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THE DAILY TIMES.G. Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle | OSHAWA ZETITE WHITBY EwOL. 6--NO. 5 F. McCALLUM 4456; DAFOE 2393 Election Tabulated In Near-Record Time LJ ¥ ures for their polls as soon as OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1947 Price 4 Cents "SIXTEEN PAGES Council Contest Last Three Places Keenest In Years Although they were not able to surpass records of pre- vious year's members of The Times-Gazette staff last night were able to provide the residents of the Oshawa area with a rapid and accurate picture of the voting in the city's 53 poll- ing subdivisions, From the time the first poll reported with complete returns at 7.35 p.m.é- until the final poll came in at 11 p.m, members of the staff were kept extremely busy throughout the evening. The speed with 'which the results Joe tabulated a. slot oo pouibie tion of City Clerk F, E. , the members of his staff and he' De- puty Returning Officers, the ma- jority of whom telephoned the fig- counting of the ballots was com- pleted. Returns Carefully Checked To handle the recording of the Times-Gazette att was office was secured. Here all reports from the subdivisions were received, entered on a master form and then on to other members of the totals and the typing Other members of the staff were OOUNOIL CONTEST (Continued on Page 8) p-------- aro the | charles ' | enterprise was largely attributed to Woolworth, Five and Ten King Dead Scranton, Pa. 8, Jan, 7 -- (AP) -- Sumner Woolworth, who was a founder of the Woolworth chain of 5 and 10 cent stores 65 years ago, died today at his home. He was 90 years old, Woolworth, who had been in ill health for several weeks, opened his first store here 65 years ago and later fogmed the F. W. Woolworth Company with his brother, the late Frank W. Woolworth, and the late Fred M. Kirby of Wilkes-Barre, He was born Aug. 1, 1856, at Rod- man, N. Y, The 8-and-10 cents store idea was credited to Frank Woolworth but the success of the Charles, who began his Shree sweeping floors and tending Singing a To s Ukrainian Christmas . + ralgned Watertown, NX, for "a (Y Carol singing 1s today marking the celebration of Christmas 3 special meal with cer- tain symbolic 1 Large a attended midnight Christmas mass at St. ~ :John's Ukrainian Orthodox and St. 's Ukrainian Catholic Churches. At St. George's the mass was by the choir led by Peter , |. Holowaty and Rev. Father J. C. by ere at 10 o'clock. Pereyma gave a special Christmas e. A further service was held Orthodox messag the Ukrainian t f (Church of the Holy Virgin Mary, b 'morning was held at 9 am. sung by Nick Mech and this was followed by mass at 10.30. At this service the music was led by a Christmas service was also held at the Ukrainian Presbyterian Church at 11 am, conducted by Rev. John Jacenty. A feature of all the services was the singing of the traditional aw by all present. During the after. noon groups of children are singing carols throughout the community and this evening adult carollers will be out. choir of about 25 Last night 8 voices from the various churches and organizations gave a program Let Liberals ' Lead China : --Marshall Washington, Jan. 7--(AP)--Gen. \. Georg ership by ernment a the minor In a 1,200-word "pe! " ment," the President's personal en- [Voy to China said that "sincere ef- . forts to achieve settlement" of the strife between the goyernment and Communist forces"have been frus- tated time and again by extremists a temperate note Vg said that "now that the form | for a democratic China - been - Jaid down bf the newly adopted _ constitution, measures | Will be the Mo e Virgin Mary is foatival of St. Stephen the Martyr, of Ukrainian Christmas music un- iy {der the direction of Staniey Masew- As the Christmas season extends over "a three-day od, services will also be held in the churches to- Toran which is the festival of and Thursday, the ICED-TAIL GROUNDS RED BREAST Windsor, Ont., Jan, 7 (CP) = Add winter worries: A robin with mistaken ideas about her- alding has been "ground- ed" for several days in the yard at the rear of a west-central Pitt street house--too much ice on its tail, Ten-year-old Bar- bara Tolmie has kept the robin alive with regular meals ,of crumbs, apples and suet. RADIO SPEEDS \VOTE RETURNS T0 DISTRICT Marking the first time in the history of Oshawa that the Civic Election results were conveyed to the citizens almost as rapidly as they were received, via the facili-| © tiles of Oshawa's own new radio station CKDO, the enterprise and spirit of public service displayed by The Daily Times-Gazette In making this possible, was lauded in unstinted fashion by al who came to the microphone in The Times-Gazette office, Mayor-elect Frank McCallum the unsuccessful mayoralty candi date Findley Dafoe, J. L, Beaton, Chairman of the Board of Educa- tion, the various candidates in the Aldermanic race, whether success- ful or defeated, members-elect of the Whitby Township Counell, East Whitby Township Council, Oshawa Board of Public Utilities Commission and others, all voiced th2ir sincere appreciation, Many Congratulations Numerous citizens, members of the vast radio audience in Ontar- fo and Durham counties, took the trouble to telephone the office and extend their thanks and con- gratulations, Other similar mes- sages were received this morning and are still coming in, The majority of election candi. dates who spoke to the radio au- dience or over the public-address system, made a special point of commending the publishers of The VOTE RETURNS (Ontinued on Page 14) NE igen Signed Statement Buffalo, N. Y., Jap, T--(AP) -- Frank G. Werner, 30, was to be are today on a charge of first- murder in She killing of his wife, Thelma, 40, last Friday. Mrs, Werner s body, garroted and beaten, was found Saturday morn- ing beneath the window of her se- cond-floor rented room. 