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EE wu ST CB a GGER DI Ee LANT W "HE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE OSHAWA Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 232 OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PAGES Kennedy Seen Likely Choice As Premier; First Ballot Names &-- A -------------------- Drew New Leader But Farm Minister Not Yet Offered Top ( Ontario Post Caplures 827 Of 1,240 Votes For Majority y D'ARCY O'DONNELL Canadian Press Staff Writer Ottawa, Oct. 4--(CP)--The Pro- gressive Conservative Party chose Premier Drew of Ontario as its new national leader Saturday after 4 pounding new planks into the party's platform. The 54-year-old Toronto lawyer easily won the party's three-day national convention, called primar- | ily to elect a successor to John | Bracken, 65, who retired because of age and ill "health. On the first ballot, Mr. Drew won | 827 of the 1,242 votes cast. His | closest threat was John Diefen- | baker, 53, member of the Commons | for Lake Centre in Saskatchewan, who polled 311 votes. In third place | was Donald Fleming, 43, member | of the Commons for Toronto Eglin- ton, with 104 votes. The runners-up promptly moved that the election be made unani- mous and Mr. Drew launched into a 45-minute acceptance speech. He warned the party against seeking short-cuts to power. He said: "This party stands for those basic human rights and the dignity of the individual which are challenged at every. step by centralism, social- ism or Communism. If the people | of this country want these things, | they will vote for them. But let us | never seek any short-cuts to power | by imitating their methods." At a press conference after his clection, Mr. Drew said that he will CAPTURES 827 (Continued on Page 8) Police Identify Trio Found Dead In Car at Elmvale Barrie, Oct. 4--(CP)--Police today identified three bodies found near tiere yesterday in a 1929-model au- tomobile. Police said a check of licence numbers indicated the men were 21-year-old Earl Bonnell of Toron- to and his brother Gordon, 27, own- ers of the car, and Ronald MacNa- mara of Newtonbrook, Ont. | The three were believed to have | died of carbon monoxide poisoning although one window was partly open. Members of the Bonnell family | said the two left in the car Sat- urday, planning to attend a corn roast near Elmvale, 10 miles north | of here. The car was found in a bush near Elmvale by Albert Stone, a farmer returning from church. | Family members said they] thought the third man might be | Ross Bourne, a friend of the two | brothers. | "| | P.C.'s To Call Early Caucus To Pick Head Toronto, Oct. ture Minister Kennedy said today | he has not been asked to assume | the Premiership of Ontario, to! succeed George Drew, newly-chosen | leader of the national Progressive- Conservative Party. "I have not been asked to take | it and there will caucus of candidates in the last | election before any decision can be | made," he said. He said the caucus | would consist not only of the pres- ent Progressive Conservative mem- | bers of the Legislature but also | defeated candidates. "Definitely Premier Drew is not resigning immediately," he said. Ottawa, Oct. 4--(CP)--Genial, el. derly Tom Kennedy loomed today as Ontario's next Progressive Con- | servative premier. | The province's 69-year-old Agri- | culture Minister appeared to On- tario delegates to the Progressive Conservative National Convention which ended Saturday an almost certain choice as successor to EARLY CAUCUS (Continued on Page 2) ct. 4--(CP)--Agricul- | i have to be a| 4 POLICE FEAR CO-ED IS DEAD OR PRISONER Toronto, Oct. 4 (CP).--Attractive | 21-year-old June Baker, who van- | ished last Thursday from downtown | Toronto, today was feared dead or | held against her will. An' intensive search of the city | and its environs still was fruitless | after 72 hours. So was a week-end | radio appeal by the distraught father, Paul Baker. } Mr. Baker offered a reward of 1 $1,000 for information leading 10 i the discovery of his daughter. "I appeal to all mothers and fathers," Baker pleaded into a | microphone, his voice choking with | emotion. "Anyone who knows the | whereabouts of our daughter, June, please, p.ease let us know." He said Sunday he believed the | popular University of Toronto medi- cal student had been slain