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" THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA , Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and VOL. 7--NO 175 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1948 WHITBY Chronicle Price 4 Cents FOURTEEN PAGES mp-- TRUMAN URGES PRICE CONTROL . 600 Stage Riot In Russian Sector Of Berlin Oshawa Motorcycli st Killed Near Kingston Police Quell Mob Shouting Protests On Exchange Rule Berlin, July 27 (CP)--Four persons were arrested today after scuffles with police who broke up a demonstration of some 600 persons in the Russian sector of the city. demonstration was in protest a The inst the slowness of the currency exchange organization. J A British official spokesman said the crowd became rest- less when a currency exchange booth closed shortly after 4 p.m. without issuing them their quota of the new Russian "Deutsche marks." The demonstrators, many of whom had lined up in the early morning, protested angrily and German police carrying truncheons were called to the scene. Karl Litke, leader of the Com-# munist-dominated Socialist Unity Party faction of the City Assembly, appealed to the crowd to maintain order and, when they continued to shout protests, more German police were summoned. Communists directly challenged the authority of the Socialist-con- trolled city government. Paul Mark- graf, Communist-trained Police President, told the elected munici- pal government it could not sus- pend him because he had the support of the Soviet army. The city government ordered him re- moved Monday. Markgraf said he would refuse to yield his office in central police headquarters to Socialist Johan- nes Stumm, his former deputy whom the city government has ap- pointed as his successor. Central police headquarters is in the Soviet sector. Thus the pros- pect arose that the three western powers might decide to establish a central police headquarters. in their occupation sectors where Stumm would preside. The three western allied Commanders of Ber- lin met and were believed discuss- ing the police crisis. Chief Paul Markgraf, suspended by the anti-Communist city gov- ernment for being "undemocratic, un-German and unco-operative," continued to receive the backing of the Russians, who appointed him originally. His anti-Communist deputy, Dr. Johannes Stumm, directed by the city government to take over, was ordered dismissed by the Russian Commander of , Berlin, Maj.-Gen. Alexander Kotikov. The dismissal was a one-power act, however, and the city is run by four powers. This new issue came to a head just as the United States and Bri- tain began retaliatory action for the Soviet land blockade of Berlin. The two western allies, because of "technical difficulties," banned all railway traffic between their zones and the Soviet zone. The phrase "technical difficul- ties" was the same one used by the Russians in establishing their blockade, British and American spokesmen conceded that it really meant "economie sanctions." The rail ban means not only stoppage of traffic between the various zones of Germany but of traffic from the Russian zone through the western zones to other countries. Just how much tonnage is affected is not known. The western air lift, flying food and supplies into Berlin to beat the Russian land block, continued apace. The Americans Monday rounded out their first month of the flying freight service with 288 flights, carrying 1,629 tons of food. At the same time there were two | other developments in the German situation: 1. In Frankfurt, the military governors of the British, French and United States zones reached final agreement with German poli- tical leaders for establishment of a unified government in Western Ger- many. The plans call for election of a constituent assembly by Sept. 1, with the government for 45,000,000 Germans, to be running by late this year or early next. 2. In London, top-flight diplo- mats of Britain, the United States and France conferred in an effort to find: some means of ending the problems of Berlin and of getting a start on settling other western- Russian differences over Germany, Western Powers May Try Direct Approach To Stalin To Break Berlin Deadlock London, July 27 (CP).