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. = sl ! aT = OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY, OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1948 : FOURTEEN PAGES Price 4 Cents VOL. 7--NO. 117 . GIRL, 8, ATTACKED, LEFT FOR DEAD iw 1 i it RE -- ph ais . ; LJ J sig ® '" ar Non-Resident Pupils In Four Schools Missing 17 Hours, ee : ERT Police Find Child CITES OUTPUT Toronto, May 18--(CP)--C Criminally assaulted and ap= : ® AS UK NEED parently left for dead, eight-year-old Teresa Dowling was In City Classrooms As UR. Non-resident pupils will be barred from four Oshawa found today cowering in a suburban York Township field after being missing for 17 hours. " Scarborough, Yorks, England, Her clothing torn to shreds and her face covered with May 18--(AP)--Labor Party leaders public schools next year due to overcrowding, it was decided aboui-faced 104ay on: the govern. last night at a Board of Education meeting in O.C.V.L The four schools are North Simtoe, Cedar Dale, King blood, Teresa could only say: "I'm scared," when discovered by a constable crouched in a clump of bushes in a field just ment socialization program and be- gan stumping for private industry. five blocks from her home. The consensus of leading dele- The district is less than two miles® gates at the party's 47th annual from where 11-year-old Arlene An- | conference is that most nationalized derson, » paralytic, was found! hyo ss ----- Sb Widely Mourned 'parents or guardians. Non-resident Street and Mary Street. According to registration figures for this year, 30 non-resident pupils® will be affected; 12 in North Sim- cod School and 18 in Cedar Dale. There 'are no non-resident pupils registered in either King Street or Mary Street schools but these are so crowded now that the ban was placed on them in case attempts were made to register there, According. t6 Board of Education figures, there is one non-resident pupil registered at South Simcoe School but this pupil will not be affected. 18 At Cedar Dale With the ban in effect, the 18 aon-resident students now .attend- ing Cedar Dale will be forced to attend Union S.S. No. 4, located one mile west of Park Road and south of Thornton's Corners, next year. Up until now Union 8.8. No. ¢ has been paying tuition for the. 18 boys and girls at the standard rate of' $7.34 per pupil per month. At North Simcoe School, the tui- tion is paid for at the same rate by pupils will attend North Oshawa School, north of the cemetery next year, Some of the non-resident pupils now attending North Simcoe School, live inthe immediate viein- ity of the school and will next year be forced to travel some distance for their education. North Oshawa Building The: barring of non-resident pu- pils from North Simcoe School will be discussed at a meeting of the North Oshawa School Board, Arthur Moffatt, chairman of the board, said today. "This is the first I've heard of this move," he said when asked to comment. "We are building an ad- dition to the school but it won't be ready until Christmas at the earliest. It will mean quite a bit of hardship to some of the chil- dren." A four-room addition, consisting of three régular classrooms and a general classroom is in the process of being erected at North Oshawa school. Wet weather, has slowed operations. "We are so crowded now that we have two classes in the basement," Mr. Moffatt said. Suggest Other School William E, Dearborn, secretary of | Union S. S. 4, said today that his | board will try and reach some agreement with the Oshawa Board | of Education to have children of | the district accommodated at an- other Oshawa School. "Our school is filled to capacity and there is absolutely no rocem for any more pupils," he said. "I am going to interview Oshawa officials and see if the children cannot be accommodated in another school such as South Simcoe. Our children could get to South Simcoe all right but if they went to any other we would have to provide transporta- tion. "I we cannot make arrangements for them to attend South Simcoe, we will try to locate them at West- mount or some other rural school. Even if we could accommodate them at 8. 8. 4, some children would have to travel three miles from their homes to get there." Is Re-Elected WILLYAM TAYLOR Who was re-elected president of the Ontario Dental Technicians Association at its annual convention in Toronto during the week-end. 7 Freight Cars Block CPR Line Near Schreiber North Bay, May 18 (CP).--Seven | empty tank cars derailed on the] Canadian Pacific Railway main line at Coldwell Monday night blocked the track for seven hours. The tank cars, in the middle of a freight train comprised of 26 loaded cars and 21 empties, Coldwell, 45 miles east of Schreiber at 10 p.m. Auxiliary cranes were brought to the scene from Schreiber and White River. The track was cleared by 5:30 a.m. today. Damage was light to both track and cars. No one was hurt in the mishap which caused slight delays | to passenger trains Nos. 1 and 2. Residential Streets Discussed The Planning Board devoted a lengthy session last night to the consideration of streets which might properly be added to the consoli- dated by-law providing for strictly residential streets, One item referred to the Board from the last City Council meeting was an application of William Hurst for permission to erect a taxi stand on Bond Street West. it might be detrimental to surround- ing properties. Stalin Makes Overture To Settle D ifferences With The United States By EDDY GILMORE Moscow, May 18 (AP).