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PAGE THRER. THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Return Polish DP's To Germany For a few days atter une nou= days those people who have been away entertained their fellow stu- dents with tales of their daring(?) exploits, but after awhile the listeners' faces became a little strained from being polite and SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1948 . [Jd {During 1947 Halted By Poli On Several Issues = though revenues were 19 per cent SR i WR directory one dollar (!!) fo} The report signed by president G. tion of the Ontario Legislature last night by Lieutenant- the treasury can well afford The report showed that last year : A 1it ning + [the afternoon-to wind up the six- 'and other health and welfare meas mies lurking x tnt of a [ie PA FAP ET 40 Bills A d, 5 Defeated As Legislat Winds Up Ihe -- ol A Deficit |Six-Wee et} Montreal School TCA Deficit |Sijx-Wee €SS101 | Is $1,761,000 > For Y ung Reds § 1.701, Ends With Action Ottawa, April 17--(CP) -- Trans- Canada Air Lines operated at a to- i tal deficit last year of $1,761,000, al- : - § : higher than the previous year, the y r SHITE 15:8 needa dind fog. lines annual report showed yester- Toronto, April 17 (CP)--A rush of activity, during Yiose Students Wie din 8 day. The 1946 deficit was $1.269.624.| which more than 40 government measures were approved pictorial section. You see + R. McGregor, was tabled in the| and five opposition bills defeated, culminated with proroga- shrewd little beavers our cal Commons by Reconstruction Minis- consists of! So that at this 1 ter Howe. 2 Governor Ray Lawson. laughing at gews gradually Jaded Suites 2 fede e3penss, an] SOAS epsraling Tevenues were $15,- | The house sat for an hour in the ® . had an epidemic o e lowly graduates of the sc , against operating expenses | ! ot TH re dh Bgoini of | Or is this banquet merely anot of $16,796,491 to which had to be! morning and another four during 'creased support to' public hospitals, added $261,897 interest on capital. | 0 In 1946 revenues totalled $12,810,805 week session which saw legislation | ures," were mentioned in the pro- and operating costs $13,926,061. In- dealing with housing, hydro, labor 'I08ation speech as sessional auditorium stage, EE a a SS i ---- went by. But this sport died. --an urfatural death, we add. And so it wasn't until week that things began to around the old place. And here plunge. First the athletics. Track is really hitting its s these days, with the next work being held on Monday at § Coaching on high jumping has ready been begun and hurdles be started immediately for | boys who are interested. Cadet rifle practice has § made its bow. Originally schey ed for last Wednesday morn the downpour, and so on Thurs afternoon ten boys sallied ou$ to the back campus each gin} ly clutching a rifle. For the past two weeks Sketching Club, has been direct its energies towards a program imitating the old masters of French and Dutch schools. || likely that you'll find anything match Reubens, but it's all k of fun to watch, Fifth form filled out their plications for the departmen this week. Seems only yester that we fought our way thro the February ones, and yet I , are the departs leering af, Ws. Law and police said the Attorney- General could order the premises padlocked if necessary. . The children, many of whom could not speak English, were questioned by Detective John Boy- czum of the city anti-subversiive squad. Boyczum said questioning revealed that most of the lectures dealt with the accomplishments of the Soviet Union in the Ukraine. Among the books seized were text-books dealing with the Rus- sian revolution. Printed in Ukrai- nian, they were devoted to at- tacks on the Canadian way of life. One book was called "The King Keeps an. Army to Fight the Working Man" while gnother told the children that the church in general aims at keeping the work- man backward. Police said that the children had also formed a band and played pices like "Stalin, Our Hero", and "Red Army March", North Toronto Songsters Here Sunday, May 2 The North Toronto Citadel Song- sters of The Salvation Army will visit Oshawa on Sunday, May 2, and will be heard in the local Citadel morning, afternoon and night. This remarkable vocal organiza- ion is associated with 'the North 'oronto Corps, situated on Eglin- ton Avenue, Toronto, and consists of 40 vocalists under the direction of Phil Gardner. They have travel- fed widely, and have