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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY 138 . OSHAWA-WHITBY, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948 TWENTY PAGES » VOL. 7--NO. Price 4 Cents 1 DEAD, 1 MISSING IN BUSH FIRES ____$34 Million Loss As Timber Stands Swept by Flames By The Canadian Press Northern Ontario fire crews today prepared to spend another week-end on the fire lines, their third since the sun= dried bush in the Mississagi and Chapleau areas erupted in flames May 25. One fire fighter is dead and another missing in the Sankey area. George O'Connor, 22, was drowned when a punt capsized. Forestry officials still have no word on the whereabouts of Byron Rhude of Sudbury, missing since last Sunday, The 1948 Graduating Class at the Oshawa General Hospital & In those sections and in parts of Northwestern Ontario and Nor. thern Quebec the firefighters still awaited rain to help them tame the Eighteen girls graduated from the School of Nursing of the Oshawa General Hospital last night when they received their diplomas and pins at the exercises held at the Oshawa Collegiate. Pictured above, from the left are, back row: Miss Erla Beatrice Watson, Goodwood; Miss Lorna Erwin Tripp, Oshawa; Miss Patricia Sarah Walters, Whitby; ®% : Miss Muriel Louise Gifford, Oshawa; Miss Jean Elizabeth Meyers, Belle- | Helen Elizabeth Peters, Allensville; Miss Olga Stephanie Poloz, Oshawa; ville; Miss Mavis Lucretia Kerry, Port Perry; Miss Marion Joyce Long, | Miss Mary Bourne, superintendent of nurses; Miss Mary Iydelle Flintoff, Oshawa; Miss Lillian Bernice Lee, Whitby; Miss Muriel Eileen Carson, Brooklin; Miss Marion Faye Gilroy, Enniskillen, Front row: Miss Hil- dred Leila Taylor, Roseneath; Miss Mary Adeline Carr, Toronto; Miss | Belleville; Miss Joyce Elizabeth Rice, Toronto; Miss Olga Krawec, Oshawa, and Miss Audrey Anne Crook, Oshawa. ~--Times-Gazette Staff Photos 18 Oshawa General Hospital Graduates Receive Diplomas Three long years of study, back-breaking hours on duty, a few tears, perhaps, but also happy companionship and life- long friendships, were climaxed last evening in the audi- torium of the Oshawa Collegiate and Vocational Institute, when 18 young women from the Oshawa General Hospital received their diplomas and pins as® graduate nurses, Last evening cul- minated also, more than a week of teas, banquets and dances given in their honor by the Hospital Board of Directors, the Nurses Alumnae Association and others who wished them well. Walking down the aisle, the young graduates were radiant in their white uniforms and black- banded caps and with large arm bouquets of red roses tled with gold satin ribbon, the colors of the Training School of Nurses. The au- ditorium was filled to capacity with the friends and proud parents of the group. Eloquent Valedictory A feature of the program was the valedictory address given by Miss Muriel Gifford. Miss Gifford infect- ed the audience with her sincerity, mingled with a manner of expres- sion which caught the everyday happenings in the life of a nurse in training and made them humorous. The full text of Miss Gifford's speech appears on page 6 of today's issue. Mrs. R. 8. McLaughlin fastened the pin on each girl's uniform, and J. A, Morphy, president of the Hospital Board of Directors, pre- sented each with her diploma. They were assisted by Miss Mary Bourne, Superintendent of Nurses. The gra- duates were as follows: the Misses Mary Adeline Carr, and Joyce Eliza- beth Rice of Toronto; the Misses Mary Iydelle Flintoff and Jean Eli- zabeth Meyers, of Belleville; Miss Muriel Bileen Carson, Brooklin, On- tario; Miss Marion Faye Gilroy, of Enniskillen; Miss Mavis Lucretia Kerry, of Port Perry, the Misses GET DIPLOMAS (Continued on Page 12) Doctor Appeals 'Avarice' Opinion In Whitby Case Toronto, June 12 -- (CP) -- Dr. John A. MacArthur filed an appeal here Friday from an opinion of Mr. Justice G. A. Gale that he had "de- meaned himself * for avarice" in charging excessive fees. . Mr. Justice Gale's judgment, brought down at Whitby, had awarded 'the executors of the es- tate of the late Willlam H. Leonard $150 on he grounds that the physi- cian had been overpaid that amount. Thomas Delaney, Counsel for Dr. MacArthur, argued Friday that evi- dence did not support the finding that his client had acted otherwise than