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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL. 6--NO. 283 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947 Price 4 Cents TWENTY PAGES DOUGETT ASKS FOR SAFE DRIVING 34 Dead, Hundreds Hurt In Holy Land Battle UK Forces Alerted As Furious Clashes Spread Over Area By Joseph C. Goodwin Jerusalem, Dec. 5 (AP)--A street battle flared today in the Arab town of Ramle on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem road as Arab fury mounted against partition of Palestine, provoking fears of a civil war. "Fighting is raging in Press Correspondent Carter L. Da- vidson in a telephone report from the scene. "The roads are impass- able because of roard-blocks, stones and damaged cars. All traffic is stopped." While both Arab and Jewish leaders pleaded for a halt to the wave of violence in the Middle East, other outbursts were reported. In Baghdad, Iraq, a mob of demon- strators set fire to the United States information office. Egypt bannéd public demonstrationis after viol- ence by a mob of 15,000. A bomb ex- ploded in the Jewish quarter of Beyrouth, Lebanon. An Associated Press compilation for the three days of rioting throughout Palestine showed 34 dead--15 Arabs and 19 Jews--with the Arabs' strike protesting parti- tion in its third and last day. Hun- dreds have been injured. Traffic Halted Outside battle-torn Ramle, British troops were turning back traffic from Jerusalem. Inside the city, Davidson reported the new rioting was touched off when two Jewish bus Convoys, led by armored police cars, were attacked By Arab mobs. Fighters in Hagana, the under- ground Jewish militia, drove off the attackers, wounding at least four Arabs. Three Jewish passengers in one convoy were injured. in an in- itial 'attack by the mob. A second wave came soon afterward. Unofficial reports from the city said a bomb tossed from a Jewish taxi wounded 20 Arabs. ; British Security Forces were placed on the alert for a 24-hour HOLY LAND (Continued on Page 2) Drew Says Nation Facing Challenge To Free System Toronto, Dec, 4--(CP)--Pre- mier Drew, in an attack on the dominion government's economic policies, said today he believes "that this country faces the most dangerous challenge to our free system which has ever been fac- ed in the 8¢ years of Canada's history as a nation." Economic measures taken by the dominion in the last two weeks emphasized the need of a dominion-provincial conference to clearly define the powers and ob. ligations of each government in Canada under the federal system. "What the dominion government now has done demonstrates be- yond all question that unless such a conference is held we are head- ing for a constitutional crisis which may threaten the structure of this great federation." He spoke before the Progres- egive-Conservative Business Men's Club of Toronto, the streets," said Associated Pe AT Boost Wages Foundry By Seven Cents A nine-month contract with Bowmanville Foundry Co. Ltd. providing for an across-the-board wage increase of seven cents an hour for al] day workers has been signed by Loca] 2375, United Steelworkers of America (CIO- CCL), M. J. Fenwick, U.S.W.A. international representative, an- nounced today. The seven-cent wage boost is payable in two installments -- five cents from December 1, date when the contract becomes oper- ative, and two cents next June 1. Piece workers vill get a two-cent wage increase on June 1, Covering appr mately 100 employees at the plant, the new contract, effective December 1, provides for a starting rate of 70% cents an hour and & scale of rates ranging up to $1.11} cents per hour fof skilled molders. Minimum for female employees and juniors is 53% cents an hour. A union security clause stipu- lates that union dues will be de- ducted from all employees com- ing within the scope of the con- tract. Contract clauses retained from the previous agreement include provision for a 45-hour work week, payment for four legal hol. idays, and holidays with pay-- one week for employees with up to five years' service and two weeks For those with five years and over. Signing the contract for the company were C. E, Rehder, president, and E, C, Evans, plant superintendent. Signing for Local 2375 were Everett Welsh, presi- dent of the local, and a commit- tee composed of the following: C. Tomlinson, A. W. Clayton, Jack Hately and William Kellar. The contract was approved by Mr. Fenwick, Pedestrian Struck At Intersection Mrs. Erle Hamilton, 104 Albert Street received