--A direct approach to Prime Minister Stalin by the three westérn powers to dis- diplomatic quaNers here to have been discussed in Jetail by British, French and Ameégican representa- tives at the fore office today. Purpose of the meeting between the British and American Ambassa- dors to Moscow, the French Am- bassador to London, Charles Bohlen, Russian expert of the United States State Department, and Patrick Dean, of the German political de- partment of the British Foreign of- fice, is to work out agreed drafts of the initial approach to Stalin and possibly to decide on an alterna- tive procedure, as well, if Stalin is unable to meet western represen- tatives for direct talks, diplomatic observers believe, It is believed that if the direct approach to Stalin fails, the origi- nal proposal of a three-power note to Moscow may be adopted. Observers believe that decision, in principle, has been reached on the next move by the western powers. A diplomatic official today said that the western powers decided their ambassadors will present per- sonally to Foreign Minister Molotov of Russia, proposals for settling the crisis. This is believed by ob- servers to be the first step in the planned negotiations and would be accompanied by a written outline of the subject the western powers wish to discuss. The approach to Stalin, which is Washington's - alternative to the original British suggestion for a new three-power note, is believed to be inspired by the underlying aim of 'discovering a 'way out of the deadlock and then progressively widening the fleld of four-power discussions to embrace other Ger- man problems, and finally perhaps all major outstanding differences between Moscow and the western powers on a European settlement. An early morning meeting of Britisn cabinet ministers, most directly interested in the German crisis, was attended by Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British Military Governor in Germany, who arrived in London by air from Frankfurt. Sir Brian wsa also to call on Bevin at the Foreign Office to dis- cuss latest developments in Berlin and Frankfurt, where, together with his American and French col- leagues, he yesterday discussed the future of Western Germany with the 11 provincial Prime Ministers of the western zone. Sir Andrew Jones To Officially Open Plowing Match Lindsay, July 27--(CP)--Secre- tary-Manager of the Ontario Plow- Man's Association, J. A. Carroll, has announced that Sir Andrew Jones, head of the British Food Mission, has accepted an invitation to open the 1948 international plowing match on Oct. 13, three and a half miles west of Lindsay. Mr. Carroll ,along with Clark Young of Milliken, treasurer of the provincial association, and Alex McKinney Jr, of Brampton, in charge of demonstration for the big match, visited Lindsay and the new site for the 1948 international and were pleased with the location and the progress made. tm pu ---- RUBBISH PILE AFIRE Firemen H. Peacock and A. Foster were dispatched in a car at 4:30 a.m. today to investigate smoke emenating from a pile of rubbish at the rear of a garage at 136 King Street West. The fire was put out Sag ately and no damage was one. Scene of the accident at Kemp's Hill, Perth Road, Kingston, Sunday eve- ning when Dalton Dash, 20, of 22 Bruce St., Oshawa, was killed instantly when the motorcycle he was driving crashed into the side of a motorcar Bs owned and driven by Fred Kotowych, Kingston R.R. 1. The body, covered with a blanket, is at right of the motorcycle, owned by Jerry Merkley, Princess Street, Kingston, Cut courtesy of The Kingston Whig-Standard MARIE PICKS NEW CABINET FOR FRANCE By ROBERT C. WILSON Paris, July 27--(AP) -- Premier | Andre Marie formed a new French coalition cabinet and today pre- sented its members to President Vincent Auriol. Like its predecessor, the new | cabinet contains no Communists. It is made up of members of parties | who favor the cause of the western | allies, The new government contained one. major change from the eight cabinets France has had in the last | three years. Georges Bidault has | been dropped as Foreign Minister. { Bidault, who has represented | France in all major international conferences since 1945, has been re- placed by 62-year-old Robert Schu- man, the outgoing Premier whose cabinet resigned July 19 and pre- cipitated the crisis. Shuman is a member of the Mouvement Republian Populaire, as is Bidault. Thus no major change in French foreign policy is foreseen. Marie's announcement came late Monday night after more than 36 tours of negotiations with the So- cialist party. At one point he almost resigned his premiership, Marie is a Radical Sccialist, but the party name is in a sense a mis nomer. The party is neither radical nor socialist, in the accepted sense. It is a moderate centrist party. This fact led Marie to choose as Finance Minister Paul Reynaud, pre-war Premier and a moderate, Designation of Reynaud has wor- ried the Socialists, who fear he will pursue a capitalistic line. Gen. Charles