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a Bi eu. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times aid Whitby Gazette and Chronicle ig FEAR OF BLACK MARKET IN Births In Oshawa Reach New High In '47 \ OSHAWA - WHITBY VOL. 7--No. 13 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948 |) Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES 100 Monthly Rate; Deaths Also Up But Fewer Wed Births were registered in Oshawa last year at the rate of more than 100 per month, bringing the 1947 total to the all-time high of 1,208. Deaths, totalling 338, were also high- er than in recent years, while marriages dropped to 381 from the high of 418 in 1946. Only a portion of the birth and ® deaths apply to Oshawa residents, however, on a number of those re- corded here were patients in the Oshawa General Hospital from out- side the city. The figures reported do not represent the actual number of births, marriages and deaths which took place in the city in 1947 but the number registered during that period. New records in births have been established successively for the past four years with last year's total ex- ceeding the 1946 high by 129. The latter in turn was 150 above the 1945 figure. For the period between 1942 and 1044 births ranged between 815 and 859 while prior to that time the an- nual average had been around 600. Deaths in Oshawa last year ex- ceeded the 300-mark for the first time in at least the last eight years. The total of 338 for 1947 compares with 250 for the previous year and 276 in 1945. In 1944, 290 were regis- tered. Meanwhile marriages fell 37 be- hind the 1946 record of 418. Last year's total of 881, however, exceed- ed each of the previous years when the figures were 283, 274 and 303 re- spectively. There were 389 register- ed in 1042. UAW Welcomes Control Measure Toronto, Jan, 16--(CP)--George Burt, Canadian Director of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.), said today his union "welcomes the gesture" of reimposition of con- trols on meat and butter prices but that the federal government must go farther in easing the "burden" of the "long-suffering and battered consumers." He said the government should take steps to reduce the price of meat and butter and urged that lifting of the ban on manufacture and sale of oleomargarine be con- sidered. UAW To Ask 25 Cent Hike In U.S. Shops Detroit, Jan, 16--(AP)--The Unit- ed Auto Workers (C.I.O.) announc- ed today they will seek a wage in- crease of 26 cents an hour and an additional five cents for other bene- fits in forthcoming negotiations with the motor car industry. The demand, approved by the un- | jon's 22-man executive board, are aimed at obtaining a third-round of | cost-of-living adjustments since the war. Also included are demands for a guaranteed weekly wage and a three weeks vacation for workers with five years seniority. A 25-cent wage increase would boost average pay for the auto workers to roughly $1,75 an hour. The additional five cents an hour would cover hospital services, health medicanl and surgical insurance. Either Chrysler Corporation or General Motors Corporation is ex- pected to be the U.AW.-CI1.O.'s first 1948 target. Ford Motor Company, other member of the big three, has | a contract that expires later in the year, To Remove Brush Along Oshawa Creek In the interests of public safety, all brush and trees on city-owned property along the Oshawa Creek in the vicinity of McMillan Drive is to be removed. A motion to this effect was in- troduced last night by Ald. Sam Jackson and unanimously passed by City Council. Ald. Jackson said the nature of the area constituted a danger and he urged - that it be cleared without delay. Hagana Says 82 Arabs Killed In Haifa Battle Jerusalem, Jan. 16-- (AP) --The harbor, city of Haifa, one of the Eastern Mediterranean's greatest ports, became the main Jewish- Arab battle ground at dawn today. Officlals reports indicate nearly a score were dead or feared dead in bitter fighting there. (Reuters News Agency quoted a claim by Hagana, Jewish defence army, that 82 Arabs had been killed, but there was no confirmation of this figure), Jewish bombs blasted two Arab houses the Jews sald were snipers' nests. Arab truck back with re- newed shootings and stabbings up and down the streets. The unofficial count of violent deaths in Palestine climbed to 822 for the period since the United Na- tions voted Nov. 20 to partition the Holy Land into Jewish and Arab nations, An official anouncement showed the Haifa bombing victims number- ed at least 10, including "seven chil- dren