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Rn A RE NG Pew OSHAWA DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 82 OSHAWA-WHITBY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1948 Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES RUSS \ ad Hope City Hears Railway Studies Richmond Street As Hopes that the removal of telephone poles off King | Street might do something toward eliminating the movement of railw.y cars along a main thoroughfare were voiced last night at City Council meeting. The subject came up when Alderman R. D. Humphreys reported that while the C.N.R. h~4 promised to study an alternate ®-- route along Richmond Street no word had been received from them yet. "Why not ask the Public Utili- ties Commission to Gurry up and pull down the poles?" asked Al- derman Michael Starr. "Wouldn't that help rid us of the nuisance?" "An official of the railway was in town asking when the poles would be pulled down," Mayor F. N. Mc- Callum replied. "He was told that they. would not be down until April 1 at the earliest but might be tak- en down any time after that. He intimated they would put up their own poles." Must Get City' 's Consent "Wouldn't they have to get per- mits from us to do that?" asked Alderman Starr. "Yes," said the mayor, "and we can do something about that". The discussion ended there but City Clerk F. E, Hare was instruct- ed to write the C.N.R. to find out what action is being taken about e Richmond Street route. A delegation of the Southern On- tario Agricultural Society, headed by its president E. R. Chapman, asked council for a grant of $10,000 to build a horse shed at the Oshawa ALTERNATE ROUTH (Continued on Page 2) oe Removal To Clear King Street PS 4 Route Five Airmen From County Gets Medals Five Ontario County airmen, who served overseas with distinction to themselves and their country, will receive the honors they won at an investiture on Friday of this week at the R.C.AF, Station in Toronto. Hon Ray Lawson, O.BE, LLD, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, will make the presentations. The officers and airmen who will be honored and the decorations . to be presented to them are as fol. lows: _ Flight Lieutenant Paul S. Barton, 88 Connaught Street, Oshawa, D.F. C.; Pilot Officer Donald A. Wagar, 66 Highland Avenue, Oshawa, D.F. C; Squadron . Leader J. W. Kerr, Port Perry, M.BE.; Flight Lieaten- ant D. I. Hall, RR.1, Uxbridge, D. FC. and Bar; Flight Sergeant K. A. Hickey, R.R.1, Highland Creek, Distinguished Flying Medal. In all 75 officers and airmen will be invested. Ratification Of Treaty Between Finns, Russia May Come Within Week By EDWIN SHANKE Helsinki, April 7--(AP)--Helsin- ki political sobesey today predicted swift ratification of the new Soviet. Finnish mutual aid treaty. They expressed the opinion par- liament might give its approval by the end of next week. The new trea. ty was signed last night in Moscow. President Juho K. Paasikivi is ex- pected to put all his personal pres- tige behind a drive for smooth' con- clusion of the pact, which most Finns regard as a good deal. They got concessions from the Russians and they kept their political inde. pendence. In Moscow, the Finnish delegates who negotiated the treaty during the last two weeks prepared for their final official duties and for a round of toasts and speeches at a gala dinner given by Prime Minis- ter Stalin tonight. Stalin personally proposed the treaty in a letter to Paasikivi on Feb. 22. A majority of parliament is need- ed for ratification. Russian ratification of the treaty is a foregone conclusion. The opening clause of the new treaty spells out Finland's territor. fal independence if either country becomes the object of aggression. It says that if either is attacked by Germany or another state allied with her. Finland will fight. But it specifies that Finnish forces will stay within Finland's territorial boundaries. No other country was named in-the aggression clause. The treaty also states that Russia can send troops into Finland in case of aggression only by mutual agree. ment. This phrasing many Finns re- garded as a real concession. They pointed out that in pacts Russia signed with Romania or Hungary thewre is no such provision. » In the treaty Russia, also agreed not to interfere in Finland's internal affairs. Formally, the treaty says both parties will follow the principles of mutual respect of state sovereign- ty and independence. The military phases of the treaty work both ways. If Finland is at- tacked and wants help, Russia will step in--but by invitation only. And Russia is assured that Finland will not become a possible base of op- TREATY (Continued on Page 2) Expect Big Registration At Recreation Conference Romney, author of the book "Off