de Gaulle, still an aspirant for the leadership of France, already has sharply crit- icized the cabinet, Tais is a list of the ministers: Vice-Premier--ILeon Blum, Social- ist. Vice-Premier--Pierre Henri Teit- gen, M. R. P. Ccmmerce and Industry--Robert Lacoste, Socialist. Agriculture--Pierre Pfimlin, M. P R.P. National Education--Yvon Delbos, Radical Socialist, Reconstruction--Rene Coty, Inde- pendent Republican. Colonies--Paul Coste-Floret, M. R. P. Public Works--Christian Pineau, Socialist, Labor--Daniel Mayer, Socialist. War Veterans--Andrei Maroselli, Radical Socialist. Justice--Robert Lecourt, M.R.P. Health--Pierre Schneiter, M.R.P. Minister of State--Henri Queuille, Radica] Socialist. Minister of State--Paul Ramadier, Socialist. Foreign Affairs--Robert Schuman, MR.P. Interior--Jules Moch, Socialist, Armed Forces--Rene Mayer, Rad- ical Socialist. Finance and Economic Affairs-- Paul Reynaud, Independent Repub- lican. TAXI BLAST KILLS FIVE Paris, July 27--(Reuters) -- Pive persons were killed when a gas- driven taxi exploded and caught {ire in a Paris Street Monday night. Oshawa Motorcyclist, Dalton M. Dash, Killed In Crash Near Kingston Kingston, July 27--Dalton Dash, 20, of 22 Bruce Street, Oshawa, was killed instantly Sunday evening at 6:30 on the Perth Road, two and a half miles north of the city, when the motorcycle he was driving, crashed into the side of a car owned and driven by Fred Kotowych of Kingston, RR. 1. Dr. J. E. Kane, coroner, . said that Mr. Dash had died of a fractured skull, Dash, who was employed at the Oshawa plant of General Motors, was going north on the Pertia Road on a motorcycle owned bx Jerry Merkley, Princess Street, when the | fatality happened. The collision oc- curred at a point where the Fifth Concession of Kingston Township joins the Perth Road. Mr. Kotowych told Provincial Con- stable Grant Peer, who investigated the accident, in company with Cpl. Harry Ramsbottam, that he was turning left on to the Fifth Con- cession, when, without any warning the motorcycle crashed into the right front of his car. "I only saw the motorcycle a few feet from me" said he, "and then there was a crash." Mr. Kotowych, whe was accom- panied by his wife and four chil- dren, Helen, 13, Frederick, 11, Vera, 8, and Donnie, 6, were returning after visiting a relative in the Mount Chesney district. JAl six escaped witliout any serious injury, although Mrs. Kotowych had a few scratches on her face. A pathetic sight was witnessed when Jerry Merkley, the owner of the motorcycle, arrived at the scene of the accident. "If I hadn't loaned him my bike he wouldn't have been dead," he exclaimed, For fully an hour Merkley sobbed while friends tried to console him. Also present at the scene of the accident was Miss Verna Graham of Oshawa, who had accompanied Dash on his holiday trip to visit friends in Kingston. Several of Dash's friends had gone in search of him when he failed to return to a picnic which he had left to go || to Kingston on the motorcycle, and Miss Graham was the first to rec- ognize the body. Hundreds of people gathered at the scene of the accident, and it was with difficulty that officers were able to keep traffic moving. Coroner Kane, who arrived at the scene of the fatality, shortly after the crash, examined the body, and it was removed to R., J. Reid's funeral parlors. FUNERAL TOMORROW Dalton Milton Dash was the son of Mrs. A. V. Connors and the late E. J. Dash, He was aged 20 years. A life-long resident of Oshawa, where he was born, Mr. Dash i8\ survived by his mother, two broth- ers, Douglas of Oshawa and Delmar of New Westminster, B, 'C., and three Sisters, Mrs. Elaine Whaley of Kingston, Mrs, Aldene Harding, New Westminster, and Donna Dash of Oshawa, He was an employee of General Motors and a memker of St. George's Anglican Church. He is resting at the Armstrong 3 ' DALTON M. DASH Funeral Home, and the funeral will be held from there on Wednesday, July 28, at 3.30 pm. The service will be conducted by Rev. E. H. Mc- Lellan of Holy Trinity Anglican Church, and interment will be in Mount Lawn Cemetery. No Settlement At McKinnon's, Union Declares St. Catharines, July 27--Despite the fact that the two-week vaca- tion period started yesterday at the strike-bound McKinnon Industries plant here, pickets from. Local 199, U.AW.