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A ' THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETT Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle OSHAWA WHITBY VOL, 7--No. 27 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES " LAY-OFFS MOUNTING AT WINDSOR GM Plant Closes Adding 500 More To 20,000 Jobless By The Canadian Press A new cold wave today headed for Western Ontario "East Whitby Township Appoints Engineer ® 2d R.C.E. Veteran To Superintend Road Work Also Making what is considered the key appointment ef the year, East Whitby Township Council Saturday named John D. Kean, junior engineer with the Township of East York, as township engineer at a salary of $3,600 per annum. Mr. Kean, who is expected to begin work some time this month, will make a complete study - of proposed township engineering projects in order to submit an esti- mate of cost to council in time for inclusion in this year's budget. In addition to taking charge of the en- 'gineering department, Mr. Kean will also act in the capacity of road su- perintendent. Council made the appointment after month-long consideration of the problem and the various appli- cants for the position. With the exception of Councillor Norman Down who has consistently maintained that the services of a road superintendent coupled with those of a consulting engineer would be sufficient, council has given sol- id backing to the plan for employ- ment of a township engineer. Joined Army In 1943 After being employed as instru- ment man for Ontario County in 1939, Mr, Kean worked as layout en- gineer with two construction com- panies before joining the Canad- ian Army in April, 1943. A lieuten. ant in the Royal Canadian Engin- eers, he was stationed at Gordon Head, B.C, Suffield, Alta. Petawa~ wa, Ont, and in the United King- dom, From May to September 1946, Mr. Kean was employed' as assistani county engineer for Ontario County, NAME ENGINEER Ed (Continued on Page 2) Township Engineer JOHN D. KEAN Whe was appointed tewnship en- gineer by the East Whitby Town- ship Council on Saturday. Mr. Kean, who served overseas with the Royal Canadian Engineers, is the son of County Engineer David J. Kean and Mrs, Kean of Whitby. India Police Hunt Gang Accused In Death Plot Against Three Leaders By G. MILTON KELLY New Delhi, Feb. 2--(AP)--Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru told the Indian Constituent Assem- bly today that he accepted the res- toration of peace in this troubled land as an issue on which his gov- ernment would stand or fall. "If we don't do that we are not worth. being in this government; certainly not of being his (Mohan- das K, Gandhi's) followers or even saying words of praise for his great soul," Nehru said. : "I have a sense of utter shame as an individual and as the head of the government that we should have failed to protect the greatest treasure we possess." On the banks of the Jumna, meanwhile, the ashes of the assass- inated Gandhi were reverently col- lected and prepared for scattering on waters sacred to orthodox Hin- duism. Officials of the Indian Union hunted for a gang accused of plot- ting to send three high officials of the dominion to their deaths with Nehru, who had just returned from the services beside the Jum- na, had to pause at times as he spoke to the assembly at a memor- ial service for Gandhi. He was barely able to control his tears and sobbing. "Gandhi's assassination is not the isolated act of a madman," he told the hushed assembly, which is jointly the constitution-writing and legislative branch of the new In- dian government. "It is the result of a certain at- mosphere of violence and hatred that has prevailed in the country for many months and years, espe- cially the past few months. "Root Out Evil" "If we are to serve the cause that Gandhi put before us we have to face this atmosphere, combat it, struggle against it and root out this evil of hatred and violence from the country and from our individual selves. "I assure you on behalf of the INDIA POLICE (Continued on Page 2) RCMP Seize Manuscripts From New Liberty Office Toronto, Feb. 2--(CP)-- R.C. M.PP. officers got their manu- scripts Saturday but the manner in which they seized a carbon copy of the "Babies For Export" article from the offices of New Liberty magazine drew a verbal blast from the publication's managing editor, Wallace Reyburn. Acting Cpl. J. J. Molyneux of the R.C.M.P. who.came here from Alberta to serve warrants in con- nection with charges against three Ontario residents of conspiracy to commit a defamatory libel, with three other officers, obtained the original of the story during a visit to the magazine office. He held a warrant to search the office and seize the original article. He