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OSHAWA and Chronicle E DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette WHITBY: VOL. 7--NO. 14 OSHAWA-WHITBY, FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES JEWS PROCLAIM STAT City Told Rail way Pu 4 x Intends To Restore Poles Humphreys Sees COMMITTEES Approval of Diesel Preferable Move Notice to the city that the Oshawa Railway Co. intends to restore its poles on King Street within -a monh brought the suggestion from Ald. R. D. Humphreys last night that the railway company be given permission to operate a small diesel electric engine as a temporary expedient. A communication from J. F.¢- Pringle, Canadian National Rail- ways vice-president, dated May 3, notified City Council that in view of the intention of the Public Util- ities Commission to remove its poles from King Street, the Oshawa Rail- way proposes to erect its own poles, so that it may continue its service to the three coal companies located on King Street West. The notice was based on a 1911 agreement between the Oshawa Railway Co. and the then town of Oshawa, by which the company agreed to remove its poles in an area to be paved by the municipal- ity. It had retained the right, how- ever, to restore its poles on giving one month's notice. The communitcation suggested that the city might waive the one month requirement if the removal of the present poles were urgent. erable to Poles Declaring that it appeared unlike- ly that a settlement of the King Street - tracks question would be concluded in fhe immediate future, Ald. Humphreys Suggested that the operation of a small diesel by the railway would be preferable to the erection pf a new set of poles. : As the court hearing in connec- tion with the injunction restrain- ing the city from removing the pre- sent poles has not yet taken place, however, no action was taken last night and Council merely referred Mr. Pringle's communication to the City Solicitor. Next Wednesday has been set as the date for the hearing. Meanwhile Council heard read the resolution which is to be sent to Transport Minister Lionel Che- vrier requesting that a special ack of Parliament be passed cancelling 2 the Oshawa Railway Company's franchise on King Street. It was moved also that Council submit a definite proposition to the coal companies concerning alternate sites for their yards. . Resolution The resolution to the government read as follows: "Whereas the Oshawa Railway, a subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway, holds a franchise to oper- ate an electric railway on King Street in the City of Oshawa under an agreement dated 5th day of May 1893, And whereas the said railway on King Street is used solely for the purpose of carrying freight to three RAILWAY INTENDS (Continued on Page 7) FEAR 31 DEAD IN AIR CRASH Brussels, May 14--(Reuters) The wreckage of a missing Belgian Sabena Airlines plane which crash- ed on a flight from Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, to Brussels, was found early today by a rescue plane : about 15 miles south of Libenge, Belgian Congo, it was officially sta- tioned here. The Sabena Company announced today that 25 passengers, including a nine-months-old baby, boarded the plane at Leopoldville, and that the crew comprised six, including an air hostess. Ground parties are pushing through the jungle toward the wreckage. The air report did not mention if any survivors were sighted. Council Honors Memory Of Late Treasurer Two minutes' silence was observ- ed at the opening of last night's City Council meeting in memory of the late city treasurer, Peter A. Blackburn, who was fatally injured Monday night. Funeral services had been held during the after- oon. Council also recorded its pro- found sorrow at Mr. Blackburn's passing and extended sympathy to his family. The resolution read: "The mayor and council of the city of Oshawa record with pro- found sorrow the sudden and un- timely passing of the city treasur- er, Peter A. Blackburn, who served this city for more than 25 years with marked ability and faithful devotion to his many duties. "The mayor and council on its own behalf and that of the citizens | generally extend to the bereaved family the utmost sympathy at this sorrowful time." A by-law was passed also. ap- pointing Harold E. Tripp as dep- ntv-treasurer. Mr, Tripp has been employed in the treasurer's depart- meat for some years. Striking Mob Raids Plant, Wreck Fixtures, Kidnap 30, Free 110 Hogs In U.S. City Newport, Minn,, May 14--(AP)-- A mob estimated at 200 men forced have been treated for cuts and a 1 entered the plant early its way into the strikeb d Cud- ahy and Company packing plant at midnight, heavily damaged the in- terior, set free several thousand dollars worth of hogs and carried away 30 plant workers as hostages. R. J. Swenson, general manager of the plant, gave this account of the incident: "About 11:15 pm. (CST) an es- timated 200 men--some of them Cudahy workers on strike--entered the plant, "¥irst the main power switch was pulled, plunging the plant into darkness. Then a room where some of our men