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DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle : WHITBY OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1948 SIXTEEN PAGES T0 FREEZE PAY [Attlee Says U.K. Must Cut Profits THE OSHAWA VOL. 7--No. 29 Price 4 Cents dh BRITONS ASKED " Higher City Tax Rate For 1948 Forecast | | Separate School Board 00D SIGNALS Tentative Approval To Budget Boosts Of Nearly $97,000 Higher tax rate for the city in 1948 was forecast last n'~ht when City Council gave mental estimates which exceeded by approximately $97,000 | tentative approval to depart- the total provided under these heads in last year's budget. Well on to one-half of this difference was accounted for by higher payroll resulting from ®-- salary boosts and increased staff. | This applied particularly in the case of Fire and Police Department estimates which were $30,000 and $12,000 above the 1947 figures. | Budgets submitted by the Board of Education and the various civic | boards were approved for the most | part as presented. None of the fig- | ures will be final, however, until | the complete city budget is decided upon. Various other items includ. | ing grants are yet to be considered | and it is expected that the rate will be set at a meeting called for next Tuesday night. i Amounis tentatively Approved last night showed approximate in- pon: To gon 1947 of $4,000 in the case of the Board of Education, $2,745 for the Board of Health and $10,000 for the Public Welfare Board. The Public Library has not asked for an increase this year. Higher food allowances were the main factor in the Welfare Board increase with amounts also included for T.B. after-care and shelter for aged persons unable to gain admittance to the County Home. . . Among the City Council depart- ments, the major increase was in the Works Department budget, which estimated expenditures at $158,860 as against a 1947 budget of $130,233 and expenditures dur- ing the year of $147,360. 3 The proposed budget as submit- ted last night by Ald. Michael Starr, chairman, provided $35,070 for garbage collection and disposal, as compared with an expenditure of $33,589 under this head last year. Street cleaning remained approxi- mately the same at $14,000 as did sewer cleaning and maintenance, at $11,100, and city engineer's office expense, at $2,230. Road maintenance estimates, however, amounting to $46,950 were up $4,085 over last year's expenditure and the allowance for sidewalk and boulevard mainten- ance was up from $12,156 spent last year to $17,100. It was point- ed out, however, that expenditures under the latter head last year had been approximately $7,000 less than the amount budgeted because it had been impossible to carry out the sidewalk construction contem- plated. ; An amount of $23,000 was pro- vided for snow removal and street sanding as compared with $25,177 BUDGET BOOSTS (Continued on Page 2) Red Cross Speaker ALAN AMBROSE President of the Ontario Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society, who will be the speaker at the an- nual meeting of the Oshawa Branch to be held at Adelaide House next Monday nigh! 600 At Ford Back On Jobs Windsor,-- Ont,, Feb. 4--(CP) --Despite bleak prospects in the un. precedented gas shortage, with cold weather persisting in Western On- tario ind colder weather on the way, Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, recalled 600 of it's 6,200 idle employees to work today. This, the brightest spot in a pic. ture of almost unrelieved industrial crisis--with 25,000 workers laid off throughout Western Ontario and little hope that many of them will return to their jobs in the next sev- eral days-- was made possible by a change.over from gas to steam ovens for certain painting oper- ations in the plant. Ford officials emphasized that the conversion to steam was a tem. parary makeshift, permitting the reopening of the truck production line for thei present, but there was no telling how long the line would continue to operate with lack of gas effecting many contributory plants and operations. Former Mayor, A.G. Davis Opens Business In Trenton After nearly 14 years in Osh- awa, during which he took a leading part in community affairs and serv- ed one year as mayor of the city, A. Gordon Davis has transferred his business headquarters to Tren- ton where he and his brother Claire will be General Motors rep- resentatives for Buick and Pontiac. Mr. Davis came to Oshawa from Toronto in 1934 and since that time has been a valued member of the community. After three years on the city council, he was elected mayor of the city in 1944 and after one year's retirement returned to the council in 1946 and 1947. He also sat on various boards including the Town Planning Commission