or was. |a prisoner; police expressed 'cre- | dence in the latter theory. The laughing girl with nut brown hair and a bright green coat was last reported seen in a Bay Street restaurant with a strange woman. was kidnapped downtown street but thought the | woman might have lured her to! some place where she was held | prisoner. Fellow university: students joined | police Sunday in a yard-by-yard | search of the Islands across To- | ronto bay following a report that the girl had been seen there. search of islands, on one of hin the Baker family has a wi cottage, was scheduled to be re- sumed today. Police said they had received | 1947 Oshawa Fire || Loss $30,000 In connection with the Fire Prevention Week campaign which will be in full swing in Oshawa during this week, Fire Chief Elliott today in- formed The Times - Gazette that the fire losses for the City of Oshawa in 1947 show a much more favorable picture than indicated by the figures in the annual report of the Domini, Fire C i showing a $97,000 loss for Oshawa. This is due to the fact that the Oshawa Fire - Department is responsible for fire protection in East Whit- by, and the losses in the town- ship are. therefore included with the Oshawa losses in the Dominion report. "The figure of $97,000 must include the losses for East Whitby, which were over $60,- 000 last year," said Chief El- liott, "so that the Oshawa loss figures, after allowing for fires not reported and discrepancies in insurance adjustments, would be around $30,000. The losses actually reported to me for the city of Oshawa for last year were just over $21,000, but it is safe to allow between 20 and 30 per cent for unreport- ed losses and losses in excess of insurance adjustments. So the actual per capita loss in Oshawa, on the basis of the figures reported to me, was 73 cents, which is an exception- ally low figure." Yugoslavs' Disappearance Causes Diplomatic Puzzle; 7 Quit Legation in Ottawa Ottawa, Oct. 4--(CP)--A Baltic rift between Russia and Yugoslavia has started a strange puzzle of diplomatic resignations and. dis- appearances in Ottawa's Yugoslav Legation. Seven Yugoslav officials are re- ported to have resigned. The Yugo- slav Minister, Mato A. Jacksic, says they "are gone back to Yugoslavia." The strange activities bégan with a signed statement received through | the mails Sunday by the Ottawa Citizen and the Ottawa Journal. In it Pavle Lukin, Yugoslay Le- gation Counsellor, said he and six other employees of the Legation have resigned. He charged the Yugoslav government with betrayal of the "fundamental interests" of the country, that they have steered away from "the great Soviet Union." "Our country cannot advance to socialism without ~close fraternal | co-operation with the Soviet Union | and the other New Democracies," he said. "But the dominant trend of the government's policy is away from such relationship. This trend 'has lately found reflection even in our Legation in Ottawa," Reporters tried to find Lukin. Al- though a government spokesman said Lukin was still - Yugoslav Gounsellor, the Yugoslav Minister sald: "Mr. Lukin left Ottawa for New York to board a ship for Yugoslavia 10 days ago." Mr. Jaksic, the minister, said he did not know of the resignation, bit when asked "what about they other six?" he answered: "Oh, they left for Yugoslavia yesterday." As to the statement of resigna- tion which was dated Thursday, Sept. 30, and yosimarked in Ot- tawa Saturday ic sald he would like to see it, "but not to- night, I am so tired." Furthermore, he could not see it Monday. He had to move that day. | was | hundreds of telephone calls from | | citizens who offered suggestions or | | said they thought they had seen | | pretty June. Outside Toronto, she reported' seen in cities as widely-separated as Lockport, N.Y., and Sudbury. Will Discuss Annexation Wednesday The first joint meeting of the Oshawa City Council and the East Whitby Township Council to dis- cuss the question of annexation by the city of certain urban sections of the township, will be held in the Council Chamber of the Old City Hall on Wednesday night of this week. It will be recalled that annexa- tion of part of the township was one of the items stressed by Mayor F. N. McCallum in his inaugural ad- dress last January. Subsequently a petition was circulated among resi- dents of the Westmount area asking annexationr--to the city. When this petition was presented to the Township Council some months ago, the members of coun- cil emphasized that the matter would not be sidetracked and a | meeting with the Oshawa City Council would be sought. Members of both City and Town- | ship' Councils, in conversation with The Times-Gazette have drawn at- tention to the fact that there are | many questions which must be ironed out before the first steps toward annexation proceedings can be instituted. 