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THE DAI Combining The Oshawa, Times and Whitby Gazette OSHAWA "i and : Chronicle Y TIMES-GAZ TE "WHITBY VOL. 7--NO. 286 QSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1948 Price 4 Cente SIXTEEN PAGES STARR WINS MAYORALTY aA ' Attack Russians For Recognizing Northern Regime Paris, Dec. 7 (AP)--The Unifed States today asked United Nations protection for the Republic of Korea against threats of violence and terror from Communist-controlled North Korea. John Foster Dulles, acting chair- ¢ man of the Amerigan delegation, told the Political Committee that U.N. mesabers should show "soli- darity with the newly-formed but already-threatened government of the Republic of Korea." Dulles, first speaker in the long- delayed Korean debate, also blasted Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia for giving recognition to the regime of North Korea. Russian delegates already have served indirect notice they will do their utmost to bar assembly action on Korea in the five working days left here, Dulles declared the Communist regime of North Korea threatens force and violence. . "Already it has incited acts of terrorism and cruelty that shock all decent people," he said. "Yet that regime, born in obscurity, in . de- been recognized by three menibers states--the Soviet Union, Czecho- slovakia and Poland--and is, it seems, supported morally and ma- terially by the forces in North Korea of the Soviet Union." Dulles said the U.N. should ap- prove the government .~of the re- public, which was set up under auspices of the U.N. Korean com- mission. He urged the committee to approve the joint American- Australian-Chinese resolution back- ing the republic. Dulles did not mention a date for withdrawal df troops. The Russians have annpunced they are taking their troops out of the northern zone by next Jan, 1. Korea now is divided along the 38th parallel. The Soviet occupa- tion zone is in the north and the fiance of the United Nations has | American zone in the south, Trade Minister Howe's Son-In-Law Killed In Halifax Air Crash Halifax, Dec. T--(CP)--Lieut. J. M. Stewart of the Canadian Navy Air Section died at the controls of his aircraft yesterday when two Seafires collided directly over the harbor. here. The second pilot in- volved was not injured. Stewart, a veteran pilot, wa a son-in-law of Trade Minister Howe and his wife lives at near-by Dart- mouth. His mothér, Mrs. G. W. Stewart, lives at Francis, Sask. A naval air station official said three single-seated Seafire fighters from the near-by Eastern Passage air station were drilling over the . harbor. * They started to change formation to. line astern when the propeller of a plane plloted by Lieut. J. G. S. Campbell of Weymouth, N.S., shear- ed off the tail of Stewart's machine, sending it out of control into the water just off George's Island. The third plane, with Lieut. J. P. Cote of Quebec City at the controls, circled over the spot, while crash boats converged from several parts of the harbor. Campbell, in the news recently when he crash-landed his plane at Seaforth, N.#., and saved his life by expert manoeuvring, guided his bucking Seafire to the Eastern Pas- sage base. The propeller was splintered and the landing was accomplished under the greatest difficulties. A flotilla of rescue craft circled the area and divers started their underwater search. Only fragments of wreckage had been recovered tonight. The crash occurred near the cen- tre of the mile-wide harbor, only hundreds of yards from surface vessels. Labor Warned To 'Go Slow' Toronto, Dec. 7 -- (CP) -- H. D. Rothwell, administrator of Ontario hydro-electric power regulations, said today any widespread demand by industry for reversion from hydro-saving week-end shifts would "seriously endanger the power situ- ation." "Labor . should give the matter serious consideration and not make any move without consulting local hydro commissions," he said. William Jenovese, president of the Toronto and District Labor Council, said today pressure was growing among workers in the To- ronto district for reversion to the normal work week. He declined to identify any specific industrial group with these denmiands. Wins Seat On Two Councils Toronto, Dec. T7--(CP)--George W. Graham was successful Mon- day in winning re-election of two township councils. Already elected by acclamation to the council of Scott Township in Ontario County, he placed third in the voting for the three seats in the council of adjoining Georgina Township in York County Mr. Gra- ham. holds property in both town- ships and was elected to both coun= clls last year by acclamation. Complicated Saga Is Ended As Bail Skipper Goes To Jail Had Gordon MacDonald, of Ux- bridge, 'appeared before a Magis- trate two years ago 'to answer to two charges of theft, both of them minor, he would at most have serv- ed six months in jail. Today he ap- peared before Judge D. B. Coleman in Whitby where the General Ses- sions are taking place and was sen- tenced