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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1947 __ Obituary ETCHER to rest at the JSbbons 8t., Tu ntered tn on , Jan 19th, Po hart Bar ring -- 's Pi Mer tS ig Fine of Funeral at her Therm 21st, at 2.30 terme! ove Gommerery, Frince En do a MRS. GEORGE A. McCLINTOCK | The death occurred at her home, R. R. 2. Port Perry, on Saturday, January 18, following a lengthy ill- ness of Mary Ethel Ralph, beloved wife of George A. McClintock, in Bme Rb i of the late Joseph e la Ralph and Elizabeth Ann Jamieson, the was born in Reach and was a lifelong resi~ the district, She was a -- ate residence at 2.30 p. m, on Tues day, January 31, followed by inter- ment in Pine Grove Cemetery. The After a lengthy illness, Fay Levi away yesterday at the family residence, 96 Gibbons Street. He was in his 70th year. Born in the Roseneath district, Mr, Etcher was married in Port Hope on September 7, 1908 to Elsie who | Hamilton Gill, He had resided in Oshawa for the past 20 years, com- ing here from Port Hope. He was a contractor and builder by trade, but had retired in 1940 owing to ill health. He was 8 member of the First who | Baptist Church, Oshawa, of the Royal Black Knights, the L.O.L,, the Royal Templars of Temperance and the Sons of England, He served in World War I as a recruiting officer for Northumberland and Durham, taking his training at Stanley Bar- racks, Toronto, and when he left the active service he held the rank of captain, Surviving besides his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Ian Mastin (Jean), Oshawa; five sons, Keith and Arnold i to a press conference e had said he was puting oT 2 k "Does this mean thet per the gent A e premier replied: "It seems to be perfectly clear. I am submitting my resignation to President De Nicola." mr i of the country," was e Sifficuition n- did His Christian Democratic party leadership been challenge the extreme eft, although the Leftists have continu- ed in his Cabinet, Safecrackers Declared Vicious, Dangerous Type Windsor, Jan. 20--(OP) -- Safe- crackers are "about the most vicious and dangerous type of criminal" op- erating today, James R. Wilkinson, superintendent 4 V.C., Destitute, Receiving Aid Nottingham, Eng. Jan. 20--(CP) ~--One of the first two British sol- diers to receive the Victoria Cross in the Second World War--L.Cpl. Harry Nicholls--is out of work and destitute here, but Nottingham iv llying around to set him on his feet. Nicholls, who suffers attacks of dizziness due to war wounds and has an ailing wife and seven-year- old daughter, recently applied for lic assistance. The National Un- of Shopkeepers is investigating his case and may set him up as a sports outfitter, financed by public one-time heavyweight boxing champion of the Imperial services, served with the Grenadier Guards. He won the V.C. for a single-handed attack on a German machine-gun nest the Dun- kerque retreat in May, 1640. Red Skelton I ain't seen yuh around lately. What's been wrong/ y sul Yes, I got buried under a snow. 18 | Memorial Park. The of Oshawa, Carl, Toronto, Morley and Arthur of Bowmanville; two sisters, Mrs, Sidney Smith (Loa) and Mrs. Walter Paul (Addie) both of Port Hope; two brothers, Frank Etcher, Port Hope and Percy Etcher, Toronto. He was predeceased by one daughter, Pearl, one son, Nat and one sister, Mrs. W. Creamer (Annie). The funeral will be held from Armstrong's Funeral Home tomor- row afternoon at two o'clock with interment in Welcome Cemetery. The services will be conducted by Rev, R. P, Willson. MRS. MARY SALTER Funeral services were held here Saturday for Mrs. Mary Salter who died in St. Catharines on Thursday, January 16, in her 78th year, She had been in falling health for the past two years. Bom in Boston, Mass., Mrs. Salter s came to Oshawa about 30 years ago and for the past 12 years had re- sided in St. Catharines where her son, Wesley Salter, is principal of the Collegiate, Prior to coming to Oshawa she had also lived in Hali- fax, Winnipeg and Chicago. She was predeceased by her hus- band, the late Harry Salter of Osh- awa, 14 years ago. Surviving besides her stepson, Wesley Salter, is one stepdaughter, Mrs, Mable Reynolds, Toronto, i The funeral, conducted by Rev. A. D. Cornett, D.D, was held from Armstrong's Funeral Home with in- terment in the Oshawa Union Cemetery. Pallbearers were 8, PF. Everson, Oshawa, W. Reynolds, Sr., Toronto, W. Reynolds, Jr., St. Cath- arines, A. E, Salter, Oshawa, M. Salter, Toronto and 8. Wotton, Oshawa. FRANK MALLETT London, Ont, Jan. 18.