2 Planes Collide: 4 Persons Killed Montreal, Oct. 4 (CP).--Disrup- tion of the air traffic pattern was today blamed by airport officials as the cause of the collision of two planes which Sunday took the lives of four people near Cartierville Air- port, north of Montreal. Dead are: Robert Carlson, 22, an R.C.M.P. constable, pilot of one of the planes. Rene [Lanthier of Montreal, manager and chief instructor of the Montreal and Laurentide Flying Club, and pilot of the other aircraft. Police said it was unlikely that she | in daylight on a | § Miss Yolande Lemire, 20, and Gilles Audet, passengers in Lan- .thier's plane. The collision, worst in the history pof the airport, occurred when both planes were at 600 feet, coming into | the airport. for a landing on the | same runway. eine toa ea | THE WEATHER Clear and cool today and Tuesday. Winds light. Risk of frost in low lying areas tonight. Low tonight and high Tuesday 34 and 64. Summery for Tues- Maybe Tuesday. . day: Clear and -cool. | der as chairman for October. | pressed Kennedy May Be rm mm re Ontario Premier | | | | MRS. STEVENS IS SAID OUT OF DANGER Following = emergency hospital | treatment and a critical head oper- | ation, Mrs. Robert Stevens, 114 | Chestnut Street West, Whitby, who, along with her husband and two men, was hospitalized following a head-on automobile collision on Highway Number 2," near Dunbar- ton, early Saturday morning, was said this morning to be on of danger". As a result of the accident James Brannigan, Frenchman's Bay, has been charged with dangerous driv- | ing by Provincial Police Constable | Norman McComb, following con- | sultation with Crown Attorney Alex | C. Hall. Injured were: Robert E. Stevens, a compositor with The |all should work Saturday with winder) To Meet Prescribed Quotas Four Firms State Industry in Oshawa must keep its consumption of electrical energy down to 110,010 kilowatt hours per day, {Monday through Friday, if the local system is to remain within its quota of 211,000 kilowatt hours per day, Manager George F. Shreve, manager of the Public Utilities Com-= mission, told a mass meeting in the Council Chamber of the Old City Hall yesterday afternoon. i The meeting, which was attendea® by representatives of industry and labor as well as retail business, un- animously went on record as favor- ing an over-all co-ordinated plan whereby, if industrial concerns find themselves unable to meet the in dividualquotas set for them by the P.U.C, by Tuesday of this week, a plan for staggering work days dur- ing the week will be worked out. It was suggested that no plant should work on Sundays but that work being suspended on one other day in the week by each plant on a staggered basis. To work out a schedule a com- mittee composed of Jack Reid of Duplate Canada Limited, as chair- man; J. B. Highfield, of General Motors of Canada, Limited; F. J. Skinner, of the Skinner Company Limited; W. L. Grant, president of Local 222, UAW.-CILO; M. J. Fenwick, representative of the United Steelworkers of America; A. Gledhill, of the Fur and Leather Workers Union, and Leslie Eagleson, | representing the Oshawa Business Men's Association. Meet Wednesday Morning The committee will meet in the boardroom at the P.U.C. Building MANY CITIES "IN PROVINCE FACE CUT-OFF. Toronto, Oct, 4--(« 4--(CP) -- 'Power cuts are unavoidable -for Toronto this week, Mayor Hiram McCallum said today, and will start tomorrow, or Wednesday, The Mayor said the city is meet ing with Provincial Hydro officials to work out a plan whereby Toron. to's power quota and consumption can be figured on a weekly, rather than a daily basis. He said such a scheme would confine power cuts to three days every week. His statement came out of a meei- ing this morning of Provincial and city Hydro offidials to determine ways for Toronto to meet power Times- (on