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- 4 ed 11 Polish Army Vets Welcomed Here ! OSHAWA Combining The Oshdwa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle | HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE WHITBY VOL, 5--NO. 159 OSHAWA WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1946 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES URT DISMISSES BILTON APPEAL Four Clydesdale Horse, District Breeders Win Championships Shorthorn Classes At Winter Fair Four district breeders brought further honors to On- tario County when the classes in shothhorns and clydesdales were judged at the Royal Winter Fair yesterday. Grand Champion Stallion Windlaw Proprietor, owned by R. R. McLaughlin of Elmcroft Farm the ribbon as grand champion in the clydesdale section with the horses from this farm winning the Hotel Carls-Rite and Walker House ual Trophy. animals, three years and under, get of one aire; second in the class for two animals, three years and under, get of one dam and a second in the class for Canadian-bred femitle, un- der three years. Reserve Senior Female The reserve title in the senior fe~ Dryden herd won first place , in the class for heifer, junior year- oe Bn "i 1 PAE with John MIF of * Athan the reserve award in this Beath herd also won second in class for heifer, sum- and third in the class er, junior calf, try show James Brooks, Street, made an un- showing. With only he won four first place third place award in the for light Sussex. MISSING MINK Aon.-(0P) A £2,000 $30,000) was among property in cabin trunk stolen from novelist Margery Sharp, shortly after she here from the United hy oN ait i g z i g 2 : f i i § 5 1 H POSTMERIDIAN PARTY SWEEPS 0.CV.. VOTING Amid a scene of great enthusi: asm the results of the Student Couscil elections were announced by Arthur Slyfield, School. Libra- rian, in the auditorium of the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute shortly after 1 p.m. to- day. The eloction was held on Wednesday of last week, The Postmeridian Party swept the slate clean electing all ito candidates to office, The sole re- of the Antemeridian "Party elected was Joyce Lee, who was accorded as acclamation to the office of Secretary of Justice. Postmeridians polled over two- thirds of the total vote. Mr, Slyfield announced that the first session of the Student Congress will be held on Thurs- day, November 28, Those elected were: -- President Joan Lambert; Vice President, Harry Dowhaluk; Sec- retary of State, Margaret Red- path; Secretary of the Treasury, James Lavis; Attorney-General, Iicbert Rife; Secretary of Educa- tion, Paul Mcintyre; Secretary of Organizations, Mary Carnwith; Secretary of Letters, Gordon Wit- terick; Secretary of Arts, Mavis Knight and Secretary of Justice, Joyce Lee, Record Is Set At Clinic As 120 Persons X-rayed In 2-Hour Last Night A record was established at the conclusion of the local T.B. Clinic's first week last night as 112 persons were X- rayed in 80 minutes. In all, 6,186 adults and children had chest X-rays taken since last Wednesday morning. Well over 1,100 persons daily areé How, Jasing Shrouh the Chest X- ray Bow. petting ly Armouries under the sponsorship Oshawa Kiwanis Club, to enter the Armouries, doesn't just happen. rom person to person contact of family life spread of the disease e difficult to control. t is important to dis- ulosls if it exists within of the family, or among , friends or neighbors. The take an X-ray of the a person feels sick. rently healthy peo. to find T.B. early. hen and women of forces were X-ray- 990 out of every 1,000 it Perey pest TS hil showed chests. Ten had T.B, and of this number, only three needed sanatorium treatment. The others 2 "had old scars but a moderate way "of life and periodic examination will 'safeguard them Tower Hit, Ontarians' Power Cut Toronto, Nov, 20 -- (CP)-- Guelph, Kitchener, Galt, Preston and, to a lesser degre, Stratfor.l and St, Marys, were without eleec- tric power early today after an automobile sheared off two legs of a four-legged Hydro transmis- sion tower south of Freelton, about 15 miles northwest of Ham- iton, shortly before 1 a.n, offi- cials of the Ontario Hydro-Elec- tric Power Commission here said. Normal service was restored at 8.40 a.m. upon completion of temporary repairs. Earlier the Hydro system provided a restrict- ed service over secondary lines. The damaged tower fell across a highway and cut off power sup- ply from Burlington, Ont. Re- pairmen srotted the break an hour later, i Secondury lines through Lom- don, Ont.,, were pressed isto use to provide temporary service to the areas affected and at 7 a.m, The Hydro Commission asked in- dustries not to use the service so as to make power available to re- sidential consumers, "The industries all co-operated splendidly," a Hydro spokesman commented, bd Polish War-Hero Farmers Arrive Many wearing service decorations on their tunics, a group of 11 Polish Ary veterans arrived ing and were soon on their way to farms in the district where they are to be employed. The entire group | oq " wy here this morn. is seen in the upper photo, their names being as follows: left to right, front row--B, Szajn, K, Hunskiak, Z. Lenczewski, W. Ptasznik, B. Trypuc. Back row--Z. Zdanowicz, T. Blassczyk, J. Gorkowy, W. Czech, P. Cioken, 8. Chyb, Below, three of the men are' greeted by officials of the Oshawa Polish War Veterans Association. Joseph Misjtak, vice-president of the Ass 1a ti. a. shakes h with W. Ptassnik (extreme left) who served