With more than 100 registra- . tions already received, plans are whipped into shape at Community Recreation Association headquart- ers this week for the third annual "provincial recreation conference which opens here Friday. Advance registration indicates that municipalities throughout the province will be represented, some having as many as 14 delegates. Of the number already represented approximately one-fifth are pro- fessional directors while others are lay persons interested in the recre- ation field The conference program, which: is now off the press, is full of im- portant provincial recreation busi- ness. mentary civic banquet night at which Premier George Drew will be the guest of honor, the program includes discussion groups, recreation. movement in North America. Among ) the latter are G. Ott Highlighted by a compli- | Friday | the Job Living," which title has been taken as the conference themé¢, and Harold D. Meyer, president of the American Recrea- tion Association. Besides these twe experts many provincial, pro- fessional and lay leaders will be present to take part in the discus- sions. These include Professor Charles Hendry, of the University of Toronto School of Social Work; Professor Fred Bartlett, of Queen's University; Len Petersen, author and adio dramatist; Frank Patton, secretary of the Ottawa Collegiate Institute Board; Claire Burt, of the National Film Board; and J. K. Tett, provincial director &f re- creation. The sessions open Friday after- noon with an outline of develop- ments in. community recreation in the province to date. Chairman of this period will be George A. BIG REGISTRATION (Continued on Page 9) ALL ITALIANS ARE SET FREE BY YUGOSLAVS Belgrade, April 7 -- (Reuters) -- All Italian citizens: sentenced | for "any crime whatsoever" were pardoned today under a decree is- sued by the Yugoslav Presidium. The amnesty applies to the death penalty but not property confisca- tion. It applies also to those per-[ sons who have the right to declare for Italian citizenship under the in | | Yugoslavia since the end of the war | peace treaty terms. All such per- | sons will be permitted to leave for Italy. | The decree followed a joint dec- | laration by the Italian and Yugo- slav governments regarding a. mu- tual amnesty for each other's citi- zens. The joint statement also declared that those governments wished to reach a similar agreement with the Free Territory of Trieste. The statement said that the de- cision did not apply to persons com=- ing under Article 45 of the peace treaty which deals with war crim- | inals. It was estimated that 200 Yugo- slav ctiizens would be involved in the Italian amnesty but figures for the Italains in Yugoslavia were not known, Local Police Find Lauzon Alarm False A wide awake Toronto citizen who |' thought he spotted Ulysse Lauzon, escaped Kingston penitentiary con- | Bay Street Toronto and re. information to Toronto viet, layed" the police, started a chase that petered out in Bowmanville when the "es- caped convict" turned out to be an | his | | innocent hockey fan and friends. The Toronto man gave police the licence number of a car in which he thought Lauzon had joined other | men and driven away. The car num- | ber was broadcast over the police radio and subsequently reached the Oshawa police office. An alert local | police officer spotted the "wanted" car at the eastern outskirts of Osh. awa yesterday afternoon and his call to headquarters brought local, and two provincial cruisers racing!" through the city on the tail of thej, "suspicious" car. Heavy traffic prevented the ie police car from overtaking the other] Br | The mayor warned him that the vehicle until it reached Bowman- ville where it was pulled into the side of the road and the five occu. pants of the car were startled to find themselves surrounded by po- lice officials. The, five men satisfied the police that they were peaceful residens of Gananoque returning home after attending a hockey game in St. Ca- tharines. They were permitted to continue home. Supreme Court Bars De Marigny JF'rom Dominion Ottawa, April 7 (CP).