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HE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY | OSHAWA 3 1 { | } VOL. 6--NO. 108 OSHAWA-WHITBY THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 Price 4 Cents 20 PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS FIND YOUTH SHOT THROUGH HEAD East End Playground Location Undecided | Planning Board BODIES LIE UNBURIED Chamber of Commerce Explains Why Harbor TRUCKS WILL SGOUR CITY Unidentified Body Found Near Arden Following Robbery Kingston, May 8 (CP)--Investigation is under way to- PSuggests Poll Of Resident Opinion The Planning Commission went on record last night as favoring the idea of a targe park and playground in the east day into death of unidentified youth, whose body was found last night one mile west of Arden. He had apparently been shot through the back of the head by a bullet from a .22 rifle. It is believed he had been dead since Monday. All Should Be "We have one definite task so far as the harbor is concerned," London, May 8--(CP)--More than 30 bodies lay awaiting burial and! 28 George carmen secrmiary garbage collection in streets and of Commerce, to The Times- courtyards as the strike of employees Gazette "and that is to attract of the City of London continued to- > Developed Welcome Home FOR CLOTHING Plan BFRD goes into operation Saturday morning from 8 a.m, to 12 noon, Decoded, "BFRD" spells a house-to-house blitz for cloth- ing as a twenty-one un finale to identification was missing. Lying beside the body was a .22 rifle identified as one taken from the store of C. W. Thornton of Ar- * bridge over end of the city and expressed the opinion that such a move is sufficiently desirable to wargant the closing of one block of either LaSalle or Highland Avenue. At the same time the Commis-¥ sion took the view that insufficient information was on hand to make a recommendation, It did suggest to City Council that before any area is finally allocated for this purpose that an advertisement be placed in the daily press fully describing the project and giving any ratepayer the opportunity of voicing his opin- Petition In Opposition The Commission was in receipt of a petition signed by 27 residents of the Cadillac and LaSalle Avenues area protesting the locating of a playground in the block suggested by City Council recently. It was felt the suggested area could be used to better advantage for resi- dences and voiced opposition to the noise such a park would cause. A six-man delegation headed by Rupert Aldsworth, Cadillac Avenue South; waited upon the Commis- sion asking that a park and play- ground to be known as Eastview Park be set up in the block bounded by Cadillac Avenue, Gliddon Ave- nue, Eulalie Avenue and Wilson Road. It was proposed to erect a flagstone walk and a rockery at the It was pointed out that a nutfier of building lots in this block are owned by private individuals. As an alternative the Commission suggests ed the block bounded by Cadillac Vimy, Eulalie and Willingdon Ave- nues. The Commission ruled that R. W Vernon Osborne, who proposes to erect a store near the north end of Jarvis Street, must keep in line with existing houses in conformity with the existing bylaw. It was suggested to City Council that it place the question of a the Oshawa Creek, be- EAST END PARK (Continued on Page 7) Find $12,000 Of Office Payroll Loot Montreal, May 8--(CP)-- Charles Hackman, 22, pleaded guilty here yesterday to the armed robbery of a $14,000 payroll of his employers Lunham and Moore Limited. Hackman, who fled to Sudbury Ont, with his 22-year-old gir] . friend, Florence Pelley, after holding up hig boss two weeks ago, will be sentenced next Wednesday. Charges of conspiracy were with- drawn in the case of the girl. The couple, who registered in a Sudbury botel and were apprehended there by a Montreal detective, spent about $2,000 of the stolen payroll. The re- mainder was recovered after police removed it from the lining of the girl's coat and from a vacant lot in the south section of Montreal. TOUCH OF WINTER While residents of Oshawa shivered in the chilly air this morning the city had no visible indications of the wintry weath- er. A' Port Perry, 14 miles north, the ground was well covered with snow and it .as still snowing at Much Better ; ERNIE MARKS Who is much Improved following an attack of pnenmonia, Mr. Marks. recently returned home after being confined in the Oshawa re Hospital. 