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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE OSHAWA L) Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 285 ° OSHAWA-WHITBY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948 Price 4 Cents SIXTEEN PACES SUNDERLAND SAFE BLOWN AGAIN | MISSING TRUCK DRIVER FOUND Delegates To Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance Conference Cannot Remember » Name; Identified By Tag On Clothes Toronto, Dec. 6 (CP)--Toronto police said 'today they were looking for a man named Johnnie who may be able to explain certain "angles" in the disappearance of Robert Thompson, Toronto truck driver who turned up in Montreal today after being missing since last Thursday. Thompson's truck was found last® Thursday in an Oshawa park. His wal':t lay on the seat and police said there were signs of a struggle. Thompson today appeared at the Montreal office of the National Cash Register Company who em- ployed him as a driver. He could not recall anything from the time he had a peer In a suburban Scar- boro hotel until he met a truck driver in Brockville on Sunday and was driven to Monreal. "We know that amnesia is possible Toronto: police said today. "But there are other angles to this case. We know that the tguck driver was with another n on the afternoon he disappeared. We know that this man's first name is John- nie. We know that the truck was seen between Ajax and Oshawa on the north side of the highway with its nose in DRIVER FOUND (Continued on Page 2) Search Plane Stands By Johnston Island, Dec. 8--(AP)--A United States Navy search plane radioed early today it was circling 'the survivors of a C-54 transport forced down in the mid-Pacific Sun- day with 37 men aboard. . The search plane, a Privateer, messaged that it could maintain its vigil "about 3% hours," It did not report how many survivors were at the scene. Engine trouble forced the big American transport to ditch at a point abeut 1,000 miles southwest of Honolulu, and about 340 miles southwest of this tiny island--a re- fuelling stop in the Pacific. The C-54 was one of a flight of #tive en route from Okinawa to Spo- kane, WaSh. It carried a crew of seven and 30 passengers. Col. Thomas L. Wiper, Johnston Island commander who flew near the scene, reported he had seen signals from the water after the pilot of an air force .search plane had spotted the survivors and drop- ped a boat. The air force pilot radioed first -word that some survivors had been spotted. "Sighted flares," came the radio message from the search plane. "Dropped boat. Boal landed about 100 yards from s wrvivors. Don't know whether they saw it or not." Red Forces Closing In On Nationals Nanking, Dec. 6 -- (AP) -- The Chinese Communist radio reported tonight that Red forces had com- pleted "an airtight encirclement" of the Nationalist former Suchow gar- 'rison ir the developing battle for Nanking. The garrison, comprising some 110,000 combat troops in the 16th, 13th and 2nd Army groups, aban- doned Suchow last Wednesday in an effort to reach the, trapped gov- ernment 12th Army group in the Suhsien sector,. about 45 miles to the south. If the Communist claim is true, it means that only the government troops on the new Hwai River de- fence line enjoy freedom of move- ment in the region. The line was set up recently 100 miles northeast of Nanking, but is manned by rela- tively inferior troops. . Communist columns were report- ed shifting to the west to' try to stem the advance. Communist Gen. Chen Yi was said to have massed 125,000 troops across the path of the Suchow forces. Foreign military observers said the Suchow "troops--largest govern- ment force in all East China--must break through the Communist lines or face probable annihilation. Hav- ing destroyed huge supply depots in the evacuation of Suchow, the troops are carrying only limited supplies. The battle probably will be de- cisive, in any event. The immedi- ate future of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government is regarded as hinging on developments be- tween 100 and 200 miles northwest of Nanking. Chinese press dispatches reported 20,000 Communist troops equipped with artillery were active in an area about 60 miles northeast of Nan- king. These reports coincide with the widely-accepted belief that many Communists have infiltrated to the north bank of the vital Yangtze River. Some are even believed to have crossed the broad stream and come into the I'anking area. Sleepy New Yorkers | Welcome Barbara Ann New York, Dec. 