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TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1948 PAGE THREE THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Rotary Speaker Stresses Citizens' Place In D ¢ Hint Butter Ration Looms In Canada As Supply Short Ottawa, Aug. 17 (CP)--A dealer-administered butter ration indicated for Canada Monday by the National Dairy Council became a housewives' headache for customers of Ottawa dairies today. One dairy manager said a rush on supplies "has forced us to begin an informal rationing plan." Another said he will keep his customers on quota "until the government gives us something to augment our stocks." W. K. St. John, Secretary of the® Dairy Council, in an interview Monday night said a voluntary sys- tem of rationing by. dealers may be- gin shortly in all principal Can- adfln cities. p Meanwhile, Mr. Justice Patrick Kerwin of the Supreme Court set Oct. 5 as the date for the hearing on the constitutionality of Can- ada's 62-year-old oleomargarine ban. The hearing is expected to last three or four days, but final judg- ment is not expected to be handed down until some time later. Butter substitutes was one me- thod the Dairy Council recom- mended to the cabinet to ease the butter shortage. Mr, St. John 'said the govern- ment should announce its plans to meet the shortage as soon as pos- sible. A gray market in butter al- ready existed in Canada, he said. A black market by unscrupulous deal- ers would follow unless the govern- ment "does something to ease the shortage." Butter stocks were decreasing and consumer demand increasing, said Mr. St. John. By Christmas the shortage would reach its criti- cal stage. The voluntary rationing was ne- cessary, he added, if dealers expect to supply some butter to their cus- tomers over the winter months. He estimated that Canada's stocks of butter during the next 12 months will be approximately 24,- 000,000 pounds below requirements. Canada's shortage last year, he es- timated, was about 10,000,000 pounds. Spy Probe In U.S. Has Intermission Until September 7 Washington, Aug. 17--(AP)--The United States spy drama went into a three-week intermission today as the House of Representatives Un- American Activities Committee ad- mitted failure in its hunt for a perjured witness. Meanwhile, Senator Homer Fer- guson (Rep. Mich.) struck out anew at the government's loyalty program. He declared that several persons suspected of spy activities have stayed in "sensitive" federal jobs "either through influence or neglect. : The house committee rang down the curtain with a terse statement that "we will resume public hear- ings on the espionage case Tues- day, Sept. 7." That anouncement followed a three-hour session behind bolted doors Monday at which the com- mittee apparently failed to budge the story of Alger Hiss. Hiss, a former top official of the State Department, who now heads the Carnegie Endowment for In- ternational Peace, has insistently denied any part in the "elite" Com- munist underground movement de- picted by Whittaker Chambers. Hiss has said furthermore that to the best of .is knowledge he didn't even know his accuser. The two originally were scheduled to have faced each other before the committee Monday. But either through a misunderstanding or a change in signals, Hiss was the only one present. For three hours he sat through a barrage of questions. Finally he left. His only comment to reporters was "I am not going to make any statement now." He smiled and went his way, presum- ably back to New York. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas (Rep. N. J.) then called the report- ers in and read a statement that "it is impossible at this point to tell which one is telling the truth." Chambers and Elizabeth T. Bent- ley, another admitted former Com- munist operative, have been the committee's two "star" witnesses. Some of Miss Bentley's testimony has been corroborated by Cham- bers. . Members said there is a possibility that when the hearings are resum- ad Sept. 7, Mrs. Oksana Stepanovna Kosenkina will be asked to testify. She is the Russian school teacher who jumped from a window in the Soviet Consulate in New York last week. Consulate officials said they had "rescued" her from an anti-Com- munist camp at Valley Cottage, N.Y. Mrs. Kosenkina, who was to have sailed for Russia July 31, is recov- ering in hospital from injuries suf- fered in her leap for