject of examining brains of the men condemned to death by the Internationa] Military Tribunal was raised in severa] ses- sions of the Four . power council for Germany, an anonymous but throughout reliable officer sald, but it was vetoed each time. Investigation of the means by which Hermann obtained the cyanide which enabled him to cheat the gallows Tuesday night continued today, but without any indication from the three-man board as to what progress it was making, if any, With the ashes of the 11 dead Nazis scattered to the winds, it be- cision to cremate the executed men. together with that of Goering, was made only a short time before Wednesday morning's: - hangings, because officials in Nuernberg came apparent here that the de- ue preparing as recently as last Thurs. day for ordinary, but secret burials. Reports circulating here indicated that discussion aong the four oc- cupying ers as to what to do with the es after death centred around tow main factors: 1. How much driticlsm would be involved in cremating the 11 men-- including five Roman Catholics-- inasmuch as the Roman Catholic church prohibits cremation? (An informed source at the Vat- ican sald last night that the cre- mation of the Nazis was "not.ap- provable" by the church but: that he doubted any official pronounce- ment would be made in the case. 2. Which is better, to keep the world in the dark about the final disposition of the bodies, or to make it: impossible for anyone to-do any- eryone knew what happened? thing about the bodies even if ev- Case Against Bohozuk And MacLe an Depends On Evelyn's Testimony Hamilton, Oct. 18 (CP)--The Crown's case in the torso murder charges against Donal zuk rests largely on whether d MacLean and William Boho- Mrs. Evelyn Dick will testify against her father and one-time friend, the Canadian Press learned today. Should Mrs. Dick refuse to testify ofor the Crown--and her defence Co-operation Burt Pledge Windsor, Oct. 18 -- (CP) -- The longest strike ever conducted by the United Automobile Workers (CIO) to- | in Canada or the United States has ended with the acceptance of settle- ment terms by 3,500 Chrysler Cor- poration of Canada workers here nad 400 at the firm's Chatham, plant. Terms include a general wage in- crease of 12 cents an hour, vacation with pay and clauses covering seni- ority, and the Rand formula of union security. George Burt, Canadian director of the United Automobile Workers (C10), announced the end of the 121 day long strike last night, "We hope it will mean the begin- ning of a new era of productive relations with the Corporation and a period of industrial stability," he said. "To that end we will give our full co-operation and I am joined in this expression, I am con- fident, by every union officer and member," E. C. Row, vice-president and general manager of Chrysler Cor- poration, said the company estim- ated it would take maintenance men a week to prepare the plants for resumption of production. ROOM IN BASEMENT Orillia, Oct. 18--To accommodate the unusually large enrolment, a new room has been opened in part of the basement of James Street School. The room is being used to seat some 37 Grade 2 pupils, arerm---------- THE WEATHER Overcast with rain and scat- fered thunderstorms, bedoming cloudy with widely scattered showers this evening and clear- ing at night. Saturday clear becoming cdudy for a few hours around midday.. Coole er tonight and Saturday. "| counsel says that is her intention-- there might be an attempt to intro- duce into this trial her statements given police, particulafly that of April 12 in which she said her hus- band was killed by Bohozuk March 6 in a car which she was driving at the time. These statements were ruled ad- missible as testimony in Mrs. Dick's trial, prior to her conviction on the murder charge, but only after con- siderable legal argument by Crown and defence counsel, DICK MURDER (Continued on Page 2) Cole of California Plans Immediate Production Start Cole of California Inc., manufacturers of high quality women's and children's bathing suits and playwear, have chosen Oshawa as the location for a Canadian plant to oper- ate under the name of Cole of California (Canada) Ltd. it was announced today. The anouncement came through the local Chamber of Commerce, the agency which assisted the concern in obtaining a location here. Machinery has already arrived and it is hoped that the plant, to be situated on the third floor of the Pacific Textiles wing of the Williams Piano building, will be- gin production within three or four weeks. Start with 60 Hands W. B, McCullough 8r., president of the new Canadian branch, said that approximately 60 employees will be engaged at first but he ex- pressed the hope that this number would be increased to "a good fig- ure" as operations progressed. Fe- male labor will be employed entir- Sald to be the largest industry of | | its kind in the United States, Cole, of California has been established in Los Angeles for the past /83 years and sells to many of the rfost prominent retailers in the country. Hollywood is among its clientele and its creations have been models FIRM LOCATES (Continued on Page 2) Take Action Over Milk At 16 Cents Toronto, Oct. 18--(CP)--Control= ler Stewart Smith today charged the Borden Company Limited had violated the Milk Control Act of Ontario and appeared before Crown Attorney James W. McFadden to give details to be used in laying an informatioon against the company. Mr, Smith took a bottle of milk into the Crown Attorney's office and said he had purchased it taday at a Borden's store in Toronto for 16 cents. He said selling milk at more than 15 cents a quart was a violation of the action and told re- porters Mr. McFadden was "study- ing the form of the information and drawing up the summons." The Smith move followed a state- ment last night by J. Palmer Kent, deputy city solicitor, in which Mr, Kent said he believed Dairies sell- ing milk at more than 15 cents a quart may be open to prosecution under the Act. He sald the opinion was based on a disclosure in the Ontario Supreme Court yesterday that the Ontario Milk Control Board had not ap- proved any increase in the 'price of milk and would not issue any ore der or approve any agreement give ing legal effect to a price increase pending the report of a Royal Com- mission and action on it by the Ontario Government. Recent retail price of milk has been 16 cents a quart in many dair- ies, it was reported. by a 40-M.P.H. gale. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS From The Canadian Press London: Assessors offer $2,000 reward for Windsor jewelry recovery, listing a portion of the stolen gems, Via New York: The liner Queen Elizabeth is being buffeted Athens: 200 Greek Leftists suffer severe losses in attack on a town in western Macedonia. London: Cevad Acikalin, Turk ambassador, said that the defence of the Dardanelles must remain in Turkish hands, while Russia studies Turk reply to second Russ demand over the Straits, Ottawa: C. B. Belk, assistant secretary of the Federal Inven- tions Board told the court at the trial of Eric Adams that he (Belk) "would trust him with anything." Timmins: The Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union (A.F.L.) charged the McChesney Lumber Co., Ltd., was import- ing non-unionists from Quebec to break the six-day-old strike. The company denied the charge, Moscow: The Russian newspaper Izvestia today editorially criticized the Churchill family under "The Holy Family," and charged that while Winston ardently guards the Opposition Chair in Parliament, his son, Randolph, makes anti-Soviet speeches. e heading