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Rew <EBFAFINANABNG I ERED Qa BUR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1948 THE DAIIY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE Toronto sean ava df & ad Montreal Bandits Get $30,000 Loot In Daring Robbery Montreal Feb. 18 (CP)--Detectives combed Montreal's underworld today for a tip that would lead to the arrest of three masked gunmen who netted nearly $30,000 yesterday in the largest and most daring hold up here in several years. The bandits--with drawn guns-- Singing Tonight ERIC TR} _WELL Nationally-known baritone who will sing tonight at 8.30 pam. in the Masonic Temple auditorium. He will be assisted on the program by Brenda Kirkwood, youthful soprano who possesses a voice of lyric beau- ty. Admission at the door. entered a jewelry manufacturing firm located in the second floor of the Southam Building on downtown Bleury Street, bound and gagged the owner and three employees ana made off with cash, gold, rings and diamonds. The robbery occurred while Moses Lasker, owner of the jewelry manu- facturing and diamond importing firm, was, working on designs with three employees. The door suddenly burst open and the bandits, their faces masked and each carryig a gun, came in. While one stood guard, watching the corridor, his two partners tied and gagged the victims. The safe was open at the time and the bandits took their time in selecting the valuables. They scoop- ed up $1,500 in cash, $1,200 in pow- dered gold and about $27,000 worth of rings, cut and uncut diamonds. After ransacking the premises, the gunmen locked the door leaving Lasker and the employees lying on the floor. Lasker succeeded in freeing him. helf and called police. He told detectives the bandits rummaged through the office for more than half an hour, carefully selecting the jewelry they wanted. He said one of the bandits was six feet tall and wore an army great- coat while the other; a little shorter, had a three.quarter length parka coat with a fur collar, Montreal Cabbie To Hang For Murder Of Divorcee Montreal, Feb. 17--(CP)--Sylvio Albert, 32.year-old taxi driver, was sentenced yesterday to be hangea May 21 for the handkerchief mur. der of his one-time pen.pal, Mrs. Tilly Deprato, last November. Sentence wgs pronounced by Mr. ' Justice Wilfrid Lazure after a 35- minute deliberation by a Court ot King's Bench jury and followed tes- timony by Albert in which he rela. ted in detail how he had met the divorcee, "thle only woman I eve. loved." Showing signs of fear and speak- ing in low tones, Albert told how he corresponded with Mrs, Deprato before they met. She went to Otta- wa in July, 1947, and they lived to- gether there until September when he returned to Montreal. He follow. ed her, on her invitation, in Octo- ber. ! They met daily, he said, and when he lost his job on Nov. 24 he went to meet her at her place of work. He saw her enter a gray car and followed her for a while in a taxi, then went to his room in a Chambord Street rooming house. She arrived soon afterwards anu tried to talk him out of his pealousy. He began drinking whiskey and several times told her to leave, bui she refused to go, he told the court. Fhen he woke next morning he noticed that her face was discolored. He had some drinks at a nearby tavern, and returned to the room where he remembered waking up o. the floor. Later he took another room but could not remember all that hap- pened there, except that he woke up with slashed wrists and that h summoned his landlady, who in turn called police for help. Earlier during yesterday's hear. ing, Dr. Rosario Fontaine, medico legal expert, said that the woman had died from suffocation. A man's handkerchief, blood-stained and smeared witeh lipstick, was produc. ed by the crown as evidence. - Dollar Saving (Continued from Page 1) hibitions which ban the importa- tion of fresh fruits and vegetables. To Select Officers In the opening stages, Defence Minister Claxton reviewed ar- TRnpements for officer training and said it was hoped that as many as 20 per cent of the officers in the Canadian armed services would be selected from the ranks. External Affairs Minister St. Laurent indicated Canada will ac- cept her full share of responsibility in any action taken by the United Nations Security Council to im- plement the partition of Palestine or avert further bloodshed there. Labor Minister Mitchell report- ed that 2,642 persons were moved out of Nova Scotia during 1947 under his department's policy of transferring unemployed to areas where work is available, Throughout the currency debate, Mr. Abbott and Trade Minister Howe, who will share the adminis- tration of the act with him, were plied. with questions by opposition members. Mr. Howe said much of the "positive" side of the conservation program was aimed at making Canada independent of the U. S. in the manufacture of parts. He also placed before the house figures which he said showed the Canadian motor car industry was not a drain on U.S. dollars. They showed that car