freedom. She is under committee subpoena. NORTH OSHAWA PLANS DANCE The East Whitby Community Re- creation Association, which held a very successful picnic and #feld day last Saturday, wil] be holding a dance. at North Oshawa Park this Saturday. Plans for another big evening are under way and other features, besides dancing, will be announced later. Ontanio FIND BODY IN CAR Bolton, Aug, 17--(CP) -- A man identified as Bernard Coursol, To- ronto, kept a date with death near here Sunday. Farmer William Tay- lor found him slumped in his auto- mobile. He had apparently been as- phyxiated, by carbon monoxide which came from a flexible tube at- tached to the car's exhaust pipe. Beside the dead man lay a novel entitled "A .Date With Death." FREIGHTER AGROUND Fort Erie, Aug. 17 -- (CP) -- The freighter J. G. Munson was agroand Monday in a channel close to nearby Buffa- lo, N, Y. harbor. Three tugs were trying to free the 530-foot steamer, loaded with stone. RADIO MAN DIES Toronto, Aug. 17--(CP)--A prom- inent radio ham who recently suc- cessfully reached Resolution Island at the North Pole and relayed mes- sages from men stationed there to relatives in Toronto, William Ar- thur Potts, 59, died Monday. In his youth he represented Ireland in cy- cling in the British Empire games at London, REJECT HOUSING PLAN Toronto, Aug. 17--(CP)--York Township Council Monday voted to reject a project of building low-rental homes with the as- sistance of Toronto, the provin- ciaj government and the Cen- tral Mortgage and Housing Cor- poration, Chief objection was that the corporation would have control over who would be al- lowed to use the houses. FIRE INSPECTIONS Toronto, Aug. 17--(CP)--City Fire Marshal Sam Hill announced Mon- day night an inspection will be started at once of all homes for the aged and indigent here to determine whether they contain fire hazards. The probe follows complaints to the fire department, ROB GAS STATION Thamesford, Aug. 17--(CP)-- Two men held up a service sta- tion late Monday night and rob- bed proprietor Arthur H. Hewitt of nearly $150 at gunpoint. DISTURBANCE HALTED Sarnia, Aug. 17 -- (CP) -- Police late Monday broke up a threatened disturbance which they blamed on Canadian Seamen's Union (T.L.C.) pickets. No arrests were made. Ear- lier in the night men threw stones at the City of Hamilton of the Can- ada Steamship Lines, one of the four Great Lakes shipping compan- ies involved in a dispute with the CS.U. ; Seamen Charge Police Ignored Kidnap Episode Hamilton, Aug. 17--(CP)--A complaint by two or four crew members of the Canada Steamship lines vessel Westmount that a city police car passed them while they highway was investigated today. were being forcibly herded along a "The prcbe paralleled a hunt for 20 to 30 men who boarded the ore freighter early Sunday, removed the four men and crowded them along a highway in front of a jeep for a mile, two of them with their shoes off. . The captured seamen identified themselves as members of the in- dependent Canadian Lake Seamen's Union, headed by J. A. (Pat) Sulli- van. The CL.S.U. has been mann- ing ships of four lake companies despite a claim by the Canadian Seamen's Union (T.L.C) that the C.S.U. is the official bar- gaining agent. H. M. Corbier and Russell Hawley of Honey Harbor, Ont., and Ingon- ish, N.S. respectively, claimed a police cruiser passed them as they were being marched along a street. Josep = Chamberlain, Deputy Chief Constable, thought it possitle that the cruiser, called out for an alarm at the Steel Company of Canada, failed to notice the men, ROTARY VISITORS ' Visitors at the luncheon meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club yester- day included Robert Bair and L. B. Griffith of Toronto; Charles Kerri- gan of Islington; Mayor F. N. Mc- Callum, Allen Greenman, Neil C. Fraser, K.C., and Al Price of Osh- awa; Rotarians Lin Mitchell, Jack Eastaugh, Ted Morris and Lorne Doreen of Bowmanville; Rotarian Alex Nathan of Belleville; Rotar- ian George F. Thompson of Strat- ford; Rotarian W. J. Salter of St. Catharines, and Rotarian Wildred C. Riseley of Halifax. | hams, meat loaves, etc. shipping, Lindsay Gets New Million Dollar Plant Toronto, Aug. 17.