-C.I.O. continued to parade before the factory gates. The strike started July 14. Commenting on an announce- ment in Oshawa that the General Motors plant there would reopen on August 10 and resultant specula- tion that this announcement might indicate a settlement of the Mec- Kinnon strike, the union's local president, Ernest Wheatley, denied emphatically that any agreement had been reached between the union and the company. The Osh- awa plant was forced to lay off 4,500 workers for a week due to lack of parts normally supplied by McKin- non's. "There has been no "settlement which would allow the parts to be moved," said Wheatley. "We haven't met the company since the second day of the strike when Labor Min- er Daley called us both together. fused then to return to work as a condition for resuming negoti- ations. Our decision still stands. "Maybe the company is ready now to meet our terms--equal pay with GM auto workers in Windsor and Oshawa--but we haven't heard any- thing from them. We haven't heard anything from Mr. Daley, either," CALL CABINET FOR DECISION ON NFLD LINK By DAVE McINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer St. John's Nfld., July 27--(CP)-- People all over Newfoundland are asking today: when is Canada go- ing to make that announcement? No statement will come from eith- er Commission Government or the Canadian government until late this week on whether Newfound- land will be taken into the Domin- ion as the 10th province. The Canadian cabinet was sche- duled to meet today to consider the result of Thursday's national referendum, but no decision on whether to admit the island into Confederation was expected. Almost-complete returns gave Confederation about a 6,000-vote majority over Responsible Govern- ment. It was presumed here the first word of the situation would be giv- en by the Commission Government. This might be a recommendation to Canada that sh ccept New- foundland or a tor rn ichtion for Confederation. The two daily newspapers. here and the broadcasting corporation of Newfoundland were deluged by telephone calls from persons who wanted to know if the Canadian government had yet reached any decision. 5 One woman said "Canada is tak- ing almost as long to make up its mind as we did." But the delay provided a '"cool- ing-off" period after heated cam- paigning that had gone on for two years. People were being given a chance to let their tempers simmer down. There were rumors that disorders might still break out but police re- ported no incidents and they were taking on no additional men. One wild rumor Monday was that the Canadian fleet was within only 40 minutes sailing time from St. John's. : R. A. MacKay of the External Affairs Department in Ottawa ar- rived here Monday for discussion with Commission Government of- ficials. he added. Ammunition Boston, July 27 -- (CP) -- Sergeant - Inspector Joseph Crawley of the Somerville po- lice Monday night investigated a report of a "loaded shell" on a lawn, In the police book he wrote: "It wasn't a bullet. It was a lipstick. I suppose it could be called ammunition all right." THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness today, clearing early this evening. Scattered thundershowers this afternoon. Wednesday clear, Continuing warm today and Wednesday. Winds light. Low tonight .and high Wednesday, 57 and 78. Summary {or Wednes- day: Clear, continuing warm. Must Check Cost To Nip Depression, Congress Is Told By Ernest B. Vaccaro Washington, July 27 (AP)--President Truman today demanded limited proce control and excess profits tax to help check the rising cost of living in the United States and aver "another great depression." e A depressiow; he said, would scuttle "the world's hope for a lasting peace." & -- Russia Increases Fighter Planes In Berlin Region Berkn, July 27--(AP)--German press reports today said the Rwus- slans are increasing substantially the number of fighter planes, in- cluding jets, stationed in their zone of Germany around Berlin. These reports appeareC as the Americans strengthened their com- bat plane forces at bases in West- ern Germany. The most recent United States additions were 16 jet fighters which reached Fuer- stenfeldbruck Sunday. German reports also said large Russian summer army manoeuvres are taking place in the Russian zone, from the Baltic south to Thuringia. The reports said more | armor is involved, including big | "Joseph - Stalin III" tanks, and strong air support. The tanks were described as 62-ton monsters, per- haps the heaviest in the world. United States Air Force officials here said the Russians have post- ed new warnings of manoeuvres by their fighters in the air corridors traversed by British and American transports flying over the Russian land blockade. The Americans said some Russian jets have been seen in these corridors, but that most fighters sighted were conventional Yaks. Charge 5 Britons With Espionage Tel Aviv, July 