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' PAGE TWO THE DAIL®. TIMES-GAZETTE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1948 Births MOORE--Mr, and Mrs. E. Moore aré happy to announce the birth of a baby boy, Ralph James, in the Osh- awa General Hospital, on February 25, 1948, A brother for Leslie, CONLIN--Mr. and Mrs. Harold Conlin (nee Eileen Kinlin) are happy to an- nounce the birth of their daughter, Lynn Marie, on Februaty 25th, 1948, at the Oshawa General Hospital. DART---Carol, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Dart (nee Peggy Bowers) is happy to announce the arrival of a baby sister, Wi Dale, on Tuesday, Pe 2th, 8% the General Roepe o Deaths ANSTEY--Entered into rest suddenly at the fami, : St. B., 'Whitby, for service Saturday, February 28th, at 2,30 o'clock. Interment Union Cemetery. In Memoriam BROWN--In lov memory of our dear tay, Poh ¥, OE 1008, and. Pro in Italy, ruary 29, , An y "Bill" Brown, killed in Germany, February 26, 1945. Overseas in a soldier's grave, Lie our dear boys among the braves. They never shunned their country's But gladly give their life, their all, They di helpless to defend, Two faithful soldiers' noble end. --Ever remembered by mother, sis ters, brother and sister-in-law. MICHAEL--In loving memory of a dear husband and father, Private Evans Gerow Michael, of the le and Butherland Highlanders, of milton, who was killed in action in Ger. many, February 26th, 1945. Buried in Nijmegen Cemetery, Holland is gone, but not forgotten, d, as dawns another year, In our lonely hours of thinking, 'Thoughts of him are always near, Days of sadness still come o'er us, Friends may think the wound is But they little know the sorrow, That lies within the heart concealed. faraary missed by Phyllis and son rr, Cards of Thanks 'The family of the late Mrs, Mary Edgar wish to express to their many Ifriends, relatives and neighbors, their heartfelt thanks and appreciation for acts of kindess, messages of sympathy," beautiful floral tributes and loan of cars, extended to them in their recent bereavement, in the loss of a dear mother. Especially thanking Rev, J. Rid~ gel of Port Perry for his consoling words, Manslaughter Trial Begins Gilbert J. Forget, Ajax truck driv. er went on trial before Mr. Justice A. M. DeBel and an Assize Court jury in Whitby today for motor manslaughter in connection with the death last September of William J. Marks, Minett's Point, Ontario. Forget, represented by A. 'W. S. Greer, K.C.. pleaded not guilty to the charge. The accident occurréd on No. 2 Highway east of the Rouge Hills when a gravel truck driven by the accused struck the deceased, who was standing on the north side of the road. : : Prague Reds (Continued from Page 1) government announcement as say. ing, "is to give the people of Prague a chance to express their gratitude to the police for the security they maintained through the crisis."") The chance was a step toward turning this little republic, model. led at birth after the United States, into a copy of its new idol, Soviet Russia. The Communists' next goal is to win the coming election and a ma- jority in parliament, where they now have 38 per cent of the seats by themselves and 52 per cent with their allies, the Social Demo- crats, Strategy in the meantime was to tighten their grip on the country by putting down opposi- tion, Gottwald gave the cue when, in Junie rallies, he spoke of the ozen resigning ministers as "agents of foreign reaction." Jus tice Minister Alexej Cepicka, new- ly promoted from Minister of In- ternal Trade, said, "the forces of reaction will now try to make their come-back." The election date has not been decided. When it comes, the. like- lihood seems to be that voters will be given a choice of several tickets but that candidates on those other than the Communist will have to be-~in the Communist phrase-- "Democratic Progressive" mem- bers. Meanwhile, the pattern for the other parties was to purge their ranks of men and women fallen into disfavor because of anti-Com- munist views. Many of the big mames in the three parties whose ministers re- signed to initiate the cabinet crisis He An call {| B 43, C 37-38, country Farmenrs- Market Local Grain Local selling prices for bran $47- $48 ton; shorts, $49-$50; baled hay, $20-$22 ton; straw, $18-$20 ton; pastry flour, $3.95 a bag; bread flour, $4.75 a bag. Dealers are pay- ing no set price. Wheat, $148 a bushel; oats, 85.20 cents; barley, $1.20.