--A millions dollar plant for the manufacture of cellulose tubing used by the meat packing and sausage making in- dustries will be erected at Lindsay by Visking Limited, a subsidiary of the Visking Corporation of Chicago, it was announced here, today by the corporation's secretary, Theo. G. Remer. ' Visking Limited will erect a mod- ern plant on the 172 acre tract recently acquired for it at Bob- caygeon Road and Colborne Street, Lindsay. The plant will be of steel, concrete and brick construction, sprinklered and fireproof through- out, and will provide approximately 75,000 square feet of floor area chiefly on one floor. This building will occupy but a small portion of the tract. The 17% acres were ac- quired in anticipation of adding further buildings which may be needed for expansion. Local labor will be used and em- ployment be given to approximately 200 persons when the Lindsay plant presently contemplated is complet- ed and in full operation. Side track facilities will be pro- vided by the Canadian Pacific Rail- road and will lead directly into the plant proper. Preliminary design and sketches have been underway for the past several weeks at the engineering headquarters of the parent company. The cost of the plant and especially designed ma- | chinery and equipment will be over $1,000,000.00. \ The principal product to be man- | ufactured at the Lindsay plant will | be cellulose tubing used by the meat packing and sausage making industries as casings for sausages, Cellulose casings consist of chemically pure cellulose, glycerine and water, 24,000 on Strike Orderedby U.A.W. At Chicago Plants Chicago, Aug. 17 (AP)--In a quick change of last-minute signals, 24,000 workers in seven Interna- tional Harvester plants were ord- ered on strike today. The workers are members of the United Auto- mobile Workers Union (C.I.O.. Instructions to walk out followed by just a few minutes union an- nouncement that 'International Harvester has made an offer . . . that is worth considering." The union then said Harvester had re- jected further negotiations and that the strike was on in the contract dispute. The company, a spokesman re- ported, made two alternative offers which the union considered. One was to extend the existing contract for 30 days to permit more negoti- ating time. The other was to sign immediately a memorandum in- corporating such points as have been agreed to plus a provision to include in a master contract all subsequent agreements. Wages were not involved in. the dispute which concerned grievances, apprenticeship, and arbitration pro- cedures. The union received an 11- cent increase -June 23. Russians (Continued from Page 1) Rumors were revived today that Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky." Russian Commander in Germany, has been superseded. The Liberal Democratic newspa- pers Montags Echo said Monday night Sokolovsky 'eventually would be replaced by Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, It said the latter had been given the task of converting the Soviet-sponsored German So- cialist Unity Party (S.E.D.) frcem a mass party into a central group with the aim "of gaining power by legal or illegal means in Germany." The paper said: "Moscow is dis- satisfied witha the policies of Mar- shal Sokolovsky in Germany but does not dare dismiss him during the current Berlin crisis for fear of giving the western powers a chance of exploiting such action for propa- ganda purposes." More evidence came from the So- viet zone that the Russians. are re- quisitioning foodstuffs from Eastern Germany to make good their prom- ise to feed all Berlin. The western press said the measures are causing Soviet food shortages. The western sector had food trou- bles of their own. In Hof Monday a crowd of 10,000 workers and housewives, protesting against high fruit and vegetable pri- ces, shouted "Hang the profiteers." The demonstrators called out by a Bavarian workers, union, roared their approva] of a resolution call- ing for a buyers' strike. United States Air Force headquar- ters announced that the largest American plane in Europe, a C-T4 Globemaster with a wingspan of 174 feet, will fly a targo of flour to Berlin' today. It is reputed able to carry 20 to 25 tons. Air Force officials sald 56 United States F-80 jets have arrived in Germany, They will be joined in a few days by 26 more. British authorities said two Soviet Yak fighter planes made a pass Monday night at a London-bound British passenger plane. They filed an immediate protest with the Rus- sians. 