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'THE DAILY TIMES-GAZET } OSHAWA ema------------------------------ " Combining The. Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle TE WHITBY VOL. 7, NO. 60 OSHAWA-WHITBY, THURSDAY, MARCH 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES DIE IN MENTAL HOSPITAL FIRE Vote On Separation Close As County Rejects City Offer As' Ontario County Council appeared on the brink of voting to terminate its agreement with the City of Oshawa and go its own way in the matter of a new County Home, the whole question was dropped back in the hands of the Council's special County Home Committee last night when a motion to this efféct was intro-®-- duced as a last resort measure by Deputy-Reeve W. E. Noble, 0. East Whitby, and carried by a bare 14-13 majority. The issue bogged down complete- ly this morning when G. C. Wilson, chairman of the special committee on the Home announced that the committee had disagreed and he had no report to present. There- upon W. E. Noble moved that the council go into committee-of-the- whole to discuss the question and this di ion was to ce when council resumed after the noon recess today. The East Whitby member em- ployed this parliamentary move when Council was about to vote after two hours of heated discus- sion, on an amended final clause of the special committee's report which would have provided for ter- mination of the County's County Home agreement with the City of Oshawa and the removal of Qsha- wa residents from the institution. Council had already approved unanimously the first part of a three-clause report of the special committee, headed by G. C, Wilson (Cannington), recommending re= jection of Oshawa's proposal re- garding apportionment of costs of constructing a new County Home. Oshawa had proposed building the home on a 50-50 basis in so far as capital cost was concerned but with the provision that Oshawa be COUNTY HOME (Continued on Page 8) Damage Case Is Settled For $2,200 Settlement of $2,200 was made in the damage action brought by Bert Edwards, Oshawa, and his wife Jennie, in their action against the estate of Robert Wilfred MacDon. ald, deceased, Weston, in Whitby Assize Court this morning. The settlement was announced by Mr. Justice D. P. J. Kelly after a con- ference between A. W. S. Greer, K.C., counsel for the plaintiffs and H. G. Steen, counsel for the de. fendants. Damages were claimed by Mr. and Mrs. Edwards for injuries re. ceived by the latter in an auto col- lision on Highway No. 2 near Stop 28 last May. They charge negligence on the part of MacDonald and claim that he had been drinking. Evidence showed that the Ed- wards' auto was about to pass the auto em by MacDonald, who died last January, when the Mac. Donald auto cut sharply across the Edwards' path in a left turn with- out warning. Mr. Edwards testified that he was driving west on the day of DAMAGE CASE (Continued on Page 2) C.C.L. Puts Thumbs Down On Communist Suspects By JOHN LEBLANC Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, March 11--(CP)--Tar- gets of the government's drive against the entry of alien Commun. ists--suspect United States labor organizers operating in the North. ern Ontario gold-mining field-- have been thrown overboard by the Canadian' Congress of Labor. The C.C.L. has rejected a request from one of its affiliates, the In. ternational Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, that it take steps to halt the ejection of five smelter union organizers from the US.-- regarded as fellow.travellers. In disclosing this action yesterday, the Congress administered a stern boot to the hopes of any Commun. ist suspects seeking help against the government ban on non-Canad. ian Communists entering the coun. try. This ban was disclosed last week, though it has not yet been officially announced by the dominion govern. ment. The Congress--in a joint state. ment by President A. R. Mosher and Secretary-Treasurer Pat Con. roy--declared it had turned down a Smelters' Union request for help on 'behalf of five men "alleged to be members of, or closely affiliated with, the Communist party of the United States." It added that the Smelters Uni. on had been importing organizers, "all under suspicion with regard to their political affiliations," and had thereby "supplied reactionary em. ployers with ammunition they would otherwise not possess." The Smelters' Union group was believed to be the chief object of the new government ban against Communists or Communist suspects. None are to be deported, accord- ing to information here. But, as their entry permits