'Werner, arrested 36 hours later in the New York City rooming house where he was superintendent, was charged here last night after dis- trict atorney Gordon Steele said he signed a 10-page statement. Soviet Wants Radio Reopened Shanghal, Jan. 7--(AP)-- Soviet representatives a) ed to the Chinese government today to per- mit reopening of the Shanghai Sov- iet radio station XRVN, which the government closed and sealed Mon- day under a resulation forbidding Cpteation of foreign transmitters in ohm. appeal was based on a gen- eral guarantee of freedom of speech, in China's new constitution. k be Mayor year's mayoralty contest, Oshawa's Chief Magistrate twin heb obvi th So AARNE RANA AON . hifi No" DUALLY cob polled 4,456 votes in yesterday's municipal election to gain a major. ity of 2,063 over Jiniey M. Datte in the contest for the mayoralty. Jt will % aoony term as he defeated two opponents in last Goderich, Jan, 7--(COP)-- A wo- man was killed and two other per sons injured last night when a half- inch cable serving as a guard rail for the balcony of the local arena 'ood Goderich, taken to Be with a fractured skull, died soon after ad- mission, Her brother, M. M. Mac- Donald, broke both wrists in the 1m and 11-year-old Bobby Gardner of Goderich suffered concussion, The game, in which Luzon Flyers beat Clinton Radar School 7-2, was 1 Dead, 2 Hurt In Plunge To Ice As Guard-Rail Snaps In Arena Balcony one of the rouglidst ever seen here, a fight As the players used their fists and sticks amid the uproar of the the 11 people were seen to sail for- ward through the air and down on to Ad ice, e players ceased their fighting and hwried to aid the injured with rink officials and other apec- tators joining in. Of the 700 attending the game about 200 were in the balcony which ran along one side of the arena and overhung the ice. Those who fell were among those occupying front seats on the balcony, Two Goderich or in the crowd gave first aid. After the in- Jured had been removed the ice was cleared and the game resumed, TWO GARAGE BREAK-INS AT BROOKLIN Break-ins took place at two Brooklin service stations last night, the thieves making away with a quantity of tobaco, choco- late bars, cigarettes and a small quantity of antifreeze and oll, provincial police reported today. The sérvice stations were those operated by Roy Dingman and Wes Shell located at the north and south ends of the village re- spectively, For the Dingman station this was the third break.in in six months, the first taking place lant August when a quantity of gaso- line was stolen and the second on November 25 when the loot was oll, Last night the thieves got to- baco, cigarettes, chocolate bars and about six quarts of antifreeze and had also attempted to re- move the: battery charger but it was too firmly attached to the building, A police dog remains overnight at Shell's service station and it is thought that it may have had mething to do with causing the feves to leave without making a more complete haul, Only some nine quarts of oil was reported missing, Provincial Constable George Maguire of Whitby who Is inves- tigating said in both cases entry had been gained by breaking the glass in the front door, At the Dingman service station the ma- rauders had apparently reached through and turned the night latch while at the other they i" u B.C.'s D.-P. Lot Stirs More Ire Toronto, Jan, n, 7--(OP)~The an- nouncement by the Liberal govern ment of New Brunswick that it wag repudiating its taxation agreement with the Dominion government drew no comment yesterday at Queen's Howe high-ranking offi. ver, one 5 - clal said: "Here we have one prove ince claiming that it has been dis oriminated against because of the terms granted another province, "It is understood that Premier Garson of Manitoba is also dissatis- fied now that he has learned of the British Columbia pact. There is no stating where this undercurrent of dissatisfaction will lead to. It sure- ly will not serve the interests of un- ity in ia oon if the Dominion ni governme s on its present policy." THE WEATHER Overcast with Intermittent light snow this afternoon and again Wednesday morning clear ing late Wednesday, Slightly tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednesday 20 and 27, Summary for Wed- nesday -- smow, then clearing. '| old 8idney report Council Includes Five 46 Aldermen; 1st Woman Elected In close to a B50 per cent vote, Frank N, McCallum last night defeated his only opponent, F. M, Dafoe, by nearly two to one to be returned as mayor of the city for a second term. The aldermanic contest, which