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THE DAILY TIMES-GA OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette asid Chronicle ETTE | WHITBY VOL. 6--NO. 72 : : OSHAWA-WHITBY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1947 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES EVELYN DICK SENTENCED T ad Family Driven To Street In Night Attire FIRE LEAVES FRAME HOUSE BAPING SHELL Whipped by a shrieking north-west wind, flames early today gutted a two- room frame bungalow at 216 Gibb Street, forcing Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams out on- to the street clad in night- clothes and overcoats. Both escaped unhurt. The fire, which left the house a gap- ing shell, caused $2,300 damage, Fire Chief W. R. Elliott estimated. The house seemed "to go up in a puff," he said. House Filled With Smoke "I woke up around 3.30 a.m. and the place was filled with smoke," Mrs, Williams said. "After waking my husband, I rushed out the front door to ring in the alarm." Mr. Williams said he grabbed a few clothes, slipped on his over coat and ran to warn the neigh- bors, When his wife had difficulty with the alarm box on the corner of Burk and Gibbs, he turned in the call himself, Firemen, directed ,by Captain Milton Oster, were on the scene just before 4 o'clock. Using two lines and . 800 feet of hose, they BUNGALOW BURNS (Continued on Page 2) Greek Woman Sends Thanks For Blouse The appreciation of the people of Greece for the clothing being sent to them UNRAA is illus- trated by a letter received by Miss FP, Gertrude Kennedy, 102 Louisa Street. When she made a donation of clothing to the campaign, Miss Kennedy enclosed a note in one garment. The letter of apprecia- tion is as follows: Miss F. Gertrude Kennedy, 102 Louisa Street, Qshawa, Ont. My Dear Friend: I had the good luck to get the blouse which you donated to UNR- RA for the Greeks. I read the accompunying note which you sent "together and with great emotion I write this letter to thank you heartily for your great interest to my heroic country. We always will be thankful and remember you and the most friend- ly and brave Canadians for their great care and interest for Greece, which suffered so much during the occupation, and civil war. I inform you that the blouse you had the pleasure to send me re- lieved and pleased me very much. Also I inform you that two months ago I got married and my husband discharged from the army a being Sek. h me live my mother and sister-in-law. my Please write me soon about your- Regards from husband, mo- ther and modo By ! e, " Marica H. Fragopanagou, Athens, Greece. taries. were:--Rt. Wor. Bro. 8 Wor. Bro. O. W. Rolfe, G.R.C., of its 75th anniversary at the Masonic Temple last night was attended by a distinguished group of Grand Lodge officials as well as district and local Masonic digni- Rt. | Ont Among. those attending, front row, left to right, M. N. k Osh 3 Orono; Rt. Wor. Bro. T. The celebration by Cedar Lodge, AF. and A.M, No. 270, | H. Simpson, of Hamilton, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, AF. and A.M, in the Province of Ontario; Rt. Wor. Bro. R. V. Mowbray, Brooklin, D.D.G.M. of Ontario District; Rt. Wor. Bro. E. J. Wormington, Tor- onto; Rt. Wor. Bro. E. G. Dixon, Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Canada, AF. and A.M., in the Province of fo; Rt. Wor. Bro. A. Cook, Brooklin; V. Wor. Bro. C. R. McIntosh, Oshawa and Rt. Wor, Bro. E. F. Farrow, Oshawa. Back row, left to Deans, Toronto; Rt. Wor. Bro. George Hart, ushawa; V. Wor. Bro. A. G. Storie, Oshawa; V. Wor. Bro. B. 8. Ed- mondson, Oshawa; Wor. Bro. F. L. Henry, oldest Past Wor- shipful Master attending; Rt. Wor. Bro. H. J. Thoms, Newcastle; V. Wor. Bro. J. N. Willson, Oshawa 'and Wor. Bro. Harry Shelley, tyler of Cedar Lodge. Many Dignitaries At Cedar Lodge 75th Anniversary Celebration ig : V. Wor. »r William =Photo by Campbell's Studio Over 'two hundred Masonic Brethren, including Grand Lodge Officers, Past Masters of Cedar Lodge and numerous former members who now reside in oth- er centres, gathered at the Mas- onie Temple last night to parti- cipate in one of the most unique and impressive birthday celebra- tions in Oshawa Masonic history, the 75th Anniversary of Cedar Lodge A.F, & AM. No. 270. G. R. C. The auspicious mile-stone in the history of Cedar Lodge was marked by a visit of Right