5% NE Labor Holds Wilkinson Jarrow Seat Jarrow, England, May 8 -- (Reu- ters)--The Labor party today re- tained its seat in the Jarrow by- election, caused by the death of El- len Wilkinson, with a reduced ma- jority. Voters at this shipbuilding town described by Miss Wilkinson as the "town that was murdered" returned Laborite Ernest Fernyhough, ex- miner and trade union official, with 20,694 votes against Conservative William Scott's 13,078 and Indepen- dent Socialist Wilfred Moody's 1,114, The Labor majority was 7,616 Figures at the 1945 general elec- tion were: Ellen Wilkinson 22,656 Liberal National Col. 8S. Holmes 11,- 649. Labor majority 11,007. Daley Expresses Faith in Ontario Kitchener, May 8--(CP)--Labor Minister Daley said yesterday that despite talk of a depression he was confident in the future of Ontario. He described his department's ap- proval of an expenditure of $54,000,- 000--an all-time high--on new con- struction projects as reflecting faith in the country, "particularly in On- tario." , He told the annual meeting of the Ontario division of the Cana- dian Mariufacturers Association that the labor situation in the province was "very good" and that with re- gard to strikes he felt if "things are going to happen" they usually this time of the day. The strike began over promotion of a fish market policeman and eventually involved street cleaners, grave diggers, and many others em- ployed in the mile-square section of London that contains the financial district, law courts, newspapers and the Billingsgate fish market, seat {of the trouble. last week. The strike began of citizens intere tonnage." "There has been some criticism as to the policy being followed by the Chamber of Commerce and the City Council in connection to the leasing of certain areas to oil com- panies," said Mr. Garner. "Per- haps it is best that we review this whole picture so that everyone will i understand just what we; as a group din Oshawa's welfare, are trying to do. . A cemetery official said yester-| day 26 to 30 bodies were awaiting burial up te that time and the Health Ministry expressed concern both as to the bodies and the garb- ber of Commerce is working closely with the City Council in trying to achieve the desired results. Osh- | Working With Council "First, may I say that the Cham- age problem. |awa's future is closely wrapped up Sailors, have been put to work raising and lowering the picturesque Tower bridge to prevent the strike affecting traffic in the Thames above the main dock region. Bridge attendants also are affected. Meanwhile more coal mines were with the harbor and its develop- ment and realizing this, the Chamber of Commerce contacted the Government some time ago and secured from them their plan for the development. They proposed to deepen the whole harbor to 24 feet thus making it available to the COL. R. 8. McLAUGHLIN the city's British Flood Relief Drive, committee officials disclos- ed today, A fleet of 20 trucks, directed by Ald. J. A. Coleman, will rum- bls through the city on a street- by-street pickup of all clothing which householders have been un- able to transport to the depots. Boy Scouts will man the trucks and aid in the canvass. Depots Remain Open Officials emphasized that the main depots--Scout Hall and the Curling Rink--will remain open today and tomorrow from 10 a.m, to 6 p.m, with sub-depots ready to receive clothing don~ttons from 2 to 5 p.m, g The cify has been carefully sec- tioned off for Saturday's blitz, S. G, Saywell, secretary-treasurer of the flood relief committee, said today. Each area will be thor- oughly covered bu' there will be to be reopened today following breaking of a wildcat strike of sur- face workers which made under- larger ships om the Great 'Lakes that ply in Lake Ontario waters, "The plan includes dredging out no time for return calls, Mr. Say- well cautioned, Citizens are being asked to put the clothing out by 8 a.m. Who with Mrs. McLaughlin return- ed home yesterday after spending the winter at their home in Ber- muda. . Their many friends hope" ground work impossible. Final Parties Testify In the mud that has now formed an island in the north end of the harbor going north to a point north of the creek, then in a straight line east to a point in line with the east wall of the mouth of the harbor. Thence directly south. This would develop the Oshawa Harbor into a real sized turning basin with that they have brought some of the warm weather, which they enjoyed, home with them, Pocket-Sized Saturday rather than late Friday night, Clothes should be in car= tons, boxes or else wrapped se- curely in newspaper to prevent moisture from seeping in, All those who haven't brought their contribution into the depots dur- ing the regular drive period will have a first-class opportunity to add to Oshawa's total on Satur- Damage Case wma on tive. west, the north and east sides. It is further believed possible that it would be necessary to pave the harbor road and to erect a new road acquiring the necessary lands, etc, down the east side of the harbor. Hearing of evidence in the five- party damage action before Mr. Justice ¥. H. Barlow in Whitby neared conclusion today as the final defendants testified. In the accident, east of Oshawa on January 31, 1946, collisions took place between three