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Genosha Hotel Sold Today For $420,000 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE | YOSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 5---NO. 180 'OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES Millard Announces Steel Wage F ormula 5-Day,40-Hr. Week, 2-Wk. Holiday Pay, Minimum Of $37" Toronto, Dec. 14 (CP)--C. H. Millard, Canadian director of the United Steel Workers of America (C.1.O.) today called | on steel fabricating workers to seek a "temporary minimum" | weekly wage of $37 for a five-day 40-hour week. Annual two weeks' vactions with pay, six statutory folidays with pay and a "high de-&- gree of union security" were set forth .in Mr. Millard's "short term pregram" at a meeting of the un- fon's national advisory committee, In addition, locals were asked to consider introduction of some form of guaranteed annual employment and income. General purpose of the meeting, union officials said, was to correlate fabricating rlant earnings with those secured in basic steel plants at Sydney, N. 8., Sault Ste. Marie and Hamilton, fcllowing the basic steel strike last summer. "In view of the labor rates of 64% cents at Hamilton and the Sault 'and 50% cents at Sydney, the differentials in vacation plans ana statutory holidays, lack of check-off Or iany form of union security at Stelco up to Oct, 4, the strike settle- ment--though falling short of our objectives--is an important vic- « tory," Millazd told the meeting. "Actually," he continued, 'since the work week has remained at 48 phours, the strike settlement has given our steel workers in the three mills a weekly minimum of $37.20, or $3.60 more than the $33.60 ac- cepted as a weekly objective, This weekly minimum, if there is no lost time, will mean an annual income exceeding $1,080, which is $150 more than the $1,750 objective included in our policy." "Because of the sharp increase in cost of living the need for a wage increase became acute. It is doubt- ful if the real income obtained from 48 hours' work at 77% cents is an adequate minimum for the average steel worker. Certainly anything less than $37.20 weekly will be found to be tctally inadequate, even if there is no marked increase in cost of living," he said. Award 'Ops' Wings To Flier Posthumously Mrs. Evelyn LaPlante, 215 Ken- dal Avenue, has been notified by the Chief of the Air Staff at Otta- wa, of the posthumous award of operational wings to her only son, Pilot Officer Adrian P. Taillon, who was shot down at Niehl Harbor, Harbor, Cologne, Germany, on Ju- ly 19, 1944. The communication contained the operational wings and a certi- ficate in recognition of the gallant rendered by P/O Talllon, P/O Taillon was a bomber pilot of a heavy Halifax bomber with the Alouette Squadron. Of his crew of eight, four were presumed dead, three were missing and one was taken prisoner. Entering the RCAF. in March, 1042, he received his basic training at Quebec City, St. Eugene and Belleville School, Moncton, N. B,, in June, 1943. A native of Cornwall, he lived in Oshawa for 16 years and attend- ed St. Gregory's Separate School and the OC.V.I Besides FINE CARELESS DRIVER Eugene Formica, Haliburton, was fined $25 and costs or ten days on a careless driving charge by Magis- trate Frank S. Ebbs in court this morning. Provincial Police Officer Gordon Keast told the court he had followed Formica's tractor-trailer yor three miles on No. 12 Highway, horth of Whitby, yesterday after- noon. "The tractor-trailer, heading north toward Haliburton, was zig- zagging all over the road," Con- stable Keast reported. ° OVERHEATED STOVE PIPE This morning the Cedar Dale fire department extinguished a blaze at the home of Joseph Feb- rini, 394. St. Julien Street. Dam. age from the fire, caused by an overheated stove pipe, was slight, 'YARD" GETS BOMB THREAT, NO REASON Londan, Dec. 14--(AP)--A spokes- man for Scotland Yard reported two threats to blow up the world famous police centre had been made today. The threats, the spokesman said, were made by a man with a deep vojce who called at midnight and again this'morning, The caller, he reported, sald Scotland Yard and the Marble Arch at the entrance to Hyde Park would be blasted. The Yard immediately strength- ened its own guard and dispatched extra police to the Marble Arch area. The spokesman would not say whether the caller gave reasons for the threats. These threats were the latest in a series extending through the last | two days. > py December 15, his associates. Torento, acted for the purchaser. which has a frontage of 120 feet on King Street East, was for a time by a group of local businessmen, it was sold in a be erected. This addition, which is indicated in the photo, was not proceeded with due to shortage labor and materials. Major MacBrien acted for Mr. Lawrence in the sale while Joseph Singer, K.C., of Under New Ownership from Sunday Midnight J Us, Major James R. MacBrien, attorney for M. G. Lawrence, President of Hotel Genosha Limited, at noon today, announced the sale of the hotel to Jules Laine for $420,000. The sale beccmes effective at midnight on Sunday, The new company will be- known as Hotel Genosha (Oshawa) Limited. The hotel property CouNtisiptea in 102s and has 120 rooms. Operated 1944, to' Mr. Lawrence and a group of In March of this year it was announced that a four-storey addition, costing $75,000, would of --Photo Campbell's Studio, New Lieut.