expire, the plan is that they will not be renewed, That, apparently, is what has affec. ted Horowitz. Further, the border is to be clos- ed to Communists trying to get in. to the dominion from outside. "The C.C.L. already has proclaim. ed itself on the Communist ques. tion," the statement said, "and will not approve in any way the impor- tation of persons associated with any branch of the 'Communist movement, either from the U.S. or elsewhere." Successful Candidates Toronto Conservatory Music Examinations The following is a list of suc- cessful candidates in examinations "held recently by the Royal Conser- vatory of Music of Toronto in Oshawa. The names are arranged in order of merit. A.R.C.T. piano written, honors-- Margaret Ruth Wyman. Grade IV Theory Harmony and Counterpoint, hon= ors--Geraldine A. Lee. Harmony, honors--Georgina M. Matthews; pass, Betty M. Gibbs. Counterpoint, honors -- Mike Smykaluk; Alice E. Wilson; Cez- arina Wysocki; Frederick N. Hoag; David McMullen; pass--Ruth Mec- Neely, Dorita I. Trew (equal); Josephine Beard. Grade III Theory Harmony and History, honors-- Joan L. Tunnicliffe. ; Harmony, first class honors-- Jocelyn Ann Cayley, John Smart (equal); honors--Andy Frolick, Leta L. Bragg, May Dewar Calli- son, Isabelle Shemilt; pass--Lois Elizabeth Flett, History, first class honors--Aud- rey R. English, Geraldine Ann Lee; honors--Virginia M. S. Karn; pass --Ralph G. Shemilt; Jacqueline M. Wright. ; Grade II Theory First class honors--Albert Wed- gery, James Harvey Arnott, Thom- as Duncan Graham, Dawn-Marie Steckley, Geraldine Mae Floyd, Lillian M. Lindberg, Sonia L. Jac- obson, Dorothy May Morris (equal); honors--Joanne Mary Floyd, Helen Joan Ormiston (equal); Lucille Lee; Caroline "We Mills, Elinore L. Pierson; pass-- Audrey N. Leslie. Grade I Theory First class honors--Dorothy R. Brunzlow, Elizabeth Collins, John D. Moffatt (equal) Janet G. Ben- nett, Sylvia Black (equal); honors --Jean Bragg, Herbert Samuel Hy- man; pass--Edwina King, Shirley Myers, Laurie Patterson, Marion Cayley, Frederick William Brock. TWELVE DIE IN AIR CRASH AT CHICAGO Chicago, March 11--(AP)--A Del- ta airlines DC-4 plane crashed and burned explosively late last night a few seconds after it took off from Chicago's Municipal Airport. Twelve of the 13 aboard were killed. The only survivor was a 33-year- old mother whose seven-year-old son perished in the fiery wreckage. She screamed hysterically for her child as she was pulled from the flames. The woman, Mrs, Tripolino Meo, of suburban Oak Lawn, Ill, suffered severe burns. Both of her legs and both her arms were broken. All four members of the crew were kill- ed. The plane, bound for Miami, splashed into an orange-colored, flaming mass on a nearby prairie at 10:58 pm. from a height of be- tween 500 and 1,000 feet during a snow flurry, witnesses said. It was Delta's first accident in scheduled operations since 1934. Last year the airlines received a special citation from the National Safety Council, "Something went wrong" and the huge craft caught fire when only a few feet above the runway, Delta's traffic manager said. There was no further explanation. Among the identified dead were two Chicago brothers on their way to the bedside of their father, near death in Miami Beach, Fla. They were Harold Levy, 47, and Ralph Raymond Levy, 41. Pat Smith,an airport cargo hand- ler, said the plane "came straight down in a vertical dive and splat- tered and exploded on the ground." Flames shot up 50 feet as the plane flopped to earth "ilek a pan- cake," said another witness, C. K. Firth, a gasoline dealer who helped rescue Mrs. Meo. a An inquest was scheduled for Fri- ay. U.N. Shelves Plea To Scan Czech 1 Coup By LARRY HAUCK Lake Success, March 11--(AP)-- The United Nations pigeon-holed yesterday a demand for security council investigation of the Com- munist coup in Czechoslovakia. The demand was made by Dr. Jan Papaney, Czechoslovakia's chief delegate to the U.N, on the heels of the death in Prague of his best friend, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, He blamed Prime Minis- ter Stalin and Russian officials for the success of the minority stroke last month in his "terrorized" homeland. Secretary-General Trygve Ile put the document on the shelf after consultations with top advisers. AUN. statement said merely that the document would be treated as a non-governmental communication, The move means that the demand will lie dormant in the files unless some country officially sponsors it. Other delegates watched the situa- tion closely but there were no im- mediate indication that any country would step in to push the issue. Papanek said he was not resign- ing his assignement to the U.N. He added that he still is the represen- tative of the Czechoslovak Republic but does not represent the Com- munist-dominated regime in Pra- gue. 