in good faith." He also submit- ted that Mr. Justice Gale had erred in admitting and rejecting evidence. Assessments Should Not be Tied to Material Costs, Assessor Thinks Although buildings are selling to- day at double their "assessed value, the most up-to-date assessments do not go by material costs because the general concensus is that an economic adjustment is inevitable in "maybe only two or three years." This is the view of W. Eldon Kerr, City of Oshawa Assessment Com- missioner, who returned Wed- nesday from London, Ontgrio, where he has one of 300 dele- gates attending the seventh an- nual convention of the Association of Assessing Officers of Ontario. Mr. Kerr told The Times-Gazette in an interview that members of the Association agreed that dsastic revisions in their assessments mere- ly for the purpoe of keeping up with. material price changes were not worthwhile since an adjustment called by some a recession, was due. Outcome of the convention from the viewpoint of Oshawa is that "there will be quite a bit of extra assessment" if many of the re- commendations made at the con- vention are put into effect. pa "It will be a big help to the tax- payers here," Mr. Kerr declared, ' explaining that the higher a. city's assessment, the lower the individual mill rate. He went on to say that during the time he was in London, he dis- covered that in municipalities com- parable in size to Oshawa, the assessment was "on an equitable basis." Mr. Kerr said the business assessments made here were closely akin to similar cases in other places. Big question at the convention wag the interpretation of a section of The Assessment Act which dealt with departmental stores and re- tail merchants dealing in more than five branches of retail trade or business. Mr. Kerr did not say whether agreement had been reach- ed on the problem. nipeg's Assessment Commis- sioner, roy Borrowman, told dele- gates they would all receive charts to aid in computing depreciation. He spoke at length on the subject, "Depreciation of Buildings". As a result of the three-day meet- ing the Association is now pre- raring a manuual which will set a standard and help both municipal and county assessors across the province. NEW VIOLENCE IN SHIP STRIKE AT CORNWALL Cornwall, June 13--(OP)-- Trou- ble flared anew at this port today when 30 striking members of thel Canadian Seamen's Union (TL.C) boarded tWo' vessels at Lock 20 three miles east of here and rémoved the crews. : The raids came early on the strike's eighth day and one crew member of the €arnia Steamships Ltd. John A. France was. forced to leaye the vessel in his underwear. The other ship boarded was the Canada Steamship Lines Acadian. Other companies involved in the strike caused when they refused to deal wit the CS8.U. on grounds it was Communist led are Colonial Steamships Ltd., Northwest Sieam- ships and Transit Tankers. Seamen from the two boarded vessels were aken to Cornwall by truck engaged by the CSU. Both vessels, were anchored in the cana] area but there were no police in the vicinity when the _ strikers boarded the John A. France. On hearing of the incident police rush- ed from Cornwall and while they escorted the ship through the canal, the strikers boarded the Acadia, The incident left three vessels now held up in the canal due to lack of crews, the third being the Transit Tanker Translate. There were no arrests as a result of the boarding but police held Ger- ard Robidoux, 20, of Montreal, on a charge of drunk driving. When tak- en into custody he was carrying a C8.U. card and driving a truck re- ported stolen in Montreal, Possibility of having R.CM.P. and Ontario Provincial Police withdraw NEW VIOLENCE (Continued on Page 2) Vampire Spins, Veteran Pilot Dies in Crash Ottawa, June 12 -- (CP) -- The first Vampire aircraft crash here Friday brought death to a veteran pilot. : He was FO. R. A, Hodgins of Ot- taawa, A 25-year-old member of the famed 443 Hornet Squadron. A hot man with a gun, the fighter pilot had - knocked down three enemy aircraft and put out of ac- tion 16 enemy vehicles in the sec- ond world war, Some of his buddies on the ground watched the $75,000 Vampire tear through the fields and slide into a ditch, a mass of wreckage and flame. Previous to its crash, the whining | flashy craft had circled the field twice, The pilot was putting it