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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle DSHAWA WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1946 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES VOL. 5---NO. 184 JURY VERDICT CI0 GH rovernment Will Nationalize U.K. Farms 'Will Grant Power 'To Do 'Anything' For Enforcement It pro- the government can take ise to abide by official advice on grow things, The bill is part parliamentary social and in- "revolution" promised by in 1945. te Paper declared a sec- powers" to "do anything that is necessary to achieve the purpose" of he teeing pri of guaran prices "cannot accurately be estimated in a " the White Paper said. Dispossession notices, served eith- er by the government or by land- lords or tenants, could be appealed, however, to local' tribunals drawn landlords, tenants and farm The Whit Paper sald better men to farming. Farm work- TO NATIONALIZE (Continued on Page 2) High Wages Mean Price Hike--Sloan Boston, Dec. 19 -- (AP) -- Alfred P. Sloan, chairman of the General Motors Corporation, asserted today that wages could not be raised without increasing prices. He told the Boston Chamber of Commerce further "the idea that a wage increase is justified soundly by an increase in living costs is an economic absurdity." "Such a policy," Sloan said in a prepared speech, "can only result-- and, as a matter of fact, is resulting --in an unending spiral of increas- ing wages and prices. "The only sound attack is more and more production with increased efficiency, hence lower prices through the competi of an ex- panding volume of g: and serv- ices." "y glo Canadian Drug a gut! Holds Anglo Canadian Drug Company Convention Ends 'The party held by the Anglo Can- adian Drug Company Limited at the Genosha Hotel last evening was factory staff and their families The Company has added six new travel- llers to its staff which with the other nine travellers makes a coverage from coast to coast with the nu- utical lines. Olinger, sales manager, and C. E. Souch, managing director. This firm has made extensive MILEMAN'S HOLIDAY Toronto, Dec. 19--(CP)-- Christ Day will be a milkman's holi- housewives were warn- «| ell, Annual Dinner In a colorful Christmas setting, the employees of the Anglo-Cana~- dian Drug Co. gathered for their annual dinner and entertainment in the Piccadilly Room of Hotel Genosha last night, Nearly 90 at- tended the dinner which wag fol- lowed by a program of music and comedy, with dancing bringing the evening to a close. The firm's Social Club, of which Miss Gladys Dale is president, was in charge of arrangements for the evening and its members were re- sponsible for the table decorations which added to the Christmaslike spirit of the occasion. Cyril E. Souch, general manager, was chair- man and the president, E. A. Lov- i his appreciation to the staff for their co-operation dur- ing the year and extended to them the compliments of the season. Head Table Guests Others at head table were the sales manager, Milton Clinger, Mrs. Clinger and Mrs, Clinger, Sr. the vice-president, Everett Lovell, Dr. Dorcas Beaton, the office manager, Gordon and Mrs, Gordon, Bruce y y and Stan Lovell as well as Mrs, E. A. Lovell and Mrs, C. E. Souch. Mr. Lovell 'introduced also the 20-odd travellers who represent the firm throughout Canada, These were Gordon Devereux, Bill Perkins, Mickey MacKay, Walter Shepherd, John Hanley, Gil. Brown, Gordon Bidwell, Alex Dewar, Perce Town, Rene - Beauregard, Horace LeClerc, Armand Fortin, Roger Palette, Ken ANNUAL DINNER (Continued on Page 3) New Nurses' Residence Progr essing Satisfactorily Bathe and McLellan, Oshawa confractors, are making excellent progress with the work of constructing the new nurses' residence, at the corner of Simcoe and Alexandra Streets, for the Oshawa General Hospital, The roof is now on and the building is being closed in completely so work on the interior can progress without interruption during the winter months. New, specially designed furniture, has been inspected by members of the Board and it is anticipated an order will be placed in the near future. Mathers and Haldenby, 185 Bloor Street West, Toronto, are the architects, --Photo by Times-Gazette TIMES-GAZETTE WILL OBSERVE BOXING DAY In order to enable mem. bers of its staff to have a ful- ler enjoyment of the holiday season, The Times - Gazette will not publish on either Christmas Day or Boxing Day, which is the day follow= ing Christmas. Issues of the newspaper will be published as usual on Monday, Tuesday, Frigay and Saturday of next week. Col- lections by carrier boys will be made for these issues only. Will Command Salvation Army Corps In Oshawa Major H, G. Roberts, at present doing special evangelical work Yor the Salvation Army in Saskatche. wan, will succeed Major A. P. Simes- ter as officer commanding the Osh- awa Corps of the Salvation Army, it was announced