transports and a car. Mrs. Frederick Hughes of Oshawa, a passenger in her hus- band's car, was fatally injured. Morley Byam, Toronto, whose car was in the driveway to the Vetza) home on the north side of the high- way the afternoon in question, was the last witness called this morn- He explained he had been at the Vetzal house for lunch and coming out had difficulty in backing his car owing to the snow that had fallen IY DAMAGE CASE (Continued on Page 2) of what lies ahead, but, it is all conditional on prospective tonnage. The Government told the Chamber of Commerce that there must be tonnage, One of Three In Highway Crash Is Said Failing "This is the general plan in brief or at least, they must DEVELOP HARBOR (Continued on Page 7) ) Brockville, May 8--(CP)--Condi- | tion of Mrs. Marie Brady, one of three members of a Brockville fam- ily injured Monday night in a head- | day, Tempo Has Increased In the past two days, the drive has increased noticeably, depot workers report, Clothing has been piling up in neat crayon-chalked cartons at the main depots as the sub-depots ship in their collec- tions, Clothes are sorted into men's, women's, children's and children under four or infants, A typical scene at the Curling Rink depot yesterday found two men struggling to lug in a hefty box full of clothes while a clean- ing firm's truck drove up to call for a batch of 100 garments, Vo- lunteer workers, ontributors and business firms were obviously teaming up to aid the drive, Stacked in one room at the Curling Rink were the boxes Psalm, collected by Thomas Stern-| which are slated for the central hold, John Hopkins and others has Toronto warehouse. Each one was the following introduction: | clearly labelled and firmly pack- "Set forth and.allowed to be sung | aged. in all churches, of all the people! together, before and after morn-| Bible Nearly 300 Years Old Discovered in a discarded heap of books at an auction sale held in Whitby a few years ago a Bible nearly 300 years old, was shown to The Times-Gazette by F. N. Harvey, 113 Simcoe Street South this week. The pocket-sized edition measur- ed about one and a. half inches thick, numbers over 300 pages. It| was printed in 1653 by John Field of London, printer to the parlia-| ment. | The Bible, which is bound in lea- | ther, has a wood cover and once | had metal clasps for locking it shut. | The introduction of the Book of ASKS RINGS BE MADE TAX FREE Ottawa, May 8 (CP).--Rev. Dan Meclvor (L.-Fort William) made a plea in the Commons yesterday for tax-free wedding rings. the he urged the repeal of the 25 per cent luxury tax on jewelry and said: "Everybody will admit that the use of a wedding ring is necessary for the building of a good home." Shot Trio's Condition Said Better hudeoet dohat on car-truck accident that claimed | the lives of her husband, a daughter and a family friend, was reported today as "not so well." She has not regained consciousness. Gertrude Brady, who is in a semi-conscious state, showed some improvement while Margaret Brady, fully con- scious, has also improved. Auto Supply Firm Fire Loss $25,000 Hamilton, May 8 (CP).--PFire of unknown origin today swept through premises of Hamilton Auto Supply and caused damage esti- mated at $25,000. Tenants fled from five apartments in an adjacent building. The blaze, believed to have started in the basement, spread rapidly to the first floor and then raced up the walls to the roof. Oil film on automobile accessories fed the flames and added to the density of the smoke, firemen said. GIVEN 14 YEARS ing and evening prayer; and also | before and after sermons, and more- | over in private houses fc* their | Godly solace and comfor'® Laying | apart all ungodly songs a° 1 ballads, which tend only to the nourishment | of vice, and corrupting of youth. Less Building First Sumer Of This Year Number of permits f8sued for dwellings here skidded from 60 last year to 26 this year during the period, January 1-April 30, it was disclosed today. Value of the per- mits totalled $121,750 this year as copared with $280,200 for the Jan- uary-April period in 1946. Value of commercial building per- mits for the same period this year was approximately $100,000 as op- posed to $193,115 last year. WINS MEDAL J. G. G, Kerry of Port Hope is HATFIELDS AND McCOYS STILL AT IT Williamson, W. Va.,, May 8 (AP).--The Mingo County grand jury returned a murder indictment yesterday against Allen Hatfield, 51 - year - old former police chief, in the fatal shooting of Hubert McCoy, 28, last February 17. Both were descendants of the families which figured in the bloody Hatfield-McCoy feud in the southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky mountain country during the 1880's. Ratify Terms Of Contract With O.M.1L. Find Metal Believed From Plane Vancouver, May 8 (CP).