--The fun- eral of Frank Mallett, 68, of 792 Dundas street, and a native of Osh- awa, who died in St. Joseph's Hospi- tal on Tuesday, was held this after- noon from the James M, Carrothers and Son funeral home. . Mr. Malletts mother, Mrs, Fra Mallett, 8r., of 11 Springbank drive, age 93, was not able to attend the vice and interment was in London were Olifford Nelles, ok Macaulay, Jack Westlake, Charles Finney, Joseph Capitano arid Arthur Simmie, Street Car Crash Injures Four Toronto, Jan. 20 ~~ (CP) -- Three passengers and a motorman were in- Jured today when a Toronto Trans- portation Commission street car hit an open switch on Lansdowne Av- enue near Bloor Street in West Toronto. The car plunged into the Lansdowne Street car barns, tore down telephone poles on the way. Part of the barn roof collapsed on the street car. The passengers were shaken up but able to leave. Pire which broke out in the car was quickly extin- guished. Three to Divide $50,000 Estate London, Ont. Jan. 20 -- (CP) -- Three children of Susan Jefferies, London widow who died Sept. 13 last, will share equally in her estate of nearly $50,000, under the will filed for probate here today. Bene- ficiaries are Willlam L. Jefferies, Kingston; Arthur G. of Pittsburg, Pa. and Florence M. Geoghagan of London. TWO FIRES IN DAY Fire struck twice on Saturday at Mike's Place, 19 King 'Street West. In the dfternoon, firemen extingu- ished a basement blaze, which re- portedly started in dirty furnace pipes. Shortly before 8 o'clock, firemen were called back to quell a chimney fire. -Damage was slight in .| landed on top of the cab which was both cases, it was reported. so Valuable Load of Canned Goods Scattered In Wreck & Its load of canned goods and other groceries scattered, at the left is all that remains of the trailer unit of a Direct Winters Transport which went over the bridge at the Rouge River early this morning. The body of the trailer was reduced to the wheels and the floor. In the foreground is part of the guard rail demolished by the vehicle before it started its dive to the floor of the ravine, --Photo by Campbell's Studio Driver Trapped (Continued from Page 1) - until two or three seconds before the actual impact, and that ever after the collision he was unaware that the truck had crashed through the bridge guard rail and had drop- ped over the side. He said that the only impression © he had received, shortly before the impact, was that the truck was slightly out of con- trol and that the driver was fight- ing to avoid hitting the car. 'Wreckage from the truck and its cargo of canned goods was strewn down the embankment below the bridge level for a distance of 200 feet or more and all that remained after the fire had been extinguished was the steel skeleton of the 20-ton vehicle Constable 'Robinson estimated that the truck had torn loose 80 feet of the steel guard rail which was erected along both sides of the bridge. To Hold Inquest Coroner Dr, V, E, Cartwright, Pick- ering, was called to the scene and ordered the body removed to the McEachnie undertaking parlour in Pickering. An inquest will be held. 'When daylight came it was pos- sible to gain a more compiete pic- ture of what had happened, The accident occurred a short distance east of where the Rouge bridge be- gins at the bottom of the west slope of the hill 'The heavy tractor-trailer outfit after going through the guard rail cut its way through the upper branches of trees, growing in the ravine below, leaving mute evidence of the path it had followed, Truck Cab Smashed The tractor apparently landed on its wheels but the traller with its load of canned goods apparently bent and crushed almost beyond re- cognition, The trailer may have been turned over with its wheels in the air when this impact took place as its Joad wag strewn in utter con- fusion in front of the tractor unit with the floor and wheels of the trailer a short distance away. The steering column of the trac- tor was knocked down flat with the chassis and the heavy frame, back of the front