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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--No. 24 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES SAVE 35 AT FLAMING HOSPITAL France Won' t Seize Black Market Francs Banks Are Closed As Currency Bill Is Being Debated Paris, Jan. 29 (AP)--A government bill to confiscate francs from black marketeers was rejected by the National Assembly's Finance Commission today. Premier Robert Schuman's government sought to with- draw all 5,000-franc notes in circulation, and apparently to confiscate those obtained illegiti-®-- mately. The bill was rejected when the Finance Commission failed to give it a majority approval. The vote was a tie, 20-20, : The government demanded a se- cond reading. The bill will go to the National Assembly with an un- favorable report if the commission maintains its stand on the second reading. The government proposal was in- tended as a blow at both inflation and the black market. Authorized sources said this would grab about $500,000,000 worth of francs away from black marketers. There are 66,000,000 notes of the denomination in circulation, worth about $1,000,000,000 at the free ex- change rate. The informants indi- cated those who could not explain session, Schuman has staked the life of his government on approval of his financial program. Notes of 5,000-franc denomina. tion, economists say, have been used extensively by spectulators on the black market in currency and by hoarders, notably farmers. In the Assembly, Communist De- puty Jacques Dulcos objected to Schuman's demand for rapid action on the bill, He said speculators al- ready were buying 5,000-franc notes for 4,000 francs. Observers said one aim of the bill was to satisfy the Socialists. They have been balking at a separate bill to authorize a free market in gold. The latter move would tend to bring hoarded gold stocks out of hiding and enable France to use these reserves to buy needed im- their possession of the notes would | ports have them taken away. The government closed all banks to forestall speculation during de- bate on the measure, Shortly before the bill was intro- Premier, Robert Schuman sald the cabinet had agreed to it in & meeting held before the Assembly Plerre Abelin, Secretary of State for the Premier's office, said there were about 66,000,000 of the. 5,000- franc notes in circulation, They represented 37 per cent of all cur- rent French bank notes. (A 5,000-franc note is worth about Ld Principles In Alberta Libel Suit Flames Cut with Harold Dingman, writer of 1 Entering Edmonton courthouse for opening of preliminary hearing of charges of conspiring to publish a defamatory libel againdt the Alberta child welfare administration are Jack Kent Cooke (left), zine publisher and (behind him) Roy Thomson, Liberty berty maga- Record Cold Patients Removed As Fire Spreads Through Grimsby, Ont., Jan. Building 29 (CP)--The West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, two miles east of here, was destroyed by fire this afternoon. All patients, believed to number about 35, were removed to safety by staff members and taken to private homes and the nearby Village Inn. ; The fire was believed to have started in the chimney and spread throughout the structure within a matter of minutes. Eyewitnesses in this Lake Ontario town, 20 miles east of Hamilton, said that half an hour after the alarm was sounded the hospital roof collapsed and flames enveloped the stone building. Grimsby and Beamsville fire departments responded to the alarm sounded just after noon. The hospital was the former Deer Park Golf and Country Club ahd was donated to the town by C. J. Eames, well-known Hamilton merchant, in 1943. Miss Douglas MacRobbie, formerly of Hamilton, was Superintendent of Nurses at the institution which served both Grimsby and Beamsville areas. UAW Asks Ottawa Waive 9-Day Wait On Insurance Fund Windsor, Jan. 29 (CP)--To relieve a week-old gas shorts age which has halted production in a number of Western $33.50 at the present internal rate). attiolouAt Tight ace Mery iC. Marshall, 3 : Edmentofi, Alberta IODE president; Mes. P/'P. Griffith,' secretary; Dr. Charlotte Whitton, welfare authority, the third person accused. Said On Way Toronto, Jan. 20--(CP)--Temper- atures dropped suddenly today in Ontario plants, the United States Federal Power Commission will be asked to let Texas natural gas be sent into this area The Union Gas Company, which serves- this heavily« industrialized corner of the prov-¢- Off Rescue, Candidate Rumors Abound As Riding Faces By-Election; Liberal Stronghold Since '30 Rumor drums are being pounded in earnest here as Ontario riding, a federal Liberal Party stronghold since 1930, faces the prospect of a by-election in the coming months to fill the post left vacant by the death of W, E. N. Sinclair, Since 1930 when W. H. Moore defeated the late Dr. T. E. Kaiser, Conservative candidate, the seat has been chalked up in the Liberal column at Ottawa. Mr. Moore was the victor in both the 1935 Liberal sweep and the 1940 campaign. By-election speculation, which has mounted in recent days since Parliament reconvened, places Dr. W. H. Gifford, ex-mayor and Lib- eral standard-bearer in the 1945 Povincial campaign, in the fore- ront of a list of possible Liberal candidates, Dr. W. W. Baldwin, of Brooklin, is. another strong pos- sibility, informed sources say. Progressive