Wor. Bro, T, H. Simpson of Hamilton, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada, in the Province of Ontario, along with Rt. Wor, Bro, R. V. Mowbray, D.D.G.M., Rt. Wor. Bro, E. G. Dixon, Grand Secretary, and a host of other past and present Grand Lodge Officers, Wor. Master "Thos. Hopking presided and was assisted by Past Worshipful Masters of Cedar Lodge. Wor. Bro, H. S, Palmer, Director of Ceremonies introduc- ed the visitors, assisted by Wor. Bros H. G, Palmer, and P, H. Jobb. Rt. Wor. Bro. Robt. Meek in- troduced the galaxy of Grand Lodge Officers, past and present, when they were welcomed to the Lodge Room and received Grand Honors, led by Wor, Bro, P. H. Jobb, Deputy Grand Master Simp- son then took over the gavel for the balance of the elaborate pro- gram, Special musical setting and presentations, under the direc- tion of Bro, R. G. Geen provided the atmosphere of beauty and dignity needed to complete the CEDAR LODGE =(Continued on Page 11) Fear 122 Trapped Miners Are Dead Centralia, Ill, March 26--(AP)-- A mine official expressed his belief today that 122 men had perished in a mine explosion near here yes- terday in the heart of the southern Illinois coal fields. Of a total of 131 miners trapped nN the blast, nine were brought out ve, one was brought out dead, and 14 4were counted dead by that offi- cial at the bottom of the 540-foot shaft, That left 107 unaccounted for, and the man who did the checking, ivy no "rf a finding e no of them alive. ve But not all hope had been aban- doned, and rescue teams, on the job Soro Bi a Josuing night, still were ry! get through poisonous gas and fallen timbers to save any who might have survived the fumes. If none of the missing men is found alive, this will go into the re- cords as the country's worst coal mine disaster in nearly 19 years-- since 195 were killed at Mather, Pa., May 19, 1928. It would be the worst in Illinois In Blast Rubble since the Cherry Mine disaster of 1909, which took 259 lives. The explosion occurred with a rumbling "whoosh" at about 3:30 pm. CST---just before the day shift of 131 was about to give way for a night crew. Anxious, grieving families, still holding to a thread of hope as the chill night hours passed pressed against ropes at the git head and watched the mercy crews come and 4 89. At one time ambulances were lin- ed for about a quarter of a mile. Women, crying softly, huddled in blankets and sagged into chairs and appeared to be numbed by the shock. Several collapsed. Relatives stood about them and protected them from the pushing crowd. PLAN VIMY DINNER The members of the 116th Bat- talion Veterans' Association will hold their Vimy Dinner at the Mansion House in Uxbridge at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11. .All former members of the battalion are invited to attend. Impressive Celebration Marks Cedar Lodge 75th "Anniversary Latent Forces In Masonry For Right "Masonry has latent forces for right. We must work to make peace on earth something more than a mere quotation. We believe in the Holy Bible, Canada, the Can- adian constitution, the Christian churches, our Public School system and all Canadian institutions. We believe in the supremacy of law over all those id and "ions" which are prevalent today. Masons must work to maintain in all the things which we enjoy today, elim- inating politics and creeds," de- clared Rt. Wor. Bro. T. H. Simpson of Hamilton, Deputy Grand Mas- ter of the Grand Lodge of Canada, AF. and AM, in the Province of Ontario, in replying to the toast to Grand Lodge at the 75th Anniver- sary celebration of Cedar Lodge. AF, and AM., No. 270, G.R.C, at the Masonic Temple last night, Commenting that Masonry in the past had played an important role and had made great contributions to civilization, the Deputy Grand Master cautioned his audience that the forces rampant in thie world to- day are often invisible. He warned that the years ahead promise to be full of threats and undermining in- fluences and asked his listeners to be a strong influence in the com- munity to combat them. It wads stressed that there is a widespread spirit of unrest and Masons must not delude themselves into false security as Canada is no exception to the rest of the world. "We must be on the alert. The war created a paradox. We are self-centred and we are prone to think of our personal losses and discomforts, Too