--A chunk of twisted metal snagged on the end 'of a fisherman's line last night directed searchers for a missing Trans-Canada Air Lines plane with 15 persons aboard to a spot in Burrard Inlet, just seven miles be- yond the Lions Gate Bridge which marks the entrance to Vancouver's harbor. Latest in a long series of possible clues to the fate of the twin- engined Lodestar, the eight-inch square piece of metal was hauled up by Gordon Wilson, former R.C.AF. maintenance man, at Eagle Harbor on the north shore of the Inlet after his line snagged re- peatedly. From his service experience Wil- son said he was certain the object was aircraft metal but he was un- able to identify it as of a type used in the construction of Lodestars. Search officials turned it over to British Columbia provincial police to be held for examination by T.C.A. and R.C.AF. technicians. Phone Strike Near Over Washington, May 8 (AP).--The United States Labor Department today announced an agreement to end the strike of long distance tele- phone workers with a $4.40 average weekly wage increase. The settlement subject to ratifi- cation by the union's executive to lead to agremeent in 28 remain- board and membership, is expected ing disputes against Bell System companies. : Until such settlements are ham- mered out, John A. Moran of the American Union of Telephone Workers has announced, the long distance employees will respect picket lines of unions affiliated with the National Federation of Telephone Workers. The settlement represents an average increase of 11 cents, an hour for the long distance union's 20,000 members, including vacation improvement and other "fringe" benefits. den during a break-in April 27. Two other guns taken at the time were missing. The body was surrounded with canned goods, cigarets, choco- late bars, also identified as part of loot from robbery. Mr, Thornton's missing sleeping bag beside which the body was lying, was covered with blood. The dead youth is about five feet eight inches tall. It is believed he is between 19 and 23 years old. He wore a soldier's uniform. His pockets were empty and the dic had been removed from identification bracelet on his arm. The body was discovered in Cedar Grove about 50 feet off a laneway which. leads into the home of Wil- liam Steele, Discovery was made by Willard Whitelock, a farmer who lives nearby. He had gone through the bush as a short cut to home of neighbor where he wanted to bor- row a saw part. a Residents said the theory was that two persons took patt in the Arden robbery. Coroner C. J. Whytock of near- by Sharbot Lake and provincial po« YOUTH SHOT (Continued on Page 2) Agency Asks Barriers Be Dropped Lake Success, N.Y. May 8 (AP). --The Jewish Agency for Palestine called upon the United Nations today to remove barriers against establishment of a Jewish national home in' the Holy Land. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, American section chaire man of the Jewish Agency execu- tive, made the demand before the General Assembly's 55 = member political committee in the first of- ficial appearance of a non-governe ment organization in debate over the future of Palestine, The Arab higher committee meanwhile continued its boycott of Cairo. There the exiled Grand the U.N. pending a decision from Mufti was reported considering the Assembly's invitation of yesterday according the Arab group equal status with the Jewish agency in committee hearings. The Arab committee yesterday was granted equal status with the Jewish Agency to testify before the political committee. Mother's Day Founder Ill, Blind and Deaf at 83 West Chester, Pa., May 8 (AP).-- Letters from all over the continent are bringing greetings to the child- less founder of Mother's Day. But 83-year-old Anna M. Jarvis will get little joy from the recogni- tion this year. Blind and deaf, she is a bed-ridden patient at a private sanitarium. A nurse said Miss Jarvis "talked enthusiastically" about the day she founded 40 years ago in honor of her mother but her long illness had made it impossible for her to receive guests or take note of the hundreds of letters sent her. grew out of a gathering of friends she invited '0 her home in May, 19.7, on the second anniversary of her mother's death. The idea grew, swept the country and finally the world after a Pre- sidential order in 1914 set a na- tional Mother's Day. But Miss Jarvis never approved the commercial turn her memorial to all mothers took. When the day turned into a money-maker for florists, candy stores, jewellers and greeting card firms, Miss Jarvis lambasted the tommercialization with the same happen before year. energy she displayed in founding inn the GzowsKi Medal the winner of nid Bl for 1946, it was announced by the Engineering Institute of Canada today. The award will be presen- ted at the annual dinner on Fri- day night. Toronto, May 8 (CP).