wheels, was badly bent. Hundreds of trucks and passenger vehicles stopped on both the east and west crests of the Rouge Valley during the morning while their oc- cupants walked down to look over the bridge at the wreckage below. During the night lanterns were placed along the broken bridge while later snow fencing was erect- ed to close the gap. Provincia] Pol- ice kept traffic moving this morn- ing and allowed no one to perk within several hundreds yards of the scene. Driver Two Years Pope has been a driver for the Direct Winters firm since February, 1945. Just a short two and a half months ago, Pope aided Provincial Police in extricating the badly burned body of George Oscar Hum- phrys, Toronto, another Direct Winters driver, who was burned to death following a similar accident in almost exactly the same spot. This accident, too, was blamed on the poor visibility existing at the time of the accident. Officials of the Direct Winters Transport Company, owners of the transport truck, said that Pope had left the Toronto terminal of the company at 1:33 a.m. Police esti- mated that the accident occured shortly after 2 a.m. The fire department was hamper- ed in its work because of the diffi- culty of getting the pumper truck close enough to the scene of the ac- cident and it was an hour after the truck crashed through the bridge before the badly charred body of Pope was extricated from the smashed and burned cab, Familiar With-Run- «+ - | Pope was very familiar with the | > run east of Toronto having been driving it for the past nine months, The company said the equipment Re was driving was in good condi- on, He 1s survived by his father and his stepmother, who reside in Wil- lowdale; his wife, Betty, and two children, Bruce, four and a half years and an infant son, Ernie Jr, six months old. Mr. Pope who was 20 years old was a veteran of World War II. Due to the housing shortage in Toronto, the family had been living on Toronto Island. His wife guessed that something was wrong when she heard g news broadcast this morning in which the driver's name was not given, She was later informed of her hus- band's death by a fellow driver, AGE AND WISDOM "People always fancy," said Goethe, laughing, "that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were, Man becomss, indeed, in the different stages of his life, a dif- ferent being; but he cannot say that he is a bet one, and in cer- tain matters he is as likely to be as right in his twentieth as in his sixtieth year. "We see the world one way from a plain, another way from the heights of a promontory, another from the glacial fields of the prim- ary mountains. We see, from one of these points, a larger piece of worl than from the other; but that is all, and we cannot say that we see more truly from any one than from the rest." From "Conversations of Goethe With Eckermann", Busses Burned In Flash Fire Niagara Falls, Jan. 20 -- (CP) -- One C.N.R. passenger bus was al- most demolished and another par- tially burned in an $8,000 flash fire in the company garage here early today. The fire, firemen said, was caused when gasoline fumes seeped into a natural gas heater while a mechanic was working on a bus engine, Mission Plea Heard Brigade Sends Aid Toronto, Jan. 18--(CP)~ In response to an urgent appeal for staff 'assistance, Mrs. Audrey Sharpe of Georgetown, Ont, .and Miss Muriel Lowe of Moncton, N. B., will shortly leave for the La- brador Grenfell Mission to take up auxiliary nursing duties at Barrington Bay hospital, They will be met at Rimouski, Que., and will be flown to Labra- dor, making the balance of the trip by dog team and sled. Both are members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. Mrs. Sharpe was one of 221 members of the brigade who served over- seas in the Second World War, as was Miss Lowe. SERVED ROYAL FAMILY , Windeor. England -- (CP)-- Mrs. Julia Wildes, who became a servant of the royal family un- der Queen Victoria when 12 years old, died aged 99, Farmers' Market Fruit -- Toronto, Jan 20 -- (CP)-- Wholesale fruit and vegetable prices here today supplied by White and Company follow: Domestic: No 1 hothouse toma- toes 20 cents lb.; cabbage orange crates 60-75¢; mushrooms 6 Ib. carton $2.25-$3.76; radishes dos, 80-40c; beets bu, 60-66c; green onions doz. 30.36c; Ontario new potatoes 76 lbs, No, 1 $1,10-§1.