was told then by Joseph Sedgwick, Toronto lawyer, that the warrant did not cover a carbon copy of the article to which were attached some editorial notes. "He came back later and told ns he wanted the carbon copy and the attached notes," Mr. Reyburn said. "Mr. Sedgwick had said before he could not take it and I went to telephone Mr, Sedgwick again. While I was phoning, he took the copy and left the office." Assistant Editor Frank Hamil- ton and Art Director Gene Aliman followed the R.C.M.P. man to the street and Mr. Hamilton told him he had no right to take the copy. He was told the warrant had been changed. Mr. Reyburn said that when Mr. Hamilton asked to see the revised warrant, the officer refused to pro- duce it and said: "Well, we've got it." Mr. Sedgwick said later it was his opinion the warrant was ex- hausted when the officers took the original manuscript. Cpl. Molyneux could not be reached last night and R.C.M.P. officials here and in Ottawa said they had no comment. In Edmon- ton, Jack Kent Cooke, New Lib- erty ,publisher, committed for trial on the conspiracy charge arising from the "Babies For Export" ar- ticle together with Ottawa corres- pondent Harold Dingman and Dr. Charlotte Whitton, Ottawa welfare consulting, said he had nothing to say about the seizure, BOMB BLAST INJURE 20 IN PALESTINE By CARTER L. DAVIDSON Jerusalem, Feb. 2--(AP) -- Police said today they were still unable to fix the blame for a bomb blast which wrecked the Palestine Post last night, injured at least 20 persons and touched off an $800,000 fire. One Arab source said Arabs did it. Other informants blamed Jewish extremists, who have threatened the pro-Zionist, English-language daily newspaper because of its mod- | erate stand on Jewish defence. Still another source blamed Brit- ons known for their anti-Jewish sentiments, | Down-town Jerusalem, Zion | Square and Ben Yehuda Street were littered with broken glass from win- dows shattered as far as 1,000 yards from the site of the blast. Magen David Clinic, across from the Post building -- itself badly da- maged by the explosion -- reported it had 11 injured, two crtically. Oth- er hospitals reported a total of eight or nine while dozens of other per- sons walked around with bandages. There was no official confirma- tion to reports that a avoman living in the Post building was killed in the blast, ' The paper put out a single sheet two-page edition today. Ted Lurie, assistant editor, said that would continue until further notice. The blast, which occurred just before midnight, caused a fire which threatened to engulf an en- tire city block. British Criminal Investigation of- ficers said the plant of the Past could have been bombed by either Arabs or "Jewish extremists." During the night, Arabs launched an attack against the old city of Jerusalem where 1,700 Jews are vir- tually cut off from aid. The attack- ers were said to have used mortars and machine-guns, but no casual. ties were reported. The Royal Navy intercepted a schooner yesterday carrying 280 Jews seeking to enter Palestine without immigration papers. They were sent to detention camps on rus. (An authoritative British source in London said yesterday that there were increased attempts to "infil- trate Communist agents" into Pal. estine. (He said many agents had been found among the 13,000 Jewish im- migrants aboard the ships Pan Crescent, and Pan York which sur- rendered to the Royal Mavy in the Mediterranean last December. (In Milwaukee, Moshe Shertok, political chief of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, described the report i "fantastically and maliciously un- rue.") Dr. Mcllwraith Masonic Leader Killed In Crash Hamilton, Feb. 2 (CP)--Dr. Doug- las G. McIlwraith, 69, was killed instantly at 9.40 this morning when his car was struck by a T.H. and B. gas-electric coach on Leyland Street in West Hamilton, With his passing, Hamilton has lost a bril- liant physician and obstetrician, a leader in Canadian Masonic ac- tivities and a man of great charm and many personal attributes. Dr. McIlwraith was almost across the tracks when his car was struck at the rear, thrown about 30 feet and almost completely wrecked. The locomotive, the regular coach to Waterford, had left the terminal 10 minutes prior to the crash. The crew was: Engineer, George Wright, Welland; Conduc- tor, Edward Barlow, Westdale, and Baggageman, Laverne Cripps, Wel- landport. : Dr. McIlwraith, who was well known in the Oshawa district, num- bered many local Masons among his frends. 