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»® Planes, Ships Hunt 16 Helpless On Raft HE DAILY TIMES-GAZ Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA TE WHITBY VOL. 5--NO. 163 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1946 Price 4 Cents TWELVE PAGES v RDER LEWIS' TRIAL WEDNESDAY Saskatchewan Legislation Not Experiment First Government Make Sincere Try Benefit Its People Saskatchewan is the first government to make a con- scious and sincere effort to plan ahead for the maximum benefit of its people, said E. B. Jolliffe, provincial leader of 'the C.C.F. at the party's open forum held last night at the Hotel Genosha, *It is a mistake to regard whaté is going on in Saskatchewan as an experiment," he said, for this type of planning was taking place now all over the world. "The : choice to most nations is not be- 'tween free enterprise and com- .munism, but between democratic socialism and communism. Out- .slde the North American contin- ent there are not many who take 'free enterprise seriously . ., . In North America, the democratic socialist island is Saskatchewan." Financial Position Improved +" Im regard to the administration of the Saskatchewan government, Mr, Jolliffe said that 'for the first time in its life Saskatchewan 'getting 'clean and effidient gov. | Ses and was being escorted i i JfEnment. and ho financial and OT 0 SSI ot ony a avor closed to all civilians in been." Where the Lib- government sold its bonds jlow par, the present C.C.F. gov- ernment was selling away above par and had reduced the debt from $214,00,000. to - $195,000, BENEFIT PEOPLE (Continued on Page 2) Historic Elm Finally Felled This Morning At approximately 1030 a. m. to- day the historic elm opposite the Genosha Hotel was felled by em- ees of the Board of Works. The had previously been removed and the trunk with the stubs of the larger limbs were all that remained. + Contrary to the opinions voiced by some of the aldermen, the tree with the exception of some of the smaller limbs was quite solid with no evidence of rot. Following the felling, workmen started the job of sawing up the 'butt so that it could be loaded on the city trucks and carted away. The next big job will be the removal of the stump. This will be accomplish- ed by removing part of the walk and the roadway and cutting the roots. Quiet So Far At Noranda Noranda, Que., Nov, 25 -- (CP) -- The strike at Noranda Mine in this northwest Quebec mining town en- tered its fourth day today with strikers prepared to receive back wages as picket lines quietly moved 'around the main gate. ' Local 688, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (0.1.0) called the strike for an wage increase of 16 cents, shift wage differentials and a un- jon checkofl. + In return, the company has. of- Jered a 10 cent increase but no un- jon checkofl. " Both the company and union, which claims a' p of 597 of the mine's 1,147 "employees, are red for what is expected to be a lengthy walkout, The company, in a noon-day an- nouncement broadcast over the local radio station, said pay cheques for 'the Nov. 1-15 period could be pick- d up this afternoon. Today is the ymi-monthly pay day, and a union pokesman said' workers would be allowed to enter the mine property to collect their wages. Provincial police, under Capt. J. N. Labbe of Montreal have set up headquarters in the mine employ- ment office and were busy today ex- ing identification passes issu ed last week to office employees for i" The passes are being issued to 'persons on a list drawn up during week-end conferences between pol- jce and the union, and the picket Jine, consisting of about 30 men, 1s passing persons who can produce them. BRITISH HALT SHIP WITH 3.370 JEWS Jerusalem, Nov, 25--(AP)--OM- clal sources announced today that a ship loaded with 3,370 Jewish im- migrants seeking to enter Palestine illegally had been - intercepted at to Haifa two mediately cl anticipation of the arrival of the vessel, The British transports Empire Keywood and Ocean Vigour, which previously have been used to deport illegal immigrants to Cyprus, were reported en route to Haifa. Jewish lawyers in Jerusalem meanwhile went into court to file habeas corpus proceedings on be- half of 1900 of the passengers aboard the refugee ship, whose names tley were said to have ob- tained from unknown sources in the embarkation port. The right of attorneys to file habeas corpus proceedings to pre- vent deportation of specflic persons was affirmed by the Palestine Chief Justice. three weeks ago in ruling out an attempt to institute blanket "John Doe" proceedings covering all passengers aboard the refugee ship San Dimitrios. . Say Condition Mrs. J. Taylor Is Critical jured several .weeks ago when struck by an automobile allegedly driven by Judge J. C. M. German of Cobourg, Mrs, Jean Taylor to- day took a turn for the worse in hospital where she has been con- fined since the accident. Hospital authorities described tion as critical. » Arrangements were made today for a blood transfusion for Mrs. Taylor who received a fractured leg, arm and pelvis in the acci- dent, ' Judge German has beea