this morning. Major Roberts, who has been a Salvation Army officer for the past 18 years, served overseas for a num- ber of years, during World War II as a member of the auxiliary serv- ices. He saw service in Great Britain, the Mediterranean area and on the continent. He will assume his new duties on January 2. Major Simester at that time will take over his duties as director of young people's work in the Hamilton district. Coal Interests Meet Quietly Washington, Dec. 19--(AP)-- Spokesmen for major sections of the soft coal industry arranged a quiet meeting today. touching off reports of a move to reopen contract negotiations with John L Lewis, Although the representatives would not confirm the reports that they would discuss resump- tion of talks with the United Mine Workers' president, other industry and government officials suggested that such a gathering Soule hardly overlook the sub- ect. JOHN BURCH and Vice-President HERBERT G. CHESEBROUGH 1st Vice-President - Oshawa Legion Branch Elects 1947 Executive Quit Making A-Bomb Says H. Wallace New York, Dec, 19--(CP) -- Henry Wallace, recently appoint. ed editor of New Republic, called on the United States today to stop "bombs. maces aan atom sa In an editorial in the current issue of the magazine, the former United States Vice-President, sald the U.S, should turn over those atomic bombs already madc to an international tribunal so that they can be held in the United States in trust until the United Nationa organization disarmament resolu- tion is given practical effect, Convict Grocer For Overcharging "Ceiling prices are high enough," Magistrate F. 8. Ebbs declared in imposing a fine of $75 and costs on Geza Angi, 41 Gladstone Avenue, convicted on charges of offering grocery items for sale at higher than ceiling prices and failing to Raye the proper tagging on store az. es "It is @ hardship on the people who patronize these stores to pay over the ceiling," Magistrate Ebbs declared, item Regarding one known as a "select chicken dinner," the Magistrate gave it as his opin- ion that there was only "a nickels worth of chicken" in any of the canned chicken 3 Mr. Angi, who pleaded guilty to the charges, said "this sort of thing won't happen any more." James Lovell. was returned as president of Post 43, Canadian Le~ gion, British Empire Service Lea- gue, when the branch held its an- nual election at the Legion Hall last night. The newly elected offi- cers will be installed on January 9 when it is expected W. T. Burke, Secretary of the Provincial Com- mand, will officiate. Those elected were: Honorary President, Col. R. 8. McLaughlin; Honorary Vice Presidents, George Hart, Frank Johnston and Ewart McLaughlin; it, James L. Covell Pree VOY Present Her: bert G. Chesebrough; Second Vice President, John Burch, A Members of the executive are:-- Charles Wilcox, H. Carr, Joseph Wilson, Ada Twilley, R. G. Mills, R. Lambert, Willlam Watson, A, Gun- nell and F. Foley. \ At the nomination meeting re- cently William Dunn and W. Thompson were accorded acclama- tions as Treasurer and Sergeant-at- Arms, respectively, A. J, Graves was re-appointed as chaplain of the branch Scrutineers for the balloting were:--Paul Swartz, Sid. Dennis, W. J. Lock and J. Copping, O, S. Hobbs presided for the election. Final arrangements were made by the meeting for the annual Christ- mas party for the children to be held on Saturday of this week and also for the members' party on New Year's Day. The branch received an invitation to attend the zone rally to be held at Whitby on January 17 next. COHEN RELEASED Toronto, Dec. 19--(CP) -- A re- lease order wag issued at Osgoode Hall yesterday for J. L. Cohen, prominent Toronto labor lawyer, convicted at Haileybury last week of assault occasioning actual bodily harm to his secretary, 20-year-old Elizabeth Guenard and sentenced to six months. Bail was set at $2,000. Local Canary Fancier Cleans Up At Montreal Oshawa's premier Canary fan- cler, "Ted yres," 34 Nassau Street, is a proud man today. For Ted, a General Motors employee, not only bred and ined the best registered canary in the Dominion in the 1945-46 season but has just cleaned up generally at the 20th annual singing contest of the Montreal Roller Canary Club, held under the auspices of the Dominion Roller Canary Associa- tion, His birds "won the show" ov- er contestans from all parts of the Dominion and he is rapidly be- coming a factor to be reckoned with in grand championship com- petition. His top flight bird (they do not name them -- just numbered leg bands) warbled off with one first prize; four specials and a sixth prize, which is consid. ered no mean feat by any stand- ard, ng For Championship Nor will Ted stand for long on Ti: laurels, He is busy j 'iming his birds for the coming gran . cham- pionship event to be held at the Toronto Roller Canary Club; near the end of January, By way of how you climb the ladder of success in the