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ES- GAZETTE WHITBY, FOURTEEN PAGES THE DAILY T OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle VOL. 6--NO. 6 TORONTO OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1947 Price 4 Cents RIVER TO STAND TRIAL [Is Remanded For 'P.U.C. Building New Type of Construction Ready To Pour Concrete For New P.U.C. Building Hinged-Arch Type Permits Expansion And Contraction Although held up for two months through lack of steel, construction of the new Public Utilities garage on Metcalfe Street has been proceeding rapidly during the past few weeks and forms are now being erected in preparation for pouring the superstructure. Whether or not pouring of the concrete can be proceeded with at the pres-# ent time will depend on the weather conditions, according to the con- tractor, H. M. Brooks of Oshawa. The building, designed by J. B. Parkin of Toronto, is an example of a new hinged-arch type of rein- forced concrete construction which being used in only one other build- % ny under construction at the pres- time. Allows For Expansion Rather than being poured solid as is the usual procedure, the arches are hinged at the bases at the wall and also at the centre point of the roof. This is to allow for expan- sion and contraction of the con- crete. The garage, Which is 62 feet by 68 feet in dimension, forms the westerly portion of the combined storage and garage building origin- 'ally contemplated by the Public Utilities Commission and provision {8 being made in the construction for this addition in the future. The wall on the east side for instance is 12 feet in the ground as compared ii Sve feet six inches on the oth- 'er side. Will Cost About $43,000 of the building, which is to cost approximately $43,- . 1000, was begun early in October and work was held up for about two 'months owing to a shortage of steel. Now, ib the frames are up in preparation for pouring e po Hin? ob a or the reinforced concrete portion of the building ground. There is no basement but the walls are sunk ii the ground and tied in with steel. It will be a one-storey building with brick exterior walls, concrete floor and flat roof. There will be steam heating from the heating plant in theiadjacent P.U.C. build- ing. The sub-contract for plumbing and heating has been let to J. B. 8 Smith, Toronto. » [J Veterinarian : s Waits Court's ® ® Decision Belleville, Jan, 8 --(OP)-- Judg- a Ee Bin IARI, charged with infrac- | tions of the Contagious Disease of Animals Act. The Crown alleged Dr. Brown had hp conspired with M. Levine, Belle- ville cattle drover, to. substitute ear tags on ineligible cattle to enable them to be exported to the United States. levine is charged with conspiracy and will face trial Fri- day. Saved Five Of 8 Yanks Tojo Says . Tokyo, Jan, 8--(AP)--Hideki f Tojo himself ordered that the eight American fliers captured § following Tokyo's first bombing in 1942 be court martialled but sald he saved five of them from | the ensuing death sentence be- cause he knew Emperor Hirohito's benevolence, the International War Crimes Tribunal was told [ today. Col, Gilbert 8. Woolworth, as- [ sociate prosecutor, read into the . record statements taken from the former Premier at Sugamo prison ' last March in which he said Hi- rohito knew nothing about the matter until Tojo asked him to | issue clemency for the five. Tojo argued that the raid, car- tied out from a United States air- craft carrier, was not against troops, but against "non-combat- Bants, primary school students and 80 forth." * Since this was not permitted hy ternational (law, it was homi. cide," hig statement went on. Tojo said after the eight Am- ericans © were condemned the Chief of Staff demanded the deaths of all eight but he knew l "of the Emperor's benevolence." "Therfore it was decided that | only the three who had killed pri- i Mary school students could re- | £eive the death penalty." \ MARSHALL T0 FOLLOW BYRNES' PATH Washington, Jan, 8-- (AP) -- Gen. George C. Marshall was con- sidered certain today to endorse and support United States Secre- tary of State Byries' foreign po- liey--including the "firm" stand toward Rpussia--when he re- replaces Byrnes in the top-rank- ing Cabinet post next week. Both diplomatic and Congres- sional leaders agreed that Mar- shall will "carry on" with the task of constructing world peace where Byrnes leaves off, Interest in his future policies was equalled if not exceeded by the fact that as Secretary