to six months. The catch is that he has served two years and three months in the interim. NET PAID CIRCULATION The Times-Gazette Average Per Issue November 1948 9,138 The case which has been hanging fire since 1046 is somewhat com- plicated. . Highlights might be out- lined thus: October 6, 1946--MacDonald ar- rested on two charges of theft. November 14, 1946--Being on bail of $2,000 MacDonald failed' to ap- pear in Magistrate's Court. Accord- ingly a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Bail estreated upon application to Judge D. B. Coleman in the same year. : Upon information supplied by the bondsman, MacDonald was located in Florida and arrested. He was sentenced to serve two years In Leavenworth Penitentiary for en- tering the United States illegally. Picked Up At Berder Released prior to the completion of his sentence of two years, Mac- Donald was picked up at the border and brought back to face the two theft charges and the additional one of skipping bail. Appearing before Magistrate Ebbs COMPLICATED SAGA (Continued on Pagg 2) 'nited States Asks Pro tection For Korea b 4 NATIONALISTS ADMIT GROUP ENCIRCLED Nanking, Dec. 7T--(AP)--Govern- ment. sources admitted today that Chinese Communist 'armies have encircled 110,000 Nationalist combat troops on the central China front southwest .of Suchow. These sources said the three trapped Army groups have been compressed on a front eight miles long and five miles in depth. They were trapped by the Communists as they marched south from Su- chow to rescue other encircled gov- ernment. forces. Eight or nine Red columns, com- manded by Gen. Chen Yi, were said to have completed the encirclement of this former Suchow garrison. The trap was sprung about 50 miles southwest of their former base. (The government sources' confir- mation of Communist reports came shortly #fter Nationalist forces an- nounced they had abandoned two' towns on the northern front to Reds marching toward Peiping.) The bulk of Chen Yi's forces were | reported concentrated south of the | government pocket to prevent an | attempted break-through in an ef- fort to make contact with the en- circled 12th Army group. Monday night the Communist radio claimed 20,000 casualties al- ready have been inflicted on the 2nd, 13th and 16th Army groups caught in "airtight encirclement." Another Communist broadcast »aid Nationalist troops attempting to march south were "stampeded" when: they came under attack. A Nationalist military press \spokesman described the reported , Communist encirclement as "not probable." He said he had "not re- ceived such reports," but govern- ment communiques are usually late in reporting reverses. Col. Chiang Wei Kuo, half-Jap- anese adopted son "of President Chiang Kai-Shek was believed ,with the entrapped troops. Fire Levels Sydney Plant Sydney, Australia, Dec. 7.--(Reu- ters)--Spreading with tremendous speed, one of the most spectacular blazes in Sydney's history today destroyed a 2':-acre tin-box factory here, causing $1,600,000 damage. The fire started in a printing room, when an oil pipe burst. With- in seconds oil set alight by a burner turned, the printing room into a mass of flames. As hundreds .of workers rushed into the streets, drums of lacquer, spirits and other highly-inflam- mable liquids exploded in quick suc- cession and flames rapidly engulfed the building. : Later violent explosions hurled drums, cans and timber hundreds of feet, into the air. : Deciding it was impossible to save the factory, figh fighters suc- cessfully concentrated on protect- ing nearby buildings. Russians Claim War Inevitable Wiesbaden, Germany, Dec. T= (AP)--Two Russian Air Force fli- ers who fled the Soviet Union said today they believed war between Russia and the United States is in- evitable. The fliers, Peter A. Piragov, 28, and Anatoly P. Barsov, 31, landed in Austria Oct. 9 and came here as "guests" of United States Air Force headquarters in Europe. They said the Red armed forces are wracked with dissatisfaction and could not win against the Unit- ed States. They said 30 per cent of the Russian people hate the Com- munist regime. "But due to fear, they don't dare do anything about it," said Piragov, a former -navigator. Liner Aquitania Reaches Halifax Halifax, Dec. 7 -- (CP) -- The liner Aquitania arrived here today with 1,784 passengers, including one stowaway, from Southampton. The stowaway, 24-year-old Har- old Pinkey of Toronto, was handed over to immigration officials after he said he hid aboard the ship be- cause he couldn't find work in England and was broke. ; Most of the passengers were im- migrants and will be taken by spe- cial trains to Montreal, Toronto Jubilant Over Mayoralty Contest Success With smiles that refused to be erased by the fatigue of a long and exciting day, Mayor-el Starr posed for this picture at their home last night after he had triumphed in the mayoralty contest. member of City Council for the past five years, Ald. Starr made a particularly fine showing in his first con- test of the chief