-Governor Last night a caller, police report- | ed, said a west-end subway station | would be bombed. An emergancy | squad searched fruitlessly for ex- | plosive. The night before, an attempt was made to burn schools of a London Synagogue and a coventry newspa- per received warnings, Scotland Yard said that an anonymous call- er said the synagogue vandalism was carried out by a "national guard" opposing Jewish under- ground violence in Palestine, Charge Driver After Crash On Bloor East Donald Lepine, 106 Buckingham: Avenue, was arrested and charged with careless driving last night, when his automobile was involved ! in a collision with a delivery truck, | driven By Gordon Nobes, 315 Osh- awa-at-the-lake, on Bloor Street East near Drew Street. Mr. Nobes told Police Constables J. H. Taylor and George Boyce that as he was driving east on Bloor Street, a car parked on the south side backed into his truck, damag- ing the right rear fender and bumper. Mr. Nobes said he blew his horn as he was passing the Lepine vehicle. Rotary Speaker HAROLD M. GULLY Vice President of Silverwood Dair- les Limited, and a former Oshawa resident, who will be the speaker at Monday's luncheon meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club, RAY LAWSON, O.B.E. Prominent London, Ontario, indus- trialist, whose appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario to Succeed Hon, Albert Matthews, was announced by Prime Minister King last night. Tenement--35 Death Toll Mounts In U.S. Disasters Trainwreck--19 New York, Dec, 14 -- (AP) -- The death toll in the wreckage of a collapsed Manhattan tenement rose to 35 today as workers brought an- other body from the ruins and re- turned to hunt for two others be- | lieved still buried under the rubble, The body was identified as that of Frank Mazzini, 37, shortly after workers had carefully extricated the remains of two women from the debris. Police identified one body as that of Mrs. Catharine Gaetani, 29, but were unable to identify the body of another woman about 35 years old. Mrs, Gaetani had lived in the building which housed 22 families. Officials who had given up hope of finding any others alive expressed belief early today that only four more bodies remained buried under the tons of twisted steel girders and clumps of bricks of the building which housed 22 families. The structure was smashed early Thursday morning by a two-foot thick wall of an adjoining ice house which toppled on it. New Lieut Record Of Ottawa, Dec. 14--(CP)--From the ranks of industry, Ontario has ac- quired a new Liteutenant-Govgrnor, Ray Lawson, BE, a 60-year-old industrialist of London, Ont. who has never held an elective office, will becceme Lieutenant-Governor of the province on Dec. 26. * Prime Minister Mackenzie King last night announced the appoint- ment, which will bring Mr. Lawson to the office in succession to Hon. Albert Matthews. Mr. Matthews has '{ been Lieutenant-Governor of the province for almost 10 years, having served for two extensions of the normal term of office. 'Premier Drew last night welcom- ed Mr. Lawson, to his new post and paid tribute to his predecessor, Hon. Albert Matthews. When reached at Whitby, where he had gone to participate in the commencement exercises the 100- year-old high school, Premier Drew said that "like the rest of the peo- Ray Lawson Ontario's Governor; Distinction ple of Ontario I have just learned today of Mr. Matthews' resignation and Mr. Lawson's appointment." In welcoming Mr. Lawson to his new post, the Premier said he would like at the same time to pay tribute to his predecessor "for the splendid service he has rendered the prov- ince through nine extremely diffi-| cult years." Mr. and Mrs. Matthews, he con- tinued, have given their time and energy without stint during a ten- ure of office that has been one of the longest in this or any other! province, "They have won the admiration and affection of all those who have | come in contact with them, whether | in a personal or official capacity." | Premier Drew said he have | a more extended statement to make, | both by way of a welcome to Mr. | Lawson and a tribute to the service | RAY LAWSON (Continued on Page 16) Mansfield, O., Dec. 14 -- (AP) -- The death toll in the Pennsylvania Railroad three-train collision rose to 19 today. The 19th was Edwin Gene Kraut- blatt, 