4 CHILDREN FIRE VICTIMS Paterson, N.J., Feb. 2--(AP)-- Four children, huddled in one bed in the living room of a tenement flat, died yesterday when an over- heated oil stove exploded and sur- rounded . them with flames, The dead: Ruth, 13; John, 12; Harold, 9, and David, 7, children of Ansel Payne, 48. THE WEATHER Overcast with scattered snow- flurries, clearing late this eve- ning. Clear and colder tonight and Tuesday, Winds southwest 20 shifting to northwest 20 this evening. Low tonight and high Tuesday 5 below and 8 above. Leading Industrialist Chamber of Commerce R. C. Berkinshaw, outstanding Canadian industrialist and president of the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa- tion, is seen with A. G. Storie (left), president of Fittinr- I 7. and Mayor F V. McCallum (right) during his visit to the Osh Chamber of C ce Friday night. .. member of Africa, Mr. Berkinshaw forecast a ready market for Canadian-made goods in that Guest RETRO vic recent trade mission to South country, --Photo by Campbell's Studio Vet Now Off to Australia RR A 4 After Try at Ranching Fred R. Little, 120 Oshawa Boule- vard, who travelled through large sections of England, France, Bel. gium and Holland as a sergeant in the Royal Canadian' Ordnance Corps, will be on the move again this week. This time, his goal Is Australia. It happened this way: Discharged in October, 1046, Fred went back to work at the General Motors plant here but he learned from doctors that a nazal condition made it imperative for him to live in a warm, dry climate. For six months, he lived on a ranch in Ari- zona but when his six-month visa lapsed he had to come back to Canada. In order to get permission for a permanent move to the US., months of red tape would be used up, Fred explained. Why not look for a spot in the British Commonwealth where the climate would be suitable and the obstacles at a minimum? Doctors suggested "a dozen dif- ferent places," Fred sald, but he chose Western Australia, When he learned that a long de- lay was in prospect if he attempted to leave from Vancouver, Fred de- cided to head for England and took passage from there. Leaving Friday of this week from Halifavx aboard the Ascadia, Fred will land at Liverpool. While over- seas, he plans to revisit many of the continental points in France, Belgium and Holland where he ser- ved with the R.C.O.C. He may even extend his tour to Spain and pos- sibly other countries. Only countries FRED R. LITTLE definitely off his list, according to his passport, are ones still occupied by Allied troops. In Australia, Freemantle is the spot where Fred expects to make his first stop. The Australian govern- ment has already sent him an in- formative booklet about Australian opportunities. The welcome mat is out for Canadians, the government told him. Fred Little is on his way -- Aus- tralia! RUSS PROTEST US. ACTIVITY INJAPAN, IRAN Bl BARTON P. PATTIE London, Feb, 2--(AP) -- Russia | has filed two more complaints ! against the United States, the Mos- cow radio reported today. That makes four in less than a week. The latest protests concern the flights of American bombers over Russian shipping in Japanese wa- | ters and the activities of the Amer- ican military mission in Iran, The bomber flights, the radio said, infringed upon the freedom of merchant shipping, while the activities of the United States mili- tary mission in Iran are called | threats to the Russian frontier. The | Russians want both activities stop. ped, the broaticast said. The first two protests, announced last week, compldined about the projected reopening of Mellaha Air- field in North Africa and about the' rpresence of United States warshirsg in Italian ports. The Russians said both those things were violations of the Italian peace treaty. (Washington dispatches last night said those protests would be reject- ed sometime this week). Now the Russian Ministry of For. eign Affairs has demanded that American bombers stop flying over and ting Russian shipping in RUSS PROTEST (Continued on Page 2) Scores Visit 'Community House' As C.R.A. Centre Of Two years of co-operative endeav- our, beset with difficulties but car- ried through to success by the per- severence of a group of citizens de- termined to provide worthwhile lei- sure-time actjvities for the com- munity, cu ated Saturday in the official opening of "Community House," the Community Recreation Association's headquarters building on Gibbs Street. Close to 500 citizens gathered at former Elementary Flying Training School administration building Sat- | urddy afternoon to see rooms, which a few short years ago were the scene of planning for human destruction, transformed into cen- tres for hobby work, physical recre- ation and social pursuits. Prayers for God's blessing on the building, the usé to which it would be put and those working in it, were delivered by Rev. P. Coffey and Rev. H. F. Davidson, president of the Oshawa Ministerial Association, and Mayor