and the Public Utilities Commis- sion. Mr. Davis has also taken an active part in church activities, being chairman of the Board of Deacons of First Baptist Church for a number of years and also Sunday School superintendent. He is a past director of the Kiwanis Club and has taken a keen interest in the Oshawa Boy Scouts' Associ- ation, the Chamber of Commerce and the Christian Business Men's Committee. On coming to Oshawa, Mr, Davis operated a Sunoco sérvice station .on King Street West for some eight years and following a fire, moved to the station at Simcoe and Bagot Streets. For the past four years he has operated a Goodyear sales and service depot at 67 King Street East. Mrs. Davis, the former Veronica A. GORDON DAVIS Ward, of Toronto, has also been prominent in women's activities ih Oshawa and her assistance in many fields will be missed when the family eventually take up residence in Trenton. Mr. and Mrs. Davis have three children, Ruth, June and Paul. Claire Davis, who will be in business with his brother, has been associated with General Motors "| for many years in Qshawa and To- ronto. INDIA MOVES T0 ROUND UP HINDU MOBS By G. MILTON KELLY New Delhi, Feb. 4--(AP)--A high police official said today an inten- sive roundup is under way through- out India of prominent members of the militant Hindu organiZation RSSS. The R.S.8.8--Rashtriya SBwayam Sewak Sangh--has along with the equally militant Maha Sabha Party, been the target of irate mobs since the assassination last Friday of Mohandas K. Gandhi. The accused slayer is described a a memsber of Maha Sabha. The official said the defendants were being charged with belonging to an unlawful organization. Rum- ors swept the capi that the RS.88. had been outlawed by gov- ernment decree. Yesterday the government issued a decree banning private armies and organizations that preach violence and communal hatred. Devadas Gandhi said today that plans had been completed to con- sign the bones and ashes of" his father to the sacred Hindu, rivers of India. = The bones of the spiritual leader will be committed on Feb. 12 at the confluence of the Ganges, Jumna and Saraswati rivers at Allahabad, Gandhi's son said. His ashes will be scattered at a later date in the holy rivers of all Indian provinices as a symbol of universal love. Devadas, who lighted his father's funeral pyre last Saturday, said he and other relatives and friends would-aecompany the' funeral urn to Allahabad, 350 miles southwest of here, in a special train leaving Del- hi Feb. 11, Upon arival at Allahabad, the funeral procession, on foot, will ac- company the urn directly to the confluence of the rivers, One of the peacemaker's sons will wade into the sacred waters to set the bones adrift as he immerses himself. The ceremony, according to Hindu belief, washes away the _ INDIA MOVES (Continued on Page 2) Honors Lengthy Service W. R. HEFFER W. R. Heffer and AC. Love, whose combined service on the Osh- awa Separate School Board ory more than 45 years, were hon last night at a dinner attended by Board members and their wives at the Brooklin House, Brooklin. Mr. Heffer, chairman for the past two years, who has retired after 21 years on the Board was presented with a "lazy boy" chair by a former chairman, Thomas Driscolls Mr, Driscoll paid tribute to Mr, Heffer's Sontribuiion Bo the Board reply the la expressed. a B- tion for the 'co-operation "received from other term of office. Beginning his 26th year as secre- tary-treasurer of the - Board, Mr, Love was presented with a desk and chair by another former chairman, J. L. Riordan. In his reply, Mr, Love reviewed developments in Sep- arte School education in the city during the past 25 years. Enrolment had increased during that time from 132 pupils in the original St. Gregory's school, with five teachers, to a present figure of 608 pupils in two schools with a to. tal of 15 teachers. members d "hig A. C. LOVE Mr. Love recalled how St. Gre- gary's 8school was enlarged in 1929 to its present 10-room capacity and in 1937 Holy Cross School was open. ed on Simcoe Street South with two rooms. The following year two more rooms were opened at Holy Cross and in"1941 a seven-room ad- dition was constructed. He voiced sincere appreciation al. so for the co-operation he had re- ceived from W. G. Bunker, business administrator of the Oshawa Board of Education, and T. R. McEwen, public' school inspector, during his period of office as secretary.trea- surer, Recalling the Board when he 25 years ago, Mr. Love said six were now deceased--J, S. Burke, J. 8S. O'Brien, D.. D. Mullen, Fred Leseve, J.