3 Earlier Monday the Russians said a British fighter made & forced landing six miles inside the Soviet occupation zone. They said the pilot was safe, INFANT SMOTHERS Toronto, Aug. 17 -- (CP) -- An infant girl smothered to death in her bedclothés here Monday, A fire department inhalator &rew could not restore life to the baby of Mrs. May Logan. \ Latch 28 - Pound Muskie On July 29, Harry Brooks (right) and Peter Brick, both of Oshawa, while fishing on Lake Dalrymple, near Sebright, had the good fortune to catch a muskie weighing 28 pounds. The fish was 45 inches long. "I never con- sidered myself much of a fisherman." said Mr. Brooks, "and certainly never expected to be face to face with such a fish. We were trolling and using a river runt bait when a muskie struck and believe-it-or-not but we had ten minutes of real tussling to land the catch. Some people have told me that early morning and evening was the only time that one would have luck in fishing but this muskie took this bait at ten minutes to twelve, just as we were getting ready to sign off for dinner." Harman Park Picnic Outstanding Success ° On Saturday, August 14, Harman Park in Cedar Dale was the scene of the Cedar Dale Community As- sociation's second annual picnic. Approximately 500 people were in attendance throughout the day and evening. The picnic started at 1:30 p.m. with a baseball game between Whit- by and Cedar Dale Pee Wees. This was a closely contested game with the home team on the long end of a 17-10 score. Halfway through running races, which followed the baseball game, approximately 450 children erowded together for a fun-producing and also bruising (for some) candy scramble, Ice-cream: and chocolate milk were issued to each of the children and supper was served at 5:00 p.m. for all in attendance by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Community Asso- ciation. At 6:30 Collacutt"s Coach [Lines and Veteran's Taxi participated in a keenly-fought juvenile softball game with the Collacutt boys win- ning out in the 9th inning by a score of 18-17. A bingo game was one of the special attractions of the day, and after the races most of the crowd could be seen around this booth. During the day, tickets were sold on a mantel radio and the fortu- nate winner was Raymond Bittorf, 759 Douglas St., with ticket 108. As soon as dusk settled in, a street dance got. under way, with recorded music supplied by Warner Williams. A special prize for married couple was won by Mr. and Mrs, Bob Nash who were celebrating their wedding anniversary. The Howard family ran away with several of the special prizes, winning the awards for youngest boy and youngest girl on the grounds, and for the largest family, with a total of nine present. At the conclusion of this game, the races were begun and young and and old participated with the fol- lowing results: Girls under 5--Iva Townsand, Sandra Truskevich, Linda Singer. Boys, under 5----Fred Hogarth, Ed- mund Meringer, Eugene Tuschin. Girls, 5 to 7--Pauline Hiller, Janet Jeffery, Barbara Cleveland. Boys, 9 to 11, wheelbarrow--Ron- nie Norman and Jack Germond; Stanley Marchut and Bob Worsley; Donald Badour and Denton Grant. Girls, under 12, Backwards--Jane Germond, Adeline Carey, Marjery Glowaski. Girls 'and boys, paper plate -- Martha Holmes and John Chappell; Rose Malonich and George Van De- walker; Helen Kelly and Roger O'Reilly. Boys, 5 to 7--Ted Jeffery, Paul. Russo, Charles Tuson. | Married ladies shoe kick -- Mrs. Townsand, Mrs. Mitchell, Shorten. Single men--Allen Shortt, Ralph Jones, Ken Stone. Girls, under 12, shoe scramble -- Martha Holmes, Jean Nantais. Married men, sack race -- Jack Germond, Jack Jeffery, Frank Gil- lard. Mrs. Boys, 14 to 16--Ken Stone, Ralph | Jones, Jim Nichols. Ladies baseball throw--Sally An- derson, Catherine Chappell, Rose Bilenduke. Boys under 12, backwardss-Ron- nie Norman, Bob Worsley, Carl Cheski. Boys and girls, under 14, 3-legged Sylvia Resnik and Jack Gibson, Joan Everett and Jim Thornton, Shirley Jeffery and Calvin Reid. Girls, 8 to 10 -- Marilyn Twine, Irene Malonich, | Martha Holmes, Marjery Glowaski. Married ladies -- Mrs. # Mitchell, Mrs. Badour, Mrs. Jackson. Boys, under 9, sack race--Denton Grant, Allen Gorrie, Roger O'Reilly. Girls, 14 to 16--Catherine Chap- pell, May Shubaly, Rose Glowaski. Married men, wheelbarroy--Jack Jeffery and W. Guthrie, Vern Assel- stine and Jack Germond, George Jackson and A. Copeland. Boys, 11 to 13--Lowell Dykester, Calvin Reid, Ren Norman. Girls, 11 to 13--Catherine Chap- pell, May Shubaly, Rose