through its paces in preparation for Air Force Day today. . In the first crash of its kind in Canada, the Vampire was just shaking its shoulders for a high- speed roll when it slipped into a spin and whined its way to the ground. THE WEATHER Cloudy and a little cooler fo- day. Overcast and cool with scattered showers tonight and Sunday. Winds light. Low to- night and high Sunday 56 and 67. Summary for Sunday: Cool. showers. Going to Germany Y T. J. A. "PAT" DANIEL Son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Daniel, 406 Mary Street, who sails from Quebec City next Friday with a party of 50 Canadian University students who will take part in an international summer seminar at Schloss Ploen, Germany, from Ju- ly 1 to August 15. Will Attend Seminar In Germany T. J. A. "Pat" Daniel, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Daniel, 406 Mary Street, a third year student in so- | ciology at the University of Toron- to, sails next Friday from Quebec City with a party of 50 Canadian university students to take part in an international summer seminar at Schloss Ploen, British Zone of Ger- many. He will return about the middle of September. © Sponsored by the Canadian Com- mittee of the International Student Service, the seminar will be held from 1 to August 15 with Dr. Mar- cus Long, Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto as dean of studies, The purposes of the semin- ar are to bridge the intellectual gulf between European and North Amer- ican student brought about by war and political indo%trination; to ex- port those ideas which are funda- mental to Canadian democratic life, and to promote, by example, an in- sistence on intellectual freedom at the university level. The seminar is being held at the invitation of the Education Branch of the Control Commission for Germany, British Element. It will be opened by Mr. Birley, education- al advisor to the British Command- er-in-chief, at Berlin. The control commission has placed at the dis- pesal of the seminar an interesting old castle which complete mainten- ance staff, free travel on military trains for non-German participants, | and food rations against repayment | for non-Germans. The provincial | governments of Canada, through i their Departments of Education, {ave contributed a sum of $12,800 | towards the cost of travel of the | Canadian students. ; | Among those taking part in the | seminar will be &9 Canadian stu- dents, 50 German students and 30 other European students. The Can- adian students were chosen on a scholarship basis. The requirements |'were high academic standing, qual- | ities of leadership as demonstrated {in student activities and the return WILL ATTEND (Continued on Page 2) _ \ Field Of Opportunity For Service By Nurses Broadening In Scope DANISH SHIP TOLL 1S 200, 261 RESCUED Aalborg, Denmark, June 12 (AP). --Some 200 persons are believed to have drowrfed in the sinking of the passenger steamer Kjobenhavn, The 1,668-ton vessel hit a war | early Friday in the Kattegat near | the end of a trip from Copenhagen to this port 140 miles to the north- west. The United. Steamship Company (D.F.DS.) of Copenhagen, which owned her, passengers and crew, many suffer- ing from severe wounds or exposure. 'Some of those rescued later died. How many others were aboard was not known. There first were believed to have been 400, but later indications were that about 450 was more likely. The only full pas- senger list went down with the ship. Friday night police here officially listed 28 persons as missing, in- cluding Frederick Graae, 73, a high government offcial. An official investigation opened behind closed doors in Copenhagen. The Kjoebenhavn's master, C. P. C. iil, spokesman as saying many of those aboard and most of the life rafts were thrown overboard when the Jin knocked the ship over on one side. mine and went down in 10 minutes | listed 261 survivors-- | Ss quoted by a company | Nursing in these days of easy travel and great technical help is now moving into the community service field, Miss Eugenie M. Stuart, Assistant Professor in Nurs- ing and Assistant Director in Ad- ministration. in the School of Gra- duate Nurses, McGill University, said last night at the graduation of the School of Nursing of the Oshawa General Hospital. Miss Stuart was superintendent of Osh- awa General Hospital until 1945 