$1.25; buckwheat, $1.25. Local Eggs Local eggs: Grade A large 42, A medium 40, Grade B 38, Fullets 82, Grade C and cracks 25. Produce Toronto, Feb. 26--(CP)--Pro- duce prices in the spot market here today were reported as follows: Butter prints unchanged, 1st grade 69%, 2nd grade 68%, 3rd grade 67%. Churning cream unchanged, No. 1 1b. 71 fob, 75 delivered. Eggs: Receipts of top grade eggs are up slightly though lower grades are in short supply. Prices remain unchanged, A large 46-47, A medium 45-46, A pullet 41-42, shippers quoted graded eggs, cases free, A large 43%-44, A medium' 42%- 43, 'A pullet 38, B 40, C 36. Butter solids unchanged grade 67%, 2nd grade 66%. Fruit Toronto, Feb. 26--(CP) --Whole. sale fruit and vegetable prices were unchanged here today. Livestock Toronto, Feb. 26--(CP)--Early sales were too few to establish prices on the livestock market this morning, though hogs held at pre- vious levels. Held over from yester. day's close were 150 head of cattle. A few good to choice calves were $20-$23 and hogs closed previously at $28.75 for grade A, $28.35 for grade Bl. Receipts reported by the Domin. ion Marketing Service were: Cattle 20, calves, 20, hogs 100, no sheep or lambs, Hogs Toronto, Feb. 26--(CP) -- Hog prices, in markets reporting early this morning, were as follows: Brantford: unchanged, $28.60 de- livered to farmers. Hull: up 25 cents, off truck unquoted, $28.75, dressed grade A delivered. Strat. ford: Unchanged, grade A delivered to farmers, $28.55, to truckers $28.- 70. 1st LETHAL ROSES Plymouth, England--(CP)--Roses in his cottage garden were 70-year old Francis Watts' pride and joy, He died from gangrene poisoning "set up by a prick from one of his rose thorns, THRIFT FOOD STORE 66 Celina St. Phone 644 (Rear of Times-Gazette) PAY LESS! BUY BEST! "Choice Quality Meats" Pork Steaks 29 ¢ Shoulder, Ib. .. Peameal or Breakfast PUT 25¢ Hamburg Hockless, Ib. .. EGGS i: 49 Steak, Ib. ..... .35¢ T-Bone CASH AND CARRY Blade Roast, ib, ..... Steaks, Ib. Sees 45¢ Roast, b. ..... 3D Pork Shoulders GRADE A LARGE Velveeta Cheese ... Pkg. Pitted Dates ER ere .19¢ Arabs, J ews | Wage Battle In Wide Area By CARTER L. DAVIDSON Jerusalem, Feb. 26--(AP)--A fierce mortar battle between Jews and Arabs raged today near the Garden of Gethsemane outside Jer- usalem, with Arabs reported firing from behind tombstones in a Jew- ish cemetery. British police said two Arabs were killed and four wounded severely, Arabs reported cne Arab woman died and one child and seven men were hurt. The police said two houses were demolished. Police also told 'of a battle in the border area between Arab Jaffa and Jewish Tel Aviv. They said a Jew- ish mortar and grenade attack on an Arab bastion killed three Arabs and wounded four others. The Jerusalem fight was between Jews on Mount Scopus, site of Ha- dassan Hospital and the Hebrew University, and Arabs of Wadi Joz nearby. It began at5 a.m. and went on full tilt for two hours. Three hours later firing started again, The police account was that a large party attacked the hospital but were repulsed by the Jews. The Jews later counter-attacked with covering fire from the hospital and university, the police said, and probably using mortar bombs, dam- aged five houses in the Arab village. A spokesman for the Arab higher executive said the Jews opened fire with their mortars from two insti- tutions in what he called a 'delib- erate attempt to provoke the Arabs into counter-attacking." Jewish sources in Tel Aviv said the Arab from Jaffa was "the heav. iest so far launched on Tel Aviv." Gase Goes (Continued from Page 1) He claimed, however, that he had refused to have any part of it, Tucker testified that he had met a girl friend, one Doreen Wilson, in the restaurant and had been nothing about the armed robbery. Recalled by the Crown, both of- ficers, Inspector Alex Macleod and Chief Elliott, denied that either of these things had been said. Asked if he knew any reason why Richards would give the evidence he did, Tucker replied: "He told me he would do any- thing to get out of doing more er v with her until shortly before four tim o'clock. At that time he was tak- ing her home, when a car, in which he recognized Richards, drove up and he went over to it. . He had agreed to "have a drink" with the four in the car--Richards, Willis and the two Podvinskys--and they had driven to a house in Whitby as they didn't have much beer left in the car. Tucker testified that they were in the house about an hour and a half and when they got in the car again he was "pretty well under the weather" He said he went to sleep and the next thing he remem- bered was waking up in a field on Crawford Kerr's farm, near the cor- ner of the Third Concession, and Cochrane Street, Whitby. The car was stuck, he said, and he had gone to the farm house and asked Mr. Kerr for a tow. "I told him we were stuck down close to the corner," he testified, adding that he had asked Richards where he would tell the farmer the car was, The accused claimed Kerr