an interna- tional reputation, Included in their number, are some outstanding ar- tists, Adjutant Arnold Brown, in- strumentalist and baritone; Mrs. Douglas Murray, soprano; and others of equal stature. Their itinery will be a full ane, commencing with the morning ser- vice at 11 o'clock, and finishing with an After Church porgram at night. The feature Choral Festival will be held at 3.30 p.m. To all appearances the public is invited to hear this visiting choir. Heads CDNA Toronto, April 17--H. L. Gar. er, general manager, Peterborough Examiner was elected President of the Canadian Daily Newspapers As- sociation at their annual meeting in the Royal York Hotel, yesterday. Other officers were A. F. Mercier, Le Solieil-L'Evenement-Journal, Quebec, first vice-president; Roy H. Thomson, the Thomson Dailies, sec- ond vice-president; W. J. J. Butler, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, trea. surer. I. H. Macdonald is general manager and Duncan MacInnes, Secretary. The following directors were elected: R. A. Barford, the Thomson Dailies, Toronto; John Bassett, the Sherbrooke Record; W, J. Blackburn the London Free Press; H. G. Brewer, the Montreal Dally Star; Senator W. A. Buchanan, the Lethbridge Herald; Mi H. B. Burgoyne, St. Catharines Standard; W. J. Campbell, the Toronto Daily Star; R. M. Cantlon, Saskatoon Star Phoe- nix; Emile Castonguay, L'Action Catho- | lique, Quebec; nald Cromie, the Vancouver Sun. Arthur L. Davies, Kingston Whig- Standard; T. F. Drummie, Telegraph- Journal ° and Evening Times-Globe, Saint John, N.B.; Major C. G. Dunn, the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph; Philip 8. Fisher, the Southam Co. Ltd., Mon- treal; P. C. Galbraith, Vancouver Daily Province; H. L. Garner Peterborough Examiner; H. A. Sraybiel, the Windsor Dally Star; R. B. a, the Evening Telegram, Toronto; Allan Holmes,: the Times-Herald, Moose Jaw: J. P. Hogue, La Presse, Montreal: Emile Jean, Le | Nouvelliste, Trois Rivieres, 5 { J. P. Kenney, the Ottawa Citizen; F. | I." Ker, the Hamilton Spectator; H. G. | Kimber, The Globe and Mall; C. Le- | Couteur, the Post-Record, Sydney, N.S.; | William Lord, Winn Free Press; Wesley McCurd; Dv mient-J 1 'Evenement-Journal, Motz, Kitchener-Waterloo Record; . W. Robb, the Halifax Herald and the Halifax Mail. D, Smith, the Daily Times-Journal, Fort William; John D. Southam, the Calgary Herald; W. J. C. Sutton, the Gazette, Montreal: Roy H. Thomson, the Thomson Dailies, Toronto; E. C. Whitehead, Brandon Dally Sun, Bathe Park Hosts At Square Dance Members of Bathe Park Neigh- borhood Association will be hosts tonight at the sixth weekly com- munity square. dance night at the Community Recreation Association building, Gibbs Street. . In order to ensure that this event 'will remain a community gathering primarily for adults, it has been decided to no longer sell single admissions. A couple may, however, bring a friend. With square dancing being the chief feature attraction, these com- munity get-togethers have become increasingly popular. A week ago attendance was close to 250. For tonight a musical program has been planned for the half-hour broadcast period from 9.30 to 10 p.m. Dancing is from 8 to 11.30 p.m. DATE WAS INCORRECT It wag incorrectly announced on page two in yesterday's edition of The Times-Gazette, that the popu- | lar Shirriff"s Fun Parade sponsored ! by the Kinsmen Club of Oshawa | would be held on May 20. The show | featuring the popular radio artist, | Roy Ward Dickson, is to be staged in the Oshawa Arena on Friday, May 28. Mr. King Within 3 Days | Of Achieving Ambition ' By DOUGLAS HOW Ottawa, April 17--(CP)--William Lyon Mackenzie King, 73 years of age and mildly sick at home, is within three days of achieving a cherished ambition. On Tuesday he will match the unsurpassed record of Sir Robert 'Walpole in being the Prime Min- ister of a country within the Brit- ish Commonwealth of Nations for 7,620 days or 20 years, 10 months and nine days. On Wednesday the Canadian Prime Minister will beat this rec- ord, four months before his anticl- pated retirement in August. Sir Robert Walpole was Prime Minister of Great Britain from April 3, 1721, to Feb. 11, 1742. Mr. King, chdsen Liberal leader 29 years ago, was elected Prime Minister of Canada Dec. 29, 1921. In the last 26 years his leader- ship has seen two breaks. One lasted three months in mid-1926 during the famous constitutional issue involving, Lord Byifg, then Governor-General, The other last- ed thfough the 1930-1935 