of State the General will become first in line for succession to the Presidency and ~~ whether he likes it or not--a leading figure among the 1948 Democratic Pres- idential possibilities. At 66, Marshall ig stepping in- to one of his most difficult and critical tasks, As Army Chief of Staff he did much to design the strategy of Allied victory, a Secre- tary of State he will have possib- ly a greater responsibility--that of working with the foreign mini- sters of other major powers to complete the structure of peace. Byrnes, only little more than a year older than Marshall, attri. buted his resignation to doctor's advice early last year that he had to "slow down." He said he could not remain Secretary of State and do that. Byrnes first asked last April 16 to be allowed to resign July 1, expecting the European satellite GENERAL MARSHALL (Continued on Page 2) Icebreaker To Supply 16 Villages Quebec, Jan, 8 -- (CP) -- The 1,100-ton government icebreaker Ernest Lapointe sailed from here this morning to smash through the iceflelds to get supplies into 16 vil- lages isolated along the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Newest of the Dominion's ice- breaker fleet, the Lapointe was to pick up the supply-laden Clarke Steamship Company freighter North Voyageur at Murray Bay and then break a path into the ice-bound communities stretching from the estuary of the Saguenay to Havre St. Pierre, some 350 miles down- stream from this ancient capital. Chlorine Taste Result of Change In Type of Water The peculiar taste in Oshawa drinking water this morning was explained by E. A, Colvin, engi- neer in charge of the city pump- ing station, as resulting from a sudden improvement in the supply of raw water probably during the night for which the amount of chlorine being applied at the time was too heavy, Mr, Colvin said that when the situation was discovered this mor- ning the application of chlorine was decreased and by noon the taste of the water at the pumping station was normal although he sald the taste of chlorine might still be noticed uptown for a time. He said changes of this nature in the characteristics of the raw water are not unusual at this time of year, with a sudden calm bringing a better quality of wat- er. The change took place so sud- denly that ther@®was not time to decrease the amount of chlorine soon enough to prevent an effect on the taste of the water, The forms are now standing in preparation for pouring the re-inforced concrete superstructure of the mew Public Utilities garage building Metcalfe St. Begun early in October, construction was held up for about two months owing to lack of steel but it has been progressing satisfac- torily for the past few weeks weather will determine and Contractor Harry M. Brooks says the the of t ded can be pr ding, designed by J. B. Parkin of To- =FPhoto by Campbell's Studio TOBERMORY - FREE AFTER 13-DAY SEIGE Tobermory, Ont., Jan. 8--(CP)-- Freed from 13 days' of isolation im- posed by a storm which piled 15- foot drifts on the highway to Wiar- ton, residents of this village on the tip of the Bruce Peninsula today watched two Highway Department snowplows start south to finish the job of re-opening the road. Behind the outbound plows, which reached the stormbound village at 5 a. m. after battling = through drifts continuously for 21 hours, went a bus and two transport trucks which would bring in sup~ plies from Wiarton or Owen Sound. Two buses, driven by Cliff Wood and Fred Grieves and owned by the Peninsula Bus Company, followed the plows inbound through the drifts. When they pulled to a stop in front of Carroll Davies' grocery store, from them piled 15 Tobermory residents who were held in Wiarton for as long as eight days and then stranded at a store and service sta- tion at Ferndale Corners, south of here, for as long as four days. They were the first buses to make TOBERMORY (Continued on Page 2) Find Police Constable Alive, Well Kirkland Lake, Ont, Jan, 8-- (CP)--Found alive and well today on a tiny bush country lake, Pro- vincial Constable Lee Walker was flown to his home at nearby Lar- der Lake. He had been missing since he set out from Larder Lake Monday on a mercy flight. Constable Walker said he had been forced down by engine trouble but landed safely on the lake, 30 miles northwest of Larder Lake, and in a district hardly touched by the intensive air search carried out Monday and Tuesday. When found, Constable Walker had hiked to another lake. Jack