- 25; celery, white $1.50-82, green $2.60-$3.50; carrots bu, 65-76¢; parsnips bu. unwashed 76-$1; waxed turnips 50 1b, $1. Imported: Calif, navel oran. ges $3.75-85.60; Calif. lemons all sizes $8; Messina Italian lemons $6: Florida grapefruit $4.$4.26; grapes $56-$5.26; pineapples §7; Texas spinach bu, $2.15-§2~ 26; Calif, cauliflower $325; Cal- if, lettuce 68 $6.50; Calif, celery $4.75-86; Florida celery $4.26- $4.60; yams $4.60; sweet pota. toes $3.75; beans, green Fla, plentiful $376; was $4.60-$6, val. entine $4-4.60, Produce -- Toronto, Jan. 20--(CP)-- Produce prices in the spot market here to- were reported as follows: : Receipts very heavy more than ample for distributive de- mands, some eggs being re- for export, market quiet: wholesale to retail, A large 42-43, A medium 39, A pullet 36, B 35, C 33-34; coun- ppers quoted graded eggs, ca A pullet 33, B 82, C 20-30. Churning cream unchanged No. 1 lb, 41 FOB, 45 delivered, plus 10 cents subsidy, Butter: Unchanged, 1st grade sol- ids 40, 2nd grade solids 30; prints, 1st grade 42, 2nd grade 41, 3nd grade 40, Honey -- Toronto, Jan. 20--(CP)=Whole- sale honey prices were unchanged here today at: Case, 24 1-lb, glass jars $4.82, 24 2-lb. glass jars $9.12; cartons, 24 1-lb. white No, 1 $4.92, 24 2-1b, white No. 1 $0.26, 12 4-Ib, white No. 1 $0.04, 8 6b, white No. 1 $8.67; 2-lb. Orange Label, 24 $8.36; 2-lb. Red Label, 24 $7.08; bulk 160S Golden Amber $6.98. Cheese -- Torcnto, Jan, 20--(OP)--Whole~ sale cheese quotations were un- changed here today at: First Grade large paraffined colored 22 8-16, white 22%, both FOB factory, Hogs -- Toronto, Jan, 20--(OP)--No set- tled bacon-lhiog quotations were re- ported by markets early today, Hull later reported the market unchanged at $22 delivered. Livestock -- Toronto, Jan. 20--(CP)--Cat. tle trade was dull with prices about steady on the livestock market here early today with good butcher cows and bully at $10.75-$11.50 and good butcher heifers $13-§13.25. Veal calves were steady at $16-$17 choice with plain downward to $11. No price wag established for hogs which closed previously at: Grade A $21.76, grade B1 $21.35, dressed. Unsold from last week were 300 western lambs and there were no early sales of sheep or lambs, Receipts reported by the Dominion Marketing service were: Cattle 2,370, calves 110, hogs 350, sheep and lambs 500 Abbott and Costello Why do you camry a knife and revolver when you drive a car? So I can shoot up one street and cut across the other! PRIVACY Paul C. Glick of the United States Census Bureau felt sorry for mar- ried couples when he spoke recently before the American Sociological Society. They have little privacy, he said, Approximately one couple out of five lives with relatives or 1m rented rooms immediately after | marriage. Washington May Scrap Complete Canol Project One of the strangest industrial developments of the war -- the 597-mile ; pipeline and $133,000,000 refinery of the Canol oil progect nestling under the rim of the Canadian Arctic -- is going under the auctioneer's ham- mer. Canol is being put up for sale hope private interests will purchase project will be scrapped. Top picture by the American government in the it. If none are found, the expensive shows ghost scene at yard barracks of the former United States army Canol oil project. In the foreground are skeleton foundations of the razed barracks, while at the left are piles of dismantled "igloos" in 'which laborers and soldiers slept, now pur- chased by the Canadian government, zut put to no use. Rows of Nissen huts, below, formed towns of prefabricated "igloos" formerly used as bar- racks by the U.8. army at Camp Canol on the Mackenzie river, are today abandoned, desolate and rusting, pt -- ha Ed a Ls a4 4 Byrnes Signs Axis Peace Pacts; Last Official Act Washington, Jan, 20 (AP)--Unit- ed States State Secretary Byrnes, as a final official act, today signed the Second World War peace trea- ties with Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Chairman Arthur Vandenberg (Rep.-Mich.) of the Senate For- eign Relations Committee and Sen- ator Tom OConnally (Dem.