were sleeping was en- tered Cots on which they rested were broken up and some windows smashed. "Locks on some of the stock pens were broken and 110 hogs, valued at about $6,000, were set free. "A new car belonging to one of the plant engineers was tipped over and the windows of one side and the windshield were broken. "The plant boilers were turned off but apparently there was no serious damage done to them. "Then about 30 of the 50 to 60 men who were on duty in the plant were herded into cars and taken away. (At 6 am. CST Swenson said all but 11 or 12 of the missing men had been accoun! for.) "These men ere apparently taken out 'into the hills. A number of me nwere hurt in the plant. Two of them are in hospital and several this; morning with Sheriff Reuben Granquist, The manager said a sur- vey wg being made of the plant to determine the total damage. Swenson said he would ask Gov- ernor Luther W. Roungdahl to call out the National Guard as "this has exceeded the stage at which we can work through court orders." The district office of the United Packinghouse Workers (C10), which called the strike over wages, issued the following statement shortly afterward: "The C.I.O. Packinghouse Work- ers are fighting for their jobs and for their families with the only means available, There is no need for the National Guard. The union neither desires nor will it institute violence on the. picket line, but we will not stand idly by and see our strike smashed, our union wrecked and our working conditions set back a 100 years." H. W. Reister, Cudahy superin- tendent, said the mob of between 200 and 300 had overpowered a score of watchmen and invaded the plant shortly before midnight. He sald many of the raiders carried clubs and lengths of pipe. Dr. William J. Watson, Newport physician called to the plant short. ly after the raid, said he had treat- ed six injured men in the comp- STRIKING MOB (Continued on Page 2) OF CHAMBER APPOINTED Tentaive dates for ber of Commerce yesterday. Com- mittee chairmen and members for the year were named at the meet- ing. The Industrial Fair Committee is headed by L. M. Souch with Keith Gahan, Mel Jolley and Les Eagleson as co-chairman. Other committees named were: Civic Affairs: J, G. Geikie, chair- man; L. M. Souch, W. G. Burns, K. D. Gahan, M. D. Wyman, A. F, An- nis, K.C.., Hayden Macdonald, Ross Rowlands, A. W. Armstrong, S. F. Everson, J. R. MacBrien, George Roberts, Elmer Dixon, H. J. Walm- sley, M. J. Fenwick, Dr. H. B. James and W. Ford Lindsay. Finance: Lloyd Currell, chair- man; W. A. Wecker, A. G. Storie, George Hart, Dr. G. L. Bird, L. F. | McLaughlin, Mayor Frank McCal- lum, J. G. Geikie, EA. Robson, A. R. NAME COMMITTEES (Continued on Page 2) British Earl, Marchioness Die In Crash Privas, France, May 14--(AP)-- Earl Fitzwilliam, prominent British sportsman, and Kalhleen Lady Hartington, daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, former United States Am- bassador to London, were killed Thursday night when a chartered plane crashed on a flight from London to Cannes. The two crew members also were killed. The bodies were found in the wreckage today. A search party reported all the planes occupants were found in their places. Lady Hartington was stretched on her back and appear- ed to have been asleep. She had a long cut on one side of her face. The fuselage of the plane, owned by Skyways, Ltd. of London, was found. lying horizontally on the rocks of an 1800-foot mountain. The right wing was 300 yards be- hind it and an engine about 300 yards in front. Lady Hartington, 28, was the widow of a marquess killed in the war four months after their Lon- don marriage, The Earl, 37, had chartered the plane. He was a captain of the Greha- dier Guards and a prominent race horse owneg and breeder. Lady Hartington, pretty and vi- vacious, was a sister of U. S. rep- resentative John F. Kennedy (Dem. Mass). The Earl's family traces back to before Norman conquest times. Be- sides his widow, the former Miss Olive Plunket of Ireland, the Earl is survived by a daughter, Lady Anne, born in 1935. Eric Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 64, a cou- sin, inherits the title. The Fitzwilliam family seat at Rotherham, one of the largest houses: in Britain, has 250 rooms but only 30 are in use. When the Earl married in 1933, he took 600 tenants of his father's vast York- shire estate to Dublin for the cere- mony in two steamships. War On Now Arabs State Damascus, Syria, May 14 (AP). -- The Arab League's general secre- tariat proclaimed Thursday night that a state of war exists between the Arab countries and Palestine Jewry. Syria, in line with this, was de- clared today to be in a state of emergency. Parliament is scheduled to meet this afternoon, informants said, to impose martial law .and appoint Premier Jamil Mardam Bey Mili- tary Governor. It also was to lay on.press cen- sorship. Parliament Thursday sent back a bill to censor military and political news with instructions for an amendment to exempt political news. Syria since May 4 had a kind of censorship called "administrative regulation." Foreign correspondents