'The U.N. made no ruling on Pa- panek's status as a delegate. Whitby Woman In Hospital Mrs. Priscilla Black, 69, of Whitby is under an oxygen tent in the Osh. awa General Hospital today recu- perating from the ffects of coal gas fumes which seeped through 'her house during the night. Her grand daughter, Jacqueline, said Mrs. Black's condition is much improved. Awakened - by the family dog's barking at about two o'clock this morning, Mrs. Black awoke Jacque- line and two boarders one of whom called Dr. J. O. Ruddy. The physi. cian ordered Mrs. Black removed to hospital immediately. Although not unconscious, she was greatly affec. ted by the gas. It is expected Mrs. Black will remain under medical observation for two days. CHILD IS DROWNED Hull, Que., March 11--(CP) --Six- year.old Jacques Radakir, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Radakir of Hull, was drowned here yesterday when he was swept beneath the ice of Brewery Creek below Montclair Boulevard, " Home Issue Held Up With Committee Split Hear Discussion on World's Hungry Children A Young delegates from 26 countries at United Nations conference at Lake , N. in all parts of the world who told of suffering disease, listen to discussion Q 1 4 of problem of hungry children throughout the world XY. 2 heard recorded messages from boys and girls and also of their desire to co-operate to combat hunger and Czech Reign of Terror Is Cited By Marshall As Arousing Passions By ELTON C. FAY Washington, March 11--(AP)-- Military developments in the United States reflect the "very, very serious' world situation noted yesterday by State Secretary Marshall. High Command conferences . . . new weapons . ., . quests for mili- tary manpower . . . congressional warnings against cutting defence funds. All these coincide with Marshall's grave summation of the trend of global affairs. He made it plain at a press conference he was referring both to Communist expansion in Europe, including Czechoslovakia, and to what he called a "considerable pas- sion" aroused in the United States by European developments. He cited the death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in Czecho- slovakia as evidence that the Com- munist rule of that country is "a reign of terror." Marshall spoke after being ask- ed to give his "assessment of the situation" which, he was told, in- cludes widely-felt fears ranging from the possibility that Italy might fall to the Communists in the April 18 elections, to talk of war. He replied: "I think yom correctly described the situation in your question-- that there are great fears as to the developments. ". + « The situation is very, very ai MARBHALL (Continued on Page 2) 3 Damage Suits Settled At Assizes Three damage cases scheduled for hearing by the Assize Court at Whitby before Mr. Justice D, P. J. Kelly were settled out of court this morning, Arthur J. Sutherland of Clare- mont and his daughter Helen, aged 11, were awarded a total of $3,856 in their action against John Blair of Brooklin. The girl was given $3,000 and her father the balance for disbursments. The action arose from an acci- dent on the main street of Clare- mont on Aug. 22, 1946, when an auto driven by Blair struck Helen. The plaintiffs claims negligence on the part of Blair and charged that he had been drinking. Helen suffered a fractured hip, concussion and injuries to her right leg necessitating hospitalization for more than a month, She was pla- ced in cast until November and was unable to attend school until the following January, thus losing a school year. i Awarded $6,850 A total of $6,850 was awarded to Charles N. Fulton, Darlington Township and his son, Alan, aged 15, in a civil suit brought by them SUITS SETTLED (Continued on Page 2) Voters In Newfoundland Will Decide Union Issue In National Referendum St. John's Nfld, March 11--(CP) --The choice of confederation with Canada was offered the people of Newfoundland today when the con. tents were disclosed of the official ballot for a national referendum which will decide the Old Colony's political future, Announced simultantously in London and here, the ballot will offer the following choices: 1. Retention of the present gov. ernment by commission. 