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GM Overseas Staff Studies Market Trend Only One Lane for Traffic on Highway 12 if * THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA . WHITBY, VOL. 6--NO. 58 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1947 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES At Conferences Being Held Here During The Week Fifteen members of General Motors Overseas Opera- tions Division, who handle truck and bus transportation all over the world, are in Oshawa and Toronto this week to study the Canadian market and Canada's place in truck export. Sessions are being held today at General Motors of Canada and these will continue until Thursday when the party will leave for Toronto. In that city they will review Canadian truck merchandising and servicing me- thods and will pay visits to a number of companies where large fleets of trucks are operat- ed. On Saturday the party will leave for New York, Second Conference Since War This is the second such confer- ence of General Motors Overseas Division truck personne] since the war, and one of the problems un- der discussion is the depletion of bus and truck transportation throughout the world, A recent report on world truck and bus registration outside of North America placed trucks at 3,669,000 and buses at 206,329, a figure much below world needs because of wartime losses. These figures indicate, however, the size of the world market in which the group visiting Oshawa operates. Much of the world demand must be filled by Canadian and Amer- ican manufacturers, ck Lack Cuts Food Lack of truck transport is hav- ing a marked effect on current world food supplies, not only in : STUDY MARKET (Continued on Page 2) Rush Tojo To Hospital Tokyo, March 10 -- (AP) Hideki Tojo, suffering from a high fever, was rushed back to hospital today. The former Premier was taken to the hospital Thursday and his case was diagnosed as bronchitis. He was returned to Sugamo prison, but his temperature rose again. He is on trial with 25 other for- mer Japanese leaders on war crimes charges. Local Musicians Win At Festival Oshawa entries came to the fore in the band instruments section of the Kiwanis Music Festival in To- ronto Saturday, winning standing in three classes, ' The Sons of Ulster Flute Band was awarded second place in the flute bands class while two won pri- zes for cornet solos. Lorne Seeley came second as cornet soloist, 14 years of age and under while Jimmy Hazelton was third in a similar class open to competitors 11 years of age and under. : Say British Food Crisis Now On Way London, March 10 -- (Reuters)-- The Conservative Daily Mail said today that Britain is expected to run into her "worst food crisis since the war ended" during the ccming two months. "By that time there will be an acute scarcity of flour and bread, meat, potatoes and fats of all kinds," The, Daily Mail predicted in its main front-page story. The fresh meat ration would, from today, be of inferior quality and was in danger of reduction, the paper added, quoting the opinion of Bri- tish butchers. : 'The Food Ministry hoped to avoid rationing potatoes, The Daily Mail sald, adding that the effort might ail, Maritimes Dole Lines Forming Glace Bay, N. 8, March 10--(CP) --Scenes reminiscent of the bitter 1925 coal strike were expected in Maritime mining towns today as miners were scheduled to lineup for strike benefits--first payments of the three-week-old tie-up. But instead of the box of grocer- ies rationed out on the former occa- sion, each miner was to receive a grocery order drawn on his own merchant. A single man would re- ceive a $3 order, and a married man 8 a an additional $1 for each There were no signs of let-up in the 50-pit strike as 13,000 miners began their fourth week of idleness with assurances from their union president that "we will stick it out to the finish. . .We are going to get what we're looking for." Main demand of the miners is a $1.40 a day basic wage increase from operators, chief of whom is 'the Dominion Steel and Coal Corpor- ation. Meanwhile, coal supplies from the New Brunswick Minto coal belt to the province's Electric Power Commission's plant were shut off Saturday. Although the 700 Minto miners joined the general walkout three weeks ago some coal deliver- ies had been allowed to continue to the generating plant. Rev. Rockwood Preaches His Last St. James Sermon -- 'Church Sick Unto Death' Truro, N.S, March 10--(CP)-- | Rev. Perry F. Rockwood, the young Truro preacher whose sermons got him into trouble with church au- thorities, left his pulpit in St. James' Church today and sought a hall in which to begin "a non-deno= minational work" to succeed his three-year tenure as a Presbyterian minister here. Preaching his farewell sermon in 8t. James' last night after his re- signation from the Presbyterian ministry, the 29-year-old clergyman returned to the theme that the church is "sick unto death." It was a series of sermons