depression years of the Conservative regime when Mr. King. was opposition leader. Suffering from a cold, he was confined to his home yesterday when it grew worse. But his office said today he hopes to entertain Prince Charles of Belgium at din- ner there tomorrow night. The Prime Minister anticipates a return go the Commons Monday. » Still the big Liberal chief, he led his forces in this week's freight- rate crisis and broke off any threat- ened revolt by Maritimes and West- ern members with a caucus state- ment that it was hardly the sort of issue on which to fight a Fed- eral election. Mr, King himself has remained silent about the Walpole record and | the other records he has broken by the length of his political service. But sources close to him indicate that he is fully aware of them and takes a secret pleasure in their attainment. No special ceremony appeared in the offing to mark his climactic achievement, although Mr. King is expected to be guest of honor at a reception given by wives of the cabinet ministers Wednesday night in the parliament building. It is expected that many telegrams and let¥ers will honor him and that the Commons will pay its tribute. . One disappointment for the Prime Minister, is that he will not be able to watch Barbara Ann Scott, World and Olympic skating: champion, perform in the Minto Follies Saturday night. The pretty Ottawa lass bussed and kissed a delighted Mr. King when she arrived home from Eu- rope a few weeks ago. Born at Berlin, now Kitchener, Ont., Dec. 17, 1874, Mr. King on June 8, 1946, broke the record of {previously been Canadian Prime Sir John A. MacDonald who had Minister longer than any other man --18 years, 11 months and 26 days. Last farewells are bid five Polish DP's, who came to Canada on illegal passports and are being shipped back to Germany. Friends gathered at the Union Station in Toronto yesterday to see them off. Left, Mrs. Ida Sommer and son Marvin, friends of Abram Abromowitz, beside her; Morris Freedman of Toronto, friend of Arthur Magat, to his right; David Fajtlowicz and Mrs. Sam Weinstein, landlady of one of the deportees. General Motors Short of Steel In Detroit Plant Detroit, April 17--(AP)--Motor vehicle production prospects for the weeks immediately ahead nose- dived Friday as General Motors announced it was running out of pig iron and steel. The biggest of the car markers reported a progressive shutdown of its. foundries, machine shops and press buildings would close all | of them by the night of Alpril 23. This would mean unemployment for close to 200,000 workers. Gen- eral Motors said it hoped to be able to resume fabricating plant operations by May 3. The General Motors announce- ment brought an immediate state- ment from Walter P. Reuther, 'United Automobile Workers (CIO) president, in which he said: "It seems to us highly credible { that the announced layoff may be more closely related to collective bargaining negotiations mow in progress than to an alleged short- | age of steel." Reuther said General Motors representatives during the last week had refused a Natioal Labor Relations Board request for a five- day notice of shutdowns, so that union security elections could be scheduled when most employees were at work. The General Motors announce- ment said the car assembly plants "will continue in operation as long as material permits." General Motors. attributed the depletion of pig iron and steel stocks directly to 'the pension-dis- pute coal mining stoppage. Apple Demand Said Mixed In District Conflicting reports from various sections of the Lakeshore District of Eastern Ontario regarding de- mand and movement of apples have been received, according to the weekly crop and market report is- sued by the Dominion Department of Agriculture for the week end- ing April 13. Some sections are claiming good demand and fair volume of move- ment while other report the oppo- site. General holdings are heavy for this time of year and in order to clean up supplies by the middle | of May, movement will have to in- crease considerably. Cold storage McIntosh are now showing some indications of in- ternal breakdown in some lots; however, holdings of this variety are row light. McIntosh appear to be in better demand than any other variety and are being used as an inducement to sell other var- ieties such as Russet, Stark, Green- ings, etc. Canners took a few thousand bushels during the week for processing. Some growers have applied the dormant spray but most of this spraying