with the rank of lance corporal, while Michael Wojcik, president, chats with Sgt. Stefan Chyb and T. Blasz- czyk.' Below his ribbons, Sgt. Chyb wears the Tobruk medal besides the Third Division insignia. (See picture on Page 2, also.) --Photos by Campbell's Studio To Hold Regional Chamber of Com. Meeting Here A regional conference of cham- bers of commerce and boards of trade will be held here on Thurs- day, December 5, it was announced today by. George W. Garner, secre- tary-manager of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce. The conference, the first in a new series of one-day clinics, is being sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce at the request of the Ca- nadian Chamber of Commerce, Its purpose is to acquaint chamber of commerce directors with the funda- mentals underlying the work of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and also to discuss the formation of national affairs committees in the local chamber of commerce, The: executive members and di- rectors of the Peterborough, Lind- say, Bowmanville, Port Hope, Whitby, Cobourg and Newcastle Chambers of Commerce have been invited to attend the conference, which will be held in Hotel Gen- osha, and sent to the executive and directors of the Oshawa Chamber of Com- merce and Businessmen's Associa tion. At the ner meeting, T. H. Hammill, by service representa- tive of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, will speak on "Board of Trade Fundamentals." This will be followed by a round table -discus- sion and then an open forum on | | Mersey and Manchester steamship specific problems of the organiza- tions present, invitations will also be Ship Bound For Canada With 900 Brides, Tots Survives Fog Collision Liverpool, Nov, 20 (CP Cable)--No human lives were lost today when the bride-ship Empire Brent, carrying 900 wives and children of Canadian servicemen to Halifax, cap- sized the cattle steamship Stormont in an early morning col- lision in the foggy Mersey. The Empire Brent is better® known to Canadians as the former hospital ship Letitia, (The Canadian wives bureau in Tondon said that none of the Em- pire Brent's passengers was hurt. A statement will be issued later in the day). Atfer the collision the Empire Brent, with startiea women lining her rails, was taken into Alfred Dock with damage to her bow. More than 200 head of cattle on the Stormont were thrown into the river and some were still swimming, or had drowned, three hours later. The 1081-ton Stormont finally was towed ashore off Duke's Dock wall, where she is lying on her port side with the upper structure al- most submerged. All of the Stor- mont's crew were rescued by harbor craft and tugs. uf The collision occurred at 7:18 am, shortly after the bride-ship had left Princess Landing Stage, Liverpool, en route to Halifax. chester ship canal with a cargo of cattle, foodstuffs, poultry and Christmas fare. Her decks were lit- tered with crates. After the Stormont went aground, her stern seemed to be slowly sinking and water poured into the funnel, Men in rowboats and launches worked in a driving rain to lasso cattle and drag them ashore but many were so weak they had to be shot as they lay in the water, The wives and children will re- turn to London Thursday. Pas- sengers are being taken by special traing : to Canadian wives' bureau hostels. If the Empire Brent is not seriously damage, Canadian officers said, they will resume their voyage in a few days but otherwise they will have to await another vessel, The majority of the 600 wives and 300 children were asleep when the collision occurred. There was no Stormont, owned by the Belfast,| undue alarm and many went on Company, was en route to Man- deck to watch the stricken Stormont towed away. ¥ Army, Jail Big Clubs Over Lewis 'Washington, Nov. 20--(AP)--The soft coal miners walkout spread to- day as John L, Lewis left the llth hour arrive and still silent on whether he will recall his mid- night co ct "termination" or 5 'ederal court order and risk ail, Approximately 89,000 miners -- more than one-fifth of the United States' soft-coal producing ranks---- have already laid down their tools. In the crisis: 1, The Army announced that troops will be ready, if needed to maintain order, 2. The government readied a call to governors of all states east of the Mississippl for "brownouts" and rationing of electricity and manu- factured gas--a move affecting mile lions, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Minnesota may also be includ 3. Republicans and Democrats Joined in a rising chorus of de- mands for labor-management leg- islation when Congress meets Jan. 3. There were some scattered de- mands from lawmakers for an im- mediate special session, Under Mr, Lewis' own formula, the present government-union. con- tract which went into effect when the Administration seized the pits last May becomes "void" at one minute past midnight tonight. Pre sumably, Mr. Lewis has until that hour to withdraw his cancellation of the pack--or risk imprisonment for contempt of court. He was ordered to withdraw it in a notice issued by federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough on Monday. Conviction In Slashing Is Quashed Toronto, Nov, 20--(CP)--The On- tario Court of Appeal today quashed the conviction last September of 18- year-old Ronald George Sears of Windsor, Ont, "for the "slasher slaying" in August of Sgt. Hugh Blackwood Price. Sears had been under sentence to be hanged Dec. 3.. Decision on Sears' appeal against