6--(CP)--Hun- dreds of sleepy New Yorkers were on hand today to greet a cheery, bright-eyed Barbara Ann Scott] when she arrived in the early morn- ing hours. With a huge bouquet of roses thrust into her hands the moment she stepped off the train, the pretty World-champion skater spent more than" a half-hour posing for news- paper and newsreel photographers. To everyone she flashed a bright smile and said how glad she" w to be in New York. . "Really, it's wonderful to be here," she said to Hugh D. Scully, Cana- dian consyl-general on hand to greet Barbara Ann who is to embark on a professional career dn this city. "I love New .York and it's so thrilling that so many people are NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue November 1948 9,138 here to see me. When I left Ottawa last 'night there were hundreds of youngsters to see me off. I was really touched." Greeting her on behalf of the city was Col. John J. Bennett, deputy Mayor. With Col. Bennett, the tiny klonde skater spent fully 10 minutes while newsreel cameras ground out hundreds of feet of film in the heat of huge spotlights. While the cameras recorded the scene, Barbara Ann's mother, whis- pered something to the skater that brought an even bigger smile to. her face. Mrs. 'Scott said later she re- minded Barbara Ann of one of her childhood sayings. "As a little girl she always used to say: "Mommy likes Boston,gbut I like New York.' Now she's here; where she's always wanted to be!" Barbara Ann, who started prac- tising two months ago after a sum- mer vacation, sald she begins final rehearsals at the Roxy Theatre Tuesday. She makes her debut there Dec. 22, though current plans are to have a preview showing the night before. The autograph seekers were out in full force at the railway station. As she was leaving the station for her hotel, she was stopped every few feet by goggle-eyed adults who sought her signature. Later in the day she is due to meet Mayor William O'Dwyer at City Hall where the freedom of the city will be granted her. % - A 4 ance. morning's session, They are: front row (left to right): Rev. : of Hamilton, Rey. John Jacenty of 'Oshawa, Rev. Basil Kers | At the conference of the Ukrainian Evangelical Alliance of North America, in Oshawa over the week-end, 13 ministers and about the same number of laymen were present as delegates, and several guests were in attend- Above are shown a group that was present at the opening of this Buchak f Newark, Me =o a N.J., Rev. Luke 8 Conn. Middle row? ret of Toronto, Rev. Theodore Halenda of Hartford, v.-D. Halenda of Pittsburgh, Rev. Anton Zabarowec of Toronto, Rev. J. Roberts-Kovalivitch of Winnip Kalsunoff of Montreal. Rear row: John Samenuk of Oshawa, D. Cherwin- sky of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Rev. Wiadimer Borowsky of Detroit and Peter Kowalshuk of Newark, N.J. Arlen Sas g, Rev. Dr. R. G. ~--Times-Gazette '8taf Photo West Calls For Russian Co-operation Fmris, Dec. 6--(AP)--The western powers asked Russia Sunday to dis- own the "rump" Communist gov- ernment set up by Soviet: authori- ties in Berlin and resume co-opera- tion in a four-power administra- tion. Otherwise, they said, the chances for an-agreement to end the dead- lock in the blockaded former Ger- man capital will be considerably dimmed. There was no hint of agreement. The western position was stated in a long memorandum sent by Britain, the United ' States and France to the committee of neutral experts set up by the U.N. Security Council to study the Berlin cur- rency situation. : The three powers said grave new problems have arisen in Berlin be- cause of what they said was inter- ference on the part of the Russians with the normal working of Ber- lin's constitution. They said these problems could be set aside even now "if the Soviet authorities were to disown the un- constitutional body created in the Soviet sector Nov. 30, 1948, and in conformity with the constitution permit elections to be held on a city-wide basis." The memorandum was handed to the committee of experts Saturday night, before the Berlin election in which the citizens of the western sectors trooped to the polls in un- expectedly great numbers to rebuff Russian and German Communists. The committee of seven experts --one each from Canada, Belgium, Syria, Argentina, Colombia and China and one representing U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie--are considering ways to give Berlin a single currency. Large Fires In Pembroke Pembroke, Dec. 6--(CP)--A spec- tacular early morning blaze