will be done in the com- ing week. Potato offerings are mostly from the eastern provinces with prices holding firm for this stock and ad- vancing for local stock. With the exception of impo cabbage and carrots, vegetab supplies are light. Heavier sup- plies of hothouse lettuce are notice= able but the supply is not yet suffi- cient to meet the demand. Prices are high. Growers are now work- ing on the land and some planting has been done, The maple syrup season is over and was a short and discouraging one to Producers due to the light run and consistent rainfall at the time of good runs. Prices were the one bright spot for the pro- ducers as they remained firm and comparatively high throughout the season. The prevailing price was $4 a gallon." Approximately 12,000 acres of peas have been contracted for by canners. Some peas have been planted but generally growers are busy preparing the soil. CONV ENTION DELEGATES Mayor Frank N. McCallum, Pro- gressive Conservative candidate in the coming federal by-election and J. H. McDiarmid, president of the Oshawa Progressive Conservative Association, will be the local de- legates at the annual three-day convention of the Dominion Pro- gressive Conservative Association to be held in the Chateau Laurier Ho- tel, Ottawa, starting Monday. Not Out of Woods Yet On Dollar Conservation Finance Minister Says By DOUGLAS HOW 'Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, April 17--(CP)--Gov- ernment financial authorities. are soft peddaling any tendency to gloat over progress of the five- months- old Canadian program for the conservation of United States dollars. A recent editorial in the New York Herald-Tribune, for instance, commenting that Canada. had "turned the corner" economically, met a cautious reaction in official circles. Finance Minister Abbott admit- ted: "We're on our way up all right, but we're not out of the financial woods by a long shot. We've got quite a long way to go before we hit a satisfactory level of gold and dollar reserves." One of his top advisers said: "We have stopped the drain. Tt doesn't go much beyond that yet." The latest figure on reserves was given by Mr. Abbott for the end of February -- $527,000,000. Still near the danger mark for a country of Canada's financial sta- ture and trading characteristics, but considerably better than the $461,000,000 of last November when the minister announced the austerity program. However, $30,000,000 or. nearly half of the difference consisted of a U.S. payment on capital account for a wartime debt on equipment used in the north. The government's program, now in full stride, dinked import res- trictions, excise taxation and limits on money Canadian. tourists could take across the border. The latest figures indicate that | it slashed the negative balance of | trade with the U.S. by some $39,- | 000,000 in the first.two months of | 1948, entirely because of enlarged | exports. Meanwhile, the financial basis i of Canada's foreign trade lies in |a period of transformation from her own $2,000,000,000 post-war program of loans, grants and cre- dits to the E.R.P. era that will shortly succeed it. = It was the dollar shortage that ground her own program to a halt after 85 per cent of it had been spent or committed. The last $230,000,000 of .the $1,~ 250,000,000 British lvan remains frozen, after withdrawal of $7,500,- 000 to help pay for food centracts in the first two weeks of April. reviewed in September, Less than $100,000,000 of the roughly $600,- 000,000 granted five other Kuro- pean countries has not 'been either spent or committed. The remainder was made up of $154,000,000 granted U.N.R.R.A. The problem of what will be- come of the remnants of the credits is linked with E.R.P. discussions between Ottawa and Washington. So far no definite policy on con- tinued Canadian aid to Europe has been laid down in connection with the American plan for Euro- pean economic recovery. The credits 'may become the basis for continuation or they may be abandoned for some new sys- tem. {p.m. in Ritson Road School. Alberta Seeks To Widen Laws On Libel Issues Edmonton, Apnil 17 (CP)--The Alberta Government announced Friday it has recommended that the Criminal' Code be changed so that charges of libel could be tried any- where the publication is circulated. The code now provides that charges must be tried in the prov- ince where the publication is print- Attorney-General Lucien May- nard said ° the recommendation went to federal authorities Feb. 25 with a