canary breeding game; a little explana- tion is necessary. There are three classes of breeders, Novices; ama- teurs and champions. The group- ings are determined in this man- ner, Anyone just entering the gamb ic a novice. When he walks off with top honors in one open com- petition he becomes an amateur. The next hurdle is more formid. able. He must cop honors in two championship shows to get entry into the championship class. These honors must be won in com- petition with top birds across the country, as well as many from the U.S. and other points, In the short time Ted Tyres has been breeding birds he has come to the point where he must win one more amateur show. Then h: enters the big time. As a mat. ter for the record, it is not per- mitted to purchase birds of top calibre and enter them under your banner. You must breed and train them yourself, Owns 70 Birds Ted has over 70 birds at his Nassau street home; 11 of which he now has in training for the big Toronto show. The birds are kept in the dark a goodly portion of the time, This keeps them from warb- CANARY FANCIER (Continued from Page 1), . dia UAW. HEAD HITS AT GAR PRICE RAISE "An unwelcome Christmas pack- age for prospective car buyers" was the term used today by Harry FP. Benson, President of Local 222, U.A. W.A,, Oshawa, when questioned on the increase of 10 per cent. in the price of automobiles. He said he felt that the workers in the indus- try would not accept the intima- tion that the reason for the in- crease was solely because of in- creased labor costs and below nor- mal production, "While it is true that during the past months work- ers employed in the industry in Canada did receive a wage increase of from 12 to 14 per cent, it doesn't necessarily follow that this wage increase had to be passed on to the customer," he said. All available reports show that the profit and assets position of the automobile industry is greatly in- creased today as compared to pre- war production years, He pointed out that the Canadian manufactur~ ers of automobiles had already re- ceived the benefit of two automa- tic but concealed price A one when the Canadian dollar was revalued and the other the down- ward revision of the excise tax on automobiles. However, the purchaser received no benefit price-wise at that time and now under new prices will pay : CAR PRICES (Continued on Page 2), Parliament Will Open January 30 . Ottawa, Dec. 19--(CP)--The third session of the 20th Parlia- ment, is expected to feature a lengthy battle on the contentious issue of whether controls should be retained, will open Thursday, Jan, 30. The opening date was disclosed last night by Prime Minister Mac. kenzie King in a brief announce- ment made following a Cabinet meeting at which the government also is believed to have consider- ed the legislative program for the new session. ' The January date is in line with Mr. King's promise to opposing political parties at the last ses- sion, which dated from March 14 to Aug. 30, that Parliament would be opened before the end of Jan- uary. The present standing of parties in the 246-seat house is: Liberals 124; Progressive Conservatives 67; C.C.F. 28; Social Credit 13; others 11, and vacancies two. This standing will be changed by the result of Dec, 23 by-election in the Quebec riding of Richelieu-Ver- cheres, A second by-election is pending in. Halifax constituency but it is not expected to be held until after the house rises, Outstanding items on the legis- lative program are expected to be bills dealing with the continua- tion of controls which the govern- ment feels should be retained. Informed sources say the Cabi- net has been giving thought to two possible courses--either to ask Parliament to continue the emergency transitional powers act for another year as a temporary measure or to submit a series of bills to give statutory form to controls being retained. Ritson Addition Plans Discussed Plans for the posed Ritison School addition iy discussed iast night at a public meeting held at the school, The discussion was led by Trus- tee Dr. F. J. Donevan, chairman of the Board of Education's Property Committee, who was in . Inspector T, also took part in the discussion. Sketches and blueprints of - the proposed addition were shown at the meeting and Dr. Donevan ex- plained its part in the Board's - gram for iding additional accomm on in the city, THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness today, be- ing overcast with snowflurries tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature today becoming milder Friday. West winds 15 mph, shifting to south west Friday. Low Tonight 18, high Friday 27. Summary for Friday: Snow- A] flacries, ARGES End Trial Charges Of Conspiracy And | Besetting Counts Windsor, Dec. 19 (CP)--An Essex County General Ses- sions jury retired shortly before noon today to consider a verdict in the trial of three officials of the United