must submit dispatches to the For- eign Office for approval, Military leaves were cancelled. Official holidays were suspended until further notice, : The Arab League is made up of Syria, "Lebanon, Trans - Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Saudia Arabia and Yemen. ) the Oshawa Industrial Fair in the Arena were | set as September 23, 24 and 25, at. a directors' meeting of the Cham-' Once prominent on the diamond for Oshawa baseball clubs and more recently active in the organization of ~~ Mayor Gives Kinsmen Stadium Fund Big Boost minor sports in the city, Mayor F. N. McCallum yesterday gave the Ki a big boost when he presented two cheques, totalling $500, to club officials. The prsentation of the cheques -- | $350 from the McCallum Transport Co., and his own p ersonal cheque for $150 -- to Dr. R. E. Cox, right, chair- man of the stadium committee, and Jack Cooke, left), president of the club, is shown here. | Civic M ial Stadium project --Times-Gazette Staff Photo | Canadian Legion Will Demand Early Start On Rental Housing The - Housing Committee of the Oshawa Branch of the Canadian Legion will endeavor to meet with the special committee of the City Council in -an effort to have con- struction of rental housing for vet- erans started as soon ag possible it was decided. at the regular meeting of Branch 43 last night. During the meeting strong criti- cism was voiced over the manner in which Central Mortgage and Hous- ing have continued to change the original construction plans without decreasing the cost of erection. President John Burch defended the action of City Council in refusing to take any type of exterior on the proposed houses stating that the delay in starting the project was in no way their fault, "The City Council was quite prepared to go ahead as the plans were originally presented but Central Mortgage and Housing have changed their specifications to such an extent that the houses are not acceptable to the city at the price asked," he declared. Zone Commander James. Lovell stated the city was originally ready to go ahead with 100 units but after inspection of the city-owned lots only 56 were acceptable, "To my knowledge City Council {s ready to go ahead, all it wants is Central Mortgage and Housing to live up to their end of the original agree- ment." -Comrade Thomas Bouckley vigor- ously protested the cutting down of Oshawas allocation, stating that Mayor McCallum had told the membership that council would go as high as 150 houses if necessary. "If this keeps up," he declared, "first thing you know we will be getting only 25 or perhaps none at all." 'Other, members stated that they wanted the housing to go but to keep it in its original form | as a low rental project and ex- | pressed their confidence in the action of the City Council in han- dling the problem. During the meeting Comrade Cecil "Regina' Slade presented the Branch with a Cribbage Trophy to be contested annually by the mem- bers in singles competition. It was decided to send a letter of thanks to Mr. Ewart McLaugh- lin for his extremely generous pres- entation of a large Union Jack. 14 Arrested As 600 Fight 15 Constables At: Leaside; Rotten Eggs, Toronto, May 14--(CP)-- Twelve men and two women were arrested today as striking United Electrical Workers (C.I.O.) staged a demon- stration at the Rogers Majestic plant in suburban Leaside. 2 George Harris, Canadian secre- tary of the U.E.W. was arrested as he addressed pickets over a port- able public address system. It was the biggest disturbance since the workers struck 11 days ago to protest the company's refu- sal to accept a conciliation report on wages and working conditions. The union charges that the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AF.L) is trying to break the strike. Those arrested today and charged with intimidation included six from outside' the Toronto area. They were: Donald Wilson, 19, and George Schaeffer, 35, both of Welland; Ross McLeod, 36, Hamilton; Michael Heafey, 29, Timmins, and William Baker, 24, and Lloyd Taillon, 19, both of Cornwall. Police described the pitched bat- tle which took place between 600 pickets and 15 police constables as the "most vicious experienced yet in the 11-day strike." ttoR eegngs rocks and other missiles were hurl- ed through the' company's office windows. The flare-up occurred after pick- ets had formed a road-block by lin- ing three autos across the street in an attempt to halt all city buses carrying plant workers. Pickfats clambered aboard the buses and bodily removed workers. When po- lice attempted to stop the pickets, Rocks Used and arrest t he instigators, more than 500 strikers clashed with the police officers. Today's arrests brought the total number to 34 arrested since the strike began. Police said those ar- rested today will be charged with intimidation and will face further rossible charges. - Union workers early today para- ded to the plant headed by an auto- mobile equipped with a public ad- dress system. Harris had just begun to speak to the crowd when he or- dered to stop by Leaside Police Chief Jobin McGrail. Two