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' a sy ------ ---- -- i ------ i ---- -------- - - King, Howe, Kellock, RCMP Subpoenaed In O 7 ttawa THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY, VOL. 5--NO. 152 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1946 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES NO JUMP IN GM GANADIAN P Firm Court Of Revision Says Christian's Is Retail Business After considerable deliberation, the Court of Revision last night held that Christian's Electric and Hardware store should not properly be assessed as a 'department' store paying 50 per cent business tax but rather as an ordinary retail store assessed for business purposes on a 30 per cent basis, The total assessment on the build- ing being $37,115, this decision meant a reduction of over $6,000 in the business assessment. Under the Assessment Act a department store is the business of a retail merchant dealing in more than five branches of the retail trade on the same ; , The store had not been classed as a 'department' store on previous assessment rolls. Sworn Evidence Taken Departing from the usual Court of Revision procedure, sworn evi- dence was taken in this case, with A. F. Annis, KC. acting for the appellant and T. K. Creighton, K.C. for the city. - 'The witness called on behalf of appellant was James C. Bush, 3 manager of the store, who had 17 years experience in merchandising approximately 55 per total. turn-over, while the major i made up 30 per cent and gifts and china 13 per cent. With reference to certain house- Cr RETAIL STORE 4 «(Continued on Page 2) A 4 prom Heart Attack Fatal REV. JAMES J. REDDIN i away suddenly on Sun- is 50th year nine days after assuming his duties as rector of St. Thomas inas Roman Catho- lic Church, Toronto. He was a native of Pickering and was well known in Oshawa. Not Assessable As Department Store hd COHEN CALLS BIG GUNS AS WITNESSES Ottawa, Nov, 12--(CP)-- Defence Counsel J. L. Cohen of Toronto an- |. nounced in court today he had sub- poenaed Prime Minister Macken zie King and Reconstruction Minis. ter Howe as witnesses in the conspi. racy trial] of David Gordon Lunan, former Canadian Information Ser- vices official. Lunan is charged with conspiring to communicate secret information to Soviet agents, Mr, Cohen also told Judgéh. G. McDougall of the Carleton unty Court that he had served subpoen- as on Mr, Justice R. L. Kellock of the Supreme Court of Canada and a member of the Royal Commission on Espionage, Commissioner 8, T. Wood of the RCMP, Laurant Beaudry of the Externa] Affairs Department and Inspector Leopold, COHEN CALLS (Continued on Page 2) Citizens' Committee Holds Final Meeting After 7 Years Service Seven years of service to Oshawa's men and women in . the Armed Forces and their families was brought to a close . at the final meeting of the Citizens War Services Committee Held recently in Hotel Genosha. . Mrs, R. 8. McLaughlin, president of the organization since its inception, presided at the meeting and gave a review of ; the work carried on by the Com- > ities and its various sub-commit- Disregard It was decided, in disbanding the : ° wm. New Albania Protests Committee, to turn the . funds over to the Oshawa Commun- Belgrade, Nov. 12--(Reuters)--The Albanian government has warned FINAL G Britain that any attempt by the MEETIN (Continued on Page 2) Two Injured Still Serious / The condition of two of the per- ggseee . Pi injured in the Petti- accident, inching Mr. e and two-year-old son n, are reported to be doing nably well. They are in the hawa General Hospital. The y's baby daughter was killed in accident. ng 1 i i ~All four persons injured in the d collision at Thornton's Cor- | mers yesterday morning are report- gd to be in a satisfactory condition. x Skrow, manager of the Jambi A Co. here, who suffered & broken hip, and Sam Sklar, wiro suffered a fractured pelvis, broken |. oe and scalp wounds, are still in Oshawa General Hospital, The other two passengers, Jogeph Sklar and Edward Meilach were able to| ve hospital after Tutaiving | Royal Navy to cear Albanian terri | jng torial' waters of mines will be re- garded as a "premeditated violation of Al sovereignty," accord- ing to tion from the Alban. ian Legation in Belgrade, quoAtd by 'Yugoslav. News Agenc. . ine Albanian legation stated thay on Nov, 10 the British government, through, Albanian Legation in Belgrade, sant a note to the Alban- ian J tha Britain would J mines in the Corfu Straits Nov, 12. London, Nov. 12-- (Reuters)--Bri- tain sees no' reason to abandon the decision to sweep mines from the Corfu Channel of Albania, which was communicated to the Albanian government in a note Nov, 10, it was learned authoritatively here today, Athens, Nov. 