burned its way through a C.P.R. freight shed in the heart of Pembroke's businéss district, gutting a freight office and' eating its way into a line of five freight cars alongside. Second major blaze to break out in this community in less than 24 hours, the blaze appeared to Fire Chief R. P. Dey as one of the sever est this year. At 2 am. about an hour after the blaze broke out, one-third of the 300-foot long freight shed had been destroyed. Firefighters early Sunddy halted a three-hour two-alarm blaze which threatened the downtown district, destroying a funiture store and billiard room and causing $75,000 damage. Russian Both fires, were of unknown origin, 'We Talk Too Much' Pearson Says Of U.N. Paris, Dec. 6--(CP)--L. B. Pear- son of Canada says that the current United Nations General Assembly has been characterized by "more talk than action" and the only re- semblance it bears to a symphony that it is "unfinished." He delivered his verdict in a question-and-answer broadcast re- corded' here and broadcast last night. Asked why the assembly took so long on each of the important items on the agenda, the Minister of Ex- ternal Affairs said frankly: "We talk too much." And some speeches--""not the Can- adian ones, of course"---were design- ed purely for propaganda effect, he added. "The same people are making speeches three or four times on the same issue, sometimes for one and two hours at a time--and you know which people I am talking about.' "There seems to be a determina- | tion on their part not to move one inch from the position they have taken at the beginning. Not only do we spend weeks listening to these speeches but even after all that time we never seem to arrive at a compromise." As one of the few useful actions of the assembly, Pearson listed the handling of the Greek problem. Without elaborating, he said: "We have helped the situation on the Greek border and prevented the broadening of disturbances in that area." On Palestine, he said that ' he doesn't think there is "any hope at all" of a final settlement in this session. But there is some hope for a basis to a settlement in the ap- pointment of a conciliation com- mission. . A resolution recommending such a commission was approved Satur- day by United Nations Political Committee in a close vote. Pearson said he doubted whether the resolution would command the necessary two-thirds majority for passage in the General Assembly, Asseltine Fined For Threatening Party Guests Peterborough, Dec. 6. -- (CP) -- Albert N. Asseltine of Toronto was fined $135 today on three charges of illegal possession of a 22-calibre revolver and a German sub-machine gun and pointing a revolver. The charges arose from a fight at a nearby Lakefield house Nov. 27 in which, police said, Asseltine lined several people 'against the wall and brandished the revolver. He was captured as he fled in an automo- bile. Police recovered what they called "a small arsenal" from the car, Times-Gazette And CKDO Join Forces For Election Results Tonight, after the polls have closed, the citizens of Oshawa will be able to secure up-to- the-minute reports on the elec- tion results by listening to their local radio station CKDO. Through a co-operative ar- rangement between The Times- Gazette and the radio station, the results will be broadcast direct from the news room of The Times-Gazette. Broadcasts will be made at 7.30 pm. 800 pm, 820 pm. and at approximately 9.15 and 10.15 pm After the latter hour, there will be a practically con- tinuous broadcast - of results until the final decision of the electors is available Show!d any result of special significance be- come available between the scheduled broadcasts, the pro- - gram on the air, the concert by the. Motor City Choir, will be interrupted to make a special announcement, After 10.15, and as soon as re- sults are known, the candidates for office will have an oppor- tunity to talk to the electors of Oshawa, and all of them are invited to come to the office of The Times-Gazette for that purpose. In addition to the broadcast, a service of results will be given by loud speakers placed outside the office of The Times- Gazette, through the co-opera- tion of General Motors of Can- ada, Limited, who will provide the sound equipment. Citizens are invited to assemble outside The Times-Gazette office to take advantage of this service. Robert Walker Under Arrest Topeka, Kas., Dec. 6.