Glowaski. Single ladies--Gail Authors, Cath- erine Chappell, Rose Bilenduke. Balloon blowing contest -- Mrs. Townsand, Mrs. Norman, Mrs. Rob= inson. Boys, 8 to 10 -- Jack Germond, Donald Masteranni, Donald Ba~ dour. Married men -- Jack Germond, Jack Jeery, Vern Asselstine. Married couples, Krackley-Nut eating contest--Mr. and Mrs. Nor- man, Mr. and Mrs. Asselstine, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Robinson. Call For Tenders On Steel Piling Tenders are being called for the construction of a steel piling break- water to prevent seepage from Osh- awa creek into tne newly dredged harbor, Postmaster N. J. Moran announced today. : The new breakwater will extena the existing wail between-the creck and the Harbor for a distance of 101 feet. The old wall was intended to prevent the creek emptying into the Harbor basin, but had proved ineffective. The waters had worn a new channel around the pilings, and had filled a large section of the harbor with silt and sand washed down by the stream. The new breakwater will block this chan- nel and preveni the stream from filling in the newly dredged area in the harbour. The new wall will be constructed of steel sheet piling and angle braces and will extend. from 14 to 29 feet below the water level, south- easterly from the end of the old barrier. Specifications call for the installation of 2,785 square feet of sheet steel piling, 6,700 lbs. of steel angle braces, and 300 cubic yards of fill. The deadline for tenders will be September 8. Low Rail Fares to the OTTAWA EXHIBITION AUG. 23-28 $8.55 $9.90 Ce-~h Sldeping and Parlour Cars* (Gov't. Tax Extra) "Parlour Car or Berth Fare Extra. Good going Saturday, Aug. 21 to Saturday, Aug. 28 inclusive. Return Limit--Aug. 30 Full information from any agent. CANADIAN CANADIAN NATIONAL PACIFIC Teeth Braces Stolen From Lad's Pants Swimming at Rotary Pool yes- terday afternoon proved a costly pleasure for young Tommy Hill, 12, of 369 Park Road south. Tommy returned from his dip only to find that his dental braces, placed in his trouser pocket in an envelope, had been stolen. This is the second time that Tom- my has been the victim of sneak- thieves who rifled his pockets while his clothes were stored in the dres- sing rooms of the C.R.A. Since a sum of money was removed from his clothes on a previous occasion, he has never taken gny money with him to the pool, but yesterday the valuable dental braces, having a replacement value of over $75.00, were removed from a sealed en- velope. and apparently discarded by the thieves as having no value. Tommy, worried at the loss, re- turned home to tell his mother, and she- returned to the C.R.A. building where playground assistants aided her in the search for the missing property. A part of the brace was found, but there is scant hope of recovering the second, smaller half. Mrs. Hill cited this event as one instance of the great harm that can be caused by children who are | allowed to run amok among other people's property. Three Officers Will Attend Convention Three police officers from Osh- awa district are leaving today to act as delegates to the annual con- vention of the Police Association of Ontario, held in Chatham from | August 18th to 20th. , | They are Roy E. Mills, ef the | Oshawa City Police, Gordon M. Keast, of the Ontario Provincial Police and Robert N. Higham of the C.NR. Police Association. Mr. Mills and Mr. Keast are acting as delegates of the On- tario, Northumberland, and Durham Counties Police Association, and Mr. Higham represents the C.N.R. Association. These thre emen will be execu- tive board members at the Con- vention, and Mrs. Mills, Mrs. Keast, ad Mrs. Higham will attend the Police Association of Ontario Ladies' Auxiliary convention in con- nection with same. 3,238 "QUAKE TOLL .. Tokyo, Aug. 17--(AP) -- Allied | headquarters announced Monday | the June earthquake at Fukui killed | 3,238 persons an dinjured 10,157. emocracy Cannot Afford To Sit Back And Let Politicians Rule "The responsibilities of the electors of Canada does not stop with the casting of their ballots. Whether we have to- talitarianism or not rests in a large measure with the citizens of Canada who must not pass on their responsibility to the men and women who represent them in parliament. The electors of Canada cannot afford to®- sit back.and leave politics to the politicians. If they do they will be surrendering to totalitarianism". In these words