Wednesday morning and report | restrictions imposed in the current | Gazette, who is reported to have 10 a general meeting on Wednes- | provincial hydro shortage. | fractured collar bone and slight | dual industries will make every pos- | | suffered a fractured jaw, concussion; Mrs. Stevens, severe | | facial lacerations, a fractured pelvis, | a fractured jaw and grave injuries | | about the eyes. Prior to the Smet- | | gency operation Mrs. Stevens' con- | dition was described as "critical". | Brannigan, driver of the west- | bound car which me: in head-on | impact with the automobile driven | | Thomas L. Kennedy, Ontario Minister of Agriculture, who may. succeed | by Mr. Stevens, suffered a fractured | George Drew as head of the provincial government. is seen here in an informal pose during a visit to the British Isles last summer, Russia Protests Right 0f Council Berlin Block Question To Discuss Paris, Oct. 4--(CP)--Russia told} the United Nations Security Coun- cil today it has no right to consider Western charges that the 'Soviet blockade of Berlin is a menace to world peace. Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, led off his fight to keep the Berlin issue out of the Council's hand. He declared the Western demand for United Nations consideration of the dispute was "devoid of any ground, as it does not fall within the scope of the Security Council." The issue, he said, should be sent to the Big-Four Council of Foreign Ministers, as a formal note from Moscow proposed earlier today. Foreign Ministers Meet Meanwhile the Foreign Ministers of Britain, the United States and France met in Paris to discuss the Russian note. They were aided by top diplomatic and military advis- ers and had before them fully translated texts of the Moscow communication, Vishinsky declared the- United Nations charter forbids the Coun- cil to discuss anything concerning | Germany until the four occupying powers have written a peace treaty for the beaten country. Taking the argument to the For- eign Ministers' Council, he said, offers the only legal way to settle the problems of Germany, includ- ing Berlin which has been under a Soviet land blockade since last June 23. He said the problem is closely linked to the whole German problem. He charged that the currency reform in Western Germany last June was an "act of aggression" against the Russian oc- cupation authorities and had forced the Russians to take 'defensive measures." The Council got down to the vital Berlin issue an hour after the meeting opened. Up until then the delegates of 11 countries had been wrangling over translation procedure. Amid laughter -- because the Council is so seldom of one voice-- the delegates unanimously accept a Colombian proposal that the debate be simultaneously translated over the walky-talky radio network. It decided also that delegates might also ask for consecutive translations in English or French, Warren R. Austin, United States delegate, called the meeting to or- The Western Powers -- Britain, France and the United States -- the charges before the Council in spite of a last-minute Soviet effort to transfer the dispute | to the Big Four Council of Foreign | Ministers. | Relinquishes Chair | Immediately after opening the | session, Austin said he did not "degm it in accordance with the | RUSSIA PROTESTS (Continued on. Page: 2) 5 Questioned At Lindsay In Wounding Bronte, Oct. 4 (CP).--Provincial | Police announced today five men are held for questioning in connec- tion with the Saturday midnight shooting and attempted robbery of druggist D. A. Allan. The 48-year- old druggist was shot in the stomach by bandits who entered his store and fled without taking the cash they had demanded. Those held are Joseph Gredski, 17, and Edward McMann, both of Malton, Rick Rebeck, 21, and Fred | Jackson, 22, both of Toronto, and Buddy Smith, 18, of Willowdale. | They were apprehended in Lindsay | on a charge of stealing an automo- Sile in Etobicoke Township Sept. | Bas is now yesting in a To- | ronto hospital, suffering from wounds in the abdomen. His condi- tion is described as satisfactory. He | told police then men entered his | store and demanded "where's your cash register?" and then fired at point-blank range with a revolver befofe Allan could answer. Western Students On Geology Tour London, Ont., Oct. 4--(CP}-- In motley