on that theme last fall which he had print- ed for sale that caused him to be called before an ecclesiastical court last week and convicted of "follow- ins a divisive course" in his preach- gS. The Halifax-Lunenburg Presby- tery which heard charges he "made a definite attempt to split the Pres- byterian Church" told him to de- strok the sermons and repent, Instead of accepting the Presby- tery's "disciplinary action," he ten- dered his resignation, and last night unfolded his new plans to 2,000 per- sons crowded into the little church whose congregation numbers 300. Many of those who stood outside, filled the aisles and even sat in the | basement, wept openly when he | told them he would not change | places with 't'he most popular prea- cher" or "the highest paid minister" in Canada. "The Church is sick unto death," he said. "It is feeding upon the land and giving little spiritual nourishment in return. It judges its work on the basis of the most worldly judgments." . He promised to take up "A per- manent ministry" - in this Col- chester county shire-town, extend- ing throughout the Maritimes "The | Gospel message . . .. which is so lit- | Ye preached from the pulpits to- | day." His first service will be next Sun- | day in a place yet to be announced. Among his other plans was the establishment in Truro of "A Chrjs- tian book store where the best in evangelical literature will be found." And "instead of burning our ser- mons we shall print thousands and | thousands. for distribution through- out the land." Other immediate plans included a LAY BROTHER AND PRIEST STAB VICTIMS Montreal, March 10--(CP) -- A 37-year-old unempiiyed restaurant worker and avowed atheist, who said that he was seehing to rid the world of "false prophets," was in police custody today while doctors sought to save the lives of two Ro- man Catholic clergy members stab- bed with a butcher knife a half- hour apart as they walked along the street in Montreal's east end. Police said they were holding Mar- cel Julien, a tall, thin nervous man who has been out of work for scme time and who informed officers that there were "too many Roman Cath- olics and Protestants going around lolline people they are going to ell," Capt. Georges Allain, head of the homicide squad, said no-charge had been laid against Julien pending word from the hospital on whether the two clerics would recover. Police, who attributed the attacks to a "maniac," said that Julien had displayed no beligerence when ap- prehended but had been indignant and had said: "I am helping the people by ridding the world of false prorhets." Police said they had recovered a knife with a blade seven to eight in- ches long with about an inch of the point missing. It was feared that the missing section might be imbed- ded in one of the two clerics. First to be atacked was Rev. Jac- ques Brossard, 45, vicar of the St. Louis De France Church, He was stabbed in the back four times. Hos- pital authorities said that he had been given blood transfusions and had been placed in an oxygen tent A half-hour later and about a half-mile distant, Brother Vincent, a teacher at Laval College here and a member of the Mariste Brothers, was attacked, He suffered a deep back wound. Two youngsters, Jean Guy Geu- thier, 16 and Roman Gelinas, 17, were Credited by police with play- ing a major part in the apprehen- sion of the attacker. Capt. Allain said they were witnesses to the at- tack on Brother Vincent but were afraid to grapple with the knife wielder. However, they followed him to a restaurant where one took over watching duties while the other called police. TIMES-GAZETTE ROUTE CHANGES MADE TODAY Effective today The Times- Gazette has made a revision in its carrier routes so that the de- livery service may be more speedy and efficient. A revision of carrier routes became necessary because of the overlapping of many routes, which wasted time and effort, and also made it impossible for the office to maintain accurate records of where each boy was working. Without knowing the exact streets on which each car- rier was delivering, it was im- possible to ensure that com- plaints, stops or starts would reach the right carrier. Making these changes has been a big job, but we trust that a more efficient delivery service will result. In case of any irregularity in service, be- cause of the change, we would ask any subscriber so affected to report the matter at once to the Circulation Department of The Times-Gazette. Sunday School Over The Top College Hill Sunday School went over the top again in attendance yesterday. Miss Joy Danzey, of Toronto sang a solo "I'm the Child of a King". Glen Danzey, first year student of the O, P. Bible School, Toronto, gave a violin solo and also the Sun- day School talk on the lesson. Interest is still keen in the even- ing "Bible Quiz" service, at the close of this service three expressed the dsire to become Christians, This is entirely a work of faith and immediate needs are