minor bruises yes- terday when she stepped in front of a car driven by John Smith, 188 Bonnie Brae Point, at the intersec- ticn of William and Simcoe Streets at 8.30 pm. The driver conveyed Mrs. Hamil- ton to the Oshawa Clinic where Dr. M. P, Townsend attended her. Smith was reported to be about to turn onto Simcoe Street when Mrs. Hamilton stepped off the north curb. Local 222 Endorses CCF, Supports Coldwell Program A membership meeting of Local 222, United Auto Workers of Amer- ica (CIO) last night endorsed the C.CF. as the political arm of labor and also lent its support to the six-point program for economic sta- bility put forth by M. J. Coldwell, national C.C.F. leader. The question of supporting the C.CF. arose as the result of a communication from the Oshawa and District Labor Council which recommended that its affiliates fol- low its action in endorsing the party as the political arm of labor. A large majority voted in favor of the resolution at last night's meet- g. In addition to' the six policies urged by the C.C.F. leader to alle- viate the present price crisis, Local has' recommended a national housing program and removal of the ban on margarine, A petition n support of the program will be Wirculdted among the union mem- ership. The six points in Mr. Coldwell's program are: re-imposition of price controls on basic. necessities; newal of subsidies on milk, butter, re- | bread, feed, grains, cotton and wool; closing of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and elimination of speculation in essential foods; re- construction of the Prices Board; re-introduction of excess profits tax; and re-introduction, if neces- sary, of any essential commodity in short supply. . Local 222 delegates to the Osh- awa and District Labor Council for 1948 were elected as follows: Wm, E. Noble, Wm. Rutherford, Robert Bedford, Richard Forster, John Buchanan and George S. Thomson, with William Howells, E. D. Jack- lin and A. G. Shultz as alternates. Reports were heard from the delegates attending the Canadian Congress of Labor convention in Toronto in September but owing to lack of time lhe reporis of the in- Atlantic City were postponed to the January meeting. MILK MONEY TAKEN | Residents of King Street East { today ico.aplained of money being | taken from milk bottles during | the night, > & ° "~~ cars, Ribbons Cut At West Hill In Highway Ceremonies' Rainy weather failed to interrupt the ceremonies marking the opening | proceeded to Oshawa where Mr. Doucett declared the highway efficially of the new dual highway between Highland Creek and Oshawa yesterday. | open for traffic. On the minister's left is J. D. Millar, deputy minister Above, Hon, George Doucett, Ontario Minister of Highways, cuts the blue | of Highways, while T. I. Wilson, Oshawa Chamber of Commerce president, and white ribbons across the south section of the highway just west of | and T. K. Creighton, K.Cu MEL.Ay ate the over-pass at West Hill. From there the procession of 50 or more | SS ¥ r= = a --Photo by Campbell's Studio Jews Ask US End Disorder In Holy Land Lake Success, Dec. 4 (AP). --Jew- ish Agency officials today were re- ported seeking means in the United States for suspension of Arab anti- partition uprisings in Palestine and feeling out possibilities of obtaining American aid to restore order in the Holy Land. One informed quarter said the aid being sought included diplomatic pressure by the State Department on governments of the Arab States in the Middle East and an embargo on materials that might be used by the Arabs to further the conflict in Palestine, . There was an added suggestion, without any confirmation, that the United States might be asked to supply arms for defence of the Jewish State which will result from the partitioning of Palestine. Moshe Shertok, head of the Jew- ish Agency's political department and likely choice for Foreign Mini. ster in the first cabinet of the Jewish State, planned to go to Washington Friday to consult with government officials. Shertok yesterday conferred pri- vately with Secretary-General Try- gve Lie of the United Nations after Lie had told a press conference that he was considering a brief visit to Palestine early next year to super- vise the installation of the secre- tariat staff which will serve the five- member U.N. Commission charged with supervising the transfer of authority to sovereign Jewish and Arab states. Cornwall Police Hold Whitby Man For 'Kidnap, Hoax Cornwall, Dec. 4--(CP) -- Lloyd Pike, 25, of Whitby, Ont., was held