protest against a proposal to change the code so that charges of conspiracy to libel would be tried in the province of publication, The code now makes it possible to ny conspiracy charges in any prov- ce. The Canadian Press, the Cana- dian Daily Newspapers Association and the Periodical Press Associa- tion have petitioned the Dominion Government to give publications the same protection under cone spiracy charges as they now have on charges of libel. It was reported from Ottawa recently that Justice Minister Isley intends to introduce Bo amending the code as htey . L 4 Mr. Maynard described the pro- posed amendment as a. "complete departure from a cardinal principal of the criminal law, namely that & person may be prosecuted and tried in the jurisdiction where the crime was committed." The Alberta Government acted under the conspiracy section when it charged three residents of On- tario with conspiring to publish a defamatory libel. They were ac- cused in connection with an article in New Liberty Magazine ecriticiz- i> child welfare administration by the Alberta Government, On April 5 the Crown stayed prosecution of the charges against Jack Kent Cooke, of Toronto, pub- lisher of the magazine; Harold Dingman, Ottawa, editor, and Dr. Charlotte Whitton of Ottawa, wel- fare authority. Later the govern- ment announced it will not revive the charges. r ---------- TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR Through a typographical error, a front page story on eating est- ablishments in yesterday's issue of The Times-Gazette read: "Of Osh- awa's 56 eating places, all but one have not complied with the new Department of Health regulations." It should have read: "Of Oshawa's 56 eating places, all but one have now complied." / Food Convoy Gets Through To Holy City Jerusalem, April 17--(AP)--The |reached Jerusalem's hungry Jews | today. Nearly 300 trucks loaded with flour, meat, vegetables and dairy products rolled into town for the otherwise isolated 100,000 Holy City Jews. A strong Hagana (Jewish Mili- tia) guard accompanied the convoy over the road, which lately has been under Arab fire. A small group of priority passengers came with L including a number of Jewis Agency officials and participants in the recent Zionist General Council meeting at Tel Aviv. The passengers said the trip was uneventful and not a shot was fired. The trip appeared to bear out the had knifed into Saris, a strategic village on the route, and had driven out the Arabs, Saris is between the hilltop village of Kastel and Lat- run si Both Arabs and Jews continued to claim victories in fighting at Mishmar Haemak, a Jewish settle- ment southeast of Haifa on the old battleground of Armaggedon, The Arab field commander of the Arab volunteer army said yesterday his forces have pushed Hagana fighters back into Mishmar Hae- mak after beating an effort to en- circle his forces. won a decisive victory over the Arab forces there, led by Fawzi Bey Al Kaukji, Commander of the Arab volunteer army. STOPS HENGE Even for double the . price you can't buy BARN, GENUINE -ASPIR MARKED TH biggest food convoy ever sent from | | Tel Aviv and Palestine coast points | Jews' claims yesterday that they | Jewish sources said the Jews had | terest in 1946 was $154,368. The increase in revenues last year arose from a 40 per cent rise in the number of passengers carried and a 38 per cent jump in the volume of air exprses. Costs, however, were substantially greater. Salaries and wages cost an additional $1,347,908 and materials were up $1,128,541. "Revenues were not sufficient to offset the mounting expenses, attri- butable not only to the expansion of the air line, but to the much higher cost of labor and materials," ccm- mented G. R. McGregor of the North American operations. The Atlantic operations were shown separately and brought a net surplus of $136,303. TCA (At- lantic) Ltd. had operating révenueg of $5,483,298, expenses of. $5,341,898 ang interest of $5,097. In 1947 TCA carried 427,967 pas- sengers and 1,439,814 pounds of ex- press, and flew 1,232,237 mail ton miles. The fleet at the end of the year consisted of 30 Douglas DC-3 air- craft and 11 Lockheed Lodestars. All of the 10 and most of the 14-pas- senger Lockheeds had been retired from service in favor of the 21-pas- senger DC-3's and the 40-passenger North Stars now :in production. Some of the older equipment was sold, 4 Bathe Park Area Association To Hold Meeting Bathe Park Community Associa- The status of the credit will be |tion