between the ages of one and 12, and one women," and three oth- er persons were buried under debris and feared dead. Two Jews were knifed to death in hand-to-hand clashes with Arab "vengeance patrols" that roamed Haifa streets. One Polish Christian | was killed in fhe city, police said, when unknown attackers fired on a group of Poles in a convoy. The port, choked with peak-of- season citrus shipping, was paralyz- ed because workers stayed away from their jobs in fear of their lives. Refinery operations, transporta- tion services and other such activi- tiles were slowed down or stopped. The city was under a virtual state of siege. Name Committee To Make Industrial Fair Survey A Chamber of Commerce commit. tee is to be appointed to canvass local industries and business estab- lishments with a view to their par- ticipation in the city's proposed in- dustrial fair. J . A well-attended meeting of the Chamber's industrial and civic com- mittees went on record yesterday as favoring the project of an industrial fair but it was felt that before mak- ing definite arrangements a tho- rough survey should be made to as- certain whether industries and mer- chants would give it their active support, It was pointed out that fairs of this type 'held in Guelph, London and Kitchener had met with mark. ed success. They had included such feature attractions as radio broad- casts, automotive shows and fash- jon shows, Between 16,000 and 18,- 000 attended the three-day London fair which was sponsored by the Jusior chamber of commerce of that city, A. G. Storie stressed the value of such a project in arousing commun. ity spirit. He sald businessmen should take part in it from this point of view. It was felt that the city's newly- formed Junior Chamber of Com- merce should take a leading part in fhe fair as its first major undertake g, K, D. Gahan suggested that the retail merchants might feature win. dow displays of Oshawa-made goods during the fair, T. L. Wilson, presidegt of the Chamber stressed that local indus tries should be given the first op- Popunty to obtain space at the alr, The Oshawa Arena was suggested as a suitable location. CHINESE MOB RAIDS, BURNS UK. OFFICES Canton, Jan. 16--(Reuters)--A mob of several thousand Chinese attacked the British Consulate here today, setting the building on fire and destroying it, and slightly in- juring Vice-Consul J. K. Blackwell. The attack was believed to be part of anti-Bmtish demonstra- tions which have followed an an- nouncement that the Chinese gov- ernment had protected to Britain against prison sentences imposed in the British colony of Hong Kong on two Chinese. They had been charged with re- sisting police who were evacuating Chinese from buildings condemned for public health reasons in the old city of Kowloon, on the mainland of Hong Kong colony. The crowd crossed two bridges from Canton City, commercial | capital of South China, 90 miles | from Hong Kong, to Shameen Island, in the Pearl River, and demonstrated outside the British Consulate offices. « Stones were thrown and the building burned to the ground. Furniture, documents and clothing were thrown into the fire. The crowd then burned the CHINESE MOB (Continued on Page 2) Highlights On Ceilings Ottawa, * Jan. 16--(CP)--High lights of Finance Minister ~Ab- Deitls statement last night on con- trols: Price ceilings are being reimpos- ed on meats and butter, Mark-up conicols--limiting deal- ers' margin of profit--will be ap- plied "where necessary" on import- ed fruits and vegetables. Parliament will be asked to ex- tend prices and rent controls until March 31, 1949. ' Prices of certain fertilizers, up sharply in Eastern Canada, will be reduced through mark-up controls and rollbacks in basic chemical in- aredients. The Prices Board may launch some prosecutions for profiteer- ing in the recent upward flurry of food prices. Until circumstances justify re- oval, ceilings will be continued on sugar, molasses, oils and fats, certain canned fruits and vege- tables, primary iron and steel, tin and residential rents, The Government is negotiating for additional supplies of\ butter in the event current stocks and production do not meet require- ments, . The meat ceilings--to be an- nounced in about a fortnight--will be in line with the new United Kingdom contract prices. Pork prices will be considerably above those of a month ago, but less than many prices reported in the last fortnight. Beef, lamb and veal prices will be "moderately above" the former ceilings. Butter--: 2 order on which will be issued in the next two days-- will be