garb, from checked shirts to old army trousers, bearing kit- bags from which light pickaxes and hammers stuck forth at strange 'angles, 27 students and | four: professors of the University | of Western Ontario Geology De- partment left today on the first long distance field trip the depart- ment has undertaken. As the wheels of the big red and white bus cruched over University | Drive, the group was off on the] five-day 100 mile trip to explore one of the richést geological regions ! in Canada Hastings County, east of Toronto. Centres of the ex- | ploration will be Madoc and Ban- | croft. In: charge of the party is Prof. C. H. Reavely, head of the Geology | Department, With him is Dr. C. G. Suffel, Assistant Professor of Geo. logy and two other staff members. + CHILD . BADLY BURNED Xx London, Ont. Oct. 4--(CP) -- Four- -year- -old Ruth Armstrong who | suffered third degree burns about the body on Sunday when matches | she was playing with ignited her clothing still was int serious condi- | tion. in hospital here today. Off Florida |by the New England Air Express | "fix." The signal jaw while his brother-in-law, James Hepple, who lives north of Dun- barton, sustained facial injuries and a fractured knee. Investigating Provincial Con- stable McComb reported that the accident occurred at approximately 1:20 am. on Saturday. Details of why and how the accident took place have not been made avail- dble but it is known that both | automobiles were almost complete- | ly demolished in the crash. Scene of the smash was near Dunbarton. Mr. and Mrs, Stevens' two chil- dren, Shirley, 13, and Dennis, 4, are at the present time staying with Mr. and Mrs. James M. Sheedy, 302 Byron Street North, Whitby. Following thé accident, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, Brannigan and Mr. Hepple were picked up by passing motorists and rushed to Toronto East General Hospital. How long they will be confined was not known this morning. Attending physician was Dr. Herbert M, Coleman, 280 Bloor eres West. 21 On Board Plane Down Miami, Fla, Oct. 4--(AP) -- A twin-engined charter airliner with 21 persons aboard was "presumed down at sea" today after it sound- ed distress calls somewhere betwen Charleston, S.C, and Nassau, Ba- hamas, The Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration listed the plane as owned | Company of Teterboro, N.J., and said "an accident is presumed to have occurred." The plane's gasoline supply was exhausted at 4:45 am. EST. It was last heard from, calling the in- ternational distress signal "May- day" at 1:44 am. "We can only presume the plane is down somewhere between Char. leston and the Bahamas," the C.A.A. said. "Its gasoline is gone and we | haven't heard from it for several | hours." The charter atin. a DC-3, was en route from Teterboro to San | Juan, Puerto Rico. It had left Te- | terboro at 7:30 p.m. yesterday. | The first distress signal was pick- | ed up by the C.A.A's listening post | at 12:31 a.m. It was heard on a regular communications frequency The pilot was instructed to lock | his sending key to cause a continu-| |ous signal in hope of making a | was heard in Puerto Rico, Jamaica and Miami | but died before a Cross- -bearing | could be obtained. The gst signal was heard at 1.44 am, The C.A.A. said the plane carried | 17 "passengers and four crew mem- | | bers. Only person identified was the | pilot, Richard Roy Olivere, of Port | Chester, N.Y., president and gener- | al manager of the airline. | | NAMED BARGAINING A AGENCY Toronto, Oct. 4--(CP)--The Un- ited Electrical Workers (C.1.0.) Sunday night announced it had been chosen as bargaining agency at the A. C. Wickman (Canada) Ltd. plant in suburban Etobicok> by a 59-6 vote. The plant produces tools and dies. - d Son Teas 1 -- | was brief and simple, day night. In the meantime indivi- sible effort to reduce their con- tion to the quota set for them. t was stressed that the fullest possible co-operation from labor will be necessary to stagger work- ing days. The proposal will be sub- mitted to the general membership meeting of Local 222, U.AW.