La- mont, operations chief of the Lea- vens Northern Limited Air Service, spotted him frdbm the air, "I was just flying along when black smoke started to pour out of the engine," Constable Walker said in an interview. "It was pretty mis- ty but I could just make out Lake Po ---- POLICE CONSTABLE (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Overcast with snowflurries this afternoon, clearing this evening, Thursday clear and cooler. Southwest winds 15 shifting to northwest, 15 this" evening. Thursday northwest 15. Low tonight and high Thursday 5, 18. Summary for Thursday: clear, cooler, Reached All-Time High, 1946 Figures Reveal Ottawa, Jan. 8--(CP)--Although some rationing restrictions on beer and liquor remained in most prov inces, the cup of the Canadian drinker really ran over in the year ended last March 31. In that 12-month period -- the latest for which figures are avail- able -- he tossed off enough of the stuff to provide every man, woman and child in the country with ap- tely half a proof gallon of spirits, 12 gallons of beer and nearly a half gallon of wine. The Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics, which has just issued these findings, says the apparent con- umption of beer and hard liquor hit an all-time high during the period. Spirits amounting to 5,864,000 proof gallons were disposed of by liquor devotees while beer guzzlers had a picnic on 130,086,000 gallons. Previous peaks were 4,729,000 proof gallons of liquor in 1942-43 and about 110,000,000 gallons of beer in 1944-45. Wine drinkers tapered off to a mere 4,756,000 gallons from their record of 4,812,000 in 1042-43, As usual, the elbow-bender paid off handsomely, to the tune of about $186,300,000 in taxes alone, Excise taxes and import duties, validation fees and licences cost him $70,000,000, Levies on malt and malt products were $48,228,000 and on wine $2,607,000. Sales taxes and other excise taxes and duties paid to Dominion and provincial govern- ments on the output of the brewing industry totalled up to another $65,000,000. Legislature Hears Dewey On Seaway - Albany, N. Y,, Jan. 8 -- (AP) -- Governor Thomas Dewey, long an advocate of the St. Lawrence sea- way and power development, gave no flat endorsement of the seaway phase of this controversial issue in his annual message to the New York State Legislature today. He placed heavy emphasis on what he called the need for devel- oping the power resources of the river, . An aide said, however, that Dew- ey still favored both the deepening of the waterway and use of the ri- Ver's power resources. Dewey told the legislature: "Once the matter of the development of the St. Lawrence for the benefit of the people of this and neighboring states will be be- fore the Federal Congress. For many years I have held the view and advocated that the develop- ment of hydro-electric power from that great natural resources should go forward. During these years the proposal for the development of -hy- dro-electric power and the seaway hag steadily gained strength and supporters. . . of so much of our electric power production on coal makes clearer the need for alterna- tive sources for electric power pro- duction. However, the great cost of replacement of capital equipment and of expanded capital equipment in the electric power field threatens to terminate or even reverse the uniformly decreasing cost of elec- tricity to the consumers of this state in the future. "A partial solution to all these needs is provided by utilizing to the full the water power of the state for the production of hydro-electric power," 3 N.S. Miners Quit Talks With Firms Glace Bay, N.S, Jan. 8 -- (CP) -- Negotiations for the biggest wage increase in the history of United Mine Workers (C.C.L.) district 26 were deadlocked today as the union sought federal government inter vention, , ! Dominion. Coal. Company, employ= er of the bulk of the 13,000 UM.W. members in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and the union separately issued prepared statements last night announcing the breaking off of negotiations in which the miners sought a $250 increase alipve the current basic daily rate of $5.84. Harold C, M. Gordon, general manager of Dominion Coal and as- it more efficient negotiations. , He said the company an increase of $1 "provi sonable output per x achieved." % Freeman Jenkins, UM.W. district president, said the union's executive N. S. MINERS (Continued on Page 2) C. V. Charters P.R.O. For P.C.'s Ottawa, Jan, 8 -- (CP) -- Clar- ence V. Charters, 54, of Brampton, Ont., former managing director of the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association, has been appointed, dir- ector of public relations for the Progressive Conservative party, it was announced last night. 