12--(Reuters)--Bri- tish sources.in Athens today denied press reports that "so British war- ships suddenly arrived yesterday at the port of Argotoli, in the Greek Island of Cephalonia," but explain- ed 'that some British minesweepers had' been concentrated at Argostoli to clear the Corfu Channel, { THE WEATHER Cloudy and cooler, clearing this evening. Frost in many places tonight. Clear, and slightly - warmer Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednes- day 3% and 43 LEGION TAGGERS RAISE $1,255 FOR POPPY FUND "We are very well pleased with the results obtained by the hun« dred taggers who worked last Saturday in the interests of the "Poppy Fund," commented Ben Ji Business Manager of Post 43, Canadian Legion, this morning. He reported he had just bank- ed receipts amounting to $1,255.35 which was collected fs ot or the cam last year was $1,233.24, ls Beribboned Polish Vets ReachCanada Halifax, Nov. 12--(CP)--A happy queue of Beribboned Polish war veterans marched off a big trans- port early today onto the Canadian soll which has adopted them. Capt. Jerzy Marcinkowski, Polish Commandant and British 8th Army Veteran, spoke for the 1,700 special immigrants when he said: "We are in Canada because we want to live like free men. There is no freedom in Europe today." This was the first draft of 4,000 Polish soldiers who fought with the Coro IR git eatre and recen sel bi ra- LJ for farm work--referr ther than return to their own country. The grey transport Sea Robin ar- rived in port in a drimle during the night but Canada's first post- war immigrants did not start dis embarking until 9 am, this morn- The Poles, big, husky, predomin- antly blond' men, were wearing well-worn British-type uniforms bearing the shoulder flashes of the British 8th Army and wearing their own distinctive lapel insignia, Most of them wore proud Polish battle honors that included ribbons for Tobruk and Monte Cassino. 35 Are Killed In French Train Wreck Metz, France, Nov. 12--(AP)--At least 35 persons were killed and 80 injured today when an east-bound local train on the Paris line smashed into the rear of an- other east-bound local standing in the station of Revigny-Sur-Ornainy 138 miles east of Paris. ; Fog banketing most of northern France was blamed by rail officials for the accident. The second train drove into the Revigny station with such force, News Agency report said, that all six passenger coaches of the wait ing passenger train were smashed, and persons-standing on the station platform were killed, along with those in the cars; Petticoat Creek Curve Crash' Kills Hamilton Baby Fa hb 4 Eleven-month-old Pamela Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Earl Gray, R.R. 5, Hamilton, was killed Saturday afternoon when the family auto was in collision with a truck on the curve, east of the Rouge. The baby is shown above with her mother. Upper right is two-year-old Brian Gray, who suffered a broken log. Five were injured in the accident, " ad Convict Pickering Butcher 3 Charges Meat Over Ceiling Clarence Silk, proprietor of Silk's Meat Market in of meat. and costs or one month on each of two charges for offences on Au- gust 10 and 17; $25 and costs or one month on a charge for an offence September 13, and $10 and costs or one week on a charge regarding coupons dated August 17. The sen- tences are to run concurrently, "The cost of living is high enough today without you shoving it up any higher," Magistrate Ebbs told the accused when sentencing him. He added that the butcher had warned and that it was "not as though one of your employees were doing this without your knowl edge, for the evidence is that you were the one involved." The charges were brought against Silk by G. A. Edmonstone, meat in- spector of the WP.T.B,, who testi- fled that he had sent an assistant Mrs. Doreen Green to purchase meat from the Silkk Meat Market on several occasions and on three Pickering, was fined $185 and costs this morning by Magi- strate F. S. Ebbs on four charges of violating Wartime Prices and Trade Board regulations in regard to the selling Magistrate Ebbs fined Silk $50 ® visits she had paid from four to nine cents a pound over the cell- ing for various types of beef, Fur- ther she had been supplied meat without the requisite coupons on more than one occasion. Mr, Silk pleaded guilty to three charges of selling meat over the ceiling price but said he was not guilty on the other charge regard- ing the coupons. Evidence of the WP. TB. officials, however, oon- vinced the magistrate that he was guilty, A, F. Annis, XO, in charge of the case for the Board, sald Silk had been shown to have charged as much as 33 per cent. over ceiling and he had been warned by Mr. Edmonstone and this could not be overlooked