--The Sup- reme Court of Canada today dis- missed with costs an appeal by Count Alfred De Marigny which had stayed deportation proceedings. He is the former husband of Nancy Oakes, daughter of the late Sir Harry Oakes of the Bahamas. The ruling apparently left the way open for the arrest and deportation of De Marigny should he return to Canada. He now is in Haiti, having left Canada -scme weeks ago on a temporary visa. De Marigny, acquitted some years ago of a charge of murdering Sir Harry, came to Canada in March, 19 n a two-month visa, Since time he has sought to remain although an order for his deporta- tion was issued by federal authori- ties more than a year ago. The decision -rejecting his appeal was unanimous. LIBERALS OPEN HEADQUAR- . TERS The Ontario County Liberal As- sociation have rented rooms in the Miller home at the corner of Sim- coe and Bruce Streets to serve as campaign headquarters for the coming election. The rooms are now being furnished and offices set up. The property was purchased by Im- perial Oil with a view to setting up a service station at the corner .but this 'plan was shelved due to | shortage of materials, F/L PAUL S. BARTON | Who will receive the decorations they ous service during World War II at an investiture to be held on Friday Tpe experiments are | of this week at the R.C.A.F. Station sentations will be made by Hon. Ray To Receive Their Decorations #/0 DONALD A. WAGAR won for distinguished and meritori- | , Avenue Road, Toronto. The pre- Lawson, 0.B.E., LL.D., Lieutenant- Governor of Ontario. F/L Barton and P/O Wagar both won the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross. omer py L. S. Palmer to buy the Trull property on King Street at its assessed value. Mr, Palmer sald hé would like to build five apartment houses, each with six suites, on a bungalow court style on the property at a total cost of $60,000. The buildings would be restrictions. | | formed council that the Fire Mar- shal had condemned the old Trull home, now owned by the city. If the apartment project is accepted the building would be torn down. Julien Street, headed by George Kershaw, apreared before council to protest that Nick Dudlaryk was * | still living in a garage og St. Ju- lien Street despite the fact that he had been ordered to move out, The matter has been before the courts. Dudlaryk last night denied he was living in the garage. He had rent- ed a room on the street and on'p e A | used the garage to store his too. He admitted to Mayor McCallu that he had not removed the bed which he placed in the garage. police would keep a close watch on tha ~araca and there would De .| set back far enough to overcome | Mayor McCallum In- | ny A delegation of residents of St. | WhitbyManAdmits Having Possession Of Lottery Tickets at prices to suit your spEcIA 0 . n- _ wmef Wil- .» TICKETS aued on Page 12) By STUART UNDERHILL Canadian Press Staff Writer London, April 7 -- (CP) -- The special tax on wealthy British in- vesotrs, contained in Sir Stafford Cripps' budget message for the fis- cal year 1948-49, today is sharply criticized by most British news- papers as a 'capital levy" which would result in further flights of capital from the United Kingdom. Sir Stafford, in presenting his two-hour, 13-minute speech to the House. of Commons yesterday, ad- mitted the tax undoubtedly will have to be paid "largely out of' capital." The special tax applies only to investors with total incomes of more than £2,000 ($8,000) and ranges from 10 per cent on invest- ment incomes above £250 to 50 per cent on all above £5,000. It includes unearned incomes. from interest, dividends and rents in the upper brackets, in addition to income tax. The independent Daily Express, one of the governments most out- spoken critics, says that the levy would "extort" £100,000,000 = from "men and women who are diligent in business and have put aside some money for old age." In an edilorial headed "Anti- Capital Budget," the influential Financial Times asserts that cap- ital for the first time has been "officially decared a non-contribu- tor to the national productive ef- fort." The independent Daily Graphic terms the tax the "severest blow British financial stability has had to counter." Sir- Stafford said the tax would UK Tax 'Capital Levy' Driving Money Abroad British Papers Charge and of be assessed for one year only would raise a "contribution" about £105,000,000. With the levy, Sir Stafford cused 500,000 little men from in- come taxes and eased the sacri- fices of millions of other low bracket income taxpayers. Under the new tax a married man with two children earning $2,000 would pay $90 compared with $51 in Can- ada and no tax in the United States. : The adjustments, in the purchase tax will save consumers an esti- mated £500,000,000, The tax on many essential articles was cut from 50 to 33% per cent. In introducing his special levy on unearned income, Sir Stafford said: "It is undoubtedly right that those who possess large capital as- sets should make some contribution to help the country in this emer- gency some are spending those assets in a manneg distinctly infla- tionary in its eff » Winston Churchill, Conservative leader, opened debate on the budget | Ig shortly after Sir Stafford finished his speech. The investment levy drew the immedaite fire of the war- time Prime Minister before debate was adjourned until today. Sir Stafford, in his first budget | message since