com- mitted for trial next : on.h on a charge of dangerous driving, He also faces a charge of drunk driv- ing arising out of the accident. Auto Turns Over Near Manchester Skidding on the icy pavement on Highway No. 12 just south of Man- chester Saturday afternoon, an auto containing two Toronto men turned completely over in the west ditch. Fortunately none of the occupants, Ken Benstead, the driver, or Al W. Duke, were hurt and though shaken up by the upset, they were able to climb out of the auto which was later pulled out of the ditch. Police said that several other cars skidded on this stretch of highway during the icy conditions on Satur- day, but that this was the most serious of the accidents. THE WEATHER Overcast with snowflurries except showers southeastern portions until early afternoon. Becoming much cooler during the afternoon Monday. North- erly winds 20 mph except south- theastern westerly sou until early afternoon. Tuesday overcast and slightly warmer with northeasterly winds 20 mph. Low tonight and high Tuesday 20 and Cobourg, Nov. "25--(CP)--In- her condi- > 4 DIE. 7 HURT IN WESTERN TRAIN WRECK Saskatoon, Nov. 25--Four men-- all members of the train crews -- were killed last night when two Canadian National Railways trains collided head-on at Young, Sask. about 50 miles east of here, The dead are: Engineer J. Roy Lyons of Melvile, Sask., and fireman H, N. Currie of Duncan, B. C., both on a Winnipeg-bound express; en- and head brakeman J, Malec, also of Biggar, who were on a west- bound freight. " Seven other per: Frank Reh- wald, editor of Der Nordwesen, a Winnipeg German-language week- ly; Sterling Toles, Porter; Marcel Compayre, dining car steward; George Kendall, an engineer from Melville, Sask.; P. S. Dooley, an op- erator at Saskatoon, and two others whose names were not available-- were taken to hospital at Watrous, Melville and Saskatoon. They are suffering from what were described as minor injuries. i A number of passengers suffered bruises and a shaking up but none was said to have been injured ser- . MH , - Railway officials sald an investi- sion was underway. The scene, about 1% miles west of the tiny village of Young, was one of wild confusion and havoc. The cab of one engine had been torn completely away and lay on one side of the track, the engine it- self on the other. Three pasenger coaches were de- railed and seven freight, cars piled up or telescoped. Alvin Bright, fireman on the freight train, escaped miraculously. He jumped from the locomotive when he heard the hiss of the air brakes being applied and landed be- side the track uninjured. But the three others in the loco- motives were trapped where they stood. A coroner's jury viewed three of the bodies last night and adjourn- ed. The fourth body--that of Logan --was jammed under a wheel and workmen awaited daylight before at- tempting to remove it, Railway officials said they did not know when the track would be cleared and traffic resumed. Estimate 10,000 To Picket Plant Milwaukee, Nov. 25--(AP)--Police and union officials estimated about 110,000 C.I1.0. workers from the Mil- waukee area would picket the huge Allis-Chalmers Company plant to- day in a mass demonstration in support of the striking United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) local. Chief issues in the long dispute include the question of a union shop, a union demand for a mini- mum of 25 cents an hour wage in- crease plus other boosts in various job classifications and control of grievance procedure, King Scout DON JACKSON Patrol Leader of the Wolf Patrol of the Tht Oshawa Boy Scout rtoop, who was presented with his King Scout badge at special parents' night ceremony Friday. On the same occasion, Don received his Pathfinder and Marksman badges. The presentation was made by the Scoutmaster, Alton Dunk, gineer J. O. Logan of Biggar, Sask. | Keeping The Wolf From Your Door gation into the cause of the colli- | "Wi ~Photo by Cyril E, Souch Many Acclamations Given To Candidates Election qualifications held the spotlight in many Ontario commun- ities on Saturday. In this area most of the members of councils were elected by acclamation although in Bowmanville another nomination will be necessary to fill four places on the town council, . The results of the nominations were as. follows: -- Bowmanville Mayor: . Sidney Little (accl); Reeve; A. 8. Baker (accl), Deputy Reeve: Norman Allison (accl), Councillors: R. J, Dilling, T. A. Gar- ton (only two qualified for six seats), Public Utilities Commission: M. J. Elliott ,accl), Board of Educa~- Ma McPhee (all elected by acclama- tion). Beleville Mayor: Frank S. Follwell, Alder- man Harold G. Doodley, Alderman (seven to be elected): Ald. H. J. Armstrong, George C. Brown, Ald. H. J. Clarke, Angus B. Duffy, Ald. E. BE. Follwell, Harry Hill, Thomas Jeffery, Arthur Keegan, Bruce Lat- timer, James H. Lazenby, Mark J. Nanner, , Clare Ridley, Ted Schwab, Board of Education (fivi to be elected): A. L, Burke, Mrs! Violet Camken, Frank Creeggan, Enos David, Willlam H. Finkle, E. A. Geen, R. W. Hart, Alex Nathan, J. Edward Shortt, Dr. R. W. Ten- nant, Lewis Watson, George Wish= tibn: D., A. McGregor, W. L. Pater- | art son, Dr. H. Ferguson (accl.), Beave-ton Reeve: Albert Hawtin, Council: Mrs. Cameron McKenzie, Ernest Temple, Aubrey De Guerre and Dan Peterborough Mayor: William Ovens (accl), (Continued on Page 2) ACCLAMATIONS 30 Greek Leftwingers Arrested Athens, Nov, 25.