3 Pra 'their attacks AMONG 18 JEWS HELD Jerusalem, Jan. 8--(AP)--Eight- een Jews were officially reported arrested in a police-military search of Rishon Ie Zion early today and reliable sources said five were prom- inent in Irgun Zvai Leumi, Jewish underground organization. Seven others, these jnformants sald, were members of Irgun Zvai Leumi. There was no immediate identification from police. Rishon Le Zion was the scene 10 days ago of one of three flogging incidents in which a British major and three sergeants were whipped by persons who said they were Ir- gun Zvel Leumi members. The arrests came within hours of unconfirmed reports that the two most extreme Jewis underground groups had declared a 60-day truce in their campaign of violence in or- der to ease tension surrounding con- tinued negotiations for a peaceful solution of Palestine's problems. A Jewish agency spokesman sald that "all-out efforts to bring an end of terrorism have been made in re- cent weeks and all kinds of efforts are continuing now." There were widespread rumors in Jewish circles in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv that Irgun Zval Leumi and the so-called Stern gang had acceded to a demand from Hagana, the more moderate underground group, that violence cease while the possibility of a peaceful, diplomatic solution remained in the Jewish quest for a national home in Pales- tine. In London a government source said the British Cabinet would con- sider at a meeting tomorrow a re- commendation from Foreign Secre- tary Bevin and Colonial Secretary Jones that Palestine be divided into independent Arab and Jewish states. The Cabinet also is expected to consider 'whether to onder British troops to smash the underground groups which have kidnapped, flog- ged and killed British troops in The underground organizations, however, have heen comparatively quiet since Thursday night, when they launched one of their biggest simultaneous attacks on British weapons and grenades. Th assaults .cost the life of a British officer and wounded a score or more other persons. Advocates Change In Cities Act - Fort Jan. 8 -- (CP) -- Amendments to the Ontario Muni- cipal , Act which would lower the voting age to 18 years with property restrictions removed, and permit school teachers to offer for public offices apart from school board, were advocated here yesterday by Mayor Garfield Anderson, ; Trial On Charge Of Manslaughter Finding the evidence adduced at the preliminary hearing in Whitby this morning sufficient, Magistrate F. S. Ebbs re« manded Clifford F. Goodwin, Toronto, for trial in a higher court on a charge of manslaughter. ear 1 The charge arose out of an accident on November 9 at CONDITION OF AJAX DRIVER IS SERIOUS Lorne Bradley, Brock Street, Ajax, is in serious condition in the Osh- awa General Hospital today as the result of an accident a mile west of Whitby last might in which the car he was driving was wrecked in a collision with a Bruin Products truck of Oshawa, Angus Green, 3 Edward Street, Ajax, a passenger in the .Bradley car, suffered severe facial lacera- tions but was able to return to his home where he was treated by Dr. Kenneth MacLean, Ajax. The driver of the truck, James Turrell, 223 | Montrave Avenue, Oshawa, escaped without injury. In the accident, which occurred at about seven o'clock last night, the westbound car came into collision with the side of the truck just to the rear of the cab. As the uni- versal of the truck coming to a stop while the slewed around until it was facing east also, Debris was strewn along the highway for about 150 feet and traffic in both directions was held up for a distance of half a mile. 