by the W.P.T.B, "This is a situation of a serious nature," he said, "the amount here may be small, but lots of meat passes over a counter in a day." National Kin Officers At Oshawa 3. W. WALTER STUART JACK KEEFE Members of the National Executive of the Association of Kinsmen Clubs who are visiting Oshawa on Kinsmen business in relation to the National Kinsmen Magazine which is produced by The Mundy-Goodfellow Print- ing Co. Ltd, of this city. Mr. Keefe is National Historian and Mr. Stuart is National Registrar of the Association. Both men are fram Moncton, N.B, and flew to Oshawa to consult with the editoss, pe | 2) Holloway and Dong Chesebrough ofthe: Kivswes Ginb of McLaughlin Hall Contract Is Awarded Kingston, Nov, 12--Contract for the building of McLaughlin Hall, the new mechanical engineering building at Queen's University, has been awarded to M. Sullivan and Son of Arnprior, it is announced by T. A. McGinnis, chairman of the building committee, A tender was also received from # Kingston contractor but the price was substantially higher than that ted by the successful Petrm; rman stated. No fig- ures 'were released, Work on the new building is scheduled to begin Nov. 18, and it is hoped that the hall will be ready for use by Sept. 30, 1947. Price of the cntract was not revealed, Bus Riders Get Jitters Over Smoke With the Brighton highway bus-car crash on the night be- fore still much in the news, 25 or more bus passengers on the way to Lindsay suffered a slight case of the Jitters Saturday afternoon as smoke began to rise from the floor of the bus on which they were riding as it neared Manohester, it has been revealed. The bus--the Collacuit Coach Lines Oshawa-Lindsay coach experienced difficulties near Brooklin but was able to proe ceed after repairs. As Man. chester, a regular junction point, was in sight, however, a thin stream of smoke began to rise from under the front seat. There was a tendency for pas- sengers to move toward the door but quiet was regained as one of the crowd brought a fire ext! ed into . With Sxiingush hed Sie War, pase senger sitting guard over the source of the smoke and those at the rear prepared to oven the emergency door at a moment's notice the journey to Manches- ter was successfully completed. Here it was deemed advisable to transfer the passengers to another coach. | P.-C. Caucus Tomorrow Over Taxes Toronto, Nov. 13--(OP)---Progres- sive Conservative members of the Ontario Legislature meet in caucus at Queen's Park tomorrow and poli- tical circles say the major subject of discussion will be the Drew government's policy on a tax agree- ment with the Dominion, These sources say two main fac- tors enter into the discussion: First, the existing wartime agree- ment -- under which the province surrendered its collection of per- sonal and corporation income tax and succession duties in return for a fixed annual grant--expires next March 31; Secondly, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick have reached bilateral ; agreements with the Dominion and other prov- OY 60 50 shortly, ab RIGES | Still Under Strict Price Control Say Company Officials General Motors of Canada, Limited, officials here pointed out that yesterday's Detroit announcement of an in- crease of $100 in the list price of all the passenger vehicles produced and sold by General Motors Corporation in the United States, does not effect the prices of its vehicles in Canada. They state that the Can-¢ adian company is still under strict price control regulations, Detroit, Nov. 11 (AP)--General Motors, the automobile industry's biggest producer, raised the prices of its passenger cars $100 today. The not unexpected announce- ment, coming after a day-long meeting of General Motors execu- tives, said the increases would place GM's prices "in a more reasonable relation to greatly increased costs of production." President C, E. Wilson of General Motors ascribed three reasons for the price increase: 1, GM's dollar volume of business in the third quarter of 1946, al- though "abont the same" as the previous peacetime quarterly peak of 1941, was "not on a satisfactory basis." 2. GM's prices as set by the OI- fice of Price Administration "dis- criminated aganst General Motors." 