had apparently misunderstood him and had first proceeded east toward Cochrane Street instead of turning down to where the Podvinsky car was stuck in the field, Regarding a statement he had given police the day after the rob- bery, Tucker claimed he had re- fused to sign the statement because the officers had refused to put in it a remark to the effect that he had not left Oshawa until four o'clock the morning in question. He claimed also that Chief J. W. Elliott had sald he would esk only "some ordinary questions" after Tucker had indicated he knew Up until a short time ago Rich- ards had given him to understand "he would tell the truth and have me cleared," he said. Tucker said he and Richards "weren't what you'd call friends" after the latter told him he had shown police where the stocking masks and guns used in the rob- bery were hidden. Addressing the jury, Defence Counsel Manning Swartz, submitted there was no evidence by the Hos- pital witnesses that Tucker was at the robbery. He asked the court to believe Tucker's explanaticn for be. ing found with the others later that morning, In his address, Mr. Matthews pointed to the contradictions be- tween the evidence of Crown wit nesses and that given by Tucker. As regards Tucker's reliability, he re- ferred to the latter's criminal re- cord. Theré was a direct contrast also between Tucker's evidence and that given by Richards, he said, suggest ing that Tucker had more interest in the case than Richards, who was already serving his sentence. He suggested that if Tucker had been as drunk as his evidence indi- cated he would not have been the one to go to get the farmer up or that he would have remembered word for word what he told Mr. Kerr, - INSTAL BLAST FURNACE Tolleross, Scotland --(CP)-- A £500,000 ($2,000,000) blast furnace, one of the latest designs, has been installed at the Clyde Iron Works. "Rehab" Training Establishes Vets On Civvy Street Ottawa--(CP)--Canaaa is get- ting the greatest injection of skil- led hands and brains in its his- tory through operation of vocation=- al training and university courses for ex-service men and women, In this, politics has gone out the window, say officials of the federal department of veterans' affairs, with Dominion and provineial gov- ernments--Liberal, Conservative, C.C.F. and Social Credit--co-oper- ating to the full. Some 150,000 will have been trained when the program ends; 92,000 vocationally, of whom 16,000 still are in training; and 58,000 in universities and colleges, with 82,- 000 still in attendance. In addition 15,000 are taking correspondence courses, Of the total, 10,000 are women, 7,000 vocational and 8,000 college, Building and mechanical trades are most popular in vocational courses to produce steam-fitters, sheet-metal workers, masons, plas- terers, plumbers, carpenters, brick- layers, electricians. About 400 trades are taught, 150 in schools, the remainder "on the job"--book- keepers, draftsmen, clerks, barbers, actors, dancers; whatever a vet- eran may wish to go into, even to a clarinetist who has appeared in a command performance before the Duchess of Luxembourg. College Students Current college students include 12,000 in arts and science; 6,000 engineering; 2,500 commerce; 1,500 agriculture; 1,500 law; 900 medi- cine; 500 dentistry. The first trickle started in 1943; the peak came in late 1946; virtual- ly the last will be through in the early 1950s. Last date for applica- tion was Dec. 31, except for pen- Eighty per cent of those who have completed their courses are employed in occupations for which they were trained; only five per cent are among occasional un- employed. In the last college academic year 87 per cent passed; 13 per cent failed. One university's survey showed all of 210 recent veteran graduates employed at salaries averaging more than $2000 a year. Arthur W. Crawford director of training for the department of vet. erans' affairs, says of the stu- dents: "They are doing far better than ever could have been hoped for, 'and in turn are giving something to the eolleges. "The ex-servicemen, several years older than students just com- ing out of high school, have brought a new maturity to the class-rooms; they are quicker to challenge estab- lished ideas and to question them | in the light of their own experien~ ces. "Married men show firmer pur- pose than those with fewer respon- sibilities. , "Universities too are to be con- gratulated. They didn't say 'come and take your turn' when faced with a flood which doubled their enrolments. They improvised -- some virtually built new communi- ties; others put army huts on their campuses. Thus we diy been able to take care of all applications almost without delay - except in medicine and dentistry which