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§ ' We gave", Pmonth for the own Asks Bohozuk, McLean Case Be ismissed HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1946 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES VOL. 5--NO. 133 BOWMA VILLE STRIKE SETTLED 400 Workers Breakfast Opens Drive To $55,000 This Week The first peacetime Oshawa Community Chest cam- paign was officially launched this morning as some 400 can- vassers, wearing the symbolic red feather, went out to all parts of the city and through the various factories and busi- ness establishments appealing to the citizens of Oshawa for Raise & sum Of at least $65,000 to cover ®- the minimum requirements of 16 worthwhile es operating in the city. This week has been. proclaimed "Community Week in Oshawa and the blue and ed powiens Jeary the "Every ly ory ves", the read feather--the deed--and the are already familiar sigh t the city, It is expected that soon the citizens of the city will be wearing the min- red feaher indicating that Ask Half-Day's Pay HT\PIOYe . package of cigarettes per year, At a breakfast meeting attended by nearly 100 team captains and canvassers in Hotel Genosha this 'morning, final instruction for the average f 'one OHEST FUND (Continued on Page 2) ° ° Milk Driver [ ° Situation 'Delicate' Is 'Delicate Toronto, Oct. 3 (OP) Mituiliers I Dr will old an emergency meeting tonight discuss decreased earnings re sulting from the milk price increase, union officials said foday, adding that union and dairy 1s woul confer this afternoon. J. D. Buchanan, president of the union which says 85 per cent of milk distribution in the Toronto area is carried out by its 1,800 mem- , sald "the situation is very delicate" and strike action may be discussed, Saturday it was re; strike action was aver to continue ; | men sald that the Oct. 1 the. Toronto priee to 16 a quart, brought a' reduction rchases. . Dairies also raised t the men had to sell be- i He 53 g FL company was sworn out by Cone troller Stewart Smith of Torani on the grounds that the increase, on by ucer and distribu- Shae. ou" ator { 00! ro Ontario Milk Gontrol Board, ye 135 Assessment Appeals Entered A total of 135 appeals have Been entered against property assess. ments in the city for 1047, City As« Eldon Kerr said today, This an increase of about 30 over the Tae, be appeals wi heard at four sessions of the Court of Revision | Nu between November 1 and Novemyer 8. At the opening session on No- 1, the appeals from A to B . will be heard while those from F to K are scheduled for November 8, L to R for November 6 and § to Z for | Was Novem! ber 8. The city assessor pointed out that a large number of the appeais are against assessment. on vacant Men the lands. » bers of the city's Court of Revision again. this year are L. 8. Hyman, 8, R. Alger and 8, A. Bone, \ er TAKE THIS AS A MATTER OF CORSET Woodstock, Oct, 21 = (CP) «= A girdle-snatoher is at work in Woodstook--but don't be fright. ened girls, the girdles are being snatched from olothes lines, Police sald someone might do a Mra & vesull of 488 Shafi. Reds Shoot Yank, [#2 cman vy. nk act Qass 3 [od immedintely AER Vi 3 wer Berlin, Oct, 31--(AP)--The Ame erioan military government pro 8 tested sharply to Russian authorie | the ties today over the fatal shooting Nebr by Dn miiltasy. pol vo n ' ce= man in the Soviet sector of Berlin, United States officials sald they were concerned "not so much with the shooting as with 'the fact that an American party was molested at all In this city where there is free traverse between the occupa. tion sectors." Commercial Aviation Has 1st Walkout , Oct, N--(AP)--Ap- proximately 1,400 American Federa. tion of Labor snploved by | Trans-World ines struck for higher pay today. planes on the States and Trans-Atlan fourth largest US, alr line, operates over 28,370 miles of routes, ' The walkout--first in commercial aviation's history--satarted at 4:50 am, EST. shortly thereafter, the company began cancelling domestic and trans-Atlantic flights of its glant Constellations and Skymast- T. J. Rigney, K.C. Special Prosecutor Whe conferred today on the forso murder trial of Donald MacLean and William Bohosuk, )pen Chest F und Drive Today Leslie Blackwell Attorney-General ers, In New York it was APL) Boi involved, emanded salaries ranging to $1,18743 monthly for first Bllots. The cancellation affects Have Little Because of Evelyn's Hamilton, Oct. 21 (CP)--T. J. Rigney, K.C., Special Crown prosecutor moved toda murder trial of William Boho discharged on the grounds certain evidence the Crown needs is "not available." Evidence y that the jury in the torso zuk and Donald MacLean be AVIATION WALKOUT (Continued on Page 2) St. Paul'sDean Explains Use of Alternate Verse In National Anthem London, Oct.'21 (CP Cable) --The verse of the National Anthem which had everyone baffled when it was sung yes- terday at a United Nations service in St. Paul's Cathedral, was