--Prime Minister Stalin says Russia is willing, if the United States is, to accept Henry A Wallace's recent "open letter" to him as the founda- tion for peaceful settlement of Soviet-American quarrels. In a statement dated Monday and released by the Soviet press depart- ment Monday night, Stalin replied to proposals made by Wallace at a political rally in New York a week ago today. "I do not know," Stalin said, "whether the United States govern- ment approves of Mr, Wallace's pro- gram as a basis for agreement be- tween the USS.R. and the United States. i "As far as the government of the US.S.R. is concerned, it considers that Mr. Wallace's program should serve as a good. and fruitful basis for such an agreement and for the development of international. co- operation." (In Washington, the White House and the State Department withheld official comment). Stalin gave a concise summary of Wallace's proposals, which he said "are known to everybody," listing them as follows: 1. "A general reduction of arma- ments and prohibition of atomic | weapons. 2. "Conclusion 'of peace treaties | with Germany and Japan and the troops question of evacuation of from these countries. 3. "Evacuation of 4troops China and Korea. 4. "Respect for the sovereignty countries and non- af- of individual interference in their domestic fairs. STALIN (Continued on Page 2) were derailed at | Toe Board | expressed opposition to the ersction | of such a building as it was felt from projects promised in the 1945 cam- paign have been completed. They now favor modernizing industry for higher production under private en- terprise. "Nationalization is about finish- ed," War Minister Emanuel Shin- well, Labor Party chairman, said in an interview. He indicated the party is split over proposed government ownership of the iron and steel industry, the only campaign pledge of public ownership not yet carried out. "Steel is all up in the air," Shin- well declared. Deputy Prime Minister Herbert LABOR PARTY (Continued on Page 2) 53 Houses To Be Built In East End Fifty-three more Integrated houses are being erected in the newly developed LaSalle-Cadillac- Highland Avenue area by three Oshawa contractors. The homes will be located in the block between Gliddon and Eulalie Avenues. On Highland Avenue, N. Johan. | sen and Sons are building a total | of 23 houses. Of these, 18 are a one-storey, five-room bungalow type costing $6,000. Dimensions are 25 by 38 feet. The remainder are storey and a half, 25 by. 28 feet in dimension, containing six rooms. Cost of construction for these is $7,500 each. W. Mosier is constructing 11 houses on LaSalle Avenue, seven of | = When a firecracker, thrown beneath a bread salesman's horse, exploded, the animal ran wild and deposited which are five-room, one.storey | bungalows costing $6,000. The re- mainder are $7,000, six-roof, storey- ana-a-half houses. On the third street in the area, Cadillac Avenue, Romanuk Broth- ers are constructing 19 houses. Sev- en of these are seven-room, storey- and.a-half houses costing $6,500 | Dimensions of the two types are 22 by 37 feet and 25 by 36 feet respec- | tively. All of the houses are to be brick veneer with concrete foundations, hardwood floors and hot air heat- ing. Three Contest Presidency Of Local 1817 Nomination of officers last night resulted in a three-way contest for the presidency of Local 1817, United Steelworkers of America. Clifton Lang and S. H. Atkinson are op- posing W. R. Welsh for the Union's top post. The election will be held at the Union's meeting on June 21. Jeff Authors and F. S. Britten are candidates for the vice-presi- dency while Violet Taylor is oppos- ing D.N. Kay, recording secretary. Raymond Grills received an accla- mation as financial secretary as did Leonard Cheeseman as treasurer. Michael Romanchuk was un opposed as guide while Albert Blatch and C. H. Welsh were named inside and outside guard respectively, William Anonichuk, Violet Northcott and Josephine Homes were returned as trustees by acclamation. R. S. Vickery was elected to fill a vacancy on the Negotiating Com- mittee in the Ontario Malleable Iron Company division of the Union, The meeting heard Thomas D. Thomas and Arthur Williams, C.C.F. party candidates in the Ontario provincial and the Dominion by- election. The Union voted a contri- buton to the C.C.F. election fund which will amount to $1.00 per member. The local number over 1,200 member's. The Dominion government will be asked to disallow the new law passed by the legislature of Prince Edward Island which prohibits the existence of unions with affiliation outside the province. THE WEATHER Cloudy, clearing this after- noon. Cooler this evening. Wed- nesday clear and cool. Winds north 20 today, 15 Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednes- day 37 and 60. Summary for Wednesday: Clear and cool. its wagon with decided finality up this tree on Mary Street yesterday. Hugh Hamer (inset) thought some child responsible for the prank which did considerable damage to his wagon and slightly injured the horse. Acre