more chairs. Will Christians interested pray for the fulfilment of God's promise to supply all needs 'accord- ing to His riches in glory. Pray for chairs. THE WEATHER Occasionally overcast, clear- ing tonight. Tuesday clear. Lit- broadcast on the "Word of Life Hour" over New York's station | WHN and a service in which he would preach from the pulpit of | Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church, tle change in temperature today and Tuesday. Winds Northwest 15 today, light tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight and high Tuesday, Trenton 20, 36. Sum- mary for Tuesday: Clear, , The above picture, taken yesterday, gives some idea of the severe 'drifting on Highway 12 between Myrtle Ltati and M: last week. In some places the drif ts are 10 to 15 feet deep and plows have been able to open only one side of the highway through this section, with here and there a wider section to allow cars and trucks to pass. A caterpillar bulldozer and plow are still working in an effort to clear off more of the pavement. The depth of the snow may be gauged by the high snowbank which all but obscures the telephone pole in the left background. --Photo by Times-Gazette Roza Brown, 93, Dead: Staker Of Harry Oakes, She Doted On Royalty pe A 4 Kirkland Lake, March 10 -- (CP)--A legendary figure in the goldfields of Northern Ontario, 98«year-old Roza Brown died in hospital here late ast night, She suffered a heart attack March 3 but her condition improved dur- ing last week, With her long entourage of bar- king dogs and costume of rubber boots and fur coat, Roza had been a familiar sight in this district for mearly three decades, A former washerwoman she helped stake the late Sir Harry Oakes to a fabulous fortune in gold, It was in her boarding house that Oakes and other old-time prospectors swapped tall tales and rested after long hours in the bush, An admirer of Royalty, Mrs. Brown set aside seven houses in 1944, valued at approximately $30,000, identified them with ap- propriate titles painted on large, gaily colored shingles and dona- ted them to members of the Royal Family, A resident of Kirkland Lake since 1914 when she journeyed north from New Liskeard, Roza came originally from Budapest, Hungray. She went to Paris and thence to London where she met and married Lieut. L. Brown who had a distinguished military rec- ord in the Boer War, She recalled that in those bit- ter pioneering days of 1914 when Kirkland ake was little more than a clearing in the bush, she had to scrub floors for a living. A penniless young man from the United States arrived in near- by Swastika looking fora ig¥. ROZA BROWN bd (Continued on Page 2) Russians Keep Non-Censorship Promise To Press New York, March 10 -- (AP) -- United States press correspondents and radio reporters in Moscow not- ed today that the Coviet Union was living up to a pledge not to censor news of the four-power foreign ministers conference. John Hightower of the Associated Press reported that Russia "official- ly lifted censorship of conference copy today, and the heaviest file of unscreened stories in modern times was pouring from Moscow to the world" He sald non-conference news still was being censored. Price Jumps On Bread In The U.S. Chicago, March 10 -- (AP) -- Soaring wheat prices struck United States consumers today. A survey showed bread has been raised from a cent to three cents a loaf in many principal cities as wheat at major grain terminals brought the highest prices since 1920. An Atlanta grocery concern an- nounced the sharpest advance re- ported, a three-cent boost to 17 cents for a 24-ounce loaf. In New York, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Mich, Cleveland, Indian- apolis, Ind, and Los Angeles the consumers have been tagged for a cent or two more on each loaf. In Canada the Wheat Board raised its price of wheat for export to countries other than Britain five cents a bushel, effective today. The new price is $2.80 a bushel, highest since September, 1920, In the last seven weeks wheat has soared around 50 cents a bushel. Flour prices have been increased in line with the wheat advance, Communal Fighting Subsides Lahore, March 10--(AP)-- Communal fighting subsided in Punjab's larger cities today as Bri- tish airborne troops, with orders to shoot rioters on sight, patrolled Jroubled areas in this restless prov- Reports from outlying districts however, sald that fighting had spread out into the villages and that Hindu properties were being looted, Sir Evan. Jenkins, Punjab governor, and Sir John Bannet, inspector gen- eral of the provincial police, yester- day flew over Rawalpindi, 160 miles northwest of Lahore, and said that they saw smoke rising from "about half a dozen" Hospital lists in Lahore disclosed that out of 150 casualties admitted during the last nine days, 53 were either dead on arrival or died in hospital. In Amritsar 88 persons were reported killed and 149 injur- St. Kitts Airport Blaze Eats $100,000 In