19, a soldier, of Chicago, who died in hospital of injuries received in yesterday's wreck, which caused heavy casualties among some 150 U.S. soldiers headed home for a Christmas furlough before leaving for Japan. The injured list totalled 50, also mostly soldiers, four of them in critical condition, The Pennsylvanis railroads "Gol- den Triangle", Pittsburgh-Chicago flyer, plowed into two eastbound freight trains that had crashed a few seconds earlier 12 miles south- east of here early Friday. Engineer Louis Petoskey, 55, of Toledo, whose freight rammed an- other freight train which had stop- ped because of a broken air hose, last night denied a statement by a Pennsylvania spokesman in Pitts- burgh that he failed to heed a sig- nal to slow down, The "Golden Triangle," running at about 70 miles an hour, struck the freight wreckage a few seconds after the pile-up which blocked the passenger train's westbound track. Startds For Council ALD. WILLIAM J. LOCK Who this morning announced that he will be a candidate for re.elec- tion to the City Council at the mu- nicipal election, SAY TROOPS SMUGGLING IN MILLIONS AACHEN, Germany, Dec. 14 -- (AP)--The three famous battle areas of Ardennes, Huertsen For- est and Aachen--engraved into history books two years ago with the blood of Allied soldiers--to- day have become the scenes of a great smuggling operation. It is estimated that more than $1,000,000 worth of illicit goods monthly are crossing the German- Belgian-Netherlands frontier, British border guards say that much of the smuggling is being done by Allied soldiers--British, American, Belgian, and Polish. Some, of these men may once have fought in these same areas, al- though almost all the soldiers who saw combat here either have gone home or are sleeping in nearby Belgian cemeteries, This battered city of Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle), is the hub of the smuggling operations, so large that the chief British intel- ligence officer of the area descri- bed them as "fantastic." A handful of British border guards, aided by regulation-bound German police and none-too-en- thuiastic Belgian soldiers, are trying to halt the smugglers, " Thé loot going into Belgium in- cluded jewels, furs, radios, kitch- enware, automobiles and needles, Coming out of Belgium are cof- fee, food and cigarets. Three times in the last six months, large needleworks in Aachen have been burgled of mil- lions of needles, which days later popped up in Brussels, A typical deal works this way: Two pounds of coffee from Bel- gium, smuggled into Germany, are traded for a silver fox fur, The fur, smuggled into Brussels, may bring the equivalent of $100 or more. Many U.S. army deserters, liv- ing by their wits' with German girl friends, are reported to be in the area, Overcrowded cities and huge stretches of forest and | lonely roads make it easy for ae- serters of all armies to" hide in safety, Still Seek Aircraft With 32 Seattle, Dec. 14.--(AP)--Re- inforcements of searchers and a doctor, all expe't skiers, were asked today as the oper- ations base was shifted from Longmire to Paradise, high on the shoulder of Mount Rainier, in the search for a Marine Corps transport plane, missing since Tuesday after- port was en route here from noon with 32 men. The trans- San Diego, Calif, Bad weather continued to hamper ground and air search e Say P.O.W.s To Remain Ottawa, Dec. 14--(CP)--Tbhe federal Cabinet has decided that some German prisoners of war will be allowed to remain in Can- ada, The Canadian Press learned authoritatively today. The number of prisoners invol- ved is not "known but it is believ- ed to be possibly 200. It also was not known imme- diately on what basis the prison. ers would be allowed to remain. This decision results from nego- tiations* between the governiients of Canada and the United King- dom and follows requests made {| by prisoners themselves and: by | many of their Canadian employ- ers that they be allowed to re. main, THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness with widely scattered snowflurries today and Sunday. West winds 25 mph today decren. sing to 20 mph tonight and Sunday. Low tonight and high Sunday 12 and 22. Brantford.and DROP FEDERAL GAS TAX APRIL 1 3-Cent Ottawa Levy No Longer Needed; Field To Provinces Ottawa, Dec. 14 (CP)--Finance Minister Abbott an- nounced today the Dominion government has decided to withdrawn its three-cent tax on gasoline sales, effective next April 14, Explaining the proposed action, Mr. Abbott said: Moving To Hamilton MAJOR ALFRED P. SIMESTER Popular officer in charge of the Oshawa Corps 'of the Salvation Army, who has been appointed Se- cretary of the Young Peoplit's Di- vision for Hamilton and District. He will assume his new duties on January 2. Maj. Simester Being Moved To Hamilton Major Alfred P, Simester, Oshawa Salvation Army Officer, has been appointed