written early in the 19th century by W, E, Hickson, non- conformist preacher who lived from 18038 to 1870. Some London Powerworkers BackinPittsburgh Pittsburgh, Oct. 21--(AP)--Power union workers were returning to their jobs today, ending a costly 27. day utility strike after voting to submit their demands for a 20 per wage increase and other issues to arbitration, The end of the strike was expect. ed to be followed by a speedy re- turn to normal life in the 817 square mile industrial area in which the Duquesne Light Company Jide service to an estimated 1,500, ee Goering Suicide No Defeat--Shaw : London, Oct. 31. -- (Reuters) -- George Bernard Shaw said in a let- tor in The Times of Lon- don today that he would have given Nazi leaders sufficient m a to poison Ives and so "spare us the disgusting job of hanging them." Mr, Shaw's letter said that "among the insanities that war always pro- duces should be classed the general assumption that the suicide of Goering has been a defeat for the ernberg tribunal and the victor. lous powers, and that the most rig- orous inquiry must be made as to who conived at it by some relaxa- tion of the manacling and spy-hole inspection to which the prison subjected. One would suppose that his evasion of the rope threa- tens us with a third world war . . ---------- er halled the verse as a "United Nations" version until they looked up the au- thor. The verse runs: "Nor on this land alone-- But be God's mercies known From shore to shore, : Lord, make the nalions see "hat men should brothers be And form one family The wide world o'er." The verse appears in the English Hymnal under the National Anthem as "the third verse of part II. The authorised verse, which was thought inappropriate for the oocasion by the Dean and Chaper of St. Paul's, runs: "O Lord our God arise, Scatter our enemies And make them fall; Confound their tics, Frustrate their vish tricks, . On Thee our hopes we fix. God Save us all." Dr. W. R. Matthews, the. Dean, sald it is to be hoped the alterna- tive verse will come into usage when the three verses of the Na- tional Anthem are sung. "This will come about, I feel sure, if the ale ternative verse is sung often enough." > Cyclist Suffer Minor Injuries A collision between a motorcycle and an auto early last night at the and Mary Streets intersection resulted in minor injuries to- the Sie hr: Si Sie ve Avenue, amage both vehicles, Dr. John F. McVay of Pawtuck- et, RI, driver of westbound auto, told police he was crossing with the green light when his car was struck as the motorcycle ate tempted a left-hand turn. onto Mary Street. 'ment was called out to stop a fire cocclo w " a clals lege THIS BURNED THEM UP, NO DOUBT Toronto, Oct. 21.~(CP)=It to the rows of cement up near a building site on his street--until hig left leg slipped block and No Damage From Two Small Fires Two small fires were reported to the Oshawa Fire Department over the week-end. On. Saturday afternoon the de ent extinguished a minor fire a shed behind 870 Verdun Road where some children had been play- ing in a pile of rubbish, About 9:00 a.m, today the depart- that 'had started in 'the home of Mrs, -B, Bright, 200 Court Street, when the motor of her washing machine seized. No 'damage was caused in either case, Venezuela Vote Hails Democracy Caracas, Venezuela, Oct. 21--(AP) --Almost a million Venezuelans are expected to vote for a national constituent assembly, Oct. 27 in an election hailed as the first flower- ha of democracy in this country, t will be the first national elec- tion by direct vote, and women will vote for the first time. : The constituent assembly will be charged with drafting a new con- stitution, selecting a provisional president and setting a date for Section of a constitutional presi. dent, ° CATTLE DISEASE HITS CIVILIANS THROUGH MILK Guelph, Oct. 21-(CP)---Strepto- Mastitls, a cattle disease hich humans may catch from in ted milk, was in 87 out of herds in the Guelph area during survey made this summer, offi- of the Ontario Ve 5 announced at the week-end, ¢ Mrs, Evelyn Dick, convicted and > | ame. os. of 90, maintains & UVeld |, of 03g valid Votes had boen tab. sentenced to hang Jan, 7 for the murder last March 6 of her husband John Dick, the murder with which MacLean and Bohosuk are accused, has refused to testify for the Crown. The jury was excluded from the court while the Crown made its move. His Lordship, Mr, Justice George A. Urquhart asked what evidence was avallable and the Crown sald in view of Mrs, Dick's refusal to testify against her father and one- time boy friend, the main Crown evidence was contained in her testimony at the preliminary hear- ing last spring, some time after the torso of her husband, Johan Dick, & Russian-born street car driver, was found on Hamilton Mountain, Maren 16, 10 days after he disap- peared. Immediately the Crown and His Lordship started going over, during exclusion of the jury, the