Planes St. Catharines, March 10--(CP)-- Fire of undetermined origin last night destroyed the No. 1 hangar of St. Catharines Airport and 10 Air- craft, property of the St. Catharines Flying Club or individual club mem- bers. The loss, third suffered by the Club since its organization in 1927, is estimated at more than $100,000. When the fire department arrived the hangar was a mass of flames | as apartments was never Jn .dapger. » and 10 minutes later the roof col- lapsed. From the time the fire was discovered there was no chance of saving the large frame hangar or its contents. The fire was visible for miles and reflection in the sky brought motorists to the scene from distant centres. The No. 2 hangar, only 150 feet from the blaze, was only scorched. A former bamacks block, now used U.N. Council Faces Heavy Agenda Lake Success, N.Y. March 10 -- (AP) -- Despite expected Russian opposition, the United States ap- peared certain today of winning its fight to refer the controversial atomié report Back to the United Nations atomic energy commission. Renewal of the atomic debate highlighted a heavy week ahead for the Security Council as U.N. dele- gates faced these possible develop- ments: 1. Britain was expected to flle formally with the United Nations an explosive Palestine problem. 2. The Security Council was ex- pected to accept a United States plan to place the Japanese-man- dated islands in the Pacific under a WEN. strategic area trusteeship. 3. A three-power council sub- committee prepared to report find- ings on Britain's mine-laying com- | Jury. plaint against Albania. 4. Before U.N. delegates was a petition from native leaders of Western Samoa for complete. self- government with the protection of New Zealand, which now adminis- ters the territory under a trust agreement. A British spokesman, meanwhile, described Sir Alexander Cadogan of Britain as being disturbed over Andrel Gromyko's "History of the Veto" and especially the direct quotation of a statement sald to have been made at Yalta by former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. This spokesman labelled the Soviet delegate's action a breach of an agreement regarding secrecy of the Big Three meetings. Set Date For Inquest Into Doctors' Deaths An inquest into the circumstan- ces, surrounding the death of Dr. George R. Booth, and Dr. Norman Cullen will be held Tuesday night, March 18, at Pickering. Coroner Dr. V. E. Cartwright will preside. The two doctors were instantly killed Tuesday morning 18, when their light coupe skidded into the path of a speeding C.P.R. train, The accident occurred at the Brock Road level crossing, ene and one half miles west of Pickering. On this particular morning the road was icy and visibility was low- ered due to blowing snow. This crossing, where the two doctors met their death, is not protected by a wig-wi al.' - \ Offensive In Greece Is Readied Belgrade, March 10 -- (Reuters) The official Yugoslav news agency today quoted reports from Athens of plans for a mass land, sea and air offensive by Greek regu- lar forces against guerrillas in Sal- onika, Volos and Kavalla, all in Northern Greece. The agency asserted that fighter planes -- "many of them received from Britain in the last few .days" -- were assembled on airfields and that transports were disembarking tanks and troops at northern ports, SSASSINATION ATTEMPT FAILS Grenade Is Tossed At Philippines' President Roxas Manila, March 10 (AP)--An attempt to assassinate Philippines President Manuel Roxas was made today when a hand grenade was thrown on the platform where he had just finished speaking. The grenade was thrown by an unidentified person as 4the President concluded his speech OSHAWA MAN AUTO VICTIM IN GEORGIA Fred W. Brown, 34, formerly part owner of a grocery store at 40 Osh- awa Boulevard, was instantly kill- ed Saturday night when the auto in which he was a passenger, struck a bridge railing at Dalton, Georgia. His wife is reported resting com- fortably today in Hamilton Mem- orial Hospital, Dalton, after re- ceiving head injuries and a broken left wrist. Harry Johnson, 102 Rox- borough. Avenue, driver of the Brown car, escaped with slight in- Juries. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were return- ing to Oshawa after a three-week holiday trip to the Bahamas. They left Oshawa February 19. Mowder Case Must Go On Judge Rules . "It doesn't matter to me whether there are 50 witnesses or whether it takes six months. I shall proceed with the case," Mr. Justice E. R. E. Chevrier declared in Whitby Assize court today after hearing a further application for postponement of the Mowder ys Mowder divorce actions. His Lordship also directed that the case be tried without a jury, stating that he felt he would be making "a great error in judgment" if he allowed it to remain with a The request for postponement came from Elsie Mowder, defendant in the first action and plaintiff in the second, who had forwarded to the court an affidavit