-Tex.), who took part in the 16 months of negotiations on the compacts, were at Byres' side in the ceremony at the State Department, vo There will be a second signing of the treaties at Paris Feb. 10 when representatives of the enemy satel Se states will affix their signe~ ures, Other Allies will sign the treaties at the same time, Amb Jef ferson Caffery will act 'hen for the United States. Today's ceremony Was chiefly to permit Byrnes to sign treaties before turning over his fice to Gen, Marshall. ---- Bergen's Party Is Put Over Without A Slip Hollywood, Jan, 20--(AP)--Doro- thy Lamour lost her slip backstag at the broadcast, but Bd- gar Bergen's 10th anniversary on the radio was a lavish success. NBC and the ventriloquist's spon- gor threw an $8,000 party last night to celebrate the occasion, Edgar re- ceived a $4,000 automobile from his sponsor, and ea $1,000 television re- and | cejver--with a screen as big as a bathroom window ~- from the net work, With tears in his voice, Ber- gen told the 3560 guests, including reer Garson, Walter Pidgeon and Sydney Creenstreet; "This is the nicest thing that ever happened to me." "Except for one thing," crack- ed his dummy, Charlie McOarthy, "--the day you found me." Parlier, Miss Lamour made a guest appearance on Bergen's broad- cast, as did his other radio asso- ciates of the past decade, Don Ame- che, Nelson Eddy and Rudy Vallee, Bensing that her slip was slipping Dotty with guick presence of mind stepped behind a curtain and kidk of i off just before walking on ge. Fines Asks New D.-P. Conference Toronto, Jan. 20--(CP)--Hon. Clarence Fines, Saskatchewan Pro- vineial Treasurer, sald last night that Dominion-Provincial tax pro- posals made by Finance Minister Abbott last week during conferences with Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatehewan officials were "The best that have yet been made" and expressed confidence they would be acceptable "to at least seven' of the Dominion's nine provinces. "with respect to Ontario and Quebec, I am hopeful they will be able to find the new proposals ac- ceptable," said Mr, Fines, saying al- so he was unable to give details of the plan. The province of Saskatchewan is prepared to join with Ontario and other provinces in urging another Dominion-Previncial Conference be held immediately the taxation agreements have been completed, The purpose of this conference would be to discuss ways and means of implementing the social security measures." Election Date Forecast 1950 Brantford, Jan. 20-- (CP) -- The opinion that there would pro- bably be no federal election until 1950 was expressed here Satur. day by W. Ross Macdonald, Lib- eral Member of Parliament for Brantford city and Deputy Speak- er of the House of Commons. He told the annual meeting of the Brantford Liberal Association that "we have an over-all majori. ty of nine" in the present Parlia- ment, Hughes Cleaver, Liberal M.P, for Halton, said that an old-age pension of $30 per month to ev- ery Canadian is being considered by the federal government, Guelph Ex-Clerk Accidentally Hurt Guelph, Jan, 20--(CP)--Her- bert J. B. Leadlay, 78, who re. cently retired as Guelph's city clerk, is in hospital suffering from injuries received in a traffic acci- dent, Mr, Leadlay is said by po- lice tp have walked into the side of a moving truck driven by Clif- ford Muir, of Guelph. His condi. , tion is reported as fair. Two Ottawa Mothers Help Guide Schools Ottawa, Jan. 18--(CP)-- Two women now work with seven men on Ottawa's public school board, charged with educating the nat- fonal capital's 8,600 children. They are Mrs, Isabel Finlayson and Mrs, Estelle Renwick. A past president 6 the city's Home and School Council, Mrs. Finlayson first became a member of the hoard in 1942, She was the first new woman trustee in 21 years, Mrs, Renwick, a past presi- dent of the Local Council of Wo- men, stood second in last month's civic elections and took her seat for the first time early this month. Formerly a Saskatchewan grade school teacher, Mrs, Renwick is the mother of five children. Dur- ing the war, she worked as a part time accountant at naval service headquarters, here and ran a church canteen for three years, Mrs. Finlayson, mother of three, is a graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, and before she was married worked in the actuarial branch of the federal insurance department. Having two women on the city's board is something