the oonvic- tion had been reserved yesterday. Sears still faces two murder charges in connection with other Windsor '"slashings" last year. The charges were traversed upon his conviction of the Price killing. "This appeal should be allowed and the conviction is quashed," sald the judgment handed down by Chief Justice Robert 8S. Robertson --which made no mention of a new trial. "In our opinion, the evidence up- on the present record" does not SLASHING (Continued on Page 3 - + Will Be Hanged At Ont. County Jail On December 10 Toronto, Nov, 20, (CP)--Ontario Court of Appeal today dismissed the appeal of George N. Bilton, 26, against his cone viction on a murder charge in the rock slaying last June of Mrs. Teresa Laurie during a quarrel near Ajax. Bilton, who claimed Mrs. Laurie had threatened to tell her husband he (Bilton) was the NEW CITIZENS 'VERY GLAD TO BE HERE Although their English is still pretty scanty, it was a happy group of 11 Polish Army veterans who ar- rived at the National Employment Office here this morning, and met the men on whose farms they are to get their first taste of life in Canada. Still wearing battle dress, the men, all of whom served under General Montgomery in Italy, sald ,| they were glad to be in Canada al- though they hadn't had a chance to see much of the country yet. Greeted to this. dis- | The 11 men allotted trict were left here this morning by the trucks taking groups of the veterans to various centres from Toronto. Among those on hand to greet them. were Michael Wojcik and Joseph Misztak, president and POLISH VETS (Cofitinued on Page 2} World Troop Forces May Be Revealed Lake Success, N.Y, Nov. 20--(AP) ~The United States today called on all members of the United Nations to lay "all cards" on the table and make complete reports on the num- bers of their troops both at home and abroad. Without formally accepting =o double-barrelled proposal of Foreign Minister Molotov of Russia on the troop-reports question, Senator Tom Connally (Dem.-Tex.) declared that the United States agreed that com- plete information on troop disposi- tions should be made public, Senator Connally and Mr. Molo- tov spoke before the B4-member political committee of the United Nations Assembly, called into ses- sion to debate a soviet proposal ask ing information on Allled troops and bases in non-enemy territory. "If it is the view of the committee that these reports have value, the United States is prepared to fur- nish the information," Senator Con- nally said, "We think all cards should be lald on the table, We think that the Soviet Union should go beyond this resolution and have a report on all troops throughout the world--whether in Russia prop= er, in border states or anywhere." Senator Connally said, however, that the United States delegation would need time to study a new proposal which Mr. Molotov offered to substitute for Russia's original resolution and which would broaden it to include troops in enemy states as well as non-enemy countries. father of a child she bore more than a year ago, at his trial in Whitby was sentenced to be hanged Decems ber 10, The woman and her small daugh- ter, Patricia, allegedly were slain a$ the same time, strangled before GEORGE BILTON their heads were smashed with & heavy rock. Contend Case Perjudiced Defence Counsel Louis Isaacs told the 'appeal court that at the trial the words "murders" was mentioned before the jury although Bilton was charged only with the murder of Mrs. Laurie. Reference also was made to "bodies." These references, Isaacs contended, were prejudicial to Bilton's case. CO. L. Snyder, K.0, Deputy Ate torney-General, who prosecuted the case during the trial at Whitby in BILTON APPEAL (Continued on Page 2) Area Dentists Meet Here Today Dentists of the district from Pickering, to Cobourg and as far north as Port Perry and Sundere land are expected to attend the fall meeting of the Durham-Ontario Dental Association here today. Dr, H. T. Fallaise of Pick president of the Association, preside at the meetings and the guest speaker will be Dr. M. J. Sheldon, professor at the University of Toronto School of Dentistry. At the afternoon session, Dr, Sheldon will give an illustrated leo- ture on "Porcelain Jacket Crowns" and at the dinner meeting he will speak on the subject of "Silver Fill. ings". The meetings will be held in Hotel Genosha. A THE WEATHER Clear and continuing mild to- day, Light winds becoming southwest 15 mph. Thursday cloudy and sbightly cooler over southern Lake Huron region and western Lake Ontario re- gion, Overcast and colder with widely scattered snowflurries over northern portion of Lake Huron region and eastern por- tion of Lake Ontario region. Low tonight and high Thurs day 36 and 45. . % LATE NEWS BRIEFS * - Yenan: Gen. Chu Teh, Commander-in-Chief of China's Com« munist armies, has charged Chiang Kai-Shek with "the entire responsibility" for national disunity and civil strife and assailed "American reactionaries" for "lending him encouragement." Manchester: Manchester's five-day-old transportation strike will end tomorrow but there have been reports of sporadic street clashes between strikers and volunteer bus drivers, incidents of tire slashing and threats of "sabotage" to immobilize buses, Chatham: Three local butchers were charged today with in- fractions of Prices Board regulations, | Sudbury: Police have received a report of a Canadian Na- tional Railway accident mear River Valley, Ont., in which two persons in an automobile were killed and , two injured. 1S