based on 67 cents a pound for wholesale solids at Montreal. It will cost a little below charges of recent weeks. ---------- The government does mot pro- pose to return to any general sys- tem of over-all price ceilings. Rev. James Grier Assessed $1,000 In Damage Action Guelph, Jan, 168 --(CP)-- Rev. James C. Grier of Whitby and Osh- awa, a Presbyterian minister, yes- terday was assessed $1,000 in a damage action charging criminal conversation and another $250 for alleged alienaticn of affection. The plaintiff, William Leveque, also was. granted a divorce from his wife, Marie Ellen Leveque. Mr. Grier was named co-defendant. Mr. Justice Keiller Mackay who heard Mr, Leveque's claims at an Ontario Supreme Court hearing, did not rule finally on the plaintiff's suit for custody of the Leveque couple's five-year-old daughter, = Wins European Championship Second Time Gandhi Weak Can't Walk Doctors Say New Delhi, Jan. 16 -- (AP) -- Mohandas K. = Gandhi, bent on 'bringing communal harmony to In- dia, fasted into a fourth day today, too weak to walk. A competent medical source said Gandhi, 78, can fast an additional six days "at the utmost," before his life is seriously in danger, but that already there is a danger of com- plications. One of Gandhi's four at- tending 'physicians said today he is "getting weaker by the hour." Gandhi, Hindu spiritual leader and believer in non-violence to achieve reforms, started his 15th fast at 11 a.m. Tuesday. Physicians said yesterday that, after 53% hours, he had to be carried from his bathroom. Last night, for the first time since he quit eating, he skipped his daily prayer meeting. India, whose population is main- ly Hindu and Sikh, aanounced to- day it would begin immediate pay- ment of £40,000,000 (about $160,- 000,000) due the predominantly Moslem dominion of Pakistan under a financial agreement, The communique said this was decided upon last night as "the government's contribution to Gandhi's efforts for peace and good will" and was intended "to remove one cause of suspicion and friction" between the two coun- tries now at odds over tribal raids against Kashmir. Coal Miners Said 'Illegal' In Walkout Calgary, Tan. 16 -- (CP)--Union comment still was lacking today on the "unauthorized" strike which has made idle between 8,500 and 10,000 coal miners in British Co- lumbia and Alberta and which now is in its fourth day. Since officials of district 18, United Mine Workers of America, first said the strike was "news. to them," they have declined to elabo- rate on the walkouts which have paralyzed all but a few mines in both provinces. Robert Livett, Union President, would give no indication whether the union intended to appoint a representative to the conciliation board being set up by the Alberta government. The operators have said they will. The Alberta Government has called the strike illegal and had barely been notified of the break- down in wage negotiations when th. strike began. r British Columbia Government officials' are ' investigating the strike to see what jurisdiction their COAL MINERS (Coritinued on Page 2) THE WEATHER Overcast with intermittent snow and drifting snow today' clearing tonight. Turning cold- er this afternoon. Saturday clear and cold. Winds south 20 shifting to northwest 20 in the afternoon becoming light to- night and Saturday. Low to- night and high Saturday 5 be- low and 6 above, skating championship for the Placed first by all seven judges to win the European women's figure d year at Prague yesterday, Barbara | future will be limited+«to Europeans. Ann Scott is the last North American to take the title, Tournament in | lof the Ciminform, In response to the Oshawa Gen- eral Hospital's request for financial assistance from the municipality. City Council has agreed to contri- bute $15,000 in the event of a hospi- tal operating deficit in 1948, on con- dition that the hospital raise its rates 50 cents a day and on condi- tion that adjacent municipalities contribute to such a deficit in pro- portion to the number of their resi- #| dents treated. City Council last night passed a motion to this effect sponsored by Finance Chairman R. D. Humph- reys who pointed out that the hospi- tal"s Board of Directors anticipated a deficit of between $25,000 and $30,000 in 1948. Council agreed unanimously that it was its responsibility to assist the hospital financially if the need arose and it was considered that the city had been fortunate in not having to bear such ah expense before. Only opposition to Ald. Humph- reys' motion, which was seconded by Ald, Sam Jackson, came