'The driver of the truck told police that he did not see the approaching car until it was almost upon him and claimed that its lights were not on. He said he was on his own side of the road travelling east and the car angled into the left side of his vehicle, He added that he applied his brakes but they did not work and he had difficulty in keeping the vehicle on the highway until it finally came to a stop some 100 yards east. The car was badly damaged and the condition of the driver was de- scribed today by Dr. D. E, Sturgis of Oshawa as serious. Bradley, who formerly resided in Whitby, was taken to the Oshawa Hospital in W. C. Town's ambulance. Dr. Stur- gis, who attended him, said his in- juries included head cuts and in- juries, concussion and a possible fractured skull. He was unconscious six hours after the accident and still very much confused this morn- ing Provincial Constable Charles Hef- feron investigated the accident. Baby Is Born With Two Teeth Toronto, Jan. 8 -- (CP) -- Tiny Monica. Christine Pitchford is a centre of*attraction in the maternity ward of a Toronto hospital these days. Not only is she a chubby, attractive child who weighed seven pounds 12 ounces at birth -- but she was born with two teeth. Sup- ervisor Margayet Montgomery says she can recall only two similar cases. WATER ON ASHES Water on hot ashes caused an odor in the downstair apartment at 373 Simcoe Street South, which re- sulted in the firemen from the Cedar Dale Hall being called at 10:18 p.m, yesterday. There was no damage. was broken by $the bend in No. 2 Highway in the vicinity of Petticoat Creek, in which Thomas Earl Gray, R. R. 5 Hamil- ton, was fatally in A Gray's 1l-month-old child was killed instantly. According to testimony, Mr, Gray suffered fatal injuries when his auto, proceeding westerly, was in collision with an eastbound truck, driven by the accused. Provincial Constable Charles Hef- feron, who investigated the accident, told the he discovered truck tire marks running for a distance of 280 feet west of the point of impact. Describing these as being in the na« ture of "burn" and "slew" marks, Constable Hefferon testified that they ran along the pavement for some distance, then veered off onto the shoulder of the road, where sev- eral guide posts were scraped, and finally back to the pavement to the peint of impact. Only apparent marks from the Gray car, according to Constable Hefferon, were skid marks about 18 inches long near the point of im- pact. In answer to a ques from defence counsel, Neil C. Fraser, K.C., Constable Hefferon said that the particular bend at Petticoat Creek was a "fairly bad curve." "That spot is the worst one be- tween Oshawa and Toronto," Mrs. "I didn't know whether it car or truck until it had passed I heard the crash behind me," said. "I turned around and car and truck nose to nose centre of the highway." Questioned . by Crown Attorney A, C. Hall, Mrs, Smith said she felt the truck was going too fast in view of the approaching sharp bend. "Vehicles always slow down when they come to that bend," she ree marked. : Dr. Harold Pritzker, pathologist attached to the Oshawa General Hospital, testified that Mr. Gray had died from "multiple ocerebal hemorrhages followed by bronchial pneumonia." Kiwanis Club Officers 1947 Are Installed President-elect David 8, Jamie eson was duly installed as head of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club for the year 1947 at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwane ians yesterday, when Kiwanian Elmer Cogswell of Kingston, Ki. wanis Lieutenant Governor for this Division officiated at the ceremony of induction, In sincere and impressive dig- nity, the various installations were made by the Lieut-Governor, as he charged each new 1947 of- ficer to place the interests of the Oshawa Kiwanis Club first. He outlined the duties of the various officers in solemn manner and at the conclusion of the ceremonies, delivered a brief but challenging message to the Kiwanians, expres- sing his thoughts as to what Ki- wanis should be doing in 1947, Retiring Pres. Cyril Souch re- KIWANIS CLUB (Continued on Page 2) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x Windsor: Controller W. Ernest Atkinson, elected last Dec. 9, has charged that a city council committee appoint- ed to press for an investigation of justice administra- tion in the city was "politically inspired." Toronto: Convicted on 11 charges of selling automobiles above ceiling prices, Albert Turner, president of Turner Motors, was ordered confined to jail yesterday until payment of fines amounting to $3,400. Ottawa: The army announced today that Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. (Tommy) Burns, a ing at the age of 49. professional soldier at 18, is retir- Washington: The Senate unanimously confirmed today Presidest Truman's nomination of Gen. George C. Ma%3nall to succeed James F. Byrnes as United States Secretary of State. The speedy action came in a Republican-directed move to demonstrate foreign policy unity.