Automobile Workers (C.I1.0.) charged with "conspiracy to beset." & The three: George Burt, Ca- nadian Director of the union; Thomas MacLean assistant di-' rector, and Harry Rooney, union chairman at the Chrysler Cor- poration plant, where the UA. W., was on strike Iast summer for 122 days. The charge arose from picketing during the sirike at Chrysler plants here and in Chatham. Judge E. A. Shaunessy addressing the jury said: "If you disagree with me it is your duty to give the ac- the benefit of the doubt and acquit them." Maj, James H. Clark, chief de- fence counsel, objected that Judge | Shaunessy had not mentioned the testimony that all tnree accused Col. David Croll of Toronto, noted the judge had said the three ac- C.1.0. CHARGES (Continued on Page 3) Army Cadets Presented Awards From long to sturdy cadet mascots, everybody at the combination fifth birthday and annual Christmas party of the Oshawa and District Army Cadet including presentation awards, welcoming speeches, com- edy stunts and quizzes and topped of 57 yetnedbuunte; prepared by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Corps. At the head of the merit list were Cadet Lt. Earl Jackson, who has never missed a parade since the corps was organized five years ago, and Cadet Major Francis Grant, who has a perfect attendance re- cord since joining the cadets four years ago. Cadet Adj. Ernie Whit- ing did an expert job as Master of Ceremonies, joking with Corps in- structors Sgts, Cecil Pearn and'L. G. Scott, and introducing all the award winners, "Our objective in the cadet corps is to make better men and better citizens, not to make soldiers," Lt.- Col. Murray P. Johnson, O.C. of the ARMY CADETS (Continued on Page 9) U.S. Fire Toll Is Heavy Philadelphia, Dec. 19--(AP)--Five negroes perished and more than 40 others were injured as fire swept the first floor of a low-priced south Philadelphia hotel, forcing more than 100 residents from the four- storey building in near-freening weather. Fire Marshal George Gallagher sald a preliminary investigation of the fire which gutted the ground floor of Abe's Hotel, indicated it or- iginated from a lighted cigaret in one of the rooms. In Minneapolis, a spectacular fire, with flames shooting more than 150 feet into the air and visible for sev- eral miles, destroyed the Union Grain Elevator filled with nearly 3,000,000 bushels of grain. Early re- ports were that the elevator was filled with barley and at current market prices thc loss was expect- ed to run to more than $3,000,000. hg Goes To Marmora ALEX F. FRASER Assistant Manager of the main of- fice of the Dominion Bank here, who leaves today to assume his du- ties ap manager of the branch at Marmora. Alex F. Fraser Named Manager Bank AtMarmora Assistant manager of the main of- floes of the Dominion Bank here, Alex PF. Fraser is leaving today to assume his new duties as manager of the branch at Marmora where he succeeds Gregor Murray, who in turn is being moved to Madoc. Mr, Fraser's successor here is George E. Snyder, accountant on the St. Jean Baptiste Market Branch in Montreal, Mr. Snyder has served with the bank at its pranéhes in Kitchener, Windsor and Montreal, Prior to coming to Oshawa five years ago, Mr. Fraser served as ac- countant of the Toronto branch and previously was stationed at Kitch- ener, He has been an employee of the bank for 23 years. During his five years in Oshawa, Mr, Fraser has been an active member of the Oshawa Kinsmen Club which recently elected him as its president of 1047. Mayor Is Host Boxing Day A very pleasant gathering was held at Hotel Genosha last night when His Worship Mayor F. N. McCallum was host to members of the City Council, heads of civ- ic departments and representa- tives of the press at the annual Mayor's Dinner. The dinner was entirely infor- mal with very short speeches be- ing delivered. The chairmen of the various Council committees took the opportunity to express their appreciation of the co-opera- tion extended to them by the civ- fc employees during the year. Head table guests with Mayor McCallum were City Clerk F. E. Hare, Magistrate F' S, Ebbs, Fire Chief W. R. Elliott, Chief of Po- lice Owen D, Friend and Alder- man Ernie Cay, % LATE NEWS BRIEFS today until Tuesda y | Windsor: William Jewitt, 17, of Leamington was remanded on a charge of murder in the hammer slaying of his mother Dec. 6. Toronto: All hotel beverage rooms are to close at 6.30 p.m. Christmas Eve, the Ontario Liquor Licence Board announced today. Clubs are exempted from the order. Kenora: Governor E. W. Cox of the provincial jail here said today that two prisoners who escaped from the jail early this morning "have been sighted" and'it is ex- pected they will be back in custody shortly. Ottawa: An Industrial Disputes Inquiry Commission has been set up to investigate a wage dispute that led to a strike of workers last month at the Nuvy's ammu- nition magazine in Renous, N.B.