Conservative circles report a good deal of speculation concerning the candidacy of Mayor Frank N. McCallum, who is serving his third consecutive term as Osh- awa's chief magistrate. Others in the field, according to reports, are Major James R. MacBrien, Pro- gressive Conservative candidate in the federal election of 1945, and Hayden Macdonald, president of the Ontario Riding Progressive Conservative Association. X Behin Mr. MacBrien polled 8,478 votes in the 1945 campaign, running ex~ actly three thousand votes behind Mr. Sinclair, who entered the politi- cal field after eight years of re- tirement. CCF sources have declined com- ment on a possible candidate but the party has swung into action in preparation for a by-election, A conference of district trade union representatives, a committee from the Oshawa and District Labor Council and CCF Ontario Riding Association officials has been scheduled for February 15. The conference is expected to pen avenues for active participa- tion by the trade unions in an elec- tion following recent action by the labor council and affiliated unions in endorsing the CCF as the politi- cal arm of labor, i In the 1946 federal contest, Mr. Sinclair topped the polls in all but two sections of the riding with Hajor MacBrien running second and Rev. Dr. R, L. McTavish, CCF candidate, in third position. Mr. MacBrien ran first in Reach Town. ship and Port Perry. A. James Turner, Labor Progressive candi- date, trailed with 635 votes. Mr. Sinclair rolled up 5,942 votes of his 11,478-total in Oshawa while Mr. MacBrien polled 3,662. The CCF standard-bearer, Dr. McTav- ish, made his strongest run in the RUMORS ABOUND (Continued on Page 2) Infant Dies London, Ont, Jan. 28--(CP)--A 23-year-old war, veteran lay swath- ed in bandages in hospital here last night and in a voice hoarse with smoke related how he came within a few feet of saving the life of a one-year-old baby in a fire that swept two emergency shelter apart- ments here late yesterday. "I almost reached Billie's crib when the flames met me, I felt them on my arm and legs," said Reuben Ward, who came to London five months ago from Dorchester, N.B. His sister Mrs. Alice Cook lives at R.R. 3 Dorchester. Ward broke down and sobbed, and then explained that Billy Dupont was his "favorite" of the household of nine persons whose flat was des- toryed by fire of unknown origin. The child, son of Michael and Madeline Dupont, died from suffo- cation and burns in a flash blaze at the Queen's Park apartment while both his parents were away working. Their son, Leonard three years old, was rescused by Jack Adams, also a boarder at the Du- pont home. District Fire Chief Ray Moulden was treated in hospital for a gash- ed hand received when firemen smashed an opening through wood- en and fibre-board building to reach the seat of the blaze. The adjacent apartment of Frank Newman also was gutted, with two adjoining apartments badly dam- aged by smoke and water. In all, eight families and 15 chil- dren were driven out into the cold by smoke and flames. About 30 families live in the Queen's Park emergency city shelt- ers, built up in two lines of former Action On Living Costs To Aid Canadian People Advocated In Commons By D'ARCY O'DONNELL Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Jan. 29--(CP)--Gov- ernment action to help Canadians meet their living costs was advo- cated in the Commons yesterday as members resumed the tradi- tional debate on the Throne Speech, a debate which allows private mem- bers to air their grievances and views on practically any subject. While the five speakers heard during the three-hour mid-week sitting touched on a wide variet, of topics, all agreed that the high cost of living was a matter upper- most in the minds of the Canadian people. 7 } William Irvine = (CCF-Cariboo) urged full re-imposition of price controls and a rolling back of cur- rent price levels. A. J, Brooks (PC-Royal) urged higher pensions for war veterans and their families to allow them to meet high living costs. Eugene Marquis (L-Kamour- aska) asked if the time had not come for the passing of legislation that would fit a reasonable profit Poartment will not hésitate to take for those dealing in essential foods. J. A. Ross (PC-Souris) criticiz- ed the government's handling of controls and charged that Cana- dian farmers had lost $800,000,000 through the government's sale and marketing of agricultural products. Rev. Dan Meclvor, (L-Fort Wil- liam) said that the, government's proposed House Committee on prices was one of the best ways of dealing with the country's "danger- ous" price situation. Veterans' Housing Before resumption of the debate, which will be continued today, Vet- erans Minister Gregg said his de- action against contractors for any amounts which it is felt should be recovered by the government for the correction of defects in veter- ans housing, Postmaster General Bertrand said he plans to introduce a bill later in the session 'to extend for another year the supplementary LIVING COSTS '(Continued on Page 2) west of the capital, Northern Ontario as polar air mov- ed south from Hudson Bay and weather forecasters warned 'tem- peratures in Southwestern Ontario might reach record lows. The cold wave by mid-morning reached Muskoka airport where thermometers dropped in a one-| hour period from 19 to nine degrees | shortage above Fahrenheit zero, At North Bay, where temperatures