27--(AP)--An Is- raeli police prosecutor filed general charges of espionage and security violation today against five Brit- ons arrested six weeks ago in a Jerusalem spy hunt. | Magistrate Eliezer Malchi told tha | prosecutor he would hold the five men 15 days on these allegations but would release them Aug. 10 unless more specific charges are filed. | One of the five, Thomas Downes, was released on bail of £1,000 ($4,000) on condition that he stay in his father-in-law's = house in| Nathanya, The others, all officials | of the Jerusalem Electric Corpora- | tion, are Michael Bryant, Frederick Sylvester, William Hawkins and Al- fred Leech. . | OSHAWA GIRL ON SIDELINES Uxbridge, Middlesex, Eng., July 27--(CP)-- The Canadian Women's 400-metre relay team will consist of three British Columbia girls and one from Ontario; Patricia Jones of New Westminster, B.C.; Millie Cheater of Vancouver; Miss Foster and Viola Myers of Toronto. With this lineup Nancy Mackay of Osh- awa, will be on the sidelines through the games. He coupled a reiterated plea for power to hold wages in line with his price control recommendation, And he personally confronted the politically-hostile 80th- Congress with six other proposed brakes on spending, among them a return to credit restrictions and stand-by rationing authority. "The Communists, both here and abroad, are counting on our present prosperity turning into a depres sion," Truman declared. "They do not believe that we can --or will--put the brakes on high prices. They are counting on an economic collapse in this country." That "would cut the ground from under the free nations of Europe." Truman addressed a joint meet- ing of the Senate and House on the second day of the special sesc sion he called in the heat of a Presidential campaign year. But his language was far more restrained than it was on his west ern tour, or in his .acceptance speech to the Democratic national convention, Then he referred ree peatedly' to the Republican-con« trolled 80th Congress as one of the worst in United States history. The President did not spell out the details of his price control pro- gram. He left that a question to be answered by an Administration Bill promised later this week, perhaps tomorrow. But he did say the controls should be authorized for "scarce commodi« TRUMAN URGES (Continued on Page 2) 2 Crew Members Of Mystery Plane Réleased In N.Y. | New York, July 27--(AP)--Two of nine crew members of a bomber involved in a mystery flight from Westchester County airport to the Azores via Halifax were ordered | released Monday. The two men, Hyman Mark, 23, and Sholom Solowitz, 25, both of Brooklyn, were taken into immigra- tion custody when they arrived from the Azores Saturday. Neither had a passport. W. Frank Watkins, district im- migration director, said Monday the State Department had evidence of the citizenship of the two. The other crew members were freed, except the pilot, Irvin Ron- ald Schindler. He was released in $1.000 bail on a charge of violating the Neutrality. Act by exporting without a licence a plane which was classified as a war weapon. The four-engined plane took off from Halifax July 17 ostensibly to return to its starting point in West« chester County, N.Y. Instead, it flew to the Azores. % LATE NEWS BRIEFS % BASEBALL'S JOE TINKER DIES Orlando, Fla., July 27 (AP)--Joe Tinker of the double-play Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance baseball fame, died suddenly in a hospital today of respiratory trouble. Today was the 68th birthday of the famous old Chicago Cub shortstop. Physicians only a few hours before had remarked how well he was. He died shortly after noon. FEAR AGINCOURT MAN DROWNED Penetanguishene, July 27 (CP)--Provincial Police the water near are draggin F Sure Lalonde, the body o this Georgian Bay town for 59, R.R. 1, Agincourt, re- ported missing. A rowboat he rented Monday was found last night anchored off shore with his identification papers in it. THREE HURT AT CROSSING Toronto, July 27 (CP)--Three.men were taken to hospital today when the light truck in which they were riding was hit by a west bound Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train near suburban Dixie. Injured were John Mayo of Long Branch and two McCrindle brothers, own- ers of the truck. STRIKING SEAMEN FINED Toronto, July 27 (CP)--Three members of the Canadian Seamen's Union (T.L.C:) were fined today on charges of obstructing police at Canada Steamship Lines property here last July 17. Gordon Coutch, 22, and John Quinlan, 18, each were fined $75 or 30 days im- prisonment, while Saul Gellan, 19, was fined $50 or 20 days. a £