--(AP)--The government announced tod-: that Alcibiades Loulis, a member of tte Left-Wing E.A.M, (National Liberation Front) ceatral com- mittee, had been arrested with 29 other persons on charges ¢. "sup- plying arms and recruiting for guerilla bands." The 30 were ordered deported t the Island of Cyclades, but all filed notice of appeal. Announcement of th. arrests was accompanied by reports of continued fighting in northern Greece between Lesfwing guerilla bands and government troops. 'Homes Wanted' By Kittens, Pups The "Homes Wanted" plight has reached the animal community in Oshawa today, The homeless, reported by . Hu- mane . Society . inspector Garnet Johnston, are two kittens and three pups. The kittens are both four months old, one male and one fe- male. As well, there are two male police pups, two months old, and one part spaniel and terrier, male. Anyone interested in providing homes for these animals should con- tact the Oshawa Humane Society. Reds Claim Atom Secret Moscow, Nov. 25--(AP)--A Rus- sian scientists was. reported today to have discovered a "new kind of disintegration of the atomic nuc- leus." . S. I. Vavilov, president of the So- viet Academy of Science, credited the accomplishment .of physicist P. I. Lukirsky in listing Lukirsky among 20 candidates for five newly- created chairs in theoretical and experimental physics. He gave no details of the discovery. (Disintegrating the atomic nuclei of plutonium and one type of uban- ium has producer the power of atomic bombs.) Scholarship Won By Guelph Student Guelph, Nov. 26.--(CP)--Es- tablished in memory of the auth- or of "In Flanders Fields" the Col. John McCrae Memorial scho- arship. has been won by George Slinger, Guelph Collegiate-Voca- tional Institute student. Valued at $1,200, the scholarship is awarded by the local Canadian Legion branch for general excel- lence in departmental examina- tions by a student graduating from the collegiate. If no Guelph student makes a sufficiently high standing, any high school student in Ontario .can apply for the award, ; 2 FREIGHTERS CRASH--SINK OFF MIAMI Miami, Fla. Nov..25--(AP)--Two small freighters sank in a pre-dawn collision 30 miles south of Miami early today and eight hours later a lifeboat and raft were sighted drift- ing in the gulf stream with about 16 men on board. A Coast Guard plane spotted the survivors well offshore and some 32 miles north of the spot where the boats went down. A crash boat sped jo the spot from the Coast Guard ase. A dozen airplanes, the cutter Tampa and other surface craft searched for crews of the two craft after a weak radio message told of the éollision. First word of the accident came from the Caribbean trader Evange- los, which flashed a distress call a few hours after leaving Miami for Haiti The craft reported she was in col- lisfon with the freighter Arsidee, from Nassau, and was sinking A-short time later the Marsides | reported the Eyar had: sunk the scene in the Straits of Florida about 30 miles south of Miami, but discovered no survivors immediate ly. Coast guardsmen sald first reports were that the Evangelos carried a crew of 10, and the Marsidee a crew of seven, 'Shuttle' 12 To Safety From Alps Interlaken, Switzerland, Nov. 25--(AP)--Twelve persons who survived five days on an Alpine glacier 12,000 feet above sea lev- el were safe on a United States army hopital train en route to Vi- enna today. Rescued from thelr plight by the same route they got E.|into it--through the air. Swiss army officers in ski- equipped, threeplace 1 eseler Storch planes brought them and their baggage out yecterday in nine shuttle flights o ° the 10 miles between the airport of Meiringen, some 15 miles east of Inferlaken, and their snowy perch 0a Guall Glacier. The 12--an 11-year-old girl, four women, U.S, army officers, two U.S. non-commissioned offic- ers and a male civilian--had been in a sheltered hole in the glacier, 13 miles southeast of Interlaken, since the crash landing last Tues. day of a U.S. army C-53 Dakota transport plane en route from Vi- enna to Pisa by way of Munich. They had lived on box lunches fcr three days and, after those gave out, on fandy bars doled out one a day to each. They drank snow melted over fires of gasoline, oi! and parts of tue plane, and had slept on blankets and the plane's seats and upholstery. Swiss mountain guides reported a threefoot snowfall had converted the cabin of the slightly damaged plane into a cozy 'igloo for them, : Oshawa Boy To Attend Meeting In Chicago Robert Flett, R. R. 1, Oshawa, will be a member of the party of 23 Junior farm boys and girls from Ontario who are going to the Na- tional 4-H Club Congress in Chica- go on December 1 as delegates from the Ontario Junior Farmer Associa- on. The eight girls and 15 boys who are going as delegates are all win- ners in ir own counties