exports in the 12 mionths ended last Oct, 31 totalled $79,618,398 against imports of Am- erican parts and other materials totalling $74,059,986. The formula governing imports of electrical parts already is under intensive pk. and quotas for that industry will be announced soon, possibly before March 1 but cer- tainly before April 1. Items on Quota Mr. Abbott promised. to consider requests to permit the entry of kerosene refrigerators used by farmers in areas where there is no electricity. Some 15 categories of items already have been shifted from the prohibited to the quota ist. He also said he would look into the cases of persons suffering from high blood pressure and dia- betes who claimed that fresh fruits and vegetables, now banned, were essential to their diets. Revenue Minister McCann enter- ed the debate briefly to report that his' department had hired 250 extra employees, 100 of them women, to help enforce the regulations across the country. Donald Fleming (PC-Toronto Eglinton) charged that the gov- ernment had broken a "solemn undertaking" last year by Justice Minister Ilsley that the govern- ment would not use the Foreign Exchange Control Board action for purposes other than to restrict the movement of certain types of capital, Mr. Abbott said there had been no solemn undertaking, merely a statement. > McGill Gets $100,000 For Scholarship Montreal, Feb, 18--(CP)--A $100, 000 endowment to create a scholar- ship in honor of one of McGill Uni. versity's former professors has been made through the will of the late Ernest Hibbert, mining engineer, who died in Toronto recently, The scholarship will be in mem. ory of Prof. Harold H. Hibbert, bro. ther of the late engineer, who serv- ed the university for many years as the E. B. Eddy Professor of Indus. trial and Cellulose Chemistry. He did much to foster research in the pulp and paper research insti. tute at McGill directed towards con. servation and a better usage of Canada's forest resources. The will, through which. the en- dowment was made, provides that the scholarship shall be for re. search to be'carried on at McGill but open to students of other uni. versities. The total value of the estate of the late Ernest Hibbert as outlined in the will is $1,122,942, Professor Hibbert died in 1945 two years after his retirement from Mec. The will set up funds of $100,- 000 each to pay life incomes to Mrs. Beulah Cole Hibbert, of Newhaven, Conn., widow of Professor Hibbert and Louise Hibbert living in Eng. land, widow of another brother, Ar. thur. Legacies of $25,000 each, plus the residue of the estate to be held in trust to pay: income, went to each of two nephews and a niece in Eng- land. A Finnish couple who worked as houseman and maid were left $5, . Sn -- Gill. . he data Toronto's surprise power blackouts of Monday and the future of a power conservation program which must last until the spring thaw were dis- ference at the Toronto Hydro-Electric System yesterday. Represented were the Board of Trade, Canadian Manufacturers' Associa- tion, Building Owners' and Managers' Association, the department stores, Toronto Executives Ponder Power Conservation Downtown Business Men's Association, bakers, packers, cold storage oper- ators, hospital superintendents and private citizens. Above are: G. C. Bernard of the CMA; J. T. Stirrett, CMA; F. D. Bolchard, Board of Trade; Loftus H. Reid, Toronto Hydro; Acting Mayor H. E. McCallum; E, M. Ashworth, Toronto Hydro. "he, Monopolies Dominant --~Dauphin MP Urging support of the }Co-opera- tive Commonwealth Federation at the next election, Fred S, Zaplitny, C.C.F. Member of Parliament for Dauphin, Manitoba, told a meeting which filled the Union Hall here last night that the same forces are operating today as in the early thir. ties when the Price Spreads Com- mission was set up--"a system of huge monopolies which at one end exploit the producer by giving him Mas little as possible for his produce and at the other end exploit the consumer by charging as much as they can." Mr. Zaplitny spoke in place of Thomas Bentley, MP. of Swift Current, at a meeting sponsored by the recently organized Trade Union C.CF. Club. Also present at the meeting was John Probe, MP. of Regina. Referring to the price probe com. mittee set up recently by the feder- -1 government, Mr. Zaplitny dis- counted its worth because fo being without power to make recommen. dations, Action Unlikely Declaring that the redl issue was whether or not the present govern. ment was likely to do anything about rising prices, the member for Dauphin outlined the policies of the various parties and expressed the view that only the C.C.F. was pre- pared to restore price controls and subsidies. The only point -of dis- 2- eement between the Liberal and rrogressive Conservative parties, he said, was the speed with which con- trols should be wiped away. He went on to say that the pres. ent government, elected in 1945 to support "free enterprise," must now either admit that the system it sold to the people in 1945 does not exist and restore controls, or "dis- regard the people" and remove con. trols. ; . "If we as citizens want to get cer- tai things done, we have to do more than have resolutions, protests and mass meetings," he declared. "The only way you can get the kind of government you want is to join the C.CF. and through your influ. ence in the associations form a party and send it to Parliament. Then if they don't do what you want you will have a right to criti- cize it No Free Enterprise The speaker maintained that there is no system of free enter. pfise in this country and there nev. er was one. It was only a myth, he claimed, behind which monopolists could hide. "Under the present system, when controls are swept away prices are controlled not by the people's re- presentatives in Parliament blut by a small group of business interests," he charged. Reviewing the hitory of the C.C.F. party, Mr. Zaplitny said it was bas. ed on the belief that rpankind is essentially good and this in the long run will enable him to co-op- erate with his neighbors. , The party, he said, stood for a co-operative way of living, it was organized for the purpose of serv. ing all the people and it was pledg- ed in every way possible to the de- mocratic system. of government. No other political party could say that its members decided policy in the same "democratic way" as that em- ployed in the CCF. John Probe, who spoke briefly at the conclusion of the meeting, de. clared that until working men and women translated their thoughts into political action the status quo would remain. Commending the Canadian Con. gres of Labor for reaffirming its support of the C.C.F., he expressed amazement that "what seemed ob. vious to union leaders was not ob- vious to those whose sweat, blood 23d tears made large profits a re. ity." Every day more than 3,000,000 telephone calls pass through the switchboards of the Faraday build- ing in the heart of the. City of London. : Britain Can Triple Export Of Quota Cars To Canada Ottawa, Feb. 18--(CP)--Britain can more than triple her current exports of automobiles to Canada under a new quota arrangement, it was shown today in a document tabled in the Commons by Finance Minister Abbott. The quota provides that Britain --and each of the other non-dollar countries--may ship to the Domin- ion this year up to $7,500,000 worth of cars. Last year, imports from the United Kingdom in this line were only $2,000,000. The new quota, effective March 1, replaces the outright ban on the importation of all automobiles into Canada imposed last Nov. 17 as part of the dollar-conservation program. Announcement of the easing of the ban was made last week by Mr. Abbott, but the British alloca tion was not made public until to- day. However, Trade Minister Howe had indicated earlier it would be considerably above last year's figure. Mr. Abbott announced the Brit- ish figure in tabling a memoran- dum from Trade Minister Howe setting out details of new quotas allocated both dollar and non-dol- lar countries. As announced last week by the Finance Minister, the quotas from the dollar countries are heavily slashed from the amounts imported before the embargo. Canadian purchases of United States-made cars will be cut to about 16 per cent of the 1947 total. Import of automotive parts also is hacked down considerably. Ontario Spotlite ° UXBRIDGE HEALTHY Uxbridge, Feb. 18--(CP)3-Ux- bridge is proud of its health rec- ord and of the fact people over 65 seem to thrive on its brisk weath- er. It counts 301 citizens over 65 in a population' of 1,515. LE SIGN OF SPRING St. Thomas, Feb. 18--(CP) -- Spring is on the way when the city works department here begins clearing the streets of ice. Nearly 1,500,000 pounds of ice were removed yesterday by road-scrapers and bull. dozers. ; LO + 'ROYAL' STREETS Fort Erie, Feb. 18--(CP)--Two streets here are being named after the royal newlyweds, Prince Philip and Princess Elizabeth, LR CHEST OVER-SPENDS Toronto, Feb. 18--(CP)-- The Community Chest of Greater Toronto over-spent its 1947 budget by $18,563.57, lowering its surplus from $28,- 939 to $10,376, W. H. Dewar, executive-director told the fourth annua] meeting here last night. During the 1948 campaign the fund collected $1,968,000. dd STEAL RAIL JIGGER Barrie, Feb. 18--(CP)--Here is a new way of getting a free ride home when stranded. Someone broke into a railway storage shed at nearby Elmvale, moved a gaso- line jigger onto the main line and rode home to Penetanguishene. The jigger was found on the outskirts Church Has Lost Faithful Servant The Times-Gazette has received the following tribute to the late Rev. T. H. P. Anderson from E. W. Dearborn, a member of the session of Centre Street United Church: As a member of the Session, I have hhd the pleasure of being as- sociated with the Rev. Mr. Ander. son a great deal. In his passing the church has lost a faithful servant. He never hesitated to lend a helping hand, or sound a cheery word to beth young and old, It would be a much better world to live in if there were more like him. In the last six years, that