youths then hurled eggs in the direction of the police chief. Police constable then moved in on the youth and fights broke out. belligerent crowd formed around the youths an dfights broke out. Cornwall, Ont, May 14--(CP)-- Six more arrestc were made today in the Cornwall construction strike, bringing to 14 thie number of un- ion men arrested in two days. The caypenters went on strike April 20 for higher wages, union recognition and holiday premiums. The arrests today followed a clash between pickets, non-union workers and police at a construc- tion job. Shortly after the arrests work on the project ended and workers walked off the job amid taunts and jibes from some 300 pickets. Police said charges against the arrested pickets--members of Lo- cal 2307 carpenters and Junior of America--range frcen watching and besetting to illegal picketing and use of violence. Several have been a scrupulous cheek of the numerous ahead Poult, Palms, shrubbery and crossed released on, bail PARIS CHEERS ROYAL COUPLE By JOAN CAPREOL Paris, May 14--(Reuters)--Thou- sands of Parisians thronged the | streets of their flag-ana ilower- bedecked city today to cheer Prin- cess Elizabeth and Prince Philip as they began their five-day visit to the French capital, The royal coup.e arrived from Britain 'this morning at the Paris | North .Station to the accompaili- ment of waves of cheering from thousands who had begun to gather just after dawn. A white-gloved guard of honor lined the. platform and British and | French police inspectors carried out press photographers and reporters as the train pulled in. The Princess and her husband were met by Foriegn Minister Bid- British and French flags adorned a passageway leading from the station, along which the royal couple hastened to waiting cars which whisked them off to the] British Embassy. An Embassy spokesman said they were in good spirits and had had an excellent channel crossing. The Princess wore a grey en- semble and a grey hat with a small veil and roses. Prince Philip was in naval uniform. Princess Elizabeth and her hus- band were sound asleep in their special car as it was hauled ashore from the night train ferry from Dover at Dunkerque. Passengers on board were disappointed because the Princess did not appear for a night stroll on deck. She remained in her cabin, resting before her crowded Paris program. Prince Philip, hatless but in uni- form, went up to the bridge as soon as the royal coach came on board. He steered the ship out of the har- bor at midnight under the eye of Capt. John Beach and remained at the wheel for an hour. Then he had a whisky with the Captain before retiring. Passengers gathered below to greet him. He acknowledged their greetings with a smile. Paris papers headlined the Prin- cess' visit. Flying Instructor Injured By Prop St. Thomas, May 14--(CP)--Mil- ton P. McDougall, manager of St. Thomas Municipal Airport who ten- dered his resignation Wednesday to | accept a post with the Ontario | County Flying Club,0s hawa, Thurs. | day suffered a severe hand injury | in an acciden at the airport. He was priming a Cornell * in| charge of Don Snelgrove when the moetor shot into action, due to a switch being partially on when it was thought to have been turned off. The propeller struck him heav- ily across the left hand and on two fingers of the right hand. He was brought to Memorial Hos. pital here where it was determined two fingers and a bone in the back of his left hand were fractured. THE WEATHER Ovorcast today. Occasional drizzle. Saturday clear and warmer. Winds light. Low to- night and high Saturday 43 and 65. Summary for 'Saturday: Clear. ISRAEL Justice And Peace, Equality For All, Upheld In Pledge : Tel Aviv, May 14 (CP)--The birth of the Jewish state of Israel was proclaimed here this afternoon at a solemn as- sembly of. members of the Jewish National Council. The proclamation declared: "We members of the National Council representing the Jewish people in Palestine and the Zionist movement of the world, met together in solemn assembly on the day of the termination of the British mandate for Palestine, and by virtue of natural and historic right of the Jewish people, and by resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations, hereby proclaim the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine to be called 'Israel'." The proclamation was broadcast Cunningham Boards Ship In Ceremony By EDWARD CURTIS Haifa, May 14 (AP).--Sir Alan {Gordon Cunningham, British High Commissioner, stepped off Pale- stine soil at 10:05 a.m. today, pre- paring for the end of the British mandate at midnight. Wearing the uniform of a British General, he walked down a few steps of dock into a launch which took him to the cruiser Euryalus. He is to sail aboard the cruiser the moment the mandate runs out. Upon getting into the launch, he turned and looked soberly up across the docks. There stood an honor | guard of the King's Company of Grenadier Guards and Royal Ma- rine Commandos. The launch pulled away amid the slap of hands on rifle butts. Puffs of smoke and the small, hollow explosions of a 17-gun salute drifted in to shore from the cruiser outside a breakwater. A flight of Spitfires winged over the Euryalus as he boarded her. They will return at sundown. The Cruiser will remain in Pale- stine waters, the Haifa roadstead, until the midnight hour of sailing. Sir Alan arrived by R.A.F. plane today from an airport a few miles outside Jerusalem. Atop Govern- ment House there, his standard, the Union Jack with the seal.of Pale- stine on a field of blue, was low- ered as an Irish Guardsman piped and the Highland Light Infantry gave a salute. Preceding Sir Alan into Haifa was Lt.