on a public nuisance charge today after police said he told them a story that he had been kidnapped which proved to be untrue. Police said Pike appeared at Cornwall police station last night and told them a hitch-hiker had forced him at gunpoint to drive here from Oshawa. Later he broke down under questioning and admit. ted the car had been "borrowed" at Whitby. Fogged Windshields Blamed for Accident Driving north on Simcoe Street at 11.15 o'clock last night, Chagles Matthews, North Oshawa, collided at the Athol Street intersection with an eastbound car ,driven by James Stainton, Hampton, | Drivers told police their | shields were fogged. Matthews' car was damaged on | the front left corner and Stainton's lon the right front section. wind- | given by David Croll of Toronfo French Police By ROBERT EUNSON Paris, Dec. 4--(AP)--The govern- ment, armed with a new and drastic anti-strike law, made some dents to- day in the Communist-propagated strikes which have virtually strang- led french economy, but was con- fronted by fresh -violence on the fashionable Riviera. A mob seized the post office in Cannes. Another throng was driven back by rifle butts and truncheons of mobile guards at the post office in Nice where the Central Labor Committee called a general strike. The government was striving to re-open struck mines. Rail traffic leaving Paris reached 80 per cent of normal and some commerce was coming through the Atlantic ports. Conditions along the Mediterran- ean coast were so critical that trains from Paris were proceeding only as far as Lyon. In Central and North- ern France, the back-to-work move- ment was gaining, Officials at Lit- tle said only 4,000 textile Workers remained on strike compared to 125,000 a few days ago. Oust Communists A new syndicate of metal work- ers was being formed in Paris, eliminating the Communists. Sev- eral automobile factories in the ca- | Fight Mobs At Cannes, Nice As Order Given For General Strike pital called their employees back to work tomorrow. A mobile guard officer died in Paris from injuries of last week, raising to 22 the number of deaths since rioting began more than two weeks ago. In Paris a rock was thrown through the front window of Com- munist headquarters. The Geneva- Paris Express was detained for three hours 'when strikers detached the engine and ran it into a siding near Bourg-En-Bresse. Another engine was. hooked onto the train without incident. : The government was e to use force and oust pickets under a provision of the new law which pro- hibits folesting persons desiring to work, ' The National Assembly, after five days and night of tumultous de- bate, finally beat down Commun- ist opposition early this morning and approved Schuman's anti-sabo- tage and strike control legislation by a yote of 403 to 183. A little earlier, the Armed Forces Ministry announced it had chosen battle-hardened 24-year-olds--half FRENCH POLICE (Continued on Page 2) Windsor, Dec. 4-- (CP) Judge Albert J. Gordon today will present his charge to the 12- man jury in the conspiracy trial of three officers of the United Auto Workers (C.1.0.) who were arrested as a result of picketing during the Chrysler Corporation strike in Windsor during the summer of 1946, A verdict is ex- pected today. Charged, with conspiring to watch and "beset the plant' are George Burt, Canadian director of the U.A.W., Thomas MacLean as- sistant director, and Michael Roo- ney, business manager of Local 194. Yesterday's summations were and James N, Clark of Windsor, for the defence, and Crown At- torney E. C, Awrey who prosecu- ted, "A great principle 4s at stake here," Mr. Croll said. "All of management and ali of labor are keeping their eyes on this case. Labor relations today is one of our great problems . , , picketing | is as natural to a unlon man as | breathing whenever a strike oc- curs. There doesn't. have to be any instructions issued." UAW 'Conspiracy' Verdict May Go. To Jury Today Mr, Croll said it seemed ap- parent those pressing the charges were applying the rule "if you can't beat them, get rid of them." Mr, Clark, who conducted ex- amination of witnesses, said there was 'not one werd" of evidence to show conspiracy, "If anyone was kept out of the plants it was because of the strike vote, because any of the men met conspired. These men were re- warded for their attempts to pre- vent a strike by being charged with conspiracy." Summing up for the prosecu- tion, Crown Attorney Awrey said it was not necessary for conspira- tors tr» meet. It was not