--Hospital officials said today the condition of Mrs. Robert Easson, 53, and her son, Gordon, 20, severely wounded yesterday in a pre-dawn shooting affray at their home was "consid- erably improved." A daughter, Mabel, 18, with a bullet wound in the right arm, was said in "fairly good" condition. Robert Easson, 62, the husband and father, is in police custody, charged with attempted murder, and is to be given a mental exami- nation before he appears in court May 14. Police allege he loosed a fusilade of revolver shot at mem- bers of his family yesterday morn- ing following a long period of ill- health, Toronto, May 8 (CP) .--For armed robbery of a dairy company, Gor- don Klan of Winnipeg today was sentenced to 14 years in peniten- tiary. A companion, William Lipsky, was given six years. Bleary-eyed British M.P.s Hold Record-length Sitting Alexander, The Commons voted 368 to 18 last night to accept a government amendment cutting draftees' service from 18 months to one year. Win- ston Churchill angrily denounced the cut as intended to "placate" left Miss Jarvis' sentimental holiday % LATE NEWS BRIEFS (By THE CANADIAN PRESS) 11 a.m, today, Music's Soothing Charms Ease Pre-Surgery Tension Brooklyn, N. Y., May 8--(CP) --*"No, -I wouldn't advise the 'blow op blues'-- it's too rous- ing " the nurse told a young war veteran patient' awaiting surgery at the Manhattan Beach Veterans' Hospital. "How about a soothing waltz?" she asked," A waltz it By a vote of five to one, em- ployees of the Ontario Malleable Iron Co. yesterday ratified terms of the agreemen. between the company and Local 1817, United Steelworkers of America, M. J, Fenwick, union representative, revealed today. The new contract is being sign- ed this afternoon by the union's five-man negotiating committee. Two hundred and sixty-five em- ployees voted in favor of accept- ing the company's offer, 561 were opposed and four ballots were spoiled, The company's proposals pro- vided for pay increases ranging from seven to ten cents per hour anc four paid legal holidays, The 40-hour week, one week's holi- North Hartland, Vt.: Three Dartmouth College seniors, war vete ans driving to New Jersey to-pick up dates for a week-end "prom", were killed today when the auto- mobile crashed into a 10-ton truck. Toronto: Gen. A. G. L. McNaughton, chairman of Canada's atomic energy control board said today that the Do- minion had atiained .. position in atomic development second orly to that of the United States in the war. that every veteran undergoing an o_eration there can pick his fav- orite songs for the occasion, Several veterans found '"'opera- tion music" a p'easant surprise because they couldn't hear the dull clink of the instruments dur- ing a routine operation, Many found the soft strains of a Strauss waltz untied their nerves during local anaesthesia. London, May 8--(Reuters)--Wea- ry, unshaven and bleary-eyed mem- berg of Parliament left the House of Commons just before noon today af- ter celebrating the second anniver- sary of VE-Day by breaking this This latest innovation--music THE WEATHER soft and sweet--is being used with great success to relieve the heightened sensations induced by fear of surgery, The idea is not Doctors at the hospital, believ- ed to be the only veterans instal- lation in the United States where a patient can get an aesthetic op- Cloudy today and Friday. Oc- casional snowflurries. Continu- ing cold. Frost in all sections tonight. Winds Northwest 20 Parliament's record for a long sit- ting. They met at 2:30 p.m. yesterday and spent nearly 21% hours discuss- wing Laborites but left wing mem- bers welcomed it. Several times during the night days with pay to employees up to five years' servic to those with five years' or more and two weeks Aboard H.W.S. Vanguard at Sea: The King felt much better today after being confined tc the Royal apartment for two days with a slight chill. ? service, the compulsory deduction members summoned to vote appear- of uniegs dues from all eligible ed without collars and ties, hair ruffled and shoe laces untied They employeés and other items in the had been sleeping in odd corners in-| 1946 agreement are to be contin- side and outside the Chamber. ued, ing the committee stage of the Na- tional Service (consumption) Bill When they adjourned they had only disposed of just over half the clauses set as a target by Defence Minister today, light tonight and North- west 20 again Friday, Low to- night and high Friday 30 and 44. Summary for Friday: Clou- dy and continuing cold. "- eration, are so keen about the ide.. that they predict that music will become an in'egral part of every operating room in the near future, new. Several denists have experi- mented with it with excellent re- sults. The result has been sg success- gul at Manhattan Beach Hospital Windsor: The case of Ronald George Sears, on trial for attempted murder of Joseph Gelenceer, was expected to go to the jury today. ox - a rd