Donald M. Flem- ing, K.C., M.P. for Toronto-Eglin- ton Riding, voiced a warning to his audience, at the luncheon meeting of the Oshawa Rotary Club yester- d ., to be on the alert and take a more active interest than ever be- fore in the affairs of their country. Mr. Fleming was introduced to the cluh by Rotarian T. K. Creighton, ¥.C. The thanks of the large audi- erze was ably voiced by Rotarian Hayden Macdonald. Too Prone To Criticize Basing his remarks on the subject "What's Right and What's . Wrong with Parliament", Mr. Fleming pointed out that all too many are prone to criticize and tear down the weaknesses of the parliamentary system of government. Scene profess they can afford to be indifferent to public affairs, but the speaker warn- ed that one does not have to look any further than Europe to see the results of such apathy. Europe to- day, he emphasized, is strewn with wreckage resulting from leaving politics to the politicians. "If dem- ocracy is to survive each one of us must work to convince Europeans that it will work. To do this all citi- zens must share in the responsibil- ity." It was stressed that discussion is the very essence of the parliamen- tary form of government. While much time was wasted the majority in the end arrive at a sane, logical conclusion. The parliamentary form of government also assures there will be a majority decision in a free and open vote. Another advantage is that discussions are held in pub- lic. Wile this system lends itself to play to the gallery and wasted time, any departure from it would be fraught with peril. Mr. Fleming asserted in the strongest possible language that any departure from the holding of ses- sions and committee work in pub- lic in peacetime would be danger- ous. Pointing out that the rules of par- liament have been built up over a long: period of time, the speaker suggested there was a great need for a c¢aange in the standing rules. Citing the functions of parlia- ment, attention was drawn to the fact that the first should be to give information to.the public. Parlia- ment must also recognize its respon= sikility to the electors while the public is entitled to all possible ine formation, so that it can carry out its duty of leading public thought. During $he war years more than 114,000 orders in council were enact ed outside parliament which meant that more legislation was enacted outside of parliament than inside. It was stressed that such procedure does not tend to promote confidence in the government. Functions of Private Members Turning to the functions of pri- vate members, the speaker said that among the measures which come be- fore parliament are resolutions and legislation. Private members have a right to introduce private bills and legislation but due to the pressure of government business the time ale lotted to private members is becom ing more and more restricted with the passage of time. He opined that during the last two sessions not more than two private members re- solutions had been discussed al- though there were at least 50 on the order paper. Attention was also drawn to the long sessions of parliament held auring the past three -years. This situation had become a matter of general concern. The long sessions were due to the greater diversifica- tion of public business. There are four parties in the House and each feels it has a duty to state its peint of view. An infinite number of sub- jects are discussed with that of for- eign affairs assuming more and mere importance, so it is no wonder the sessions are long. If the sessions are further lengifi- ened, it was Mr. Fleming's belief that few men would feel they could spare the time to spend six to eight months in Ottawa. The sittings of the House are long and not condu- cive to the best conduct of business. He suggested there should be a change in the hours of sittings, Committee Procedure Favored With regard to the possibility of speeding up the business of the House witihhout sacrificing the essen= tial rights of the members, Mr, Fleming cautioned that every pre- caution must be taken not te CITIZENS' PLACE (Continued on Page 5) wo ? feild LPR Carry Travellers Cheques and you can't lose... It's the safe way to carry travel funds. Here's why « + » Before your Travellers Cheques can be cashed, they must be signed twice by you: first, when vou buy them and again when you cash them. 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