2. Return of responsible. self-gov. ernment, 3. Confederation with Canada. The national convention, elected in June, 1946, to recommend possible future forms of government and dissolved last Jan. 31, suggested to the Commonwealth Relations Of. fice in London that the ballot offer sion government or the return of responsible self-government. By a 20-16 vote the convention turned down a resolution that con. federation with Canada also be in. cluded on the ballot. The minority vote, however, was noted in the re. port to the British government. Since then the pro-Confederation bloc in the convention, led by Jo. seph Smallwood, has waged a vig- orous eampaign to have union with Canada included. He has announced that petitions, signed by more than 50,000 of the Island's 330,000 population, had been received asking that Confeder- ation be included in the referendum. ig had been forwarded to Lon. on. The 45.member national conven. tion had power only to make re- commendations to the British zov. a .choice of retention of commis. | ernment. (4 State Rites For Masaryk On Saturday By A. I. GOLDING Prague, March 11--(AP) -- Jan Masaryk will be given a state fun. eral Saturday by Czechoslovakia's 'Communist.controlled - government. He will be laid to rest beside his father, Thomas Masaryk, founder and first President of the Repub. lie. The 61-year-old non.party For. eign Minister was found dead yes- terday, two weeks. after the new cabinet came to power, in a stone courtyard more than 50 feet below his bathroom window at the For. eign Office, The government sald he jumped. Funeral services will be held in the Pantheon of the Prague Mus. eum in the capital's Central Square. Communist Premier 'Klement Gott. wald will speak. Czechoslovakia mourned the minister today in shocked melan. choly. Half.staffed tricolors and black banners did not begin to tell the story of the loss felt by the "little people." To thousands the loss was per- sonal, because Masaryk numbered his personal friends in the thous. ands. "I am glad to be home," he sald in his last public press conference, the last time western correspon- dents saw him in any number. During and after the political cri. sis that saw Czechoslovakia go un. der Communist control, western re. porters got no farther than his se. cretaries, who said Masaryk would not see them. He was being quoted by Polish journalists and other cor. respondents from Eastern Europe in interviews, and no explanation was given. What politics, what policies lay behind his moves and his state- ments while he remained a non. party member of the Communist. controlled government may never be known. His government said officially that he was ill, suffered from in. somnia, was overwrought from reading reprodchful messages from friends in Britain and the Uinted States, and in a nervous crisis end. ed his life. This, on its own testimony, was a transition that came within eight hours after he was described as ending a cheerful day on a cheer- ful note of farewell to two old ser- vants, No suicide note has been men. tioned. His closest friends expressed no doubt that Masaryk had ended his own life. . However, the urgency of his rea. son was a big question, because Masaryk had shown himself desir. ous of remaining alive to fight for peace, THE WEATHER Cloudy. Occasional light snow southern. sections until late afternoon. Clear this eve- ning. Friday clear and cold. vinds light tonight and Friday. Low tonight and high Friday 2 and 18, Flames Cut Off Women Patients In U.S. Institution Asheville, N.C., March 11 (AP)--Nine women patient! died here early today in the blazing inferno of a mental hospital fire. Seven of the victims were trapped helplessly on uppet floors of the four-storey central building of the Highland Hospital for Nervous Di B. T. Bennett, medical director re- Two others were evacuated by firemen who dashed into the fiery structure but the two died soon afterward. The fire, discovered about mid- night, started in the kitchen of the hospital's central building. It quick- ly spread to an elevator shaft and was licking the building's roof when firemen arrived. Screams of trapped women rang out above the roaring conflagration as doctors, nurses, firemen and pol- ice ran through the blazing struc- ture, risking their lives in an effort to save the 20 patients in the bulld- ing. They quickly huddled the rescued patients into another building where some sat silently and others yelled hysterically. The death toll was announced by Dr. Bennett after he and hospital authorigies checked the list of pa- tients irr the building. Police Captain Harold Enloe was the first man to reach the building, "I could hear screaming on the third floor," he related. "Flames by , Dr.