from Alderman Michael Starr and Clif- ford Harman who objected to any raising of rates. "We don't want our hospital to be a prohibitive institution," Ald. Starr declared, adding that rates were high enough already. Ald. Humphreys pointed, however, to higher hospital rates in certain other municipalities and stressed that a great many people now sub- scribe to hospitalization insurance such institutions should as far as possible make charges sufficient to prevent them from going into debt | so that they would not be too heavy a burden on pérsons not benefitting from their facilities. Mayor McCallum pointed out that increased provincial grant§ were | now available for hospitals. Council was unanimously of the opinion that other municipalities benefitting by the hospital should contribute in the event of a deficit. SEEK UAW. TIE-IN Brantford, Jan, 16--(CP)--Estab- lishment of a farm implement de- partment of the United Automobile Workers (C.I1.0.) will be completed here at a two-day international un- ion conference starting tomorrow. Walter Reuther of Detroit, UAW. International President, will ad- dress the conference tomorrow. ' City Will Pay $15,000 1948 Hospital Deficit If Rates Up, O hers Aid 000 in this year's city property bud- plans. He was of the opinion that | Set Aside $3,000 | For Street Signs Impressed by the new street signs | erected recently in Toronto, City Council has agreed to set aside $3,- get for the purchase of new signs for Oshawa. This action was recommended by Board of Works Chairman Michael Starr who suggested that the pro- ject 'might be spread over a per- iod of several years. As a start, the new signs might be erected the full length of King and Simcoe Streets. The amount of $3,000, it was esti- mated, would allow for the purchase of some 200 two-way signs. To consider further Ald. Evelyn Bateman's suggestion that city un- dertake the removal of snow on sidewalks, a committee was appoint- ed to visit Peterborough to obtain information on the system fn force there. Peterborough, it was pointed out, has cleared its walks for a number of years. Members of the committee are Mayor F. N. McCallum, Alder en Batemen, Alex Ross, and W. J. Lock, and City Engineer W. T. Dempsey. Heating Trouble Brings Fire Calls Heating system difficulties brought the Fire De; itment out on three occasions during the night. At 3:50 a.m. today firemen were called to the Madison Apartments on Simcoe Street South where the motor of an automatic stoker had seized up. A little damage to the motor was reported. Last night at 9:20 o'clock, base- ment furnace pipes at Bill's Place, 28% Simcoe Street South, fell down for no apparent reason and allowed smoke to fill nearby apart- ments. No one was affected and only minor damage was done to the furnace pipes. Earlier in the evening, an oil burner explosion at the Luke- McIntosh Funeral Home, 152 King Street East, blew Pipes down and scattered soot throughout the basement. The explosion was at- tributed by fire department offi- "cials to excessive -carbon on oil BEEF Retailer Predicts Control Measure Will Cut Stocks Toronto, Jan. 16 (CP)--N. D. Roose, Past President oll the Toronto Retail Butchers' Association, predicted today that a "false famine" of meat and "the biggest black market we've ever had" will result from the federal government' reimposition of controls on meat prices. = ¢ He said he made the forecas§ RUHR STRIKE (MAY INVOLVE FOUR MILLION By WES GALLAGHER Berlin, Jan. 16--(AP)--A reported Communist master strike scheme to wreck the Marshall Plan threat- enend today to paralyze Germ- any's industrial heart--the Ruhr. Hunger, gripping 4,000,000 weary workers, many of whom are living on a starvation diet, became an ally (association of nine Communist countries) whose aims were alleged to have been re- vealed in a mysterious "Protocol M" document, published yesterday in scme German newspapers. Simultaneously, Germany's sput- tering political situation boiled up. Several old line German Commun- ists revealed they had split with Moscow-directed Communists and RUHR STRIKE . (Continued on Page 2) because controls on meat were not accompanied by reimposition of controls on livestock. "Butcher shops that now are crammed full of the best cuts of meats will soon be empty," he said. "The consumers who can't afford to buy steaks, chops and roast now soon won't be able to get them, though the prices might be within their reach." Mr. Roose said this would resuls from refusal of farmers to lower their prices for livestock. "If the government plans on making .these controls effective, it had better plan on instituting the greatest police force in the world to watch every packinghouse and butcher shop in the country. Ottawa, Jan, 16 (CP).