and have been selected because of outstand- ing achievements in their clubs or in county competitions. In charge of the party will be T. R. Hilliard, Junior Extension Field- man for Ontario, and as chaperone will go Miss Marion Humphrey, Home Economist of the Women's Institute Branch of the Department of Agriculture, Took Law In Their Own Hands Judge Rules At Hearing Washington, Nov. 26 (AP)--Judge T. Alan Goldsbor- ough declared today that John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers "undertook to decide the law for themselves" and ordered them to trial Wednesday for contempt in the United States, soft coal shutdown, ----& The trial probably will run into HAD BOUGHT PRESENT FOR HIS MOTHER Seven-year-old Bobby Hester, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley: B Hester, 285 Arthur Street, who died last Friday evening following an accident on King - Street East in which he came into collision with a ROBERT STANLEY HESTER truck when stepping out from be- tween parked cars, was a very cau- tious and careful lad according to his parents. "It was the standing joke of the neighborhood that Bobby was so careful when crossing streets," said Mr. Hester. "Why I've seen him wait five minutes at a street corner BOBBY HESTER (Continued on Page 2) Hold-up Nets Four $4,000 Windsor, Nov. 25--(CP)---Three armed men who early today held up Mrs, Bertha Thomas' Edgewater Inn in Riverside, rive miles east of here, escaped with $4,000. When they entered Mrs. Thomas' Belroom by a ladder, one of the men was carrying a sawed-off shot- gun. The others had revolvers. Mrs. Thomas told police a fourth man, waiting in a car outside, took the robbers and their loot east on Riv- erside Drive after the holdup. Mrs. Thomas said she applied re- cently for a permit to keep a gun in her room, but provincial police in Toronto turned it down. She said the three men wore black gloves and masks, and one of them wore a hood. next week while industrial paraly- sis tightens from the diminishing coal supply. Welly K. Hopkins, counsel for Mr, Lewis and the union, sought a dela" to permit Joseph A. Padway. gen. eral counsel of the American Feder ation of Labor, to join in the dee fence but Judge Gol 10= fused the request, commenting that the "public interest" requires as speedy a settlement as possible in view of the mine walkout now in its fifth day. Judge Goldsbhorough also express not "do something that might ine ; | ed the hope that labor unions would movements: back for years." "I don't know whether I was jus. tified in making that statement," he ommented afterwards, "It was ex- , | against him Nov, 21 for failure to Trial May Be Only Beginning Washington, Nov. 25--(AP)--Toe day's contempt of court hearing for John L. Lewis may be only a cur= tain-raiser for a longer courtroom drama played before a backdrop of coal-field strife and industrial shut- down. United States government lawyers expected in advance that the United Mine Workers president would re- fuse to "purge" himself of contempt charges by agreeing to obey the Nov. 18 restraining order of Judge T. Alan Goldsborough. The order forbade him to terminate the min- ers' contract. . Labor--the AFL. and CIO. as well as Mr. Lewis--believe that use of a restraining order to halt a strike is a violation of the Norris- La Guardia Anti-Infunction Act, even when the government is the employer, An "advisory" jury would be em= panelled as the first move, using the regular federal court venire of jurors. When the trail itself begins, the jury will sit only as advisors of the judge. At conclusion of the trial, the jury will retire and return with a verdict in the usual way--except that Judge Goldsborough could re- ject the finding, adopt only part of it, or throw it out entire. If Judge Goldshorough's verdict is guilty, then speed could be shown. Mr. Lewis could be imprisoned or fined immediately. Contempt actions differ from most others in that respect. Once a verdict of guilty is entered, the penalty may be executed at once, even if appeals are carried on to higher courts. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS New York: Henry Morgenthau, Sr., 90, former United States Ambassador to Turkey, died today at his home here. Mr. Morgenthau was the father of Henry Mor- genthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury. London, Ont.: Loss in Friday night's fire that destroyed the recreation building at mearby Crumlin Hospital will exceed $30,000, Department of Veterans' affairs of- ficials said today. Washington: John L. Lewis went directly to his United Mine * Workers headquarters today from the court where he was directed to stand trial Wednesday on charges of contempt in the United States' soft coal strike. New York: Foreign Minister Molotov of Russifl arranged to call on State Secretary Byrnes this afternoon for what may be their first serious private discussion of Soviet-American problems in many months. Ottawa: Trial of Miss Agatha Chapman, Bank of Canada economist charged with conspiring to give informa- tion to Russia, was adjourned t because of the absence of one of the counsel, ay until tomorrow 2