magistrate's office, gaining a plurality of 366 votes over his two opponents. and Mrs. Michael A --Times-Gazette Staff Photo Albert Street Poll Has Highest Percentage Of Electors' Cast Ballots The revised count of the figures in yesterday's mayoralty vote show- ed that 46.1 per cent of the electors "on the rolls cast their 'ballots in yesterday's election, or 6,889 voters out of a total of 14,940: > The honor of having the highest per cent. of voters of all tiengip- divisions "in the city went to sub- division 'No. 39, the polling booth for which was at 563 Albert Street, where 722 per cent. of those elig- ible cast their ballots. Second in the list was sub-division No. 20, with polling 'booth at 419 Masson Street, where 68.5 per cent. of those on the list voted. The dubious honor of having the lowest percentage went to sub-division No. 23, at 25 Ontario Street, where only 30.3 per cent. of the 'electors cast their ballots. By wards, however, the percen- tages were 'Tairly close. The North- ward topped the list with 49.2 per cent. Cedardale was second with 49.1 per cent. the Northwest Ward third with 47.2 per cent., the South- east Ward fourth with 45.2 per cent. and the Southwest Ward was in last place with 42.9 per cent. The following is the list showing the percentage and number of vot- ers for the mayoralty by sub-divi- sions; . } Northwest Ward Voters Number P.C. On List Voting Voting No. 55.8 No. No. No. No.* No. No. No. Ward total ....2169 Southwest Ward 283 .2488 42.9 and Winnipeg. ~G Ward total .. & > Northeast Ward 209 148 120 111 83 143 102 140 ~59 -108 : | 126 160 118 175 Ward total ...4096 1939 Southeast Ward 53 90 105 137 129 146 108 126 110 104 240 116 168 216 157 132 124 Ward total ...5010 2264 Cedardale Ward 190 172 Ward total ...1147 Grand total 14,940 WILL DESTROY SUBS New York, Dec. 7--(AP)--Admiral Louis Denfeld, chief of United States naval operations, said Mon- day night the American Navy "is developing devices 'to "detect and destroy the modern submarine." He made the statement after saying it .3 | was reported that Russia "now has {-a fleet of over 200 modern subma- riaes." s Four Injured "manville children J just driven Smith Ferguson of Bow- | Colbary and Hall were returned Mayors Elected. By The Canadian Press CITIES Brockville--W. Fred Reynolds. Chatham--R. D. Steele. Cornwall--Aaron Morowitz. Fort William--Hubert Badanai. Kingston--C. A. Curtis. London--Ray Dennis. Oshawa--Michael Stajr. Niagara Falls--William L. Houck. Ottawa--E. A. Bourque: St. Thomas--J. Bruce Caldwell. Sarnia--W. C. Nelson. Stratford--Thomas E. Henry. Sudbury--William S. Beaton. Waterloo--Vernon Baumann. Woodstock--F. V. Millburn. TOWNS Alliston--William Hunter, Amherstburg--A. H. Stevenson. Carleton Place--W. G. T. Prime. Eastview--Gordon Lavergne. Gananogque--J. D. Carmichael. Harriston--Thomas TQemson. Huntsville--I. Ginsberg. = Ingersoll--Dr. J. G. Murray. New Liskeard--J. H. Sumbler. Parry Sound--A. Adams. Petrolia--E. D. Fletcher. Picton--William Henley. Southampton--Joseph Johnston Tillsonburg--L. B. Currie. Wingham--Murray Johnson. Whitby--William Davidson. Weston--K. L. Thompson. Near Tyrone Tyrone, Dec. T--(Special)--Four persons suffered painful injuries last night in a truck-auto collision on Lilac Hill south of here. The injured were Carl Colbary, Tyrone, driver of the truck, with cuts and bruises; Horace Hall, Tyrone, pas- senger in the truck, bad cuts and bruises, and two unidentified Bow- riding in the auto. The two children were rushed to Bowmanville Hospital. Stan Hall, son of Horace, and Ralph Cramp, Bowmanville, driver of the auto, escaped injury. According to reports Cramp had manville to Burketon Station and was driving south back to Bowman=- ville. when his vehicle was in head- on collision with Colbary's truck The auto was badly smashed. The injured were given first aid by. Dr. ¥. A. McArthur, of Black- stock and the two Bowmanville children were removed to hospital. ! to | their homes for further treatment. ! RACE (rains Maj ority Of 366 Votes Over His Two Opponents With slightly over 46 percent of the city's voters turning out to select their representatives on three civic bodies fron a record number of candidates, Ald. Michael Starr, taking part in his first mayoralty contest, swept to a convincing victory in yesterday's civic election. Oshawa's mayor-elect polled aé® - total of 3,627 votes to hold a major- | ity of 366 over his two opponents, Ernie Cay and Ald. Halliday. Mr. Cay, a former member of Council, polled 2,251 votes while Ald. Halli- day was supported by 1,011 voters. Harman Heads Poll In the aldermanic contest in which 24 candidates took part, Ald. Clifford: Harman headed the poll with a total of 3,581 votes. He had a comfortable margin over Mayor F. N. McCallum in second place who had 3,412 votes. In third place was Ald. R. D. Humphreys, K.C, with 3,203 votes while Ald. Mrs. In today's issue The Times- x ts a plet picture of the election contests in the district. On Page 10 will be found the results of the Osh- awa