3. OPA had "assumed" produc- tion would equal that of 1941 but because of basic materials short- ages General Motors finds it "im- possible" to achieve any such rate of production at least during the next six months." General Motors © manufactures Cadillac, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Buick and Oldsmobile cars. The corporation said prices of all Chevrolet trucks also would be ine creased $100. Prices of larger trucks and coaches had been previously adjusted and "no general change" was contemplated at this time, Asked for comment on the GM action, the Ford Motor Co. at De- trolt, which earlier had announced no price increase was contemplated, quoted from a letter sent to 3,200 Jajor Ford suppliers which said in part: "There is plenty of justification for our raising prices at this time. + + + » However, we feel it is vitally necessary during this critical period of adjustmemt that all industry co- operate to avoid precipitous or un- Justified increases in price." From the third member of the auto industry's "big three," Chrysler Corp, there has been no word on possible pricing action. SE -------------- Stereotypers At 'Spectator' Quit Strike Hamilton, Ont,, Nov, 13--(CP)-- Local 113 of the International Ster- eotypers and Electrotypers Union (AFL) voted last might to termin- ate a strike it called last June 3 against the Hamilton Spectator. The local named a committee to nego- tiate a new agreement with the company. The stereotypers called thelr strike in sympathy with a walkout of composing room employees -- members of the International Typo- graphical Union -- who walked out May 30 in a dispute over a new col- lective agreement. The composing room strike continues. However, the international office of the Stereotypers withheld recog- nition of the walkout and a major- ity of members had resumed work before last night's meeting, Dick Appeal This Week Hamilton, Nov, 12--(CP)---Notice of appeal of Mrs, Evelyn Dick from her conviction on a murder charge by a Supreme Court jury Oct. 16 and sentence of hanging Jan. 7 wil} be filed at Osgoode Hall in Toronto Wednesday or Thursday, it was learned today. Mrs, Dick was convicted for the "torso slaying March 6 of her hus« band, 40-year-old John Dick, Hame ilton Street Railway employee, Defence Counsel John J. Sullivan indicated today that the appeal would be based on trial Judge F, H, Barlow's charge to the jury and the' admissibility of certain Crown evie dence, Meanwhile, Willlam Bohozuk and Mrs, Dick's father Donald MacLeat¥ await trial in January om charges of murder [arising out of the death of HE OVER 21,000 REGISTER FOR 1.8. SURVEY "We are all set to go tomorrow morning with the citywide chest X-ray's," sald Dave Jameson, Pres ident-elect of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club this morning, : Equipment to be used in the free Tuberculosis X-ray survey arrived 8 morning by truck from Torone and the last detalls are being taken care of this afternoon. Reg, Gibson, Vice-President, who is charge of the arrangements Pls that the final arrangements are bee ing made this afternoon in prepare ation for the X-ray tests which will commence tomorrow morning at 3 an, i © facllities permit approxi mately 120 tests La hour, po to date more than 21,000 appointments have been made. The survey wily continue until December 7. Regis trations for each day of the frem service continue to be satisfactory, Those who have not yet made theim appointment may still do so by telephoning 1834. The X-ray equipe ment is the most up-to-date availe able using 70 man. film, The minte ature plates when read b: experts are just as accurate as full size X. rays. It was pointed out by Mr, ; Jameson that it would be of cone siderable advantage to the opera= tion if everyone keeps to the time stated on the appointment card, There is no need, he said to dis- 750, bus supgested that simple gar« om jewelle: als should be Je iia The results of the X-ray are confidential, and are made known sly 0 the family Physician whosd name appears on the appointmen card, It is important that this - pointment card be brought to the Armouries by the person presenting himself for an X-ray. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS Tokyo: Sensational statements that Japan rehearsed its Pearl Harbor attack five months in advance and that former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew believes three of the 27 top Japanese defendants are innocent were made to the International War Crimes Court today. Ottawa: The Canadian government today became directly connected with the mystery of the Polish art trea- sures when Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewicz, told his story to Lester B. Pearson, Under-Secretary of State. s Lima, Peru: At least 30 persons were killed in an earthquake ; which destroyed the town of Sihaus, 250 miles north of Lima, shortly after noon yesterday, an Interior Ministry announcement said today. New Delhi: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, vice president of the Indian interim government, announced in the Indian Central Assembly today that V. M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, had expressed willingness to exe change diplomatie ; ala with india, »