--(AP)--Po- lice said Robert Walker, Hollywood film actor, was booked last night on a charge of being drunk and de- stroying city property. Walker was picked up with sev- eral other persons for creating a disturbance at a hotel. While wait- ing to be booked, police said, Walk- er suddenly smashed the glass of a bulletin board with his fist. The actor was released without bail. Officers said his case prob- ably would come up in court tomor- TOW. Last Oct. 22 Walker and Miss Thelma Patricia Byrne, 24, were ar- rested in Los Angeles when police noted Walker's automobile travel- ling erratically. # President Of Allia Formerly of Oshawa, Rev. Luke Standret, Ukrainian United Church Minister .of Toronto, was elected president of the Ukrainian Evange- lical. Alliance of North America at a conference of that group on Sat- urday evening in Oshawa. Mr. Standret was minister at the Uk- rainian Presbyterian Church in Oshawa from 1927 to 1939. The Alliance, an interdenomina- tional Protestant organization, is doing much relief work, helping displaced Ukrainian Protestants in the occupation countries of Europe. Before 1939, the main purpose was to. aid in missionary work in the western Ukraine but this had to be discontinued due to the occupa- tion of that area by Russian forces. Some missionary work is still being done among the Displaced Persons Camps. The Alliance is trying to bring D.P.'s to America and at the conference there were three min- isters who had been brought from Europe's D.P. Camps. Much discussion: at the confer- ence centred around the report of Rev. Basil Kusiw of Newark, N. J., who has just returned from Bri- tish, American and French zones of occupation in Europe. Represen- ting the Ukrainian Evangelical Al- liance, The Work Council of Churches and the Y.M.C.A, he brought a report on relief and mis- sionaky work. Other members of the executive elected were as follows: vice-presi- dent, Rev. W. Borousky of Detroit; recording secretary, Rev. John Ja- centy of Oshawa; financial secre- tary, Michael Nikolishen of Osha- wa; treasurer, Stephen Salmers of Oshawa; correspondence secretary for Europe, Rev. Basil Kusiw of Newark, N.J.; organizer for West- ern Canada, Dr. E. Eustice of Win- nipeg; organizer for Eastern Can- ada, Rev. Buchak of Hamilton. The conference which started on Friday evening, is expected to fin- ish this evening. U.K Contracts Will Not Absorb Bacon Surplus Ottawa, Dec. 6--(CP)--Agricul- ture Minister Gardiner warned the Dominion-Provincial Agricul- ture Conference today that pros-|. pective United Kingdom food con- tracts will not absorb expected sur- pluses of Canadian beans, apples, eggs and possibly bacon. ' An official version of Mr. Gar- diner's - statement quoted him as saying 'that while Canada will ac- cept no lower than the current price for bacon the quantity of United Kingdom purchases of this product will be. reduced. $300 Dropped By Thieves In Rush From Co-operative Using a heavy charge of nitroglycerine, safecrackery early this morning blew the door off the safe in the Peters borough Co-Operative branch at Sunderland, scooped up 59 in cash and a number of cheques but in their hurry to make their escape dropped $300 in cash and some of tha cheques outside the building. é a 4 J udgment | Reserved Judgment was reserved in the case of Donald Motor Sales, Whitby, vs. the Town of Whitby after argu- ments had been heard by the On- tario Court of Appeal in Osgoode Hall, Toronto, this morning. Town Solicitor John Hare acted for Whit- by, while the company was repre= sented by A. W. S. Greer, K.C,, and G. W. Mason, K.C. The Town of Whitby is appealing the granting of a motion to quash a by-law which restricts erection of signs for advertising purposes. The by-law had previously been quashed by Mr. Justice Barlow in Weekly Court, Toronto. The chief argument today cen- tred on the validity of the case of Rex vs. Cullian tried in 1937 in which Mr. Justice Middleton ruled that a by-law was not valid be- cause it did not apply all the pow- ers set out in the Municipal Act. Mr. Hare admitted that to win the appeal he would be obliged to show that judgment in this case was at fault. Mr. Mason argued that the Rex vs. Cullian case applied to the case hethg heard and to a particular as- pect of the Municipal Act. He claimed that the two cases were parallel, Chief Justice Robertson remind- ed counsel that "this is enabling legislation allowing a municipality to impose restrictions on private property as dfferentiated from municipal property." The Municipal Act states that municipal councils are given the power to regulate signs or other ad- vertising devises or notices. Counsel for the motor company