necessary for them even to know or see each other to be guilty of a conspiracy. While the strike at Chrysler was legal, it was not legal for anyone to interfere with those who had a right to enter the com- pany"s properly, he sald, : If you come to the conclusion that by attendance at meetings or otherwise, these men were part of a general plan to keep persons from entering the comp- any plants, that they were part of a general plan to commit these unlawful é@cts, then you should find them guilty." not Arabs Open Cairo Office For Recruits Calro, Dec. 4 (AP). --Three dem- onstrators were reported killed and a police officer injured today during a pitched battle which developed when police and mobile guards broke up a rioting crowd protesting against the' partitioning of Pales- tine. Police fired volleys of shots over the heads of the demonstrators, who had smashed shops and set fire to a street car, and then charg- ed into the mob with clubs and whips. The demonstrators replied Fith a barrage of rocks and bot- tles. + Unofficial reports said that three students had been. killed and eight injured in the struggle. Some ob- servers estimated that the crowd of rioters numbered as many as 15,000 persons at one time. Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab Lea- gue, told the demonstrators that an office had been opened to recruit men to fight in Palestine and called for volunteers. He declared that if the United Nations is implemented with force "we will oppose force to force.' An Arab League spokesman said the League had received a message from Libya saying that 2,500 "armed Arabs" had volunteered to join the "fight for Palestine." Eight Found Ins Plead Guilty; And Pay Fines Charged with being found in a gaming house at 10 Simcoe Street South on November 19, eight men were arraigned before Magistrate Frank 8. Ekbs here today enter- ing pleas of guilty. : Willlaem Chase, 16 Brock Street West, purportedly the doorkeeper when police raided the premises, was fined $50 and costs or one month, Dave Gilbert, 280 Golf Street; Fred Zakarow, 639 Ritson Road South, and James McElroy, - 13% Xing Street West, were each fined $25 and costs or one month, First offenders Morris Cominsky, Commercial Hotel; Samuel Eposito, 152 Bloor Street East; Dougall Mer- ritt, 78 Westmorland Avenue, and Mark Holliday, Whitby, were fined $16 and costs or 10 days each. DIES FROM INJURIES Toronto Dec. 4--(CP)--Thomas G. Lauder, 80-year-old retired far- Climaxes New 2A' A plea to motorists to "drive with courtesy and common sense" as their part of the campaign to cut down the rising toll of traffic acci- dents was made by Hon. George Doucett, Ontario Minister of High- ways, last night as he spoke at the banquet here climaxing the official opening of the new dual highway between Highland Creek and Osh- awa. By so doing, he said, motorists would render "a public service of the highest order" and would be making "a most valuable contribu- ticn to the cause of good citizen- ship." Pointing to the modern features for safety and rapid transportation embodied in the new 18.25-mile stretch of highway, designated as Highway 2A, the Highways Minis- ter urged that this should not be taken as an invitation to make a speedway of the road. "It is a road designed so that motorists can move quickly and safely to their destination," he said Expressing the hope that in tue new year there would be a more strict supervision of safety rules on Ontario highways, Mr. Doucett de- clared that "this slaughter of hu- man lives must stop." "We are going to do everything in our power," he stated, "but it can't be done by legislation or by DOUCETT APPEALS (Continued on Page 5) 4 Speech At Banquet Opening Highway As a cold rain fell, the new dual highway between Highland Creek and Oshawa, designated ~ for the present as Highway 2A, was declar- ed officially open yesterday after noon by Highways Minister George H. Doucett in the presence of prov- incial and municipal dignitaries, Blue and white ribbons extended across the south half of the /high- way, just west of the Highland Creek over-pass, were cut by Mr. Doucett at three o'clock and the mile-long procession, headed by a Ontario Provincial Police escort, moved off slowly towards Oshawa. Drainage and safety features of the 18-mile sweep of highway, the first such road to be opened in the province of Ontario this year, stood out to advantage as dull grey skies continued to pour rain for the se cond consecutive day. When the procession reached the Simcoe Street