evidence that was available from the prelim. inary hearing. Both Bohosuk and MacLean sat impassively in the midst of their fourth day of their trial, considera- tion to this vitpl evidence was given, Mr, Rigney, fresh from a confer. ence in Toronto with the Attorney General's department rose when court opened at 2 pm, and moved the case be withdrawn from the Jury and the jury discharged. "T move, your Lordship, that the case be withdrawn from the jury and the jury discharged on the grounds that certain essential evid- ence is not available to the prose- cution," he said. Lordship said that in his view Mrs. Dick was "a vital witness to the prosecution." In statements admitted as evid- ence at her trial Mrs, Dick had sald Bohosuk killed her husband during a wild, drinking motor ride on March 6 when she was the driv er of the car at least part of the e, Two efforts to get Mrs, Dick to testify at this trial have failed, even though the convicted woman was placed in the witness stand and latest word from Barton Street Jail, seemingly confirmed 'by today's EVELYN DICK (Continued on Page 2) Petain Asks Re-trial Defence Announces Ile D'Yeu, France, Oct. 21.--(CP) --Former Marshall Petain, a soll- tary prisoner in Ile D'Yeu fortress interest In current affairs wants a retrial, his lawyer revealed yesterday. Jacques Isornl, his coun a before the court which senten- him to death, au. 15, 1949, fol. lowing conviction having s of intelligence with the enemy, ask" for Gen, De Gaulle to com- Rush Troops To Quell India Riots New Delhi, Oct, 21--(AP)~--Troops were strengthened in East Bengal today as bloody Hindu-Moslem warfare there threatened a crisis in India's young interim govern ment, The government said 1,600 men-- two battalions and a brigade head- quarters--would join 32,600 soldiers and 450 armed police in the troubled Noakhali and Tippera districts east of Calcutta today. Newspapers charged the Viceroy, Viscount Wavell, and Sir Frederick Burrows, the Bengal provincial gov- ernor, with delay in protecting East Bengal's Hindu minority, Yesterday Viscount Wavell wound up a three-day visit to Bom« bay as four persons were killed and 13 wounded in communial violence there, Four persons were killed and 14 injured Saturday, The convoy of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, leading Minister in the new vernment and ex-president of the du-led all India Congress party, was attacked by several hundred tribesmen in the Khyber Pass on a Yous of India's northwest frontier The 'attackers and defending Khyber riflemen 'exchanged 300 to 400 shots, but only minor resulted. The clash was the third incidental to Nehru's travels, Moslems outnumber Hindus five to one in the trouble zone of East Bengal, Both Moslems and Hindus seem to agree that Moslems started ey Slat ance, ugees from the districts said Moslems had forced the mass cone version of Hindus to the Moham- medan religion on a scale without precedent in nearly 200 years, 47 YEARS A SOLDIER, DEAD AT 77 Long Beach, Calif, Oct, 21, = (AP)=-Master Sergeant John W, Westervelt, who retired a Year ago at the age of 77 as the oldest soldier in the active ser- vice of the United States Army, died Saturday. He had served 18 years in the National Guard 13-Cent-An-Hour Pay Increase For (roodyear Workers The strike at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. plant in Bowmanville is over. Employees of the company, who have been out since June 24, started back to work this morns ing following acceptance of gency meeting of Local 189, settlement terms at an emer United Rubber Workers of America, C,1.O,, in the Town Hall there last night. 4 Last night's decision, which was unanimous, came on the heels of TODAY'S SHORT, SHORT STORY Toronto, Oct, 21 = (CP) «= Shortening is short in nearby North York Township, and a pussled policeman who caught a neighbor in his house at night with a pound of the precious clutched to his bos om, wonders who won by the capture, He arrested the neigh- bor on a charge of housebreak- ing, but now he wants his short ening back. It is being held as evidence, 100,000 Jews Said Toe Few ur) By Welles Toronto, Oct, 231--(CP) -- Presi- dent Truman's plea for the admis- sion of 100,000 European Jews to Palestine should be "only a start" and settlement of a "great many more" was needed, Sumner Welles sald here today. The former United States under- secretary of State, now on a speak- ing tour of Canada, told a press conference that "in the highest sense" the Jewish plea for entry into Palestine was justified, How=- ever, he said, only the United Na- tions could settle the problem and he hoped the U.N, International Trusteeship Council would shortly be appointed at the UN, General Assembly meeting in New York to deal with it, Tied in with the problem of settling Jews and other displaced persons of Europe was the problem of providing proper preparation of lands in which they should settle, and 29 in the regular