often we give voice to things we hear which are Based on hearsay. Hearsay is a dangerous guide. We should be on guard against rumors." Referring to the fact thdt com- LATENT FORCES (Continued on Page 2) CIO Automen To Organize Office Help Louisville, Ky., March 26 -- (AP) --The international executive board of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO) ended its 10-day session here today with an an- nouncement that an intensive drive will be made to organize office workers in the automobile industry. The next session of the executive committee will be in New York, starting April 14, officials here said. It was reported that the meeting will be devoted to pension plans, [NEAR | TRAIN KILLS FOREMAN IYRILE Frank Harrison, »CPR. section foreman, at Myrtle Station, was in- stantly killed at about 7 a.m. today, when he was struck by an Ottawa- |- Toronto passenger train at a point about 40 rods west of the No. 12 Highway level crossing. The train was running behind schedule at the time. The victim, who was remov- ing ice from the track, was spotted an hour later by the engineer of a freight train, | A roaring westerly gale presum- | ably made it impossible for Harrison to hear the approaching train com- | ne from the east. Visibility was, ho , | Born in Myrtle, Mr. . Harrison | served overseas in the Canadiany | Army for four years in World War | I. Following his discharge, he joined ! the C.P.R. staff and about eight | years ago he was promoted to sec- | tion foreman. BStationed at Leaside and Indian River, he was posted to Myrtle a little over a year ago. Surviving besides his wife, the | former Olive Gascoyene, are: his mother, Mrs. R. 8. Long; one son, Gordon, both at home; one sister, Mrs. Roy Scott, Seagrave; two bro- thers, Wilmer, of Latchford, and Clarence, of Myrtle. THE WEATHER Cloudy with snowflurries to- day clearing this evening. Thursday clear. Very cold today but warmer on Thursday. Winds Northwest 25° decreasing on Thursday to West 15. Low to- night and high Thursday 16 and 36. Summary for Thursday «Clear and warmer. (arton Bus Proprietor Badly Hurt In Crash Injured yesterday when a bus owned by him crashed into an,abutment on the Queen Elizabeth Way, Timothy A. Garton, Bowmanville, proprietor of Garton Coach Lines, was reported at noon today to be in a serious condition. Ten persons were injured in the accident, which $occurred when driver Keith Ten- Seriously Injured T. A. GARTON of Bowmanville, proprietor of the Garton Coach Lines, who was seri- ously injured when one of his buses, carrying the Lindsay Midget Hoc- key Club to a game at Port Col- borne, skidded into the abutment of a bridge near St. Catharines yester- day afternoon. Storm Brings North Traffic To While two busses were stranded north of here, passengers and mo- torists were seeking shelter in farm houses along highways and country roads for the second time this month as a 60-mile-an-hour, snow- driven gale continued to lash south- ern Ontario today. Meterological experts said barom- etric readings were the lowest in half a century. : : Officials of DeNure Coach Lines this morning reported 28 passeng- ers were stranded when a bus struck a heavy snow drift north of Raglan yesterday afternoon. Pas- sengers sought shelter in a nearby farm house and were reported still there at noon today. The driver of the bus meanwhile arrived back in the city in a pow-truck which vulled the bus from the snow drift. A Collacutt bus was reported bog- ged down at Sunderland but efforts to learn the whereabouts of its passengers proved futile, Collacutt Coach lines officials were unable to help in the search for information. All bus schedules to points north of here were disrupted and buses are not expected to be running at least until tomorrow. social security and other benefits sought for the 810,000 dues-paying | union members. Conditions in the city were not reported bad. Standstill The Oshawa Railway experienced little trouble in keeping schedules and City Engineer W. T. Demsey reported no abnormalities this morning. Public Utilities General Manager George Shreve said, how- ever, that hydro men experienced more difficulty with street lights; and wires were reported hanging low on Bagot Street. Some sections of the city were without street lights last night. County Engineer D. J. Kean sald wind which blasted across country roads, blew some