-C.1.0. on Wednesday night. Mr. Shreve explained that since the general meeting last week he had gone into the question of con- sumption more fully and found that domestic users take 32.94 per cent, commercial consumers 8.57 per cent, industries 55.21 per cent, and muni- cipal services 3.28 per cent. He sald P.U.C. workmen had worked all day Saturday and Sunday on the new feeder for the General Hospital which would permit of the cutting off of all domestic consumers with- out affecting the hospital. In reply to a' question, he commented that sump STAGGER WORK (Continued on Page 2) First Sod For Dial Building Turned Today Mayor F. N. McCallum, George W. Garner, Secretary-Manager of the Oshawa Chamber of Commerce; A. A. Gillespie, manager, and other top officials of the local Bell Tele- phone Company organization were present this afternoon when the first sod was turned for a new telephone building at the corner of Victoria and Bond Streets. The sod turning ceremony, which was per- formed by the youngest member of the local Bell staff. Mayor McCallum made a few congratulatory remarks and Mr. Garner, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, offered his con- gratulations to the company on the beginning made towards enlarge- ment of &ts services in this com- munity. The new dial system, which the new building will house, will be fully in operation by May, 1950, Mr. Gillespie stated. For many other Ontario commun= ities today may determine whether compulsory power cutoffs go into effect this week, Their power commissions, faced with Ontario's second severe power shortage in a year, made last- minute plans to save enough power! to avoid hydro blackouts. If their efforts fail, periodic cutoffs wil start in a number of communities tomorrow. *For a week the cities and towns, have watched how their power use; stacked up against, quotas set by! the Ontario Hydro Commission. In! many cases, limits have been ex- ceeded despite voluntary efforts at' conservation. Hydro officials wrestled with a scarcity brought on by a lack of electrical energy due to low wate at generating plants and by a steady growth in industrial de mands for power. Seeking to pro=} vide as much power as possible to the factories, they decided to cut' down on hydro use elsewhere -- even if it meant pulling switches: twice a day or oftener. Hamilton, Stratford, Belleville, Tavistock and Oshawa planned to { start Tuesday on a daily program; of power cuts. Owen Sound, King-{ ston and Welland prepared for | similar steps. { Voluntary power-saving efforts have been so successful in Kitchen- | er, Niagara Falls and Galt that those cities expect to escape power | blackouts. St. Thomas arranged to obtain extra power generated by' the Michigan Central ilway and the city water department, } { Two Cobourg Men Injured by Shot Cobourg, Oct. 4 -- (CP) -- Twa brothers, Gordon Thompson, 2f,' and James Thompson, 19, were in! jured Saturday in a hunting accie dent at Weller's Bay. The two had fired from a blind at a flock of ducks and one of the birds dropped wounded to the water, Ivan James, 21, of Trenton, Ont., who was nearby, fired at, the floundering duck and some of his pellets struck the Thompsons. Both brothers were struck by several' pellets but their injuries were not considered serious. -- * LATE NEWS BRIEFS x STORM NEARS FLORIDA ¢ Miami, Fla., Oct. 4 (AP)--Southeast storm warn-: ings were hoisted today from Miami southward over the Florida Keys and to Fort Myers, Fla., as a tropical storm developed 'in the Caribbean Sea. MAN, WOMAN SHOT Calgary, Oct. 4 (CP)--A 27-year-old Calgary woman, Mrs. Irene Marsh, is in critical condition in hospital today with gunshot wounds following a quarrel with@Jfer estranged husband. Also in hospital is her husband, John, 28, with alleged. self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the chest. His condition is described as not serious. TRAIN WRECK AVERTED 'Toronto, Oct. 4 (CP)--Credited with averting a train wreck and possible loss of life are two York Town- ship police officers -- Constable John Wilkinson and Patrol Sgt. C. Risebrook. Railway officials said today that had Sgt. Risebrook not flagged the oncoming Detroit-Toronto passenger train when the two found a broken rail at a level-crossing, the train would hava crashed, probably causing death and serious injury to | many of the passengers and crew. REDS BOO ALEXANDER London, Oct. 4 (AP)--Hecklers booed and dis~ tributed Communist handbills today to a crowd listening to Defence Minister A. V. Alexander appeal for recruits i for the territorial army. Twenty were detained by Rigs d