saw the Yeturn of only five of the 1946 council members, was featured by the #election of the first woman alder~ Find Bones In Cannery Furnace Toronto, Jan. 7 (OP)--Tests by. provincial analyst Joselyn Rogers showed that particles taken from the. Simcoe Oanning Company furnace ab St. Oatharines, Ont, by investigators probing the slaying of nine-year-old Marion Rusnak last Dec, 23 were bone material, it was announced todey, Further tests are to be made to determine if the bones were hue man, Police have charged 34-year-old Sidney Chambers with murder, Chambers was ed at the canning plant. Investigators indi- cated that they believed the little girl's body was burned in the furn- ace, St. Catharines, Jan, 7 (CP)--The slow work of Bol together the twisted threa ce in the strange slaying nine-year.old Marion a A Dec, 23 con- tinued tod Ab Linon County Jail 34-year i under that they say has conf five hs Bo ndb 1 attempts on his own life, Meanwhile, Marion's two sisters-- Cees, 4 six, and Margaret, 16--went back to school for a second day. They resumed their studies yester- day with advice from their mother to tell their questioning fellow stu- dents that "all I know about the case has been in the newspapers." Cawnpore Riots Cause 5 Deaths Cawnpore, India, Jan. 7---(Reu- ters)--I"ive persons were killed or fatally injured as & result of fight- i yesterday in Cawnpore when ice opened fire on a crowd of several thousand attacking a po- lice station, the district magistrate |. said last night, Cawnpore's industrial unrest -- which has led to an outbreak of strikes--spread to the Central Ord- nance Depot, where the workers staged a stay in strike and looked te tes. They invaded the Com- ant's office and "a riot ocour- Ted" the m 's statement ad ed, Police reinforcements rushed to the depot, released the Commande ant and eventually moved the work. ers out of the depot. As has been the custom for many years a large crowd gathered | Daily Times-Gazette Office Key Point As Election Results Gathered is Finley M. Dafoe congratulating his opponent, F. N. McCallum, en his ® t The | re-election as Mayor. At 'the right fs the platform from which results bulletin beard. Times-Gazette office last night to learn the results of the municipal | were announced with T. L. Wilson, erem micro- | Edgar Hegtion campaign and to hear speeches by the candidates. At the left wR uale a he gy In the foreground, watohing Mr, Wilson, are Councillor and Deputy Reeve T. D: Thomas of East Wkithy Town. phone. In the background are George Wilson and Norman Arthur, two ship. Don. Allman, CKDO announcer, is standing beside Mr. Wilson. | members of The Times-Gasette Maing statt, posting. returns 'en dhe ' ~w=Photos by Campbell's Studio man in the city's history, Mrs, Eve lyn M, Bateman, School Bylaw Defeated The bylaw to authorize the ex- penditure of $880,000 for the pro= posed Roxborough Avenue Public School and an addition to Ritson Public School 3 was defeated by a Tone 1,883 to 1,646, or a majority 7 From the first there was little doubt as to the results of the may oralty contest and the final figures showed a total of 4,456 votes for Mayor McCallum and 2,393 for F, M. Dafoe who had been on the A complete tabulation of the votes 'polled for the oan in Oshawa civic election yester- Sa% wil be found on Tags 10's Further city election on siewy ape pears on Pages 3 wi the results of the oy in the various Ontario County municipalities are on Page 5. council for the three years as well as from 1939 to 1041, The fore mer had a majority in 46 of the 53 subdivisions. This will be Mayor MoCOallum's fifth consecutive term in the coun- coll, having been an alderman for three years prior to being elected BibyoR last Jeu, In 1048 he was 3 i; wor Boar Davis oie B Council Poll : In the contest for the 10 alder manic seats, A. G. Davis, mayor in 1944 and a member of council dur- ing the past year, headed the poll with 4,206, exactly 400 over his nearest rival, J. A, Coleman, who was mayor of the city in 1030. The (Ontinued on Page 14) Palestine Partition Said Plan London, Jan. 7 (AP)--Foreign Secretary Bevin and Colonial Sec retary Jones were by & government source ay to have "decided in principle" that tition of Palestine into Arab Jewish States was Britain's only hope of settling the Holy Land problem. While the Colonial and Foreign office studied what this informant called "several variations on the partition theme," the British jon ernment received an appeal, from Hagana, most moderate of underground organizations in ian stine, to shun any "large-scale re- tallatory operations in the Holy » Land, The British Cabinet ] of day. An atmosphere of urgency was helghtened by the steady flow of British soldiers, veterans of North warfare, from Egypt TAD Plan" version of the semi-federalization scheme announced last year by Her bers Morrison, Deputy Prime Mine Tr, Charges Hungarians Are Made Slaves were sent to ve markets" in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia. conference which he Kitchener, Jan. Glenafton Killarney, ,000 hol stein bull urohased » by the Wattios Holstein er's Association last fall, died yesterday, it was learned The bull was to be delivered to the Association in May from a farm at Alliston,