F. N., McCallum declar- ed "Community House" officially open, Speaking to an audience which crowded the building's auditorium, Mayor McCallum recalled the ne- gotiations with one government de- partment after another which fin- ally resulted in the city's obtaining the building for C.R.A. Originally housing the administ- ration of No. 20, EF.T.S, it had been 8eclared surplus after World War II and turned over to the De- partment of Transport and then to the director of Civil Aviation. Next it had been transferred to Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation to be used for emergency housing if necessary and finally to War Assets Corporation from which it was pur- chased by the city. The success of the undertaking Mayor McCallum attributed to the "persistent endeavours" of the offi- cers of CR.A. : "The work they are carrying on is beyond any imagination I ever had and I hope this is just a sample of what it will be in a few months time," he declared, Minister Represented Guest for the occasion was C. F. Cannon, superintendent of element- ary education for the province, who represented Premier George Drew, minister of education. Introduced by the C.R.A. first vice-president, George L. Roberts, Mr, Cannon de- clared that it was through "true co- operation" that such a building "for the building of true citizenship" had been made possible. Bringing congratulations from the the minister as well as from the chief director of education, Dr. J. G. Althouse, Mr, Cannon, who was once inspector for Oshawa public schools, said the ceremony -was to him symbolic of "great co-operative effort," He said he had always been im- pressed by the large number of or- ganizations in Oshawa and com- mended this interest in recreation in its broadest aspects and the ef- fort to bring about a program which would appeal to all. Comununily recreation in Oshawa had been described to him by John K. Tett, Department of Education physical fitness director, as "almost a model set-up," he said. Pointing out that there were three cially Opened kinds of people--those genuinely in- 4 terested in the welfare of other people, those emotionally interested in the welfare of others and those not interested in others--Mr. Can- non declared it was his sonviction that the citizens of the Oshawa area were "deeply and genuinely in- terested in the welfare of other people." Otherwise there could have been no such evidence .of commun- ity effort on so wide a plane. C.R.A. History Reviewed The history of the Community Recreation Association and the phil- osophy behind it was outlined by the president, George A. Fletcher, who was one of the instigators of the movement. Mr, Fletcher told how the original master plan had grown out of study, by a small group, of the needs of communities in the post-war era. The first plan, the major commun- ity centre program, had gone down to defeat but those behind it had not given up. The imniediate need had been for a good summer playground pro- gram and a master plan was laid down which might some day re- quire a building. Support had heen forthcoming from General Motors President W. A. Wecker and others, with the result that a summer pro- gram had been carried out. Support had been received also from the Community Chest committee and the Board of Education but the di- rector and staff were still operating out of an hotel Toom. The City Council had finally decided to buy SCORES VISIT (Continued on Page 2) where severe weather which factories has kept 25,000 industrial workers idle 10 days. - Indications were that the nu reduced the supply of gas te mber of persons laid off tem- porarily will :ontinue to rise until the cold snap ends. # The last of Windsor's three main WHITBY BOY STRUCK BY STRAY BULLET A 13-year-old Whitby youth is in the Oshawa General Hos- pital today with a .22 calibre bullet lodged in his chest as the result of an accidental shooting on the Canadian Pacific Rail way track at Whitby yesterday afternoon. While details are still scanty it is believed that the youth was struck by a stray bullet while walking along the track tewards his home north of Whitby, The accident occurred at approximately four o'clock in the afternoon. The injured boy was taken to Oshawa General Hspital on in- structions by Dr. J. O. Ruddy and his condition was described today as satisfactory although the bullet has not yet been re- moved. Provincial police at Whitby Yoo over the investigation to- ye Three Killed In Shanghai Labor Strife Shanghai, Feb. 2 (AP)--Two wo- men workers were trampled to death and a third was killed in a three-storey fall today in riSting punctuated by gunfire between 500 policemen and strikers among 7,000 cotton mill workers. More than 60 workers were in- jured, many