--A gov- ernment drive on the rising cost of living opened today as the prices board prepared to establish price ceilings on meat and butter and carry on dominion-wide investiga- tions into recent food price hikes which may seem unreasonable and which caused the government to act. The new program, constituting modified re-control, was announce ed' last night by Finance Ministew Abbott who also served notice tha BLACK MARKET . (Continued on Page 2) { Roll Prices Back To 1946 Head of Housewives Asks; Producers Ask For 'Floor' By The Canadian Press Consumers, retailers and packers were among the first to express ap- proval of Ottawa's action in restor- ing price ceilings on meats and but- ter, with "mark-up controls" being applied increasingly to imported fruits and vegetables. But some livestock men and milk | producers were not so pleased. They want a "floor" price if the ceiling's going to be put on again. Actual effect of the Ottawa or- ders on the shopping centres is hard to determine. In the first place there is not much difference in the-butter price and in the se- cond place the new meat ceilings don't be announced for a couple of weeks. When the prices are laid down, theyll be higher than the old ceilings, naturally. A Canadian Press survey yester- day showed butter selling generally at 72 cents a pound. Back bacon generaly was round 80 cents. Sirloin steak was mostly 55 cents a pound in the east, down 'to 42 cents in Regina. Legs of lamb were generally 50 cents a pound. At Toronto George S. Hougham, general manager of the Canadian Retail Federation, said "we wel- come any move that tends to arrest runaway prices." Among consumer representatives Mrs. Rae Luckock, President of the Toronto Housewives Consumers Ass sociation, said: "At least it is & move in the right direction. But | we want prices rolled back to the 1946 level and we're going ahead with our meeting." She referred to a meeting called for next Monday | to discuss high prices. One Toronto packinghouse offie cial said: 'If it is going to halt prices it will be & good thing but frankly, | in some cases, I'm afraid it won't.s | He contended packers prices had not risen above export levels "and as long as there is an export mare- ket for surpluses the prices can't gg | down." | As.for the farmers, Secretary V, | 8. Milburn of the Ontario should bg controlled at the same time as ceils | ings are put on their produce, W. E, Tummon of Foxboro, Secretary of | the Ontario Hog Producers Associa | tion; said that both ceiling and | floor prices should also be placed | on pork products. | Erle Kitchen of Woodstock, | speaking just before the Ottawa | announcement, said that "if we need price ceilings today we feed them least of all on such a come | modity as butter where there is une | ceasing competition in the produce { tion of cream." He thought any reduction in butter. price would 'drive more farmers out of dalry | production." GUARD AGAIN out. FIVE-ALARM FI Windsor, Jan. 16 (CP ment of a jewelry store on THIRD WREC Haileybury, Ont., Jan. New Year's Day train co Daniel Lang, 36, of North * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x ST JAIL | REAK Royun, Que., Jan. 16 (CP)--Extra precautions are being taken by Rouyn police on orders of Chief Emile Dussault to guard seven men in jail awaiting trial for robbery or robbery with violence. Chief Dussault re- vealed that they "ave made several attempts to break RE AT WINDSOR )--Firemen were fighting a five-alarm gas-fed blaze which broke out in the base- downtown Ouelette Avenue before noon today. Dense smoke completely blacked out dh of the building at times as firefighters poured thousands of gallons of water into the stubborn fire. . K VICTIM DIES 16 (CP)--Third victim of a llision near Cobalt, Joseph Bay, an Ontario Northland Railway brakeman, died in hospital here today. Lang was badly burned in the crash, whick claimed the lives of two other North Bay men employed by the O.N.R. MURDER CASE TO JURY Goderich, Jan. 16 (CP preme Court jury toda offer no defence. The Sept. 15, and that only he, in the room, all under the lines. v )--The case of Frederick Littlechild, 42, charged here with murder in the knife slaying of Charles Eeii last Sept. 15, will go to a Sus . Defence rown has attempted to show that Bell was stabbed to death at the Littlechild residence on Counsel said he would Mrs. Bell and Littlechild wera influence of liguor.