rural pedestrians from highways, forced them against snowbanks. Others charging into the storm were forced to turn back. Some motorists were reported awaiting in villages this morning for the storm to abate before con- tinuing on their way. Though the fall of snow was not heavy, the high wind whisked drifts over portions of country roads that had been flooded during the thaw a few days ago. Automobiles were said to bridge these sections but heavier vehicles -- buses and transports--were bog- ged down by the water-snow mix- ture. 4 Fi nant of Bowmanville applied the brakes and the vehicle entered a skid. . The bus, recently purchased by Garton Coach Lines, was taking the Lindsay midgets hockey team to Port Colborne for a game when the accident happened near St. Cath- arines. The accident occurred at 1:25 p.m. at the height of a bliz- zard which reduced visibility in that area to 25 yards. Ernest Corley of Lindsay, a team fan, was the only one of the eight injured to be detained in hospital His injuries were not serious and his condition today is reported good. The driver escaped with slight face bruises. There were 34 persons in the bus, including driver Keith Tennant of Bowmanville. . Tennant sald that as he ap- proached the east end of the Mar- tindale Road viaduct he applied the brakes and the bus skidded across the highway, striking the centre abutment. The front right corner of the bus, stove in under the impact, appeared to be the only part of the vehicle damaged. Three following vehicles narrow- ly missed crashing into the dis- abled bus when, as their respective drivers braked, they spun into skids. All were able to continue on their School Tieup Moves Into Third Day Toronto, March 26--(CP)--Mal- vern Collegiate Institute entered its third day of strike today with all but 150 of the 1,300 students refus- ing to enter its doors to begin their Easter examinations. The 150 left the strikers' ranks and heeded the Toronto, board of education's ruling yesterday that the examinations, scheduled to be- gin today, would proceed as plan- ned. The students held another rally today, this time in the gymnasium of Calvary Baptist Church. The meeting drafted an open letter to the citizens of Tordnto, the board of education and the Ontario De- partment of Education. The meeting confirmed yester- day's decision not to picket the Col- legiate, to allow any who wished to return to classes to do so and to refrain from disorderly incidents. Chairman Stan Boyd of the stud- ents' "new action" committee 'hint- ed that the mass walkout would end Friday when the full examination schedule gets under way. More than 100 parents joined with the 1,000 or more students in SCHOOL TIEUP &Continued on Pag, LIFE Said Near-Moron By Psychiatrist . In Leniency Plea Hamilton, March 26 (CP)--Calm and unflinching, 27- year-old Evelyn Dick today heard Mr. Justice A. M. LeBel sentence her to life imprisonment for manslaughter in the death of her tiny son. . Her counsel, John J. Robinette, later said he would HIT BY TAX CHILD SUFFERS BAD INJURIES | Dashing in front of a Motor City taxi cab, driven by Charles Hudgin, 179 Tresane Street, little four-year- old Marcel Boivin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Boivin, 75 Hall Street, was seriously injured and rushed to the Oshawa General Hospital yesterday afternoon. 'The child's injuries included two fractured legs, a fractured jaw and a possible fracture of the skull. His condition is reported today as sat- isfactory. Hudgin was driving north on Simcoe Street South, just passing through the C.N.R. subway, police reported, when the little boy ran off the boulevard onto the road and into the path of the oncoming car. Apparently, in an effort to avoid the child, Hudgin guided his taxi into the abutment badly wrecking the vehicle, but fortimately only receiving a shaking up himself. "The taxi was about six feet from the boulevard, when the child ran out into the car. = The auto was badly damaged, the front end being pushed in," said Constable George McCammond. The child was rushed to the hos- pital in an ambulance where he was treated by Dr. A. K. Mighton of the Oshawa Clinic, Marcel was on his way home from the Cedar Dale Fire Hall where his father was on duty. Watching from the fire hall window the father saw the child cross the street twice before he was struck and saw the accident