when the graduating class reported for duty. "Nursing of the future must be regarded as one of the most im- portant aspects of our social struc- ture," Miss Stuart declared after she was introduced by Mrs. R. S. McLaughlin, who paid high tribute to the guest speaker's worth and work. Miss Stuart held that total pa- tient care which took in not only hospital care but care of patients in all phases should be regarded | as the objective of the graduating | nurses. "New Look In Nursing" "The broadening coricept of res- | ponsibility might be called the 'new look in nursing'," she said, pointing | out that the present trend is toward health insurance and public health work. Attention, Miss Stuart de- | clared, is focused now on preven- tion of disease, rather than just looking after those who are sick. "Within the new pattern nurses will be expected to participate in this work," Miss Stuart declared. "Every graduate will see her part in the total common program and will help to develop it." With the new health program | announced by not only the federal government but by the provincial NURSES SERVICE (Continued on Page 12) Russ Cut Off (4 Berlin, June 12 -- (AP) -- The allied and German freight trains coming to Berlin from Western Ger- many, British and United States authorities said today. The Russians gave no reason for their unprecedented action, the allied officials said. The trains were stopped at the Helmstedt - Marienborn control point on the border of the British and Russian occupation zones. The allfed authorities - said the Russians have refused since 7 p.m. Friday night (1 p.m. EDT) to ac- {cept any more Berlin-bound traffic {for transit through their zone. Gen. Lucius Clay, American Mili- tary Governor, said the .Russians had announced they were sending a field office to the Helmstedt bor- der point to "clarify the situation." Clay said the western powers had not yet had time to study the regulations or ascertain their sig- nificance. This embargo shuts off all food and coal shipments from the west- ern zones for the 2,000,000 inhabit- ants of Berlin's western occupation sectors. From 2 Million Germans By Holding Up Transport Russians suddenly have stopped all It also cuts off Ruhr coal | Cozl, Food | pooled for city-wide distribution. Earlier, United States' Army offi- |cials said they have posted guards on American-operated railroad New Floods Offer Threat At Portland Portlaad, Ore. June 12 -- (AP)-- | The raging Columbia River rose up' today in renewed threat to three! industrial | runaway outbreaks. But little more than showers were in sight to check the roaring infernos which already have caused damage estimated at upwards of $34,000,000. Man-made rain brought on by dousing moisture-laden clouds with dry ice slowed a Gogama area fire Thursday night. Conditions Friday did not lend themselves to a raine making experiments. Greatest progress on the fire= areas in the Pacific fighting front was reported in the Northwest. ) {Northwestern Quebec mining dis- President Truman viewed the de- | trict of Rouyn. A big fire that for vastated American flood zone of 5 time threatened the village of Oregon and Washington Friday. |Belletaerre was reported out after Water from the Columbia lapped destroying stands of spruce and at a secondary dike protecting a birch. $43,000,000 aluminum plant east of | But 50 miles north of Maniwaki Portland in Oregon. Soggy levees land 130 miles north of Ottawa three remained critical along the 100-mile | fires raged unchecked through industrial and farming belt from |young timber in a pulpwood district, Portland to the Pacific in Oregon Fire crews moved in special chemi- and Washington. {eal firefighting equipment. United States Army engineers| Shifting winds fanned a fire out said Columbia dikes were in critical | of control Friday in the Long Lac Striking Seamen |. today was sentenced to two months {switch engines in Berlin to keep the | | Russians from taking them, This week has witnessed an in- | 1 |creasing controversy over travel {between the Russian and British- | American occupation zones. The Russians today continued to {turn back hundreds of Germans | seeking to travel {from Western Germany on grounds that new interzonal travel documents were required. United States authorities said the | "stuck | American zone might be |with" thousands of