seriously. A dozen policemen were hurt, Police, using tanks and riot dars, brought about surrender of the strikers who had barricaded thzm- selves in the big Sung Sing cotton mill. More than 300 workers were arrested, The strikers began their sitdown four days ago to enforce demands for a new year bonus of two months' pay. Officers fired into the rambling three-storey building after seven policemen had been seized and held as hostages. The strikers then dropped pieces of iron machinery and stones on the policemen, 10 of whom were in- jured. Two officers. were shot. Strike spokesmen said about half of the 7,000 laborers opposed the gitdown and several were seriously hurt attempting to leave the build- ing. automobile-manufacturing plants-- General Motors--was closed today, adding 500 to the more than 20,000 auto workers idle in the border city. In Chatham, a spokesman for the Union Gas Company announced that 34 industries in Kent County have been asked to discontinue use of natural gas until the emergency is past.. They include seven big ine dustries in Chatham, six in Wal= laceburg andd others in Dresden, bg Ridgetown and Thames- e, . A company official, asked when nomal supply of gas to industries will be resumed, said: "It all de- pends on the weather." The forecast that a fresh cold wave would push down from North ern Ontario by tonight to rout mild. er temperatures which settled over the southern part of the province during the week-end came on the heels of an announcement that the gas shortage likely will continue for at least a week. A. R. Crozier, provincial fuel con« troller, said last night that two weeks of almost continuous cold had stepped up consumption of na- tural gas and "put. a terrific pull on the gas fields." It would take near- ly a week of mild weather for them to recover and the outlook was for more cold, Most of the 4emporarily-idle workers are employees of Windsor's large atuomotive plants. The others belong to staffs of other Windsor area factories or of plants in Chat- ham, Sarnia, Simcoe and other communities in the southwestern corner of the province. An Ontario government order that gas would not be available for Windsor industrial users tomorrow or for an indefinite period there after led industrial leaders in that city to call a meeting today. Mayor Arthur Reaume plans to discuss the situation with gas company officials, The main concern of the meeting will be to find means of preventing the gas scarcity from ever arising | again, A suggestion already heard | is that a pipeline be built from Al- berta to make Ontario independent of United States supplies--for a ma- jor factor in the present scarcity is the inability, due to U.S. export barriers, of the communities to im- port sufficient gas from fields in | Texas. - Big Increase in os Customs Collections *, Collections of customs for the Port of Oshawa in January showed a marked increase over January & year ago according to figures re. leased this morning. Total collections for the month amounted to $2,467,110.06 as come pared with $908,636.87 for the cor- responding month of 1947. Lasé month's total was made up as fol. lows: Customs Imports, $231,473.53; Excise Taxes, $2,234,854.93; Excise Duties, $445.50; sundry collections, $336.10. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS GERMANS PLAN MASS STRIKE Frankfurt, Feb, 2 (AP)--Nearly 3,000,000 German workers will strike at midnight tonight in the biggest mass demonstration Jet against shrinking food rations. Other strikes were tl reatened. Labor leaders reported increasing Communist efforts to foment mass unrest throughout the food-short British and American zones, LIBEL TRIAL APRIL 5 Edmonton, Feb. 2 (CP) today allowed three Ontari --Mr. Justice S. J. Shepherd o residents to reserve their pleas on charges of conspiring to publish defamatory, libel against Alberta child welfare administration of ficials, anu adjourned the trial until April 5. Those charged are John Kent Cooke, Harold Dingman and Dr. Charlotte Whitton. + ASK NEWFOUNDLAND VOTE ON UNION St. John's Nfld., Feb. 2 andum signed by the mino (CP)--A postscript memor= rity in the: national conven- tion who supported confederation with Canada has been forwarded to the Commonwealth Office in London urg- ing that the question of the union with Canada be su mitted to the Newfoundland people, it was learned here today. U. S. REJECTS PROTESTS : Washington, Feb. 2 (AP)--The United States re- jected outright today Russ of Italian warships to Italia ia's protest against the visit n ports. A State Department note said that the Italian government granted advance permission for each such visit. It said that the calls were "in strict accord with the comity of nations." o - a a RB BB ys FF