Secretary of the Salva- tion Army Division of Young Peo- ple's Work for Hamilton and Dis- trict. The appointment is effective January 2. Major Simester, who came to Oshawa in early July, 1945, on his first civil appointment after dis charge from , the Canadian Army, will be concerned with all Salvation Army youth activities in his new post. He will be responsible for a wide area around Hamilton includ- ing St. Catharines, Guelph, Galt, Falls, "I am particularly pleased to be going to Hamilton since I went overseas with the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry in August 1940," Ma- jor Simester told the Times-Ga- zette, The Salvation Army Director was with the RHL.I. until February, 1942, and after several interim divi- sional postings, he was named Di- rector of Canadian Salvation Army Red Shield work for the Mediterran= ean area. Major Simester returned to Canada and immediately after discharge in July, 1945, received the Oshawa appointment, "Despite the happy choice of the new post, I am very sorry to be leaving Oshawa and all my pleas- ant associations here," Major Simes- ter sald. In addition to his official duties with the Salvation Army, Major Simester was a member of the Ministerial Association, the Ki- wanis Club and an important voice in the Oshawa Rehabilitation Council, & * "The. Dominion gasoline tax was put on in wartime in order to meet the urgent needs of war and it was not intended to retain it as a fea- ture of the Dominion tax structure in peacetime any longer than wag necessary. "Indeed, it has been regarded as a particularly suitable tax for use by the provinces to enable them to finance the construction and maine tenance of highways, Mr. Abbott said, that during the last Dominion-Provincial confer- ence it was urged almost unani. mously by the provinces that the Dominion withdraw from this field. He added that individual prove inces with whom the Dominion has been negotiating over the last three or four months for separate finan- cial agreements have again made the same request. Mr, Abbott's announcement con- cluded: -- "Before his retirement as Minis ter of Finance, my predecessor, the Rt. Hon. J, L. Ilsley, had decided that the Dominion's financial posi= tion had improved sufficiently to warrant the discontinuance of this tax from the beginning of our next fiscal year and I am pleased to be able to announce this decision af this time." Croll Will Defend Burt Windsor, Dec. 14--(CP)--David A, Croll, Liberal Member of Parlia= ment for Toronto-Spadina, will be an associate in the defence of three officials of the United Automobile Workers (C.I.O.) to be tried next week on charges of "conspiracy to beset," it was announced today. He will be associated with Maj. James Clark. The union men are George Burt, Canadian Director; 'Thomas Mae= Lean, assistant director, and Harry Rooney, Chairman of the union's committee at the Chrysler Corpor ation Plant. The trial is scheduled for next Tuesday at the Essex County general sessions of the peace. - The charges arose from the U.A, W.'s strike last summer at the Chre ysler plant here. Big Winnings Paid In Error Capetown, Dec, 14--(CP) -- A punter was paid £1,206.16s. ($5,187) instead of £8.4s. at the Kenilworth race course recently and the mat- ter is being investigated by the Criminal Investigation Depart- ment. He presented four double "tote tickets on rs 7 and 2--Ci- der Cup and Florizel--which were second and first respectively, For each of these tickets he was entitled to a consclation prize of £2.1s. but on each ticket he was paid the winning prize of £299.4s-- £1,196,16s. in all--which wws the dividend on Numbers 10 and 2., Es- capade and Florizel. In addition the man was over paid another £100 as the Treasury notes were being counted out to him. He therefore got £1,206.16s, instead of £8.4s. $32,000 In Gems Stolen, As Thieves Have Field Day In Fog-Bound British Isles London, Dec. 14 (OP)--Fog dog- ged the British islands today for the third straight day and snarled mo- tor traffic hopelessly causing at least three deaths. Train and plane schedules were disrupted for 36 hours. A sudden surge of robberies -- London thieves took advantage of the mists to loot the manor of Mrs. Irene G. Rob- erts of $32,000 worth of gems, in. cluding pearls, diamonds and sap- phires--was evidenced. The strangest crime reported was the disappearance of $3,600 worth of silver coins from a sealed express car of a train bound for Wales. The . seals were intact when the car was opened at Cardiff and the rest of the shipment, worth $40,000, was untouched. Two motor trucks disappeared in London, one containing $4,000 worth of clocks and the other 1,200 pairs of shoes. An automobile plunged off the Southampton pier in the fog last night and Mrs. Frederick Arthur Burgess, her brother and another woman were drowned. Mrs. Burgess' husband, who was driving, was res cued.