-J. Callaghan and J. A. Stainton. Other members at that time were William Hamley, R. G. Smythe and J.'J. Normoyle. : Present chairman of the Board, Leo Karnath, was chairman of the evening, and Mrs. Harold Brain led in a sing-song. Mrs, Heffer and Mrs. Love were also presented with corsages during the evening. sonnel of the e a member Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn Flees Camp Munich, Feb. 4--(AP)--The Bav- arian Denazification Ministry an- nounced Fritz Kuhn, former leader of the German-American Bund in the United States, escaped from a German internment camp at Dach- au this morning. Kuhn was jailed in July for pos- sible trial as a Nazi offender. He had been held since without trial. Kuhn, who had become a United States ciitzen by naturalization, was deprived of his citizenship in 1943 and deported to Germany in 1945. First reports from the German- operated internee camp said Kuhn escaped from guards as he was be- ing taken from his tell. Uncon- firmed reports said he was to be transferred to Nuernberg as a pos- sible witness in American war crimes trials there. Kuhn had lingered in Dachau since last July 24 when denazifica- tion authorities seized him for pos- sible trial under the German de- nazification law. At that time Munich Public Pro- secutor Julius Herss said the 50- year-old ex-btnd leader would be charged "on accounts of his extra. ordinary support of the Nazi regime by propagandist means." Five Flee Flames When Home Burns In St. Catharines St. Catharines, Feb, 4--(CP)--One was taken to hospital but five other persons escaped injury here this morning when fire destroyed a four- room frame dwelling, 4 Petere Trefonavitchis being treat- ed for burns ond his hands, arm and head, suffered when he re. entered the house to try to save some clothing. His condition was reported not serious. His step-son, George Charlton, 17, made his escape by breaking a win- dow. Mrs. Trefonavitch, in ill health, pushed her grandson, John Watson outside. James Challe, 15, a boarder, and Bruce Charlton, 15, were the others who escaped. in zero weather, . An electric heater used to keep water pipes from freezing was said to have caused the fire, Price Probe Supported In Commons By 105-90 Over Opposition Front By GEORGE KITCHEN Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Feb. 4--(CP)--The ris- ing cost of living, slated for study by a special parliafnentary com- mittee, remained in 'the discussion stage in yesterday's. Commons pro- ceedings. In a lengthening debate which brought two cabinet ministers to their feet, opposition parties de- layed action on formation of the proposed committee by hammering away at what they claimed was the core of the situation--the govern- ment's responsibility for the soar- ing living costs. The discussion, on Prime Minis- ter Mackenzie King's motion to appoint the special 16-man com- mittee to delve ' into the back- ground of the price rise, was broken once when the house voted 105 to 90 to uphold Speaker Gaspard Fauteux in a ruling that two op- position amendments, aimed at broadening the committee's inquiry powers, were contrary to parlia- mentary procedure. Specifically, he ruled out of or- der a Progressive Conservative amendment, moved Monday by party leader John Bracken, and a C.C.F. sub-amendment, intro-. duced yesterday by Stanley Knowl- es (COF-Winnipeg North Centre), on the grounds it was against precedent to refer policy-making questions to a committee being formed solely as a fact-finding body. Government members upheld the ruling against a solid front of op- position supporters. Study Amendments However, the speaker's ruling does not prevent both the Pro- gressive Conservative and C.C.F. parties from proposing new amend- ments today. And one Progressive Conservative spokesman said price experts among his party already were drafting a new amendment. Agriculture Minister Gardiner and Labor Minister Mitchell step- ped into the debate to defend the government's policies against a continuing barrage of opposition charges that the main purpose of the committee would be to "white- wash" the facts gnd hide the true situation from the people. Mr, Gardiner held that the gov- PRICE PROBE (Continued on Page 2) Mother Holds Baby, Leaps As Flames Sear Window Toronto, Feb, 4--(CP)--Clutch- ing her infant daughter, Laura, in her arms, Mrs. Augusta Caty, about 35, leaped from flame-swept | second-storey window in a down- town rooming house yesterday' as fire endangered the building. The woman, who escaped with a broken wrist and pelvis was able to break the baby's fall. Hospital attendants said the little girl's only injury was a slight "singe" on the face. : Another child, four-year-old Jo- Ann Cottrill was rescued by Joe Ryan and George Malcko, em- ployees of a nearby garage, who saw Mrs. Caty's leap and dashed inside the smoke-filled house to find the older girl. Firemen said the fire started in a second-storey