offer special probléms, Lincoln, England--(CP)--Near- ly 1,300 German prisoner-of-war farm workers have refused repa- triation, preferring to remain as farm laborers. BUS.AUTC COLLIDE Collision betweer® an Oshawa Railway bus and a car driven by Sam Berns, 99 Patricia Avenue, created a short traffic tie-up in the Ritson Road South subway at 6.55 p.m, yesterday. No one was injured. Berns told police he was driving north on Ritson Road with his car partly on a ridge of ice at the right hand side of the road, when it col- lided with the bus, being driven south by Robert J. Rowe, 343 Bruce Street. Police said the bus struck the left side of the auto with its left front corner. AUTO HITS TRUCK Driving south on Ritson Road South at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, a car in charge of Robert Gourlie, 309 St. Julien Street, was in col- lision with a truck being backed out of a driveway by Cecil Cham« bers, 390 Ritson Road South, Po- lice said the left rear corner of the truck struck the auto behind the right door. $30,000 FARM FIRE Allenford, Ont., Feb. 26--(CP)-- Loss in Wednesday's fire that dee stroyed a 90-year-old grist mill in this Bruce county village was esti- mated today at close to $30,000 by members of the McCullough family which had operated it for 17 years. Large quantities of seed grain and a truck also were lost with the three storey wooden building reinforced with metal siding. A spark from machinery was believed the cause. AN OLD FRIEND Plenty, Sask.--(CP)--Emil Olson, a grain buyer of this west-central Saskatchewan village, thought the number 172,772--serial number of a railroad freight ar che was loading with wheat--looked familiar. On checking his records he found he had loaded the samé car just a month before, CURRENT: [} WW oF PROGRESS 7 i: = LIMITED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1947 (locluding Details of the Earned Surplus Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1947) - LIABILITIES ASSETS 3 Cash on hand and in banks Accounts Receivable Less: Reserve for Doubtful Accounts Refundable Portion of Excess Profits Tax for 1942 to be received in 1948. ....... Inventories of Matured and Unmatured Spirits, Raw Materials, Manufacturing and Other Supplies, valued at not more than cost CASH SURRENDER VALUE OF LIFE INSURANCE POLICY DEFERRED CHARGES: Unexpired Insurance and Taxes and Other Prepaid Items $ 31,546.41 1430478 1511817.15 --_-- E06 1340.95 REFUNDABLE PORTION OF EXCESS: PROFITS TAXES FOR 1943, 1944 AND 1945 FIXED: Land, Buildings, Machinery and Equip ed by the Canadian Appraisal Company, Limited in Decen additions at cost ad tad onl: values as apprais- Less: Reserve for Depreciation TRADE MARKS, FORMULAE, PATENTS AND GOODWILL Approved on behalf of the Board: ¥. MARCHAND HENRY N. CHAUVIN ) Directors, ber 1936, with subsequent 1,041,957.58 # , CURRENT: Deposit re Production Contract Taxes Payable RESERVE FOR CONTINGENCIES CAPITAL STOCK: Authorized and Issued -- 125,000 Shares 69 Cumulative Participating Preferred, par value $10.00 each } 62,500 Shares Common, No Par Value ~~ DEFERRED SURPLUS--REFUNDABLE PORTION OF EXCESS PROFITS TAXES FOR 1943, 1944 AND 1945 EARNED SURPLUS ACCOUNT: Balance at Credit, 1st January, 1947 Deduct: . Sundry Prior Year Adjustments (Net). . d: - Transfer from Deferred Proceeds of seesssssastsassians sesesssssisssicanens o Account of refundable portion of Excess Profits Tax for 1942 te be received in 1948 sale of preferred and common shares of the Company's 419,510.68 132197 418,188.71 $ sm ital Stock not claimed by holders of Fractional Share Warrants accumulated dividends on such shares Profit on disposal of Fixed Assets Add: taking up the items below Deduct: Provision for depreciation Provision for Income Taxes and Excess profits Tax Net Profit for the year 1947. Less: : Dividends paid for the year ended 31st December, 1947 on the Preferred shares: 60 cents per share reve Balance at Credit, 31st December, 1947 ............... taken sisesoeers Sivasessrnre Petethiis Net Operating Profit for the yoar ended 31st Dec, 1947 before 1,867.10 1,959.05 18,720.53 436,909.64 4110.56 151 ! 1830 247,920.51 NOTE -- Subject to the provisions of the Supplemantary Letters Patent of the Company: [0] on. 81.46 of the above Earned S 39% 'non-cumlative preferential di (8) $346,576 28 ofthe above Earned hokiers of the I ------ AUDITORS' REPORT TO THE SHAREHOLDERS 525,062.69 $3,036,889.20 mab gid mt ly 0 he decd Bod f ers ) of the ae Ne tswioned, i th croton ofthe Bocd of Directs, on particpatiag ivdunds fo the preferred and common shares oa a share basis, = i ---- MELCHERS DISTILLERIES, LIMITED, Montreal. Aylmer Catsup ined the books of bottle ........ Shales Aylmer ig 2 2 irl ¢ BUTTER First Grade he (Orono) Ib. rer .. 