at mid- night registered 18 above, the mer- cury this morning had dropped through 33 degrees to 15 below. The cold air mass had reached as far south as Ottawa where thermo- meters this morning registered nine above, a six-degree drop from last night's 156 above. At Killaloe, due the temper- ature dropped 16 degrees during the night to four above. Forecasters predicted Southwest- ern Ontario would bear the brunt of the cold snap since the cold air was moving in from the northeast, by- passing the moderating influence of lake waters. Mystery Gunmen Kills Father, Son In Manitoba Home La Riviere, Man., Jan. 20--(CP)-- Two residents of this district 107 miles southwest of Winnipeg were ince, says it seeks the arrangement to enable Panhandle Eastern (Tex- as) to fulfill a long-standing con- tract. Upward of 100,000 Southern On- tario citizens including 22,000 work- ers made idle here when the gas closed some automobile factories, will watch the progress of negotiations. While the company said there would be no gas today and probably none for Friday, Col. Thomas Weir, Union President, met yesterday with industrial leaders to discuss the production-crippling situation. However, the chief concern of workers today is that no money is coming in. With this in mind, Roy England, President of Ford Local 200 of the United Automobile Workers (CIO), announced that the federal govern- ment will be asked to reduce the nine-day period necessary before unemployment insurance is paid. Earlier, Col. Weir said that if US, authorities accepted Union's propo- sal, gas could be piped into Western Ontario storage tanks to supply both domestic and industrial needs during the winter. Under present US. laws, no gas can be exported unless all American consumers have been satisfied. With cold weather gripping the State of Michigan, the supply to Southern INSURANCE FUND (Continued on Page 2) St. Andrew's Roll Larger, Behind the "cold figures" which represent the financial progress of a congregation lies the "enormous amount of work done and time spent" by members of the church on its behalf, Rev. George Telford declared last night at the annual meeting of St. Ahdrew's United Church. shot and killed instantly last night by an unknown gunman who fired through a farmhouse window. | Dead are Garnet Simm, 60, and his son, William Simm, 24. First reports said the gunman Reviewing the' financial state- ment, Mr. Telford pointed out that the total amount. raised. for all purposes was $25,296. Of this amount, $9,277 came from envelope givings, a marked increase over | Tast year's total of $7,600. Raised Receipts Exceed $25,000 two world wars will be erected, it was decided after the meeting heard a report from A. G. Storie, head of a special memorial com= mittee. Mr. Telford voiced hearty appre ciation to all organizations ich had aided the church on Sundays and through the week. The min=~ ister thanked the choir under C. J, W. Taylor, cerganist and choir- master, for faithful service and aid tribute to the work of the Bi Association and the Board of Managers. © $3,381 for Pension Fund Wing Falls Off Plane army huts. fired a series of shots through the ¢'" 4 "aicsionary and Mainten- | The financial statement showed Ask $31,881 Parks Budget, Call Field House Tenders Tenders are to be called once more for construction of a field house at Alexandra Park. The Board of Park Management, at a meeting last night, voted to call tenders preliminary to renew- ing its request to City Council for approval of the project. Tenders are to be in accord with the latest plans prepared by the architect, C. PF. Morrison, and February 28 was set as deadline for receiving bids. The project has been under con. sideration for two years. or more and last September the Board ap- proved a price submitted by An- thony Mayer, Oshawa builder, for construction of a building in accord with Mr. Morrison's plans. When a request was made to City Council, however, for financing construction ~r--ah Shif building along with flood- lights at Alexandra k and two small lavatory buildings at Con. naught and Bathe Parks, that body referred to the 1048 Council. At last night's meeting it was de. cided to delay calling tenders for the two smaller buildings until prices were received on the Alexan- dra Park structure. It was felt that L 4 Board of Park Management will ask City Council for approval of a budget of $31,881 for 1948, an amount more than $7,000 above that received for 1947 operations. Increase in the Park Board bud- get is due to development of more parks in the city, higher labor costs and increased summer and winter activities at the parks. The 1947 budget for general park purposes amounted to $23,380 but and additional $1,000 was allowed at the end of the year to cover ex- nditure at Eastview and Harman 'arks, devélopment of which had not been anticipated when the year's estimates were drawn up. Details of the proposed budget will be submitted to City Council for consideration early next week. the proposed Kinsman stadium would serve the need for a floodlit playing field. Plans call for a one-storey brick building at Alexandra Park with shower.equipped dressing rooms for athletic teams as well as public lavatories. Mrs. Dupont was at work in a downtown restaurant at the time of the outbreak, and her husband was working in Westminster Veterans' Hospital. McGirr Must Pay $65 To Student For Blow On Ear Welland, Jan. 20--(CP)--Robert J. Logan of Niagara Falls, Ont., 17- year-old sailor, today was awarded damages of $65 in his suit against Ernest J. McGirr, Principal of Nia. gara Falls Collegiate, alleged 'to have struck Logan when the youth was a student at the school, Logan had asked $500, charging that the principal struck him with such force that his eardrum was perforated. ; County Judge H. E. Fuller, who heard the case last Jan. 9, said in a judgment handed down today that the blow struck by McGirr was ex- cessive under the particular cir- cumstances: and, in law, amounted to assault. He commented, however, that Logan's ear was not seriously dam- aged that there was no possibility of permanent injury. The judgment said there was no indication of "any ungovernable rage or malice, as alleged." 