municipal election in tabu- lary form. The results of the elections in the Town of Whitby and Pickering Township will be found on Page Four, while the results of the election in' Bow- manville are presented on Page Two and together with addi- tional highlights of the Oshawa election on Page Three, + Evelyn Bateman was fourth with 2,607 votes. Returning to municipal life after a short absence Finley M. Dafoe gained a place on the Council with a total of 2,445 votes. The remain- ing five places were taken by Wil- ffam Duncan with 2,339 votes; Ald. Samuel Jackson Jr, with 2,312 votes; Ald. Cephas B. Gay with 2277 votes, Harry F. Benson with 2237 votes and A. Hayward Murdoch with 2,014 votes. The new Council will have three new members who have had no previous experience in municipal SWEEPS CONTEST (Continued on Page 11) FOURTH DAY Southampton, England, Dec. T-- (AP)--A 1%-pound baby girl, born | more than two months prematurely, Monday struggled through her | fourth day of life in an oxygen tent. | She measures only seven inches | from head to toes. | | HOPKINS ~~ REMANDED NEXT WEEK Charged with the attempted mure der of his brother, Earl Hopkins of Uxbridge Township was ' remanded in custody for another week when he appeared before Magistrate F. 8S, Fbbs during the session of the Ma- gistrate's Court at Whitby this morning. Crown Attorney A. C.-Hall inform ed the court that he was not ready to proceed with t! hearing of evidence and asked that bail of $10,- 000 be set. A. W. S. Greer, K.C, of Oshawa, counsel for the accused, stated that bail would not be forth= coming. In contrast with his first appear= ance in court a week ago, Hopkins was well dressed. For his appears ance he wore a blue suit and a white shirt. The charge was laid by Provincial Police following a shooting at the home of George Matthews, Uxbridge Township, on the night of Novems- ber 25. Hopkins is alleged to have become angered in an argument and left the Matthews home. Securing a shotgun at his home, he returned to the house and shot through a window with the charge entering the chest of his brother, Marlin 32, who was seated on a couch, police said. THE WEATHER Variable cloudiness today clear- . ing tonight. Wednesday mostly clear but occasionally cloudy during mid-part of the day. A little colder. Winds southwest 20 today becoming light by even- ing. Northwest winds 15 during the afternoon Wednesday. Low tonight and high Wednesday 27, and 36. Summary for Wed- nesday: Mostly clear. No Apparent Injury To Robert Thompson Toronto, Dec." 7--(CP) -- Dr.| John ©O'Hara, Toronto physician | said today "he could find no sign that Robert Taylor Thompson, missing truck driver who turned up Monday in Montreal after dis- appearing last Thursday, had suf- fered any physical injury. "His trouble may be psychis," Dr O'Hara said. "He may not have re- ceived a physical bump, bul may be emotionally upset." Thompson, whose abandoned truck was found in an Oshawa park said he could recall nothing after drinking beer in a suburban Scarborough hotel until he met a truck driver Sunday in Brockville. The, driver, recognizing his Nat- ional Cash Register Company cap, drove him to the company «wfices in Montreal. Dr. O'Hara said Thompson's eyes have the appearance of a man sui- fering from amnesia but added that a similar stare is cccasionally { found in the eyes of a normal pers son. Thompson was trembling Mon- day night as he was assisted from the Montreal train. He said he did not recall that he lived in Toron=- to. He complained repeatedly of pains in the head. Mrs. Thompson met the train at Port Hope, Ont. 60 miles east of ~ here. Thompson showed no signs of recognition. Over the phone he told her: "I don't know anything about a wife, but if you say you're my wife I guess you must be right." Police today planned to question Thompson about his disappearance, His truck was found parked in Oshe awa. Police said he had been trace ed to Oshawa where he drank beer with a man called "Johnny" be= fore the disappearance. Thompson said .a truck driver picked him up in Brockville and drove him to Montreal. * LATE NEWS BRIEFS * TWO-WEEK AGREEMENT Haifa, Dec. 7 (AP)--A two-week cease-fire agree- ment between Iragi and Israeli forces went into effect at 8 p.m. Israel time (11 a.m., EST) Monday night, a United Nations spokesman announced today, said direct negotidtions between offic The spokesman ers of Iraq and Israel were carried out under the auspices of the United Nations. SUMNER WELLES WITNESS Washington, Dec. 7 (AP)--The House of Repre- sentatives Un-American Activities Committee suddenly decided to reopen public hearings today in its investiga- tion' of Communist spying. t former Undersecretary of It named Sumner Welles, ate, as a witness. REV. A. E. JONES DIES ; London, Ont., .Dec. 7 (CP)--Rev. Albert E. Jones, retired United Church minister died in hospital here to- day. Born near Kincardine, he had served at more than 10 charges in the western counties. His last was at Lind- say. Funeral will be held Thursday.