Germans who 'had come in illegally from the | Russian zone. The Russian-controlled German | |News 'Agency claimed Friday night | the directors of the railroad system complained they needed locomotives and United States control of them | wag intolerable. Willard denied the allegation. He said only three switch engines were | involved and only about 10 soldiers | were used to guard them after they | |had an "intimation" the locomo~ tives were to be taken. into their zone ! the | condition at Richland, near the | huge Hanford atcmic energy works | in Washington. The plant itself was | not in danger. | In Portland, Truman signed a $10,000,000 emergency housing bill | that had been rushed through Con- | gress. It will alleviate suffering caused by the May 29 inundation of Vanport -- most disastrous single | blow of the flood wave. | Meanwhile, the toll for the twa | countries mounted to 38 known | dead. Five new victims were added | Friday. One was from Vanport, in- | creasing to five the number of bo- | dies recovered from the smashed war housing project. Jailed and Fined In Assault Case Toronto, June 12 (CP).--Ernest Martel, 20-year-old member of the | Canadian Seamen's Union (T.L.C.), and fined $200 for assaulting John Ogg, a member of the rival Cana- dian Lake Seamen's Union, Ogg told the court he was on his way to board the Kingston, a vessel in the fleet of Canada Steamship Lines, one of five Great Lakes shipping companies with which the C.S.U. is in dispute, when he was attacked: Martel admitted attempting to in- | fluence Ogg to join the -C.S.U. in-| stead of continuing to his ship, ow. | said that Ogg struck the first blow. region of Northwestern Ontario, An- other blaze near Hornepayne gained headway. Lands department offi cials in Toronto described the fire hazard as "extreme" throughout the north, The main Mississagi, burned through 200,000 acres of mixed time ber, mostly pine and spruce. Ontario Lands 'Minister Scott said Friday that in some séctions the fires had raced through under- brush so fast that heavy timber had escaped damage. Plans were under way for replanting where loss was heavy, he said. Sudbury, June 12 -- (CP)--Great concern over the fate of Byron Rhude, formerly of Sudbury, is felt by officials of the 'Department of Lands and Forests, who announced Friday that he has been missing since last Sunday. Rhude was fight- ing a fire in .Sandy Township, 25 miles north east of Chapleau, when he disappeared. The disappearance is bein tigated by the Provincial a preliminary report indicate the firefighter may ha ped by fast-moving flam inves= Rhude dis- appeared," said Provincial Police Inspector T. Wilkinson in Sudbury today. "The man became frenzied and disappeared in the smoke of the fire and that is the last that has been seen of him." Mel Whalen, acting district fore ester at Chapleau, had no details on the disappearance. A check of men signing on in Sudbury to fight BUSH FIRES (Continued on Page 2) * LATE NEWS BRIEFS QUINTS ARRIV Ottawa, June 12--(CP asm, the Dionne quintuplets arrived here early today by for a week-end visit. On the E IN OTTAWA )--Bubbling with enthusi- and 15 of their classmates special train from Corbeil ir week-end program was a visit later today to the French Embassy and a visit Monday to the Apostolic Delegate. Sunday night they were scheduled to take part in a program of French and English songs at a local theatre in aid of needy children of Europe. TRUCK STRIKE AVERTED ! Montreal, June 12--(CP)--A strike of 5,000 mem« bers of the Transport Drivers Union (A.F.L.) on Mont- real Island was averted today when Labor Minister Barrette announced that an increase of minimum trucking charges has been granted. The increase paved the way for a general wage boost of 15-20 cents an hour. THREE HURT, Toronto, June 12--(CP IN COLLISION )--Three persons were. in- jured -- one seriously -- when two automobiles collided today near suburban Dixie. The injured: Leo Dudley, 40, Brantford, possible fractured skull; Ralph E. Griffin, 34, Hamilton, fractured right Bernier, Long Branch, shock i 23,000 GET Akron, O., June 12-- knee-cap; Mrs. Margaret and a cut over her left ear. PAY HIKE (AP)--Firestone Tire and Rubber Company and the United Rubber Workers (C.1.0.) signed a company-wide contract today provid- ing for 11-cent-an-hour wage increases for 23,000 amployees,