room and spread to three adjoining houses but it was brought under control before doing serious damage. Mr. Ryan said it was so smoky inside the house that "I couldn't see a hand in front of my face." "Then I heard the baby wail on the other side of the room. I trip- ped over something on the floor which I thought was a 'baby. I grabbed it and made my- way to the window," STIR HOPE IN PLANE HUNT Halifax, Feb. 4 (CP)--Crude wire- less signals intercepted in Ohio and Newfoundland may have been sent by survivors of the British trans- port plane which disappeared with 20 aboard off Bermuda Friday, Navy and R.C.A.F, sources said here today. The latest' message was received at the United States Air Force base at Argentia, Nfld., today. It was in- terpreted as the words "Star Tiger" --call sign of the missing Tudor IV. Similar messages 'previously had been heard at the Ohio towns of Youngstown and Warren during the last two days. Search and rescue officers of the R.C.AF. said the flashes "seemed to be the ingenious work of someone with no knowledge of wireless, at- tempting to iraprovise a system." One "dot" was taken to indicate the letter "A" two dots the letter B and so on through the alphabet. Due to the erratic nature of the messages, no bearing had been ob~ tained to ascertain the position 'of their origin, All information was forwarded to the headquarters in Hamilton, Ber- muda, of a huge dir and sea search for the missing aircraft, New York, Feb. 4 (AP)--Pilots of two Pan American World Airways planes early today reported sight- ing a green flare and a white life raft in two separate Atlantic ocean areas between 655 and 750 miles south of Bermuda, a spokesman for the air line said. No signs of life were seen, Name Leaders For Children Fund Drive Headed by Mel Jolley, president of the Junior Chamber of Com- merce, a committee was named yes- terday to organize Oshawa's part in the nation-wide Canadian Aid to Children: Fund drive which opens next Monday. W. C. Cain, representative of the Fund, outlined plans for the cam- paign and explained its purpose at an organization meeting here yes. terday. Mr. Cain said the national campaign would run from February 9 to 20 but he made it clear that each community had the privilege of handling its own canvass for any length of time during that period. Mayor F. N. McCallum will be honorary chairman of the Oshawa committee, with Leonard Coulson secretary and Robert Argo treasurer. Others named to the committee were Mrs, B. C. Colpus, Albert Love, Ross Rowlands, J. L. Beaton, T. L. Wilson, Mrs. J. H. Valleau, Hany Rigg, Rev. H. F. Davidson and Miss Vera Moyse. With the United States target set at $180,000,000, Canada's objective is $10,000,000, 50-per.cent of it applic- able to the province of Ontario: Entirely aside from the Commun- ity Chest Fund, organized a few years ago to embrace all local or- ganizations, the Canadian Aid to Children Fund receipts will also be spent in Canada. "The money will never leave this country," said Mr. Cain, He explained that materials and scholastic necessities could be purchased in Canada and shipped to the needy schools in Europe. Individual contributions may be made through banks and it is hoped | that a - large.scale effort will be launched through public and sec- ondary schools. There is, in fact, a chart representing a schoolroom with 32 vacant seats on which one sticker will be placed on the re- ceipt of one dollar. Each student is not expected to contribute one dol- lar since this would place too much pressure on families where there were a number of school.age child- ren. The school in the devastated area receiving the materials bought by contributions, will send an of- ficial receipt to the donating school here at home. A general committee meeting was called for 5 p.m. Friday, February 6, in the office of Leonard Couls son, manager of the Unemployment Insurance Commission, 22 Albert Street. THE WEATHER Snow today, ending Thursday morning. Cloudy Thursday clearing In the afternoon. Lillie change in temperature. Winds east 15. Low tonight and high Thursday 10 and 17. Summary for Thursday: Cloudy. ' To Halt Inflation London, Feb. 4 (AP)--The Labor government put Brit« ons on an honor system today to sacrifice possible increased earnings. Wage earners, landlords and employers alike were asked in a white paper to give up possible advances in wages and profits for the sake of combatting inflation and &- | rebuilding the British economy. Prime Minister Attlee's cabinet in effect called for a freeze on wages and profits, except in excep- tional cases, in order to promote the export market and thus draw in additional dollars the United Kingdom needs, The government regarded the problem so seriously that Attlee went before