we in Centre Street United Church have had the privilege of listening to his sermons and enjoying his fellow. ship. It has been an inspiration to us. \ We extend our sincere sympathy to Mrs. Anderson and the family. What to Do To-Night a Association of Canada. vegetable wholesalers of Toronto sat throughout yesterday's session while an official of the retail or- ganization charged that "excessive" margins of profit were being made by wholesalers in these commodi- es. S George Christensen, national dir- ector of the food division of the retailers' Association, produced sev- eral retail invoices, indicating that wholesalers were making as high as 37 per cent profit on oranges. The prices board only allowed 'a 15 per cent profit during the war, added the witness. In addition to its present initiat- ed inquiries, the 16-member com- mittee, seeking the causes of the present increase increase in prices, may investigate increased commer- cial rentals being asked for the period after controls on this form of rent end next month. Donald Fleming (PC-Toronto Eglinton) asked if the scope of the committee's inquiries included com- mercial rentals, The matter has been referred to the steering com- mittee. He said he had many complaints from people in Toronto that an in- crease of 350 to 400 per cent was in prospect in that city in these cases. Earlier, Mr. Christensen hesitated to make public the names of re- tailers, noted on the invoices which he used to back up his charges against the wholesalers. He indicated that he felt the wholesalers might penalize the re- tailers. However, the witness finally sub- mitted the invoices to the commit- tee, without the names of either -| public. holesalers Criticized For Excessive Mark-Ups May Call Several To Answer Charge Of Hiking Profits By Ross Munro Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Feb. 18 (CP)--The inquiry into high prices of fruits and vegetables was continued today in the commons price committee with the prospect that wholesalers may be called soon to answer charges aimed by the Retail Merchants ' Representatives of the fruit and ®-- New Skating Star Drawing Much Attention American Olympic officials, fresh from their defeat at the Olympic games in the sport of figure skating, are today seeing a bright light in their future plans. Pretty, nineteen-year-old Andra McLaughlin who recently held sell- out crowds at Madison Square Garden breathless through a new and different performance seems to be their ace-in-the-hole. ig McLaughlin, who did not even attempt to gain a place on the Olympic team is now being mooted as a sure-fire bet to cap- ture the American Nationa] Ladies Championship when it is held in March. Andra McLaughlin is now a member of the New York Skating Club and her grace and skill has drawn more comment than any skater for many years. She is studying under the best available teachers and they are expecting big things from her. Lovely to look at from any angle, Miss McLaugh= lin also confounds the experts by doing a comedy relief number along with her free skating dis- play. Her absolute lack of worry about her skating is believed to be a big factor in her ease on the ice. Watch the name of Andra Mec- retailer or wholesaler being made: Laughlin become famous in the | figure skating world. Recreation Hi 100 Gibbs Street Daily 2 to4 p.m Tem nercran (except Mon 8 y) ~--Woodshop, shellcraft. --~Collegiate-age gym and woodwork, 4 to 6 p.m.--Crafts and hobbies for boys and girls. --Boys boxing. 7 to 9 p.m.--Adult activities only ~--Leathercraft. shelleraft, ters --Adult Gym Classes, Weekly and Special Features WED! DAY--TUCA. V Drama meeting, radio group. Operetta organization meeting. Neighborhood Associations Council. THURSDAY Special Men's Gym Class. FRIDAY--Family Night at C.R.A. Fidelity Bible Class party. Private Teen-age party, Club lounge Women's Ni ework. SATURDAY--Chlldren's activities in the morning. Children's Art Class. TUESDAY = Organization meeting, Osh- a Fish and Game Protective As- sociation, Auditorium. WEDNESDAY--Recital by Harry Ada- skin, violinist, NOTE -- Outdoor rinks closed. Rink managers off duty. MINISTERS GET BONUS Toronto, Feb. 18--(CP) -- More than 600 United Church ministers will receive a cost-of-living bonus of $100 for 1947, Dr. George Dorey, general secretary of the church's home mission board, announced yes. terday. He said the bonus will affect only those ministers who work un. der the board and are carried on an aid.receiving list. eric TREDWELL Baritone Adults $1.00 of Penetanguishene. BASSETT'S REMIND YOU... masoNic TONIGHT tempLe You may contribute to the Canadian Appeal for Children by attending this high-class song recital featuring DOORS OPEN 8 P.M. . Government Tax Included brenda Soprano Students 60c much nourishment : ® - OVENS : y be 1NZ~DeAIS for solittle money! During Lent there is hardly - another food so fitting, so nourishing, so quick to fix -- and easy on the purse--as Heinz Oven-Baked Beans -- in tomato sauce. 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