25¢ rr a tin 17¢ Lynn Valley ua Lior 27¢ ie AN bske 3D E juicy der =. 49 Grapefruit, large 25 ¢ CABBAGE . . .ib. Se juicy, 5 for .... Phone 644 -- Free Delivery 1 | 5 He tive esuniee] rel of lr Dili Lod rh roa ndd 31st Doser, 150 ad are reed te rman nd spnaons oid by a. a Bi i certified to be correct by responsible officials mpany. taduel tial depreciation years, ¢ : i he Douinion Te ay that Cota i met ok sd A 9 1d bt pte from portion of the amounts provided for . : Kang The Babi faxes as shown vision for possible taxes that in this connection. 4 : lott the forging ve CT ht, ow ft he ore Ble Shr eB 10 Deb ov oo msi ofthe uni posi ofthe Company a ht di, acuin 1 the bos of ur norman snd th ephaaons ren bw, sd 4 show by books the Company, ---- Montreal, 26th January, 1948, P. S. ROSS & SONS, Chartered Accountants, are parliamentary deputies. Pend- ing an election, no one could say vhether some other way might be 'ound to oust them or have a par- iamentary committee strip them of immunity, " ble In 2 of this equipment has already been received and the Labour relations between fhe Company and fis hii balance is expected within the next three or four months. Lloyses are amicable an A ge | wo king as of PRY All these undertakings Rucessiipd 4 dupe olay of foe he oo of aoe (1) year. cash, amounting to over $600,000. uring the la tnded dist. is in dbie- Own imately half of which was financed Shareholders are reminded t 1 : two SR ad po 4 is by a bank loan interest to encourage the purchase of their Company's which the Company intends to repay as rapidly as leading brands: possible. dian Rye Whisky 7 The Balance Sheet reflects a satisfactory financial con- LL LAL Special Liqueur Whiskey dition, Current Assets of $1,635,432.16 exceeding Cur- LONDON CLUB London Dry Gin ; rent Liabilities of $634,770.29 by over $1,000,000.00. GOLD CROSS Finest Canadian Geneva Gin ear, after deducting Deprecia- he if . . £ Jo Dt fe for Income "aad Excess Your Directors wish 4 hi This LSppormaity of Profits Taxes, was $163,153.05. Payment of the 6% expressin, their Apprecia jor EE cumulative preferential dividends required $75,000.00, the officials xad employees and there remains a balance of $88,153.05 to be added year just closed. to Earned Surplus Account. Sales are returning to a more normal basis although rationing of whiskies still continues in order to tide- over the non-productive gap of the war years. Due to further increases in whisky values and in the replacement values of buildings, machinery 2nd equip. ment, the amount of fire insurance cascied has again n increased in order to give full protection in this respect. To the Shareholders: Your Directors submit herewith the. Nineteenth Annual Report of your Company covering its operations during the fiscal year ended December 31st, 1947, During the past year, the major improvements and extensions commenced two years ago were completed. The new steam plant is the most modern and up-to-date of its kind and some manufacturers that supplied equip- ment have been using it for d ati Pp It is operating most satisfactorily and is effecting a considerable saving of labour. We now have not only sufficient steam for p requi s but to take care of expansion for many years to come. The new whisky barrel maturing warehouse has been completed and is being filled from past and present productions. Various major repairs, alterations and enlargements were also undertaken and have been completed. The major portion of the capital expenditures were necessi- tated by the relentless forcing of our old equipment for the maximum production of war a These impro will enable your Company to increase its production and maturing capacities, Automatic machinery is being installed in the bottling departments which will save a considerable amount of labour and provide for greatly increased output. Part Ross Munro Joins southam Bureau Ottawa Feb. 26--(CP) -- Ross funro Canadian Press war cor- espondent and writer on inter- rational affairs, will join the Ot- cawa Bureau of the Southam news- papers in Ape, it was announced today by John Bird of the South- a 1 News Service. Munro a member of CP's parlia- mentary reporting staff, served from 1940 to 1945 as war corres- pondent with the Canadian Army' in Britain, Italy and Northwest Europe, and remained. overseas until mid-1947 covering the war's aftermath, #le joined the Canadian Press at Toronto in 1936 after graduating from the University of Toronto in political science and economics, London--(CP)--Seasonal gifts for the Walthamstow district in- cluded Canadian gift food for 500 old folk, Respectfully submitted, ; On behalf of the Board of Directors, ' V. MARCHAND, President. ! Montrea! P.Q. February 25th, 1948.