under-pass in Osh- awa, the official party, which in- cluded Mr. Doucett, Deputy Minis- ter- of Highways J. D. Millar, J. A. Leslie, ML:A,, and T. K, Creighton, K.C., MLA, Ontario Legislature members for East York and South Ontario, was welcomed by Mayor F. N. McCallum and Oshawa civic of ficials, One of Finest Declaring the highway officially open, Highways Minister Doucett CLIPS RIBBON (Continued on Page §) 'Toronto, Dec. 4--(CP)--Two young men who argued with a cou- ple identified as George Vigus and Iris Scott in a "lover's lane" section of North York Township 24-hours before the bodies of Vigus and Miss Scott were found jammed into the locked luggage compartment of the Vigus car, appeared today as pos- sible suspects in the strangle slay- ings. The incident was mentioned for the first time in yesterday's open- ing session of the inquest into the death of the 39-year-old factory superintendent and his 21 year- old friend, whose bodies were pried out of Vigus's automobile Sept. 12, a few hours after police removed the car from Toronto's west-end High Park. A patch of white adhesive tape on one of the car windows was one of the links between the incident on lonely York Downs road the night of Sept. 10, and discovery of the bodies in a far distant section of the city. d McKay Clement, a resident of the area, saw the tape on a photo- graph of the Vigus car and said it definitely was the same auto he saw parked on York Downs road SUSPICION (Continued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Clear, becoming overcast this afternoon, freezing rain tonight, snow Friday stopping by eve- ning, Colder today and Friday. Winds east 25 today, gradually changing tonight to northwest 25 by Friday morning. Low to- night and high Friday 24 ahd 30. Suspicion Shifts To Pair | Arguing With Vigus, Girl On N ight Before Murder Would Name Highway "Princess Elizabeth" In his address at last night's banquet marking the opening of the new highway, Hon. G. D. Conant, K.C., who represented South Ontario Riding in the Ontario Legislature at the time work was started, put forward the suggestion that it be de- signated as "The Princess Eli- zabeth Way". Mr. Conant said that the name Princess Elizabeth had been much in everyone's mind in recent days and was very dear to every heart. Even as Queen Elizabeth and Princess Elizabeth were closely wvelated so too were the Queen Eliza. beth Way, west of Toronto, and the new highway to Oshawa. "Even if the name were shortened to "The Princess Way" it would not lose any of its significance. For many of the people throughout the prov- ince it would always suggest a splendid achievement in trans- portation and a crowning event in the history of the British Fommonwealth," he added. PHILIP STAYS IN NAVY London, = Dec. 4--(AP)--Prince Philip will continued to pursue his naval career, the Admiralty an- nounced today, The former Lieut. Philip Mountbatten will return to duty Dec. 15 as an officer in the Admiralty's operations Division in Whitiehall. He and Princess Eliza- beth now are on their honeymoon in Scotland. London, mer of Durham, Ont., died in hos- pital here yesterday from injuries suffered recently when he fell down stairs at his son's home. He was a member of one of Grey County's pioneer families. ' % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x TEN DIE In FIRE Hong Kong, Dec. 4 (AP)--Ten persons were killed and 20 shops destroyed in a waterfront fire in Canton, China, last night, it was reported here today. MAY END MANDATE MAY 1 Dec. 4 (Reuters)--Informed London quarters today were quoted as predicting May 1, 1948, as the possible date on which Britain will surrender her Palestine mandate and begin withdrawal of her forces. A decision about the date was believed imminent. JAIL GUARD ON 2ND CHARGE Toronto, Dec. 4 (CP)--Eric 'Ranking 'suspended Don Jail guard on bail pending trial on a drug charge, was arrested last night and charged with receiving more than 1,300 pounds of stolen meat. Police said more than a ton of fresh meat was stolen from a packing plant in suburban Leaside last Saturday and driven away in two trucks, also stolen from the company. The empty trucks were later recovered. VOTE AGAINST MARGARINE : Toronto, Dec. 4 (CP)--The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has decided against pressing for government action to permit manufacture and sale of oleomargarine in Canada, it announced today. A poll of 235 member boards and chambers showed fewar than a two-thirds majority in favor of margarine sdle,