Is Taken By Jews After 72-Hour Battle; Planes Bomb Tel Aviv By JAMES M. LONG Tel Aviv, May 18 -- (AP) --Jew- | ish Army sources said the ancient all-Arab town of Acre surrendered unconditionally early today a 72-hour battle In the streets. Hagana said earlier it had some 4,000 Arabs trapped in the old wall- ed city, eight miles north of the Jewish port of Haifa. Hagana fighters claimed control of the highway through the city, a link to Jewish settlements in the north. Acre 'is just outside the area of Palestine designated as _ Jewish under the United Nations partition plan, To the east, Jewish sources in Haifa declared 500 Arabs were drowned when Jews opened a dam and flooded plain lands south of the Sea of Galilee. Tel Aviv was raided by light bombers just after dawn, for the fourth straight day. The 45-minute attack was the longest yet upon the city. The Jews said they shot down one attacking plane and damaged another. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. Hagana said one of the attacking pilots crash-landed near Rehovot, 15 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, and was taken into custody by two girl soldiers. They said. he identified himself as an Egyptian air force pilet officer. In the first day's air raids Saturday, the Jews also had | claimed capture of an Egyptian pilot, | The Haifa informant said Arab columns were trapped by the rush- ing dam waters near Deganya on the southern tip of the Sea of Galilee. The plain lies below sea level in the Jordan valley. Before the surrender of Acre was claimed, Hagana said Jewish com.- mandos had swarmed down upon the ancient city from the historic hill from which Napoleon once tried. unsuccessfully to storm it. The Jewish commander had said his force was "not interested" in immediate capture of Acre. Control of the highway was more important because it was 'necessary for de- fence in depth of our outposts and tier, 15 miles to the north." He said women and children of | | the Jewish after | Lebanese frontier have been evacu- settlements along the ated and other Arab villages along the highway have been neutralized. Hagana announced Monday that Arabs had begun a massed attack gainst the Jewish quarter of Jeru- salem's old walled city. The U.N. consular truce commission was re- ported to have hastened to Amman, Trans-Jordan, for talks with King Abdullah. A Jerusalem dispatch Monday said vritually all the centre of the city was in the hands of the Jews after 51 hours of furious street fighting that followed - Friday's withdrawal of British forces. The dispatch, dated Sunday, said Arab shells 'were falling into the city at that time. Fire Damages Hague Palace The Hague, May 18 -- (AP) --A fire severely damaged Queen Wil- helmina's Noordeine Palace today, raging for an hour 'before it was brought under control. Witnesses said* the flames, fan- ned by a strong wind, probably were started by a torch used by painters, who were burning off old paint on the roof. The 67-year-old Queen and oth. er members of the Royal family were not at the palace, built in 1553 |- and the residence of the Orange dynasty for centuries. It has been used for official receptions only in recent years, Wilhelmina is staying at He! Loo, her summer residence in the country. Soldiers carried the many art treasures of the palace to safety under the direction of Prince Bern- hard, husband of Crown Princess Juliana. --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Cedar Dale a Asks School Addition A request of a delegation of the Cedardale Home and School As- |settlements on the Lebanese fron- (sociation for a two rpom addition [to the .school, connect by sliding doors so that the space could be {used as an auditorium, was refer- {red to the property committee by the Board of Education, meeting in O.C.V.I. last night. The delegation, headed by Mrs. Steve Ritzie, chairman of the H. and S. program committee, claim- ed that the school was overcrowd- ed and there were no proper quar- ters in which meetings could be held. Last year, Mrs. Ritzie said, some of the Cedardale pupils were transferred to South Simcoe School across the railway tracks. "Cedardale is growing," Mrs. Ritzie said. "There is a whole new community there." Cedardale school, she claimed, was in a delapidated condition and the addition would ease .the pressure on both teachers and pupils. Inspector T. R. McEwen said that Cedardale school was not as crowd- ed as three other schools in the city. There are 274 pupils in Ce- dardale with an average of 34 in a room, At King Street School there 'are 314 pupils with an aver- age of 39; at Mary Street School, 208 with an average of 36 and at North Simcoe School 404 with an average of 40. There are 28 registered for the beginners' class in Cedardale with a like number in the entrance class, leaving the school population sta- tionary, he continued. The same situation prevails at King Street, but in North Oshawa there are 54 in the beginners' class and 43 grad- uating, thus leaving the situation |at that school worse than ever. CONVICTS TRANSFERRED Kingston, May 18--(CP)--Trans- fer of 45 convicts frcm Kingston Penitentiary to Stoney Mountain Penitentiary in Manitoba took place during the week-end. Convicts were placed aboard two heavily guarded railroad coaches