contended that since the Whitby by-law did not mention "notices," it was in- valid. Mr. Mason argued that if = this premise was carried out in full, no one could erect "Keep Off the Grass," or "No Trespassing" signs. Early Vote Very Light Early voting in the municipal election today showed an apa- thetic attitude on the part of citizens with only a very light vote being recorded up until noon, a check of polling booths showed. In a number of sub-divisions up to 10.30 this morning, there had been no votes cast except for those in charge of the booths. In the north section of the city, the polling booth at 25 Buckingham Street was in the lead with 19 votes cast at noon. None of the others had more than 10. Heaviest voting in the south end was at Cedar Dale School. "Unless there is heavy vot- ing in the afternoon and even- ing, this may be one of the lightest, votes on record," a seasoned observer remarked. So great was the force of the ex« plosion that the door, weighing ax estimated 150 pounds, was hurled through the, wall of one room, smashed up against the ceiling off the next room and crashed so the floor. Damage to the building wag estimated at $200. This is the second time that the Peterborough branch of the Coe Operative has been robbed within two months. On October 14, thieves entered the office, jimmied open the safe and escaped with $1,231.78. No arrests have been made in that robbery. No One Investigated This morning's robbery occurred about 1 a.m. The noise of the blast awoke several residents of the vil- lage but none investigated. Actual report of the robbery was not made to Provincial Police until the staff came on duty at 8 o'clock this morning. The staff found the $300 and some cheques blowing : about the street in front of the building, a smashed window on the front door through which the safecrackers made their entrance into the build- ing, and the wreckage of the safe and wall. Ontario Provincial Police Cone SAFE BLOWN (Continued on Page 2) Heavy Vote Berlin Reply To Russians Berlin, Dec. 6--(AP) -- A fina} count showed today blockaded Bers liners slapped the Communists with 1,330,820 votes, each one a protest against Soviet occupation policies. The Central Election Bureau said 86.2 per cent of the eligible voters cast valid ballots yesterday in 'the three western sectors for the regus' larly-scheduled city elections, whichy the Communists boycotted. The vote swept the Socialist party into power in the western part of the city. Like the Christian Demo< crats and the Liberal Democrats, who ran second and third, the Sod cialists are anti-Communist. The final results: Social Democrats 858,100 (64.5 per cent). Christian Democrats (Conservaq tive) --258,496 (19.4 er cent). | Liberal Democrats (Conservativelj 215,224 (16.1 per cent). In all, 1,586,090 Germans wer! eligible to vote in the constitutions ally. prescribed election in the threg sectors, unde} American, British and French control. The Russians refused to conduct or permit voting in their sector. In voting the West+ ern Berliners defied a variety of threats from the Communists. | (Socialist) i THE WEATHER Overcast today and Tuesday, clearing both nights. A few light showers or snowflurries today. Cooler today mot much change Tuesday. Winds south- west 30, today, 15 tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight and high Tuesday 30, 40; Summary for Tuesday: Cloudy. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS * STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE ; Cairo, Dec. 6 (AP)--High school students demon- strated against the Egyptian government today, demanding the release of students jailed after last Saturday's large-scale riots here. A police source said two police were injured, one losing a leg when a student hurled a grerrade at him. Large reinforcements of mounted police quickly-dispersed the demonstrators. ITALIAN PLANE CRASHES Milan, Italy, Dec: 6 (AP)--A plane of the Italian Airlines, en route to. Brussels, crashed and burned af Forlania airport near here today just after taking off, killing the crew of four Italians and one German pas< senger. MiID-AIR COLLISION Halifax, Dec. 6 (CP)--A pilot was missing after a single-seater Canadian Navy plane plunged into Haliiax harbor today following a mid-air collision. The second plane made base safely although seriously damaged. U.N. TO ADJOURN DEC, 11 Paris, Dec. 6 (AP)--The United Nations Assembly voted tonight to adjourn its Paris session on the night of Dec. 11-12 and reconvene in New York on April 1, 1949, | b 4 h