Army, such as irrigation of the Holy Land, Soviet-Backed Party LooksSoundly Whipped In Berlin Elections Berlin, Oct. 21 (AP)--The Soviet-backed Socialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) appeared today to have been routed in Ber- lin's first free municipal election in 14 years, which an Am- erican Military Government official termed of continent-wide significance in the issue between eastern and western polici- cal philosophies. Virtually complete returns from Sunday's election of municipal and borough councilmen showed the SED, running a poor third in a field of four parties, The Social Democratic Party (8P.D,) scored a smeching victory, capturing alm:s: half the total vite The Christian Democatic Union (G.D.U,) was second, well ahead of the Socialist Unity Party. With only 100 out of 3,284 pre- cinots yet to be heard from, the vote was: Social Democrats, 948,743; Christian Democratic Union, 431,- 916; Socialist Unity Party, 383,182; Liberal Democtratic Party (LP.P), 182,007, This would give the Social Dem- ocrats 48.7 per cent of the total and the Socialist Unity Party only 196 cent. oting, by straight ticket only, was heavy and orderly, 'There were 2,340,732 eligible vot- ers, By 10:30 am, (4:30 am, EST), ulated, Vold ballots then number- ed 37,272, Before the election Lt.-Col. Louls Glaser, political affairs chief of tho United States Military Govern- ment's Berlin branch, said the is- sue clearly lay between eastern and western political philosophies, "Germany must ultimately make Petain as saying "he did not mute the sentence to life imprisons ment, : a decision in this respect," he said. | "The Berlin vote, establishing such a decision, will have great influence upon the ultimate destiny of Ger- many and therefore upon the poli- tical destiny of Europe," three days of negotiations between the Local and the Company. The bargaining committee for the Local was composed of Norman Allison, President of the Local Ivan Hobbs, Vice President: Frank Hooper, Cecil Woodward and Maurice Prout, 13 Cent Increase The settlement provides for a 13.cent-an-hour increase in wages starting from the time the employ- ees go back to work, Provision is also made for a three-cent differ. ential for second shift workers and a five-cent differeritial for third shift workers, Since 1038 the contract between the Company and the Union has provided for the emplo being paid for seven legal holidays, This will be continued, The employees | work a 48-hour week the same as before the strike, yees on the payroll on June 2¢ will ree ceive $40 in retroactive pay, Figuision is also made for the x pet KR RR Selberling Workers Back Toronto, Oot, 21--(OP)--As work: GOODYEAR STRIKE (Continued on Page 2) ---- Subscription Rates Top C.C.M.A.Talk St. Catharines, Oct, 21--(OP)--A survey of increased subscription rates in relation to circulation, base ed on reports from 32 Ontario dally newspapers today formed the chief basis of discussions at the semi- annual meeting of the Canadian Circulation Managers' Association, The survey, presented by W. J, Stewart, St. Thomas, 0.0.M.A, sec retary, showed that as of Oct. 1, there had been only a slight de- crease in circulation as a result of increased subscription rates, "The decrease in circulation has in ale most all cases been outside the city of publication, in suburban and rur- al areas," he sald, Oanadlan newspapers should in- crease their mail rates at least to the point where they equal carrier delivered rates sald Harold Garner, publisher of the Peterborough Ex- aminer, "At the present mail rate, we are selling something at a loss," Mr, Garner stated, The one-day session opened this morning with a welcoming address from Mayor W. J. Macdonald of St, Catharines, President EB, B, Brackenbury, of Ottawa, said that with ever increas- ing costs, rates were still a problem. With the return of peace, however, the Rowe delivery problem had les- sened, There should be no need to resort to prewar practices of get clrou= lation at any costs d 0, L, Bourque, Montreal, who stated that circulation revenue was "still the mainstay in the backbone of the publishing business." * LATE NEWS BRIEFS + From The Canadian Press Berlin: Some of the official pictures of the Nuernberg execu: tions will be made public, the Allied Control Council decided today. Ottawa: Prime Minister King will leave here tomorrow for New York to attend the opening of the United Nations Assembly, London: Arthur Henderson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the India office, reported that rioti has been "caused by a Ottawa: Eric George Adams nection with a Russian espionage ring. in Bengal body of hooligans." today denied in court any cone Rome: An informant at Italian Police headquarters said that "vague rumors" were received impending attempt on 'some days ago of an the life of Pope Pius. Toronto: Early balloting in the Parkdale by-election was re- ported as "light",