which ,were later attached to a main line train for Toronto. The transfer was made to relieve overcrowding in Kingston Penitentiary. ravished and murdered last autumn. Scores of searchers had combed the area since Teresa was last seen going to a store to buy a school spelling book at 4 pm. Monday. A telephone call sent police back to the district atter they had just about given up hope that Teresa would be found. Police checked a report that an old man had been seen with the girl in the vicinity, north of the old belt line railroad, a mile or so north of the northwest city limits. One of her eyes was closed, ap- parently from a blow. Dried blood covered most of her body. A bloody stone which police be- lieved was used to subdue the child, was found. Hospital authorities reported her condition is "not too bad." It is feared the girl may have serious head injuries. Her shoes were found beside the two-pound rock 50 feet from where she was discovered. A trail of blood led from them to the thicket where she lay. Branches were stained with blood and pieces of her clothing were scattered around. "There isn't the slightest doubt she was left for dead by a cold- blooded killer," said Chief Robert Alexander of York Township police. It is believed the child was crim- inally attacked where her shoes were found, then covered up and left. Apparently she crawled some distance after regaining conscious- ness. Branches torn from the under- brush were too thick for a child to have broken off, police said. Tire marks of a car were found enter- ing and leaving the field 100 yards from the, spot. "She is in pretty fair shape and was talking to us on the way to hospital," Inspector Alfred Gray of York Township said. "She said she didn't know how she got to that spot where she was found and she kept on asking where her mummy was." At hospital for sick children a doctor said the girl has a. serious head injury. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dowling, arrived at the hospital a quarter hour after her admittance. Ralph Allen, a district resident, had noticed a little girl walking west along his street about 8.30 p.m. last night. As he hadnt heard of | Teresa's disappearance, he thought | nothing of it. This morning his wife learned of the search and recalled her hus- band seeing the girl. She called police. The child's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Dowling, notified authori- ties yesterday after she failed to return from the store. C.C.F. CANDIDATE Cobourg, May 18--(CP)-- Harold Peirce, Campbellford garage owner, was selected C.C.F. candidate for Northumberland ,at a convention held here Monday night. REV. JAMES E. BECKEL, B.A. Former student paStor of Cedar Dale United Church, and president of the Bay of Quinte Conference, who died suddenly at Kingston, One tario, yesterday, Ten Persons Die In Blast Kearny, N.J.,, May 18 (AP).--A shattering tank explosion and fire shortly before midnight Monday night killed at least 10 persons at the sprawling Koppers Company tar and cheinical division plant. Nine bodies were taken from the ruins of the building along the Hackensack River and another vice tim died in a hospital. Firemen searched the wreckage for addi- tional victims of the blast that set off a fire in an adjoining building of the plant. The company's office in Pitts burgh said the explosion occurred when a strong wind blew part of the contents of a 50,000-gallon tank of a distillate against a hot pipe. The distillate, used in making other chemicals "flashed" and then set the tank afire. A service building, laboratory and machine shop were ruined. First reports said the blast was caused by blazing naphthalene. Officers had estimated from eye= witness reports that 11 workers were trapped in the building when the explosion occurred. The blast, heard over a 15-mile area, sent a sheet of flame into the air over the plant's tar and chemi- cal division. The reflection against low-hanging clouds was reported seen 10 miles away. A series of minor explosions followed the first blast. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS x : POLAND RECOGNIZES ISRAEL London, May 18--(CP)--The Polish government has officially recognized the State of Israel, Warsaw Radio said tonight. Monday Russia followed the lead of the United States and Guatemala in recognizing the new state. CARPENTERS REJECT OFFER Cornwall, May 18--(CP)--Striking carpenters to- day rejected a new offer of contractors in the month-old dispute. Although similar to one last week, the offer in- cluded the proposal that preference be given union men, Other clauses include wages of $1.20 an hour for car- penters and 80 cents for helpers, 44-hour week and two per cent holiday premiums. SURVIVES SAND CAVE-IN : Barrie, May 18--(CP)--Buried under about 30 tons of sand ior 35 minutes today, Vernon Adams of Oro Township was rescued unhurt. Reginald Adams, his father, was covered to the waist by the sand-pit cave-in. The younger Adams' face was pressed against the spokes of a wheel, permittin him to breathe while res- cuers removed the five feet of sand covering him. GUNS BARK IN CAIRO Cairo, May 18--(AP)--Large guns, apparently anti- aircraft, fired a few rounds near the heart of Cairo late today. What they were shooting at was not learned immediately.