32 Killed In California Fresno, Calif., Jan, 29--(AP)-- A chartered immigration ~gervice plane crashed and burned in West- ern Fresno County Wednesday, ling 28 Mexican deportees, the crew of three and an immigration guard. An hour after the airliner ap- peared to explode over Los Gatos Canyon, near Coalinga, shortly after 10.30 a.m., 19 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage. Most of those remaining in the plane were jammed into the fore- part of the fuselage and mangled almost beyond recognition, W. L. Childers, a rancher, said the plane was at an altitude of about 5,000 feet when he noticed smoke trailing from the left en- gine of the two-engine craft. Then the left wing fell off and the fusel- age plummetted, nose first, As it fell, Childers said, several persons either jumped or fell to their deaths, Of the 19 bodies re- covered by 4.30 p.m. nine were found at distances ranging up to a quarter-niile from the plane. Irving Wixon, director of the United States Immigration Service at San Francisco, said the Mexican nationals were being flown to the deportation centre at El Centro, Calif,, for return to Mexico, | icemen in the Trieste area. They ar- | rived in Europe Saturday from the Wixon said the group included' Mexican nationals who had entered the United States illegally and others who had stayed beyond dur-! ation of work contracts in Califor- | nia. All were agriculturual workers, he said. : The crew was identified as Frank Atkinson, 32, the pilot; Mrs. Bobbie Atkinson, his wife, stewardess, 28, and Marion Ewing, 33, co-pilot, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany Jan. 29---(AP)--United States air forces will begin a wide search to day for a transport plane missing for more than 36 hours with three American wives and five children aboard. The air forces' C-47 'transport disappeared while flying from Istres, France, to Udine, Italy. Part of the route would carry it over the Mediterranean. Air force headquarters said it had been un- reported since' the take-off from Istres at 11.37 a.m. Tuesday. The women and children were dependents of United States serv- United States. a Air forces officials 8aid they feared the plane had fallen into the window of the Simm farmhouse late last night and Garnet Simm"s wife, two daughters and three sons were present at the time of the slaying. The youngest son is said to have raced for help immediately after- | Royal Canadian Mounted | ward. Police constables and a doctor go- ing to the scene were forced to abandon their car because of heavy snowdrifts three miles from the farm house. RETURNING TO OSHAWA Don Allman, announcer of radio station CREX, Peterborough, and previously with CKDO, Oshawa, is returning to Oshawa today where office staff of General Motors Cor poration. : A vote on the question of wo- men's beverage rooms will be taken in Newcastle village on February 18. The village at present has two li- censed, men's beverage rooms, THE WEATHER Overcast with snowflurries, and drifting snow, clearin + this afternoon. Clear and muc colder tonight and Friday. Winds west 25 becoming north 20 this afternoon. Light winds tonight and Friday. Low Mediterranean, oH tonight and high Friday 15 below. and 4 aboye, cE he has accepted a position on of RT | VOTE ON BEVERAGE ROOMS | ance Fund was a total of $3,820. Forty-four new members were added to the church during the year bringing the total membership to 1,061, it was reported. ih Honor rolls commemorating the fallen' members of the church in a total of $3,381 collected for the Pension Capital Fund while the Sunday School reported a total collection of $1,031. The Woman's ST. ANDREW'S (Continued on Page 5) 'x LATE NEWS BRIEFS NAB 3 HOLD-UP SUSPECTS Niagar.. Falls, Jan. 29 (CP)--Captured when their automobile plunged into a snowdrift after a wild, 70- miles-an-hour chase - along 'icey district roads, three youths were held today in. connection with armed rob- f a store at nearby Chippawa RE Police identified the suspects as Niagara Falls garage. David Mitchell, 19, and Ernest Nemett, and William Williams, ilton, and burglary of a 20, both of Ham- 22, of Orillia. A fourth youth, possibly injured by a police bullet, was believed to ave escaped. SOVIETS PROTEST AIR BASE Washington, Jan. United States plans to reopen an air base 29- (AP)--Russia has objected to in North Africa. First word that a formal protest has been filed with both the United States and Britain came in a Moscow radio broadcast today. Government officials, confirming that the protest vas received here last week, said a reply will be sent to Moscow within the next few days.