¢ then were leaping through the roof of the building." About 1,000 spectators, many of them dressed in pajamas, milled helplessly around; unable to assis* the trapped women. Fractures Knee At G.M. Plant Edward Hubble, 36, 133 Lauder Road, is in hospital with a fractur. ed knee today following an acci. dent at General Motors yesterday. Reported to have fallen on his way to the time clock Mr. Hubble was escorted to the plant hospital, and Dr. A. K. Mighton was sum- moned. The doctor ordered the in. jured man taken to the Oshawa General hospital and reports that his patient will be inactive for "about two months." Mr. Hubble has been a GM. em. ployee for 13 years. Two years ago, he went into Department 24 work- ing in truck body assembly. Need Surplus Of Exports |If Canada to Aid Europe Mr. Abbott Tells Commons By D'ARCY O'DONNELL Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, March 11--(CP)--Fi- nance Minister Abbott told the Commons yesterday that Canada must re-create a surplus of ex- ports over imports if she wishes to continue assistance to Europe and also if she wishes to solve the economic problems arising out of the shortage of American dollars. Mr. Abbott said this surplus could be brought about either through increased production or reduced domestic consumption. Perhaps production could be in- creased, but generally speaking it now was "pretty nearly" at full capacity. He was speaking during con- tinued debate on a resolution that would give legislative effect to the 25 percent excise taxes which the government announced Nov. 17 would form part of the dollar-sav- ing program. Opposition speakers have charged the taxes are unconstitu- tional because they were not first authorized by parliament. They have argued that the taxes, though applying to a long list of non- essential articles, work hardship on the people. Mr. Abbott said one of the pri- mary aims of the taxes was to re- duce domestic consumption and en- able Canada to play a larger part in the reconstruction of Europe. He reiterated that Canada could not continue to live "in an era of prosperity in the midst of a starv- ing world," and added that Cana. dians were living beyond their customary needs. He told Ross Thatcher (CCF=« Moose Jaw) that rationing of ime ports would not have been suffi cient action to solve present prob- lems, because a reduction in the domestic consumption of domestic products was needed as well. Other speakers in the debate in« cluded Hughes Cleaver (L-Hal- ton); John R. MacNicol (PC-To- ronto Davenport) and Hon. Earl Rowe (PC-Dufferin-Simcoe). Mr. Rowe argued that the gove ernment could increase production by reducing the tax load that now was discouraging business, initi- ative and enterprise. At the house opening, Defence Minister Claxton met an earlier Progressive Conservative request by tabling the 1,000,000 words of evidence, including 800 exhibits, of the 1942 Royal Commission inquiry into the dispatch of a Canadian force to Hong Kong in October, Members voted 146 to 61 against a Progressive Conservative motion for the production of correspond- ence exchanged between the Cana- dian and British governments in connection with the Hong Kong force. Most C.C.F. and Social Credit members supported the gov- ernment. Another Sor Cons servative motion calling for pro= NEEDS SURPLUS (Continued on page 5) . % LATE NEWS BRIEFS * MAN KILLED ON HIGHWAY Brantford, March 11 (CP)--Maxwell Halstead, 51, was killed early today when struck by a car as he was crossing No, 2 Highway in front of his residence. Police said the auto was driven by Charles Ficzere, 19, of Scot- land, Ont. POLICE GUARD CHURCHILL London, March 11 (Reuters)-----Scotland Yard took special precautions today for the security of Winston Churchill after Southampton police station received an anonymous warning to be assassinated' that Britain's wartime leader "was at midday today. Scotland Yard stated that the call, made over. the Southampton emer= gency telephone system, was in "a childish voice." GUSTAV ARRIVES IN PARIS Paris, March 11 (AP)--King Gustav V of Sweden arrived in Paris by train late today on his way to the Riviera. Rumors spread mysteriously in Sweden this morning that the 89-year-old monarch had died aboard the train, the Nord-Expresse from Brussels. The King arrived smiling and giving every sign of being in: good health. POLICE OFFICIAL SUSPENDED Montreal, March 11 (CP)--Pacifique Plante, As- sistant Director of Police and militant crusader against vice in Montreal, today was suspended by Police Director Albert Langlois. Police headquarters sources confirmed the suspension but gave no details, 0