-Gen. G. H. A. MacMillan, com- manding British forces now. with- drawing from Palestine, At Haifa airport, Sir Alan took the salute of a picked 50-man com- pany of Palestine police. His route to the dock was guarded carefully. No crowds were along the way. It lay mainly through Arab quarters, niost of whose popu- lation fled a few weeks ago after the Jews seized control of the majority of Haifa. Irish' Guards piped "The Minstrel Boy" and other airs while Sir Alan inspected the honor guard on the dock. After he had gone to the ym passewr szadid ayy 'I9sInId Grenadier drummers and led the troops from the harbor and back to routine duty. e Aboard the Euryalus Sir Alan waited for midnight. Then, with bands playing aboard the aircraft carrier Ocean and amid a display of flares and rockets, the cruiser will steam from the Holy Land. over the newly-opened Jewish broadcasting station 'Voice of Is- rael' and was made eight hours before the mandate officially ter- minated because Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath. The proclamation added: "As from the termination of the mandate at midnight tonight, and until the. setting up of duly-elected bodies in accordance with the con- stitution to be drawn up by the constituent assembly not later than the first of October, 1948, the pres- ent National Council shall act as the provisional government of the State of Israel, "The state will be open to all Jewish immigrants, will promote the development of the country for all its inhabitants, will be based on the precepts of liberty, justice and peace taught by the Hebrew prophets, will uphold full social and political equality for all its citi zens without distincton of race, creed or sex, and will guarantee full freedom of education and cul- ture." The proclamation also promised safeguards for shrines and religious places of all religions and that the state would dedicate itself "to the principles of the charter of the United Nations." Ask U. N. Aid The proclamation appealed to the U.N. to assist the Jewish people in building their state and sought admission into the U.N. It called upon the Arab inhabi- tants of "the. State of Israel" to return to ways of peace and prom=- ised them full and equal citizen- ship and representation in the state bodies and institutions. Peace was also offered to neigh« boring Arab peoples. The Jews decided to proclaim their state in the afternoon be- cause the Rabbinate opposed break« ing the Sabbath, beginning at suns down tonight. The army, Hagana, faced toward three frontiers--north, south and East--to guard the limits of that state, taking in parts of Palestine promised the Jews in the United Nations partition plan. Hagana Syrian armored forces already had begun' an attack on Dan, about a mile inside Palestine, northernmost limit of the Holy Land of Bible days. (In Damascus, Syria, the Arab League proclaimed that a state of war exists between the Arab States and Palestine Jewry. In the south, Egyptian volunteers have been reported probing 50 miles deep into the Negeb desert lands. And some 3000 of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion are in Palestine on PROCLAIM STATE (Continued on Page 2) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x JEWS ALERT FOR INVASION Tel Aviv, May 14 (Reuteérs)--The Hagana High Command today broadcast an appeal to the Jewish population to be ready for the possibility of invasion and air raids against the newly-proclaimed Jewish state. JULIANA BECOMES REGENT ) The Hague, May 14 (Reuters)--Princess Juliana today became Regent of the Netherlands for the second time in seven months when she was sworn in at a joint session of tha States-General in the historic 700-year-old Hall of Knights. The Princess and her consort, Prince Bernhard, drove through crowded streets from Queen Wilhelmina's town palace to the hall. INJURED IN BLAST Hamilton, May 14 (CP)--When the condenser of a refrigeration unit exploded in a canteen operated by the Canadian National Institute for the Blind at a steel plant today, William Prosser, 60, blind operator, suffer- ed severe arm injuries. REPORT 6 HUNTERS SAFE St. John's, Nfld., May missing since they put out 14 (CP)--Six seal hunters from the mainland at Port Au Choix, Nfld., Wednesday were located by a United States army plane today. A brief message from the air- craft said the men were apparently all right and had dories. Port Au Choix is on the northwest coast of New- foundland near the entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle, sald Thursday night,