he replaced Hugh Dalton as Chancellor last Novem- ber, said he expected a surplus this year of £778,000,000. Expenditures were estimated at £2 976,000,000 and revenue at £3,754,000,000. Last year's actual surplus, the first bal- anced budget since 'the second world war began, amounted to £636,000,000, ATOM: TESTS AT ENIWETOK HINTED IN US By DOUGLAS LOVELACE Honolulu, April 7 --, (AP) -- A top-level American scientist-mili- tary team is evidently conducting a secret series of major atomic weapons tests at isolated, guarded Eniwetok Atoll. The first of these tests, to chart wartime uses of atomic fission, probably already has been con- ducted. The tests are not the grandstand show of the 1946 Bikini experi- ments. Then hundreds of news- paper men, scientists, military ob- | servers and diplomats from many | countries watched and told the world what they saw. At the current tests, the only Take advantage of th and dresses now avaiis the knowledge that Brig.- -Gen. | coats and suits siyleais individual tastes, in qu, Ed worth SHC ex- witnesses hre a few experts from one country--the United States. military in purpose, to show how American armed forces may use atomic en- | ergy in war. The United States | Atomic Energy Commission has warned everyone but a few well- screened experts to keep away. There is no indication here that anyone is expected to return soon from Eniwetok. This supports the belief that a series of several tests is under way. It seems evident to careful ob- servers that at least two types of tests were planned. The first, pre- sumably, would be the use of at- omic warheagls on guided missiles, on short range flights; the second, atomic bombs dropped from the air, Rear Admiral William S. Parsons, a Deputy Commander in the oper- ation, was quoted in a newspaper interview here as saying that in- struments instead of guinea-pig | | ships would be used to record Gil | results, Supporting the belief that bomb- | drops from planes also are planned | Roger M. Ramey, Chief of the 8th | Force, is due before long, [ Ramey commands the B-29 Bom- Tex., | lkknown as the Global Air Force. B- 29s dropped the atomic bombs at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikini | and. it seems likely that only an- other atomic bomb test would bring Po to the mid-Pacific just now. Half-Million Out Of Jobs "By Coal Rift Pittsburgh, April Tapa 7 (AP) --The number of American workers idle, due directly or indirectly to the 24- day-old soft coal walkout, passed the half-million mark today. Heading the list were John' L., Lewis' 400,000 soft coal miners. Out on a sympathy strike which started yesterday were more than 9,000 Eastern Pennsylvania anthracite miners. Both groups are members of the United Mine Workers, About 60,000 transportation work- ers, mainly railroaders, were jobless because there was no coal to move. Most of the others left idle were steelmakers, scattered over a dozen states. United States Steel Corporation and subsidiaries announced cut- backs in the Pittsburgh district, slashing steel operations in that area to about 80 per cent of normal. Roy England Barred From Entering US Detroit, April T--The president of Canada's largest United Auto Workers (C.I.O.) local, Roy Eng- land, of Windsor, Tuesday lost his argument for entry to the U.S. A U.S. immigration board of in- quiry announced it had rejected England, head of Local 200;,Ford Motor Co. of Canada, for US. en- try. 2 E. E. Adcock, director of U.S. im- miggation, said England has the of appeal to Watson B. Mil. ler, commissioner of immigration at Washington. Board members declined to give reasons for England's exclusion, England said he would launch an | immediate appeal to Washington. THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness and con- tinuing mild today. Overcast and warmer Thursday. Showers and thundershowers beginning about Dawn Thursday. Winds easterly '15 today and tonight, east 25 Thursday. Low tonight and high Thursday 47 and 70. BLAME UK. IN COLLISIO British Offi Officials Says Soviet Story 'Palpably Untrue' By James J. Devlin Berlin, April 7 (AP) --The Soviet Union threw the blame for Monday's Russian-British plane crash on the British plane today, but British officials said the Russian story was "palpably untrue." a A Russian investigating commission charged the crash, Nine Injured In Collision Of 2 Trains North Bay, Ont., April 7--(CP) --Nine persons suffered minor in- juries today when a transcontinen- tal eastbound passenger train and an extra westbound freight collided head-on on the Canadian Pacific Railway line at Santoy, 22 miles east of Schreiber, Ont., about 123 miles east of Port Arthur. Names of the nine persons have not been learned but they are iden- tified as four passengers, four rail- way