in which her physician stated she was not in a physical condition to be subjected to the strain of court proceedings. In urging that the hearing be de- ferred until the fall sittings, Robert G. Roy, co-defendant in the first action who appeared on his own be- half, claimed that it would be "a travesty of justice" to have the trial brought on at the present time. "Imagine me going to all these places at the last minute," he de- clared as he pointed out that he had some 42 witnesses from various parts of the province and that one was snowbound in Port Perry. A. W. 8. Greer, K.C, counsel for Alfred C. Mowder, plaintiff in the first action and defendant in the second, argued that it was "a mat- ter of public importance in the ad- ministration of justice," that the case be dealt with now. ling that the first action was commenced in March, 1945 and the second in February, 1946, Mr. Greer went onto say that the two actions had taken on "an entirely different aspect' from the usual di- vorce litigation, "There have been vicious,'unwar- ranted attacks made by both de- fendants on the parties in this liti- gation," he declared. Besides pub- licity in the press there has been scandalous, vitriolic material pub- lished and circulated throughout the legal profession." Mr. Greer recalled also that there had recently been further proceed- ings in connection with applications as to venue, etc, and no suggestion had been made on any of these oc- casions that Mrs.. Mowder was ill. "I respectfully submit," he declar- MOWDER CASE (Continued on Page 2) in the grandstand at Plaza 'anda in front of historic Quiapo Church. Roxas was uninjured. He Ilefl immediately from Malacan while police threw a cordon around the grandstand in an effort to trap the would-be killer, [3 The grenade exploded just 20 feet from Roxas. Malacan Palace announced late tonight that he was resting well after the incident. Photographer Emilio Maglaland, who was taking pictures of Presi- dent . Roxas, was injured by the grenade. Shrapnel pierced his back. The large crowd assembled to hear President Roxas speak was panic-stricken by the explosion. Crown Seeks To Postpone Murder Trial Hamilton, March 10 (CP)--A re- quest by the Crown for postpone- ment of the trials of Mrs. Evelyn Dick, her boy friend, William Bo- hozuk, and her father, Donald Mac- Lean on murder charges was taken under advisement by Mr. Justice A. M. Lebel at noon today and his ruling was expected during the af- ternoon. . Denial of trial at this time for Bohezuk, after 12 months' incar- ceration on two murder charges "has not the appearance of justice" said Goldwyn Martin of Toronto, counsel, in opposing the Crown's request. The Crown asked an adjourn ment of a week so the murder trials would start at the next as- sizes, called for March 17. Mr. Martin said he would agree only to an adjournment of one day. Bohozuk is charged jointly with Mrs. Dick, 27-year-old Hamilton widow, with the murder of an in- fant, Peter David White MacLean, whose body was found encased in cement in a suitcase at Mrs. Dick's home when police investigated the torso-slaying of her husband, John Dick, on March 6, 1946. 8 Police Nab Suspect Toronto, March 10 -- (COP) -- Eight policemen with drawn guns today arrested a 26-year-old Toron= to man on charges of armed robbery after an intensive search in the St. Clair-Runnymede district of West Toronto and at the noon hour con- tinued their hunt for a second sus- pect identified as from Vancouver. Police reserves were summoned to the area after 'the two holdups in which some $1,500 was stolen, about $160 from a bakery and the rest at the Purity Dairy. One man entered the bakery, while the other remained outside, and told Mrs, Sally Salyk, the clerk, "this is a stickup, don't move," He looted the till of the money and he and his companion fled on foot. As he left he warned "don't move or I'll shoot you." At the dairy two men entered the store and another remained outside. They ordered the girl clerk to stand facing a window and told her "nothing will happen to you if you - give us the money." They ripped out the telephone cord before fleeing. William Skawuluk, bakery man- ager, sald Mrs. Salyk was crying so much she couldn't speak when she ran into the office. "I thought she had cut her hand on the slicing machine. Then she said she had been held up. I called police. They were here in less than three min- utes but there was no sign of the men then, ~% LATE NEWS BRIEFS Belgrade: A military court has sentenced 10 former Nazis, accused of war crimes in Yugosiavia during the Ger- man occupation, to be shot. Toronto: An amendment to the Liquor Licence Act, rovid- ing for sale of liquor in licensed premises in cities of more than 50,000 population, will be introduced in the Ontario Legislature today. Washington: President Truman will speak to a joint session of Congress Wednesday in behalf of a loan to Greece it was announced today. A figure of $250.000,000 has been discussed.