the Commons to pre- sent the case after consulting trade unions, the backbone of his party, and Britain's organized employers. The white paper amounted to a reaffirmation of the government's stand a year ago for voluntary curbs 'on increased earnings. The government promised that, except for taxation, it would not inter- fere with individual incomes. The program remained on a vol- untary basis. The government, how. ever, said the only alternative to acceptance would be "a serious prolonged setback in our economic reconstruction, accompanied by a persistent low standard of living." And the government held one powerful weapon to make its wish- es stick. It still retains wartinve power to fix prices. It said there should be no presumption that an increase in prices will be granted if increased costs of a product reflect increased wages and profits. The white paper said: "It is essential that there should be no further general increase in the level of personal incomes with- out at least a corresponding in- crease in the volume of production. "Unless we are prepared to check such a tendency, we shall find our- selves unable to fill our export task, owing to the rise in costs, which Hi be reflected on the home mar- et." In recognition of the shaky Bri. tish economic position, informants said Attlee planned to take the A 4 Heads Committee a MELVIN A. JOLLEY President of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, who has accepted the post of chairman of the local com~ mittee for the Canadian Aid to Children Fund which will conduct a campaign for money from Februe ary 9 to 20, floor in the House of Commons and outline the need for self-sacrifice by British workers and employers. The informants said a decision to try to peg incomes temporarily was reached at a cabinet meeting yesterday. They said the Prime Minister would present the proe FREEZE PAY (Continued on Page 2 Four Members Of Family Die In Quebec House Fire Fifth Is Sent St. Michel, Que., Feb. 4--(CP) -- Trapped in bed when fire engulfed their home late last night, four members of one family were burned to death while a fifth was taken hospital in Levis, 12 miles to the st of this Bellechasse County pa- rish, Dead are Treffle Michaud, 83, his 78-year-old wife; their daughter. in-law, Mrs. Adolphe Michaud, 52, and her 18-year-old son, Jean-Yves. Jeannine Michaud, 17-year-old daughter of Adolphe Michaud, suf- fered burns to face and hands but Hotel Dieu hospital in Levis today reported her condition not serious. Only member of the family to es- cape the blazing inferno which des- troyed hte home was Adolphe Mich- aud. Charred remains of the four To Hospital dead were removed from the burne ed-out building after local firemen, battling in 20 below zero weather, had brought the fire under control, The fire, believed to have origie nated in the chimney, spread quick. ly through the two-storey frame dwelling, trapping members of 'he family asleep on the second floor. Neighbors, turned in the call for tne tiny parish's volunteer firefighting brigade. The aged Mr. Michaud discovered the flames shortly after 11 p.m. and attempted to rouse the family. He was said to have succumbed to heat and smoke in his efforts to save his wue, Ice.sheathed firemen, assisted bgp villagers, were hampered by the bite ing cold. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS WOMAN FATALLY BURNED Peterborough, Feb. 4 (CP)--Mrs. Isabella Mitchell died in hospital early today of burns suffered a short time earlier when her clothing caught fire from an elec- tric burner in the kitchen of her home. Her brother-in- low, George Mitchell, smothered the flames with a rug and rushed Mrs. Michell to hospital. IRAQ REJECTS ALLIANCE Baghdad, Feb. 4 (AP)--An official said tonight the Council of Ministers had rejected the Anglo-lraqi alli- ance. Riots protesting the lives and vaused the accord have cost scores of all of Premier Salih Bey Jabur's cabinet. He has left Baghdad. (Salih Jabur's wife said in London he had fled to Trans-Jordan.) An official note of rejection nas been handed to the Charge D'Affaires of the British Embassy. TOT DIES OF POISON Pembroke, Feb. 4 (CP) -- Ninteen-month-old Robert Waito died in hospital today from the effects of drinking approximately one ounce of oil of wintergreen. The baby was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph aito. The bottle had been left on a cabinet near the child's crib. TO CONFER ON LORDS ISSUE London, Feb. 4 (Reuters)--The government today broke the deadlock in its dispute with the House of Lords Freeing raised in its bill to curtail ; to an inter-part conference on the issues the Lords' powers to delay _ legislation. The decision was described by the opposition as "a notable victory for gommonsense."