will hold its first annual meet- ing Monday evening April nut t expected Captain R. L. Coleman, Director of Recreation in Oshawa, will address the gathering. Election of officers is the main item on the agenda. Residents of the area bounded on the north by King Street, on the south by the Canadian Pacific Railways tracks, on the east Wilson Road and on the west 'by Drew Street, are all invited to at- tend and help make the meeting a success, ernment bills, The final day provided an unique occurrence of the session when the C.CF. were supported by the gov- ernment in opposition to the Lib- erals. It was the only time that the CC.F. and Progressive Conserva- tives found themselves on the same side while the Liberals were on the other side, | The position developed over a iresolution expressing concern with failure of the federal government ito reconvene the dominion-provin- | cial conference to reach agreement jon taxation, haelth and social se- icurity measures and a public in- ivestment program. It also urged ; that the conference be reconvened. The resolution originated with | A. MacLeod (L.P.P.-Toronto Bellwoods) in a different form. There had been an addition that {in the event the conference is not [reconvened Ontario should vite | other provincial governments to a conference which would give con- | sideration to the matters. With this last provision in it, Premier Drew said, the government was opposed to the resolution, con- tending a conference without the dominion would be useless. However, when W. J. Grummett, CCF. house leader, moved an amendment striking out the last sentence, Premier Drew declared alone on one side with the C.C.F., L.P.P. and government on the other. , Election Bombshell The most spectacular point of the sitting, however, was the announce- ment by Premier Drew that an elec- | tion would be held June 7, with the | principal issue the government's | $600,000,000 hydro expansion pro- | gram, which Premier Drew said de- { manded a renewed vote of confi- {dence in the government from the | people of Ontario. "Important provisions to support the building of new housing accom- modation, a measure to encourage {the productoin and improve the dis- | tribution of milk, a bill which 'will 'dustrial relations in uniformity |establish a code of labor and ine with the federal law on this sub- ject, a bill to provide new and in- and milk head the list of 99 gov- | the government would support it. | Thus, the Liberals found themselves ' achievements. "In a further bill of unassuming ' proportions the legal foundation has been laid for a great transformae tion in our public. hydro-electric power system." The speech expressed sympathy 'to the families of Dr, Gordon Mile len, Progressive Conservative meme ber for Riverdale, who died last | Saturday, "and William Robertson, C.C.F. member for Wentworth, who | was fatally injured in an auto ac- cident last Wednesday. It also ex= pressed hope for a speedy recovery of Garfield Anderson, Mayor and C.CF. member for Fort William, who was injured in the same accie dent. The housing plans to which the | speech referred consist of a foure point program which the govern ment declared is designed to ene courage construction of homes without actually entering the build- ing field. The scheme was estimated to. need $30,000,000. { Main provision of milk legisla« "tion is to remove control of retail milk prices and allow them to reach a level set by competition. Aid to hospitals is to be from the amusement tax field, A bill has | passed giving the province author- ity to take over the 20 per-cent amusement tax when the dominion vacates the field. All revenue would 80 to public hospitals. Cites Surplus Referring to the budget, which provides for expenditure of $257, 328,341 this year, the speech said | "it is a matter of great encourage= ment that ample funds have been | provided without any new or ine {cerased taxation. This, combined with the $25,000,000 surplus of last year, resulting in the greatest re duction in the public debt in any | single year, is indicative of the high level of productivity and employ ment which the province now is enjoying," it said. Recorded votes were forced on all five opposition measures which were defeated yesterday. A sixth | bill, which would make it an of- | fence to practice discrimination in employment, was withdrawn by its LEGISLATURE ) (Continued on Page 5) §; NEW No needle changing -- no contem space. 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