occur. Constable George McCammond reported the child was on the west side of Simcoe Street and crossed to the east side. When about six feet from the east curb, he turned and walked into the front of the taxi, Hudgin swerved the vehicle to the left in an effort to prevent an accident and his auto struck the subway abutment, Light snow was falling at the time and the pavement was slip- pery. study the possibilities of an appeal against the sentence. He did not plan to enter an appeal against the conviction. Mr, Justice LeBel told Mrs. Dick he had reached the conclusion that she must be sentenced to the max- imum penalty he was allowed to impose. There were no mitigating circumstances. He described her crime as "hor- rible." The Crown alleged that af ter Mrs. Dick left a Hamilton hos- pital with her new-born son in September, 1944, she killed the child and hid the body--encased in cement--in a suitcase. As the Trial Judge passed sen- tence, the dark-haired* widow stood erect in the tense and crowded courtroom and appegred to have more emotional composure than the Judge who sentenced her. Then her lip twisted quickly and she wheeled, SENTENCED TO LIFE (Continued on Page 2) Tidal Waves Belt Small N.Z. Town Auckland, N.Z., March 26--(OP)~-- Two huge tidal waves, estimated by eye-witnesses as 30 feet high, today struck a 60-mile stretch of the eash coast of North Island, New Zeal- and, wrecking many buildings and damaging roads and bridges. . The first wave struck the Poverty Bay coast at 8.30 a.m. local time (3.30 pm. EST, March 25), approxi mately an hour after the New Zea« land observatory reported '"a very severe earthquake some miles out to sea." { The second wave rolled into the bay an hour later. Apart from the town of Gisborne, where some - streets became salt water rivers four feet deep, the area affected was populated thinly, mainly by holidayers in summers cottages and some farming families, Residents along the seashore, warned by the roar of the aproach- ing wall of water, raced to higher land and no drownings were ree ported. Gisborne is a town of about 16,000 population, Four Charged Under Narcotic Drugs Act Michael Podvinsky, ome of the four accused men in the armed holdup of the Ontario Hospital on February 28 and recently released on $10,000 bail, was re-arrested by Whitby police officials yesterday and charged with a further crime. Podvinsky, who had been released on bail the day before on an armed robbery charge inconnec- tion with the holdup, was ar- raigned in Whitby Police Court be- fre Magistrate Frank S. Ebbs yes- terday and charged with attempt- ing to sell narcotics, namely mor- phine tablets, to Constable J. A. Mc- Auley, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in Whitby on March 24. On the second charge on which Podvinsky appeared, Crown Attor- ney A. C. Hall asked for a remand FURTHER CHARGE .. (Continued on Page 11) 4 Hamiltdn, March 26-- (CP) -- A five-gallon can alleged to con< tain thousands of tablets of nar= cotics was found in possession of three men arrested here by R.C. M.P. officers. The men, charged {in magis< trate's court yesterday with brea ches of the Narcotics Act were Frank Povinsky, 22, and Robert Willis, 22, both of Whitby, and John Hombourquette, 47, of Mount Sanitorium, Hamilton, Climaxing undercover work of three R.C.M.P, constables assign~ ed to tarce narcotics stolen in a hold-up of the Whitby hospital a month ago, a trap was sprung'in Hamilton Monday night in the glow of flames from one of the city's worst fires, The three men HAMILTON ARRESTS (Continued on Page 11) % LATE NEWS BRIEFS (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) Washington: The Justice Department disclosed today that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating "complaints of a conspiracy among newsprint many« facturers operating in Canada." Moscow: Formal Russian opposition to an American, British and French proposal that China should be one of the inviting powers to a proposed conference on Germany, was officially disclosed tonight. Asuncion: The Paraguayan government decreed today the lifting of martial law throughout the embattled coun- try. Washington: Eugene Dennis, secretary of the Communist party, was dismissed abruptly as a witness before the House of Representatives Committee today after his real name. Un-American Activities he refused repeatedly to give