employees and an express manager. No cars from either train were derailed, Auxiliary locomotives from Schreiber and White River were ordered to the scene. The passenger train resumed its course after a three-hour delay. Other main line traffic continued uninterrupted. in which 15 died, was caused British violation of allied A tions. The .commission said it oce curred over a Russian airport in Berlin and that the British pilot failed to comply with four-power Allied Control Council regulations by flying over the Soviet traffic zone The official British said: "Moscow radio has put out the story that the British Viking air- craft came out of a low cloud and collided with the Soviet fighter about to land. The official British view is that the true facts about the collision cannot be established until the enquiry has been complet- ed. This much is kmown, however: "Visibility at the time of the col- lision was some five miles. When two. miles from Gatow airfield the viking was sighted from the air traffic control tower at Gatow Air- field. Also the Viking had flown from Hamburg down the corridor towards Berlin at a height of 1,800 feet with the clouds another 1,500 feet above it. The facts in them- statement BLAME PLANE (Continued on Page 2) Lewis Asks. Injunction As U.S. Ponders Move To Get Mines Working Study Protest Of Local 200 In UAW Dispute Windsor, Ont., April 7 (CP).--The disputed election of officers in Local 200 United Automobile Workers (C.1.0.) is being studied now by the union's international executive board in Detroit. The local's executive at their meeting last night made no decision about a new election, demanded at a general membership meeting Sun- day following charges of "irregu- larities" in the March elections, It was learned that the alleged discrepancies in the election 'and the conduct of Sunday night's mem- bership meeting were submitted in a written report fo the Detroit executives of the international union. They have the authority to name an investigating committee to probe the charges and rule on what action the local shall follow. A second meeting of the Local 200 executive was called for tonight. It is the 1947 executive which is meet- ing as the new officers were not installed as scheduled at the Sunday meeting. bs Washington, April 7--(AP)--John | L. Lewis today asked a federal court to set aside an order directing the | United Mine Workers (Ind.) to end the 24-day-old pension.dispute soft coal strike. Lewis, through counsel, asked the district court for a hearing Friday on the request. The U.M.W. chief challenged the validity of the strike emergency provision of the Taft-Hartley Act, under which the court order was issued last Saturday. "Violation of the miners' right to stop work and freedom from in. voluntary servitude is explicit in the court's direction that the uni- on shall order the miners to return to their employment," the Lewis motion said. The order by Justice Matthew PF. McGuire directed the union to end the strike, and Lewis and mine op- erators to negotiate settlement of the pension dispute that touched off the walkout March 15, Prospects of union-operator talks to end the strike apparently had vanished, however. Lewis' action came as Attorney General Clark appeared ready to seek a contempt citation against Lewis and his striking miners. The necessary papers were drawn, INJUNCTION (Continued on Page 2) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS = HINT CZECH ARMY PURGED London, April 7 (AP)--The Czechoslovak Relief Committee for Political Refugees reported today that it had heard hazy reports of a officers. In a dispatch from purge of Czechoslovak army rague, the Yugoslavian News Agency Tanjug, reported an impending purge of the Czechoslovak Popular Party. 20 MONKS DIE IN FIRE Shanghai, April 7 (Reuters)--Twenty Buddhist monks refused rescue last night and died chanting in the flames of their 1,700-year-old King Shan (Golden Moun- tain) monastery at Chinkiang, a Yangtse fort 140 miles northwest of here, it was reported today. ARABS STAGE ATTACK Jerusalem, April 7 (AP)--A large Arab force re- sumed its attack on the embattled Jewish settlement of Lehavot in Upper Galilee today. The Jewish army was reported returning Arab fire. Police said a plane, believ- ed to be Jewish, dropped five bombs early today near Kastel Village, five -miles west of Jerusalem on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv road. PROTEST TRIESTE INCIDENTS Belgrade, April 7 (AP)--The British and American embassies have handed similar notes to Yugoslavia pro- testing shooting along the Yugoslav-Trieste border. The western powers charged that Yugoslav soldiers have been firing at.British soldiers and Venezia Giulia police 'in the Trieste free zone. 0 EE (mem mn RE =