of a novelty for Ottawans, Three oth- ers have been elected in the past, but only once before has there been more than one at a time. The first woman elected was Mrs. J. Lorne McDougall in 1919, Miss M. E. Cowan, elected in 1924, and Red Bloc Lead Pole Vote 4-1 Warsaw, Jan, 20----(AP)-~Vice- Premier Stanislaw Mikolajesyk, leader of the opposition Polish Peasant Party (P.S.L.), hinted today that he might seek Supreme Court nullification of yesterday's Parliamentary election, in which officials forecast victory for the Communigt-dominated govern- ment bloc, The voting was marked by seat. tered violence resulting im the death of eight persons, all appar ently slain in raids by the anti~ government underground ' which has threatened forays during the vote counting, Mikolajezyk, who was booed at the polls, charged that a consti- tutional guarantee of the secret ballot had been violated and sald he probably would ask the su. preme court to declare th. elec. tion invalid, He .xpressed belief that if the votes were counted fairly his party would get & ma~ jority of the 444 seats in Poland's one-house Parliament, which is to draw up a new constitution and elect a President. . Leaders of the government bloc, on the other hand, were re- presentated as regarding victory as already theirs, Before the elec- tion, they had freely predicted , triumph for the bloc, dominant in Poland's Moscow-sponsored pro= visiona]l government since the Na. zis were chased out. Unofficial returns from 18 of Warsaw's 183 precincts, first in the country to be heard from, gave the bloc a lead of four to one--20,633 votes to the P,S.L.s 5,166, The trend of the election was expected to become apparent from unofficial tallies reported today. Bohozuk-Maclean Witness Decision Expected Today Hamilton, Jan, 20--(0OP)---A deol sion by Mr. Justice J. K. Mackay on a defence application on behalf of William Bohozuk and Donald Maclean and regarding witnesses to be called at their trial on a charge of murdering John Dick is expecte ed to be handed down at 4 p. m. to day, 2, Thelr counsel has sought to have the crown reveal the names of two witnesses who did not appear at the trial of Mrs, Evelyn Dick that end- ed with her conviction and & sen tence of death on the same charge faced by Bohozuk and Maclean, Mrs. Dick was granted a new trial by the Ontario Court of Appeal last week but it is not known yet wWhe- ther she will stand trial together with the other two accused, Counsel for Bohozuk and Maclean has also asked that the crown ree veal the substance of the evidenge the new witnesses are expected to give. Mr, Justice Mackay's decision originally expected this morning, will be made known after a confer- ence between His Lordship, defence counsel and Harvey McCulloch, Crown attorney. Greek Ship (Continued from Page 1) school teacher who swyived the disaster, estimated that almost 200 of the casualties were women and children, \ "I am afraid every child aboard was lost and 95 per cent of the women," he said. . Mytakis said the ship sank so quickly that only two of her life. boats could be launched, He des cribed the vessel's decks as a "solid wall of cursing, fighting men" struggling frantically to save their lives, The Ohimarra, which sailed from Salonika Saturday, hit the mine a few miles off the short from Rafina, Mytakis said the ship's master ate tempted to beach the vessel, but was prevented from doing so by a broken rudder control, Wireless operator George Frerls, the mast of the ship and the: first and second mates were the last to leave the sinking ship. They wore life belts, "We swam for several hours be fore we managed to get a hold on some barrels," Freris said, "This helped save our lives, Later we. wepe picked up by a caique. There were about 30 survivors on the caique, which was heavily loaded," DRUNK IN CAFE William Pratley, 6 Valencia Road, was fined $156 and costs or 15 days on a charge of infpxication by Magistrate Ebbs today. Police Con. stables Fayle and Wright told the court that the accused had be found staggering around in the Grand Cafe on January 17 at about 11 pm. The cafe manager, accord. ing to police, had been unable to get rill of Pratley despite repeateq attempts. SUSPENDED SENTENCE Mrs, Caroline Gullock, 1925, ser-| cused ved together for a period,